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Music legend David Bowie, who died earlier this month, has left millions to members of staff  in his will. He also left instructions for his ashes to be scattered in Bali in accordance with Buddhist ritual. The Mirror reports: The 69-year-old singer – who died earlier this month after a secret cancer battle – reportedly left $2 million to his personal assistant and close friend Corinne “Coco” Schwab. A further $1 million went to his son Duncan’s former nanny Marion Skene. The rest of his money was divided, as expected between his family members.

Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, during an interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, refused to accept US responsibility for creating the so called Islamic State. Rumsfeld told Stephen Colbert that the instability in the Middle East is due to a Shia-Sunni conflict and not the interference of the Bush administration in Iraq. Stephen Colbert accuses the former Defense Secretary of deliberately not revealing “unknown knowns” that could have stopped the advent of war in Iraq and the subsequent rise of Daesh.

Back in October, after it was revealed that Oprah Winfrey had bought a 10% stake (subsequently boosted to 15%) in fad food diet company Weight Watchers, and after the media diva swallowed the margin accounts of thousands of shorts (75% of WTW's float was short at the time), we said that a simple way to profit from Oprah Winfrey gaining weight was to go short WTW stock.

Considering that the stock was then trading around $15, and had since dropped back to a far more realistic level of $11, one could imagine that Oprah did in fact gain a little weight.

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They Tell Us Nothing But Lies

Paul Craig Roberts

A British governmental inquiry has concluded that Russian President Putin “probably approved” the killing of Alexander Litvinenko by polonium poisoning. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44002.htm

As no evidence is provided for the surmise, we can conclude that this report on an unresolved event that happened a decade ago is part of the lies being used by the West to demonize Putin, just as the lies about MH-17 and “the Russian invasion of Ukraine.”