Pablo Picasso Girl Before A Mirror 1932 • Rapid Home COVID19 Tests Could Help Find People While They Are Contagious (NP) • DNI Ratcliffe: Election Security Briefings Will Now Come In Written Form (JTN) • 3/4 of Democratic Voters Still Believe Trump Campaign Colluded With Russia (JTN) • Will Hillary And The Dems Get The Civil War They Are Trying To Provoke? (Saker) • Michael Moore Warns That Donald Trump Is On Course To Repeat 2016 Win (G.) •
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Johannes Vermeer Woman (in Blue) Reading a Letter 1662-3 • The US Social Fabric Is Fraying Severely, if Not Unravelling (Greenwald) • Kyle Rittenhouse Worked as a Lifeguard in Kenosha the Day of the Shooting (GP) • CNN Has Turned Itself Into America’s Baghdad Bob (Widburg) • Kamala Harris Promises National Mask Mandate If Elected (NYP) • Judge Voids 50,000 Absentee Ballot Requests In Iowa County (AP) • Chairman of Joint Chiefs: No Role For Military In Presidential Election
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Frans Hals Two Laughing Boys with a Mug of Beer 1626 (stolen 3rd time yesterday) • Pelosi Says There Shouldn’t Be Any Debates Between Biden And Trump (Hill) • Trump Denounces Riots, Cancel Culture, Failed Political Class In Speech (RT) • 61 Million Americans Have Stopped Commuting (ZH) • WHO Skips Wuhan During China Trip; “Sat In Beijing For Three Weeks” (ZH) • US Imposes Sanctions On Russian Institute That Developed COVID19 Vaccine (GZ) • Germany Imposes Fine For
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Leon Levinstein Head of Man with Hat and Cigar c1960 A Pew Research Center poll that’s already a month old (and a lot happened since) concluded that violent crime is a major issue according to 59% of voters (almost as much as coronavirus): 74% of Republicans and 46% of Democrats. But during the DNC, held after the poll was already out, the issue wasn’t addressed at all. Democrats talked about police violence, but not riot violence. At this
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Boris Ignatovich Moscow At the Hermitage, Leningrad 1930 • Hurricane Laura Makes Landfall as Cat. 4 Storm, Moves Inland (WC) • Biden’s Polling Lead Has Collapsed (Palumbo) • Trump Job Approval Rating Hits Record At 52%, Up With Blacks, Even Dems (WE) • DOJ Asks Four States For COVID Data On Nursing Home Deaths (JTN) • Obesity Increases Risk Of COVID19 Death By Almost 50% (G.) • Non-Woven Masks Better To Stop COVID19, Says Japanese Supercomputer (G.) • 6
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Willem de Kooning Gotham News 1955 • Wisconsin Governor Declares ‘State Of Emergency’ (ZH) • Hillary Clinton Says Biden Should Not Accept Results Of The 2020 Election (ET) • US Spy Plane Enters No-Fly Zone During Chinese Live-fire Naval Drill (SCMP) • Poisoning Navalny ‘Would Not Benefit’ Moscow – Russian Foreign Ministry (RT) • San Francisco “Pent-up Supply” Turns into Record Glut of Houses & Condos (WS) • Sacrifice for Thee, Vast Wealth for Me (Ben Hunt) • Dairy
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Robert Capa Model wearing Dior on the banks of the Seine, Paris 1948 • Pelosi Calls Republicans ‘Domestic Enemies Of The State’ (ZH) • UK Lockdown Was A ‘Monumental Mistake’ And Must Not Happen Again (Exp.) • Let’s Follow the History of Science Instead (AIER) • New York University To Implement Racial Segregation In Student Dorms (WSWS) • Is The Euro Living On Borrowed Time? (Brown) • Powell Set To Deliver Speech Changing How The Fed Views Inflation (CNBC)
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Edward Hopper Tables for ladies 1930 Haven’t heard from Dr. D in a while, other than in the Comments section here at the Automatic Earth. Where I stopped reading his comments after the umpteenth time he said the COVID fatality rate was only 0.000001%. I find that only repetitious, annoying and more importantly, entirely irrelevant. But of course over the past 8 months, since I first started to address the virus problem, many things have changed. We have
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Henri Cartier Bresson Salamanca, Spain 1963 • Trump Announces Emergency Authorization For Convalescent Plasma (JTN) • 97,000 People Got Convalescent Plasma. Who Knows if It Works? (Wired) • China Has Given Potential Coronavirus Vaccine To Key Workers Since July (G.) • Graham: FBI Docs Show ‘Double Standard’ For Clinton And Trump Campaigns (Fox) • This Will Be The Year Of The Biden Republican – Rahm Emanuel (CNBC) • Corporate Dems Want You To Shut Up While They Get Loud
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Paul Cézanne Les (Grandes) Baigneuses 1905 • Send in the Clowns for the Circus Is in Town (Curtin) • Biden Says Trump Seeks To ‘Defund The Police’ (Fox) • House Passes $25 Billion Post Office Bailout As Trump Rages On Twitter (ZH) • My Discussion With John Durham’s Lead Investigator, William Aldenberg (CT) • John Brennan Was Put in a Completely Legitimate Perjury Trap (RS) • 550,000 Primary Absentee Ballots Rejected In 2020, Far Outpacing 2016 (NPR) • US
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