Caravaggio I musici 1595-96 • Russia Gains More Ground in Donbas Region (WSJ) • Should Russia Pay Reparations For The Ukraine War? (Barry Eichengreen) • Effort to Force Russia to Pay Reparations to Ukraine Faces Uphill Battle (WSJ) • Global Nuclear Arsenal Set To Grow For First Time In Decades (R.) • Army Official Predicted Vaccines Might Be Paused Over Myocarditis (ET) • 99% Certain Justin Bieber’s Facial Paralysis Caused By Covid Vaccine (Kirsch) • USS Liberty: A Forgotten
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Evelyn De Morgan Night and Sleep 1878 Yes, yes, I know, high time for another update on the Monastiraki kitchen you have been so wonderfully, gracefully supporting for 7 years now (I first got here in June 2015). First of all, we are doing great, the level of commitment of the crew is unprecedented, very happy with that, it’s rare. I remember in 2015 there were 51 NGOs “helping” the refugees on Lesbos, for millions of EU funded
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Caravaggio The seven works of mercy (Sette opere di Misericordia) 1607 • Pitchforks Soon In Europe? (Vilches) • No Ammo, More Casualties, Thin Lines, Propaganda And Passing The Buck (MoA) • Biden Throws Zelensky Under The Bus (ZH) • Ukraine Slams Biden’s Comments on Zelensky Not Heeding Warnings (NW) • Ukraine Fears It Might Lose Western Support Over ‘War Fatigue’ (Antiwar) • EU Will Likely Grant Ukraine Candidate Status To Join Bloc – Von Der Leyen (G.) • Pentagon
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Robert Campin Portrait of a woman 1430-35 • The Goal Is Not To Help Ukraine, But To Fight Putin – Jacques Baud (TP) • Biden Tries Blaming Russia for White House Energy Policy and Inflation (CTH) • Ukraine Is Blackmailing The Global South By Demanding Weapons For Wheat (Kol.) • Traitors and Patriots (Batiushka) • UK: 5,000 Non-Covid Excess Deaths in the Last Five Weeks (DS) • Funding of Promising COVID-19 Treatment Withdrawn Without Explanation (DS) • Get Your
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James Ensor The oyster eater 1882 • Washington Starts Blame Game Over Defeat In Ukraine (MoA) • We’re Almost Out Of Ammunition And Relying On Western Arms, Says Ukraine (G.) • The US/UK Proxy War Forestalling Peace Negotiations in Ukraine (CD) • Nuclear Deployments in Finland & Sweden Not Ruled Out, NATO Says (LI) • Greek Court Overturns Ruling on Seizure of Iranian Ship (GR) • Will The Global South Break Free From Dollarized Debt? (Escobar) • Dershowitz Says
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Pieter Brueghel the Younger Construction of the Tower of Babel 1595 It’s pretty amazing, but finally Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said something that is actually true. Not because he intended to, but hey, beggars are choosers. Zelensk(i)y(y) today compared western weapons and sanctions to Covid vaccines. A tad late, for sure, given the vaccine fatigue, but then his audience are not the smartest sheep in the herd. But he is so right it’s impossible to let this
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Pablo Picasso Rest 1932 • Zelensky Vows “Full De-Occupation Of Entire Territory” (ZH) • For Europe, From Russia, With Love (Vilches) • Kyiv Keeps US in the Dark on War Realities: NYT (Celente) • Is US/NATO (with WEF help) Pushing For A Global South Famine? (Hudson) • Ukraine to Ban ‘War and Peace’ From Being Taught in Schools (SN) • Is Lasting Peace Possible? (Hathaway) • Healthy Young People Are Dying Unexpectedly From A Mysterious Syndrome (DM) • Fifth
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Pablo Picasso Napping 1932 • The Very Special Operation (Batiushka) • Biden Works to Prolong Ukraine War (Craig Murray) • The West and the Rest (Münchau) • ‘I Don’t Blame Myself’: Merkel Defends Legacy On Russia And Ukraine (Pol.eu) • Studies Show Link Between Prion Brain Disease and Covid-19 Vaccine (GP) • This Is Why It Doesn’t Work (Denninger) • FBI Seizes Retired General’s Data Related To Qatar Lobbying (AP) • White House Refuses To Comment On Hunter Biden
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Pablo Picasso Rest (Marie-Thérèse Walter) 1932 • Zelensky Says Ukraine is Being Pushed to Make Concessions to Russia (Celente) • Blaming Putin Is Helping Putin (Dmitry Orlov) • Fury In Moscow After Air Closures Block Lavrov Trip To Serbia (AFP) • Your Show of Shows (Kunstler) • The White House Keeps Stoking Covid Fears (Bhattacharya) • COVID-19: Mask Mandates Could Increase Death Rate (Celente) • Florida Surgeon General Openly Questions Safety Of Covid-19 Vaccines (FP) • Elon Musk Threatens
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Robert Rauschenberg Collection 1954-55 • The War in Ukraine Can Be Over If the US Wants It (Barkan) • Russia Will Strike West If US Rockets Hit Us – Medvedev (Times) • Japan’s Perceptions of the Propaganda regarding the SMO (Patricia Ormsby) • UK Offers More Support For ICC War Crimes Investigation In Ukraine (G.) • US To Allow Venezuelan Oil To Be Shipped To Europe (Hill) • Biden Scrambles To Avoid Summit of the Americas Flop (AP) •
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