After A "Run On The Pension Fund" Dallas Mayor Demands Halt Of Withdrawals

"If the mayor believes that his letter will stop the 'run on the bank' he is wrong.  He just created a SPRINT to the bank."

Trump Confirms Retired Marine General "Mad-Dog" Mattis Will Be America's Next Secretary Of Defense

Speaking during an Ohio "thank you" rally, president-elect Donald Trump just confirmed that James "Mad Dog" Mattis will be America's next Secretary of Defense.

The 20 Most Sinister Psyop Leaflets Of All Time

Some of the weirdest and most disturbing advertisements ever created are done so for military campaigns. They come in the form of propaganda leaflets, which are dropped by air or otherwise disseminated into a country or territory that is being invaded. The intention is to use psychology and symbolism to influence members of the general population, inciting fear and, ultimately, compliance.

JPMorgan Tells Investors: Ignore Mainstream Media

"Geopolitical developments should be gauged from... non-traditional data sources (such as big data sentiment indicators, independent media outlets, etc.) given the failure of many traditional data sources to anticipate geopolitical developments this year."

Trump's Treasury Secretary Pick Is A Lucky Man... Very Lucky

Steven Mnuchin has a long history of coming out ahead, even in questionable deals.

Payrolls Preview: Unemployment Rate Expected To Drop (But Blame The Weather & Calendar If Not)

A series of stronger than expected data in recent days pushed Goldman Sachs to up their payrolls growth expectation to 200k (above the 180k expectations), but they note that while the unemployment rate is likely to drop (to 4.8%), average hourly earnings may disappoint. Of course, they add, any non-narrative-confirming misses on the data can likely be explained away by "weather effects and residual seasonality."

Who Still Lives At Home With Their Parents?

Living at home with your parents isn't just for little kids anymore. Young adults are now more likely to live with their parents than in any other living arrangement, according to a recent report by the Pew Research Center.

Yahoo's Advice To Trump: Educate Children In Media Literacy To Combat Fake News

"... the long-term solution here is about stemming the demand. The answer doesn’t lie in hectoring tech companies into policing content, but rather in teaching our kids how to consume it."

70% Of Immigrants Admitted Under Obama's "Minor Refugee" Program Are Actually Adults

In 2014, the Obama administration signed an executive order intended to help Central American minors reach their families in the U.S. without relying on "human smugglers."  Two years later we find that 70% of those admitted under the program are adults while the number of unaccompanied children apprehended at the border has doubled.  Victory!?

Trump Team Confirms Dakota Access Support Has "Nothing To Do With Personal Investments" In Pipeline Builder

'Winter is coming' in North Dakota but as over 2000 veterans arrive to provide a human shield for the 'water protestors', president-elect Donald Trump said for the first time that he supports completion of the pipeline project near a North Dakota Indian reservation. Reassuringly his team confirmed that his support "has nothing to do with his personal investments" in Energy Transfer Partners - the company building the pipeline.

Why Trump Will Be Unable To Save The American Coal Industry

President Trump will undoubtedly do his best to help the industry, but recent events have shown that may be harder than it appears.

Gundlach Turns Bearish Again: "Stocks Have Peaked, It's Too Late To Buy The Trump Trade"

"There's no magic here" warned Doubleline's Jeff Gundlach about the Trump rally, and told Reuters that bond yields and stocks have peaked, the dollar is going down, and that gold will move up in the short term. "It is so late to be buying the Trump Trade."

Largest US Bitcoin Exchange Ordered To Disclose Three Years Of User Data To IRS

A California judge has orderd Coinbase, a bitcoin wallet service and the largest coinbase exchange in the US, to provide the IRS with records of all American user transactions from 2013 to 2015 to conduct an investigation into potential tax fraud.

One Scary Chart: Venezuela's Currency Disintegrates

For anyone still unsure what real-time hyperinflation looks like, here is the updated visual answer.

Fake News: Newsweek Admits They Didn't Write Or Even Read "Madam President" Issue

"On election day, Americans across the country roundly rejected the kind of fear and hate-based conservatism peddled by Donald Trump and elected the first woman in U.S. history to the presidency."

First Human Injected with Controversial Genetically Modified Genes

by Julie Fidler, Natural Society:
For the first time in history, a human has been injected with genes edited using the CRISPR-Cas9 method. [1]
The experiment took place on 28 October 2016, when a team of Chinese scientists, led by oncologist Lu You at Sichuan University in Chengdu, delivered the genetically modified (GM) cells into a patient with aggressive lung cancer as part of a clinical trial at the West China Hospital in Chengdu. [2]
To protect the patient’s privacy, the details of the trial have not been released; but Lu said the trial “went smoothly.”
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Jill Stein Wins the Recount

from WhoWhatWhy:

The first vote in Wisconsin hasn’t been counted yet, but the winner of the recount is already clear: Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein.
There is hardly a scenario in which she doesn’t emerge victorious:
–          If the recount is conducted and Donald Trump wins, which remains the most likely outcome, then Stein is the one who responded to the plea of desperate progressives and launched a last-ditch effort to stop Trump.
–          If Clinton prevails, then she is a hero to the left regardless.
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Silver Prices & Interest Rates

by Gary Christenson, Deviant Investor:

Examine the above chart of interest rates for 200 years.

1. Rates rise and fall in long cycles, 20 to 40 years from a peak to a trough.
2. Important highs occurred in 1920 and 1981.
3. Important lows occurred in 1946 and probably 2016.
4. Current rates are the lowest in 200 years. Some analysts have said the lowest in 5,000 years.

Examine the chart of annual silver prices since 1913 on a log scale. The upward trend in silver prices is clear and will continue as long as debt is increasing in our fiat currency system.
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Video: 6 Months Before Carrier Deal, Obama Mocked Trump, Said He Wouldn’t Save Manufacturing Jobs

1,000 jobs to stay in U.S. after agreement with air conditioner company
by Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars:
After Donald Trump successfully agreed with air conditioner company Carrier to keep 1,000 jobs in the United States, a flashback video of Obama mocking Trump’s promise to stop jobs leaving the country illustrates how woefully wrong Obama was to doubt Trump.
“But for those folks who have lost their job right now because a plant went down the Mexico, that isn’t going to make you feel better. And so what we have to do is to make sure that folks are trained for the jobs that are coming in now because some of those jobs of the past are just not going to come back, and when somebody says, like the person you just mentioned who I’m not going to advertise for, that he’s going to bring all these jobs back, well how exactly are you going to do that? What are you going to do?” said Obama.
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FBI Expanded Its Hacking Powers, Unprecedented Authority To Hack Into Any Device

from X22Report:

Black Friday, Fake News And Gold

by Dave Kranzler, Investment Research Dynamics:
Black Friday and “Black Friday” weekend have largely become irrelevant. Every retailer in the U.S., from auto dealers to furniture stores to online tennis apparel shops have been advertising “Black Friday” sales since November 1st.
We have no doubt that the Census Bureau will concoct phony holiday sales for November (reported December 14) and December (reported in January). But the truth – the non-Russian influenced truth – is that retail sales spending per capita this holiday on an inflation-adjusted basis is going to be less than in 2015.
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ESPN Loses Over a Half Million Subscribers

by Dylan Gwinn, Breitbart:
The Nielsen estimates revealed that ESPN lost 555,000 subscribers during the last month.
In other words, ESPN essentially lost the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. This, coming on the heels of last month, the worst month in ESPN history, where the network lost 621,000 subscribers.
In the last two months, ESPN has lost 1,176,000 subscribers, a subscriber loss nearly the size of the city of Dallas, Texas. ESPN currently has just over 88 million domestic subscribers. In 2013, a mere three years ago, ESPN had 99 million subscribers. That’s right, in the last three years, ESPN lost somewhere in the neighborhood of ten million subscribers, the rough equivalent of the combined populations of New York City and Phoenix.
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