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GOLD DOWN $9.65 TO $1283.25/SILVER DOWN 13 CENTS TO $15.38
by Harvey Organ, Harvey Organ Blog:
SWAMP STORIES FOR YOU TONIGHT
GOLD: $1283.25 DOWN $9.65 (COMEX TO COMEX CLOSINGS)
Silver: $15.38 DOWN 13 CENTS (COMEX TO COMEX CLOSING)
Closing access prices:
Gold : 1281.50
MAJOR: Serbia Foils Assassination Plot Against Putin
by Tom Winter, Fort Russ:
BELGRADE, Serbia – Terrorist attack against Putin thwarted – alleged assassin promoted by Saudi Arabia.
Security forces arrested a man in the Serbian city of Novi Pazar for planning a terrorist attack on the Russian President during Vladimir Putin’s visit to Belgrade.
The 21-year-old member of the Saudi-funded group Dava Tim Centar, 21-year-old Armin A., was arrested on Sunday in south-western Serbia.
Gun Owners Of America To Take NFA Before Supreme Court
by Tom Knighton, Bearing Arms:
The National Firearms Act is an insidious piece of legislation that I desperately hope to one day see relegated to the proverbial trash heap of history. The idea that we, law-abiding citizens who have done nothing wrong, should have to beg for permission to arm ourselves with certain firearms is practically begging to be shot down.
I just don’t know if I’ll see it in my lifetime.
However, it does appear that Gun Owners of America is doing its part to make my dream a reality.
Are Dems trying to kneecap Lindsey Graham before possible Supreme Court nomination fight?
by Martin Walsh, American Mirror:
With Sen. Lindsey Graham serving as the new chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s ailing health, Democrats are conjuring up a vicious smear campaign against the South Carolina Republican.
This week, a newly-elected Democratic lawmaker and liberals in the media spread a conspiracy theory that Graham is “compromised” or “bought” because he has been agreeing with President Donald Trump.
On Tuesday, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, tweeted “They got him, he is compromised!” in response to a video clip of Graham in 2015 speaking ill of Trump.
Our Elites’ Selective Support for Democracy
by Andrew J Basevich, The American Conservative:
The ongoing parallel crises in the United Kingdom and the United States invite us to contemplate unwelcome truths about the nature of politics in the 21st century. In both countries, deep divisions have resulted in paralysis. In both, that paralysis represents something more profound: disagreement over the meaning and proper conduct of contemporary democracy. Yet there is little evidence that elites on either side of the Atlantic understand the actual problem at hand. Hence, the likelihood that it will fester.
Journalist Given Six Months in Prison for Organizing Yellow Vests Protest on Facebook
by Elias Marat, The Mind Unleashed:
As the Yellow Vests gear up for their tenth consecutive week of protests, dubbed “Act X” by the grassroots social movement, President Emmanuel Macron’s government appears to be raising the stakes of repression in an attempt to quell protests and chill French constitutional guarantees of free speech.
Such appeared to be the case after 28-year-old Frenchman, journalist and movement leader Hedi Martin was sentenced last week to six months’ imprisonment after publishing a Facebook event calling for the Yellow Vests (or Gilet Jaunes).
How California stayed with gold when the rest of the U.S. adopted fiat money
by JP Koning, BullionStar:
We are ten years into the age of bitcoin. But people are still using national currencies like yen, dollars, and pounds to buy things. What does history have to say about switches from one type of monetary system to another? In this post I’ll dig for lessons from California’s successful resistance to a fiat standard that was imposed on it in the 1860s by the rest of the U.S.
Not long after the war American Civil War broke out in 1861, a run on New York banks forced most of the country’s banks to stop redeeming their banknotes with gold. A few months later Abraham Lincoln’s Union government began to issue inconvertible paper money in order to finance the war. These notes were popularly known as Greenbacks.
Ocasio-Cortez Gets Seat on House Financial Services Committee Overseeing Wall Street
by Martin Armstrong, Armstrong Economics:
If you ever needed proof that government is collapsing, here it is live and in full color. Freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was just placed on the House Financial Services Committee. Who is the Chairperson? None other than the controversial Maxine Waters (D-Calif.). We now have two people with absolutely NO expertise in this field going to overlook banks and Wall Street. This illustrates the entire problem and crisis we face. This like directing me to operate as a Brain Surgeon without any consideration if I even understand the field no less have any experience.
