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I Have Been Tagged By Several Time Fact About My Self But i Dont Like To Talk About My Self Much And Now About 10 Things I Hate But Hates Has No No Priority In My Life, I Am Giving Full Priorities In My Life For Love :-)

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Come now,

can you steal away?

My soul cups whispers in its hands. They grow stale. I breathe life into them again.

Sighs and words warm as firelight,

my promise I gave heavily.

I'll not be a fool, hypocrite,

I'll not set into the season stepping backwards.

The lantern, the sigil, the owl,

I am.

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2 a.m. and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake

"Can you help me unravel my latest mistake?

I don't love him, winter just wasn't my season"

Yeah, we walk through the doors, so accusing, their eyes

Like they have any right at all to criticize

Hypocrites, you're all here for the very same reason

'Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable

And life's like an hourglass glued to the table

No one can find the rewind button, girl

So cradle your head in your hands

And breathe, just breathe

Oh, breathe, just breathe

May, he turned 21 on the base at Fort Bliss

"Just a day," he said down to the flask in his fist

Ain't been sober since maybe October of last year

Here in town, you can tell he's been down for a while

But, my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles

Wanna hold him, maybe I'll just sing about it

'Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable

And life's like an hourglass glued to the table

No one can find the rewind button, boys

So cradle your head in your hands

And breathe, just breathe

Oh, breathe, just breathe

"There's a light at each end of this tunnel," you shout

'Cause you're just as far in as you'll ever be out

And these mistakes you've made, you'll just make them again

If you only try turning around

2 a.m. and I'm still awake, writing a song

If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer inside of me

Threatening the life it belongs to

And I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd

'Cause these words are my diary screaming out loud

And I know that you'll use them however you want to

But you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable

And life's like an hourglass glued to the table

No one can find the rewind button now

Sing it if you understand

And breathe, just breathe

Oh, breathe, just breathe

Oh, breathe, just breathe

Oh, breathe, just breathe

The demon in me is finalemnte out.

it is unleashed on those who turned their backs on me, who called their brother

the demon that is in me will be very vindictive, cruel motion, do not get too close you can go crazy, but even from a distance I will drive you crazy miserable hypocritical people and false

But do not forget, that this field is no longer the home of animals.

It is lost for wildlife and especially insects because of using pesticides.

The Green party does not bother about this fact. They are hypocrites and basically only interested in gaining power. Then everything will be regulated to death using senseless rules.

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Whatever It Takes

Song by Imagine Dragons and Jorgen Odegard

Lyrics

Falling too fast to prepare for this

Tripping in the world could be dangerous

Everybody circling, it's vulturous

Negative, nepotist

Everybody waiting for the fall of man

Everybody praying for the end of times

Everybody hoping they could be the one

I was born to run, I was born for this

Whip, whip

Run me like a racehorse

Pull me like a ripcord

Break me down and build me up

I wanna be the slip, slip

Word upon your lip, lip

Letter that you rip, rip

Break me down and build me up

Whatever it takes

'Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins

I do whatever it takes

'Cause I love how it feels when I break the chains

Whatever it takes

Yeah, take me to the top I'm ready for

Whatever it takes

'Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins

I do what it takes

Always had a fear of being typical

Looking at my body feeling miserable

Always hanging on to the visual

I wanna be invisible

Looking at my years like a martyrdom

Everybody needs to be a part of 'em

Never be enough, I'm the prodigal son

I was born to run, I was born for this

Whip, whip

Run me like a racehorse

Pull me like a ripcord

Break me down and build me up

I wanna be the slip, slip

Word upon your lip, lip

Letter that you rip, rip

Break me down and build me up

Whatever it takes

'Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins

I do whatever it takes

'Cause I love how it feels when I break the chains

Whatever it takes

Yeah, take me to the top, I'm ready for

Whatever it takes

'Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins

I do what it takes

Hypocritical, egotistical

Don't wanna be the parenthetical, hypothetical

Working onto something that I'm proud of, out of the box

An epoxy to the world and the vision we've lost

I'm an apostrophe

I'm just a symbol to remind you that there's more to see

I'm just a product of the system, a catastrophe

And yet a masterpiece, and yet I'm half-diseased

And when I am deceased

At least I go down to the grave and die happily

Leave the body and my soul to be a part of thee

I do what it takes

Whatever it takes

'Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins

I do whatever it takes

'Cause I love how it feels when I break the chains

Whatever it takes

Yeah, take me to the top, I'm ready for

Whatever it takes

'Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins

I do what it takes

Strolling about in DTLA. I am amazed at how much DTLA has changed in this era of the Corona Virus. On the other hand, the more they change, the more they are the same. Biggest difference is that for the first time in walking and shooting these streets, I now walk with pepper spray. Crime is at an all time high as are the muggings, attacks, murders.

Perhaps I will post some of the ugly and I mean ugly. The truth is that the lack of Police and the police being defunded by the politicians who do not walk these streets, but live inside their gated and guarded communities don't care. We have the worst Governor since Gray Davis and the mayor who I once supported is a disaster. In my opinion a total Hypocrite.

Any way, I digress. Just frustrated by the mad max type of madness I now see.

have a blessed and safe day.

Javier

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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.

I see street photography as a privilege. The right to photograph anyone and anything in and from a public place for the purpose of art and documentary is not universal around the world. Rights can be taken away at any time, especially when abused.

I shoot courteously and always respect my subjects right to refuse to be photographed. I have always deleted shots when asked to do so.

On Thursday in Glasgow I was harassed by another street photographer. I don't have to justify why I turned my back to them as they tried to photograph me and I am not a hypocrite for doing so despite their protestations that I 'had a nerve'.

However, if someone indicates or tells you that they do not want to be photographed, if you continue to photograph them over and over again what you are doing can be classified as harassment, a criminal matter. Don't be a jerk and don't bully people.

I reacted out of a place of trauma and I am not proud of that but, as you all know, harassment formed a major part of causing my trauma in the first place. The point is that we, as street photographers, have a responsibility to treat people respectfully. This is deeply important if we want our 'rights' to continue in a world becoming increasingly wary of photographers and 'surveillance'.

This is why I take one shot and move on.

You don't follow people, chase them, take multiple shots or feel affronted if they refuse to be photographed.

Take care my Flickr friends. Take photos. Be kind to one another and I wish you a wonderful week in this crazy world.

Rebecca Bashly - Hypocrite's Crayon Gallery

Ingredients:

Sony ILCE-7M2

Sony FE 2.8/90 Macro G OSS

fresh peeled Crocus

Manual setup and focus, available light, handheld. Hope, you enjoy! All visits, faves and comments are appreciated!

I'm winning, you're losing

I'm falling, your agony

Lower than Lower before

Your forgotten memory

I'm heaven, you're hell

I'm killing, your fantasy

More and more, you follow

Your divorced reality

You're trying to take me

You're trying to make me

This is the only

Give me the only thing

Tired of trying

I'm tired of lying

The only thing I understand is what I feel.

Identity, fantasy, heresy, Killing me

Lower than lower, before

This thing to feed

Hypocrite, lunatic, fanatic, heretic

More and more you follow

Your divorced reality.

You're trying to take me

You're trying to make me

This is the only

Give me the only thing

Tired of trying

I'm tired of lying

The only thing I understand is what I feel.

Hypocrite, lunatic, fanatic, heretic

You're trying to take me

You're trying to make me

This is the only

Give me the only thing

Tired of trying

I'm tired of lying

The only thing I understand is what I feel.

You're trying to take me

You're trying to make me

This is the only

Give me the only thing

Tired of trying

I'm tired of lying

The only thing I understand is what I feel.

(Static X - The only)

♫

Part of me wanna to do stupid shit

Gotta admit, I'm a hypocrite

I like it way better than bein' on the side of it

I'm a psycho, lovin' it

Part of me wanna to do stupid shit

Gotta admit, I'm a hypocrite

I like it way better than bein' on the side of it

I'm a psycho, lovin' it

♫ - Psycho - Mia Rodriguez

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For 'Macro Sundays — In the Kitchen'

This photo was accepted, then refused by 'Macro Sundays', and I've been removed from the group by Dominique Robert, its administrator, without any communication.

I cannot recommend that you join this group, as its Administrator is a flagrant hypocrite with a huge ego.

Most dictionaries would explain the meaning of this phrase as to ignore something bad that is happening and not try to stop it. Some definitions are a lot more specific and highlight the fact that, usually, this attitude is applied to one group but not the other. That would lead us into the territory of hypocrisy. It is hypocritical to shout about Russian atrocities in Ukraine but stay silent about those committed in Gaza. While there are currently practical steps being taken to end the war in Ukraine with a compromise, unsatisfying as it may be, the developments in Gaza are completely off the chart and moving towards a scenario reminiscent of the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII. Looking the other way is not a real proposition, because, as one observer said, not only Israel's fingerprints will be all over this catastrophe, but those of other nations too. Leica M8, Elmar (collapsible) 2.8/50 at F8.

and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake

Can you help me unravel my latest mistake?

I don't love him, winter just wasn't my season

Yeah, we walk through the doors, so accusing their eyes

Like they have any right at all to criticize

Hypocrites, you're all here for the very same reason

'Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable

And life's like an hourglass glued to the table

No one can find the rewind button, girl

So cradle your head in your hands

And breathe, just breathe

Oh, breathe, just breathe

Naturally Naughty 2.0

The 'Skyfall' Waterfall, Glen Etive, Glencoe, Scotland

Sorry if the title gives you an 'earworm' but just came to mind as being so obvious!

I shouldn't tempt fate but seem to be on a bit of a roll with the upload page here loading 'properly'.

Back to my productive January trip to Glencoe.

Fuelled by a hearty breakfast at the Kingshouse Hotel I decided I’d set off in the tyre tracks of James Bond’s DB7 in Skyfall to THE waterfall. I’d shot it before but wasn’t happy with the images I’d got and having watched a Karl Griffin YT video I thought I’d give it another go.

This time instead of getting down near the water I stayed a bit higher but shot more towards the bridge and what I think is Stob Dubh (883m). I played around with various shutter speeds, focus stacking, bracketing, vertical panos and various combinations of them. Typically though I was just finishing up when the sun popped out so I quickly took some single image shots at f/16 and ISO 50 to get the slowest shutter speed I could. The light on Stob Dubh(?) meant that this had more interest for me that the other attempts. Typical but at least it cut down on editing time!

I’m sure my YT ‘journey’ is typical of many Togs. I initially regularly watched a lot of the big names but after a couple of years I’m increasingly looking at those made by the slightly lesser profile names who spend a lot of time in the places I’m visiting. I’ll give a big shout-out to Cliff Hands who is happy to provide Wah3Words details for many of his locations. I do find it hypocritical when the ‘big names’ tell you to research locations on Google maps and Google earth and other places people post images but then try to keep the locations secret when they shoot.

© All rights reserved to Steve Pellatt. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.

wtf have i ever done to you?? i'm sorry but you look really stupid right now, named and shamed. i couldn't give two shits if my photos are "leaked" unlike you i don't spend all my time trying to find rares etc. you must be mistaken as i'm not "obsessed with miley cyrus" i think you must be talking about yourself. what does my mum have to do with this? i've never spoken to you in my life please get over your self and stop being so hypocritical.

Okay, you've got to be a political junkie to get the joke.

My dear Flickr friends, I can no longer stay quiet! I am a mother of 5 and a grandmother of 9 and as by now you all know how important the family unit is to me.

I am watching doctors and professionals walking away from their jobs because they are afraid of being sued for saving a life!

Isn't it a little hypocritical to allow hanging or death by lethal injection and yet not to help an abortion to save a child or a mother. Where does government come into this question? Can we not leave this up to the mothers and the professionals. Believe me, there are few mothers who would willingly abort outside absolute dire circumstances. Are we to tell others how to live, when it is hard enough to make our own decisions.

With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 moved America along a moral arc toward Jefferson's claim that "all men are created equal." Now some want to reverse those gains, and others call Jefferson a hypocrite who should be remembered for his personal failures rather than his public contributions. Deep in my heart, I do believe that we can reach a better future.

Happy Mono Monday!

De ton cul tu te mêleras

Ta grande gueule tu fermeras

Tes yeux tu baisseras

Devant ta porte tu balaieras

La merde tu ne sèmeras pas

D'être hypocrite tu arrêteras

De voir ta gueule on se passera

De mentir tu arrêteras

De profiter tu stopperas

Et éventuellement ma main dans ta gueule tu prendras si tu ne respectes pas ça

And you're like a 90's Noah

And they laughed at you as you packed all of your things

And they wonder why you're frustrated & so angry

They'll throw opinions like rocks in riots

And they'll stumble around like hypocrites

Is it just me or is it dark in here?

Well you may never be or have a husband you may never have or hold a child

You will learn to lose everything cause we are temporary arrangements

And may god bless you in your travels in your conquests and queries

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Shinjuku Gyoen is not a natural garden it would seem. It was part of an Edo residence when it was first created and belonged to a wealthy family, the Naitos. The pond you see in this shot, Tamano pond, was manmade. Around a decade later, in 1879, it was established as an Imperial botanical garden.

Today, this area of the grounds was erected as a small Taiwan pavilion. It was meant to be a show of peace to mark the beginning of the Showa era, and the Emperor's wedding (which is very ironic because it was 2 decades before World War 2). The building you see in the back is the Goryo-tei. A terrace on the water.

Gotta love the tighter security in this place, dumb people rarely get in, (a bit hypocritical for me to say, I mean dumb as in people who cannot assimilate or respect someone else's culture on their soil). My experience here was relatively peaceful of interference, and endless opportunities presented itself throughout the area. I saw the reflection of the villa across the water and it had a still reflection. But it was hard to find a suitable composition from across the water cause there was no sakura behind it. So after circling like a vulture, I eventually found this low hanging branch and switched strategies to a focus shot.

Since I approached most of my shots in Japan in an experimental way, I do have a separate focus shot in this spot with Goryo-tei in focus and the sakura blurred. (I'm gonnna be honest, I never use AF, I'd prefer having full control over my zoom at all times). Maybe I'll take that image down and process it, but for now, enjoy this little piece of Heaven. I'm very proud of how this one turned out.

Second coming of Jesus | What will the outcome of the CCP government and the religious world be after they madly condemn and resist God?

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Bible Verses for Reference:

“All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven to men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit shall not be forgiven to men. And whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come” (Matthew 12:31-32).

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!” (Matthew 23:13).

“And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever” (Revelation 20:10).

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The hypocritical world is celebrating the International Women's Day

Luke 11:44 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because ye are as the unseen tombs, and the men walking above have not known.”

These two images are left full of grain and photographic character that sometimes I would remove in favour of smoother less noisy end results. Here these pictures are set to show the camera and lens being pushed to record the diminishing light. Photographically there are options of exposure including Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO. Here the options have been decided upon so as to create a slightly stressed look, rather than a smooth serene scene there is some strength to gnaw at with a taste of piquant pepper and even a dark sprinkling of crisp crunch to enliven the pictorial munch at every eye bite.

There is a quote and links around the Red sky at night and other weather lore below giving a source from the Gospel of Matthew to show our weather lore and other sayings even beliefs have old roots, not all religious texts.

The Pentland Hills are magnificent and here is a share of their beauty.

© PHH Sykes 2024

phhsykes@gmail.com

Pentland Hills Regional Park

www.pentlandhills.org/

Red sky at night and other weather lore

www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/how-weat...

Matthew 16:2-3, King James Version

2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.

3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

Gospel of Matthew 16:2-3, King James Version.

www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+16%3A2-3&...

75 Percent of Animal Species to be Wiped Out in ‘Sixth Mass Extinction’

Under the most conservative estimate possible, development, disappearing habitats and climate change will exterminate animal species within just three human lifetimes, a new study finds.

THE SIXTH EXTINCTION

Commentary by Sea Shepherd founder Captain Paul Watson

So now it’s official.

This is the age of the Anthropocene.

The Sixth Extinction.

Finally the Scientific Community has recognized officially what they have known for decades.

We’re all responsible. If you have a birth Certificate you’re guilty. We’re all hypocrites by varying degrees of complicity.

The question is; what the hell are we going to do about it?

The choices are to continue to ignore reality as we continue to amuse ourselves or actually get down and dirty to do something about it.

There are only two kinds of humans on this planet. The Anthropocentrics that believe this world was created solely for humanity to be used in any way we desire, that we are the only species that counts, and whose guiding instincts are selfishness, arrogance and an amazing ignorance of the laws of ecology.

And there are the biocentrics that understand that we are a part of nature, that we need and that we are interdependent with all other species, that we are not superior to them and that we are subject to the laws of ecology.

We biocentrics are the minority but we are the only hope for the future because if we are going to survive as a species, we will only be able to do so if biodiversity itself survives.

The diminishment of biodiversity diminishes humanity.

If the Forests die, we die!

If the bees die, we die!

If the Ocean dies, we die.

If we compare ecology to a baseball game, the situation is this.

It’s the 9th inning and humanity has just played their last play. The score is tied. Nature is up to bat now and their bases are loaded and Nature’s equivalent of Babe Ruth has just stepped up to the plate.

It does not look good.

But then again miracles can happen.

More info :

www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/06/19/75-percent...

Le Rouge et le Noir meaning The Red and the Black is a historical psychological novel in two volumes by Stendhal, published in 1830.

The title refers to the contrasting uniforms of the army and the church.

The adventures of the hero satirise early 19th-century French society, accusing the aristocracy and Catholic clergy of being hypocritical and materialistic, foretelling the radical changes that will soon depose them from their leading roles in French society.

This two were found by chance... good fortune I should say.

flower, dark, red, black, two, design, "conceptual art", portrait, colour, blooms, horizontal, "Magda indigo"

Pariah - You're So Vein; Bad Tattoos; Hypocrite Tattoos, Decibel Brows

Pensées sur l'hypocrisie.........

L'hypocrisie est l'art de cacher ses intentions, ou de tricher sur ses sentiments, ses pensées. L'hypocrisie est toujours négative, contrairement au mensonge qui peut parfois être pour une bonne cause. Avoir une attitude hypocrite, c'est avoir un comportement lâche et malhonnête.

Cependant, il peut arriver qu'on soit hypocrite sans le savoir, en toute bonne foi.

C'est souvent à ses amis et à ses amours qu'on reproche une hypocrisie, une parole non sincère et de toute évidence sans aucune franchise. Il faut parfois être fourbe et doué dans l'art de tromper pour être un bon hypocrite, comme l'est le Tartuffe de Molière.

Thoughts on hypocrisy .........

Hypocrisy is the art of hiding one's intentions, or cheating on one's feelings, thoughts. Hypocrisy is always negative, unlike the lie that can sometimes be for a good cause. To have a hypocritical attitude is to have a cowardly and dishonest behavior.

However, it may happen that one is hypocritical without knowing it, in good faith.

It is often to his friends and loves that one reproaches hypocrisy, a word not sincere and obviously without any frankness. Sometimes it is necessary to be deceitful and gifted in the art of deceiving to be a good hypocrite, as is the Tartuffe de Moliere.

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«Dans la vie, fais confiance à ceux qui peuvent voir ces trois choses: ta peine derrière ton sourire, ton amour malgré ta colère et la raison de ton silence»

"In life, trust those who can see these three things: your pain behind your smile, your love despite your anger and the reason for your silence"

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Zoraya will never have to worry where her next meal is coming from. She will never have to bring down a beast to feed her pride and herself but her natural instincts and the way she plays with things, mimics without a doubt what she would do if that opportunity ever arose.

My thoughts about having big cats in captivity has definitely changed over the time I have gotten to know these cats.

Before I became involved with the zoo, I really had no idea about the plight of the lions or any animals. I was ignorant.

Then i started to appreciate the role of zoo's and started to look into their role in preserving a species.

Fast forward to now and I feel extremely conflicted.

While I agree Zoo's do have a role to play and without them some species would of become extinct by now. I also question their need to continually breed cats in captivity merely to spend their life in a cage.

My personal thought is their is no value in breeding lions in particular, in captivity. In the wild lions are great breeders unlike the cheetah who has so much going against it.

The problem lies in the human/wildlife conflict and habitat loss and addressing that and working with communities is far greater benefit than breeding lions in a zoo only for those lions to stay in a cage and not be introduced to the wild.

This is my conflict.

Despite my personal thoughts, here I am photographing and spending time with these lions. I feel hypocritical and this is something I am still figuring out how to deal with in my own head.

Diary Entry August 28th, 1867

Arrived in Goatswood met with the same hypocritical judgement. No matter what town I arrive in, if it is not what the locals perceive as "normal", then I am perceived as abnormal. At least I can resupply here. Everyone loves money as a common denominator.

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Oil painting of the late, great Tsar Obama. Distant relative to U.S. president Barack Obama.

Let's think about this for a second

Tell me what you would do for aesthetic

Would you sell your soul on credit?

Would you sell your bro for leverage?

Where the hypocrites at?

What community feel they the only ones relevant?

Where the hypocrites at?

What community feel they the only ones relevant?

What the hell?

What is it you think you're gonna find?

Hypocrite

Boredom sets into the boring mind

When you have butter on your head, you blame others, but that is not fair at all because you yourself are also guilty of a certain problematic situation. Blaming others is therefore hypocritical.

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Als je boter op je hoofd hebt, maak je anderen verwijten, maar is dat helemaal niet eerlijk omdat je zelf ook schuldig bent aan een bepaalde problematische situatie. De ander verwijten maken is dus hypocriet.

onzetaal.nl/schatkamer/lezen/uitdrukkingen/boter-op-je-ho...

Luke 12:54-56: “And he also said to the crowds, ‘When you see a cloud coming up in the west, you say at once, “A rainstorm is coming,” and so it happens. And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, “There will be burning heat,” and it happens. Hypocrites! You know how to evaluate the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it you do not know how to evaluate this present time?’”

Nene Honestly.

Celia Farber claims to be an investigative *ahem* journalist. Really she is nothing more than a person who gets paid for spreading HIV denialist propaganda. Every cause has their mouthpiece. Celia Farber is an expert. Not in HIV or AIDS. No Celia is an expert in very publicly stitching herself up! The following extracts from an interview are taken from bookslut all comments in bold are my own observations:

BS:You are constantly described as an AIDS dissident that does not believe HIV causes AIDS -- but nowhere in your book is this explicitly stated. So how would you describe your views?

CF: Thank you for noticing that critical detail. I have never written that HIV does not cause AIDS. I don’t think I’ve ever said that HIV does not cause AIDS. I took one semester of journalism in college. Thanks Celia. Good to see that you spent a hell of a lot of time earning the title of journalist!!!

CF: It is not for me to say as a journalist -- as a nonscientist -- what causes or doesn’t cause AIDS. Great Celia. You are off to a blinding start. Not only do you admit to having no substantial education as a journalist but you make it perfectly clear that you are not a scientist...

BS:Do you wish you had taken a different approach reporting? Is there anything you would have done differently?

CF:My quick answer is usually yes, of course. But it’s unanswerable… What I wish I had done differently, in retrospect, was to calculate the damage and the blight, both on myself and on my family and ask myself, “Is it fair to do to others?” Because what you actually do is you invite financial ruin. The damage and the blight Celia? Oh poor you and your poor family! How many of your denialist chums have died? How many people who have listened to your warped rhetoric are now dead because they did not access the treatments that could have prolonged their life? That is the damage and that is the blight Celia. NOT the fact that you did not earn more money. But I think that is more to do with just the one semester at journalist school than anything else...

BS:As a non-gay male AIDS reporter and Westerner investigating Africa, did you have to deal with identity politics?

CF: I never got that kind of guff from any Africans, [but] certainly from the gay community. Those that were opposed to what I was doing -- that was one of the charges: that I wasn’t gay and how the hell could I know what I was doing and what right did I have to say anything? But that’s inconsistent with the core belief system, which is that AIDS is everybody’s disease... Yes darling but you started spouting your denialist crap in 1988. Do you also have selective amnesia? Of course the Gay community were going to take exception to your denialist crap because Gay men were bearing the brunt of the numbers of deaths and the social stigma. The last thing they would have wanted when they were dying would be for someone like you to add more bulshit to the fire...

I would go to AIDS conferences and go through an immense crisis each time, “Am I crazy or are they crazy?” Answers on a postcard...

BS: Do you think The Constant Gardner was able to voice political dissent as it is shielded as fiction?

CF:I would caution people against assuming that John le Carre is writing fiction. Let me make a generality: fiction writers today like John le Carre are doing journalism, and the journalists are writing fiction. Thanks again Celia.... i didn't need to read this interview with you to know that you talk a pile of stinking shit! But thanks for the clarification!

I do wish that I could crawl away, quietly and turn up on some completely other part of the beach. So do we Celia, so do we... and take your denialist chums with you...

Celia worked as a researcher on the BBC documentry "Guinea Pig Kids" This is what the BBC had to say about the programme in question:

ECU ruling: Guinea Pig Kids, BBC2, 30 November 2004 and related websites

www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/news/2007/11/30/51154.shtml

Publication date: 30 Nov 2007

Complaint

The Director of Planning and Policy Research of the New York-based Center for HIV Law and Policy, supported by several academics and other agencies involved in HIV research and treatment, complained that the programme unfairly claimed that New York City's Administration for Children's Services, together with a number of medical and child care institutions, "effectively conspired to force helpless children of colour into inappropriate and sinister 'experiments' when in fact they made life saving drugs already approved for adults available to children living with HIV/AIDS who were in the foster care system", that it gave a misleading impression of the effects of anti-HIV medication, and that it falsely claimed that "denying medication to children with AIDS will improve their health while appropriate treatment will kill them".

BBC Editorial Complaints Unit's ruling

The programme explored legitimate concerns about a research project involving the testing of anti-HIV drugs on children in the care system, where (it had emerged) there had been a failure in some cases to provide independent advocacy as required by the research protocols. However, the programme portrayed this failure as being the more serious because the drugs being trialled were, it claimed, both "lethal" and ineffective. In support of these claims, the programme interviewed an expert witness who was, though the audience was not told, a leading advocate of the propositions that HIV is unconnected with AIDS, that anti-retroviral drugs do not work in the treatment of AIDS and that they are, in fact, responsible for deaths attributed to AIDS. The audience was not told that his was a minority and controversial view which would be challenged by mainstream medical opinion. No other medical opinion was heard on this subject.

The programme also gave the false impression that parents or carers who objected to their children being placed in the trials risked losing custody of their children. In fact, the three case studies which created this impression did not involve children connected with the trials. Though there was no explicit claim that "denying medication to children with AIDS will improve their health while appropriate treatment will kill them", the treatment of case studies in the programme contributed to that impression. This complaint has been partly upheld.

Further action

A correction will be published on bbc.co.uk, as part of the pages on which the material complained of appears, with a link to this summary. In addition, the ECU will contact other websites featuring the material in order to draw their attention to its ruling. The management of BBC News is addressing the issues arising from the ruling for the commissioning and supervision of independent productions of this kind.

Celia Farber: An AIDS Denialist Masquerading as a Journalist

www.aidstruth.org/folly.php

Celia Farber, the author of the March 2006 Harper's Magazine article attacking HIV clinical research, misrepresents herself to the popular media as a legitimate journalist and science writer, interested only in doggedly covering a good story. She is in fact an AIDS "dissident" who has been publicizing and extolling the claims of AIDS denialists and attacking scientific research on HIV/AIDS since the late 1980s. Farber has signed the two defining petitions of HIV denialism and she co-authored with members of the denialist group HEAL a core tract of the denialist movement called "HIV: Against Science." She described herself in the subtitle of one of her articles as "an AIDS Dissident" and she is a prominent member of the denialist "Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV/AIDS Hypothesis." Her denialism is well documented, but she conceals her beliefs in order to fool the mainstream media into allowing her to promote them in print.

Farber's main contribution to the AIDS denialist movement is to broadcast their views to the general public in the disguise of objective journalism. In her writing for the popular press, she has consistently and deceptively refused to fully disclose her deep involvement with, and her role as a spokesperson for, the denialist camp. She has also evaded explaining clearly her own understanding or beliefs about HIV and AIDS. Instead, she allows other denialists to make the case for her in extended, laudatory quotes, while maintaining the pretense that she is just an objective reporter asking honest questions, and one who is unfairly abused for her honesty:

All I ever did was follow and report, with what some may consider excessive attention, the vital debate about whether HIV is the cause of AIDS. And whether AZT is a viable therapy for those who are HIV antibody positive. And whether being HIV antibody positive is the same as "having" HIV. And whether "having" HIV necessarily means your immune system is decaying. Etc. I consider all of these questions to be very straightforward, logical, and of obvious importance. I simply picked up a thread and followed it. (Farber , "AIDS Inc." 1994).

Farber's disingenuous claim to "follow and report" on an issue in which she is deeply committed to one side is one she has tried to maintain even as the Harper's Magazine piece brought new attention to the denialist clique. She is reported in The New York Times as saying that she "does not endorse [denialist Peter] Duesberg's position but is simply reporting on an unpopular view. 'People can't distinguish, it seems, between describing dissent and being dissent [sic],'" she wrote in an email to the reporter, Lia Miller. But in fact, people can distinguish between reportage and the party line, and Farber has always toed the latter. She has for two decades consistently attacked medicine, belittled scientific research and enthusiastically promoted denialists and their various claims. There is nothing even remotely balanced in her work.

Despite the denialist motive that drives her writing, Farber lacks the courage of her convictions and won't publicly stand behind the denialist ideology she promotes so relentlessly. She even cravenly disclaims her own positions when cornered. In a recent email she sent to a wide circulation list, she wrote of her Harper's Magazine article, "It does not, for example, say that all AIDS drugs are ghastly, or worthless." No, perhaps not in those exact words, but Farber is being disingenuous. What her article does say is "Duesberg thinks that up to 75 percent of AIDS cases in the West can be attributed to drug toxicity. If toxic AIDS therapies were discontinued, he says, thousands of lives could be saved virtually overnight." In the same email, she asserted "In each article [in the past] where I have addressed HAART I have included, clearly, the fact that the regimens have absolutely helped people who are very sick." That statement's as absolutely false as it is hypocritical. For example, in an article about HAART published in 2000, she made two comments about the benefits of antiretroviral drugs:

There are facts and figures, studies and counter-studies, a virtual blizzard of data that could be arranged to show any number of things. The new AIDS drugs have saved people's lives: that's one piece of truth. The new AIDS drugs have killed people: that's another. The new AIDS drugs have damaged and deformed some people so badly that although they are alive, they wish they were dead.

And:

Precisely what it means for a life to be "saved" is complicated, especially when the patient was not sick to begin with. As [German denialist Claus] Koehnlein wryly commented, "If you treat completely healthy people you can claim great therapeutic success."

Both of these statements, spun by sarcasm, are in effect claims that no people with HIV/AIDS have benefited from HAART, which is a blatant lie.

Farber has tried to portray herself as a neutral observer to The New York Times and critics by claiming she merely presents the contradictory views of others for the edification of the reader. But when we reviewed 34 articles about AIDS by Farber, we found that the clear thesis and topic of every single one was some variant of AIDS denialism--HIV does not cause AIDS; AIDS doesn't exist; there is no heterosexual AIDS; there is no AIDS epidemic in Africa; HIV is not transmitted by sex or by semen or by breast milk; HIV does not exist...

Farber's writing style typically highlights extensive quotes from denialists, whom she describes in warm, laudatory and respectful terms and whose claims are given great credence. By contrast, she consistently attacks legitimate HIV science, medicine, researchers and AIDS activists. Occasionally, she takes the words of legitimate doctors and advocates out of context to support the denialist argument. All of this is held together with her grandiose narrative of her Quest for The Truth: This, she says, "is my private hell, but also my great Sisyphean challenge. My labyrinth…" (Berkowitz: "Interview" 2000).

Celia Farber wants the world to regard her as a courageous and objective investigative journalist, but in reality she's nothing more than a lying propagandist for the denialist mini-movement. What is shocking is that Harper's Magazine's editors fell for this scam.

Roger Hodge: In Cahoots or Just Incompetent?

Roger Hodge, Farber's editor and, sadly, the man replacing Harper's Magazine's legendary editor Lewis Lapham, has defended his ignominious debut by claiming that he is merely airing an important controversy. It is not yet clear if he actually shares Farber's denialism or was, by failing to exercise due diligence, merely deceived by her masquerade as a journalist. Quite possibly, both of these things are true. On the question of HIV as the cause of AIDS, he told Gay City News "I don't feel like I am qualified to judge it"-a dodge similar to Farber's feints when she's in the headlights. The New York Times reported that "Mr. Hodge said the magazine stood behind the article and Ms. Farber. 'The fact that she's been covering this story does not make her a crackpot - it makes her a journalist. She's a courageous journalist, I believe, because she has covered the story at great personal cost.'"

Hodge also continues to assert the accuracy of the article against the overwhelming evidence presented to him that the piece is a farrago of fabrications, errors and innuendo. Gay City News reported that he said: "It was very, very thoroughly fact-checked over the course of three months. … A lot of what people are describing as errors are differences of opinion about the data." But his fact-checkers were either biased or incompetent, because at least 58 scientific and non-scientific howlers made it into print (www.aidstruth.org). Did Farber provide Hodge with her own list of "experts" to consult as fact-checkers? Or did Hodge select them based on his own knowledge of science and medicine? In either case, this vital task in the editing of any article was thoroughly botched.

If all it takes to get a science-bashing article into the new, dumbed-down Harper's Magazine is to warm-over baseless conspiracy theories and wild speculation, then we can expect the next issue to feature a piece from the Discovery Institute that promotes Intelligent Design – let's teach the controversy, brave Sir Roger! And perhaps he'll offer space to the oft-maligned Holocaust denialists, too, who make the same claim that legitimate scholars will not pay attention to their theories.

Hodge's quotes in Gay City News reveal that he still sees AIDS denialism as something honorable, a case of the little guy taking on the big bad wolves of the federal government and the pharmaceutical industry, standing up to be counted, risking it all for the sake of the truth and freedom of speech. If this were true, Hodge would have the full support of all of us, for we share this predisposition. We, like most scientists and AIDS activists, are liberals and progressives. That's why it's so difficult for us to accept that Harper's Magazine, a journal aimed at liberal intellectuals, would print Farber's article. The AIDS denialists are not honest dissidents, and they tarnish the word by using it. In South Africa, they even have tried to link their dissidence to that of Nelson Mandela, as if the two positions could in any way be equated. And when it comes to craven profiteering and the unethical exploitation of people with HIV, the denialists' champions, such as Matthias Rath and David Rasnick, take the cake.

Where Roger Hodge got it so badly wrong was to allow such an obviously error-ridden and biased article into a once-reputable magazine. In the circumstances, Hodge should now do what is honorable and resign for the sake of his magazine's reputation. He's proven himself not up to the task of editing an article. He's proven unable to exercise intelligent judgment about scientific discourse, medicine, public health and the HIV epidemic. He's proven himself gullible and sloppy by being fooled by a writer he told Gay City News he's known for "many years." Perhaps you knew Farber both too well and not well enough, Roger? And perhaps, Lewis Lapham, you knew Roger both too well and not well enough when bequeathing your legacy to him?

Jeanne Bergman, PhD, Health GAP, New York, NY

John P. Moore, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York

Well done Celia... keep on digging.....

Matthew 16:2-3 “Jesus answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?”

Copying Rafael Noguiera's questionnaire:

Two names you go by

1. Doug

2. Diogioscuro

Two things that scare you

1. Not having someone to take care of me

2. Falling from a great height

Two of your everyday essentials

1. Computer

2. Glasses- regular, reading, and sun

Two things you're wearing right now

1. Shorts

2. T-shirt

Two of your favorite bands or musical artists

1. Tiziano Ferro!!!

2. Brother

Two things you want in a relationship (other than love)

1. Fidelity

2. Good sex

Two truths

1. I don’t need to “change,” I need to improve.

2. I will never be rescued by someone else.

Two physical things that appeal to you

1. Intelligent eyes

2. Friendly smile

Two of your favorite hobbies

1. Miniatures

2. Playing in the computer

Two things you want really badly

1. New car- PT Cruiser- red or purple

2. Ipod docking station- speakers

Two places you want to go on vacation

1. Italy

2. Brazil

Two things you want to do before you die

1. Live in Venice, Italy for a year

2. Get to the Azores to see where my mother’s family came from .

Two ways that you are stereotypically a boy

1. I don’t like frilly or fussy things

2. I look at a lot of porn

Two things you normally wouldn't admit to

1. I'm a hypocrite.

2. I rub my nose, OCD-like, to calm myself down

Two things you are thinking about now

1. How to handle moving my parents from the SF Bay Area to Reno, Nevada

2. How much I miss sharing my life with someone

Two stores you shop at normally

1. Casual Male XL

2. Best Buy

Two favorite actors

1.Jake Gyllenhaal

2. James Purefoy

Two favorite actresses

1. Diane Lane

2. Elizabeth Taylor

Six favorite movies:

1. Unconditional Love

2. Evil Under the Sun

3. Under the Tuscan Sun

4. Scrooge

5. The Bishop’s Wife

6. Brokeback Mountain

Two TV shows you can not miss

1. Rome

2. Buffy (I saw every episode while it aired and now have them all on DVD)

"Ain't but three things in this world

that's worth a solitary dime

But old dogs

and children

and watermelon wine"

- - Lyrics from "Watermelon Wine" by Tom T. Hall

I went out yesterday afternoon not expecting much since it was cold, gray, and the light was quite flat; but I'd had more than a bellyful of dismal news (COVID stats, hypocritical politicians, bellicose egomaniacs, etc, etc) and just needed to come up for air. Lucky me...I stumbled across this photogenic duo and came away with this casual portrait. The young lady was as friendly as could be while her guardian was, well, a little concerned over what I was doing. : )) But this chance encounter was just the spirit lift I needed, and it reminded me of the truth in those lyrics. I hope you'll get a grin from this.

Best viewed LARGE.

Beware of the Evil-DoEr's! Duluth Waterfront, Minnesota USA

July 02, 2016

Disingenuous:

[dis-in-jen-yoo-uh s]

adjective

1. lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere

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I always find it amusing when products advertise themselves to be 'squirrel proof', I've yet to see any bird feeder that deters the squirrels.

They're resourceful and pretty clever when it comes to getting to the food.

This feeder had a label letting me know that the squirrels wouldn't be able to figure it out, but the instant I saw it, I knew the squirrels wouldn't have an issue with this one.

I was right, within 2 days they had this thing figured out and were chowing down. No worries, there's plenty more feeders in the garden and the squirrels tend to favour this one, so the birds aren't going hungry!

Hope everyone has had a good day.

Click "L" for a larger view.

These two images are left full of grain and photographic character that sometimes I would remove in favour of smoother less noisy end results. Here these pictures are set to show the camera and lens being pushed to record the diminishing light. Photographically there are options of exposure including Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO. Here the options have been decided upon so as to create a slightly stressed look, rather than a smooth serene scene there is some strength to gnaw at with a taste of piquant pepper and even a dark sprinkling of crisp crunch to enliven the pictorial munch at every eye bite.

There is a quote and links around the Red sky at night and other weather lore below giving a source from the Gospel of Matthew to show our weather lore and other sayings even beliefs have old roots, not all religious texts.

The Pentland Hills are magnificent and here is a share of their beauty.

© PHH Sykes 2024

phhsykes@gmail.com

Pentland Hills Regional Park

www.pentlandhills.org/

Red sky at night and other weather lore

www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/how-weat...

Matthew 16:2-3, King James Version

2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.

3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

Gospel of Matthew 16:2-3, King James Version.

www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+16%3A2-3&...