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Submitted by Valentin Katasonov via Strategic-Culture.org,

The financial crisis of 2007-2009 effectively terminated the process of globalization. In 2015 world trade suddenly dropped by more than 10% for the first time since 2009. Nothing like this has been seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s. But some politicians, public figures, scholars, and journalists continue to talk about globalization as an «objective» and «progressive» process, even though it has already ended.

“In my view, the Trump election has made a large Chinese devaluation more likely. Mainland Chinese investors are desperately trying to get out of the Yuan, and the People’s Bank of China is trying to defend the value of the Yuan. They are doing this by selling treasuries.”

       - Russell Clark, Horseman Global

Since election day, Democrats have engaged in a panicked attempt to leverage their last couple of weeks in control of the executive branch to delegitimize the Trump presidency.  Obama has even gone so far as to order a "full report" on Russian tampering in the 2016 election cycle to be completed before he leaves office (see "A "Soft Coup" Attempt: Furious Trump Slams "Secret" CIA Report Russia Helped Him Win").  Of course, we should simply ignore the fact that a true investigation of such allegations would take much longer than the one month that Obama has left in office because any delay c

Submitted by Chris Martenson via PeakProsperity.com,

One serious predicament we face is that the current leaders in the halls of monetary and political power do not appear to understand the dimensions of our situation. The mind-boggling part about it is that the situation is easy to understand.

Our collective predicament is simply this: Nothing can grow forever.

Congress has approved funding for the first ever ‘Ministry of Truth’ propaganda agency in the United States, which Obama is expected to sign into law before he leaves office. Amid a heavy-handed crack down on independent media outlets under the guise of countering Russia propaganda, the U.S. government have introduced a number of emergency measures to ban subversive news from appearing online and to counter them with their very own propaganda. The House previously passed “H.R. 6393, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017“, at the end of November, which will allow U.S.