Banksy I can’t NOT do something with a piece my long time friend Jim Kunstler wrote recently, see below, since he so completely encapsulates the ghost of our time. I can’t, because this goes to my heart. It started out a year ago with people wanting to tear down statues, and now we have progressed to world literature, and even Looney Tunes. Jim turns to Winnie the Pooh because he’s sort of the ultimate anti-bad guy. I
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Grete Stern Sueño No. 27: No destiñe con el agua 1951 • CDC: Face Masks Have Negligible Impact On Coronavirus Numbers (OAN) • Stay-at-Home Policy Is A Case Of Exception Fallacy (Nature) • World On Brink Of Fourth Wave Of Coronavirus (Hill) • Dutch Virologist Asks Cabinet For More Guts: “Open Terraces And Gyms” (P.) • Pressure To Reopen Greek Society Mounts As Virus Holds (K.) • Leaving UK Now Requires A ‘Special Validation To Travel’ (Calder) • Swiss
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Vincent van Gogh Red Vineyards at Arles 1888 • American Rescue Plan Could Set Stage for $4 Trillion of Debt (CRFB) • Yellen Coddles Up to Powell on Rising Long-Term Yields (WS) • Italy’s Government Is Outsourcing Its Economic Strategy To McKinsey (Jac.) • US Covid Cases Continue To Decline After Brief Plateau (JTN) • Connecticut Lifting All Covid-19 Capacity Restrictions On Businesses (F.) • The Nightingale Alternative (Gillian Dymond) • Trump Sends Legal Notice To GOP To Stop
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Auguste Renoir The umbrellas 1881-6 The Washington Post said recently: “The anti-vaccine movement is comparable to domestic terrorism, and must be treated that way”, while the Guardian had this: “When it comes to shifting attitudes to vaccines, it is crucial to distinguish between public information campaigns that seek to educate the public and those that seek to persuade them,” said Philipp Schmid, a behavioural scientist researching vaccine scepticism at the University of Erfurt. “[..] if you don’t
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Vincent van Gogh Lane near Arles 1888 • The Trial of Winnie the Pooh (Jim Kunstler) • 88% Of COVID Deaths Are In Countries With Over Half Of People Overweight (ZH) • UK Scientist: Substantial Degree Of Covid Mortality Inevitable In Future (G.) • Russia’s 3rd Vaccine Uses Classic ‘Dead Virus’ Technology (RT) • Ivermectin Does Not Alleviate Mild Covid-19 Symptoms – Study (NYT) • Europe Divided Over Covid Passports (Kern) • The Political Economy of Covid-19 Vaccines (IF)
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Vincent van Gogh Landscape with House and Ploughman 1889 • Covid Vaccine Ads Aim To Influence Without Alienating People (G.) • Does Social Solidarity Only Count When It Gets Us Back To The Pub? (Cook) • eBay Bans Sale Of Some Dr. Seuss Books (DW) • WHO Inspectors ‘To Scrap Interim Report’ On Probe Of COVID Origin (AlJ) • Majority of Brits Say They Will “Miss” Some or Many Aspects of Lockdown (SN) • Capitol Police Requests National Guard
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Francisco Goya The Dog 1819-23 • Biden Slams “Neanderthal-Thinking” Over Texas, Mississippi COVID Policy (ZH) • 16 States Are Now Following The Science (Schachtel) • The War on ‘Misinformation’ Claims Two Victims (Pfeiffer) • Brazil’s Covid Outbreak Is Global Threat, Opens Door To Lethal Variants (G.) • Vaccines Tweaked For Covid Variants Fast-Tracked Safely – UK Regulator (G.) • Injuries Reported to CDC After COVID Vaccines Climb by 4,000 in One Week (CHD) • 34 Spontaneous Miscarriages, Stillbirths After
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J.J. Grandville ‘A Comet’s Journey’, Illustration from ‘Un Autre Monde’ 1844 • It’s Time for Major Wealth Redistribution (Lee Camp) • Joe Biden Just Yanked Away Stimulus Checks From 17 Million Americans (Week) • COVID Relief Showers States With 600% Of Lost Tax Revs (ZH) • Durham File: A Documentary Roadmap To Special Counsel Probe (JTN) • Trump Eyes 2024 Run Without Mike Pence (ZH) • A Change in the Water (Ben Hunt) • When Does This Travesty of
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Jean-Michel Basquiat Irony of the Negro Policeman 1981 • Texas And Mississippi Drop Covid Restrictions – Even Mask Mandates (F.) • Russian Deputy PM Golikova Predicts ‘Herd Immunity’ By End Of Summer (RT) • Microsoft, LA School District Develop COVID ‘Daily Pass’ App (DC) • Israel Launches Covid-Tracking ‘Freedom Bracelet’ (RT) • Is Europe Open For Summer? All Bets Are Off For US Travelers (F.) • EU’s Faltering COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Triggers Rebellion (G&M) • The Age of Social
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Pablo Picasso Acrobat 1930 • “Did You Agree To This? Everybody’s Locked Up” – Edward Snowden (ZH) • Coronavirus Crisis Unlikely To Be Over By The End Of The Year – WHO (G.) • WHO Panel: Hydroxychloroquine Should Not Be Used To Prevent COVID-19 (Hill) • Data On Long Covid In UK Children Is Cause For Concern, Scientists Say (G.) • A Return To Normalcy Seen In November (K.) • Party Like It’s 1984 (Jim Kunstler) • US, EU
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