For a number of years problems at Ilva, the largest steelworks in Europe, have been casting shadow over the performance of the whole Italian steel industry. Will an acquisition of Ilva by a consortium led by ArcelorMittal, now in its final stage, be a game changer for the market?Following multiple reports of environmental and health problems caused by the Taranto plant, in 2013 Ilva was placed und...Read More

Waking TimesIn 2010, it was found that roughly 100,000 Americans die each year from prescription drugs alone. When it comes to opioids, the number of deaths is in the tens of thousands while a quarter of patients who were given a short-term prescription transitioned to long-term use.Now, according to a recent Harvard University analysis, doctors who prescribe these pain-killers are being paid h...Read More

China announced that it had terminated steel production in all the country's illegal induction furnaces by the end of June last year. The majority of the operators in China are primarily small size private mills that use low quality scrap to produce substandard rebar. These rebars are mixed with grade III (HRB400) rebar and sold at a discount to construction contractors. For a long period, the gov...Read More

Well, there is the money, of course.When millions of people forego expensive and toxic medical drugs; when they rarely see conventional doctors; when they don't receive vaccinations and don't have their children vaccinated; when they opt for natural remedies; when, worst of all, THEY STAY HEALTHY, this is a hammer blow to drug-based medicine.These "natural health" people are also going against The...Read More

"Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning. From metal detectors to drug tests, from increased policing to all-seeing electronic surveillance, the public schools of the twenty-first century reflect a society that has become...Read More

(Dash Force News) Google has announced that it will be cracking down on cryptocurrency-related advertising, furthering the "crypto blackout" online.According to new policies relating to financial services to be rolled out in June, among newly banned content will be anything related to cryptocurrency:"Cryptocurrencies and related content (including but not limited to initial coin offerings, cry...Read More

Via IQSDirectorySince the earliest days of the internet, community and security have been key topics associated with both the growth of the digital age and the difficulty of finding a secure place within it.A noble, albeit elusive goal, the tech giants of today still struggle with the open concept of the internet, while at the same time trying to guarantee with certain securities. Passwords, queri...Read More

Our ancestors weren't nice people. They kept slaves, looked forward to wars and sent people to concentration camps. It is easy to dismiss them as moral retards, but that would be setting the bar way too low. Slavery is bad, war is violence, and sending people to concentration camps isn't very nice. Blacks, Jews, and foreigners are not ambiguous classes of people, and violence is unambiguously wron...Read More

Ethiopia has suspended a mining licence for MIDROC Gold, company owned by Saudi billionaire Mohammed al-Amoudi, after more than a week of sometimes violent protests in a town near the mine.Demonstrators had blockaded roads in the country's unruly Oromia region since April 30, preventing people from going to work and forcing schools to cancel classes, asking the government to revoke a 10-year mini...Read More

If a train leaves New York going west at 60 mph, and a train leaves Chicago going east at 70 mph, how many microaggressions will the conductors commit before the trains collide?Think this question can’t be answered by physics? Think again! According to Pomona College, racial bias and microaggressions are a necessary subject for physics coursework.“Foundations of Modern Physics”...Read More

Via Sovereignman.comBy the late summer of 30 BC, ancient Rome had been embroiled in an almost endless, decades-long period of instability and civil war.Twenty years prior, back in 50 BC, Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great had waged a long, bloody conflict against each other for control of Rome, one that ultimately ended with Caesar's victory... and his subsequent assassination.With Caesar dead, Ro...Read More

There are things that matter, and there are things that you can control. There are few things that matter and that you can control. Focus on these.For instance, preventing global nuclear war matters. But you cannot control it.You can control what color car you drive. But this doesn’t really matter.But eating healthy matters, and you can control it.The New York Times ran a piece called The Ma...Read More

   •  Builds on this week’s rebound from 200-DMA amid a follow-through USD weakness.   •  Retracing US bond yields/reviving safe-haven demand provide an additional boost. After an initial dip to $1318 area, gold regained positive traction and has now risen to its highest level in over two-weeks.  A combination of supportive factors helped the prec...Read More

You have probably heard of the Milgram Experiment. Stanly Milgram wanted to see how obedient ordinary people were to authority figures. So he got participants to sign up for an experiment on learning.The unwitting participants were given control over an electric shocker. The nodes were hooked up to an actor who the participants thought was also a random participant. The participant was supposed to...Read More

Via Sovereignman.comOn April 15, 1185, over eight centuries ago, a powerful earthquake struck the East Midlands region of England near the town of Lincoln.Modern scientists estimate the magnitude of the earthquake at 5.0 on today's Richter scale... which was a pretty big deal back then.Medieval England didn't have any earthquake-proof construction methods, and much of the region was leveled to the...Read More

Gold held the 200 dma & March low at 1303.5/1302.5 as expected reaching targets 1315, 1318 before a high at 1322. Holding above 1318/16 is a short term buy signal targeting strong resistance at 1325/27 for some profit taking on any remaining longs. A break above 1328 however targets 1330/31 & 1333/35. Support in the 1318/14 area should hold the downside but below here targets 1310/1308 bef...Read More

A false break to the upside.A false break to the downside.Silver is like a volatile yo-yo even within a narrow range.This market is doing lots of work before it finally makes a move.My bet is still to the upside.The price of silver tends to look its best when it is at the top end of its trading range and its worst at the bottom. Silver is a speculative precious metal that attract trend-following t...Read More

This week, the Department of Defense sent out an interesting Tweet where they openly admitted that they control how the US government is portrayed in Hollywood films.While this is a fact that has been documented for many years, it is still largely overlooked by mainstream media sources, who insist that this idea is nothing more than a conspiracy theory. In the post, it was plainly admitted that th...Read More

Gold (XAU/USD) jumped to 10-day high yesterday, adding credence to long-tailed candles. Eyes gradually ascending (bullish) 100-day moving average (MA) hurdle. Having created back-to-back long-tailed doji candles at the 200-day moving average support, gold shot up to a ten-day high of $1,323 - the highest level since April 30. The yellow metal picked up a bid yesterday as the dollar index (DXY),...Read More

"The presidency will survive. The real question is what leads American presidents into the imperial temptation. When the American presidency conceives itself as the appointed savior of a world in which mortal danger requires rapid and incessant deployment of men, weapons, and decisions behind a wall of secrecy, power rushes from Capitol Hill to the White House."-Historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr....Read More