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The Michigan National Guard arrived in Flint on Wednesday to help provide emergency relief to hundreds of thousands of people facing toxic tap water. Flint’s tap water became contaminated with too much lead after the city switched its water supply in 2014 to save money. As a water crisis emergency has been declared the National Guard will be conducting door-to-door visits to deliver water, filters and supplies. Activist Post reports: A swarm of federal and state agencies are coming with them, including FEMA, the EPA and the CDC.

It has been a roller-coaster week for precious metals as the 50-day moving average remains key support for Gold and resistance for silver. This morning's chaos appears to have reignited the bid for safety once again...

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When Americans speak of “the big one,” they’re talking about the potential for a super-massive earthquake that could essentially destroy most of quake-prone California. Now some scientists believe something similar could happen in the once geologically placid Oklahoma.

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ISIS militants in Libya continue to attack key oil infrastructure in the country.

The two large oil export terminals at Es Sider and Ras Lanuf came under ISIS attacks on January 4-6. Some oil storage tanks exploded after suffering damage from machine gun fire.

The mingled wreckage of a Bombardier CRJ 200 plane has been found after it disappeared from radar between Norway and Sweden. The converted freighter was on a mail transport flight when it sent out a distress signal at 11:31pm Thursday night. Rescue workers say there is no chance of finding any survivors at the crash site in the Swedish Lapland. The two pilots had taken off from the Norwegian airport of Gardermoen to transport mail to Tromsø, northern Norway.