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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.
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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.
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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.
Benton, Marhall County, KY. I shouldn't have to say it, but this is not a political statement, just a slice of small town America
The 2000 Joint UP/CSX Republican special heads through Pine Junction, Indiana.
It was a fine June 22, 2000 morning.
While Mitch McConnell and other Republicans have hinted that their opposition to investment in the Big Three is all about busting the unions, Jim DeMint refreshingly came out and admitted it yesterday on NPR.
Norris: Now, you know the unions are saying this is also a political ploy on the part of the Republicans to try get rid of unions and use the auto industry troubles to do just that.
Besides cutting union wages in half,,lets get rid of those other corporate headaches like health care, paid holidays, paid overtime, vacations, child labor laws, anti-discrimination, equal rights, mine safety, weekends, retirement benefits, any benefits,,,
and everything the unions have fought and died for for the last 100 years,,,
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.
Out of arsenal
The Venetian Arsenal (Italian: Arsenale di Venezia) was a complex of state-owned shipyards and armories clustered together in Venice in northern Italy. It was responsible for the bulk of Venice's naval power during the middle part of the second millennium AD. It was "one of the earliest large-scale industrial enterprises in history".
Construction of the Arsenal began around 1104, during Venice's republican era.
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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.
Refugio antiaéreo de El Capricho.
El búnker empezó a construirse en mayo de 1937, cuando la Junta de Defensa de Madrid decidió que el alto mando republicano abandonara los sótanos del Ministerio de Hacienda para instalarse en un emplazamiento más seguro.
Soon after Trump took office – he spearheaded the Republican war on our climate, our health and our lives. One of the first steps that he took was to silence the National Park Service on social media. I follow them on Facebook and almost immediately after they were silenced a Alt National Park Service Facebook page popped up. I follow them too. Yesterday they published an overview of the Trump administrations 2017 acts against the environment and wildlife. The list is not yet complete and doesn’t mention things like the Bonn Climate Conference that was an absolute debacle. The list is difficult to read - they are working on a timeline for their website that will be launched next week. The list is breathtaking in scope and the intent is astonishing. Try to have a good day.
1.On January 20th, Trump silenced the National Park Service from using social media.
2.On January 20th, National Park Service starts a “resistance” movement on social media accounts.
3.On January 24th, Trump issues several memoranda aiming to hasten permitting from the Dakota Access and Keystone XL oil pipelines.
4.On February 1st, U.S. Senate confirms ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as secretary of state.
5.On February 16th, Trump signs a joint resolution passed by Congress revoking the U.S. Department of the Interior’s “Stream Protection Rule.” The stream protection rule, which prevented mining companies dumping their waste into streams, is axed under the Congressional Review Act.
6.On February 17th, U.S. Senate confirms Scott Pruitt as the head of the U.S. EPA. In his prior role as Oklahoma’s attorney general, Pruitt frequently sued the EPA over its regulations, notably leading a 27-state lawsuit against the Clean Power Plan.
7.On February 28th, President Trump issues an executive order formally asking the EPA to review the “Waters of the United States” rule.
8.On March 2, U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke spends his first day on the job rescinding an Obama-era prohibition of lead ammunition on federal lands and waters. Also, the EPA, Scott Pruitt, canceled a requirement for reporting methane emissions.
9.On March 7th, EPA’s Office of Science and Technology removed the word “science” from its mission statement.
10.On March 9th, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt that carbon dioxide’s role in the Earth’s changing climate remains unclear.
11.On March 13th, White House releases its first preliminary budget under Trump. The budget outlines deep cuts to U.S. science and environmental agencies.
12.On March 16th, the Trump administration proposed a 13 percent budget cut to the Park Service funding. These budget cuts would lose 1,242 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff, leading to significant challenges at almost every park.
13.On March 28th, Trump issued an executive order charging the DOI with reviewing rules for oil and gas drilling inside the boundaries of our national park sites. Trump's executive order also made the EPA start the process of rewriting the clean power plan.
14.On March 29th, Against the advice of the EPA’s chemical safety experts, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt rejects a decade-old petition asking that the EPA ban all use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos. Research suggests that chlorpyrifos may be associated with brain damage in children and farm workers, even at low exposures.
15.On March 29th, Ryan Zinke, the interior secretary, revoked the freeze and review on new coal leases on public lands.
16.On April 3rd, Overturned a ban on hunting of predators in Alaskan wildlife refuges. Including the hunting of bear cubs in and around their dens.
17.On April 5th, the trump administration withdrew guidance from federal agencies to include greenhouse gas emissions in environmental reviews.
18.On April 7th, staff members at EPA’s headquarters who specialized in climate change adaptation have been reassigned. Rolled back limits on toxic discharge from power plants into public waterways.
19.On April 16th, Trump issued an executive order calling on the DOI to reopen its five-year plan for offshore drilling.
20.On April 19th, An Interior Department official updates the department’s climate change website, deleting much of its content in the process.
21.On April 22nd, Scientist March on Washington, voicing support for science’s role in society.
22.On April 26th, Trump instructs Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to review as many as 40 national monuments created since 1996 to determine if any of Trump’s three predecessors exceeded their authority when protecting large tracts of already-public land under the Antiquities Act of 1906.
23.On April 27th, the EPA delayed a lawsuit over a rule regulating airborne mercury emissions from power plants.
24.On April 28th, EPA scrubs climate change from their website.
25.On May 5th, the EPA dismisses several members of the Board of Scientific Counselors.
26.On June 1st, the U.S. pulls out of the Paris Climate Agreement.
27.On June 8th, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Wednesday ordered a review of an Obama administration conservation plan to protect the greater sage-grouse to determine if that plan interferes with Trump administration efforts to increase energy production on federal lands.
28.On June 12th, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke recommended that Bears Ears National Monument in southern Utah’s red rock country be shrunk by President Trump.
29.On June 26th, the administration called for the repeal of the Clean Water Rule.
30.On July 6th, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approved a permit that would allow Dominion Energy, to build 17 enormous transmission towers near Colonial National Historical Park, the site of the United States first English colony.
31.On July 19th, the DOI called for a reexamination of rules that protect bears and wolves in national preserves in Alaska from egregious hunting methods, including baiting bears with grease-soaked donuts and killing mother bears with their cubs.
32.On August 7th, The DOI relaxes aspects of sage grouse protection to help with the Trump administration’s efforts to increase energy production on federal lands.
33.On August 22nd, the trump administration has suspended a study of health risks to residents who live near mountaintop removal coal mine sites in the Appalachian Mountains.
34.On October 9th, Trump EPA works on scrapping the Clean Power Plan(CCP). Scott Pruitt gave a speech in Hazard, Kentucky and declared that he will sign a proposal on Tuesday that would eliminate the CCP.
35.On October 23rd, The Department of Interior proposed the largest ever gas and oil lease auction of 77 million acres of federal waters within the Gulf of Mexico.
36.On October 24th, A small Montana company located in Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's hometown has signed a $300 million contract to help get the power back on in Puerto Rico. Whitefish Energy Holdings, LLC had only two full-time employees on the day Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico.
37.On November 1st, Trump administration proposed a rule Tuesday to federalize regulation of drift gillnets used to catch swordfish on the West Coast. The rule would end California's right to prevent the deadly entanglements of sea turtles, whales, and dolphins in these underwater, mile-long nets.
38.On November 2nd, Trump administration is targeting for review a uranium mining ban that former President Barack Obama instituted in the watershed of the Grand Canyon.
39.On November 7th, French President Emmanuel Macron's Cabinet said Trump not invited to climate change summit for the time being.
40.On November 16th, The Trump administration has reversed the ban on elephant trophy imports. They have agreed to allow the remains of elephants killed in Zimbabwe and Zambia to be brought back to the U.S.
41.On November 16th, The Keystone pipeline has leaked and spilled about 210,000 gallons of oil in South Dakota. TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone pipeline has been temporarily shut down.
42.On November 24th, Tucked away in the Senate report accompanying the funding bill for the Department of the Interior is a directive to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to end the Red Wolf recovery program and declare the Red Wolf extinct.
43.On November 25th, Oil drilling in a vast Alaskan wildlife refuge moved a step closer to reality after the U.S. Senate energy and natural resources panel voted 13-10 to open part of the reserve.
44.On November 28th, The Cause of Action Institute (a group aligned with GOP mega-donors Charles and David Koch) have filed suit accusing EPA employee of using an encrypted messaging services to protect their jobs. They report that EPA employees were using an encrypted messaging app to determine how to respond to a feared purge of climate science from the new Trump administration.
45.On November 28th, the Trump administration has approved an oil company’s request to explore for oil in the Arctic Ocean.
46.On December 4th, Trump gave a speech in Salt Lake City announcing his intentions to reduce two Utah national monuments Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. Bears Ears would be reduced by 1.35 million acres (-85%) and Grand Staircase Escalante would be reduced by 1.88 million acres (-50%).
47.On December 7th, Trump administration drops rule requiring mining companies to have money to clean up pollution, despite an industry legacy of abandoned mines that have fouled waterways across the U.S.
48.On December 8th, the Trump administration will suspend a rule to limit methane leaks from oil and gas operations on federal land.
49.On December 14th, Trump administration removed net neutrality. This now allows broadband providers to block websites like ours. The Internet has played an increasingly vital role in political expression and organizing. Groups like ours have used social media to share information, plan events, and motivate participation.
50.On December 15th, It was reported that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke brought David Smith the superintendent of Joshua Tree National Park to his office to reprimand him for climate change-related tweets the park sent via Twitter.
51.On December 16th, Trump administration is prohibiting officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from using a list of words, including "fetus," "entitlement," "diversity," "transgender," "vulnerable," "evidence-based" and "science-based."
52.On December 18th, Trump announced the US will no longer regard climate change by name as a national security threat.
53.On December 19th, EPA has ended a contract with a group (Definers Public Affairs) that had been investigating any EPA employees who disagreed with the Trump administration agenda.
54.On December 19th, in the emergency supplemental funding bill language was hidden that would exempt Federal Emergency Management Agency(FEMA) from following requirements set by the Endangered Species Act.
55.On December 20th, Toxic chemical bans were indefinitely postponed for methylene chloride, N-methylpyrrolidone (NMP) and trichloroethylene (TCE).
56.On December 21st, Independent studies were halted that would improve the safety of offshore drilling platforms and another to look at health risks of mountaintop-removal coal mining in central Appalachia.
57.On December 21st, Revoked the Obama-era Resource Management Planning Rule (Planning 2.0 Rule), which advocated new technologies to improve transparency related to mining on public lands. A Federal Register filing said this rule "shall be treated as if it had never taken effect."
58.On December 22nd, The Republican “tax reform” bill was signed and included opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
59.On December 22nd, Ruled that "incidental" killings of 1,000 migratory bird species are not illegal under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
60.On December 22nd, Reversed a previous Obama-era Interior Department decision to withdraw permits for a proposed $2.8 billion copper mine in Minnesota.
61.On December 23rd, It was reported that hundreds of U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists were barred from attending an industry conference this month.
62.On December 27th, A plan was announced to consider increasing the use of neonicotinoid insecticides known as thiamethoxam, which is proven to be deadly to bees.
63.On December 27th, Allowed oil and gas leasing and development near and even inside greater sage-grouse habitat management areas.
64.On December 28th, Announced a plan to repeal an Obama-era rule that governed fracking standards on federal and tribal lands. The rule would have required companies to disclose chemicals used in their fracking fluids, set standards for well construction, and required surface ponds holding fracking fluids to be covered.
65.On December 29th, Trump administration proposed to remove offshore-drilling safety regulations put in place after the deadly Deepwater Horizon disaster.
The Peter Augustus Jay House (Rye, New York). Peter Augustus Jay built the Greek Revival mansion in 1838. Jay was admitted to the New York State bar in 1797 and entered into a partnership with his cousin Peter Jay Munro. Among his cases, he defended the students who rioted during Columbia College's 1811 commencement exercises. He lost that case. In 1816, he was elected to the New York Assembly as a Federal Republican. There, he supported legislation for the construction of the Erie Canal and abolition of slavery in New York State. In 1821, as a member of the New York Constitutional Convention, he called for suffrage for free African-Americans. In 1832, he received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Harvard University--December 31, 2009
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This Presidential election is one of the most polarized and intense I've ever seen in my lifetime. I don't recall a time when so many people were out early to vote like this, either.
This was the scene outside the library at City Island in Daytona Beach yesterday. It was the end of the day, not long before the polls closed, but the place was still hopping, and both voters and campaigners were still at it.
When I got out of my car, I was literally mobbed by the folks on the Democratic side, who were quick to hand out voting guides. One lady, upon finding out that I'd voted earlier, and was just here to bring my brother to vote, tried to hand me literature to give out elsewhere. I told her I'd voted Republican, and her face fell. What was encouraging was the response after that. She smiled and said, "You know what? I'm glad you voted. I still like you!" and chuckled a little. I replied, "After all, we're still Americans." She then said, "and we have to get along when this is all over." This was probably the most truthful thing I've heard lately.
We need to remember that we ARE Americans. The other party isn't the enemy. It's other Americans exercising their right to vote. We disagree fiercely on issues, but when all is said and done, every four years, we have to look each other in the eye and do this again!
Vote the platform that most closely represents your views. If you lose, try to be a graceful loser, not a whiner. If you win, do so with maturity, not gloating. There will be four more years to prepare the next change, but hopefully, whichever person takes office, we will have a leader who takes us through those years with strength, courage, and wisdom. Pray for them. It is the toughest job on earth, and they don't need half the people in this country against them!
I can't help but almost get a tear in my eye whenever I see scenes like this. People are passionate about their candidates, and they should be. We elect them, and that is such a wonderful right! Not every country has that right. We should be grateful, and maybe a little proud. The world watches, and has its opinions based on what it hears, or how our country's policies affect the rest of the world, but we have ours based on what we have to live with, from taxes to healthcare, to issues too numerous to count. We, the American people, decide, not Europeans, not Russians, not Africans, not Mexicans. Americans. Choose wisely, Folks. Four years can be a very long time.
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Tot i que mai ho podrem saber, potser aquest no és el primer T-26 que fotografía la camera amb la que vaig fer la foto, una Contax II. Fou fabricada just quan començà la guerra civil, el 1936, i aquest model de T-26 entre el 1933 i 1936. Pertant, potser foren fabricats el mateix any...
Aquest rebregat T-26 d'origen sovietic és l'unic tanc de la guerra civil que es pot veure a Catalunya. Es tracta d'un dels tancs que lluità i es va perdre assaltant el Segre en la batalla de Vilanova de la Barca (1938), part de la batalla o front del Segre. Diversos T-26 quedaren encallats i perduts dins el riu durant la batalla, i en les riuades del 1982, aquest va reapareixer, sense la torreta, i ara s'ha dignificat.
El cap de pont de Vilanova de la Barca fou una fracassada operació republicana per trencar el front del Segre, el 25 de juliol. Durant una setmana s'ocupà la riba oest del Segre, entre Corbins, Torrelameu i Menarguens, però sense conquerir cap poble. Aillats a la llera del riu, els republicans no tingueren altre remei que retirar-se a les antigues posicions. Entremig, el poble de Vilanova fou esclafat per l'aviació feixista.
Foto presa amb una Zeiss-Ikon Contax II fabricada el 1936; fou el mateix model de càmera que Robert Capa emprà a la guerra civil i Omaha Beach; objectiu Zeiss Sonnar f2 de 50mm; Kodak Tri-X 400 revelat amb Rodinal.
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The camera which I used for this shoot is a 1936 Zeiss-Ikon Contax II. That's for sure. And the one-turret T-26 was produced in the USSR from 1933 to 1936 (and again from 1939 to 1941 but that one cannot be one of the 2nd batch). So maybe both machines have the same age! And they have meet here again...
This battered and turretless soviet T-26 is now displayed in the village of Vilanova de la Barca, in the former Segre front (1938), during the spanish civil war. It was lost by the republican forces during a river assault just 100 m. away where now it stands.
Several of these tanks ended sunk in the river, but in the floods of 1982, it re-emerged and now has been dignified in a sort of plynth.
The Vilanova de la Barca bridgehead was a week-long republican offensive in the Segre front in July 1938. It was a complete failure, just advancing 300 meters on the other side of the river, and several tanks were bogged or lost in the river. In the next days, fascist reinforcements hammered the tiny bridgehead, that finally was evacuated.
Picture taken with my Zeiss Ikon Contax II made in 1936 (the same model Robert Capa used in the spanish civil war and Omaha Beach); Zeiss Sonnar f2 50mm; Kodak Tri-X 400 developed with Rodinal.
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There's a part of LA called Burbank its LA county but its a small little suburb with their own police force. Its like a little bit of the Mid-West in LA, its very conservative, republican, slow paced, old school town. There were a couple of freeway spots out there. One night they were doing construction on the freeway walls out there. They put up all these boards on top of the concrete dividers. I was like we gotta do it. My hommie DRY has always lived in or around Burbank told me "Nah fool we can't get them. Its hot." I convinced him though. It reluctantly agreed. It was me ARPY and DRY. ARPY was bout it. He was like "That's the shit. We gotta paint it." He was from South LA he didn't really know about that part of town. We park and we had to walk on this main street for half a second and in that half a second we must have gotten spotted. It was like two in the morning. We must have looked conspicuous rolling over there with back packs. Homie started following us walking his dog. We get to the spot and homie pulls out a bullhorn and is like "Motherfuckers freeze! This is the citizen's arrest!." We split the other way and within two minutes there were five squad cars in this neighborhood. We're like fuck we're in a pickle. I'm trying to tell my friends "Hey we haven't painted." They were like "Its Burbank and we're Brown fool, it doesn't matter we're going to jail." We split off towards these fences I run up this hill and climb over this fence and land in this big pile of bushes. Not a minute later all these cops on foot start walking around me lighting flashlights. One stepped right up to wear I was. I was wearing camo covered in these bushes. I heard him on his walkee Talkie "I think I see somebody. There's not a hole in the fence. I'm not hopping the fence." He split away on foot. For the next two hours or so there was a helicopter overhead flying exactly where I am. I could see the light beaming on me through the bushes. I figured they had infrared and they were going to tell them where I was at. Thirty minutes later another cop comes and sits in front of me. I hear them saying you're right on top of him. The cop was like "I don't see him, I don't see him." The cop took off. They came back AGAIN and couldn't find me. After they left I pulled out my cell phone and called ARPY. I asked him where he was at. He told me he was ten feet away from where we all ran for the fence. We ended up not walking back to the car. We walked like six or seven miles down the highway to my girlfriends house. We sneak into her house and I grabbed her car keys. I took her car to look for DRY because he didn't have a cell phone. He had run across the highway into the LA river. He slid down this bridge with all these spider webs were. We got back to my house I get this call from my girl like "Somebody stole my car!" I told her what was up in real short burst. DRY see all the spider webs all over himself and freaks out like "I've been in spiders for an hour!" DRY looks up at me and tell me "I saw a ghost." I start laughing at him. When we were driving around looking for this fool we rolled by this big cemetery called Forest Lawn. It is pitch motherfuckin black. All the sudden this lady dressed in all white robes with all white hair with pale white skin comes out of the bushes out of nowhere "Help me Help me!" I pull over the car. She tells me "Please help me." I ask her what do you need how can I help you? She was like can you please shine your lights over here. I got my shopping cart and I need something. I start shining up the lady's shopping cart with my lights. The paramedic show up and are like "What the fuck are you doing?" I told them that the lady needed help and got out of there. So DRY tells me he saw this ghost and he's wondering why I am laughing at him. I had seen his so called ghost. He had to walk like 2 miles past that cemetery in the dark and I can imagine this lady dressed in white jumps out. He said he saw her and ended up running all the way back to my house.
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At the Jubilee protest on the day of the Jubilee pageant in June.
From health care, to taxes, to good-paying jobs, to critical consumer protections, Trump and the Republican Congress are selling out the American people at every turn.
PLEASE VOTE THOUGHTFULLY NOVEMBER 6.
The Telefónica Building at Gran Via 28 was designed by Ignacio de Cárdenas, who conceived it after a previous study of Lewis S. Weeks in Manhattan. Even though the building is of American inspiration, Cárdenas touch can be felt in its exterior ornamentation, a nod to Madrid Baroque architecture. It was constructed from 1926 to 1929. The workforce was composed of more than 1,000 workers, and the final cost added up to 32 million pesetas. It became one of the first skyscrapers in Europe and was Madrid’s tallest building until 1953, after the Edificio España was completed. The Telefónica Building rises to 89 meters. It comprises 14 high-ceiling floors plus a basement, a semibasement and a central tower, which is currently topped by mobile communication antennas.
During the Spanish Civil War, the building was used as an observatory by the Republican forces to watch the movements of the Nationalist troops and bombers. This reason, and the fact the Office of Foreign Press was headquartered here made it a target of bombings during the war. Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry sent their reports from inside the premises.
"On Business Issues, Republicans Might Want a Justice Garland" by JAMES B. STEWART via NYT t.co/mBONW2bVAk (via Twitter twitter.com/felipemassone/status/713099757430906880)
Playa de la Concha (in English: "Shell Beach"), the city’s most famous sandy shore with the Hotel Londres on the left, San Sebastián (Donostia), Basque region, Spain
Some background information:
San Sebastián is a coastal city and municipality located in the Basque Autonomous Community in northeastern Spain. The city’s Basque name is Donostia, but in spite of appearances, both the Basque form Donostia and the Spanish form San Sebastián have the same meaning of Saint Sebastian. The city lies on the Bay of Biscay, 20 km (12 miles) from the French border. It is the capital of the province of Gipuzkoa. The city’s population is about 190,000 while its metropolitan area has about 450,000 residents. Locals call themselves donostiarra (singular), both in Spanish and Basque.
The main economic activities are commerce and tourism. Despite the city's small size, events such as the San Sebastián International Film Festival have given it an international dimension. In 2016, San Sebastián was the European Capital of Culture, along with Wrocław, Poland. The city is surrounded by easily accessible hilly areas, sits at the mouth of the river Urumea and has three main beaches, which make it a popular seaside resort: Playa de la Concha, Playa de Ondarreta and Playa de la Zurriola.
In 2018, the first one, Playa de la Concha, which you can see on this picture, was even elected Europe’s best beach by customers of the popular travel portal tripadvisor.com. Well, the way I see it, it may be one of Europe’s most beautiful city beaches. But to be honest, I cannot fully understand the result of that election. In my opinion, electing it Europe’s best beach just shows that many travellers on tripadvisor.com have absolutely no idea, as they never leave the beaten tourist tracks. However, if you don’t leave them, you’ll never be able to find Europe’s real best beaches with regard to wideness, neatness, beauty of scenery, development, seclusion and parking spaces free of charge.
San Sebastián is thought to have been in the territory of the Varduli in Roman times, but its name appears first in the Middle Ages. In 1014, the monastery of St. Sebastián was donated to the Abbey of Leire by King Sancho III of Pamplona. In 1181, the town was chartered by King Sancho VI of Pamplona, having jurisdiction over all the territory between the rivers Oria and Bidasoa.
In 1200, the city was conquered by Castile, whose king Alfonso VIII, confirmed its charter. However, the Kingdom of Navarre was deprived of its main direct access out to the sea. Perhaps as soon as 1204, the city’s nucleus at the foot of Mount Urgull started to be populated with Gascon-speaking colonizers from the city of Bayonne and beyond, who left an important imprint in San Sebastián’s identity in the centuries to come.
In 1265, the use of the city as a seaport was granted to Navarre as part of a wedding pact. The large quantity of Gascons inhabiting the town favoured the development of trade with other European ports and Gascony. The city steered clear of the destructive War of the Bands in Gipuzkoa, the only town in doing so in that territory. In fact, the town only joined Gipuzkoa in 1459 after the war had come to an end.
Up to the 16th century, San Sebastián remained mostly out of wars, but by the beginning of the 15th century, a line of walls of simple construction is attested encircling the town. The last chapter of the town in the Middle Ages was brought about by a fire that devastated almost all buildings in 1489. After burning to the ground, the town began a new renaissance by being rebuilt mainly with stone instead of bare timber.
The early 16th century brought a period of instability and war for the city. New state boundaries were drawn that left San Sebastián located close to Spain's border with France. Thicker and more sophisticated walls were erected while the town became involved in the military campaigns between 1521 and 1524 that formed part of the Spanish conquest of Navarre. The town provided critical naval help to Emperor Charles V during the siege of Hondarribia and also aided the monarch by sending a party to the Battle of Noain. Meanwhile, the climate of war and disease left the town in a poor condition that drove many fishermen and traders to take to the sea as corsairs as a way of getting a living.
In 1656, the city was used as the royal headquarters during the marriage of the Infanta to Louis XIV (resp. the Sun King) at Saint-Jean-de-Luz nearby. After a relatively peaceful 17th century, the town was besieged and taken over by the troops of the French Duke of Berwick up to 1721. However, San Sebastián was not spared by shelling in the French assault and many urban structures had to be reconstructed.
In 1808, Napoleonic forces captured San Sebastián in the Peninsular War. In 1813, after a siege of various weeks, a landing party from a British Royal Navy squadron captured Santa Clara Island in the bay. Situated on a narrow promontory that jutted out into the sea between the waters of the Bay of Biscay and the broad estuary of the Urumea River, the town was hard to get at and well fortified. Three days later, British and Portuguese troops besieging San Sebastián assaulted the town. The relieving troops ransacked and burnt the city to the ground while only the street at the foot of the hill remained.
The liberal and bourgeois San Sebastián became the capital of Gipuzkoa until 1823. When absolutists assailed the town in 1854, it was again designated as the capital city. In 1863, the defensive walls of the town were demolished and an expansion of the town began in an attempt to escape the military function it had previously held. The new city was modeled according to an orthogonal shape much in a neoclassical Parisian style, and elegant buildings were designed, like the Miramar Palace or the Concha Promenade. The city was chosen by the Spanish monarchy as a summer retreat, following the French example of nearby Biarritz. Subsequently, also the Spanish nobility and the diplomatic corps opened residences.
In 1887, the Casino was erected, which eventually turned into the current city hall. After much debate within the city over its vocation, either tourism or manufacturing, San Sebastián developed into a fully-fledged seaside resort. Following the outbreak of World War I, the city became a focus for renowned international figures of culture and politics like Mata Hari, Leon Trotsky and Maurice Ravel.
In 1930, Spanish republican forces signed up the Pact of San Sebastián leading to the Second Spanish Republic. In the Spanish Civil War, the 1936 military coup was initially defeated by the Resistance led by the Basque Nationalists. But later in the same year, the province fell to Spanish Nationalist forces during the Northern Campaign. 485 people were executed as a result of pseudo-trials. In the aftermath of war, the city was stricken by poverty, famine and repression, coupled with thriving smuggling.
In the 1950s a massive immigration from various parts of Spain began, spurred by growing industrial production. Social, cultural and political contradictions and inequities followed, sowing the seeds of popular dissatisfaction. A general climate of protest and street demonstrations ensued, driven by Basque nationalists – in particular by the armed separatist organisation ETA. In the 1970s, some renowned politicians and police officers were murdered in San Sebastián by the ETA.
Today, the political situation is much more peaceable. There are still independence efforts and the wish for independence is deeply held in the Basque soul, but fortunately, violence doesn’t seem to be the means of choice for the Basque nationalists any longer.
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.