Henri Matisse Music 1910 • People Spend Most Of Their Waking Hours Staring At Screens (MW) • Fifth of Britons Feel Stressed If They Can’t Access Internet (G.) • Jeff Bezos’s $150 Billion Fortune Is a Policy Failure (Atlantic) • Assange May Finally Leave Ecuadorian Embassy In London As Health Worsens (RT) • Trump Threatens To Raise Tariffs On Chinese Goods To 25%, Up From 10% (AFP) • German Sources Deny Brexit Deal Offer Amid Panic In Remain Campaign
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Salvador Dali Swans reflecting elephants 1937 I am often confused by events that happen and by things that people say. But then I think them over and they mostly become less confusing, even if often slivers of confusion remain. This was again the case yesterday morning. Donald Trump went after the Koch brothers, the one biggest symbol of everything that’s wrong with American politics, and I expected the anti-Trump echo-chamber to finally agree on something with him. But no,
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Getty Marilyn Monroe in NY subway 1955 • Apple Buybacks Eclipse Value Of Most S&P 500 Companies (R.) • A Record 18% Of China’s GDP Goes To Debt Service (ZH) • IMF Warns On Greek Debt Sustainability (ZH) • The Greatest Depression (Coppola) • EU’s Brexit Declaration Could Be Just ‘Four Or Five Pages’ Long (G.) • UK Government Accused Of Trying To Hide Devastating Impact Of Brexit (Ind.) • No UK Car Manufacturer Ready For Brexit (Ind.) •
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