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Sticker on a Berlin front door. The "America First" principle has already existed in Germany. Writer Kurt Tucholsky drew a picture of Europe in the Great Depression that is characterized by extreme economic egoism. "Germans! Buy German bananas!" is derived from his poem Europe, that Tucholsky wrote one year before Nazis´ seizure of power in Germany. Despite global warming, German bananas still do not exist today.
Aufkleber an einer Berliner Haustür. Das Prinzip "America First" gab es auch schon in Deutschland. Der Schriftsteller Kurt Tucholsky zeichnete in der Weltwirtschaftskrise ein Bild Europas, das von einem extremen wirtschaftlichen Egoismus gekennzeichnet ist. "Deutsche! Kauft deutsche Bananen!" ist aus seinem Gedicht Europa abgeleitet, das Tucholsky ein Jahr vor der Nazi Machtergreifung in Deutschland schrieb. Deutsche Bananen gibt es trotz Klimaerwärmung bis heute nicht.
An old mill / foundry building at 225 North 6th Street, Connellsville. It has been owned by River Trail Development & Construction Company since 2015. Update: It was torn down in August 2022, opening up five acres of property for development.
With numerous countries now launching missions to the moon and other destinations in our solar system, NASA has reached out to me to research sites in the desert southwest to use as a fake Mars landing site. Since my original fake 1969 Moon Landing site was so convincing, I have been given the contract to produce another American first, the 2025 Mars Landing. The pictured site has great promise and with some grooming of the landscape and elimination of the sparse vegetation, a plausible Mars landscape will emerge. I am very excited to bring the American Space Program back into prominence and give a boost to the nation’s deflated international reputation.
This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera and Super-Takumar/6X7 1:2.4/105mm lens with a Zenza Bronica 67mm SY48•2C(Y2) filter using Bergger Pancro400 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
The patriotic scene features an early submarine, navy ships, biplanes and a sailor raising an American flag. The picture is number 833 and is credited to F.A.S. Other examples of the calendar that I’ve seen contain advertising in the blank space at the top, so I assume the calendar could be ordered from a printing company or directly through Life magazine. Little else is known.
The Dictatorship of the Beseiged
The We are Here challenge on August 9 2016 was: The Dictatorship
One of the most bizarre aspects of this most bizarre political season is why DJT has resurrected the slogan, America First.
From Wikipedia: When the war in Europe began in 1939 ... "the America First Committee launched a petition aimed at enforcing the 1939 Neutrality Act and forcing President Franklin D. Roosevelt to keep his pledge to keep America out of the war. They profoundly distrusted Roosevelt and argued that he was lying to the American people."
In a 1941 speech, Charles Lindbergh said, "It is not difficult to understand why Jewish people desire the overthrow of Nazi Germany. The persecution they suffered in Germany would be sufficient to make bitter enemies of any race. No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution the Jewish race suffered in Germany. But no person of honesty and vision can look on their pro-war policy here today without seeing the dangers involved in such a policy, both for us and for them.
Instead of agitating for war the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will be among the first to feel its consequences. Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows that it cannot survive war and devastation. A few farsighted Jewish people realize this and stand opposed to intervention. But the majority still do not. Their greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government."
The phrase, "America First" was first used in 1940 by the anti-war group, the America First Committee. This was one of the largest organizations to oppose America's entrance into World War II. It's membership included many well-known Americans including writer Sinclair Lewis, poet E. E. Cummings, animator Walt Disney, actor Lillian Gish, and architect Frank Lloyd Wright. But, one of its most outspoken was aviator Charles Linbergh. Six days after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 the AFC disbanded and many of its leaders supported the war effort.
In his inauguration speech on January 20, 2017, Donald Trump invoked a similar isolationist sentiment when he stated, "We assembled here today are issuing a new decree to be heard in every city, in every foreign capital, and in every hall of power. From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land. From this day forward, it's going to be only America first, America first."
One week after he became President, Trump signed an Executive Order banning Muslims from seven Mideast counties. "Extreme vetting," he said, was warranted to keep our country safe. The fact that we already have an arduous two year vetting process, in which no immigrant even chooses to come to the United States (they are chosen by the American government), seemed to get lost in political maelstrom that followed his order. Immigrants, students, and visitors, already with proper visas were stopped from entering the country. Even lawful permanent residents with Green Cards were turned away.
America is an immigrant nation where millions have contributed to its success. A plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty states, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" These lines come from the poem "The New Colossus," written by Emma Lazarus in 1883.
Donald Trump's "America First" policy is a short-sighted political move to placate those workers who have lost their jobs to technology and globalization shifts in the last few decades. But our isolation will create a vacuum that China and Russia, and even Iran, will be quick to fill. "America First" over simplifies and even obfuscates the challenges the United States faces at this time. It goes against the very reason our country was created. And, it will end up haunting future generations of Americans.
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Whether this kind of display makes you laugh or makes you angry, hopefully, it will motivate you to get out and vote.
I like the matching gesture of the man in foreground & woman in the back -
14th street New York - summer 2018 Photo BABAK
Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer.
Bicycle riders in parade on the Fourth of July at Vale, Oregon
1941 July.
1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm.
Notes:
Title and other information from caption card.
Digital file made from the original print, not the original negative.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
Subjects:
United States--Oregon--Vale.
Format: Nitrate negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.01538
Call Number: LC-USF33- 013082-M4
"Walk To The Past To Begin The Future"
This censored cover from Great Britain to Dover, Maine shows the "America First" label (aka cinderella stamp) refers to earlier political slogans of the day made popular during President W. Wilson's election campaign and promises to "keep America out of the war". This failed, of course, and on April 2, 1917 President Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany. This great image of the 48 star American flag spot lit at night added a patriotic flare to this mail.
Cover was addressed to: Mrs Susie Palmer / Dover / Maine / USA
Susie Palmer
Sex: F
Birth: 24 Apr 1868 in Dover-Foxcroft, Piscataquis Co, Maine
Death: 14 Aug 1943 in Dover-Foxcroft, Piscataquis Co, Maine
Found the following information on the net about Susie Palmer -
I guess you knew that William Newell a blacksmith was the second settler in Bowerbank, coming from Hallowell ME; William Hesketh was the third. William Heskeths family was a gardener or something on the Vaughan estate in Hallowell, Mr. Vaughan was a wealthy Brit who at one point traveling back and forth to France figured that perhaps it was in his best interests not to try to enter the UK again; he might have been tried for spying. His brother Charles was an agent to Mr Bowerbank (UK investor) and others in Piscataquis County and was selling Bowerbank land. He built a dam for grinding grain. My Aunt (They are all dead now) speaks of Susie Palmer Hutchinson, whose mother was a Newell, sister to her grandmother Sylvia. You have figured out that William Hesketh's dtr Sylvia Sheldon Hesketh Clucas died of TB with her two kids and is in the Bowerbank Cem. I have the Hutchinson genealogy and there is a female Hutchinson who married a Palmer. I will search that lead. I have all the info you need here but I need an address. I have pictures of the cemetery and the Hesketh house in Bowerbank which is long gone. Sylvia H. watched her kids die off, one by one, but in their 20's of so. This is a little unique; others had 15 healthy kids. J.D. Hesketh I am learning things reading the stuff I typed up 30 years ago.
- John Dow Hesketh susanhesketh@earthlink.net April 2005
Your 2nd generation Ellen 1840 (1842) m Charles Palmer 1840 with dtr Susan (1858/68 must check) who m. Melvin Hutchinson. The gory story that Susan was relating was that William and Sylvia Hesketh got so desperate losing kids to TB that they cut the heart out of a recently dead one and did some Olde Englishe hocus pocus to ward off the demons.
- John Dow Hesketh susanhesketh@earthlink.net April 2005
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (November 5, 2016) -- Supporters of Donald Trump hold a banner at a neo-Nazi rally at the Pennsylvania State Capitol.
Here are my photos from an incredible week in Cleveland. I have been very fortunate over my career to get to record some very historic moments in politics. I've photographed campaign events, events at the White House, Inaugurations, been to an Inaugural Ball, I was there when President Bush officially won reelection, State of the Unions, but the one thing I had never covered was a Presidential Convention. When I heard that the RNC was going to hold their convention in Cleveland (45 minutes from our home), I knew I had to apply. I owe some thank yous to some people for helping me finally make the decision to take the time off from work, but I am very proud to say I have finally checked a convention off my bucket list.
To be 100% honest, if it was the DNC that was holding their convention in Cleveland, I would have been there too, it wasn't a political decision. When you get the opportunity to photograph anything regarding the Presidency your political leanings don't apply anymore. You say yes.
I hope you enjoy my photos. It really was an amazing week. There were some hiccups as I learned how things worked (when Trump entered the arena on Wednesday I went with a ton of other press to photograph him, and Secret Service cleared us out of there and made us go up these steps to clear out the area so the isle wasn't blocked. I was surprised at that, and when I realized they took us off the floor and up to the main level by concessions, I walked back to the media area and headed back down to the floor only to find out Secret Service had closed the floor. They said the Fire Marshal said we were at the max limit, but personally (no facts to back this up), my belief is that Trump was on the floor so the Secret Service locked it down so nobody new was going on the floor. It's ok, I understand that. I wasn't happy I had to miss Pence's speech, but I understand how security works.
Every Delegate I met was incredibly friendly (one even gave me a cool pin from Texas - it's in my collage photo).
The City of Cleveland did an amazing job, the police were incredible, and there was not a single moment I felt unconfortable, even walking back to my car at 12:45am a 1/2 mile from the arena. They did an amazing job.
Here are my photos from an incredible week in Cleveland. I have been very fortunate over my career to get to record some very historic moments in politics. I've photographed campaign events, events at the White House, Inaugurations, been to an Inaugural Ball, I was there when President Bush officially won reelection, State of the Unions, but the one thing I had never covered was a Presidential Convention. When I heard that the RNC was going to hold their convention in Cleveland (45 minutes from our home), I knew I had to apply. I owe some thank yous to some people for helping me finally make the decision to take the time off from work, but I am very proud to say I have finally checked a convention off my bucket list.
To be 100% honest, if it was the DNC that was holding their convention in Cleveland, I would have been there too, it wasn't a political decision. When you get the opportunity to photograph anything regarding the Presidency your political leanings don't apply anymore. You say yes.
I hope you enjoy my photos. It really was an amazing week. There were some hiccups as I learned how things worked (when Trump entered the arena on Wednesday I went with a ton of other press to photograph him, and Secret Service cleared us out of there and made us go up these steps to clear out the area so the isle wasn't blocked. I was surprised at that, and when I realized they took us off the floor and up to the main level by concessions, I walked back to the media area and headed back down to the floor only to find out Secret Service had closed the floor. They said the Fire Marshal said we were at the max limit, but personally (no facts to back this up), my belief is that Trump was on the floor so the Secret Service locked it down so nobody new was going on the floor. It's ok, I understand that. I wasn't happy I had to miss Pence's speech, but I understand how security works.
Every Delegate I met was incredibly friendly (one even gave me a cool pin from Texas - it's in my collage photo).
The City of Cleveland did an amazing job, the police were incredible, and there was not a single moment I felt unconfortable, even walking back to my car at 12:45am a 1/2 mile from the arena. They did an amazing job.
Here are my photos from an incredible week in Cleveland. I have been very fortunate over my career to get to record some very historic moments in politics. I've photographed campaign events, events at the White House, Inaugurations, been to an Inaugural Ball, I was there when President Bush officially won reelection, State of the Unions, but the one thing I had never covered was a Presidential Convention. When I heard that the RNC was going to hold their convention in Cleveland (45 minutes from our home), I knew I had to apply. I owe some thank yous to some people for helping me finally make the decision to take the time off from work, but I am very proud to say I have finally checked a convention off my bucket list.
To be 100% honest, if it was the DNC that was holding their convention in Cleveland, I would have been there too, it wasn't a political decision. When you get the opportunity to photograph anything regarding the Presidency your political leanings don't apply anymore. You say yes.
I hope you enjoy my photos. It really was an amazing week. There were some hiccups as I learned how things worked (when Trump entered the arena on Wednesday I went with a ton of other press to photograph him, and Secret Service cleared us out of there and made us go up these steps to clear out the area so the isle wasn't blocked. I was surprised at that, and when I realized they took us off the floor and up to the main level by concessions, I walked back to the media area and headed back down to the floor only to find out Secret Service had closed the floor. They said the Fire Marshal said we were at the max limit, but personally (no facts to back this up), my belief is that Trump was on the floor so the Secret Service locked it down so nobody new was going on the floor. It's ok, I understand that. I wasn't happy I had to miss Pence's speech, but I understand how security works.
Every Delegate I met was incredibly friendly (one even gave me a cool pin from Texas - it's in my collage photo).
The City of Cleveland did an amazing job, the police were incredible, and there was not a single moment I felt unconfortable, even walking back to my car at 12:45am a 1/2 mile from the arena. They did an amazing job.
Here are my photos from an incredible week in Cleveland. I have been very fortunate over my career to get to record some very historic moments in politics. I've photographed campaign events, events at the White House, Inaugurations, been to an Inaugural Ball, I was there when President Bush officially won reelection, State of the Unions, but the one thing I had never covered was a Presidential Convention. When I heard that the RNC was going to hold their convention in Cleveland (45 minutes from our home), I knew I had to apply. I owe some thank yous to some people for helping me finally make the decision to take the time off from work, but I am very proud to say I have finally checked a convention off my bucket list.
To be 100% honest, if it was the DNC that was holding their convention in Cleveland, I would have been there too, it wasn't a political decision. When you get the opportunity to photograph anything regarding the Presidency your political leanings don't apply anymore. You say yes.
I hope you enjoy my photos. It really was an amazing week. There were some hiccups as I learned how things worked (when Trump entered the arena on Wednesday I went with a ton of other press to photograph him, and Secret Service cleared us out of there and made us go up these steps to clear out the area so the isle wasn't blocked. I was surprised at that, and when I realized they took us off the floor and up to the main level by concessions, I walked back to the media area and headed back down to the floor only to find out Secret Service had closed the floor. They said the Fire Marshal said we were at the max limit, but personally (no facts to back this up), my belief is that Trump was on the floor so the Secret Service locked it down so nobody new was going on the floor. It's ok, I understand that. I wasn't happy I had to miss Pence's speech, but I understand how security works.
Every Delegate I met was incredibly friendly (one even gave me a cool pin from Texas - it's in my collage photo).
The City of Cleveland did an amazing job, the police were incredible, and there was not a single moment I felt unconfortable, even walking back to my car at 12:45am a 1/2 mile from the arena. They did an amazing job.
Here are my photos from an incredible week in Cleveland. I have been very fortunate over my career to get to record some very historic moments in politics. I've photographed campaign events, events at the White House, Inaugurations, been to an Inaugural Ball, I was there when President Bush officially won reelection, State of the Unions, but the one thing I had never covered was a Presidential Convention. When I heard that the RNC was going to hold their convention in Cleveland (45 minutes from our home), I knew I had to apply. I owe some thank yous to some people for helping me finally make the decision to take the time off from work, but I am very proud to say I have finally checked a convention off my bucket list.
To be 100% honest, if it was the DNC that was holding their convention in Cleveland, I would have been there too, it wasn't a political decision. When you get the opportunity to photograph anything regarding the Presidency your political leanings don't apply anymore. You say yes.
I hope you enjoy my photos. It really was an amazing week. There were some hiccups as I learned how things worked (when Trump entered the arena on Wednesday I went with a ton of other press to photograph him, and Secret Service cleared us out of there and made us go up these steps to clear out the area so the isle wasn't blocked. I was surprised at that, and when I realized they took us off the floor and up to the main level by concessions, I walked back to the media area and headed back down to the floor only to find out Secret Service had closed the floor. They said the Fire Marshal said we were at the max limit, but personally (no facts to back this up), my belief is that Trump was on the floor so the Secret Service locked it down so nobody new was going on the floor. It's ok, I understand that. I wasn't happy I had to miss Pence's speech, but I understand how security works.
Every Delegate I met was incredibly friendly (one even gave me a cool pin from Texas - it's in my collage photo).
The City of Cleveland did an amazing job, the police were incredible, and there was not a single moment I felt unconfortable, even walking back to my car at 12:45am a 1/2 mile from the arena. They did an amazing job.
Philip Roth wrote this alternative history in 2004, where Charles Lindbergh and his America First supporters win the 1940 presidential election beating FDR by a landslide, and in so doing an anti-Semite fascist administration moves into the White House and stays out of the second world war. The book centres on the young Philp Roth growing up in New York.
This book was written about the 1940s and yet it could so easily be about the current situation in the USA.
A must read for anyone who follows US politics.
Here are my photos from an incredible week in Cleveland. I have been very fortunate over my career to get to record some very historic moments in politics. I've photographed campaign events, events at the White House, Inaugurations, been to an Inaugural Ball, I was there when President Bush officially won reelection, State of the Unions, but the one thing I had never covered was a Presidential Convention. When I heard that the RNC was going to hold their convention in Cleveland (45 minutes from our home), I knew I had to apply. I owe some thank yous to some people for helping me finally make the decision to take the time off from work, but I am very proud to say I have finally checked a convention off my bucket list.
To be 100% honest, if it was the DNC that was holding their convention in Cleveland, I would have been there too, it wasn't a political decision. When you get the opportunity to photograph anything regarding the Presidency your political leanings don't apply anymore. You say yes.
I hope you enjoy my photos. It really was an amazing week. There were some hiccups as I learned how things worked (when Trump entered the arena on Wednesday I went with a ton of other press to photograph him, and Secret Service cleared us out of there and made us go up these steps to clear out the area so the isle wasn't blocked. I was surprised at that, and when I realized they took us off the floor and up to the main level by concessions, I walked back to the media area and headed back down to the floor only to find out Secret Service had closed the floor. They said the Fire Marshal said we were at the max limit, but personally (no facts to back this up), my belief is that Trump was on the floor so the Secret Service locked it down so nobody new was going on the floor. It's ok, I understand that. I wasn't happy I had to miss Pence's speech, but I understand how security works.
Every Delegate I met was incredibly friendly (one even gave me a cool pin from Texas - it's in my collage photo).
The City of Cleveland did an amazing job, the police were incredible, and there was not a single moment I felt unconfortable, even walking back to my car at 12:45am a 1/2 mile from the arena. They did an amazing job.
Here are my photos from an incredible week in Cleveland. I have been very fortunate over my career to get to record some very historic moments in politics. I've photographed campaign events, events at the White House, Inaugurations, been to an Inaugural Ball, I was there when President Bush officially won reelection, State of the Unions, but the one thing I had never covered was a Presidential Convention. When I heard that the RNC was going to hold their convention in Cleveland (45 minutes from our home), I knew I had to apply. I owe some thank yous to some people for helping me finally make the decision to take the time off from work, but I am very proud to say I have finally checked a convention off my bucket list.
To be 100% honest, if it was the DNC that was holding their convention in Cleveland, I would have been there too, it wasn't a political decision. When you get the opportunity to photograph anything regarding the Presidency your political leanings don't apply anymore. You say yes.
I hope you enjoy my photos. It really was an amazing week. There were some hiccups as I learned how things worked (when Trump entered the arena on Wednesday I went with a ton of other press to photograph him, and Secret Service cleared us out of there and made us go up these steps to clear out the area so the isle wasn't blocked. I was surprised at that, and when I realized they took us off the floor and up to the main level by concessions, I walked back to the media area and headed back down to the floor only to find out Secret Service had closed the floor. They said the Fire Marshal said we were at the max limit, but personally (no facts to back this up), my belief is that Trump was on the floor so the Secret Service locked it down so nobody new was going on the floor. It's ok, I understand that. I wasn't happy I had to miss Pence's speech, but I understand how security works.
Every Delegate I met was incredibly friendly (one even gave me a cool pin from Texas - it's in my collage photo).
The City of Cleveland did an amazing job, the police were incredible, and there was not a single moment I felt unconfortable, even walking back to my car at 12:45am a 1/2 mile from the arena. They did an amazing job.