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For the past year and a half Trump has masterfully outsmarted the mainstream media at every twist and turn on his road to the White House.  Who can forget the time back in September when the mainstream media thought they had finally cornered Trump on the birther issue?  Thinking they were going to get an apology from Trump on pushing the Obama "birther" controversy, the mainstreamers piled into the brand new Trump International Hotel in D.C.

Submitted by Mac Slavo via SHTFPlan.com,

A now-ancient Henry Kissinger is still the de facto manager of the Anglo-establishment wing of the new world order. And he still holds tremendous power and influence over world affairs.

And in true fashion, the realpolitik mastermind is prepared to embrace any president, just made remarks urging people not to prejudge Donald Trump – because his administration could create some useful policy.

It seems that President-elect Trump could become a good disciple after all.

Via ConvergEx's Nicholas Colas:

Scientists are warning that the Earth appears to be “ringing like a bell” following a series of large earthquakes near the Pacific.  8 hours after the Thursday earthquakes off the coast of California, seismograms shows the globe mysteriously vibrating and “ringing like a bell,” which scientists have warned is a precursor to a much bigger mega-earthquake. Allnewspipeline.com reports: Hours before the massive Solomon Islands earthquake struck, a mysterious vibration was detected on seismographs all across the planet as our videographer proves to us using charts from the USGS.

Submitted by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com,

If there’s one thing that’s certain in the intelligence business, it’s that there’s rarely any certainty.

That’s pretty much the first thing they teach you at spy school.

Back in the early days of my intelligence career, I had one instructor who explained it in a way that I’ll never forget.