Dec 242020
 
 December 24, 2020  Posted by at 10:23 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , , ,  16 Responses »
Debt Rattle Christmas Eve 2020

Paul Cézanne Forest 1902-04   • Asymptomatic Transmission Of COVID19 (BMJ) • Makers of Successful COVID19 Vaccines Wrestle With Placebo Recipients (Science) • France Reopens To UK, As EU Tackles New Coronastrain (EUO) • Trump Pardons Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Charles Kushner, 23 Others (JTN) • Why Trump Should Pardon Assange • The Legacy Of President Donald Trump (Taibbi) • Biden Threats Make Russia Discourse More Reckless, Dangerous (Greenwald) • DNC Was “Directly Involved” In Iowa Caucus App Development (IC)

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Dec 232020
 
Debt Rattle December 23 2020

Edward Hopper Automat 1927   • Trump Kicks COVID Bill Back To Congress; Demands $2,000 Stimulus (ZH) • Force The Vote On Direct Aid (DP) • Biden’s Austerity Zealotry Helped Cut The Stimulus Bill In Half (DP) • COVID19 Catch-22: Regime-Change Policies Come With US Pandemic Relief (GZ) • White House Memo Details How ‘Pence Card’ Can Save Trump Presidency (NF) • Growing Number Of GOP Lawmakers Back Electoral College Challenge (Hill) • Trump Pardons George Papadopoulos (DC) • WHO:

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Dec 222020
 
 December 22, 2020  Posted by at 7:29 pm Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , ,  11 Responses »
Pork for Christmas

John William Waterhouse It’s Sweet Doing Nothing / Dolce Far Niente 1879     The very first thing we must conclude from looking at the pork-laden $900 billion US “stimulus bill” is that this is all Washington is capable of anymore. This is it. That it has nothing to do with which party you vote for. If you don’t come to that conclusion, you’re seriously disoriented. Both parties have been talking about the bill for 8 months, and blamed each

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Dec 222020
 
 December 22, 2020  Posted by at 10:10 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , , ,  16 Responses »
Debt Rattle December 22 2020

Vincent van Gogh Banks of the Seine with Pont de Clichy in the Spring 1887   • Lockdowns Do Not Control the Coronavirus (AIER) • Yuletide Visitations (Kunstler) • Chris Krebs Takes Blame For Massive Hack: ‘It Happened On My Watch’ (NYP) • Krebs’ CISA Was Flagged Repeatedly For Poor Performance (JTN) • Dominion Voting Website Scrubbed Of Reference To SolarWinds (JTN) • House Passes 5593 Page Stimulus Bill Without Anyone Having Read It (ZH) • Pelosi Calls $600 COVID19

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Dec 212020
 
Debt Rattle December 21 2020

Edward Hopper House tops 1921   • $600 Is Not Enough, And It Won’t Get Easier (Sirota) • Hospital CEOs Have Gotten Rich Cutting Staff And Supplies (IC) • Coronavirus New Variant (Conv.) • Covid Chaos Disrupts Kent Ports As France Bans UK Freight (G.) • Saudi Arabia Shuts Down Int’l Air, See & Land Travel Over New Covid Strain • US Deep State Preempts Reset in Relations With Russia (SCF) • ‘No Question’ Russia Behind Latest Hacking Scare –

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Dec 202020
 
 December 20, 2020  Posted by at 2:48 pm Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  35 Responses »
Cows and Acres and 1840

Paulus Potter De stier 1625     Dr. D today from an entirely unexpected angle: cattle farming from a engineer’s point of view. His interest here stems from the increasing numbers of people wanting to move “back to the land” in COVID time, who have very little idea what that entails. Well, here it is, here’s your manual:     Dr. D: Since the idea of 1840 has come up, let’s do something useful and work out math on 1840’s

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Dec 202020
 
Debt Rattle December 20 2020

Edward Hopper Sunday 1926   • Sarah Palin Calls for Julian Assange to Be Pardoned (GP) • FDA Investigating Multiple Allergic Reactions To Pfizer Vaccine (Hill) • Netherlands Bans Air Travel From UK Till 2021 Over New Covid19 Strain (RT) • Desperate Families Flee London Ahead Of Tier 4 Misery (DM) • Trump Lashes Out At Media For Blaming Russia For Hacking: It ‘May Be China’ (RT) • US Agencies’ Trust In Untested Software Opened The Door To Hackers (Pol.)

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Dec 192020
 
 December 19, 2020  Posted by at 7:35 pm Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , , ,  10 Responses »
Virus 1 - Media 0

Salvador Dalí Mi esposa desnuda 1945     Over the past 5 years I’ve addressed this numerous times, and it just goes on. When the MSM, WaPo, NYT, CNN, MSNBC, started to feel a real threat to their existence and survival from social media, they changed course radically. They no longer attempted to inform people, they began to shape their readers’ and watchers’ opinions. And it worked. That change appears to bear fruit. The WaPo announced the other day they’re

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Dec 192020
 
Debt Rattle December 19 2020

Sergio Larraín Valparaiso Passage Bavestrello 1952   • Facebook Joins Twitter In Reverting To Pre-Election News Feed Algorithms (RT) • Lawmakers Ask Whether Massive Hack Amounted To Act Of War (Hill) • California Reports Record COVID Cases and Deaths—Despite Strict Lockdown (FEE) • Research Suggests COVID19 Enters The Brain, May Be Autoimmune Disease (RT) • Trump Blasts John McCain After New Texts From FBI Lover Peter Strzok (DM) • Steele Dossier Was ‘Intended To Influence’ Media – Strzok (RT) •

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Dec 182020
 
Debt Rattle December 18 2020

Egon Schiele Meadow, Church and Houses 1912   • Twitter To Remove Tweets That Spread Lies About COVID Vaccines (G.) • “Who Wants To Be A Guinea Pig?”: Health Workers Balk At Vaccine (ZH) • How Virtual Learning Has Traumatized Their Children (DC) • WHO -Finally- Admits PCR Tests Create False Positives (OffG) • Joe Biden Calls His Son Hunter ‘The Smartest Man I Know’ (DC) • They Won’t Take “No” For An Answer (Ward) • Georgia Announces Signature Matching

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