USA - Don't be surprised when the global elite confiscate money from your bank account one day. They are already very clearly telling you that they are going to do it.
RUSSIA - Russia and South Africa, countries that hold about 80 percent of platinum group metal reserves, plan to set up an OPEC-type trading bloc to coordinate exports. “It can be called an OPEC,” Russian Natural Resources Minister Sergey Donskoy said late yesterday in an interview in Durban. “Our goal is to coordinate our actions accordingly to expand the markets. The price depends on the structure of the market, and we will form the structure of the market.”
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - Reclusive North Korea is to cut the last channel of communications with the South because war could break out at "any moment", it said on Wednesday, days after warning the United States and South Korea of nuclear attack. The move is the latest in a series of bellicose threats from North Korea in response to new UN sanctions imposed after its third nuclear test in February and to "hostile" military drills under way joining the United States and South Korea.
EUROPE - Savings accounts in Spain, Italy and other European countries will be raided if needed to preserve Europe's single currency by propping up failing banks, a senior eurozone official has announced.
EUROPE - People who rob old ladies in the street, or hold up security vans, are branded as thieves. Yet when Germany presides over a heist of billions of pounds from private savers’ Cyprus bank accounts, to ‘save the euro’ for the hundredth time, this is claimed as high statesmanship.
GERMANY - Economic advisers to the German government more than halved their forecast for 2013 growth today, blaming a sharp fourth-quarter contraction and weak prospects for foreign trade and investment.
RUSSIA - Moscow today accused the European Union of theft after it emerged the bailout of Cyprus would result in heavy losses for foreign depositors, many of whom are Russian.
UK - Financial Policy Committee ruling on the strength of bank balance sheets set to shock the City. Britain’s banks are under-capitalised. Not just by a little bit, but a lot.
USA - A Florida Atlantic University student who filed a complaint against his professor after he was ordered to stomp on the name of Jesus has been brought up on academic charges by the school and may no longer attend class, according to documents obtained by Fox News.
EUROPE - Eurozone finance ministers have agreed a 10 billion euro bailout deal for Cyprus to prevent its banking system collapsing and keep the country in the eurozone. Laiki (Popular) Bank - the country's second-biggest - will be wound down and deposit-holders with more than 100,000 euros ($130,000; £85,000) will face big losses. However, all deposits under 100,000 euros will be "fully guaranteed".
CYPRUS - This was not a good weekend for Russian billionaires. First, Boris Berezovsky was found dead at his English country estate. Now, all the uninsured depositors (read: Russian plutocrats) at Cyprus’s two largest banks are going to be hit much, much harder than they feared they might be when the Cyprus crisis first erupted last week.
USA - First formulated in the Bush administration's 2002 ‘Nuclear Posture Review’, the pre-emptive nuclear war doctrine - integrated into the Global War on Terrorism - started to take shape in the immediate wake of the war on Iraq.
GALVESTON, USA - A vial containing a potentially deadly virus has gone missing from a secure biomedical research facility at The University of Texas Medical Branch’s Galveston National Laboratory. The medical branch made the announcement Saturday afternoon, while stressing that there was no reason to believe there is a threat to the public.
CHINA - China is on track to overtake America as the world's biggest economy in 2016 as its growth accelerates, according to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. China's economy expanded last year at 7.8 percent - its slowest pace in more than a decade - and recent data has fuelled concerns that any rebound in the country's growth is losing steam. However, the OECD was upbeat, predicting in a new survey of China's prospects that the country's economy could expand by 8.5 percent this year and by 8.9 percent in 2014.
TEMPLE MOUNT, ISRAEL - Jewish groups held a mock Passover sacrifice on Thursday opposite the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The ritual slaughter was not merely a historic re-enactment, but, they say, practice in advance of the reconstruction of the Temple.