Obama Vows Retaliation Against "Russia Hacking", To Hold Press Conference On Friday

 Putin supposedly said...: "Dealing with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon, he knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board, then struts around like he won."

With Obama vowing retaliation against Russia's "hacking" of the US elections, and set to hold an impromptu press conference ahead of his flight to Hawaii on Friday afternoon, it could be an interesting weekend.

China Dumps Treasuries: Foreign Central Banks Liquidate A Record $403 Billion In US Paper

It is official: Trump or no Trump, foreign central banks, wealth funds, and virtually every other official institution in possession of US paper is liquidating their Treasury holdings at a record pace, amounting to an unprecedented $400 billion in the past 12 months.

 

Dear CIA: No One Believes You – Time to Put Up or Shut Up About Russia

from Russia Insider:
“No American with two braincells to rub together will ever believe anything the CIA says for any reason, because they’ve got such an extensive and well-documented record of lying to us at every turn.”
“Believing something the CIA says is like trusting a meth addict with your car, and trusting the CIA when they’re working with the Washington Post is like trusting a meth addict with your car and leaving your kid in the back seat with the house keys and money for Taco Bell.”
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What Is The Real Purpose Behind "Fake News" Propaganda?

In the end, ideological combat actually prevents people from learning rather than helping them get to the root of the issue. We live in a world where truth is superfluous to the overall narrative. The only thing that is important is destroying your rivals.

Don't worry...They will be replaced with Jack Booted Thugs that will do as ordered...

Entire Police Department Quits After "Illegal, Unethical, And Immoral" Requests By Town Council

The entire police department of Bunker Hill, Indiana decided to quit after alleging that Town Council members had asked them to "do illegal, unethical, and immoral things" like running background checks on other town councilors.

Doug Casey: "Sell All Your Bonds"

Let the hoi polloi cast a meaningless vote, so they have the illusion of being in control. Instead of seeing themselves as subjects, they’ll think they’re “we the people,” who actually have some say in what happens. That way they’ll pay their taxes willingly, enthusiastically sign on to aggressive wars on the other side of the world against people they know nothing about, and generally do as they’re told. Because it’s supposed to be patriotic. “Democracy” is a much more effective scam for controlling the plebs than kingship or dictatorship.

Goldman Warns Bond Yields Are Now "A Threat To Risky Assets"

As Goldman warns, should US 10-year rates move above the bank's ‘fair value’, "this would represent a threat to risky assets." Well, 10-year yields are now at what Goldman estimates is "fair value", which means any additional increases from here could lead to a stock market selloff.

China Devalues Yuan To Weakest Fix Since May 2008

Following last night's bond bloodbath, The Fed fallout continues in China as The PBOC has devalued the official Yuan fix the most since Brexit to its weakest level since May 2008, breaking above 6.95/USD. Since the "one-off" devaluation in Aug 2015, the Chinese currency has now weakened almost 14% against the dollar.

"But I Thought the Cold War Was Supposed to Have Been About Ideology"

Though Suprun, and the nine other signatories (among the 538 Electoral College members), might actually believe that, as their letter says, this is about “a foreign power, namely Russia, [which] acted covertly to interfere in the presidential campaign with the intent of promoting Donald Trump’s candidacy,” it’s really about America — what type of nation we really are, not what type of nation Russia is.

More Detroit Voting "Irregularities": 95 Poll Books "Missing" For Days; 5 Still Nowhere To Be Found

"I’m not happy with how Detroit handled this election at all.  We had been seeing improvement, but this one was different. This one was off."

Hollywood Celebrities Urge Electors Not To Vote For Trump

The push to pressure and overturn the Electoral College vote on December 19 escalated last night, when a group of celebrities created a video to urge Electoral College members to cast their votes for someone other than President-elect Donald Trump on Monday.

Hypocrisy Behind The Russian-Election Frenzy

What Threat to Democracy? How does giving the American people truthful and relevant information undermine American democracy, which is the claim that is reverberating throughout the mainstream media and across Official Washington?

Caught On Tape: CA Governor Brown Goes On Epic Climate Change Rant; Vows To Defy Trump

"If Trump turns off his satellites, California will launch it's own damn satellites.  We're going to collect that data."

The Associated Press Announces It Is Joining The "Fight Against The Scourge" Of Fake News

It is our job – more than ever before – to guide people to legitimate news and help them sort out “fake news” from the real thing.The AP has a critical role to play in fighting the scourge of fake news. We are not going to transform ourselves into the fake news police of the internet, but we are going to be more aggressive about knocking down fraudulent stories when we can.

Clinton Investigation Back On: FBI Agents In NY Ordered To Continue Foundation Probe

According to an exclusive report from the Daily Caller, senior officials at FBI headquarters in Washington DC have instructed agents in its New York field office to continue their investigation of the Clinton Foundation.

China Should Retake Taiwan By Force, State Media Urges

"The future of Taiwan must not be shaped by the DPP and Washington, but by the Chinese mainland. It is hoped that peace in the Taiwan Straits won't be disrupted. But the Chinese mainland should display its resolution to recover Taiwan by force. Peace does not belong to cowards."

Meet Donald Trump's New Press Secretary (Maybe)

Meet Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who as The Hill reports, is a contender to be Donald Trump's White House press secretary.

The Bizarre Reason Why The World's Worst Currency Just Soared By 60%

Think the dollar's recent surge is remarkable? Think again.

The Exiling of Risk

Lunch is served, but it is really free?

Nassim Taleb: The Syrian War Condensed (For Almost Dummies)

"In the end I never imagined seeing the “left” siding with the AlQaeda of Sept 11, mourning the fighters of Aleppo and, aside from such independent journalists as Robert Fisk, spreading all manner of concoctions."

Freddie Mac Issues Warning As Mortgage Rates Soar

Blink, and you missed your chance to refi. And according to nationalized mortgage giant Freddie Mac, it's only going to get worse: "if rates continue their upward trend, expect mortgage activity to be significantly subdued in 2017."

Obama Confesses Illegal Presidency Cost Dems Election

by Tim Brown, Freedom OutPost:
One of his most faithful worshippers—The Washington Post—posed the perfect question for The Perfect President shortly after his Democratic Party went down to a crushing defeat in the 2016 presidential election. Was this a referendum on the preceding eight years of his presidency?
How do you think Barack Obama answered?
Millions of Americans had voted with their heart and soul praying to be delivered from Obama’s disastrous administration. As much as they disliked Hillary Clinton, this pro-Trump turnout was motivated more by Obama than by Hillary. The word on the street and in the conservative press was “Please, dear God, no Obama third term.”
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Obama’s Last Attempt To Push The UN Arms Trade Treaty, Be Prepared For An Event

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Why Did Japan Just Ratify the TPP

by James Corbett, The International Forecaster:
The National Diet of Japan made a very strange move this past week: They ratified the TPP. Strange, that is, because the TPP is dead. President-Elect Trump has already said he is committed to pulling the US out of the deal on day one in office.
Did Japan not get the message? The TPP’s kicked the bucket. It’s shuffled off the mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-trade deal.
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‘Ongoing And Unprecedented’, When This Happened 200 Years Ago, Americans Fought Americans For Food In The Streets

by Stefan Stanford, All News Pipeline:
With much of America preparing to go into another deep feeze as another polar vortex makes its way into the lower 48, bringing the Washington DC area its coldest December temperatures in over a decade, the globalists are still pushing ‘global warming’ while striving for global governance based upon that alone. And while Americans this week will be bundling up warmly and sitting by their fireplaces while our energy costs for December go through the roof, what we’re experiencing here in December of 2016 is nothing compared to what Americans went through 200 years ago in 1816.
Known as ‘the year without a summer’, the extremely cold weather that brought disaster and despair to America that year was caused by a volcano nearly 10,000 miles away. Leading to countless deaths here in America and across the world that year, Wikipedia reports crops and animals died and the US economy tumbled as America was unable to produce enough food, leading to Americans fighting Americans in American streets for food.
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Daily Kos Founder Tells Readers – ‘Be Happy for Coal Miners Losing Their Health Insurance’

by Michael Krieger, Liberty Blitzkrieg:
On Monday, Markos “kos” Moulitsas, founder of the highly trafficked Daily Kos website penned an article that many have found deeply offensive titled, Be Happy for Coal Miners Losing Their Health Insurance. They’re Getting Exactly What They Voted for. Here’s some of what he wrote:
Hillary Clinton won the election, but a system designed to let a powerful minority override the will of the majority selected some asshole. For now, we have to deal with that bullshit reality, and lots of good people will suffer serious consequences. But don’t feel sorry for the ones who enabled this nightmare by voting for the incoming Trump-Putin administration. For example, why should we weep for the retired coal miners who will now lose their health insurance thanks to the GOP majority—despite the best efforts of coal-state Democrats to change the outcome?
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The World’s Biggest Financial Bubble Is Coming to an End… Here’s How to Keep Your Money Safe

by Justin Spittler, Casey Research:
Doug’s absolutely right. The bond market isn’t safe.
Yesterday, we shared a recent essay by Casey Research founder Doug Casey. In it, Doug discussed how a Donald Trump presidency could impact global financial markets. He also offered actionable advice.
He said investors should lighten up on property. He said they should be careful about what stocks they own. And he encouraged investors to own gold and silver before piling into conventional investments.
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Why Liberals Can’t Handle the Truth About Russia Hacking the Election

by Caleb Stephen, Intellihub:
Liberals can’t handle the truth because they are butthurt
Donald J. Trump won the U.S. election by a landslide but butthurt, sore liberal losers are not having any of it.
Instead, as we’ve seen, they’ve turned to malevolent tactics in an effort to express their disapproval of the democratically elected billionaire real estate tycoon.
First they tried rioting and that didn’t work. Then they tried sending death threats to electoral college members and that failed. The ‘fake news’ narrative also failed. Jill Stein’s recount was an epic fail, but not after she had carted away $6.3 million dollars from the gullible voters she scammed as part of her election recount campaign
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