Snyder and the Washington Post (!?) rise to the occasion. My archives. Bitcoin takes wing.

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Yale's professor Timothy Snyder, an ardent supporter though not whatsoever a member of the diaspora, has written a strong rebuttal.  Please share it widely.  The Washington Post (I can hardly write this without the prefix "discredited" or "lying") surprises me with a pretty good piece.  Get them out there!

I have put my blogs of the last decade on my web site.  None of you are masochistic enough to want to read them all, but they are searchable.  If you want to know what I wrote about Yanukovych, the Berkut or whatever, download the pdf and search.  The directory is here.  I'm sparing you the effort of digging through it by posting links to what you will want to be searching.

Posts 2011 to 2017 I’ll be posting one or two a day pertaining to Russia and the war, just to give you an idea of what I was seeing and thinking. It may refresh some memories, and prompt you so seek more information on the events of the time.

Posts 2018 to April 2020

Posts April to December 2020

Posts January 2021 through Sept – October switch to Substack

My writing since 2021 has been on Substack.  Here are links to what I wrote from 2021 through January.  Here they are up through October 2023, overlapping but missing some of the earliest ones.  You can find posts since then by pressing this link helpfully inserted by Substack

and selecting archive.  Wading through them is a lot of work, which is why it is time for me to once again post an index like the one through October.

Why is this useful?  It is what a man-on-the-street, an interested and informed, but out-of-the-loop and certainly uninfluential guy thought of what was going on at the time.  We learn from our errors.  You can read that I thought it would be a disaster for Putin to invade Ukraine.  I wrongly thought he was too smart to do it.  You will see that I have been expecting a financial collapse for a very long time, one that has not materialized.  I have thought that the social trends in the West, the United States in particular, would bring a collapse before now.  Wrong again.  I hope we learn from our errors.

With regard to financial collapse, I have long written (search my archives for Bitcoin) that a financial collapse is due.  More and more wise men are picking up on the theme   Two of my favorites are Quoth the Raven and Doug Casey.  Its dramatic price action – up 70% or so in six months – is an indication that people are starting to take note. 

News about big pharma keeps piling up.  Just today we have a $350 million judgment against Publicis, who handled advertising for Oxycontin and other such narcotics, for false advertising leading to thousands of overdose deaths.  Note that I mentioned this recently in my Panickology series on motor vehicles.  While they have been mercilessly trapping supposed speeders to cut traffic accidents by a small fraction per year, deaths of despair – overdoses – soared 200% or so.

Dr. Міkе Yеаdоn рulls nо рunсhеs іn thіs аrtісlе.  Не mаkеs а strоng саsе thаt thе Соvіd "vассіnеs" ԝеrе dеsіgnеd tо kіll us.  Рlаіn аnd sіmрlе.  Наrd tо bеlіеvе, but уоu аrе dоіng уоursеlf nо fаvоrs tо sіmрlу dіsmіss hіm аs а ԝhасkо.  Subjесt уоursеlf tо thе hаrd ԝоrk оf fіgurіng оut ԝhу hе іs ԝrоng.

That's the news from Lake WeBeGone, where there is quite a stack of other-than-Tucker material to work on when I get around to it.  It's a school holiday.  The girls are out for a walk with Grandmother, and I'm getting this stuff done.  Eddie and Oksana are under the weather.  Sorry that they feel bad, but there is a silver lining.  I have not heard about Fitline for a month now, and lactose intolerance is no longer under discussion.

Graham