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القاتل فى لندن - مظاهرة ضد زيارة سيسي
The murderous dictator not welcome. Stop the repression in Egypt.
Protesters listen to Samaya Halawa explain about the detention of her brother Ibrahim when he was just 17 exercising his right to protest peacefully against the military coup in August 2013. He is still being held in prison in appalling conditions.
They were participating in a demonstration against the visit of Egyptian dictator Sisi to London on 4th and 5th November 2015 at the invitation of the British prime minister David Cameron.
In his enthusiasm to secure lucrative deals for British multinationals and arms exporters, Cameron is prepared to overlook the human rights abuses of what has become one of the most authoritarian governments in the Middle East.
Sisi's regime has been responsible for the death of hundreds of protesters on the streets, hundreds of disappearances and death sentences, a clampdown on the press and media, trade unions and universities and allowing key Mubarak figures to return to politics and big business.
After disbanding parliament, Sisi's regime decreed that the government could delegate business and construction projects to the military without any tender process and subsequently the Egyptian army has been awarded contracts worth billions of dollars.
Meanwhile anyone who speaks out, whether Islamist or secular, is at risk of arrest or being "disappeared" and currently it is estimated that the country has approximately 40,000 political prisoners.
This is what Human RIghts Watch conclude in their latest country report -
"Egypt’s human rights crisis, the most serious in the country’s modern history, continued unabated throughout 2014. The government consolidated control through constriction of basic freedoms and a stifling campaign of arrests targeting political opponents. Former Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who took office in June, has overseen a reversal of the human rights gains that followed the 2011 uprising. Security forces and an increasingly politicized judiciary—apparently unnerved by rising armed group attacks—invoked national security to muzzle nearly all dissent."
Find out more
About Ibrahim Halawa
www.amnesty.ie/content/egypt-court-try-494-people-over-pr...;
About human rights in Egypt
www.amnesty.org/en/countries/middle-east-and-north-africa...
www.hrw.org/world-report/2015/country-chapters/egypt
freedomhouse.org/blog/stopping-egypt-s-downward-spiral-re...
( Freedom House uses one of my photos in its report. )
How to help/join a campaign -
www.facebook.com/FreeIbrahimHalawa/
egyptsolidarityinitiative.org/
To email me for any reason
alisdare@gmail.com
If you're interested in seeing the information signboards for these vehicles please scroll down and go to the WA Motor Museum album where they all appear.
Issued by The Danbury Mint in 2007. It is 1:24 scale.
A Limited Edition of 5000, mine is # 3962.
The model is finished in Bermuda Blue.
Impossible, just impossible to take a picture when you have to take care of your kids. The whole time Emilia was wondering around the studio telling me what to do, after a lot of arguing I end up doing what she wanted, a Fashion shooting with her sunglasses and pacifier...if you can't beat them join them.
My friend, the good doctor, has the (mis)fortune of looking a little too much like a certain North Korean dictator. Particularly with his new haircut.
On the Serbian bank of the Danube by the Iron Gate 1 dam is this memorial to former Yugoslavian dictator Josip Broz Tito.
Below is two versions of Tito and his impact on the Balkans. The first gleaned from various sources and the second by a Yugoslav resident Martin Vucic.
Josip Broz Tito was born May 7, 1892 in Croatia & died May 4, 1980 in Belgrade. Tito was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman.
Tito was the chief architect of the “second Yugoslavia,” a socialist federation that lasted from World War II until 1991. He was the first Communist leader in power to defy Soviet hegemony, a backer of independent roads to socialism (sometimes referred to as “national communism”), and a promoter of the policy of nonalignment between the two hostile blocs in the Cold War.
The irony of Tito’s life is he created the conditions for the eventual destruction of his lifelong effort. Instead of allowing the process of democratization to establish its own limits, he constantly upset the work of reformers while failing to satisfy their adversaries.
He created a federal state, yet he constantly fretted over the pitfalls of decentralization. He knew that the Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, and others could not be integrated within some new supranation, nor would they willingly accept the hegemony of any of their number; yet his supranational Yugoslavism frequently smacked of unitarism.
He promoted self-management but never gave up on the party’s monopoly of power. He permitted broad freedoms in science, art, and culture that were unheard of in the Soviet bloc, but he kept excoriatingthe West.
He preached peaceful coexistence but built an army that, in 1991, delivered the coup de grâce to the dying Yugoslav state. At his death, the state treasury was empty and political opportunists unchecked. He died too late for constructive change, too early to prevent chaos.
From 1945 to 1953 Tito acted as prime minister and minister of defense in the government, whose most dramatic political action was the capture, trial, and execution of General Mihajlovic in 1946. Between 1945 and 1948 Tito led his country through an extreme form of dictatorship (rule by one all-powerful person) in order to mold Yugoslavia into a state modeled after the Soviet Union. In January 1953, he was named first president of Yugoslavia and president of the Federal Executive Council. In 1963 he was named president for life.
By 1953 Tito had changed Yugoslavia's relationship with the Soviet Union. He refused to approve Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's plans for integrating Yugoslavia into the East European Communist bloc and started on his own policies, relaxing of central control over many areas of national life, and putting it back into the control of the citizens. Although relations between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia improved when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) visited Belgrade after Stalin's death in 1955, they never returned to what they were before 1948.
Tito attempted to build a bloc of "nonaligned" countries after Stalin's death. Under his leadership, Yugoslavia maintained friendly ties with the Arab states and criticized Israeli aggression in the Arab-Israeli War of 1967. He protested the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968, and maintained friendly relations with Romania after Nicolae Ceausescu (1918–1989) became its leader in 1965. Under Tito's leadership Yugoslavia was a very active member of the United Nations.
Tito was married twice and had two sons. His first wife was Russian. After World War II he married Jovanka, a Serbian woman from Croatia many years younger than him. His wife often accompanied him on his travels. President for life, Tito ruled until his death in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, on May 4, 1980.
From various sources.
And a second opinion of Titos’ reign by Martin Vucic:
I feel compelled to address some of the the misinformation and misconceptions concerning Tito and Yugoslavia, propagated by Tito’s apologists and Yugoslav communists nostalgic for the now defunct Yugoslav state.
Unfortunately many people uncritically accept the airbrushed version of Tito and Yugoslavia without examining historical fact and reality.
Contrary to popular belief Tito was a ruthless and bloodthirsty communist dictator and Yugoslavia was a poor and backward totalitarian state ruled by Tito and his corrupt communist party cronies.
Yugoslavia was never a cohesive unitary state being composed of multiple nations with competing interests and historic grievances. Albanians, Bosnian Muslims, Croats, Macedonians, Serbs, Slovenes combined to form a single state under the aegis of Serbia and her allies, Britain and France soon after world war one ended.
This was the first Yugoslavia which collapsed at the being of world war two. Tito’s Yugoslavia was not the benign communist utopia often presented to gullible western media.
Political opposition to Tito and his Yugoslav communist party was not tolerated and immediately suppressed. Tito and the Yugoslav communist party ruled using state terror, imprisonment and murder much like his contemporary Stalin.
At the close of the second world war Tito and his communist partisans executed, imprisoned and tortured hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians, these were primarily Croatians, who had fought against Tito’s forces or were opposed to communism.
Finding themselves on the losing side of the war, these unfortunate people surrendered to the British Army in Austria seeking protection from Tito’s communist partisan forces. The British callously handed them over to Tito’s partisans who immediately began mass executions, tortures and forced marches (known as the Bleiburg Massacres).
The exact number of victims is not known, sadly mass graves from the period litter Slovenia and Croatia and are still being discovered to this day. It is a terrible irony that Tito, a Croat himself, was responsible for more deaths of his own compatriots than the opposing Axis forces were.
Moving on from massacres, Tito’s Yugoslavia was the archetypal totalitarian communist state complete with its own gulags for political prisoners such as “Goli Otok”, a barren rocky island in the Adriatic, and a Tito personality cult not dissimilar to that of Mao or Stalin.
The Tito personality cult is still alive today albeit with diminished intensity, annual gatherings of Yugoslav Communist nostalgics and cultists to honour Tito are still held at his birthplace in Croatia.
Tito’s Yugoslav state had all the trappings of Stalin’s Soviet Union, the Yugoslav secret police (known as the UDBA) scoured the globe spying on, hunting down and murdering hundreds of political opponents, emigres and intellectuals in a ruthless and violent campaign which lasted right up until 1989 (e.g. murders of Stjepan Durekovic in Germany and the Sevo Family in Italy, Yugolsav embassy shooting in Sydney Australia).
Besides political murders, Tito (the president for life) also enjoyed the good life. He had a string of palaces and retreats built for himself across Yugoslavia and lived a life of luxury hosting international celebrities and foreign dignitaries while his people lived in poverty.
Poor economic prospects and the lack of political freedoms forced many Croats and others to migrate or seek work in Germany and other Western countries.
Economically, Tito’s Yugoslavia was essentially insolvent with entrenched hyperinflation. Massive levels of official corruption and incompetent management by the communist party served to ensure continued economic stagnation.
Tito was however a canny operator, he was able to exploit the cold war to his advantage by playing the West and East off against each other. In order to keep Yugoslavia afloat economically and maintain his power base borrowed large sums from both the East and West while championing the “non aligned” movement.
Tito died in 1980, and the cold war ended in 1989. Yugoslavia being an artificial state based on repression, corruption and injustice collapsed like a house of cards. The various nations which comprised Yugoslavia; Albanians, Bosnian Muslims, Croats, Macedonians, Serbs, Slovenes having competing interests and grievances, guaranteed its dissolution.
Scenes from the White House and Downtown Washington DC during the 2020 Presidential election. As of 11-4, President Trump is attempting to delegitimize and steal the election with his team of lawyers.
The Commander replaced the 1927-1937 Dictator Series, after an absence of two years of the Commander.
For model year 1939 the Studebaker Commander was positioned above the 1939-1958 Champion Series. It was Studebakers main series of all time.
1938 was the first year that industrial designer Raymond Loewy (1893-1986) was fully active for Studebaker. From that year on his studio designed all models till 1942.
This picture was originally taken at the 29th 1938 Salon d'Automobile de Brussels, Palais du Centenaire, January 8-19, 1938.
This elegant coupé had a green body.
Note the headlight units that gradually merge into the front fenders.
3705 cc L6 petrol engine.
C. 1650 kg.
Production Studebaker Commander Series: 1927-1942/1947-1966.
Production Commander this version: Autumn 1937-Autumn 1938.
Source: Englebert Magazine, 18ème année, Jan. 1938, Liège, Belgique.
Original photographer, exact place and date unknown.
Collection Sander Toonen.
Amsterdam, Sept. 17, 2019.
© 2019 Sander Toonen, Amsterdam/Halfweg | All Rights Reserved
Property of The Hudson Union Society.
Taken 1/26/12, during the event with former President of Chile, Ricardo Lagos. He is currently promoting his new book, "The Southern Tiger: Chile's Fight for a Democratic and Prosperous Future." In certain ways, Lagos was the head of the movement to remove Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet from power, and led the successful effort to have him defeated in an 1989 election.
Photo taken by Justin Hoch - www.jhoch.com.
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Blind Faith tells the story of an honest dictator, who is so blatant in what he does that he doesn’t hide the fact that he is one. Of course, dictators usually don’t work this way, they would probably never admit any wrongdoing or even apologize to anyone or be honest to begin with. I wrote this before Russia happened. I exaggerated points. Now almost two years later I feel like the song fits perfectly into what this particular administration is about. I really do feel like I am in the Twilight Zone, but at least I have this song that shows me clarity when people try to further divide and blind you.
The artwork behind the album is also the actual song artwork. Blind Faith. I'm not saying anything. I'm looking away. I'm following blindly, whilst everything is already up in flames. The delusion some people have... I feel like the artwork isn't exaggerated enough. It is literally what I see when I see someone defending Trump, his racism, and his complete incompetence. To further strengthen my point, please do check out the acoustic version of the song on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC8sZdZV7iQ
I would love to read your comments on the subject and on the song. Love to have the dialogue.
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Blind Faith - Lyrics
Don’t need a friend 'cause I got my gun
Don’t check my background
I need my bomb and baby you know
I’m ready for a one-man show
And baby you know
We don’t care if we’re wrong
We just want to be loud
We don’t care if we’re dumb
We just want to be proud
I got blind faith and I’m walking on water
I don’t need love I got hate and that shit don’t matter
We’ve got out missile and we named her Ms. Information
Don’t need rhyme or reason
Got a mission and my last name’s treason
Don’t need rhyme or reason
Don’t have a friend
I got my gun
Don’t check my taxes I need my bomb
And baby you know
I'm ready for a one-man show
Baby you know
I don't care if I'm rotten
Everyone will bow down
And my reign will never be forgotten
I just don't care
I don't give a fuck
I just don't care
I don't give a fuck
I got blind faith and I’m walking on water
I don’t need love I got hate and that shit don’t matter
That shit don't matter
We’ve got out missile and we named her Ms. Information
Don’t need rhyme or reason
Got a mission and my last name’s treason
Don’t need rhyme or reason
The Obelisco Macho (1936) in Santo Domingo was erected by order of the Dominican Republic's former dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo (1891-1961).
Tearing Down The Signs of The Dictator by The Cheering Crowds.
The people were going crazy,
as the dictator finally met his end,
this evil bastard of the so called people,
represented nothing but oppression,
was finally put in his place,
the place that is now in the under world.
People got a great joy,
tearing down all the signs of him,
around the cities,
telling how great this bastard was,
all he did was bring pain,
and suffering to anyone not in his inner circle of cronies,
speaking of cronies,
it was finally one of his so called friends,
that finally put a end to his reign,
by putting a bullet into his delusional head.
Now the people really do have a chance at freedom,
providing they don't fall for the same lies as before.
Steve.D.Hammond.
Photographed May 24, 2016 at Hidden Lake Gardens near Tipton in Michigan's Irish Hills. These are the botanical gardens of Michigan State University and the location chosen by the owner for a photo session with his Studebaker, one of only four 1927 right hand drive Studebakers known to still exist. The model was marketed for postal delivery use.
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Perosa Canavese (To), Piemonte, Italia
"Disciplina, concordia e lavoro per la ricostruzione della patria. Mussolini"
"Discipline, harmony and work for the reconstruction of the country. Mussolini"
I never had a particular simpaty for dictators and the fascist regime, but i found fascinating historical remains and the wall propaganda, and the way some slogans still stand after 70-80 years.
The greatest propaganda tool for the fascist regime was to propose bombastic slogans and easy to remember.
Since there was no television, it used written walls, transforming the walls of homes across Italy in a evidence of glorification of fascist rhetoric.
A reason for their widespread use was also due to the cash contribution, proportionate to the size of the letters and the length of the sentence, that some local Podestà gave to those who allowed their homes for the inscription of a Mussolini's motto.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_of_Fascist_Italy
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Non ho mai avuto una particolare simpatia per i dittatori in genere e il regime fascista in particolare, ma trovo affascinanti le testimonianze storiche e i segni della propaganda, e il fatto che alcuni slogan resistano ancora sui muri dopo 70-80 anni.
Il maggiore strumento propagandistico del regime fascista fu quello di proporre slogan ad effetto e facilmente memorizzabili.
Non esistendo la televisione, si ricorse alle scritte murarie trasformando i muri delle case di tutta Italia in testimonianze grafiche di esaltazione della retorica fascista.
La ragione della loro ampia diffusione era dovuta anche al contributo in denaro, quantificabile a seconda della grandezza delle lettere ed alla lunghezza della frase, che alcuni Podestà locali concedevano a chi accettava sulla propria casa l’iscrizione di un motto mussoliniano.
Furono il segretario del partito fascista, Achille Starace e l’ideologo del regime Giuseppe Bottai ad ordinare, nei primi anni trenta del novecento di “far indossare anche ai muri la camicia nera”.
The photo presents a man and a woman. Man gently looks the left side of the frame while she looks the other side and gently holds his head while keeping her eyes closed. The patch on his jacket reads "Father Dictator" (pl. Ojciec Dyktator)
Model: www.instagram.com/dulska_on_pole/ and Mateusz
Created in Dekadencja Studio
British postcard by Art Photo, no. 133.
American actress Paulette Goddard (1905-1990) started her career as a fashion model and as a Ziegfeld Girl in several Broadway shows. In the 1940s, she became a major star of Paramount Pictures. She was Charlie Chaplin's leading lady in Modern Times (1936), and The Great Dictator. Goddard was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for So Proudly We Hail! (1943). Her husbands included Chaplin, Burgess Meredith, and Erich Maria Remarque.
Paulette Goddard was born Pauline Marion Levy in Whitestone Landing, Long Island, New York. Sources variously cite her year of birth as 1911 and 1914, and the place as Whitestone Landing, New York, USA. However, municipal employees in Ronco, Switzerland, where she died, gave her birth year of record as 1905. Goddard was the daughter of Joseph Russell Levy, the son of a prosperous Jewish cigar manufacturer from Salt Lake City, and Alta Mae Goddard, who was of Episcopalian English heritage. They married in 1908 and separated while their daughter was very young, although the divorce did not become final until 1926. According to Goddard, her father left them, but according to J. R. Levy, Alta absconded with the child. Goddard was raised by her mother, and did not meet her father again until the late 1930s, after she had become famous. To avoid a custody battle, she and her mother moved often during her childhood, even relocating to Canada at one point. Goddard began modeling at an early age to support her mother and herself, working for Saks Fifth Avenue, Hattie Carnegie, and others. An important figure in her childhood was her great uncle, Charles Goddard, the owner of the American Druggists Syndicate. He played a central role in Goddard's career, introducing her to Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld. She made her stage debut as a dancer in Ziegfeld's summer revue, 'No Foolin' (1926), which was also the first time that she used the stage name Paulette Goddard. Ziegfeld hired her for another musical, 'Rio Rita', which opened in February 1927, but she left the show after only three weeks to appear in the play 'The Unconquerable Male', produced by Archie Selwyn. It was, however, a flop and closed after only three days following its premiere in Atlantic City. Soon after the play closed, Goddard was introduced to the much older lumber tycoon Edgar James, president of the Southern Lumber Company, by Charles Goddard. She married him in June 1927 in Rye, New York, but the marriage was short. Goddard was granted a divorce in Reno, Nevada, in 1929, receiving a divorce settlement of $375,000. Tony Fontana at IMDb: "A stunning natural beauty, Paulette could mesmerize any man she met, a fact she was well aware of. "
Paulette Goddard first visited Hollywood in 1929, when she appeared as an uncredited extra in two films, the Laurel and Hardy short film Berth Marks (Lewis R. Foster, 1929), and George Fitzmaurice's drama The Locked Door (1929). Following her divorce, she briefly visited Europe before returning to Hollywood in late 1930 with her mother. Her second attempt at acting was no more successful than the first, as she landed work only as an extra. In 1930, she signed her first film contract with producer Samuel Goldwyn to appear as a Goldwyn Girl in Whoopee! (Thornton Freeland, 1930) with Eddie Cantor. She also appeared in City Streets (Rouben Mamoulian, 1931) with Gary Cooper, Ladies of the Big House (Marion Gering, 1931) starring Sylvia Sidney, and The Girl Habit (Edward F. Cline, 1931) for Paramount, and The Mouthpiece (James Flood, Elliott Nugent, 1932) for Warners. Goldwyn and she did not get along, and she began working for Hal Roach Studios, appearing in a string of uncredited supporting roles for the next four years, including Young Ironsides (James Parrott, 1932) with Charley Chase, and Pack Up Your Troubles (1932) with Laurel and Hardy. One of her bigger roles in that period was as a blond 'Goldwyn Girl' in the Eddie Cantor film The Kid from Spain (Leo McCarey, 1932). Goldwyn also used Goddard in The Bowery (Raoul Walsh, 1933) with Wallace Beery, Roman Scandals (Frank Tuttle, 1933), and Kid Millions (Roy Del Ruth, 1934) with Eddie Cantor. The year she signed with Goldwyn, Goddard began dating Charlie Chaplin, a relationship that received substantial attention from the press. They were reportedly married in secret in Canton, China, in June 1936. It marked a turning point in Goddard's career when Chaplin cast her as his leading lady in his box office hit, Modern Times (1936). Her role as 'The Gamin', an orphan girl who runs away from the authorities and becomes The Tramp's companion, was her first credited film appearance and garnered her mainly positive reviews, Frank S. Nugent of The New York Times describing her as "the fitting recipient of the great Charlot's championship". Following the success of Modern Times, Chaplin planned other projects with Goddard in mind as a co-star, but he worked slowly, and Goddard worried that the public might forget about her if she did not continue to make regular film appearances. She signed a contract with David O. Selznick and appeared with Janet Gaynor in the comedy The Young in Heart (Richard Wallace, 1938) before Selznick lent her to MGM to appear in two films. The first of these, Dramatic School (Robert B. Sinclair, 1938), co-starred Luise Rainer, but the film received mediocre reviews and failed to attract an audience. Her next film, The Women (George Cukor, 1939), was a success. With an all-female cast headed by Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, and Rosalind Russell, the film's supporting role of Miriam Aarons was played by Goddard. Pauline Kael later wrote of Goddard, "she is a stand-out. fun."
David O' Selznick was pleased with Paulette Goddard's performances, particularly her work in The Young in Heart, and considered her for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939). Initial screen tests convinced Selznick and director George Cukor that Goddard would require coaching to be effective in the role, but that she showed promise, and she was the first actress given a Technicolor screen test. After he was introduced to Vivien Leigh, he wrote to his wife that Leigh was a "dark horse" and that his choice had "narrowed down to Paulette, Jean Arthur, Joan Bennett, and Vivien Leigh". After a series of tests with Leigh that pleased both Selznick and Cukor, Selznick cancelled the further tests that had been scheduled for Goddard, and the part was given to Leigh. Goddard's next film, The Cat and the Canary (Elliott Nugent, 1939) with Bob Hope, was a turning point in the careers of both actors. The success of the film established her as a genuine star. Her performance won her a ten-year contract with Paramount Studios, which was one of the premier studios of the day. They promptly were re-teamed in The Ghost Breakers (George Marshall, 1940), again a huge hit. Goddard starred with Chaplin again in his film The Great Dictator (1940). In 1942, Goddard was granted a Mexican divorce from Chaplin. The couple split amicably, with Chaplin agreeing to a generous settlement. At Paramount, Goddard was used by Cecil B. De Mille in the action epic North West Mounted Police (1940), playing the second female lead. She was Fred Astaire's leading lady in the acclaimed musical Second Chorus/Swing it (H.C. Potter, 1940), where she met actor Burgess Meredith, her third husband. Goddard made Pot o' Gold (George Marshall, 1941), a comedy with James Stewart, then supported Charles Boyer and Olivia de Havilland in Hold Back the Dawn (Mitchell Leisen, 1941), from a script by Wilder and Brackett, directed by Mitchell Leisen. Goddard was teamed with Hope for a third time in Nothing But the Truth (Elliott Nugent, 1942), then made The Lady Has Plans (Sidney Lanfield, 1942), a comedy with Ray Milland. She co-starred with Milland and John Wayne in Reap the Wild Wind (Cecil B. DeMille, 1942), playing the lead, a Scarlett O'Hara type character. The film was a huge hit. Goddard did The Forest Rangers (George Marshall, 1942) with Fred MacMurray. One of her better-remembered film appearances was in the variety musical Star Spangled Rhythm (George Marshall, 1943), in which she sang "A Sweater, a Sarong, and a Peekaboo Bang" with Dorothy Lamour and Veronica Lake.
Paulette Goddard received one Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for So Proudly We Hail! (Mark Sandrich, 1943) opposite Claudette Colbert and Veronica Lake. She didn't win, but it solidified her as a top draw. Goddard was teamed with Fred MacMurray in the delightful comedy Standing Room Only (Sidney Lanfield, 1944) and Sonny Tufts in I Love a Soldier (Mark Sandrich, 1944). In May 1944, she married Burgess Meredith at David O. Selznick's home in Beverly Hills. Goddard's most successful film was Kitty (Mitchell Leisen, 1945), in which she played the title role. Denny Jackson/Robert Sieger at IMDb: "The film was a hit with moviegoers, as she played an ordinary English woman transformed into a duchess. The film was filled with plenty of comedy, dramatic and romantic scenes that appealed to virtually everyone." In The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946), Goddard starred with husband Burgess Meredith under the direction of Jean Renoir. It was made for United Artists. At Paramount she did Suddenly It's Spring (Mitchell Leisen, 1947) with Fred MacMurray, and De Mille's 18th century romantic drama Unconquered (Cecil B. DeMille, 1947), with Cary Grant. During the Hollywood Blacklist, when she and blacklisted husband Meredith were mobbed by a baying crowd screaming "Communists!" on their way to a premiere, Goddard is said to have turned to her husband and said, "Shall I roll down the window and hit them with my diamonds, Bugsy?" In 1947, she made An Ideal Husband in Britain for Alexander Korda, and was accompanied on a publicity trip to Brussels by Clarissa Spencer-Churchill, niece of Sir Winston Churchill and future wife of future Prime Minister Anthony Eden. She divorced Meredith in June 1949, and also left Paramount. In 1949, she formed Monterey Pictures with John Steinbeck. Goddard starred in Anna Lucasta (Irving Rapper, 1949), then went to Mexico for The Torch (Emilio Fernández, 1950). In England, she was in Babes in Bagdad (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1952), then she went to Hollywood for Vice Squad (Arnold Laven, 1953) with Edward G. Robinson, and Charge of the Lancers (William Castle, 1954) with Jean-Pierre Aumont. Her last starring role was in the English production A Stranger Came Home/The Unholy Four (Terence Fisher, 1954).
Paulette Goddard began appearing in summer stock and on television, guest starring on episodes of Sherlock Holmes, an adaptation of The Women, this time playing the role of Sylvia Fowler, The Errol Flynn Theatre, The Joseph Cotten Show, and The Ford Television Theatre. She was in an episode of Adventures in Paradise and a TV version of The Phantom. After her marriage to Erich Maria Remarque in 1958, Goddard largely retired from acting and moved to Ronco sopra Ascona, Switzerland. In 1964, she attempted a comeback in films with a supporting role in the Italian film Gli indifferenti/Time of Indifference (Francesco Maselli, 1964), starring Claudia Cardinale and Rod Steiger, which was her last feature film. After Remarque's death in 1970, she made one last attempt at acting, when she accepted a small role in an episode of the TV series The Snoop Sisters, The Female Instinct (Leonards Stern, 1972) with Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick. Upon Remarque's death, Goddard inherited much of his money and several important properties across Europe, including a wealth of contemporary art, which augmented her own long-standing collection. During this period, her talent at accumulating wealth became a byword among the old Hollywood élite. During the 1980s, she became a fairly well known (and highly visible) socialite in New York City, appearing covered with jewels at many high-profile cultural functions with several well-known men, including Andy Warhol, with whom she sustained a friendship for many years until his death in 1987. Paulette Goddard underwent invasive treatment for breast cancer in 1975, successfully by all accounts. In 1990, she died at her home in Switzerland from heart failure while under respiratory support due to emphysema, She is buried in Ronco Village Cemetery, next to Remarque and her mother. Goddard had no children. She became a stepmother to Charles Chaplin's two sons, Charles Chaplin Jr. and Sydney Chaplin, while she and Charlie were married. In his memoirs, 'My Father Charlie Chaplin' (1960), Charles Jr. describes her as a lovely, caring and intelligent woman throughout the book. In October 1944, she suffered the miscarriage of a son with Burgess Meredith. Goddard, whose own formal education did not go beyond high school, bequeathed US$20 million to New York University (NYU) in New York City.
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People don't really seem to care about the classic cars I post but I love them. This is one of my favorite luxury cars of all time and it was ordered new by Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu.
Photographed at the 12th Annual Cool Cruisers/New Berlin Fire Department Car Show in New Berlin, Illinois on July 28, 2012.
Please visit my collection of Motor Vehicles on Flickr where you will find over 10,000 car and truck photos organized in albums by model year, manufacturer, vehicle type, and more. This project, which began in 2008, continues to expand with new material added daily.
This is another 2D artwork derived from my recent experimentation & expanded learning of 3D modeling / texturing for SecondLife.
This work is called "DEVILTRIES DEMISE" and as dark and evil as this work looks it is actually my personal expression of hope to all those people living in countries currently being lead by cruel, evil, heartless dictators & regimes.
This works visually expresses the pillar of ugliness each leader of deviltry portrays in the eyes of the repressed people in his sphere of control as well as the world. He shouts out his evil with a brazen tone of power in hopes for all to hear and fear. Yet he secretly is in fear because like the dry baked muds that has entombed this statue, he knows that position of control is only from what spews from his mouth of defiance.
This Dealer of Deviltry knows full well that the people he openly attempts to control and crush are those like the mud around him. If his people stand brave together and strong, they can smother him and crush him to bring him to his demise. If these brave citizens' stand together they can send this dictator to become nothing more than ghosts of the past.
Within the past couple years we have seen two amazing examples of this demise of deviltry when we all witnessed the brave peoples of Egypt and Libya bring the demise of Mubarak and Gaddafi like a baked desert mud entombing both to become the symbolic ghosts in this artwork. Although I had in mind the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad as the current dealer of deviltries waiting for his demise in this artwork, I am sure you all can place many other names of both current and past deviltry dealers into the faces shown in this work.
My heart and hopes often goes to all those currently suffering under these evil men. But you know their time will come soon enough.
CREDITS:
All inputs used in this work are mine with the exception of the following textures from Pareeerica:
Pareeerica - FIREWALKER: www.flickr.com/photos/8078381@N03/3908535223/
Pareeerica - GALAXY OF GOLD: www.flickr.com/photos/8078381@N03/4829603947/
Pareeerica - STAR CRACKLE: www.flickr.com/photos/8078381@N03/3411419204/
Toysoldier Thor: ToyTalks.weebly.com
Me with Reno as Zombie Hitler taken on 10th April, 2010 @Iluma.
Find out more in my blog: Movie Mania Exhibition @Iluma
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#DerUntergang : good bye bye : #aRT 46
Начало конца. обратный отсчет - c C Fri
#strong #rainfall : #Countdown . .
Yaklaşan Karanlık Fırtına : Z. 22
#Firavun . The #Dictators : : .
Adolf #Hitler 's Germany
The cloud-blue sky
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
...
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
W. Shakespeare / Prospero
QUICK!
Match the developmentally-disabled dictators in List 1 with descriptions below in List 2:
LIST 1
[ ] Bashar al-ASAD, president of the Republic of Syria
[ ] Umar Ahmad al-BASHIR, president of the Republic of Sudan
[ ] Raúl CASTRO, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
[ ] Isaias AFWORKI, president of the State of Eritrea
[ ] Aleksandr LUKASHENKO, president of the Republic of Belarus
[ ] KIM Jong-Un, State Affairs Commission Chairman of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
[ ] King MSWATI III, King of eSwatini
[ ] Teodoro OBIANG Nguema, president of the Republic of Equitorial Guinea
[ ] Donald John TRUMP, president-by-appointment of the United States of America
LIST 2
1. Ate parts of his enemies’ bodies in order to exhibit power.
2. Said “Germany was raised from ruins thanks to firm authority and not everything connected with that well-known figure Hitler was bad.”
3. Described by interviewer Sean Penn as "warm, open, energetic and sharp of wit”
4. First son of one of his father’s more than 125 wives.
5. Indicted by the ICC for directing a campaign of mass killing, rape, and pillage against civilians in Darfur
6. Put to death members of his uncle’s family, to completely destroy all traces of that man’s existence through "extensive executions" of his family, including the children and grandchildren of all close relatives.
7. Said “My IQ is one of the highest and you all know it. Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure; it’s not your fault!”
8. Believed by Amnesty International to have imprisoned at least 10,000 political prisoners.
9. Used chemical weapons on his own people.
The Studebaker Dictator was an automobile produced by the Studebaker Corporation of South Bend, Indiana from 1927-1937. The name was intended to connote that the model "dictated the standard" that other automobile makes would be obliged to follow. At the time, the only dictator that would have immediately come to an American mind was Benito Mussolini, whose popular image was one of audacity and strength, in spite of well-publicized fascist violence. However, the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany tainted the word 'dictator'. Studebaker abruptly discontinued the name 'Dictator' in 1937.
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Petrified Forest National Park
Holbrook, Arizona
Dec 2016
Dictator Series#1
He's big, he's bad, and he drives the Death Star.
Since he has no qualms vaporizing entire planets with his pimped out ride, I find the mile high version of Grand Moff Tarkin particularly terrifying. I doubt he'd feel any remorse after stamping out millions of sympathizers under his mighty boots. In fact he'd probably relish personally crushing the rebellious bugs in gargantuan horrifying fashion. I certainly hope there's an audacious smuggler nearby when I see the colossal Tarkin appear on the horizon in my corner of the galaxy. . .
Fidel Castro is dead at the age of 90. The brutal communist dictator established a repressive police state in Cuba, reneging on his promise of free elections for a democratic nation. He executed thousands of Cubans who opposed his totalitarian regime and imprisoned tens of thousands, beating and torturing many of them. He divided tens of thousands of families, destroyed the economy and the culture and established a communist regime, becoming a satellite of the Soviet Union. He put the world on the brink of nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
During almost six decades, millions of Cubans have fled the communist island in search of freedom and prosperity because all freedoms were suspended by the tyrant who would lecture the nation via radio and TV saying: “Dentro de la revolución todo, contra la revolución nada.” (With the revolution, everything, against the revolution, nothing.) He made sure all his opponents were silenced by incarceration and often by torture and death.
Fidel Castro and his communist regime exported and supported terrorism, guerrilla warfare, as well as drug trafficking throughout Latin America and the world.
I'm a living witness that his legacy is one of repression, family separation, suffering, death, and destruction of a once prosperous nation.
Free Cubans all over the world are celebrating the death of a monster who enslaved an entire nation and made the Island of Cuba his private plantation. Donald Trump's statements about the legacy of Fidel Castro are spot on and historically accurate. I should know, I lived under that repressive regime for more than ten years and experienced firsthand the havoc this brutal dictator has reeked during his more than five decades in power, turning Cuba into a maximum security prison. Trump said, and I agree:
"Fidel Castro's legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights. While Cuba remains a totalitarian island, it is my hope that today marks a move away from the horrors endured for too long, and toward a future in which the wonderful Cuban people finally live in the freedom they so richly deserve."
The President-elect added, "Though the tragedies, deaths and pain caused by Fidel Castro cannot be erased, our administration will do all it can to ensure the Cuban people can finally begin their journey toward prosperity and liberty." May our people be free at last!