Europe

It appears Bay Area TV anchor Frank Somerville's honest description of "the hate" he experienced from "violent, clad in black" protesters in Berkeley was the tipping point for the liberal media to turn against AntiFa en masse.

I experienced hate first hand today... It came from these people dressed in all black at a protest in Berkeley.

 

Ironically they were all chanting about NO hate.

 

Some had shields and gloves. Some had helmets. Some had gas masks.

 

Via The Daily Bell

As the world becomes more environmentally aware, all eyes are on finding sustainable, long-term solutions to replace the use of non-renewable materials such as fossil fuels. Great steps are being taken to reduce greenhouse gases, notably carbon emissions, with recruiters like NES constantly looking to place talented individuals into key positions within the energy industry – but what could Europe’s renewable energy revolution have in store for the industry?

International power grid

This remains a market in which traders are, for lack of a better word, "confused" (another good word is "paralyzed" as we observed one month ago).

Total G-3 Central Bank Control

Posted with permission and written by Craig Hemke, TF Metals Report 

Authored by James Rickards

Last week featured two unusual stories on gold - one strange and the other truly weird. These stories explain why gold is not just money but is the most politicized form of money.

They show that while politicians publicly disparage gold, they quietly pay close attention to it.

The first strange gold story involves Germany…

The Deutsche Bundesbank, the central bank of Germany, announced that it had completed the repatriation of gold to Frankfurt from foreign vaults.