Dec 282020
 
 December 28, 2020  Posted by at 10:24 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , , , ,  18 Responses »
Debt Rattle December 28 2020

Juan Gris Grapes 1913   • Trump Averts Shutdown, Signs $2.3 Trillion Spending And COVID Relief Bill (JTN) • Trump Signs Covid-19 Bill: Announces Congress Review of Section 230 (SAC) • Georgia Runoff Results May Not Be Known ‘for Weeks’ (RS) • Special Counsel Is Guaranteed If Biden Picks Yates, Cuomo or Jones as AG • Most Europeans, Including Hospital Staff, Refuse To Take Vaccine (ZH) • Vaccines To Cause COVID Rates To Drop In Nursing Homes Soon – Gottlieb

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Dec 272020
 
Debt Rattle December 27 2020

Winslow Homer Spanish Girl with Fan 1885   • Developers of Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine Tied to UK Eugenics Movement (Webb) • The Breakthrough Medicines That Could Change The Course Of Covid (G.) • Japan Halts All Foreign Arrivals Over UK COVID Variant (AP) • Britain First To Infect Healthy Volunteers With Covid19 For Research (NYP) • Scientists Call For UK Lockdown After Rapid Spread Of Covid19 Variant (G.) • Two Pandemic Assistance Programs Expire, Leaving 12 Million Without Benefits (ZH) •

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Dec 262020
 
Debt Rattle Boxing Day 2020

Salvador Dali Christmas Tree 1959   • Pfizer’s Vaccine Maximizes Profit, Not The Greater Good (Quelch) • UK Scientists Trial Drug To Prevent Infection That Leads To Covid (G.) • Rolling Out the Vaccine (Dorman) • Pfizer COVID19 Vaccine Causing More Allergic Reactions Than Expected (NYP) • Millions Wake Up To Tougher Restrictions As UK Covid Deaths Pass 70,000 (PA) • Pelosi, Democrats, UniParty and Media Spin Narrative Around COVID Relief (CTH) • Our Upside-Down Postelection World (Hanson) • Georgia

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Dec 252020
 
Debt Rattle Christmas Day 2020

Juan Gris Man in the café 1912   • COVID19 Immunity Lasts For At Least 8 Months – Australian Researchers (RT) • Fauci Admits To Lying About Herd Immunity To Get Support For Vaccine (RT) • Study Investigates Effects Of COVID19 Vaccine On Male Fertility (L10) • Trump Told Congress To Give Americans More Money, Gets Bill With Less (Fox) • Larry Summers: $2,000 Checks Could Overheat Economy, Even $600 Is Too Much (RT) • Trump Granted Clemency Less Than

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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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