Robert Campin Portrait of a woman 1430-35 • Brexit Party May Get More EU Election Votes Than Tories, Labour Combined (G.) • Fight To Replace PM May Complicating Brexit Talks – Labour’s McDonnell (R.) • Labour Would Trial Universal Basic Income If Elected – McDonnell (G.) • QE Party Over, Bank of Japan Stealth-Tapers Further (WS) • The World’s Dictatress (Hornberger) • Is America Ready for John Bolton’s War With Iran? (Ritter) • Iran’s Rouhani Warns Of Greater Hardship
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir Riding in the Bois de Boulogne (Madame Henriette Darras or The Ride) 1873 • Labour Without Energy Is A Corpse; Capital Without Energy Is A Sculpture (Keen) • Traditional Economics Has Absolutely Screwed Us (Tyee) • House Dems To Bundle Numerous Contempt Citations For Trump Advisers (R.) • House Democrat Subpoenas Six Years Of Trump Tax Returns (AP) • FISA Applications Were Illegally Obtained – DiGenova (PJ) • William Barr vs. Eric Holder: A Tale of Two
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James McNeill Whistler Symphony in White, No. 3 1867 • US Hikes Tariffs On Chinese Goods, China Says To Strike Back (R.) • Historic Lawsuit Could “Wreak Havoc” On The Leveraged Loan Market (ZH) • The Real Muellergate Scandal (Craig Murray) • From Russiagate to Gunboat Diplomacy (Jacobin) • FBI’s Steele Story Falls Apart (Solomon) • Roger Stone Wins Right To Receive Unredacted Parts of Mueller Report (SC) • Chelsea Manning Released After 2 Months, Might Be Back In
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James Ensor The frightful musicians 1891 • How Julian Assange Changed Journalism (Stefania Maurizi) • Pamela Anderson’s Assange Blanket Conceals The Truth Of His Detention (G.) • China Backtracked On Nearly All Aspects Of US Trade Deal (R.) • Trump Blames Bolton For Embroiling Him In Potential Venezuelan Quagmire (Week) • Trump Predicts Dem Investigation Will Drive Him To 2020 Win (Hill) • Steele’s Stunning Pre-FISA Confession (Solomon) • Democrats Vote To Hold Attorney General Barr In Contempt Of
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• The Psychology of Russiagate (Gabor Maté) • Trump Tax Returns Show Over $1 Billion In Business Losses In A Decade (G.) • White House Orders Don McGahn Not To Comply With Congressional Subpoena (G.) • ‘Bond King’ Gundlach: US National Debt ‘Totally Out Of Control’ (CNBC) • The State of the American Debt Slaves, Q1 2019 (WS) • Stocks Could Drop 10-20% If China And US ‘Dig In’ On Trade War – Siegel (CNBC) • China Says
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Peter Paul Rubens Daniel in the lions’ den c1615 Zero Hedge ran an article about omissions from the Mueller report and/or investigation. It’s instructive, but there is more. First, some bits from that article: Major Mueller Report Omissions Suggest Incompetence Or A Coverup Robert Mueller’s 448-page “Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election” contains at least two major omissions which suggest that the special counsel and his entire team of world-class Democrat attorneys are either utterly incompetent,
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Robert Rauschenberg Collection 1954-55 • Chelsea Manning Declares She will Never Cooperate with Grand Jury (SM) • Major Mueller Report Omissions Suggest Incompetence Or A Coverup (ZH) • Mnuchin Refuses To Release Trump’s Tax Returns To Congress (R.) • A Nuclear War? Over Venezuela? (Ron Paul) • Going South (Jim Kunstler) • Fed Flags High US Business Debt, Asset Prices In Financial Report (R.) • Vancouver Housing Bust Steepens, Bank of Canada Likes “Froth” Coming Off (WS) • Why
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Gustave Courbet The man made mad by fear 1844 If I’ve said once that those among us who tout renewable energy should pay more attention to the 2nd law of Thermodynamics, I must have said it a hundred times. But I hardly ever get the impression that people understand why. And it seems so obvious. A quote I often use from Herman Daly and Ken Townsend, when I talk about energy, really says it all: “Erwin Schrodinger (1945) has
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Giovanni Bellini The transfiguration c1490 • Pelosi: Trump Could Contest 2020 Election Results – Be Prepared (Carter) • Joe Biden Says He ‘Doesn’t Have Time’ To Lay Out His Healthcare Plan (Ind.) • Trump Criticizes Social Media Bans Of Right-Wing Extremists (PA) • Trump Fires Off Tweetstorm on Social Media Censorship of Conservatives (GP) • Orwellian Cloud Hovers Over Russiagate (McGovern) • Fed To Give Banks A $36 Billion Taxpayer-Funded Subsidy (Middleton) • May Urges Corbyn To Agree A
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Raphael The transfiguration 1520 A few days ago, I received a video of an April 22 (Earth Day) lecture by my longtime friend Nate Hagens. Nate and I both owe a lot concerning our view and understanding of the world to Jay Hanson, who tragically died about a month ago on a diving trip in Indonesia. Many people have written and thought about issues of energy, or economics, or ecology; Jay brought it all together and, crucially, added
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