John William Waterhouse It’s Sweet Doing Nothing / Dolce Far Niente 1879 The very first thing we must conclude from looking at the pork-laden $900 billion US “stimulus bill” is that this is all Washington is capable of anymore. This is it. That it has nothing to do with which party you vote for. If you don’t come to that conclusion, you’re seriously disoriented. Both parties have been talking about the bill for 8 months, and blamed each
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Vincent van Gogh Banks of the Seine with Pont de Clichy in the Spring 1887 • Lockdowns Do Not Control the Coronavirus (AIER) • Yuletide Visitations (Kunstler) • Chris Krebs Takes Blame For Massive Hack: ‘It Happened On My Watch’ (NYP) • Krebs’ CISA Was Flagged Repeatedly For Poor Performance (JTN) • Dominion Voting Website Scrubbed Of Reference To SolarWinds (JTN) • House Passes 5593 Page Stimulus Bill Without Anyone Having Read It (ZH) • Pelosi Calls $600 COVID19
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Edward Hopper House tops 1921 • $600 Is Not Enough, And It Won’t Get Easier (Sirota) • Hospital CEOs Have Gotten Rich Cutting Staff And Supplies (IC) • Coronavirus New Variant (Conv.) • Covid Chaos Disrupts Kent Ports As France Bans UK Freight (G.) • Saudi Arabia Shuts Down Int’l Air, See & Land Travel Over New Covid Strain • US Deep State Preempts Reset in Relations With Russia (SCF) • ‘No Question’ Russia Behind Latest Hacking Scare –
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Paulus Potter De stier 1625 Dr. D today from an entirely unexpected angle: cattle farming from a engineer’s point of view. His interest here stems from the increasing numbers of people wanting to move “back to the land” in COVID time, who have very little idea what that entails. Well, here it is, here’s your manual: Dr. D: Since the idea of 1840 has come up, let’s do something useful and work out math on 1840’s
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Edward Hopper Sunday 1926 • Sarah Palin Calls for Julian Assange to Be Pardoned (GP) • FDA Investigating Multiple Allergic Reactions To Pfizer Vaccine (Hill) • Netherlands Bans Air Travel From UK Till 2021 Over New Covid19 Strain (RT) • Desperate Families Flee London Ahead Of Tier 4 Misery (DM) • Trump Lashes Out At Media For Blaming Russia For Hacking: It ‘May Be China’ (RT) • US Agencies’ Trust In Untested Software Opened The Door To Hackers (Pol.)
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Salvador Dalí Mi esposa desnuda 1945 Over the past 5 years I’ve addressed this numerous times, and it just goes on. When the MSM, WaPo, NYT, CNN, MSNBC, started to feel a real threat to their existence and survival from social media, they changed course radically. They no longer attempted to inform people, they began to shape their readers’ and watchers’ opinions. And it worked. That change appears to bear fruit. The WaPo announced the other day they’re
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Sergio Larraín Valparaiso Passage Bavestrello 1952 • Facebook Joins Twitter In Reverting To Pre-Election News Feed Algorithms (RT) • Lawmakers Ask Whether Massive Hack Amounted To Act Of War (Hill) • California Reports Record COVID Cases and Deaths—Despite Strict Lockdown (FEE) • Research Suggests COVID19 Enters The Brain, May Be Autoimmune Disease (RT) • Trump Blasts John McCain After New Texts From FBI Lover Peter Strzok (DM) • Steele Dossier Was ‘Intended To Influence’ Media – Strzok (RT) •
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Egon Schiele Meadow, Church and Houses 1912 • Twitter To Remove Tweets That Spread Lies About COVID Vaccines (G.) • “Who Wants To Be A Guinea Pig?”: Health Workers Balk At Vaccine (ZH) • How Virtual Learning Has Traumatized Their Children (DC) • WHO -Finally- Admits PCR Tests Create False Positives (OffG) • Joe Biden Calls His Son Hunter ‘The Smartest Man I Know’ (DC) • They Won’t Take “No” For An Answer (Ward) • Georgia Announces Signature Matching
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Filothei Skitzi Human puzzle on COVID19 days 2020 I know, I know, I’ve been largely silent about most “usual suspect topics” lately, other than in the Debt Rattles, but I must admit, those topics have been draining me, along with the full lockdown here in Greece. I understand why politicians want to do lockdowns, but I also understand why they shouldn’t. Lockdowns drain life out of societies and communities, and there’s no guarantee that this life will ever
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Vincent van Gogh Self-Portrait with Straw Hat Aug-Sep 1887 • Assange Spoke to US State Dept to Stop Publication of Unredacted Cables (Sp.) • Julian Assange Has Formally Requested a Pardon From President Donald Trump (GP) • Pfizer To Assess Report About ‘Serious Allergic Reaction’ To Vaccine (RT) • First Glitches Emerge In COVID-Vax Rollout (ZH) • An App Could Catch 98.5% Of All COVID19 Infections. Why Isn’t It Available? (G.) • Grand County Coroner Raises Concern On Deaths
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