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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.
Serious-looking ovipositor. The male www.flickr.com/photos/anitagould/6170747017 I found a couple of years ago was also of the 5-legged variety.
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
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
On a wet day and probably a washout on site, a good looking twin steer, tri-axle 2017 T359 KENWORTH cement agitator from the Elvin Group, sits waiting for the next job.
Majura Park, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson labeled No Kings Day demonstrators a "rabid base of criminal agitators." (San Fernando Valley, L.A.)
Inyo National Forest on the east side of Yosemite. 9 images, 1 stop increments, layered in Photmatix Pro 5 (default format), final editing Lightroom CC.
Over Labor Day weekend I posted about working in Yosemite National Park (Disillusioned), now I’d like to let you know what it’s like to live in Yosemite housing. Before I start I’d like to give a little history on myself.
I started working as a paperboy at around 7 years old. My brothers, mom and I would get up before school wrap the newspapers, mom would drive us around in the station wagon. My older brother and I would walk from block to block and mom kept us resupplied. She had my younger brother with her in the car, driving from block to block. Not long after that we moved into the country. I bailed hay, plowed and sprayed fields for farmers. At 12, I started bussing tables and doing dishes, 3rd shift on weekends. At 13. I was pumping gas, fixing tires, then repairing automobiles. I did a little factory work last year of high school and graduated early. After graduation I moved to Texas and did road service. From there I joined the Army to see the world. I entered into a Cohort unit, assigned to US Joint Service Special Operations Command (big title). I did live reconnaissance and loved it. Here I was; young, doing some balls to the walls shit and on top of the world. Then, I met this woman that took my breath away, I know cliché. We got married, had a little girl, then came back to the states. I switched over to animal medicine in order to spend more time with my family. I had to trace across the country to go from one school to another, then advanced schooling. We finally ended in Colorado, and then another school. Once I had that finished I enrolled in night college classes. Then again; not much time for the family. My wife wasn’t happy, she wanted to go home to her native country, we discussed what was best for our daughter and she stayed in the states with me. She was 3 at the time. My ex and I are still friends, keep in touch and our daughter visits her often.
Where was I, oh, sadness, my wife left. Anyway, my daughter was devastated, her and her mother were close. In the many challenges in life; watching my daughter suffer through this, was the one of the most difficult. So, dad hunkered down, story time every night, McD’s on Fridays and Pizza Pizza on Saturdays. I was doing ok, but my daughter wasn’t. I still had a lot of obligations; I was running the US Air Force Academy Veterinary Clinic and a volunteer program for Vet Thechs, at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, Colorado Springs. It soon came time to reenlist, my daughter was 5 at the time and she needed me more, so I left the Army. It was a great run, got a butt load of medals, was awarded Non-commissioned Officer of the Year and I was privileged to serve with some of the best men and women from around the world.
So, here we are; my daughter and I, heading back to the Midwest, two dachshunds, a betta fish and a big rental truck, driving across America once again. We had a blast, until Ernie (one of the dachshunds) ate the betta fish along the way. I made good money selling my house in Colorado, took that money and started a business, did very well, got very sick, sold my business and bounced back. Became a manager for a company, got promoted to district manager along the way. The recession hit us hard in 2008, with cut backs I got laid-off, my daughter all grown, I headed back out west. I took my time looking for work, made it to Washington state and headed down the coast.
I found this job in Yosemite online, applied and was hired on the spot. Now, I’ll start letting you know what it’s like to live in Yosemite’s housing. I first moved into a housing unit very close to where I worked. It was a nice building and had to share a room with a person. It was no biggie, did it I the Army. One of the housing managers let me in the room, the guy that lived there was not there at the time and the room looked as if it had not been cleaned in years. The housing manger didn’t say a word, gave me the keys and left. I had to clean everything on my side of the room before unpacking. While doing so, my new roommate came in, didn’t say a word, went to his computer and played games all night, way into the night.
As the days went by my roommate was becoming a real dick. He would stay up late playing games, I had to get up at 4:30 am for work. Also, would make as much noise as possible to wake me, at all hours of the night and morning. I caught him holding a large key chain full of keys, raise it above his head and drop it on his nightstand until I woke up. This guy was vulgar, extremely poor hygiene and down-right nasty. I complained to housing and was ridiculed by housing management. There was an older gentleman that I worked with; told me to be careful and don’t piss off curtain people or they will get you fired. He told me my roommate and others make it difficult for their roommates, so they don’t have to share a room. The person will get tired of the harassment and request another roommate.
I’m the type of person that stands up for myself and it didn’t take long for my roommate to rally a few friends to make my life difficult. That was almost 10 years ago and over the years many in the Yosemite community have perfected Workplace Mobbing and Community Stalking. You can call it what you want; but it’s conspired mobbing and harassment, here in Yosemite National Park there are no boundaries.
I eventually moved into another housing area. The day I moved in, I was being blocked in the hallway as I would bring my belongings in. Several people in my building would step out of their rooms, directly in front of me as I brought things in. Then, there was one woman that would rush into the building and crowd me in the hall on every trip. The effort and assertion these people would put into their skits was remarkable and sometimes quite hilarious. Watching grown men and women act like adolescent children was mind-blowing. I lived there for many years, being harassed daily. These people will wait around for hours for me to step out of my room, go to the bathroom, do laundry or use the kitchen; so, they will have an opportunity to harass me. If I didn’t leave my room (say I was sick), they would harass me in my room. My neighbors would stomp pass my room, pound on walls, floors anything to generate continuous noise. These people love to hate, enjoy harassing people and will go to almost any length to do so, and no one is holding them accountable. I lived in that building for over 7 years.
Now let’s move to the current building I’m in. I moved into this building in December of this year, because the other housing area is being closed and cleared. When I moved into this building I received the same treatment, just more intensified. As I brought my belongings in, there were several people in the hallway, then stepping from rooms and around the corners. I’m not exaggerating folks, it was like dodging tennis balls shot from a soda pop canon (got a little board, so just threw that in). Here I am, a big man, 200 lbs, bringing in my frig, shelves, all kinds of things. I’m thinking to myself, what happen to common courtesy?
I get moved in, am kinda excited because it’s one of the nicer buildings, nice size private room, with an attached bathroom. I had to share the bathroom with the guy in the next room; we had private and locked entrances, so thought it wasn’t too bad. My excitement was short lived, as I knew it would be (remember I’ve been here a while). About two weeks in; I came home from a long day at the Fresno VA, did my grocery shopping (so much cheaper out of the park) and no one was in the hallway. I thought it odd, because it’s usually crowded when I have groceries. I get half way down the hall and I’m overwhelmed from the smell of feces. I open the door to my room and the smell was worse. I sat my groceries down, looked around trying to find out where the smell was coming from. I opened the bathroom door, the floors, four walls, the fixtures, threshold to the tub area, the tub, my rug under the sink, were all covered with splattered feces. My rug was covered in liquid feces, my neighbor was in his room with the TV on. I have a strong stomach, but this was BAD. I knew better than blow my top (that’s exactly what these sickos want), so I called to try and contact the night housing manager. The young woman at the switchboard was great; she made several attempts to get him to show up, explained in detail what had happened. He was too busy to even show up at all, maybe had too much shit to do. She did manage to get a young member of our Elite Security Force to show up, just kidding about the Elite part. This young man took pictures, said he would fill out a report, then asked me if I had cleaning supplies. He is standing in this filth, my neighbor in his room TV on, and this guy is expecting me to clean this. Am I the only one that’s thinking this is way beyond OVER THE TOP? My neighbor, an elf or maybe a bear came into the bathroom, covered it in shit and he’s expecting me to clean it. My neighbor is setting in his room, so you know it wasn’t him. It was him, I’m trying to add a little humor to the Bat-Shit-Stupid, I live in every day. Well, I tell the Elite Security guy; that I wasn’t going to clean that mess. He looks kind of puzzled, then says “we can have housing clean it tomorrow”. It just keeps getting stupider, doesn’t it, but no kidding, it’s the truth. I said “my neighbor is in his room have him clean it up, I need to clean up myself and get ready for work in the morning”. He went over, talked to him, told me he would clean it, said he would file a report and left. My neighbor was in there maybe 15 minutes, then all lights out. It was still filthy; my rug covered in feces was turned around under the sink, the walls, floors and fixtures still covered in areas. I ended cleaning the rest myself after many complaints to housing. After this he would continue to leave feces on fixtures and floors, to which I cleaned. After many more complaints to housing and senior Elite management; my neighbor remained for four more months. He would make a mess, then disappear for weeks, leaving me to clean it. I wish I had a job I could just disappear from for weeks, repeatedly. Still scratching my head on that one, not really, I know better. It wasn’t until a week before my daughter came out to visit, that he moved. Again, am I the only one thinking; WHAT A COENCIDENCE! Don’t worry, we have more, so much more, but first I have to pee. You know, all the talk about my bathroom. I’m back. People using feces and urine to harass someone here in Yosemite is not new; look through my photostream, you can see it impacted feces in my Jeep door handle. I have thousands of other pictures, but will spare the public from this madness for now.
Now, I’d like to cover other daily niceties of living in this building, with my current and rotating neighbors. Each and every day I get the stomping down the hall, with an emphasis at my door and you can throw in a loud cough at my door too. Then, there’s my neighbors setting in their rooms for hours, for a chance to step out and block me in the hall. One neighbor two doors down; 6 times in one day. I know, I know, it was just a coincidence. But, this person did the same thing in the previous building we lived in. That person also rallies my neighbors right outside my room; 5-6 of them, talking and laughing loudly, to the point I can’t watch TV with headphones on. Because I asked them if they could move into the kitchen or TV room; I was called a Dick, or maybe she slurred my name (Rick). That was it, no one in Yosemite would call me a Dick for asking them to be courteous, I mean no one…. Well, that caused hissy-fits, retaliation and vilified their misguided notions of me. Yes, Rick is a Dick, we know this now, we have the justification to make his life a living hell. So, they got to it. I get mobbed every time I go to use the kitchen or the laundry room. I’ve picked random times and it’s the same, the same people over and over. They will get right in my face, block me at every turn, turn burners and ovens off, pour filthy water or something onto your washed dishes or in your dishwater. Again, same acts following from building to building and some of the same people too. When I go to do laundry; the person two rooms down and the guy that cleans the building, will wait in the small bathroom in the hallway, so they can fling the door open at me, as I walk pass to put clothes in dryers or collect. Recently, I had someone put a freshly broken chocolate bar under the agitator, in the washer I was about to use. It could have been a coincidence, you think?
This person living two doors down started setting against my wall, in the hallway. She would talk with the people directly across the hall from me, they played loud music with their door open. This gave the person setting against my wall justification to start hitting my wall with a foot or elbow (in their minds). Again, I asked if they could keep it down and not to pound on the floor or my wall. I was met with a “this is a public area and I can be here if I want”. Here we go again, Rick’s a Dick, hissy-fits, retaliation, stomping, coughing, blocking and someone waiting for me when I come home from a hard day at work; to blow smoke in my face, from a nonsmoking area. Cough, cough. With many complaints to housing and senior management the same harassers and harassment continues day after day, year after year. You thought I was about to finish, no not yet.
A few weeks ago, I come home and find a note on my door to call management. I called and was told; there’s a senior employee that is interested in moving into the room next to you, sharing the bathroom. I was told again it was a senior employee with inflection on senior. Well, great as long as it wasn’t an Elite employee. Then I was told this was a female and she didn’t have problems sharing the bathroom with me. I thought to myself; no woman would have a problem sharing a bathroom with me. Then reality set in, Toxic Yosemite, sharing a bathroom with a woman, what can go wrong. Really, I said “I have a problem with it, as Toxic as this place is and you want me to share a bathroom with a woman, yes I have a big problem with it”. I was told, “well she doesn’t have a problem with it”, that was the end of our conversation.
I’ve led a very full and rewarding life. My proudest, most fulfilling and rewarding accomplishment was raising my daughter. Tears fill my eyes as think of how proud I am of her. She’s had her struggles through life and has become a beautiful, compassionate, considerate, woman. I was both mom and dad,
so, what I’m about to say is not meant to be mean in anyway.
Last week a woman moved into the room next to me. I don’t know this woman and am not faulting her and will refrain from making judgement. I was setting on the toilet, my nice clean toilet, and there was a knock on the bathroom door. I heard a woman’s voice, I asked if she was moving in, she said yes, so I finished and unlocked the door, hoping it didn’t smell like man poop. She had someone help her move things in, stayed a few days then gone for 3. She came back the other night had a couple visitors, that I do know. I don’t have a problem with visitors, but I went to take a shower and the feminine odor was unbearable. Again, not trying to be mean, but it was bad. I had to take my shower because I leave for work early, so I took my shower, then settled into my room. Before I went to bed I needed to use the bathroom, but had to wait for two women to use it before I could. That was a couple nights ago, there’s still an odor in the bathroom and slightly in my room. I haven’t seen here sense, sound familiar? I’m being honest by saying; I’m very uncomfortable with this. This building has about 40 residents and I think only three of us men. What I do know is; having a woman sharing a bathroom with me, is a vindictive act of retaliation from management.
Now as far as my neighbors harassing me day after day; they have no concerns of punishment. They prove this every day. Tuesday, my day off; I was woke at 5:50 am, by someone stomping down the hall and right at my door. I couldn’t go back to sleep, someone was clanging dishes in the kitchen, so I decided to do laundry. I gathered my clothes and headed to the laundry room. The kitchen door was open, another neighbor from across the hall was the one doing dishes, so I closed the kitchen door as I waked by. I put my clothes in the washers and headed back to my room. The kitchen door was open again, so I went to close it. The woman started yelling molester, molester, in Spanish. It didn’t faze me, who knows what kind of crap these people are told. I said people are sleeping, pulled the door stop out and went to my room. As I do my laundry, one of the housing staff keeps walking pass referencing the name of the guy who cleans our building, 4 times. That’s what they do; try to get under your skin. I get my laundry done, set in my room with the door open so my neighbors don’t stomp by and edit photos.
As I edit this image; one of the women from across the hall, stomps up to my room, starts stomping in place, right in front of my door, then starts doing this over the top fake cough. She does this in place stomping, throwing her head back and forth like a two-year-old having a fit. This woman is probably in her mid-forties, but this is acceptable behavior here in Yosemite. Nothing will happen to this woman, or the many that harass me in Yosemite. They will not lose their housing privileges, or jobs, some may even be rewarded. They will continue to harass whomever they are told to, or feel like, year after year.
I’m only midway through the day and decide to gather my camera bag, pack a late lunch and head out. I step out the door, there are 3 housing staff members, 2 neighbors from across the hall and 2 new girls that recently moved in. They were all surrounding my room and I could barely make it through the crowd. One of the new girls rushed ahead of me, one of the housing staff breathing down the back of my neck as I walk down the hall. The girl ahead of me stepped into her room, spun around, stepped right back out and into me. This was an intentional skit, in hopes I would act out in anger and be surrounded by witnesses. These are witnesses that will lie.
What I’ve told you is true; it is based on years of collecting evidence, military training (I didn’t receive 12 medals for smelling flowers), life’s experiences and the illegal and unethical actions of the people here in Yosemite National Park. I’ve tried to add a little humor to the Very Toxic living and working conditions in Yosemite. Over the years I’ve seen many good people come, then go, because of this Toxic place. Because of the stigma, retaliation and overwhelming harassment in the workplace; many are terrified to say a word. Look at what we are doing to each other America; this mobbing and hate needs to stop and it will destroy us all. It will not stop until people are held accountable. Will Yosemite’s Superintendent hold these people accountable?
You can hate me, try to discredit me, but you cannot deny the truth.
What is happening in Yosemite is WRONG!
Yosemite’s current Superintendent is: Michael T Reynolds
Nominated Director National Parks Services is: David Vela
• The truth about Yosemite 2016 to current: www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Yosemite-Chief-Retiring-Ami...
Here is an audio example of Yosemite's Mobbing Community at work: flic.kr/p/2hJ7Rye
Update 4-30-19; after 2 recent detailed letters to Yosemite's Superintendent, the harassment, mobbing, waist, fraud, cover-up and retaliation continues.....
On 6-2-19, the San Fransisco Chronicle published a scathing article about Yosemite; giving insight to how toxic and unethical this place really is.
12-1-19 Update: the harassment and retaliation continues and has increased. The noise campaigns at work and in housing are off the charts. I left work this morning (12-1-19) because of extreme loud music. The lobby music systems was turned way up and on top of that; an employee that also harasses me in housing, along with her husband, had her boom box blaring on top of the Holiday music blaring. You would think it was Military PSYOPS (Psychological Operations). Speaking of; on 11-29-19, I greeted 3 guest and asked how they were doing. The woman looked totally surprised, then a big smile popped on her face. She said Sir, may I ask you a question, I said sure. She asked who ran the operations here? I told her. She then asked; what’s the matter with the employees here? I told her the truth and said nobody here cares. She went on to tell me; yesterday they witnessed employees being rude to guest at one of our other facilities, one even belittling a German couple because of their limited English. She then said; the people here ignored us this morning, one employee just stood there with earphones in his ears, listening to music. She had other complaints that I can’t mention because I will be terminated.
I asked where they were from and found out that all 3 were active duty Marines. They couldn’t get over the behavior of our employees. I apologized again and thanked them for their service. We went on to briefly discuss the continued decline of common courtesy and ethics in America. Is this why we serve today; so Americans and Corporate America can have the right to treat human-beings, worse than their own pets?
6-4-20, Update; Yosemite's leaders continue to allow the hate, mobbing and whistleblower retaliation to flourish.
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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
For the High Line art 2019, 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.
I like to think that Ewan's intention for her clock was to provide a public park gathering space where we can reflect on the history of the labor movement and what it has given us. A place to remember how workers were once labeled "communist" by the government in order to prevent overtime, an eight hour work day, compensation for people injured or killed on the job and child labor laws. A place to recall that factory owners once hired private security to shoot and kill workers as the government turned a blind eye. Perhaps this is just the place to reflect on the history of capitalism and to think about who is on your side.
Is reclamation ever possible? The words of the English trade union leader Robert Crow come to mind "If we all spit together we can drown the bastards."
WJ69AWX, a very smart DAF CF 450 8x4 from the well kept concrete mixer fleet of Fahey's of Cornwall (and Devon), seen here returning to its base at the Okehampton plant.
This clean machine features mixing equipment by McPhee as well as a Theam conveyor system.
www.mcpheemixers.co.uk/media/news/2019-11-05-conveyor-trucks
In May and June 1831 the workers of Merthyr Tydfyl, Wales, rose up against the British Government in what would become known as the Merthyr Rising. It is believed that the red flag of revolution was flown as a symbol of workers' revolt for the first time during this event.
In 1829 the iron industry entered a depression that would last three years and as a result Merthyr Tydfil’s Ironmasters took action by making many workers redundant and cutting the wages of those in work. This was set against a background of rising prices and combined this forced many people into unsustainable debt. Consequently, creditors turned to the Court of Requests, which had been set up in 1809, to allow the bailiffs to seize the property of debtors.
In 1830 the Radicals of Merthyr, as part of the National movement for political reform, organised themselves into a Political Union and in November of that year held demonstrations to protest against the Truck System and the Corn Laws. By the end of 1830 the campaign had broadened to embrace the Reform of Parliament.
In March 1831 William Crawshay announced cuts in the wages of his workers and redundancies at Cyfarthfa Ironworks, which would take effect in May. It was this, combined with similar situations in other ironworks, the hatred of the activities of the Court of Requests, and some stirring up by political agitators which lit the spark of rebellion. On May 30th 1831 at the Waun Common above Dowlais a mass meeting of over 2,000 workers was held and tensions were high.
On May 31st bailiffs from the Court of Requests attempted to seize goods from the home of Lewis Lewis (Lewsyn yr Heliwr) at Penderyn, near Merthyr. However, neighbours rallied behind Lewis and the bailiffs were prevented from entering his home. The Magistrate, John Bruce, was called and he arranged a compromise between Lewis and the bailiffs which allowed the latter to remove a trunk belonging to Lewis. The next day workers from Merthyr marched to the Ironworks of Richard Fothergill at Aberdare where they demanded bread & cheese and created a disturbance. At the same time, at Hirwaun, a crowd led by Lewis Lewis marched to the home of a shopkeeper who was now in possession of his trunk, took the trunk back by force, and prepared to march to Merthyr.
On the march to Merthyr the crowd went from house to house, seizing any goods which the Court of Requests had taken, and returning them to their original owners. By this time the crowd had been swollen by the addition of men from the Cyfarthfa & Hirwaun Ironworks. They marched to the area behind the Castle Inn where many of the tradespeople of the town lived and in particular the home of Thomas Lewis, a hated moneylender and forced him to sign a promise to return goods to a woman whose goods he had seized for debt. Bruce arrived at the scene and recognising what was the start of a revolt withdrew. He then quickly enrolled about 70 Special Constables, mainly from the tradespeople, to help keep the peace. He also advised the Military Authorities at Brecon that he might need troops.
On June 2nd an attempt was made to persuade the crowd to disperse and when this failed the Riot Act read read in English and Welsh. This was ignored by the crowed who drove the magistrate away and attacked the home of Thomas Lewis. That evening they assembled at the home of Joseph Coffin, President of the Court of Requests, seizing the books of the Court, which they burned in the street along with his furniture. On hearing of the attack Bruce called for troops to be deployed and so soldiers of the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry were dispatched from Cardiff and a detachment of the 93rd (Sutherland) Highlanders were sent from Brecon. Meanwhile the crowd had marched to the various ironworks in the town and persuaded the workers to join them.
By the time the Highlanders had reached the Castle Inn where they were met by the High Sheriff of Glamorgan, the Merthyr Magistrates and Ironmasters and the Special Constables, a crowd of some 10,000 had gathered. The Riot Act was once more read and once more it was ignored. The crowd pressed towards the Inn with the soldiers drawn up outside. The workers demanded the suppression of the Court of Requests, higher wages, the reduction in the cost of items they used in their work and parliamentary reform; these were refused outright. They were told that if they did not disperse that the soldiers would be used. The result was to anger the crowd, which surged forward throwing stones and clubs at the soldiers. In the fight the soldiers outside the Inn were bludgeoned and stabbed, eventually provoking the soldiers stationed within to open fire, killing three of the rioters with their first shots. The fighting continued for a further 15 minutes before the crowd withdrew. Altogether 16 soldiers were wounded, 6 of them severely, and up to 24 of the rioters had been killed. The authorities withdrew to Penydarren House while rioters sent word to the Monmouthshire ironworks in an attempt to obtain further support.
By June 4th more troops including the Eastern Glamorgan Corps of Yeomanry Cavalry and the Royal Glamorgan Militia arrived in Merthyr. A troop of the Swansea Yeomanry Cavalry were ambushed on their arrival at Hirwaun, having apparently been greeted in a friendly manner. They were however quickly surrounded, their weapons seized and forced into a retreat back to Swansea, where they re-armed and joined the Fairwood Troop for the march back to Merthyr. A similar ambush was laid at Cefn Coed y Cymmer to stop ammunition being delivered from Brecon, forcing the Cardiff Troop of Glamorgan Yeomanry Cavalry into retreat. A troop of 100 Central Glamorgan Yeomanry was sent to assist but were unable to break through the mob. By now the rioters commandeered arms and explosives, set up road-blocks, formed guerrilla detachments, and had banners capped with a symbolic loaf and dyed in blood. Those who had military experience had taken the lead in drilling the armed para-military formation, and created an effective central command and communication system.
On Sunday June 5th delegations were sent to the Monmouthshire Iron Towns to raise further support for the riots and on June 6th a crowd of around 12,000 or more marched along the heads of the valleys from Monmouthshire to meet the Merthyr Rioters at the Waun Common. The authorities decided that rather than wait for this mob to attack them they would take the initiative, and 110 Highlanders, 53 Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia and 300 Glamorgan Yeomanry Cavalry were despatched to stop the marchers at Cefn Coed. Faced by the levelled muskets of the army the crowd dispersed without bloodshed. The Rising was effectively over.
Panic spread through Merthyr and arms were hidden, the leaders fled and workers returned to their jobs. On the evening of June 6th the authorities raided houses and arrested 18 of the rebel leaders. Eventually Lewis Lewis was found hiding in a wood near Hirwaun and a large force of soldiers escorted him in irons to Cardiff Prison to await trial.
The trials began on 13 July 1831 at Cardiff Assizes. 28 men and women were tried. Most of those found guilty were eventually sentenced to transportation. Lewis Lewis and Richard Lewis (Dic Penderyn) were charged with attempting to murder a soldier, Donald Black of the 93rd Highland Regiment, outside the Castle Inn on June 3rd, by stabbing him with a bayonet attached to a gun. The main evidence against the two Lewis' was from Black himself, James Abbott, a hairdresser and Special Constable and James Drew, also a hairdresser and Special Constable. On the evidence it was adjudged that Richard Lewis (Dic Penderyn) was guilty but that Lewis Lewis was not (though he was already under sentence of death for the attack on Thomas Lewis' house). Dic Penderyn was sentenced to death.
Joseph Tregelles Price, A quaker Ironmaster from Neath, took up the case of Dic Penderyn and Lewis Lewis and presented a petition to have them transported. Evidence was produced that Abbott had threatened Penderyn prior to June 3rd and people said that Penderyn was not there when Black was attacked and that they knew who had carried out the attack but it was not Dic Penderyn. Strangely Lord Melbourn, the Home Secretary, reprieved Lewis Lewis, who was certainly one of those most responsible for the riots, and transported him to Australia, but would not reprieve Penderyn, who seems to have been much less involved. Richard Lewis (Dic Penderyn) was taken from his cell at Cardiff Prison on August 13th 1831 to the gallows at St.Mary Street, Cardiff and there he was executed protesting his innocence. He was 23. His body was transported across the Vale of Glamorgan to be buried at Margam.
In 1874 the Western Mail reported that a man named Ieuan Parker had confessed to a Minister on his death bed in Pennsylvania, USA that he was the man who attacked Donald Black. James Abbott, who had testified at Penderyn's trial, later said that he had lied under oath, claiming that he had been instructed to do so by Lord Melbourne.
In 2000 a legal case was started by Lewis's descendants to seek a pardon and in June 2015, Ann Clwyd MP presented a petition for a pardon in the House of Commons. However Mike Penning, Minister for Policing, Crime and Criminal Justice, responded that pardons were only granted where evidence has come to light which demonstrates conclusively that the convicted individual was innocent and that the relevant appeal mechanisms have been exhausted. In July 2016, Stephen Kinnock MP presented a 600-signature petition to the Ministry of Justice, calling for a pardon. The Ministry of Justice replied that 10,000 signatures were required to trigger a parliamentary debate, and referred to the answer given by the ministry in 2015. Kinnock said that the fight for a pardon would continue.
Many cities around the world are having anti-racism demonstrations. Sadly, this reflects the reality that racism remains a problem felt around the world.
Toronto's two marches yesterday were passionate, but peaceful. Our Chief of Police (who is black) "took a knee" in the street with the demonstrators and voiced his support along with a pledge to address this enduring problem. He also asked for a peaceful march, and the demonstrations were, as requested, peaceful - unlike elsewhere where outside agitators took advantage of the "cover" provided by the demonstrations to create mayhem.
There are going to be two more demonstrations today.
This view today of Yonge and Dundas in the heart of downtown Toronto shows that businesses were fearful that rioting and looting may take place as has happened in many other cities. In seeing these boarded up businesses I was thinking about how expensive it must be to erect and later remove all this wood. I guess taking precautions is cheaper than dealing with looting. I'm glad the precaution proved unnecessary. I was impressed that the shop nearest the camera went to the trouble to paint the wood to dress things up a bit.
“By my monastic life and vows I am saying No to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials, the judicial murders, the racial injustices, the economic tyrannies, and the whole socio-economic apparatus which seems geared for nothing but global destruction in spite of all its fair words in favor of peace. I make monastic silence a protest against the lies of politicians, propagandists, and agitators, and when I speak it is to deny that my faith and my church can ever be aligned with these forces of injustice and destruction.”
-Thomas Merton
Kodak Ektar 100 | Mamiya RZ67 | negative processed at home and photographed with my Sony A7R-iii
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This is a quick summary of my observations using Negative Film Lab to perform the surprisingly non-trivial conversion from color negative to finished image.
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1. TLDR; I was impressed enough after playing with Negative Lab Pro this morning I purchased a license. That says it all.
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2. The film was processed by me back in May 2018. I had not yet thrown those twirling stick agitators into the recycle bin yet, so the film is unevenly developed. There was more activity at the edges of the strip than the middle because the edges got exposure to fresher chemistry. TLDR? Inversion is the only way to agitate. YMMV. This is what works for me. Inversion agitation totally stopped the uneven development problem.
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3. Compared to my prior workflow using Silverfast, this plugin is a breeze. I can stay in one program all the way from camera raw file to print ready image file. I’ll compare workflows in the comment area so you can decide for yourself.
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4. Digitizing the image consists of carefully doing a macro photo of the negative on a light table. Any modern DSLR or mirrorless camera will work, but if you plan to print big, the 40+ megapixel cameras are ideal. A quality macro lens is also vital, as is a means of securely mounting everything. I use heavy duty woodworking clamps from Lowes to mount a Kirk ballhead to a sturdy workbench; thinking hardware store rather than camera store saves you a lot of cash! A scanning mask is strongly advised as stray light can enter the edges of the film. Reflections can also be an issue, as can lens flare. A mask helps with all of these. Stray light will wreck your results.
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5. Follow the instructions that come with the Negative Lab plugin. If you do it right, the end result will be an image which requires only minor corrections and spotting in Photoshop/Lightroom to finish it off.
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I’ll let the image speak for itself. Because of the ridiculous amount of compression Instagram uses, I will be posting these images to my Flickr account as well. The link is in my bio. More info in the comments area.
I want it to be known that I am not trying to sell anybody anything. One of the biggest problems for a film shooter in 2019 is how to actually do something useful with the film once you’ve shot it and developed it. Quality scanners are expensive and slow. Hiring a company to handle the job is also expensive and slow, plus it takes the photographer out of the loop as far as the overall look of the resultant images. Color negative scanning offers a massive amount of latitude for one’s artistic vision, you don’t really want to leave that in the hands of someone else.
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After studying every affordable option for scanning medium format film, I concluded that scanning with a high megapixel digital camera was the best option. Once everything is set up, it’s undeniably fast, much faster than high-quality medium format scanners. As for results, if you carefully scan a 6 x 9 negative (or positive for that matter), you end up with a 42 megapixel image in the case of the Sony A7R-iii that I use. That’s more than enough information to create high-quality 24” x 36“ prints.
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Honestly, the resolution isn’t the problem. The problem has always been converting a color negative into a color positive.
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Last winter when I began seriously looking into this problem, I tried everything that was on the market at that time. I quickly settled on Silverfast as the best of a not so perfect lot. It wasn’t perfect because the software is expensive, the user interface is downright hostile, and the whole thing feels like a Windows 98 era program ready to crash and burn at any given moment.
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Even with the issues it has, Silverfast undeniably does produce quality output. At a license cost of $250 for a basic version and $400 for one that actually doesn’t go out of its way to slow you down at every opportunity, it had damned well better at least deliver good output. So why am I so excited about this new Lightroom plugin? Take a look at the workflow for the two solutions:
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1. Copy raw files from memory card into temp directory on computer
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3. Install MakeTiff from color perfect
4. Convert your camera raw files into linear tiff files
5. Import linear tiff files into Silverfast
6. Perform the necessary adjustments to each photograph inside of Silverfast to get optimal output
7. Kick off Silverfast batch job to create positive tiff files
8. Import tiff files into Lightroom (jumping into Photoshop as needed for heavy lifting) for cataloging, dust spotting, cropping, and creation of final output files
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2. Crop images and perform a white balance with the eyedropper on orange mask as instructed in the Negative Lab Pro video
3. Start the plug-in and again follow the directions in the instructional video
4. Perform final edits such as dust spotting, color tweaking, cropping and so on. Edit in Photoshop for heavy lifting tasks like content aware fill. Export final output files from Lightroom as needed.
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It’s up to you, both methods work just fine. I am keeping Silverfast around because there are a few tasks it excels at, such as getting optimum results from seriously expired film. That said, with excellent image quality plus the speed and simplicity advantages, the Negative Lab Pro plug-in will be taking over my medium format camera scanned work.
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I hope this information helps you enjoy the art of analog photography as much as I do.
Photography for the music group Berrogüetto "Viaxe por Urticaria" CD (1999) Boa Music
Comment by Anxo Pintos (Berrogüetto)
CHRONOPOEGRAM OF A SNAPSHOT
From the screen to the idea...
Image of essential power
embodied in the present and ancestral Australia.
Impossible to find a more honest mimesis between man and the territory…
From the idea to the screen...
In the West...
The Body finds it difficult to get rid of fear and show itself naked.
Finally...
...Seven agitators of the wind.
Walk down Cabet’s Utopian street
in sound wagons
Covered with the colour of mud…
...... the essential silt
...... ...... metaphor of the fertile world
...... ...... ...... agricultural image of the music of the earth.
Urticaria healing with a scream splashed with mud.
Finally…… …… ……ey&click…… ……… ……eye&click……
……eye & click……
Happily...
...... ...... ...... ...... Craftsman and powerful…
...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... The snapshot.
xoanpinon.blogspot.com/2010/02/blog-post_7942.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berrogüetto
Comentario de Anxo Pintos (Berrogüetto)
CRONOPOEGRAMA DUNHA INSTANTÁNEA
Da pantalla á idea...
Imaxe de potencia primordial
encarnada na Australia presente e ancestral.
Imposible atopar mímese máis sincera entre home e territorio...
Da idea á pantalla...
No Occidente...
Ao Corpo cústalle espirse do medo para mostrarse nú.
Finalmente...
...Sete axitadores de vento.
transitan con carros de son
a rúa utópica de Cabet
cubertos da cor da lama…
...... o légamo primordial
...... ...... metáfora do mundo fértil
...... ...... ...... trasunto agrícola da música da terra.
A Urticaria curándose cun berro salferido de barro.
Finalmente…… …… ……ollo&click…… ……… ……ollo&click……
……ollo & click……
Felizmente...
...... ...... ...... ...... Artesá e poderosa…
...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... A instantánea.
Anxo Pintos 17/02/2010
A De Buf tandem axle concrete mixer trailer operated by De Witte of Maldegem, Belgium seen parked up for the weekend with its Volvo FH13-460 'I-Save' low-cab tractor unit with the 'Tandem Lift Axle' 6x4/4x2 option.
"Building work on the court house had not yet started when the famous Battle of Red Cliffs erupted in March 1939. Hundreds of itinerant workers had converged on the town for the picking season; all were hard up and some penniless and reduced to begging for food. Conditions were wretched and many slept without blankets among the vines, tormented by mosquitoes. Because of bad weather, the harvest wasn't ready and no work was available.
Tempers flared on the evening of 11 March when five hundred rioters ran amok. Police failed to subdue them with fire hoses and batons and it needed reinforcements from Mildura to fire warning shots before the crowd dispersed. On the following Wednesday eighteen defendants faced the Red Cliffs bench on 86 charges. There were so many spectators the venue was moved from the Methodist Hall to the Diggerland Theatre (the name reflects the town's origins as a soldier settlement) and the court sat without a break until 6 pm.
Inevitably, police blamed the riot on a small group of 'communist agitators'. The worst of them, they said, was Louise Edwards who had incited the men to violence with her strident cries. During the hearing she heckled police witnesses. Dubbed the 'Queen of the Red Cliffs Riot', Edwards could not or would not pay her twelve pound fine, and served eight weeks' gaol instead.
The pickers' grievances were mostly legitimate and conditions improved after the riot. A labour bureau was arranged, and block-holders were made to provide shelter and camping places for their workers. The next year, pickers passing through Ouyen on their way to Mildura were even allowed to draw ten shillings sustenance - provided they did 51 hours' work for the local council, then left town promptly!
Due to wartime austerity, Red Cliffs Court House opened without fanfare on 18 July 1940, despite the lack of furniture and a jungle of weeds at the entrance. A shallow, tiled roof covers the courtroom while parapets conceal the flat, iron roofs of the ancillary rooms. In rendered brick, the building presents a stark, blockhouse appearance, emphasised by the horizontal bands and the bars to the windows. After an abortive closure in 1973, the courts ceased officially in 1989. Red Cliffs Historical Society now occupies the building."
Historic Court Houses of Victoria, by Michael Challinger
The site had been fortified in the prehistoric period, but the construction of the castle was undertaken following the division of the Duchy of Normandy in 1204. The castle was first mentioned in 1212.The castle was the primary defence of Jersey until the development of gunpowder which then rendered the castle ultimately indefensible from Mont Saint Nicholas, the adjacent hill which overlooks the castle. Mont Orgueil was updated with platforms for artillery constructed in 1548 and 1549 under the direction of Henry Cornish, Lieutenant of the Earl of Hertford in Jersey. Cornish complained that earlier repairs to the donjon by Robert Raymont had left it so weak it was vulnerable to musket shot; "lyke a nadyl eye scarse abyll to byde a hagboshe." In 1543 he had asked for a "saker" cannon that would cover the sands between "Grovyll" and the castle, where the French had landed in the past.Mont Orgueil was to be superseded by Elizabeth Castle off Saint Helier, the construction of which commenced at the end of the 16th century. Walter Raleigh, Governor of Jersey in 1600, rejected a plan to demolish the old castle to recycle the stone for the new fortifications with the words: "'twere pity to cast it down".
Mont Orgueil (French: Mount Pride) has guarded Jersey's east coast since the 13th century.The old castle continued to be used as the island's only prison until the construction of a prison in St. Helier at the end of the 17th century. The English Government found it expedient to send troublesome agitators such as William Prynne and John Lilburne to Mont Orgueil far from the realm of England. The regicides Thomas Waite, Henry Smith, James Temple, Hardress Waller, and Gilbert Millington were transferred to Mont Orgueil in 1661.
"AGITATOR - Magazine of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union" with an image of Yuri Gagarin (the first human to journey into outer space) on the cover page surrounded by the typical graphic style of the so-called space race time, a period that influenced a lot Soviet art and architecture.
Jean Francois Millet -
Man with a Hoe [1860-62]
LA Getty Center - GAP
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"[A]s I have never seen anything but fields since I was born, I try to say as best I can what I saw and felt when I was at work," wrote Jean-François Millet. At the Salon of 1863, Man with a Hoe caused a storm of controversy. The man in the picture was considered brutish and frightening by Parisian bourgeoisie. The Industrial Revolution had caused a steady exodus from French farms, and Man with a Hoe was interpreted as a socialist protest about the peasant's plight. Though his paintings were judged in political terms, Millet declared that he was neither a socialist nor an agitator.
A religious fatalist, Millet believed that man was condemned to bear his burdens. This farmer is Everyman. His face is lit, yet composed of blots of color that give him no individuality. He is big and dirty and utterly exhausted by the backbreaking work of turning this rocky, thistle-ridden earth into a productive field like the one being worked in the distance. A tribute to dignity and courage in the face of a life of unremitting exertion, Man with a Hoe was long considered a symbol of the laboring class.
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The TUC 'March for the Alternative' attended by over 500,000 people in London. 26-3-11 The protest was against austerity cuts being brought in by the government. There were major scuffles with Police and anarchists and anti cuts protesters smashed political targets and lit fires.
About Raymond, Washington:
"Raymond — Thumbnail History"
By Jennifer Ott
Posted 9/28/2010
HistoryLink.org Essay 9590
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The blanket of old growth forest that covered the Willapa Hills surrounding Raymond, on the Willapa River in Pacific County, fueled the town's growth from a handful of farms to a mill town bustling with trains filled with freshly cut logs, mills running 24 hours a day, and ships laden with lumber bound for the East Coast, South American, San Francisco, and Hawaii in less than a decade after its founding in 1903.
When a combination of overharvesting, environmental laws, and changes in the global market severely reduced logging and milling in the 1980s and 1990s, Raymond residents looked to new, more sustainable ways to utilize the surrounding hills, rivers, and bay to create jobs and sustain their community.
First Peoples
The Willapa River, with headwaters in the Willapa Hills, winds through the Willapa Valley until it is reaches the sea at Willapa Bay.
A few miles upstream from the river's mouth, the South Fork of the Willapa joins the main river. Sloughs thread through the lowland forming what is called the Island, though it is not technically completely encircled by water.
Prior to contact with Europeans, three tribes lived around the Willapa's mouth, the Shoalwater (or Willapa) Chinook, the Lower Chehalis, and, seasonally, the Kwalhiloqua.
Epidemic diseases brought by European and white American traders wreaked havoc in the Indian communities because they lacked immunities to the diseases. A malaria epidemic in the 1830s, probably brought to the area by sailors who had been in the tropics, decimated tribes in the lower Columbia River region.
After the epidemic, the Kwalhioqua all but disappeared, and the few remaining individuals joined the Willapa Chinook and Lower Chehalis. The northern part of Willapa Bay and the Willapa River formed a boundary between the Chinooks to the south and the Lower Chehalis to the north. The two groups intermarried and traded often.
These are the people who oystermen met when they came to Willapa Bay in the 1850s to harvest shellfish for the San Francisco market. The Indians worked with the oystermen in harvesting the shellfish.
Loggers, Farmers, and Indians
It was not long before the area's forests attracted loggers and sawmill operators. Brothers John (b. ca. 1830) and Valentine Riddell (b. ca. 1817) established a mill at what would become South Bend in 1869. Others followed, included John Adams' mill on the north side of the junction of the Willapa River with the South Fork.
Several farmers staked claims in the vicinity of the junction. The community, known as Riverside, had a school in 1875 and a post office.
The Indians in the area continued to work with oystermen, and in the more recently established salmon canneries and saw mills. They also continued to visit their traditional gathering places for berries and other plant materials.
The tribes had not yet formally agreed to allow the white Americans to live on their land, so, in February 1855, Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens (1818-1862) met with the Quinault, Queets, Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, Shoalwater Bay, Chinook, and Cowlitz tribes at the Chehalis River Treaty Council (at the location of Cosmopolis today). The tribes did not object to ceding their lands, but once they heard the terms of the treaty they rejected the provision that required them to move to a shared reservation away from their traditional lands with the location of the reservation to be determined later. The tribes refused to accept those conditions and Stevens left without an agreement.
The absence of a treaty did not prevent white settlers from claiming lands along the Willapa River, thereby leaving less and less room for the Indians to live.
On September 22, 1866 President Andrew Johnson (1808-1875) established the Shoalwater Bay Tribes Reservation by reserving 335 acres near Tokeland for the Lower Chehalis and Willapa Chinook who lived along Willapa Bay. The reservation is and has been used by a number of the tribes' members, but many also live in the surrounding communities (and elsewhere).
Raymond is Formed
In 1889 the promise of a Northern Pacific Railway terminus in South Bend, just downstream from the river junction, led to a land boom. Lots in South Bend and along the river in both directions sold for incredible profits until 1893 when a national financial panic led to a bust in South Bend. South Bend had the county seat and retained the railroad and some operating mills, but a grant of land to the Northern Pacific on the waterfront tied up many of its choicest industrial sites.
Upriver, at the river junction, a group of residents, some with Homestead Act claims and others who had bought land at low prices following the bust in South Bend, formed the Raymond Land and Development Company in 1903.
Incorporators of the land company included Leslie (1874-1961) (often referred to as L. V.) and Stella (1875-1960) Raymond, who had a farm on the Island. Stella had inherited the land from her father, Captain George Johnson (1823-1882), who had established a Homestead Act Claim for almost 179 acres. Presumably Johnson or the Raymonds purchased part of their holdings, because they brought 310 acres to the partnership.
L. V. and Stella, who married in 1897, moved to the farm in 1899 and Raymond became the name of the town that grew up on and around their land. L. V. served as the town's first postmaster, first Northern Pacific Railway agent, and developed a water system for the town.
The Raymonds donated land and their time to community projects, such as a playfield and the fire department. A bequest from the Raymonds established the Raymond Foundation in 1962 as a non-profit organization to fund scholarships and community development projects.
Building a River Town
Alexander C. Little (1860-1932) was also a partner in the land company. After a career in local and state politics that included serving as Aberdeen's mayor, helping elect Governor John R. Rogers, and serving on the State Fisheries Commission, in 1903 Little decided to shift to the private sector. According to Pacific County historian Douglas Allen, "Raymond was named for L. V. but from the beginning A.C. Little formed the character of the town" (Allen, 65).
According to Allen, Little contributed two key elements to the town's success. First, he recommended that the land company offer free riverfront lots to mills, thereby ensuring an economic foundation for the town.
Second, Little brought Harry C. Heermans (1852-1943) into the partnership. Heermans's engineering background helped solve issues associated with building a town on a river. The sloughs that laced the land rose and fell with the tides, but uphill development would have taken mills too far from the riverfront. Besides, the hills surrounding the river junction rose abruptly and would have posed their own engineering challenges.
Other incorporators of the land company included J. B. Duryea, Winfield S. Cram (b.1866), and John T. Welsh (1866-1954). A second land company, the Great West Land Company, also formed in 1903, had some of the same investors and also worked to develop the town.
In 1903, the first mill, operated by Jacob Siler and Winfield Cram, began operations. Several more mills, including the West Coast Veneer & Manufacturing Company mill run by Little, followed and businesses grew up nearby.
On April 16, 1904, the Raymond Land Company filed a plat for the town of Raymond. The business district consisted of a store, a saloon, and a mess house that served mill workers. A drug store and hotel were coming soon.
Lots Sold by the Gallon
To allow people to cross the water-sodden landscape, the town constructed 2,900 feet of elevated wooden sidewalks. These sidewalks ran down either side of what would become 1st Street, which was really an open space onto which the buildings fronted. Additional wooden sidewalks crossed the void at regular intervals.
Lillian Smith (1875-1960), a teacher from Michigan who came to teach in Raymond for a year not long after the town's founding, remembered her first impressions of the town,
"At first I seemed to be crossing the river no matter what street I took. It was like losing oneself with Alice on the other side of the Looking Glass where you had to keep going in order to stand still, and vice versa. Imagine streets like long bridges built on piles driven into the slough (pronounced slu). Wooden railings on either side, and beyond these narrower wooden bridges of sidewalk width, these too with railings — a perfect maze of railings, necessary to keep careless pedestrians from falling into the slough" (Smith, 3).
Still, the town's location provided enough benefits to outweigh the difficulties of being what Smith called, "an amphibious town" (Smith, 6). It was located at the head of navigable waters, close to the bay and to the forests that fed its mills. It also had access to the Northern Pacific Railway, without having had to give up its waterfront lots the way South Bend had.
Navigation on the river depended on assistance from the Army Corps of Engineers. Early in its history Willapa Bay was known as Shoalwater Bay because of its many shallow areas. These made ideal oyster grounds, but limited ships' access to ports. The Corps, under the provisions of several different Rivers and Harbors Acts, had dredged the river up to Willapa City, just upstream from the Raymond townsite, and kept it clear of snags. The Corps also maintained a channel through the bar at the mouth of the bay.
Businesses besides lumber mills diversified the economy. In 1907 Stewart L. Dennis (1873-1952) and Perry W. Shepard (b. ca. 1871) formed a transfer company that would become an important retail business in Pacific County, now known as the Dennis Company, and John W. Dickie and his son, David, came to Raymond to establish a boatyard.
The Dickies had worked in the San Francisco Bay area and, according to local historian Ina E. Dickie, came to Raymond because the more-isolated Willapa Bay offered better access to lumber and to employees who accepted lower wages and had not yet formed unions. Dickie & Son built steamships -- the first was the Willapa -- at Raymond over the next several years. All were built for the coastwise lumber trade, which was booming following the 1906 earthquake and fires in San Francisco.
On August 6, 1907, voters approved a measure to incorporate the town of Raymond. A handful of residents resisted the town's boundaries because they included some outlying farms in anticipation of the town's growth.
Little served as the first mayor, an office he would hold for 10 of the next 11 years. When asked in 1910 to serve as president of the Southwest Washington Development Association, Little replied that he was "disqualified because of his partiality for the place where lots are sold by the gallon at high tide" ("Southwest Part of the State Unites").
A Lumber Town
The first council consisted of seven men: C. Frank Cathcart, president of Raymond Transfer and Storage and Northern Pacific agent, Winfield S. Cram, Timothy H. Donovan, superintendent of the Pacific & Eastern Railway and Sunset Timber Company, Floyd Lewis, real estate agent, Charles Myers, sawyer at the Siler Mill, L. V. Raymond, and Willard G. Shumway a clerk. P. T. Johnson served as the first treasurer and Neal Stupp as the clerk and secretary.
By 1910 the population had increased to 2,540, but that was just the start of the flood of new residents. In 1911, there were about 5,000 people in Raymond. They were needed for the kind of production boasted of by a promotional brochure from 1912. It lists the output of the towns mills for the previous year as 27,834,779 board feet of lumber, 226,712,250 shingles, 105 million berry baskets (made from veneer), and 33 million pieces of lath for plaster walls. The newcomers included business people, mill owners, mill workers, and loggers from all parts of the world.
Labor v. Capital
The 1910s, although economically prosperous, saw a series of disputes between labor unions and mill owners up and down the West Coast. Working conditions in the lumber industry were dismal and lumber workers struck for better wages and better logging camp conditions.
On March 25, 1912, mill workers in Raymond walked off the job to prevent the lumber companies from using their Raymond mills to replace lost production at Grays Harbor mills, where workers had begun a strike two weeks earlier.
The town's business community's response was swift and severe. They held a meeting the second day of the strike. A. C. Little led the discussion, railing against the strike's organizers, the Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the Wobblies. The meeting participants decided that they should protect "any man who might want to work" ("Strikes Close Raymond Mills"). To that stated end, several committees formed to support the effort. Over the next several days the sheriff swore in 460 deputies to "protect property and the working men" ("Strikes Close Raymond Mills").
To prevent the mill workers from gathering, the city closed all the saloons and brothels for the duration of the strikes. Likewise, three "Socialists speakers," were arrested upon disembarking the Raymond depot ("Strikes Close Raymond Mills").
A few days later, on March 30, 1912, the mill owners blew their whistles for the start of work. Anyone who did not heed to the call found themselves and their families rounded up by about 200 men with rifles and shotguns and loaded onto a railroad car bound for Centralia. The South Bend Journal identified those who refused to work as Finns and Greeks.
The Greek workers were taken to Centralia, where the Greek consul from Tacoma, Hans Heldner, met them and protested their treatment. The Finns had been removed by boat to Nahcotta. From there they traveled on to Astoria where there was a large Finnish American community.
After the strike ended, the South Bend Journal said that the Greek mill workers asked to return, but, "American flags have been hoisted on the mills and only Americans or civilized foreigners need apply" ("Agitators Banished from Raymond"). Other strikes would come to Raymond and labor unions led fights for improved safety, better conditions, and higher pay.
Despite labor problems, the mills kept prospering in Raymond. In 1912 there were 14 mills in operation. They used an average of 50 railroad cars full of logs from logging camps in the surrounding hills.
The mills produced an average of 20 railroad cars a day of lumber and other forest products. These included shingles, cascara bark, used for medications, doors, and window frames.
Growth and Development
In 1912 the town also started to fill the sloughs that ran through town so residents could have actual streets and so that houses would not flood at high tide.
In 1915 the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad began passenger and freight service between Raymond and Puget Sound.
The mayors of Raymond and South Bend presented the railroad's representatives with a wooden key "symbolical [sic] of the freedom of Willapa Harbor" (Krantz).
The train service was a vital link between the Willapa River towns and the interior of Washington. Not until 1917 would a road through the Willapa Hills open. The precursor of State Route 6, it was not reliably useable. It featured steep switchbacks and its gravel surface routinely suffered from water damage.
The late 1910s saw Raymond operating at full bore. Six saw mills, two veneer plants, a box factory, five shingle mills, and a woodworking plant were joined by the Sanderson & Porter shipyard, which employed 1,000 workers in building ships for the United States Navy during World War I. In the postwar era, the population dropped to about 4,500.
Port of Willapa Harbor
In 1928 residents of Raymond joined with South Bend to form the Port of Willapa Harbor, a public port district. The Port built a public dock on land between Raymond and South Bend that allowed smaller sawmills access to the river. This facilitated the transport of logs, which could be floated down the river from logging camps in the Willapa Hills, and the shipping of finished lumber. Before the public dock was completed in 1930, sawmills and other forest-products factories that did not have riverfront property had to send their goods to Grays Harbor or Puget Sound via the railroad, adding significantly to transport costs and time.
The Port dedicated the dock on October 8, 1930, and the city of South Bend dedicated a reconstructed city dock and improved slip. The same day, state highway officials led a celebration of the opening of Highway 101 between Aberdeen and Raymond-South Bend. For the first time travelers could follow a road through the Willapa Hills to the north of South Bend. It also connected Aberdeen with Ilwaco and the Long Beach Peninsula. This provided drivers with a direct route to the ferries that crossed the Columbia River to Astoria.
The Port's dock housed a sawmill, owned first by Ralph Tozier (1920-2005) and then Ben Cheney (1905-1971), who owned Cheney Lumber Company. According to Med Nicholson, writing in the Sou'wester, in 1945, Cheney was faced with a problem of wasted wood that resulted from cutting logs for ties. In order to square up the logs, large slabs were cut off each of four sides. Cheney had the insight that the slabs were eight feet long (the length of railroad ties) and house ceilings were eight and one-half feet tall. At the time home builders were buying studs in 10- and 12-foot lengths and cutting them down, also resulting in a lot of wasted wood. Cheney cut the slabs into a "Cheney Stud," what are now known as eight-foot two-by-four and sold them to home builders. Eight-foot ceilings became standard in houses, "putting to use an enormous amount of formerly wasted timber and incidentally saving American homeowners uncounted millions of dollars in heating expense" ("The Ben Cheney Story," 10).
Raymond's Great Depression
Unfortunately, the advantages presented by the new port and highway were hampered by the Great Depression. The economic downturn resulted in drastically decreased demand for lumber and Raymond residents struggled to find jobs. The decline of the Great Depression would reduce the town's population to 4,000. A steady decline after the Depression brought the population to just under 3,000 by 1990, where it has stayed since.
Though circumstances improved slightly when Weyerhaeuser purchased two mills in Raymond and one in South Bend and reorganized them in 1931, larger economic forces made it nearly impossible for commerce to continue in Raymond. In 1932 the Raymond Chamber of Commerce, faced with a near stoppage of business following the failure of the First Willapa Harbor National Bank, printed its own currency called "oyster money" to carry people over until real money became available again.
The Port of Willapa Harbor continued its efforts to improve the port's facilities. The Army Corps of Engineers carried out at federally funded dredging and channel straightening project on the river in 1936. The dredge spoils created Jensen Island and the new channel allowed deeper-draft boats to reach Raymond.
Logging and Lumber
A 1954 report by Nathaniel H. Engle and Delbert C. Hastings of the University of Washington's Bureau of Business Research, draws an interesting portrait of Pacific County's average male citizen as delineated by the 1950 Federal Census:
"Mr. Average Citizen of Pacific County, at the last census, 1950, was white and 33 years of age. He had had two years of high school education. He was employed as a laborer or an operative in the lumber industry. His income for the year was about $3,042. He was married and had two children. He lived in a 4 or 5 room house in good condition, with hot and cold running water, toilet, and bath. He had mechanical refrigeration, and a radio, but no central heating. His home was worth close to $4,000 and was owned clear of debt. Thus Pacific County's average citizen rates as a substantial American wage earner, somewhat better off, on the whole, than the average American, although not quite up to the average in Washington state" (Engle and Hastings, 5).
The lumber industry supported a significant number of these "average" residents. Where Grays Harbor had nearly cleared much its surrounding forest lands in the 1920s, Pacific County still had considerable standing timber in the 1950s. In 1951 more than 66 million board feet of logs and more than 90 million board feet of lumber left Raymond on ships and railroad cars. This may have been the result of a high concentration of ownership by large companies such as Weyerhaeuser, which owned 380 square miles (nearly half of the county), Crown-Zellerbach, owner of 60 square miles, and Rayonier, owner of 50 square miles.
Engle and Hastings described the logging companies' success as resulting from the companies' willingness to use sustained yield practices, rather than cutting the forests as quickly as the mills could cut the logs. Sustained yield did lead to more selective and more reseeding, but it did not maintain forests that could support diverse ecosystems because most of the reseeding was of single, productive species such as Douglas fir. Wildlife populations were further damaged by hunting programs designed to eliminate animals such as deer or bear that browsed on seedlings and new growth on older trees.
In 1954 and 1955, Weyerhaeuser carried out a two-part renovation of the old Willapa Lumber Company mill that it had acquired in 1931. First they replaced all the mill's facilities and then they rebuilt the mill itself. This mill, known as Mill W, remains in operation in 2010, the last softwood lumber mill in operation in Raymond,
In the 1970s the region saw another lumber boom. According to Richard Buck, of The Seattle Times, a new generation of baby boomers began buying houses, which increased the demand for lumber, leading to increased competition and prices. Prices reached $337 per 1,000 board feet.
The next decade, the declines in the national economy devastated the local economy rather than driving it. Prices dropped by two-thirds to $102 per 1,000 board feet in 1985. According to Buck this was due to a decline in housing starts and the increase in the value of the dollar and interest rates, which made Canadian lumber cheaper. Also, deregulation of the transportation industry increased the disadvantage West Coast lumber mills had compared to Southern and Midwestern lumber mills' proximity to East Coast markets.
In addition to the economic forces battering the lumber industry, in the late 1980s the local environment could no longer support the intense logging of the previous century. Historical overharvest and increased environmental regulations reduced the acreage of public forestland open to logging. In 1990, the Northern Spotted Owl was listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. With the owl's listing, communities in Pacific County had to adjust to reduced logging and fewer jobs at the area's sawmills. The effects of the environmental regulations were compounded by plant modernization, which also led to fewer jobs in the mills. Many smaller mills could not compete with the larger companies' more efficient mills and a number went out of business.
The closure of the federal forests combined with changes in how Weyerhaeuser managed its lands and utilized mills in Pacific County led to the closure of numerous mills. This, in turn, led to fewer jobs in the forest products industry, as well as other sectors of the county's economy.
According to a Seattle Times article, "Some residents liken the area to a Third World nation, an underdeveloped colony whose resources are removed by 'foreign' corporations. Weyerhaeuser, they note, owns more than 50 percent of the land in Pacific County" (Hatch). Additionally, they accused Weyerhaeuser of using profits gained in Pacific County to build the very mills in the American South, where wages were lower, that undermined the viability of Raymond's mills. Although there is certainly a component of anger at outside companies taking a tremendous amount of natural resources out of the surrounding hills without investing a significant portion of the resulting profits in the local community, this sentiment also reflects the frustration that resulted from one company owning so much of the county's land and making decisions driven by the global market.
Strategies for Change
Raymond residents have created multiple strategies to address the changes to the regional economy. When one mill, the Mayr Brothers sawmill, closed in 1986, the Port of Willapa Harbor bought the land and buildings and leased them to Pacific Hardwoods. When that mill closed in 2001, a group of Raymond investors banded together and reopened it as Willapa Bay Hardwoods, employing 35 people. It planned to cut 17.5 million board feet a year, a far more sustainable volume than during the boom years.
The Port of Willapa Harbor has been involved in other economic development projects. The Port developed two industrial parks and received grants to construct light manufacturing buildings at one of the industrial parks and at the Port dock. A variety of industries have leased Port buildings, including a chitosan (a natural polymer produced from shellfish shells) producer, seafood processors, and an airplane prototype design company. Additionally, some of the buildings are used by retail stores, including a saw shop and a health club.
The Raymond community, in conjunction with the city government and the Port of Willapa Harbor, has developed attractions that will draw tourists to the region as a way to build the economy. The former railroad bed across the Willapa Hills has been turned into a hiking and biking trail. The city has begun redeveloping its riverfront and a regional consortium developed the Willapa Water Trail, which small boats can follow to explore Willapa Bay.
Over the past century the environment in and around Raymond has attracted people, many of whom have sought to remove as much of it as possible for sale in markets far from Pacific County. The town's future lies in a more sustainable use of those resources, including the intangible ones that have to be experienced in person.
This essay made possible by:
Washington State Department of Commerce
"Building work on the court house had not yet started when the famous Battle of Red Cliffs erupted in March 1939. Hundreds of itinerant workers had converged on the town for the picking season; all were hard up and some penniless and reduced to begging for food. Conditions were wretched and many slept without blankets among the vines, tormented by mosquitoes. Because of bad weather, the harvest wasn't ready and no work was available.
Tempers flared on the evening of 11 March when five hundred rioters ran amok. Police failed to subdue them with fire hoses and batons and it needed reinforcements from Mildura to fire warning shots before the crowd dispersed. On the following Wednesday eighteen defendants faced the Red Cliffs bench on 86 charges. There were so many spectators the venue was moved from the Methodist Hall to the Diggerland Theatre (the name reflects the town's origins as a soldier settlement) and the court sat without a break until 6 pm.
Inevitably, police blamed the riot on a small group of 'communist agitators'. The worst of them, they said, was Louise Edwards who had incited the men to violence with her strident cries. During the hearing she heckled police witnesses. Dubbed the 'Queen of the Red Cliffs Riot', Edwards could not or would not pay her twelve pound fine, and served eight weeks' gaol instead.
The pickers' grievances were mostly legitimate and conditions improved after the riot. A labour bureau was arranged, and block-holders were made to provide shelter and camping places for their workers. The next year, pickers passing through Ouyen on their way to Mildura were even allowed to draw ten shillings sustenance - provided they did 51 hours' work for the local council, then left town promptly!
Due to wartime austerity, Red Cliffs Court House opened without fanfare on 18 July 1940, despite the lack of furniture and a jungle of weeds at the entrance. A shallow, tiled roof covers the courtroom while parapets conceal the flat, iron roofs of the ancillary rooms. In rendered brick, the building presents a stark, blockhouse appearance, emphasised by the horizontal bands and the bars to the windows. After an abortive closure in 1973, the courts ceased officially in 1989. Red Cliffs Historical Society now occupies the building."
Historic Court Houses of Victoria, by Michael Challinger
Disney's Hollywood Studios Christmas Tree reflected in Echo Lake at night in Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida on Thursday, December 5, 2019.
The water agitator was turned off after park close which created an Echo Lake mirror last year. It was silent and night.
I share more photos from Hollywood Studios on the All Ears blog at Christmas 2019 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
The first English patent under the category of Washing machines was issued in 1691. A drawing of an early washing machine appeared in the January 1752 issue of The Gentleman's Magazine, a British publication. Jacob Christian Schäffer's washing machine design was published 1767 in Germany. In 1782, Henry Sidgier issued a British patent for a rotating drum washer, and in the 1790s Edward Beetham sold numerous "patent washing mills" in England. One of the first innovations in washing machine technology was the use of enclosed containers or basins that had grooves, fingers, or paddles to help with the scrubbing and rubbing of the clothes. The person using the washer would use a stick to press and rotate the clothes along the textured sides of the basin or container, agitating the clothes to remove dirt and mud. This crude agitator technology was hand-powered, but still more effective than actually hand-washing the clothes.
Scania P410 8x4 Concrete Mixer SL16VXO - looking clean and tidy despite the rain and mud at this time of year.
14 year old Rock Prodigy ~ Studio B stage ~ Day 4 ~ 10:15 AM
Novelty act on this trip - TERIFFIC-FANTASTIC! - the next Jimi!
About Taz rocklegendscruise.com/artists/brandon-taz-niederauer/
*[Check out this Amazing Kid!! Honestly... Mind-Blowing!!]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk60k9LYei0 (above show)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDmsASAQdQ (deck -stage)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R4cUyKya3U (All Star Jam)
*[Bonus Track-"Voodoo Child" - Madison Square Garden - 4/10/16]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUvwdwz5ONs
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
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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:
**[Update: Easter Sunday Night 4/1/18 - "Jesus Christ Superstar"
Taz was featured on TV playing his guitar in the opening act,
throughout the show, and at the very end. Right On, Taz!!!!]**
Boulevard Pereire 10/01/2025 16h43
The last hour before a Winter sunset in the 17ème arrondissement of Paris.
Near the corner of the Rue Bayen.
Boulevard Pereire
Boulevard Pereire is boulevard in the 17ème arrondissement of Paris in the quartiers Ternes, Plaine de Monceaux and Batignolles. Boulevard is formed by two lanes with trees located on either side of the Auteuil line (now RER C). The even side has a lenght of 2,260 meters and the odd side a length of 2,540 meters. This boulevard is created in 1853. Under the occupation, a name change was proposed by Captain Paul Sezille, director of the Institute for the Study of Jewish issues, because of the Jewish Pereire Brothers. He suggested that the SS Theodor Dannecker the name "Édouard Drumont" named after the famous anti-Semitic agitator.
Arrondissement: 17ème
Quartiers: Ternes, Plaine de Monceaux, Batignolles
Starts: rue Jouffroy-d'Abbans / rue de Saussure
Ends: avenue de la Grande-Armée / boulevard Gouvion-Saint-Cyr
Length: côté impair: 2 540 meters, côté pair: 2 260 meters
Well, that's it for my Rock Legends Cruise VI album for 2018.
It was amazing to see all the old Rock acts that we grew up
with, and had long since forgotten. Soon, they will all be gone...
but never forgotten. Thanks for looking. Hope you enjoyed it.
*[SUNSET AT SEA ~ day 4 ~ last day ~ 6:00 PM ~ off Cuba]
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
********************************************************************
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
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*[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 ~ 38 Special ~ 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.]
*2017 Rock Legends Cruise V slide-show:
*2018 Rock Legends Cruise VI slide-show:
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
About Black Star Riders:
rocklegendscruise.com/artists/black-star-riders/
"The Boys Are Back In Town"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpFP8_uFHuA
*[day three ~ north of Mexico ~ deck-stage ~ 4:00 PM]
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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
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*[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 ~ 38 Special ~ 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.]
*2017 Rock Legends Cruise V slide-show:
*2018 Rock Legends Cruise VI slide-show:
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.
Phil McCormack ~ extremely talented lead vocalist
*(RIP Phil - Died this year - We'll miss you, Buddy)
Rock Legends Cruise VI ~ Feb.15th-19th, 2018
Southern Rock and Blues Band ~ Patriotic
US Flag given to band as a gift from US Veterans
Alhambra Theatre ~ Day Two ~ 10:00 PM
*[The back-story: Molly Hatchet is a very patriotic band
with strong ties to the USA Military. They always mention
the sacrifices of our men. 2 Veterans came on stage and
presented this flag to the band as a form of thanks. The
band was very touched, thanked the Vets with tears in their
eyes, and then recited: the pledge of allegiance to the flag.]
*[On a personal note: I thanked this lead singer while waiting
on the customs-line, getting off the ship. A very firm handshake,
kind smile, and a warm, lovely man! All of the Legends were
patriotic! Many wore US flags during their shows. I must say the
expression this band uses with Veteran Respect; "Hell Yeah!"]
About Molly Hatchet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Hatchet
rocklegendscruise.com/artists/molly-hatchet/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuleyEEgAtg (Molly Hatchet - 1978)
*[Rockin' the Waves at Sea about 60 miles north of Cuba]
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
(four more photos 'from this cruise' in the comments)
********************************************************************
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:
Mehr denn je scheinen Deutschlands Regierung, AfD, Pegida und Nazis keine wichtigeren Probleme zu haben, als die Anwesenheit von ein paar hunderttausend Flüchtlingen im 80-Millionen-Volk. Die Zahlen der Neuankömmlinge sind drastisch zurückgegangen, die Balkanroute ist blockiert, der Seeweg übers Mittelmeer wird blockiert, Durchgangsländer internieren Migranten, die nach Europa wollen; diejenigen, die es doch hierher schaffen, werden in Ankerzentren eingesperrt und in Zukunft nur mehr mit „Sachleistungen“ versorgt – alles, was abschreckt, ist willkommen und wird gemacht. Der AfD und der CSU mitsamt ihrem Innenminister reicht das nicht. Seit dem ersten Tag in seinem Amt befolgt Seehofer die Linie, dass seine Partei den Ausländerhass nicht den Rechtsradikalen überlassen darf, und fährt eine Endloskampagne gegen eine angebliche deutsche Großzügigkeit gegenüber Hilfesuchenden, als ob etwas derartiges bis dahin Regierungslinie gewesen wäre.
(aus de.gegenstandpunkt.com/artikel/geist-nation-2018-gehaessi...)
I. Der Ausländerhass wird nicht mehr dem rechten Rand überlassen
Über Monate wird die Bremer Außenstelle des Bundesamtes an den Pranger gestellt, die zu viele Asylanträge anerkannt haben soll. Der Amtsleiterin wird nicht nur vorgeworfen, aus Sympathie für die Antragsteller ihre Kompetenzen ausgereizt zu haben – was Seehofer allein schon zur Verletzung ihrer Amtspflicht erklärt; man bezichtigt sie der Korruption, konstruiert ganze Netzwerke krimineller Asylantenhelfer aus Anwälten und Behördenvertretern, bis die Regierung auf eine parlamentarische Anfrage hin einräumen muss, eine Nachprüfung der Bremer Praxis durch das übergeordnete BAMF habe zu dem beruhigenden Ergebnis geführt, dass eine vom Amt und seinen Leitlinien nicht gedeckte Freundlichkeit gegen Asylbewerber nicht vorgelegen hat.
Der große BAMF-Skandal hat seine stille Beerdigung noch vor sich, da bricht die CSU, im Bewusstsein, dass Abweisen und Rausschmeißen von Flüchtlingen populär ist, über einen lächerlichen Unterpunkt der Ausländer-Fernhaltepolitik eine Regierungskrise vom Zaun, droht mit Missachtung der Richtlinienkompetenz der Kanzlerin und operiert mit Ultimaten, die nur auf den Sturz Merkels zielen können. Innenminister Seehofer kündigt an, aus eigener Machtvollkommenheit an der deutschen Grenze Asylsuchende, die schon in einem anderen EU-Staat registriert worden sind, zurückzuweisen und einen Antrag gar nicht erst stellen zu lassen. Er fordert einen fundamentalen Kurswechsel der deutschen Politik in einer Frage, die – wie er selbst einräumt – höchstens drei bis fünf Personen pro Tag betrifft, also praktisch, was Zuwanderung wie ihre Unterbindung angeht, irrelevant ist. Von dem Einwand, dass er über eine Detailfrage den Bestand der gerade gebildeten Regierungskoalition, die Fraktionsgemeinschaft der Unionsparteien und überhaupt die Schlagkraft der Konservativen gefährde, lässt er sich nicht beeindrucken. Er beruft sich dagegen auf Überzeugungen, die er habe und für die man in der Politik auch mal kämpfen müsse. Gezielt macht er aus dem unbedeutenden Punkt des deutschen Grenzregimes eine Prinzipienfrage und besteht auf einer Korrektur der nationalen Moral, des Geistes, aus dem von oben Politik gemacht und von unten verstanden und beurteilt wird. Seehofer will die Verschonung vor Flüchtlingen als das gute Recht der Deutschen festgeschrieben und den Bruch mit allen humanistischen Tönen und Verpflichtungen offiziell gemacht sehen, die von der Praxis der Asylpolitik ohnehin längst überholt sind. Er wirft Merkel vor, weniger praktisch als ideell immer noch an der Political Correctness von gestern festzuhalten und das Bekenntnis zum ungebrochenen nationalen Egoismus als der fälligen neuen Ehrlichkeit zu verweigern. Die Medien verstehen Seehofers Prinzipienfrage sehr wohl und nehmen sie auch auf, wenn sie ihm die obigen Vorhaltungen machen und seinen zerrüttenden Machtkampf auf niedere Motive wie den Partei-Egoismus der CSU im bayrischen Landtagswahlkampf oder eine alte Privatfehde mit der Kanzlerin zurückführen. Sie werfen ihm den Missbrauch des Themas für persönliche oder Parteiinteressen vor und nehmen sich dessen selbst an, indem sie täglich das Pro und Contra der heißen Frage diskutieren, wie schäbig und rücksichtslos Hilfesuchende an den deutschen Grenzen zu behandeln seien, damit dem Recht der Deutschen auf Identität und Heimat Genüge getan ist.
Das nie befriedigte Recht auf nationale Identität und sein polemischer Inhalt
Das politische Bedürfnis der Deutschen, dem sich die CSU empfiehlt und das sie aktiv aufrührt,[1] besteht schlicht darin, sich mit dem eigenen Stall zu identifizieren, in dem Ausländer als Fremdkörper auffallen, und alle politischen Fragen vom Gegensatz des Vaterlands zum Rest der Welt her zu denken: „wir“ und „die anderen“. In diesem Sinn haben die Deutschen an den Flüchtlingen, die der Staat ins Land lässt, über deren Aufenthalt er entscheidet und die er, solange er sie nicht wieder hinauswirft, wie schäbig auch immer versorgt, die leibhaftige Infragestellung ihres geglaubten Rechts, dass ihr Staat mit seiner Gewalt über sie für sie und nur für sie da zu sein hat. Große Teile des Hausherren-Volks nehmen der Kanzlerin die kurzfristige Grenzöffnung 2015 übel und pflegen giftige Meinungen dazu, wie „wir“ mit den ungebetenen Gästen zu verfahren haben, die bloß stören. Es gibt kaum mehr ein Problem im Land, bei dem nicht die Flüchtlinge als Verursacher oder wenigstens als verschärfende, zusätzliche Belastung ins Visier geraten. Die Kriminalität zum Beispiel, die der Statistik zufolge zurückgeht, wird zugleich immer bedrohlicher. Denn Straftaten, wenn sie von Flüchtlingen begangen werden, sind Angriffe auf uns, sie richten sich gegen die Deutschen. Die üblichen Frauenmorde, die von lupenreinen Biodeutschen begangen werden, bremsen die Hetze gegen Ausländer überhaupt nicht. Eine Beziehungstat ist nämlich ganz etwas anderes, wenn der verschmähte Liebhaber ein Flüchtling aus einem islamischen Land ist: Dessen Opfer ist unnötig gestorben, dessen Tat hätte nicht stattgefunden, wenn nicht eine volksvergessene Politik die Vagabunden der Welt ins Land gelassen hätte.
Zum Beweis der Zumutung, die die Fremden für „uns“ darstellen, taugt aber auch sonst alles und jedes, ein materieller Schaden am einzelnen oder am allgemeinen Volkskörper ist dafür nicht erforderlich. Dass die Versorgung der Flüchtlinge bzw. die Vorbereitung derjenigen, die bleiben dürfen, auf ihre Rolle am unteren Ende des deutschen Arbeitsmarkts wie alles im Staat Geld kostet, beweist einen Raub an deutschen Lebenschancen, auch wenn niemandem Ansprüche auf Sozialleistungen wegen der Flüchtlinge gestrichen werden und obwohl ohne Flüchtlinge niemand ein Mehr an solchen Leistungen zu erwarten gehabt hat. Diesen eingebildeten Raub nimmt man den Migranten persönlich übel – eine Tour und Tonart, die bisher Pegida und anderen Nazis vorbehalten waren, sind nun auch vom bayrischen Ministerpräsidenten zu hören: Asyltourismus legt den Bewerbern ein unverschämtes Ausnutzen der europäischen Rechtslage zur Last; Anti-Abschiebe-Industrie bezichtigt ihre Rechtsanwälte und Helfer der Sabotage der Behörden, die „uns“ vor denen schützen.
Wer dieses „Wir“ ist, zu dem „die“ nicht gehören, ist für all die Ausländerfeinde oben und unten keine Frage: Unsere Gemeinschaft der Deutschen eben, die schon immer, jedenfalls schon länger zusammenleben und einen Menschenschlag bilden, der zusammenpasst und gemeinsame Vorstellungen vom Richtigen und Guten und davon, worauf es im Leben ankommt, teilt. Werte und Symbole, die versinnbildlichen, was diese ureigene Zusammengehörigkeit der Deutschen ausmacht, gibt es genug; und es schadet ihrer verbindenden Kraft und ihrem Wiedererkennungswert überhaupt nicht, dass sie allesamt durchschaut sind: Kabarett und Feuilleton spotten über das christliche Abendland, in dem die Kirchen leer sind, und dessen stramme Verteidiger die Bedeutung der religiösen Feiertage nicht mehr kennen. Und wenn die CSU in staatlichen Behörden Kreuze aufhängt und kulturelle Identität demonstriert, protestieren Bischöfe beider Konfessionen gegen einen unchristlichen, ausgrenzenden Missbrauch ihres Markenzeichens. Das Bedürfnis nach nationaler Identität lässt sich durch die Absurdität der Angebote nicht erschüttern – es nähert sich nur seiner Wahrheit an: Abendland und Kreuz sind sowieso nur Chiffren für Deutschland als Wert, der ganz tief in Herz und Hirn der Landsleute verankert ist. Einen anderen verbindenden Willen, eine andere Gemeinsamkeit zwischen den verschiedenen Schichten, Reichtums- und Bildungsniveaus, Familien- und Lebensformen im Land gibt es nicht. Der deutsche Staat schützt nicht irgendeine Gemeinsamkeit der Deutschen, er ist sie – und sein unbedingter Egoismus gegen den Rest der Welt ist ihr ganzes Interesse und Recht. Das Deutschtum besteht in nichts anderem als dem Anspruch, von der politischen Herrschaft, der man gehorcht, besser behandelt zu werden als Nicht-Deutsche. Dieses Privileg wird erlebbar und bestätigt sich einzig durch Ausgrenzung und die schlechte Behandlung von Fremden – selbstverständlich nur der Fremden, die nicht als Touristen oder Investoren kommen, sondern die wie die ihnen gar nicht unähnlichen normalen Deutschen auch nur leben und Geld verdienen wollen.
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Die Hassparolen im Namen des Rechts des deutschen Volkes auf sich selbst, die man vom rechten Rand kennt, nun aber von höchsten Repräsentanten des Landes zu hören bekommt, erschrecken manche, vor allem die Hüter der bisherigen politischen Anstandsregeln, den Bundespräsidenten sowie Vertreter der seriösen Presse. Sie widersprechen – nur wie! Sie definieren Söders und Seehofers Hetze als verbale Entgleisungen und mahnen zu Besonnenheit in der leidigen Frage, wie „wir“ mit nicht willkommenen Flüchtlingen verfahren sollen. Noch der radikalste Widerspruch gegen die neue Tonlage kommt von einer Demonstration, die unter der Parole „Ausgehetzt!“ den Fokus der Kritik auf die Stilfrage in der Ausländerpolitik richtet. Die Besonnenen bestehen darauf, dass Ernst – Frau Aigner (CSU) meint sogar Empathie – in der ernsten Sache der Flüchtlingsabweisung nötig ist: Den Flüchtlingen sind keine Vorwürfe zu machen, sie verlassen ihre Heimat nicht zum Spaß; sie fliehen aus Kriegsgebieten, in denen kein Leben geht, sowie aus Elendsgebieten Afrikas, in denen es kaum besser ist. Ganz Besonnene erinnern daran, dass diese Kriege oft von westlichen Regime-Change-Interventionen ausgelöst, stets durch die Förderung dem Westen genehmer Warlords geschürt und, sobald eine unliebsame Kriegspartei die Oberhand zu gewinnen droht, mit neuem Geld und neuen Waffen in die Verlängerung geschickt werden – was alles nicht als Kritik des Imperialismus der kapitalistischen Nationen, sondern als Aufruf zum verantwortlichen Umgang mit den entwurzelten Menschen gemeint ist, „die wir nicht alle aufnehmen können“. Niemand darf „Absaufen lassen!“ grölen und den Todesraten im Mittelmeer applaudieren; aber man sieht eben auch, dass die Seenotrettung ein kontraproduktiver Pull-Faktor ist und ihre Unterlassung den Schleusern das Handwerk legen würde. Bei aller Ablehnung der Sprache der CSU fragt sich mancher aus dem weltoffenen Lager ganz ohne Schaum vorm Mund, ob die Zuwanderung das Volk nicht tatsächlich überfordert und die Elite dessen Sorgen nicht ernst genug genommen hat bzw. gegen Fremdes allzu tolerant gewesen ist. Ohne menschenverachtende Häme, aber auch ohne Kritik haben die Deutschen die Unverträglichkeit ihres Lebens als Volk mit den Überlebensinteressen der Bewohner von halb Afrika und dem Nahen Osten zu konstatieren. Das ist sie schon, die besonnene Gegenposition gegen die inzwischen mehrheitsfähige nationalistische Hetze; ihre nähere Bestimmung gibt ihr die Frau, gegen die der Aufstand der CSU sich richtet. Merkel widersetzt sich Seehofers „Masterplan Migration“ ausschließlich in dem einen Punkt der Zurückweisung anderswo registrierter Asylsuchender an den deutschen Landesgrenzen. So etwas will sie in der EU
"nicht unilateral, nicht unabgestimmt, nicht zu Lasten Dritter"
durchziehen. Der Gegensatz zwischen den C-Parteien dreht sich also gar nicht um die Frage, ob in Deutschland Platz für die Zuwanderer sein soll, sondern einzig darum, ob sie souverän deutsch an der deutschen oder europäisch an der EU-Außengrenze gestoppt bzw. über die zurückverfrachtet werden sollen. Die weltoffene, aufgeklärte Position, für die Merkel heute steht, ist die der europäischen Abschottung. Auch für die CSU hat die „Festung Europa“ zwar einen guten Klang, sie ist aber nicht mehr bereit, sich von der dafür nötigen Kooperation der EU-Partner abhängig zu machen und auf deren Ergebnisse zu warten. Dass die deutsche Politik die Partner mit deren eigenen Interessen – sei es daran, selbst Flüchtlinge wieder loszuwerden, sei es Interesse an Geld für deren Unterbringung oder für sonst etwas – erst dazu gewinnen, ihnen also etwas dafür bieten muss, dass sie sich zum Instrument der deutschen Flüchtlingsabwehr machen, greift die CSU als eine einzige Selbstfesselung der souveränen Republik an, die solche Rücksichten nicht länger nötig hat und auch nicht länger erträgt. Den vom gleichen Geist der Abschottung getragenen professionellen Einwand, ein nationaler Alleingang sei gerade in dieser Frage kontraproduktiv, würde die Partner aus den Pflichten des Dubliner Abkommens entlassen und dazu führen, dass sie Migranten wieder vermehrt unregistriert ins europäische Zentrum durchwinken, lässt sie nicht gelten, weil es ihr ums Prinzip geht: Deutschland zuerst und souverän. Politischer Pragmatismus sei genau das, womit die deutsche Politik ihre Freiheit verspielt. Die äußerste Rücksicht auf die EU, die Seehofers Ultimatum Merkel erlauben will, besteht darin, dass sie in kürzester Frist eine europäische Fernhaltepolitik heraushandelt, die „wirkungsgleich“ mit den nationalen Maßnahmen ist, die er andernfalls im Alleingang verordnen will. Nur als direktes und kostenloses Instrument rein deutscher Interessen lässt er die EU noch gelten. Dass sie das nicht ist, dass Merkel für denselben Abschottungszweck die europäischen Partner – zwar nicht mehr nach dem Brüsseler Kompromissverfahren, sondern bilateral – erst bearbeiten muss, um sie für Deutschland zu instrumentalisieren, legt ihr die christliche Schwesterpartei als Verrat am nationalen Auftrag aus.
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Nachdem sich für einen Sturz Merkels nicht genug Unterstützung in der CDU findet, ein klarer Sieger sich nicht abzeichnet und Umfragen ergeben, dass vor dem Konservativismus der Wählerschaft, die vor allem einheitliche Führung und keinen Zwist sehen will, beide Streitparteien verlieren, die bayerische mehr als Merkel, und dass die AfD darüber gar nicht zu schwächen ist, wird der Machtkampf in der Regierungskoalition vertagt, der ultimative Streit über das Grenzregime vorerst wieder in Tagespolitik überführt. Der Standpunkt aber, der davon aufgerührt und ins Recht gesetzt wurde, ist damit keineswegs zufriedengestellt oder beruhigt, im Gegenteil, er wird immer radikaler: Nach den Flüchtlingen aus Syrien und Afrika geraten die seit Generationen hier lebenden Türken unter die Scheidung von „wir“ und „die“: Dass eine Mehrheit der Minderheit von denen, die erstens einen Doppelpass besitzen und sich zweitens an der türkischen Präsidentschaftswahl beteiligt haben, dem hier verabscheuten Erdoğan ihr Vertrauen schenken, beweist, dass sie keine loyalen Deutschen, mithin nicht wirklich integriert sind, also auch nicht hierher gehören. Mit weniger als einem eindeutig und ausschließlich deutsch-nationalen Blick auf die Welt, also unterhalb einer Assimilation bis zur Ununterscheidbarkeit lassen die echten Deutschen die Leute mit Migrationshintergrund einfach nicht als Mitbürger gelten. Da wird die abendländisch oder sonst wie versinnbildlichte deutsche Identität geständig: Ihr Inhalt besteht in nichts als der Loyalität zur politischen Herrschaft. Beispielhaft wird das nach dem frühen Ausscheiden der Nationalelf aus der Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft gegen Mesut Özil geltend gemacht. Der gefeierte Mittelfeldregisseur aus Gelsenkirchen hat sich nicht nur mit der Kanzlerin, der britischen Premierministerin und anderen Celebrities sondern auch mit dem Präsidenten der Türkei, der Unperson Erdoğan, ablichten lassen und auch mit ihm den wechselseitigen Glanz geteilt, der bei solchen Begegnungen vom einen auf den anderen fällt. Damit ist für die Deutschen alles klar: Der Türke mit der falschen Loyalität hat den deutschen Erfolg sabotiert und in Wahrheit gar nicht für Deutschland gespielt. Kaum flaut diese Aufregung ab, füllen Bürgermeister größerer Städte die Lücke, indem sie es als Skandal herausstellen, dass aus ihren Familienkassen tatsächlich an nichtdeutsche EU-Bürger, die hier arbeiten und Steuern zahlen, ein deutsches Kindergeld gezahlt wird, selbst wenn deren Kinder im Herkunftsland mit niedrigerem Preisniveau und Lebensstandard leben. Verrührt mit Fällen von Kindergeldbetrug, die es auch gibt und die sowieso verfolgt werden, ist die Botschaft fertig: Auch EU-Bürger gehören nicht hierher, wenn sie nicht bloß leisten, sondern auch Leistungen beziehen.
II. Der andere, materielle Gehalt der nationalen Identität: Unser Geld
Außer der Pflege ihrer nationalen Identität und der dazugehörenden Achtung und Verachtung ihrer Mitmenschen haben sich die Deutschen noch praktisch um eine Kleinigkeit zu kümmern: um ihr Geld – auch das verbindet sie. Sein Erwerb ist Notwendigkeit und Interesse eines jeden, ironischerweise gilt es eben dadurch als ein gemeinsames. Dass die Bürger ihr Geld gegeneinander verdienen, dass die gefeierten Wachstumsraten, Exportbilanzen und Aktienkurse der letzten Jahre auf der Billigkeit und der für sie selbst unergiebigen Leistung der großen Mehrheit beruhen, trübt den die Landsleute verbindenden Geldmaterialismus einerseits gar nicht: Geld zu verdienen, d.h. sich an den dafür gegebenen Bedingungen zu bewähren, ist für alle gleichermaßen Recht und Pflicht und anderes als Selbstverantwortung auf diesem Feld kommt sowieso nicht in Frage. Andererseits ist die wachsende Armut, die zum wachsenden Reichtum der Reichen gehört, nicht vergessen. Auf Basis der Anerkennung der Bedingungen des Geschäftslebens betätigt sich die Unzufriedenheit mit seinem Ertrag als missgünstige Begutachtung der anderen: Verdienen der Hartzer und der Manager, die Hausfrau und der Lehrer auch, was sie verdienen? Der Materialismus des Geldverdienens wird in eine nationale Gerechtigkeitsfrage verwandelt; bescheidene Verhältnisse berechtigen zu nichts als Neid auf Leute, denen es besser geht, Erfolg berechtigt zu Stolz darauf, dass man zu den besseren Leuten gehört. Der Klassengegensatz wird mit dem Hubraum des SUV ausgetragen, das man sich leisten kann – und auf jeden Fall als Vergleich. Von der Mittelschicht heißt es, sie sei von sozialen Abstiegsängsten geplagt. Die Bedrohung ihrer materiellen Lage durch Globalisierung, Digitalisierung oder sonst etwas lässt sich die Schicht, die etwas zu verlieren hat, als Bedrohung ihres Ranges auf der sozialen Hühnerleiter verdolmetschen; die Hierarchie der Berufe und Einkommen als solche ist rundum affirmiert, wenn die Bessergestellten sich vor nichts so ängstigen, wie dort unten zu landen, wo ein Drittel der Bevölkerung längst ist.
Dass man anderen nicht gönnt, was sie haben, und sich selbst immer um das, was einem zusteht, betrogen wähnt, gehört zur Kultur einer gefestigten kapitalistischen Zivilgesellschaft und ist innerhalb weiter Grenzen ein unauffälliger privater Zeitvertreib. Politisch und wirksam wird der Neid, wenn er sich mit der nationalen Identität verbindet und die verbreitete Missgunst der Bürger sich gemeinsam gegen außen richtet. Das ist leicht zu haben, denn Ausländern und dem Ausland, die kein Teil der nationalen Gemeinschaft sind, steht im Sinn der nationalen Gerechtigkeit gar nichts zu. Der Geldmaterialismus der Deutschen präsentiert sich also national, er gilt unserem Geld, unserem Nationalprodukt und den anderen Parametern des Wirtschaftserfolgs. Sehr gleichmacherisch gegen den Umstand, dass die einen Volksgenossen den Erfolg haben und die anderen für ihn geradezustehen haben, betrachten sie ihn als gemeinsamen Besitz, von dem sie ihre privaten Umstände abhängig wissen und für den sie unbedingt parteilich sind. Es ist ihnen nicht unbekannt, dass die außergewöhnlichen deutschen Wirtschaftserfolge der letzten Jahre gegen andere Länder errungen wurden und auf deren Kosten gehen. Dass die Exportnation beständig gegen ihre Handelspartner in der EU und weltweit Überschüsse erzielt, an ihnen also immer mehr verdient, als sie die anderen an sich verdienen lässt, dass sie ihnen somit das Geld abnimmt und Arbeitslosigkeit exportiert, irritiert die deutsche Selbstgerechtigkeit überhaupt nicht: Schuld an ihrem Schaden sind die anderen Nationen – was sind sie auch weniger konkurrenzfähig als „wir“. Trump, heißt es, brauche sich gar nicht aufzuregen, seine Amerikaner seien es doch selbst, die deutsche Autos den Produkten der heimischen Industrie vorziehen. Die Gegensätzlichkeit des Nationalerfolgs ist selbstverständlich und braucht keine Rechtfertigung: Es gibt ihn und weil er errungen worden ist, ist sein Besitz ein Recht der Deutschen.
Die Gegenwehr des US-Präsidenten, der „unfairen Handel“ nicht mehr dulden will, erscheint dem nationalen Blick komplett irrational, angesichts der internationalen Verflechtung der Volkswirtschaften schädlich besonders für die USA selbst; vor allem aber unfair: ein illegitimer Angriff auf „uns“. Die Forderung der EU-Partner nach irgendeiner Form der Teilhabe an der Kreditmacht, die Deutschland durch seine sie ruinierenden Erfolge akkumuliert hat – und sei es nur, um diesen einseitigen Wirtschaftsverkehr fortzusetzen –, ist ein unberechtigter Griff in „unsere Taschen“; eine „Transferunion“ in der Eurozone und alles, was in diese Richtung geht, kommt überhaupt nicht in Frage: Da ist das ganze Land ein geiziger Schwabe: „Mir gäbet nix!“
Wenn die Deutschen von der Gegenwehr anderer Staaten auf die Gegensätzlichkeit ihres Wirtschaftserfolgs gestoßen werden, animiert sie das nicht zum Nachdenken über die ökonomischen Antagonismen, an denen Normalbürger im Inneren ebenso laborieren wie das unterlegene Ausland; sie registrieren den Gegenwind schlicht als Bedrohung ihrer privilegierten Stellung. Niemand widerspricht, wenn die Kanzlerin sagt: ‚Es geht uns gut wie nie.‘ Dass in der deutschen Wirtschaft alles wohl bestellt und kaum besser zu machen ist, wird ihr für Vergangenheit und Gegenwart zugestanden. Aber wegen des Neids und der Obstruktion der anderen kursieren Zweifel an der Fortsetzbarkeit des deutschen Erfolgs: Das Land wartet auf den Handelskrieg Trumps, die Folgeschäden des Brexit, die Solidaritätsforderungen von Macron und anderen, die allesamt diesen Erfolg gefährden, mindestens schmälern.
In Identifikation der persönlichen materiellen Lage mit den nicht mehr so zukunftssicheren Erfolgen des deutschen Kapitalismus bekommen seine Opfer, die von den Erfolgen nichts haben, ihre aktuellen Nöte als „Abstiegsängste“, also als vorgreifende Sorgen vor zukünftigen Zuständen anerkannt und auf ausländische Angriffe auf den deutschen Erfolg und das Ausgenutzt-Werden des Vaterlands durch anwesende Ausländer zurückgeführt. Das Angebot, soziale Unzufriedenheit und das Gefühl erlittener Ungerechtigkeit mit der Bedrohung des deutschen Wohlstands gleichgesetzt und gerechtfertigt zu bekommen, wird massenhaft angenommen. Als beleidigte Patrioten dürfen sich die Schlechtergestellten im Recht und stark fühlen und frech werden: Daran, dass die Regierung zulässt, dass Deutschland von Fremden ausgenutzt wird – und nur daran –, lesen sie das Unrecht ab, das den Armen in Deutschland angetan wird. Nur an dem Geld, das ihr Staat für die Stabilisierung und Kontrolle der europäischen Nachbarländer und für Flüchtlinge ausgibt, ermessen sie, dass ihnen etwas vorenthalten wird. So glauben sie sich glatt ihre absurde Anklage: ‚Die Flüchtlinge bekommen alles, wir nichts!‘ ‚Den Griechen werden die Schulden gestundet, die Italiener bezahlt man für die Abwehr von Migranten – alles aus dem Geldbeutel des deutschen Steuerzahlers.‘ In der Missgunst gegen alles Fremde schließen sich oben und unten zusammen, wendet die Klassengesellschaft ihre Gegensätze und die Giftigkeit ihrer Konkurrenz nach außen. Der AfD-Agitator Höcke hat einfach Recht behalten: Die soziale Frage sieht heute niemand mehr als eine von arm und reich in der Gesellschaft, sie ist zu einer von innen und außen geworden. Darin steckt noch das Urteil über die Merkeljahre, dass die deutsche Gesellschaft für sich, die freilich überhaupt nicht bei sich bleibt, sondern den Weltmarkt erobert, perfekt eingerichtet wäre, wenn nur die störenden Anderen nicht wären: Alles Schlechte kommt von außen.
Dieser Zeitgeist verdächtigt die Kanzlerin, den nötigen und selbstverständlichen Kampf gegen eine feindliche Umwelt, die es aufs deutsche Geld abgesehen hat und „uns“ unseren Erfolg stehlen will, nicht zu führen und mit ihrer auf Europa, Kooperation und supranationale Ordnung geeichten politischen Gesinnung auch gar nicht führen zu können: Stil und Inhalt der Politik Merkels passen nicht mehr zu diesem Land. Missmutig warten die Deutschen auf ihren Trump, der nicht in Sicht ist.
III. Die Zeit des geordneten Multilateralismus ist vorbei (Söder) – unrelativierter Nationalismus ist angesagt
In der Flüchtlingspolitik und auf dem Feld nationaler Geldinteressen wird Merkel als Repräsentantin einer deutschen Krankheit angegriffen, nämlich eines unpatriotischen Standpunkts, der sich ein Bekenntnis zum Egoismus der Nation nicht traut, der die Probleme der Welt lösen, die internationale Ordnung verwalten und verteidigen, Ausgleich zwischen den Nationen stiften will, anstatt die Interessen des eigenen Volkes durchzusetzen. In dieser Einordnung als Vertreterin der nationalen Selbstverleugnung wird die Kanzlerin mit dem „Geist von ’68“, mit dem endlich Schluss gemacht gehört, sowie mit den „Gutmenschen“ in einen Topf geworfen, in den sie nicht gehört. Was sie vertritt und vertrat, ist nicht das Gegenteil von Nationalismus, sondern ein anderer als der, den ihre Kritiker einklagen: Der Nationalismus nämlich eines Bündnispartners, der durch seine Einordnung in die militärische und ökonomische Ordnung des Westens reich und mächtig geworden ist.
Der Preis für die Nazi-Zeit und den verlorenen Weltkrieg und die Bedingung des Wiederaufstiegs war die Anerkennung dieses für alle kapitalistischen Nationen von den USA verbindlich gemachten Konkurrenzrahmens. Einen ganzen Kalten Krieg lang war die Wiederherstellung nationaler Größe, die „Wiedervereinigung“, dem Systemgegensatz gegen den sozialistischen Osten untergeordnet und konnte nur durch Beiträge zu dieser Weltkriegsfront vorangetrieben werden. Ökonomische Potenz und Konkurrenzfähigkeit gegen die überlegene Bündnisvormacht konnte nur durch den Aufbau der Europäischen Union und die Unterordnung unter deren gemeinsam beschlossenes Recht gewonnen werden. Was die Adenauer-Regierung und alle ihre Nachfolger opportunistisch anerkannten und benutzten, wurde ganz langsam – so richtig erst durch den demokratie-idealistischen Furor der Studentenbewegung – zum auch vom Volk akzeptierten Selbstbild der Deutschen, dem selbstverständlich nicht jeder folgte; den rechten Rand, der Anpassung an die und Ausnutzung der amerikanischen Weltordnung als Kotau vor den Besatzern verwarf, gab es immer, aber das war eben der rechte Rand. Die Mehrheit lernte, ihren nationalen Stolz und nationale Ansprüche mit der vorbildlichen Befolgung westlicher Werte zu begründen: „Wir sind wieder wer!“ – und zwar dadurch, dass die Westdeutschen sich als die glühendsten Antikommunisten in der NATO hervortaten – ‚Freiheit statt Sozialismus‘ hieß das, nicht ‚Deutschland vor!‘ – sowie als die europäischsten Europäer. Sie durften sich wieder als Patrioten präsentieren, weil die Treue, der sie sich rühmten, einer demokratischen Verfassung galt – Habermas’ Verfassungspatriotismus stand gegen bornierte Deutschtümelei. Noch bis zur Vorbildrolle im Klimaschutz und dem kurzfristig populären Willkommen an die syrischen Flüchtlinge haben die Deutschen sich zur Elite der Völker gezählt und unter ihnen zur Führung berechtigt gesehen, weil ihr Land ‚Verantwortung für die Probleme der Welt‘ übernimmt.
Die an übernationalen Maßstäben gerechtfertigte Selbstgerechtigkeit der Nation ist zugleich deren Relativierung – auch die war gewusst und gewollt: Das aufgeklärte Deutschland begrüßte sie als Bremse des Nationalismus, dessen Exzesse noch vor Augen standen – zu Unrecht übrigens, denn gerade der relativierte Nationalismus begleitet und rechtfertigt den beständigen Zuwachs des Landes an ökonomischer und politischer Macht über die europäischen Nachbarn und darüber hinaus und befreit sich mit diesem Zuwachs immer mehr vom Bedürfnis, sich zu rechtfertigen. Die einzige Rechtfertigung, die der deutsche Nationalismus sich noch gönnt und mit der er Kritik jeder Art zurückweist, ist der Verweis auf die anderen, die doch schon immer so national und stolz, eben „normal“ seien, wie es die Deutschen endlich werden müssen. Trump mit seinem America first! fungiert hier als positives Vorbild.
Inzwischen ist man noch weiter: Jede Rechtfertigung des Nationalismus wird als Verrat an ihm, an seiner Unbedingtheit und Unbeschränktheit verworfen. Vaterlandslos ist, wer anerkennt, dass es noch etwas Höheres geben soll als den gegen andere gerichteten Egoismus der eigenen Nation aus ihrem eigenen Recht.
IV. Das bessere Deutschland – in der Defensive und selbst sehr defensiv
Natürlich ist das nicht das ganze Bild; es gibt sie noch, die Parteien und politischen Strömungen, die für das weltoffene Deutschland von gestern stehen und ihr nationales Anspruchsdenken auf die Verantwortung gründen, die ihr Land für globale Krisen- und Problemfälle übernommen hat. Aber sie bilden nicht wirklich einen Gegenpol gegen die Feindseligkeit des unrelativierten Nationalismus – und wollen das oft auch nicht.
Den Parteien, die Merkels Grenzöffnung mitgetragen und von ihr im Sinn der deutschen Globalverantwortung eine konsequentere Inpflichtnahme der EU-Partner bei der Verteilung der Flüchtlinge gefordert haben, fällt auch heute nichts Besseres ein, als wieder Merkel gegen CSU und AfD den Rücken zu stärken – nun eben bei einer Politik, die auf das Verriegeln der ‚Festung Europa‘ gerichtet ist. Eine eigene Positionierung zum Asylstreit, der das nationale Selbstbewusstsein so entscheidend definiert, vermeiden SPD, Linke und Grüne tunlichst. Die drei Parteien gehen selbst davon aus, dass jede Stellungnahme in der einen oder anderen Richtung sie zwischen dem Moralismus der helfenden Weltmacht und dem Realismus, dass die Deutschen die Flüchtlinge nicht mehr aushalten, zerreißen würde, dass sie also auch bei den Wählern damit nur verlieren können. Mit ihrer Selbstmarginalisierung bestätigen sie den Anspruch der rechten Nationalisten, Vertreter der wahren Volksbedürfnisse zu sein.
Die SPD hält sich aus dem Machtkampf zwischen Seehofer und Merkel komplett heraus und versucht, sich von den Streithähnen mit sachlicher Amtsführung in ihren Ministerien abzusetzen. Dort strickt sie weiter an ihrer Variante, den gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt zu stärken und die Spaltung der Nation zu überwinden, indem sie an Missständen herumreformiert, die sie zur Ursache der Fremdenfeindlichkeit erklärt: Sie setzt Maßnahmen zur Stabilisierung des sinkenden Rentenniveaus durch, ein neues Rückkehrrecht für Beschäftigte aus Teilzeit in Vollzeitstellen, führt die paritätische Finanzierung der Krankenversicherung wieder ein – und bekommt nichts davon auch nur im Geringsten honoriert. So bekommt sie zu spüren, dass alle sozialen Fragen der nationalen subsumiert sind. Aus der Deckung kommt sie nur, wo sie sich sicher ist, dass der rechte Zeitgeist zu weit geht, und sie darauf plädieren kann, dass dieser selbst höchste Werte der Nation, z.B. den deutschen Ruf in der Welt oder den inneren Frieden beschädigt: Mit dieser Sorge um Deutschland tritt sie der zügellosen Sprache der CSU-Größen entgegen; nach Özils Rückzug aus der Nationalmannschaft räumt sie ein, dass das Land ein „Rassismusproblem“ hat – man könne schlechterdings nicht das ganze Viertel der Bevölkerung mit ausländischen Vorfahren ausgrenzen. Ansonsten beeilt sie sich zu versichern, dass ihre matten Bremsversuche gegen die rechte Radikalisierung den Verdacht eines Laissez-faire gegenüber Ausländern nicht verdienen: Hinter die Angriffe auf Kindergeldzahlungen an EU-Bürger stellt sich Andrea Nahles gerade mit einem Bekenntnis zur Weltoffenheit: Wer für Freizügigkeit in der EU ist, muss erst recht konsequent den Missbrauch bekämpfen!
Die Linke balanciert hart an der Spaltung der Partei zwischen dem Wagenknecht-Flügel, der den Ausländerhass zur Furcht der unterprivilegierten Schichten vor zusätzlichen Konkurrenten am Arbeits- und Wohnungsmarkt veredelt und zu betreuen verspricht und nicht zuletzt darauf das Projekt der neuen Sammlungsbewegung ‚Aufstehen‘ gründet, und dem Rest, der sich von seinem Menschheits- und Solidaritätsmoralismus nicht lösen mag. Der grünen Intellektuellen-Partei kommt zugute, dass sie ohne Spaltung und ohne eigene Position in der Sache öffentlich das Problem wälzt, dass der rechte Ungeist so viel Oberwasser nur hat bekommen können, weil die geistig hochstehende Elite die Probleme ganz unten übersehen oder nicht ernst genommen hat. Der neue Parteichef quatscht vom Respekt vor den einfachen Leuten und dem Heimatbegriff, der nicht mit rechten Inhalten gefüllt werden dürfe – was schon dafür reicht, dass seine Partei zum Rückzugsort des deutschen Weltbürgernationalismus wird.
Auch der Bundespräsident distanziert sich vom zeitgemäßen Ungeist, ohne sich mit ihm anzulegen. Er lebt in seinem Schloss Bellevue einfach das Dementi von Ausländerfeindschaft vor, indem er Migranten aus der Nachbarschaft auf Kaffee und Kuchen einlädt und gute Nachbarschaft demonstriert. Es sagt viel über den geistigen Zustand des Landes, in dem so eine Demonstration einerseits nötig ist, in dem andererseits dem ranghöchsten Kritiker des feindseligen Nationalismus nichts als symbolische Freundlichkeit gegen unbekannte Exemplare der Angefeindeten einfällt.
Mit all dem setzen die offiziellen Vertreter des besseren Deutschland den Ton für die Minderheit, die die humanitären Werte des weltoffenen Deutschland gegen den verabsolutierten Nationalismus aktiv hochhält bzw. in Flüchtlingshilfe, Kirchenasyl und Seenotrettung engagiert bleibt – für Leute also, die sich bis vor kurzem als vorbildliche Vertreter des „hellen Deutschland“ geschätzt sahen und nun ganz schnell nicht nur aus dem nationalen Konsens, sondern gleich an den Rand der Legalität gedrängt werden. Ihnen teilen die nicht-ganz-so-rechten Parteien mit, womit sie noch auf öffentliche Resonanz hoffen können und womit definitiv nicht mehr. Die Aktivisten der Flüchtlingsbewegung melden sich, wenn überhaupt, eher defensiv zu Wort: No borders! und Refugees welcome halten auch sie für nicht mehr vermittelbar. Ihre imperialismuskritisch gemeinte Forderung Fluchtursachen bekämpfen hat ihnen ohnehin der CSU-Entwicklungshilfeminister entwendet, der seinen Deutschen mit diesem Instrument Flüchtlinge vom Leib zu halten verspricht. Heute demonstrieren die verbliebenen Anhänger einer humanistischen deutschen Verantwortung gegen die Kriminalisierung der Seenotretter und bilden Menschenketten gegen rechte Aufmärsche mit dem Bekenntnis, ihre jeweilige Heimatstadt sei bunt, nicht braun.
Dem rechten Anspruch auf eine ausländerfreie deutsche Heimat setzen sie ihre Lesart derselben guten Sache entgegen: Mit korrigiertem Inhalt bekennen auch sie sich zum Wohnort als einen hohen Wert, den sie nicht den Rechten überlassen wollen. Die bunte Heimat, der sie angehören möchten, stellen sie sich nicht uniform und nicht ausgrenzend vor. In ihr sollen Menschen jeder Herkunft und Identität so sein dürfen, wie sie sind, und als Besondere dazugehören. Wie wenig die Idee der Heimat ohne uniforme Unterordnung einerseits und Ausgrenzung andererseits zu haben ist, demonstrieren die Freunde der bunten Heimat gleich selbst: Die nämlich soll niemanden ausgrenzen – die Rechten aber schon. Gegen deren Ausländerfeindlichkeit haben sie kein besseres Argument anzuführen, als dass die nicht zu den ortsüblichen Sitten passt, und für diese Sitten wissen sie keinen anderen Grund, als dass sie ortsüblich sind. Sie machen ihre eigene Borniertheit – „Wir hier halten das schon immer so!“ – zur Keule gegen die Rechten und entziehen denen das Heimatrecht wegen Abweichung von der Lokalnorm. Die rechte Unzufriedenheit mit dem immer noch nicht rein deutschen Vaterland kontern (pseudo-)linke, kritische, idealistische Zeitgenossen mit ihrer Identität und Zufriedenheit mit dessen lokaler Kleinausgabe. Das antikritische Argument Heimat weist an der Unzufriedenheit der Rechten nicht den Nationalismus, sondern die Unzufriedenheit zurück. Die standhaften Vertreter des besseren Deutschland bekämpfen den nationalistischen Ungeist mit seinen Ursprüngen. Nicht Argumente für Antifaschismus und Verfassungspatriotismus, sondern deren Tradition in Deutschland führen sie gegen Xenophobie und Nationalismus ins Feld.
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Scania P410 8x4 Concrete Mixer SL16VXO, new to Skene of Glenrothes, Fife and now mixing it around Dorset.
Thanks Lee, great to meet you at last 👍
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
APB honors the music of Ronnie Van Zant's Lynyrd Skynyrd.
*[Rockin' the Waves at Sea about 70 miles north of Cuba]
Call Me The Breeze (this show above - day 2 - 12:00 PM)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxD1yRR_Coc
Freebird (this cruise - two nights later - day 4 - 10:15 PM)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE_c5HP9_es
Simple Man (@ last year's deck-stage show)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgCY8m_Mb7g
Freebird (@ last year's deck-stage show)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDd2gw885kQ
*1977 Plane Crash: took the lives of band leader and vocalist, Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, vocalist Cassie Gaines, road manager Dean Kilpatrick as well as both pilots, and seriously injured the surviving band members and crew. Artimus Pyle, who had a broken sternum from the impact, used his Marine Corp training and survival instincts to find and bring help to his critically injured friends in the densely wooded thicket. He plays their songs in tribute to them.
www.facebook.com/ArtimusPyleBand
About Lynyrd Skynyrd en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynyrd_Skynyrd
(one more photos 'of this band' in the comments)
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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:
Group Cover Photo - Guitar Love Group - 5/30/20
Mix of the yellow livery of Boral coming and going over the railway level crossing at the Cement Works.
(1 of 6) VOLVO FM13.
(2 of 6) 2013 MACK Metroliner
(3 of 6) MACK Trident with quad axle dog trailer.
(4 of 6) PETERBILT 389(?) with quad axle dog trailer.
(5 of 6) IVECO Acco 2350G agitator.
(6 of 6) 2015 MACK Trident with quad axle dog trailer.
Maldon, New South Wales, Australia
Morpeth Historical Village, Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia.
These devices were used in the days before washing machines and spin dryers - I can recall using one of these in the mid-1950s when I was 7 or 8 years old.
Clothes were washed in boiling water in a 20 - 30 gallon copper tub set over a wood fire, using a wooden pole as an agitator, with soap flakes as the washing detergent.
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CAPA-008804
Modern Art & Politics in Germany (1910-1945) exhibit at the Albuquerque Museum
Old Town Albuquerque
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Felixm%C3%BCller
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art
Despite the Republic of Kurdistan enjoying substantial international support from the West, the fledgling state's frontiers still remain contested by its neighbors, particularly Turkey. Indeed, many border communities feature substantial security risks as displaced persons and proxy agitators attempt to compromise Kurdish security wherever possible. For this reason, the Pashmerga and Kurdish gendarmes have had to create checkpoints and outposts for observation and policing purposes. This has disquieted some folks as a permanent armed presences heavily resembles the tyranny Kurdistan recently fought to overthrow. Nevertheless, despite the poor optics, the Kurdish state has gone ahead with what it thinks is the best solution to its security woes--e.g. a physical, martial presence in periphery communities meant to dissuade bad actors.
As a result of these conditions, the republic has employed some rather peculiar equipment. One such example is the Req (meaning tortoise; also referred to as the Chieftain Req in many Western reports). Utilizing retired Chieftain Mk.14 chassis deemed unfit for combat, the Kurds hired Israeli engineers to design a mobile watchtower/pillbox (thus the Req's resemblance to units like the Nagmachon). By replacing the Chieftain's turret with an armored cubicle, the engineers were able to create a locomotive panopticon. Indeed, much of the Req's success comes from security theater since the vehicle itself is unarmed and must remain immobile while the tower is vertically deployed. Nevertheless, having a 50-ton armored vehicle parked in one's neighborhood is often enough to deter one from expressing too much discontent or acting dubiously. Still, some disgruntled youth have taken to throwing Molotov cocktails at deployed Reqs, resulting in the mounting of caged armor on the observation box and ERA panels on the chassis just in case. Furthermore, the ubiquity of drones forced the Kurdish state to invest in jamming equipment derived from the United States Marine Corps' Light Marine Air Defense Integrated System (LMADIS), hence the jumble of equipment atop the vehicle. More or less, the Req is something of a bastard child slowly crawling to meet twenty-first century security demands--just as the name suggests.
The chassis is naturally derived from Evan's Chieftain, as linked above. Go show it some love if you haven't already. The dozer blade design is courtesy of my homie Wayne; go check it out on his build!