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Washington’s Puppet, Tony Blair, Faces New Charges

When Will the Clintons, George W. Bush, Dick Chaney, and Obama join Blair in the Dock?

The British government, despite its systematic corruption by the money and power of Washington, remains more honorable than any other Western government. Washington’s agent, former PM Tony Blair, may yet be held accountable for his vast crimes by the British people.

https://www.rt.com/uk/368373-blair-chilcot-iraq-salmond/

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As deal hopes fade (amid Saudi abandoning tomorrow's OPEC/NOPEC meeting and claiming the oil market can rebalance without a freeze/cut in supply), WTI crude has slipped notably below $46 handle and is trading at 2-week lows (down over 8% from Tuesday's highs)...

Trump triggered Clinton supporters by saying he won the popular vote after deducting all of the illegal votes that were cast for Hillary. In response to the tweet below are so many falling snowflakes by 'journalists' and celebrities, it's simply too much to delve into.

In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016

In what is either Trump's latest trolling of the already neurotic media, or just his conversion to "conspiracy theorism" much to the delight of Russian propaganda, "fake news"-spotting anonymous groups everywhere, moments ago the President-elect tweeted that he would have won the popular vote if "millions of illegal votes" were discounted. 

“In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

Submitted by Salil Mehta via Statistical Ideas blog,

President-elect Trump won 306 electoral votes versus Hillary Clinton's 232 (24% less electoral votes).  Similar to 2000, the surrendering party then reversed course and put the nation through a recount, just for the sake of it.  What are the odds that such an exercise here would yield successful for Ms. Clinton?  Based on statistical randomness of re-assessing voter intent, the chance of Hillary emerging as the victor is far less than 10%.