Paul Gauguin Breton woman 1886 • Ignore The Hype — This Is Not An Impeachment Inquiry (McCarthy) • Trump Dares Pelosi To Hold Impeachment Inquiry Vote (ZH) • Joe Biden Sprang Into Action When Ukraine Prosecutor Came After His Son (MoA) • Trump Approval Climbs To Highest Level Of 2019 Amid Impeachment Inquiry (Hill) • Weakening The Dollar Is The Last Hope For The Global Economy – Saxo (CNBC) • Fed Policymakers ‘Open’ To Rate Cut As Risks To
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Rembrandt van Rijn Self portrait 1642 • US Hits Scotch Whisky, Italian Cheese, French Wine With 25% Tariffs (R.) • NYT: ‘Whistleblower’ Spoke To ‘Shifty Schiff’ Before Filing Complaint (RT) • Trump Attacks Democrats, Whistleblower Over Impeachment (R.) • Lindsey Graham Urges Foreign Leaders To Assist Barr With Investigation (Pol.) • We’ll “Definitely” Interfere In 2020, Just “Don’t Tell Anybody” – Putin (ZH) • Putin Shames Greta Thunberg And Her Handlers Over Environmental Agenda (ZH) • Dismay In Brussels
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Salvador Dali Bather 1924 The US and UK are both at risk of severe legal challenges and hence “barrelling down towards great troubles” as I wrote yesterday in Twisted Pair 1 – US. The reasons are not exactly the same in both cases, but they’re close. It’s about who holds the ultimate power. Before moving on to the UK’s specific issues, I want to share this from the BBC, one of many pieces yesterday that discuss President Trump talking
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Pablo Picasso Self portrait 1919 • Trump-Zelensky-Ukraine: What Is Really Going On Here? (OffG) • Kiev Agrees To EU-Backed Roadmap Aimed At Peace In Eastern Ukraine (RT) • Final Proposal: UK PM Johnson To Unveil Brexit Offer To EU (R.) • US House Committees Seek To Hold Line On Pompeo In Impeachment Probe (R.) • Barr Investigating The Investigators Of Russian Meddling (R.) • Japan Raises National Sales Tax Despite Recession Worries (AP) • US Gross National Debt Up
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Paul Gauguin Sunken lane 1884 • Dear America, Civil War Is Not A Joke – Or A Picnic (RT) • Civil War On (Kunstler) • Impeachment…or CIA Coup? (Ron Paul) • Hillary Clinton’s Big Comeback Begins Tuesday (WT) • US Dollar Status as Global Reserve Currency Slides (WS) • No End In Sight For ECB’s Inflation Problem (MW) • Twitter Executive For Middle East Is British Army ‘Psyops’ Soldier (MEE) • Johnson Planning To Bypass Brussels In Bid For
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Pablo Picasso Self portrait 1940 Two countries, the US and UK, both seem to barrel down towards great troubles, hence the title Twisted Pair. When I set it up yesterday, I was going to write an essay combining the two, but it now looks like there’s going to have to be two separate essays. Still, I’m wondering how connected both are, and how they’re connected. And I don’t mean in the popular Boris equals Trump sense, I find the
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Paul Gauguin Portrait of Ingeborg Thaulow 1877 • Pelosi Says Public Opinion Shifting In Support Of Impeachment Inquiry (R.) • Pelosi’s House Rule Changes are Key Part of “Articles of Impeachment” (CTH) • Scott Adams Makes the Case for ‘President for Life’ Trump (Ricochet) • The Problem With Impeachment (Chris Hedges) • On The Motives Behind Whistleblower-gate (MoA) • The Latest Plot To Topple Trump: Politics According To -Groucho- Marx (SCF) • State Dept. Ramps Up Probe Into Clinton
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Paul Gauguin Harbour scene, Dieppe 1883 • New Docs Contradict Biden Claim That Fired Ukrainian Prosecutor Was Corrupt (ZH) • Adam Schiff Epitomizes the Total Collapse of Democratic Party Integrity (PCR) • 10 Reasons Democrats’ Impeachment Argument Is Falling Apart (Grabien) • Intel Community Secretly Nixed Whistleblower Demand of First-Hand Info (Fed.) • Pompeo Subpoenaed By House Democrats In Trump Impeachment Inquiry (BBC) • Everything the Press Gets Wrong about the Ukraine Call (Scott Adams) • A Dumpster Fire
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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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