John William Godward Dolce Far Niente (Sweet Idleness, or A Pompeian Fishpond) 1904 One year into the continuing COVID emergency, it’s high time to ask questions about the “legal status” of various measures and restrictions applied by various governments- as well as their other policies. Having those questions asked out in the open is good for everyone, not least for the governments themselves. If only because a government doesn’t make law, it is only supposed to abide by
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MC Escher Balcony 1945 • ‘Deadly Carrot’-Derived Antiviral Could Be Magic Bullet (RT) • 5.8 Million Fewer Babies: America’s Lost Decade in Fertility (IFS) • Dallas Fed’s Kaplan: Reddit-Fueled Trading Frenzy Driven Partly By Fed (R.) • Beware Of Social Media-Fuelled Bubbles In Market – French Regulator (R.) • The Stock Market Is Broken, Now for All to See (WS) • The Insiders’ Game (Sacks) • SWIFT Sets Up Digital Currency Joint Venture With China’s Central Bank (R.) •
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Norham Castle, Sunrise 1845 • Dems Threaten To Exclude Families Crushed By Pandemic (DP) • Senate Approves Budget Process For Passage of $1.9T COVID19 Stimulus (JTN) • Criticism Piles On Cuomo After Week Of Blunders (F.) • France Raises More Questions About AstraZeneca Jab (ZH) • P.2 Coronavirus Variant From Brazil Found In California (LAT) • WHO Team Visits Wuhan Virus Lab At Center Of Speculation (AP) • Will WallStreetBets Send The VIX Soaring Next?
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Roy Lichtenstein Woman With Flowered Hat 1963 Well, Dr. D is back again. You might want to sit down for this one. Dr. D: In my last article I wrote about cows and hay and unrealistic estimates of production of the land. But surely that is all academic. What could possibly force Americans to once again eat by the sweat of their brow? Insider military think tank Deagel.com. The think tank that in 2015 estimated the
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MC Escher Relativity 1953 • Is Robinhood The Devil in Sheep’s Clothing? (Neville) • Physical Premium To Paper Hits Record As Silver Market Tears In Two (ZH) • Papering Over the Rot (Chris Hedges) • How To Redesign COVID Vaccines So They Protect Against Variants (Nature) • COVID19 Vaccine Developers Ask SEC to Help Keep Price Setting Secret (DP) • The Brazil Variant Is Exposing the World’s Vulnerability (Atl.) • Fauci 180º: Double Masking For Covid-19 Doesn’t ‘Make A
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Balthus Therèse dreaming 1938 • The Store of Value Generation is Kicking Your Ass (Mark Cuban) • Is Robinhood On The Brink Of Collapse? (GIH) • Silver Prices, Miners Surge As Retail Buyers Pile In (R.) • To The Brink And Back On GameStop (R.) • Melvin Capital Loses 53% In January Over Bet Against GameStop (RT) • Bill Gates, Big Pharma and Entrenching The Vaccine Apartheid (M&G) • France & Germany Threaten AstraZeneca With Legal Action (RT) •
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Tamara de Lempicka The refugees 1937 • Reddit Preparing To Unleash “World’s Biggest Short Squeeze” In Silver (ZH) • Bitcoin Could Be About To Become The New GameStop (F.) • Just 0.04% Of Israelis Caught COVID19 After 2 Shots Of Pfizer Vaccine (JPost) • ‘Get to Zero’ or Face Catastrophe (Tyee) • Germany Threatens Legal Action Over Vaccine Delivery Delays (G.) • Mighty Amazon Looks All But Unassailable As Covid Continues (O.) • Navalny Scam Sells Empty Concrete Shell
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Wassily Kandinsky Clear connection 1925 • GameStop Short Sellers Not Quitting Despite $20 Billion In Losses (CNBC) • GameStop Craziness Pulls Back the Curtain on the Stock Market (Dayen) • Google Deletes 100,000+ One-Star Ratings Of Robinhood App (RT) • The Man Who Isn’t There (Kunstler) • AGs: ‘Principal Political Control’ Of Government Lies With Congress (JTN) • How Biden’s Executive Orders Impact The Oil Industry (Rapier) • Macron: Oxford Vaccine Appears ‘Quasi-Ineffective’ On Elderly Patients (JTN) • Newsom
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Gustave Courbet The wave 1870 • Suck It, Wall Street (Matt Taibbi) • GameStop Soars 75% After-Hours After Robinhood Lifts Trading Ban (ZH) • Janet Yellen Received $810K In Speaking Fees From Hedge Fund (DC) • Losses On Short Positions In US Firms Top $70 Billion (R.) • AMC Entertainment Explores New Capital Raise Amid Stock Surge (MSN) • GameStop: Intentionally Dying (Chris Arnade) • D.C. Bar Yet To Disbar Ex-FBI attorney Clinesmith (JTN) • Novavax Vaccine Only 50%
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Gustave Courbet The cliffs of Étretat after the storm 1870 • GameStop, AMC, 4 Other “Most Shorted Stocks” Jump 135% to 538% (WS) • GameStop’s Three Largest Shareholders Earn Over $2bn Amid Stock Surge (G.) • Putin Calls Out Big Tech In Davos (RT) • US Weighing Action Against Russia For Navalny Detention – Blinken (ZH) • Biden Freezes Arms Sales To Saudis & UAE (ZH) • Do The Democrats Really Want Unity? (Turley) • Indian Tribe: Biden Just
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