Robert Frank White Tower, New York 1948 (Frank died yesterday, aged 94) To everyone used to receiving Automatic Earth posts in their email, I’m sorry but since Saturday they’re suddenly bouncing again en masse. This makes me very tired by now, but I’ll look for a solution. I suspect there may be a connection between this and Google accusing me of violating their rules, without telling me what rules I’m supposed to have violated. • Trump
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Pablo Picasso Composition “Peasants” 1906 It’s undoubtedly better to leave some stories alone, and this may be one of them. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov perhaps put it best when he called it “pulp fiction” (and what’s more American than that?). But this one is so exemplary of how the news is cooked up for you these days, let’s have a go anyway. What makes this story so ideal for its purpose is that it involves intelligence and state secrets,
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Marc Chagall The painter to the moon 1917 To everyone used to receiving Automatic Earth posts in their email, I’m sorry but since Saturday they’re suddenly bouncing again en masse. This makes me very tired by now, but I’ll look for a solution. I suspect there may be a connection between this and Google accusing me of violating their rules, without telling me what rules I’m supposed to have violated. • Real US Debt
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Pablo Picasso Portrait of Maya 1939 To everyone used to receiving Automatic Earth posts in their email, I’m sorry but since Saturday they’re suddenly bouncing again en masse. This makes me very tired by now, but I’ll look for a solution. I suspect there may be a connection between this and Google accusing me of violating their rules, without telling me what rules I’m supposed to have violated. • Brexit Heading For Dramatic Supreme Court
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Pablo Picasso Horses and person 1939 To everyone used to receiving Automatic Earth posts in their email, I’m sorry but since yesterday they’re suddenly bouncing again en masse. This makes me very tired by now, but I’ll look for a solution. I suspect there may be a connection between this and Google accusing me of violating their rules, without telling me what rules I’m supposed to have violated. • Boris Johnson Will Challenge Law Stopping No-Deal
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Pablo Picasso Portrait of Dora Maar 1942 • The Financialization of the US Economy (WS) • Fed Chair Powell Repeats Vow To Act ‘As Appropriate’ (R.) • Tariffs Are No Longer China’s Biggest Problem In The Trade War (CNBC) • Boris Johnson Urged To Become A ‘Brexit Martyr’ (DM) • A Trump Brexit Threatens (Wight) • A Crackup Is Inevitable (Kunstler) • CIA, Mossad, “the Epstein Network” and an Orwellian Nightmare (Whitney Webb) • How MIT Concealed Its Relationship
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Kazemir Malevich Floor polishers 1912 Everything Brexit changes every 5 minutes. That makes it hard to follow. It makes it hard to write about it too, because things are certain to be different as soon as you hit Publish. Boris wanted snap elections on October 14. That became 15 because of a Jewish holiday. but the opposition didn’t really want that election, Or they did, but not on his terms. And over the past few days it’s been said
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Claude Monet Éretrat sunset 1882-3 • The Trade War Is Smart Geopolitics (NR) • China’s Growth Is Slowing, but not Because of the Trade War (PIIE) • The Ugly Truth About The Trade War (Alt-M) • Fed QE Unwind Continues Via Sharp Drop In MBS (WS) • Trump Administration Backs Privatizing Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac (MW) • Is Armed Conflict Possible in Today’s Europe? (Spiegel) • Boris Johnson: I’d Rather Be Dead In a Ditch Than Delay Brexit
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Salvador Dali Neo-Cubist Academy (Composition with Three Figures) 1926 No, I’m still not taking sides in the Brexit proceedings. I have no horse in that fight. As I’ve said 1000 times, I can fully imagine that a country might want to leave the trappings of the EU. But just as often I’ve said that the way the Tories have gone about leaving appears deeply flawed. They have never seemed to take serious the amount of effort required for a
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Pablo Picasso Head of a woman 1939 • Resurrecting the American Economy With Stalinism 2.0 (Dmitry Orlov) • Use Old Chinese Debt To Default On Beijing’s $1 Trillion Treasuries (RT) • Boris Johnson Faces Showdown In Parliament (BBC) • The Realities Of A No-Deal Brexit (Ivan Rogers) • Ahead of Brexit, UK Factories Go Quiet (R.) • Hong Kong Leader Says She Would ‘Quit’ If She Could (R.) • Carrie Lam: Hong Kong Leader ‘Never Tendered Resignation To Beijing’
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