Link: https://www.rt.com/news/405586-thousands-protest-barcelona-catalonia/

700,000 people have taken to the streets of Barcelona in the wake of Sunday’s controversial Catalonia independence referendum, municipal police announced. Huge crowds rallied Tuesday against the violent crackdown on voters by Spanish police.

Roads and traffic was blocked throughout the city on Tuesday, as protesters marched, chanting, “Independence!” and “The streets will always be ours!” Thousands gathered outside the offices of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s People’s Party (PP) in Barcelona and the Catalonia regional HQ of the national police as police stood guard. A protest strike was also called by major trade unions as government workers walked out and businesses and universities shut for the day. Metro stations were empty as services were drastically cut back, while the usually busy Boqueria market was deserted

Link: https://www.rt.com/business/405024-south-korea-cryptocurrencies-banned/

South Korea's financial regulator said on Friday it will ban money raising through all forms of virtual currencies. Earlier this month, Beijing outlawed trading and usage of all cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/405303-catalonia-independence-referendum-results/

The overwhelming majority of Catalans who participated in the banned referendum have voted in favor of independence from Spain, the Catalan government has announced. The Catalan government said the result reflects only the ballots that “were not seized” during police raids on polling stations throughout the day. “What kind of a democracy steals ballot boxes?” asked Vice President Oriol Junqueras

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/405311-catalonia-referendum-police-voters/

With the referendum declared illegal by Madrid, special police units drafted in from across Spain smashed into polling stations at dawn to seize ballot boxes. Police actively used rubber bullets and truncheons to forcibly remove voters and disperse crowds of pro-independence demonstrators, injuring at least 840 people across Catalonia. In the southern Catalan town of Mont-roig del Camp, demonstrators forced a squadron of the civil guard to retreat. Local Catalonian firefighters also formed human shields on several occasions to protect people from federal law enforcers.

Link: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/02/multiple-injuries-reported-after-shooting-near-mandalay-bay-in-las-vegas.html

Hundreds of police responded late Sunday to reports of gunfire near the Mandalay Bay casino in Las Vegas during a country music festival. One witness told KSVN that he heard “hundreds of shots.” The gunfire was rapid and reportedly confused with firecrackers.

Link: http://coinivore.com/2017/09/27/ecb-president-admits-central-banks-no-power-regulate-bitcoin-outside-jurisdiction/

The president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi, admitted that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies used worldwide do not fall under the regulatory powers of the ECB.

“It Would Not Be Within Our Power to Prohibit or Regulate Bitcoin,” Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank

Link: http://govtslaves.info/2017/09/whole-foods-pushes-toxic-blood-clotting-canola-oil-in-more-than-50-of-their-packaged-products-and-at-the-prepared-food-bar/

Most of the signature Whole Foods brand “365” products contain rapeseed oil (also known as Canadian Low Acid Oil or “canola. Most canola is chemically extracted using hexane, a highly flammable and carcinogenic solvent that’s a constituent of gasoline. 90 percent of canola oil in the USA is genetically modified. Even if canola oil is “expeller-pressed” and organic, it still coagulates in your blood like margarine.

Link: https://www.rt.com/politics/404870-central-bank-moves-to-ban/

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The Russian Central Bank and Finance Ministry have prepared a bill that would ban senior executives of insolvent insurance companies being rescued by the state from receiving large compensation payouts, known as ‘golden parachutes’. In particular, the new bill would introduce “a ban on certain financial operations preventing the insolvent company’s managers from pulling the funds out of their corporations at the very last moment” and qualify any attempt to do so as embezzlement.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/us/201709271057740185-us-stds-record-rates/

New figures from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for 2016 show a disturbing rise in sexually transmitted diseases, including record rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis, particularly among young and pregnant women, gay and bisexual men.

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/09/26/536589/Colombia-FARC-peace-deal

In a letter published by FARC on its website on Monday, Rodrigo Londono accused the government of breaching the "minimum guarantees" of the Havana peace accords and called on President Juan Miguel Santos to fully comply with the pact inked last November to put an end to Latin America's oldest conflict.

Londono noted that the government has failed to release all FARC inmates and suspend arrest warrants for FARC members.

"There are thousands of ex-combatants...who do not receive the monthly payment of 90 percent of the minimum wage" which had been agreed under the pact, and they still have no access to health care, he said.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/russia/201709261057703030-russia-finance-ministry-blockchain/

Russian authorities have decided not yet to introduce the regulation of cryptocurrencies, but will instead focus on legalizing the blockchain technology, Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseev.

Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/Over_439%2C000_people_were_arrested_in_the_US_last_year_for_simple_possession_of_marijuana/60997/0/38/38/Y/M.html

One person gets arrested for marijuana possession every 71 seconds in the United States, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s annual Crime In the United States (CIUS) report. There are currently eight states that regulate marijuana similarly to alcohol for adults, four of which voted to do so in November 2016. Marijuana possession is also legal for adults in the District of Columbia. Twenty-three states and D.C. considered legislation in 2017 to regulate marijuana, including in Vermont where the legislature approved such a measure before the governor vetoed it.

Link: https://www.rt.com/business/404623-russian-ruble-strongest-currency-oil/

Brent crude prices hit a 26-month high on the news Turkey has threatened to cut oil supplies from Iraqi Kurdistan. This gave a boost to the Russian ruble, which remains the world's strongest currency against the US dollar in the last 12 months. The ruble has surged over ten percent against the dollar in the last 52 weeks, trading at 57.4 against the greenback and 67.8 against the euro.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/404687-saudi-women-decree-drive/

King Salman of Saudi Arabia has issued a decree ordering that women be allowed to drive, Saudi state media has reported. Under the conservative kingdom’s previous laws, women were banned from driving.

The decree orders the Saudi interior minister to draft and adopt necessary amendments to the traffic regulations and to form a special commission consisting of the ministers of interior, finance, labor and development to “study the necessary arrangements” needed for the implementation of the new rules, as reported by the state SPA news agency.

Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/Defiant_Catalans_Block_Spain%27s_Military_Boats_From_Landing%3B_Spain_Seizes_%22.CAT%22_Domain/60955/0/38/38/Y/M.html

Spain’s plan to send boatloads of military police to Catalonia to prevent its independence referendum has backfired with dockers in two ports staging a boycott and a third refusing access.

The Assembly of Stevedores of the Port of Barcelona announced that workers would not provide any services to boats carrying security forces, a decision it said was taken “in defence of civil rights”.

Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/Angela_Merkel_wins_fourth_term/60969/0/38/38/Y/M.html

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been re-elected for a fourth term in federal elections, exit polls suggest.

Her conservative CDU/CSU alliance has won 32.5% of the vote, remaining the largest party in Germany's parliament, according to the ARD poll.

Its coalition partner, the social democratic SPD, has gained 20%.

Meanwhile, the AfD, a nationalist, anti-Islam party, was on track to win 13.5%, emerging as Germany's third-strongest party.

Link: https://www.rt.com/business/404184-bitcoin-price-slide-china/

Bitcoin plunged over five percent on Friday under pressure of a nationwide Chinese ban on local bitcoin exchanges and trading platforms. The world's most popular cryptocurrency traded at $3,686 on Friday, down more than 25 percent from its record high of $5,000 earlier this month. However, the current price is still higher than after the first sell-off wave, when the value of the cryptocurrency dropped nearly $1,000, to below $3,000. Bitcoin is still up more than 400 percent this year. Bitcoin rival ethereum sank over seven percent to $263.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/404399-evacuation-bali-volcanic-eruption/

Up to 35,000 people have fled a looming volcanic eruption on the island of Bali after some 300 tremors, increasing in both frequency and intensity, registered between midnight and 6am Sunday.

The Indonesian National Disaster Mitigation Agency has set up temporary shelters for evacuees and provided 14 tons of aid including food, water, tents, blankets and mattresses.

Link: http://theantimedia.org/uk-qatar-fighter-jets-billion-dollar-arms-deal/

The British government and defence giant BAE Systems have agreed a major new deal to supply Qatar with Eurofighter Typhoon jets, despite fears of regional instability. The wealthy Gulf state is at the heart of a regional dispute over the funding of terrorism; Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE and Egypt have since June imposed sanctions on Qatar, accusing it of financing extremist groups and allying with Iran, arch-foe of the Gulf Arab states

Link: http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2017/09/19/535693/Slave-Report-2017

According to a report by International Labor Office (ILO) and the Walk Free Foundation, approximately 40.3 million men, women and children were victims of “modern slavery” in 2016. The study, Global Estimates of Modern Slavery, is based on surveys by the two groups in 48 countries; interviews with more than 71,000 people. Three out of every four slaves were women and girls, one in four was a child, children account for 10 million mostly in Africa, followed by Asia and the Pacific. Nearly five million people in the world were sex slaves