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CEO of JP Morgan Chase says 'all cryptocurrency' will be under government control

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:05 UTC
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Late last year the Chairman & CEO of JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon became the laughing stock of the crypto world when he came out railing against bitcoin and the blockchain. On Tuesday, however, he seems to have changed his mind and during an interview with Fox Business, he left viewers with an ominously cryptic message-punn intended-on how the government will control bitcoin.

In September of last year, Dimon not only came out swinging against bitcoin, but he threatened to fire all bank employees who dared to trade in bitcoin-for being "stupid."

If a JP Morgan trader began trading in bitcoin, he said, "I'd fire them in a second. For two reasons: It's against our rules, and they're stupid. And both are dangerous."

The cryptocurrency "won't end well," he told an investor conference in New York, as Bloomberg noted, predicting it will eventually blow up. "It's a fraud" and "worse than tulip bulbs."

In the interview on Tuesday, however, the megabank mogul expressed his change of heart. As FOX Business reported, Dimon regrets past comments in which he called Bitcoin a fraud at that September banking conference.

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Poll finds almost half of US voters say Trump will be cleared in Russia probe


RT
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 14:57 UTC
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A new poll reveals 48 percent of American voters believe it's "very or somewhat likely" President Donald Trump will be cleared in the investigation into alleged collusion with Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign.

The Politico/Morning Consult poll released Wednesday also shows 37 percent believe "it's not too likely or not at all likely" Trump will have his name cleared in the investigation. The poll of 1,988 registered voters was conducted on January 4 and 5 and had a margin of error of two percentage points.

Kyle Dropp, chief research officer and co-founder of Morning Consult, commented further on specific information in the poll.

"Democrats and Republicans have drastically different views on whether Trump will be cleared of wrongdoing in the Russia probe led by special counsel Robert Mueller," he said, according to Politico. "Three in four Republicans, 74 percent, say it's likely Trump will be cleared of wrongdoing in the Russia probe this year. But only 32 percent of Democrats say the same."

Comment: Time is on Trump's side as the Russia collusion story continues to disintegrate.

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Blue Planet

The time has come for progressives to support the Trump-Putin efforts at rapprochement

John V. Walsh
AntWar.com
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 14:35 UTC
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Should progressives support the efforts of Trump and Putin to bring about rapprochement between Russia and the U.S.? Or to use Trump's terminology, should progressives support the effort to "get along with Russia"?

This might seem like a no-brainer. After all Russia and the US are the world's major nuclear powers. A war or a mistake resulting in a nuclear exchange would reduce much of the planet to radioactive rubble, ending civilization as we know it, and perhaps even putting the continued existence of the human race at risk. And yet there are virtually no voices in the progressive community calling for support of Trump's call to "get along with Russia." Almost no voices speaking in favor of his contacts with Putin, for example after their meeting in Hamburg last July with its considerable achievements. What is going on? Have the progressives gone mad?

Let us be very clear. Support for the Trumpian rapprochement with Russia does not mean support for all Trump's policies or even one other policy of his. The election of 2016 is long behind us now. In that election as in all elections, it was necessary to weigh the policies of the opposing candidates and then to make a choice. One cannot vote for only one policy of a given candidate and against other policies. It is an all or nothing matter.

Comment: Progressives may be reluctant to do that because, as the author says, they are blind in hatred to Trump or they like having Russia as an enemy (because they believe the story that Russia 'hacked the election' - and they hate Trump). Another possibility is that they simply cannot accept that they were wrong about Trump. They need to believe Trump is 'literally Hitler' (he is not - he is more like Obama). Supporting him on this most obvious and fundamental issue would be, in their minds, accepting that he is not Hitler and thus admit 'defeat' - and that, they cannot do.

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Chess

Connecting the dots between Ukraine, Manafort & Russiagate (VIDEO)

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:02 UTC
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The Duran's Peter Lavelle was on The Jimmy Dore show discussing mainstream media's reporting on RT, Russia, Ukraine, Syria and much more.

There is a lot to unpack in the nearly 40 minute interview, with Peter and Jimmy connecting the dots between the false 'Russiagate' narrative and Paul Manafort's lobbying activities in Ukraine.

At one point during the discussion, Jimmy Dore is a bit taken aback, as he listens intently to Peter Lavelle run through the real story behind Yanukovych's presidency in Ukraine, and Paul Manafort's work within that administration, aimed at bringing Ukraine closer to Europe, and ultimately cleaning up some "dirty" oligarch money.

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Question

Where's the evidence? Fusion GPS lawyer claims 'people died over Trump Dossier'

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:02 UTC
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Fusion GPS lawyer Joshua Levy's claim that someone has been murdered because of the Trump Dossier is completely unsubstantiated and almost certainly untrue

Since the expected shock revelation from Glenn Simpson's testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee that a source from within the Trump campaign had supposedly confirmed to the FBI the claims of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia has fallen flat with the revelation that the source in question was actually the already indicted George Papadopoulos, the media's attention has shifted to a claim made over the course of Simpson's testimony by his lawyer Joshua Levy that someone has supposedly already been murdered because of the publication of the Trump Dossier.

The claim appears on page 278 of the transcript of Simpson's testimony. The wording is as follows
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Propaganda

Glenn Simpson misspoke? FBI did not have a source within Trump WH. The "source" was a drunk Papadopoulos

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:41 UTC
Glenn Simpson Fusion GPS
© AP Photo/Pablo Martinez MonsivaisGlenn Simpson, Fusion GPS co-founder. Some suspect he did work for Mueller.
One of the most interesting claims made by Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson during his closed door Congressional testimony was that the FBI had a source within the Trump campaign.

The anti-Trump media seized on Simpson's statement as more evidence that Trump was colluding with Russia, only to have it immediately debunked by Circa News' Sara Carter.

The Gateway Pundit reports that on Tuesday night reporter Sara Carter from Circa News told Sean Hannity that Fusion GPS was referring to George Papadopoulos when they claimed the FBI had a source inside the Trump Campaign.

Comment: Did Simpson misspeak, or was he lying, trying to inflate validity of the dossier? Considering a drunk Papadopoulos as a "source" is a stretch, to say the least. See also:

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Alarm Clock

Flashback France's former Foreign Minister: UK Government prepared war in Syria two years before 2011 protests


Sott.net
Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00 UTC
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French foreign minister in the 1980s, Roland Dumas.
Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas stated in a 2013 televised program on French media (LCP) that British government officials had told him about preparations for "sending rebels into Syria" two years prior to the start of the 2011 "protests" and conflict.

Dumas makes it clear that it is Assad's anti-Israel stance that has made him a target for Western-backed "regime change". The fact that over 200,000 Syrian civilians have been killed in the process appears to be of little consequence to Western politicians.

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Snowflake Cold

Best of the Web: Mother Russia saves freezing US consumers as record-cold weather forces Washington to buy Russian gas


RT
Tue, 09 Jan 2018 16:34 UTC
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Who's your daddy now?
Russia will deliver liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the US, Kommersant daily reports. The reason for the deal is the sharp rise in gas prices on the east coast of the US.

An LNG tanker belonging to French energy company Engie is now shipping from the British port of Isle of Grain to an American terminal, Everett, located near Boston.

The gas being shipped is from Russia's Yamal LNG plant, according to the newspaper. The tanker is due to arrive in the US on January 22.

Comment: Dumb and dumber. Note that - from the glorious(ly stupid) West - only Christophe de Margerie's Total energy company got in on the Yamal project.

And Vlad the Merciful of course agrees to ship the Americans gas when he has every reason not to.

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Bad Guys

Amazon is a thriving business - thanks to your taxpayer dollars

David Dayen
New Republic
Tue, 09 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
The tech giant has received more than $1 billion in tax breaks. The government is also funding food stamps for many of its workers.
Jeff Bezos
© David Ryder/Getty Images
As Amazon builds up its distribution network, it's hit on a trick long practiced by the likes of Walmart: using the federal government to help pay its workers. A new study by Policy Matters Ohio found that more than 700 Amazon employees receive food stamps, or more than 10 percent of the tech giant's 6,000-strong workforce in the state. Some of those recipients may be part-time help, but the fact that they need federal aid to survive suggests that they would be happy to work more. "Why is this giant, successful company offering such limited pay and hours of work that many of its workers need help buying food?" asked Zach Schiller, research director at Policy Matters.

Amazon ranks nineteenth among Ohio businesses in number of employees on food stamps, behind Walmart, McDonald's, and Kroger. But Amazon is only the fifty-third-largest employer in Ohio, suggesting a higher rate of employees on food stamps than its counterparts. More important, Amazon has obtained at least $123 million in state tax incentives to place warehouse and data center locations in Ohio. This reflects a perverse form of double-dipping: Amazon gets a bounty to create jobs in Ohio, and then a good chunk of the jobs are so low-paying that workers have to seek federal assistance, providing a second subsidy for the e-commerce giant.

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Bizarro Earth

Austrian government calls for "restrictive asylum policy" amid growth in crime committed by "foreigners"


RT
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 20:32 UTC
Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (L) and Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache in Seggau, Austria, on January 5, 2018.
© Heinz-Peter Bader / ReutersAustria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (L) and Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache in Seggau, Austria, on January 5, 2018.
The number of crimes committed by "foreigners" in Austria increased to 40 percent of the total in 2016, a new government report says. Interior Minister Herbert Kickl says a "strict asylum policy" is needed to tackle the issue.

In 2016, some 500,000 offenses were registered in Austria, with 40 percent of them being committed by "foreigners," a new security report presented by the Interior Ministry says. According to Kickl, the number of foreign offenders increased by 13 percent.

The Austrian vice chancellor and head of the right-wing populist Freedom Party (FPO), Heinz-Christian Strache, also told journalists following the government meeting that asylum seekers accounted for almost 46 percent of foreign offenders. He described the figure as "significant" and called for a stricter refugee policy.
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