Leonardo da Vinci Ginevra de’ Benci 1474-78 Perhaps against better judgment, I just can’t keep silent about the Michael Cohen’s in da House show performed on February 27. I was watching it and increasingly fearing for the future of America. We had all been able to read his prepared statement before he opened the party with it, and therefore we all knew there was nothing there. So why did this thing take place, and why were all the cameras
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René Magritte The endearing truth 1966 • Trump Says Deal With Kim Thwarted By North Korea’s Sanction Demands (R.) • Michael Cohen Predicts Revolution If Trump Loses In 2020 (RT) • Michael Cohen’s Explosive Allegations Spell Danger For Trump On Two Fronts (G.) • Why Trump Will Likely Be Reelected, And What It Means For Global Security (F.) • Regime Change is Urgently Needed…in Washington (OffG) • Venezuela Set For More False Flags (Cunningham) • Disintegration Of Global Capitalism
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Salvador Dali Remorse – Sphinx Embedded in the Sand 1931 • Michael Cohen Testimony: Trump A ‘Racist’, ‘Cheat’ And ‘Conman’ (G.) • 3 Days That Will Decide Brexit – March 12-14th Will Seal Britain’s Fate (Exp.) • UK Economy Could Be 9% Weaker Under No-Deal Brexit – Government (G.) • The UK Doesn’t Have The Right Pallets For Exporting To The EU (BI) • The War on Venezuela is Built on Lies (Pilger) • Survival of the Richest (Nomi
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Leonardo da Vinci Saint John the Baptist 1513-16 There are lots of people talking about how they much disagree with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, how silly she is, how dumb and impossible and irresponsible her Green New Deal is, but I think they’re missing a point or two. First of all: what’s the alternative? Who would you trade her for? Hillary? Feinstein? Pelosi? Bernie Sanders? Cory Booker? Would you rather things stay the same? I can see that from the Hillary
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Salvador Dali The Feeling of Becoming 1931 • Bubble-Era Home Mortgages Are A Disaster Waiting To Happen (Jurow) • 18 Reasons Why Australian Property Prices Will Fall Further (AFR) • Imports by China, Emerging Asia Plunge Most Since 2008 (WS) • Debt Roars Back in China, Deleveraging Is Dead (BBG) • With 10-to-1 Leverage, Shadow Banks Fuel China’s Huge Stock Boom (BBG) • Paul Volcker Is Worried About the ‘Culture of the Financial System’ (Fortune) • Rising Level Of
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Henri Rousseau The sleeping gypsy 1897 • A Fed Pivot, Born Of Volatility, Missteps, And New Economic Reality (R.) • Get Out Of The Bond And Stock Market, Put Your Money In Cash – Stockman (MW) • Global Sovereign Debt Will Top $50 Trillion This Year (ZH) • Mueller Won’t Deliver Report To DOJ Next Week (Hill) • Schiffting to Phase 2 of Collusion (Strassel) • ‘Even Nixon Wasn’t Like Him’: Trump’s Bid To Upend Russia Inquiry (G.) •
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Salvador Dali The ghost of Vermeer of Delft which can be used as a table 1934 • US Housing Market In Freefall As New Buyers Can’t Afford A Home (ZH) • Canadians Continue To Plunder Equity From Their Homes (ZH) • Bursting Of Australia’s Housing Bubble Could Topple The Government (ZH) • EU Expects May to Request Three-Month Delay to Brexit (BBG) • Theresa May Warned Dozens Of Tories Could Rebel Over No-Deal Brexit (BBC) • Record Surplus Gives
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Jan van Eijk The Arnolfini portrait 1434 • A $3 Trillion Debt Tsunami Is About To Flood The Stock Market (MW) • Attorney General Barr To Announce End Of Mueller Probe Next Week: CNN (ZH) • Mueller Report May Be ‘Anti-Climactic’ – Clapper (Hill) • FBI Top Lawyer Believed Hillary Clinton Should Face Charges (Solomon) • Conservative Split As Tory Rebels Denounce Hardline Brexiters (G.) • How Not To Organise A Split In A Party (Galloway) • UK And
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Johannes Vermeer The art of painting 1666-8 Andrew McCabe, former Deputy Director from February 2016 to January 2018 and former Acting Director of the FBI from May 9, 2017, to August 2, 2017, was fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions Sessions on March 16, 2018, 26 hours before his scheduled retirement. On April 18 2018 it was reported that the Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, sent a referral to the US attorney’s office in Washington for possible criminal
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Pablo Picasso Face female study 1925 • Yellow Vests Mark 3 Months of Marches, France investigates Antisemitism (AP) • Two Trump Cabinet Officials Were “Ready To Support” 25th Amendment Coup (ZH) • Trump To Veto Disapproval Of Emergency (AP) • Tories Under Fire For Dismissing March For 2nd Brexit Referendum (Ind.) • New Zealand To Target Online Giants With Digital Tax (R.) • Facebook Labelled ‘Digital Gangsters’ By UK Report On Fake News (G.) • UK Must Investigate Foreign
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