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This is the home of Charles Stuart Parnell.
Charles Stewart Parnell 1846 –1891 was an Irish Protestant landowner, nationalist political leader, land reform agitator, Home Rule MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, founder and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party.
He was one of the most important figures in 19th century Ireland and Great Britain and described by Prime Minister William Gladstone as the most remarkable person he had ever met.
Another future Liberal Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith, described him as one of the three or four greatest men of the nineteenth century, while Lord Haldane described him as the strongest man the British House of Commons had seen in 150 years.
Ezra Levant, journalist and founder of Rebel News, was arrested by the Toronto police:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZrb94j1YhY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emdf8JShlx0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZdU5_k0Hdk
They also arrested Rebel News journalist David Menzies (again) not long ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yk_gNewhEI
“The year-long The New Reality investigation uncovered upwards of 700 (Iranian) regime-linked associates operating on Canadian soil and threatening the lives of some Canadians.” – Global News
“What many have suspected has now been confirmed by this newspaper and a few courageous Canadians: pro-Palestine — and, increasingly, pro-Hamas — protestors are being paid to protest. To block highways and roads. To intimidate and threaten Jews and non-Jews. To cause chaos.” – Toronto Sun
“Toronto’s police chief is apologizing after officers were filmed bringing coffee and donuts to protesters at a pro-Palestinian demonstration over the weekend.” – CTV News
None of this stuff is a surprise under the Trudeau government:
“Government won’t commit to releasing names of MPs (members of parliament) who allegedly conspired with foreign actors” – CBC
Order out of chaos: communist agitators team up with radical islamists. The useful idiots in uniform show support to their side by handing out coffee and donuts—two-tier policing. They arrest journalists from the largest alternative news company in Canada—a news outlet that Trudeau hates, a media outlet that has beat him in court! The mainstream media in Canada is bought and paid for by Trudeau. Trudeau is a NWO WEF puppet:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjxJ1wPnkk4
Trudeau BRAGS About Buying Off Canadian Media:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixMMNlaszg4
Matthew 10:26 “So don’t be afraid of them. Nothing has been covered that will not be exposed. Whatever is secret will be made known.”
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Die DDR - eine schwere aber phantastische Zeit
(von B. Kalinowski in www.jungewelt.de)
Ekkehard Kiesewetter kommt im Februar 1934 zur Welt, als die Weltgeschichte in Deutschland ihr schwärzestes Blatt aufgeschlagen hat. Einige Jahre eher geboren – vier oder fünf – wäre er noch für Deutschlands letztes Aufgebot eingezogen und im sogenannten Volkssturm verheizt worden. Filmaufnahmen davon zeigen kindliche Gesichter mit den Schatten der Angst. Sie tragen lumpige Wehrmachtsuniformen und Gewehre über schmalen Schultern. Sie werden zum Töten an die Front geschickt. Kiesewetter hat Glück gehabt. Das Kriegsende erlebt er als Elfjähriger.
Aufbruch ins Neue
Die Gnade der späten Geburt macht aus Jahrgängen wie seinem die jüngste Aufbaugeneration der kommenden Jahre in der sowjetisch besetzten Zone und späteren Deutschen Demokratischen Republik. Nachkriegskinder. Offen für Zukunftsversprechen, neugierig und tatendurstig. Ja, so kann man sagen, bestätigt Kiesewetter und erzählt von damals: Bau auf, bau auf, sangen sie im Osten. Freie Deutsche Jugend, bau auf. Der Text eines Liedes ist das Ziel dieser Zeit und meint mehr als Wohnungen, Schulen, Kulturpaläste, Krankenhäuser, Kaufhäuser, Fabriken. Eine neue Gesellschaft soll entstehen. Frieden und Sozialismus – soziale Gerechtigkeit endlich. Programmatik des Unmöglichen? Vier Jahrzehnte später wird man sagen, es wäre eine Utopie gewesen – schön geträumt, aber nicht machbar. Der unerhörte 40jährige Versuch soll in seinen positiven Wirkungen vergessen oder lächerlich gemacht werden, besser noch diskriminiert. Die dabei waren – Menschen wie Kiesewetter – sagen, wir haben nicht nur davon geträumt, wir haben damit begonnen. »Es war unsere Hoffnung, entstanden aus der Geschichte, aus unseren Erfahrungen und aus unserer Zeit. Die Utopie ist nicht an der Utopie gescheitert, sondern an unseren Fehlern.« Kritische Erkenntnis – keine Aufgabe der Utopie.
Die Alternative begann in der Nachkriegszeit mit einem radikalen Umbau der kapitalistischen Verhältnisse: Bodenreform, Enteignungen, Verstaatlichung der Banken, Kultur für alle, Brechung des Bildungsprivilegs und wer weiß, was noch. Im proklamierten ersten deutschen Arbeiter-und Bauernstaat werden nun die Kinder von Arbeitern und Bauern bevorzugt – großes Geschrei darüber bis heute. Kiesewetter, Sohn eines Beamten, besucht trotzdem die Oberschule und studiert, was er möchte. Andere erzählen anderes. Kiesewetter jedenfalls hat nie eine Benachteiligung wegen seiner Herkunft erlebt. Im Gespräch im Oktober 2017 sagt er: »Natürlich war das Klassenkampf, agitatorisch und per Gesetz. Und es war eben auch meine Chance.« Nicht seine allein, die seiner Freundin Brigitte, Flüchtlingsmädchen aus Ostpreußen, ebenfalls. Später wird sie seine erste Frau. Beide gehen zur Oberschule, machen Abitur, studieren. Sie bei Victor Klemperer am Institut für Romanistik in Berlin, dann bei Werner Krauss in Leipzig, er an der 1953 gegründeten Theaterhochschule in Leipzig, die später nach dem von den Nazis ermordeten Schauspieler Hans Otto benannt wird. 41 Jahre später wird der Student Kiesewetter als Professor für Schauspiel an die Theaterhochschule zurückkehren. Von 1994 bis 2004 vermittelt er dem künftigen Bühnennachwuchs Handwerk, Geist und Leidenschaft.
Ekkehard Kiesewetter gehörte zu den ersten Studenten der neuen Theaterhochschule in der DDR. Am 11. Juni 1953 feiert er seine bestandene Aufnahmeprüfung zum Schauspielstudium. Er ist 19 Jahre und verrückt nach dem Leben. Seine damaligen Erwartungen sind heute Erinnerungen: Wir reden über Anfänge, Absichten und Ansprüche. Zeit-Geschichten, über Theater in der DDR und danach. Gesellschaftsbilder. Szenen seines Lebens. Wäre das Stoff für die Bühne, frage ich. Ja …, schon möglich, sagt Kiesewetter. Aber »natürlich will eine solche Geschichte heute keiner glauben. Egal – so war es eben auch in der DDR«. Es wäre eine Geschichtsstunde. Es ist seine Geschichte.
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Here's an old one I took... I guess about 2 years ago. I was sitting on the spinning agitator of a washing machine at the time. All I wanted was a simple photo of a tree. Well, this is what I got. :-)
Ex St. Ives Sand & Gravel Foden half-cab 6x4 concrete mixer 970AEW, which was first registered in November 1960.
Going by the modified tractor bonnet & grille, this will have a 4-cylinder Ford industrial diesel engine driving the mixing drum.
For the High Line art series, Ruth Ewan presents a monumental-scale clock on the park at 24th Street that you can also see from street level. The clock is a tribute to the round-the-clock organizing work of the people who once struggled to bring justice to the workplace.
The clock is based on an illustration originally produced for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) labor union by the North American writer and labor activist Ralph Chaplin that reads “What time is it? Time to organize!”
The illustration was one of many images that appeared on “stickerettes,” known as “silent agitators,” millions of which were printed in red and black on gummed paper and distributed by union members traveling from job to job. The stickers were advertised through publications such as Solidarity and the union’s newspaper Industrial Worker, and through events such as national “Stickerette Day” on April 29, 1917 and May Day of the same year.
"The Battle Of Stepney": Firing-Line of the Scots Guards
This is a black and white printed postcard published by Valentine's Series of the Battle of Stepney, also known as the Siege of Sidney Street.
from Wikipedia:
In December 1910 there was an attempted jewellery robbery at Houndsditch in the City of London by a gang of Latvian immigrants. The robbery resulted in the murder of three policemen, the wounding of two others, and the death of George Gardstein, the leader of the Latvian gang.
The police were informed that the final two members of the gang were hiding at 100 Sidney Street in Stepney. The police evacuated local residents from the environs, and on the morning of 3 January a firefight broke out. Armed with inferior weapons, the police sought assistance from the army.
The siege lasted for about six hours. Towards the end of the stand-off, the building caught fire; no single cause has been identified. One of the agitators in the building was shot before the fire took control. While the London Fire Brigade were damping down the ruins—in which they found the two bodies—the building collapsed, killing a fireman, Superintendent Charles Pearson.
Facts
Purpose....... earlier the House of Political Education of the City Committee of the CPSU in Kamensk-Uralsky, nowadays the Social and Cultural Center.
Location........ Kamensk-Uralsky, Russia
Style..... Soviet Modernism
Year of putting into operation....... 1981
History
In 1978 in the Kamensk-Uralsky by the city committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) the ideological organization of the House of Political Education (HPE) was founded. Its main activity was the political study of propagandists, political reformers, agitators for the city's enterprises.
The building for the HPE have being built almost ten years on funds of party fees and was the property of the CPSU. In July 1, 1981 the object was put into operation, and the party library moved first in it. It was an elite organization, closed to the public access. There were a lot of rare books in the library in a single copy.
After August 1991, in the city as in the whole country anarchy reigned for two months, the building was sealed. HPE as an ideological organization ceased to exist. The building was transferred to the department of culture, and it housed a new organization - the Social and Cultural Center, which exists to this day. Various city events, concerts, exhibitions, competitions, etc. are held here. The Great Hall is also a philharmonic hall where you can hear classical, jazz, popular and folk music.
About the model
The model is built on a scale of 1: 700. The building located on a natural elevation, so the cascade of stairs leads to the main entrance. A massive parallelepiped above the central entrance rests on columns, on the right and left glazed wings. The whole appearance of the building corresponds to the architectural style of the 70-80s. In order to adequately convey all the altitudinal differences in the model, a transition to half the height of the plate was used.
The Burning House in Sidney Street where Houndsditch Assassins Perished
This is a black and white printed postcard published by an unknown publisher of the the Battle of Stepney, also known as the Siege of Sidney Street. The postcard has a postmark dated 9 February 1911.
from Wikipedia:
In December 1910 there was an attempted jewellery robbery at Houndsditch in the City of London by a gang of Latvian immigrants. The robbery resulted in the murder of three policemen, the wounding of two others, and the death of George Gardstein, the leader of the Latvian gang.
The police were informed that the final two members of the gang were hiding at 100 Sidney Street in Stepney. The police evacuated local residents from the environs, and on the morning of 3 January 1911 a firefight broke out. Armed with inferior weapons, the police sought assistance from the army.
The siege lasted for about six hours. Towards the end of the stand-off, the building caught fire; no single cause has been identified. One of the agitators in the building was shot before the fire took control. While the London Fire Brigade were damping down the ruins—in which they found the two bodies—the building collapsed, killing a fireman, Superintendent Charles Pearson.
An agitator at the London Anti Trump demon - 17 Sept 2025, London, Holds up his table and chair in the style of Charlie Kirk as he's about to get arrested.
More here:
Red Ted... that's his name. No, he's not a left wing agitator, he was a bear an aunty knitted for me when I was around 2 or 3. Some things you don't throw out. He had to go everywhere I went when I was very young. His eyes are buttons sewn on and they don't match. My granny knitted a jumper and trousers for him and my mum even made a tee shirt (this was not recent in case you are wondering).
Somewhere along life's journey, he lost his bottle green knitted trousers. Still has the tee shirt and the bunny pattern knitted jumper. Like me, he's pretty faded now and I needed flash to bring out some of his colour. Photographed in the garden of course... where we went round and round, like a...
No fabulously expensive toy with a designer label here, just a knitting pattern that was around in the 60s and as a child, I loved this bear. He has been sat around my room under some stuff for ages... this has brought back all sorts of memories. I should say a thank you to my Aunty Di.
Distance from his nose to the eye is just over 2 inches.
"What time is it? Time to organize"
by Ruth Ewan
Paying tribute to labor history.
www.thehighline.org/blog/2019/08/30/ruth-ewans-silent-agi... the HIgh Line, Chelsea, NYC -- February 13, 2020
Ruth Ewan’s monumental scale clock on display on High Line on West Sude Manhatten.
Based on the illustration originally produced for Industrial Workers of the World Labour Union by activist Ralph Chaplin, that reads, “what time is it? Time to organise!”, which appeared on stickerettes all over city and were known as the, “silent agitators.”
People walking by a mural in Summerhill.
— Artist: Louis Lambert.
Atlanta (Summerhill), Georgia, USA.
21 October 2023.
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▶ "Louis Lambert is @3TTMAN, or to aid in its proper pronunciation, 'Trois Têtes Man' [Three-Headed Man], the 'agitador de medio ambiente' [environmental agitator]. As a key presence in the contemporary urban art scene in Madrid, Spain, he has formed an aesthetic combining the punk heritage of graffiti, its do-it-yourself, by any means necessary attitude, with a style showing a strong influence of both vernacular, and popular religious art. "
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Washing day blues in the good old days.
Washing day consisted of a tub and a wringer on top of the tub.
It was a matter of throwing the washing into the tub add a carefully measured amount of Rinso into the water.
Switch the power on and the agitator would do its job.
It would turn in violent almost epileptic partial rotations blending the washing powder into the water and churning the clothes.
Once that cycle was completed it was matter of putting everything through the wringer to squeeze out any remaining water.
Then it was out the back to the clothes line to dry.
In the days prior the Lance Hill the washing ladies friend made his fortune with his invention, the Hills hoist clothes lines consisted of two poles that extended most likely the length of the back yard with generally two wires connecting either end.
No electronic magic involved.
Camden, New South Wales, Australia.
Seaton Carew is a seaside resort in County Durham, northern England, with a population of 6,018 (2017). The area is named after a Norman French family called Carou who owned lands in the area and settled there, while 'Seaton' means farmstead or settlement by the sea. The resort falls within the unitary authority of Hartlepool.
It separated from most of Hartlepool by the Durham Coast Line. The resort is on the North Sea coast and north of the river Tees estuary.
There is evidence that the area was occupied in Roman times as vestiges of Roman buildings, coins and artefacts are occasionally found on the beach. Later during the reign of Henry I, Seaton came into the possession of Robert De Carrowe and the settlement changed its name to Seaton Carrowe. In medieval times salt was extracted from sea water by evaporation and ash from the fuel used to remove the water was dumped on North Gare and now forms a series of grass covered mounds on the golf course.[9] A Gilbertine priory or cell to Sempringham Priory was established in the Seaton area although so far no trace has been found. In 1667 a gun fortification was built on the promontory of Seaton Snook to defend the mouth of the Tees, particularly against the Dutch—remnants of these fortifications can be seen today.
Seaton Carew was a fishing village but grew in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a seaside holiday resort for wealthy Quaker families from Darlington, effectively founding Seaton Carew as a seaside resort. Many stayed at the rows of stucco houses and hotels built along the seafront and around The Green—a turfed square facing the sea.
In 1867 a hoard of Spanish silver dollars was revealed in the sands following a heavy storm.
In 1874 the Durham and Yorkshire Golf Club (now Seaton Carew Golf Club) was founded by Duncan McCuaig, with a 14-hole course on coastal land to the south-east of Seaton Carew. Four holes were added in 1891 and in 1925 further work was carried out with the guidance of renowned golf course designer Alister MacKenzie.
In 1882 Seaton Carew was incorporated into West Hartlepool and the Museum of Hartlepool records that a small riot involving Irish labourers took place in the late Victorian era, when townsfolk mistook them for Fenian agitators.
Just north of Seaton was the works of the West Hartlepool Steel & Iron Company. In 1898 Christopher Furness and W.C. Gray of West Hartlepool purchased the Stockton Malleable Iron Works, the Moor Steel and Iron Works, and the West Hartlepool Steel and Iron Works to form the South Durham Steel and Iron Company. This became part of the British Steel Corporation in 1967. The West Hartlepool Steel and Iron Works is thought to have closed in 1979.
Tourists and visitors are attracted to the resort's four miles of sandy beach, promenade, arcades, and fish and chip restaurants. The beach is regularly cleaned and is patrolled by lifeguards during the summer holidays. In 2019 the main beach was given an 'excellent' bathing rating by the Environment Agency and was granted a Seaside Award by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy.
The artist and leading railway poster designer Frank Henry Mason (1875–1965) was born at Seaton Carew and briefly worked in a Hartlepool shipyard.
The science fiction writer Mark Adlard was born in Seaton Carew in 1932[53] and for a time he lived on The Green.
Neil Warnock, football manager/pundit, lived in Seaton Carew when he played for Hartlepool United.
Footballer Evan Horwood grew up in Seaton before moving to Yorkshire to play for Sheffield United. He has also played for Carlisle United F.C., Hartlepool United and Tranmere Rovers.
John Darwin and his wife Anne lived in Seaton when John faked his death in a canoeing accident in 2002. The story made the news across the world and it inspired a BBC drama documentary on the Darwins' lives
London's role in the Russian Revolution:
In August 1903, a small band of dedicated but argumentative political activists held a fractious conference in London.
It consisted of Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and about 50 other committed agitators who wanted to overthrow the autocratic rule of the Russian Tsar. Their quarrels might have seemed minor at the time, but they have rippled out across history.
This was when the Russian revolutionary movement divided into the two rival factions of Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. And a key vote happened in a pub in Islington.
The Three Johns, 73 White Lion St, London N1 9PF
UK citizens mobilize to stop the farting epidemic. This demonstration could have gotten ugly if the Pro-Fart agitators launched an assault.
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Seaton Carew is a seaside resort in County Durham, northern England, with a population of 6,018 (2017). The area is named after a Norman French family called Carou who owned lands in the area and settled there, while 'Seaton' means farmstead or settlement by the sea. The resort falls within the unitary authority of Hartlepool.
It separated from most of Hartlepool by the Durham Coast Line. The resort is on the North Sea coast and north of the river Tees estuary.
There is evidence that the area was occupied in Roman times as vestiges of Roman buildings, coins and artefacts are occasionally found on the beach. Later during the reign of Henry I, Seaton came into the possession of Robert De Carrowe and the settlement changed its name to Seaton Carrowe. In medieval times salt was extracted from sea water by evaporation and ash from the fuel used to remove the water was dumped on North Gare and now forms a series of grass covered mounds on the golf course.[9] A Gilbertine priory or cell to Sempringham Priory was established in the Seaton area although so far no trace has been found. In 1667 a gun fortification was built on the promontory of Seaton Snook to defend the mouth of the Tees, particularly against the Dutch—remnants of these fortifications can be seen today.
Seaton Carew was a fishing village but grew in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a seaside holiday resort for wealthy Quaker families from Darlington, effectively founding Seaton Carew as a seaside resort. Many stayed at the rows of stucco houses and hotels built along the seafront and around The Green—a turfed square facing the sea.
In 1867 a hoard of Spanish silver dollars was revealed in the sands following a heavy storm.
In 1874 the Durham and Yorkshire Golf Club (now Seaton Carew Golf Club) was founded by Duncan McCuaig, with a 14-hole course on coastal land to the south-east of Seaton Carew. Four holes were added in 1891 and in 1925 further work was carried out with the guidance of renowned golf course designer Alister MacKenzie.
In 1882 Seaton Carew was incorporated into West Hartlepool and the Museum of Hartlepool records that a small riot involving Irish labourers took place in the late Victorian era, when townsfolk mistook them for Fenian agitators.
Just north of Seaton was the works of the West Hartlepool Steel & Iron Company. In 1898 Christopher Furness and W.C. Gray of West Hartlepool purchased the Stockton Malleable Iron Works, the Moor Steel and Iron Works, and the West Hartlepool Steel and Iron Works to form the South Durham Steel and Iron Company. This became part of the British Steel Corporation in 1967. The West Hartlepool Steel and Iron Works is thought to have closed in 1979.
Tourists and visitors are attracted to the resort's four miles of sandy beach, promenade, arcades, and fish and chip restaurants. The beach is regularly cleaned and is patrolled by lifeguards during the summer holidays. In 2019 the main beach was given an 'excellent' bathing rating by the Environment Agency and was granted a Seaside Award by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy.
The artist and leading railway poster designer Frank Henry Mason (1875–1965) was born at Seaton Carew and briefly worked in a Hartlepool shipyard.
The science fiction writer Mark Adlard was born in Seaton Carew in 1932[53] and for a time he lived on The Green.
Neil Warnock, football manager/pundit, lived in Seaton Carew when he played for Hartlepool United.
Footballer Evan Horwood grew up in Seaton before moving to Yorkshire to play for Sheffield United. He has also played for Carlisle United F.C., Hartlepool United and Tranmere Rovers.
John Darwin and his wife Anne lived in Seaton when John faked his death in a canoeing accident in 2002. The story made the news across the world and it inspired a BBC drama documentary on the Darwins' lives
Urquhart Castle, is a ruin, sits beside Loch Ness in the Highlands of Scotland. The castle is on the A82 road, 21 kilometres south-west of Inverness and 2 kilometres east of the village of Drumnadrochit.
The present ruins date from the 13th to the 16th centuries, though built on the site of an early medieval fortification. Founded in the 13th century, Urquhart played a role in the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 14th century. It was subsequently held as a royal castle, and was raided on several occasions by the MacDonald Earls of Ross. The castle was granted to the Clan Grant in 1509, though conflict with the MacDonalds continued. Despite a series of further raids the castle was strengthened, only to be largely abandoned by the middle of the 17th century. Urquhart was partially destroyed in 1692 to prevent its use by Jacobite forces, and subsequently decayed. In the 20th century it was placed in state care as a scheduled monument and opened to the public: it is now one of the most-visited castles in Scotland and received 547,518 visitors in 2019.
The castle, situated on a headland overlooking Loch Ness, is one of the largest in Scotland in area.[3] It was approached from the west and defended by a ditch and drawbridge. The buildings of the castle were laid out around two main enclosures on the shore. The northern enclosure or Nether Bailey includes most of the more intact structures, including the gatehouse, and the five-story Grant Tower at the north end of the castle. The southern enclosure or Upper Bailey, sited on higher ground, comprises the scant remains of earlier buildings.
The name Urquhart derives from the 7th-century form Airdchartdan, itself a mix of the Old Irish aird (point or promontory) and Old Welsh cardden (thicket or wood). Pieces of vitrified stone, subjected to intense heat and characteristic of early medieval fortification, had been discovered at Urquhart from the early 20th century. Speculation that Urquhart may have been the fortress of Bridei son of Maelchon, king of the northern Picts, led Professor Leslie Alcock to undertake excavations in 1983. Adomnán's Life of Columba records that St. Columba visited Bridei some time between 562 and 586, though little geographical detail is given. Adomnán also relates that during the visit, Columba converted a Pictish nobleman named Emchath, who was on his deathbed, his son Virolec, and their household, at a place called Airdchartdan. The excavations, supported by radiocarbon dating, indicated that the rocky knoll at the south-west corner of the castle had been the site of an extensive fort between the 5th and 11th centuries. The findings led Professor Alcock to conclude that Urquhart is most likely to have been the site of Emchath's residence, rather than that of Bridei who is more likely to have been based at Inverness, either at the site of the castle or at Craig Phadrig to the west.
Some sources state that William the Lion had a royal castle at Urquhart in the 12th century, though Professor Alcock finds no evidence for this. In the 12th and 13th centuries, the Meic Uilleim (MacWilliams), descendants of Malcolm III, staged a series of rebellions against David I and his successors. The last of these rebellions was put down in 1229, and to maintain order Alexander II granted Urquhart to his Hostarius (usher or door-ward), Thomas de Lundin. On de Lundin's death a few years later it passed to his son Alan Durward. It is considered likely that the original castle was built soon after this time, centred on the motte at the south-west of the site. In 1275, after Alan's death, the king granted Urquhart to John II Comyn, Lord of Badenoch.
The first documentary record of Urquhart Castle occurs in 1296, when it was captured by Edward I of England. Edward's invasion marked the beginning of the Wars of Scottish Independence, which would go on intermittently until 1357. Edward appointed Sir William fitz Warin as constable to hold the castle for the English. In 1297 he was ambushed by Sir Andrew de Moray while returning from Inverness, and Moray subsequently laid siege to the castle, launching an unsuccessful night attack. The English must have been dislodged soon after, since in 1298 Urquhart was again controlled by the Scots. In 1303 Sir Alexander de Forbes failed to hold off another English assault. This time Edward installed as governor Alexander Comyn, brother of John, as the family had sided with the English against Robert Bruce. Following his murder of the Red Comyn in 1306, Bruce completed his defeat of the Comyns when he marched through the Great Glen in 1307, taking the castles of Inverlochy, Urquhart and Inverness. After this time Urquhart became a royal castle, held for the crown by a series of constables.
Sir Robert Lauder of Quarrelwood was constable of Urquhart Castle in 1329. After fighting at the Battle of Halidon Hill in 1333, where the Scots were defeated, Lauder returned to hold Urquhart against another threatened English invasion. It is recorded as being one of only five castles in Scotland held by the Scots at this time (the others were Dumbarton, Lochleven, Kildrummy and Loch Doon). In 1342, David II spent the summer hunting at Urquhart, the only king to have stayed here.
Over the next two hundred years, the Great Glen was raided frequently by the MacDonald Lords of the Isles, powerful rulers of a semi-independent kingdom in western Scotland, with a claim to the earldom of Ross. In 1395, Domhnall of Islay seized Urquhart Castle from the crown, and managed to retain it for more than 15 years. In 1411, he marched through the glen to take on the king's supporters at the Battle of Harlaw. Although an indecisive battle, Domhnall subsequently lost the initiative and the crown was soon back in control of Urquhart. In 1437 Domhnall's son Alexander, now Earl of Ross, raided around Glen Urquhart but could not take the castle. Royal funds were granted to shore up the castle's defences. Alexander's son John succeeded his father in 1449, aged 16. In 1452 he too led a raid up the Great Glen, seizing Urquhart, and subsequently obtained a grant of the lands and castle of Urquhart for life. However, in 1462 John made an agreement with Edward IV of England against the Scottish King James III. When this became known to James in 1476, John was stripped of his titles, and Urquhart was turned over to an ally, the Earl of Huntly.
Huntly brought in Sir Duncan Grant of Freuchie to restore order to the area around Urquhart Castle. His son John Grant of Freuchie (d.1538) was given a five-year lease of the Glen Urquhart estate in 1502. In 1509, Urquhart Castle, along with the estates of Glen Urquhart and Glenmoriston, was granted by James IV to John Grant in perpetuity, on condition that he repair and rebuild the castle. The Grants maintained their ownership of the castle until 1512, although the raids from the west continued. In 1513, following the disaster of Flodden, Sir Donald MacDonald of Lochalsh attempted to gain from the disarray in Scotland by claiming the Lordship of the Isles and occupying Urquhart Castle. Grant regained the castle before 1517, but not before the MacDonalds had driven off 300 cattle and 1,000 sheep, as well as looting the castle of provisions.[24] Grant unsuccessfully attempted to claim damages from MacDonald. James Grant of Freuchie (d.1553) succeeded his father, and in 1544 became involved with Huntly and Clan Fraser in a feud with the Macdonalds of Clanranald, which culminated in the Battle of the Shirts. In retaliation, the MacDonalds and their allies the Camerons attacked and captured Urquhart in 1545. Known as the "Great Raid", this time the MacDonalds succeeded in taking 2,000 cattle, as well as hundreds of other animals, and stripped the castle of its furniture, cannon, and even the gates. Grant regained the castle, and was also awarded Cameron lands as recompense.
The Great Raid proved to be the last raid. In 1527, the historian Hector Boece wrote of the "rewinous wallis" of Urquhart, but by the close of the 16th century Urquhart had been rebuilt by the Grants, now a powerful force in the Highlands. Repairs and remodelling continued as late as 1623, although the castle was no longer a favoured residence. In 1644 a mob of Covenanters (Presbyterian agitators) broke into the castle when Lady Mary Grant was staying, robbing her and turning her out for her adherence to Episcopalianism. An inventory taken in 1647 shows the castle virtually empty.[28] When Oliver Cromwell invaded Scotland in 1650, he disregarded Urquhart in favour of building forts at either end of the Great Glen.
When James VII was deposed in the Revolution of 1688, Ludovic Grant of Freuchie sided with William of Orange and garrisoned the castle with 200 of his own soldiers. Though lacking weapons they were well-provisioned and, when a force of 500 Jacobites (supporters of the exiled James) laid siege, the garrison were able to hold out until after the defeat of the main Jacobite force at Cromdale in May 1690. When the soldiers finally left they blew up the gatehouse to prevent reoccupation of the castle by the Jacobites. Large blocks of collapsed masonry are still visible beside the remains of the gatehouse. Parliament ordered £2,000 compensation to be paid to Grant, but no repairs were undertaken. Subsequent plundering of the stonework and other materials for re-use by locals further reduced the ruins, and the Grant Tower partially collapsed following a storm in 1715.
By the 1770s the castle was roofless, and was regarded as a romantic ruin by 19th-century painters and visitors to the Highlands. In 1884 the castle came under the control of Caroline, Dowager Countess of Seafield, widow of the 7th Earl of Seafield, on the death of her son the 8th Earl. On Lady Seafield's death in 1911 her will instructed that Urquhart Castle be entrusted into state care, and in October 1913 responsibility for the castle's upkeep was transferred to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Works and Public Buildings. Historic Environment Scotland (formerly Historic Scotland), the successor to the Office of Works, continues to maintain the castle, which is scheduled monument in recognition of its national significance.
In 1994 Historic Scotland proposed construction of a new visitor centre and car park to alleviate the problems of parking on the main A82 road. Strong local opposition led to a public inquiry, which approved the proposals in 1998. The new building is sunk into the embankment below the road, with provision for parking on the roof of the structure. The visitor centre includes a display on the history of the site, including a series of replicas from the medieval period; a cinema; a restaurant; and shop. The castle is open all year, and can also host wedding ceremonies. In 2018 518,195 people visited Urquhart Castle, making it Historic Scotland's third most visited site after the castles of Edinburgh and Stirling.
View from Seaton Carew over to Headlands, Hartlepool
Seaton Carew is a seaside resort in County Durham, northern England, with a population of 6,018 (2017). The area is named after a Norman French family called Carou who owned lands in the area and settled there, while 'Seaton' means farmstead or settlement by the sea. The resort falls within the unitary authority of Hartlepool.
It separated from most of Hartlepool by the Durham Coast Line. The resort is on the North Sea coast and north of the river Tees estuary.
There is evidence that the area was occupied in Roman times as vestiges of Roman buildings, coins and artefacts are occasionally found on the beach. Later during the reign of Henry I, Seaton came into the possession of Robert De Carrowe and the settlement changed its name to Seaton Carrowe. In medieval times salt was extracted from sea water by evaporation and ash from the fuel used to remove the water was dumped on North Gare and now forms a series of grass covered mounds on the golf course.[9] A Gilbertine priory or cell to Sempringham Priory was established in the Seaton area although so far no trace has been found. In 1667 a gun fortification was built on the promontory of Seaton Snook to defend the mouth of the Tees, particularly against the Dutch—remnants of these fortifications can be seen today.
Seaton Carew was a fishing village but grew in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a seaside holiday resort for wealthy Quaker families from Darlington, effectively founding Seaton Carew as a seaside resort. Many stayed at the rows of stucco houses and hotels built along the seafront and around The Green—a turfed square facing the sea.
In 1867 a hoard of Spanish silver dollars was revealed in the sands following a heavy storm.
In 1874 the Durham and Yorkshire Golf Club (now Seaton Carew Golf Club) was founded by Duncan McCuaig, with a 14-hole course on coastal land to the south-east of Seaton Carew. Four holes were added in 1891 and in 1925 further work was carried out with the guidance of renowned golf course designer Alister MacKenzie.
In 1882 Seaton Carew was incorporated into West Hartlepool and the Museum of Hartlepool records that a small riot involving Irish labourers took place in the late Victorian era, when townsfolk mistook them for Fenian agitators.
Just north of Seaton was the works of the West Hartlepool Steel & Iron Company. In 1898 Christopher Furness and W.C. Gray of West Hartlepool purchased the Stockton Malleable Iron Works, the Moor Steel and Iron Works, and the West Hartlepool Steel and Iron Works to form the South Durham Steel and Iron Company. This became part of the British Steel Corporation in 1967. The West Hartlepool Steel and Iron Works is thought to have closed in 1979.
Tourists and visitors are attracted to the resort's four miles of sandy beach, promenade, arcades, and fish and chip restaurants. The beach is regularly cleaned and is patrolled by lifeguards during the summer holidays. In 2019 the main beach was given an 'excellent' bathing rating by the Environment Agency and was granted a Seaside Award by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy.
The artist and leading railway poster designer Frank Henry Mason (1875–1965) was born at Seaton Carew and briefly worked in a Hartlepool shipyard.
The science fiction writer Mark Adlard was born in Seaton Carew in 1932[53] and for a time he lived on The Green.
Neil Warnock, football manager/pundit, lived in Seaton Carew when he played for Hartlepool United.
Footballer Evan Horwood grew up in Seaton before moving to Yorkshire to play for Sheffield United. He has also played for Carlisle United F.C., Hartlepool United and Tranmere Rovers.
John Darwin and his wife Anne lived in Seaton when John faked his death in a canoeing accident in 2002. The story made the news across the world and it inspired a BBC drama documentary on the Darwins' lives
Seaton Carew is a seaside resort in County Durham, northern England, with a population of 6,018 (2017). The area is named after a Norman French family called Carou who owned lands in the area and settled there, while 'Seaton' means farmstead or settlement by the sea. The resort falls within the unitary authority of Hartlepool.
It separated from most of Hartlepool by the Durham Coast Line. The resort is on the North Sea coast and north of the river Tees estuary.
There is evidence that the area was occupied in Roman times as vestiges of Roman buildings, coins and artefacts are occasionally found on the beach. Later during the reign of Henry I, Seaton came into the possession of Robert De Carrowe and the settlement changed its name to Seaton Carrowe. In medieval times salt was extracted from sea water by evaporation and ash from the fuel used to remove the water was dumped on North Gare and now forms a series of grass covered mounds on the golf course.[9] A Gilbertine priory or cell to Sempringham Priory was established in the Seaton area although so far no trace has been found. In 1667 a gun fortification was built on the promontory of Seaton Snook to defend the mouth of the Tees, particularly against the Dutch—remnants of these fortifications can be seen today.
Seaton Carew was a fishing village but grew in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a seaside holiday resort for wealthy Quaker families from Darlington, effectively founding Seaton Carew as a seaside resort. Many stayed at the rows of stucco houses and hotels built along the seafront and around The Green—a turfed square facing the sea.
In 1867 a hoard of Spanish silver dollars was revealed in the sands following a heavy storm.
In 1874 the Durham and Yorkshire Golf Club (now Seaton Carew Golf Club) was founded by Duncan McCuaig, with a 14-hole course on coastal land to the south-east of Seaton Carew. Four holes were added in 1891 and in 1925 further work was carried out with the guidance of renowned golf course designer Alister MacKenzie.
In 1882 Seaton Carew was incorporated into West Hartlepool and the Museum of Hartlepool records that a small riot involving Irish labourers took place in the late Victorian era, when townsfolk mistook them for Fenian agitators.
Just north of Seaton was the works of the West Hartlepool Steel & Iron Company. In 1898 Christopher Furness and W.C. Gray of West Hartlepool purchased the Stockton Malleable Iron Works, the Moor Steel and Iron Works, and the West Hartlepool Steel and Iron Works to form the South Durham Steel and Iron Company. This became part of the British Steel Corporation in 1967. The West Hartlepool Steel and Iron Works is thought to have closed in 1979.
Tourists and visitors are attracted to the resort's four miles of sandy beach, promenade, arcades, and fish and chip restaurants. The beach is regularly cleaned and is patrolled by lifeguards during the summer holidays. In 2019 the main beach was given an 'excellent' bathing rating by the Environment Agency and was granted a Seaside Award by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy.
The artist and leading railway poster designer Frank Henry Mason (1875–1965) was born at Seaton Carew and briefly worked in a Hartlepool shipyard.
The science fiction writer Mark Adlard was born in Seaton Carew in 1932[53] and for a time he lived on The Green.
Neil Warnock, football manager/pundit, lived in Seaton Carew when he played for Hartlepool United.
Footballer Evan Horwood grew up in Seaton before moving to Yorkshire to play for Sheffield United. He has also played for Carlisle United F.C., Hartlepool United and Tranmere Rovers.
John Darwin and his wife Anne lived in Seaton when John faked his death in a canoeing accident in 2002. The story made the news across the world and it inspired a BBC drama documentary on the Darwins' lives
Rock Legends Cruise VI ~ February 15th-19th, 2018
Independence of the Seas ~ Royal Caribbean Line
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Independence_of_the_Seas
Fort Lauderdale - Cozumel - Fort Lauderdale
Twenty-two bands ~ Five Day Party ~ four stages
Concerts all day-and-night from 10AM to 3AM
*[this sunrise : Saturday morning - day three - 7:00 AM]
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2018 Bands: Sammy Hagar & The Circle ~ Bad Company
John Kay & Steppenwolf ~ Blue Oyster Cult ~ Uriah Heep
Elvin Bishop ~ Molly Hatchet ~ Vanilla Fudge ~ Quiet Riot
Rik Emmett & Resolution 9 ~ The Black Star Riders
The Artimus Pyle Band ~ Pat Travers Band ~ Zebra
Gary Hoey ~ Eric Gales ~ The Devon Allman Band
Two Wolf ~ Mike Zito ~ Andrew Hagar aka Drew Hagus
Brandon "Taz" Niederauer ~ The Damn Truth
*[We are booked on RLC VII Feb. 2019!! Different each
year! Signed so far: Roger Daltrey ~ Kansas ~ Buddy Guy
Dave Davies ~ Foghat ~ The Outlaws ~ Nazareth
Canned Heat ~ Martin Barre ~ The Artimus Pyle Band
Earl & The Agitators ~ More Artists TBA]
*[All proceeds from Rock Legends Cruises go to the Native
American Heritage Association, a non-profit organization
dedicated to fighting hunger and providing basic life necessities
to families living on Reservations in South Dakota, U.S.A.]
*If you'd like to check-out my last
year's 'Rock Legends Cruise V'
photo-album you can see it here:
"THE BATTLE OF STEPNEY": The Anarchists' House on Fire
This is a black and white printed postcard published by Valentine's Series of the the Battle of Stepney, also known as the Siege of Sidney Street.
from Wikipedia:
In December 1910 there was an attempted jewellery robbery at Houndsditch in the City of London by a gang of Latvian immigrants. The robbery resulted in the murder of three policemen, the wounding of two others, and the death of George Gardstein, the leader of the Latvian gang.
The police were informed that the final two members of the gang were hiding at 100 Sidney Street in Stepney. The police evacuated local residents from the environs, and on the morning of 3 January a firefight broke out. Armed with inferior weapons, the police sought assistance from the army.
The siege lasted for about six hours. Towards the end of the stand-off, the building caught fire; no single cause has been identified. One of the agitators in the building was shot before the fire took control. While the London Fire Brigade were damping down the ruins—in which they found the two bodies—the building collapsed, killing a fireman, Superintendent Charles Pearson.
"What the demon is for the angel. Is the angel for the demon."
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Skin: Lumae :: Eirtae - Elanil // Bare
Hair: [taketomi]_Porsha_Bento - Sampler Pack
Hairbase: SIIX// Russian Hairbase
Hands: VISTA - Bento Prohands Fem V.2
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Inter-Beton DAF CF 6x4 long wheelbase tractor unit with tandem axle concrete mixer trailer.
The general look of this outfit and heavy duty Meritor hub reduction 15tonne drive axles all go to making standing on a Belgian motorway bridge on a grey day in the rain worthwhile! 😉
Inmersive
In the eyes of others, we appeared oblivious to the world's inexorable decay, yet in truth, we were deeply inmersed in upholding the fragile pillars that sustained the remnants of sanity and truth.
Acrobats and agitators, jesters and puppeteers, we were the pariahs and outcasts of a civilization that scorned us, blind to the reality that we were its true guardians...
by me
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Silent Agitator is a sculpture by Ruth Ewan. It is currently on display on Calton Hill, Edinburgh. Based on work by Ralph Chaplin, the art installation features a clock and the text "time to organize" below. The work was inspired by an illustration for the Industrial Workers of the World with the text, "What time is it? Time to organize!"
The sculpture was installed along Manhattan's High Line, in the U.S. state of New York, from April 2019 to March 2020. In May 2019, Bloomberg's James Tarmy included Silent Agitator in his list of "New York City's Most Instagrammable Public Art (That’s Not the Vessel)". Inspired by the sculpture, Ewan, the Brooklyn's Women's Chorus, the New York City Labor Chorus, and other performers sang "odes to organized labor" on the High Line at 14th Street, in October 2019.
Silent Agitator is a sculpture by Ruth Ewan. It is currently on display on Calton Hill, Edinburgh.[1] Based on work by Ralph Chaplin, the art installation features a clock and the text "time to organize" below.[2] The work was inspired by an illustration for the Industrial Workers of the World with the text, "What time is it? Time to organize!"[3]
Industrial Workers of the World Silent agitators
The sculpture was installed along Manhattan's High Line,[4][5] in the U.S. state of New York, from April 2019 to March 2020.[6][7] In May 2019, Bloomberg's James Tarmy included Silent Agitator in his list of "New York City's Most Instagrammable Public Art (That’s Not the Vessel)".[8] Inspired by the sculpture, Ewan, the Brooklyn's Women's Chorus, the New York City Labor Chorus, and other performers sang "odes to organized labor" on the High Line at 14th Street, in October 2019.[9]
Monument in red granite made 1978-1984 by Pye Engström (born 1928). It's a commemoration of the female textile workers in Norrköping city. In the middle stands Kata Dalström, an agitator who urges women to fight for their rights. The title "Vår enighets fana" means "The banner of our unity".
20030314DE An object of pity for many, the christian civil rights agitator in the DDR Vera L. was important enough to have been observed by 49 secret police (Stasi) spies, including her own husband. After the wall came down she joined the Greens, later the CDU and has since been established on the far right of the politial spectrum. Looks harmless? Not in the slightest. Berlin Germany #blackandwhite #105 #myhusbandspiedonme #farright #afd # antisemitism #authoritarian #antimoslem #knownknowns&unknownknowns #art #realpeople #reallives #truestories #portraits #b&w #photography #instagram #street hughes-photography.eu www.flickr.com/photos/michael_hughes www.hughes.berlin
Yesterday I mentioned to a few people that we would take a closer look across the Tamar towards the industrial side of Bell Bay. So I put on the Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2 and started shooting. All my shots today were taken with this impressive lens.
Here we see the cargo ship Globulus being loaded with woodchips to be shipped to Japan. Enlarge the shot and you'll see that huge mountain of woodchips is being pushed around by bulldozers! Quite an operation.
Now I must add that this woodchip comes from sustainable forests. Wood is, after, all a recyclable product and less damaging to the environment than plastics or manufactured materials. All logging in Tasmania is now sustainable despite what some political agitators would have us believe. More than half of the Tasmanian landscape is protected forests.
"THE BATTLE OF STEPNEY": The Fire
This is a black and white printed postcard published by Valentine's Series of the the Battle of Stepney, also known as the Siege of Sidney Street.
from Wikipedia:
In December 1910 there was an attempted jewellery robbery at Houndsditch in the City of London by a gang of Latvian immigrants. The robbery resulted in the murder of three policemen, the wounding of two others, and the death of George Gardstein, the leader of the Latvian gang.
The police were informed that the final two members of the gang were hiding at 100 Sidney Street in Stepney. The police evacuated local residents from the environs, and on the morning of 3 January a firefight broke out. Armed with inferior weapons, the police sought assistance from the army.
The siege lasted for about six hours. Towards the end of the stand-off, the building caught fire; no single cause has been identified. One of the agitators in the building was shot before the fire took control. While the London Fire Brigade were damping down the ruins—in which they found the two bodies—the building collapsed, killing a fireman, Superintendent Charles Pearson.
"THE BATTLE OF STEPNEY": After the Siege
This is a black and white printed postcard published by Valentine's Series of the Battle of Stepney, also known as the Siege of Sidney Street.
from Wikipedia:
In December 1910 there was an attempted jewellery robbery at Houndsditch in the City of London by a gang of Latvian immigrants. The robbery resulted in the murder of three policemen, the wounding of two others, and the death of George Gardstein, the leader of the Latvian gang.
The police were informed that the final two members of the gang were hiding at 100 Sidney Street in Stepney. The police evacuated local residents from the environs, and on the morning of 3 January a firefight broke out. Armed with inferior weapons, the police sought assistance from the army.
The siege lasted for about six hours. Towards the end of the stand-off, the building caught fire; no single cause has been identified. One of the agitators in the building was shot before the fire took control. While the London Fire Brigade were damping down the ruins—in which they found the two bodies—the building collapsed, killing a fireman, Superintendent Charles Pearson.
Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcome X
Dr. King's philosophy was one of non-violence, and this article looks at the alternative views of Malcolm X which are not aired quite so frequently.
Dr. King is probably remembered as the most famous African-American leader in US history. At the time of his assassination in 1968 he was at the forefront of the civil rights movement in the US. He left behind him a legacy of committed, non-violent resistance to an unjust system. But perhaps his greatest legacy is his aspiration for a future in which racial division would be a thing of the past: his famous dream.
But there were limits to the effectiveness of King’s philosophy. His approach was essentially what theorist Robert Cox would call a ‘problem solving’ approach - in other words, King seemed to be trying to work for change within an existing system for most of his life. Another 1960s black leader whose ideas presented more of a challenge to the existing structures of US society:
Malcolm X. He was similarly assassinated three years before Martin Luther King. Although his approach to the problem of institutional racism in America was an essential component of the civil rights struggle, we hear much less about his ideas.
Whenever Malcom X is brought up it is first necessary to dispense with the inevitable accusations: yes, Malcom X was - for a time - a so-called ‘racist in reverse’. He once believed in an exclusionary form of Islam, believing that the white man was the devil. This did not refer to some white people, or to most white people, but to ALL white people.
But Malcolm X changed his views on that score. Indeed, his entire life was marked by his willingness to alter his views. He made many remarkable changes throughout his life, moving from a life of armed robbery, gambling, and dealing in cocaine and marijuana to an ascetic life as a devout Muslim. And by the time of his return from visiting Mecca in 1964, he had changed his views on white people. His travels through the Middle East and Africa had led him to learn the error of his racist views of whites. In a dramatic turnaround, he wrote an open letter for distribution to the press in which he rejected his earlier racism.
He still believed in his struggle to fight for the emancipation of his race, but no longer believed that all white people were his enemies.
Of course, the reality of 1960s North America was that many whites were the enemies of black people. And both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were struggling to change the situation, so that African-Americans would not continue to be the victims of America.
Their methods and views were very different. Dr. King was a Christian minister, whereas Malcolm X not only became a Muslim in a jailhouse conversion, but had a history of hostility towards Christianity. One of the most powerful images in Spike Lee’s biopic of Malcolm X is of Denzel Washington, as Malcolm, arguing in jail about the colour of Jesus’ skin. He was arguing that Jesus was born in a part of the world where the indigenous population had historically been ‘people of colour’.
He later moderated his criticism of Christianity, and was willing to work alongside black Christian leaders, but - similar to a Marxist view of religion - he always felt that black people in America had been kept passive by Christianity since the time of slavery. They would tolerate hell in the present because of the promise of heaven in the hereafter.
One of the most interesting differences between the philosophies of the two men, and one which is pertinent today given the imminent 1916 celebrations, is their attitude to violence. Martin Luther King espoused a ‘turn the other cheek’ philosophy, whereas Malcolm X had a philosophy of “vigorous action in self defence”. These two philosophies were juxtaposed in another Spike Lee film, ‘Do the Right Thing‘, which finishes with a quote from each man.
However, Malcolm X did not believe in violence in all crcumstances, and generally spoke about violence as a defensive mechanism rather than as aggression. He suggested that black people should form rifle clubs. It should be remembered that gun ownership was entirely legal, and that this was in a context where the Ku Klux Klan were very active, and civil rights legislation had yet to be enacted.
On one occasion, he advocated self defence after seeing television footage from Alabama of Martin Luther King being knocked down by a racist. He sent a message to Lincoln Rockwell, one of the white supremacist agitators in Alabama and the leader of the American Nazi Party, warning him that if these racist attacks continued they would be met with “maximum physical retaliation”. His philosophy was not motivated by hate, but by ‘intelligence’. He believed that self-defence was morally justified, and also cited hypocrisy of the US drafting black men to be violent in its army, but then condemning them for being ready to defend themselves in a just cause at home:
"They're violent in Korea, they're violent in Germany, they're violent in the south Pacific, they're violent in Cuba, they're violent wherever they go. But when it comes time for you and me to protect ourselves against lynchings, they tell us to be nonviolent" (Detroit, Feb 14th 1965 - 8 days before his death).
It is important to remember, as noted in Malcolm’s eulogy by actor Ossie Davis, that Malcolm X was never personally associated with any violence himself. His view was that a black population that was willing to defend itself would make for a more peaceful society, as they would be less likely to be the victims of attack. It was also clear that the government was failing to protect the black community, and Malcolm X believed that a proactive African-American policy of self defence would force the government to step in and do its job.
Malcolm X saw the futility of trying to change the system from within, and in appealling to the government for change. He believed in taking action to improve circumstances of discrimination or oppression. He spoke about a 'do it yourself philosophy, a do it right now philosophy, an it's already too late philosophy'. He knew that African-American people could not achieve fairness in the system of the time, and this was the reason for his militancy and urgency. But he was also conscious that his militancy would make the more moderate path of Martin Luther King appear more acceptable in comparison. At a speech in Jan/Feb 1965 in Selma, Alabama, where King was in jail, Malcolm X spoke at a rally and sat beside King's wife on the podium. Dr. King's wife told ‘Jet’ magazine that Malcolm X told her that he "wanted to present an alternative; that it mght be easier for whites to accept Martin's proposals after hearing him (Malcolm X)... He seemed rather anxious to let Martin know that he was ...trying to make it easier [for him]" (cited in Alex Haley's introduction to The Autobiography of Malcolm X). So in his militancy, Malcolm X was also consciously attempting to open up a space for more moderate voices to be heard.
Malcolm X's approach was an essential component of the civil rights struggle, and I believe that his commitment, his militancy, and his unwillingness to compromise or be co-opted mean that his ideas have far more emancipatory potential than those of Martin Luther King.
Malcolm X died while his ideas were still developing - who knows what solutions he would have come up with if he had been allowed to live?
What's all this hubbub there, mac? You say some graffiti non-artist has a beef with ReX, creator of NoLa Rising? Why would some guy have a problem with messages of hope. Let's see what the verbiage is here...
Highlights from recent articles in New Orleans City Business:
"Fred Radtke is the Gray Ghost, the self-appointed scourge of the New Orleans graffiti scene." -City Business {self-appointed scourge...ouch}
And he applies this theory to graffiti with a missionary zeal. To Radtke, graffiti is not just an eyesore, it is a personal offense to himself and the community. He accuses taggers of being anarchists, agitators and members of the church of Satan. {a zealot...wow, much like the people we are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan who don't know when to surrender...and WAIT, anarchists, agitators and members of the church of satan??? Are you kidding me? Just because I left the Republican party after fourteen years doesn't mean I'm an anarchist. And I reckon that Christian fraternity I'm a part of it part of me being a phony (see below). Laughable and sad}
Radtke didn’t deny his war against Dingler is personal and said he will use all of his energy and resources to financially cripple him. He accuses Dingler of being in league with the graffiti artists, saying Dingler intentionally provoked him by hanging signs calling him the “Gray Gangster”. {Admitted to using the police in a personal vendetta...Wants to financially cripple an artist that is already broke (HA!)...Accuses me of violating my right to free association though he doesn't know who I hang out with because he's never met me}
“When I asked Officer Joia if he was going to file the same charges against Fred under the graffiti statutes, he said he was unaware of what I was talking about,” Dingler said. “Here’s a guy who is destroying city property, who has become what he said he is fighting against. And yet I’m the one facing all these charges? It’s selective enforcement of the law.” {ABOVE THE LAW? Ask why?}
Radtke dismissed Dingler’s accusations, called him a “loser,” a “phony” and the “biggest pain in the ass I ever met.” {I'll take loser, phony, and the biggest pain in the ass from this man(?)...but he's never met me so how would he know}
He said Dingler’s so-called “messages of hope” are “vertical trash” that promote other forms of vandalism. {So very different than the business signs he paints over and leaves hanging}
“I had no idea who he was,” Dingler said. “I thought it was crazy. Who would paint over messages of hope?” {Ask yourself what type of person would do such a thing}
“You have to have a pretty cold heart to do something like that,” Dingler said. {I stand by that statement}
Dingler said he was charged with violations of the law after Radtke became obsessed with him and embarked on a personal vendetta. {Which has been admitted to}
And it doesn’t matter if the signs happen to be hand-painted, “pretty pictures” of rainbows with inspirational slogans. {MORE GREY is better?}
To Radtke it is all vandalism and he is going to “gray” it all out, whether anyone asks him to or not. {ABOVE THE LAW?}
Radtke said taggers he associates with Dingler have thrown acid at him, threatened him with knives and smashed his truck windows. {I associate with no such people}
Dingler points to an online photograph of a bloodied young graffiti artist he claims Radtke attacked. {They are all over the internet along with the story}
“He may think what he’s doing is a corrective measure but it’s unauthorized in many cases and doesn’t correct the graffiti but just camouflages it with another color of paint. That’s the same thing,” said Lary Hesdorffer, Vieux Carre Commission director. “It may be with better intent, but that doesn’t make it right.” {So very plain and accurate}
“But I wouldn’t be surprised if there were some people who, if they knew of an easy path to do so, might take the steps to prosecute Mr. Radtke,” Hesdorffer said. {Start by calling the police and reporting the grey paint as a criminal act of property damage, by the City of New Orleans definitions, what he does is considered graffiti}
Robert Mendoza, New Orleans Public Works Department director, said street signs require a specific reflective surface for night viewing and by painting them gray Radtke is putting the public at risk. Mendoza said Radtke is making the graffiti problem worse by smearing gray paint over an entire sign to cover up a thin, spray-painted signature. But Radtke is unapologetic. He said if the city replaced the vandalized stop signs or coated them with a protective cover, he wouldn’t paint over them. {So, it's okay to put the public at risk if your a zealot? Or, perhaps you'd like to sell the city a very special paint coating? One that may not have worked in New Orleans East some time ago at a failed press conference that never aired?}
“But what’s the difference between someone who paints their name on a building and Radtke painting big gray boxes over the graffiti? Just because he can’t afford to get rid of it the right way that’s no excuse to do it the wrong way.” {I still stand by that statement}
Radtke said if property owners don’t like what he is doing, they can pay to remove the graffiti themselves or be fined by as much as $500 under a 1998 law that punishes property owners for failure to remove graffiti 30 days after receiving a notice from the city. {His way of helping the business owners eradicate graffiti was to lobby City Hall to increase the penalties for owners who didn't remove the graffiti...does that include grey graffiti?}
“If people did their jobs, I wouldn’t be involved,” he said. “Right now the only thing we can do to deter graffiti on signs is to cover it up with water-based gray paint.” {Nope, wrong again. Not a deterrent...more of an invitation of a fresh canvas}
But some property owners question what separates Radtke from the vandals he is fighting. {Indeed}
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So, feeling harassed by a Loser and a Phony...and yet still all up in arms about someone you think so lowly of...enough to call out the police in a city where the police are already under-staffed and over-tasked? Enough to clog up the court system that has a ten percent conviction rate of murderers? Enough to drive around and collect my artwork as though you are indeed my number one fan?
I think this city has more important problems to be dealing with than the likes of what this one man has decided he can personally use in his vendetta against me because I was willing to put my name on the line to call him out from the shadows and help those in the press question his true motives.
Sure, I'm taking some hits on this one, but the greater hits come at your civil liberties. The battle is bigger than me. New Orleans is a town that has long since used posting flyers as a means of letting people know what is going on. If Fred RAdTke succeeds, every business that posts flyers will then also be opened up to the same kind of harassment that I am suffering from this one man vigilante.
So, keep the peace, fight the good fight and keep on helping NoLA RISE, for we're in this rebuilding of the city together.
FOR MORE INFO ON THE ARTICLE WRITTEN BY RICH WEBSTER OF CITY BUSINESS:
www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/viewFeature.cfm?recID=967
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Rigid units going about their business in Dubai.
(1 of 2) A well worked, MERCEDES BENZ agitator.
(2 of 2) Sita Trashco, MAN T65.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
This is a new species for me. Found on an elephant ear leaf at White Rock lake. I was looking them up to see if there were any interesting facts. Ran across this info: females sometimes eat the male's forewings during mating. Hmmm, guess it still beats being a preying mantis male.
Male Restless Bush Cricket (Hapithus agitator)
My photos can also be found at kapturedbykala.com
www.joostdevree.nl/shtmls/betonpomp.shtml
English:
Concrete Pump
A concrete pump is an installation with which concrete mortar is pumped from the concrete truck (agitator, truck mixer) to the formwork.
When the concrete mixture has to be pumped to a great height, extra powerful concrete pumps are needed. The traditional concrete pump can handle a pressure of approx. 85 bar; 200 bar may be required for extremely high construction. The risers etc. must be able to withstand that pressure. In the case of extremely high buildings, an intermediate station can optionally be used, so that the counter pressure of the concrete mixture in the pipeline is less great.
For example, the concrete pump quickly fills the foundation with fresh concrete, creating air bubbles. The air bubbles are removed by briefly holding a vibrator in the concrete for a few seconds. The internal vibrator ensures that all air bubbles are vibrated upwards and that the concrete is compacted. If the internal vibrator is kept in the concrete for too long, water will build up on the concrete.