Trump Purges 11 Leading Advisors From Defense Policy Board
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News Date: November 27, 2020
Several members of the top federal advisory committee to the U.S. Department of Defense have been suddenly pushed out, multiple U.S. officials told Foreign Policy, in what appears to be the outgoing Trump administrations parting shot at scions of the foreign-policy establishment.
The directive removes 11 high-profile advisors from the Defense Policy Board, including former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright; retired Adm. Gary Roughead, who served as chief of naval operations; and a onetime ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Jane Harman. Rudy De Leon, a former chief operating officer at the Pentagon once considered by then-Defense Secretary James Mattis for a high-level policy role, will also be ousted.
Sources: twitter.com, foreignpolicy.com
China imports gold to revive an economy
China's net gold imports via Hong Kong jumped to a nine-month high in July, data showed on Thursday, with banks snapping up bullion as Beijing works to revive an economy.Net imports stood at 48.773 tons in July, compared with 40.563 tons in June.
Total gold imports via Hong Kong were up nearly 23.7 percent to 53.91 tons.
Source: reuters.com
What Is Fiat Money?
Fiat money is a currency that is backed by nothing except the faith and credit of the government issuing it.Basically every usable currency around the world today is a fiat currency.
The U.S. dollar has been fiat since 1971.
Fiat money is a currency that is declared money by decree-not by the marketplace.
Though some fiat currencies were once backed by commodities, they are now only backed by the legislative power of the government issuing them.
Source: thebalance.com
Delaware Supreme Court finds vote by mail, same-day registration unconstitutional
The Delaware Supreme Court on Friday struck down recent vote-by-mail and same-day voter registration legislation, overturning a signature achievement by Gov. John Carney and Democrat lawmakers.Sources: yahoo
The Kraken is a Cray XT5 supercomputer to Break Petascale
The University of Tennessee supercomputer, Kraken, has broken a major barrier to become the worlds first academic supercomputer to enter the petascale, performing more than 1 thousand trillion operations per second, a landmark achievement.The Kraken Cray XT5 supercomputer at the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) has been upgraded to become the first academic computer in the world to exceed one petaflop of calculation power.
Sources: news.utk.edu, news.softpedia.com
The Gold Standard Monetary Reset
Did Russia Intentionally Trigger A Monetary System Reset?Russian central bank to restart buying gold from banks will pay fixed price from March 28.
Russia Central Bank Announces Ruble Bound to Gold! 5000 Rubles per Gram.
By pegging gold to the ruble, Russia has just wiped out the dollar's clout from the world markets.
Moscow Will Consider Bitcoin, Gold, and Ruble Payments for Natural Gas.
Lavrov pushes for more active Russia-India-China cooperation, calls it 'Troika'.
Iran wants to trade with Russia in national currencies.
Lavrov: Russia, China Moving Towards Multipolar 'Fair World Order'.
Source: tfiglobalnews.com, youtube.com