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Birds flying high, you know how I feel...
There's a flock of birds that swoop around at dusk, I love watching them. They were my PAD 10 days ago too.
A really lovely day today, actually doing things, actually seeing people. Good :-)
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In Kroatien geht eine unglaublich rote Sonne nach einem warmen Tag über den mit schroffen Kalkfelsen, Salbeipflanzen und Wacholderbüschen bedeckten Hügeln am Meer unter... :)
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Nottingham, June 2020
Forest Recreation Ground
A moving and challenging demonstration. Peaceful but emotional.
#blacklivesmatter
www.itsnicethat.com/news/resources-supporting-black-lives...
with a best friend it doesnt matter if your hair Looks good, your Outfit right you have just so much fun and joy.
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Kinetic Photograph made with one single long exposure shot. See more in: "The Best of Drawing with Light"
(Explore Nov 19,2009)
" No matter how cloudy and rainy it may be in your particular location, the sun is always shining somewhere"
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Here are a couple of Black Lives Matter murals in downtown Raleigh that were created after the death of George Floyd. These can be found on South Blount Street in Raleigh, NC.
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Combating climate change and making the planet greener and cleaner is an issue for everyone. Climate change is no longer a distant, futuristic scenario, but an immediate threat. How times have changed since World Environment Day was launched by the United Nations General Assembly 36 years ago. We wonder if they considered then that today climate change, global warming, natural disasters and the effects of global climate change --- deforestation, desertification, flooding, sea-level rise, beach erosion and other environmental impacts would have such an impact on world hunger and poverty.
Climate change is expected to put an estimated 50 million more people at risk of hunger and water stress by 2020. By 2050 a third of the people on Earth may lack a clean, secure source of water. It poses a serious threat to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially during a period of global economic recession, when resources needed to cope with climate change may be reassigned.
Poor people in developing countries are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The negative impacts on their crop yields are already being felt and will be increasingly severe. Climate change is likely to affect forest expansion and migration, and exacerbate threats to biodiversity resulting from land use/cover change and population pressure. Marine and coastal ecosystems are likely to be affected by sea level rise and temperature increases. Human health will also be adversely affected. Rising temperatures and rainfall variability had led to more climate-induced diseases and heat stress. Experts predict climate change-related stresses -- including disasters, food and water shortages and conflicts over scarce resources -- could permanently uproot 200 to 250 million people by mid-century. In many countries defence forces might find themselves torn between humanitarian relief operations and guarding their borders against climate refugees, as climate change and scarce resources, forcing millions of climate refugees across the borders.
United Nations demographers estimate that the world’s population will grow from today’s 6.7 billion people to somewhere between 7.8 billion and 10.8 billion by 2050. The solutions of global warming, climate refugees, extreme poverty and high levels of population growth will require entirely new relationships between the world’s human and natural systems. The world has yet to figure out how it will deal with global warming, changing rainfall patterns, melting glaciers, rising sea-levels and climate refugees.
According to new technique and research our planet's continents were arranged 2.5 billion years ago. We are homo consumens of the earth and very young specie still trying to understand the mysteries of nature and in our ignorance we have destroyed it. Climate change offers humanity no second chances. Only rich countries can break the deadlock crippling international climate negotiations and prevent the world lurching into climate disaster. We should find a way to measure the general well-being of the people and planet rather than just raw economic growth.
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Like the carbon footprint, water footprints are one of the latest methods scientists and policy makers are using to assess humanity's impact on the planet. And now businesses are starting to use water footprinting as well.
You can calculate your water footprint “here”.
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September 8th 2019:
"What is it Dr. Nelson?"
"A new Breed"
"A what?"
"Its a highly intelligent Xenomorph species, its capable of taking out a whole ecosystem in a matter of months"
"What are planning to do with it?"
"Weaponize it into a indestructible organism"
"This Is Insane Doctor! Your last experiment almost killed everyone in this building and would have ruined this whole operation. I'm truly sorry doctor but I'm going to have to report you"
As Doctor Reed speed walked nervously to the door, that lead to the phone, where he would be able to call security on the his partner Dr. Keith Nelson although Dr. Reed thought he was mentally insane or a lunatic, he had no other option but to report him. He could not put innocent lives in danger for a unnecessary experiment. But as he got a tight grip on the door nob he noticed the door was locked from the inside. He let go of the nob and stood there sweating as if some one turned the heat up.
"Your not going anywhere Dr. Reed, my child needs a Nice Warm Meal"
"HHHEEEELLLP!"
"These walls are Sound Proof! No ones going to hear you scream, but no worries Dr.Reed you wont be alone. Now hold still, this wont take long"
Dr.Nelson pulled out a tranquilizer gun and aimed carefully toward Dr.Reed with marksmanship. Dr.Reed fell to the ground with a syringe stuck to his chest. Everything was getting darker by the second, so he took a last look at the homicidal maniac and the new breed that would eat his flesh and possibly end up conquering the world..................
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
~ Epictetus ~
Explore 104: Highest position: 401 on Monday, January 12, 2009
Eastern Great Egret ; Ardea modesta
regular visitor in the area. I'm yet to get a close-up
Shit in raw - processed to Mono
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Two mounted Police Officers patrol the "mean" streets of Brisbane for bad guys and gals! Given they are in George Street, location of Parliament House and the Executive Offices, perhaps it's the right street indeed. They should send a fleet of them to Canberra.
We asked the ladies if they would cart any crims off to jail on the horses, they refused to divulge these secret operational tactics!
Given they are on top of the horses, they seem to be allowed to operate without the current mandatory masks where social distancing is not possible. ***The vast majority of people in town were correctly adhering to the rule, even outside. And it was hardly busy, a shadow of its former self. COVID has hit inner cities hard with work from home.
***Note - I am being a bit tongue in cheek here. These officers are breaking no laws regarding masks. Current law does not require them to wear masks outside unless they cannot social distance. They are not really a street patrol, seeking baddies. In addition, it may be autumn here but in Brisbane, temps are still hovering between 25-30C. Mask, protective sunglasses and hard helmets would really be difficult. There have been no community transmission cases of COVID in Australia for weeks and then only in minute numbers. Active cases are almost 100% overseas returns in hotel quarantine or hospital isolation. Success of the vaccine rollout is another matter altogether. Masks will be not mandatory from Thursday except at Airports.
Here are a couple of Black Lives Matter murals in downtown Raleigh that were created after the death of George Floyd. The local artists who created them have a powerful message to share about how black lives matter, the importance of having your voice heard and expressing the desire for justice and equal protection under the law. These can be found on West Martin Street.
treasuresoftraveling.com/black-lives-matter-murals-raleigh/
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Every Child Matters is a slogan and message used to honour the innocent lives lost. It symbolises that every child is important, including the ones who lose their lives and the adults who are still healing from their difficult time at residential schools.
Batman: " Cuz Life Matters " .. .. Lol and that gave me hope
day 3 : and still no improvments =(
girls i really misssssss uuuuuuu
hmmm 3:45 after 5 mins. our class will end :(
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"Where is the love, y'all? One world...one world..."
~ The Black-Eyed Peas
So, while I always try to make a point of not getting political or controverisal regardless of my own very definate opinions and passions on an issue, I was basically called out... challenged by a thinly veiled accusation that by keeping silent, I was aiding and abetting the problem.
""I'm sorry to see that you feel that it is better to stay silent about injustice, but I can't. Silence is complicity in a crime." they said, as they tossed their membership on the floor.
So yeah... I made a photo too... and now I'll speak.
Be careful what you wish for, because if I'm gonna be called out, and challenged to voice my opinion, you aren't going to get it half assed.
Couple disclaimers before I get going:
• As stated above, this was made to answer a tossed gauntlet, not to start drama or offend anyone. But, haha... it will anyway, won't it? So apologies to anyone who gets annoyed by it... just kiss me, pat my ass, and move along... I won't be following after you waving signs, torches or further controversy at you :)
• I have no desire to post this in anyone's group, including my own. This started today when I challenged someone in an In World group I Moderate, telling them that politics and controversy do not belong in said group, either in world or on Flickr, and pointed out that said group has clear rules against doing so. Therefore, I will not add such to anyone else's group.
• If anything stated here offends you, then before you open your pie hole, ask yourself this question: is it truly directed at YOU? If not, get over yourself, and keep a'walkin'. And if it DOES relate to you....well then...do as the meme says: if the shoe fits, then lace that bad boy up and own your failures! And then, with your new shoe, keep a'walkin' anyway ....hopefully with new enlightenment ;)
annnnnnd I'm off.
So Black Lives Matter huh? And as a person who HATES that statement, I'm a bad person?
Well then. let's examine it, shall we?
When I hear "Black Lives Matter"... a statement now fueling and justifying all the looting, murders and destruction of peoples families and livelihoods, do you know what I REALLY hear?
"ZIG HEIL!"
Close your mouth, dearie...you're letting the flies in.
YES. Ask any Jews still living, or any who heard the stories from Papa and Mama, who lived through the holocaust and the burning of ghettoes and businesses (sound familiar? it should, we get the word Ghetto from those very days) how such slogans were used by the Nazis to justify what they were doing. Peaceful German people... turned into monsters while crying how much they had to suffer in the aftermath of World War I. Germans who called it "taking the power back" (sound familiar, oh ye rap artists?)
Now fast forward 20 years, and ask the hippies who were beaten by police for holding non-violent sit ins during the turbulent years of the 60's war and racism. Have you seen what they have to say on facebook?
They are weeping because we have learned nothing.
Segregating a group of people, and acting in violence because of it, will never.....ever....solve anything. But then, these folk have no desire to solve the problem...they just wanna hit back, and watch it all burn.
That is why this logic falls on deaf ears. Watch...someone will comment how wrong I am for not understanding their hatred and frustration.
Ask...the...hippies.
I'm told that Black Lives Matter is a slogan because what they MEAN to say is Black Lives Matter, Too... they want to be as valued as others are. Cool.
Then...how about you just say so?
Black Lives Matter Too.
Sounds like a GREAT slogan to me, and is a hell of alot more clear as to the "true meaning".
Horse shit.
They want it to be inflammatory and controversial. They need hate to breed, or their reason to burn and destroy fades away. Nazis did the same thing to keep the torch alive.
So if we're gonna fault people. let's make sure to get'em all:
TRUMP: Shut....the fuck....up. Someone take that man's Tweeter away, because he doesn't know how to use it.and please, God, let November come soon. Donald, didn't you learn anything from your predecessor, Teddy Roosevelt? He was a loud, boorish Archie Bunker of a man, too, and his Stick was just as Big.... but at least he knew enough to Speak Softly about it.
COPS: Stop giving them reasons to hate you. Stop with the wise cracks, the apathy, and the superiority schtick. It didn't work well for you in the 60's, and you're sucking bad now too. You should be ashamed of yourselves... the little kids in the neighborhoods you "Protect and Service" are terrified of you, especially now after that terrible video. You should be heroes, and instead you, just like the Nazis, have become monsters. Wear the shield, and BE the shield...not a fucking club!
(added disclaimer: I hate saying what I'm saying, because I know many good cops... I know you're out there. But you gotta admit... in the places where police brutality is a daily event, that's all they see, and all they know.)
BLACKS: Stop hating. Stop Ballin' and stop Bangin'. Being a gangster, a criminal, is NOT cool. Get rid of the word Nigga. You call it "taking the power of the word back" and use it as a term of affection to your black brothers....but get PISSED if anyone who is not black uses it. That is the very definition of Racism... allowing a person the right, or not allowing it, solely based on skin color. You want the power of the word to go away? STOP USING IT... just as Morgan Freeman has said. Go ask your kids what Groovy means. Ask them what a Gnarly wave is. Words that fall away from usage lose all power. Go ahead... ask them! You'll get a blank look, a shake of their head, and called "my weird parents and their weird old crap"
RAPPERS: I love your music... but I HATE what you've done with it! By the 90's, racism was at an all time low. People of all colors were learning to date each other, learning to be friends and hang out, and the hate was almost gone...after 30 years of trying. Maybe not everywhere, but it was a start. And then here you came, hollering "Fuck the police!" and preaching hatred and violence... then Rodney King happened, and the world exploded all over again. Great job you did with the power you hold as musicians...thanks for that.
WHITES: You are STILL as bad as the police are stated as being up above. Superior arrogance and racial jokes in every business office and every locker room...and you think they don't hear it. They do, and they BURN with anger until it explodes. Just as stated with the blacks above... stop Racism by deleting race from your vocabulary... period.
I could go on and on.... but I think the point is made. Black Lives Matter? Apparently, not if they wear a blue uniform, or have a business in the neaighborhood you wanna destroy. Because black cops and black businessmen are being targeted with no hesitation, too.
Ever read Animal Farm?
"All Animals Are Created Equal" was their matra.... until the pigs wanted to rule over the others... then it was "All Animals Are Created Equal, But Some Are More Equal Than Others."
Every time you segregate, you learn to hate. And it goers on and on, generation after generation, because you aren't born with it, you learn it.
It's wayyyy past time for a new lesson. All Blood Matters, and it's all the same color, and so are the tears we are all shedding in these times. That should be what Matters.
No matter what I say
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If you enlarge this collage you can read the fine description of what the Minds Do Matter exhibition is about. I have selected three works to highlight here to show the diverse range of artistic endeavours on show.
[From the left]
1. Dee Alford - Lilith, Her Dark Side (multimedia sculpture).
2. Anonymous - Out of the Blue (acrylic on canvas)
3. Amanda Sutherland - Brainstorming (ceramic sculpture).
Here are a couple of Black Lives Matter murals in downtown Raleigh that were created after the death of George Floyd. These can be found on South Blount Street in Raleigh, NC.
treasuresoftraveling.com/black-lives-matter-murals-raleigh/
#TreasuresOfTraveling #NorthCarolina #NC #CityOfOaks #Raleigh #CityOfRaleigh #EndRacismNow #BlackLivesMatter #BLM #Mural #ArtWork #StreetArt #Art #Paintings #RDU #TravelNC #TravelRaleigh #WallMurals #WorldTraveler #TravelBlogger #TravelPhotography #GlobeTrotter #PassportStamps #TravelTheWorld #TourThePlanet #TheGlobeWanderer #TravelGram #Wanderlust #GuysWhoTravel #GayTraveler
It's nice to see a small neighbourhood convenience store in East York standing up for social justice.
Note: During Toronto's current lockdown, convenience stores are considered "essential services" and can remain open as long as they follow public health guidelines including wearing masks and maintaining social distance.
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We hadden een jaarlijkse bijeenkomst met Rita en Martha. Dit jaar waren wij aan de beurt en we kozen één van van weinige succesvolle struisvogelboerderijen als extra activiteit. Bedankt Christel en Bert, voor zoveel gastvrijheid, ondanks het feit we slechts met een klein groepje waren. Jullie zijn top!! Dikke duim!!
We had our annual Flickr meet-up with Rita and Martha. This year it was our turn and we visited one of the very few successful ostrich farms as an extra activity. Thank you so much Christel and Bert, for hospitality, despite we were only five. You are top! Thumbs up!
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