Henri Matisse Still Life with Apples on Pink Cloth 1925 • When The Lies Come Home (Douglas Macgregor) • Biden Tries To Climb Down From Ukraine Ledge (AT) • World War 3 For Dummies (Baltar) • Europe Committing Energy Suicide By Imposing Sanctions On Russia (PressTV) • Ukraine Proposed Viable Peace Plan in April, Then Cut Off Negotiations (LI) • Record Diesel Prices Could Lead To Food Shortages In US, Farmers Warn (NYP) • WHO Chief ‘Believes Covid Did
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Paul Ranson Apple tree with red fruit 1902 • Putin Claims New World Order, Blasts The West For ‘Insane’ Sanctions (ABC/AP) • Putin Says Sanctions Cost EU $400BN, Warns Of Severe Fertilizer Shortage (ZH) • Biden Told Secretaries Of Defense And State To Tone It Down (NBC) • Two Awkward Biden Moments Draw Online Scrutiny (JTN) • Macron Bends to Pressure, Now Says Ukraine ‘Must Win’ War With Russia (Celente) • Pro-Ukrainian, but Anti-Nazi (Batiushka) • How Low Can
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Albrecht Dürer Praying hands 1508 • Lavrov to Boris Johnson: Just Try to Bring Russia to Its Knees (Celente) • Fauci Admits ‘Not Enough Data’ On Boosters For 5-Year-olds (Fox) • Gazprom Defends Gas Cuts As Prices In Europe Soar (AFP) • German Official Warns Of Gas Shortages, Bankruptcies, Massive Price Hikes (RMX) s • Tesco Sales Fall Amid ‘Unprecedented Increases In Cost Of Living’ (G.) • US Energy Chief To Discuss Record Pump Prices With Refiners Next Week
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Caravaggio The calling of St. Matthew 1599-1600 • Severe COVID-19 ‘Rare’ In Unvaccinated People (MD) • FDA Advisors Unanimously Endorse COVID Shots for Infants and Young Kids (CHD) • The World Is Looking At You (Batiushka) • First American Mercenary Contractors Captured in Ukraine (CTH) • The ‘New G8’ Meets China’s ‘Three Rings’ (Escobar) • Schiff: Evidence That Trump “Engaged in Likely Multiple Criminal Acts (Turley) • ECB Holds Emergency Meeting To Discuss Market Turmoil (ZH) • PPI: Smoking
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Ivan Aivazovsky Constantinople in Moonlight 1846 We associate the term “mass psychosis” with the reaction(s) to Covid, but I would argue it’s been around a lot longer, and broader. At least since 2015, and the media coverage (if you can even call it that) of Donald Trump, his campaign and his presidency. I have no special sympathy for Trump (though some people doubt that), but that episode, and the “coverage” of it, did wake me up -even more-
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Claude Monet Meules 1890 • Pope Francis: Russian War In Ukraine Was ‘Perhaps Provoked’ (Pol.eu) • Russia Tells Sievierodonetsk Defenders To Surrender (G.) • Economic Security is National Security (CTH) • Economic Security is National Security – The case for Trump (CTH) • Will Democratic Senators Endorse Biden In 2024? (DC) • Usual Midterm Indicators Very Unfavorable for Democrats (Gallup) • Biden’s Summit of No-Shows (Lawrence) • Children Are Being Infected With Up To Three Viruses At A Time
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Teasing the Donkey 1827 • DC Shifts To Damage Control As Ukraine Defense Fades (AT) • Russian Forces Cut Off Last Routes Out Of Sievierodonetsk (R.) • Ukraine Has LOST, And So Have We (Denninger) • The US Is Still Importing Russian Oil Despite The Ban (FC) • Biden Admin Quietly Urging Companies To Purchase Russian Fertilizer (ZH) • Japan On Verge Of Systemic Collapse (ZH) • ‘Lying’: Aussie Scientist’s Vaccine Outrage (News.com.au) • January
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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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