Vincent van Gogh Self-portrait with dark felt hat at the easel 1886 • Recession Likely Years Away Due To Bullish Trump Effect – Shiller (CNBC) • Global Economy Faces $19 Trillion Corporate Debt Timebomb – IMF (G.) • “Toe The Line Or Be Destroyed”: Tulsi Gabbard (ZH) • Will the Democratic Party Exist after 2020 Election? (OffG) • Why 97% Of Congress Get Re-Elected Each Year (F.) • Scottish Court Asked To Delay Ruling On Johnson’s Brexit Extension Request
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Rembrandt van Rijn The three trees 1643 • Hillary Clinton Bails On DC Event That Tulsi Gabbard Is Attending (NYP) • Dems Introduce Legislation To Block G7 Summit At Trump’s Doral Resort (Fox) • Trump Ditches Plan To Host G7 At Doral Resort: ‘Irrational Hostility’ (G.) • Trump Campaign Mocks Outrage Over Mulvaney Comments With T-Shirts (ZH) • UK PM Sends Unsigned Request For Brexit Delay (BBC) • Brexit Delay And Election Better Than Johnson’s Deal – Farage (R.)
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Rembrandt van Rijn Landscape With the Rest on the Flight into Egypt 1647 Hmm, energy. Is it a good idea I be drawn back into the subject? We used to do so much on the topic, Nicole Foss and I, in the first years of The Automatic Earth, and before that at the brilliant Oil Drum, where we had all those equally brilliant oil professionals to guide us on. So why revisit it? Well, for one thing, because a
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Paul Gauguin Schooner and three masters 1886 • Twitter War Breaks Out Between Tulsi Gabbard And Hillary Clinton (ZH) • Green Party Torches Hillary Clinton For Claiming Jill Stein Is ‘Totally’ a Russian Asset • Quid Pro Nothing: Trump Accusers Don’t Care About The Facts (NYPost Ed.) • The Fatal Loop of Recursivity (Kunstler) • US Energy Secretary Will Not Comply With Democrats’ Impeachment Probe (R.) • Brexit Vote Could Be Delayed After Move By MPs To Prevent No-Deal
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Salvador Dali The three pines 1919 • McConnell: Senate Impeachment Trial ‘As Soon As Thanksgiving’ (ZH) • Trump Florida Golf Course To Host G7 Summit (BBC) • Turkey To Suspend Syria Offensive, Mike Pence Announces (BBC) • Washington is Wrong Once Again – Kurds Join Assad to Defend Syria (Ron Paul) • Media And Pundits Misread The ‘Everyone Wins’ Plan For Syria (MoA) • UK Agrees To Best Of Worst Possible Brexit Deals (MW) • EU Leaves Door Open
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Salvador Dali Sick Boy (Self-portrait in Cadaqués) 1923 • Pelosi, Trump Exchange ‘Meltdown’ Barbs Over Meeting On US Policy In Syria (R.) • The Russian Masterpiece in Syria: Everyone Wins (Pieraccini) • Everybody Betraying Everybody in Syria (Fuller) • Schiff Pushed Volker To Say Ukraine Felt Pressure From Trump (WE) • One Person Is Missing In The Dems’ Impeachment Inquiry: The Whistleblower (R.) • Wait for It (Kunstler) • Michael Flynn Lawyer Seeks Data From Joseph Mifsud Phones (Ross)
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Rembrandt van Rijn Self portrait with tousled hair 1629 If you ask me, this is brilliant, but I know you’re not asking me. Still, what I’m reading today is genius. That is, Donald Trump and his people have found a way to communicate with Vladimir Putin and his people while the entire crew that’s listening in to his talks with foreign leaders were doing something else, whatever that may be. The overall impression of Trump’s order to redeploy an
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Paul Gauguin A seashore 1887 • Trump Tells Turkey To Stop Its Syria Invasion (R.) • ‘You’ve Been Duped By Spooks & Terrorists’ (RT) • Bernie Wants You to Own More of the Means of Production (Jac.) • No Choice But To Invest In Oil, Shell CEO Says (R.) • New German Rules Leave 5G Telecoms Door Open To Huawei (R.) • James Comey Is Swimming In Cash (BI) • Ghislaine Maxwell’s Open Secret (Webb) • Behind Hong Kong’s
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Salvador Dali Self portrait (Figueres) 1921 An article from long term Automatic Earth contributor Alexander Aston, who feels very strongly about the topic. Personally, I have many more questions left. It’s easy to say Trump abandoned the Kurds, and everybody says just that, but because they all do I ask myself if that is really what happened. It’s an ugly situation alright, but would it have been prefereable if US soldiers had stayed in Syria indefinitely? I’m looking
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Martin Johnson Heade Thunderstorm on Narragansett Bay 1868 • Syrian Army Deployed To Country’s Northeast To Counter ‘Turkish Aggression’ (RT) • Putin Says Trump Not To Blame For Lack Of Improvement In Russia-US Ties (R.) • “If The Entire System Collapses, Gold Will Be Needed To Start Over” (ZH) • Lisa Page’s ‘Quid Pro Quo’ With State Department Over Hillary Email (DM) • Johnson To Set Out Post-Brexit Law And Order Drive In Queen’s Speech (R.) • China 9-Month
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