Vincent van Gogh Night Cafe (Place Lamartine in Arles) 1888 • I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration (NYT) • Who Wrote The Anti-Trump Op-Ed? (MW) • Trump May Declassify the 20 FISA Docs Congress Wants (Sara Carter) • Trump Accuses Social Media Firms Of Interfering In 2016, 2018 Elections (CNBC) • Jack Dorsey Tops Sheryl Sandberg As Tech’s DC Rep (R.) • Sheryl Sandberg Misled Congress About Facebook’s Conscience (IC) • Only 17% Expect A
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Pablo Picasso The actor 1904 I’ve had a few comments lately wondering why I’m against Brexit, while before the referendum I was not. Someone even remembered I had been talking about Beautiful Brexit back in 2016. It’s real simple. Brexit could be, or could have been, a good idea. There’s a lot wrong with the way the European Union is set up. There’s nothing democratic about Germany always having the last say when it comes to important decisions.
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Henri Matisse Luxury, calm and pleasure 1904 • JP Morgan Warns Next Crisis To Have Flash Crashes And Social Unrest (CNBC) • Share Buybacks Boost Earnings (Roberts) • Mueller To Accept Written Answers From Trump In Russia Probe (Ind.) • Senior Diplomat Exposes US Meddling In Russian Election (ZH) • Google Bosses Expected To Snub Senate (BBC) • Mervyn King Attacks ‘Incompetent’ Brexit Approach (BBC) • Angela Merkel Admits Collapse Of Brexit Talks Cannot Be Ruled Out (G.) •
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Edward S. Curtis Lucille, Dakota Sioux 1907 • Department of Homeland Security Lied About Russia Hacking US Voter Sites (CN) • Housing Bubble Pops in Sydney & Melbourne • Sydney, Melbourne Have Zero Cashflow Positive Suburbs Left (News.com.au) • Europe’s News Agencies Blast Google, Facebook For ‘Plundering’ Content (AFP) • The Emerging Market Crisis Is Back. And This Time It’s Serious (CNBC) • Bringing Up The Bodies in Emerging Markets (Napier) • Brexit Is The Wrong Diagnosis Of A
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Vincent van Gogh Courtyard of the hospital in Arles 1889 • China’s ‘Silk Road’ Project Runs Into Debt Jam (AFP) • Should Africa Be Wary Of Chinese Debt? (BBC) • China’s Xi Says No Strings Attached To Funds For Africa (R.) • Anatomy Of A Fusion Smear (WSJ) • No-Deal Brexit: Study Warns Of Severe Short-Term Impact On UK (G.) • Boris Johnson Launches Fresh Attack On May’s Brexit Plans (G.) • Half The Staff Leaves UK’s Brexit Department
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Salvador Dali Portrait of Picasso 1947 • Is The US Economic Boom Beginning To Fizzle Out? (Coppola) • Former Eurogroup Head Dijsselbloem Says Demands On Greeks Were Too Heavy (R.) • The IMF Abetted The European Union’s Subversion Of Greek Democracy (Mody) • Ethiopia Debt Woes Curtail China Funding (R.) • May Vows No Compromise With EU On Brexit Plan (BBC) • Pentagon Cancels Aid To Pakistan Over Record On Militants (R.) • Monsanto-Bayer: Eliminating The Name Will Not
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Pablo Picasso Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler 1910 • Delaying NAFTA Deal Is Actually A Win-Win-Win (R.) • The Bank That Nearly Broke Europe (Tooze) • Rebel Leader Alexander Zakharchenko Killed In Explosion In Ukraine (G.) • US Ready To Boost Arms Supplies To Ukraine (G.) • Bad Faith Nation (Kunstler) • Saudi Arabia Hints At Plan To Turn Qatar Into An Island (AFP) • Brazil’s Top Electoral Court Votes Down Lula Candidacy (AFP) • Brexit: Entering The Final Phase
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Vincent van Gogh Starry night 1889 • Argentine Peso And Turkish Lira Crash, Put Pressure On Emerging Markets (CNBC) • US, China To Regulate Big Tech Firms ‘Like National Security Companies’ (CNBC) • Trumps Legal Team Preparing Counter Report To Delegitimize Mueller (ZH) • ‘Vital’ US Moles in the Kremlin Go Missing! (Stephen Cohen) • Trump Is Right About “Flipping” (FFF) • France Says EU Needs Strategic Relationship With Russia On Defense (R.) • EU Says It Is Willing
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Henri Matisse Trivaux pond 1916-17 • Trump Says ‘No Reason’ For Military Exercises With South Korea (CNBC) • NATO Think Tank Continues Pre-Election Interference (RPI) • Whistleblower Exposes Key Player in FBI Russia Probe: “It Was A Set-Up” (SC) • CNN Lies About Cohen Story, Refuses to Comment (Greenwald) • The Media’s Chronic Misreporting on the Trump/Russia Story (Greenwald) • Russian Oligarch, DOJ And A Clear Case Of Collusion (ZH) • India’s Rupee Falls To An All-Time Low (CNBC)
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Salvador Dali The burning giraffe 1937 Dali: “The only difference between immortal Greece and our era is Sigmund Freud who discovered that the human body, which in Greek times was merely neoplatonical, is now filled with secret drawers only to be opened through psychoanalysis.” An ancient Latin saying goes: “Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi” (what is permissible for Jupiter, is not for an ox). It feels very much on topic when social media are concerned. And as the
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