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Happy Holidays guys.
I've been very busy with school and stuff lately, but I might be back soon. Been working on something big lately, but I doubt anyone is interested.
Also, don't think I'm on the WWI bandwagon.
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Euonymous Alatus - Aberglasne/ Aberglasney, Sir Gaerfyrddin/ Carmarthenshire extension.umd.edu/resource/burning-bush/
Under a passing cloud, two male Small Blues (Cupido minimus) have temporarily settled their differences to soak up what energy they can get. The sun is just coming out and I have caught them right at the instant of take-off for the next round (the following frame of short-burst sequential was empty of butterflies).
This was at the top of the slope from where the previous image was taken, on a small patch of low Hawthorn scrub by the tree line. They saw something of value there that I didn't.
Apart from duo novelty, I thought this was worth posting because it shows the butterflies have emerged and been busy in the bad weather even though we humans might not have seen much of them. The top unit was by no means the scruffiest example.
history is a record of hard lines and defended borders.
a long, complicated argument written in stone and steel.
but peace is not a treaty.
it is a brief, weightless moment.
a silent ceasefire in the endless noise.
it does not erase the borders below.
it simply reminds us that the sky is open,
and belongs to no one.
I must state categorically that I do not support any side in the current hellish situation in the Middle East....I just want all innocents to be able to live their lives in Peace.
This tableau shows perhaps, the artist's opinions...but it is superbly constructed from scrap metal, as are most of the pieces on display at the Shropshire Sculpture Park....so it was captured alongside many other large scale pieces in this photographic series.
Under the ceasefire agreement, Israel would allow 600 aid trucks into Gaza per day, but Israel has now reduced it to 300 trucks per day, citing delays in retrieving bodies of Israeli captives buried under the rubble by Israeli attacks.
--- www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2025/10/16/on-world-food-day-i...
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Eglwys Fair, Dinbych-y-pysgod - gwaith Karl Parson,/ St Mary's, Tenby - the work of Karl Parson
"This window fulfils the dual functionality of a tender memorial to Lieut-Col H.M. Henderson yet one that ‘lives’ thus imbuing the church with light and hope.[1] Redeeming the unknown, and in all probability, unpleasant nature of the soldier’s premature death, Parsons creates a window riffing on the themes of promise, resurrection and paradise." www.visitstainedglass.uk/location/church-of-st-mary-tenby...
"Since the so-called ceasefire came into effect in Gaza on October 10, Israel has been consolidating its control of over 50% of Gaza and—according to new research by Forensic Architecture—physically altering the geography of the land. Through a combination of the construction of military infrastructure alongside the destruction of existing buildings, Israel appears to be laying the groundwork to establish a permanent presence in the majority of the Gaza Strip.
Israel has constructed at least 13 new military outposts inside Gaza since the ceasefire—primarily located along the yellow line, in eastern Khan Younis, and near the border with Israel, according to analysis of satellite imagery by Forensic Architecture.
“Israel is doing what it always does, and what it historically has done best: establish ‘facts on the ground,’ incrementally rather than spectacularly, and make them permanent once those with influence to force it to reverse course either lose interest, decide that the cost of confronting Israel is not worth the price, or come out in open support of Israeli violations. Israel is in no rush and prepared to play the long game,” Mouin Rabbani, co-editor of Jadaliyya and a former UN official who worked as a senior analyst on Israel-Palestine for the International Crisis Group, told Drop Site after reviewing a summary of the Forensic Architecture findings." -
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26th of February, one day before applying the ceasefire. This is a part of the hysterical bombing on Gouta by Syrian Regime's and Russian air forces, to scare and kill as much as possible before the ceasefire.
Gouta has been besieged and under continues shelling for four years, to push citizens to migrate, and to stop people there from supporting the revolution.
The view is from Damascus
Artists for Freedom
Artists for Justice
Artists against Occupation
Artists for Palestine
If you fit into any or all of the above, Tales of the Olive Trees (@talesoftheolivetrees on Instagram), would love you to participate in their Hosier Lane and Melbourne CBD event on Saturday May 18th and Sunday May 19th.
If you can’t make it that weekend, why not send them a paste-up of your artwork supporting freedom and justice for Palestine to be used during the event.
Give @talesoftheolivetrees and @v_is_4_vasso a follow on Instagram to be kept up to date or for more information.
This artwork is my contribution to be pasted up on the day as we will be away in Tasmania.
Cessate il fuoco ( questo era scritto su un muretto a Genova ). Ma cessate anche lo sterminio per fame e sete a Gaza.
Le immagini che ci arrivano di bambini Palestinesi scheletriti sono inaccettabili e non sono diverse da quelle dei bambini Ebrei dei campi di sterminio.
È inutile negarlo o accusare di antisemitismo, con accuse strumentali .
Bisogna fermare questa vergogna, questi crimini. .
Centinaia di camion sono fermi da mesi fuori dalla Striscia e il cibo sta marcendo mentre la gente sta morendo. E deliberatamente. Deliberatamente si vogliono uccidere dei bambini.
Si vuole costringere con la disperazione la popolazione, quel che resta, ad andare.
Dove non si sa. Si parla di una deportazione in Libia.
Oggi era la giornata in cui si sarebbero dovuti esporre dei lenzuoli bianchi, come simbolo .. Bianchi come i sudari che avvolgono tante vittime.
Ma nel mio quartiere le lenzuola appese ai balconi erano davvero poche .
Ad Asti, dove sono stata oggi, non ce n'era neppure uno.
Molti politici tacciono. Molta gente tace.
Sembra che questa tragedia non interessi a nessuno.
Intanto in tv si disquisisce : genocidio sì, genocidio no. Con l'accusa di causare reazioni antisemite con questa battaglia da salotto.
Cease fire, give food and water to innocent children, women and men.
Today white sheets at the windows for Gaza
Please join our CEASEFIRE VIGIL today.
A virtual initiative of the MUNDO UNO group in support of the WORLD CEASEFIRE VIGIL.
It is in deepest regret and sadness that I inform you of Roney's cold-blooded murder on the early morning hours of January 16th. May he find peace wherever his journey has taken him.......
We need your Change more than ever now, to bring about justice so that Roney's death will not have been in vain.
On 2025-01-16, a ceasefire and hostage-exchange deal is agreed between Israel and Hamas — a truce that Defense Department officials believe signals a possible end to 15 months of conflict in the region. The ceasfire talk was held in Doha (Qatar) two days earlier.
The deal should take effect Sunday. Israeli forces would withdraw to the Gaza border, allowing displaced Palestinians to return to their homes and for the transfer of hostages and prisoners. A large amounts of humanitarian aid will be needed and hospitals would need to be rebuilt, besides the whole country.
Rolleiflex Automat MX Zeiss Tessar 75mm f/3,5
Rollei-Gelb-Mittel (medium yellow) filter
Kodak TMAX 400 (EI 1600), XTOL (1:1) 20C, semi-stand development
1st minute continuous agitation
18 minutes stand-development with 1 agitation half-way.
CanoScan 9000F
Explore.....on 01/18/09.
May the ceasefires in Gaza (Monday ..01/19/09) shall be peaceful and respected by both races .....to live in harmony. Amin and InsyAllah.
Pretty much snow fell overnight, and after breakfast we had to go out and enjoy the white fluff.
It did not take long until a snowball fight, or snowball war, really, broke out.
After 20 mins or so, we both realized that fierce snowball fighting takes its toll, on both sides, in both camps.
Consequently, cease-fire was agreed upon, and I received the finest "snowball" I´ve ever received...
On Sunday 5 May, activists campaigning for a Gaza ceasefire, including several students as well as Camden Friends of Palestine, demonstrated outside London's police headquarters at New Scotland Yard. This followed the arrest of four protesters the previous day.
The four, who had been at a protest outside University College London, were arrested. as the Canary put it, for "carrying a painting with a peace dove on it," adding that "apparently blue sky is now antisemitic."
www.thecanary.co/trending/2024/05/07/ucl-arrests-student-...
They had been holding a large artwork of a dove of peace grasping a key (symbolising the famous key of return and the hoped for return of Palestinian refugees to their former homes) flying through a breach in the West Bank's infamous Separation Wall.
However, the Separation Wall doesn't stand anywhere near Gaza, and 80% of it doesn't even run along Israel's 1967 internationally recognised border or green line, running instead deep within the occupied West Bank separating Palestinian farmers from their land and Palestinian villagers from the water supplies.
Yet for some reason, which is difficult to comprehend, the police seem to have believed that the artwork expressed support for the 7 October attack. That might be understandable if there had been a paraglider depicted or any part of the Gaza boundary, but instead it featured the Separation Wall which has been frequently an object of political art ever since it was constructed.
Those detained were released, according to what I heard, on bail and, I understand, in at least some instances, without their phones.
According to a tweet by Vijay Prashad quoted in the Canary - "The police said that this image at UCL was illegal because the blue sky was in reference to the weather on October 7, 2023." He added "I would like to have a conversation about art criticism with the inspector in charge from Holborn police."
www.thecanary.co/trending/2024/05/07/ucl-arrests-student-...
Hopefully someone can explain that a blue sky above the Separation Wall is nothing unusual let alone some secretive message in support of terror as can be seen in the following linked photographs of the Separation Wall - I can't see a single cloud in any of them - and most were presumably taken before 7 October 2023.
www.mediastorehouse.co.uk/discover-images-by-awl/lookout-...
www.alamy.com/the-separation-wall-in-bethlehem-palestine-...
www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/290200769713725569/
www.dreamstime.com/stock-photography-israeli-separation-w...
www.istockphoto.com/photo/idf-tower-and-barrier-rachels-t...
www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photos-palestinian-...
www.dreamstime.com/stock-photo-israeli-separation-wall-im...
www.istockphoto.com/photo/palestinian-children-at-playgro...
www.istockphoto.com/photo/foreign-visitors-touring-separa...
www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/an-eight-meter-hi...
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On Saturday 18 May, the 14th national rally since October 2023 was organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and other groups, and possibly as many as 250,000 protesters marched across central London from Mortimer Street W1 (near the BBC headquarters at Broadcasting House) to Whitehall, just a few metres away from prime minister Rishi Sunak's office and residence at 10 Downing Street.
It is difficult to estimate the total number of demonstrators but I stopped on Regent Street to photograph individuals and groups, and it took at least an hour for the majority of the marchers to pass.
Many of those participating did so in part to commemorate Nakba Day, the 76th anniversary of which fell three days earlier on 15 May. Nakba Day commemorates the brutal ethnic cleansing and expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and villages in the months after 15 May 1948 by the Israeli army and Zionist militia. Although historians point out that the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land long predated 15 May 1948, and has continued ever since.
Many of the protesters carried the iconic "Keys of Return," symbolising the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their original homes, which was recognised by The United Nations UN General Assembly Resolution 194 which was passed on December 11, 1948.
Protesters were also demanding an immediate ceasefire, an immediate resumption and expansion of emergency aid and an end to the siege of Gaza and the illegal Israeli Occupation.
The march occurred just two days before the International Criminal Court's (ICC's) lead prosecutor, Karim Khan, announced that arrest warrants for war crimes had been requested for Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. It was Gallant who in October 2023 infamously justified his declaration of a "complete siege " on Gaza by claiming Israel was "fighting against human animals."
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Raquelle, Teresa and Christie
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I liked their outfits so is did a little bonus shoot after I had finished the previous scenes ;-)
Peace one day? Is it possible? Anything is possible with the determination to make a difference. Ask Jeremy Gilley..... the British filmmaker who's spent the last 10 years working to establish September 21st as an official day of global peace. Why did he choose the 21st? It was his father's favourite number :) Gilley's award winning documentary film, Peace One Day, recording his journey, from concept in 1999 to actualization in today's world, was screened at Toronto's Commfest film festival last night. It is inspired & inspiring. In Sept 2001, the United Nations General Assembley unanimously adopted his idea of Sept 21st as an international day of ceasefire and non-violence. 8 years later, 200 countries are committed participants. In Afghanistan, the most volatile place on earth, 1.8 million children will be vaccinated today, much needed supplies will be delivered, aid workers can move freely & safely, citizens can breathe easier for a few hours. Hopes are high. The Taliban has issued a statement saying they will maintain only a "defensive position" One day. It's not much but it's a start. Only 364 to go. What can each of us do today to make a difference ? To create a moment of global unity ? Big or small, it all has measure. Let's give peace a chance.
intro to the film by the filmmaker (3 mins 18sec)
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image: mule deer seen while hiking the quiet road up to The Bluffs, Gailiano Island. BC
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Someone always finds the perfect lamppost. I framed it straight-on to catch the quiet defiance. Political clutter, but necessary clutter.
During the ceasefire, much focus was put on the preparation for a resuming of hostilities. Being prepared on the forefront of the agenda. Resource conservation and cost was a prominent concern: war was expensive, the current war had cost greatly and carried on for a long time, there needed to be a plan if it was to continue further. As new weapon designs replaced the weapons used for the first leg of the war, the governments on all sides began recycling programs. Weapons were cleaned, disassembled, and melted down or otherwise prepared for reuse.
Addressing concerns regarding the quality of recycled metal, a man by the name of Timothy Wallace designed a weapon prototype specifically designed with recycled metals in mind. Additionally, to speed up the recycling process and simplify manufacturing, he designed his weapon to utilized parts from existing weapons, unaltered or slightly altered. The result was solid design, and Wallace received much acclaim for his work, yet hostilities had not yet resumed and the Allied forces had little need for a quick acquisition design like Wallace's SMGL40. The U.S. Government would go on to employ Wallace to continue drawing up gun designs which would use recycled parts from other weapons, even current weapons that might get recycled if significantly damaged, for future emergency scenarios.
Despite this initial discouragement, Wallace's gun would see success and service. Though not used by major Allied forces, the U.S. covertly adopted it as one of the primary weapons to be supplied to South American countries aligned with the Allied forces. The proxy wars in South America provided a testing ground for cease-fire era weapons design, the SMGL40 would be one of the few designs used by Allied aligned countries that was designed for their conflict specifically. The Wallace SMGL40 was a high rate of fire weapon, with much of the design focused around providing heat reduction and controllable fire. It was sometimes referred to as the "jungle shredder," though the most common designation would remain the "Wallace."
(If you are interested in following along with the Alt-Timeline story, check the timeline posted in this picture's description: www.flickr.com/photos/ironwolfweapons/32565987393/in/albu...)
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Throughout the ceasefire period of the war, Axis forces focused heavily on establishing submission and stability in captured territories. No one in the German leadership had any delusions as to if the war would continue or not. Knowing that resumption of conflict was inevitable, an aggressive campaign to assimilate occupied peoples and re-brand Axis image was launched.
From the first day, the various resistance networks proved a significant obstacle to this effort. Wherever the resistance lived, a stifling of old nationalism was impossible. Before long, the entire campaign was redirected from building Axis sympathy and loyalty, to counter terrorism and riot suppression.
As war tensions increased during the 70's, the urgency for the resistance to be suppressed increased as well. To this end, Walther manufactured a semi-automatic sniper rifle system to be issued to the police fighting resistance cells. The WA-1980 would prove to be a bit too late. Although it was incredibly effective and helped significantly reduce the number of resistance agents, the war broke back out shortly after.
In the uprisings across Europe during the Allied reconquest of Britain, many of these rifles were seized; some from the hands of killed officers, others from a Walther factory that a resistance cell successfully raided. These captured rifles, in the hands of resistance fighters, drove fear into the hearts of Axis officers. Successful assassinations dramatically increased, and police were forced to abandon their suppression campaign to focus on VIP security.
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She stands alone now. In 1999, the mural was painted to honour Annette McGavigan, a 14-year-old killed in 1971. In 2006, after the ceasefire, the rifle was physically broken in the mural and a butterfly added to symbolise transformation and a fragile hope for peace.
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February 14, 2015
"The ceasefire is just a way for Russia to gain ground in this war. Artillery is still firing, their still attacking, and we're still dying. I don't want to go home just yet I want to defend my country till this mess is over. What bothers me more than the cold is the fact that we keep losing ground. The only good that has come out of this is when we aren't getting shelled by the rebels we get supply as little as it is, the citizens are able to seek a haven behind ours but many are trapped by the rockets pounding their homes. We will crush these Rebels and restore Ukraine's Glory "
"Glory to the Heroes"
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Wow a photo, this is the first one this year! just didn't have anything to build till now. I have some builds in the works keep an eye for them!
Life during the ceasefire was a time of tension. Life around the globe was characterized by a looming sense of dread. The war was not over, the nightmare would resume. Even though an ocean separated America from the oppression of occupied Europe, the sense that "this could be us" characterized the headlines of the US. An intense frantic energy was devoted to the entertainment and leisure industries as a result: escapism was seen as the medication for the war-weary world. Movies, double purposed for propaganda and for entertainment, radically increased in quantity and quality. Business boomed in hotels, amusement parks, fairs, concerts, camping and sporting.
These latter two categories had an impact on later war armaments, as hunting became a popular past time. The "Boatman" shotguns were a line of semi-automatic, popularized for duck hunting, but a cut down model marketed for swamp gator hunting caught the eye of the military. The "Louisiana Boatman" was selected as an option for use with tank crews, truck drivers, and pilots. It saw the most action in the eastern theater of the war alongside the Motiv BR85. As the war resumed and began in earnest, more of the Boatman shotgun variations were converted for military use.
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Kamera: Nikon F3 (1982)
Linse: Nikkor-S Auto 50mm f1.4 (1970)
Film: Kodak 5222 @ ISO 200
Kjemi: Xtol (stock / 7 min. @ 20°C)
Mahmood OD: Hamas Responds to US Ceasefire Proposal (Publ. 12 June 2024)
The details of the Hamas response for the proposal of the US for a ceasefire after the UN resolution passed calling for a ceasefire in Gaza have been published.
These include a couple of important details and a very significant update and demand from Hamas, and I'm going to be telling you all about it in this video.
Their comments on this ceasefire proposal came as follows:
On Day One of the First Phase, temporary ceasefire comes into effect and Israeli forces withdraw from populated areas.
On Day Three, Israeli forces begin to completely withdraw from the Rafah Crossing, the Philadelphi Corridor and the so-called Netzarim Corridor, which dissects the Gaza Strip from East to West in the Middle area.
By Day Seven Israel's withdrawal from the specified areas shall be COMPLETED.
By the end of the First Phase, on Day 42, Israeli forces shall completely withdraw from Gaza Strip, leaving NO soldiers within the Palestinian territory. They continued:
Regarding prisoner exchanges Hamas said it would release 33 Israeli captives, dead or alive, in the First Phase. The captives would be released in stages, with three people released three days apart.
If Israel doesn't commit to a complete withdrawal from Gaza by Day Seven, Hamas will halt the captives release.
Hamas rejects any Israeli conditions OR vetos on which Palestinian prisoners would be released in exchange for the Israeli captives - and they ended as follows:
The First Phase shall end with a DECLARATION of restoring sustainable calm, which MEANS a complete cessation of ALL military operations, AND Hamas also asked that Russia, China and Türkiye be added as guarantors.
The MAIN update here, the main demand, is the final one: Asking for Russia, China and Türkiye to be added as guarantors.
Why is Hamas asking for this, now? It's because they simply DO NOT trust the Biden Administration.
Blinken is seen more and more as a person who is NOT a mediator, but a part of the problem.
CLEARLY, Hamas is not getting the reassurance they want from the US; because BEFORE this was submitted, they asked that the US provides a COMPLETE and SOLID approval, that they will apply PRESSURE on Israel to COMMIT to the ceasefire and all of its details.
This is also a MOVE pushing for more involvement when it comes to Russia, China and Türkiye in the Palestinian and Israeli case, which is something very, very positive.
These countries have been secluded previously, primarily Russia after the quartet, after Hamas won the elections in 2006.
Slowly they started to be pushed further away by the United States and the United Kingdom, primarily.
Hamas, by requesting this - CLEARLY, there was a coordination between them and the countries mentioned - and they're looking for more involvement because they're simply not getting the assurances that they want from the United States Administration, who are seen now as part of the problem and not a side that can be built upon when it comes to the actual ceasefire.
We've had a response from Blinken himself and from Israel.
Blinken said they could have accepted it, but we can WORK on their amendments.
The Israeli delegation had a certain statement and Benjamin Netanyahu had a different statement.
The delegation that's negotiating said: These are things that can be WORKED with - The negotiating delegation.
Now, this negotiating delegation - they previously accepted ceasefires that Benjamin Netanyahu did NOT accept, by the way.
So they clearly have more leniency.
Benjamin Netanyahu said: «Hamas are rejecting the proposal.»
The question is, how will they [Israel] officially respond?
If Benjamin Netanyahu is going to have his way by saying «No, we're not going to go ahead with these proposals from Hamas»; he will continue the genocide, he will continue the war.
However, the fact that Blinken and the negotiating delegation from Israel said that these are things that can be WORKED upon is a signal that they can DEFINITELY reach some sort of a solution WITH involvement from Russia, from China and from Türkiye as well, CLEARLY signalling that we are looking for a new shape in the Middle East, in the geopolitical situation in the region.
Now, Blinken most likely referring to this demand of adding Russia, China and Türkiye; he said «Hamas cannot dictate the future of the of the region» - as IF Antony Blinken, coming from thousands of miles away, has any right whatsoever for the region.
And that statement on its own signals how much of a power position Hamas has and how well they've established themselves throughout this genocide: Surviving, Fighting, Continuing and Increasing their attacks on the Israeli forces in Gaza.
On Wednesday 10 April, activists from Palestine Action and Youth Demand as well as other protesters marched through central London, to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the two way arms trade with Israel.
Writer and social activist Lisa Minerva Luxx, writing for Al Jazeera, observes that "since October (2023), our government's steadfast support for Israel has ushered in a new age of state coercion, exposing in its wake the artifice of democracy in Britain," adding that the government has "expanded police powers and moved to weaponise concerns over so-called "extremism". Its leading figures referred to peaceful protesters exercising their democratic rights as "mobs" and "hate marchers'', classifying any and all opposition to Israel's war and occupation as hate and racism" and that "our group, Palestine Action, is also facing the threat of being labelled as "extremist" due to the principled actions our front-line members have taken to put an end to Britain's complicity in Israel's occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestinian territories."
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/3/28/being-branded-as-ext...
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Peace for all.
I'm joining this Amnesty International Campaign today.
Please, sign the petition www.ceasefirecampaign.org/mo/en.html
You are invited.
Here is how to join the Ceasefire Vigil
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Those are mothers who had lost their children by violence of gun fire, doing
a symbolic ritual during the opening of the Urban Outcries II, a project from
Chidren At Risk Foundation, CARF .
We are also needing to work for the ceasefire in my country too.