At midnight tonight in the USA, the FCC terminates Net Neutrality and hands over control of internet oversight to the FTC. Bye bye freedom of speech and privacy.
In other news... 99% of alternative media search results have disappeared from the Google search engine, and some 95% of YouTube videos (also owned by Alphabet/Google) have been demonetized and search results removed. Censorship is coming from many angles, it is clear that the Alternative Media have a message that these guys don't want us to hear.
Could it be that the US economy is dying and the elites need to maintain faith in the US dollar as a global reserve currency? They certainly can't have people adopting Bitcoin over their previous fiat ponzi scheme.
The US Petro-Dollar is already dead. Petro-Yuan is the new guy in town, and he has many friends (Russia, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela to name a few). Whilst in the West, Gold and Silver manipulation continues unabated (and unprosecuted), with every 1%+ rally in the price of gold or silver being met with some 2 billion dollars of silver or gold derivative paper contracts being dumped on the COMEX market in the space of 5 minutes, crashing the price. Since this kind of trading activity is actually illegal, the only people that can pull it off are the COMEX insiders (who have many allies in companies like Deutsche Bank, City group and Goldman Sachs, who like to short gold and silver to keep faith in the value of the US Dollar and the fraudulent reserve banking system).
The Shanghai gold exchange is going to set new values for gold in the coming months, one that I believe will reflect the price of gold in more realistic terms. If we are to take the value of gold and silver based on technical analysis, we can easily see US$6000 per ounce gold and US$500 per ounce silver. We can only hope reality catches up to the gold market before all the gold bugs sell up and move to Bitcoin.