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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Pablo Picasso Olga in a hat with feather 1920 • Trump Refuses To Rule Out Government Shutdown If Impeachment Continues (Ind.) • Trump’s Impeachment Lures Democrats Into a Cold War Mentality (Maté) • How Far Will They Go? (Kunstler) • Nobody Talks About Impeachment on the Campaign Trail (Atl.) • Democratic Party, Not Russia, Has Delegitimized the Democratic Process (Vos) • Ryanair Says ‘Real Risk’ It Will Have No MAX Aircraft To Fly Next Summer (R.) • Ryanair Says
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Nelly’s Tzistarakis Mosque in Monastiraki Square, Athens c1930 It’s been too long, way too long since I wrote about our Athens fund, I know, and I apologize. It’s just that for the longest time, things were too unclear and changing too fast for me to write an article. I was waiting for things to settle down to a point where I could have faith they weren’t going to turn upside down again within days or weeks. Well, we finally
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Salvador Dali Nymphs in a romantic garden 1921 • UK Spy Agencies Found No Evidence Of Russian Brexit Interference (BF) • Pelosi Warns 2020 Candidates They’re On The Wrong Track (ZH) • Assad Calls Trump “Best US President” Ever For “Transparency” (ZH) • Britain Ignores Assange Medical Appeal: UN (AAP) • Saudi Arabia Kick-Starts Aramco IPO (R.) • Global Shipping Container Rates Plunge (ZH) • Labour Plans To Make 27 Million Homes Energy Efficient (G.) • Don’t Drive Electric
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Pablo Picasso Woman with blue collar (Portrait d’Inez) 1941 • Christopher Steele Gave Evidence To UK Intrusion Inquiry (G.) • Trump-Ukraine Whistleblower Suddenly Won’t Testify (ZH) • Former CIA Heads Praise Deep State, Admit They Want to ‘Take Out’ Trump (SN) • A Partisan Impeachment Vote Is Exactly What The Framers Feared (Dershowitz) • Horse-Trading Is Not An Impeachable Offense (HE) • In Defense of Tulsi Gabbard (Sjursen) • Trevor Noah Asks Hillary: “How Did You Kill Jeffrey Epstein?”
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Salvador Dali Landscape near Cadaques 1921 • ‘Nothing Illegal In Trump-Zelensky Call’ – NSC’s Tim Morrison (ZH) • Voters In Key Battleground States Oppose Impeachment (ZH) • Debunking Some Of The Ukraine Scandal Myths (Solomon) • The Two Democrats Who Voted ‘No’ On The Impeachment Inquiry Resolution (CNN) • Telling the Truth Has Become an Anti-American Act (PCR) • Trump’s Antiwar Speech Deserved A Better Reception (Sjursen) • QE Has Radically Changed The Nature Of The West’s Financial System
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Paul Gauguin Van Gogh painting sunflowers 1888 • Trump-Ukraine Whistleblower Revealed (GP) • Adam Schiff Coached Vindman Throughout Impeachment Testimony – Nunes (ZH) • Tulsi Gabbard Unleashes On Erdogan: “Radical Islamist Megalomaniac” (ZH) • We May Not Have A 2020 Election – Kunstler (USAW) • The Fumes of Fanaticism (Kunstler) • Boeing Employee Raised Concern Over Max Sensor Three Years Before Crashes (G.) • Over 50 Boeing 737NG Grounded Globally With Wing-Related Cracks (RT) • Union Calls On Qantas
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Rembrandt van Rijn Portrait of Rembrandt with gorget 1629 During the Senate hearing into Boeing on October 29, Senator Jon Tester told the company’s CEO Dennis Muilenburg: “I would walk before I would get on a 737 MAX. I would walk.” He added: “There is no way … You shouldn’t be cutting corners and I see corners being cut.” That’s all fine and well, but the hearing, which continues today, Wednesday, lays bare a giant gap in US law:
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Paul Gauguin Palm trees on Martinique 1887 A few -seemingly?!- contradictory items I noticed this morning. First, the oil the US is smuggling, stealing -take your pick- from Syrian oil fields. On the one hand, we have U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper claiming that the revenue from the stolen oil goes to the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, which partly uses it “guard prisons that hold captured Islamic State fighters.” US Military Envisions Broad Defense Of Syrian
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