Trump Responds To Michelle Obama's Claim That He Is The "End Of Hope" For America

A downtrodden Michelle Obama appeared on Oprah yesterday to attack the incoming Trump administration, saying "now we're feeling what not having hope feels like."  Never one to back down when attacked, Trump had a pointed response to the first lady's assault that he shared with a crowd in Mobile, Alabama...

Paul Craig Roberts Warns "A CIA-led Coup Against American Democracy Is Unfolding Before Our Eyes"

President Eisenhower warned us more than a half century ago of the danger that the military/security complex presents to US democracy. In the decades since Eisenhower’s warning, the military/security complex has become more powerful than the American people and is demonstrating its power by overturning a presidential election.

Hillary Clinton’s holiday party ‘like a wake’

by Ian Mohr, pagesix:
“It was like a wake with a band,” quipped one guest who was at the Plaza on Thursday for Hillary Clinton’s holiday party to thank top-tier donors, VIP boosters and campaign advisers.
The source said, “It was a little bit of group therapy and a lot of love” among the losing Democratic rainmakers.
Spotted in the crowd were Clinton advisers Huma Abedin, John Podesta and Robby Mook, donors Alan Patricof, Bernard Schwartz, Marc Lasry, Jay Snyder and Robert Zimmerman, designers Vera Wang and Tory Burch, plus Anna Wintour, Harvey Weinstein and restaurateur Danny Meyer.
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S Treasure Hunter To Remain In Jail Until He Tells FBI Where He Hid 3 Tons Of Gold

Famous U.S. treasure hunter, Tommy Thompson found a trove of gold coins and bars on the floor of the Atlantic ocean back in 1988. What happened next is ever bit as thrilling as a Hollywood movie as Thompson evaded his investors and U.S. Marshals for over a decade..."he had almost limitless resources and approximately a 10-year head start."

How Trump's Tax Changes Will Impact You?

"Reduce taxes across-the-board, especially for working and middle-income Americans" - that was Trump’s campaign pledge. And now he is about to move into the White House and is backed by Republican majorities in both House and Senate, he has a real shot at fulfilling that pledge to the letter. So, what are the specifics of his plan, and how would it affect you?

Bitter In Aleppo Defeat, US And EU Seek To Further Demonize Russia

As Russian forces help liberate the Syrian city of Aleppo this week from a four-year terrorist siege, Washington and Europe step up threats of cyber war and economic aggression with sanctions. That’s no coincidence. It is the response of accomplices bitter in defeat.

Harvard Professor Admits His Efforts To Turn Electoral College Against Trump Have Failed Miserably

"But I think that we are not going to see more than a handful who actually vote against Donald Trump..."

Former Fed Advisor: State Pensions Time Bomb Spells Disaster For The US

Underfunded government pensions to the tune of $1.3 trillion, with a gap that just can’t be filled, is the ticking time bomb facing the US economy which faces dramatic cuts in public services - and potentially riots reminiscent of Athens six years ago - according to former Federal Reserve advisor Danielle DiMartino Booth.

Toward A New World Order, Part III

A new world order is coming of age and the transition is painful to accept for a Western middle class with a deep-seated sense of entitlement.

Paul Krugman Loses It: Hints At Trump 9/11-Style Attack False Flag

"Thought: There was (rightly) a cloud of illegitimacy over Bush, dispelled (wrongly) by 9/11. Creates some interesting incentives for Trump"

Six Steps Trump Can Take Toward Better Monetary Policy

The largest contributor to inflation and financial turmoil is dishonest money - enabling bureaucrats to run perpetual government deficits and pile up the federal debt. If Trump takes the steps outlined below, he can repair some of the damage.

How We Ended Up Here: A Brief History Of "Fake News", And The Role Of FaceBook

"FaceBook acts as a sovereign power unto itself. It outsources censorship to sites like Politifact, a site with clear policy biases. Hoping that if it does this outsourcing, people won't notice FB's total control over our free speech commons via The Algorithm. But fundamentally, such control is not consistent with a democracy, with a free press, or with freedom of association."

‘False Narratives of a New Cold War’ – Insightful Interview With Professor of Russian Studies

by Michael Krieger, Liberty Blitzkrieg:
We’re shut out now. There hasn’t been an op-ed in The New York Times or Washington Post editorial pages arguing that the United States is at least equally to blame for this new Cold War crisis. They simply will not accept those articles…So this is the problem. In a democracy we fight through discourse. If you can’t get to the mainstream media and make the argument, then there’s no way of slowing the drift toward catastrophe.
– Stephen F. Cohen, Professor Emeritus of Russian studies at Princeton University and New York University
Stephen Cohen just recorded an incredibly trenchant interview regarding the extreme dangers of the recent explosion in Russia hysteria with Brian Lehrer on WNYC.
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Associated Press Will Partner with Facebook to Flag ‘Fake News’

by Lauretta Brown, CNSnews:
The Associated Press announced Thursday that it will join Facebook to help “identify and debunk” news stories being shared online that are false.
According to the AP announcement, “when AP or another participating fact-check organization flags a piece of content as fake, Facebook users will see that it has been disputed and there will be a link to the corresponding article explaining why. That flag will follow the content if a Facebook user chooses to share it.”
“AP has long done some of the most thorough fact-checking in the news business,” said Sally Buzbee, AP’s incoming executive editor. “This initiative is a natural extension of that tradition, and of the AP’s long-standing role setting the standards for accuracy and ethics in journalism.”
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US Army Sends Tanks to Europe to Confront ‘Aggressive Russia’

from The Anti Media:
As President Barack Obama vows that the United States will take “action” in response to the allegations that Russia interfered with the November election, the U.S. army has started to bring tanks back to a Cold War site in the Netherlands as a show of its “commitment to deterrence in Europe.”
The U.S. and Dutch military reopened the Eygelshoven site on Thursday. It will contain “strategically prepositioned critical war stock” including M1 Abrams Tanks and M109 Paladin Self-Propelled Howitzers.
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The Thought Police Are Here to Save You From “Fake News” – Nathan McDonald

by Nathan McDonald, Sprott Money:
A term you heard used over and over again during the election, especially by the alt-left: “Fact check”, “fact check”, “fact check”.
This term was thrown around wildly and used as a weapon by Hillary and her supporters as it was becoming increasingly more clear that they were losing the information war, a war that has been fought throughout the ages and will be fought as long as liberty lovers are willing to take a stand for what it right.
They began to use this term, because it was becoming glaringly obvious that the once mighty Mainstream Media was losing its grip over the masses and they were having less and less effect.
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China Suffers Failed Treasury Bill Auction

from ZeroHedge:
One day after China’s regulator halted trading in bond futures for the first time ever, Beijing suffered another catalytic bond-market event overnight when it failed to sell all the Treasury Bills on auction Friday, for the first time in almost 18 months, as bids fell short of minimum requirements, according to traders required to bid at the auction.
As BBG reported overnight, the Ministry of Finance sold only 9.57 billion yuan ($1.38 billion) of 182-day bills in a planned 10 billion yuan sale, and 10.85 billion yuan of 91-day notes in a planned 12 billion yuan sale, according to a statement from the bond clearing house. What is notable, is that the Bills on offer paid a hefty yield: the 182-day bills sold for 2.9565%, while the 91-day bills sold for 2.8991%.
In other words mainland bond traders are concerned that short-term China rates could spike substantially in the next 3-6 months.
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