Edvard Munch Vampire 1893 • Canadian PM Says Québec Mosque Shooting A ‘Terrorist Attack On Muslims’ (R.) • Canada To Offer Temporary Residency To Travelers Stranded By US (R.) • Trump Immigration Order Restricted By More US Judges (R.) • Priebus Says Trump’s Immigration Ban Doesn’t Include Green Card Holders (BBG) • Theresa May Confirms UK Exempt From Trump’s ‘Muslim Ban’ (Ind.) • A Clarifying Moment in American History (Eliot A. Cohen) • US Became A Dumping Ground For The
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Michael Andrews A Shadow 1974 • Donald Trump’s Cruel Ban On Refugees Sets A Chilling Precedent (Robert Fisk) • Judges Block Parts of Trump’s Order on Muslim Nation Immigration (BBG) • Malevolence Tempered by Incompetence (Wittes) • Trump’s Muslim Ban Triggers Chaos, Heartbreak, And Resistance (IC) • Science Can Decode the Laws of History and Predict US Political Violence (PT) • UK Agrees £100m Fighter Jet Deal With Turkey Despite Human Rights Abuse (Ind.) • Canada’s Justin Trudeau Takes A
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Wassily Kandinsky Autumn Landscape with Boats 1908 • US Economy Back Below “Stall Speed” (WS) • Dow Hits 20,000 As US National Debt Reaches $20 Trillion (Snyder) • US Auto Industry In Crisis Amid “Inventory Bubble” (ZH) • Trump’s Crusade on Drug Pricing Puts Both Parties on the Spot (BBG) • Trump Bars Door To Refugees, Visitors From Seven Nations (R.) • EU Lacks Leadership to Tackle Global Crises – Czech Minister (BBG) • ‘It Looks as if the World
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Kathimerini Trump and Evolution Jan 25 2017 • Theresa May: US and UK Will No Longer Invade Foreign Countries (Ind.) • Donald Trump’s Plan For China Relations Is To Be Unpredictable (G.) • Wave Of US State Department Personnel Resign, Are Fired (ZH) • How America Could Collapse (Nation) • Outrage Dilution (Adams) • How America Lost Its Identity – Megalomania & Small-Mindedness (Spiegel) • Obama Bequeaths A More Dangerous World (Parry) • China’s Shadow Banking Crusade Risks Bond Market
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Arthur Siegel Zoot suit, business district, Detroit, Michigan 1942 • Trump Loves Debt, But It Won’t Love Him Back (BBG) • US Tax Reforms Could ‘Transform’ Global Oil Market (R.) • Trump Prepares Orders Aiming at Global Funding and Treaties, UN (NYT) • Trump Starts A ‘Sanctuary City’ War With Liberal America (BBC) • Kyle Bass Calls Trump ‘Gasoline’ on Smoldering Fire in China (BBG) • China Keeps 3% Budget Deficit Goal For 2017 As Debt Risks Grow (R.) •
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Jack Delano Family of Dennis Decosta, Portuguese Farm Security Administration client 1940 • US Demoted To ‘Flawed Democracy’ (CNBC) • David Stockman: Prepare for Fiscal Bloodbath, Not Fiscal Stimulus (DR) • Donald Trump Claims ‘Environmentalism Is Out Of Control’ (Ind.) • Trump Administration Seeks To Muzzle US Agency Employees (R.) • Trump Poised To Build Wall, Ban Many Middle East Immigrants (WSJ) • Trump Pins Keystone, Dakota Pipeline Fate on Renegotiation (BBG) • Pricier Oil Means China’s Foreign Reserves Will
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Jack Delano Cars being precooled at the ice plant, San Bernardino, CA 1943 • UK Supreme Court Rules Parliament Must Have Vote On Triggering Article 50 (G.) • Global Markets Turn Back On Euro As Economic Woes Reinforce Dollar (Tel.) • Trump Withdraws From TPP Amid Flurry Of Orders (G.) • Beppe Grillo Agrees With ‘Moderate’ Trump, Blasts EU ‘Total Failure’ (Exp.) • Trump is the start of Global Regime Change (Artemis) • Protest In The Era Of Trump (Krieger)
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DPC Looking south on Fifth Avenue at East 56th Street, NYC 1905 • We’ve Been in Decline for 40 Years – Trump is a Chance to Rethink – Eno (G.) • The Coming Unhappiness With Trump – Egon von Greyerz (KWN) • Trump’s Infrastructure, Defense Plans Will Lead To Ruin – Ron Paul (CNBC) • China’s Central Bank ‘Playing Dangerous Game’ To Prop Up Yuan (SCMP) • EU Is Dead But Doesn’t Know This Yet – Marine Le Pen (DS)
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Dorothea Lange Resettlement project, Bosque Farms, New Mexico 1935 • The Inauguration, and the Counter-Inauguration (Atlantic) • White House Spokesman Slams Media In Bizarre First Briefing (ZH) • The Demons Have Been Unchained (HB) • How the NYT Plays with History (Robert Parry) • Any Country Leaving Euro Zone Must Settle Bill First: ECB’s Draghi (R.) • Trump Team in Talks with UK on Post-Brexit Trade Deal (BBG) • Utopian Ideas On Climate Change Will Get Us Precisely Nowhere (G.)
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Workmen next to the screws of the RMS Titanic at Belfast shipyard, 1911 The people at Conflicts Forum, which is directed by former British diplomat and MI6 ‘ranking figure’ Alastair Crooke, sent me an unpublished article by Alastair and asked if the Automatic Earth would publish it. Since I like his work and I (re-)published two of his articles last year already, ‘End of Growth’ Sparks Wide Discontent in October 2016 and Obstacles to Trump’s ‘Growth’ Plans in November
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