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If you only listen to the American MSM you would think that the U.S. is reluctantly standing up to a belligerent military titan. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Bloomberg had a good article about the predicament our economy now faces. Of course it's all about the what's and not about the why's (hint: blame multinational corporations and their single-minded goal of short-term profit above all else).
But the article does have a lot of good graphs.

A Delayed Reckoning, Pt III

Most right-wingers are still quite confident that they are right.

If I’m going to join hands with the right wing, some of that will have to change.

1) About Kyle Rittenhouse: I really don't care if the mainstream media is "telling the truth" about him, or not. What was important to me was that the situation deteriorated so rapidly that he ended up killing people, probably in self-defense, but still. "The streets" used to be the imagined location where the revolution was going to happen. They were, after all, an important part of the French Revolution. Now it's this. That's the source of my complaint.

The song the Englishers know as “Carol Of The Bells” was originally not a Christmas carol, nor were there any bells in it. It was a song of the new year, which arrived in April, there in Ukraine, where the song was born, and it was called “Shchedryk,” which may mean “bountiful,” or maybe “the generous one," or, maybe, something else again.

The tale it tells comes from before the Christians came to Ukraine to change the calendar; when, at the new year, which was then in spring, a swallow flies into a farmer’s house, and there says to the man: Hey, go out and look at the sheep pen, the ewes are all happy, there are sheep babies, you have a lot of livestock, that’s good fortune, and you’ll make good money selling them, and, if not from that, then from all the grain that you have. And then the swallow says the farmer should be happy, not only because of that, but also because “you have a dark-eyebrowed wife.” With “dark-eyebrowed,” in Ukrainian, a synonym for “beautiful.” And you gotta figure these people know what they’re talking about, because, it is generally acknowledged, among the white people at any rate, that Ukraine, it produces, the most beautiful wimmins, in all the world.