The FBI have released new information that implicate themselves and the Memphis Police Department in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., on the 50th anniversary of the civil rights leaders’ death.  The admission by both agencies suggests that the agencies themselves or members of the agencies facilitated and directly caused Dr King’s death. Thefreethoughtproject.com reports: During a rainstorm on February 1, 1968, two black sanitation workers in Memphis lost their lives when the truck’s compactor accidentally triggered.

Sir Cliff Richard will soon learn if he is to face criminal charges over historic sex allegations in a matter of weeks, as police hand over an 18-month investigation to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).  The 75-year-old singer has denied allegations that he abused young boys in the early 1980’s. Police officers raided the singers home in Sunningdale, Berks, in August 2014 and then quizzed him over allegations that he sexually abused a teenage boy at a concert in 1985.

Via John Hussman's Weekly Market Comment,

The popular messaging app, WhatsApp, has announced that it is now a completely free service, and has ditched subscription fees for end users. The Daily Dot reports: The decision is a reversal of the annual subscription model that WhatsApp previously employed. Under that model, the first year of service was free, but each additional year cost 99 cents. The company is now eliminating that fee, in part because it learned that some of its more than one billion users don’t have access to a debit or credit card.

With the topic of distress among U.S. oil and gas exploration and production companies becoming more important with every passing day that oil not only continues to drop, but certainly fails to rebound to levels that allow US energy companies to return to a cash flow positive state, we would like to show just how much debt is at stake.