UK: Police enter embassy as Ecuador denies plan to expel Assange
Seems They came out empty handed ,, maybe they brought him lunch
D.C. Circuit’s Lockdown on Grand Jury Material May Hinder Congress and Historians
McKeever v. Barr, a ruling issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on April 5, rejects the argument that federal judges can release grand jury evidence whenever they think it’s in the public interest. The holding may be bad news for those in Congress who want to see such evidence from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report. But beyond the Mueller investigation, McKeever is bad news for journalists and historians, too.
The case began in 2013, when author Stuart McKeever petitioned the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for release of particular grand jury records from 1957. Under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e), grand jury matters cannot ordinarily be disclosed, with a handful of exceptions, including judicial proceedings. None of the exceptions applied to Stuart McKeever, but he argued that judges can go beyond the language of the rule and release grand jury materials under “inherent authority.” Chief District Judge Beryl A. Howell accepted the inherent-authority argument (as other judges have done), but McKeever lost anyhow, because she deemed his request overbroad. McKeever appealed.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/dc-circuits-lockdown-grand-jury-material-may-hinder-congress-and-historians
Their catering to Muslims that don't save anyway
UK: Muslim asylum seeker stabbed wife 50 times, killing her for converting to Christianity
An Iranian immigrant who killed his wife at her Stoke-on-Trent home after she converted to Christianity has been jailed for life.
Dana Abdullah stabbed Avan Najmadiein 50 times last October.
Before the attack, he discovered the 32-year-old mother-of-four children under the age of eight, had refused to support his application to remain in the UK.
Wilson Chowdhry, chairman of the British Pakistani Christian Association told Premier there are countless people in the UK who can relate with this story.
Speaking during Premier’s News Hour, he said: “We recently wrote a report for the hate crime inquiry on Islamophobia so that we could show the other side of the coin, where much of the persecution of apostates in this country is based on a real hatred for those who quit Islam.
https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2019/04/07/muslim-kills-christian-wife/
"It Belongs To The People, Not The Bankers" - Italy Moves To Seize Gold From Central Bank
Two weeks ago, somewhat out of the blue, ECB President Mario Draghi issued an odd statement confirming that the European Central Bank needs to approve any operation in the foreign reserves of euro zone countries, including gold and large foreign currency holdings.
“The ECB shall approve both the operations in foreign reserve assets remaining with the NCBs (national central banks)…and Member States’ transactions with their foreign exchange working balances above a certain threshold,”
“The purpose of this competence is to ensure consistency with the exchange rate and monetary policy of the Union.”
Specifically, Draghi made this statement to two Italian members of the European Parliament.
At the time it did not seem notable for any reason other than its peculiar timing, but now things are starting to make more sense as The Wall Street Journal reports that Italy’s ruling populists pushed ahead this week with efforts to seize control of the central bank and its gold reserves.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-05/it-belongs-people-not-bankers-italy-moves-seize-gold-central-bank
Rubino: "Gold Is Moving Back Into The Center Of The Global Financial System"
Unemployment is near 3% and President Trump is calling for rate cuts and quantitative easing. Is the economy doing well or getting ready to tank?
Financial writer John Rubino says, “We went from being at all-time highs to down 20% in sort of a flash crash in two months towards the end of last year. That told the Fed and the other central banks that they can never tighten again…"
"This is it for this cycle and for the entire remaining time of today’s financial system for higher interest rates. They abruptly announced to never mind about those four rate hikes that were going to happen in 2019. We (the Fed) are not going to do anything. If we do anything, it will be in the opposite direction and cut interest rates and a new round of QE, etcetera and etcetera. The stock market went right back up to record levels…
The end part of this story is how good all this is for gold…
The next thing from the Fed will be a rate cut, and it will increase and not decrease its balance sheet… We are going to go preemptively to monetary easing, and that’s really new. This is very, very new. You normally don’t do this. You wait until you see a bear market and a slowdown in the economy that gets people laid off before you start aggressively easing. Apparently, we are going to do that stuff before that stuff starts happening. Who knows what the impact of that will be? If it works the way they want, more people will get hired, wages will pick up and we’ll have inflation in the 4% or 5% range before you know it.”
So, with near record low yields on bonds and near record high prices for stocks, Rubino has just one question. Rubino says, “What’s cheap? Gold and silver. What is down and what is cheap relative to the fundamentals…"
"It’s not just the price of gold and silver, it’s how much gold and silver exists relative to how much paper wealth is in the world. The amount of gold and silver that we are bringing out of the ground is growing at 1% or 2% per year. The amount of paper wealth in the world is growing exponentially…
Gold is moving back into the center of the global financial system.”
Another big factor to consider is debt. Rubino says, “Every big country is running deficits that are dramatically bigger than they were five years ago…"
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-07/rubino-gold-moving-back-center-global-financial-system
Minneapolis: Judge sharply restricts media, public access to trial of Muslim cop who killed unarmed woman
A Hennepin County district judge has imposed tight restrictions on public and media access to the highly anticipated trial of Mohamed Noor, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with murdering Justine Ruszczyk Damond.
With Noor’s trial set to begin Monday, Judge Kathryn L. Quaintance cited the need to preserve “order and decorum” in issuing an order this week that places it in a courtroom that holds about two dozen seats — half the size of some others in the building. The judge reserved eight places for the media and 11 for the public. Quaintance also banned laptops, cellphones and recording devices from the floor on which the trial will take place, authorizing that people be searched to ensure compliance.
The Noor case marks a rare example in the American criminal justice system of an officer going to trial over a fatal shooting, and the first time in modern history a Minnesota police officer has been charged with murder for an on-duty death.
The restrictions pose serious First Amendment problems and will make it difficult for journalists to document the trial, said Jane Kirtley, a University of Minnesota professor who teaches media law.
https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2019/04/06/judge-shields-muslim-cop/
Is Beijing Signaling An Imminent Currency Devaluation: China Unleashes Gold Buying Spree
Last week we showed how, in a time when reserve managers are actively selling a modest if notable amount of their dollar reserve holdings and replacing them with everything from the yen, to the euro and yen, the one country that has decided it will no longer be part of the USD monetary sphere of influence, is Russia, which has been dumping dollars and buying gold at the fastest pace in decades.
Yet while Moscow's appetite for gold, which has doubled Russia's international gold reserves over the past three years, remains unparalleled, Beijing has also quietly joined its northern neighbor in casting a smaller if just as material vote of no confidence in the dollar: overnight, the PBOC reported that the world’s second-largest economy added to its gold reserves for the fourth straight month, adding to recent speculation that central banks globally will continue to build holdings even as they dispose of their US dollar reserves.
https://www.gold-eagle.com/beijing-signaling-imminent-currency-devaluation-china-unleashes-gold-buying-spree
All the news about gold and nobody paying attention…. interesting