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My last posted image of 2011. I appreciate all the support from my contacts and viewers. It has been an awesome year where I have learned and been inspired by so many of your images. I cannot wait to see what everyone captures in 2011. I'm still surprised that I only picked up a dslr in late 2009. I really owe a lot of my growth to the images I've seen on flickr. Happy 2012!
This shot is a 317 second long exposure of the harbor at dusk. I am investing in a set of GND Filters (waiting for Lee Filters to get in stock). Hopefully, I won't be stuck using digital GND filters to fix these types of shots.
Of course, I am always looking out for great private rooftops or unique public locations and if anyone knows of any please contact me via flickrmail or rbudhuphotos [at] gmail.com.
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i noticed this petition is circulating around this morning.
even if you LIKE the new changes to flickr, please show your support for the community by saying that you would like your friends and contacts who feel differently to be able to opt out the new flickr!
many of my contacts and friends have stopped posting or have moved their photos to other websites. this is dividing and breaking up the flickr community which hurts all of us - including the people who do like the new version of flickr.
sign here: petitions.moveon.org/s/T_O1cB
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Dive Support Vessel (DSV) arriving at the mouth of the Tyne sorry the colour is a bit off it was against the bright sunshine
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2022 - Abbie came to see Peyton and some of the Fusion Gymnastics team before their 8th grade dances.
Promo work with Fennel/Rig Deluge/RNLI to promote fund-raising for a new inshore lifeboat in Aberdeen - competition winners will get to sit in the Nav seat during an upcoming VIP stage
Marines with Transportation Support Company, Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, get in some much-needed rest prior to executing a combat logistics patrol exercise during Enhanced Mojave Viper (EMV), on Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., Sept. 22, 2012. The Marines are participating in EMV to build unit cohesion and tactical proficiency in preparation for deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Anthony Ortiz)
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"Ladies and gentlemen, when I first went to the Middle East -- on holiday from Belfast, of all places -- 1972, I went to Egypt, and anxious to try and pick up a few first words of Arabic, I had the misfortune of purchasing a very old book produced by the British army in Egypt in the 19th century. I still recall the three principal clauses which you were advised to learn if you were an Englishman: "We shall board the steamship, for there is talk of war," "Help," and "Where is the British embassy?" And I can tell you, I never believed I would actually watch people say these things, as I had to in Lebanon this last summer. There were all the refugees, all the foreigners, boarding the steamships because there was a real war, all wanting help and all demanding to know the way to their national embassies. “So it has come to this,” I thought to myself.
You know, in the last 30 years that I have been in the Middle East, there has been one -- no, two major changes. The first is that Muslims are no longer afraid. When I first went to Lebanon, if the Israelis crossed the border, for example, many, many, many Palestinians who were in the south would be rushing to Beirut. People would flee the south, run away. Whether it was the siege of Beirut in 1982 or not, I don’t know. But now, they do not run away. Muslims do not run away when they’re attacked, when they’re under air attack.
One of the most extraordinary events was the siege of ’82, when over and over again leaflets would fall from the sky. “If you value your loved ones, run away and take them with you.” An attempt to depopulate West Beirut. And I always remember my landlord -- I live on the seafront -- I met him at front door one day, and he was holding a little net full of fish. He had been fishing on the sea. He said, “We don't have to do as we’re told and leave our homes. We can live, you see, Mr. Robert. We can stay here.”
The other big change that has happened in the past 30 years is that when I first went to the Middle East, all the forces which were in conflict with the West were nationalist or socialist or pro-Soviet. Today, without exception, in Afghanistan, in Gaza, in the West Bank, in Iraq, in South Lebanon, all the forces which are in conflict with the West or with Israel are Islamist. That is a change that I don’t think we westerners really understand.
Do we in fact really understand the extent of injustice in the Middle East? When I finished writing my new book, I realized how amazed I was that after the past 90 years of injustice, betrayal, slaughter, terror, torture, secret policemen and dictators, how restrained Muslims had been, I realized, towards the West, because I don't think we Westerners care about Muslims. I don’t think we care about Muslim Arabs. You only have to look at the reporting of Iraq. Every time an American or British soldier is killed, we know his name, his age, whether he was married, the names of his children. But 500,000-600,000 Iraqis, how many of their names have found their way onto our television programs, our radio shows, our newspapers? They are just numbers, and we don't even know the statistic.
Do you remember the time when George Bush was pushed and pushed: what were the figures of the Iraqi dead? At that stage, it was less, and he said, “Oh, 30,000. More or less.” Can you imagine if he had been asked how many Americans had died, and he said "3,000, more or less"? Those words, “more or less,” somehow said it all.
I said earlier on today -- and I’m going to give you the example this time -- that actually, I don't think the Iraq report is going to have any effect, but I think what is meant to have an effect in the United States is the gradual drip-drip idea that the Iraqis are unworthy of us Westerners. This is why and this is how we’re going to get out.
Let me give you an example of what I mean. Here is Ralph Peters, former American Army officer, writing in USA Today. I’m not advising you to read USA Today, but I sometimes get trapped into airplanes for hours and hours and hours coming to talk to people like you. So, here is Ralph Peters writing -- remember this is quoting a mainstream newspaper. He was originally for the invasion. Obviously he needs a get-out clause now. "Our extensive investment in Iraqi law enforcement only produced death squads. Government ministers loot the country to strengthen their own factions. In reality, only a military coup could hold this artificial country together." You see? We’re already planning.
I remember back even in 2003, Daniel Pipes had a long article in which he said that what Iraq needed -- and please do not laugh at this -- what Iraq needed was a democratically minded strongman. Think about that for a moment.
But let me carry on with Ralph Peters. “For all our errors, we did give the Iraqis a unique chance to build a rule-of-law democracy. They preferred to indulge in old hatreds, confessional violence, ethnic bigotry and a culture of corruption.” You see what we’re doing. We’re denigrating and bestializing the people we came allegedly to save. It's their tragedy, not ours, he writes. Iraq -- listen to this, “Iraq was the Arab world’s last chance to board the train to modernity, to give the region a future, not just a bitter past. But now, the violence staining Baghdad’s streets with gore isn’t only a symptom of the Iraqi government’s incompetence,” he says. “It is symbolic of the comprehensive inability of the Arab world to progress in any sphere of organized human endeavor.” Yes, that's what I thought when I read it. No letters to the editor about this. “If they continue to revel” -- revel, get that word -- “to revel in fratricidal slaughter, we must leave.” You see, the ground is being prepared.
Take David Brooks, now, this is the New York Times. This is really mainstream. He’s been reading some history books, remembering how the British occupation of Iraq came to grief in 1920. Pity he didn’t read the history books before he supported the invasion of Iraq. But anyway, he’s getting ’round to reading history now. “Today,” he says, “Iraq is in much worse shape than when the British were there. The most perceptive reports,” he says, “talk not of a civil war, but of complete social disintegration.” We’re already rubbing Iraq like this and turning it to dust, so there’s nothing left to leave. “This latest descent,” he says, “was initiated by American blunders but is exacerbated by” -- wait for it -- “the same old Iraqi demons: greed, bloodlust and a mind-boggling unwillingness to compromise for the common good, even in the face of self-immolation.” This is similar to the Thomas Friedman line of the child-sacrificing Palestinians. “Iraq,” says Brooks, “is teetering on the edge of futility.” What does that mean? “It will be time to effectively end Iraq. It will be time soon,” he says, “to radically diffuse authority down to the only communities that are viable in Iraq: the clan, the tribe or sect.”
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the way in which we are being prepared for what is to happen. This is the grit, which will be laid on the desert floor to help our tanks move. Don't say there were never predictions about the future in the Middle East.
So, but don't say there were no predictions of the future in the Middle East. The record of that 1920 insurgency against the British occupation is a fingerprint-perfect copy of the insurgency against the Americans and the British today. But on the other hand, don't say that no one warned many, many years before here now, before even the Second World War, of what was to happen in Palestine.
I’m going to read you a very brief paragraph by Winston Churchill, not about the Battle of Britain. It is Churchill prophesying the future from 1937, eleven years before the Nakba. This is Winston Churchill writing in a totally forgotten essay. He reflected upon the future and wrote of the impossibility of a partitioned Palestine. And he talked of how, I quote -- this is Winston Churchill in 1937 -- “The wealthy, crowded, progressive Jewish state” -- see, it doesn’t exist yet, but he’s already getting it right -- “lies in the plains and on the sea coast of Palestine. Around it, in the hills and the uplands, stretching far and wide into the illimitable deserts, the warlike Arabs of Syria of Transjordania, of Arabia, backed by the armed forces of Iraq, offer the ceaseless menace of war. To maintain itself,” -- 1937, remember, -- “To maintain itself, the Jewish state will have to be armed to the teeth and must bring in every able-bodied man to strengthen its army. But how long will this process be allowed to continue by the great Arab populations in Iraq and Palestine? Can it be expected that the Arabs would stand by impassively and watch the building up, with Jewish world capital and resources, of a Jewish army, equipped with the most deadly weapons of war until it was strong enough not to be afraid of them? And if ever the Jewish army reached that point, who can be sure,” Churchill asked, “that, cramped within their narrow limits, they would not plunge out into the new undeveloped lands that lay around them?”
“Ouch,” I said when I read that. 1937."
--Robert Fisk, the veteran mid-east reporter for The Independent, addressing the sixth annual convention of the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Long Beach, California, December 20, 2006
Thank you Malakai Walker Muertes for being my ESD and allowing me the privilege to lean on you anytime.
This was actually last month (April 2022)'s humanitarian portion of my monthly donation to help Ukraine defeat Vladimir Putin.
It's the middle of the month and a new billing cycle for my credit card. It's become a habit for me to make two monthly donations to stand with Ukraine, to fight for freedom and humanity, and to support the many people, organizations and nations helping Ukraine.
This donation helps Ukraine's army to buy supplies. Every month I also make a separate donation to the humanitarian effort.
Many of you know that I have a flickr friend www.flickr.com/photos/uav2014 in Ukraine, and I promised him that I'd help Ukraine to defeat Putin for as long as Ukraine is fighting the invading Russians.
Another shot of the new PSNI Land Rover Penman - Tactical Support Group Comms. On the scene of a security alert / bomb scare in Belfast City.
'MAT WALE' - OAKSTOCK MUSIC FESTIVAL MOSBOROUGH - SUPPORTING MACMILLAN CANCER CHARITY - 4th JULY 2015
British Transport Police
Branch: Counter Terrorism Support Unit
Dept: Specialist Firearms Team
Callsign: Trojan 47
Roof Code: SLF
Role: Armed Response Vehicle
Make: Mercedes Vito
A U.S. Army Soldier with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 114th Infantry Regiment, New Jersey Army National Guard, is hugged after the welcome home ceremony for the 68 Soldiers at the National Guard Armory in Woodbury, N.J., Dec. 8, 2019. The infantrymen, who are part of New Jersey’s 44th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, served as a security forces element for Area Support Group-Qatar in support of Operation Spartan Shield. (New Jersey National Guard photo by Mark C. Olsen)
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hosts the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) meeting with foreign ministers from 17 countries, including Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, as well as top envoys from the United Nations, Arab League, and European Union in New York City on December 18, 2015. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
A bit of a tablescrap built last night.
Perhaps I should make a few Bricklink and 3rd party orders and continue on a revised faction project.
Seen at the 999 Rescue Day held at Crowle in Humberside/North Lincolnshire. Emergency services were in attendance from many counties in the north to this very well supported event in aid of Help The Heroes and to highlight what the rescue and emergency services do each and every day.
This vehicle is from the South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service.
Concept up for voting at Glennz Tees
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This is a new design for Grizzly Mountain Arts! Dave has crafted the beautiful 1 7/8 inch acorn whorl of this support spindle from poplar. Pyrography, burn etching, was used to create the details on the acorn's cap. The 11 1/2 inch long shaft was created from walnut and the weight of this spindle in 51 grams (1.8 ounces).