| Chinese gold futures soar in initial debut on SHFE
As gold futures prices hit the $884/oz mark on NYMEX, the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) Wednesday announced that the initial launch of its gold futures contract surged to the daily limit of 10% in minutes after official trading debuted at the SFE. The gold futures contract benchmark price was set a 209.99 yuan (US$28.84) per gram for contract that will be delivered from June through December. The contract size has been set at 1,000 grams (32.15 ounces) to discourage individual investors lacking the ability to withstand risk, while encouraging institutional investors. The minimum margin requirement has been fixed at 7%. Chen Yiqun, an analyst for Suzhou Investment Co., a future brokerage based in the Jiangsu provincial city of Suzhou, told Interfax-China that "the relatively high reference price compared to the current spot price on the Shanghai Gold Exchange will help to invigorate gold futures trading." Four gold producers, China Gold Group, Shandong Gold Mining, Shandong Zhaojin Group and Zijin Mining, have been licensed as SHFE members as of Tuesday.
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe (Part I)
Others with power to help, don't care and do nothing. Pappe documents how it all began in 12 chapters with a short epilogue plus 18 graphic pictures needing no explanation. He calls the book his "J'Accuse against the politicians who devised the plan and the generals who carried out the ethnic cleansing" naming the guilty, the villages and urban areas destroyed, and the cruelest crimes committed against defenseless people only wanting to live in peace on their own land and were willing to do it with Jews as neighbors but not as overlords or oppressors. This review is lengthy so readers will know in detail what Israeli authorities successfully suppressed for decades. Pappe courageously revealed it in a book begging to be read and discussed by all people of conscience and good faith. They need to take the lead building a groundswell consensus to stand up to this long-festering injustice against defenseless people fighting for their rights and existence against overwhelming odds.
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