Via GEFIRA,
In 1992, at the end of the Cold War, an American political scientist infamously proclaimed "the end of history:" liberal democracy and the capitalist system has won, the rest of the world will eventually embrace western ideas as superior to theirs because only they are able to provide peace and prosperity.
Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com,
With analyst expectations/hopes in the $2 to $5 billion range (against the initial $14 billion fine), Deutsche Bank said it has reached settlement with US authorities to pay a $3.1 billion civil penalty (and provide $4.1bn in releief to consumers). Removing considerable uncertainty about Deutsche's capital position, one wonders how much this remarkably low-ball settlement had to do with Donald Trump's current loan re-negotiations with the "world's most systemically dangerous bank."
Submitted by Robert Gore via StraightLineLogic.com,
The pathetic attempts to undo Donald Trump’s victory are signs of desperation, not strength, in the Deep State.
Submitted by Eric Zuesse via Strategic-Culture.org,
California alone accounted for all of Hillary’s popular-vote win, plus 1,405,004 votes
America’s Electoral College - the publicly elected representatives who select the U.S. President - voted on Monday, December 19th, and chose Donald Trump as America’s next President, though Hillary Clinton had won nearly three million more of the nation’s popular votes on November 8th than he did.