Trump Praises Putin: "Great Move On Delay - I Always Knew He Was Very Smart"

Putin Stunner: "We Will Not Expel Anyone; We Refuse To Sink To 'Kitchen' Diplomacy"

“We reserve the right to retaliate, but we will not sink to the level of this irresponsible ‘kitchen’ diplomacy. We will take further moves on restoring Russian-American relations based on the policies that the administration of President-elect Donald Trump adopts,”

Bilderberg Website Taken Over By Anonymous Hackers

 

CNN Runs Fake News Story About Russia Closing Anglo-American School in Moscow

by Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars:
CNN, one of the media outfits that regularly complains about “fake news,” ran a fake news story of its own when it claimed that Russia was closing an Anglo-American school in Moscow as retaliation for President Obama’s sanctions.

“Russian authorities ordered the closure of the Anglo-American School of Moscow, a US official briefed on the matter said. The order from the Russian government closes the school, which serves children of US, British and Canadian embassy personnel, to US and foreign nationals,” reported CNN.

However, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova responded swiftly by denying that the school had been closed.

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ECB WARNING: Italy Bank Run Happening RIGHT NOW!

from The Money GPS:

Washington Warmongers Make 11th Hour Attempt To Start a War With Russia

by Daisy Luther, Daisy Luther:
In the final days of Barack Obama’s presidency, the warmongers in Washington, DC are hell-bent on causing as much chaos as possible. If they don’t manage to start a war with Russia before Donald Trump is sworn in, it won’t be for lack of trying.
The Military Industrial Complex stands to profit by billions of dollars if this comes to fruition. War is very profitable for politicians and their corporate cronies, but for the rest of us, it would inflict a heavy toll. (If you haven’t read it yet, I strongly recommend picking up a copy of the anti-war classic, War Is a Racket by General Smedley Butler.)
Today, 35 Russian diplomats were expelled from the US for their alleged part in tampering with the election:
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Obama Takes In 606% More Syrian Refugees Than Last Year, 98.8% Muslim

The Obama administration’s refugee resettlement program took off in 2016 with 15,479 Syrian refugees having been admitted to the U.S, a 606% increase from the resettlement numbers of last year.

Israel First Or America First

Having America publicly reassert herself as Israel’s best friend, with “no daylight” between us, could have us ending up as Israel’s only friend - and Israel as our only friend in the Middle East. Bibi’s Israel First policy must one day collide with America First.

2016 Ends With A Whimper: Stocks Slide On Last Minute Pension Fund Selling

Here Are Some Of The Ridiculous New State Laws That Will Take Effect January 1st - Happy New Year!

From spear fishing for catfish to regulating cow farts, here is what your state legislators spent their time on this year...

Israel First Or America First

Having America publicly reassert herself as Israel’s best friend, with “no daylight” between us, could have us ending up as Israel’s only friend - and Israel as our only friend in the Middle East. Bibi’s Israel First policy must one day collide with America First.

Minimum Wage Hikes: Here's A List Of States Where A Lot Of Fast Food Workers Will Be Fired In 2017

From the 24% minimum wage hike in Arizona to the 20% spike in Maine, here is a list of states where misinformed politicians will cost a lot of low-income workers their jobs in 2017.

Los Angeles Politician's Proposal Would Punish Adults Who Don't Have Kids

A Los Angeles city councilman provoked harsh criticism this week when he proposed a new city motion to ban single adults from parks and playgrounds.

Drudge Report Suffers "Biggest DDOS Attack Since Inception" As Obama Unveils Russian Sanctions

Apple To Cut iPhone Production By 10% In The First Quarter Of 2017: Nikkei

Apple will trim production of its iPhone family around 10% on the year in the first quarter of 2017, according to calculations by The Nikkei based on data from suppliers.

Obama Uses Final Weeks To Aggressively "Box In" Trump's Administration

"Even those who are sympathetic to Obama on most issues are saying that part of the reason he did this today was to "box in" President-elect Trump. That would be very unfortunate if politics were the motivating here. But we can't help but think that's often true. That's not the way that peaceful transitions of administrations work in our great democracy."

Time To Buy US Treasury Bonds? Gold? Equities?

As we head into 2017, how should one be positioned? Let’s explore that idea with a trio of contrarian indicators...

Italy Urges Europe To Begin Censoring Free Speech On The Internet

“Post-truth in politics is one of the drivers of populism and it is one of the threats to our democracies,” Pitruzzella told the FT. “We have reached a fork in the road: we have to choose whether to leave the internet like it is, the wild west, or whether it needs rules that appreciate the way communication has changed. I think we need to set those rules and this is the role of the public sector.”

The Five Countries Threatening OPEC Unity

If any of these countries do significantly increase production, then the euphoria that has yet to reach its peak may begin to fade.

2016 - A Year Of Trading Dangerously

If 2016 taught traders anything, it was that old norms were useless and the concept of the market as a discounting mechanism (as opposed to an algo-driven headline-reacting maelstrom of manias) is lost forever. This flipping of reality is nowhere more evident in the topsy turvy shifts in risk expectations across global asset classes - where 'safe' is now riskiest and 'riskiest' is now safe.

Obama Seizes Area Near Bundy Ranch In Massive Last Minute Land Grab

The designation of Gold Butte area could lead to another standoff with furious local land owners and patriots across country...

Beware Trump Tweets, And Other Major Catalysts In 2017 According To JPMorgan

In the latest macro update from JPM's Adam Crisafuli, the strategist writes that the Trumpflation rally which more than doubled the market's YTD gains since the Trump election, has gotten ahead of itself and that "it seems like a lot of headwinds that have been accumulating below the surface for weeks are quietly moving to the fore."

Italy's Insolvent Monte Paschi To Issue €15 Billion In Debt

Italy's Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (BMPS.MI), which is being bailed out by the state, plans to issue 15 billion euros ($15.8 billion) of debt next year to restore liquidity and boost investor confidence, several newspapers said on Friday.

Goldman to Trump: Situation Assessment, Government Bail-ins and the Precious Metals Threat

by Dave Kranzler, Investment Research Dynamics:
A guest post from Stewart Dougherty. Stewart included some thoughts in his email to me that I thought should be shared as a preface to his essay:
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Hi Dave:
Some pretty heady stuff, particularly the part about the Fed’s balance sheet being a lie. (I am 100% convinced of this, but cannot prove it, at least not yet.) And remember, Bernanke was caught issuing $10 trillion in swaps to foreign banks, all of which was supposed to remain a complete secret. It is not as if they haven’t been caught doing what I am saying they are still doing, to an even larger degree.
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INSIDERS NOW SAY OBAMA WILL MOVE TO CREATE PALESTINIAN STATE AT PARIS MID-EAST PEACE CONFERENCE JANUARY 15TH

by Geoffrey Grider, Now The End Begins:
“The goal is for these moves to be binding for the incoming American administration, which would have to adopt them as its platform, and also for the European Union, which is expected to step up should there be clashes with Trump,” he said.
THE PARIS MIDDLE EAST PEACE CONFERENCE IS EXPECTED TO CALL ON ALL SIDES TO ESTABLISH A PALESTINIAN STATE WITHIN THE SO-CALLED 1967 BORDERS IN A RELATIVELY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.
“As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.” Isaiah 31:5 (KJV)
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Drifting into Fascism

by Alasdair Macleod, GoldMoney:
Most people regard governments and their central banks as forces for the good. Financial crises and suchlike are therefore blamed on capitalism, and people believe our leaders do their best to pick up the pieces from market failures, because they are elected to promote the public good.
The reality is very different, with governments acting not in the interests of their electors, but in the interest of the preservation of the administration. And the size of the administration is proportional to its degree of control over the people, so it and its burden on ordinary people just grows and grows with ever-increasing intervention and micro-management.
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Soros: Trump Threatens My New World Order Plans

by Sean Adl-Tabatabai, Your News Wire:
Billionaire elitist George Soros has issued a scathing attack against Donald Trump who he says is thwarting his plans to advance the New World Order.
In a vicious online blog, Soros accuses the President-elect of being a “would be dictator” who threatens his globalist New World Order plans for the world.
Infowars.com reports:
In an article for Project Syndicate, Soros begins by mentioning how he lived under both Nazi and then Soviet rule in Hungary before asserting that “various forms of closed societies – from fascist dictatorships to mafia states – are on the rise.”
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Obama’s Twilight Moves Against Israel May Foreshadow Move to UN Sec’y Gen

by David Haggith, The Great Recession Blog:
President Obama’s UN declaration that Israeli settlements are illegal says this duck isn’t lame. It was not the finale of Obama’s closing months as president but the prologue to years ahead, pushing his legacy to where it can be carried out at the UN. Congressional leaders say Obama is already plotting further action on Israel before he leaves office, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center put Obama’s refusal to veto the UN resolution at top of its annual list of anti-Semitic acts. One has to acknowledge, regardless of his or her position about Israeli settlements, that Obama is choosing to create an unusual whirlwind of controversy as he leaves office. The resolution (#2334) states that Israel’s settlement activity “has no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation under international law,” and calls for an end to all construction beyond the boundaries that existed in 1967 prior to the Six Day War.
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Mainstream Media is Now Whining About the “Fake News” Hysteria It Created

by Michael Krieger, Liberty Blitzkrieg:
After coming under attack, the alternative media successfully appropriated and reassigned the now ubiquitous term “fake news” to a variety of disingenuous mainstream media outlets. The corporate media is not too happy about this, and is doing what it does best (aside from cheerleading for war). It’s whining about it to its readers.
Nothing more perfectly highlights the mainstream media’s instinctual response to complain than an article published on Christmas Day in The New York Times, which reinvents history by claiming alternative media is to blame for turning “fake news” into an overly expansive and thus meaningless term. Here are a few excerpts:
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