GOOD MORNING FRIENDS AND FOLLOWERS: WHAT A CONTRAST: KAMALA DOES NOT DO PRESS CONFERENCES, CLEARLY IT MAY BE TOO HARD FOR HER TO ANSWER MULTIPLE UNEXPECTED QUESTIONS FROM MEMBERS OF THE PRESS WITHOUT PREVIOUSLY ELABORATED OR WRITTEN ANSWERS. SHE EVENTUALLY MAY ANSWER A QUESTION IN AN INFORMAL SETTING, MOST PROBABLY GIVING A 'NON-ANSWER' WITH A 'WORD SALAD' AND CACKLING. YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, TRUMP GAVE A PRESS CONFERENCE, ANSWERING FOR ALMOST AN HOUR, LOTS OF QUESTIONS FROM NOT ALWAYS FRIENDLY DIFFERENT MEDIA COMPANIES. ALL QUESTIONS UNEXPECTED AND WITHOUT READING ANSWERS FROM TELEPROMPTERS. IT TOOK PLACE AT A TIME WHEN MANY PEOPLE ARE WORKING AND PROBABLY MISSED IT. IT WAS IMPORTANT AT THIS STAGE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE, SO I RECORDED IT TO SHARE. AS I SAID BEFORE, I NO LONGER PAY FOR CABLE AND MY CABLE BOX IS NOW A COMPUTER. IT IS NOT A MONEY PROBLEM BUT I JUST DON'T WANT TO PAY HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS FOR 1000 CHANNELS I DON'T WATCH AND THE MAIN NEWS SOURCES THEY GIVE ME ARE CNN, MSNBC AND FOX. SO I RECORDED THE PRESS CONFERENCE FROM A BRITISH CHANNEL. I CAN RECORD WITH HIGH QUALITY BUT THE FILE CAME OUT TOO BIG IN BYTES AND I HAD TO REDUCE THE SIZE TO MAKE IT USABLE IN XEPHULA. BY MAKING IT SMALLER IN Mbs, THE VIDEO LOSES QUALITY, BUT IN THIS CASE, THE IMPORTANT THING IS NOT THE QUALITY OF THE IMAGE BUT WHAT HE SAID. SO I'M POSTING THE FINAL RESULT, THE BEST I COULD DO IN ORDER TO UPLOAD IT IN XEPHULA. I HAVE NOTICED THAT VIDEOS OVER 100 Mbs DO NOT WORK IN XEPHULA AND I HAVE ALWAYS THE OPTION OF UPLOADING THE VIDEO IN AN EXTERNAL SITE AND GET A LINK, BUT I PREFER TO HAVE EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE. FOR THOSE WHO MISSED IT, HERE'S PRESIDENT TRUMP'S PRESS CONFERENCE AT MAR A LAGO ON 8/8/2024.

AS I'VE SAID BEFORE, I'M NOT IN THE PREDICTION BUSINESS BUT I SCOUT THE WEB FOR INFORMATION ABOUT CURRENT AFFAIRS IN THE U.S. AND THE WORLD AND ANALYSIS ABOUT WHERE WE ARE GOING TO BASED ON WHAT'S GOING ON AND THE GEOPOLITICAL TENDENCIES. A SECRET SERVICE WHISTLEBLOWERS IS WARNING THAT THERE WILL BE OTHER ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP AND YESTERDAY EARLY EVENING I WATCHED AN INTERVIEW IN A NEWS SHOW, WHERE AN EXPERT WAS EXPLAINING HOW CHINA COULD COMMIT BIG FRAUD IN THE COMING U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS BY MEANS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND HIGH TECHNOLOGY, NOT FROM CHINA BUT FROM RIGHT HERE INSIDE THE U.S.A. AND, OF COURSE, IT WOULD BE IN COORDINATION WITH THE DEMONCRAPS. I ALSO RECORDED THAT SEGMENT OF THE SHOW BUT IT NEEDS SOME WORK BEFORE I CAN POST IT. MOST PROBABLY I'LL USE IT TOMORROW. 'TILL THEN, WATCH THIS SECOND VIDEO FOR TODAY.

OUR DAILY OLDIES: I ALWAYS TRY TO BRING YOU THE BEST OLDIES BUT I MUST CONFESS THEY ARE THE BEST OLDIES FOR ME, FROM MY COLLECTION, THAT DOESN'T MEAN IT MAY BE THE BEST MUSIC FOR YOU. I ALSO LIKE TO SHARE OLDIES THAT WERE VERY POPULAR AROUND THE WORLD BUT UNKNOWN IN THE U.S.A. TIMES HAVE BEEN CHANGING SINCE THE BRITISH INVASION OF THE 1960s, BUT THE TENDENCY HAS BEEN THAT MUSIC IN LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH IS SIMPLY NOT PLAYED IN U.S. RADIO. BANDS LIKE 'SANTANA' HAVE BROKEN THAT TRADITION. RITCHIE VALEN DID THE IMPOSSIBLE BY MAKING 'LA BAMBA' (A MEXICAN FOLK SONG) INTO A ROCK AND ROLL HIT IN SPANISH. IN THE 70s, MOCEDADES, FROM SPAIN, HAD A HIT WITH 'ERES TU' AND PERFORMERS FROM AFRICA, LIKE MIRIAM MAKEBA, OSIBIS AND MANU DIBANGO, HAD RADIO HITS IN AFRICAN LANGUAGES. I HAVE MANY GREAT SONG AND VERSIONS OF AMERICAN SONGS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES BUT I BROUGHT THEM ON TAPES AND THEY NEED A LOT OF WORK TO MAKE THEM INTO Mp4 TO SHARE IN VIDEO FORMAT. I WISH I HAD TIME TO WORK MORE WITH MUSIC BUT POLITICS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS CONSUME MOST OF MY TIME. SOME TIMES I WORK LONG HOURS, WELL INTO THE EVENING TO HAVE GOOD MATERIAL READY FOR THE NEXT DAY AND MUSIC IS THE LAST PRIORITY. FOR THE TIME BEING, ENJOY 'EVERYBODY PLAYS THE FOOL' BY THE MAIN INGREDIENTS.

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