Pablo Picasso In “Le Lapin Agile” or harlequin with a glass 1905 • Almost Half Of Americans Can’t Pay For Their Basic Needs (CBS) • White House Probes Google After Trump Accuses It Of Bias (R.) • Trump Unblocks More Twitter Users After US Court Ruling (R.) • Facebook Censorship, Mad Ben Nimmo and the Atlantic Council (Craig Murray) • The Greatest Fake Bull Ever (Stockman) • China’s Building-Boom Hits A Wall As Shadow-Banking System Collapses (ZH) • A
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Vincent van Gogh Cypresses in starry night (reed pen) 1889 • Meadows: FBI/DOJ Leaked To Press, Used Articles To Obtain FISA Warrants (ZH) • Lanny Davis Admits Being Source For CNN Trump Tower “Bombshell” (ZH) • Trump Announces US-Mexico Trade Deal, Setting Stage For Nafta Overhaul (G.) • Iran Says It Has Full Control Of Gulf And US Navy Does Not Belong There (R.) • Theresa May Says A No-Deal Brexit ‘Wouldn’t Be The End Of The World’ (G.)
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Hasui Kawase Moon at Megome (woodblock print) 1930 • BIS Warns Of “Perfect Storm” For Global Economy (ZH) • BIS’s Carstens Warns Of Economic Risks Of Protectionism (R.) • No-Deal Brexit Thrusts UK Into ‘Legal Vacuum’ – Labour (G.) • Britain Prepares for War Against Russia (SCF) • UK’s Biggest Payday Lender Wonga ‘On The Brink Of Collapse’ (G.) • Malaysia’s Reaction Shows China Needs To Review Belt And Road Plan (SCMP) • China To Block More Than 120
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Henry Bacon Fisherfolk returning with their nets, Étretat 1890 Let’s try a different angle. How about the world through the eyes of children’s? I don’t want to dwell on John McCain, too many people already do today, but I would suggest that your thoughts and prayers are with the souls of the hundreds of thousands of children that died because McCain advocated bombing them. Or, indeed, 50-odd years ago, were bombed by him personally. I wanted to leave him
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Vincent van Gogh Starry night over the Rhône 1888 • The Real John McCain (Kerwick) • Steele or Assange: Who Really Deserves 1st Amendment Protection? (Machon) • Trump: 5-Year Prison Sentence for Whistleblower Reality Winner ‘Unfair’ (TIME) • Cohen’s Plea Deal Is Prosecutor’s Attempt To Set Up Trump (Hill) • Europe Must Save The British From Themselves On Brexit (IT) • Ending The Fiscal-Monetary Tug-o-War (NEF) • Greece’s “Bailout” Was a Disaster for Greece (Klein) • Greece Remains A
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Henry Bacon Étretat 1890 • The Dogs of Vengeance (Jim Kunstler) • Chemical Attack Being Staged To Frame Damascus – Russia MoD (RT) • Half Of Millennials Take Out Car Finance To Match Social Media Dreams (Ind.) • Majority Of Young Americans Live In A Household Receiving Welfare (ZH) • Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey To Testify On Conservative “Shadowbans” (ZH) • UK Immigration Minister Blocks Britons Who Sought Help On Twitter (G.) • Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor (New Yorker)
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Vincent van Gogh Café, le soir, Arles 1888 • Thoughts On The ‘Longest Bull Market Ever’ (Black) • New Reality of China’s Failing Economy Is Coming Soon (Rickards) • UK Tells Drug Companies To Stockpile Medicine In Case Of No-Deal Brexit (Ind.) • Big Oil Asks Government To Protect It From Climate Change (AP) • Scott Morrison New Australian PM As Turnbull Denounces ‘Insurgency’ (G.) • Saudi Modernisation Drive Is Reflected In Aramco’s Faltering Sale (G.) • Libya Refuses
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Gustave Caillebotte Young man by his window 1875 If there’s one thing that is exposed in the sorry not-so-fairy tale of former Trump aides Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen, it’s that Washington is a city run by fixers. Who often make substantial amounts of money. Many though by no means all, start out as lawyers and figure out that let’s say ‘the edges of what’s legal’ can be quite profitable. And it helps to know when one steps across
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Pablo Picasso Seated woman 1903 • The Weaponization of the Dollar (Lebowitz) • Turkey’s Lira Crisis Was Written In Istanbul’s Skyline (G.) • U.S.-China Trade War Escalates As New Tariffs Kick In (R.) • Shooting War With China More Likely Than You Think (Rickards) • Wall Street Marks Longest-Ever ‘Bull Market’ (AFP) • Saudi Energy Minister Denies Aramco IPO Will Be Called Off (R.) • Australia In Crisis As Prime Minister Faces Down Political Coup Attempt (G.)
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Henri Matisse Laurette in a green robe 1916 • Cohen Pleads Guilty, Says Violated Campaign Law At Direction Of Candidate (ZH) • Paul Manafort Found Guilty On 8 Counts, Mistrial Declared On Other Ten (ZH) • Genocide of the Greek Nation (Paul Craig Roberts) • Call For Two Years Further Freedom Of Movement After Brexit (G.) • Britain Extends Lead As King Of Currencies Despite Brexit Vote (R.) • Bank of England Chief Economist Warns On AI Jobs Threat (BBC)
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