Guests approacheth, so this will be short.
Rotten weather over the last week. Took perhaps one shot..... maybe.
Anyway, a couple of Salisbury Cathedral and the attached cloister:
We're promised sunshine tomorrow. Yeah, sure.........
Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest bank, has been having a bad month, and that is starting to spill onto Trump's Presidency.
A month ago the Deutsche Bank-Commerzbank merger talks collapsed.
The following day the bank reported troubling losses.
The UK PM's last day is June 7, giving her the fifth shortest term in modern British history.
Jonathan Pie provides an obituary.
A warning heard increasingly fervently among many alternative journalists and bloggers.
First: ‘Whom Not To Trust – U.S. Government Indicts Another Intercept Source; Another source that provided government secrets to The Intercept has been uncovered and indicted by the U.S. government, May 9, 2019, moonofalabama.org
A comprehensive and accurate recounting of why there will be no party unity in 2020 or anytime soon.
Well worth the trip.
Wisconsin Citizens Media Cooperative
Authentic News, Locally Grown
This is madness. It is the end of national security journalism and the first amendment. https://t.co/wlhsmsenFw
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) May 23, 2019
There's a disturbing entry in the Guardian's liveblog of today's news, in a summary of an article from The Atlantic.
Creationism aside, we grew from photosensitive cells to primate bipeds which send computers into space. That is a mammoth scale of observation to cross. To do so, we've had to become very complex creatures, utterly dependent on an inherited social structure. Depending on where we live, those can be pretty nasty. Not just personally dangerous, but dangerous to all of us.
JUST IN: Speaker Pelosi says "we believe the president of the United States is engaged in a cover up" by stonewalling testimony for ongoing congressional investigations. pic.twitter.com/7ILMb95vZM
— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 22, 2019
WHILE YOUR ATTENTION WAS DIRECTED ELSEWHERE: The U.S. is fast choking off two of China's major oil suppliers, Iran and Venezuela, and last Thursday, a Treasury and Commerce Department order effectively closed the American market to Huawei, the biggest Chinese cell phone manufacturer. That follows an announcement on May 14 by the US Trade Representative of a 25% tariff on a $300 billion basket of Chinese-made goods.
Yes, we are back to square one.
The U.S. has been squeezing the Russian oil and gas industry since 2014.
She’s good on some issues, but others…my stars. H/t to Tony Cartalucci on Twitter (3-parts) for the heads-up.
“Inside Syria’s Secret Prisons”: A Harrowing Account of How Assad’s Torture Machine Crushed Dissent’, democracynow.org, May 16, 2019
