Link: https://www.rt.com/business/409916-turks-buy-gold-reject-dollar/

Turkey has sharply ramped up gold buying with both the central bank and ordinary people joining the rush.

“Bar and coin purchases, a measure of investment demand, were 47 metric tons so far in 2017, compared with 14.8 tons in the same period a year ago,

A year ago, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on the Turkish public to keep savings in gold and avoid the US dollar, urging the central bank to back that policy.

At the same time, the exchange value of the Turkish lira has dropped 15 percent since the beginning of October. The plunge inevitably makes the national currency increasingly unattractive as a savings vehicle.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/409972-riots-in-brussels-police-youths/

Violent clashes have erupted in central Brussels as police were confronted by "hundreds of young people" who had reportedly gathered to meet a social network star. The youths threw projectiles at police and damaged stores and cars in the area, local media report..

Link: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/11/14/us-tells-citizens-in-zimbabwe-to-shelter-in-place-as-troops-seen-in-capital.html

The U.S. Embassy in Zimbabwe urged American citizens to "shelter in place" early Wednesday as troops were seen in the streets of the capital amid rising political turmoil surrounding the country's 93-year-old president, Robert Mugabe; cited "ongoing political uncertainty through the night" and added the embassy would be closed to the public on Wednesday. The British embassy issued a similar warning, citing "reports of unusual military activity."

Shortly after the embassy statements, Zimbabwe's army sought to reassure the country that "this is not a military takeover" and that while Mugabe was safe and sound, the military was targeting "criminals around him" who have sent the nation spinning into economic despair.

The army took control of the state Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation late Tuesday and an army spokesman made the statement: "As soon as we have accomplished our mission, we expect that the situation will return to normalcy.

Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/Black_death_plague_ravaging_Madagascar_will_%E2%80%98get_WORSE%E2%80%99_as_antibiotics_AREN%E2%80%99T_working_/61659/0/38/38/Y/M.html

At least 165 people have been killed by the devastating outbreak of an airborne disease spreading like wildfire in Madagascar,. because the disease is “extremely rare” it has been “resilient” to antibiotics.

Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/77th_Holistic_Doctor_Shot_Dead_In_Her_AZ_Home_With_Her_Entire_Family/61637/0/38/38/Y/M.html

Dr. Annie Fairbanks, a holistic doctor practicing out of Arizona, was found shot dead in her home with husband Jason Fairbanks, 3 year old daughter and 9 month old son. This makes the 77th holistic doctor to have been found dead in this way over the past couple of years.

Link: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/us-scientists-made-a-genetically-modified-human-embryo_112017

This is the first confirmed case of the gene editing of human embryos in the US; one step closer to the ability to create genetically engineered humans.

CRISPR,, is a powerful and comparatively new genetic engineering technique that allows scientists to make specific, targeted changes to the DNA of a plant, animal, or human. It’s relatively cheap and easy to use and has the potential to cure a wide range of diseases, such as muscular dystrophy or HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). But scientists seem to be using it to create designer humans and animals instead leading to ethics questions.

In 2015, Chinese scientists used CRISPR to make muscled beagles, fear that gene editing will lead to a world of designer babies

Link: https://www.rt.com/business/409838-russia-wants-global-sell-mig/

The MiG-35 from the Mikoyan Aircraft Corporation (MiG) can fly at speeds of over 2,700 km/h (1,700 mph) and reach heights of up to 17,500 meters (57,400 feet). Its strike radius is 1,000 km (620 miles), while it can be in action twice as long as previous generation fighters with an option to replace the second pilot's seat with an extra fuel tank.

The aircraft is a modern version of the MiG-29, which is currently operated by 25 countries, including India, Serbia, Sudan, Syria, Belarus, Algeria, and Iran. The latest MiG has so far won orders from Egypt.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/409875-iran-saudi-arabia-military/

The regional confrontation between the two nations separated geographically by the narrow Persian Gulf is deeply rooted in sectarian, political, and economic competition. Saudi Arabia and Iran follow the two rival sects of Islam with a long history of violence. They compete in the currently troubled energy market, with Tehran holding a grudge over the share it has lost due to sanctions imposed by Riyadh’s American patrons. They fight proxy battles, often violently, in places like Bahrain, Yemen, and Lebanon.

Link: https://www.rt.com/business/409704-russia-wheat-oust-us-egypt/

The US is being pushed out of the grain market as Russia's bumper wheat harvest has dragged down prices to record lows. Russian agricultural exports are booming thanks to a weaker national currency and massive investment. This year Russian farmers are expected to harvest the biggest crop in over a century. Russia will produce at least 83 million tons of wheat in the current growing season. Lower prices and close proximity to large markets gives Russia an advantage.

Link: https://www.rt.com/politics/409242-united-russia-proposes-universal-fingerprinting/

An MP representing the Russian parliamentary majority United Russia party proposes fingerprinting all foreigners arriving in the country, saying the measure could help to counter security threats, such as the infiltration of foreign terrorists.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/russia/201711051058836424-moscow-bolshoi-theatre-evacuation/

Amid a wave of bomb threats being phoned in across Russia, there are reports of a series of mass evacuations taking place in different venues in Moscow.

Social media users have started to tweet that evacuations were underway at the Bolshoi Theatre, the GUM department store, and Metropol Moscow Hotel.

Link: http://govtslaves.info/2017/11/declassified-docs-show-cia-poisoned-entire-town-with-lsd-in-massive-mind-control-experiment/

For decades, after a French village was struck by mass insanity and hallucinations in 1951, it was widely believed that a local bakery’s flour had become contaminated by ergot, a poisonous fungus that occurs naturally on rye and causes hallucinations. However, a discovery by an investigative journalist doing research for a book about the incident uncovered evidence that the village’s food was intentionally contaminated with LSD as part of a secret CIA mind control experiment.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/408864-saudi-iran-missile-war/

Saudi Arabia laid the blame for the attack on Iran claiming it would not have happened had Iran not been supporting Houthi rebels in Yemen. "Iran's role and its direct command of its Houthi proxy in this matter constitutes a clear act of aggression that targets neighboring countries, and threatens peace and security in the region and globally. "Therefore, the coalition's command considers this a blatant act of military aggression by the Iranian regime, and could rise to be considered as an act of war against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia." Saudi Arabia said it "reserves [the] right to respond to Iran in the appropriate time and manner."

Link: https://sputniknews.com/us/201710311058676528-trump-clinton-emails-uranium-investigation/

US President Donald Trump has reportedly intensified the White House’s investigation into alleged wrongdoing on the part of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Trump has told his State Department to increase the pace of their releases of Clinton’s emails, which are currently being made public at a trickle.

About 500 pages of Clinton's emails are being released per month. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton claims that the State Department has about 70,000 pages of emails, meaning at the current rate they won't all be released until 2031.

Link: http://tass.com/defense/973439

Russia’s submarine The Veliki Novgorod, currently in the Mediterranean, has attacked militants of the terrorist organization Islamic State (outlawed in Russia) in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor province with Kalibr cruise missiles. Command centers, a stronghold and its manpower and a weapons depot were eliminated.

Link: http://tass.com/defense/973686

Russia’s Defense Ministry: "Six Tu-22M3 long-range bombers that have taken off from the Russian territory, have flown over Iran and Iraq and delivered a massive air strike against terrorists’ facilities near the town of Abu Kamal in the province of Deir ez-Zor.

"The air strike targeted militants’ strongholds and depots with arms and ammunition.

Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/_A_top_U.S._general_just_said_4%2C000_American_troops_are_in_Syria._The_Pentagon_says_there_are_only_500./61491/0/38/38/Y/M.html

A senior U.S. military commander said Tuesday that 4,000 American troops are on the ground in Syria, a figure far greater than the 503 personnel the Trump administration says are deployed there.

Army Maj. Gen. James B. Jarrard, who heads the U.S.-led Special Operations task force targeting the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, offered the surprising figure while briefing Pentagon-based reporters via satellite from Baghdad.

Link: https://www.rt.com/business/408310-fake-gold-rbc-canadia-mint/

Ottawa jeweler Samuel Tang purchased a wafer, which was supposed to be 99.99 percent pure gold from the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) branch located across the street from his shop.

Tests carried out by the jeweler apparently revealed the small bar contained no gold. RBC has reportedly taken the wafer back and returned it to the mint for internal testing. The bank refunded Samuel Tang the $1,680 purchase price.

Link: https://www.rt.com/business/408425-dollar-dominance-russia-medvedev-yuan/

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev: The international financial system needs to balance which is why there is no place for a dominant currency.

“The balanced system of financial relations should be based on the use of various reserve currencies, various forms of settlement. There should be no domination of any one currency,

Link: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/31/breeding-dogs-to-have-muscular-dystrophy-for-medical-research-sparks-outcry.html

An online petition signed by more than 200,000 people is demanding a halt to a taxpayer-funded research project at Texas A&M University that studies muscular dystrophy’s debilitating effects in golden retrievers, arguing that it is cruel and scientifically useless.

Two Texas A&M students are behind the Change.org petition, which seeks an end to the experimentation led by Dr. Joseph Kornegay, in which the dogs are bred to develop different types of muscular dystrophy, including Duchenne muscular dystrophy -- a particularly severe form of the disease that causes progressive muscle wasting and weakness.

"Studies with these dogs haven't led to a cure or even a treatment to reverse disease symptoms, even after experimenting for 30 years," states the petition.