Authored by Pepe Escobar, originally posted op-ed via Strategic-Culture.org,
A half-hearted near handshake between US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin before and after they spoke «for about four minutes», standing up, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Lima, Peru, captured to perfection the melancholic dwindling of the Obama era.
Submitted by Joseph Jankowski via PlanetFreeWill.com,
While speaking with the New York Times, President-elect Donald Trump said that he received a call from Apple’s Tim Cook on Monday in which he pushed the CEO about bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States.
Several Facebook employees have reportedly quit the social media company amid criticism that it has developed a special software to suppress posts in China in concession for re-entering the Chinese market. Facebook has been banned in the country since 2009 and the new censorship tool could allow China to monitor and suppress content in news feeds based on user’s location. WCCF Tech reports: New York Times reports that Mark Zuckerberg has created a software to suppress posts from appearing in people’s news feeds in specific geographic areas.
Submitted by Koos Jansen from BullionStar.com.
More proof the "precious metals assets" on Chinese commercial bank balance sheets have little to do with the “surplus” gold in China's domestic market.