Pablo Picasso The dream 1951 • China’s Military Becomes First To Use Experimental Coronavirus Vaccine (SCMP) • California, Texas See Record COVID-19 surges, Arizona Clamps Down (R.) • Norwegian Air Cancels 97 Boeing MAX And Dreamliners, Claims Compensation (R.) • Europe’s Recovery Fund: An Instrument of Class War (Varoufakis) • We Digitized the Mob, and There’s No Place to Hide (Miele) As we approach the end of the first half of 2020, I’m seriously rethinking how to
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BIS/OWI Battle of Britain. Children in an English bomb shelter 1940/41 • Texas Hospital CEO: Covid Inpatient Count ‘Misinterpreted’ (JTN) • The Many Health Problems Caused By COVID19 (R.) • Museum of Human Rights CEO Resigns After Allegations Of Systemic Racism (CP) • Amsterdam Ejects Airbnb et al From Three Central Districts (TC) • UK to Scrap Quarantine For Travel to Greece (GR) • The Central Bank “Bailout of Everything” Will Be a Disaster (Lacalle) • Bait and Switch
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Dorothea Lange Depression refugee family from Tulsa, Oklahoma 1936 • US Coronavirus Cases ‘May Have Topped 20 Million’ (BBC) • Pompeo Says US, EU Working To Resume Trans-Atlantic Travel (R.) • House Defense Bill Targets Troop Drawdowns In Africa, South Korea (Hill) • No More Crossing Borders For Work (Salmon) • The Fed Said It Could Supply $2.3 Trillion. It Hasn’t Come Close So Far (CNBC) • Parents To Sue Trump, Meme Creator Carpe Donktum Over Manipulated Video Of
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Paul Gauguin Tahitian scene 1892 This is another piece I received today from Bruce Wilds, a US Midwest business owner I earlier featured an article from two months ago. There are plenty issues I have issues with here, but I’m not going to stand in the way of the US midwest being heard as it hurts the way it does. I mean, I’m in Athens Greece. The US Midwesterners are definitely not. I am most willing to
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Thomas Eakins Walt Whitman 1891 • Strzok’s Newly Discovered FBI Notes Deliver Jolt To ‘Obamagate’ Evidence (JTN) • Flynn Dismissal Order ‘Thoroughly Demolishes’ Dissenting Judge’s Opinion (ZH) • Julian Assange Accused In US Indictment Of Conspiracy (Fox) • State, Local Gov’ts Need Billions More In Aid To Avert 4 Million Layoffs (MW) Ever since I began reporting on the new coronavirus, I have pointed to trendlines as the reason to publish graphs and numbers on a daily
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Dorothea Lange Arkansas flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas 1937 • 80% of COVID19 Cases In The US Went Undetected In March (CNN) • What the US Stock Market Looks Like Minus APPL, MSFT, AMZN, GOOG, FB (WS) • Putin Reviews Military Parade On Eve Of Vote That Could Extend His Rule (R.) • ‘The Skripal Case And The Decline Of Russia’s Spy Agencies (G.) • Johnson And May Ignored Claims Russia Had ‘Likely Hold’ Over Trump (G.) •
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G. G. Bain Katherine Stinson, “the flying schoolgirl,” Sheepshead Bay Speedway, Brooklyn 1918 • Protesters Fail To Bring Down Andrew Jackson Statue Near White House (R.) • To Kill A Mockingbird, Huckleberry Finn Banned From Minnesota Syllabuses (SOTT) • WHO Reports Largest Single-Day Increase In COVID19 Cases (SCMP) • Mexico Reports 5,343 New Coronavirus Infections And 1,044 Deaths (R.) • Surge In Coronavirus Cases Linked To More Texans In Their 20s (TT) • Complete Shutdown Could Be Only Way
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Lewis Wickes Hine 12-year-old newsie, Hyman Alpert, been selling 3 years, New Haven CT 1909 • Trump Makes Triumphant Return To Campaign Rallies (JTN) • Trump’s Tulsa Rally Was Just Another Sad Farce (G.) • Over A Third Of Americans Think Civil War Is Likely (ZH) • Judge Says Bolton ‘Gambling With National Security’ But Won’t Block Book (JTN) • Lawyer Says Bolton ‘Utterly Powerless’ To Stop Book’s Circulation (JTN) • Manhattan Prosecutor Steps Down, Ending Stand-Off With AG
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Howard Hollem Assembly and Repairs Department Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi 1942 • Several US States See Coronavirus Infection Spikes (R.) • Mainland China Reports 27 New Coronavirus Cases, Including 22 In Beijing (R.) • US Attorney Berman Refuses To ‘Step Down’ After Barr Asks For Resignation (ZH) • Coronavirus Was Already In Italy By December, Waste Water Study Finds (BBC) • Trump Admin To Name Most Recipients Of Bailout Loans (ZH) • The Crisis Goes Up A Gear
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NPC “Largest electric locomotive and Congressman John C. Schafer” 1924 (he’d be in an electric car today) • Mainland China Reports 32 New Coronavirus Cases, 25 Of Them In Beijing (R.) • Mexico Posts Record Number Of New Coronavirus Infections (R.) • AMC Theaters To Reopen, Say Face Masks A “Political Controversy” (V.) • John Bolton’s Bad Reviews Don’t Stop Him Topping Us Book Charts (G.) • Bolton, Pelosi Agree: Trump Unfit To Be US President (R.) • Japan’s
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