Gustave Courbet The village maidens 1852 I intentionally start writing this mere minutes away from Fed chair Jay Powell’s latest comments. Intentionally, because the importance ascribed to those comments only means we have gotten so far removed from what capitalism and free markets are supposed to be about, that it’s pathetic. The comments mean something for rich socialists, but nothing for the man in the street. Or, rather, they mean that the man in the street will get screwed
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Winslow Homer Camping in the Adirondacks (Wood engraving) 1874 • China Warns US Against Opening Mideast ‘Pandora’s Box’ (CNA) • UN Officials: US Planning A ‘Tactical Assault’ In Iran (JPost) • The Coming Show Trial of Julian Assange (Chris Hedges) • Assange Judge Refuses To Recuse Herself Despite Evidence Of Bias (Can.) • Julian Assange and the Scales of Justice (CP) • FBI Never Saw CrowdStrike Unredacted or Final Report (McGovern) • Deep State Players Lash Out At Trump
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Pablo Picasso The sculptor and his statue 1933 • The Bleak Mood Of Pre-Brexit UK (O.) • Boeing May Never Recover From 737 Debacle (Auerback) • Huawei Prepares For 40%-60% Fall In International Smartphone Shipments (R.) • Huawei Moves To Russia-China Operating System (Escobar) • Deutsche Bank To Set Up €50 Billion Bad Bank (R.) • How Wall Street Got Rich Off The Fresh Market Deal (Cohan) • Japan Demands More Proof From US That Iran Attacked Tankers (JT)
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David Hockney A Bigger Splash 1967 Just trying to find angles here. Trying to find people who could help Julian Assange. But so many of them are already dead. Can you imagine how different things might have been if Martin Luther King had still been alive to speak out on his situation? Or Muhammad Ali, JFK and Bobby Kennedy? Nelson Mandela? How about Bob Marley? Or, you know, Johnny Cash? Joe Strummer? We lost so many voices, and so
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Arnold Böcklin Mermaids at play 1886 • Freeing Julian Assange: Part Two (Suzie Dawson) • Well Guess What? He Was Right Again! Free Julian Assange (CJ) • DOJ Bloodhounds on the Scent of John Brennan (Ray McGovern) • System To Circumvent US Sanctions On Iran Ready Soon: German FM (AlJ) • Jeremy Corbyn Challenges UK Government’s Iran Tanker Accusations (BBC) • Brexit Britain Wallows In Dangerous Talk Of National Humiliation (O’Toole) • All Eyes On Fed As Stock Market
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Henri Matisse Woman with a hat 1905 • US Consults Allies On How To Protect Shipping In Wake Of Tanker Attacks (R.) • Julian Assange Is Not On Trial, British Justice Is (Wight) • The Hitlerization of Jeremy Corbyn – Among Others (Hopkins) • US Retirement Savings Gap Grows By $3 Trillion Each Year (MW) • The Fed Is Pushing On A String • The State of the Canadian Debt Slaves (WS) • Canada Rejects Idea Of Halting Extradition
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While filming “The African Queen” everyone fell sick from drinking the water except for Humphrey Bogart and John Huston, who drank whiskey Luke Harding is a former journalist for the Guardian. I say former because while he is still writing for the paper, he lost his one remaining shred of credibility last November with an article about Paul Manafort visiting Julian Assange multiple times in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, which soon was discredited as badly as an
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Georges Seurat Bathers at Asnières 1884 • Stupidity, Evil and the Decline of the US (Doug Casey) • The Great Depression: A Real Estate Boom Gone Bust (Vague) • Game Over (Sven Henrich) • ECB Floats Rate Cut Trial Balloon (ZH) • Boris Johnson Pledges Major Tax Cut For Wealthy (Ind.) • Boris Johnson Is ‘Poisoning Our Politics’ – Tory Leadership Rival (Ind.) • Mike Pompeo Tells Jewish Leaders He Would ‘Push Back’ Against Corbyn (G.) • Tulsi Gabbard
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Georges Seurat A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte 1884 • Angst and Madness at the End of Empire (Orphan) • Theresa May: The Total Decay Of Political Integrity And Vision (Ind.) • Boris Johnson Threatens To Withhold $50 Billion Brexit Payment (R.) • US Auto Loans Hit Record (CNBC) • Used-Car Wholesale Prices Surge (WS) • ECB Policymakers Open To Cut Rates If Growth Weakens (R.) • China Banking Regulator Says Small Bank Risks Manageable
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Pablo Picasso Guitar 1925 • The China Battle Has Just Started (Vague) • Beijing Warns US Farmers May Lose China Market For Good (SCMP) • Millennial Net Wealth Collapses (ZH) • Aftermath: Interview with James Rickards (Whalen) • Google, Facebook Have Tight Grip On Growing US Online Ad Market (R.) • For MMT (Mitchell/Fazi) • The Great Bilderberg Secret Of 2019 (Escobar) • Welsh Government Officially Switches To Campaign For Remain (TNE) • Fitch Downgrades Mexico And Moody’s Lowers
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