Submitted by Chris Martenson via PeakProsperity.com,
The ‘meme’ circulating the internet and among my personal friend group is that 2016 was something of an awful year.
Between a poisonous US election cycle, horrifying acts of senseless violence caused by refugees driving trucks in Europe, nightclub and other shootings, and high profile celebrity deaths it all conspired to create a sense of 2016 having been a bad year.
Submitted by Patrick Coburn via Strategic-Culture.org,
Submitted by investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of hey’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
America’s Secret Planned Conquest Of Russia
The U.S. government’s plan to conquer Russia is based upon a belief in, and the fundamental plan to establish, “Nuclear Primacy” against Russia — an American ability to win a nuclear war against, and so conquer, Russia.
Movie director Oliver Stone has slammed the Obama regime for deliberately spreading Cold War style propaganda about Russia, in a Facebook post published on Thursday. As tensions between the U.S. government and Russia escalate over the dubious claim that Putin ordered the hacking of the recent U.S. presidential election, Stone urged for calm and clarity amid increasingly anti-Russian rhetoric in the media. Oliver Stone (via Facebook) reports: As 2016 draws to a close, we find ourselves a deeply unsettled nation. We’re unable to draw the lines of our national interest.
When we first warned 8 days ago that in the last week of trading a "Red Flag For Markets Has Emerged: Pension Funds To Sell "Near Record Amount Of Stocks In The Next Few Days", and may have to "rebalance", i.e. sell as much as $58 billion of equity to debt ahead of year end, many scoffed wondering who would be stupid enough to leave such a material capital reallocation for the last possible moment in a market that is already dangerously thin as is, and in which such a size order would be sure to move markets lower, and not just one day.