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Note for my americans followers :
In France "republican" isn't as strongly tied to a party as it is in the US. We do have the party "Les Républicains", which was once a big party... Then did only 4,7% on the presidential elections of 2022.
Here "Republican" is tied to this street "Le Boulevard de la République".
Un coureur à pied s'entraîne sur le boulevard de la République.
Par ces temps de réchauffement climatique accéléré, voici un sage citoyen attaché à l'idéal républicain. :-))
"We are the party of white racial grievance. We believe those marching in Black Lives Matter protests are “thugs.” We see the term “systemic racism” as an unfair attack on white people. We support keeping Confederate monuments on their pedestals, and we have no idea why anyone would consider Confederate flags a problem. We are equal-opportunity racists. We see Latino immigrants as “bad hombres.” And we believe that using the racist term “kung flu” to describe covid-19 is hilarious, not least because we are convinced the covid-19 pandemic is basically over, anyway. Who cares what pointy-headed “experts” might say, we know in our hearts that patriotic Americans don’t wear masks." - Eugene Robinson, Columnist, The Washington Post
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Fotografies de la zona de combats de la Batalla del Ebre (1938).
Aquest és el Celler Cooperatiu de Gandesa, una preciosa obra de modernisme industrial. Construit per Cèsar Martinell el 1920, és una de les "Catedrals del Vi". Per desgracia, també fou escenari de combats durant la batalla. De fet, fins als seus murs arribaren els soldats republicans que provaven de conquerir Gandesa. Però no passaren d'aquí,
La batalla de l'Ebre (25 juliol - 16 novembre de 1938) fou la més important i mortifera de la guerra civil espanyola. Hi ha que també la consideren també la més decisiva, però crec que per desgracia la guerra ja estava decidida de molt abans, com a minim des del trencament del front d'Aragó el 9 de març del mateix any.
Tot i que l'exèrcit republicà creuà l'Ebre el 25 de juliol del 1938 per molts punts entre Mequinensa i Amposta, la major part dels combats de la batalla es donaren a la Terra Alta, a la zona entre Vilalba dels Arcs, La Fatarella, Camposines i Gandesa, a més de la Serra de Pandols.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalla_de_l%27Ebre
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celler_Cooperatiu_de_Gandesa
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This is part of the Ebro battlefield (1938), in Southern Catalonia.
This beautiful industrial building is the Celler Cooperatiu de Gandesa, an art nouveau winery, built in 1920 by Cèsar Martinell. It's one of the so called "Wine Cathedrals" of southern Catalonia.
But it also was a combat scenery for the high watermark of the early Republican ofensive in the Ebro. This was the furthest the Republican soldiers reached, during the siege of Gandesa, specially on the 31th of July.
The Battle of the Ebro (July 25 - November 16, 1938) was the most important and deadlier of the Spanish Civil War. There are those who also consider it the most decisive, but I think that unfortunately the war was already decided long before, at least since the breaking of the front of Aragon on March 9 of the same year.
The battle began with the greatest offensive made by the Republican forces, when they crossed the river Ebro between Mequinensa and Amposta (especially between Riba-roja and Miravet), and advanced to the line La Pobla de Massaluca -Vilalba dels Arcs -Gandesa - Serra de Pandols . But in just 48 hours, the dazzling advance was stopped short. Then Franco decided to crush the republican forces hill by hill (with massive artillery and bomber barrages), in a battle of attrition identical to the First World War for which the Republicans had no resources or alternative, especially with the river behind them. The main assaults, which lasted from August 10 to October 29, were concentrated in a very small and devastated area: the triangle Vertex Gaeta - Corbera - Camposines.
Finally, a final offensive on October 30 occupied the ridge of the Serra de Cavalls, making the entire Republican bridgehead unsustainable, which managed, however, to withdraw in an orderly manner until November 16. But the damage was already done, and there were no forces left for a proper defense of Catalonia, which fell three months later. Then, fascist darkness.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxQZ_gKCHtk
TORM REPUBLICAN cruises past Caloundra after leaving Brisbane and on its way to Zhoushan, China.
Under the Denmark flag.
Chemical Tanker
Gross Tonnage of 29,242t
Deadweight of 46,920t
Length overall of 183.2m × Breadth of 32.2m
Built in 2006
Caloundra, Queensland, Australia.
All the vampires walkin' through the valley
They move west down Ventura Boulevard
And all the bad boys are standing in the shadows
And the good girls are home with broken hearts
And I'm free
Free fallin', fallin'
Now I'm free
Free fallin', fallin'
Tom Petty / Jeff Lynne
Riverside, Bangkok
The 2000 Joint UP/CSX Republican special heads through Pine Junction, Indiana.
It was a fine June 22, 2000 morning.
America seems to be heading towards depression. Bush (republican) inherited the largest surplus in history from a democratic president Clinton and is leaving behind the largest ever deficit in history for another Democratic president to mend. Bush taxed the poor and subsidised the rich.
The beautiful America that we knew is gone in past eight years of Bush's presidency. We can not complain because once he came to power by selection of Supreme court but the second term was purely because we voted for him. We were too scared by his lies that Sadam and countries like Iraq were going to destroy us. Iraq had no power and no terrorists on its soil when we attacked and occupied it. Iraq was clean of Al-Qauida, we brought them in. Now we pay the price.
God save the Queen (?). Well, this picture has been taken with special mobile lens, Olloclip Macro Lens. Despite I am not keen on the idea of countries with monarchy, it's true that the Queen Elizabeth is one of the most emblematic member of royal families in Europe. How about you? What is your opinion about the monarchies? HMM everyone!
After leaving Clyde, I headed for home. I am looking up stream seeing a few islands. River is low now since we have been in a drought.
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Foto feta amb una Rolleiflex Old Standard fabricada el 1936; objectiu Carl Zeiss Tessar f3.5 / 75mm; pelicula Fomapan 100, revelada amb Rodinal 1+50.
Vista de les trinxeres i bunquers republicans de La Pleta, a Montgai. Era ja un vespre gris i plujós de tardor, amb un ambient tètric i poca llum, acabant el dia. A Montgai s'han restaurat molt bé bona part de les fortificacions de 2ª linea que s'hi varen construir durant la guerra civil.
El cap de pont de Balaguer fou una de les més importants zones de combat de la guerra civil a Catalunya, al llarg de tot el 1938. Els feixistes capturaren Balaguer i el seu pont l'abril d'aquell any, resistiren forts contraatacs republicans aquell maig, i el front s'estancà fins el desembre, quan l'ofensiva final sobre Catalunya trencà el front vers Artesa de Segre.
ca.wikiloc.com/rutes-senderisme/montgai-trinxeres-tossals...
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Picture taken with my Rolleiflex Old Standard made in 1936; Carl Zeiss Tessar f3.5 75mm lens; Fomapan 100 film, developed in Rodinal 1+50.
South of the Catalan village of Montgai there are several spanish civil war positions now restored, with trench lines and concrete bunkers. This one is in the place known as La Pleta, but south of it, in Els Tossals and Font Amarga there are even more, very well restored. All these were second line positions which saw no combat and were abandoned when the front collapsed in January 1939.
The battle of the Segre river was a series of static warfare combats along this river (and it's affluent Noguera Pallaresa from april 1938 to january 1939, part of the Spanish Civil War. One of the focal points of this battle was Balaguer bridgehead, a nationalist position on the republican (eastern) side of the river. It ended with the fascist ocupation of Catalonia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Segre
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Bain News Service,, publisher.
[Pennsylvania delegation at the 1912 Republican National Convention held at the Chicago Coliseum, Chicago, Illinois, June 18-22]
[1912] (date created or published later by Bain)
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title devised by Library staff based on information from the source: Flickr Commons project, 2008.
Original title, "Penn. Del. - Chic.," from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Chicago
Format: Glass negatives.
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The Temple of Portunus is a Roman Temple of the Republican era, situated in Rome in Piazza ella Truth, where once stood the Forum Boaro-
The building is of Ionic order, tetrastyle (with four columns in front) and pseudoperiptera plants / Tempio di Portuno, that is, with free-standing columns at the front porch and half in continuation huddled outside of the cell wall. The columns of the portico and those placed to the corners are made of travertine, the other in the Aniene tuff. Probably the ancient tuff parts were plastered to visually recreate the marble effect.
The construction of the present building has been dated by materials found in the foundations a t 80-70,B-C-
In the ninth century the temple was turned into a Christian church, first with the name of Santa Maria Secundicerii, then St. Mary of Egypt as a patron of prostitutes. The church was removed to restore the original appearance of the temple in 1916
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Il tempio di Portuno è un tempio romano di epoca repubblicana, situato a Roma nell'attuale piazza ella Verità, dove anticamente si trovava il Foro Boaro-
L'edificio si presenta di ordine ionico, tetrastilo (con quattro colonne in facciata) e a pianta pseudoperiptera, ossia con colonne libere anteriormente in corrispondenza del pronao e semicolonne in prosecuzione addossate all'esterno del muro della cella. Le colonne del pronao e quelle collocate agli angoli della cella sono in travertino, le altre in tufo dell'Aniene. Probabilmente anticamente le parti in tufo erano intonacate per ricreare visivamente l'effetto del marmo.
La costruzione dell'attuale edificio è stata datata dai materiali rinvenuti nelle fondazioni all'80-70 a.C.,
Nel IX secolo il tempio venne mutato in chiesa cristiana, prima con il nome di Santa Maria Secundicerii, quindi come Santa Maria Egiziaca patrona delle prostitute. La chiesa venne eliminata per ripristinare l'antico aspetto del tempio nel 1916
Building was once a church. Now demolished and replaced by townhouses.
More gleanings from past years
That must be one hell of a package.
I lawled.
Edited to add: this isn't an attempt to make a political point--it's posted as nothing more than a straight-up funny.
I've replaced the elephant with a goat!
www.mentalfloss.com/article/23805/how-did-donkey-elephant...
Warning: Contains content that some viewers might find offensive.
At the Jubilee protest on the day of the Jubilee pageant in June.
This is how Republicans left the typesetting machines at the Cork Examiner newspaper offices before Free State or National Army troops arrived in Cork city.
Date: 9 or 10 August 1922
NLI Ref.: HOGW 129
The endgame for GOP House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is power. This is nothing new for the Republican Party. In 2010, on the eve of midterm elections, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said, "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president." I've been documenting this Republican focus via my posters for over a decade. The GOP was the party of "No." Republicans just wanna win! Eleven years later, McConnell repeated this strategy: "He is '100 percent' focused 'on stopping' President Joe Biden's administration." The GOP's number one priority is winning elections, not governing or making life better for Americans, just winning.
And that's exactly McCarthy's plan for the 2022 midterms. Despite all evidence to the contrary, he sees Trump and his false claim to the presidency as the paving stones to that end. He doesn't believe Trump won the election. He believed he was responsible for the insurrection. He said so. Until he recanted. All in the name of unity. And winning.
But then Wyoming's Republican Representative Liz Cheney refused to go along with the charade. In a Washington Post op-ed, she stated, "We Republicans need to stand for genuinely conservative principles, and steer away from the dangerous and anti-democratic Trump cult of personality. In our hearts, we are devoted to the American miracle. We believe in the rule of law, in limited government, in a strong national defense, and in prosperity and opportunity brought by low taxes and fiscally conservative policies."
The price for her insolence was ouster from her position as Republican Conference Chair, the third highest-ranking position in her party's House leadership. No matter her conservative bonafides: small government, low taxes, and most pertinent to this situation, a reverence for the law. And Donald Trump was not a law-abiding president. Not only did she say that right after the insurrection of January 6, but she continues to say it now, while the vast majority of Republican lawmakers have chosen to forget it.
After the voice vote for her removal, Trump chimed in with his typical invectives: "Liz Cheney is a bitter, horrible human being. I watched her yesterday and realized how bad she is for the Republican Party. She has no personality or anything good having to do with politics or our Country," he said in a statement. "She is a talking point for Democrats, whether that means the Border, the gas lines, inflation, or destroying our economy. I look forward to soon watching her as a Paid Contributor on CNN or MSDNC!" The twice impeached former president is the voice of the Republican Party now.
Her replacement: New York Representative Elise Stefanick. Stefanick is much more moderate than Cheney. The American Conservative Union and the Heritage Action group rate Cheney as aligning with their conservative agenda more than Stefanick. Yet, Stefanick has Trump's support.
While Cheney's expulsion cemented Trump's leadership, is the enemy of our enemy our friend? Is she, as The New York Times' Frank Bruni wondered, a martyr? As the Times' Maureen Dowd said, "If Liz Cheney wants to be in the business of speaking truth to power, she's going to have to dig a little deeper." She is, after all, a Cheney. She supported her father's (former Vice President Dick Cheney) rationale for invading Iraq during the G.W. Bush Administration and, in doing so, played on Americans' fears after 9/11. She supported waterboarding, refusing to call it torture. She downplayed Obama's birther supporters. And she is decidedly against gay marriage even though her sister is a lesbian, happily married, and with children. Trump reiterated her family heritage: "She is a warmonger whose family stupidly pushed us into the never-ending Middle East Disaster, draining our wealth and depleting our Great Military, the worst decision in our Country's history." So, what do we owe Liz Cheney?
For right now, her voice is the tenuous thread (along with fellow representative Adam Kinzinger and a few others) to a union envisioned by our founders. I'm not too comfortable hanging onto that thread. The Republican's "big lie" is too heavy a weight.
GOP, we don't even know you anymore.
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This cop was gearing up as the protestors were about to riot in Minnesota for the republican convention downtown saint paul.
St. Paul, Minnesota
January 21, 2017
Over 30,000 people gathered in St. Paul and marched to the Minnesota capitol to protest Republican President Donald Trump. This protest was in solidarity with the national Women's March on Washington DC. The protesters spoke out against Trump's proposed policies and decried the rhetoric of the 2016 election for being insulting and threatening to women.
2017-01-21 This is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Give attribution to: Fibonacci Blue
Rafael Edward Cruz, aka Ted Cruz, is a Republican United States Senator for the state of Texas. He is a running for President in the Republican primary.
This caricature of Ted Cruz was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from from Gage Skidmores's Flickr photostream. The body was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from from Gage Skidmores's Flickr photostream.
I have been a “card-carrying member” of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for 53 years and for a while in the 70s and 80s did volunteer work for them, including writing articles for their newsletters. I came across a bunch of old yellowed issues today while I was cleaning out my junk drawer and noticed this announcement, which appeared in Civil Liberties, the national organization’s monthly newsletter, in January 1974. (Nixon resigned 7 months later…)
This caricature of Donald Trump was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from Gage Skidmore's Flickr photostream.
This caricature of Mitch McConnell was adapted from a photo in the public domain from the US Senate.
This caricature of Paul Ryan was adapted from a photo in the public domain from the House Website.
A NOTE ON THIS PICTURE: This picture appeared alongside an article in which the author made a case against people across the political spectrum incorrectly using the term Nazi to identify one's political ideology. The correct analogy would be to equate Obama's policies with those of the National Socialist Party.
Do I believe that Obama is a Nazi? No, that is ludicrous, but the article was a hard-hitting critique of the controversy surrounding people slinging the term Nazi around these days, hence the photo was appropriate. If it offends you, look away.
Thanks for reading.