A gold-backed ruble and gold-backed yuan could start a ‘snowball exit’ from dollar Frederick William Engdahl notes, adding that it will diminish America’s ability to use the reserve dollar role to finance Washington’s perpetual overseas wars. The irony of the situation is that the central banks of China, Russia, Brazil and other countries “diametrically opposed”... 

Reminding us of the lesson of Dave in “2001: A Space Odyssey”, never trust the onboard computer. A Florida driver got shopped to the police by her own car after she left the scene of an accident in Port Saint Lucie. Cathy Bernstein’s Ford Focus has the sometimes-useful, always-creepy 911 Assist feature which sends the car’s location to authorities and uses your phone to connect... 

FN leader Marine Le Pen (right) with her niece Marion Marechal-Le Pen (left), a FN MP which is becoming a powerful pillar of the patriotic party. Marine Le Pen can break out a bottle of champagne to celebrate after her patriotic National Front (FN) earned an unprecedented victory in the first round of French regional elections on Sunday. The FN secured 28 percent of the vote nationally, the Interior... 

Republican Presidential Frontrunner Donald Trump on Monday said all Muslims should be prohibited from entering the United States until Congress can take action. In a statement issued to the press by his campaign, Trump called for “a total… shutdown of Muslims entering the US until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.” The statement said polling data shows... 

France wants to introduce security measures which could outlaw the use of encrypting software for anonymous connections and public Wi-Fi but critics say authorities are using the November 13 Paris attacks to clamp down on internet freedom. The French government is pondering whether to introduce measures which could make the use of Tor, the free anonymizing software, illegal and to make it harder for... 

It came down to the addition of a single word for the a tree lighting ceremony, but that word carried enough significance for borough Roselle Park Councilwoman Charlene Storey to resign. Minutes after the council voted 4-2 Thursday night to change the name of the ceremony from A Tree Lighting to A Christmas Tree Lighting, the councilwoman-at-large, left the meeting. She later submitted her letter... 

A mind-boggling report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Ministry of Defense (MoD) states that the sudden launching yesterday by Aerospace Forces (AF) of two satellites are for the protection of the Federation naval research vessel Admiral Vladimisky—which has just departed the Saudi Arabian Port of Jeddah after taking on board a mysterious object described as the “Ark of Gabriel”... 

Russia could become the world’s largest supplier of ecologically clean and high-quality organic food, said President Vladimir Putin on Thursday. He also called on the country to become completely self-sufficient in food production by 2020. “We are not only able to feed ourselves taking into account our lands, water resources – Russia is able to become the largest world supplier of healthy,... 

A close friend of Nicholas Thalasinos, one of the victims of the San Bernardino shooting, said that gunman Sayed Farook had threatened to kill Thalasinos because he was Jewish and asserted that “Islam will rule the world.” CV Claverie posted the following Facebook message on Thursday evening; “The islamic terrorist who took the Life of my friend & bro in Christ, Nicholas Thalasinos, on... 

Iran’s Expediency Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaie has said that Tehran was ready to provide the Turkish government with necessary information regarding Daesh and their oil trade, Iranian media reported. “Iranian military advisors in Syria have taken photos and filmed all the routes used by ISIL’s oil tankers to Turkey. If the Turkish authorities are unaware of the Daesh oil sales in... 

Residents of a town in Florida may be fined for performing Christmas carols on public sidewalks if a proposed city ordinance passes, a citizen is warning. City commissioners in Winter Park, Florida, will vote later this month on whether to pass an ordinance regulating street performers and creating “designated public performance areas” around the town’s Central Business District. But a Winter... 

The Iraqi government has demanded that Ankara withdraw the more than 100 Turkish forces that entered Iraq with tanks and artillery for alleged “training” of troops near Islamic State-occupied Mosul. Baghdad stressed the unsanctioned move was a breach of its sovereignty. The Iraqi foreign ministry said in a statement early on Saturday that the Turkish troops were acting in violation of the country’s... 

A very concerning Federal Security Services (FSB) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the 2 December San Bernardino massacre that killed 14 innocent people was carried out by a secretive Islamic “woman only” combat organization known as the “Khawlah Division” having roots in Pakistan, and funded by Saudi Arabia, which Federation intelligence analysts had sent a “SECRET/URGENT”... 

Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Seoul in a new protest against the government’s reforms and laws, media reported Saturday. According to the BBC, the people are demonstrating against new history textbooks as well as labor reforms which would allegedly make it easier to dismiss workers. As many as 20,000 police officers are monitoring the event. The first round of protests, the largest... 

The San Bernardino, California shooting that left 14 dead and 21 injured is being investigated as terrorism, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has confirmed. There is no evidence so far the suspects belonged to a terror cell, though. “As of today, based on the information and the facts as we know them, we are investigating these horrific acts as an act of terrorism,” David Bowdich, assistant...