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Activist trying to get Obama to use the infamous 'intersession recess' rule to install Obama's Supreme Court pick

The growing war on cash, and capital controls, is making bitcoin look viable,

newspapers said the probe related to gifts worth "hundreds of thousands of shekels"

Link is to The Washington Compost, so if you don't want to give them clicks, just search keywords "Guccifer + prison".
Another fun set of search terms are "Outdated Ukrainian Malware" [Please note; 'Russia' should not be included in your search keywords!] and you will be shocked to learn how many 'news' outlets are unaware that The Ukraine has not been part of Russia for the past 25 years, and still equate The Ukraine with Russia (We still say "The" Ukraine, because Ukraine is the word used for the Russian region just inside Russia's Southeastern borders, and the "The" part is a verbal relic from those times The-Ukraine ment The-Borderlands of Russia".)

If your "news" source does not know the difference between a Romanian and a Russian, or a Ukrainian and a Russian, then you're viewing "FAKE-news".

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One of life’s hardest-to-learn but most necessary lessons is that things usually take a lot longer to work out than you’d like them to.

That’s where the sayings “Being too early is the same thing as being wrong” and “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent” come from.

Putin's stoic statesmanship speaks for itself.

Not for the first time, the contrast in character between Putin and Obama was illustrated in the latest diplomatic spat over alleged Russian hacking.

For one thing, Putin’s gracious magnanimity always in the face of American provocations shows the Russian leader to be a fine statesman and human being; whereas Obama looks like a pathetic, cheap nonentity.

President Putin made a surprise attack:

He said that his government would not take retaliatory measures. Indeed, he went further by offering seasonal goodwill greetings to President Obama, his family and the people of America, as well as repeating invitations to the children of accredited US diplomats in Russia to festivities being held at the Kremlin.

All these events conform to a well established script.

The bad losers Democrats are STILL shell shocked about the fact that they lost and are throwing a temper tantrum, trying to cloud President-elect Trump’s incoming policies.

The Truth is that the US as a nation need to now move past the NeoCon era, the warmonger era...

The Louisiana coast loses a football field’s worth of land every 38 minutes. This staggering rate of land loss has been brought on by climate change and coastal erosion accelerated by human activities, including water diversion projects and damage done by the oil and gas industry.

French Ban on Pesticides a Long Time Coming… At the very end of 2016, AP News reported that “children will soon be able to frolic in the grass without risk of intoxication.” “Pesticides will be banned in...

An Arkansas teacher who made a series of racist comments about Michelle and Barack Obama has resigned from his post following public backlash.

In the comments, he called the First Lady “Michelle Obummer… America’s First Chimp” and went on to say that he’s happy “that nasty chimp and her spider monkey hubby gone for good.”

We are going to go back in time to the story of Romanian hacker Guccifer 2.0. I ask you to bear with me, as it is very confusing to peek into the world of Hillary Clinton.

The elites who control America are going all out on a plan to start a war with Russia and stonewall Donald Trump before he takes office in January.

Presenting his research in a Channel 4 documentary, Titanic: The New Evidence, broadcast on New Year’s Day, Mr Maloney also claims the ship was reversed into its berth in Southampton to prevent passengers from seeing damage made to the side of the ship by the ongoing fire.

Mr Molony said: “The official Titanic inquiry branded [the sinking] as an act of God. This isn’t a simple story of colliding with an iceberg and sinking.

“It’s a perfect storm of extraordinary factors coming together: fire, ice and criminal negligence.

“Nobody has investigated these marks before. It totally changes the narrative. We have metallurgy experts telling us that when you get that level of temperature against steel it makes it brittle, and reduces its strength by up to 75 per cent.

“The fire was known about, but it was played down. She should never have been put to sea.”

CARRIE FISHER’S death means Disney will be able to make the biggest single personal accident insurance claim ever, because she cannot film Star Wars Episode IX.

It seems the Washington Post has now been forced to retract its "FAKE NEWS"After being called out by people around the globe.

ANGELA Merkel was branded “mad” and “off her rocker” today after giving a bizarre New Year’s Eve speech telling Germans to fight the bombs and guns of Islamic State with love and compassion.

Negotiations for the Pentagon’s next batch of 100 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters don’t technically resume until next month, but they’re clearly under way.

By Mike Maharrey

Today, an Illinois law went into effect banning the use of “stingrays” to track the location of phones and sweep up electronic communications without a warrant in most situations. The new law will not only protect privacy in Illinois, but will also hinder one aspect of the federal surveillance state.

Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Skokie) introduced Senate Bill 2343 (SB2343) on Jan. 28. The new law will help block the use of cell site simulators, known as “stingrays.” These devices essentially spoof cell phone towers, tricking any device within range into connecting to the stingray instead of the tower, allowing law enforcement to sweep up communications content, as well as locate and track the person in possession of a specific phone or other electronic device...

By Mike Maharrey

Today, a California law went into effect that not only bolsters restrictions on state officials from seizing property without due process, but also throws a wrench into federal efforts to do the same.

Sen. Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles) introduced Senate Bill 443 (SB443) in 2015. The new law sets additional restrictions to prevent abuses from civil asset forfeiture, a controversial practice that observers such as the Institute for Justice (IJ) have called “legal plunder.”...

He’s been telling us “f**k you” for 8 years

A couple of Norridge officers were observed purchasing new shoes for a homeless man and then watching to make sure they fit.
They did this not knowing someone had taken a picture and did not wish to be personally recognized.

Trump’s new press secretary, Sean Spicer, is deflecting questions about the influence of Russian hacking on the 2016 election?—?arguing instead that people should talk about on “punishing” Hillary Clinton for trying to “influence the election.”

A federal appeals court has ruled unanimously that two government agencies did not take adequate measures to recover the emails Hillary Clinton illegally deleted from her private server.

I’m glad I’ve been off this last week lest I would have had to follow the dumbest propaganda diversion trick in the book. Since the Clinton/Obama cult have already used up all their Trump Tricks in their little black book of evil, they are forced to pull the tired old McCarthy rabbit out of their hat and run it up the flag pole.
And guess what? It’s working.

Increasing tensions in Europe prompted the US to send a huge array of military equipment to Europe in a bid to “deter” Russia.

What happened to the big donkey? Among other things, the Democrats decided to sell their base and their soul to a very bad billionaire and they got a very bad deal for both.

It was 2004. The poncho was the hottest fashion trend, there were 5 million new cases of AIDS and a former Nazi collaborator had bought the Democrat Party using the spare change in his sofa cushions.

And gone to war against the will of the people. This was what he modestly called his own “Soros Doctrine”.

We may even find out on January 6th as Congress counts the electoral votes. They do have a Constitutional avenue to still rebuff the vote and make their own choice. I do not believe this will be done as riots will follow with Congressman hanging from lampposts across the nation. Rather, I do believe it’s a good possibility the republican Congress will be obstructionist in subtle if not outward ways.

Folks, do not let your guard down. The next three weeks are certainly scary, any number of false flags could be unleashed. At least the previous efforts to spread bogus news have not worked as the evidence has not existed and the American people (for the most part) have seen through it. These are unprecedented times in every fashion, the “normal” we as Americans used to know will unfortunately never return during our lifetimes. Stay focused, whether you know it or not yet, we are at war!

Obama said, We the People are angry "clinging to our guns, bibles, and antipathy." Well, we're still clinging to our bibles and guns, but we're not angry any longer and it's because of him."

Further attribution on the Carrier Task Force stand-down. If you have debunking articles, please link to them.

UK’s Queen Elizabeth II has missed a New Year’s Day church service due to what the Buckingham Palace described as a “lingering heavy cold,” a week after the 90-year-old monarch missed a Christmas Day service for the first time in decades.

The queen was slated to attend the New Year’s Day church service at Sandringham on Sunday.

“The tide of history is going against Israel,” says a British scholar, arguing that the regime is not going to survive much longer despite receiving overwhelming support from its allies like Britain and the US.

Dr. Rodney Shakespeare, a London-based university professor and political analyst, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Sunday, adding that no matter how pro-Zionist, the British and American governments will soon develop second thoughts for their support of Israel.

The Washington Post has corrected an article in which it said that Russian hackers had infiltrated the US power grid at a Vermont utility. The newspaper now says authorities have no such “indications” as people on social media claim the outlet promotes “fake news.”

US President –elect Donald Trump is gaining wins both at home and abroad, says his spokesman while talking about Russia.

During an interview in a Sunday segment of ABC’s “This Week,” Sean Spicer indicated that Russia’s announced delay for retaliation against Washington over the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomatic personnel is considered a victory for the future president.

A new ceasefire deal that comes into force on Friday may be the biggest chance in months to curb the violence in Syria.

Hallelujah!

As President Obama is about to fade from the White House forever to make way for the Twitter King’s juggernaut of furniture wreckers, his abstaining vote on a United Nations Security Counsel resolution to condemn Benjamin Netanyahu’s settlement policies in the West Bank and Jerusalem as “illegal” has rocked the leadership of that tiny nation. Naturally, Netanyahu and others in the Likudist pro-settlement camp went ballistic, since they’ve written Obama off as a loser and know what a coup the condemnation resolution is. T

Parents of a fourth grader in New Mexico are embroiled in a legal battle with their school district after their son’s teacher forced the entire class to write an essay calling him a bully. The student was pulled from school and homeschooled.

Last fall, Diego Ortega’s mother noticed her then 9-year-old son was avoiding going to school at Katherine Gallegos Elementary.

'I think it's unfair if they don't know. And I know a lot about hacking. And hacking is a very hard thing to prove. So it could be someone else. And I also know things that other people don't know, and so they cannot be sure of the situation,' Trump said.

When asked by the reporter what the president-elect knows that others do not, he said: 'You'll find out on Tuesday or Wednesday.'

Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about Germany's hoarding of gold. In the past 2 years alone, Germany has repatriated 410 tonnes of gold.

Britain’s Security Minister Ben Wallace has warned that the Takfiri Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group plans to wage a “mass casualty” chemical attack against the UK, urging the public to report any suspicious behavior.

'A majority of those people agreed with [Clinton] on the economy, thought she'd be better on the economy,' Finney said. 'And she's won 2.8 million more in the popular vote.'

Donald Trump's incoming press secretary Sean Spicer questioned the 'magnitude' of President Obama's actions against Russia – done in retaliation for the country's role in the cyberattacks against Democratic political organizations.

'I think one of the questions that we have is why the magnitude of this?' Spicer said to ABC's Jonathan Karl during a sit-down on This Week. 'I mean you look at 35 people being expelled, two sites being closed down, the question is, is that response in proportion to the actions taken?'

A “Twitter controversy” broke out on Christmas Day after leftist Drexel University professor George Ciccariello-Maher tweeted out, “All I Want for Christmas Is White Genocide” to his 11,000 followers. The tweet–since deleted–was a play on the white supremacist myth of a “White Genocide,” a canard that whites are under threat from interracial dating and diversity.

A breakthrough ceasefire deal has been reached for Syria. RT’s Maria Finoshina has just returned from her 10th trip to the war-ravaged country.

President-elect Donald Trump has cast doubt on US claims that Russia interfered in the November 8 election, and vowed to reveal new information.

The US intelligence community has determined that the Russian government interfered in the presidential election by hacking Democratic operatives and groups in order to help Trump defeat his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

Facebook currently provides a staggering 29,000 individual categories to its advertisers.

These allow advertisers to drill-down and target specific groups amongst the 1.79 billion monthly active users.

Of those 29,000 categories, Facebook says 600 come from third-party data providers.

According to the research conducted by ProPublica, the majority of this data from commercial data brokers is financial.

It allows advertisers to single-out Facebook users in categories including, "total liquid investible assets $1 - $24,999", "people in households that have an estimated household income of between $100K and $125K", or even "individuals that are frequent transactor at lower cost department or dollar stores".

Regardless of whether you've ever posted a status, photo or liked a brand on your social media feed relating to your preference for lower cost department stores – Facebook knows.

Over the last ten days, markets have been jinxed, and nearly everything changed direction.

A 29-year-old was among the dozens of “child refugees” who were taken given asylum in Britain after migrants lied to officials and posed as youngsters to gain entry to Britain, official figures have shown.

Social workers carried out official age assessments of those who were given refuge in Britain, however a staggering number of those allowed into the country were found out to be much older than originally believed.

RIOT police fought running battles with a mob of more than a thousand migrants who tried to storm Europe's borders and force their way into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta today.

At least 1,100 asylum seekers rushed the barbed wire fence protecting the tiny north African enclave, which is surrounded on all sides by Morocco, in a desperate bid to reach the EU.

Spanish and Moroccan authorities desperately fought to restore order as the migrants, most from sub-Saharan Africa, scaled the border barrier and brawled with police.

Once inside the miniscule Spanish territory they would be able to claim asylum in Spain or travel onwards towards the promised lands of Germany and Sweden.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has snubbed outgoing US President Barack Obama on New Year by expressing his good wishes to President-elect Donald Trump instead.

Islamic State militants are keen to launch “mass-casualty attacks” on targets in the UK, as well as overseas, UK Security Minister Ben Wallace said, adding that the terrorists have “no moral objection to using chemical weapons.”

“The ambition of IS or Daesh [Arabic acronym of Islamic State] is definitely mass-casualty attacks,” Wallace said in an interview with the Sunday Times newspaper, adding that “they want to harm as many people as possible and terrorize as many people as possible.”

Nearly 12 million American workers ? mostly in California and New York ? will get pay raises on New Year’s Day, thanks to rising minimum wages in 19 states and in cities and counties. The $15 an hour will only apply to some workers in Seattle, Washington.

The highest statewide minimum wage in the country will be $11, in Massachusetts and Washington. The pay floor in the District of Columbia will top that, though, rising by a dollar to $12.50.

When you learn to recognize the tools of persuasion it is like acquiring a superpower. I’ll be blogging and live-streaming on this topic in 2017. We’re going to have a lot of fun.

Welcome to a new year. This one won’t be like any before.

Yesterday the FBI and Department of Homeland Security released some data on the Russian hacks associated with the US election. They included a PHP malware sample and over 800 IP addresses.

Webmaster addition: The software is actually a security analysis tool and is specific to WordPress webites.

Heightened tensions between the US and Russia did not seem to greatly concern an affable President-elect Donald Trump, who took to Twitter to praise Russian President Vladimir Putin’s limited response to President Barack Obama’s newly enacted sanctions.

Said one admiral in the Pentagon: 'I think we're being set-up for an attack on the USA, and there isn't a damn thing I can do about it, because it's our commander and chief who is doing it.'

Said one Captain: 'In this time, China could take Saigon, and it they choose, they can Japan, too. North Korea can take South Korea, Russia can take Ukraine, and the Arabs can attack Israel. By the time the US is able to respond to any of that, it will all be over.'

Beware America: Barack Obama has put US to be defated world-wide within a week.

Governments around the world shut down the internet more than 50 times in 2016 – suppressing elections, slowing economies and limiting free speech.

In the worst cases internet shutdowns have been associated with human rights violations, Deji Olukotun, senior global advocacy manager at digital rights organisation Access Now told IPS.

“What we have found is that internet shutdowns go hand in hand with atrocities,” said Olukotun.

“In Ethiopia there’s been consistent blocking this year of social media and internet.” Dozens of people have died in protests in Ethiopia in 2016, “many of them during the kind of blackout where it’s difficult to report on what’s happening,” he said.

Several leaders used internet shutdowns to affect democratic processes, including elections.

By Brandon Turbeville

As 2016 comes to a close and, with it, the final 20 days of the dreadful Obama administration, a madness has gripped much of the country that has been concocted, promoted, and drilled into the American psyche by the U.S. government and its corporate media/intelligence agency controlled mainstream corporate media. This new narrative, which has a deeper hold within the American “leftists” (more accurately labeled Democrats) circles around the claims that Russia has essentially launched a coup in the United States by “hacking American elections.”

These claims have been repeated ad nauseum by the President, high-level politicians, and the corporate media ever since shortly after the Trump victory and in the wake of Clinton’s treachery being unearthed by WikiLeaks in the months prior. The U.S. government is now provoking Russia yet again based on something that appears completely fabricated as 2017 appears on the calendar...

Until Trump relegates 'the neocons' to the ideological backwaters, Russia and China had best hold on to their strategic alliance.

Kissinger, an old cold warrior, is working to use Trump’s commitment to better relations with Russia in order to separate Russia from its strategic alliance with China.

China’s military buildup is a response to US provocations against China and US claims to the South China Sea as an area of US national interests. China does not intend to attack the US and certainly not Russia.

Get ready, because the thick of the action starts now.

The 2008 casino capitalism-provoked financial crisis, plus the American “resolve” to remake the so-called Greater Middle East through wars of choice, regime change and covert ops miserably failed.

As we wait for the dawn of the Trump era – an almost intergalactic geopolitical question mark – what’s certain is that the War Party US deep state won’t admit defeat. And the key geopolitical riddle to be answered is how strident internal American tensions will deal with the hub of progressive Eurasia integration: Russia, China and Iran.

The Chicago Tribune has tallied up 775 victims in 2016 - a staggering 57 per cent increase from the 492 people killed in 2015.

California's decision to legalize weed last year apparently left some LA pranksters in high spirits over New Year's Eve, as the Hollywood sign was altered to read 'HOLLYWEED'.

'ISIS has officially claimed responsibility for Mariah Carey's performance,' tweeted Brad Benjamin.

Stripped of his command, humiliated Kimmel was summoned back to America from the base on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, knocked down to a two-star rear admiral, then pressured to retire early, making him a convenient scapegoat and a target of public loathing.

However, critics say the punishments were unjustified and that evidence shows Kimmel had been badly let down by President Franklin Roosevelt and military leaders in Washington.

Now, at the end of Obama’s eight years in office, there is growing hope among family members that the Hawaiian-born president will posthumously restore Admiral Kimmel’s four-star status.

Vice president Joe Biden has called the treatment of Kimmel “the greatest injustice in US military history”, but previous presidents have preferred to give the issue a wide berth.

Donald Trump won the election in a landslide because of bold ideas. His ideas would erase and remove decades of failed policies and corrupt agendas that have plagued this country for too long.

Three people were injured after police said their dog attacked them when they tried to dress him in a sweater.
According to Tampa Police, a pit bull mix named Scarface bit its owner and two other family members at a home in Tampa on Friday afternoon.

The practice of putting people "on ice" began so long ago in Evangeline Parish that no one still wearing a badge can recall its origin. But over the years, the so-called investigative holds became as much a part of policing here as pat-downs and parking tickets.

The U.S. Government has gone to great lengths in using accounting gimmicks to prop up the financial system and domestic economy. One area where this is readily apparent is the disconnect between the rising U.S. debt versus the annual budget deficits.

Two small aircraft have collided midair over the city of McKinney, Texas, before crashing down into a parking lot amid a populated area. Reports of casualties and terrifying videos from witnesses are coming from the scene.

A Republican US lawmaker and major gun advocate has been arrested over beating her wife and threatening to kill her with a gun as his young children beg him to stop.

HA! HA! News Anchor at CNN, Don Lemon, had his mic pulled last night while hosting CNN’s NYE festivities from New Orleans with Brooke Baldwin.

The risk of flooding in the United States is changing regionally, and the reasons could be shifting rainfall patterns and the amount of water in the ground.
In a new study, University of Iowa engineers determined that, in general, the threat of flooding is growing in the northern half of the U.S. and declining in the southern half. The American Southwest and West, meanwhile, are experiencing decreasing flood risk.

China promised Friday to halt its domestic ivory trade completely by the end of 2017, a decision greeted by environmentalists as offering real hope for an end to a poaching crisis that is wiping out tens of thousands of elephants across Africa.

CNN reports, What do you get when you cross the year of the rooster with the year of Trump? A "yuge" statue. A giant rooster sculpture, sporting the President-elect's signature hairdo and hand gestures, has been erected outside a shopping mall in Taiyuan, in China's northern Shanxi Province.

Sen. John McCain, who has emerged as the chief opponent within the Republican party to Donald Trump's warming relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, underscored his tough stance Saturday by spending New Year's Eve at a forward combat outpost with Ukrainian troops.