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Brighton Beach, Melbourne
Sometimes it feels like all of your doors are locked shut and you have nowhere to go.
Canon 5D Mark II | Canon EF 100mm Macro USM | ƒ/2.8 | 1/15 sec | ISO800
Guess who uses an unsecured phone to speak to his cronies?
"WASHINGTON — When President Trump calls old friends on one of his iPhones to gossip, gripe or solicit their latest take on how he is doing, American intelligence reports indicate that Chinese spies are often listening — and putting to use invaluable insights into how to best work the president and affect administration policy, current and former American officials said."
"Mr. Trump’s aides have repeatedly warned him that his cellphone calls are not secure, and they have told him that Russian spies are routinely eavesdropping on the calls, as well. But aides say the voluble president, who has been pressured into using his secure White House landline more often these days, has still refused to give up his iPhones. White House officials say they can only hope he refrains from discussing classified information when he is on them."
www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/us/politics/trump-phone-securi...
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In today's New York Times Gail Collins documents the crazy thing Trump did that forced me to post this:
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Trump Gets Terrible
Things can get worse, and with him, they always do.
During the rally tour, the preferable making-stuff-up Trump also announced “a very major tax cut” just for middle-income people, which would be passed before Nov. 1, or after the election, or “next week,” depending on when you were listening.
“We’ve been working on it for a few months,” he said in Houston.
This appeared to be total news to everybody in his administration. But maybe the “we” Trump referred to was Ivanka and Jared. Jared is great with numbers. Just because his company is teetering on bankruptcy due to one of the most disastrous deals in real estate history doesn’t mean there isn’t some talent. That sort of thing runs in the family.
Asked about details of his plan — like who would count as a middle-income person — Trump said they’d be coming “sometime just prior, I would say, to November.”
That would mean … next week. Well, some details. Maybe its name.
Pop Quiz: What do you think would be a good name for Trump’s tax cut?
A) Herman
B) Biggest Middle-Class Tax Cut Since George Washington
C) Thing That Never Was
I don’t know about you, but I’m kinda going for Herman. Or Rocco.
www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/opinion/trump-gets-terrible.ht...
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Over at the Washington Post, Dana Milbank is saying what needs to be said over and over until Trump is in history's ashcan:
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What hath Trump wrought?
But one man has done the most to create this climate, whipping supporters to fear and desperation with often violent rhetoric. And only one man can take us back from the brink. Stop the mob, Mr. President.
In the closing days of the 2018 campaign, Trump has revived what worked in 2016, encouraging his mostly white and mostly male supporters to feel besieged by dark-skinned people, immigrants, women, religious minorities and, of course, the media.
Trump recently maligned all the targets of Wednesday’s attack. Thirty-six hours earlier, Trump fired up yet more “Lock her up!” and “CNN sucks!” chants. He roiled the crowd to boo “low IQ” Waters. Trump spread false conspiracy theories that Soros funded the migrant caravan and anti-Brett M. Kavanaugh protesters. After Holder said “when they go low, we kick them,” Trump threatened: “He’d better be careful what he’s wishing for.” Trump called Brennan “a total lowlife” and a “very bad guy” who “disgraced the country.”
This moment is particularly dangerous because Trump has turned partisan divisions into a proxy war over race and gender, stoking backlash to the first black president and the first woman to be a major party’s presidential nominee. Those receiving the pipe bombs include three African Americans, two women and a Jew frequently targeted by anti-Semites. These demographics figure prominently among Trump’s favorite targets at rallies, mostly women (Nancy Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren, Clinton), African Americans (Cory Booker, Waters, Obama) and Jews (Soros, Charles E. Schumer, Richard Blumenthal, Dianne Feinstein).
Trump’s latest stump speech portrays these Democrats as violent, lawless and inhuman, responsible for “an assault” on the country, an “angry left-wing mob” on a “ruthless mission to . . . demolish and destroy,” “corrupt power-hungry globalists” who are “not caring about our country” and “want to replace freedom with socialism” and invite people into the country who “carve you up with a knife.” Democrats are “openly encouraging millions of illegal aliens to . . . overwhelm our nation” and have “launched an assault on the sovereignty of our country . . . and the safety of every single American.”
Is it any wonder people might feel desperate?
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/stop-the-mob-mr-president...
The only way out of this nightmare is with a time machine.
Taken in Beverley, East Yorkshire using a Chinon CE-5, Takumar 135mm f2.8 lens on Ilford FP4+ pushed to 400iso and developed in 510 Pyro.
This shot was put together by dangling a key from my ceiling using a bit of cotton and then using a 50mm 1.8 lens and a lock shape cut out to create the bokeh while shining a torch on the key. All in camera no photoshop (apart from a slight crop).
The town lock-up in Dunmow, Essex.
This small single cell prison ceased it's function in 1843 when The Dunmow Police Station opened.
During the 1890's this disused Lock-up was adapted to be a soup kitchen to help feed the poor of the area during those hard times.
Lady Warwick is reputed to have provided venison for the kitchen from her neighbouring lands.
All eyes are on FL9 No. 484 as it pulls a steam excursion train northbound on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad at Deep Lock Quarry. Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 765 was on the other end of the train.
Stands next to the old canal, since filled in. The canal was at the front of this building. It has since been extended.
The unusual diamond-shaped Aynho Weir Lock on the Oxford Canal. The odd shape is to allow a larger amount of water to pass through the lock with each working, as its shallow drop was not allowing sufficient water to pass on to the next section of canal. 3rd September 1996.
This lock is just outside of Reading on the River Thames - a place I walk often with Spike. It is typical of the many locks on the Thames as it makes its way through Oxfordshire into Berkshire and on to it's more familiar manifestation as it runs through the City of London. This shot is taken with a telephoto lens from the top of the hill opposite (where I have taken many of my "cloud" shots). It's for a special Flickr friend in Southern California where the landscape is somewhat different from this lush and lazy green English countryside!
You can see more detail in large
This scene was taken somewhere in the Birmingham area in Circa 1959
It shows a narrow boat exiting a lock with the crew working hard on the balance beams, the day is a misty winter's morning with the weak sun penetrating the gloom The towpath is formed of cinders, pock-marked with oily puddles, to the right an engineering firm occupies the iron clad building, it's walls covered in many coats of tar.
Today the walls would be covered in spray paint, the towpath hard surfaced lest the cinders should damage a Nike trainer, working boats have long gone, the factory
flattened.
Peter Shoesmith
Copyright Geoff Dowling & John Whitehouse; all rights reserved
The lower of the two wooden gates of this canal lock on the Leeds Liverpool Canal near Wigan, showing the water flowing out of the bypass which keeps the water levels stable.
1/43 scale lock up garage diorama using a card kit from the Kingsway Models range. The E type is currently available at £2.99 paired with an Aston Martin DB5, from Atlas Editions.
This is another outtake from my 2016 Photo a Day Project 366. This photo was one I particularly liked, but it just didn't make the day's cut. (For anyone who's curious, this was the photo I posted that day: flic.kr/p/JxJjdY).
This image worked for me because of the simplicity of the composition, the lines and shapes of the fence and the lock, and the added visual interest of the shadows.