By Jace, a Trail Mix Contributor
Handel at his best. This work is simply too nice not to share. A good way to start your Sunday, perhaps with a second cup of coffee.
Enjoy the music and enjoy the day!?
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thank you, jace. lovely way to start the day
Excellent
Think I’ll make this my wake up music. Start every day with a flute. Thanks again, Jace.
Jace… lovely!
having a great time with a politics free weekend…
renee, if not politics this morning, how about guns & spy stories ?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Accused Russian agent Maria Butina had wider high-level contacts in Washington than previously known, taking part in 2015 meetings between a visiting Russian official and two senior officials at the U.S. Federal Reserve and Treasury Department. […continues…]
and this at
wapo: Russian billionaire with U.S. investments backed alleged agent Maria Butina, according to a person familiar with her Senate testimony
Absolutely beautiful Jace. Great welcome to the world music.
perhaps butina is just one of many sparrows who’ve winged their way west. remember the story last February in us news and other places:
Jailed Instagram Model Wants to Trade Secrets for Freedom
A Belarusian woman jailed in Thailand for offering sex lessons says she wants to exchange information on alleged Russian ties to the Trump campaign _ but she refuses to offer any such evidence, and it’s not clear she has any.
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Once upon a time, this seemed impossible and then Donald Trump was elected.
You are correct, Patd, there are a bunch of butinas hanging-out in very high places in this country. The ruskies are attacking us on the cheap. A real bang for their buck in spys!
1st of manafort trials to begin July 25th. Plea deals, jury selection, anything could happen this week.
Patd, the reuters article mentions The Center for National Interest — a group founded by nixon — who arranged for the meetings.
The Center for the National Interest is a Washington, D.C.-based public policy think tank. The Center was established by former U.S. President Richard Nixon on January 20, 1994 as the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom
More from the article —
The think tank hosted Trump at an event at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington in April 2016 also attended by Sergei Kislyak, Russia’s ambassador to Washington at the time. Two months earlier, the group’s Russian-born CEO, Dimitri Simes, traveled to Moscow, where he met with Putin and other Russian officials, the organization’s records showed.
Among the think tank’s board members is David Keene, a former NRA president and former chairman of the American Conservative Union. Keene has previously been photographed alongside Butina at events.
Paul Saunders, the think tank’s executive director, said Torshin spoke at an April 2015 event about the Russian banking system and Butina attended. Saunders said people at the organization cannot recall details of Torshin’s presentation.
Prosecutors said the think tank’s magazine published an article by Butina in June 2015 in which she said “certain U.S. politicians and Russians share many common interests.”
Randy Weber, a Republican U.S. congressman from Texas, also met with Torshin during the April trip, according to the think tank’s documents. A spokeswoman for Weber did not respond to multiple calls or emails seeking comment.
During the election, think tank fired employee who questioned ties to candidate trump.
The Center for the National Interest, a Washington-based think tank, has fired one of its fellows after he criticized the organization’s decision to host Republican presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump for a widely publicized speech, Foreign Policy has learned.
The employee, a junior fellow named Alexander Kirss, sharply rebuked the think tank for inviting Trump to explain his foreign-policy platform in an April 27 event at Washington’s Mayflower Hotel.
“Whether intended as an endorsement or not, the Center’s invitation is tantamount to tacit, if not explicit, approval of Trump’s positions,” Kirss wrote in a Monday column for the website War on the Rocks. He added that the businessman’s positions contain numerous “logical flaws and errors.”
In hosting the mogul, Kirss said the think tank exhibited the same “opportunism displayed by others who have sided with Trump, such as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, and former presidential candidate Ben Carson.”
He was fired the same day the story published.
BW – the males are nicknamed Ravens. They go for the women or men. As is taught, if someone comes up to you in a bar, has an accent or slight accent and tells you how great you are – forget it.
rand paul, a regular at the center for national interest, is going to russia. His russian ties via the center from a 2014 article —
rand paul’s russian connection.
Up to our eyeballs in congrussians.
BB, it you are part of trump’s inner circle and you meet one? You marry it.
Jace, thanks so much for the kick butt Handel. Now we need that final member of the elbow family the oboe d’amore
flatus, your wish is my command
Albrecht Mayer_Oboe, Oboe d´amore,Englishhorn, G.F.Händel
Thanks for the gorgeous music, Mr Jace !
One of my favorite composers and my favorite instruments combine for a glorious day.
Meanwhile, we have the 3 Day Lebanese Festival going on up the street. Great food and well-performed Middle Eastern music. Today is too much like heaven. I’d better check to see if I died.
Nope, I’m still living.
Wish you were here.
Thanks, Ms Pat. My ear cup runneth over today. I hope yours does, too.
Thanks Jace! I played a Handel piece as a senior in high school – a French Horn solo – quite memorable.
Had a day of traveling back from Mrs P’s mom’s in CLE, food shopping, cooking—- finally getting around to relaxing. Handel. A wonderful start. Thanks Jace.
SQ at the TDF and Tiger came close. Glad to see he’s back.