corporate panels supercede national laws thereby making democratically elected officials impotent when it comes to corporate profit. TPP can also be seen as anti-China which is trying to chart an independent course and play an important role in the world(for good or ill).

The RW for decades has been upset about world government, looking at the United Nations as the evil-doer. It's obvious with these trade pacts that monopoly financial capital is bent on being the transnational power with the US military backing their play.

The USA now has 800 military bases worldwide and many are small tripwire enclaves. Something real or made-up happens at one of them and it's "support the troops under attack!" and there's a war of aggression to install a puppet dictator.

Good morning and thanks for the hard work in putting all this together.

On election day I was in Chile, and everyone there was watching the results closely. More than a few asked me how anyone could choose Trump over Her. When I said that she claims Kissinger as a friend and mentor they would look away, then say "maybe he won't be as bad as everyone thinks."

Of course, last night he announced that he would continue the rallies after being inaugurated in January.

The constipated cretin is so stupid, he can't write a correctly-spelled tweet. I'm glad I'm getting to be an old duffer (a term I inherited from my paternal grandmother). Rec'd!!

Quelle für Enthüllungen im Bundestag vermutet - Hinter der Veröffentlichung Tausender Dokumente aus dem NSA-Untersuchungsausschuss waren zuletzt russische Hacker vermutet worden. Jetzt gehen die Behörden von einer undichten Stelle im Bundestag selbst aus.
17.12.2016
(Source for revelations is suspected to be the (German) Bundestag - Behind the publication of thousands of documents from the NSA investigation committee were most recently suspected of Russian hackers. Now the authorities believe in a leak from the Bundestag itself.

Laut Wikileaks stammen die rund 2400 Dokumente aus verschiedenen Bundesbehörden wie dem Bundesnachrichtendienst und den Bundesämtern für Verfassungsschutz und Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik. Unter den Dokumenten soll es demnach Beweise geben, die die Zusammenarbeit zwischen der amerikanischen National Security Agency (NSA) und dem BND belegen.
(According to WikiLeaks, the approximately 2400 documents come from various federal agencies such as the Bundesnachrichtendienst and the federal offices for constitutional protection (Verfassungsschutz) and for security in information technology (Informationstechnik). The documents are intended to provide evidence of cooperation between the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the BND.)

Na so was ... unfasslich. Who would have thought.

Sorry if that has been already mentioned here. My reading is more sporadic here lately.

DNC Chair Says Russian Hackers Attacked The Committee Through Election Day
That goes against Obama’s statement that the attacks ended after he spoke to Putin in September.
The chair of the Democratic National Committee said Sunday that the DNC was under constant cyber attack by Russian hackers right through the election in November. Her claim contradicts President Barack Obama’s statement Friday that the attacks ended in September after he issued a personal warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“No, they did not stop,” Donna Brazile told Martha Raddatz on ABC’s “This Week.” “They came after us absolutely every day until the end of the election. They tried to hack into our system repeatedly. We put up the very best cyber security … but they constantly [attacked].”
Brazile said the DNC was outgunned in its efforts to fend off the hacks, and suggested the committee received insufficient protection from U.S. intelligence agencies. The CIA and FBI have reportedly concluded that Russians carried out the attacks in an effort to help Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton.
“I think the Obama administration ― the FBI, the various other federal agencies ― they informed us, they told us what was happening. We knew as of May,” Brazile said. “But in terms of helping us to fight, we were fighting a foreign adversary in the cyberspace. The Democratic National Committee, we were not a match. And yet we fought constantly.”

Big headlined story on Huffpo.

Run away, run away, run away and remember kids to duck and cover.

for the non fake news. You have saved me the effort of wading through the endless misinformation/propaganda being pumped out by the official Ministry of Truth. They are really outdoing themselves catapulting the daily fear and loathing. Hard to tell what they are really up to with their latest slight of hand 'The Russian's are Coming'. What a reckless side show were being subjected to.

Obama seems to be up to no good as he exists the White House but all we hear about is The Hairball's a traitor who is Putin's puppet. Oh My god look at his cabinet it's wall to wall Big Oil and Goldman Sachs. Like Hillary's wouldn't be or Obama's wasn't. Meanwhile people I know are already nostalgic for the good old days when the Democrat's were in the WH. Obama and Micheal are such a lovely couple. Such good role models for the young girls and boys of America.

Who can we identify with now that we have overt out and out right wing psycho's in charge? No one and maybe that's a good thing. You'd think ordinary people would finally face the reality of 'the world as we find it' that the ruling elite have created and call inevitable. It's a 'no exit' situation for everyone regardless of where you stand on the false cooked up spectrum of political or cultural divides. Stronger together? I keep asking myself why can't people get together globally and resist this madness.

My first time to experience The Weekly Watch.

My wife jakkalbessie and I originally came over here (with some reluctance after being at TOP for so long) at the invitation fellow Evening Bluesters, following js, jtc, and the Evening Blues.

Reading our excellent round up today has given me the desire to look for you on future Sundays! We will be back into travel mode in January and will be nice to know that can get a quick digest of links from you.

Especially appreciate the section of vids on the War Profiteers, some of which I was aware of but have yet to watch . The weather outside is conducive to watching them today, and most auspiciously you have provided the links!

Would share a link got from a Prof / Peace Activist friend suggested on Facebook with a nice takedown of Krugman for his silly part in the fear stuff and suggestions of what to do next.

http://www.rich-rubenstein.com/2016/12/the-russian-plot-or-how-to-avoid-...

THE RUSSIAN PLOT, Or, How to Avoid Taking Responsibility for Losing a Presidential Election

by Rich Rubenstein on December 17, 2016 · 2 comments

Also these tweets:

"ExxonMobil has a long history of peddling misinformation on climate change." @elizkolbert in @NewYorker #ExxonKnew https://t.co/u58uq8ATnR

— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) December 16, 2016

Exxon's sanctioned $720 million deal could stop Rex Tillerson from becoming Secretary of State https://t.co/2OwXJvnwkV pic.twitter.com/8ESLwsPsOZ

— Forbes (@Forbes) December 15, 2016

That Forbes article really made my day, would love to see him dropped.

Spent part of my morning reading forum posts etc about Kruger National Park in South Africa's epic drought. We will be camping there and in South Luangwa National Park area in our own tent again next year as usual. Climate change has taken it's toll in both places.

Here's a photo from the trip earlier this year. The quality is not that great but for some reason the bird reminds me of DT.