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Things November 2 2019

Nov 022019

November 2, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 8:12 am Finance Tagged with: Apple, Boeing, Brennan, CIA, Framers, Greece, horse trading, impeachment, Steele, Tulsi, whistleblower 15 Responses »

Pablo Picasso Woman with blue collar (Portrait d’Inez) 1941 • Christopher Steele Gave Evidence To UK Intrusion Inquiry (G.) • Trump-Ukraine Whistleblower Suddenly Won’t Testify (ZH) • Former CIA Heads Praise Deep State, Admit They Want to ‘Take Out’ Trump (SN) • A Partisan Impeachment Vote Is Exactly What The Framers Feared (Dershowitz) • Horse-Trading Is Not An Impeachable Offense (HE) • In Defense of Tulsi Gabbard (Sjursen) • Trevor Noah Asks Hillary: “How Did You Kill Jeffrey Epstein?”

Things November 1 2019

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November 1, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 8:41 am Finance Tagged with: antiwar, Fed, impeachment, Pelosi, QE, resolution, Satoshi, Ukraine, Workington, Zelensky 17 Responses »

Salvador Dali Landscape near Cadaques 1921 • ‘Nothing Illegal In Trump-Zelensky Call’ – NSC’s Tim Morrison (ZH) • Voters In Key Battleground States Oppose Impeachment (ZH) • Debunking Some Of The Ukraine Scandal Myths (Solomon) • The Two Democrats Who Voted ‘No’ On The Impeachment Inquiry Resolution (CNN) • Telling the Truth Has Become an Anti-American Act (PCR) • Trump’s Antiwar Speech Deserved A Better Reception (Sjursen) • QE Has Radically Changed The Nature Of The West’s Financial System

Things October 31 2019

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October 31, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 8:28 am Finance Tagged with: Argentina, Boeing, cracks, Epstein, Kunstler, Qantas, Schiff, Tulsi, Vindman, whistleblower 13 Responses »

Paul Gauguin Van Gogh painting sunflowers 1888 • Trump-Ukraine Whistleblower Revealed (GP) • Adam Schiff Coached Vindman Throughout Impeachment Testimony – Nunes (ZH) • Tulsi Gabbard Unleashes On Erdogan: “Radical Islamist Megalomaniac” (ZH) • We May Not Have A 2020 Election – Kunstler (USAW) • The Fumes of Fanaticism (Kunstler) • Boeing Employee Raised Concern Over Max Sensor Three Years Before Crashes (G.) • Over 50 Boeing 737NG Grounded Globally With Wing-Related Cracks (RT) • Union Calls On Qantas

If It’s A Boeing I’m Not Going

Oct 302019

October 30, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 1:52 pm Finance Tagged with: accountability, Airbus, Boeing, buybacks, hearing, Muilenburg, Senate, whistleblower 13 Responses »

Rembrandt van Rijn Portrait of Rembrandt with gorget 1629 During the Senate hearing into Boeing on October 29, Senator Jon Tester told the company’s CEO Dennis Muilenburg: “I would walk before I would get on a 737 MAX. I would walk.” He added: “There is no way … You shouldn’t be cutting corners and I see corners being cut.” That’s all fine and well, but the hearing, which continues today, Wednesday, lays bare a giant gap in US law:

Notes October 29 2019

Oct 292019

October 29, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:00 am Finance Tagged with: Assange, Kupperman, McGahn, oil, Pelosi, Schiff, Syria 22 Responses »

Paul Gauguin Palm trees on Martinique 1887 A few -seemingly?!- contradictory items I noticed this morning. First, the oil the US is smuggling, stealing -take your pick- from Syrian oil fields. On the one hand, we have U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper claiming that the revenue from the stolen oil goes to the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, which partly uses it “guard prisons that hold captured Islamic State fighters.” US Military Envisions Broad Defense Of Syrian

The Last Debt Rattle?

Oct 282019

October 28, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 1:54 pm Finance Tagged with: Baghdadi, Bill Barr, Brexit, Bundestag, CNN, ISIS, MSM, Orwell, sovereignty, Syria, Ukraine 20 Responses »

Cimabue Christ mocked c1280 (Photograph: Charles Platiau/Reuters. Painting discovered in an old woman’s kitchen in Sept, sold for $28 million this week) • Trump Kept Gang of 8 In The Dark About Baghdadi Raid (WE) • Bill Barr Formally Announces Orwellian Pre-Crime Program (Webb) • Russia Calls Increase In US Troops In Syrian Oil Fields ‘Banditry’ (Hill) • Russian FM Lavrov Warns US Against Undermining Syria’s Sovereignty (RT) • The Plundering of Ukraine by Corrupt American Democrats (Shamir) •

Debt Rattle October 26 2019

Oct 262019

October 26, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:27 am Finance Tagged with: Biden, Brexit, China, Clapper, DOJ, eagle, FBI, Flynn, Mueller, offshore wind, Sidney Powell 22 Responses »

Rembrandt van Rijn The spectacles seller 1624 • Sidney Powell Drops Bombshell Showing How The FBI Trapped Michael Flynn (Fed.) • James Clapper Struck By ‘Interesting’ Timing Of DOJ Criminal Inquiry (WE) • The Sound of Shoes Dropping in the Night (Kunstler) • Joe Biden’s Super PAC Is Being Organized By Corporate Lobbyists (IC) • US Embassy In Kyiv Forces Prosecutor To Drop Burisma, Biden Investigations (CDM) • Judge Rules DOJ Must Release Details From Mueller Report (ZH) •

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

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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

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