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Israeli fighter jet hits Hamas targets in Gaza amid ongoing protests


Sputnik
Mon, 14 May 2018 15:27 UTC
Israeli F-16 fighter jet
© Amir Cohen / Reuters


The situation along the Israel-Gaza border is agitated by the ongoing mass protests of about 15,000 Palestinians against the US Embassy's relocation to Jerusalem.

"A fighter jet struck five terrorist targets in a military training facility belonging to the Hamas terror organization in the northern Gaza Strip," a military statement said. "The strike was conducted in response to the violent acts of the last few hours being carried out by Hamas along the security fence."

Comment: It has been a sad day for Palestine:

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Gold Coins

Gold has been 'radically undervalued' and the price will soon take off, says expert


RT
Mon, 14 May 2018 15:23 UTC
gold stack
© Andy Roberts / Getty Images
Against growing crude prices gold is significantly cheap and presents a good buying opportunity, according to Leigh Goehring, managing partner at New York-based firm Goehring & Rozencwajg Associates.

The analyst compared the current situation to the one gold and oil markets experienced 20 years ago. "Back in the first quarter of 1999 oil was $11 a barrel, gold was almost $300. So an ounce of gold bought 30 barrels of oil, which at our long-term modeling of golden oil that made gold very-very expensive," Goehring said in an interview with Kitco News.

The expert highlighted that back then prices for crude went all the way up to $35 within 18 months, whereas the precious metal went from $300 down to $250.

"At the end of 2000 oil was at $37, gold had fallen down to 275, and at that point an ounce of gold only bought seven barrels of oil. It became radically undervalued," he told the media. "And what had happened over the next two years? Gold stocks were up 500 percent in the next three years and oil stocks did almost nothing."

"Oil will continue to do well. If oil were to go to $100 a barrel and gold were to stay at these levels, we're getting down to that undervalued area of 10 to 1, where an ounce of gold only buys 10 barrels of oil. At that point I believe gold will be radically undervalued and will take off," Goehring said.

Comment: See also: Central banks manipulating and suppressing gold prices - and have been doing so for decades

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Newspaper

Extremist pastor picked to lead the opening prayer at the US embassy in Jerusalem


RT
Mon, 14 May 2018 14:47 UTC
us embassy sign
© Ronen Zvulun / Reuters
The man picked to lead a prayer at Donald Trump's much-vaunted opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem, is a militant Baptist preacher, known, among other things, for calling Islam's Prophet Muhammad "a bloodthirsty warlord."

As if Monday's relocation of the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem needed more controversy, the priest picked to lead a prayer at the unveiling ceremony is Dr. Robert Jeffress, a megachurch Baptist preacher from Dallas and long-time supporter of Donald Trump. Jeffress, who is also a Fox News contributor, announced that he was picked for the occasion in an recent interview with Fox&Friends.

Jeffress has quite the track record of extreme religious intolerance and is known for labeling just about any religion other than his own as heresy. While the pastor has targeted almost every religion, the most scathing of his numerous attacks have taken aim at Islam. Arguing that Islam as a religion is inherently violent, Jeffress said during one TV debate that prophet Muhammad "was nothing but a bloodthirsty warlord who beheaded 600 Jews who would not follow him into battle."

"Jesus, the founder of our faith, didn't kill anybody. He was crucified, but you look in the Quran, you can find 35 sword verses," he told an imam during a debate hosted by Fox News in 2016.
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Arrow Down

Peter Hitchens: So called 'impartial' Syrian Observatory for Human Rights receives nearly £200k from UK

Omar Baggili
RT
Mon, 14 May 2018 13:16 UTC
Syria
© Omar Sanadiki / Reuters

The British government has given the self-described 'impartial' Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) £194,769.60 for a project to help fund "communications equipment and cameras," according to journalist Peter Hitchens.

The Sunday Mail's Hitchens, a regular critic of British foreign policy, tweeted on Sunday: "Boris Johnson's Foreign Office admits it gave £194,769.60 to the supposedly 'independent' Syrian Human Rights Observatory. How many other 'independent' bodies in the Syrian controversy aren't as 'independent' as they look?"


Comment: The UK is indeed happy to keep funding the propaganda arms of its proxy terrorists. Useful tools in the information war to win the hearts and minds of the sheeple so the West can prolong the pretense of its 'humanitarian interventions' in Syria.

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Pistol

New report highlights serious gang violence and cyber crime in the UK


RT
Mon, 14 May 2018 14:39 UTC
pointed gun
© Paul Bradbury / Getty Images
A new report has revealed the seriousness of gang violence in the United Kingdom. According to the National Crime Agency, rising gang activity "affects more UK citizens, more often, than any other national security threat."

The annual report shines a light on the UK's underbelly - the NCA estimates 4,629 gangs are active in the UK, and the use of illegal firearms is on the rise as more and more weapons are smuggled across borders from Europe.

The report also identified cyber crime as a growing threat to public safety, increasing in both scale and complexity. NCA Director General Lynne Owens said that the annual report has shown that organized crime groups are exploiting digital technology, such as using encryption services to communicate and dark web marketplaces to aid their activities.
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Sheriff

Desperately seeking a drug bust: Police raid couple's home after Facebook post on legal, edible mushrooms

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 14 May 2018 14:21 UTC
mushroom arrest
It is a travesty enough when the drug war lays waste to the rights and lives of entirely decent people who've harmed no one simply because they choose to ingest a substance deemed illegal by the state. However, because the drug war is such an immoral and barbaric practice, entirely innocent people are also swept up in the dragnet of tyranny and ignorance. Case in point: a couple in Maryland were raided by cops for posting photos of legal morel mushrooms they picked and ate.

On Friday, John Garrison and his girlfriend Hope went foraging the mountains for some morel mushrooms. Morels are known to those in the region as being the safest mushroom to hunt for as they are very easily identified due to their unique look. From mid April to mid May, lovers of nature and good food, like John and Hope will find them growing near trees or where there used to be trees.

Garrison was so excited that they had found a bunch of them, that he posted a photo on Facebook of he and Hope's bounty along with his plans to "sautee them with brown sugar and cinnamon and see how that turns out."
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Attention

Thousands rally in Ireland against liberalization of abortion laws

Steve Dellar
The Goldwater
Sun, 13 May 2018 00:00 UTC
Ireland protest against abortion
© Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish TimesA section of the crowd attending the Love Both rally in Merrion Square, Dublin.
Ireland, the deeply Catholic nation, will decide on 25 May whether or not to change the 8th amendment to its constitution which deals with the highly controversial topic of abortion.

According to the latest Irish poll (foreign polls are not allowed anymore, see our related coverage), some 45 percent will vote to change the law, 34 percent will vote no and 18 percent are still undecided.

The Eighth Amendment, article 40.3.3, which was inserted into the Constitution in a referendum in 1983, provides that the State "acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right."

Comment: George Soros has his tentacles in the pro-abortion movement in Ireland, planning to overturn legislation in the country before spreading his degenerate agendas throughout Latin America, Africa, Europe and Tasmania.

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Document

DSMA committee issued two 'D-notices' over Skripal affair

David Miller
Spinwatch
Wed, 09 May 2018 13:37 UTC
DSMA Notice
Spinwatch can reveal that the Skripal affair has resulted in the issuing of not one but two 'D-Notices' to the British media, which are marked private and confidential. We can also disclose the contents of both notices, which have been obtained from a reliable source.

That two notices were issued has been confirmed by the 'D-Notice' Committee. The Committee, which is jointly staffed by government officials and mainstream media representatives has recently changed its name to the 'Defence and Security Media Advisory (DSMA) Committee'. The use of the word 'advisory' is no doubt a bid to discourage the public from thinking that this is a censorship committee. However, the DSMA-Notices (as they are now officially called) are one of the miracles of British state censorship. They are a mechanism whereby the British state simply 'advises' the mainstream media what not to publish, in 'notices' with no legal force. The media then voluntarily comply.

Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in Salisbury and discovered collapsed on a park bench in the late afternoon of Sunday 4 March. Less than three days later on 7 March, the first and - until now undisclosed - notice was issued.

Comment: See also: Look Where They Tell You Not to Look

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Stormtrooper

Palestinians protest opening of US Embassy in Jerusalem as Israel kills another 43 and injures 2,200 in Gaza - in one day

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 14 May 2018 12:30 UTC
Gaza March of Return
The Israeli military continued its violent repression of Palestinian protesters on Monday when soldiers once again gunned down unarmed demonstrators whom it claimed were trying to penetrate the border fence separating Israel from the Gaza Strip.

According to Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, Israeli soldiers said they were "provoked into violence" when small groups of Palestinians began throwing stones at IDF soldiers from the other side of the border fence. The soldiers responded by gunning down demonstrators; by the time the demonstrations had quieted down, at least 28 Palestinians had been killed, and another 600 had been wounded, according to the Hamas-controlled Health Ministry.


Comment: It's not just snipers murdering demonstrators: Israeli warplanes bomb north Gaza Strip

(The headline has been updated with the latest casualty figures.)

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Stock Down

British pensioners receiving less than those retiring in India, Chile, or China

Ben Gelblum
The London Economic
Mon, 12 Feb 2018 12:00 UTC
oap pensioner sad
Our state pensions are actually the least generous in the developing world, the latest research from the OECD shows.

Brits earning the average salary of £26,500 will have to get by on less than a third of that if they are relying on a state pension. They are now looking at just £122.30 a week to retire on.


Comment: A salary of £26,500 is actually much higher than the average worker is earning.


And worryingly, the Government Actuary has warned that the cost of the present British pension pot is too much.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) analysed state pensions in industrialised countries as a proportion of salary earned, taking into account taxes and social security payments.

Comment: Considering life expectancy averages around 81 years, although for the poorest it is much lower and females in England it is actually falling for the first time since the 1920's, those who are lucky enough to reach retirement age have a life of poverty to look forward to.

This is just one of many signs of the impending collapse of the UK - and the US is faring no better:

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