Martin Johnson Heade Thunderstorm on Narragansett Bay 1868 • $2.5 Quadrillion Disaster Waiting to Happen – Egon von Greyerz (USAW) • No Sign Russia Preparing To Use Nuclear Weapons – White House (RT) • G7 To Set Fixed Price On Russian Oil (RT) • No Pain, No Grain: Putin’s Black Sea Comeback (Escobar) • Russian MP Urges Doubling Of Military Service Time (RT) • Thieves’ Paradise In Kiev (Helmer) • Turkey Holds Off On Finland And Sweden In NATO
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Salvador Dali Self portrait (Figueres) 1921 • US Struggling To Trace Arms Given To Ukraine – WaPo (RT) • Biden’s Foreign Policy Sinking His Party & Ukraine (Jeffrey Sachs) • The New Cuban Missile Crisis That Isn’t (Dmitri Orlov) • Whole World Suffers From Western Propaganda – Russia (RT) • Russia Ready To Provide Grain To Poorest Countries Free Of Charge – Putin (Az.) • Russia Strips Ukrainian ‘Oligarchs’ Of Crimean Property – Official (RT) • Kremlin Comments On
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Balthus Girl at a window 1957 • Pentagon Confirms US Boots Are On The Ground In Ukraine (ZH) • Outrage Ensues After The Atlantic Suggests ‘Amnesty’ For Pandemic Authoritarians (ZH) • We Need Covid Accountability, Not Amnesty (QTR) • New World Order: The West Will Have To Live Within Its Means (Karaganov) • Zelensky ‘Nullified’ Grain Shipping Deal – Russian Duma Speaker (RT) • There Will Be No Deal – Zelensky Broke The Rules! (Milacic) • Russia Offers Alternative
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Vincent van Gogh Quay with Men Unloading Sand Barges 1888 A comment by notorious daily commenter Dr.D. on Sunday took me back a few years. He was reacting to someone who wrote this about our take on the Ukraine situation: “I am just adding a little balance to a very one sided group who have very deep seated bias against the West and are blind to any faults on the other side.” Absolutely brilliant. People easily forget that
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Vilhelm Hammershoi Woman Seen from the Back 1888 • Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinformation (IC) • “The Bird is Free.” Will Elon Musk Become Grand Duke of Mars? (Ugo Bardi) • How Elon Musk Should Shape Twitter — Sans the Sink (Turley) • ‘Inflation Came From Nowhere’ – Lagarde (RT) • Putin Clarifies Position On Grain Deal (RT) • Russia Tells UN It Will Inspect Black Sea Ships (RT) • Israeli Finance Minister Added To Kiev’s
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VIncent van Gogh Railway carriages 1888 Frequent and longtime commenter TAE Summary makes lists from time to time of differing views on topics as these can be found on The Automatic Earth and elsewhere. Since so few people understand the topic of energy (and thermodynamics), this latest list is useful as usual. What the media reports on energy is as much “The Science” as it is on Covid and the climate. We better start questioning everything about it,
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Paul Gauguin Huts under trees 1887 • Kremlin Outlines Why Solo Negotiations With Ukraine Are ‘Impossible’ (RT) • Kremlin Reveals Possible Basis For Putin-Biden Talks (RT) • New Details On Drone Attack In Crimea Emerge (RT) • Washington Seeking To Weaken EU – Moscow (RT) • Left-Wing Lula Narrowly Wins Brazilian Presidency (ZH) • Russia and China Can Shatter Dollar Dominance – Chinese Diplomat (RT) • Bad Economics Leads To Bad Outcomes (Denninger) • German Official Offers Controversial Solution
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Balthus Girl at the window 1955 • Americans Support Quick Diplomatic End To War In Ukraine (ReSt) • ‘Russia Will Lose The Energy Battle,’ Says IEA Chief Fatih Birol (EN) • Russian Energy ‘Will Never Return’ – IEA (RT) • US LNG Cannot Replace The Russian Natural Gas That Europe Has Lost (OP) • Putin: “The Situation Is, To A Certain Extent, Revolutionary” (Escobar) • ‘Massive’ Drone Attack On Black Sea Fleet – Russia (BBC) • Russia Suspends Its
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Pablo Picasso Head of a bearded man 1940 • Everybody Wants To Hop On The BRICS Express (Escobar) • Russia’s Move Away From Dollar ‘Irreversible’ – Leading Banker (RT) • Erdogan: Turkiye Will Ensure Distribution Of Russian Gas To Europe (Az.) • Russian Gas Supplies To EU Almost Halved – Novatek CEO (RT) • Putin Explains Western Economic Model (RT) • China Will Support Russia In ‘Overcoming Difficulties’ – Wang (RT) • Russia Suggests Alternative To Suez Canal (RT)
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Salvador Dali Self portrait 1921 • Musk Says He Bought Twitter For The Sake Of ‘Humanity’ (RT) • Twitter CEO, CFO, & Top Censor Escorted Out (ZH) • The West Has Nothing Left To Offer The World – Putin (RT) • Russia Is Not An Enemy Of The West – Putin (RT) • West Can’t Sit Out Crises It Caused – Putin (RT) • ‘No One Can Sit Out The Coming Storm’ (RT) • Putin Says Russia Won’t Use
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