James McNeill Whistler Morning Glories 1869 • Mental Health Experts Ask Media Not To Create Panic Around Covid-19 (OpIndia) • Stanford Prof: CDC Paved Way For ‘Institutionalization of Hypochondria’ (JTN) • One In Seven Shops Lie Empty After Lockdown (BBC) • EU Disunity Over Vaccine Certificate (K.) • Two Greek Hospitals To Host Clinical Trials Of Israeli Covid-19 Treatment (K.) • Associations Between Body-Mass Index And Covid-19 Severity (Lancet) • Covid-19 Could Cause Strokes Among Young & Healthy People
Read More...James McNeill Whistler Miss Ethel Philip Reading 1894 • Science Catches Up – And Burns You All (Denninger) • Legal Worries On EU’s ‘Green Certificates’ For Covid Travel (EUO) • NHS App To Be Used As Coronavirus Passport For International Travel (Sky) • UK Councils Are Recruiting Armies Of New Covid Marshals (DM) • Separating Rumor From Fact On Covid-19’S Origin (Sharyl Attkisson) • US Rejected Russian Offer for Complete Reset In Relations (RT) • EU Seeks SWIFT Shut-Off
Read More...Jean-Michel Basquiat In this case 1983 One might have expected that as the Covid drama unfolds, the world would return to its scientific senses. But the opposite appears to be happening, we’re moving away from our senses. Fear is a bad advisor. Earlier today, I wrote: “I forget who drew my attention to this UK government report, Covid-19 Response Spring 2021, but it paints a very stark and completely ignored reality: only 66% of people can ever
Read More...Juan de la Corte (1597–1660) Lot And His Daughters Escaping From The Destruction Of Sodom And Gomorrah • COVID Pill That Cures Body At First Signs Of Infection May Come This Year (JTN) • Single Dose Of Covid Vaccine Can Nearly Halve Transmission Of Virus (G.) • The BBC & Bloomberg on India: B Stands For Bullshit. (Slog) • Oxford Jab ‘Could Be Banned For Under-40s’ After Blood Clot Reports Double (Metro) • A New World Order Brought To
Read More...Hieronymous Bosch The Haywain Triptych c.1516 • India’s “Covid Crisis” Has Been Hijacked (DE) • China To Mobilise Its Private Companies To Help India Fight Covid-19 (SCMP) • US To Export AZ Vaccine As India Battles ‘Heartbreaking’ Covid Surge (Y!) • Bill Gates Says No To Sharing Vaccine Formulas With Global Poor (Salon) • Isreali Health Body Report On COVID Vax ‘Deadly’ Impacts (PSI) • Pakistan Deploys Troops To Help Authorities Cope With Covid-19 Infections (RT) • Germany’s New
Read More...Vincent van Gogh Field with Irises near Arles 1888 • EU, UK and US Offer Support As Covid-19 ‘Swallowing’ People In India (EN) • Global Pledges Of Help For Covid-stricken India (Y!) • US To Give India Raw Materials For Vaccines, Medical Supplies (CNBC) • Twitter Admits To Censoring Criticism of The Indian Government (Turley) • Thai Public Health Miister Defies Calls To Quit Health Post (BKP) • Dr. Harvey Risch: 60% of New Covid Patients Have Been Vaccinated
Read More...Keith Haring Retrospect 1989 In 1884, Dr. Edwin Abbott Abbott published a book named Flatland. He appears to have meant it mainly as a social critique, but it became more famous as a mathematical “treatise”, when Einstein proposed the existence of a fourth dimension. Of course since then, physics has moved on to ideas, e.g. string theory, that suggest many more dimensions. It’s been a while, but I’m pretty sure I first came across Flatland in that context.
Read More...Sophia Loren seated by the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis during filming for ‘Boy on a Dolphin’, 1957 • To Friends in the US: Facilitate Global Vaccine Manufacturing (CarnegieIndia) • US Defends Restrictions On Export Of Covid-19 Vaccine Raw Materials (Hindu) • The 2006 Origins of the Lockdown Idea (AIER) • Covid-19 Indoors Infection Risk As Great At 60 Feet As At 6 Feet – MIT (CNBC) • Biden Recognizes Armenian Genocide (Pol.) • Putin Rewrites The Law Of
Read More...John La Farge Girls Carrying a Canoe, Vaiala in Samoa 1891 • India COVID Triple-Mutant May Be Much More Deadly, Resistant To Vaccines (ABI) • The West Does Not Have Any Moral High Ground Over China (OpIndia) • No Doctor, You’re Wrong (Denninger) • Big Pharma Employs Army Of Lobbyists To Block Generic Covid-19 Vaccines (IC) • Cuomo Blocks Release Of Covid Nursing Home Data Sent To Feds (NYP) • Putin Invites Zelensky To Moscow For Discussions On ‘Bilateral
Read More...Henri Matisse Flowers 1907 I sometimes can’t believe I think I must revisit this theme time and again, but here we are. Joe Biden is chairing a virtual climate plan/summit/whatever, and absolutely nothing has changed since the last time I tried to explain why it is nonsense, or all the other times before that. But this is the biggest boondoggle/cheat/trick ever played on mankind, so what choice do I have? It’s still a bunch of politicians all over
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