Johannes Vermeer The astronomer c1668 Alex Acosta is gone. That would appear to be good thing, because even if he claims he did the best he could in the 2008 Jeffrey Epstein plea deal, given the number of accusations and the seriousness of the alleged crimes, that deal seems to have had anything but the best interests of the victims in mind. That he agreed as part of the deal to not notify the victims was not only
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Pablo Picasso Guernica 1937 • Dollar Slips After Powell Bolsters Rate Cut Bets (R.) • AOC Is Making Monetary Policy Cool (and Political) Again (NYM) • Trump Tasks Aides To Find A Way To Weaken The US Dollar (CNBC) • Lock Him Up (Pinkerton) • Schumer Got Thousands In Donations From Jeffrey Epstein (NYP) • Democrat Rep. Stacey Plaskett To Donate Epstein Campaign Contributions (CNBC) • US Probing Deutsche Bank’s Dealings With Malaysia’s 1MDB (ZH) • Obama the Conservative
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Pablo Picasso Guernica [Study] V 1937 • Jeffrey Epstein Shipped Himself A 53-Pound Shredder (Grim) • Doubts Over Deutsche Bank Turnaround Plan Dent Shaky Shares (R.) • Trump’s Twitter Blocking Violates Constitution – Appeals Court (CNN) • Ocasio-Cortez Sued Over Twitter Blocks (Hill) • Facebook’s New Policy Says It’s OK to Post Death Threats Against Me (PJW) • EU Subsidy Loss ‘Could Wipe Out UK Farms’ Like The Coal Industry (BBC) • UK, France To Send Forces To Syria
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Johannes Vermeer The geographer 1668-69 July 7 2019, just another tequila Sunday. There are elections here in Greece, and the right wing will take over. Bad idea, because it will bring out the left wing resistance that have remained subdued while Syriza reneged on all their promises, but they were left wing, and how does left protesting left work exactly? They didn’t know. Better lay low. No more. From now on in, it’s women and children first. And there
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Jack Delano A welder in the roundhouse of the Chicago and North Western Railroad’s Proviso yard 1942 It’s rare that I reach back into the past of the Automatic Earth, but it’s not entirely unique either. The reason I do it today is not only the relevance of the article -in my view-, or the fact it was published so long ago, but it’s that the ‘world’ has changed so much since January 1 2014, the date I wrote
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Odilon Redon The Birth of Venus II c.1910 How do you define terror? Perhaps, because of the way the term has evolved in the English language, one wouldn’t call the west ‘terrorists’ per se, but ‘we’ are certainly spreading terror and terrorizing very large groups of people. Yeah, bring on the tanks and parade them around town. Add a marching band that plays some war tunes. The ‘official’ storyline : at the request of the US, Gibraltar police and
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Happy birthday Julian • Response to Open Letter of 1 July 2019 (Nils Melzer) • France And Germany Eye Lagarde For ECB and Von Der Leyen For EC President (R.) • The Inconvenient Truth About Ursula Von Der Leyen (Pol.eu) • Trump To Nominate Judy Shelton, Christopher Waller To The Fed (CNBC) • The Death of the Liberal Idea (Dmitry Orlov) • Stagecraft (Kunstler) • Families Of 737 MAX Crash Victims Say Boeing Has Not Contacted Them (BI)
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Salvador Dali Remorse, or Sphinx Embedded In Sand 1931 Any image of a dead child is always harrowing, for everyone but the most deranged psychopaths among us. If the child has drowned while seeking a better life it is possibly worse. The public reaction of politicians to such images, which varies from doing very little, or nothing, to solve the issues that have led to a child drowning, to trying to make cheap political gains from the image, must
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Salvador Dali Apparition of My Cousin Carolinetta on the Beach at Rosas 1934 • Rich Get Richer, Everyone Else Not So Much In Record US Expansion (R.) • Japan Inc’s Inflation Expectations Stagnate (R.) • Moon Calls DMZ Meeting End To North Korea-US Hostile Relations (Y.) • Only Trump Could Go To North Korea (Luongo) • Chinese State Paper Calls For ‘Zero Tolerance’ Over Hong Kong Protests (R.) • Southwest Expects Boeing 737 MAX Cancellations Beyond Oct. 1 (R.)
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