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While the Russian government in general, and Putin in particular, supposedly has a grudge on US voters and, according to the 'serious' press, orchestrated the hacking of the US elections, China's interests appear to be focused on America's money. In the latest such breach, according to Reuters, the FBI is investigating how Chinese military hackers infiltrated computers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for several years beginning in 2010.

Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

People were poor by today's standards, so why do people remember the plantation life fondly? The answer is simple: community, purpose, sacrifice and meaning.

Allow me to connect two apparently unconnected dots. Dot #1: The last sugar plantation in Hawaii is closing down, ending more than a century of plantation life in the 50th state.

Ron Paul has accused the American government of constantly interfering in elections in foreign countries “all the time,” and has slammed them for their hypocrisy. The former US Congressman told Fox Business Network there is barely any proof that Russia influenced the outcome of the US election, but says that America openly influences elections abroad without any ‘outcry’ from the media.

Former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli, who in the summer of 2015 was briefly elevated to the status of the "world's most hated man", when he became the poster boy for soaring drug prices after he hiked the price of Daraprim more than 50-fold, i.e., he was a capitalist who did everything permitted under the law to boost profit, shortly before Congress "realized" that virtually every other drug company was engaged in similar "price gouging" appeared on Bloomberg TV to discuss not only the ongoing controversy surrounding not just Daraprim pricing, but his outlook for the pharmaceuti

Is this a full-blown mutiny? Or did Democrats just reach the fifth stage of grief - "acceptance"? In a NYTimes op-ed, they begin by claiming that "President Obama will be remembered as a thoughtful and dignified president, but admit his legacy regrettably includes the more than 1,000 Democrats who lost their elections during his two terms. Republicans now have total control in half of America’s states...Why such political carnage?"

Via The New York Times,