Louis Farrakhan made terror threats against white Americans in his recent speech at a Baptist church in Miami, and the silence from Barack Obama, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the media and most conspicuously – black Americans – is deafening. Farrakhan did not make this speech in a mosque. He made it in a Christian church. And the congregation cheered his chilling threats of death against white Americans as if Jesus Christ had come down from heaven.

Farrakhan gave a congregation of angry blacks license to kill white cops and other white people. This is pure evil. And it could start a race war, which I have no doubt is his intention. Whites are not killing blacks in large numbers. In fact, the opposite is true. Blacks are robbing, raping and killing whites at alarming rates. And black-on-black crime is higher than ever in cities like Baltimore, New York City and Chicago.

Farrakhan knows who is really doing the killing. So does Obama and his racist attorney general. So do the media, who routinely magnify instances of white-on-black violence, while masking much more common black-on-white violence. In a sane, just world, Farrakhan would be arrested immediately for making terrorist threats. Yet if he were white – God help him! The “Justice” Department would arrest him so fast, his head would spin. The media would cheer his arrest, and so would the average black American.

In the past, Germany had repeatedly supported Catalan secession. Influential German think tanks are demanding that secession not be obstructed. However, there is opposition rising from within business circles. Catalonia is a central site for German companies in Spain. Engaged in trade throughout Spain, they do not want to see their business possibilities limited to one region and Barcelona's secession from Madrid could possibly prove an obstacle.

According to German government advisors, on the other hand, these problems could be solved. Some economists contend that the EU's currency, the Euro, can, in the long run, only be maintained within a uniform economic area. This would exclude Spain, but include a seceded Catalonia, the strongest economic zone on the Iberian Peninsular.

The central bank cut its daily reference rate by 1.9 percent, triggering the yuan’s biggest one-day drop since China unified official and market exchange rates in January 1994. The People’s Bank of China called the change a one-time adjustment and said it will strengthen the market’s ability to determine the daily fixing.

The devaluation jolted global markets, with the currencies of South Korea, Australia and Singapore falling more than 1 percent amid bets other countries may seek weaker exchange rates to keep exports competitive. China’s move has raised the risk of a “currency war” as export rivals seek a weaker exchange rate to stay competitive, according to Stephen Roach, a senior fellow at Yale University and former non-executive chairman for Morgan Stanley in Asia.

“It’s hard to believe this will be a one-off adjustment,” Roach said. “In a weak global economy, it will take a lot more than a 1.9 percent devaluation to jump-start sagging Chinese exports. That raises the distinct possibility of a new and increasingly destabilizing skirmish in the ever-widening global currency war. The race to the bottom just became a good deal more treacherous.”

The gold bars were not purchased for bank clients. They were purchased for the banks themselves. How do I know this? They are designated by the exchange as being for delivery to the bank’s “house” accounts at COMEX, not to client accounts. Goldman Sachs, alone, took 3.2 tons worth of physical gold bars. Yet, even as the firm builds its stockpile, Goldman tells clients not to do it.

According to Goldman’s Jeffrey Currie, the long-term outlook for gold is bleak. “In longer term, we definitely like playing this market on the short side. We think we are in a structural bear market, not only in gold, but across the commodity complex, as the individual commodity stories are reinforcing to one another, creating a negative feedback loop.”

In spite of the antics in the paper-gold market, we know the physical market is on fire. Demand will exceed known supplies by at least 1,350 tons in 2015. More in 2016. But, that won’t stop someone from setting up the paper market in order to buy from the physical market very cheaply. This is because the mysterious gold “supplier of last resort” will fill COMEX physical delivery demand, for the moment at least, no matter how high it rises, and no matter how low other supplies may be.

Summary

• On August 6, 2015, Goldman Sachs, which has issued very bearish forecasts on long-term gold prices, took delivery of a 3.2-ton purchase of physical gold.

• On August 6, 2015, HSBC which also claims to be bearish, took delivery of a 3.9-ton purchase of physical gold.

In both cases, the purchases are registered as being for the benefit of the bank’s own house account, rather than the accounts of customers.

Investors should do as the banks do, not as they say.

The four-minute advert, released on Friday, shows asylum-seekers in the rain being herded onto a bus with their belongings and driven to the airport. “Quite a few people have believed the false promises of scam artists that it’s easy to stay in Germany and other EU countries as an asylum-seeker and make a lot of money,” says a voice-over.

“Do not ruin yourself and your family financially by being trafficked to Germany. Help develop your homeland economically: use your knowledge and skills there.”

Germany takes in by far the most migrants in the EU, and has a relatively liberal asylum system. But the authorities say it is being overburdened by false refugees from the Balkans who have little to no chance of being granted asylum as the country struggles to cope with a huge influx of genuine refugees from Syria.

Even though the overwhelming majority of those will be turned away, the German authorities still have to house and provide for them while their applications are processed. “The vast majority of these people are not in need of international protection,” Vincent Cochetel, the UN refugee agency’s Europe director, said in Geneva. They are “clogging the system”, he said. “We need to take really fast-track decisions for those people who are not in need of protection and have them returned quickly.”

He told BBC News: "We have got to be able to resolve this problem ultimately by being able to return those who are not entitled to claim asylum back to their countries of origin. That's our number one priority. As long as the European Union's laws are the way they are, many of them will only have to set foot in Europe to be pretty confident that they will never be returned to their country of origin.

"Now, that is not a sustainable situation because Europe can't protect itself and preserve its standard of living and social structure, if it has to absorb millions of migrants from Africa." Mr Hammond said that ensuring migrants could be returned to their country of origin was also the key to resolving the "crisis" at Calais, where hundreds are gathered in the hope of being able to make it across the Channel to Britain.

German and Greek media said 27-pages of "substantial" and "far-reaching" reforms had been agreed following marathon talks between Euclid Tsakalotos, Greece's finance minister, and the country's creditors on Saturday. The six hour meeting, which ended in the early hours of Sunday morning, will see the country slash defence spending and subsidies for farmers as part of a fresh package of austerity measures, according to German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.

The country's third bail-out in five years has faced fierce opposition from countries such as Finland, which threatened on Saturday to withhold its support for a new deal. Timo Soini, the country's eurosceptic foreign minister, said Finland was "running out of patience" with Greece, as he insisted that a Greek exit from the eurozone was still the most likely outcome.

They portray "holy war" as a religious obligation if Islamic lands are attacked and suggest it is justified to kill captured enemies. Christians, the country's largest religious minority, are largely absent from the texts. The government says it's tackling the contradiction between official anti-extremist policy and what is taught in schools and mosques by rewriting school books and retraining thousands of teachers and preachers.

Critics say the reforms are superficial, fail to challenge hard-line traditions, and that the first revised textbooks for elementary-school children still present Islam as the only true religion. "Islamic State ideology is there, in our textbooks," said Zogan Obiedat, a former Education Ministry official who published a recent analysis of the texts. If Jordan were to be overrun by the militants, a large majority "will join IS because they learned in school that this is Islam," he said. Government officials insist they are serious about reform.

The rewritten books will teach "how to be a moderate Muslim, how to respect others, how to live in an environment that has many nationalities and different ethnic groups," said Education Minister Mohammed Thnaibat. Thnaibat refused to discuss hard-line passages in the unrevised books, but said there are limits to reform. Jordan is an Islamic country, he said, and "you cannot go against the culture of the society."

It’s the video of a prayer meeting in Washington in late April that has collected millions of views – and been uploaded multiple times. The video is of Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, author of the New York Times bestseller “The Harbinger” and the inspiration behind the “Isaiah 9:10 Judgment” movie. He appeared at the 2015 “Washington: A Man of Prayer” service at the US Capitol in April, an event that was livestreamed online. There, he smacked down both the US Supreme Court justices for the audacious assumption that they could set themselves up in opposition to God and redefine marriage, as well as President Obama, whose policies have been of that ilk.

Cahn's comments are blunt. He noted the Supreme Court opens sessions with the words, "God save the United States and this honorable court." It was before the justices redefined marriage across America to include same-sex "marriage." He said at the time: "If this court should overrule the word of God and strike down the eternal rules of order and right that heaven itself ordained, how then will God save it? Justices, can you judge the ways of God? There is another court and there another judge, where all men and all judges will give account.

"If a nation's high court should pass judgment on the Almighty, should you then be surprised God will pass judgment on the court and that nation? We are doing that which Israel did on the altars of Baal," he said. Cahn said America's biblical foundation was affirmed throughout history and the nation came into existence "solely for the glory and purposes of God." "No historian can rewrite that. No president can expunge that," he warned.

He explained ancient Israel turned away from God. "They drove God out of the government. They worshiped idols and served other gods. They celebrated immorality and they persecuted righteousness. The blessings of God were removed and replaced with judgments," he said. Now, he said, "America has made the same mistakes." He cited the deaths of 55 million through abortion. "What we were warned never to do we now have done," he thundered.

In Varnell, the Dalton newspaper said, screenshots showed that the video was shared about the beginning of July. A "gay citizen" said it was an inappropriate place for a video. The department responded, "If it's good enough for Congress to hear then we the people should hear it also, you are a guest on our page, it is not run by, or endorsed by the state. There is a delete button to select if you do not like a post."

The latest sign of this stealth takeover of civil rights and freedom was epitomized in recent Senate testimony by FBI Director James Comey, who voiced his objections to civilian use of encryption to protect personal data – information the government has no automatic right to obtain.

As reported by The New American, Comey testified that he believes the government’s spy and law enforcement agencies should have unfettered access to everything Americans may store or send in electronic format: On computer hard drives, in so-called i-clouds, in email and in text messaging – for our own safety and protection. Like many in government today, Comey believes that national security is more important than constitutional privacy protections or, apparently, due process. After all, aren’t criminals the only ones who really have anything to hide?

In testimony before a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee entitled “Going Dark: Encryption, Technology, and the Balance Between Public Safety and Privacy” Comey said that in order to stay one step ahead of terrorists, as well as international and domestic criminals, Uncle Sam’s various spy and law enforcement agencies should have access to available technology used to de-encrypt protected data. Also, he believes the government should be the final arbiter deciding when decryption is necessary.

So, in essence, Comey – like many before him, especially since the global war on terror was launched – believes that, in the name of national security Americans ought to give up more of their individual and constitutional rights because that’s the only way we can be adequately protected.