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Debt Rattle October 25 2019

Oct 252019

October 25, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:37 am Finance Tagged with: Bill Barr, Boeing, Brexit, Butina, Durham, Horowitz, Mueller, OPCW, ransomware, trade war, Wikileaks 20 Responses »

Ivan Shishkin The wilds 1881 • Justice Dept. To Launch Criminal Investigation Into Its Own Russia Probe (Hill) • Trump Cancels All Admins’ NYT, WaPo Subscriptions (ZH) • EU Set To Put Brexit Delay On Hold After Johnson’s Ultimatum (G.) • Russian Gun Activist Maria Butina To Touch Down In Moscow Saturday (RT) • Despite Ultra-Low Mortgage Rates, New House Prices At Multi-Year Low (WS) • Vladimir Putin, Syria’s Pacifier-in-Chief (Escobar) • WikiLeaks Releases New Docs Questioning Syria Chemical

Debt Rattle October 24 2019

Oct 242019

October 24, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 8:38 am Finance Tagged with: Amazon, Assange, Benghazi, Hillary, IMF, impeachment, Kurds, neoliberalism, Oprah, Pelosi, Schiff 11 Responses »

Rembrandt van Rijn Self portrait with Saskia 1636 • UK Blocks Spanish Judge From Questioning Julian Assange (El Pais) • Former House Lawyer Says Pelosi’s Impeachment Inquiry ‘Is Illegal’ (WT) • Democrats Set December Impeachment Target, But Obstacles Abound (R.) • Republicans Storm Closed-Door Hearing To Protest Impeachment Inquiry (Hill) • Benghazi Coverup Discussed on Emails to Clinton’s Unsecured Server (ET) • Steele, State and the Alfa Bank Conspiracy Theory Exposed (Solomon) • Oprah Has ‘Begged’ Disney CEO Bob

Assange Is The Only One To Abide By The Law

Oct 232019

October 23, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 12:31 pm Finance, Primers Tagged with: Assange, asylum, Brexit, CIA, Correa, Ecuador, journalism, lawless, medieval, Sweden, UK, US 5 Responses »

Assange Is The Only One To Abide By The Law

Salvador Dali Self portrait 1921 On October 21 2019, Brexit became an entirely irrelevant issue. Or perhaps we should say it had already become that, but on that date it was exposed for all to see that it was. The parading into a courtroom of Julian Assange in London was all the evidence one could need that the UK government breaks its own laws as well as numerous international laws, with impunity. But that is not how the media

Debt Rattle October 23 2019

Oct 232019

October 23, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:16 am Finance Tagged with: Assange, Big Tech, Boeing, Brexit, Hillary, impeachment, M4A, Reality Winner, Russian asset, Tulsi, whistleblower, White Helmets 6 Responses »

Salvador Dali Portrait of my father 1920 • Bernie Pledges To End Prosecuting Whistleblowers Under Espionage Act (IC) • Everyone Is a Russian Asset (Matt Taibbi) • Hillary, Acknowledge the Damage You’ve Caused (Tulsi Gabbard) • Graham To Introduce Resolution Condemning House Impeachment Inquiry (Hill) • The 2020 Election Is Shaping Up To Be An Expensive Run (ZH) • EU Moves Towards Brexit Delay As Johnson Seeks Election To Break Impasse (R.) • Facebook Probe By US States Expands To

Debt Rattle October 22 2019

Oct 222019

October 22, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:38 am Finance Tagged with: Assange, Biden, Craig Murray, Hillary, Middle Ages, Poroshenko, torture, Trump, Turkey 10 Responses »

Eugène Delacroix Liberty Leading the People 1830 • Julian Assange Struggled To Remember His Name At Extradition Hearing (ND) • ‘I’m In An Unfair Fight Against A Superpower,’ Assange Tells UK Court (SMH) • Assange in Court (Craig Murray) • Assange in Court – 2 (Craig Murray) • Information On Poroshenko Money Laundering/Biden Cover Up (CDM) • Trump ‘Fully Prepared’ For Military Action vs Turkey If Needed – Pompeo (CNBC) • Enter, the Dragon – Hillary 2020 (Kunstler) •

Debt Rattle October 21 2019

Oct 212019

October 21, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:11 am Finance Tagged with: Assange, Boeing, Brexit, Chile, China, Congress, Hillary, Shiller, Trump effect, Tulsi Gabbard 13 Responses »

Vincent van Gogh Self-portrait with dark felt hat at the easel 1886 • Recession Likely Years Away Due To Bullish Trump Effect – Shiller (CNBC) • Global Economy Faces $19 Trillion Corporate Debt Timebomb – IMF (G.) • “Toe The Line Or Be Destroyed”: Tulsi Gabbard (ZH) • Will the Democratic Party Exist after 2020 Election? (OffG) • Why 97% Of Congress Get Re-Elected Each Year (F.) • Scottish Court Asked To Delay Ruling On Johnson’s Brexit Extension Request

Debt Rattle October 20 2019

Oct 202019

October 20, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:45 am Finance Tagged with: Assange, Boeing, Boris, Brexit, bubble, Doral, Farage, Hillary, Libor, trolling, Trump, Tulsi, unsigned 20 Responses »

Rembrandt van Rijn The three trees 1643 • Hillary Clinton Bails On DC Event That Tulsi Gabbard Is Attending (NYP) • Dems Introduce Legislation To Block G7 Summit At Trump’s Doral Resort (Fox) • Trump Ditches Plan To Host G7 At Doral Resort: ‘Irrational Hostility’ (G.) • Trump Campaign Mocks Outrage Over Mulvaney Comments With T-Shirts (ZH) • UK PM Sends Unsigned Request For Brexit Delay (BBC) • Brexit Delay And Election Better Than Johnson’s Deal – Farage (R.)

Energy vs DNA

Oct 192019

October 19, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 7:48 pm Finance Tagged with: AOC, DNA, energy, Green New Deal, Jay Hanson, Latko, maximizing, Odum, oil, RNA, solar, wind, XR 16 Responses »

Rembrandt van Rijn Landscape With the Rest on the Flight into Egypt 1647 Hmm, energy. Is it a good idea I be drawn back into the subject? We used to do so much on the topic, Nicole Foss and I, in the first years of The Automatic Earth, and before that at the brilliant Oil Drum, where we had all those equally brilliant oil professionals to guide us on. So why revisit it? Well, for one thing, because a

Debt Rattle October 19 2019

Oct 192019

October 19, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 8:37 am Finance Tagged with: Assange, Attenborough, Barcelona, Boeing, Brexit, Hillary, IMF, impeachment, recursivity, rot, Syria, Tulsi Gabbard, warmonger 8 Responses »

Paul Gauguin Schooner and three masters 1886 • Twitter War Breaks Out Between Tulsi Gabbard And Hillary Clinton (ZH) • Green Party Torches Hillary Clinton For Claiming Jill Stein Is ‘Totally’ a Russian Asset • Quid Pro Nothing: Trump Accusers Don’t Care About The Facts (NYPost Ed.) • The Fatal Loop of Recursivity (Kunstler) • US Energy Secretary Will Not Comply With Democrats’ Impeachment Probe (R.) • Brexit Vote Could Be Delayed After Move By MPs To Prevent No-Deal

Debt Rattle October 18 2019

Oct 182019

October 18, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:10 am Finance Tagged with: Boris, Brexit, G7, impeachment, Kurds, M4A, McConnell, pensions, Senate, Syria, tariffs, trial, Trump, Turkey 9 Responses »

Salvador Dali The three pines 1919 • McConnell: Senate Impeachment Trial ‘As Soon As Thanksgiving’ (ZH) • Trump Florida Golf Course To Host G7 Summit (BBC) • Turkey To Suspend Syria Offensive, Mike Pence Announces (BBC) • Washington is Wrong Once Again – Kurds Join Assad to Defend Syria (Ron Paul) • Media And Pundits Misread The ‘Everyone Wins’ Plan For Syria (MoA) • UK Agrees To Best Of Worst Possible Brexit Deals (MW) • EU Leaves Door Open

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