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An Update from Bryan Slusarchuk of K92 Mining

by Turd Ferguson
TF Metals Report

Back on Friday, I jumped at the opportunity to visit again with Bryan Slusarchuk, the president of K92 Mining. You may recall that when we last spoke with Bryan back in June, K92 was getting ready to bring their primary mine into production. With production now underway, I think you’ll really enjoy this update.

What an exciting time for Bryan and his company. It was great to visit with him again and, not only did he answer my questions, he was also glad to address some of the questions raised in the comments section of the original interview. Among the topics covered in this podcast:

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All Paper Will Burn – Rob Kirby with Greg Hunter

Rob Kirby – 2016 Election is Criminality vs Good Guys

by Greg Hunter
USA Watchdog

Macroeconomic analyst Rob Kirby has wealthy global connections. He says forget about the recent takedown in precious metals because his sources don’t think anything paper will survive the upcoming financial meltdown. Kirby explains, “The commentary that I get from people with much higher pay grades than me is that, in the end, the only thing that will stand is physical metal gold and silver. They say all paper will burn.” Kirby goes on to confirm that “stocks, bonds and pensions” will be toast.

When is this going to happen is the trillion dollar question. HSBC just put out a “red alert” to its clients of a “severe fall” coming for stocks. How does Kirby view this type of dire warning from a big bank? Kirby thinks, “They want to try and position themselves so they can say hey, we warned you. They can say we knew it was coming because anybody with a brain could see it was coming. They can say they were trying to alert people. Basically, they are trying to sanitize their image before the inevitable occurs.”

Kirby says the battle that is going on in this election cycle is much deeper than a contest of political parties. Kirby explains, “The battle that we see being conducted in America right now is not a Republican vs. Democrat fiasco at all. It is criminality against the good guys. Maybe you call it the globalists against the nationalists or human against anti-human. This circus that is being played out in a completely bought and paid for American media is taking on comic book type references. I’ve seen more serious information being disseminated on Monty Python shows than what we are currently getting in the U.S. mainstream media (MSM). . . . It’s almost unbelievable that we are living this and watching it happen.”

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Hillary’s Emails Allowed Clinton Foundation Donors to Get Favors on a ‘Global Scale’

by Ginni Thomas
DailyCaller.com

When President Barack Obama asked Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton to be his secretary of state in 2009, “everybody was concerned by the obvious fact that America’s chief diplomat, who charts our foreign policy with foreign governments … is taking all this foreign money” for her family’s foundation, says Peter Schweizer, author of “Clinton Cash.”

In this second exclusive video interview for The Daily Caller News Foundation, the best-selling author discusses the bipartisan scrutiny the Clintons got in January 2009 for taking foreign money for private gain.

So, when Hillary pledged extra disclosure and transparency to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — then chaired by John Kerry — the Obama White House, and government ethics officials, it now appears she just lied to them all, says Schweizer.

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More Good News For Gold Bugs: The Bottom Is Getting Closer

by John Rubino
Dollar Collapse

In the latest gold and silver commitment of traders (COT) report (click here for an explanation of what this report involves), paper players made big strides in bringing the market back into balance — and setting the stage for an eventual rebound.

Speculators – who tend to be emotional and therefore wrong at the extremes – scaled their long positions way back, while the commercials – who time-and-again sucker the speculators into those emotional extremes and then fleece them – are now considerably less short. Here’s the raw data, courtesy of GoldSeek:

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Wikileaks Releases Another 1,054 Podesta Emails In Part 9 Of Data Dump; Total Is Now 12,073

from Zero Hedge

Another day, another data dump.

In a now familiar daily routine, one which forces the Clinton campaign to bring up ever starker sexual scandals involving Trump to provide a media distraction, moments ago Wikileaks released yet another roughly 1,054 emails in Part 9 of its ongoing Podesta Email dump, which brings the total number of released emails to 12,073.

As a reminder among yesterday’s releases were the three much anticiapted transcripts from Hillary Clinton’s speeches delivered to Goldman Sachs, first profiled here, and which as the WSJ explained “Reveal Hillary Clinton’s Sympathy for Wall Street

With another 38,000 or so emails left until election day, we expect the emergence of another Trump “sexual assault” accuser to emerge momentarily, just as we predicted yesterday and were proven right not once but twice. After all the public must be distracted from what truly matters.

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Destroy The MSM

by Karl Denninger
Market-Ticker.org

Look folks, it’s no surprise that the media “favors” someone over another in the political process.

But this goes beyond that — it is apparent documentation of coordination between Hillary’s campaign and the NY Times.

The January 2015 document centering on Clinton’s media strategy, released by the hacker known as Guccifer 2.0, was describing Maggie Haberman, who worked for Politico but who moved to the Times that month.

“We are all in agreement that the time is right [to] place a story with a friendly journalist in the coming days that positions us a little more transparently while achieving [our] goals,” said the memo, which was first published by The Intercept.

“We have [had] a very good relationship with Maggie Haberman of Politico over the last year,” the unsigned document noted. “We have had her tee up stories for us before and have never been disappointed. While we should have a larger conversation in the near future about a broader strategy for reengaging the beat press the covers HRC, for this we think we can achieve our objective and do the most shaping by going to Maggie.”

Unlike SuperPACs it’s not illegal for a candidate to talk with the press.

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Weekend Edition: Meet the Product That Will Replace Your Smartphone

by Jeff Brown
Casey Research

Editor’s note: There’s an innovative technology that will replace your smartphone in the not-too-distant future.

In today’s Weekend Edition, tech guru Jeff Brown, editor of Bonner & Partners’ Exponential Tech Investor, details this fascinating product…

As he says, “It will be prolific, pervasive, and profound for society. And the market could be as big as $120 billion by 2020”…

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By Jeff Brown, editor, Exponential Tech Investor

Simplicity… ease of use… convenience… a meaningful improvement of some daily task or activity…

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Lawsuits Launched Against DNC and Bush Administration

Whether it be the class action lawsuit against the DNC, Saleh v. Bush, or the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission conviction, there remains brave lawyers and prosecutors that are willing to stand up to the neocons, even if such a stand puts them in harm’s way.< by James Corbett
The International Forecaster

On June 28, 2016, the Miami-based law firm Beck & Lee served then-Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman and the DNC itself with a class action lawsuit for rigging the 2016 Democratic primary race in favor of Hillary Clinton.

But the lawsuit did not gain international notoriety until August 2nd, when Shawn Lucas, the process server who served the suit to the DNC, was found dead in his home.

Although Lucas’ unusual (and still unexplained) death has dominated media coverage of the story, missing from this narrative is that the death of this process server has not changed, derailed or stopped the case from proceeding. Jared Beck, the managing partner of the law firm that brought the suit, stopped to discuss the case after an evidentiary hearing late last month.

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The Millennial Conundrum

Millennials are bogged down by massive student debt and confiscatory housing prices.

from My Budget 360

Millennials are a critical group in terms of where the economy goes in the next few years. The economy largely relies on younger people to spend and purchase consumption items. Think of a young couple buying their first home. That in itself is a big purchase. Then comes big ticket items like refrigerators, a family car, bed, television, and all the trappings of filling a home. Baby boomers followed a very clear script when it came to this consumption behavior. Millennials on the other hand have not. They are largely constrained by a couple of major things that simply were not tied to the previous generation. And what could those be? Millennials are bogged down by student debt and confiscatory housing prices.

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Britain’s Seven Covert Wars: RAF Drones, Embedded SAS Forces, Training of Jihadists

by Mark Curtis
Global Research

Britain is fighting at least seven covert wars in the Middle East and North Africa, outside of any democratic oversight or control. Whitehall has in effect gone underground, with neither parliament nor the public being allowed to debate, scrutinise or even know about these wars.

To cover themselves, Ministers are now often resorting to lying about what they are authorising. While Britain has identified Islamic State (among others) as the enemy abroad, it is clear that it sees the British public and parliament as the enemy at home.

Syria

Britain began training Syrian rebel forces from bases in Jordan in 2012. This was also when the SAS was reported to be ‘slipping into Syria on missions’ against Islamic State. Now, British special forces are ‘mounting hit and run raids against IS deep inside eastern Syria dressed as insurgent fighters’ and ‘frequently cross into Syria to assist the New Syrian Army’ from their base in Jordan. British special forces also provide training, weapons and other equipment to the New Syrian Army.

British aircraft began covert strikes against IS targets in Syria in 2015, months before Parliament voted in favour of overt action in December 2015. These strikes were conducted by British pilots embedded with US and Canadian forces.

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Watch Donald Trump Feel Up Rudy Giuliani in Drag

by Eileen AJ Connelly
NYPost.com

Donald Trump was caught on video copping a feel and nuzzling breasts.

But the “woman” involved in the 16-year-old incident stands by the candidate.

That’s because it was Rudy Giuliani.

A video clip of one of the former mayor’s infamous turns in drag takes on a twisted new air in light of the rash of sexual harassment accusations against the Republican standard bearer.

In the parody, produced at a department store perfume counter for the annual “Inner Circle” show in 2000, a wigged-out Giuliani plays along with Trump at first. But when the real estate mogul sinks his face into her chest, “she” backs away and shouts, “Oh, you dirty boy you!” then adds, “Donald, I thought were a gentleman! “

These days, Giuliani is one of Trump’s most visible surrogates, and said the media that published his accusers’ accounts are liars.

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Breathtaking Criminality in Washington

by Bruce Walker
American Thinker

Recent revealed emails within that broad criminal conspiracy known as leftism show just how utterly dependent those sock puppets like Obama and Hillary are upon the nefarious intertwined collusion of the leftist media, the agencies of the Executive Branch, the Clinton campaign, and the DNC. The depth of this criminal conspiracy, as these latest emails show, is stunning.

Consider the network news programs that gave Hillary the questions days before she was asked in a presumably spontaneous interview. Giant corporations are not supposed to give free campaign resources to candidates. That violates federal election laws unless the economic value of these actions are reported as corporate contributions to the Clinton campaign, which, of course, these are not.

The leftist trust of media corporations does not even try much to hide its combination in restraint of trade. During the debates, the number of interruptions of Trump and of Clinton are not even close, and the softball questions to Clinton (probably prepped, as we have found out in Hillary’s interviews) make for a vast contribution to the Clinton campaign which is completely unreported and, because the gatekeepers are also the malfeasants, completely ignored.

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The End is Nigh: Here Are Nine of the Safest Places in the World to Survive a Third World War

From the frozen deserts of Iceland to the built-up city of Cape Town, these places are all ideal for surviving an apocalypse

by George Harrison
The Sun, UK

WE live in dangerous times, and the threat of global annihilation is always lurking just around the corner.

Nuclear war is always a lingering threat, and recent escalations over Syria risk reviving Cold War tensions between hostile nuclear powers.

[…] But what if we told you that there are some safe havens where you’d stand a good chance of surviving the end of the world?

From the frozen deserts of Iceland to the built-up city of Cape Town, these places are all ideal for surviving an apocalypse scenario.

Better get booking those flights before it’s too late, because these are the nine best places to be when it all goes Pete Tong for humanity.

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Wounded Elephant

by James Howard Kunstler
Kunstler.com

Last night’s debate raises some interesting questions, such as: would the Romans have elected Caligula if given the chance to vote? Can the Republican party recover from Donald Trump? If the party poobahs “pull the plug” on Trump, as some are threatening to do (that is, cut off funds to his campaign), will they go down the drain with him anyway? Is the USA a nation or just the world’s biggest comedy club? Where is the Deep State when you really need it?

That odor wafting across the land is the smell of Republicans with their hair on fire. Yet the gloat of astonishment on Hillary’s face as she witnesses the Queeg-like crack-up of her rival will eventually fade as she discerns the wreckage awaiting her in the oval office. Weep for your country!

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King Dollar Soars

by Dan Norcini
Trader Dan

A late session surge in the US Dollar index sent it climbing and closing above the 98 level for the fist time since late February/early March.

The index looks to be on track for a run at the March highs between 98.40-98.60.

The setback in price yesterday proved to be a one day affair with eager buyers coming in to snap it up on the dip lower.

What really has my attention is the fact that the hedge funds were still NET SHORT the dollar through Tuesday of this week. That is rather remarkable given the chart pattern.

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The Fed’s Legacy: Asset Bubbles and Lost Confidence

by James Rickards
Daily Reckoning

For most experts, failure is a learning experience that leads to a search for new methods. That’s not true for central bankers. When their policies fail, they try more of the same in the vain hope that quantity will make up for the lack of quality in their ideas.

In the past seven years, major central banks have created over $15 trillion of new money, mostly through purchases of government bonds.

These money printing and bond purchase programs have been called QE1, QE2 and QE3 in the U.S., Euro-QE in Europe and QQE (quantitative and qualitative easing) in Japan.

All of these programs and exotic variations such as “Operation Twist” have failed to achieve self-sustaining growth anywhere near former trends, and have failed to achieve the 2% inflation targets of those central banks.

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Here Are Hillary Clinton’s Three Speeches To Goldman Sachs For Which She Was Paid $675,000

from Zero Hedge

As has been widely reported, in 2013 Hillary Clinton was paid $675,000 for three speeches to Goldman Sachs. One was delivered on June 4, 2013 at the 2013 IBD CEO Annual Conference at The Inn at Palmetto Bluff in South Carolina, a second one took place on October 24, 2013 at the Goldman Sachs Asset Management AIMS Alternative Investment Symposium, and the last one was delivered on October 29, 2013 at the Goldman Sachs builders and innovators summit.

[…] The speech transcripts, in their entirety, were revealed for the first time in an email from Tony Carrk, research director at Hillary for America, in an email dated January 23, 2016, and disclosed to the public for the first time ever during today’s latest Wikileak of Podesta emails.

In the email Carrk says:

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The Floodgates Begin to Open

by John Rubino
Dollar Collapse

It’s now clear that what governments did to counter the Great Recession may have delayed systemic collapse, but did not resurrect the old normal. Growth around the world is anemic – which is to say debt continues to increase faster than the productive capacity to service it – and inflation (the other way to shrink a debt burden) remains below target.

Now “anemic” is becoming “non-existent.” In the US, mini-credit-bubbles like auto loans, home mortgages and student loans are sputtering, leading economists to dial back their rosy scenarios for 2016. The Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow forecast for Q3 growth, for instance, was a robust 3.8% in August but is now less than 2% — and still falling.

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Is the US on the Verge of Mass Race Riots?

by David Galland
Garret / Galland

Dear Reader,

Thanks to a philosophy course my daughter is currently taking, I have recently become more intimately acquainted with the British philosopher John Locke (1632-1704).

While Locke is famous for many other truly important ideas, our recent reacquaintance began after I reviewed an essay on Locke’s theory on the primary versus secondary qualities of things, a bit of a brain teaser.

Locke’s general line of thinking was that the only way to fundamentally understand anything is to first break it down to its most basic qualities.

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Tech Boom Downside: Not Enough Jobs?

by Mike ‘Mish’ Shedlock
Mish Talk

The Wall Street Journal says there is a “great unraveling” to America’s Dazzling Tech Boom: Not Enough Jobs. Let’s investigate.

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The technology revolution has delivered Google searches, Facebook friends, iPhone apps, Twitter rants and shopping for almost anything on Amazon, all in the past decade and a half.

What it hasn’t delivered are many jobs. Google’s Alphabet Inc. and Facebook Inc. had at the end of last year a total of 74,505 employees, about one-third fewer than Microsoft Corp. even though their combined stock-market value is twice as big. Photo-sharing service Instagram had 13 employees when it was acquired for $1 billion by Facebook in 2012.

Hiring in the computer and chip sectors dove after companies shifted hardware production outside the U.S., and the newest tech giants needed relatively few workers. The number of technology startups fizzled. Growth in productivity and wages slowed, and income inequality rose as machines replaced routine, low- and middle-income, human-powered work.

This outcome is a far cry from what many political leaders, tech entrepreneurs and economists predicted about a generation ago. In 2000, President Bill Clinton said in his last State of the Union address: “America will lead the world toward shared peace and prosperity and the far frontiers of science and technology.” His economic team trumpeted “the ferment of rapid technological change” as one of the U.S. economy’s “principal engines” of growth.

The gap between what the tech boom promised and then delivered is another source of the rumbling national discontent that powered the rise this year of political outsiders Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.

The tech-powered disappointment is subtler than the anger caused by the crushing impact of China’s import invasion and the perceived failures of government institutions like the Federal Reserve in guiding the economy. Instead, it stems from the idea that Americans expected larger economic gains from these amazing new machines and the companies that created them, not a widening between the haves and have-nots.

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By the time Mr. Jobs died in 2011, Apple made nearly every one of its products outside America, largely in Asia. Apple halted U.S. manufacturing in 2004 and didn’t resume until 2013, when it began producing Mac Pro personal computers in Austin, Texas.

Apple says it employs about 80,000 workers in the U.S., or two-thirds of the company’s overall workforce. About half the U.S. employees have retail jobs.

American tech workers are getting a smaller piece of the economic pie created from what they produce. As of 2014, employee compensation in computer and electronic-parts making was equal to 49% of the value of the industry’s output, down from 79% in 1999, according to the Commerce Department.

WhatsApp had more than 450 million users world-wide when Facebook bought the messaging service for $19 billion in 2014, turning founder Jan Koum into a billionaire several times over. At the time of the acquisition, WhatsApp had 55 employees.

Economists call the phenomenon “skill-biased technical change.” The spoils of growth go to those few people with skills and luck and who are best positioned to take advantage of new technology.

The five largest U.S.-based technology companies by stock-market value—Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Facebook and Oracle Corp. —are worth a combined $1.8 trillion today. That is 80% more than the five largest tech companies in 2000.

Today’s five giants have 22% fewer workers than their predecessors, or a total of 434,505 as of last year, compared with 556,523 at Cisco Systems Inc., Intel, IBM, Oracle and Microsoft in 2000.

Harvard University economist David Deming estimates that the hollowing-out of work spread to programmers, librarians and engineers between 2000 and 2012. As much as $2 trillion worth of human economic activity could be automated away using existing technologies, such as Amazon’s robots, in coming years, consulting firm McKinsey & Co. estimates.

Knightscope Inc., based in Mountain View, Calif., makes robots that serve as night watchmen. About three dozen are on patrol, including at shopping malls, corporate campuses such as Microsoft’s in Mountain View and the new home arena of the Sacramento Kings. Knightscope clients pay $7 an hour per robot.

“Robots don’t complain,” says Stacy Stephens, a Knightscope co-founder and vice president of marketing and sales. “There’s no pension. And there’s no worker’s comp,” he adds.

Downside or Upside?

So is this a downside or an upside?

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