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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Lucien Hervé The Accuser, Delhi, India 1955 As I was trying to get this article together, I read something in the Greek press just now, and wondered how far one can move goalposts without it being noticed: A Return To Normalcy Seen In November Experts say the return to normalcy will happen when “herd immunity” is achieved. For that to happen, they say, 70% of the population must be vaccinated. Then, of course, there are questions of how
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir Dance at Bougival 1883 • Guidelines To Place Children In Solitary Quarantine ‘Cruel Punishment’ (TSun) • Bill Gates Warns Post-Covid Return To Normal Could Take All 2022 (F.) • Brazil Variant May Make Foreign Summer Holidays Impossible, Ministers Told (G.) • Why “New Cases” Are Plummeting (OffG.) • Trump On 2024: ‘I May Decide To Beat Them For A Third Time’ (SAC) • Biden’s Message To Iran: The Battlefield Has Been Inaugurated (Magnier) • Cuomo Cedes Control
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Dome ceiling at the Ambassadors’ Hall in the Royal Alcazar of Seville, Spain 1427 (click to enlarge) • Vaccine Passports Are A Technical And Ethical Minefield (FT) • I’ve Had The Covid Jab – And All It Cost Me Was My Freedom (Hitchens ) • First Vaccine To Fully Immunize Against Malaria Builds On RNA Tech (AT) • Czech Leader Asks Putin For Sputnik V Vaccine Without EU Certification (RT) • Biden Says US Will ‘Never’ Accept Russia’s Annexation
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Paul Klee Dancing Under the Empire of Fear 1938 • House Passes Second Largest Stimulus Package In History At $1.9T (JTN) • What IS the Truth About Covid Deaths? (DM) • Nearly 1 In 5 US Adults Have Now Gotten At Least One Covid19 Vaccine Dose (F.) • Johnson & Johnson One-Shot Covid Vaccine Gets Nod From FDA Advisory Panel (G.) • What The Neera Tanden Affair Reveals About The Washington DC Swamp (Sirota) • Biden Doesn’t Penalize Saudi
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Jean-Francois Millet The flight into Egypt 1864 • Ivermectin Could Cut Covid Deaths By Up To 75% (DM) • CDC Reports Shocking Data About Asymptomatic Spread (Fed.) • Report Says Spirulina Algae Could Reduce Covid Mortality Rate (JPost) • Latin American Govts ‘Held To Ransom’ By Pfizer During Vaccine Talks (RT) • US Bombs Facilities In Syria Used By Iran-Backed Militia (AP) • Russia Is ‘Existential Threat’ To West That NATO Must Neutralize (RT) • Senate Parliamentarian: Minimum Wage
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Rembrandt van Rijn The flight into Egypt – a night piece 1651 • Coronavirus Deaths Worldwide Fell By 20% Last Week – WHO (F.) • Researchers Find Emerging COVID-19 Strain in New York (NYP) • COVID Aid Bill Pays Federal Employees With Kids Out Of School Up To $21K (F.) • US Senators Weigh Paring Back Biden’s $1.9 Trillion COVID-19 Aid Plan (R.) • New US Report To Blame Saudi Crown Prince For 2018 Killing Of Khashoggi (NBC) •
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Rembrandt van Rijn The Storm on the Sea of Galilee 1633 On March 18, 1990, the painting was stolen by thieves disguised as police officers. They broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, and stole this painting, along with twelve other works. The paintings have never been recovered, and it is considered the biggest art theft in history. The empty frames of the paintings still hang in their original location, waiting to be recovered. • The
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