PARIS, France (PNN) - March 7, 2016 - Last year, Baron David de Rothschild was indicted by the French government after he was accused of fraud in a scheme that allegedly embezzled large sums of money from British pensioners.

It has taken many years to bring this case against Rothschild and his company, the Rothschild Financial Services Group, which trapped hundreds of pensioners in a bogus loan scheme between the years of 2005 and 2008.

BRUSSELS, Belgium (PNN) - March 7, 2016 - On Monday, officials from the EU and Turkey are gathered in Brussels to do some talking about the refugee crisis that threatens to tear Europe apart at the seams.

Last year, Europe and Turkey agreed on a so-called “joint action plan”, which essentially amounted to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan extorting 3 billion euros from Brussels in exchange for a promise to curb people smuggling and stem the flow of migrants into Western Europe. Several months later, the pact remains little more than a piece of paper.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (PNN) - March 6, 2016 - To the casual observer, Saudi Arabia might seem like an emboldened nation that is asserting itself. They’ve been challenging Iran, fighting rebels in Yemen, threatening to invade Syria, and if some rumors are to be believed, they are currently trying to attain nuclear missiles from Pakistan. However, these aren’t the actions of a stable nation that is asserting its dominance in the region. These are the flailing death throes of a nation that is struggling to hang on.

NEW YORK (PNN) - March 4, 2016 - Gold surged as high as $1280 per ounce amid horrific Fascist Police States of Amerika export data and a jobs report that was nowhere near as strong as the headline number reads.

Topping off the action in gold, BlackRock suspended issuance of new shares in IAU, its gold trust ETF, citing a surge in demand for gold.

Waits will get worse.

SAN FRANCISCO, Kalifornia (PNN) - March 3, 2016 - Travelers aren’t imagining it - lines are getting longer at Amerikan Gestapo Transportation Security Administration division checkpoints, and it’s only going to get worse as the spring and summer travel seasons ramp up.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - March 1, 2016 - Melissa Harris-Perry, the departing liberal MSNBC host who announced last week she was boycotting her own weekend show, went on social media Tuesday to complain about a "culture of fear" at the cable news channel.

Biometric scanning into government database now required to purchase food.

CARACAS, Venezuela (PNN) - February 28, 2016 - It was nicknamed the "Fingerprints for Food" program, but it represented a dire new twist in the ongoing struggle for the socialist Venezuelan government to provide basic nourishment and products for its citizens.