83 Tons Of Fake Gold Bars: Gold Market Rocked By Massive China Counterfeiting Scandal

ZeroHedge
Yet one market which seemed stubbornly immune to any counterfeiting was that of physical gold in China, which was odd considering that over the past decade China had emerged as the world's biggest counterfeiter of various, mostly industrial metals used to secure bank loans, better known as "ghost collateral", and which adding insult to injury, would frequently  be rehypothecated meaning often several banks would have claims to the same (fake) asset.
All that is about to change with the discovery of what may be one of the biggest gold counterfeiting scandal in recent history. And yes, not only does it involve China, but it emerges from a city that has become synonymous for all that is scandalous about China: Wuhan itself.

With that preamble in mind, we introduce readers to Wuhan Kingold Jewelry Inc., a company which as the name implies was founded and operates out of Wuhan, and which describes itself on its website as "A Company with a Golden future."

“If you're going to submit to the mob and take a knee, then know precisely what you're supporting, it ain't about police brutality or racism, it's about clearly defined, extreme neo-marxist ideology.”

SkyNewsAustralia
Sky News host Rita Panahi says she wonders “whether the sportsmen, corporates and politicians taking a knee in the name of Black Lives Matter know that they are supporting a radical Marxist group with a set of political goals that the overwhelming majority of people find insane”. “To be fair the Black Lives Matter founders are pretty honest about their worldview and the group's extreme Left anti-capitalist goals.,” Ms Panahi said. “Here's a statement from the movement for black lives platform which BLM endorsed: “The interlinked systems of white supremacy, imperialism, capitalism and patriarchy shape the violence we face. As oppressed people living in the US, the belly of global empire, we are in a critical position to build the necessary connections for a global liberation movement. “Until we are able to overturn US imperialism, capitalism and white supremacy, our brothers and sisters around the world will continue to live in chains.”

The Covid Age Penalty

WSJ
By now it’s clear that people older than 65 are the most vulnerable to the novel coronavirus, and the age penalty is especially severe for the elderly with underlying health conditions."

If scientists are wrong about Covid, they must be held to account

The Times
The world has panicked and the British government has panicked worse than most. We scared ourselves and our fellow citizens out of rational thought. By losing our sense of proportion I submit we have crashed our economy, crashed our education system, our performing arts, our tourist and travel industry, and blighted the life chances of a whole generation. Before too long, commentators, politicians and scientists may be blushing at the mess we made of our national response to the coronavirus pandemic."

Kudlow: There’s 'No 2nd Coronavirus Spike, We're Not Shutting Down Economy'

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"But, if you look nationally, the important point is the rate of increase [in] new cases is between zero and one percent. It’s really flattened out, and with respect to fatalities, it's the same. It's actually lower than that. It’s like zero to a half [of] a percent," Kudlow continued."

Woke mobs wage war on the West

The Australian
The West is in the grip of a cultural revolution. Modern-day Red Guards have declared war on the past. The Black Lives Matter protests that erupted in response to the police killing of George Floyd have morphed with staggering speed into a frenzied assault on history, liberty and reason.  ..

In these dark, intemperate times, the sins of the father shall be visited upon the son. Now that even Gladstone is being targeted, surely the politicians and media people who foolishly cheered the mob who dragged down Colston in Bristol will reflect on what they have helped to unleash. Because it’s pretty clear now that this is not some righteous uprising against racism or the memorialisation of slave traders.

No, it has become a mad, undemocratic crusade against anything and anyone who offends the politically correct lobby.

These neo-Maoist efforts to cleanse the public square of people and ideas the woke elites disapprove of is a continuation of what has been happening in our universities and elsewhere in society for two decades now. This mad moment represents the bursting forth into public life of all the backward, illiberal, identitarian ideas that have been growing and festering in the academy."

Make no mistake – BLM is a radical neo-Marxist political movement

Telegraph
That is what Black Lives Matter is. Don’t take my word for it. Take theirs. The form of words that appears on most online posts connected to the group riffs on ‘the black radical tradition’ which counts among its past contributors the Black Panther Movement and Malcom X. BLM happily self-identifies as a neo-Marxist movement with various far left objectives, including defunding the police (an evolution of the Panther position of public open-carry to control the police), to dismantling capitalism and the patriarchal system, disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure, seeking reparations from slavery to redistribute wealth and via various offshoot appeals, to raise money to bail black prisoners awaiting trial. The notion of seizing control of the apportionment of capital, dismantling the frameworks of society and neutralising and undermining law enforcement are not just Marxist, but anarchic."

Adding up the damage Britain’s Covid-19 policies have caused

The Critic

First: who has the disease killed?  Covid-19 targets the old and the sick; this is not to be callous, but to understand the enemy and to provide context.  The average age of those dying of covid-19 in the UK is over 80, and fully a third are residents of care homes where average “stay” (a euphemism I’m afraid) was only 30 months from admission before the virus anyway.  ......

Second: who hasn’t it killed?  Parents, unions and nervy adults fret about the risk, but there is little need.  With no serious pre-existing conditions, the young-ish and healthy are far more likely to be hit by lightning (49 occurrences per annum in UK) than to die of covid-19 (33 in England under age 40, of which only 3 under the age of 19).  Panning out, among healthy under 60s (i.e. children and the vast majority of our working population), 253 people have died of covid-19 in English hospitals; this compares to 400 (non-suicide) drownings per year in the UK.  And taking all age-groups where there are no pre-existing conditions serious enough to be mentioned as contributary causes of death, covid-19 has taken about 2/3rds the lives that British roads do every year, and we wouldn’t think of outlawing driving, swimming or going outside in a storm."

School children under 15 have just a 3.5MILLION-to-one chance of dying from coronavirus and are more likely to be hit by lightning

Daily Mail

However, speaking about the new research into the risks posed to children by coronavirus, Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter, chairman of the University of Cambrdige's Winton Centre for Risk, said the threat posed was 'tiny'.

Ex-head of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove says coronavirus 'is man-made' and was 'released by accident' - after seeing 'important' scientific report

Daily Mail
In the report, scientists claimed to have identified 'inserted sections placed on the Sars-CoV-2 Spike surface' which the virus uses to attach onto cells and observed they were 'significantly different from any Sars we have studied'.

Scientists RETRACT study that claimed hydroxychloroquine raised the risk of death for coronavirus patients

Daily Mail

• Three authors of a study published in The Lancet suggesting the drug raised coronavirus patients'  risk of death retracted it Thursday
• The Lancet published an 'expression of concern' over the study's data Tuesday
• An outside review of the study was launched, but could not be completed because the data supplier refused to turn over its information 
• The study relied on data from health care data analytics company Surgisphere  
• It came after more than 120 leading scientists raised concerns about the data
• They highlighted 10 major flaws, including that patient data was wrong 
• The Lancet published the research on May 22, which found the drug may be dangerous, causing heart problems of death. Major trials were halted as a result

Ex-MI6 boss says coronavirus likely engineered in Wuhan lab

Fox News

A former head of the British intelligence agency MI6 told The Telegraph's Planet Normal podcast that he believes the COVID-19 outbreak was engineered in a lab and spread through coincidence.

"I do think that this started as an accident," Sir Richard Dearlove told the Telegraph, citing a peer-reviewed paper by Professor Angus Dalgleish of St George's Hospital at the University of London, and the Norwegian virologist Birger Sorensen.

The authors said the virus had been doctored to bind to humans: "We are aware that these findings could have political significance and raise troubling questions."