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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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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