Marc Chagall The watering trough 1925 • The Dogs in the Street Know (Craig Murray) • Speaker Bercow Warns Boris Johnson Against Disobeying Brexit Law (BBC) • Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe Must Face Criminal Charges (CNBC) • US House Panel Wants Boeing To Allow Employee Interviews On 737 MAX (R.) • US Pressures Israel To Drop China ‘Belt And Road’ Investments (ZH) • Huawei CEO Offers To License 5G Technology To American Companies (F.) • Mnuchin Says
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Joan Miro Montroig, la iglesia y el pueblo 1918 Ok, the mailing lists still don’t work, and now the site layout is skewed too after a WordPress update. Lovely. Apologies. Working on it. • How the UK Security Services Neutralised The Guardian (Declassified) • The Consequences of the Bush-Era Assault on Civil Liberties (Taibbi) • No-Deal Brexit Papers Warn Of Shortages And Riots (BBC) • £8 Billion Bet on No Deal Crash-Out by Boris Johnson’s Leave
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Max Ernst The Angel of the home or the Triumph of Surrealism 1937 A friend of mine here in Athens, Greece, named Wayne Hall, who’s of Australian descent but moved here at about the time Napoleon headed for St. Petersburg, and works as a translator and language teacher, sent me a mail a few days ago that I thought was interesting. In particular, Wayne referred to a video I didn’t know existed, of Julian Assange hosting a get-together in
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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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