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What Comes After McCabe?

Feb 182019

February 18, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 8:20 pm Primers Tagged with: 60 minutes, cesspool, DOJ, FBI, McCabe, quagmire, Rosenstein, special counsel, Trump

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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Johannes Vermeer The art of painting 1666-8 Andrew McCabe, former Deputy Director from February 2016 to January 2018 and former Acting Director of the FBI from May 9, 2017, to August 2, 2017, was fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions Sessions on March 16, 2018, 26 hours before his scheduled retirement. On April 18 2018 it was reported that the Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, sent a referral to the US attorney’s office in Washington for possible

Debt Rattle February 18 2019

Feb 182019

February 18, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:25 am Finance Tagged with: antisemitism, Brexit, coup, emergency, Facebook, farming, Macron, McCabe, plastic, Rosenstein, Trump, Venezuela, veto, wolves, yellow vests

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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Pablo Picasso Face female study 1925 • Yellow Vests Mark 3 Months of Marches, France investigates Antisemitism (AP) • Two Trump Cabinet Officials Were “Ready To Support” 25th Amendment Coup (ZH) • Trump To Veto Disapproval Of Emergency (AP) • Tories Under Fire For Dismissing March For 2nd Brexit Referendum (Ind.) • New Zealand To Target Online Giants With Digital Tax (R.) • Facebook Labelled ‘Digital Gangsters’ By UK Report On Fake News (G.) • UK Must Investigate

Debt Rattle February 17 2019

Feb 172019

February 17, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 11:19 am Finance Tagged with: Amazon, antisemitism, apartheid, Bezos, Brexit, Catalans, ISIS, Lost Eyes, Macron, Remainers, snap elections, Trump, WaPo, yellow vests

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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Jean-François Millet The Gleaners 1857 (see more in comments section) • Macron Condemns Antisemitic Abuse During Gilets Jaunes Paris Protest (AFP) • French Police Fire Tear Gas As Latest ‘Yellow Vest’ Protests Turn Violent (R.) • Yellow Vests Who Have Lost Eyes, Limbs Demand Justice From Macron (RT) • Act XIV: The Last Saturday Of ‘Yellow Vest’ Protests In France? (Local) • Remainers Plan Mass March And Key Vote In Last Days Before Brexit (G.) • IS Caliphate

Debt Rattle February 16 2019

Feb 162019

February 16, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 11:46 am Finance Tagged with: 9/11, Amazon, AOC, Assange, China, consumer economy, emergency, measles, Mueller, Ocasio, Roger Stone, trolls, Trump, UnAmerican, wall

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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Marcel Duchamp The king and queen surrounded by swift nudes 1912 • Over 60% Of All New Debt Created Globally In Past Decade Was In China (NYFed) • Worms Turning (Jim Kunstler) • FBI Created, Covered Up “Chart” Of Potential Hillary Clinton Crimes (ZH) • Mueller Discloses Evidence Roger Stone Communicated With Wikileaks (G.) • Are Russian Trolls Saving Measles From Extinction? (RFE) • Democrats’ Coveted 2020 Prize? An Endorsement From Ocasio-Cortez (G.) • The Green New Deal,

Debt Rattle February 15 2019

Feb 152019

February 15, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:33 am Finance Tagged with: Amazon, AOC, Brexit, climate strike, emergency, extinction, globalism, sanctions, Trump, US Empire, Venezuela, wall, White Helmets

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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Pablo Picasso Three women at the edge of the beach 1924 • NBC Issues Latest Reminder That Mueller Report Might Disappoint (ZH) • Trump Will Sign Spending Bill, Declare Emergency Over Border – McConnell (MW) • Russians Told To ‘Prepare For The Worst’ As US Proposes New Sanctions (Ind.) • Theresa May Suffers Embarrassing Defeat As Tories Rebel Over No-Deal (Ind.) • Dutch PM On Brexit: UK Is A Waning Country Too Small To Stand Alone (G.) •

Debt Rattle February 14 2019

Feb 142019

February 14, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:42 am Finance Tagged with: Abrams, Amazon, Australia, Brexit, car loan, delinquency, glyphosate, Ilhan Omar, Maduro, Monsanto, mortgage, trade deal

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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Pablo Picasso Guitar 1925 • Australia’s $7 Trillion Question: How Low Will House Prices Go (SMH) • US Mortgage Applications Drop Despite Lower Rates: Industry is Baffled (WS) • Surge In Delinquencies Threatens US Auto Loan Bubble (Colombo) • $1 Trillion Amazon Pays $0 In Income Taxes, Gets $129 Million Rebate (RT) • EU Officials: UK Only ‘Pretending To Negotiate’ Over Brexit (G.) • UK Has Rolled Over Just £16bn Out Of £117bn Trade Deals (G.) • Labour

Debt Rattle February 13 2019

Feb 132019

February 13, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:52 am Finance Tagged with: AOC, asset bubble, Brexit, Catalunya, China, collusion, contagion, Green New Deal, guillotine, inequality, liberalism, RuNet, Senate

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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Edouard Manet Osny, The road-menders, Rue de Berne 1878 • America’s 1% Hasn’t Had This Much Wealth In 100 Years (MW) • Senate Has Found No Direct Evidence of Trump-Russia Conspiracy (NBC) • NBC Has A Hard Time Accepting There’s No Collusion (ZH) • Mitch McConnell To Force Senate Vote On Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal (CNBC) • For The Stock Market, A Trade-War Win May Be A Hollow Victory (MW) • Labour To Set Out Plans To Decarbonise

Debt Rattle February 12 2019

Feb 122019

February 12, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 11:20 am Finance Tagged with: Brexit, Deutsche, dick pic, EU, Fed, Green New Deal, insects, MAGA, shutdown, Trump, wall, Warren, Xi

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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Vincent van Gogh On the outskirts of Paris 1887 • Global Insect Decline May See ‘Plague Of Pests’ (BBC) • Complex, Dynamic Environmental Destabilisation (BBC) • Politicians Are Complicit In The Killing Of Our Insects (G.) • Should We Really Not Worry About The Fed’s Balance Sheet? (Roberts) • Party Leaders Reach Deal To Avoid Fresh US Government Shutdown (AP) • Warren’s Foreign Policy Shows She’s Missing Why Trump Was Elected (G.) • Mistaken Futures (Kunstler) • May

The Great Discontent

Feb 112019

February 11, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 5:48 pm Primers Tagged with: AOC, bills, blindness, Brexit, Great Discontent, Great Unraveling, Green New Deal, media, neoliberalism, Onfray, Trump, tsunami, yellow vests

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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Johannes Vermeer Woman holding a balance 1662-63 The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise. -Hazel Henderson It’s often hard to understand how people can be aware of something but then fail to link it to a perfectly logical next step, or even multiple steps, and see where it fits in a larger scheme. There really are people out there, believe it or

Debt Rattle February 11 2019

Feb 112019

February 11, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:04 am Finance Tagged with: Brexit, Catalunya, China, collapse, Corbyn, customs union, Escher, insects, May, OPEC, Orban, Pompeo, Spain, Warren

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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Pablo Picasso Glass, bread and cheesee 1923 • Plummeting Insect Numbers ‘Threaten Collapse Of Nature’ (G.) • IMF Cuts 2019 Global Growth Forecasts Again: “We Have No Idea” (Mish) • UK Public Services Face Post-Brexit Squeeze (R.) • Theresa May Rejects Corbyn’s Ideas For A Compromise Brexit Plan (G.) • May Rejects Corbyn’s Customs Union Offer, What’s Next? (Mish) • All The Ways Gen X Is Financially Wrecked (MW) • Warren: Trump Might Not Be President Or ‘Even