Submitted by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
The Democratic Party has become everything it once was against.
Let's get one thing straight right at the start: criticizing the Democratic Party and its ruling elites is not the same as "supporting Trump."
Remember when everyone was excited about wage growth re-appearing and escape velocity, and textbook wage inflation appearing thanks to tight labor markets... well that's all gone! Average weekly earnings grew at just 0.5% YoY in November - the slowest pace of wage growth since July 2014.
In fact real average weekly earnings decline 0.4% in November MoM (despite the post-Trump exuberance)
Probably time for calls for $20 minimum wage.. or how about $30?
Presented below with little comment is an epic rant, culminating in what might have been an actual on-air nervous breakdown, by Keith Olbermann about the "Russian coup" that is currently in process and threatens "the end of the United States as an independent country."
Authored by Pepe Escobar, originally posted op-ed via SputnikNews.com,
This is the way the Obama administration ends; not with a bang, but a pathetic whimper.
WikiLeaks have suggested that murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich leaked the Clinton and Podesta emails, and not Russian hackers as is widely reported. According to a new interview in the U.K.’s Daily mail newspaper, WikiLeaks say that U.S. intelligence reports suggesting that Russia interfered with the U.S. elections to help Donald Trump defeat Hillary are “absolutely wrong”. Alexanderhiggins.com reports: In the interview Wikileaks envoy Craig Murray and former British ambassador stated the he personally flew to the United States and was handed both the DNC emails and the Podesta emails.