• Trump: Only ‘Fools’, ‘Stupid People’, See Good Ties With Russia as Bad (BBG) • At Home and Abroad, Obama’s Trail of Disasters (BGlobe) • Russians Ridicule US Charge That Kremlin Meddled to Help Trump (NYT) • How RT Became The Star Of CIA, FBI & NSA’s Anticlimactic ‘Big Reveal’ (McD) • No One Can Afford To Stop The New Consumer Credit Crisis (G.) • China’s Foreign Exchange Reserves Fall To Lowest Since February 2011 (R.) • The Growing Threat
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Arthur Rothstein Highway marker in Polk County, Florida 1937 • Here Is The US Intel Report Accusing Putin Of Helping Trump Win (ZH) • A Case Study in the Creation of False News (Paul Craig Roberts) • Obama Set For Pardon Frenzy As He Leaves Office (AFP) • Worst. Recovery. Ever. (ZH) • How Many Bombs Did the United States Drop in 2016? (CFR) • Le Pen Says Brexit Isn’t a Disaster and France Should Be Next (BBG) • Economics
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Dorothea Lange Farm family fleeing OK drought for CA, car broken down, abandoned Aug 1936 Since the new year will bring yuuge and bigly changes to us all (I truly hope both the year and the changes will leave you happy), I thought I’d start off by ‘reduxing’ two articles that contain further ‘reduxes’, Russian doll style. I do this because the man the articles are about is set to play a large role in those changes, certainly where
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Joel Meyerowitz Girl On A Scooter 1965 • Intel Report Says US Identifies Go-Betweens Who Gave Emails To WikiLeaks (CNN) • All US Envoys Appointed By Obama Told To Quit By Inauguration Day (R.) • FBI Never Requested Access To Allegedly Hacked DNC Server (DM) • The Coup Against Truth (Paul Craig Roberts) • Rebuild the Fed From the Bottom Up (DiMartino Booth) • Annual US Auto Sales Fell for First Time since 2009 (WS) • Dismal Holiday Sales At
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Pablo Picasso The Dream 1932 • Chinese Media Say ‘Big Sticks’ Await Trump If He Seeks Trade War (BBG) • Donald Trump Plans Revamp of Top US Spy Agency and CIA (WSJ) • Schumer Calls Eight Trump Cabinet Picks ‘Troublesome’ (BBG) • Ford’s Truck Trumps Mexico and Tesla (BBG) • So What’s The Big Idea, European Union? (G.) • Italy’s 5 Star Movement Part Of Growing Club Of Putin Sympathisers In West (G.) • Beppe Grillo Accuses Journalists Of ‘Manufacturing
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Readers browse bomb-damaged library of Holland House, London 1940 • The Wrong Things Are Being Forecast (Morgan) • China Calls US ‘A Shooting Star In The Ample Sky Of History’ (G.) • China’s New Year Currency Moves Won’t Make Donald Trump Happy (CNBC) • Banks Create Money From Nothing. And It Gets Worse (ND) • India Government Set To Endorse Universal Basic Income (BI) • US Banks Gear Up To Fight Dodd-Frank Act’s Volcker Rule (R.) • Wall Street Banks
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Robert Doisneau Françoise Gilot et Pablo Picasso 1952 • Fears Of ‘Massive’ Global Property Price Fall In ‘Dangerous’ Conditions (Tel.) • Is Trump About to Debunk the Media’s ‘Putin-gate’ Conspiracy Theory? (AntiWar) • Assange: Obama Admin Trying To ‘Delegitimize’ Trump (Hill) • Trump Says US Safe From North Korean Nuclear Strike – No Thanks To China (G.) • China Needs To Let Companies Go Bust To Support The System – Xie (CNBC) • Holes in China’s Currency Wall (BBG) •
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Cary Grant and Constance Bennett, stars of the film ‘Topper’, drive the Topper Buick 1937 • ‘Patients Who Should Live Are Dying’: Greece’s Public Health Meltdown (G.) • Jean-Claude Juncker Secretly Blocked EU Tax Reforms When Luxembourg PM (G.) • German Ifo Think Tank Chief Says Italy Risks Quitting Euro Zone (R.) • Trump Aide Says US Sanctions On Russia May Be Disproportionate (R.) • Cuomo Vetoes Bill Requiring NY State To Fund Legal Services For Poor (NYDN) • A
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Claude Monet The Japanese Bridge 7 1924 • Trump Leaves Open Possible Taiwan Meet, Questions Russia Hacking (R.) • Was Claim by DHS and FBI About Russian Hacking Fake News? (Spring) • Is the “Trump Trade” Already Unwinding? (WS) • Senator McCain Says US Stands With Ukraine Against Russia (R.) • Here’s How Much Each EU Nation Puts In And Takes Out Of The EU Budget (BI) • Universal Basic Income Trials Being Considered In Scotland (G.) • China’s Xi
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Claude Monet Bain à la Grenouillère 1869 • WaPo Publishes False News Story About Russians Hacking Electrical Grid (DC) • CNN Lied About Russian Retaliation Against American Children (Sputnik) • Trump Slams CNN, NBC on Russia Coverage: ‘Don’t Have a Clue’ (NewsMax) • 96 Russians Forced To Leave US Over Diplomat Expulsion (RT) • Obama’s Stingy Pardons (BBG Ed.) • ECB’s Monte Paschi Capital Bar Would Trip Up 10 Other EU Banks (BBG) • China Retools in Push to Stabilize
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