Hack This

If you really want to know about how phony the MSM uproar about Russian hackers causing the surprising recent election results is, here's an example. There was no hacking. But there were leaks. Most likely tied to some who possibly paid for them with their lives.

Logic would tell anyone with even a modicum of sense those higher ups in the DNC, including their psychopathic leader, are not going to come out and admit they just screwed up. Scapegoats come in handy. Especially foreign ones like those evil Russians the neocons so desperately want to start a war with.

Authored by Craig Murray, a former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, and was the Rector of the University of Dundee

I have watched incredulous as the CIA’s blatant lie has grown and grown as a media story – blatant because the CIA has made no attempt whatsoever to substantiate it. There is no Russian involvement in the leaks of emails showing Clinton’s corruption. Yes this rubbish has been the lead today in the Washington Post in the US and the Guardian here, and was the lead item on the BBC main news. I suspect it is leading the American broadcasts also.

A little simple logic demolishes the CIA’s claims. The CIA claim they “know the individuals” involved. Yet under Obama the USA has been absolutely ruthless in its persecution of whistleblowers, and its pursuit of foreign hackers through extradition. We are supposed to believe that in the most vital instance imaginable, an attempt by a foreign power to destabilise a US election, even though the CIA knows who the individuals are, nobody is going to be arrested or extradited, or (if in Russia) made subject to yet more banking and other restrictions against Russian individuals? Plainly it stinks. The anonymous source claims of “We know who it was, it was the Russians” are beneath contempt.

As Julian Assange has made crystal clear, the leaks did not come from the Russians. As I have explained countless times, they are not hacks, they are insider leaks – there is a major difference between the two. And it should be said again and again, that if Hillary Clinton had not connived with the DNC to fix the primary schedule to disadvantage Bernie, if she had not received advance notice of live debate questions to use against Bernie, if she had not accepted massive donations to the Clinton foundation and family members in return for foreign policy influence, if she had not failed to distance herself from some very weird and troubling people, then none of this would have happened.

The continued ability of the mainstream media to claim the leaks lost Clinton the election because of “Russia”, while still never acknowledging the truths the leaks reveal, is Kafkaesque.

I had a call from a Guardian journalist this afternoon. The astonishing result was that for three hours, an article was accessible through the Guardian front page which actually included the truth among the CIA hype:

The Kremlin has rejected the hacking accusations, while the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has previously said the DNC leaks were not linked to Russia. A second senior official cited by the Washington Post conceded that intelligence agencies did not have specific proof that the Kremlin was “directing” the hackers, who were said to be one step removed from the Russian government.

Craig Murray, the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, who is a close associate of Assange, called the CIA claims “bullshit”, adding: “They are absolutely making it up.”

“I know who leaked them,” Murray said. “I’ve met the person who leaked them, and they are certainly not Russian and it’s an insider. It’s a leak, not a hack; the two are different things.

“If what the CIA are saying is true, and the CIA’s statement refers to people who are known to be linked to the Russian state, they would have arrested someone if it was someone inside the United States.

“America has not been shy about arresting whistleblowers and it’s not been shy about extraditing hackers. They plainly have no knowledge whatsoever.”

But only three hours. While the article was not taken down, the home page links to it vanished and it was replaced by a ludicrous one repeating the mad CIA allegations against Russia and now claiming – incredibly – that the CIA believe the FBI is deliberately blocking the information on Russian collusion. Presumably this totally nutty theory, that Putin is somehow now controlling the FBI, is meant to answer my obvious objection that, if the CIA know who it is, why haven’t they arrested somebody. That bit of course would be the job of the FBI, who those desperate to annul the election now wish us to believe are the KGB.

zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-11/former-uk-ambassador-blasts-cias-blatant-lies-shows-little-simple-logic-destroys-the

Capital Control

If you want to get an inkling of what a cashless society will feel like, look no further that Macau, the Chinese city noted for its casinos.

The Chinese government in general as do most governments worry about capital flight. When the masses get concerned about stability or the lack of opportunity, they often try to move their money off shore. Reasonable enough unless you're a government that loves to screw things up and live to discourage or prevent anyone from talking about it.

The Chinese have been flooding the U.S. and other so-called Western democracy with money for some time. Talk to your local realtor, especially if you live near the coasts. All cash deals from Chinese buyer are so common one might suggest they've propping up the real estate market and driving prices higher.

According to one story, the South China Morning Post recently noted that the daily restriction limit on withdrawals at local ATM's for one bank there was cut 50 percent. In short, they just limited how much a customer can withdraw from his or her account in any 24 hour period. Recall ATM daily withdrawal rates are already limited.

It should strike you that these banks don't impose in the main limits on how much you can deposit each day. This is about using your money and control. Capital flight can happen in more than one place. Just don't mention it in earshot of your local banker or those elected officials the bankers have bought off.

So it's not just an American thing. It's an endemic human thing. People want to control their own money, not some committee of government bureaucrats hundreds or thousands of miles removed. Snoozing creates its opposite, losing.

Known Liar

It never ceases to amaze. This guy ought to be ashamed of showing his face in public. He's been discredited and self-confessed and known liar about his famous escapades in the media.

We are repeating this--known liar. Mr.Williams, here's to your face. You are a known, disgraced liar.
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Now this is rich.  Brian Williams, the disgraced ex-NBC journalist who was literally fired for falsely reporting that he was in a helicopter during the Iraq war that took on combatant fire, is now going on a crusade against "fake news."  On his MSNBC show last night, Williams decided to attack retired General Flynn and Donald Trump for spreading "fake news" via their twitter accounts.

"The retired Army 3-star general has passed on some gems himself.  Here are a few...Flynn retweeted accusations that Clinton is involved with child sex trafficking and has "secretly waged war" on the Catholic Church, as well as charges that Obama is a "jihadi" who "laundered" money for Muslim terrorists.

As we talked about here last night, fake news played a role in this election and continues to find a wide audience.  A BuzzFeed news study of Donald Trump's own tweets where they followed back news stories to their root source found more of them came from Breitbart originally than any other single source."

You want to read some real fake news. Here's some Mr.Williams concocted himself over the years.

zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-09/nbcs-fake-news-king-brian-williams-launches-crusade-against-fake-news

The Big Ball

The globalization freaks will never it seems give up their freaking.

In house globalization freaks reside aplenty in MSM, especially places like the Washington Post, the  LA and NY Times and the bloated, rather gassy, if we don't say, Financial Times, not to mention many fake news websites.

Since the golden goose turned wan and pale and more than a bit sickly they continue to come up with excuses like ice cream in an old-time sundae topped with reasons why just a few minor adjustments will get Cinderella back to the Big Ball.

It ain't going to happen. And it shouldn't unless you want to continue the present and continue to be sidestepped and left out.These are chosen clueless zealots. Make no mistake. Look soon for anyone  who questions their religion, much like climate change, to be labeled a fake news member. Their religion--a it's a longstanding common one-- is lining their pockets not yours with money.

The world is facing the “first lost decade since the 1860s”, said Bank of England governor Mark Carney this week. Arguably good for soundbite of the day, but the buck stops there. The only way that buck could have kept rolling would have been for Carney to take a critical look at himself and his employer(s), but there was none of that.

The Canadian import governor has no doubts about anything he’s done, or if he does he shows none. Instead he puts the blame for all that’s gone awry, on some -minor- elements of what he think globalization means, not with the phenomenon itself, or his enduring support for, and belief in, it. The problem with that is it’s indeed belief only; he can’t prove an inch of what he says.

Globalization is an act of faith inside a politico-economic belief system, and all it needs according to Carney and many others in his ‘church’ is a little tweaking. That globalization itself could be the driving force behind Brexit, Trump and the defeat of Italian PM Renzi does not enter into the faith’s ‘thought’ system.

Neither does the possibility that globalization is what it is, in and of itself, a process that in the end cannot be tweaked. That globalization is simply yet another form of centralization that follows the same rules and laws all other forms do, where power and wealth always, of necessity, wind up in the hands of a few, through pretty basic centrifugal forces.

People like Carney will insist that globalization spurs growth, right up to the moment where they’re either voted out or fired. And they’ll probably keep on insisting until their dying days. But why are we in that “first lost decade since the 1860s” then? Is that really only because ‘we’ failed to “redistribute some of the benefits of trade”, something that can allegedly be easily rectified by enabling workers to ‘acquire new skills’?

Where is the proof for that? And why have economies stagnated in the middle of the entire process of globalization? Is that solely because ‘some of’ the benefits were not distributed well enough? If that is so, and wealth distribution is the only problem with globalization, at what point do we redistribute ourselves into the realm of communism? Where’s the dividing line? It all feels mighty vague and unsatisfactory, and not a little goal-seeked.

Like a large part of the Brexit voters in Britain, millions of Italians have been on the losing side of globalism’s ‘benefits distribution’. And this weekend they found an outlet for their frustration about it. Like Brexiteers voted against Cameron and Osborne much more than they voted for anything in specific, and Trump won because Americans are fed up with the Obama/Clinton/GOP model, Italians voted against PM Renzi and his idea to take power away from parliament and give it to him.

Judging from poll numbers, they also seem to have gained confidence in Beppe Grillo’s, and the Five Star Movement’s, ability to do something real in politics. It has taken a while, and that makes sense because the movement doesn’t fit the model of politics as they’ve known it all their lives.

theautomaticearth.com/2016/12/more-talk-about-more-growth-and-more-globalization

The Draghi Affair

Mario The Magic Man Draghi, leader of the European Central Bank, has spoken.

The Wall Street Journal today reported, as many expected, the ECB will continue its handouts of money via its bond purchasing program though the amount purcashed each month will be less. So there are no real surprises here, including Draghi's comment obviously designed to sooth some nerves about the bank's presence in markets will be around for a while.

FRANKFURT—The European Central Bank decided Thursday to extend its asset-purchase program to the end of 2017, but will buy bonds at a reduced monthly rate.

It will maintain its monthly purchase volume at €80 billion ($86.2 billion) until March 2017 as planned, but will reduce it to €60 billion as of April. It kept all its interest rates unchanged.

Speaking in a news conference, ECB President Mario Draghi said the decision didn’t constitute a move to “taper,” or gradually phase out the bond-buying program.

“Tapering has not been discussed today,” he said. “The presence of the ECB on the markets will be there for a long time.”

Mr. Draghi said the governing council had also considered a six-month extension to the bond-buying program at the current monthly rate, but that there was a “very, very broad consensus” in favor of the alternative.

When it launched the program in March 2015, the ECB bought €60 billion a month, but that was increased in March 2016.

“We basically judged that the outlook of a sustained return to the inflation objective is not very different from the beginning of the program,” Mr. Draghi said. “More specifically, the risk of deflation has largely disappeared.”

wsj.com/articles/ecb-to-extends-stimulus-program-by-nine-months-at-reduced-rate 

Overnight

A stronger yen helped curtailed further gains in the Japanese market overnight as the Nikkei 225 rose 0.8% to 18,649.03 mid-morning following a big up move in the Dow and S&P 500 as those two indexes hit record highs.

The Trump effect seems to  have resurfaced as investors warmed to his expected fiscal stimulus plans and the prospect of higher inflation coupled with lower taxes. How long this rally will last is also a topic of conversation and concern. These same things have boosted the U.S.dollar higher against the yen though the yen has regained some of its losses of late.

Japan, however, grew at a slower rate in the July-August quarter than previously thought, according to data out Thursday. The Wall Street Journal reported: "The economy grew at an annualized pace of 1.3% in the third quarter of 2016, down from a preliminary figure of 2.2%, the government said. Annualized growth in the first quarter was 2.8% and in the second quarter was 1.8%, both higher than previous estimates, it said. Such revisions happen every quarter as the government refines earlier estimates using new data."

It wasn't just the above mentioned items, however, that helped propel Asian shares as the European Central Bank is expected to continue its handouts to continue to stimulate growth in the eurozone. The ASX 200 rallied 1.2%; the Hang Send 0.7% and the Kospi moved 1.3% higher while in China the Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.1% as  government concerns grew about aggressive insurance company stock buying. The ECB decision also aided  Asian-Pacific government bonds, Reuters reported, with yields on Australia’s 10-year debt falling 6.3 basis points to bid at 2.743% and New Zealand’s 10-year debt yield down 5 basis points to bid at 3.20%, according to Thomson Reuters. Yields fall as bond prices rise.

The dollar index which measures the greenback against a basket of currencies, traded at 100.03 at one point. Meanwhile, gold was up at $1174.90, up 1.60. The decline in gold might be temporarily over setting the stage for a bear market rally.

Not The Catalyst

What you see here is a disgusting example of MSM journalistic hypocrisy. This is why MSM must be brought down.

This is why change is necessary if there's ever going to be any semblance of truth and hope for a civilized world and even a semi-free society. A more apt name for Hillary would have been an American Hoses as she tried to hose millions. Time is like many of its MSM brethren, on the way to the boneyard of journalism history, irrelevant to its core.

Damning with faint praise is their time-worn, trite MO. They're like the preacher preaching to the choir. But there are no more souls to be converted. Half the nation in an equally divided nation is onto your bullshit and biases. Without significant changes and an end to this PC bullshit madness,we all know what the next step is likely to be. The new levels of anger and fear preceded not followed Trump. And that's what these myopic know-it-alls masquerading as objective journalists backed by their elite, moneyed friends didn't want to see. The hour glass has be upended for a while now. Trump symbolizes the capstone, not the catalyst.
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What a difference 4 months makes... From Meltdown to Total Meltdown to Man Of The Year...

As FoxNews notes however, while President-elect Donald Trump was named Time magazine's Person of the Year on Wednesday, the honor basically ended there.

While describing Trump as the real change-maker of 2016, the magazine also ragged on the Republican president-elect as a “huckster” and “demagogue” while reserving its most glowing praise for runner-up Hillary Clinton -- whom the edition breathlessly described as “an American Moses.”

In describing Trump, Time's article almost exclusively used backhanded compliments. For instance, while the piece said he “did what no American politician had attempted in a generation,” it added that he “magnified the divisions of the present, inspiring new levels of anger and fear within his country.”
 ....  The article on Hillary Clinton is much different. Subtitled “The winner of the popular vote leaves a complicated legacy,” the tone is worlds away from the fulminating darkness that permeates the Trump piece.

The opening paragraph reads more like the prologue of St. John’s Gospel than an essay on a presidential runner-up, saying of Clinton: “she became a symbol in a fight that was about much more than symbolism."

"She’s the woman who was almost President, she is what might have been and what will yet be."

“Like an American Moses, she was an imperfect prophet, leading women to the edge of the Promised Land. Now it’s up to another woman to enter it.”

The big question is, will TIME name Putin 'Man of the Year' in 2017?

 zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-07/collapse-real-media-credibility-3-simple-images

A List Of Quislings

More on the fake news front. We just got this handed to us and we won't delay getting out there. Fake news is extremely deleterious to your health and welfare and must be interdicted at all cost. Here's the latest list of those sidewinders who are trying to curtail your lives and your freedom to live free.

                                   FULL LIST OF FAKE NEWS OUTLETS
– The New York Times – The Washington Post – CNN – NBC News – MSNBC – CBS News – ABC News – Salon.com – The Huffington Post – Rolling Stone – BBC News – Sky News – Financial Times – Politico – New York Daily News – L.A. Times – USA Today – US News & World Report – CBC – Gawker – Newsweek – Time – Business Insider – Daily Beast – VICE – Yahoo News – Daily Kos – Young Turks – Slate – NPR – PBS – Raw Story – New Yorker – Buzzfeed – MoveOn – Think Progress – Media Matters – Wonkette – Center for American Progress – Little Green Footballs
– The Economist

Here's a list below of those American Vidkun Quislings

 blacklistednews.com/The_Ultimate_%E2%80%9CFake_News%E2%80%9D_List/55661/0/38/38/Y/M.