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Debt Rattle August 24 2023

Aug 242023

August 24, 2023 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 8:25 am Finance Tagged with: COVID, End the War, hatred, kiddie table, Prigozhin, Trump, Tucker, Wagner, Xi 30 Responses »

Francesco Queirolo Il Disinganno, Naples, Sansevero Chapel 1753-1754 • Trump: “There’s A Level Of Passion… And Hatred I’ve Never Seen” (ZH) • Ukraine Can’t Defeat Russia – Ex-NATO General (RT) • Ukraine Must Seek Ceasefire With Russia Now – Ex-Presidential Aide (RT) • US ‘Cannot Afford’ To Fund Ukraine War – Think-Tank Chief (RT) • Ending Ukraine Conflict Now Is ‘Smartest Thing We Can Do’- Macgregor (RT) • Ukraine Blames Foreign Journalists for Botched Counteroffensive (Sp.) • Russia’s Goal

Debt Rattle August 23 2023

Aug 232023

August 23, 2023 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 8:54 am Finance Tagged with: Biden, BRICS, debate, draft dodgers, Fukushima, McCarthy, PPP, Putin, Trump, Tucker 59 Responses »

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) •

Debt Rattle August 22 2023

Aug 222023

August 22, 2023 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 8:45 am Finance Tagged with: Assange, BRICS, F-16, fusion, G7, Macgregor, Trump 44 Responses »

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

Debt Rattle August 21 2023

Aug 212023

August 21, 2023 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:16 am Finance Tagged with: arsenal, Burkina Faso, Hunter Biden, restock, San Francisco, Soros, Vucic 36 Responses »

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.) •

Debt Rattle August 20 2023

Aug 202023

August 20, 2023 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 8:30 am Finance Tagged with: Africa, aliases, Borrell, Central Asia, existential, gas pump, Hunter Biden, Niger, Trump 39 Responses »

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) •

Debt Rattle August 19 2023

Aug 192023

August 19, 2023 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 8:57 am Finance Tagged with: Assange, BRICS, F-16, GMO, grim future, Hunter Biden, ivermectin, Niger, Zakharova 22 Responses »

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

A Tale of Two Cosmologies

Aug 182023

August 18, 2023 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 12:00 pm Finance Tagged with: atheism, creator, divine justice, god, Holy Book, Holy War, religion, science, scripture, theism 54 Responses »

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

Debt Rattle August 18 2023

Aug 182023

August 18, 2023 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:13 am Finance Tagged with: Assange, Fani Willis, Hunter Biden, Maui, pseudonym, Ramaswamy, Robert L. Peters, Trump 23 Responses »

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) •

How Far West Are the BRICS?

Aug 172023

August 17, 2023 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 12:47 pm Finance Tagged with: BRI, BRICS, China.Russia, de-dollarize, gold, Iran, Western, yuan 3 Responses »

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

Debt Rattle August 17 2023

Aug 172023

August 17, 2023 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 8:54 am Finance Tagged with: African Union, BRICS, ECOWAS, Fulton County, Gaddafi, ivermectin, Niger, Putin, RFK jr, Trump 36 Responses »

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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