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CFTC’s Bart Chilton Assures Silver Price Manipulation Probe Not Over

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ETF Daily News
August 13, 2012

Carrington: A report Monday that the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) would drop its four-year-old probe on silver price manipulation may have been premature.

According to The Financial Times, the CFTC was supposedly unable to find enough evidence to support the claims after reviewing 100,000 pages of documents and interviews. But Bloomberg News reported today (Wednesday) that CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton said silver price manipulation did occur, and he’s intent to find it.

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Class-action attorneys: Racial profiling by Arpaio’s office proven

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AZ Capitol Times

By The Associated Press
Published: August 10, 2012 at 1:48 pm

Fernando Rios of Promise, Ariz. carries a sign to protest outside Sandra Day O'Connor Courthouse in downtown Phoenix, before the start of the racial-profiling case against the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday, July 24, 2012. Lawyers who say that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office disproportionately singled out Latinos in the patrols accused him of launching some sweeps based on emails and letters that don't allege crimes, but complain only that "dark-skinned people" are congregating in a given area or speaking Spanish. Arpaio has long denied racial profiling allegations. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Nick Oza)

Attorneys who alleged systematic racial profiling in Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration patrols said they proved their case at a trial that ended last week and emphasized that the agency doesn’t have adequate safeguards against singling people out based on their race.

Egypt loosens generals’ grip as first freely-elected President orders retirement of defence minister and chief of staff

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Mail Online
By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 14:54 EST, 12 August 2012

UPDATED: 01:58 EST, 13 August 2012

Big strides: Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has been quick to remove some of the military's powers

Big strides: Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has been quick to remove some of the military's powers

Egypt's first freely-elected president has taken hardline action to strip power from the military.

Mohammed Morsi ordered the defence minister and chief of staff to retire and cancelled a decree that kept lawmaking powers in the hands of top generals.

Spanish city Girona puts locks on bins

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The Telegraph

By , Madrid

2:38PM BST 08 Aug 2012

The Spanish city of Girona has put locks on rubbish bins outside supermarkets to stop people scavenging for food that has been thrown out because it is past the best-before date.

Spanish city Girona puts locks on bins

Girona council has adopted a scheme to direct the needy to special distribution centres where they can receive a food basket containing essential items Photo: Alamy
 

Girona, the second largest city in the northeastern autonomous region of Catalonia, is trying to prevent people rooting through rubbish containers of discarded food, a practice that is growing with the deepening economic crisis.

Mexican activist to take ‘peace caravan’ to US

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AFP, Published: 13:14 August 11, 2012

Month-long campaign from Sunday to protest the two countries’ brutal drug war

  • Mexican poet and social activist Javier Sicilia, left, with Mexican actor Daniel Gimenez Cacho at a news conference on the Caravan for Peace.

Mexico City: Mexican peace activist Javier Sicilia is launching a “caravan for peace” across the US in a month-long campaign from Sunday to protest the two countries’ brutal drug war.

“We are going to explain to the North American population that behind their addicts, behind this war declared by their government, behind their weapons, there are our dead, our disappeared and a crisis for democracy,” Sicilia told reporters.

Cracking of the Euro-Elite ... The Triumph of Hope?

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The Daily Bell
Thursday, August 09, 2012 – by Staff Report

Euro founder admits some nations may be forced to leave ... One of the founding fathers of the euro admits that some states may be forced to abandon the single currency, but insists Germany would be better off staying in. Otmar Issing, a former European Central Bank chief economist, warned that the eurozone could be heading towards fracture in a book called How we save the euro and strengthen Europe published this week. "Everything speaks in favour of saving the euro area. How many countries will be able to be part of it in the long term remains to be seen," said Mr Issing in the book, which is written as a conversation between an economist and a journalist. – UK Telegraph

Dominant Social Theme: Like Celine Dion's heart, the EU and euro will go on ...

Free-Market Analysis: Are the Eurocrats finally starting to crack? Otmar Issing, a notable pro-EU figure, has just released a book that promotes the possibility of a euro bust-up.

France declares war on illegal migrants: Riot police smash camps and hundreds rounded up for deportation as Socialists take on gipsies

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Mail Online
By Peter Allen
PUBLISHED: 10:00 EST, 9 August 2012

UPDATED: 08:46 EST, 10 August 2012

Dozens of officers in riot gear descended on a settlement near Lille shortly after dawn to oversee the evacuation of some 200 Roma living in mobile homes.

One hundred people were evicted from a site in Lyon, with similar round-ups happening in other major cities including Marseille. Caravans and huts were destroyed in the Belleville area of central Paris on Wednesday, making another 100 people homeless.

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People from the Roma community walk along a road after they were expelled by police from their camp

People from the Roma community walk along a road after they were expelled by police from their camp

Suppressed By Scholars: Twin Ancient Cultures On Opposite Sides Of The Pacific

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Alternate News Media
May 16, 2012

One of the greatest archaeological riddles—and one of the grossest academic omissions—of our time is the untold story of the parallel ruins left by two seemingly unrelated ancient civilizations: the ancient Mayans on one side of the Pacific Ocean and the ancient Balinese on the other. The mysterious and unexplained similarities in their architecture, iconography, and religion are so striking and profound that the Mayans and Balinese seem to have been twin civilizations—as if children of the same parent. Yet, incredibly, this mystery is not only being ignored by American scholars, it’s being suppressed.

What does archaeology have to do with big politics and big business? Everything. This next statement, written in boldface, may sound absurd to you; but please keep reading, then look at the photographic evidence in this article, then draw your own conclusion:

European Bankers and Top Politicians Fear Collapse of the Euro

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The Market Oracle

Aug 10, 2012 - 11:24 AM

By: DK_Matai

Until recently, it was a sign of political correctness not even to consider the possibility of a euro collapse. Investment experts at Deutsche Bank -- Germany's largest bank -- now feel that a collapse of the common currency is "a very likely scenario." Germany's second-largest bank -- Commerzbank -- has also flagged fears of a Eurozone collapse whilst bracing for a worsening of the euro-crisis. "The greatest downside risk remains an uncertainty shock from an escalation of the sovereign debt crisis, ie, the collapse of the monetary union," Commerzbank states in its latest quarterly report released this week, adding that it thought the risk was higher now than in autumn last year.

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