Salvador Dali The Sick Child. Self-Portrait in Cadaqués 1921 • China’s Sinovac To Double COVID19 Vaccine Output (F.) • We Had the Vaccine the Whole Time (NYMag) • Vilsack Emerges As Biden’s Top Choice For USDA (Pol.) • Biden Picks Retired General Lloyd Austin To Run Pentagon (Pol.) • Barack Obama & the Death of Idealism (Bovard) • A Resolving Picture (Kunstler) • What’s Ahead for New York? Maybe a Budget ‘Nightmare Scenario’ (NYMag) • Swedish Central Bank Governor
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René Magritte Promenades d’Euclid 1955 • WHO Looks At Giving COVID19 To Healthy People To Speed Up Vaccine Trials (G.) • Fears That UK Will Not Cope With Brexit And Covid Vaccine Rollout (G.) • Azar Responds To Biden’s Vaccine Distribution Remark (JTN) • Ratcliffe: Interim Durham Report To Deter Biden From Shutting Down Inquiry (WE) • Water Futures to Start Trading Amid Growing Fears of Scarcity (BBG) • No Escape From Our Techno-Feudal World (Escobar) • Election Day
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Giorgio de Chirico Piazza d’Italia 1913 A -short- look at how vaccine makers like Pfizer and Moderna get to claim a 90% or even 95% efficacy for their products, with the help of regular Automatic Earth commenter Doc Robinson (not a medical doctor) and his quotes from the British Medical Journal (BMJ). The way the companies report their efficacy may be normal in their circles, but will, in the “normal” world, be experienced as confusing if not outright
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Pablo Picasso Absinthe Drinker 1901 • Large-Scale Covid19 Vaccination Campaign Kicks Off In Moscow (RT) • The Vaccine Race is a Race Against Capital Flight (Luongo) • US COVID Deaths Projected To More Than Double To 410,000 By January (R.) • Florida Requires Labs To Report ‘Cycle Threshold’ Of COVID-19 Tests (JTN) • COVID Will Drive Global Debt To $200 Trillion By End Of 2020 – S&P (RT) • Bernie Sanders Mocks Those Who Believe The Deep State Exists
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Paul Cézanne Young Italian Woman at a Table c1900 • Jerusalem Hospital Orders 1.5 Million Doses of Russian COVID Vaccine (Haaretz) • Moderna Says Its Vaccine Provides COVID19 Immunity For At Least 3 Months (NYP) • Intent to Get a COVID19 Vaccine Rises to 60% (Pew) • Nursing Homes Create ‘Perfect Storm’ For COVID Outbreaks (CNBC) • The Jobs Report is a Mess, December Will Be Messier (WS) • The Beltway Left Is Normalizing Corruption And Corporatism (DP) •
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Stanley Kubrick Walking the streets of New York 1946 • Pfizer Not Sure If Someone Can Transmit Virus After Vaccination (Hill) • NHS Staff No Longer Top Priority For Covid Vaccine (G.) • Half The World Could Get Russian Sputnik V COVID19 Vaccine (RT) • Facebook Bans Anti-Vaccine “Conspiracy Theories” As US Rollout Begins (ZH) • GOP Senators Release 400 Pages Of New Docs On Crossfire Hurricane (SAC) • DNI Ratcliffe Says He Has Given ‘1000s Of Documents To
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Walter Langley Never morning wore to evening but some heart did break 1894 • One In Six Covid-19 Deaths In Vermont Came From A Single Nursing Home (IC) • Possible HHS Pick Shielded Nursing Homes From Liability In COVID Outbreak (DP) • First In Line For Covid Vaccine? Some US Health Care Workers Say No (Y!) • Obama, Bush and Clinton Volunteer To Get Coronavirus Vaccine Publicly (CNN) • 10 Fatal Flaws In The Main Test For COVID (RT)
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John French Sloan McSorley’s Bar 1912 If you’re enthusiastic about the impact of the newly arriving COVID vaccines, and you expect to “go back to normal” soon, don’t. You’re being fed fairy tales and other narratives. I won’t talk too much here, my quotes are plenty long enough as is. After first reading an absolute decomposition of the PCR tests this morning, I figured out that the new vaccines being rolled out are equally useless. One has to
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Ford Madox Brown King Lear and Cordelia c1851 • UK Becomes First Country To Approve Pfizer-BioNTech COVID19 Vaccine (NBC) • With Tanden Choice, Democrats Stick it to Sanders Voters (Taibbi) • We Know Joe (Jacobs) • Putting a BlackRock Alum in Charge of Greening the Economy (TNR) • Trump Raises At Least $150 Million Since Election Day (JTN) • Whistleblowers Allege Ballots Crossed State Lines, Disappear, Backdating (JTN) • Why the Fed Needs Public Banks (Ellen Brown) • The
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Vincent van Gogh Women Picking Olives 1889 • Vitamin D Insufficiency May Account for Almost 9 of 10 COVID19 Deaths (MDPI) • The Wuhan Files (CNN) • It Could Take 4 Years To Regain The 22 Million Jobs Lost During COVID19 (F.) • Black Friday Foot Traffic Down More Than 52% (RetailDive) • US Billionaires Have Gained $1 Trillion Since The Pandemic Started (ZH) • Trump’s Hill Allies Could Take One Last Shot To Overturn The Election (Pol.) •
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