Rembrandt van Rijn Let the little children come to me 1627-28 Let’s see what shape I can give this. I was reading a piece by Byron York that has the first good read-out I’ve seen of the October 29 deposition by Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, self-labeled no. 1 Ukraine expert at the National Security Counsel, and I want to share that in a summarized form, with my comments. There’ll be some longer quotes though. And I know there are
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Pablo Picasso Still life with fruit basket 1942 • Schiff Witness Vindman Testified He Advised Ukrainians to Ignore Trump (GP) • Gabbard Lawyers Demand Retraction Of Clinton’s Russia ‘Defamation’ (Hill) • Alexander Downer: Australia Should Reduce UK Intel Sharing If Corbyn Wins (G.) • Bolivian Coup Comes Less Than a Week After Morales Stopped Lithium Deal (CD) • Russia Accuses Bolivian Opposition Of Unleashing Wave Of Violence (R.) • Correa: Morales Was Forced Out In ‘Coup’, OAS Is ‘A
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Dorothea Lange Negro woman carrying shoes home from church Mississippi Delta July 1936 • Bolivian President Morales Announces His Resignation (RT) • Niki Haley: Tillerson, Kelly Tried To Get Me To Undermine Trump (Hill) • Alan Dershowitz: Congress Is Trying To ‘Create Crimes Out Of Nothing’ (Hill) • UK One Of Worst-Performing Economies In World Since 2017 (Ind.) The US/CIA has conducted yet another coup in Latin America. Brazil (Lula), Ecuador (Correa) and now Bolivia. More will
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Paul Gauguin Breton girls by the sea 1889 • Nunes Demands Schiff -After Lying-, Whistleblower And Hunter Biden Testify (ZH) • Yovanovitch Communicated With Dem Staffer On ‘Delicate’ Issue (Fox) • Italian Court Convicts DB, Nomura In Monte Paschi Derivative Trial (R.) Been reading a lot this morning about the UK, which has a general election in 5 weeks. The antisemitism smears against Jeremy Corbyn are getting much louder for that purpose, while Boris Johnson is trying
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Paul Gauguin Sheperd and sheperdess in a meadow 1888 • MSM Gets History & Russia All Wrong AGAIN (RT) • Trump Has ‘No Problem’ Releasing Second Phone Call With Ukraine (NBC) • Anonymous Author Writes Trump’s Decision-Making Is Eroding Over Time (NBC) • ‘Steady State’ Kept ‘Wheels From Coming Off The White House Wagon’ (Hill) • Facebook Scrubs All References To Alleged Whistleblower Eric Ciaramella (ZH) • Trump On Impeachment: ‘They Shouldn’t Be Having Public Hearings’ (Hill) • Giuliani:
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Salvador Dali Bay of Cadaques 1925 Do I really need to reiterate -as I’ve done easily a hundred times- that I don’t think Donald Trump is a great choice to be president of the United States, that when you have a pick of 320 million people there should certainly be a better option? Then again, should I also reiterate that he was elected as president 3 years ago, and that means a lot in the US political system, so
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Whatever happened to Nancy? • NATO Alliance Experiencing Brain Death, Says Macron (BBC) • Merkel & Stoltenberg Slam Macron’s ‘Brain-Dead NATO’ Comment (RT) • Big Tech Is Dragging Us Towards The Next Financial Crash (G.) • Fed Goes Nuts with Repos & T-Bills but Sheds Mortgage Backed Securities (WS) • Colonel Vindman Is an ‘Expert’ With an Agenda (Giraldi) • Obama Admin Tried To Partner With Hunter Biden’s Ukraine Gas Firm (Solomon) • Assange Lawyers’ Links To US Govt
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Ivan Shishkin Midday. Near Moscow 1869 “In theory they were sound on Expectation Had there been situations to be in; Unluckily they were their situation” – W.H. Auden And drawn back again into energy… I did a little interview on the topic this week, and that was a little too little. Can’t cover it all in 5 or 10 minutes, even though that is mostly because people understand so precious little. We fool ourselves non-stop 24/7
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Dorothea Lange Rear window tenement dwelling, 133 Avenue D, NYC June 1936 • Dems’ ‘Star Witness’ Wasn’t On Trump-Ukraine Call, Sole Source Was NYT (ZH) • Top US Diplomat’s Damning Account Of Quid Pro Quo With Ukraine (CNN) • Adam Schiff Announces First Public Impeachment Hearings (ZH) • Trump Jr. Outs CIA Whistleblower Over Twitter (ZH) • Hunter Biden Took ‘Off The Books’ Payments From Burisma, Aided By FBI (CDM) • Ukrainians Pimped Hunter Biden’s Seat For Leverage With
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Dorothea Lange ‘We’re bound for Kingfisher (OK wheat) and Lubbock (TX cotton). We’ll be in California yet. 1938 • ABC Stopped Jeffrey Epstein Report ‘Amid Palace Threats’ (BBC) • MSM Execs Part Of ‘Network Of People’ That Covered For Epstein – O’Keefe (RT) • Roger Stone, Trump Friend And Alleged Tie To WikiLeaks, Faces Trial (NPR) • Amid 2016 Election, State Dept Saw Burisma As Joe Biden’s Issue (Solomon) • Sondland Reverses Himself On Ukraine (Pol.) • Ryanair Grounds
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