Salvador Dali Mme. Reese 1931 The circus will be coming to town a week later, but not to worry, the show will go on longer and there will be many added attractions, including a full troop of 800-pound gorillas and an entire herd of 8000-pound elephants in the room. And once the balancing acts, the clowns and the ferocious beasts pack up and move on, America might find itself without a Democratic Party, or at least one it would
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Piet Mondriaan Place de la Concorde 1938-43 • FBI Spreadsheet Puts A Stake Through The Heart Of Steele’s Dossier (Solomon) • Sic Transit Gloria Mueller (Ray McGovern) • House Floor In Chaos Over Pelosi Speech On Trump Tweets (RC) • House Condemns Trump Over ‘Racist Comments’ Tweeted At Congresswomen (R.) • Republican Support For Trump Rises After Racially Charged Tweets (R.) • Pentagon To Review If It Exposed Americans To Weaponised Ticks (G.) • Bitcoin Tumbles As US Senators
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Gustave Moreau Orpheus at the Tomb of Eurydice 1891 “Don’t Take The Bait”, said 4 young congresswomen yesterday in a press conference in Washington DC. They were referring to comments Donald Trump had made about them earlier. However, just the simple act of calling the press conference meant they were … taking the bait. Yes, Trump was out of line, way out of left field territory out of line. But he did that on purpose, and Ilhan Omar of
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Jack Delano South Water Street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago 1943 • US “Transportation Recession” Gets Uglier (WS) • Stress Test a Sham, European Court of Auditors Warns (WS) • Boeing 737 Max Ordered By Ryanair Undergoes Name Change (G.) • What Looms Behind (Kunstler) • Von Der Leyen Faces Crucial Vote In Quest To Lead EU Executive (R.) • Christine Lagarde Must Confront Berlin To Save The Euro (Varoufakis) • Epstein’s Accusers Urge US Judge
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Pablo Picasso Weeping woman 1937 • Robert Mueller’s Testimony Extended, Postponed By One Week (G.) • Trump Organization Probe Likely to End With No Charges (CNN) • Nemesis Rising (Kunstler) • Epstein Accused Of Paying Witnesses $350K In Hush Money (ZH) • Wall Street Banks Bailing On Troubled US Farm Sector (R.) • Fed Rate Cut Would Ease Pressure On China’s Central Bank (CNBC) • About Half Of China’s Loans To Developing Countries Are ‘Hidden’ (CNBC) • CIA Invokes
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Johannes Vermeer The astronomer c1668 Alex Acosta is gone. That would appear to be good thing, because even if he claims he did the best he could in the 2008 Jeffrey Epstein plea deal, given the number of accusations and the seriousness of the alleged crimes, that deal seems to have had anything but the best interests of the victims in mind. That he agreed as part of the deal to not notify the victims was not only
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Pablo Picasso Guernica 1937 • Dollar Slips After Powell Bolsters Rate Cut Bets (R.) • AOC Is Making Monetary Policy Cool (and Political) Again (NYM) • Trump Tasks Aides To Find A Way To Weaken The US Dollar (CNBC) • Lock Him Up (Pinkerton) • Schumer Got Thousands In Donations From Jeffrey Epstein (NYP) • Democrat Rep. Stacey Plaskett To Donate Epstein Campaign Contributions (CNBC) • US Probing Deutsche Bank’s Dealings With Malaysia’s 1MDB (ZH) • Obama the Conservative
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Pablo Picasso Guernica [Study] V 1937 • Jeffrey Epstein Shipped Himself A 53-Pound Shredder (Grim) • Doubts Over Deutsche Bank Turnaround Plan Dent Shaky Shares (R.) • Trump’s Twitter Blocking Violates Constitution – Appeals Court (CNN) • Ocasio-Cortez Sued Over Twitter Blocks (Hill) • Facebook’s New Policy Says It’s OK to Post Death Threats Against Me (PJW) • EU Subsidy Loss ‘Could Wipe Out UK Farms’ Like The Coal Industry (BBC) • UK, France To Send Forces To Syria
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Johannes Vermeer The geographer 1668-69 July 7 2019, just another tequila Sunday. There are elections here in Greece, and the right wing will take over. Bad idea, because it will bring out the left wing resistance that have remained subdued while Syriza reneged on all their promises, but they were left wing, and how does left protesting left work exactly? They didn’t know. Better lay low. No more. From now on in, it’s women and children first. And there
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Jack Delano A welder in the roundhouse of the Chicago and North Western Railroad’s Proviso yard 1942 It’s rare that I reach back into the past of the Automatic Earth, but it’s not entirely unique either. The reason I do it today is not only the relevance of the article -in my view-, or the fact it was published so long ago, but it’s that the ‘world’ has changed so much since January 1 2014, the date I wrote
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