Salvador Dali Self-portrait in the studio 1919 • These Once-Secret Memos Cast Doubt On Joe Biden’s Ukraine Story (Solomon) • Democrats Reveal the Real Purpose of the Impeachment Investigation (PCR) • Chelsea, Reality Hope New Approval Of Whistleblowers Will Set Them Free (Onion) • Wall Street To Dems: We’ll Sit Out, Or Back Trump, If Warren Nominated (CNBC) • Fed Will Need To Grow Its Balance Sheet ‘Permanently’ – Morgan Stanley (CNBC) • US Annual Health Insurance Costs Hit
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Paul Gauguin By the stream, autumn 1885 • House To Grill Trump Intel Chief About Whistleblower Report (R.) • House Backs Release Of Trump Whistleblower Complaint 421-0 (R.) • Biden Campaign Blasts Republican Request For Classified VP Documents (Pol.) • Fury And Mistrust As The Brexit Pressure Cooker Blows Its Top (Sky) • Financial System Disappearing into Black Hole – Egon von Greyerz (USAW) • How Employees & Employers Get Bled by Health Insurance (WS) • The Disaster of
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Kazimir Malevich Woman torso 1932 Earlier today, I wrote: “What is an impeachable offense? Turns out, it’s anything the Democrats can get enough votes for.” And I realize saying that gets rid of half my possible audience, but it’s still the impression I’ve gotten over the past -less than- 24 hours. After 2+ years of her fellow party members and Congress(wo)men riding on the now-defunct Robert Mueller train and clamoring non-stop for impeachment of Donald Trump, the man who
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Paul Gauguin Clovis Gauguin asleep 1884 • Why Repo Is Such a Big Deal, and Its $400 Billion Bailout So Unnerving (Fort.) • Interest Rate Business Model is Dead (Welt) • Discord At The Top Is Bad For The ECB (MW) • Boris Johnson Refuses To Rule Out Suspending Parliament Again (G.) • UK Labour Party Remains Split Over EU (CNBC) • The Odor of Desperation (Kunstler) • Why Is The Media Circling The Wagons To Protect Hunter Biden?
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Paul Gauguin The Seine at the Pont d’Iena 1875 • Half of Americans Expect A Recession To Hit In The Next 12 Months (MW) • Negative Interest Rates Are The Price We Pay For De-Civilization (Deist) • British Travel Firm Thomas Cook Collapses, Stranding 600,000 Tourists (R.) • No-Deal Brexit Will Have ‘Seismic’ Impact – European Car Industry (G.) • Oil Set To Spike As Saudi Repairs At Abqaiq May Take “Up To Eight Months” (ZH) • Trump Doubles
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Salvador Dali Punta es Baluard de la Riba d’en Pitxot 1918-19 US Democrats and MSM are running down a blind alley, telling themselves there’s light at the end. It has become a mass delusion. For the largest part, it has been for some four years now. You would think they’d learn something along the way, but there are very few if any signs of that. Someone comes up with a rumor, a snippet of something, and the entire crowd
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Paul Gauguin The Seine in Paris 1875 • United States Sending Troops To Bolster Saudi Defenses After Attack (R.) • Trump Says He’s Sanctioning Iran’s National Bank (Hill) • Trump Derides MSM Over Biden-Ukraine Story: You’re Gonna Look Really Bad (ZH) • In Call, Trump Urged Ukraine President 8x To Investigate Biden’s Son (CNBC) • WaPo Reports No “Quid Pro Quo” Offered During Phone Call (ZH) • Missing Piece to the Ukraine Puzzle (Solomon) • Is WeWork a Fraud?
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Henri Matisse Antibes 1908 • Fed Concludes First Repo In A Decade Amid Liquidity Panic (ZH) • Big Banks Score Win As FDIC Proposes Easing Post-Crisis Derivatives Rules (R.) • Oil Steadies After Saudi Pledges To Restore Output Lost In Attacks (R.) • Without Accountability, There Can Never Be Trust in Our Government (Cates) • House Panel Asks Boeing CEO To Testify October 30 on 737 MAX (R.) • Ethiopian Crash Victims Want 737 MAX Documents From Boeing, FAA
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Pablo Picasso Night fishing at Antibes 1939 • Trump Says US ‘Locked And Loaded’ As Iran Blamed For Saudi Attack (AP) • ‘Very Difficult’ For China’s Economy To Grow 6% Or Faster: Premier Li • General Motors Faces Strike By Almost 50,000 Staff (BBC) • Industrialized Militaries Are A Big Part Of The Climate Emergency (IC) • The World’s Most Important Political Prisoner (Craig Murray) It went down a little after, but then the war threats started.
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Pavel Filonov The Kolkhoznik (Member of a Collective Farm) 1931 Those winds just keep on shifting, no matter that the western press either doesn’t see them shift, doesn’t recognize them for what they are, or chooses to ignore them. But these winds bring tidings of a tectonic plate-shaking shift in the global political climate. The fires in Saudi oil installations, whether they were caused by drones or missiles, and whoever fired those, are a major story, and rightly so,
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