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The US Gold Market is best known as the home of gold futurestrading on the COMEX in New York. The COMEX has a literal monopoly on goldfutures trading volumes worldwide, but very little physical gold is actuallyexchanged between COMEX trading participants, and gold inventories maintainedin COMEX vaults in New York are extremely low. This COMEX […]

When Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour was killed recently in a US drone strike, we noted that experts cautioned that it would make local insurgents even less likely to participate in long-stalled peace efforts, and it would likely lead to an escalation of Taliban retaliation efforts. Mullah Akhtar Mansour, Taliban militants’ leader The key question […]

It has not been a good “second coming” for Shinzo Abe, whose first stint as prime minister of Japan ended in disgrace in 2007 after an allegedly crippling bout of explosive diarrhea forced the then-prime minister to resign. To say that Abenomics has been a dismal failure would be an understatement:  unable to boost inflation, […]

Submitted by Roberty Parry via ConsortiumNews.com (h/t Contra Corner blog), A newly posted video showing a glimpse of a Buk missile battery rolling down a highway in eastern Ukraine has sparked a flurry of renewed accusations blaming Russia for the July 17, 2014 shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 killing 298 people. But the “dash-cam […]

Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter No fewer than seven persons have been confirmed dead following protest by members of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), in Asaba on Monday. The Acting Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), in Delta, SP Charles Muka, who confirmed this in a statement, added that […]

Ben Bruce, lawmaker representing Bayelsa central senatorial district, has alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari and his ministers spent their first year in office giving excuses. “For the past year PMB and his ministers mistook the Federal Executive Council for the Federal Excuses Council. This must stop going forward!” he wrote on Twitter.  Known for his […]

The governor, who reacted to reports that two governors, one from the Southwest and another from the South South have been placed on travel restriction on President Buhari’s order, in a press conference addressed by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said; whenever he wished to travel out Nigeria,he will do so in the […]Read More

Saudi Arabia on Sunday beheaded a Nigerian convicted of killing a policeman, despite arguments that death penalty violates fundamental rights. Fahd Houssawi was beheaded in the western city of Taif, after he had been found guilty of strangling a policeman and beating him to death, said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press […]

Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter On medical doctor with the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Dr. Thomas Adekoya-Cole, was on Sunday murdered in the Itele area of Ijebu, Ogun State, by suspected hoodlums.The 60-year-old, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon with LUTH, from the report by Punch, deductively was an Ogun worshipper(the god of iron), and […]

In the latest tragic news from the world of finance, earlier today Zurich Insurance, the largest Swiss insurer which employs 55,000 people and provides general insurance and life insurance products in more than 170 countries, reported that Martin Senn, the company’s former chief executive officer who stepped down in a December reshuffle, has committed suicide. […]

Earlier we introduced the Gotthard Base Tunnel, the longest and deepest tunnel in the world. The 35 mile long tunnel which cuts underneath the Alps helps remove natural barriers to trade and tourism, and is undoubtedly a testament to Swiss precision engineering. Interestingly, as Bloomberg reports, the tunnel that was 17 years in the making […]

Submitted by Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, That was the week Hillary began to look like the candidate who fell off a truck wearing a Nixon mask. Email-gate is taking on the odor of Watergate — the main ingredient of which was not the dopey crime itself but the stonewalling around it. The State Department Inspector […]