Golden Oxen's First Amendment Forum
General Category => Photos of Merit Members Wish to Share => Topic started by: Golden Oxen on April 22, 2014, 10:22:02 am
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It was quite a day in my home town of Beantown yesterday.
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Runners in the first wave of 9,000 cross the start line of the 118th Boston Marathon Monday, April 21, 2014 in Hopkinton, Mass. Stephan Savoia/AP
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Spectators cheer along the route of the 118th Boston Marathon, April 21, in Boston. Steven Senne/AP
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Family members of the victims of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings are joined by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (l., wearing cap) and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh (3rd r.) on April 15, 2014, as they walk to the marathon finish line for a wreath-laying ceremony at the site of the first bomb blast that rocked Boston last year. Brian Snyder/Reuters
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Members of the Cowboys and Indian Alliance, a group of ranchers, farmers and indigenous leaders, greet each other during a protest against the Keystone XL pipeline in Washington. Gary Cameron/Reuters
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An Ukrainian soldier aims his rifle at pro-Russia protesters gathered in front of a Ukrainian airbase in Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian armed forces launched a 'special operation' against militiamen in the country's Russian speaking east, authorities said, recapturing a military airfield from pro-Moscow separatists. Marko Djurica/Reuters
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Bianca Cortinas stands wrapped in plastic six pack rings during a demonstration to mark Earth Day in Manhattan in New York City. Mike Segar/Reuters
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US paratroopers are walking on the tarmac after being flown into the air base in Swidwin, Poland, for weeks of joint exercise. Their arrival was requested by Poland as a way of increasing security at a time of conflict between two of its neighbors: Ukraine and Russia. Lukasz Szelemej/AP
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A demonstrator dressed as a banker throws away imitation bank notes during a protest outside the Barclays AGM in central London. Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters
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Priests sing in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday. as Pope John XXIII, who reigned from 1958 to 1963 and called the modernizing Second Vatican Council, and Pope John Paul II, who reigned for nearly 27 years, will be declared saints by Pope Francis at an unprecedented twin canonization on Sunday.
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Masked pro-Russian activists guard the entrance during their mass storming of a regional Television Center in Donetsk, Ukraine, Sunday. Efrem Lukatsky/AP
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John and his wife Monica Evans, dressed as William Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway, greet visitors at the Holy Trinity Church where Shakespeare is buried, marking the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth in Stratford-upon-Avon, southern England, Saturday. Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters
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Egyptians mourn after a judge sentenced to death more than 680 alleged supporters of the country’s ousted Islamist president over acts of violence and the murder of policemen in the latest mass trial in the southern city of Minya, Egypt. Ahmed Gomaa/AP
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May these poor souls recieve comfort, and the judge responsible pay every pound of flesh.
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May these poor souls recieve comfort, and the judge responsible pay every pound of flesh.
From the look of that picture Walter, misery will be a constant companion of their's for quite a while I'm afraid. :(
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The unjustness of this sentence will be loaded with unintended consequences; of this there can be little doubt.
As we used to say in the FSoA before peaceful protest became a criminal act, "No justice-- no peace."
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The unjustness of this sentence will be loaded with unintended consequences; of this there can be little doubt.
As we used to say in the FSoA before peaceful protest became a criminal act, "No justice-- no peace."
Hard to fathom a judge in a civilized legal system metering out a death sentence to 700 people.
Always hoped to make a trip to see the pyramids before my stay in the pine box, guess it will have to be the Luxor in Las Vegas instead :'(
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Always hoped to make a trip to see the pyramids before my stay in the pine box, guess it will have to be the Luxor in Las Vegas instead :'(
Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I had hoped to start a new topic from this quote asking where people would like to travel and why, or what their memorable travels have been and why. But alas, search as I tried to no avail, I could find no new topic button. Perhaps our gracious host would be so kind as to start such a topic?
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As per your request Walter, Travel board is now open. Great idea. Thanks GO
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Hello GO,
I will reply to your latest passive aggressive swipe here, since I refuse the register for the open sewer operated by you and the bishop whose ring you kiss. It seems that you have taken offense to this:
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About which you said:
Perhaps because I am a fan of Mr. Kunstler and his ideas, I have always found it objectionable that a poster who continually publishes Mr. Kunstler's articles corrupts the postings by inserting a picture of his own, in a prominent position above the piece.
The picture is assumed by the casual reader to be part of the article, since no source is given or the poster has the ill manners and disgusting practice of not notifying the readership that it is his, not the authors.
Don't get me wrong, Criticize all you want, lambast his ideas with impunity. Please have the class and decency to post it in it's original form or point out to the readers that you or another placed it there as a comment.
It is another practice of the censors and so called god's of the diner. They seem to think they have the right to modify the works of others, distort it with their personal views, and we are supposed to nod our approval. This was never brought up by me on the Diner because of the sheer waste of time in criticizing the censors or god's of their despicable actions and disrespect of others. We all know the replies, if any, that would have come from my voicing displeasure at this common Diner censoring tactic. It would be called "Enhancement" by the gods.
Image placed on top of Mr Kunstler's article Piketty Diketty Riketty with no mention of who placed it or source, a common Diner practice.
You know full well that I am the "poster" who publishes Kunstler each week, since RE refuses to. You could easily have directed your comment to me, but chose to strive to manufacture some sort of issue from it in a typical passive-agressive swipe. Allow me to answer you directly and honestly.
Part of the responsibility of operating a blog is to keep it entertaining, and a visual component is necessary. Diner Blog posts require illustration. As consumers of information, we are conditoned to expect images. And when such blog posts take on a second life, and are reposted in other media (such as Facebook), FB looks for an image with which to associate the post. Hence the selection of suitable images each week to illustrate the theme. Selecting such images is akin to what a photo editor does, and it a role I take seriously. You are correct to observe that it is effectively, "comment." THat is why I have tried to take care to understand the article and to select images that reinforce the meaning of the article rather than detract. Other bloggers, when provided a back link to their reposting at DD, have expressed gratitude for the added illustrations.
This week's image is by Anthony Freda (http://www.anthonyfreda.com), an artist whose work bristles with pungent social commentary, a visual complement to Mr. Kunstler's own work. In fact, you'll find the cited work, "The Haves and Have nots," on his main gallery page. Given the subject, I thought it quite on point:
So-called capitalism is more like gravity, a set of laws that apply to and describe the behavior of surplus wealth, in particular wealth generated by industrial societies, which is to say unprecedented massive wealth. The human race never saw anything quite like it before. It became both a moral embarrassment and a political inconvenience. So among the intellectual grandiosities of modern times is the idea that this massive wealth can be politically managed to produce an ideal equitable society — with no side effects.
Part of having responsibility is exercising it. And the result is to leave oneself open to critics. And as we have seen, everybody's a critic.
It is tiresome to work to build something, only to have it continually torn down by those who would rather criticize than contribute. In that context, a poem by John Ciardi, gone some 30 years now but still a giant, comes to mind:
In Place Of A Curse
By Ciardi, John
At the next vacancy for God, if I am elected,
I shall forgive last the delicately wounded who,
having been slugged no harder than anyone else,
never got up again, neither to fight back,
nor to finger their jaws in painful admiration.
They who are wholly broken, and they in whom mercy is understanding,
I shall embrace at once and lead to pillows in heaven.
But they who are the meek by trade, baiting the best of their betters with extortions of a mock-helplessness,
I shall take last to love, and never wholly.
Let them all in Heaven - I abolish Hell -
but let it be read over them as they enter:
Beware the calculations of the meek, who g am b led nothing
gave nothing, and could never receive enough.
And BTW, the reason the spacing on the word g a m b l e d is odd is because here, on your "First Amendment Forum" the word "gamble" gets auto-corrected.
Ironies abound.
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And BTW, the reason the spacing on the word g a m b l e d is odd is because here, on your "First Amendment Forum" the word "****" gets auto-corrected.
Ironies abound.
Good morning Surly. Let me get this matter out of the way immediately. I noticed the auto censor stuff myself yesterday when I tried to place the link of JHK Clusterfuck Nation, It would not take. For some reason the words with casi will not take either.
Let me assure you and other members that this is something that was placed here by the creator of the forum before handing it over to me, or from Haniel and his previous work in that area, or perhaps imbedded in the original software.
I have tried repeatedly to remove it without success, and will keep trying. It is not the intention of this board to Auto censor anyone's remarks, and will try to correct this unfortunate situation ASAP.
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Hello GO,
I will reply to your latest passive aggressive swipe here, since I refuse the register for the open sewer operated by you and the bishop whose ring you kiss. It seems that you have taken offense to this:
Again Surly, let me explain.
Yes I did realize you posted the articles on JHK, we have discussed it before. You told me RE did not want them on the Blog because they were not long enough, and that he was having a petty argument with JHK about a cross posting issue, where JHK did not wish to publish RE"S work on his site. It was my assumption that the unattributed image postings on JHK"S article were probably the work of RE, especially the one with the Zombie whose head was tattoed.
You are mistaken that I take offense at the picture you posted as a preface to the article. My objection is that it is not stated in this posting, or in others, that the image was placed there by you, and not the author whose work is being highlighted for perusal and comment. It has happened repeatedly and I do find it annoying. In my view it distorts the original meaning of the authors, JHK is quite capable of placing an image on his work if desired.
I then voiced my displeasure at the entire admin censoring policies of DD, something I have been known to do for quite a while. I feel that this is just one more instance of many where Admins feel they have the authority to alter postings, in this case, an eminent author of a much higher caliber than the admin crew at DD.
As I also alluded to in my posting. I was sure my declaration of annoyance with the practice would be fluffed away as mere Enhancement, as in merely making this most distinguished author more palatable and interesting to Your presumed audience. I was correct in that regard
My apologies for not being more definitive in my original posting, It was not a personal directive against you or anyone for that matter, but a disenchantment with the policy of modifying posts and not saying so in that was my focus.
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Ah Ciali, how fitting. Testament to The Lord's benevolence to resourceful and hardy libertare, for whom fortune favours the brave. Indulge me in another, wherewith the author of The Prince.
The Politics of Envy
Ah my uccellare,
Vettori.
You tell me of your typical day, its colour and its richness
and envy is a stiletto in me. But ah, I have my
uccellare
Vettori.
So, late from bed to the Vatican to snare the gossip of state
while I go over the stile of ambition
to snare the thrushes, in my uccellare.
Vettori.
Lunching with Cardinal de' Medici, Vettori, think of me under
the stigma of poverty breaking bread
with these diplomats of the turd, ugly peasants,
when I go down from the snare of the uccellare,
Vettori;
when if it is set fine Vettori and you ride out from Rome to
canter
in the sunny country on your fine mare, spare for your
country cousin
just a moment's consideration, for it is then I am entering the
inn
to play the rustic fool gambling with butchers and bakers.
Butchers and bakers! Me, Vettori: ah but I know
how you will rejoin, Vettori -
"You have your uccellare,
"your uccellare where you snare the poor little birds or
mull over old loves reading your Ovid. I see you now,
Niccolo, amid what bliss, what peace, what solitude
what serenity".
What balderdash, Vettori! All you would care for here
in this dismal life is the fall of day when we repair
to our respective libraries, both to dream of history
and statecraft. You might laugh Vettori at me 'plumping
and grooming' The Prince in my courtly study and robes.
Of this more in season, Vettori. It is written in secret
isolation which is my drab fortune. To her I plead
as follows:
Follow me, Machiavelli! "Now you would be a swan
to leave and egg in her belly, now turn into gold that
she might carry
you in her pocket." So long as you are forever Fortune's
favourite
as I was gonfalonier's,
bring me out of purgatory
and off this island of the Archipelago
before it shudders and dissolves and the polar
sea of oblivion rolls over my bones frozen in a lens of ice;
deliver me from purgatory, Vettori,
out of my uccellare
to the Medici.
To Lit - the bard expresses love for his former patrons the Medici, wretched in his fall from grace, accused and exiled for plotting against them.
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Hat's Off To You, Walter Johnson, fait d'accompli. Brilliant in Fact. What a great loss for Them and gain for US. Well said, Sir. If only old Surly were really worth the trouble. You have cast pearls before a swine. K
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Hat's Off To You, Walter Johnson,
Now I am blushing. No need for such formality you can call me Wally.
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Policemen yell 'get back' to crowds of people during an anti-capitalist demonstration in Seattle, Washington May 1. Hundreds marched through the streets, with intermittent violence and several arrests made. David Ryder/Reuters
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Trader Peter Tuchman (c.) works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The stock market is edging lower Wednesday after the US economy slowed more drastically in the first quarter than economists had believed. AP
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Enthusiasts check out vintage cars during the Street Rod Nationals South Plus show sponsored by the National Street Rods Association in Knoxville, Tenn. Visitors can see more than 2,900 street rods, muscle cars, custom cars, trucks, and specialty vehicles at the event, which continues through the weekend. Michael Patrick/Knoxville News Sentinel/AP
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It's Derby Day!
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Jockey Corey Nakatani shows his daughter Lilha Kentucky Derby hopeful Dance With Fate after a morning workout at Churchill Downs on April 30, 2014, in Louisville, Ky. Garry Jones/AP
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Members of a laughter club participate in a laughing exercise in Mumbai, India. Hundreds of people, who believe that laughter is the best medicine for a happy and healthy life, took part in an attempt to break a world record of the largest gathering of senior citizens at a laughing exercise. Danish Siddiqui/Reuters
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:D :D ;D
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Members of a laughter club participate in a laughing exercise in Mumbai, India. Hundreds of people, who believe that laughter is the best medicine for a happy and healthy life, took part in an attempt to break a world record of the largest gathering of senior citizens at a laughing exercise. Danish Siddiqui/Reuters
Some 10 or so years ago I went with my entire office for a team building day and this laughter yoga was one of the exercises. I like to fancy myself as rather jovial but could not "fake it til you make it" as was the catchphrase. Meanwhile a couple of the ladies could not stop even when the exercise was over, as though they were watching a Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson film while being simultaneously tickled.
As an aside yet related thought, Peter of Toward a Better Future posted a most excellent read about Bangladesh which put in proper context is a province of India.
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Some 10 or so years ago I went with my entire office for a team building day and this laughter yoga was one of the exercises. I like to fancy myself as rather jovial but could not "fake it til you make it" as was the catchphrase. Meanwhile a couple of the ladies could not stop even when the exercise was over, as though they were watching a Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson film while being simultaneously tickled.
As an aside yet related thought, Peter of Toward a Better Future posted a most excellent read about Bangladesh which put in proper context is a province of India.
Hi Walter, Yes faking laughter isn't easy for me either. >:( >:(
Thank's for the tip on Peter's work, I always enjoy Peter's unique perspectives. GO
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Seized plastic handguns which were created using 3D printing technology are displayed at Kanagawa police station in Yokohama, south of Tokyo. Yoshimoto Imura became the first man to be arrested in Japan for illegal possession of two guns he created himself using 3D printing technology. Police raided Imura's home and found five guns, two of which could fire real bullets, Japanese media said. Kyodo/Reuters
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Julia Fridell (l.), a student and bakery worker, and Rebecka Viberg, a nanny who wants to be a social worker, are eligible for free university education as Swedes. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
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Residents wear masks and scarves to shield themselves against a dust storm as they ride electric bicycles along a street in Korla, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region May 8. Reuters
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An anti-government protester cover his face with a US flag during a protest march in Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has reacted furiously to calls in the United States for punitive measures against his government for alleged rights abuses in response to three months of street protests. Jorge Silva/Reuters
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A plot of contaminated land measuring 20,000 square meters is seen covered by a polyester fiber tent in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China. According to local media, the area used to be the site of an insecticide factory. An environmental company has built the tent aiming to reduce the smell of leftover chemicals. Reuters
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90-year-old Hiraben blesses her son and India's next prime minister Narendra Modi at her home in Gandhinagar, in the western Indian state of Gujarat. Saurabh Das/AP
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Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama arrives for a public talk at the Fraport Arena in Frankfurt, Germany. The Dalai Lama is on a four-day visit to Germany. Ralph Orlowski/Reuters
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White, dark and light chocolate figures of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the image of Napoleon and a prisoner for sale in a candy shop in Ukraine's western city of Lviv, Saturday. Pavlo Palamarchuk/AP
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A dog sits during a photo call for White God (Feher Isten) at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday. Alastair Grant/AP
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Cambodian students from Royal University of Fine Arts reenact torture executed by the Khmer Rouge during their reign of terror in the 1970s to mark the annual Day of Anger at Choeung Ek, a former Khmer Rouge 'killing field' dotted with mass graves, on the outskirt of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Several hundred Cambodians, including Buddhist monks, attended the event to mark the 35th anniversary of the Day of Anger to remember the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge's 1975-79 era. Heng Sinith/AP
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A Buddhist monk offers energy drink to Thai soldiers guarding a pedestrian overfly near the site where pro-government demonstrators stage a rally on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand's powerful military chief intervened for the first time in the country's latest political crisis, declaring martial law and dispatching gun-mounted jeeps into the heart of the capital with a vow to resolve the deepening conflict as quickly as possible. Wason Wanichakorn/AP
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Pope Francis blesses Palestinian reporter Imad Freij aboard the papal flight to Amman, Jordan, Saturday. L'Osservatore Romano/AP
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Pope Francis prays at Israel's separation barrier on his way to a mass in Manger Square next to the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Sunday. Ariel Schalit/AP
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People carry sand bags to set up a shooting position as a pro-Russian gunman watches on the road leading from the the airport to Donetsk, Ukraine. The eastern city of Donetsk was in turmoil a day after government forces used fighter jets to stop pro-Russia separatists from taking over the airport. The mayor said 40 people were killed and went on television to urge residents to stay at home. Vadim Ghirda/AP
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A security officer stands guard as passengers line up and wait for a security check during morning rush hour at Tiantongyuan North Station in Beijing. Beijing tightened security checks at subway stations since last Saturday, following an attack in China's troubled Xinjiang region which killed 31 people on May 22, the deadliest act of violence in the region in years. Jason Lee/Reuters
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Kashmiri Muslim women react upon seeing a relic of Prophet Muhammad during Meraj-un-Nabi celebrations at the Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims thronged the Hazratbal Shrine, which houses what is believed to be a relic from the beard of Prophet Muhammad. The festival marks the ascension of Prophet Mohammed to heaven. Danish Ismail/Reuters
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Supporters of the far-right Golden Dawn party cheer for a party lawmaker during a pre-election rally in Athens, Greece. Greeks vote both in local and European Parliament elections on Sunday. Yorgos Karahalis/Reuters
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Pope Francis blesses Palestinian reporter Imad Freij aboard the papal flight to Amman, Jordan, Saturday. L'Osservatore Romano/AP
Reminding us all to be our best selves, blessings to them both for this awe inspiring act.
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Reminding us all to be our best selves, blessings to them both for this awe inspiring act.
True Walter, There are many that mock these efforts unfortunately.
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June 2, 2014: A woman reads 'A Guide to Civil Resistance' during a protest against the Thai military coup in Bangkok on May 9. About eight people gathered at the Chong Nonsi intersection in Bangkok to silently read George Orwell's '1984' & other books about civil disobedience. The protests are based on the 'Standing Man' protests that started in Turkey last summer. Authorities made no effort to stop the protest or interfere with the people who were reading.
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June 2, 2014: This sunglasses-wearing pooch seemed to be enjoying the ride with his co-driver as they rode on Constitution Avenue. Tens of thousands of motorcyclists descended on Washington, D.C., on May 25 for the annual Rolling Thunder gathering. The event is held to honor veterans, MIAs & POWs for Memorial Day.
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These amazingly colorful pictures are made by artist Joe Mangrum, who 'paints' them by letting 36 colors of sand flow gently from his hands. The vibrant art can take up to eight hours a day to make — yet a gust of wind or a rain shower can wipe away the work in seconds.
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This rare albino vervet monkey was spotted playing with friends in Kruger National Park, South Africa
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An Indonesian boy looks at dead fish in Maninjau Lake in Agam regency, West Sumatra province, Indonesia, on March 18. The mass deaths were apparently caused by a sudden change in weather conditions, according to fishery officials.
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Indigenous people walk with the remains of six people who had disappeared on June 2, 1982, during the Guatemalan Civil War, at Pambach in the Alta Verapaz region. The skeletons were found during an archaeological investigation at the regional command headquarters of the Guatemalan Army. From 1960 to 1996, the army forcibly took people away who later disappeared inside the army camp. Archaeological work began on the site in 2012. So far 534 skeletons have been discovered. Reuters
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Tens of thousands of people attend a candlelight vigil at Victoria Park in Hong Kong, June 4, 2014, to mark the 25th anniversary of the June 4th Chinese military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing. Kin Cheung/AP
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Tens of thousands of people attend a candlelight vigil at Victoria Park in Hong Kong, June 4, 2014. Vincent Yu/AP
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A statue of the Goddess of Democracy and a portrait of the late Communist leader Mao Zeddonng are displayed at the June 4th Museum in Hong Kong, May 28, 2014. The June 4th Museum is the world’s only museum chronicling the brutal crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen protests. Vincent Yu/AP
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A Chinese student leader reads a list of demands to students staging a sit-in in front of Beijing's Great Hall of the People, April 18, 1989. A quarter century after the Communist Party's attack on demonstrations centered on Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, the ruling party prohibits public discussion and '1989' is banned from textbooks and Chinese websites. Kathy Wilhelm/AP
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Protesters wear headbands with a slogan reading 'Denounce butcher regime' as they attend a candlelight vigil outside the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong, June 3, 2014, to mark the anniversary of China's bloody crackdown on Tiananmen Square in 1989. In Hong Kong, a former British colony that has retained its own legal system and civil liberties since returning to Chinese rule in 1997, organizers said they expected about 150,000 people to join a candlelight vigil in a city park in remembrance of the crackdown. Kin Cheung/AP
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People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers holding red flags march to their positions before an honor guard performance for a welcome ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People near Tiananmen Square, back, which is closed to the public in Beijing, June 3, 2014. China allows no discussion of the events of June 3-4, 1989, when soldiers accompanied by tanks and armored personnel carriers fought their way into the heart of the city, killing hundreds of protesting citizens and onlookers. Alexander F. Yuan/AP
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Lee Cheuk Yan, head of the pro-democracy group that operates the June 4th Museum, poses after an interview at the museum in Hong Kong, May 28, 2014. The Chinese words projected on Lee are 'Exonerate the June 4.' Vincent Yu/AP
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Wang Dan, shown in this May 1989 file photo made during a demonstration in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, was released from a jail Sunday, April 19, 1998 and flew to the US for medical treatment. AP
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A woman and child pass by uniformed and plainclothes security personnel with umbrellas and security cameras near a portrait of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Gate in Beijing June 3, 2014. Beijing put additional police on the street and detained government critics as part of a security crackdown on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the crushing of pro-democracy protests centered on the capital's Tiananmen Square. Ng Han Guan/AP
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Medics rush a Beijing university student from Tiananmen Square after he collapsed on the third day of a hunger strike in Beijing, May 16, 1989. A quarter century after the Communist Party’s attack on demonstrations centered on Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, the ruling party prohibits public discussion and 1989 is banned from textbooks and Chinese websites. /Sadayuki Mikami/AP
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'Police officers try to stop a protester throwing 'ghost money" into the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong, June 3, 2014, to mark the 25th anniversary of China's crackdown on pro-democracy protests on Tiananmen Square on June 4. The banners read from left, 'Stop one party rule in China,' 'Memorial,' and 'Demand accountability for the massacre.' Kin Cheung/AP
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Bicycle commuters, sparse in numbers, pass through a tunnel as above on the overpass military tanks are positioned in Beijing, two days after the Tiananmen Square massacre on Tuesday morning, June 6, 1989. The slogan on the wall at left reads: 'Strike down martial law.' Vincent Yu/AP
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A protester wearing a T-shirt depicting Tiananmen's 'Tankman' join hundreds of others in taking part in a march in Hong Kong June 1, 2014, three days before the 25th anniversary of the military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement at Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989. Bobby Yip/Reuters
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Bao Tong, aide to the late reform-minded former Communist Party general secretary, Zhao Ziyang, speaks from his home in Beijing, China, April 23, 2014. After the June 4, 1989, military crackdown to end weeks-long student protests, Bao was imprisoned for seven years. Since his release in 1996, he has lived under house arrest, his moves observed, his visitors screened by security services who sit at a desk in the lobby of his high-rise apartment building. Ng Han Guan/AP
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High school students dressed in uniforms march on Tiananmen Square to stand at guard posts of Young Pioneers, a youth group under the Communist Party of China, around the Monument to the People's Heroes on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, May 29, 2014. Elite members of youth Communist groups in schools are organized to guard the posts as a nationalistic and party loyalty education. A quarter century after the Communist Party’s attack on demonstrations centered on Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, it is little more than a distant tale to young Chinese. Alexander F. Yuan/AP
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Anti-Beijing protesters, holding pictures of human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, protest outside the Chinese liaison office to demand Pu's release, in Hong Kong, May 14, 2014. Chinese police broke up a dinner party attended by activists in the eastern city of Hangzhou and detained a dozen people, according to an activist who attended the dinner. In recent weeks, police also detained well-known human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, journalist Gao Yu and others ahead of the politically sensitive 25th anniversary of the June 4 Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown. Kin Cheung/AP
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People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers march near their rifles before an honor guard performance for a welcome ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People near Tiananmen Square in Beijing, June 3, 2014. China allows no discussion of the events of June 3-4, 1989, when soldiers accompanied by tanks and armored personnel carriers fought their way into the heart of the city, killing hundreds of protesting citizens and onlookers. Alexander F. Yuan/AP
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Demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, with the Goddess of Democracy statue in the distance, May 16, 1989. James L. Tyson/The Christian Science Monitor
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A shopper holds a child on a mock tank made by university students, imitating those used during the military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement at Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989, during an exhibition on the movement at Hong Kong's Causeway Bay shopping district June 3, 2014. Bobby Yip/Reuters
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Sin Wai-keung, 52, newspaper editor and former news photographer, poses in front of a projection of a photograph he took in Beijing in 1989, in Hong Kong May 22, 2014. Sin's photo shows a man standing in front of a column of tanks in Beijing on the morning of June 5, 1989. Recalling the moment he took the photo, Sin said, "Most important, it got photographed. I didn't think about the danger, or whether it would become an iconic image, as the news was still going on." Sin further said, "I believe there will be more important images on June 4th to surface in the future which fully describe the event." Bobby Yip/Reuters
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A Chinese policeman uses a loud speaker to order visitors to line up to go through a security check in order to enter Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, June 1, 2014. Andy Wong/AP
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Crowds of jubilant students surge through a police cordon before pouring into Tiananmen Square during a pro-democracy demonstration in this June 4, 1989 file photo. June 4 marks the 25th anniversary of the suppression of pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Reuters
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Residents of Beijing surround an army convoy of 4,000 soldiers in a suburb of the city to prevent them from continuing to Tiananmen Square, where the pro-democracy students are, May 20, 1989. Ed Nachtrieb/Reuters
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Students rest in the litter of Tiananmen Square in Beijing, as their strike for government reform enters its third week, May 28, 1989. Jeff Widener/AP
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A captured tank driver is helped to safety by students as the crowd beats him in Beijing, June 4, 1989. Reuters
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A pro-China demonstrator in support of the Chinese government's crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, shouts slogans at visitors waiting to enter a museum dedicated to the protests, in Tsim Sha Tsui April 26, 2014. The planned museum, which has run into a legal challenge in Hong Kong that some say is motivated by pro-China interests, opened to the public ahead of the 25th anniversary of the bloodshed. Discussion of the Tiananmen Square crackdown is still taboo in China, where on June 3 and June 4, 1989, its leaders ordered troops to open fire on demonstrators and sent in tanks to crush a student-led campaign movement, killing hundreds. Tyrone Siu/Reuters
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A Chinese tourist poses next to a statue of the Goddess of Democracy which symbolizes the 1989 pro-democracy movement in Beijing at a downtown street in Hong Kong, June 3, 2014. Vincent Yu/AP
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(From l.) Eaton Elementary School fourth graders Caden Siegel as John Hancock, Jacob King as Robert Livingston, Ben Collins as Roger Sherman, Briana Addison as Richard Henry Lee, Miranda Zwack as Thomas Jefferson, Charlotte Balkcum as Benjamin Franklin, and Ben Romanowski as John Adams take part in a performance titled 'July 4, 1776: America's First Birthday' during Colonial Day at the school in Wilmington, NC. Mike Spencer/The Star-News/AP
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Members of a hardline Sikh group clash with guards of the Sikh’s holiest shrine, the Golden Temple, in Amritsar, India. Half a dozen people were wounded Friday as members of a Sikh group brandishing swords and wooden sticks clashed with guards at the shrine in India, an official said. The clash occurred during a ceremony marking the anniversary of the storming of the shrine by the Indian army in June 1984 in the northern city of Amritsar, said Kiran Jyoti Kaur, a Golden Temple management spokeswoman. Prabhjot Gill/AP
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An Ukrainian family carry their belongings using a bicycle, as they leave Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine after a mortar attack by Ukrainian government forces. Several buildings have been damaged by shelling in an eastern Ukraine city controlled by pro-Russian separatists, as the country’s president announced that negotiations are underway to bring the conflict to an end. Evgeniy Maloletka/AP
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A Chinese man walks past a display showing the types of energy usage on a map depicting China at an energy conservation and environment protection exhibition in Beijing. A Chinese environmental group launched a smartphone app that tracks and shames polluting factories, highlighting how the country is making environmental data more available and is welcoming public monitoring of companies that pollute. Ng Han Guan/AP
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Re Ukraine: Though many civilians mainly women, children and elderly men are fleeing NovoRossia[Donbass including Slavyansk] for Crimea and Russia, in answer to Russia waiting for more eastern citizens of Ukraine to step up and defend themselves first, the volunteer regiments have many,many more men of fighting age to have appeared and "taken a stand". Now please explain why the lazy fat poltroon SLOBS of the US wallowing in their "exceptional" ignorance are incapable of uniting to throw off the yoke of this morally rotten Anglo/Zionist Jew/Mischling Corporatocracy. EH
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Re Ukraine: Though many civilians mainly women, children and elderly men are fleeing NovoRossia[Donbass including Slavyansk] for Crimea and Russia, in answer to Russia waiting for more eastern citizens of Ukraine to step up and defend themselves first, the volunteer regiments have many,many more men of fighting age to have appeared and "taken a stand". Now please explain why the lazy fat poltroon SLOBS of the US wallowing in their "exceptional" ignorance are incapable of uniting to throw off the yoke of this morally rotten Anglo/Zionist Jew/Mischling Corporatocracy. EH
I started reading and contributing to The Automatic Earth and DD to find answers to that question and contribute my ideas on how Gold banishment was only one of the tools they used to enslave the SLOBS. My experience there, in a community of so called doomsters has led me to despair. I have been banished for casting Negative Waves on DD and TAE is on it's last legs on the verge of bankruptcy.
Can only say I hold out the ballot box and the internet as our last hope, but view them only as lottery tickets for success when mulling the situation over.
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Re Ukraine: Though many civilians mainly women, children and elderly men are fleeing NovoRossia[Donbass including Slavyansk] for Crimea and Russia, in answer to Russia waiting for more eastern citizens of Ukraine to step up and defend themselves first, the volunteer regiments have many,many more men of fighting age to have appeared and "taken a stand". Now please explain why the lazy fat poltroon SLOBS of the US wallowing in their "exceptional" ignorance are incapable of uniting to throw off the yoke of this morally rotten Anglo/Zionist Jew/Mischling Corporatocracy. EH
I started reading and contributing to The Automatic Earth and DD to find answers to that question and contribute my ideas on how Gold banishment was only one of the tools they used to enslave the SLOBS. My experience there, in a community of so called doomsters has led me to despair. I have been banished for casting Negative Waves on DD and TAE is on it's last legs on the verge of bankruptcy.
Can only say I hold out the ballot box and the internet as our last hope, but view them only as lottery tickets for success when mulling the situation over.
Well I am so sorry to hear that you are in despair but of course I often feel that way myself. You see, after viewing all the administrations from Reagan on through Clinton, the Bushes and now Obama, I do not believe that any honest person exists who can or will run for office. How does one vote for a Hillary or a Jeb Bush? I might vote for a Ron Paul though but I do not believe he will ever be actually running because he would not bow down and serve the crooks as Obama has certainly done. And especially since the US is never going to do anything significant at all about climate change and global warming and the drying up of all the fresh water, as well as death of all life in the oceans surrounding us, and the tremendous amount of nuclear radiation flowing out into the waters from Fukashima as well as the ongoing threat of nuclear disasters originating from worn plants on our own continent, I do not believe we have a chance in Hell of much of a life at all in the very near future. And also I do not see how acquiring gold is going to enable one to survive climate change and radiation either. Did Antal Fekete address any of these problems? Or did I miss it? What do you see as the best answers for these problems if you still believe in the honesty and viability of exceptional American democracy?
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Well I am so sorry to hear that you are in despair but of course I often feel that way myself. You see, after viewing all the administrations from Reagan on through Clinton, the Bushes and now Obama, I do not believe that any honest person exists who can or will run for office. How does one vote for a Hillary or a Jeb Bush? I might vote for a Ron Paul though but I do not believe he will ever be actually running because he would not bow down and serve the crooks as Obama has certainly done. And especially since the US is never going to do anything significant at all about climate change and global warming and the drying up of all the fresh water, as well as death of all life in the oceans surrounding us, and the tremendous amount of nuclear radiation flowing out into the waters from Fukashima as well as the ongoing threat of nuclear disasters originating from worn plants on our own continent, I do not believe we have a chance in Hell of much of a life at all in the very near future. And also I do not see how acquiring gold is going to enable one to survive climate change and radiation either. Did Antal Fekete address any of these problems? Or did I miss it? What do you see as the best answers for these problems if you still believe in the honesty and viability of exceptional American democracy?
Yes K, the topic of gold and my preaching it's merits as a possible hedge against the financial system and it's corruptness that have been forced upon us has nothing to do with the problems you mentioned. They are beyond my scope of understanding as to how to deal with them. The little I know about them and what I observe China alone doing in this area makes me a doomster.
I listened to a podcast last week on JHK's site"Yakking with Alice Friedman of Energy Skeptic.com." It led me to think we are doomed from the nuclear power situation alone. All the other problems insure our bleak future from what I can gather.
Sorry I cannot be more optimistic, I hate being so helpless and afraid. Gold and Finance are the only things I know a little about. As I have stated repeatedly in my postings it is my view we have been taken over by an Evil force of late that is much more powerful and destructive than our own tendencies in that regard. It is very apparent to me and I am horrified by it.
My gold contributions are only my small way of contributing to help with the financial mayhem I see directly ahead. Billions of people polluting and destroying, as well as having nuclear arms and the evil corruption that appears to me to have taken over our institutions and leaders is beyond anything I can address, except to say it horrifies me.
If it is any consolation I view Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, and Eric Snowden, as faint glimmers of hope that there are some good people out here who are willing to take action to combat the Evil force. The apathy towards them by the populace and their status as criminals in our democracy, however, speaks to the problems we face.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin lays flowers near memorials by the Kremlin walls in Moscow during a ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany in 1941. Maxim Zmeyev/Reuters
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Members of an Iraqi volunteer force put on their newly-issued boots in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, Iraq. Ahmed al-Husseini/AP
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Tens of thousands of residents gather to march in downtown streets during an annual pro-democracy protest in Hong Kong. Hong Kong residents began marching through the streets of the former British colony to push for greater democracy in a rally fueled by anger over Beijing's recent warning that it holds the ultimate authority over the southern Chinese financial center. The protest comes days after nearly 800,000 residents voted in a mock referendum aimed at bolstering support for full democracy. Kin Cheung/AP
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Protesters join hands as they look at fellow protesters being dragged away by the police on a street at Hong Kong's central financial district after staying at an overnight sit-in. They attended a rally promoting democracy from Communist Party rulers in Beijing. Bobby Yip/Reuters
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Palestinians look at the remains of a missile on a street in Deir El-Balah in the central Gaza Strip which witnesses said was fired by an Israeli aircraft. Ashraf Amrah/Reuters
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Hasidic Jews from the Breslov sect dance with Israeli soldiers during a visit to support troops near the border with the Gaza Strip Sunday. Militants in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip kept up rocket salvoes deep into the Jewish state during the worst bout of Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed in two years. Amir Cohen/Reuters
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Israelis take cover as siren sounds during rocket attack fired by Palestinians militants from Gaza in Tel Aviv, Israel. Gaza rocket fire struck a gas station and set it ablaze Friday in southern Israel, seriously wounding one person as rocket fire also came from Lebanon for the first time in the four-day offensive. Oded Balilty/AP
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Palestinians look the damage of a destroyed house where five members of the Ghannam family were killed in an Israeli missile strike early morning in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip. Israel launched the Gaza offensive to stop incessant rocket fire that erupted after three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped and killed in the West Bank and a Palestinian teenager was abducted and burned to death in an apparent reprisal attack. Khalil Hamra/AP
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Three Israeli seminary students (from l. to r.) Naftali Frankel, who also holds US citizenship, Gil-ad Sha'er, and Eyal Yifrach are seen in this combination picture of undated family handout photos released June 16, 2014. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and said he expected him to help in efforts to find the missing teenagers. Reuters
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe delivers his speech during the burial of Nathan Shamuyarira, a former Cabinet Minister at the Heroes Acre cemetery in Harare, June, 7, 2014. Mugabe openly attacked his Information Minister Jonthan Moyo, accusing him of sacking editors at state-owned newspapers who were loyal to the Zany-PF party. Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP
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A woman observes the remains of the Breeze View Hotel, where residents watching the World Cup soccer tournament, were attacked and killed by militants, in the town of Mpeketoni, on the coast of Kenya, June 16, 2014. Dozens of Somali extremists wielding automatic weapons attacked the small Kenyan coastal town for hours, assaulting the police station, setting two hotels on fire, and spraying bullets into the street killing dozens, officials said. AP
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The decorated officer behind Mugabe cant even conceal his laughter at that madmans ravings.
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The decorated officer behind Mugabe cant even conceal his laughter at that madmans ravings.
As for Mugabe and his henchman Walter, isn't it utterly amazing how one crazy bastard in his eighties can inflict so much misery on a country for so long? That picture of a real dictator and his goon simply amazed and horrified me at the same time. >:(
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'Italian artist Gilbert Proesch (r.) and British artist George Passmore, known as Gilbert & George, pose with their artwork 'Scapegoating' during the launch of their new exhibition 'Scapegoating' at the White Cube gallery in Bermondsey, London. Luke MacGregor/Reuters
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People who fled from the violence in Mosul walk inside the Khazer refugee camp on the outskirts of the Kurdish city of Arbil. The head of the United Nations (UN) refugee agency said that a political solution was crucial to end the suffering of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees who have been forced to flee their homes after the fall of their cities to Islamic militants last month. Reuters
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An armed pro-Russian separatist gestures to reporters at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, near the village of Hrabove (Grabovo), Donetsk region. The downing of the airliner with the loss of nearly 300 lives has sharply escalated the crisis in Ukraine, and may mark a pivotal moment in international efforts to resolve a situation in which separatists in the Russian-speaking east have been fighting government forces since protesters in Kiev forced out a pro-Moscow president and Russia annexed Crimea. Maxim Zmeyev/Reuters
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Workers fix damaged electric power facilities after Typhoon Rammasun hit Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, July 20. Typhoon Rammasun has killed at least fourteen people in China since making landfall after hitting parts of the Philippines and leaving 77 dead. Reuter
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A woman takes part in a demonstration showing solidarity with Palestinians in the context of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict during a rally, in Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday. Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone/AP
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great selection GO, like our own NatGeo. The palestinians piled over the car remind me of Steinbecks Joad family and their Model T truck. We had a storm that blew the roof of my storage shed last night even though it was in a sheltered spot, 1 person killed in the storm also so I cant complain.
Have u been reading TAE lately, Illargi seems to have stepped up his game a gear, great insights.
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great selection GO, like our own NatGeo. The palestinians piled over the car remind me of Steinbecks Joad family and their Model T truck. We had a storm that blew the roof of my storage shed last night even though it was in a sheltered spot, 1 person killed in the storm also so I cant complain.
Have u been reading TAE lately, Illargi seems to have stepped up his game a gear, great insights.
Thanks for the compliment Walter, A great photo is something that always appealed to me as well.
Yes, Illargi is really giving it all he has, the absence of Nicole has seemed to fire him up, he is a very smart man.
Sadly, and I am not demeaning him, so please don't take it wrong, but he mentioned a while back that TAE was on the brink of bankruptcy. Perhaps we are witnessing a desperate attempt to save the place, I just don't know.
Certainly hope he can turn it around, TAE is a great place with a lot of very interesting and intelligent folks and it's demise would be heartbreaking. Hard to imagine it not being around.
Glad you escaped danger, I have had tornadoes, yes tornadoes, biting at my ass here in Boston of all places. The weather has gone "Bonkers" as they say.
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Hi GO,
Today friday finally the weather has cleared after 4 or 5 days and i heard today two more dead (northern tasmania only has about 250K people). I stayed indoors almost the whole time and at times wondered if the house would blow apart, a tornado also happened about 40 miles away. Glad the tornado didnt visit you in your street of your city.
I tried to drop a subscribtion donation to TAE but was asked for more personal ID information, new australian laws apparently so decided no. I understand its possible they are concerned someone might have my card, but Im a lot more concerned that someone steals all that information out of the internet or computer than out of my posession.
Im not in a mood now to rejoin diner discussions much, maybe occasionally. My jimmies were rustled enough by that comment that something like 'you would not have much money if u did not love it' which seemed directed at me by mistaken identity. I would hasten to add to what i said already that In my ideal world people are valued for being good at things or even such things as being good looking and good luck to them if thats their thing. Its good to be blessed enough to not want for anything, but being better than most, or even with total dedication the very best at something beats money as a measure of success in my estimation. And its your own estimation of yourself u have to satisfy.
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Im not in a mood now to rejoin diner discussions much, maybe occasionally. My jimmies were rustled enough by that comment that something like 'you would not have much money if u did not love it' which seemed directed at me by mistaken identity. I would hasten to add to what i said already that In my ideal world people are valued for being good at things or even such things as being good looking and good luck to them if thats their thing. Its good to be blessed enough to not want for anything, but being better than most, or even with total dedication the very best at something beats money as a measure of success in my estimation. And its your own estimation of yourself u have to satisfy.
I understand Fully Unc. The Diner has pissed me off plenty of times as well, but there are folks there, yourself being one of them, that it is impossible to stay away from once you have met them and become friends. Take your time, but come back please, always looking for your postings and the pleasure of your company.
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As you can see the Word Censor has **** into my site and done his work. A sad situation indeed. I had used the word P.I.S.S.E.D
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Restricted from playing outside, displaced Palestinian children play indoors in a high-rise building where their families had rented flats for them to live, after leaving their homes due to the unrest, in Gaza City, Sunday. Lefteris Pitarakis/AP
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A woman repairs phones in Ilesa, southwest Nigeria, Saturday. Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters
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Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters participate in an intensive security deployment against Islamic State (IS) militants on the front line in Makhmur, Iraq, Saturday. Azad Lashkari/Reuters
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: Weapon handlers carry an air-to-air missile from a F/A-18F Super Hornet of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA-213) onboard the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), in the Gulf. Planes have been taking off from the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN77) to strike key positions taken over by the Islamic State fighters in Iraq. US President Barack Obama has authorized air strikes to confront the Islamist fighters in various cities of Iraq. Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters
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A demonstrator raises his hands in front of of a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Police fired tear gas after rioting broke out for a second night in Ferguson, Missouri, despite calls for calm from the mother of a Michael Brown, a black teenager who was shot to death by police over the weekend, in the mostly black suburb of St. Louis.. Mario Anzuoni/Reuters
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As you can see the Word Censor has **** into my site and done his work. A sad situation indeed. I had used the word P.I.S.S.E.D
GO, excellent images here. Missing your contributions on DD.
As to the word censor, I truly doubt that anyone is modifying your forum. You may have inherited settings from Create A Forum or from RE that keep the language PG. It has been a while since I posted anything on AG's forum, but I believe that to be the case as well there.
As the admin, you ought to be able to go under admin settings and modify the censor, if you so desire. You may have to geek around to find them; I know that I have found them under the hood of DD, but never did anything with them.
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As you can see the Word Censor has **** into my site and done his work. A sad situation indeed. I had used the word P.I.S.S.E.D
GO, excellent images here. Missing your contributions on DD.
As to the word censor, I truly doubt that anyone is modifying your forum. You may have inherited settings from Create A Forum or from RE that keep the language PG. It has been a while since I posted anything on AG's forum, but I believe that to be the case as well there.
As the admin, you ought to be able to go under admin settings and modify the censor, if you so desire. You may have to geek around to find them; I know that I have found them under the hood of DD, but never did anything with them.
Hi Surly, glad you dropped in, always a pleasure.
Yeah, the word censor stuff is small potatoes, shouldn't have even mentioned it.
Far as the Diner goes, I love the place, I'm the top poster next to RE and try to post stuff of merit and other side of the coin material to keep us from turning into a chorus of chanters singing the same tune. Every time I try and express something worthwhile I get attacked by the same two posters. He has a few bucks he sucks. He owns gaming stocks, he is going to hell, how can a Christian own a gaming stock. He buys gold and silver what a no good prick. He's rich he can't go to heaven. He has no **** common sense, all gold bugs are ass holes.
Look at his Icon, what kind of **** human being would pick an icon like that?
I enjoy a diversity of opinion and am no babe in the woods as to insults, but I have to put up with that **** constantly and my privileges of defending myself have been stripped from me and of course the pets of the chief admin can **** over me at will with never a peep being said by an admin, while I have to live under threats of humiliating censorship and my insulting status as a newbie on trial.
After a while it gets on your ass, so I say "What am I putting up with this **** for", and leave, for a while anyway. Shortly thereafter I find myself always peeking in, wondering about other Diners, friends especially, and start to post again eventually. Something about the place, I just know I belong there and will probably come back, but for now GO being treated as a troll and scuzzball is just too much for me to take.
Nice to see Ashvin posting again; you seem to have recovered from your ordeal well, and I hope my good friend Snowleopard is well. He is such a nice guy, the way he was run out of Dodge was very painful to me. Thinking that Nobody is way over due to drop in and say hello as is Buzzard and Bot Blogger. EndisNigh seems to have blown the coop for good as well as Ross. The Diner is constantly evolving, I still miss our early days.
Thank's again for stopping in Surly, glad you got your fastball back, must have been a dreadful experience.
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ndian children's rights activist Kailash Satyarthi gestures as he addresses the media at his office in New Delhi, India, Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Satyarthi of India jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct. 10, 20
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The children of abortion protesters hold signs across from the Planned Parenthood clinic in Portland, Maine. (Left to right) Isaiah Sneddon (10), Abraham Hebert (9) and Marston Sneddon (13). (Alexandra Daley-Clark for Yahoo News)
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The inside of a car filled with snow in a parking lot where authorities have left abandoned cars found on the freeway during massive snow storm in Cheektowaga, New York, Sunday. Mark Blinch/Reuters
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Participants sit in an anti-extremism conference in the city of Qom, 78 miles south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Sunday. Shiite and Sunni clerics from about 80 countries gathered to develop a strategy to combat extremists including the Islamic State group that has captured large parts of Iraq and Syria. Zoheir SeidanlooMehr News Agency/AP
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Kurdish refugee boys from the Syrian town of Kobani stand in front of their makeshift housing in an empty school building in the Turkish border town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province, Saturday. Osman Orsal/Reuters
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Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims gather as they commemorate Arbain in Kerbala. Hundreds of thousands of black-clad pilgrims from across Iraq streamed into the city a day before the culmination of Saturday's Arbain, which marks the end of 40 days of mourning for Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammed, who died in a 7th century battle at Kerbala. Reuters
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A couple sits under a street lamp in a park near Christmas lights in central Tokyo. Thomas Peter/Reuters
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Movers prepare to hang Leonardo da Vinci's 'Earlier Mona Lisa' painting ahead of its exhibition at The Arts House in Singapore. The world premiere exhibition runs from Dec. 16 to Feb. 11. The exhibition is the first public viewing of the painting with new findings and evidence from research conducted and published by The Mona Lisa Foundation to demonstrate its attribution to da Vinci. Edgar Su/Reuters
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Thousands of water tax protesters congregate close to government buildings in Dublin city center, Ireland. Peter Morrison/AP
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A man rows his boat in River Yamuna at dawn in New Delhi. Clogged with garbage, sewage, and industrial runoff, the Yamuna, which is one of India’s major rivers, is also one of the most polluted. Benat Armangue/AP
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Giant panda Juxiao hangs out with one of her triplets at Chimelong Safari Park in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China. This is the fourth set of giant panda triplets born with the help of artificial insemination procedures in China. The birth is seen as a miracle due to the low reproduction rate of giant pandas. Reuters
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The Ganges and Yamuna rivers are considered sacred in the Hindu religion, how did they let them get like that? It used to be that all packaging in India was from banana leaves and coconut husk and twine, no plastic at all. Thats what they get for wanting to be western.
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North Koreans gather at the Kim Il Sung Square, some bowing towards portraits of their late leader Kim Jong Il, as an act of respect, to mark the third anniversary of his death, in Pyongyang, North Korea. Jon Chol Jin/AP
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A dog looks out a car window from the driver's seat in Milan, Italy. Luca Bruno/AP :D :D
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Kashmiri villagers watch the funeral procession of a civilian, Bilal Ahmad Bhat, at Padgampora village south of Srinagar, India, Wednesday. Bhat was killed on Tuesday after Indian security forces allegedly opened fire on protesters who were protesting against the killings of two suspected militants in an encounter with Indian security forces, local media reported. Danish Ismail/Reuters
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Ships are moored near the Old Town as the water level of Elbe river drops due to hot temperatures in Dresden, Germany, Tuesday. Matthias Rietschel/Reuters
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A worker paints a frame for a modular container at a plant in the village of Supikovice, Czech Republic, Tuesday. The company which belongs to the modular division of the Paris-based Touax Group has been recently benefiting from orders from Germany that uses these modular like buildings to house thousands of migrants. Petr David Josek/AP
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How lucky we Americans are.
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A girl studies while sitting on top of a taxi outside her shanty home at a roadside in Mumbai, India, Tuesday. Shailesh Andrade/Reuters
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Youth filling out job applications at Opportunity Fair and Forum at McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill., on Thursday, as part of the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative. The Initiative creates pathways for youth with untapped talent and potential to build skills, gain credentials and employment, and reclaim the American Dream. Peter Wynn Thompson/100,000 Opportunities Initiative/AP
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An Iraqi boy working for a grocery store collects his vegetables after a truck bomb attack in Jameela market in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday. The massive truck bomb ripped through the popular Baghdad food market in the Iraqi capital's crowded neighborhood in the early Thursday in one of the deadliest single blasts in the capital in years. Karim Kadim/AP
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Hostesses pose for a photo beside the models of a high speed train during the China High Speed Railway on Fast Track exhibition in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday. China has sweetened its bid in a race with Japan to win the construction contract for a high-speed railway connecting Jakarta to the city of Bandung, Indonesia, officials said on Tuesday. Rivan Awal Lingga/Antara Foto/Reuters
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Meteors streak across the sky over a Roman theatre in the ruins of Acinipio, during the Perseid meteor shower near Ronda, southern Spain, in the early morning of August 13, 2015. The annual Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak on August 12 and 13 in Europe, according to NASA. Acinipo, known as "Ronda la Vieja" (Old Ronda), is an archaeological site located in a plateau at 999 meters above sea level, declared Heritage of Cultural Interest Site, which includes a Roman theatre and important Prehistoric remains. The facade of the theatre was illuminated by a torch. (REUTERS/Jon Nazca)
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hildren take a bath in floodwaters at a temporary shelter where victims of flooding gather in Kyaung Gone township of Ayeyarwaddy Region, Myanmar, August 13, 2015. Myanmar's government warned low-lying regions to expect even more flooding after heavy rainfall brought havoc to higher areas further north. Weeks of heavy monsoon rains have affected over one million people, about 100 people so far are reported dead and damage was caused to more than 687,200 acres of farmland. The water has receded in many areas, many roads and bridges were destroyed in the worst affected states and regions. (Lynn Bo Bo/EPA)
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An exhausted and frustated migrant holds his head after he missed to get a place on a train heading to the Serbian border at the train station in Gevgelija, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, August 13, 2015. From the beginning of the year to mid-June 2015, nearly 160,000 migrants landed in the southern European countries, mainly Greece and Italy, on their way to wealthier countries in Western and Northern Europe, according to estimates by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). (Georgi Licovski/EPA)