It's Not Brexit But 'Deutsche-it' You Want To Worry About

'I’m not saying this makes Deutsche special among big banks except in the category of being caught. There, they have certainly wrestled the crown from Citi and Wachovia.'

Via Golem XIV: While everyone is endlessly told about the world-ending dangers of Brexit, I wonder if we should be paying a little more attention to Deutsche-it.  If the UK leaves the EU the EU will survive.  But what happens when – and surely it’s no longer if – but when Deutsche, Germany’s biggest and only truly global bank has to be rescued? What will the fallout from that be?
I am sure the German authorities will claim its not a rescue its a merger. Yeah right!  It’s a rescue. Deutsche’s shares have fallen 48% in just the last 12 months – the same time the management said they were going to have the bank turned around. The bank’s shares are now worth no more than they were nearly 40 years ago. Which is not such good news.
But there’s worse. While, and perhaps in part because(?) Deutsche’s share price has been in free-fall,  Deutsche has been money laundering around the world. That corruption is now beginning to catch up with the bottom line that it had been pumping cash into for so long.

Regarding Men - Episodes 1 & 2

StudioBrule: Regarding Men is a new video series with Janice Fiamengo, Tom Golden and Paul Elam

Why It Is Polite To Mention When A Public Figure Is Jewish

'Jews masquerading as citizens of a nation to virtue signal that nation into oblivion. How old is this strategy? ...Living by the Jewish code of "never work when
you can profit off others' labours". '

By Friedrich Forste: It is a prerequisite to be successful that people know the truth,specially truth that is widely concealed and easy to unmask. By unmasking some strategies of certain Jewish elites, we can create a safer and more truthful world.
Today we deal with one of the biggest and most effective of these strategies, the one where Jews change their names and assume the nationality of their host countries to "fit in" while remaining loyal to their own people and nation. This allows them the power of attributing every atrocity Jews commit in the host country, to the host country itself and its people.
The most common way they blend in and hide under the radar is to take on unremarkable and common names of their hosts, think of all the Goldsteins and Bergmans you know of. These are historically and linguistically German names. However, such individuals in our times are invariably Jewish.

The TSA - And Other Experiments In Evil + Election, Erection & Fanny Interference Is OK When Uncle Sam Does It!

In 1961, a psychologist conducted an experiment demonstrating how ordinary men and women could be induced to inflict torture on complete strangers merely because an authority figure had ordered them to do so. In 2001, the United States government formed the Transportation Security Administration to subject hundreds of millions of air travelers to increasingly humiliating and invasive searches and pat downs. These two phenomena are not as disconnected as they may seem. Join us today on The Corbett Report as we explore The TSA (and other experiments in evil).

Venezuela Fake Coup, Truth About Kamala Harris, & Yellow Vests + What They Won't Tell You About NATO

Redacted: The recent US intervention in Venezuela is unsurprising considering that Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world. Lee also delves into the record of democratic Senator and presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

Why Venezuela Must Be Destroyed

By Dmitry Orlov: Last week Trump, his VP Mike Pence, US State Dept. director Mike Pompeo and Trump’s national security advisor John Bolton, plus a bunch of Central American countries that are pretty much US colonies and don’t have foreign policies of their own, synchronously announced that Venezuela has a new president: a virtual non-entity named Juan Guaidó, who was never even a candidate for that office, but who was sorta-kinda trained for this job in the US. Guaidó appeared at a rally in Caracas, flanked by a tiny claque of highly compensated sycophants. He looked very frightened as he self-appointed himself president of Venezuela and set about discharging his presidential duties by immediately going into hiding.
His whereabouts remained unknown until much later, when he surfaced at a press conference, at which he gave a wishy-washy non-answer to the question of whether he had been pressured to declare himself president or had done so of his own volition. There is much to this story that is at once tragic and comic, so let’s take it apart piece by piece. Then we’ll move on to answering the question of Why Venezuela must be destroyed (from the US establishment’s perspective).

Palestine In Pictures: January 2019

The new year in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip began as 2018 ended, with Israeli soldiers and settlers killing Palestinian men, women and children with impunity.

The Electronic Intifada: Nearly 300 Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupation forces last year, thanks to a “reckless open-fire policy” and a “profound disregard for the lives of Palestinians … broadly backed by senior policy makers in the military, the government and the judicial system,” as described by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem.

A Palestinian protester is engulfed by tear gas during Great March of Return protests east of Gaza City on 4 January. Mohammed Zaanoun ActiveStills

“Given this sweeping support and the lack of accountability for these deaths, such incidents will continue,” B’Tselem warned at the close of 2018.
Eleven Palestinians were killed by soldiers and settlers during January, and an additional Palestinian died from his injuries after being shot during protests in Gaza the previous year.

US To Invade Venezuela If Staged Coup Fails: Russian Foreign Ministry

Maria Zakharova, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson:

"We call upon all of our partners to seriously consider what real role Washington is giving them in the preparation and carrying out of the force-based scenario in the region. ...This is like what was done in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, and many other places on our planet earlier. How severe will be the humanitarian and migratory crises in case those plans are implemented?"

Scandal: An Impoverished Labour Council Spent £136,000 To Stop Me Playing Sax And Got Santa Claus Instead

'A frog thrown into a pot of boiling water will immediately jump out but a frog placed in a pot of cold water that is slowly heated to a boil will not save itself. It will be cooked to death. Brits, like Americans, the French and other Westerners have been steamed for a while.'

Exposed Israel Admitted Arming Anti-Assad Syrian Rebels - Big Mistake

By Daniel J. Levy: In his final days as the Israel Defense Forces’ Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Gadi Eisenkot confirmed, on the record, that Israel had directly supported anti-Assad Syrian rebel factions in the Golan Heights by arming them.

This revelation marks a direct break from Israel’s previous media policy on such matters. Until now, Israel has insisted it has only provided humanitarian aid to civilians (through field hospitals on the Golan Heights and in permanent healthcare facilities in northern Israel), and has consistently denied or refused to comment on any other assistance.

In short, none other than Israel’s most (until recently) senior serving soldier has admitted that up until his statement, his country’s officially stated position on the Syrian civil war was built on the lie of non-intervention.

As uncomfortable as this may initially seem, though, it is unsurprising. Israel has a long history of conducting unconventional warfare. That form of combat is defined by the U.S. government’s National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 as "activities conducted to enable a resistance movement or insurgency to coerce, disrupt or overthrow an occupying power or government by operating through or with an underground, auxiliary or guerrilla force in a denied area" in the pursuit of various security-related strategic objectives.

Feminist Slamdown 5317

DoctorRandomercam: We're reduced to rebutting synchronised underwater slam poetry now. Send requests. And also, help.

'Terrorist Russia Is Coming To Take Away Heat From Your Family In Minus 50 Degrees Winter!' - MSNBC's Pigeon Lady

Putin is going to hack your central heating!

By Tyler Durden: Extreme weather, merciless cold in the Midwest United States, snow squalls bringing near-whiteout conditions to the Northeast, nine dead, schools and postal service in many states canceled, and airports closed — an "act of God" as they say, yet MSNBC's Rachel Maddow still found a way to make it all about Putin.
She breathlessly reported Wednesday evening that life-threatening cold weather in the US could be weaponized by Russia. Maddow invoked a recent intelligence assessment which speculated over Russia and China's abilities to launch cyber-attacks on critical US infrastructure, including natural gas pipelines. Running with this "what if" scenario, she launched into her now well-known conspiracy theorizing and fear-mongering, saying "It is life-threatening! And it is like negative 50 degrees in the Dakotas right now."