Archiv für August, 2018

The President’s Choice

Mittwoch, 29. August 2018 - 08:45

http://mikegrost.com/still.htm#Baum says about this heartwarming still life:

Carl Baum 1812 – 1877

American Still Life (c1848-1852) (AAR Volume 6, Number 2, page 24)

Baum is another American artist whose work resembles Roesen’s. American Still Life has a marble table piled high with an extravagance of fruit. There is also a bird’s nest. The picture is especially full of round fruit – hardly anything is elongated. Even the bunches of grapes make the grapes look fairly rounded, although still oblong. Most of the fruits in the picture are small, on the order of cherries. An orange looks positively huge. Baum also likes reddish fruits.

Posterized version (4000 x 5000) of Baum’s still life for your music chamber too: https://wahlspezial.snrk.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/BaumStillLifePosterized.jpg

As for the president’s choice, see: Douglas Wilson: About the Chick on the Piano … (2016-02-29).

Putin & Trump, Helsinki, 2018-07-16

Donnerstag, 9. August 2018 - 06:35

== VOX ==
PUTIN: […] We have solid reason to believe that some intelligence officers, guided these transactions. So we have an interest of questioning them. That could be a first step. We can extend also it. Options abound. They all can be found in an appropriate legal framework.
REPORTER (Jeff Mason from Reuters): President Putin, did you want President Trump to win the election and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?
PUTIN: Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Because he talked about bringing the U.S.-Russia relationship back to normal.
(Source: https://www.vox.com/2018/7/16/17576956/transcript-putin-trump-russia-helsinki-press-conference)

== White House (as of 2018-07-09, “Issued on: July 16, 2018 [...] 5:56 P.M. EEST”) ==
PRESIDENT PUTIN: (As interpreted) […] We have solid reason to believe that some intelligence officers, guided these transactions. So we have an interest of questioning them. That could be a first step. We can extend also it. Options abound. They all can be found in an appropriate legal framework.
Q[uestion:] And did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?
PRESIDENT PUTIN: (As interpreted.) Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Because he talked about bringing the U.S.-Russia relationship back to normal.
(Source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-president-putin-russian-federation-joint-press-conference/)

== White House (as of 2018-08-09, but still “Issued on: July 16, 2018 [...] 5:56 P.M. EEST”) ==
PRESIDENT PUTIN: (As interpreted) […] So we have a solid reason to believe that some intelligence officers accompanied and guided these transactions. So we have an interest of questioning them. That could be a first step, and we can also extend it. Options abound, and they all can be found in an appropriate legal framework.
Q[uestion:] President Putin, did you want President Trump to win the election? And did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?
PRESIDENT PUTIN: (As interpreted.) Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Because he talked about bringing the U.S.-Russia relationship back to normal.
(Source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-president-putin-russian-federation-joint-press-conference/)

 
The White House was forced to correct the official transcript from the event 10 days after it happened in order to reflect the question.
(Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/400193-trump-claims-russia-was-unhappy-he-won-even-though-putin-said)
 


https://twitter.com/Bonnetmaker/status/1027417219393880069: @realDonaldTrump @WhiteHouse @Bonnetmaker @DonaldDonates — https://wahlspezial.snrk.de/white-house-edits-transkript/ shows how the White House tried to manipulate a protocol of Putin’s and Trump’s press conference in Helsinki, 2018-07-16