Aug 202020
 
Update on COVID Treatments

Édouard Manet Woman with a jug 1858-60     John Day is one of the “resident physicians” at the Automatic Earth, who posts on a very regular basis in our Comments section. I asked him recently for an update of preferred treatments for Coronavirus/COVID19, because I noticed new treatments being discussed, in particular ivermectin/doxycycline, which appeared to be taking the place of hydroxychloroquine/azithromycin in some cases. As per John, below, there doesn’t seem to be much difference; that is, both

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Aug 202020
 
Debt Rattle August 20 2020

Pierre-Auguste Renoir The Return of the Boating Party 1862   • Clinesmith Pleads Guilty In First Criminal Case Arising From Durham Probe (Fox) • Clinesmith Gets The Wolfe Plea Deal… (CT) • You Would Never Get The Deal That Clinesmith Got (SAC) • Operation Legend: Over 200 Charged With Federal Crimes, 1,000 Arrested (Fox) • Judge Orders New Election In New Jersey Race Cited For Mail-In Fraud (Hill) • Iraq War Cheerleaders Front & Center At Last Night’s DNC AC)

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Aug 192020
 
Do the Dems Want To Win?

Joel Meyerowitz New York City 1963     No, no matter how much I read and watch, I can’t shake the idea (less so as I go along, actually) that the Democrats don’t really, honestly, want to win the 2020 presidential election. Obviously, there are many in the party who do, and voters too, but not the ones pushing the levers and pulling the strings. Those, whoever they may be, that are picking candidates, setting policy, maintaining media contacts, doctoring

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Aug 192020
 
Debt Rattle August 19 2020

Wassily Kandinsky Autumn Landscape with Boats 1908   • Chinese Regulator: Vaccines Must Have 50% Efficacy, 6 Months Immunity (SCMP) • Brennan, Strzok and DOJ Needed Assange Arrested – And UK Officials Obliged (CT) • The Big Story Behind The Mueller Special Counsel Purpose (CT) • Senate Panel Releases Final Report On Russian Interference In 2016 (ZH) • Will the Dam Break After Clinesmith’s Plea? (RCP) • Justice Delayed or Denied? A Response To Weissmann And Goodman (Turley) • The

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Aug 182020
 
Debt Rattle August 18 2020

Bettmann/Getty Minimum Wage 1963   • Coronavirus Clusters Erupt At US Universities As Semester Begins (AP) • Sixty Seconds to Self-Sabotage (Cut) • They’re Angry, Not Stupid: Why Trump is Likely to Win Again (Greene) • Sanders: ‘The Future Of Our Planet Is At Stake’ In 2020 Election (JTN) • Democrats Seem All Too Willing to Surrender on Health Care Reform (Jac.) • Michelle Obama Speech Recorded Before Joe Biden Selected Kamala Harris (NYP) • Trump vs. Dems On Mail-in

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Aug 172020
 
Debt Rattle August 17 2020

Claude Monet The Wooden Bridge 1872   • One-Second Coronavirus Test Achieves 95% Success Rate (JP) • Biden and Trump Matchup Tightens As Enthusiasm Hits New High (CNN) • Mueller Aide Weissmann Tells DOJ Attorneys Not To Help Investigators (Turley) • The Manufactured Hysteria Over Mail Delivery (PJM) • A Reality-Based Look At Trump And The Post Office (York) • Washington’s Successful Vote-by-Mail System Wasn’t Built Overnight (CC) • Adam Schiff’s Inaccurate Russia Tweets Raise Double-Standard Question (JTN) • Japan’s

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Aug 162020
 
Debt Rattle August 16 2020

Michael Andrews Lights VII: A Shadow 1974   • Clinesmith Was Working For Mueller When He Forged That Email (RS) • Democrats Still Denounce This ‘Investigation Of Investigators’ (Turley) • FBI Misled Congress on Reliability of Steele Dossier (SAC) • CIA Behind Guccifer & Russiagate – Binney (SCF) • Biden Campaign Not Putting Any Surrogates On Sunday Shows Pre-Convention (Fox) • Finance Execs Cheer Selection of Kamala Harris as Dem VP (LI) • Hillary Clinton ‘Ready To Help’ In Biden

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Aug 152020
 
Debt Rattle August 15 2020

Henri Cartier Bresson Boucher, Les Halles de Paris 1952   • Former FBI Lawyer To Plead Guilty In Durham’s Trump-Russia Probe (ZH) • In Bringing First Russiagate Charge, Durham Hints At Other Crimes (JTN) • Bill Gates Says Hydroxychloroquine Has ‘Severe Side Effects’ (JTN) • Joe Biden Calls For Nationwide Facemask Mandate (KABC) • The President Was Not Encouraging: What Obama Really Thought About Biden (Pol.) • Appeals Court Spares Hillary Clinton From Deposition In Email Scandal (JTN) • Yes,

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Aug 142020
 
 August 14, 2020  Posted by at 12:35 pm Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  11 Responses »
The Gerontocracy Strikes Back

Egon Schiele Self-Portrait with Lowered Head 1912     Regular Automatic Earth guest writer Alexander Aston this time comes not from Zimbabwe, Cambridge or Greece, but from South Carolina, where he is on family business. And that’s where he’s venting his anger about. I’m pretty sure we would all benefit from doing more of that, get it all off our chests. I think maybe the main issue with it in the present day circumstances is you have to make sure

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Aug 142020
 
Debt Rattle August 14 2020

Marlon Brando screentest 1951   • US Obesity Epidemic Threatens Effectiveness of Any COVID Vaccine (KHN) • Israeli Hospital Trials Fast Saliva Test for COVID-19 (R.) • The Pandemic and Medicare for All (TMI) • NYC Is Dead Forever. Here’s Why (Altucher) • What Kamala Harris Really Thinks of WikiLeaks (Lauria) • Some Questions About Kamala Harris’ Eligibility (NW) • China’s Banks At Risk As $500 Billion In Non-Performing Loans Revealed (SCMP) • China’s Debt Collectors Flourish As Consumers Flounder

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