Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Is There Any Chance Ukraine Could Hire Elizabeth Warren's 'Anti-Crypto Army'?

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Maybe on a mercenary basis to counter Wagner? Nah, wouldn't be fair. She'd mop the floor with Prigozhin and then order him to make ...

Jim Cramer On Coinbase (COIN)

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Via Tim Knight at Slope of Hope: .... MUCH MORE The stock didn't quite make it. April 14, 2021 was the first day of trading for the st...

Normandy: The Only Woman To Land on D-Day

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A repost from 2019. We met Martha Gelhorn in May 25 2019's " The story of Ernest Hemingway’s $187,000 magazine expenses claim "...

Ukraine: "Worst case modelling for Nova Kakhovka dam break"

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Here's an analysis done last year after the dam was damaged. One current (!) theory is that because there are no videos of an attack in ...

Eisenhower Takes Responsibility for the Failure of the D-Day Landings

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A repost from the 70th anniversary of the invasion. A companion piece to our earlier D-Day "First Wave at Omaha Beach" (originall...

"Ukraine Dam Disaster: What We Know"

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 From the New York Times, June 6: A dam in southern Ukraine was split in half, but it is unclear who caused the damage. Thousands are being ...
Monday, June 5, 2023

D-Day: "First Wave at Omaha Beach"

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We usually mark D-Day with the story of the little boats that carried the troops but in 2020 decided to post this piece. Original post : I h...

Oh My God, What Are The Ukrainian Generals Doing?

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They are ordering their men to attack defense-in-depth without air cover and 1/10th the artillery the troops need. This is what happens when...

Rowan Atkinson: "I love electric vehicles – and was an early adopter. But increasingly I feel duped"

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Some actors have brains, who knew? Well, I suppose Hedy Lamarr knew, what with her “ frequency hopping, spread-spectrum communication syste...

Capital Markets: "Dollar Gains Extended, Oil Steadies at Higher Levels after Saudi's Cut, US Bill Deluge Begins Today"

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From Marc to Market: Overview:   The US dollar has extended its post-employment gains today, helped by firmer rates and several countries se...

"Jamie Dimon’s Deposition in Epstein Case Reveals Email Stating that Dimon Was to Be Treated to 'Heavy Snacks' at Epstein’s Home"

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 From Wall Street on Parade, June 1: After much delay and legal protests by JPMorgan Chase, its Chairman and CEO, Jamie Dimon, was forced b...

"Anatomy of the Repo Rate Spikes in September 2019"

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A topic of ongoing interest in light of recent events. HT up front to one of the authors, the Fed's R. Jay Kahn . From The Office Of Fin...
Sunday, June 4, 2023

Tiananmen Square Tank Man, Different Angle

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Via Reddit's r/pics : This is not an uncropped version of the photograph that most people know as "Tank Man." ...

"Oil Surges After Saudis Make Additional 1 Million Bpd Voluntary Production Cut"

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President Biden should immediately, right now, today, make some sort of agreement with Saudi Arabia to refill the U.S. Strategic Petroleum R...

Temasek Chairman's Statement on FTX Internal Review

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Temasek is one of the class acts of the Sovereign Wealth Fund world and their $275 million hit on FTX, despite being tiny in comparison with...

"The Two-Century Quest to Quantify Our Senses"

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From The MIT Press Reader: The quantification of bodies, senses, and experience did not begin with surveillance capitalism but can be trace...

"What was the longest-lasting civilization?"

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My Chinese friends and acquaintances say it is the Chinese civilization. When I ask why that happened they say it is because Chinese people ...

Why Does It Seem That The Powers That Be Are Trying To Incite A Race War?

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Because they are terrified of a class war? We don't usually repost stuff after only a couple months but looking at headlines since this ...