Paul Gauguin Palm trees on Martinique 1887 • Zelensky Declares Ukraine Corruption-Free (RT) • Ukraine Openly Lied To NATO Over Missile Strike, Diplomat Tells FT (RT) • Zelensky ‘Commanding The US To Lead WWIII’ – Tucker Carlson (RT) • Evidence Suggests Ukrainian Missile Struck Poland – Top Security Official (RT) • Zelensky Backtracks On Missile Claims (RT) • Zelensky Confirms Signals From West On Peace Talks (RT) • Zelensky Cracks Down On Popular News Outlet, Bans CNN, Sky (RT)
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Cimabue Christ mocked c1280 (Photograph: Charles Platiau/Reuters) • Ukraine Admits Firing Missile Near Poland Blast Site – CNN (RT) • Zelensky Doubles Down On Poland Missile (RT) • Gen. Milley Claims He Couldn’t Reach Moscow After Poland Missile Incident (RT) • Poland Should Guard Part Of Ukrainian Airspace – General (RT) • Missile Incident Was Ukrainian ‘Provocation’ – Polish Politician (RT) • Poland Wants Russian Oil Despite EU Embargo – Kommersant (RT) • Drone Strikes Deep In Russian Territory
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Rembrandt van Rijn Self portrait with Saskia 1636 • Russia, India, China, Iran: The Quad That Really Matters (Escobar) • China Embraces Multipolar World – FM (RT) • Findings Suggest Missile That Hit Poland Was Fired By Ukrainian Forces (AP) • Biden Suggests Russia Not Behind Poland ‘Missile Strike’ (RT) • Biden Unveils $37BN More In Emergency Ukraine Aid (ZH) • Conflict In Ukraine Is Hybrid War – Lavrov (RT) • France’s Macron Urges More Chinese Pressure To End
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Salvador Dali Sick Boy (Self-portrait in Cadaqués) 1923 • US Scrambles To Reassure Ukraine After Milley Comments On Negotiations (Pol.) • Zelenksy At G20 Summit: This is The Moment To End The War (Tel.) • UN Calls On Russia To Pay Ukraine Reparations (RT) • The Kherson Question (Nora Hoppe) • ‘The Last Battle for the World’ (Batiushka) • Poland To Seize Gazprom Assets (RT) • G20: What Does It Mean For Putin And The Event Itself? (Maxim Hvatkov)
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Rembrandt van Rijn Let the little children come to me 1627-28 • The Role Of “Useful Idiots” In Modern PSYOPS (Saker) • G20 Host Urges West To Soften Anti-Russia Rhetoric – Politico (RT) • SBF’s Disgrace Awkward For Gary Gensler And The Democrats (Fortune) • Ukraine Invested In Top Dem Donor’s Crypto Company FTX (PM) • America’s Neo-Nazi Bedfellows In Ukraine Latest In a Long Line (Tony Cox) • The Road to Totalitarianism -Revisited- (CJ Hopkins) • White House
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Salvador Dali The three pines 1919 • UK and EU To Try To Isolate Russia At G20 Summit (RT) • The New Candidate Countries For BRICS Expansion (SRB) • Surovikin’s Difficult Choice (Big Serge) • Tens of Billions Transferred to Ukraine and Laundered Through FTX (GP) • The FTX-Alameda Nexus (Coppola) • Up To $2 Billion In Client Money Missing In Crypto Giant FTX Collapse (NYP) • First Batch Of Blocked Russian Fertilizers Allowed To Leave EU Port (RT)
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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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