APOLLYON LIVES: ON HIS WAY OUT, WIKILEAKS ASSANGE SAYS OBAMA IS GLEEFULLY DESTROYING PUBLIC RECORDS

by Geoffrey Grider, Now The End Begins:
Just days ago, Assange offered a $30,000 reward to any administration employee who would publicly expose any official disposing of information. During a Periscope press conference on Monday, Assange said the most important thing for Americans to do is to ensure Obama is not destroying those records.
WIKILEAKS FOUNDER JULIAN ASSANGE SAYS THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS DESTROYING PUBLIC RECORDS IN THE FINAL DAYS IN OFFICE.
Just days ago, Assange offered a $30,000 reward to any administration employee who would publicly expose any official disposing of information. During a Periscope press conference on Monday, Assange said the most important thing for Americans to do is to ensure Obama is not destroying those records.
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Rick Rule-US Will Devalue Debt and Devalue Dollar

from Greg Hunter:

Identity Of "Former Intelligence Officer" Who Prepared The Trump Dossier, Has Been Revealed

While we learned earlier today that John McCain was responsible for handing over the 35-page "dossier" of compromising, if potentially fake, revelations about Trump's connections to Russia to the FBI, the identity of the actual creator, who was said to be an ex-British intelligence service, remained a mystery. No longer.

BofA Finds Consumer Spending Tumbled In December, Warns Of Disappointing Retail Sales

According to BofA, retail sales ex-autos declined 1.0% mom seasonally adjusted in December. "This contrasts with other indicators of consumer strength including reports of a robust holiday shopping season, a rebound in consumer confidence and strong autos sales... we think it is prudent to prepare for a similarly negative number in Friday's report."

Artist's Impression Of Obama-Trump Transition

"Smooth" transition...

Senators Plan to Sabotage Donald Trump by Passing Russian Sanctions

by Alexander Mercouris, The Duran:
As US Senators try to box Donald Trump in by passing sanctions law against Russia, Russian government says it will not let issue stand in the way of better relations between Russia and the US.
Whilst US President Obama in the last weeks of his Presidency churns out ever more sanctions against Russia, a group of 10 US Senators including five Republicans is said to be preparing to codify some of Obama’s Ukraine related sanctions into law.
Obama’s sanctions were made by Executive Order so without a formal law passed by Congress Trump as President can simply cancel them with the stroke of a pen.
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Why OPEC Should Fear The Trump Administration

Oil prices have risen over 20% since the OPEC production cut agreement at the end of November. While concerns abound on quota cheating and increased production from Libya, Nigeria and US shale, the incoming US administration could change the market completely through strategic oil sales and new import taxes.

Trump Impeachment Now Even Odds At Bookies

Trump Slams BuzzFeed As "Failing Pile Of Garbage", Tells CNN "You Are Fake News"

Moments after Donald Trump called BuzzFeed a "failing pile of garbage" Trump lashed out at CNN's Jim Acosta, telling him that "your organization is terrible. You are fake news."

Hedge Fund Net Short Exposure Drops To Lowest On Record

If you can't beat em, join em... at least that seems to be the mantra of long-short hedge fund managers who, after underperforming the S&P consistently over the past 8 years, have decided to ditch their shorts, sending net exposures soaring.

The "Curse" Of Labor-Saving Machinery Is Nothing New

Progress does not come without an initial shakeup of traditional norms as the market adjusts to new technology, but this change should be embraced. As the stocking makers and cotton spinners have taught us, innovation should never be discouraged because with technological progress comes more opportunities for the human race.

Land Of The Free? Michigan Man Issued Parking Ticket In His Own Driveway

This is what freedom means today in the United Nanny States of America.

Dollar Dumped, Stocks Trump'd, Gold Jumped

BlackRock's Robo-Quants Are On Pace To Post Record Losses

BlackRock’s quant hedge-fund strategies were on track for losses in 2016, according to a monthly client update sent out in late December, and according to Bloomberg, of the five included, four were set for their worst returns on record.

Pot Calls Kettle Black...

NYT Accuses CNN, BuzzFeed Of Peddling "Fake News" Over Russia Report

"Of particular interest was the use of unsubstantiated information from anonymous sources, a practice that fueled some of the so-called fake news — false rumors passed off as legitimate journalism — that proliferated during the presidential election."

'Czexit' Looms As Traders Bet On Czech Republic Breaking Euro-Peg

Czech inflation spiked in the last two months, hitting the central bank’s target for the first time since 2012, heaping, as The FT reports, additional pressure on the country’s soon to be expired currency regime with the euro.

WTF Chart Of The Day: VIX At Pre-Crisis Lows, Uncertainty At All-Time Highs

As markets here seems to be telling us everything is a-ok, policy uncertainty data would indicate great cause for concern...

Glenn Greenwald Slams The 'Unverified Claims' Of The Democrat-Cheered Deep State's War With Trump

In January, 1961, Dwight Eisenhower delivered his farewell address warning Americans of this specific threat to democracy “of the military-industrial complex." This is the faction that is now engaged in open warfare against president-elect, Donald Trump. They are using classic Cold War dirty tactics and the defining ingredients of what has until recently been denounced as “Fake News.”

Forget Free College! German Green Party Pledges To Pay For 'Pros' For Those Needing "Sexual Assistance"

The happy hookers union will be happy with this proposal: Germany's Green Party pledges to pay for free sex with prostitutes for anyone who needs ‘sexual assistance’ and can’t afford it.

EXPOSED: Jeffrey Epstein, Clinton Foundation, US State Department & DYNCORP Human Trafficking Network

from Voat:
Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, who has been accused of trafficking underage females….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgNCKBXNwaQYouTube, shared the tail number of his Bell Long Ranger 206L3 helicopter (tail number N474AW) with a U.S. State Department OV-10D Bronco.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) registration database, Epstein’s Bell helicopter and the Bronco owned by the U.S. State Department and contracted to the private military company Dyncorp for “counter-insurgency” and “counter-narcotics” operations in Larandia, Colombia used the same N474AW tail number.
Search “Dyncorp” – http://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief2.aspx?ev_id=20001212X20545&ntsbno=MIA00GA083&akey=1 / http://archive.is/IGqas
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Oh How The Heathen Rage And Imagine A Vain Thing

by Dr. Jim Garrow, via, SGTreport.com:
The rumours that swirl hither and yon in this day and age of deceit and deception are finding no greater friend than the mainstream media. They could not bring down the Donald in the election and so now they are resorting to a rearward action and starting rumours that once again have no substance.
The latest swill that we are expected to swallow is that the communications of President – elect Trump were compromised by the Russians. Now let me stop that one immediately and with some authority.
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Watch Pentagon’s Successful Test Of Drone Swarm “Cloud” In California Skies

by Nicholas West, Activist Post:
Once considered a conspiracy, the use of drones has rapidly become open knowledge as part of warfare and surveillance, domestically and abroad. We are now witnessing the roll-out of the next stage of drone evolution: swarms.
Swarm technology is being tested across the board on land, at sea and in air. Moreover, rapid advances are being made in artificial intelligence that enable autonomous systems to be fully released from human control altogether – identifying, surrounding and incapacitating targets.
One of the components of airborne drone swarms is the use of micro-drones – small, sometimes insect-sized autonomous vehicles that can be deployed from larger aircraft.
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Scores Of Muslims Turning To Christ In Middle East; Churches Are Expecting Millions Of Converts

by Walid Shoebat, Freedom OutPost:
This move away from Islam is not just in the Middle East, but it is in Europe, as well. The Churches of Europe are literally overflowing with not only Christians from the Middle East, but also new converts from Muslim backgrounds as one report notes:
Thousands of Muslims are turning to Jesus Christ and what they view as the “religion of freedom” amid ongoing bloodshed in the Middle East, reports indicate. Some churches hope that millions of people will accept Christ amid a “spiritual hunger” that is forming in the wake of persecution.
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U.S. Intelligence Agencies Have No Clothes

by Michael Krieger, Liberty Blitzkrieg:
The true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the nation all the time, loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
– Mark Twain, The Czar’s Soliloquy”
At this point, pretty much everyone in America has seen the results of Hillary Clinton media pet, John Harwood’s recent Twitter poll.
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OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN: INVESTIGATION INTO HILLARY’S EMAILS STILL ON

from InfoWars:
‘It was potentially one of the largest breaches in security in the history of the State Department’
The investigation into former Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s illegal use of a private email server will continue into 2017, Rep. Jason Chaffetz said in a statement to reporters.
“Just because there was a political election doesn’t mean it goes away, so of course I am going to continue to pursue that,” the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform stated Monday, according to NBC News.
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