Banksy June 2020 • Coronavirus Shows Global Consequences Of China’s Local Censorship (SCMP) • More Than 140 Zuckerberg-Funded Scientists Want Facebook To Censor Trump (G.) • Cuba Sets Example With Successful Program To Contain Coronavirus (G.) • Brazil Govt Yanks Virus Death Toll As Data Befuddles Experts (AP) • China Would Make A Coronavirus Vaccine A ‘Global Public Good’ (R.) • FBI Pledge Allegiance to Black Lives Matter, Antifa (CTH) • Banksy: “It’s Not Their Problem, It’s Mine”
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F.A. Loumis Independence Day 1906 • Just 20% Of Coronavirus Cases Responsible For 80% Of Transmissions (RT) • Hydroxychloroquine Does Not Cure COVID19, Say Drug Trial Chiefs (G.) • A Second Major COVID Study Is Retracted (Newser) • UK Care Home Residents Face Steep Hike In Fees (BBC) • Bill Gates Dismisses ‘Bizarre’ COVID19 Conspiracy Theories (RT) • Tidal Wave Of Defaults And Evictions Looms (NPR) • Surprise: The BLS Admits Another Phony Jobs Report (Mish) • Biden Clinches
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DPC On the beach, Coney Island 1907 • After Pakistan’s Lockdown Gamble, COVID19 Cases Surge (R.) • Most COVID-19 Cases In BC Have Strains From Europe And Eastern Canada (CBC) • Authors Retract Influential Lancet Article That Found HCQ Risks (R.) • ECB Gives Another Shot Of Stimulus As Economy Reels (R.) • Japan’s Household Spending Falls At Record Pace As Virus Stalls Economy (R.) • China Can’t Take Over US Security Presence in SE Asia: Singapore PM (SCMP)
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G. G. Bain On beach near Casino, Asbury Park 1911 • Malaria Drug Touted By Trump Fails To Prevent COVID19 In High Profile Study (R.) • Big HCQ Study the Media Went Nuts Over Turned Out to Be a Scam (RS) • Concerns Mount Over Study Attacking Hydroxychloroquine (JTN) • WHO Set To Resume Hydroxychloroquine Trial In Battle Against COVID19 (R.) • Brazil Sets Record For Daily Coronavirus Deaths, Beating Tuesday (R.) • US Airlines Gain Final Approval To
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DPC ‘On the beach, Palm Beach’ 1905 • New Zealand Could Return To Normal Life As Early As Next Week (R.) • Coronavirus May Be a Blood Vessel Disease, Which Explains Everything (M.) • Charting Sweden’s Disastrous No-Lockdown Strategy (Ind.) • Brazil Sets Another Record For Daily Coronavirus Deaths (R.) • Greece Suspends Qatar Flights After 12 On One Plane Test Positive (K.) • Handheld High-Intensity UV Lamp Could Kill Coronavirus Once And For All (RT) • Lancet Issues
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Harris&Ewing F.W. Grand store, Washington, DC 1925 • China Delayed Releasing Coronavirus Info, Frustrating WHO (AP) • Distancing And Masks Cut COVID19 Risk – Review (R.) • Why Europe is Irrelevant to Challenging China (Balding) • The Forgotten Coup Against ‘The Most Loyal Ally’ (John Pilger) • That Change You Requested…? (Jim Kunstler) • State, Independent Autopsies Agree On George Floyd Homicide, Not On Cause (R.) • Bellingcat: Russians Didn’t Kill George Floyd, But Are Still Bad (RT) •
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Christo & Jeanne Claude The Gates, Central Park NYC 2005 (Christo died yesterday at 84) • New Coronavirus Losing Potency, Top Italian Doctor Says (R.) • Russia To Roll Out ‘Game Changer’ COVID19 Drug Next Week (R.) • UK Has One Of Highest COVID19-Related Excess Deaths Levels In Europe (G.) • Health Officials Make Last-Minute Plea To Stop Lockdown Easing In England (G.) • It’s The Virus, Stupid! (AHEB) • Australia’s Stalled Migrant Boom Derails Golden Economic Run
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Monastiraki Square deserted due to lockdown, Athens, Greece 2020 Well, actually, there is no Automatic Earth in Athens right now. But we’re working on it. And I have had a hard time finishing articles recently for some reason. It may be because it’s virustime, and it’s certainly because of the lockdown. People are social animals, and I am no exception. Living alone and working alone makes it more extreme. Not that I have changed my mind on lockdowns; they
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Edward Hopper Folly Beach, Charleston, South Carolina 1929 • Protests Spread Nationwide: Minnesota Curfew, White House Locks Down (JTN) • Unsanitized: Social Unrest When There’s Nothing to Lose (Dayen) • Trump Orders His Administration To Begin Eliminating Hong Kong Privileges (R.) • Trump Says US To Withdraw From WHO. Does He Have The Authority To Do It? (NPR) • Twitter Targets Trump Again, Flagging Tweet After Executive Order (SAC) • Coronavirus Sinks US Consumer Spending As Savings Hit Record
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Edward Hopper Railroad crossing 1923 • Half of Britain Is Broke – And The Other Half Is Richer Than Ever (G.) • Trump Signs Order Targeting Social Media Firms’ Legal Protections (Hill) • Police Precinct Torched inThird Night Of Rioting In Minneapolis (R.) • 7 Shot During Protests In Louisville (NBC) • Why Do Protestors Loot Shops Without Forming Private Equity Firm? (Onion) • The Hertz Story Isn’t What You Think (Ben Hunt) • EU Not In Mood To
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