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Philippine lawmakers have confirmed former armed forces chief Roy Cimatu as the country’s environment and natural resources minister despite mounting pressure from pro-mining groups hurt by policies he has vowed to keep in place.

Cimatu, who replaced ousted ecologist Regina Lopez in May, has said he would review evidence brought forward by mining companies and communities before deciding whether to keep, modify, or reverse his predecessor’s measures.

Lopez’ orders included the suspension or closure of more than half the mines in the Philippines, the world’s top nickel ore supplier, as well as a controversial ban on open pit mining.

more http://www.mining.com/philippines-confirms-environment-minister-supports-open-pit-mining-ban/

You can’t identify that food receipt though.

On August 15, 2017, Jim Murren, CEO of MGM which owns Mandalay Bay Casino and Resort, came out with a bold statement of support for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign: As a lifelong registered Republican, I’ve crossed the aisle only a few times in elections past, and almost never at the presidential level. Each time, it was a gut-wrenching decision.
But this year it’s an easy choice. I’m going to put my country ahead of my party by voting for Hillary Clinton — and by making my first-ever public endorsement of a presidential candidate. 
Breaking from investigative reporter Laura Loomer*: EXCLUSIVE: In this internal memo I have obtained, Jim Murren, the CEO of MGM resorts which owns Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino (where Stephen Paddock committed his massacre) asked employees to donate to CAIR, a documented terrorist organization, two months ago.
Murren declared that he’d match all donations from his employees to CAIR, and radical left-wing anti -Trump groups like Southern Poverty Law Center and ADL – Anti-Defamation League. His wife, Heather Murren also worked for the Obama administration on Obama’s “Commission for Enhancing National Cybersecurity” in 2016.

All of a sudden, there’s been a shift in the investigation. There seems to be a new focus on “radicalization” of the shooter.
Las Vegas Sheriff Lombardo is now suggesting that the shooter was ‘radicalized” and that they are “attempting to uncover the source” of his radicalization:

BREAKING REPORT: HILLARY SUPPORTER, CEO Of Las Vegas MGM and Mandalay Bay Resort Asked Employees To Donate To CAIR Only 2 Months Ago, Wife Worked For Obama

If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, etc there’s a pretty good chance it IS a duck. Funny thing is most people would rather close their eyes or look the other way and pretend it’s not happening than  even consider the possibility that these things are happening and have been happening in an orchestrated agenda for decades at the very least. Gotta keep the mushrooms in the dark and keep feeding them a lot of shit. LOL!!!

The actual video of the taxi driver is still up. I’m guessing their taking down the ones where they pointed out the flashes coming from lower window. I got a pop up someone was trying to connect with me but I don’t do connects. I saw the msg later that he saw a video where 5 windows were out but didn’t send the link. Can’t say of that flashing light was gun fire or wasn’t but strange it didn’t start flashing and was dark until the sound of gun fire but was the window out?
I saw on news the other day a news man saying the shooter converted to Islam then the other changed the subject. Then yesterday the same reporter on Fox said ISIS is taking credit but they ” Gov” don’t believe them. That they took credit for a downed plane they didn’t either until they showed proof. That they were going to show proof so they can show they can control some white guy attaching American citizens. So we’ll see.
How much can we trust their decision? I’m guessing as much as they did in Waco, Benghazi, Towers, the DNC worker and others.

Thanks for the video on Stirling. She’s good.

https://ceo.ca/@newswire/oceanagold-achieves-commercial-production-at-the-haile

Yeah I’d sure rather have a junk bond of a failing company paying 2.3% than a gold coin. Crazy!

This chart, based on BofA Merrill Lynch Euro High Yield Index Effective Yield via the St. Louis Fed, shows that the average euro junk bond yield is on the way to what? Zero?

During the peak of the Financial Crisis, the average junk bond yield hit 25%. During the dog days of the euro debt crisis in the summer of 2012, when Draghi pronounced the magic words that he’d do “whatever it takes,” these bonds yielded about 9%. The yield dropped below 5% in October 2013, for the first time eve

That’s messed up. My grandfather who died that year mentioned once how he had to bail his men out of jail a lot but they were over seas during WW11 at the time in the South Pacific. Here at least they backed their soldiers then, although I think some of the fights were different sectors of the service.

http://futures.tradingcharts.com/marketquotes/SI_.html

Reminiscent of 1987:

Too many investors tried to obtain “insurance” by selling index futures at the same time, which pushed S&P futures to a vast discount vs. the spot market. This in turn triggered selling of stocks and concurrent buying of futures by program trading operations – which put more pressure on spot prices and in turn triggered more selling of futures for insurance purposes, and so on. The vicious spiral produced a one-day loss of 22.6% – today this would be equivalent to a DJIA decline of almost 5,000 points. Due to circuit breakers introduced after 1987, very big declines will lead to temporary trading halts nowadays (since 2013 the staggered threshold levels are declines of 7%, 13% and 20%; after 3:25 pm EST the market is allowed to misbehave as it sees fit). Interestingly, program trading curbs were scrapped again. We mention the case of 1987 because we believe today’s markets will eventually be faced with a “positive feedback loop” problem as well. 

Many new trading strategies and products that have become popular during the Bernanke/Yellen echo bubble era have yet to be truly stress tested.

There are numerous new systematic strategies (almost all of which use leverage in some shape or form), there are now more listed ETFs and ETNs than listed stocks, high frequency trading is responsible for a very large share of trading volume, and open derivatives positions have grown extraordinarily large relative to trading volume in the underlying cash instruments. Market volatility has all but disappeared over the past 18 months or so, but this is reminiscent of a pressure cooker. It seems highly likely that lot of “pent-up volatility” will eventually be unleashed (there is a very good reason to expect this to happen; extended periods of low volatility tend to go hand in hand with the gradual buildup of ever larger speculative positions which depend on its continuation; and this is usually accompanied by a steady increase in leverage with the aim of boosting returns. As an aside, lately we quite often come across articles that explain why the market cannot go down, no matter what (here is a recent example that reminds us a bit of the “keiretsu argument of stock market invulnerability” that was popular in Japan in the late 1980s)–

Dimitri Speck of Acting Man.

Someone should ask Lilly Tomlin and especially lib Hanoi Jane how many baby’s ” they ” killed with their lib pro abortion stance. That’s not to mention Killery who wanted to make abortion legal up to the day they were to be born. But they want to ban guns. Go figure. Just like the baby’s have no fighting chance guess they want to do the same to everyone else. Maybe someone should do a skit about them tricking vulnerable woman into abortions.

By Sonya Dowsett

MADRID/BARCELONA, Oct 4 (Reuters) – Catalonia will move on Monday to declare independence from Spain, a regional government source said, as the European Union nation nears a rupture that threatens the foundations of its young democracy and has unnerved financial markets.

Pro-independence parties which control the regional parliament have asked for a debate and vote on Monday on declaring independence, the source said. A declaration should follow this vote, although it is unclear when.

Catalan President Carles Puigdemont earlier told the BBC that his government would ask the region’s parliament to declare independence after tallying votes from last weekend’s referendum, which Madrid says was illegal.

“This will probably finish once we get all the votes in from abroad at the end of the week and therefore we shall probably act over the weekend or early next week,” he said in remarks published on Wednesday.

moee http://news.trust.org/item/20171004112122-805c3

Had dlr, SM down and Gold up…but then all was miraculously solved…but scum have more work to do yet.

and USD weakness hopefully it will hold up. Shares have done ok the last couple of days so you never know.

Service time 1974.  Me a fellow Marine  were downtown to see a baseball game. Stopped in a place close by.  While sitting and waiting… a table of locals were acting up… one of them threw a bottle a bottle at us.  We ended up escaping out the rear kitchen door.

Re Japan and 1987

I remember it all well and yes we are in similar times, but the levels of insanity are not as bad …yet!!!!…Plus the CB’s were not actively pushing the insanity, today they are and worse still the Rig is 24/7.

Consequently I think we will see prices that are jaw dropping before it cracks.

Here is yet more utter insanity from Draghi…..by the way I hear that Germany is a political disaster zone, after the election. Merkel has not realised she lost, it is going to take ages to form a government and even then it will be a dogs dinner. Plus u have the AFD with a major platform to hold Draghi to account, over his pissing away of German wealth inside the ECB….which most Germans have no idea about !!!!

Richter: “The Pricing Of Risk Is Kaput”

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-03/richter-pricing-risk-kaput

It’s Hump Day.  When you have mountains to climb…
http://www.railpictures.net/photo/632710/

Where’s that DJ MM?  This is the most evocative violin I’ve ever experienced.  Lindsey Stirling is awesome!