Politics

Submitted by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,

In retaliation for the hacking of John Podesta and the DNC, Barack Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats and ordered closure of their country houses on Long Island and Maryland’s Eastern shore.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that 35 U.S. diplomats would be expelled. But Vladimir Putin stepped in, declined to retaliate at all, and invited the U.S. diplomats in Moscow and their children to the Christmas and New Year’s party at the Kremlin.

WikiLeaks has vowed that 2017 will be an even bigger year for leaks than 2016 Last year saw the whistleblowing site publish thousands of documents exposing US political secrets and much more… Without giving anything away, Wikileaks tweeted on Monday: “If you thought 2016 was a big WikiLeaks year, 2017 will blow you away” If you thought 2016 was a big WikiLeaks year 2017 will blow you away.

Back on December 15, two weeks ahead of the day the OPEC production cut agreement was set to begin, according to which some 1.2 million barrels per day in oil production from OPEC member states would be removed, a report emerged that contrary to its mandated production cut of 210Kbpd, Iraq was actually preparing to boost its exports by 7%.

A memo from the Department of Homeland Security, which was recently reviewed by Reuters, suggest that the Trump administration plans to hit the ground running on the construction of that U.S.-Mexico border wall when they move into the White House later this month.  The memo apparently summarized a meeting held between DHS officials and Trump's transition team on December 5th in which requests were made for an assessment of "all assets available for border wall and barrier construction."

The hits just keep on coming for Donald Trump, who not only scored several high profile wins today just by tweeting, when first Ford cancelled a Mexico expansion plan after Trump scolded GM for a similar transgression, followed by House Republicans undoing their proposal to strip the Ethics Office of its independence, culminating with the Senate announcing it has begun the process of repealing Obamacare, the next big thing on the agenda is who will be present at the Trump inauguration on Jan. 20.