Washington's "Empire Of Chaos" & The Cold War 2.0 'New Normal' Authored by Pepe Escobar, Op-Ed via RT.com, In his seminal 'Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization,' Bryan Ward-Perkins writes, "Romans before the fall were as certain as we are today that their world would continue forever… They were wrong. We would be …

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Caught On Tape: Russian Fighter Jets Destroy Huge ISIS Oil Convoy In Transit To Turkey One month ago, after a farcial year-long campaign to “destroy” ISIS, which achieved absolutely nothing but made the Islamic State grow bigger and stronger, culminating with the numerous terrorist attacks in the month of November, former CIA deputy director Michael …

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US National Insecurity: The Art Of Blaming Russia (For Everything) Submitted by Daniel Spaulding via 21stCenturyWine.com, In American politics the nation of Russia, especially as personified in its leader Vladimir Putin, becomes all things to all men. To American leftists, Russia is a neo-fascist, violently nationalist country that ruthlessly suppressed minority groups, especially homosexuals. To the …

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A Christmas 'Safe-Space' – Cornell Bans Menorahs, Crosses, & Mistletoe Happy Holidays from the ‘friendly’ micro-aggressives at Cornell… From page 2 of Cornell’s “Fire Safety Guidelines For Holiday Displays”   Beware of those dangerous ‘Star of Davids’ and terroristic Mistletoe? It seems ‘inflammatory’ has a whole new meaning.   h/t @JudithShulevitz What Fresh Horror Awaits …

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Something Just Snapped In China While Sweden is over-flowing with excess cash on bank balance sheets, it appears that banks in Hong Kong are desperate to borrow Yuan (or scared to lend) as overnight HIBOR just exploded higher to 9.45% – a record for the interbank offered rate. The HKD and CNY/CNH FX markets remain …

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Janet Yellen Fights the Tide of Falling Interest by Keith Weiner   On Wednesday Dec 16, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen announced that the Fed was raising the federal funds rate by 25 basis points. Let’s get one thing out of the way. This is not a move towards free markets. Whether the Fed sets …

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"America's Ship Is Sinking" Former Bush Official Exposes The Unfixable Corruption Inside The Establishment “This ship is sinking,” retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson tells Abby Martin, adding that “today the purpose of US foreign policy is to support the complex that we have created in the national security state that is fueled, funded, and …

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Obama Finally Commits To Putin's Syrian Policy – Yet Continues Violating It Authored by Eric Zuesse, The basic policy-difference on Syria has been between U.S. President Barack Obama’s insistence that Syria’s legal President must be ousted before any peace-process starts, versus Russian President Vladimir Putin’s insistence that no foreign power possesses the right to determine …

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The New York Times Just Memory-Holed This Devastating Obama Admission By Sean Davis, co-founder of The Federalist The New York Times Just Memory-Holed This Devastating Obama Admission “Obama indicated that he did not see enough cable television to fully appreciate the anxiety after the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino.” A story published by the …

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Financial Warfare & The Big Reset: Koos Jansen Interviews Willem Middelkoop Submitted by Koos Jansen via BullionStar.com, The very reason I became interested in gold after the financial crisis in 2008 was because of Dutch gold guru, author, journalist, entrepreneur, and fund manager Willem Middelkoop. When I started reading his books I was immediately obsessed …

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