When was the last time you saw a United States President acting like such a petulant child, or act with such recklessness and malice for the safety and wellbeing of the country and the people he just presided over for eight years? The closest thing that comes to mind for me, is when the Clinton administration did thousands of dollars in damage to the White House on their way out, ripped the “W” key off all the keyboards (a stab at George “W” Bush), and even stole are and furniture on their way out. Democrats: Always classy... 

Let us be blunt and not run from the fact we are being stepped upon by political factions within our own government, who seek to silence us and steal the US Election from President-elect Trump.

The corporate media runs fake news claiming Russia retaliated against American children over Obama’s sanctions for hacking the election.

Black Lives Matter defend their activists in a Stockton Starbucks and a diner spitting in the food and drinks of police officers and their families

Here is the latest round of Saturday cartoons from Snippits. Enjoy!

WTF!
In Alaska’s interior, where it can reach -50 degrees Fahrenheit in winter, the EPA wants people to stop burning wood. But it's just about their only feasible way to stay warm.
By John Daniel Davidson

In Jack London’s famous short story, “To Build A Fire,” a man freezes to death because he underestimates the cold in America’s far north and cannot build a proper fire. The unnamed man—a chechaquo, what Alaska natives call newcomers—is accompanied by a wolf-dog that knows the danger of the cold and is wholly indifferent to the fate of the man. “This man did not know cold. Possibly, all the generations of his ancestry had been ignorant of cold, of real cold, of cold 107 degrees below freezing point. But the dog knew; all its ancestry knew, and it had inherited the knowledge.”

Donald Trump’s senior aide Kellyanne Conway has denounced Barack Obama’s decision to impose harsh economic sanctions against Russia.

"All of the donors that Boehner's talked to are completely happy. That's what's wrong with my party. We've become cronyist, we've become corporatist, we've lost touch with the people who put us there in the first place.. a couple 'outsiders' running, but honestly, I think you have to be in Washington just a little bit to know how bad it is. Y'all get a sense of how bad it is, you get trickles, bits and pieces here and there coming down in the media about what's broken in washington. I can tell you from having been there for four years, it's worse than you realize. And I don't think you could really fully appreciate how bad it is, why it's as bad as it is, and how you can fix it, until you've been there for a while." - Rep. Mick Mulvaney

Want to boycott Israel. Ohio will no longer contract with individuals or companies participating in boycotts against Israel or other countries with which Ohio trades freely. (HB476)

Want to boot a local official from office. Recall petitions now become invalid 90 days after the first signature is collected. (HB463)

Own Nationwide Arena. You get a property-tax exemption, worth about $4 million per year. (SB3)

2016 has been an exciting year for cryptocurrencies.

With most of the major open-source currencies showing growth this year and with some expected to see significant expansion in 2017....,

Movie director Oliver Stone has slammed the Obama regime for deliberately spreading Cold War style propaganda about Russia, in a Facebook post published on Thursday.

Obama didn’t deserve to get awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He is a failure and he can do nothing but fail. When he wakes up in the morning, he eats a bowl of failure.

President-elect Trump has made some excellent choices for his cabinet picks, including Scott Pruitt for EPA and General John Kelly for DHS. Never in a million years would an establishment Republican hack have picked any of these type people. But Trump's pick of Rep. Mick Mulvaney for the Director of the Office of Management and Budget takes the cake. I love it. Let's 'MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN,' indeed!

I want to begin this report by apologizing for the uprooting of 35 Russian families from their Long Island and Maryland homes. It is the beginning of a New Year, and these families were given 72 hours to pack and leave.

About 55,000 migrants who were not eligible for asylum or were refused it left Germany voluntarily between January and November 2016, up by 20,000 from the number who left voluntarily in 2015, a newspaper reported yesterday.

He's finishing 2016 with holiday jeer.
Donald Trump took to Twitter Saturday to wish the world a happy new year — and to excoriate his rivals a final time before the calendar turns to 2017.

From Sunday, French companies will be required to guarantee their employees a “right to disconnect” from technology as the country seeks to tackle the modern-day scourge of compulsive out-of-hours email checking.

With never recorded rains across the Central Australian desert areas, and 5x rainfall over half of the continent during 2016, if we look at Egypt we can see a correlation of extreme drought at the same time through every grand solar minimum.

A Canberra couple have vowed to get a divorce, ending their "sacred" 10-year union, if Australia allows same-sex couples to legally marry.
Nick Jensen and his wife Sarah believe widening the definition of marriage to include same-sex couples threatens the sacred nature of the union and leaves the door open to polygamy.

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday lauded Russian President Vladimir Putin as "very smart" for not retaliating against the U.S. for new sanctions unveiled this week.

trey gowdy erupts on cia for agent and spy that cost taxpayers a million bucks that they cant even identify

President Putin has accused Barack Obama of attempting to destroy diplomatic relations between Russia and the U.S. by imposing a set of illegal sanctions against Russia.

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The first and most obvious conclusion to draw from the map is the large number of billionaires found in the United States. The world’s largest economy has close to 30 percent of the world’s billionaires and far more than any other single country. The distribution of billionaires in the United States is mostly equal, with the exception of the Political Connections and Resource Related type. Only 3.8 percent of American billionaires attained their wealth through political or resource related ventures, a likely consequence of the US government’s historical hands-off approach to business.

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.

A Mexican man accused of raping a 13-year-old girl on a Greyhound bus that traveled through Kansas had been deported 10 times and voluntarily removed from the U.S. another nine times since 2003, records obtained by The Associated Press show.

The global banking giant HSBC is a "criminal" operation, charges a former officer for the company's southern New York region in this interview with Russell Scott.

And those who are in default may have faced decades of reduced wages and benefits. In 2015, the government reduced Social Security checks for a total of 173,000 Americans, up 380% from 36,000 in 2002. That includes younger people receiving Social Security disability payments as well.

The American Kidney Fund is one of the largest charities in the country, with an annual budget of over $250 million. Its marquee program helps pay insurance premiums for thousands of people who need dialysis, a lifesaving and expensive treatment for kidney failure.

He who controls information, controls absolutely, and "The Powers That Be" have made sure that we the people do not have access to real information. Instead, what the mainstream media calls “real news,” is little more than sound bites and propaganda intended to keep the masses distracted and pacified. Those of us like myself who make an honest effort to spread the truth, have been labeled as “fake news,” and we are often censored or blocked for weeks at a time from getting our messages out. I know this, because I just spent the last two weeks banned from most of social media because I chose to reveal the truth about Facebook's new "Fact Checkers" (aka Snopes), a couple I've had frequent altercations with, but never lost to lose once.

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I have been blogging at The Dalton Minimum Returns about the return of the next grand minimum since 2006. I have written about climate change and it’s implications at NC Media Watch for seven years. I have decided it is time to terminate both of these blogs and focus just on The Next Grand Minimum.

What absolute BEX. These people are desperate and cornered to act this way.

BY JULIET EILPERIN AND ADAM ENTOUS
The Washington Post
A code associated with the Russian hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe by President Barack Obama’s administration has been detected within the system of a Vermont utility, according to U.S. officials.

While the Russians did not actively use the code to disrupt operations, according to officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a security matter, the discovery underscores the vulnerabilities of the nation’s electrical grid. And it raises fears in the U.S. government that Russian government hackers are actively trying to penetrate the grid to carry out potential attacks.

A fake news whopper designed to con the UK public into supporting war in Syria.

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Whether Life for We the People is dystopian or tragic-comic, it seems .01% Orwellian actions are escalating from the 2016 jump the shark “election” (and here) to recent policies of:

proclaiming independent media documenting Emperor’s New Clothes obvious facts as “fake news” (and here),
manipulating damning e-mail evidence of Democratic Party “leadership” committing criminal election fraud (and here) to promote Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders as “Russian interference” without any evidence (and here), and apparently refuted by expert testimony (and here, here, here, here),
denying Hillary Clinton’s apparent rogue State Department using the $2 billion Clinton Foundation as a “pay to play” scam (and here),

Amid more promises of real evidence to come, the Obama administration released a report that again failed to demonstrate that there is any proof behind U.S. allegations that Russia both hacked into Democratic emails and distributed them via WikiLeaks to the American people.

Prime Minister Theresa May has distanced the UK from Washington after Secretary of State John Kerry delivered a strong rebuke of Israeli policies in the occupied Palestinian territories.

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.

Spanish authorities said Wednesday they had arrested two suspected jihadists in Madrid and found bullets and weapon magazines while conducting raids linked to the detentions.

According to the Europa Press news agency, the magazines were of the type used for assault rifles such as the AK-47, but a police spokeswoman was unable to confirm this when contacted by AFP.

WHAT FOLLOWS IS A LIST CONTAINING EXAMPLES OF EVERYDAY AMERICANS DOING EXACTLY WHAT THE LEFT DECRIES AS A FABRICATION OF THE MIND — NAMELY, USING FIREARMS TO DEFEND THEIR OWN LIVES AND THE LIVES OF OTHERS.

Newly-released British state documents have revealed that soldiers were ordered to shoot suspected intruders at a naval base after activists managed to break into the control room of a nuclear-powered submarine.

The so-called ‘Faslane Five’ anti-nuclear protesters snipped a boundary fence and managed to sneak their way all the way into the control room of a submarine at Clyde Naval Base in 1988, leaving then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher “utterly horrified.”

President-elect Donald Trump's top strategist sat for a rare radio interview Friday morning, urging conservative voters to 'hold people accountable' in the White House – including himself – as the new administration gets off the ground.

Steve Bannon, Trump's senior counselor – soon to be right-wing Americans' avatar in the West Wing – said afterward that he specifically wants Trump's base to hold his feet to the fire as he steers the president's strategic ship through waters infested with Democrats and moderate Republicans alike.

'Deplorables and Hobbits should stay engaged and hold ALL of us accountable – including me,' Bannon told DailyMail.com in a text message.

George Soros will stop at nothing to stop Donald Trump, even going so far as to call for all out war to keep him from saving America.

Following the release of an FBI report outlining Russia’s alleged role in hacking the 2016 election, Larry King sat down to talk with tech pioneer John McAfee to discuss the current state of cybersecurity.

McAfee is no stranger to cybersecurity. As the developer of the first commercial antivirus program, he has been a major player in the industry for the past 50 years. He is also the CEO of MGT Capital Investments, and an outspoken former presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party.

Webmaster addition: Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning should have sold illegal drugs. Obama is pardoning drug criminals by the dozens!

Bomb disposal teams are continuing to sweep schools and mosques of Aleppo for booby-traps, mines and munitions after they were wrested from rebel control.

Visitors to Venice are being surprised by the lack of water in the city which has left many of the world-famous gondolas beached on the muddy canal beds.

This is the second year in a row where the city has seen historically low tidal levels.

Instead of water, tourists are being confronted by lines of mud snaking through the city.

I guess the water is hiding at the bottom oi the ocean along with the hidden heat.

Webmaster addition: Didn't Al Gore tell us human-caused global warming would melt the ice caps, raising sea levels?!? :)

President-elect Donald Trump could reverse President Barack Obama’s sweeping new sanctions against Moscow that included the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats, officials say.

“If a future president decided he wanted to allow in a large tranche of Russian intelligence agents, presumably a future president could do that,” a senior Obama administration official said during a press call on Thursday.

A bug found in Apple's iOS is causing the iMessage app to crash after receiving a malicious text.

The prank message contains an attachment to a large file known as a vCard.

This is a type of virtual business card that lets you share contacts on your phone.

Because iMessage can't handle the file size and complexity of the vCard, it freezes completely - and a reboot won't fix the problem.

Instead, when victims who do a hard reset are greeted with a blank screen.

The new exploit was found by hacker vincedes3 who has also provided a fix.

The first assault of the new Trump administration and Republican Congress upon Social Security has been launched. It comes in the form of release of a new report by the Congressional Budget Office, which of course these days is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican Congressional Caucus.

Webmaster addition: This article is trying to lay the blame for the collapse of Social Security on the GOP, but the reality is that it was a Democrat, President Bill Clinton, who plundered the Social Security fund to create his magic Federal Budget Surplus, leaving Social Security unable to pay retirement benefits to working Americans whose retirement was effectively embezzled by Clinton.

French citizens will contribute an extra 1.60 euros ($1.67) on their property insurance policies to help finance a fund for victims of the extremist attacks that have recently hit the country.

As thousands of people prepare to ring in the New Year across London, the city’s police force say it has “adjusted” security plans in order to be prepared for attacks similar to those carried out in Nice and Berlin in 2016.

Actor Charlie Sheen has defended a controversial tweet in which he apparently wishes for Donald Trump to be the next person struck by the 2016 celebrity death curse, contending that his much-decried message was intended for God, and not the Twitteratti.

Indefinite detention without charges or trial became the law of the land. Torture-obtained evidence may be used against detainees in trial proceedings, despite earlier Supreme Court decisions ruling it impermissible.

Amending longstanding Insurrection Act and Posse Comitatus protections allows federal troops to be deployed on US streets.

Liberals often describe themselves as being open-minded and tolerant, but following the unexpected victory of President-elect Donald Trump, far too many have revealed themselves to be closed-minded and intolerant of those who don’t share their ideology.

Vladimir Putin firmly rejected President Barack Obama's attempt to sabotage US-Russian relations under a future Donald Trump administration.

When one is critical of the human-rights violations of the state of Israel, there follows a vehement charge of “antisemitism”. When one supports institutional measures to counter systemic racism, there follows a charge of “reverse racism”. And when a white person is critical of a black person’s apparent support for systemic racism, there again follows a charge of “racism”.

A number of Orthodox Jewish activists have staged a demonstration in front of the White House to celebrate the recent UN Security Council rebuke of Israel’s illegal settlement construction on the occupied Palestinian lands.

The demonstrators on Thursday called for the immediate termination of the Israeli entity and the return of the occupied territories to Palestinians.

The outgoing administration of US President Barack Obama is under extreme pressure to release evidence confirming allegations of cyber attacks by Russia to influence the presidential election before leaving office.

Although the silver did not ‘go anywhere,’ the registered (for delivery) category of silver dropped by almost 8 million ounces in one day.

The FBI and DHS finally released a report on the alleged "Russian hacking" of our election and it reads like a whole lot of nothing.

In response to an assertion made by President Barack Obama claiming that he would have beaten Donald Trump if he had run for a third term

Scores of civilians are believed to have lost their lives when the so-called US-led coalition carried out an airstrike against purported positions of the Takfiri Daesh terrorists in Iraq’s troubled northern province of Nineveh.

Secreted away in the Gobi Desert far from prying eyes lies a mysterious city known as ‘404’.

German taxpayer money helped finance Tunisian "refugee" Anis Amri's truck massacre earlier this month in Berlin.

From celebrity deaths to presidential politics, 2016 left many feeling like they have a black hole in their chest. But Shaon Ghosh, a University of Wisconsin postdoctoral researcher, tells RT how this year’s top scientific discovery truly changed how we see the universe.

The left is succeeding marvelously in their quest to eliminate "white privilege" in the United Kingdom.

A bomb was placed outside of a Church in Toulouse, France earlier this month but the media barely covered the story.

If you live in the Virginia/Washington D.C. area and feel a rumbling under your feet, don’t worry. It’s just George Washington spinning in his grave. No wonder millennials are voting for socialism… and appear so ignorant of the world around them. They are, and it’s by design.

Gee, how did CNN, Fox, The NY Slmes, and all the other fake news completely miss this one? Maybe they don't want the Christians in America to learn about the atrocities perpetrated against Palestinians by Israel? Most Reverand Bishop Oscar Cantu, Chairman of The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on International Justice and Peace, recently sent a following letter to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry regarding the situation in Israel and Palestine. In it, the bishop notes that Palestinian homes are destroyed, confiscated, and the Israelis even encroach on Christian monestaries and convents!

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.

a Georgetown University associate professor had a month-long meltdown after a Muslim woman explained why she voted for President-elect Donald Trump.

Sears doom-and-gloomers approach the end of their long wait.

The UK played an important role in brokering the United Nations resolution condemning Israel for its policy of building illegal settlements on the occupied Palestinian territory, it has been confirmed.

Turkey’s leader is accusing Washington and its allies of supporting terrorist groups in Syria. As US State Dept responds, Ahmed Beirat Conkar.

It’s been a busy year on a number of fronts as we continue to fight to rein in the National Security Agency’s sweeping surveillance of innocent people. Since the 2013 leaks by former government contractor Edward Snowden, the secretive and powerful agency has been at the top of mind for those thinking about unconstitutional surveillance of innocent Americans and individuals abroad.

Only proves what a log of shit his legacy is. His final nail in the coffin will be to pardon Hillary...

Eight years of Obama spent the Democrats into a hole deep enough to hide every “green energy” boondoggle and auto industry bailout. The price of Obama has been too rich for even billionaires like Mike Bloomberg and George Soros. So, the Democrats are paying it now. Enjoy 2017, lefties! You earned every moment.

Ultimately, Obama’s last year will go down as the year alt-left fanaticism led to the death of the left. It also begat Trump.

Content Creators fight back after Facebook censors tens of thousands of Fan Pages with 100s of millions of followers, often with no explanation and no way to appeal.

Israel’s attorney-general has ordered police to open a criminal investigation into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Last weeks showed there is no doubt what priorities financial elite has. One country recently made a move which resulted in terrible consequences. Indian government decided to revoke high-value notes as a legal tender.