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So this guy definitely went all in with the precautions, mask, gloves, blue booties over shoes, forensic suit, face shield and the olympic flag as a cloak, not sure this kind of commitment will become the New Normal, but it made for an interesting shot :)
So many people here - it was probably the busiest place that we saw in all of Thailand. A stark contrast to empty beaches and hotels elsewhere
All of today's pictures come from Chiang Rai market where we visited for the first part of a cooking class. I always love going to the market - there are so many colours and lots of human interest when we go
Like many other countries including US, Canada and of course province of BC is reopening the economy. Many shops and businesses are allowed to reopen again. Now the problem is that people are not confident to visit the public places yet.
Many shopping malls are still empty and shops are not fully open yet. Some experts are predicting there may be second wave of pandemic in the winter. So when will things be restored to normal?
Have a good day!
Fuji X-T1
Fuji XF 35mm F2
In-camera B&W with yellow filter
All of today's pictures come from Chiang Rai market where we visited for the first part of a cooking class. I always love going to the market - there are so many colours and lots of human interest when we go
These dogs chased each other for ages before diving into the sea. No wonder - they must have been incredibly hot after all that exertion
Phanom Rung, one of the largest and most significant of all Khmer temples in Thailand, is located on top of an extinct volcano. The temple was build between the 10th and 13th century on the ancient route from the Khmer capital Angkor Thom to Phimai, the site of another large Khmer temple further West in Nakhon Ratchasima. A 160 meter long processional walkway leads to the impressive central sanctuary. As the main sanctuary was constructed out of pink sandstone, Phanom Rung is also known as “stone castle”. Phanom Rung has been restored by the Thai Fine Arts Department. The monument has been submitted to UNESCO’s tentative list for consideration as a future World Heritage Site.
Close-up natural-light portrait (outdoor half-length portrait, three-quarter view) of Karla, an attractive Mexican model, wearing black outfit and a black medical face mask during the global coronavirus campaign and peeking around the corner of a stone wall (photo shoot: image no. 3 of 4);
Parque de Las Américas, Mérida, Yucatán, México.
More context:
Adding Context to Street Portraits (photo blog),
Animating Street Portraits with Props (photo blog).
Getting around the Historic Park is easy even if you don't want to travel under your own steam. The little electric cars and tuk tuks were all quite popular
Easy to see why the Royal Palace occupies this hill above the flat plains that characterise this part of Thailand. The isolated hills that exist in this region were formed of coral reefs
Exploring the rainforest canopy at Queen Sirikit Gardens near Chiang Mai. This place is home to a flying lizard although we never actually managed to see one
Far off in the distance I could see this enormous temple. We went there next so look out for some photos from there in the next couple of days
These old cars are something of a rarity in Thailand - I have only ever seen about half a dozen in the two years that I have lived here. Not sure if this man was breaking in but he was having a little trouble with the lock
acrylic on canvas, 13 x 18 cm
The "New Normal" is a pseudo-medical social segregation system based on a pathologized totalitarian ideology that underlies it.
This is straight out of the Nazi playbook
consentfactory.org/2021/07/19/the-propaganda-war-and-how-...
Le « Nouveau Normal » est un système pseudo-médical de ségrégation sociale basé sur une idéologie totalitaire pathologisée qui le sous-tend.
Ceci est tout droit sorti du scénario nazi
Het 'nieuwe normaal' is een pseudo-medisch sociaal apartheidssysteem gebaseerd op een gepathologiseerde totalitaire ideologie die eraan ten grondslag ligt.
Dit komt rechtstreeks uit het nazi-draaiboek
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The Holocaust didn’t begin with mass deaths. It begin with propaganda, scapegoating and segregation.
Vera Sharav: "Under the nazi-regime Jews were declared 'spreaders of disease' and sent to the gas chambers. I just want to bring a sense of reality.."
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The “new normal” will still be presented to us as a concession that will require us to accept the deprivation of freedoms that we had taken for granted, and accordingly we will compromise without understanding the absurdity of our compliance and the obscenity of the demands of those who command us, giving us orders so absurd that they truly require a total abdication of reason and dignity. At each step there is a new turn of the screw and a further step towards the abyss: if we do not stop ourselves in this race towards collective suicide we will never go back. (Mgr Vigano)
www.aldomariavalli.it/2021/05/19/monsignor-vigano-lies-em...
La « nouvelle normalité » nous sera encore présentée comme une concession qui nous obligera à accepter la privation de libertés que nous tenions pour acquises, et en conséquence, nous ferons des compromis sans comprendre l’absurdité de notre conformité et l’obscénité des exigences de ceux qui nous commandent, nous donnant des ordres si absurdes qu’ils exigent véritablement une abdication totale de la raison et de la dignité. À chaque pas, il y a un nouveau tour de vis et un pas de plus vers l’abîme : si nous ne nous arrêtons pas dans cette course au suicide collectif, nous ne reviendrons jamais en arrière.(Mgr Vigano)
www.medias-presse.info/le-great-reset-le-dernier-grand-me...
"The New Normal", a book by Amitai Etzioni, 2014
Amitai Etzioni (born Werner Falk, January 4, 1929) is a German-born Israeli and American sociologist, best known for his work on communitarianism.
Jan Theuninck is an adept of anti-communitarianism,
tracing the terminology to find an entire system which had infiltrated our governments and was rewriting state policies and objectives. Civil and individual rights and freedoms are abolished and the life becomes micromanaged.
cfr The third way is no way - 2004 (logo ACL)
That man can be a slave even without being put in chains is of crucial importance in our situation today - Erich Fromm
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Jan Theuninck has been painting the evolution of Western totalitarianism for 20 years - he saw the evolution within the political spectrum where the socialist parties were lost (Fagospatose, 2001) in the Third Way (The third way is no way, 2004) movement of Clinton , Blair and Schröder with which they gave a face to communitarianism of the New World Order. He has often compared the latter to a new kind of National Socialism. His attention has always been fixed thanks to the more than 50 years of misery with blackmail games of the services and torture practices with chemical and energy weapons (Beyond the limit, 2001, Rinascimento, 2009, The culture of learned helplessness, 2011, Neostasi, 2012, Derailed system , 2012, The banality of Evil, 2013, Zersetzung, 2014, ils nous tiennent, 2015, Submission, 2015, Threat, 2016, Utopia, 2016, Conformity, 2017, Brainwashing, 2018, Warnung, 2019, Dein Kampf, 2019, Censorship, 2020, Post-truth society, 2020 and in 2021: Political Pandemic, New World Order, The Great Reset, Angel Vaccine, Aryan Corona Passport, Cytokine Storm, Back from never been away, Sustainable Dictatorship.
(In 2014 he already painted Virus Attack without believing that this would become a climax of the Davos counter-revolution years later)
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Jan Theuninck is a Belgian painter
www.boekgrrls.nl/BgDiversen/Onderwerpen/gedichten_over_sc...
www.forumeerstewereldoorlog.be/wiki/index.php/Yperite-Jan...
www.graphiste-webdesigner.fr/blog/2013/04/la-peinture-bel... (année 2016)
www.eutrio.be/expo-west-meets-east
As in Hinduism, the Buddhist nāga generally has the form of a great cobra, usually with a single head but sometimes with many. At least some of the nāgas are capable of using magic powers to transform themselves into a human semblance. The nāga is sometimes portrayed as a human being with a snake or dragon extending over his head. One nāga, in human form, attempted to become a monk; and when telling it that such ordination was impossible, the Buddha told it how to ensure that it would be reborn a human, and so able to become a monk.
The plant was first introduced to Thailand in 1901 by Thai royalty, who brought it back from a visit to Indonesia due to its perceived strange beauty. It was used as a decoration and displayed in palaces and mansions before accidentally entering the canal nearby due to a flood. Since then, it has proliferated rapidly and spreaded across the whole nation. The excessive build-up of Common Water Hyacinth in waterways has caused Thai authorities to take this as a serious national issue. There have been a series of attempts to get rid of these plants, including the Water Hyacinth Disposal Act in 1913 that was enacted by King Vajiravudh - unfortunately, the law proved to be impractical and was thereby revoked in 2009. There has been no successful attempt at eradicating this invasive species until today. This being said, the conversion of the common water hyacinth into a biofuel provides a potential solution to this national issue.
Designed by Thai artist Chalermchai Khositpipat and unveiled in 2008 in honour of His Majesty the King, Chiang Rai’s elaborate golden clocktower (Hoh Nalika Chalerm Prakiat) is a work of art and tourist attraction in its own right. Chalermchai was the man who built the White Temple in Chiang Rai and that same distinctive architectural style from Wat Rong Khun can be seen again with the clocktower. The structure serves as a traffic roundabout and whilst it is distinctive enough during the day, the clocktower and setting takes on a whole new quality when it is lit up in the evening.
acrylic on canvas, 13 x 18 cm
Where authority fails in its duties and betrays the purpose for which it has been established,
Jan Theuninck was told by a hotel employee in Berlin in 2019 he was blacklisted - they poisoned his hotel room - apparently Western democracy became a parallel kind of inquisition system (like islamic state) that uses chemical and energetical weapons - He was told by officers in Drogenbos in 2016 that we live in an inquisition system, a medical specialist confirmed it indirectly in 2012, after he followed him, by threatening him regarding their assassination attempt in November 2011. This poisoning misery started at least in 1964 !! The Inquisition was not about sex-related blackmail games but about a set up money game that didn't work either - according to statements from those involved, the intention was apparently to kill Jan Theuninck, something that had been planning by his family for thirty years. A neighbour who was involved in, among other things, the eavesdropping and who made a big mistake as a mafioso, just hanged himself. Supposedly there are some kind of inquisition courts here where the people are sentenced without reason and punished and killed with chemical and energy weapons. These are our beautiful Western "values"
(so you shouldn't be surprised that Prime Ministers and their governments are publicly raping science like they did in the Middle Ages)
P.S. In 2016 he was followed to Barcelona by a Medical Doctor who worked for the Headquarters as he declared himself - for doing what?
Almost 40 years ago, Jan Theuninck was contacted by an "agent" to say that they were going to play blackmail games with him and he started mentioning it: starting with all kinds of sex. He did not mention that they treated him with chemical products, but about 35 years later it was confirmed that they cut his resistance - a few times they were just using a kind of rape drugs, and many times he almost fell asleep in his car. His father had told him that when he turned 18 he was going to destroy him, something he had been doing for years: He couldn't live with his intelligence, his brother said years later
In the 1980s, Jan Theuninck refused an offer of pheromones: that proposal came from a candidate politician. Twenty years later they used such a product against him and admitted it after some time. One does not need much imagination to understand that the "red herrings" can indulge their own sexual urges with this.
Waiting for the traffic to pass is unusual - most people on mopeds just seem to go when they feel like it
Thailand is sometimes aptly labeled "the land of temples". It is customary for at least one Thai man per generation in each family to enter monkhood. No wonder this country has a great variety of temples and monasteries. Wat Ban Tham, just south of Kanchanaburi in West Thailand, illustrates two local notions at once: the ancient tradition to build monasteries in natural caves, and the relatively new fashion in monastic communities to experiment with cement and paint. In this case, to reach the cave, one has to pass inside the body of a psychedelically colored dragon - entering through his mouth and coming out though... Well, you got it. Since nagas, Thai dragons, just like their Chinese siblings, are much more than just giant reptiles crossbred with a flamethrower. Digested and excreted by the celestial serpent, you can finally descend into the abode of Lord Buddha and, unusually, a female spirit.
All of today's pictures come from Chiang Rai market where we visited for the first part of a cooking class. I always love going to the market - there are so many colours and lots of human interest when we go
Today's pictures are all from the long journey back to Bangkok from Buriram at the end of our month long road trip and show some of the sights we saw along the way. Thank you to everyone who has followed our odyssey - I hope you have enjoyed your virtual trip around Thailand!
Our next stop on our road trip was the town of Lopburi. Today the city is best known for the thousands of crab-eating macaques (Macaca fascicularis) that live in the middle of the city, especially around the Khmer temple, Prang Sam Yot and a Khmer shrine, Sarn Phra Karn. It is suspected that urban expansion caused the monkeys to adapt to city life. They are fed by the local people, especially during the Monkey Festival. This festival usually occurs on the last Sunday of November. The monkeys can be aggressive, are not afraid of humans, and often steal whatever items or food they can find from unwary visitors. Most of the hotels and guesthouses in Lopburi are "monkey-proofed", using screen wire, or by screwing the windows shut.
The temple of Wat Mahathat is truly astonishing. It is the crowning glory of the various ruins at the Sukhothai Historic Park
I didn't see a lot of fishing activity from these beach based boats in the four days we spent at Cha Am
Also known as the Temple of the Golden Dragon because the stairs leading to it ends in the jaws of a dragon before reaching the cave where the temple is. You can then take an iron staircase to reach the top of the mountain
Close-up natural-light portrait (high-angle outdoor faceshot, three-quarter view and sideways glance) of Anahi, a young Mexican woman with beautiful eye makeup (winged eyeliner), wearing a tight black face mask during the global coronavirus campaign and posing for the camera in front of the enlarged scanning electron microscope image of a bee (photographer: Silvia Andrade Canto) at an open-air art exhibition, installed in front of the Canton Palace Museum on Mérida’s Paseo de Montejo;
Mérida, Yucatán, México.
More context:
Finding the Right Camera Angle (photo blog),
Doing a Background Check (photo blog).