United States

President Barack Obama rejected U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s urges to launch secret missile attacks inside Syria without the United States admitting responsibility. In recent months and without success, Kerry has sought to get Obama’s approval for cruise missile strikes against the Syrian government. Kerry’s strategy in promoting the Syrian peace negotiations in recent months was based on much heavier pressure on the Assad regime to agree that President Bashar al-Assad must step down than was apparent.

Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,

The U.S. government have been left “in a state of shock” following Russian President Vladimir Putin announcing an end to all military operations in Syria yesterday – declaring that Russia had completed its objectives in the region and effectively won the war. The Ministry of Defense have reported that the Obama administration were ‘stunned’ after Russian Aerospace Forces ceased combat operations following the successful negotiation of a peace agreement with anti-government forces.

American “Justice” Too Corrupt Even For The Totally Corrupt DOJ

The US court system is so corrupt that it is too much even for the corrupt US
Dept of Justice (sic), a cabinet department that legalized torture, indefinite detention of
US citizens without due process of law, execution of US citizens without due process of law, and
all-invasive spying on US citizens in total violation of the US Constitution.

Here is the US Attorney General telling off the corrupt state and local judges for reinstituting debtor prisons.

While not nearly as exciting as JPM cornering and manipulating the gold or silver markets, over the past few years Jamie Dimon's bank appears to have cornered a very prominent commodity traded on the London Metals Exchange, aluminum, resulting in price "anomalies" which as Reuters politely puts it "mean prices do not always reflect fundamentals" and which as we put it, reflect outright manipulation, however because regulators are captured have so far completely slipped through the cracks.