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This bush was dying. The neighbors cats have been using the the base of this bush for a litter ox for over a year - half the branches had died and the rest was dropping leaves - so i cut out all the dead branches and cut it back to healthy wood to see if it could be saved. My neighbors will not do anything about the cats and animal control will not come after cats.
Bush House in London. On my way back from work. Taken with a Mamiya C330S.
The American architect Harvey Corbett designed Bush House in the early 1920s. Finance came from an Anglo-American trading organisation headed by Irving T. Bush, hence the name. Later that decade Bush House was declared the 'most expensive building in the world', having cost around $10 million.
The developers found a prime site, and for the few that don't know it, Bush House occupies a dramatic position at the bottom of Kingsway, in central London, connected to the Strand on its southern façade. The portico is impressive, flanked by two male statues symbolising Anglo-American friendship, sculpted by the American artist Malvina Hoffman.
The official opening of Bush House was a major event, and took place on July 4th 1925 - American Independence Day. The traffic on Kingsway and the Aldwych was stopped for half an hour for the ceremony, and Malvina Hoffman broke down at what was, to her, an intensely emotional event.
Detail from a window by Douglas Strachan in St Mungo's Cathedral, Glasgow.
My sermon for today, reflecting on how we're called to become like a burning bush can be read here.
Covers much more than just the Bush agenda, going back to the first influence of the Neo-cons with the Carter doctrine drawn up by Paul Wolfowitz. Covers all the usual territory about PNAC (Plan for a New American Century) and how that group first expressed themselves by asking Clinton to go to war with Iraq. Much of this story I already knew; what was illuminating were the details and background on the four companies that are major war profiteers and supporters of Bush's global agenda, namely Halliburton, Chevron, Bechtel and Lockheed Martin. Except for Haliburton, the other three are based in Northern California making it a local story for me. I was particularly illuminated by the history of Bechtel and how George Schultz angled to overthrow US policies that would help his company gain business access to the whole world to build nuclear power plants, thus kicking off the global proliferation of nuclear arms.
My father worked for the defense industry (as an engineer) so reading about Lockheed Martin recalled the work he did and the eagerness with which he wanted us to go to the Persian Gulf war so he could field test the heads-up pilot's helmet for which he was able to patent some solution of his that was crucial to making it work. That I was a peace activist did amuse him so especially because he was so confident that war was inevitable.
The author lays out the history of the oil industry both in Northern California and Iraq. Know the history of oil and everything falls into place including who has power in American politics and why we support repressive regimes in the Middle East. She also gives a nice run down of the destructive policies of the World Bank and the "structural adjustment policies" of the IMF that have been the undoing of national economies world wide.
Most fascinating was the story of how the Bush agenda proceeded to erase all of Iraq's existing laws that they didn't like in order to dismantle the socialist infrastructure and force the country to favor the services of multi-national corporations. Changing a countries laws is illegal per the Geneva convention and why everything is such a mess, but no pundit is really going to discuss it in a big picture way because it means discussing how the socialistic government ran things much better for the populace while capitalism is all about looting multi-nationals. We do know bits and pieces like how the Bush agenda fired key workers who were running the country, but I don't remember anyone saying they were replaced with Haliburton and Bechtel scabs from Pakistan. They also fired the Iraqi soldiers and apparently let them go home fully armed. So here we have key people out of work supported by an armed contingent while their foreign replacements are making an expensive mess of the reconstruction, doing things the American way when all the existing fittings and hardware were from France or the Soviet Union. Who would support this nightmare?
I heard a speaker on Iraq talk about how the Iraqis have a saying about the American reconstruction. "To heal the wound you must first pull out the knife."
And despite this story being called the Bush Agenda, it is not a new one. Under Clinton, the economy of Yugoslavia was similarly invaded for the purpose of replacing nationally controlled infrastructure with private enterprise. But she doesn't mention that. I read it in To Kill A Nation. What is new is the extent to which the Bush administration has taken this strategy especially by forcing the signing of "free trade" policies that would make the WTO cream its pants, not only with Iraq but with other middle eastern countries thus forming MEFTA.
It becomes clear through the details, Antonia Juhasz gives, that this is not a war, but a military takeover by American corporations. Particularly telling were the provisions put into place to rewrite Iraqi textbooks. Gives new meaning to the phrase "history is written by the victors". Reading this book convinced me that we should not even say the words "war in Iraq" because that is essentially a euphemism implying that we are defending ourselves from aggressive violent outsiders while protecting innocents. From now on I'm going to call it the American occupation of Iraq, make that the illegal American occupation of Iraq.
This is one of the few non-fiction books I've read whose author is a woman. I'm glad to see that a woman will tackle economics as a world organizing principle. I was beginning to fear that, while women excelled in discussing psychology and social justice, they were resistant when it comes to the importance of economic health. The last woman I read who tackled this territory was Frances Moore Lappe of "Food For A Small Planet" fame. Her book Food First was my first glimpse into the continuation of colonialism through corporate globalization.
Serie: Fuck Off Bush!
Bush is coming to town.
Desempolvando fotos por la venida de Bush en Marzo.
el 9 de marzo todos a la calle!
Mrs. Laura Bush and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi greet each other for the first time in person on Wednesday, September 19, 2012 in Washington, DC. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate is making her first visit to the U.S. in twenty years. Read Mrs. Bush's WSJ op-ed on Suu Kyi's long journey to freedom here: online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443995604578002860...
Photo by Shealah Craighead/Bush Center
New Zealand Native sea side vegetation. This type of weather beaten bush is quite common in South Westland.
All the front spring bushes are in an appalling state, the ones which are not swollen are pushes out the side of the springs and nowhere near concentric. The Front axle is turning into a bit of a marathon.
This morning I went for a half hour drive to see first hand the aftermath of the devestating fires we've had in our state this past week. The Blue Mountains area and Central Coast regions have been hit the hardest. As I walked through the charred landscape I was moved and heartened to see water dishes and feed randomly placed by volunteers. People have placed these containers in the hope that some surviving wildlife will benefit from the water etc.
“Pied Bush Chat”, a small passerine bird found ranging from West Asia and Central Asia to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
Location: Okhla Bird Sanctuary - Delhi, India
Here's the first of five paintings I've completed for the upcoming "Zombies in Love" show at Gallery Nucleus.
Bush Boakes is a fairly local explore for me, id been about 3 years ago but dicided to head back for another look and found quite a few bits id missed first time around..
Want a bit of history?
Stafford Allen set up a farm and factory on the outskirts of Long Melford in 1899 to make natural pharmaceuticals, condiments and perfumes by milling herbs and spices, many of them grown on the spot. These included belladona, digitalis, liquorice and peppermint. The factory also milled imported ginger and pepper, a variety of gums and other spices, and made food flavouring essences (butter, almond, honey-cream and madeira) and naturally-based insecticides such as pyrethrum and derris.
The business flourished, and the association with the Allen family has continued for a hundred years. It is now "Bush Boake Allen" and until 2002 made the most wonderful smells in the village street when the wind was in the right direction! Now, taken over by International Flavours and Fragrances Ltd. the plant has been closed down.