• Trump Invites Kim Jong-Un to the White House (BI) • China Warns Of Long Road Ahead For Deal With US After Ice-Breaking Talks (R.) • Russia and Saudi Arabia Agree To Extend OPEC Oil Output Cuts Into 2020 (MW) • Johnson And Hunt Don’t Understand What It’s Like When A Wall Falls (G.) • The Extradition Cases of Pinochet & Assange (Vos) • UN Torture Rapporteur About Op-Ed On Assange Rejected By MSM (RT) • Boeing Outsourced Its
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Salvador Dali Paranoiac Woman-Horse (Invisible Sleeping Woman, Lion, Horse) 1930 • Wall Street Wraps Up Its Best June In Generations (R.) • Not A Rate-Cut Economy (WS) • You Are Nuts To Think A July Interest-Rate Cut Is A Slam Dunk (MW) • Deutsche Bank To Fire Up To 20,000: One In Six Full-Time Positions (ZH) • China and US Agree To Restart Trade Talks (R.) • Russia-India-China Will Be The Big G20 Hit (Escobar) • Trump Offers To
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Salvador Dali Invisible Sleeping Woman, Horse, Lion 1930 • 56% Of Americans Are Lying Awake At Night Worrying About Money (MW) • America’s Monopoly Crisis Hits the Military (AC) • US Car Industry Is Killing Itself (WS) • Baoshang Bank Collapse Threatens China’s Economy (ABC.au) • Deutsche Bank Passes Fed Stress Test In Boost For Its US Operations (R.) • Paul Singer Warns A 40% Market Crash Is Coming (ZH) • US Gets No Commitment From NATO Allies For
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Pablo Picasso The rescue 1936 • Facebook May Pose a Greater Danger Than Wall Street (TD) • Trump Praising Stock Market Is Like Bush Praising Housing In 2006 (Colombo) • President Xi, Still the Deglobalizer in Chief… (Setser) • Trump Demands Withdrawal Of India’s ‘Unacceptable’ Tariff Hike (R.) • New 737 MAX Software Glitch Results In “Uncontrollable Nosedives” (ZH) • Airlines, Regulators Meet To Discuss Boeing 737 MAX Un-Grounding Efforts (R.) • United Airlines Extends 737 MAX Cancellations Until
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Caravaggio Conversion on the way to Damascus 1600-01 Something’s been nagging me for the past few days, and I’m not sure I’ve figured out why yet. It started when Donald Trump first called off the alleged planned strikes on targets in Iran because they would have cost 150 lives, and then the next day said the US would do sanctions instead. As they did on Monday, even directly targeting Trump’s equal, the “Supreme Leader Khameini”. When Trump announced the
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Unknown Anne Frank 1941 Merwedeplein, Amsterdam As I watch the – if you ask me pretty vapid- discussion develop that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) started by using the term “concentration camps” to describe the places on the US-Mexico border where “migrants” are being held, and where some of them die, I think back. Now, I actually like AOC, because she’s young (29) and that means she’s the future, simple as that. And if there’s anything America needs today it’s young
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Pablo Picasso Sleeping girl 1935 • Free Money Socialism (Henrich) • Iran Goes For “Maximum Counter-Pressure” (Escobar) • Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency ‘Poses Risks To Global Banking’ -BIS (G.) • Google’s Chrome Web Browser “Has Become Spy Software” (ZH) • Austerity, Inequality Fuelling Mental Illness – Top UN Envoy (G.) • Republicans Don’t Understand Democrats – and Vice Versa (Atl.) • 400 Pilots Sue Boeing In Class Action Over 737 MAX Cover-Up (ABC.au) • How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean
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Pablo Picasso Femme aux bras leves- Tête de Dora Maar- 1936 As a nation, you’re certifiedly (is that a word?!) in deep trouble if and when Donald Trump is your most peaceloving man. But nevertheless, that is America today. It all harks back to the days when Trump was first -grudgingly and painstakingly- recognized as an actual presidential candidate. He campaigned as a man who would end the costly and neverending decades-old and counting US wars far away from
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Pablo Picasso La guerre 1951 • Trump Approved Strikes On Iran But Cancelled Them: Reports (AlJ) • The Drone Iran Shot Down Was a $220 Million Surveillance Monster (W.) • The Real Meaning Of Trump’s Deplorable Aggression Against Iran (Stockman) • Senate Blocks Arms Sales To Saudi Arabia In Bipartisan Trump Rebuke (ZH) • More Spent On S&P 500 Buybacks Than All 2018 R&D (Axios) • China Concerned Over Possible US Dollar Shortage Risk (SCMP) • US Spend Ten
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Caravaggio I musici 1595-96 The investigation into the crash of the MH17 Malaysia Airlines plane in East Ukraine was always compromised, right from the start. The crash on July 17 2014 came shortly after the “Euromaidan revolution” in Kiev – which first began in November 2013 and culminated in the ousting of elected president Yanukovich on 23 February 2014, happily helped along by John McCain, Victoria Nuland and then-US ambassador to Ukraine (now ambassador to Greece) Geoffrey Pyatt for
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