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  • in reply to: Debt Rattle September 21 2023 #143396
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    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 25 2020 #57884
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    Just a nit, but Mountrail County is in northwestern North Dakota, not South Dakota. It’s 300 or so miles from the SD hotspot in Sioux Falls, SD.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle February 1 2020 #53308
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    From the Kunstler piece on Adam Schiff as the new face of the Democratic Party: “This grubby seditionist has marched the party into a wilderness of deceit and knavery that taints them all . . ”
    Not true! The Democratic Party has been in that wilderness of deceit and knavery for over a quarter of a century.

    in reply to: Nobody Called Anyone An Ignorant Slut #36774
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    Re: “Of course the next issue must be that neither truly represent either party. They’re [Trump & Sanders} both ‘outsiders’ who’ve taken over existing -but failing- structures.

    Not correct in the case of Sanders. He has the support of much of what had once been the Democratic Party grass roots, but not national party apparatus. Earlier this month the Democratic National Committee was purged of most of its Sanders supporters.

    in reply to: Peak American Wealth – Revisited #32856
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    TAE is one of the two sites I check on first thing every morning. I’ll turn 78 later this year and thankfully am still in good physical health. I believe one reason relatively few young people read sites like this is that many are busy with their careers and what limited time is left over is devoted to family. I know I was that way from my late 20s until about age 60, when both my wife and myself found ourselves unexpectedly out of the full time work force. That was early in the new millennium. Then 9/11 came along which I took personally since my daughter’s place of employment that day was One World Trade Center. Fortunately she was late leaving for work that day and didn’t catch her usual bus. The one she caught ten minutes later was on East Broadway about a half a mile away from the WTC when AA 11 hit her building. She was able to call us immediately after her bus stopped so we were lucky to know she was OK right away. That event, plus the additional time I had working only part time, reignited the interest in history and current affairs I’d had when young. Plus by then I had begun to question what we were being fed by the media. The run up to the Iraq war destroyed whatever respect I still had for the MSM. I don’t recall how I found TAE but I’ve been surfing here daily for at least five years. Other sites that I go to daily are Naked Capitalism, New Economic Perspectives, Ian Welsh, and Sic Semper Tyrannis. The last is invaluable regarding events in the Middle East. Like others here, I shudder when contemplating what life is likely to be for my three 40 something children and my three single digit grand daughters if they’re fortunate (or perhaps unfortunate) enough to reach my age.

    in reply to: Was Greece Set Up To Fail? #22549
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    Was Greece Set Up to Fail?
    Per Washingtons blog, channeling a Greg Palast piece in The Guardian a while back, it wasn’t Greece that was set up to fail, but the entire Euro project, and to do so in such a way as to allow Germany & friends to crush the weaker members of the currency union. Greece just happens to be the first in line.
    https://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/07/little-known-history-of-the-euro-crisis-was-baked-in-from-the-start.html#disqus_thread
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jun/26/robert-mundell-evil-genius-euro

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 6 2015 #22193
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    Here’s another Greece-related post to check out today from John Helmer in Moscow. A quite disturbing one, in fact.
    “NUDELMAN’S NEW WAR, NULAND’S NEMESIS – WILL GREECE, OR WON’T GREECE BE DESTROYED TO SAVE HER FROM RUSSIA, LIKE UKRAINE?”
    https://johnhelmer.net/?p=13712

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 30 2015 #21971
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    Important post at Vinyard of the Saker regarding the Greece connection to the geo-political struggle between the US Deep State and the emergent BRICS axis, as focused on the pipeline routes for moving Russian gas to European Union countries.

    Eastring vs. Balkan Stream: The Battle For Greece

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    It’s my understanding that estimates of the percentage of German battle deaths that occurred on the Eastern Front range from about 70% to 93%. The exact figure is unknown because Wehrmacht record keeping collapsed in the last weeks of the war.

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