Swiss gold exports to the United States are normally less than 0.5 metric ton a month. And for many months there weren’t any gold exports. However, something big changed in May as Swiss gold exports surged to 20.7 metric tons (665.500 oz).

So what’s going on here? Why the declining US gold exports or surging gold imports from Switzerland? Are foreign countries demanding less gold?? I doubt it. Or how about the massive increase in supposed gold flows into the Global Gold ETFs & Funds?? While there is no way of knowing how much gold these Gold ETFs & Funds hold, something seriously changed in May as the Swiss exported more gold to the US in one month than they have every year for several decades.

Are wealthy Americans finally acquiring a lot more gold? It will be interesting to see that data for the next few months when the USGS releases their Gold Mineral Industry Surveys.

According to LifeSiteNews, the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association say that doctors have uncovered evidence of a mass sterilisation program sponsored by the Kenyan government and funded by Bill Gates. The Kenyan government denies there is anything wrong with the vaccine, and says it is perfectly safe.

The Kenya Catholic Doctors Association, however, saw evidence to the contrary, and had six different samples of the tetanus vaccine from various locations around Kenya sent to an independent laboratory in South Africa for testing.

The results confirmed their worst fears: all six samples tested positive for the HCG antigen. The HCG antigen is used in anti-fertility vaccines, but was found present in tetanus vaccines targeted to young girls and women of childbearing age.

Dr Ngare, spokesman for the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association, stated in a bulletin released November 4:

“This proved right our worst fears; that this WHO campaign is not about eradicating neonatal tetanus but a well-coordinated forceful population control mass sterilization exercise using a proven fertility regulating vaccine. This evidence was presented to the Ministry of Health before the third round of immunization but was ignored.”

At least in Kenya, Catholic doctors are acting and taking a stand against what they see as an involuntary mass sterilization campaign designed to control the population of Africans.

The aircraft will be flown from Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota next month, and the air wing will be accompanied by 300 airmen. "The B-1 units bring a unique perspective and years of repeated combat and operational experience from the Central Command theater to the Pacific," reads a statement from the US Air Force.

"They will provide a significant rapid global strike capability that enables our readiness and commitment to deterrence, offers assurance to our allies, and strengthens regional security and stability in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region." The B-1s will replace B-52 bombers currently stationed in Guam.

But if you have been listening to the endless parade of political speeches at the Democratic and Republican National conventions, you would be tempted to think that the greatest days for the United States are right around the corner. The politicians keep promising us that better times are coming if we will just make the “correct” choices on election day, but no matter who we send to Washington DC things just seem to keep getting worse and worse. Let’s take a look at just a few of the signs that indicate that our country is going in the wrong direction…

The rise in violent crime… Police officers are being shot at a staggering rate… The US economy continues to crumble… The US consumer appears to be increasingly tapped out as the middle class shrinks… Business is not booming… Our politicians just continue to go from bad to worse… Everywhere you look, evil is exploding…

Sadly, most Americans are way too addicted to entertainment to bother noticing that our nation is rapidly going down the toilet: In America today, millions of people would rather spend endless hours playing video games such as Pokemon Go on their phones rather than getting involved in their communities. And it is difficult to say that we even have “communities” anymore when most people spend far more time online than in face to face interaction with others. If you can believe it, one recent survey found that half the population of the United States and Canada uses Facebook at least once a day.

The average American spends more than five hours a day watching television, and the television is telling them that everything is going to be just wonderful and that they should go out and vote for Hillary Clinton because she would be the first woman president and that would make history.

Meanwhile, our society is falling apart in literally thousands of different ways, and most Americans know deep inside that our country is deeply, deeply broken. That is why more than two-thirds of us tell the pollsters that America is on the wrong track. Virtually all of us know that something is seriously wrong with the United States, even if we can’t always agree on what the solutions should be.

It’s not that no one writes about aspects of the arms trade. There are occasional pieces that, for example, take note of the impact of US weapons transfers, including cluster bombs, to Saudi Arabia, or of the disastrous dispensation of weaponry to US allies in Syria, or of foreign sales of the costly, controversial F-35 combat aircraft.

And once in a while, if a foreign leader meets with the president, US arms sales to his or her country might generate an article or two. But the sheer size of the American arms trade, the politics that drive it, the companies that profit from it, and its devastating global impacts are rarely discussed, much less analyzed in any depth.

The most damaging deals, if not the most lucrative, have been the sales of bombs and missiles to the Saudis for their brutal war in Yemen, where thousands of civilians have been killed and millions of people are going hungry.

There is, however, unlikely to be a genuine public debate about the value of the arms business and Washington’s place in it if it isn’t even considered a subject worthy of more than an occasional media story. In the meantime, the United States continues to hold onto the number one role in the global arms trade, the White House does its part, the Pentagon greases the wheels, and the dollars roll in to profit-hungry US weapons contractors.

If true, this would help explain the apparent ineptness of the coup forces. My first hypothesis explaining this ineptness plus other peculiarities of the coup was that the plotters were unwittingly working in a dark operation run by Turkish security forces, intended to make them fail while flushing them out and giving Erdogan a free hand. This possibility of Russian advance warning put together with Erdogan’s own belief that the coup originated in America should yield some serious geopolitical shifts in the region.

We could have an even stronger rapprochement between Turkey and Russia than was already underway, a rapprochement, by the way, which could well have helped tip the United States into giving a wink and a nod (and of course, as always, some cash) to Turkish rebel forces. But that would not be the only reason for America’s supporting a coup.

The truth is, from the American point of view, Erdogan’s erratic behavior – shooting down a Russian war plane, firing artillery into Syria at American Kurdish allies, blackmailing Europe over large numbers of refugees resident in Turkish camps, and still other matters – over the last few years has added uncertainty and potential instability to a strategically important region.

Even if the United States were not involved in the coup, although right now Turkey’s government appears to believe firmly that it was, Putin’s warning would add a powerful positive element to Russian-Turkish relations.

The vice chairman of Ms Merkel's CSU party, he criticised the Chancellor’s stance on migration which has seen millions flow across Germany’s borders. Mr Jahn blamed his government for the “nightmare” gripping locals in Bavaria, the largest state in Germany, which has been the location for three of the most recent attacks to rock the nation.

He said: “People in Bavaria and in the whole of Germany say that, of course, Ms Merkel has failed and, historically, the nation because she decided to ignore the German immigration law and she opened the borders of our country last year for two million immigrants from countries outside Europe. It’s really a nightmare [that] politicians brought to Germany and Bavaria, and people are very worried to be the next victims of terrorism in our country.”

It comes after Bavarian Governor Horst Seehofer announced that “Islamist terrorism has arrived in Germany”, as citizens faced “an entirely new dimension of terrorism – the Islamist-minded terrorism.” Also speaking after the trio of attacks to hit Wurzburg, Munich, and Ansbach, Bavaria’s interior minister, Joachim Hermann, proposed denying entry to any asylum seeker without a valid ID. He said: “Deportation into a war zone should not be taboo as well.”

What you may not yet know is that the game was actually developed by a CIA-funded software front group for the purpose of using all the mobile device cameras of the brain dead public to conduct what I call "mass redundant surveillance" of any area requiring immediate video documentation by the CIA or NSA. It's essentially a CIA spying machine pretending to be a game.

To accomplish citizen-assisted spying, the game's puppet masters simply plop a virtual monster into any desired surveillance location, and hoards of totally brain dead apocalyptic zombie humans instantly converge on the scene, all pointing their mobile cameras at the virtual "monsters" so they can earn their virtual "points."

As this is happening, the video from selected players' cameras is being streamed to the CIA in real time, along with precise GPS coordinates of the players' locations. The more people the CIA wants to converge onto an area of interest, the higher the monster value they place at that location. When high-value monsters appear in such locations, hoards of Pokemon players rush to the scene via bicycles, taxis, automobiles and even on foot… all pointing their cameras at the high-value target and upstreaming real-time video to the CIA.

In effect, Pokemon Go is the CIA's way of turning an obedient population of zombie humans into inadvertent collectors of actionable on-the-ground intelligence.

Brussels bureaucrats have threatened Warsaw with a suspension of voting rights and the freezing of its funds after accusing the country’s government of ignoring concerns that it has undermined democracy. But a defiant Mr Kaczynski, the influential chairman of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, brushed off the warnings, saying: "This process is wholly outside the EU treaty. It is nothing but a happy endeavour for the amusement of the EU commission and its bureaucrats."

The heavyweight Polish politician said Britain’s momentous decision to leave the beleaguered EU following June’s referendum was a sign of growing discontent among member states. Warning that Brexit could lead to an uprising against the bloc, Mr Kaczynski told German newspaper, Bild: “Brexit showed us where the problems lie. If we don't solve them we will not prevent but strengthen anti-EU movements in many EU countries." His comments yet again expose the growing division on the continent over how to deal with the fallout of the historic Brexit vote.

Under the measure, a single point of contact – such as a teacher or health visitor – would have been assigned to look out for the welfare of children. But the Supreme Court ruled in its current form it could breach Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects privacy and family rights.

Colin Hart, director of the Christian Institute, said: "We are very happy with today's ruling, which vindicates what we and others have been saying for years." The court even invoked the spectre of totalitarian regimes in its criticism of the plans. "This is a devastating blow for the Scottish Government which sought to brush off all criticism of its named person scheme as 'scaremongering'."

The prospect of Germany leaving the EU has been dubbed a Gexit, which stands for German exit, and Dexit, which stands for Deutschland exit. Far-right figures in Alternative for Germany (AfD) have promised to call their own vote if they get into power in Germany’s general election in autumn next year.

After the Brexit victory in June, AfD chairman Bjorn Hocke said: "I know the German people want to be free of EU slavery.” The European policy spokesman for the party said: “Next year the AfD will enter the German parliament and Dexit will be top on our agenda.” The Left Party leader Sahra Wagenknech has also called for Germany to hold its own referenda on key EU decisions such as trade deals.

“I believe that it’s right to give the people the chance to vote on important issues like the planned free trade TTIP deal, or other European agreements,” she told Die Welt newspaper.