Open Thread - The Weekly Watch

President elect T-rump is the endless story and fixation this week. People hit the streets in protests. From my view, the energy would be better spent walking with the water protectors. I continue to think that Standing Rock is the moment for the movement. Around the world countries are reacting in different ways. There are a variety of opinions....we all know what that's like....everybody has one. And this Weekly Watch features a number of people and their take on ...

President Hairball

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Here he comes ready or not....

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Election Reactions

Great series of discussions with Glenn Greenwald from Democracy Now
(the 1st one runs 13 min and the other 3 about 5 min each)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJQTqcV12ik&spfreload=10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZskz8MprfM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG11njU3nO0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39ZXFxjhzus
and here's Glenn's article from the Intercept:
https://theintercept.com/2016/11/09/democrats-trump-and-the-ongoing-dang...

Ralph Nader responds to the election on Hartmann's The Big Picture (about 12 min each)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rRkqYuv3_8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1HPZv3-Gts

Democracy Now talks with Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org. His recent article for The New York Times is titled "Why Dakota is the New Keystone." (13 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XNiwBpGX-A

Jimmy Dore discusses the presidential election (15 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyBMhmK79tg

Paul Jay of the Real News shares his view on the election (6 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAilK8WV-lY

Great interview with Snowden. First link is a 2 min highlight followed by the full hour interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyhmOfckQaM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3svbmlMALM

Fun rant from Jonathon Pie (6 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLG9g7BcjKs

Chris Hedges and Michael Smith discuss “One Nation Under T-rump”. (27 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-edBT-1Sec

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Was the Election honest?
Greg Palast suggest the election was stolen by a device called Crosscheck.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/the-gops-stealth-war-again...
From Democracy Now a 13 min synopsis of Greg's movie “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvgEYp-vxZQ
And Greg also was on Lee Camp's show for the first half followed by Mark Crispin Miller, a Professor of Media, Culture and Communications at New York University (26 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LF0830IYMU

We'll get used to it...

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Maybe it won't be so bad????
Jimmy Dore suggest it might not be so scary (8 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-yo1Jyw_Bg

RT interview suggests T-rump infrastructure development will benefit the country. If T-rump follows this action, he would be as popular as Reagan (please no lord!) (9 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bQOqISD_ow

Still doesn't sound good, but ...
http://www.inquisitr.com/3698077/eight-lies-progressives-were-told-about...

This looks pretty bad to me...
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Lee Fang's article on T-rump's developing cabinet
https://theintercept.com/2016/11/08/trump-transition-lobbyists/

Can we limit it to four years?

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How did we get here?
We look at the media’s role in propping up Donald Trump over the past 18 months with three journalists: Lee Fang, John Nichols and Jose Antonio Vargas. (10 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyYQbIoX4vU

The demonization of third parties misses the fact that roots of our current situation are austerity, deindustrialization, and the impoverishment of half the nation, says journalist Chris Hedges (11 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO3BY0Yj4Jc

Some gains for the Green Party. The Green Party is now on the ballot automatically for 2018 and 2020 in 20 states and Washington DC. This is 12 states more than in 2016.
http://caucus99percent.com/content/jill-stein-and-green-party-election-r...

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Where do we go?
Chris Hedges discusses building successful non-violent mass movements with Bill Ayers, one of the co-founders of the Weather Underground. (27 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8rBeFw147E

TYT want to know who's going to step up now? The fight begins. (5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lru3LhZ9X1Y

Interesting discussion on future directions between Paul Jay and Bernie supporter, Michael Lighty of the Nurses Union (13 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssoLyqJZAmA

We discuss Trump’s victory with Becky Bond, longtime progressive activist and former senior adviser on volunteer mobilization for the Bernie Sanders campaign, and Chicana feminist Jodeen Olguín-Tayler, social movement strategist and vice president at Demos. (13 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsUZQM5evXg

Democratic party is in crisis and is trying to reorganize...from RT (3 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgQEp2HLQt0

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Cartoonist respond...
T-rump wins ...in South Park (2.5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtzLq2yoPU8

more cartoons...
https://theintercept.com/2016/11/11/10-cartoonists-react-to-trump-winnin...

Ballot measures

Prop 1 in Florida allows corporations to have a monopoly on solar power. TYT (5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJRDFdX-Q7w

Correspondent Naomi Karavani reports on the positive outcomes in many state ballot measures (in the last 5 min of Lee's show)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Xi8MX9wB0

DAPL

The police force engaging in violent attacks in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests are cowards for the violence they are inflicting on peaceful protestors. Jimmy Dore (10 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dqm0XyhBZE

Water protectors and voting – from telesur (1 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18xzwViD-WE

US Veterans support the first nations at Standing Rock (2 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOJ7UgookJg

Lee Camp suggest way to help at Standing Rock (6 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWixuuIvfOI

Nice update from yesterday
http://caucus99percent.com/content/standing-rock-november-12

The First Nations aren't the only ones being sidelined
Women of color forgotten at suffragette celebration (1 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xsE5CEi6Ww

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Even the foreign news focused on the US election...
A variety of world leaders on C-span (2 min)
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4630019/international-reaction-election-d...

Honduras
With Donald Trump as president, the united states will crack down on Central American migrants, according to former Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, who is currently the leader of the National Resistance Front. (2 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk4VdrsGQtk

Japan
What do people on the street say? (7 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R0yuFmql-c

What about the Climate?
Oil Change International’s Janet Redman says many elected officials and experts are now recalculating what the international community can do on climate change without the United States (10 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_rmyRIww48

Clear your mind, put our species in perspective, and watch the Earth from space for one year. (less than 3 min)
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFrP6QfbC2g]

This is an open thread. Any and all comments are welcome. What's on your mind?

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riverlover's picture

I have yet to have a killing frost, but a heavy browse on my tomato plants, just producing. Such is life. I may dare to blow the driveway, at least near the house. Batteries are charged. Post-concussion is acting up, sharp pains localized on my head to the staple mark region. I never saw pix of that, and they never shaved my head there. Got my first haircut in 5 months, one has doubts about going out in public with a black eye, another fall-down. And likely another concussion. Too old and wrong sex to play football now. Life is grand.

Enough watching-material for the day! I have to go out to buy garbage tags to put out regulated garbage tomorrow AM.

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Still no rain here in the dustbowl, but plenty of leaves. I've started blowing them out of my roadside ditches in case it ever rains again.

Steady does it with a head injury .... go easy....no football!

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

Explain you got it in mixed martial arts class. Then kindly ask if they'd like a demonstration.

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There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.

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sentimental. But battery ? and RC? I am sorry for no grandchildren. Lost possession of the Lionel train set after my husband's death. It was a very fussy item. New-fangled might be good.

https://smile.amazon.com/Lionel-Polar-Express-Ready-Train/dp/B01C35QC4W?...

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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11747414
A powerful earthquake struck New Zealand near the city of Christchurch on Sunday, with strong jolts felt over 120 miles away in the capital, Wellington, according to the United States Geological Survey.

The magnitude-7.4 quake struck just after midnight and was centered 57 miles northeast of Christchurch, according to the USGS.

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medicine. Have a smoke-in, love-in, peaceful gathering. BYO munchies for later. Couch locking Indica indicated, keep going. Thanks Lookout. Here's What a Trump Presidency Means for Marijuana

For those who may not have followed Trump's pledges and proposals on the campaign trail, one such suggestion made by the president-elect is that he would reschedule marijuana from its current illicit status as a Schedule 1 substance to perhaps Schedule 2 or lower. Schedule 1 substances are considered federally illegal and perceived to have no medical benefits, whereas Schedule 2 substances and lower are considered to have medical benefits but are also perceived to have addictive qualities.

Huh, I call Opposite Day! You know what I mean? Because I was looking at this other article about Peter Thiel, he is buying up California politicians (property) like crazy. It is disturbing. Not for billionaires, that's my motto. Oh well. Big money: Paypal co-founder’s $2B firm investing in marijuana

Jan 8, 2015
NEW YORK — The pros are getting into pot.

Founders Fund, the $2 billion San Francisco venture capital firm run by Silicon Valley stars including Peter Thiel, co-founder and former CEO of Paypal, is investing in Privateer Holdings, a marijuana company that owns several pot-related brands.

The companies declined to disclose the size of the investment Thursday, but described it as a “multi-million dollar” participation in a $75 million fundraising effort by Privateer. The deal had been rumored last year.

~giggle~ thought bubble with Mr. Industry Trump and Mr. Fundamentalist Pence. They will flip a coin to decide where the profit and jobs occur, which is presently a prison industrial complex. Oh please land heads up or whichever side Peter Thiel and the magic herb wins. ~doink!~ See! Opposite Day. ;-D

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/technology/peter-thiel-bet-donald-trump-wins-big.html

Hillary Clinton’s campaign, Mr. Thiel said, forgot the motto that Bill Clinton had won the presidency with in 1992: “It’s the economy, stupid.”

“Somehow the Clintons did not remember,” he said. “It was a blind spot.” Mr. Thiel said that against Senator Bernie Sanders, who competed against Mrs. Clinton for the Democratic nomination, it “would have been much tougher for Trump to win, and a healthier race for the country. It would have been two candidates who agreed about the country’s stagnation but had very different policy prescriptions.” [...]

LOL Thanks?
edit: useless apostrophe in subject, now craving a sandwich.

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has been in limbo for awhile. One of my past students has been growing in CA the last few years. He voted against the prop. because he thought it created an opportunity of a corporate take over of production. I guess Thiel's actions are evidence.

I reckon it will be a cold day in hell when Alabama finally decriminalizes pot...they like using the law to imprison black folks and eliminating their voting rights.

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Before (64, Trump, whatevs) Grow crop, sell crop.
After (64, Trump, whatevs) Grow crop, sell crop.

Sativa enlightenment. Cheers

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For a while KY was the major hemp producer in the US. Now that tobacco is a frowned-upon crop he was all set to turn all those fields back to Cannabis production, giving new life to those fields. Without the slaves. Which reminds me: Does anyone know if Tobacco for cigars is still hand-cut? The entire plant used to be machete-cut and hung to dry. Think slaves.

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thanks. My stomach tells me that there is nothing for me to say.

Have a good Sunday.

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But I have a bunch of gardening to do today, working in my greenhouse.

I am not experienced or skilled at Twitter (Steven D is pretty good) . . . but I tried my hand at it today.

https://twitter.com/marilynhagle/status/797802041716461568

My hope and prayer for President-elect Trump is that he is converted on the climate crisis. If a person really really grasps the scope of the issue, trivial bullshit falls by the wayside.

See what you think, and maybe someone out there can compose a better tweet!

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Marilyn

"Make dirt, not war." eyo

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to educate the Donald about climate change. Unfortunately I'm afraid he's more interested in his bottom line.

Climate is the issue to unite around, and Standing Rock is the focal point. (from my view anyway)

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I agree. It makes it very personal for those who will listen.

Got a like from Jason Box @climate_ice. Smile

Long shot but it doesn't hurt to try.

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"Make dirt, not war." eyo

on us, the middle class(so called) will continue to disappear and those with a high school education, or less, will sink even farther in poverty and hopelessness. It is our duty to first understand the dynamic of global monopoly capitalism so we don't get suckered into identity politics where the 1% splits workers into manageable factions to compete with one another instead of working to end "grow and die" capitalism. We should accept half measures but realize that's what they are and press forward toward system change to displace climate change.

How would the world be different if the Sierra Club never existed? There would be fewer parklands but pollution and exploitation would be the same.

African-Americans have had one of their own as president for eight years and what positive do they have to show for giving the Democrats 90% of their votes? Are their fewer blacks imprisoned? jobless? homeless?

The Democratic establishment talks about the Hispanic vote as if those who speak Spanish have the same aspirations and needs. Spanish speakers have lived in what is now the USA since at least the 1600s in parts of California, the southwest, and Florida. The Puerto Ricans who have left that colony to live on the east coast are Hispanics but have little in common with the above people. The same can be said for Mexican Americans; those escaping murderous regimes in El Salvador and Guatemala and Honduras; and the Cubans who left after the Cuban revolution.

Chris Hedges seems to have a good grasp of the global problem and I look forward to reading his essays.

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"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"

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was really interesting if you've got 30 min.

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when he said Bernie would end up betraying us (something to this effect). And that was last fall, just as Bernie was ramping up.

Turns out I owe Hedges an apology. I don't think anyone has a better grasp on what is going down than Chris.

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That line from Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" fell a little flat for me. I watched the open to SNL last night expecting to see Baldwin's Trump taking a victory lap. What I got instead was Kate McKinnon's Hillary singing a soulful rendition of Hallelujah.

McKinnon is quite a good singer and can tickle the ivories, who knew. But I didn't buy the message. That song is sooooo the polar opposite of Hillary. Anyway, for the Hillary fans in the house (is there even one?), here's the video. Watch, Weep and Heal.

Lookout, cudos on the essay today. Lot's of great links and loved the cartoons. Smile

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Kate does a great Hellery. I love the way she does her eyes when she's playing the $hill.

Thanks for the clip, and glad you liked today's post. I have a feeling we'll get many funny T-rump cartoons as we progress (or is that regress?).

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across multiple disciplines in the performing arts -- this is what they are about. The same kids who are in the high school play are in the high school musical, and take dancing lessons and piano lessons. (Consider Jimmy Fallon's brilliant mimicry of Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, and Bob Dylan, right down to their harmonica sound ...)

Regardless -- and I'm not an adept critic of vocal performance -- I believe she is quite literally "flat" for much of the song. I'd also say that her practical range is only about an octave, maybe an octave and a half. Interestingly, she "chooses" to go low at a lyric where most vocalists go high.

The bottom line is that I can sing that song a lot better than she can, and nobody has ever paid to hear me do it.

She does appear to be brokenhearted for reals.

By contrast, a friend of mine -- one of my oldest, best friends -- was unexpectedly at this unexpected performance ("unexpectedly" because at the last minute some friends told him they had an extra ticket; "unexpected" because Lang was substituting for Neil Young, who was ill), which in my opinion far outshines all other available renditions, including others by Lang herself:

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The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.

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Post it to sound cloud. You have just turned professional with this transaction. Biggrin

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Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.

no idea what sound cloud is, presumably something along the lines of youtube, but audio only?

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Kate only sang 3 I think. You pick em. Smile

Sound Cloud is a free site for posting audio/music. Lots of good music out there if you poke around. Ranges from amateurs to touring bands.
https://soundcloud.com/

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Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.

the story is that when Jeff Buckley John Cale heard the song and wanted to record it, he got Cohen's phone number and contacted him directly to ask for a copy of the lyrics, to make sure he got them right. Cohen offered to fax them over. The next thing Buckley Cale knows, his fax machine starts spewing page after page after page.

The last time I tried, I only found about 10 or so 7 documented on the intertubes.

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I have lost my voice (thanks to cigs, likely) but I still have an ear. I was initially a soprano who would hear alto. If you get my musical sense. Never learned to read it, it was just natural after first hear. Now gone.

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It's worth noting that the crowd that is going effin nuts by the end was initially very disappointed that Young wasn't there. He has only performed in Winnipeg a handful of times since he bailed on the 'Peg, headed down east, and then drove his hearse to LA. His scheduled performance was expected to be the highlight of the Junos.

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When I read an old article and Leonard Cohen was saying he was a great admirer of Hillary. It was 1992, so I will forgive him; however, I already hated her in 1992 and I wonder how people were taken in by all that sleaziness.

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Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.

until her stint in the Senate ... Flag burning, PATRIOT, AUMF, bleargh.

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I used to be brunette (clever word), now foxy grey brindle.

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if Hellery will ride off into the sunset and stay out of politics from now on!

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it's an interesting hypothesis - Soros funding anti-Trump riots
(3.5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAMZ1Fi6-kU

Here it is again from RT (3 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14zszKEKz-I

As I said earlier, I wish they were marching for Standing Rock...instead of Clinton billionaires.

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Is Soros indeed the funding source of Black lives matter and Move on? Either way this activist from Standing Rock has an interesting story.

Activist and journalist Derrick Broze from the Conscious Resistance is interviewed about a looming heritage war near the Standing Rock reservation. He addresses using Soros as a way to misdirect attention from the important issues. Nice interview from someone on the ground. (15 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdaY4CiINJc

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got paid. Ahem, folks who have not done a yearly commitment should please do so now. We mostly love this site? We need this site in changing times, now more than ever. So cough it up, folks. Thanks.

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“The small and bullying leader of Russia is not dictating terms to the United States,” Pence said during the debate on October 4. “We have got to be able to lean into this with strong, broad-shouldered American leadership.”

“The provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength,” he added. “The United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime.”

“We are going to rebuild our military. This whole Putin thing, look, America is stronger than Russia. Our economy is 16 times larger than the Russian economy. Our political system is superior to the crony corrupt capitalis system in Russia it every way,” Pence said, answering the question about a reason of Republicans’ confidence in the fact that Putin will respect a Trump-Pence administration, while he has no respect for Hillary Clinton and no respect for Obama. “When Donald Trump and I observed, as I said, in Syria and Iran and Ukraine that the small and bullying leader of Russia has been stronger on the world stage than this administration, that is stating painful facts,” he added."

Mike Pence

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Bummer. He will be President pro-tem, we all see it coming.

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"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X