Assange To Hannity: "Our Source Is Not The Russian Government"

HANNITY: Can you tell the American people 1,000% that you did not get it from Russia or anybody associated with Russia?
JULIAN ASSANGE: Yes. We have said repeatedly that our source is not the Russian government and it is not a state party.

Chinese Interbank Lending Freezes; Government Bond Trading Halted After Massive PBOC Liquidity Drain

According to the latest daily fixing of the Treasury Market Association, as a result of the PBOC's massive liquidity drain which soaked up a nearly a third of a trillion Yuan in the past two weeks, the interbank market is freezing again as follows:

2016: How Truth Was Destroyed So You’d Buy The Government’s Propaganda

by Claire Bernish, Activist Post:
“We’re an empire now,” Karl Rove nefariously asserted in 2004, “and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality —  judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
Rove might have said that 12 years ago, but the words hauntingly describe our situation in 2016 — Oxford Dictionaries, incidentally, named “post-truth” the international word of the year — with facts seemingly relative, truth debatable, and a falsely-premised war on fake news, Orwell must be rolling in his grave.
In fact, given these telling circumstances, perhaps Oxford Dictionaries didn’t go far enough — this year epitomizes a new era of post-coherence. Rove and his ilk — the dynasties Bush and Clinton, reigning powers for nearly 30 years — must chuckle behind closed doors as Americans quarrel savagely over the authenticity of falsehoods and facts, alike.
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Why Donald Trump Is Spot-On About The Russians And The Election

"Having worked since 1995 as a first-responder to cyber-attacks, including serving 11 years as Chief of the SEC's Office of Internet Enforcement, I whole-heartedly agree with President-elect Trump. His skepticism is not only appropriate and warranted - it's spot-on."

HATE HOAX EPIDEMIC: AT LEAST 17 FAKED TRUMP HATE CRIMES REPORTED SINCE NOVEMBER ELECTION

from The Next News Network:

 

Syrian Refugee Arrested After Seeking €180,000 From ISIS To Drive Truck Bombs Into European Crowds

A Syrian migrant who arrived in Germany two years ago was arrested Sunday on suspicion of seeking €180,000 from the Islamic State in Syria to drive truck bombs into a crowd, a German state prosecutor's office said on Monday.

A Biased 2017 Forecast, Part 2

"Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance."

Dramatic Time-Lapse Video Captures Arrival Of Beijing Smog Cloud

Yuan Dumps, Bitcoin Jumps As China Researchers Suggest "One-Off Devaluation" & Capital Controls

As we have detailed numerous times recently, the recent move in Bitcoin has been strongly suggesting increasing fears of capital controls and/or expectations of a looming (and quite notable) devaluation of the Yuan against the US Dollar. Tonight saw China's largest nationalist tabloid suggesting that China should consider one-off yuan devaluation to keep the currency stable at equilibrium level. Offshore Yuan is tumbling - to new record lows.

Edward Snowden Trashed In Absurd WSJ Op-Ed

"Edward Snowden is a genuine US hero. It's fake-patriot, book-writing fools like Epstein the US really has to fear."

Israeli Police Interrogate Netanyahu At His Home For Three Hours

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was interrogated under caution today on suspicion of alleged corruption. The interrogation lasted for three hours and was conducted at the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem.

JPM: "Central Banks Have Created Unprecedented Distortions In Government Bond Markets"

"The biggest experiment in central bank history ($11 trillion and counting as of November 2016) helped employment recover in the US and UK, and more recently in Europe and Japan. Across all regions, however, too many of the benefits from this experiment accrued to holders of financial assets rather than to the average citizen. As a result, the political center of a slow-growth world has begun to erode."

Singapore GDP Surges Over 9% In Q4 - Most Since 2012

Following Q3's 2% contraction, and with analysts' highest expectation at +5.1% (StanChart), Singapore GDP grew at a shocking 9.1% in Q4 QoQ... four standard deviations above average estimates.

How George Soros Destroyed The Democratic Party

In 2016, Republicans control both legislative chambers in 32 states. That’s up from 16 in 2000. 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.

The Russian Hacking Frenzy (Summed Up In 200 Words)

3 Killed, 27 Wounded As Chicago Opens 2017 With A String Of Murders

Three people were murdered and another 30 were shot and wounded in the opening hours of 2017 as Chicago starts off the new year exactly the way they ended 2016.

NYT Reporter Writes: "If Donald Trump Targets Journalists, Thank Obama"

If Donald J. Trump decides as president to throw a whistle-blower in jail for trying to talk to a reporter, or gets the F.B.I. to spy on a journalist, he will have one man to thank for bequeathing him such expansive power: Barack Obama.

Gingrich Warns Biggest Risk For Trump Admin Is They "Lose Their Nerve"

"Look, they're going to arrive in Washington, and for them to be successful they have to stake out positions that the left will hate.  I'm worried that when they realize how big the problem is, that they decide that they're just going to do the best they can and give in."

Trump: Pedophiles Deserve The Death Penalty

by Baxter Dmitry, Your News Wire:

According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (citing U.S. Department of Justice reports), nearly 800,000 children are reported missing each year. That’s more than 2,000 children abducted every single day.
Is Trump preparing to tackle in the rampant pedophilia and child abduction crisis in the United States?
The future president tweeted that something has to be done about “missing children grabbed by the perverts” and suggested that a “fast trial” followed by the “death penalty” is the answer.
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Costa Rican Renewable Power Is Government Power

from The Daily Bell:

Costa Rica powered by renewable energy for over 250 days in 2016 … Costa Rica completes 2016 without having to burn a single fossil fuel for more than 250 days. 98.2% of Costa Rica’s electricity came from renewable sources in 2016. The state-run Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) reported that renewable energy sources accounted for 98.2 per cent of the country’s electricity and more than 250 days were powered completely by renewable sources. (Digital Journal)
Costa Rica has long been powered by a mix of fuels but is making progress toward having the government run everything.
That’s the real unsayable truth behind the governments so called progress with various different kinds of power.
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Priest Issues Bounties as Chicago Murders Explode

by Dan Lyman, InfoWars:
Bloodshed in the Windy City has reached war zone levels, and now the mainstream media has been forced to address the ‘Ferguson effect’ and the failure of gun control.
In an interview on Sunday’s episode of 60 Minutes, prominent South Side priest and activist, Michael Pfleger, asked, “Why has violence been allowed to surge so profoundly in this country for so long, particularly in Chicago? The number one victim of violence is black and brown.”
“When a child is shot and killed in this city… and there’s no idea of who may have done it – I put a $5,000 bounty on the head,” he explained. “We’ve given out about 24 rewards.”
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‘Zero Evidence’ of Alleged Russia’s Influence on US Election – Trump Spokesman

from Sputnik News:
Washington does not possess any evidence of Russia allegedly influencing the US presidential election despite claims by mainstream media, incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Monday.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — In an interview to another US broadcaster, Spicer said that Trump and his team would wait for the final report from intelligence services before making any decisions regarding alleged Russia’s hacking of the Democratic National Committee.
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Two False Stories About Russia in 3 days: the Moscow School and the Vermont Grid

by Alexander Mecouris, The Duran:
Though complaining of Russian disinformation and propaganda, the US media spread completely false stories about Russia being about to close the Anglo-American school in Moscow and having hacked into the Vermont electricity grid in just three days, though the first story originated with a US not a Russian source, and the second story would not have survived basic fact checking with the electricity utility involved.
In a Western media world where the words “Russia” and “fake news” are rapidly becoming conflated, it is interesting to note that two stories about Russia which gained unusual prominence in the Western media over the last few days were both false, and that Russia far from being responsible for either was the target of both.
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