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Chill!
Chill! René Magritte Pandora’s box 1951 They can’t help themselves even as they hurt themselves. Look guys, chill! I saw someone imply on Twitter that Donald Trump is an accomplice in a murder cover-up. This person knows as well as all the ones who liked the tweet that they all just don’t know. They don’t […]
Ban Saudi Oil
Ban Saudi Oil Alfred Eisenstaedt Egyptian Fishing Boats. Suez Canal near Port Said 1935 According to Middle East Eye, Richard Branson, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Economist editor-In-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes, World Bank president Jim Yong Kim, New York Times, Financial Times, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshah, Viacom CEO Bob Bakish and AOL founder Steve Case have all […]
Of Course The Fed Is Crazy
Of Course The Fed Is Crazy Pieter Bruegel the Elder The Triumph of Death 1562 Finally financial ‘markets’ go through a substantial dip, which Steve Mnuchin claims is just temporary and Donald Trump says is caused by the fact that the Fed is ‘loco’. Mnuchin may well be right, but it won’t be because he […]
The News Just Ain’t The News No More
The News Just Ain’t The News No More M. C. Escher The Tower of Babel 1928 Two thirds of Americans get at least some of their news on social media. Google and Facebook receive well over 70% of US digital advertising revenues. The average daily time spent on social media is 2 hours. Just a […]
Ben Bernanke’s Waffle House
Ben Bernanke’s Waffle House Salvador Dali Spain 1936-38 Yes, it is hard to believe, but still happening: 10 years after Lehman the very same people who either directly caused the financial crisis of 2008 or made things much much worse in its aftermath, are not only ALL walking around freely and enjoying even better paid […]
The Ritual Burial of the US Constitution
The Ritual Burial of the US Constitution Winslow Homer Salt Kettle, Bermuda 1899 In the wake of a number of the Lehman and 9/11 commemorations in America, and as a monster storm is once again threatening to cause outsize damage, we find ourselves at a pivotal point in time, which will decide how the country […]
The Ritual Burial of the US Constitution
The Ritual Burial of the US Constitution Winslow Homer Salt Kettle, Bermuda 1899 In the wake of a number of the Lehman and 9/11 commemorations in America, and as a monster storm is once again threatening to cause outsize damage, we find ourselves at a pivotal point in time, which will decide how the country […]
Interview Raúl Ilargi Meijer about Julian Assange
Interview Raúl Ilargi Meijer about Julian Assange Charles Burchfield Bluebird and Cottonwoods (The Birches) 1917 My Australian friend Wayne Hall, who‘s lived in Athens for many many years, is doing a video project on fellow Aussie Julian Assange. This is an interview with me, recorded 3 weeks or so ago, that’s part of the project. […]
Social Media vs the Constitution
Social Media vs the Constitution Salvador Dali The burning giraffe 1937 Dali: “The only difference between immortal Greece and our era is Sigmund Freud who discovered that the human body, which in Greek times was merely neoplatonical, is now filled with secret drawers only to be opened through psychoanalysis.”An ancient Latin saying goes: “Quod licet […]
Fixers
Fixers Gustave Caillebotte Young man by his window 1875 If there’s one thing that is exposed in the sorry not-so-fairy tale of former Trump aides Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen, it’s that Washington is a city run by fixers. Who often make substantial amounts of money. Many though by no means all, start out as […]
Free The Press
Free The Press William Hogarth Humours of an Election, Plate 2 1754 Two thirds of Americans want the Mueller investigation (inquisition, someone called it) over by the midterm elections. Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has said that if Mueller wants to interview Trump, he’ll have to do so before September 1, because the Trump camp doesn’t […]
Talk Cold Turkey
Talk Cold Turkey Henri Matisse View of Nôtre Dame 1914 Recep Tayyip Erdogan became Prime Minister of Turkey in 2003. His AKP party had won a major election victory in 2002, but Erdogan was banned from political office until his predecessor Gül annulled the ban. Which he had gotten in 1997 for reciting an old […]
Globalist
Globalist Salvador Dali Swans reflecting elephants 1937 I am often confused by events that happen and by things that people say. But then I think them over and they mostly become less confusing, even if often slivers of confusion remain. This was again the case yesterday morning. Donald Trump went after the Koch brothers, the […]
Gold Yuan Crypto
Gold Yuan Crypto George Caleb Bingham The verdict of the people 1854It’s been a while since we last heard from Dr. D, but here he’s back explaining why neither gold nor the yuan nor cryptocurrencies can or will replace the dollar as the reserve currency, but together they just might: Dr. D: “Some debts are […]
