Friday, May 29, 2020

"Roman mosaic floor found under Italian vineyard"

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Holy crap, look at this thing. From the BBC: A Roman mosaic floor has been discovered under a vineyard in northern Italy after decade...

Review: "The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century"

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If there is no redistributive chaos and/or no Jubilee, all becomes stasis entrenching current regimes. Although the writer of this review, ...

"Butterfly Effect: China’s Real Target Is Taiwan"

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Of course it is. From OZY, May 28: WHY YOU SHOULD CARE For Xi Jinping, the new controversial law for Hong Kong is part of a bigger pl...

"Coronavirus: Monkeys 'escape with COVID-19 samples' after attacking lab assistant"

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From Sky News: One of the primates was reportedly later spotted up in a tree, chewing one of the sample collection kits. A gang of monke...

Giant 4-Foot Lizards Invading Georgia, Appear Headed For Atlanta

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The giant hornets are soooo last month . From Travel + Leisure, May 15: Georgia Residents Are on the Lookout for a 4-foot-long Lizard Tha...

Peet's Coffee Does Europe's Largest IPO Of 2020, Stock Jumps

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From Reuters via U.S. News & World Report: Coffee Maker JDE Peet's Valued at $17.3 Billion in Virtual IPO, Shares Surge AMSTERD...

EIA Natural Gas Weekly Update (Natural Gas Deliveries to U.S. LNG Export Facilities Fall to Lowest In Seven Months)

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From the Energy Information Administration: for week ending May 27, 2020   |   Release date:   May 28, 2020  In the News: Natural g...

On This Day: Fall of Constantinople 29 May 1453

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From the all-knowing one (Wikipedia):   ...Plundering phase Mehmed II granted his soldiers three days to plunder the city, as he had p...

Capital Markets: "Month-End Profit-Taking Weighs on Equities as the Euro Pops Above $1.11"

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From Marc to Market: Overview: The announcement that President Trump will hold a press conference on China later today rattled investors...
Thursday, May 28, 2020

"The Last Time [Société Générale's] Albert Edwards Saw 'Nonsense' Like This Was 2008: This Is How It Ended"

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Following up on this afternoon's " Société Générale's Albert Edwards Is Perplexed ". And just a heads-up: in 2008 Albert ...

Meanwhile in Minneapolis USA

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We're hearing unconfirmed reports that gas lines to the Third Precinct have been cut and other explosive materials are in the ...

A Look At Yara's Autonomous Electric Container Ship

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Following up on May 14's " Development of First Fully Autonomous Ship, Yara Birkeland, Put on Hold Due To Coronavirus " we don...

Top Chinese Politicians and Their Networks At Your Fingertips

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A personal aide-mémoire as much as anything, which was one of the original purposes of this blog, things I wanted to remember but probably w...

EIA Natural Gas Storage Report, May 28, 2020

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First up, the estimates via FX Empire : ....US Energy Information Administration Weekly Storage Report Estimates Natural Gas Intelligenc...

Société Générale's Albert Edwards Is Perplexed

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From Markets Now: SocGen’s Albert Edwards is perplexed: I'm perplexed. Until recently (ie the last few days), I had thought that t...

Models and Modelling: We May Have Just Made A Big Mistake

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I've mentioned that we probably have as many posts on models as any generalist site on the internet. It goes with the territory: weath...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Russia Prepares To Test Nuclear Powered Doomsday Drone Torpedo

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From The Barents Observer: Russia's 'doomsday drone' prepares for testing One year after the fatal accident with a...

Shipping: "World’s Biggest LNG Engine Approved for CMA CGM Megaships"

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CMA CGM has made such a huge bet on LNG powered ships that they would really, really like to see them mandated. By the UN, the IMO, somebod...

India: As China Invades In the Northeast The Locusts Have Arrived From the West

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First up, as can be seen on this map from GlobalSecurity.org , May 26, it is obviously Bhutan's fault: Or: And from Al Jazeera, ...

"Japan enacts high-tech 'super city' bill"

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Meanwhile in the U.S. the politicians have built and rule over pestilential cesspits. From The Japan Times: The government hopes to utili...