Ivan Aivazovsky Palace rains in Venice by moonlight 1878 Me, personally, I can’t get rid of the notion that all the stablecoins and shitcoins and altcoins that have been initiated and “legalized”, are just a way of “shining” bitcoin in a light of uninvestable darkness. And for that, a bunch of “trading places” (pun intended) were called for. One of the biggest, FTX, just went from $32 billion to $0 in a single day. Not even Enron could
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Rembrandt van Rijn The three trees 1643 • US Worried About EU Commitment To Punishing Russia (RT) • How Europe Is Destroying Its Own ‘Garden’ (MPN) • White House Divided On Pushing For Peace In Ukraine – NYT (RT) • Kiev Introduces New Restrictions On Speaking Russian (RT) • Sun Tzu Walks Into a Kherson Bar… (Escobar) • Russian Defense Ministry Gives Update On Kherson Withdrawal (RT) • Rewiring Eurasia: Mr. Patrushev Goes To Tehran (Escobar) • Kremlin Reacts
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Francesco Queirolo Il Disinganno, Naples, Sansevero Chapel 1753-1754 (the netting is also all marble) I was thinking all day about Kherson, and how the re-capture of the city is presented in our media. Thinking, also, about the 2,500 kilometer (1,500 miles, give or take) frontline. And of course if you focus troops and material at any single given point along a line of that size, you can make some advances. But does that mean anything, really? Other than
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Rembrandt van Rijn The artist’s son Titus 1657 • Will A Russian Kherson Exit Create The Right ‘Facts On The Ground’? (Snider) • The Pullout From Kherson (MoA) • Moscow Sets Out Conditions For Talks With EU (RT) • The Collective West Might Be Losing The War With Eurasia (Lee) • Energy Bills In Europe Are 90% Higher Than Last Year (OP) • Hungary Explains ‘Total Failure’ Of Sanctions On Russia (RT) • The Dysfunctional Relationship At The Heart
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Salvador Dali Portrait of my father 1920 • How The Green Agenda Is Being Used To Fleece The Naive (Rachel Marsden) • On Deconstructing Constructs (Batiushka) • How the Loss of Control of Either House Could Impact the President (Turley) • Moscow Comments On US Electoral System ‘Crisis’ (RT) • Washington Refuses To Send Advanced Drones To Ukraine – WSJ (RT) • Ukraine Extends Martial Law, Mobilization For 90 Days Until Feb. 19 (Az.) • The WEF Plan for
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Rembrandt van Rijn Portrait of Rembrandt with gorget 1629 • Super-States in Core Eurasian Geopolitics (Straight-Bat) • Moscow Suggests How Many Countries Want To Join BRICS (RT) • US and Russia To Hold Nuclear Talks (RT) • Why Does The Western Narrative Sound So Stupid And Unrealistic? (Romatzki) • American Pundits Have Got It Backwards About China (Blankenship) • American Voters Don’t Need Russian Trolls To Tell Them How Bad Things Are (RB) • Russian Oil Exports Surging (RT)
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Rembrandt van Rijn Self portrait with tousled hair 1629 • WaPo Awards Biden a “Bottomless Pinocchio” (Turley) • The Pathetic Democratic Pantheon (Victor Davis Hanson) • Biden Administration Privately Asks US Banks To Keep Working With Russia (RT) • US Nuclear Forces Chief Says ‘the Big One Is Coming (Antiwar) • EU Official Reveals How Far Ukraine Is From Membership (RT) • World Is On ‘Highway To Hell’ – UN Chief (RT) • The World Is Racing To Break
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Rembrandt van Rijn Small self portrait 1627-28 • Dead Hand’s Revenge: What Would Happen If The West Strikes Russia? (Duncan) • Ukraine Conflict Approaching Its Stalingrad – Serbian President (RT) • Democrats, Not Democracy, Are In Danger This Election (Turley) • The Trojan Horse Presidency (Dmitry Orlov) • There May Not Be a 2024 Election – Martin Armstrong (USAW) • Researchers Find Massive Anti-Russian ‘Bot Army’ (Cronau) • Scholz‘s 11-hours Visit to Beijing Spells Catastrophe (Pattberg) • US ‘Privately’
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Ivan Shishkin The wilds 1881 • Berlin – Moscow – Beijing (Escobar) • The End of the Beginning and the Beginning of the End (Batiushka) • Global Bankers ‘Very Pro-China’ – UBS (RT) • Russia Seeks Sanctions Waiver To Facilitate Grain Exports (RT) • The Oil Nationalization Two-Step (Luongo) • Media Identifies Major Beneficiary Of Ukraine Crisis (RT) • US Wants Official Of Ukrainian Descent To Run NATO (RT) • Over 50 Countries Vote Against Anti-Nazism UN Measure (RT)
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Ivan Shishkin Midday. Near Moscow 1869 • Love Letter to Ireland and to ALL the Debt-Enslaved Nations of the World (Chu) • The One Chart That Explains Everything (Mike Whitney) • UK Was ‘Hours’ Away From Potential Total Meltdown – Bank Of England (RT) • Wells Fargo Braces For More Layoffs As Loan Volumes Collapse 90% YOY (ZH) • Michael Hudson on The Destiny of Civilization (Platypus) • How Bright Are EUropeans ? (Vilches) • Key Takes From Vladimir
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