Debt Rattle August 16 2018
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Vasily Polenov Moscow courtyard 1878 • Turkish Lira Rallies As Qatar Makes $15bn Loan Pledge (G.) • Turkey Slashes Capacity Of Banks To Bet Aga
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle August 16 2018]Trump, being slap-happy with sanctions, is really shaking things up across the board.
It seems until very recently the world was crawling, ever so slowly, towards multi-polarity; it seems to have accelerated markedly in the last week. Good, the sooner the better, IMO.
But, there be breakers ahead. Georgia and the Balkins come to mind
The road ahead does have forks; and one of those is the path to war. A big war.
Putin has basically thrown down the gauntlet last March 1st. I sense an itchyness on the part of the Pentagon to find out just how good Russia’s new weapons in fact are…
Let’s not find out the stupid way…huh?Polenov was new for me too. Posted three of his paintings now. Apparently this one made his name. Do check out the large version at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Polenov#/media/File:Moscow_Courtyard_(Polenov,_1878).jpg
But I have to say I am more impressed with another one I used recently, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Polenov#/media/File:1896_Polenow_Christus_unter_den_Lehrern_anagoria.JPG
A wonderful story someone first told me about yesterday, national holiday. There’s a church on a Greek island where in 1705, when they were under attack by pirates, the nuns of a monastery prayed for help and Panagia Fidousa – Virgin Mary of the Snakes, turned them into snakes. Every year around August 15 the snakes return to the church, only to disappear right after.
Miracle Snakes of Panagia appear again in Kefalonia church (video)
Ilargi
I remember the Christ among the Doctors; but, for my taste, the courtyard in Moscow was far more beautiful/stunning and your link to the larger image was just delicious (my wife thought it was a photograph).
Those durn, pesky Ruskies are damn fine at their art… 😉A lovely story, the Snakes of Panagia. Not unlike the sparrows of San Juan Capistrano in California.
Ilargi
I spent some time looking at Christ among the Doctors.
The detail is phenominal; the mats on the floors for sitting; the lighting, especially from the inside looking out through the windows and doors and the entry on the right.
This painting is so different from the Moscow courtyard; I learned something here. Very important, IMO.
The eye of the beholder indeed…Note, if the government is “Reshaping Capitalism”, it may be necessary, but it’s not Capitalism. That’s starting with Democratic Socialism and the problems therein. Just pointing out that the Market is the base state, and the Government is the distortion. Jiggering around too much is how we got in this mess. (as opposed to too little in the 1870s)
• RBS Bankers Joked About Destroying The US Housing Market (G.)
Should be titled: “…And nobody went to jail…”What will Tesla do without Musk? Considering their bumpers fall off in the rain and their batteries regularly cremate the occupants, I would think a whole lot better. He’s the worst businessman I’ve ever seen. Too bad to prove how awful he is he already fired or drove off all the good managers and engineers he had on staff this year. I think he’s planning to build all the cars himself, by hand. Why else would he fire all the workers? With a record like that, can the question even be asked?
So goes your “Alien Dreadnaught” factory, and the victory of AI. AI and robotics can’t even use a glue gun without breaking. #fail. They are, however, already good at killing unsuspecting humans.
Vasily Polenov Moscow courtyard 1878
A syrupy-sweet, undeniably light, proto-Kinkaid Potemkin village. I’m in heaven…not. One of Dali’s more bizarre surreal images would be more in sync with contemporary times.
“One of Brennan’s major concerns at this point has to be whether the “honor-among-thieves” ethos will prevail, or whether some or all of his former partners in crime will latch onto the opportunity to “confess” to investigators: “Brennan made me do it.””
Early late cycle scenario: pirhanas start to eat each other/victorious retreat. Popcorn time.
“…Brennan now lacks what, here in Washington, we refer to as a “Rabbi” with strong incentive to advance and protect you.”
What can I say? LOL
We passed that last week: Brennan already said “Obama made me do it.” We were all pretty wowed, but naturally the media never commented or followed up…Although it was on Meet the Press or some huge show.
So if you work for Brennan, why would you do loyalty? He doesn’t. Not a fan.
Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov (Russian: Васи́лий Дми́триевич Поле́нов; 1 June 1844 – 18 July 1927) was a Russian landscape painter associated with the Peredvizhniki movement of realist artists.
What reality do you see?
I see a women carrying out the night soil.
I see an outhouse.
I see a honey wagon.
I see a kitchen midden pit.
I see a child picking flower to put on the cover of the kitchen midden cover to mask the odours.Aretha Franklin RIP. She could sing.
Indeed, she said;
You got to disturb the peace if you got no piece.
So much for the bankers didn’t know:
“By October 2007, as signs of stress began to show in the banking system, RBS’ chief credit officer wrote to colleagues expressing his true feelings about the burgeoning volume of subprime loans in the housing market.
He said loans were being pushed by “every possible … style of scumbag”, adding that it was “like quasi-organised crime”.
“Nobody seems to care,” he added.
The DoJ criticised RBS’ failure to do due diligence on the loans it was packaging, saying the bank feared it would lose out to rivals if it performed stricter tests.
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If RBS bankers knew the true situation, every other bank had someone that knew as well.The “profit motive”, unchecked by “community motive”, continues to fail humanity. Power and domination are the goals, so it isn’t the economic system that is the problem.
Native societies could think and decide based on seven generations. Decisions now are the quarter or the newscycle. God bless those that are capable of a multi-generational long view and perpetuation of community.
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