Aug 232023
 
 August 23, 2023  Posted by at 8:54 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , , , ,  59 Responses »
Debt Rattle August 23 2023

Jessie Willcox Smith From The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald 1920   • Trump to Miss Debate as There’s ‘Less to Lose by Not Showing Up’ (Sp.) • A Letter To Our Betters (Lundrum) • Biden’s Personal Interest in Firing Ukraine Prosecutor Targeting Burisma (Sp.) • McCarthy Threatens Impeachment Inquiry, Again (Manley) • The EU Doesn’t Know How To Not Be A Vassal Of The US Anymore (Blankenship) • West ‘Perplexed’ By Ukraine’s Strategy – NYT (RT) •

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Aug 222023
 
 August 22, 2023  Posted by at 8:45 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , ,  44 Responses »
Debt Rattle August 22 2023

Titian Venus of Urbino 1534   • Col. Macgregor Tells Tucker Why The Ukraine War Must End Now (ZH) • F-16 Transfers to Ukraine Will Take Years to Produce Results (Sp.) • Democrats Aren’t Laughing About The Hunter Biden Debacle Anymore (Turley) • The Disqualification of Donald Trump and Other Legal Urban Legends (Turley) • We Won’t Be Fooled Again (Jim Kunstler) • ‘BRICS Is Now The Hottest Club In The World’ – Senior Diplomat (RT) • BRICS 2023: Who

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Aug 212023
 
 August 21, 2023  Posted by at 9:16 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , ,  36 Responses »
Debt Rattle August 21 2023

Ivan Aivazovsky Palace rains in Venice by moonlight 1878   • Three More Hunter Biden Attorneys Quit, Bringing Total To Five (ZH) • Hunter Biden’s Lawyers Vowed To Put The President On The Stand (Pol.) • RFK Jr. Labels F-16s For Ukraine ‘A Disaster For Humanity’ (RT) • Zelensky Is Dangerous For Ukraine, Former Aide Warns (RT) • For NATO and Ukraine, Reality Bites (Scott Ritter) • US Struggles to Restock Its Own Ammo Arsenal After Aiding Ukraine (Sp.) •

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Aug 202023
 
 August 20, 2023  Posted by at 8:30 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , , ,  39 Responses »
Debt Rattle August 20 2023

VIncent van Gogh Railway carriages 1888   • West’s Attempt To Create A Ukraine Scenario In Niger Is Faltering (Bordachev) • How The US And France Created A Niger Mess For Themselves (Bhadrakumar) • Ukraine Conflict ‘Could Last For Decades’ – Medvedev (RT) • Milley: This Is An Existential Fight For Ukraine (Az.) • Russia Is A ‘Gas Pump With an Atomic Bomb’ – Borrell (RT) • Western Calls For Ukraine Peace Talks A ‘Tactical Ploy’ – Lavrov (RT) •

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Aug 192023
 
 August 19, 2023  Posted by at 8:57 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , , ,  22 Responses »
Debt Rattle August 19 2023

Rembrandt van Rijn Belshazzar’s feast 1635-38   • Ukraine Faces A ‘Grim Future’ – Lavrov (RT) • Think Tank Experts Pushing Ukraine Conflict Share A Common Benefactor (Marsden) • Summer of the Hawks (Seymour Hersh) • Zakharova Appeals to Ukrainian Troops: Resist Kiev Regime or Surrender (Sp.) • Biden Sends F-16s To Ukraine Despite Saying This Would Lead To World War 3 (PM) • Biden Administration Officials Doubt Usefulness of Ukrainian Strikes on Crimea (Sp.) • US Judge Dismisses Hunter

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Aug 182023
 
 August 18, 2023  Posted by at 12:00 pm Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , , , ,  54 Responses »
A Tale of Two Cosmologies

John Martin The Fall of Babylon 1831     Our long time contributor TAE Summary has specialzed in summarizing two sides of the same coin when things are debated either in the media or, as in this case, in our Comments section. Question is/was: is there a God? What I don’t see mentioned here is: can people(s) live without a religion to explain away what they do not understand in their lives? Or will they always create a story to

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Aug 182023
 
Debt Rattle August 18 2023

M.C. Escher Dream 1935   • NATO Will Support Ukraine Until It Wins The War – Stoltenberg (TASS) • US-Backed Roll Of The Dice Leaves Ukraine In Worse Crisis (NoC) • US Classified Forecast Predicts Ukraine Counteroffensive Will Fail (DeMartino) • US May Cease to Exist in Conflict Against Russia, China – Ramaswamy (Sp.) • Western Big Tech Firms Wipe Away Hunter Biden’s Many Sins (Sp.) • House GOP Demands Unredacted Records Of Biden Using Pseudonym While VP (NYP) •

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Aug 172023
 
 August 17, 2023  Posted by at 12:47 pm Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , ,  3 Responses »
How Far West Are the BRICS?

Vincent van Gogh Quay with Men Unloading Sand Barges 1888 A topic we can have nice discusssions about ahead of next week’s BRICS+++ meeting in South Africa. As I said recently, BRICS have momentum, and they can’t stop that, not even China could if they wanted. The desire to create a space NOT controlled by US/EU/NATO is just too great. That said, the tentative “bloc” has plenty issues to solve. How do all the 50+ or so countries who want

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Aug 172023
 
 August 17, 2023  Posted by at 8:54 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , , , ,  36 Responses »
Debt Rattle August 17 2023

Giambologna Colossus of the Apennines 1579-80 (35ft tall)   • Georgia DA Seeks ‘Hour of Fame’ With 4th Trump Indictment (Tweedie) • Searching for Light in the Darkness of Insanity (Pepe Escobar) • RFK Jr. Poses ‘Very Credible Threat’ to Biden’s Presidency – CIA Vet (Sp.) • US Military Could Create ‘Global Biological Crisis’ – Russian MOD (RT) • West Makes Money On Ukrainian Conflict, Does Not Need Peace – Medvedev (TASS) • Ukraine Admits F-16 Upset (RT) • West

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Aug 162023
 
Debt Rattle August 16 2023

El Greco Dormition of the Mother of God 1565-1566   • Hunter Biden’s Lead Criminal Defense Attorney Asks To Withdraw From Case (ZH) • Trump Attorneys Slam ‘Flawed, Unconstitutional’ Fulton County Indictment (Sp.) • Justice Shrugged: The Persecution of Donald Trump (Miele) • The Criminalization of Election Controversies (Turley) • Trump Must Turn Himself In At Georgia Jail – Sheriff (RT) • Ukraine Matters To Biden More Than Hawaii – Ron Paul (RT) • Team Biden Hurts US Prestige and

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