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China in the Crosshairs?

In Trump's speech last Thursday he accuses China of election interference in 2020. He continued by saying the deep state was covering up China's breech of votes. "The cover-up of this colossal security breach is even more disturbing in light of the additional information showing that China engaged in other election related activities to undermine my first administration and our 2020 campaign...“the strategy included efforts to use Chinese contacts with big US companies to influence US business leaders to turn against the president of The United States of America.” ." But have no fear, we don't pull those sorts of stunts on China (and everyone else). So are we going from Russiagate to Chinagate? Sure seems so. Perhaps as OTC's meme yesterday suggests "another distraction for the Epsteinth time", this is just a distraction from the the Iran War and the coming economic catastrophe. Is this a way to invalidate the upcoming mid-term elections? Or, is the Don trying to set up yet another war with China? We know that is the ultimate goal of the Epstein class oligarchs.

Afternoon folks!

Here we go! Starting off we have an album from blues and r&b guitarist Little Milton during his 1960's Chess records period followed by an acoustic blues album from Eddie Kirkland. After that we have an album from harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite. Then we give the drummer some with an album from Buddy Miles who is known for performing with, among others, The Electric Flag and Jimi Hendrix. Finishing off we've got some 80's prog rock with a group called Asia that featured the guitarist from Yes, Steve Howe and the drummer from Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Carl Palmer.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!

Dear Fellow Human Beings:

I have lived in the United States of America for my entire life of 73 years. I want everyone on earth to know that at least one person, and I sincerely believe the vast majority of Americans as well, opposed our government starting the war against Iran.

Our Chief Executive at the moment is violating our Constitution by waging this war without Congressional approval.

Good morning, good people! Hope all of you are in fine fettle!

Last evening, as I began this OT, I noticed something weird that looked like a vine on the back fence.

Happy Friday everyone. Welcome to Friday Night Photos your once a week escape from the day to day insanity of the world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music or whatever else you find of interest that helps tune out the madness.

While not quite as popular as the pig races, The Flying Royals trapeze act draws it's far share people to their performances. According to troop leader, April, all the members (other than the 2 young boys) are collage graduates. I wonder what type of degree you need to become a member of a trapeze act? I also want to know what these guys eat, cuz I don't see a spare ounce of fat on any of them.

I'll forgo the political in lieu of something a bit personal this week. Consider it a small peek at the man behind the curtain.

If every picture tells a story then what does an art collection have to say?

I've purchased several fine art prints over the years, from the late nineties to somewhere around 2015. These limited edition prints are numbered and signed by the artists and are high quality reproductions of original paintings. They are printed on quality non-acidic archival heavy paper.

Many times I've wondered if an individual's tastes in art reflects upon their self-identity and if so, what does my art print collection says about me. So I asked the Google search engine. Yeah, I know, Google. Since it was a non-controversial query I figured Google was as good as any other search engine and possibly may provide a wider range of results.

As usual for Google there was an AI result at the top which I ignored. I went through three pages of results and wasn't getting any specific answers to my query, so for kicks I took a look at the AI result before moving on and I was surprised.

A Couple of Tidbits
Been very busy and also feeling a bit sick lately (heat? dunno - but today's supposed to be cool and rainy, so we'll see). Therefore, I've not got a lot for today's Open Thread. But I do have a few tidbits!

Tidbit 1:
A young woman in Canada, a student at a high school in Montreal, got suspended for supporting Palestine! So much for free speech, eh? It was, of course, that she was against the wars and the genocide Israel is doing. And she posted a link to a reel by Lee Camp about October 7th. And those two things got her suspended.

Lee says:

That’s right. Apparently the first ever suspension in Montreal public schools (or perhaps even Canada’s public schools in general) due to reposting criticism of a country was because of …me. Wow. I’m more powerful than I realized.

But here’s the good news. After many people wrote to defend the student and protesters even showed up in freezing temperatures in March to demand the school system apologize, the student was vindicated.

What the heck?! Canada, how disappointing!

Protesters in support of the student, what the student wrote on her own private instragram account is on the little white protest sign (from the story at therover.ca here)