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    Pablo Picasso The artist and his model 1933   • The Odds Of A Recession In The Next Year (Colombo) • $12 Trillion Of Negative-Yielding Bonds Are
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    #48065
    zerosum
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    Coming:
    more bad weather
    Sand bags of printed money for flooded farmers.
    Shortage of ethanol
    Shortage of cow feed
    Increase consumer price
    Increase farm bankruptcies
    Increase bank assets

    #48066
    John Day
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    http://www.johndayblog.com/2019/06/changing-strategy.html
    As US-Iran tensions increase, Tulsi Gabbard calls her 2020 candidacy a ‘threat to the foreign policy lies sold to the American people’
    T his past week, two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman were crippled with explosions that have set the region on edge and sparked concerns that the United States and Iran could soon engage in a bloody war with massive international ramifications.
    With little information made public, the Trump administration has begun making the case for a potential conflict, blaming Iran and pointing to a grainy video as proof of its culpability.
    Meanwhil..e, worlds away from the Middle East, congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has been framing her presidential candidacy on avoiding this type of sabre rattling. While some of her better-known Democratic rivals have focused on healthcare or climate change as the number one concern, the army veteran has instead cited nuclear war and US regime-change policy as the number one threat to the the country she hopes to lead.
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tulsi-gabbard-2020-democrat-iran-us-regime-change-war-oil-a8959586.html

    Early this morning Iranian air defense shot down a U.S. high attitude reconnaissance drone:
    DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards have shot down a U.S. “spy” drone in the southern province of Hormozgan, which is on the Gulf, the Guards’ news website Sepah News said on Thursday.
    State news agency IRNA carried the same report, identifying the drone as an RQ-4 Global Hawk.
    “It was shot down when it entered Iran’s airspace near the Kouhmobarak district in the south,” the Guards’ website added.​..
    ​ ​Trump does not want to open a military conflict with Iran. But he is already waging a brutal economic war against Iran and the country is pushing back. Trump wants negotiations with Iran without first lifting his sanctions against it. Iran rejects that.​..
    ​ (Interestingly no MQ-4C is supposed to be in the Middle East. The deployment must have been secret. Update: This specific drone seems to have arrived in Qatar only five days ago.​)…​
    ​ ​It does no longer matter what Trump wants. Iran has achieved escalation dominance. It can cause a myriad of incidents that force Trump to react. He can either launch a hot war and thereby risk his reelection bid, or he can cut back on the sanctions that hurt the Iranian people. If he does not do either, more pinpricks will follow and will over time become more costly.
    The loss of the Global Hawk drone is significant. These huge birds, with a wingspan larger than a Boeing 737, are considered strategic assets. They were build as replacements for the infamous U-2 spy planes. They carry highly classified sensors and cost more than $120 million a piece.
    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/06/iran-shoots-down-strategic-us-drone-is-ready-for-war-puts-maximum-pressure-on-trump-.html#more

    All over the world, leaders of important countries, and various “experts” of all stripe are calling ‘bullshit” on US evidence that “Iran obviously did it”.
    Even Elliot Higgins of Bellingcat – who is famously pro-war against regimes which the U.S. has targeted, like Syria – writes in the New York Times:
    Nothing presented as evidence proves that the object was placed there by the Iranians. The video shows only that the Iranians chose to remove it for an as yet unknown reason.
    This is especially important in light of a statement by Yukata Katada, the president of the operator of the Kokuka Courageous, that the crew had reported that the ship was attacked by a “flying object.” Mr. Katada added, “I do not think there was a time bomb or an object attached to the side of the ship.”

    Officials Worldwide Are Skeptical of Claim that Iran Attacked Tankers In Gulf of Oman

    Pompeo To Present Military “Options” To Trump As Iran Threatens Carriers With “Precision” Ballistic Missiles
    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-18/iran-threatens-carriers-precision-ballistic-missiles-pompeo-present-trump-range

    #48067
    John Day
    Participant

    Outrage Against ‘Rising Jewish Hegemony’ Was Widespread Among Top US Military Brass Before and After WW2

    Ron Unz (12400 words, long and detailed, Thanks, Eleni)

    https://russia-insider.com/en/outrage-against-rising-jewish-hegemony-was-widespread-among-top-us-military-brass-and-after-ww2

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