Model wearing Dior on the banks of the Seine, Paris 1948 • Does UK’s Lucrative Arms Trade Come At The Cost Of Political Repression? (G.) • UK Journalists Who Obtain Leaked Official Material Could Face Jail (Tel.) • Women And Children ‘Raped, Beaten And Abused’ In Dunkirk’s Refugee Camp (G.) • Bank For International Settlements Warns Of Looming Debt Bubble (F.) • Trump Regime Was Manufactured By A War Inside The Deep State (Nafeez Ahmed) • Banking, Credit &
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Henri Cartier Bresson Salamanca 1963 Earlier this week I was talking in Athens to a guy from Holland, who incidentally with a group of friends runs a great project on Lesbos taking care of some 1000 refugees in one of the camps there. But that’s another topic for another day. I was wondering in our conversation how it is possible that, as we both painfully acknowledged, people in Holland and Germany don’t know what has really happened in the
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Dorothea Lange Play street for children. Sixth Street and Avenue C, NYC 1936 • Trump ‘May’ Not Appeal Travel Ban Ruling To Supreme Court (ZH) • What’s Really Behind Trump’s Bungling Of The Immigration-Ban Order? (MW) • White House: Cohn-Led Tax Plan Is Real and It’s Phenomenal • Daniel Tarullo, Federal Reserve Regulatory Point Man, to Resign (WSJ) • Foreigners Dump Debt, Offering Up a Test for Rates (WSJ) • Russia’s Exile From World Markets May Soon Be Over
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Al Capone’s free soup kitchen, Chicago, 1931 • US Appeals Court Upholds Suspension Of Trump Travel Ban (AP) • The Crash Will Be Violent (David Stockman) • Foreign Governments Dump US Treasuries as Never Before; Who is Buying? (WS) • Impediments to Growth (Lacy Hunt) • A Game Of Chess (BP) • Biography of President Donald Trump, a.k.a. “Wayne Newton” (Jim Kunstler) • What Would it Cost a Country to Leave the Euro? (WS) • Varoufakis Accuses Creditors Of
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Russell Lee Migrant family in trailer home near Edinburg, Texas Feb 1939 • China Approaches Maxi-Devaluation (DR) • German Exports Break Record as Trump Targets Trade Balance (BBG) • The Blood Bath Continues In The US Major Oil Industry (SRSrocco) • Record $1 Trillion in US Junk Debt to Mature in Next 5 Years (WSJ) • Trump EU Envoy Says Greece Is Now More Likely To Leave The Euro (G.) • Le Pen Aide Briefed French Central Banker on Plan
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Dorothea Lange Rear window tenement dwelling, 133 Avenue D, NYC 1936 • This Is How Out-Of-Whack US Trade Relationships Really Are (WS) • John Kelly, Homeland Security Chief, Says Travel Ban Rolled Out Too Quickly (WSJ) • Trump Travel Ban: Judges Skeptical About Arguments On Executive Order (G.) • ‘Trump Makes Sense To A Grocery Store Owner’ – Taleb (Hindu) • Do Not Let Elliott Abrams Anywhere Near The State Department (Rand Paul) • EU Faces Crisis As IMF Warns
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Paul Cézanne Les (Grandes) Baigneuses 1905 Two and a half weeks after the inauguration, and yes it’s only been that long, the media still don’t seem to have learned a single thing. They help the Trump campaign on an almost hourly basis by parroting whatever things, invariably judged as crazy, he says. One day it’s that negative polls are all fake news, the next it’s some list of underreported terror events. All of it gets an avalanche of attention
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Russell Lee Sharecropper mother teaching children in home, Transylvania, LA. 1939 • Trump To Be Barred From UK Parliament Over ‘Racism and Sexism’ (BBG) • Trump’s Wall Street Deregulation ‘The Last Thing We Need’ – Draghi (Ind.) • Meet The Men Who Could Topple Donald Trump (G.) • California Is Not ‘Out Of Control,’ Leaders Tell Trump (R.) • Our Part In The Darkness (Alameddine) • The New York Times Just Doesn’t Understand This Economics Stuff (Worstall) • The Fed’s
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Steve Schapiro Robert Kennedy US Presidential Campaign 1968 • Trump Travel Ban- What Happens Now (BBC) • Trump Faces Uphill Battle To Overcome Court’s Hold On Travel Ban (R.) • President Trump’s Major Asian Breakthrough (CNBC) • Believe It Or Not, Deluded Republicans Have Got It Right On Tax Reform (Chu) • Is America in a Bubble & Will America Ever Return to “Normal” (CH) • Trump Is No Fascist. He Is A Champion For The Forgotten Millions (G.)
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Hugo Simberg The Wounded Angel 1903 • US Appeals Court Denies Request To Restore Trump’s Immigration Ban (R.) • DHS Suspends Actions On Travel Ban; ‘Standard Policy’ Now In Effect (R.) • Trump Tells O’Reilly He ‘Respects’ Putin in Super Bowl Interview (Fox) • As Trump Weighs Thaw With Putin, EU Set to Renew Its Blacklist (BBG) • Goldman Throws Cold Water On Trump Agenda (CNBC) • Economists Say Action On Carbon Is Vital, Or Say Nothing At All
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