Friday Photography - Patterns
Submitted by janis b on Fri, 05/21/2021 - 7:29pm
Evening all, and wishing you a pleasingly patterned weekend.
The Evening Blues - 5-21-21
Submitted by joe shikspack on Fri, 05/21/2021 - 2:55pm
Covid Economic Boom Marches On
Submitted by fire with fire on Fri, 05/21/2021 - 11:08am.
U.S. existing home sales extend decline; house prices race to record high
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. home sales fell for a third straight month in April as an acute shortage of properties drove prices to a record high./snip/
Friday Open Thread ~ "Looking back at the headlines" edition~ a jobs report & stolen remains
Submitted by phillybluesfan on Fri, 05/21/2021 - 5:00am
The Evening Blues - 5-20-21
Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 05/20/2021 - 2:54pm
Thursday Open Thread ~ "booking through Thursday" edition
Submitted by phillybluesfan on Thu, 05/20/2021 - 5:00am
Children of Ash and Elm (2020) is a new book published by professor of archaeology at the University of Uppsala, Neil Price. The book is new in its approach to telling the story of the Viking Age in the sense that Price is actually narrating an experience for the reader, more so than simply describing the Viking Age. Price uses Nordic mythology as a narrative frame for explaining the complex societies in Scandinavia in the period 750–1050 AD. This is also what the title hints at: the names Ash and Elm are the English translations of Askr and Embla, the first human beings that the gods created according to Old Norse mythology. Whether Askr and Embla actually mean “Ash” and “Elm,” now that’s another story.
The Evening Blues - 5-19-21
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 05/19/2021 - 3:59pm
The Mid Weekly Watch
Submitted by Lookout on Wed, 05/19/2021 - 6:35am
Protecting the Dying Petrodollar?
It has been fifty years since Nixon took the USD off the gold standard. He had to because we printed so much money to pay for the Vietnam war, we didn't have the gold to cover the currency which had been issued. Oil prices soared in '73 when the US supported Israel in the Arab-Israeli war, and the Saudi's led a US oil embargo. However, in '75 Kissinger cut a deal with the Saudis to only sell their oil in USD. Additionally, Saudi and OPEC oil profits would be recycled back into the U.S. by buying U.S. assets (Treasuries, Stocks, Real Estate etc.) and U.S. weaponry. And so the petrodollar was created... and anyone who challenges this system faces the wrath of the US.
The Evening Blues - 5-18-21
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 05/18/2021 - 2:52pm
Update on US/Israeli Zionist Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians
Submitted by wendy davis on Tue, 05/18/2021 - 10:48amPart I is here.
‘Israel continues “full force” attacks on Gaza, backed by US and several Arab states’, Jean Shaoul, May 17, 2021 (w/ permission; my bolds)
A Palestinian man reacts over the body of his father as others carry him to the morgue after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike that destroyed the upper floors of a commercial building and caused damage to the nearby Health Ministry and prime health care clinic, in Gaza City, Monday, May 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorized Israel’s heaviest airstrikes on Gaza City yesterday, insisting that the war will go on “as long as necessary” and that attacks on Gaza would continue in “full force.” Israel “wants to levy a heavy price” from Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood group that rules Gaza, he added.
