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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Cimabue Christ mocked c1280 (Photograph: Charles Platiau/Reuters. Painting discovered in an old woman’s kitchen in Sept, sold for $28 million this week) • Trump Kept Gang of 8 In The Dark About Baghdadi Raid (WE) • Bill Barr Formally Announces Orwellian Pre-Crime Program (Webb) • Russia Calls Increase In US Troops In Syrian Oil Fields ‘Banditry’ (Hill) • Russian FM Lavrov Warns US Against Undermining Syria’s Sovereignty (RT) • The Plundering of Ukraine by Corrupt American Democrats (Shamir) •
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Rembrandt van Rijn The spectacles seller 1624 • Sidney Powell Drops Bombshell Showing How The FBI Trapped Michael Flynn (Fed.) • James Clapper Struck By ‘Interesting’ Timing Of DOJ Criminal Inquiry (WE) • The Sound of Shoes Dropping in the Night (Kunstler) • Joe Biden’s Super PAC Is Being Organized By Corporate Lobbyists (IC) • US Embassy In Kyiv Forces Prosecutor To Drop Burisma, Biden Investigations (CDM) • Judge Rules DOJ Must Release Details From Mueller Report (ZH) •
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Ivan Shishkin The wilds 1881 • Justice Dept. To Launch Criminal Investigation Into Its Own Russia Probe (Hill) • Trump Cancels All Admins’ NYT, WaPo Subscriptions (ZH) • EU Set To Put Brexit Delay On Hold After Johnson’s Ultimatum (G.) • Russian Gun Activist Maria Butina To Touch Down In Moscow Saturday (RT) • Despite Ultra-Low Mortgage Rates, New House Prices At Multi-Year Low (WS) • Vladimir Putin, Syria’s Pacifier-in-Chief (Escobar) • WikiLeaks Releases New Docs Questioning Syria Chemical
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