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This small species is very similar in plumage to its European counterpart, the turtle dove. It is a little larger than that species, particularly in the case of orientalis, about the same size as a collared dove. It shares the black and white striped patch on the side of its neck, but the breast is less pink, and the orange-brown wing feathers of the turtle dove are replaced with a browner hue, and darker centres. The tail is wedge shaped, like the turtle dove. The flight is more relaxed and direct than that of its relative
This Maple tree still has a few leaves left, I am not sure what kind of Maple it is but some of the leaves are HUGE!!!!
This is the final countdown fireworks show from the Taipei 101 skyscraper, one of the highest building in the world. It's an 128 seconds lasting fireworks show to welcome the 2006.
This was a good one if you're into WWII history and a compelling story with a mystery that was true.
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This is Larkyn, Onwer of RISING STAR UPPER DECK CLUB.
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This is the first time that I have seen such an abundance of tiny shells on the foreshore of Swansea Bay. It was mesmerising!
Changing Images of Man is a 1974 report (revised in 1982) by the Stanford Research Institute (SRI International). This report can be summed up like this:
You have two options: your future can either be 1984 or the Brave New World.
“We have met the enemy and he is us!” We must reform the way we conceptualize the nature of mankind. Indeed, the mind (and body) is a human biocomputer, with programs and coding that can be analyzed, hacked, and altered. Our concepts of free will, freedom, and consciousness must be cast off for man to attain a peaceful, rational, and humane society in the future.
Changing images of man has a double meaning: man’s image has changed throughout history, and man’s image can be changed (manipulated). If we apply this idea to the present, what would be man’s image? Today, man’s image is one of transition. Since we are in the digital age, man’s image would reflect the digital world. Man looks into his screen, and his screen reflects back his digital world. Man’s image is being tokenized into the digital world. His image is becoming digitalized. His image is going to transition into transhumanism (merging man with the digital world). So man’s future image will be one of transhumanism. He will be a techno-slave. Indeed, the image of man is currently being manipulated toward the goals of the elite.
This report warns that our society is heading towards friendly fascism. This form of fascism “will come under the slogans of democracy.” It will be a “techno-urban fascism,” a “friendly sort of totalitarianism.” This is what this friendly fascism will look like: they will use military surveillance technologies to aid the police; they will use behavior-changing drugs and indoctrination in schools; they will attempt to manage the news; they will use personality screening and maintain files on pre-delinquent children, via coordination with school administrations and local, state, and federal authorities; they will use interconnected computer systems to collect peoples personal data like: employment records, criminal records, tax status, credit, insurance, and information about education.
What is their solution to this friendly fascism? They want, instead, to introduce a friendly fascism that has a shiny spiritual veneer. They want man to “evolve” to a higher consciousness, a super consciousness, which lies at the boundary between the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind. This evolution of consciousness will be a personal, spiritual, social, and cultural evolution. They want people to tap into this consciousness through their dream states. They want them to evolve into a hivemind, where they can telepathically communicate with one another. This could possibly be achieved through mystical experiences, psychic phenomena, esoteric ideas, occult practices, hypnotism, self-hypnotism, meditation, yoga, psychotherapy, psychology, psychochemical drugs, electrocranial stimulation, and cybernetics. “I think that cybernetics is the biggest bite out of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge that mankind has taken in the last 2000 years.”
This evolved man will see the inequality of the poorer nations. He will willingly give up his comfortable lifestyle. He will lower his living standards. He will share his wealth with the rest of the world. Men will collectively work together to accomplish equality (communism). And if they refuse to give up their wealth, they will be forced to give it up. This evolution is Gnostic in nature; it reminds me of Karl Marx, with his idea of man evolving into the socialist man/communist man. Out of this evolution will come a new system, a “new socialism,” which will be influenced by Freemasonry. “In ‘true Freemasonry’ there is one lodge, the universe-and one brotherhood, everything that exists. Each person has the ‘privilege of labor,’ of joining with the ‘Great Architect’ in building more noble structures and thus serving in the divine plan.”
The architects of this scheme must convince the masses that the earth has limited resources, which they term the “new scarcity.” They must convince the people that the earth is being overpopulated (today, climate change is the big scare they are pushing). With these supposed problems, man must be convinced that he needs to collectively band together. The architects of this scam must bring in a new economic and ecological system (known today as stakeholder capitalism and the green economy). To introduce this alternative way of life, they will introduce “behavior controls that would deprive the individual of freedoms” (which is known today as a social credit score system).
“Thanks to this initiative (the Green Economy Initiative) and the work of other agencies, ‘green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication’ was placed on the 2012 Rio+20 agenda and was acknowledged as a tool for achieving sustainable development.” – United Nations
“A crisis is often the catalyst for the redrawing of one’s preferred map.” A “crisis-oriented transformation” is likely to transform a culture rapidly. We saw some of this during COVID, which greatly affected our society and economy. People accepted a soft form of authoritarianism and the loss of freedoms. During COVID, they pushed vaccine passports. This mimicked Digital IDs. The unvaccinated could not go to certain places, because they didn’t have vaccine passports. The Canadian truckers had their bank accounts frozen. Those with alternative views were censored. These things mimicked a social credit score system with rewards and punishments. Society failed to think critically, thus proving that it was ready for the next step of the plan. Therefore, politicians touted the start of the Great Reset—a plan to build back better. So now we are in a transition period, a transition into a new economic order. As a result, we are being steered towards a major economic crisis. This “crisis-oriented transformation” will bring us into their new system. This system will use digital biometric IDs, CBDCs, and social credit scores.
The elites see multinational corporations as the “most effective mechanisms for husbanding the earth’s resources and optimizing their use for human benefit.” Giving multinational corporations the earth’s resources will supposedly lead to an “equitable sharing of the earth’s resources.” They will pressure corporations to help with the social engineering of society. The methods they will use to get corporations on board resemble those of a corporate social credit score system like ESGs. They will prod corporations, particularly multinational corporations, to shift their goals to line up with those of the (hijacked) public institutions. Indeed, the public institutions will be tools of indoctrination (today, these institutions promote things like DEI). They plan to use “corporations, foundations, political agencies, and voluntary associations” to help with the implementation of their plans. Today, this is called public–private partnerships. They will use networks at the local, regional, national, and world levels. This way, it will be quicker and easier for them to implement their new world order goals. They expect rapid social change, economic decline, and social disruption as they implement their new technocratic socialist order.
“We would thus hope not for a handful, but for a thousand heroes, ten thousand heroes-who will create a future image of what humankind can be.” They need an army of social(ist) justice warriors to bring about change. “The needed transformation cannot occur without both personal and institutional change.” This correlates with the left’s “long march through the institutions.”
They also want to experiment with a variety of family structures. They want to turn the family into “an extended unit,” which will provide “a larger source of meaning and significance.” So basically, the collective (government, schools, neighbors, and society) will raise your children in this new collectivist utopia. This extended family will be a “source of education,” and “a unit for work.” They want to “foster a period of experimentation and tolerance for diverse alternatives, both in life styles and in social institutions.” They also want to use “new experimental curricula.” Today, we have new experimental curricula such as critical race theory and queer theory.
They want the world’s population to embrace this new order. Their end goal is the Brave New World. In reality, those who refuse this new order will live out 1984, and those who accept it will live out the Brave New World. Though, as they admit, no transition will go smoothly. Everyone is going to feel some pain, and in a worst-case scenario, a lot of pain.
The Bible warns us about the Antichrist. Those who refuse the Mark of the Beast won’t be able to buy or sell, and they will be tracked down by the authorities. These people will experience the hell of 1984. But those who take the Mark of the Beast will evolve into transhumans, and they will experience the bliss of the Brave New World. They will be on a high, stimulated by soma frequencies. Thus, they will blissfully worship the Beast. They will evolve to a super consciousness; they will become one with the Beast.
God created man with a soul and free will. Those who accept the Mark of the Beast will lose their free will, because technology will control their allegiance and love for the Beast. Their free will is gonna be controlled by the Beast system. Never again will they have the free will to repent and turn to Jesus Christ. They will give up their free will; they will forfeit their own souls.
Revelation 14:9-11 “A third angel followed the first two, declaring in a loud voice: ‘If anyone worships the Beast and his Image, and takes the Mark on his forehead or his hand, that person will also drink of the wine of God’s anger that has been mixed undiluted in the cup of His wrath, and he will be tortured with fire and sulfur in front of the holy angels and in front of the Lamb. And the smoke from their torture will go up forever and ever, and those who worship the Beast and his Image will have no rest day or night, along with anyone who receives the Mark of his name.’”
Mark 8:36 “For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?”
This cob house was built by a guy named Ian Marcuse (he headed up the Stanley Park cob project) in the backyard of the house he rents on Salsbury Drive in Vancouver. Unfortunately there's a good chance the house and the fantastic garden surrounding it will be torn down to make way for duplexes.
They're fighting to have the cob house and the property it's on preserved from housing development and are aiming to turn it into a park or something along those lines. Apparently the city may be interested in buying the property. They've been holding parties and open houses to raise awareness among people in the neighbourhood. So if you're in the 'hood check out the cob house and sign the petition to preserve this amazing structure and surrounding lot.
You can find it at 1117 Salsbury Drive, Vancouver, just a couple east of commercial drive.
This is a life-size fold of my desk lamp origami model. I cheated a little by putting a metal profile inside the post since the paper I used had too little stiffness to support itself at this size (for smaller models or thicker paper, this is not necessary).
This was taken early on during our hike up Handies Peak. Mike is the subject as he strides away nicely on an easy grade.
This is the Old Man of Hoy. A 450ft sea stack that is on the west side of the Island of Hoy in the Orkney Islands in Scotland. It is one of the great climbing challenges in the UK
This mushroom cottage is the home of Glurp the Gnome. There he lives in harmony with animals, plants and nature. Inside the cottage he has a sleeping loft, fireplace and a candle lit corner where he can sit in a comfy chair and read the newspaper.
This image was taken on a strict 'no tripod' tour. Thus the POV because I was using a table top that no one noticed or cared about. Going for dark. This is an HDR, 5 frames. This cave almost ate my camera! I was walking done some wet steps and slipped, my camera was heading for the ground, sure to bust, so I contorted my fall to land on my wrist instead, saving the camera. My wrist did not fare so well, but wrists heal. Cameras do not.
Minnetonka Cave is the largest limestone rock cave in the state of Idaho. It is located in Cache National Forest in Bear Lake County, Idaho, United States, above the village of St. Charles (located at the north end of Bear Lake). Tours through the cave are offered from Memorial Day (weather permitting) through Labor Day by Scenic Canyons Recreational Services, the concessionaire that holds the special use permit from the United States Forest Service. The half-mile route through the cave is lined with stalactites and stalagmites.
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This Phone book has all the listings for the whole state...lol..It's only an inch thick..I am not listed in it...Darn!
This time of year makes for spectacular crepuscular rays with the sun rising behind the Grand Teton as viewed from Teton Valley, Idaho.
This is a stocky jet-black myna, with bright orange-yellow patches of naked skin and fleshy wattles on the side of its head and nape. At about 29 cm length, it is somewhat larger than the common myna (Acridotheres tristis).
It is overall green-glossed black plumage, purple-tinged on the head and neck. Its large, white wing patches are obvious in flight, but mostly covered when the bird is sitting. The bill and strong legs are bright yellow, and there are yellow wattles on the nape and under the eye. These differ conspicuously in shape from the naked eye-patch of the common myna and bank myna (A. ginginianus), and more subtly vary between the different hill mynas from South Asia: in the common hill myna, they extend from the eye to the nape, where they join, while the Sri Lanka hill myna has a single wattle across the nape and extending a bit towards the eyes. In the Southern hill myna, the wattles are separate and curve towards the top of the head. The Nias and Enggano hill mynas differ in details of the facial wattles, and size, particularly that of the bill.
Sexes are similar; juveniles have a duller bill.[2]
With the Southern, Nias and Enggano hill mynas as separate species, the common hill myna, Gracula religiosa, has seven or eight subspecies which differ only slightly. They are:[3]
G. r. andamanensis Beavan 1867 – Andaman hill myna, Andaman Islands, central (Nancowry) group of the Nicobar Islands
G. r. batuensis – Batu and Mentawai Islands
G. r. halibrecta Oberholser 1926 – Great Nicobar hill myna, Great Nicobar Little Nicobar and adjacent islets in the Nicobar Islands, Doubtfully distinct from G. r. andamanensis.
G. r. intermedia – northwestern Indochina and adjacent northeastern India and southern China
G. r. palawanensis – Palawan in the Philippines
G. r. peninsularis – Bastar hill mynah, central India, (State Bird of Chhattisgarh, India)
G. r. religiosa – Greater Sundas (except Sulawesi) and Peninsular Malaysia
G. r. venerata – western Lesser Sundas
This crane fly was asleep on the garbage bin lid when I opened the garage yesterday morning.
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This great lady is selling fruits in a little village of Bali. Her eyes mean a lot to me...Telling stories. Happy or sad? She is challenging time by working at that age...
Bali, Indonesia
This is the same wagon as the one viewed in the previous picture (91010) . The former OBA - previously pictured with sides removed - is now seen with the half height steel ends also removed. When EWS took over flask trains from B.R. they inherited these wagons but when DRS took over from EWS, EWS took the PFAs with them.
In 1994 the Waste Monitoring and Compaction Plant (WAMAC) at Sellafield entered into active commissioning and began compacting solid Low Level Waste for disposal to the Low Level Waste Repository (LLWR) at Drigg using half height ISO containers designated TC-01 (2910 series). Prior to that, waste had been moved in commercially available industrial waste skips. A more robust type of re-useable container was tried in the 1990s but was short lived because the WAMAC system rendered them redundant.
Containers like this, designated TC-05 remained in use for many years in the nuclear industry but after 1995 saw little use on trains.
This is a loose recreation of Abu Simbel, the famous temple carved into the side of a mountaon in Egypt.
This is a creation for the MCCVI over at classic castle.
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This is my entry for a small painting competition at a Danish forum. I choose to do something a bit different than usual as I mostly do 40K stuff. The small spider is made from a skull token from the bezerker kit and some legs made from jeweler wire. The cobwebs was done with a special crackle lacquer mixed with water and applied with an airbrush, an amazing technique invented by a very talented painter, Raffaele Picca.
This bridge crosses Amsterdam’s Singel canal, which encircled the city in the Middle Ages. It served as a moat around the city until 1585, when Amsterdam expanded beyond the Singel. The canal is now lined by many beautiful, richly decorated traditional gable houses built during the Dutch Golden Age.
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This is such a fun thing to watch. I noticed it's active this morning. This one says cloudy skies snow in winter. It's very accurate.
How to Predict the Weather:
Clear liquid: Bright and clear weather.
Cloudy liquid: Cloudy, possible thunderstorms & rain.
Small dots in the liquid: Humid or foggy weather.
Large flaky crystals: Cloudy skies, snow in winter.
Threads of crystals at the top: Windy weather. Crystals at the bottom: Frost may be coming.
Read more: Crystal Ball Weather Station | A magical way to forecast the weather
This property is currently being abated of asbestos, hopefully the building will be saved. Don't let me down Connecticut! Preserve history.
This is a watchtower on an island in the Port Emerald Harbor. It is one of the first finished buildings built out of stone in the new colony. It is part of the part of the formidable harbor defenses, and its garrison watches at all times for pirates or anything which would threaten ships. It has three colored lanterns at the corners which are used for navigation at night, and a powerful catapult weapon for use against enemy ships. This catapult is of a new type which uses arms made of an elastic wood found
in New Lenfald to provide its power, since the twisted rope torsion springs of normal ballistas stretch and become useless in the humidity of the tropics.
This tower is from considerably later in the history of the colony than my New Lenfald series so far has been, since it is built of finished stone. I think it is roughly contemporary with GC XII.
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I am a little late for the weekly theme, but I didn’t get this done last week and I wanted to introduce myself. It’s been a few years since I did a “proper” selfie, so I wanted to update my “official” Flickr photo as well.
I am Linda, and am a 60-something widow. The past few years have been full of changes for me, as my husband passed away and I moved to an easier to maintain home in a subdivision after 36 years in the country. I am adjusting to “city living” and love my new home and neighborhood. I discovered Flickr in 2013, and photography and the Flickr community has gotten me through some rough patches. I have been challenged with chronic fatigue syndrome and chemical sensitivites for 20 years now, and I love photography because it is something creative I can do that matches my energy level. On my good days I get out my DSLR and experiment, and on my “bad” days, I can take something easy with my iPhone. I have completed two 365s so far, and attempted several others. Last year I only got halfway. This year I am taking it a day at a time, and we’ll see what happens. :-)
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This bush is located right on the salt marsh edge of South East London, where the River Darenth offers a permanent boundary with Kent and The Thames flows past with the Essex shore to the north.
The bush does not look as though it was specially planted to mark the location- but perhaps it should have been. There is an initiative known as en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Trees_of_London Perhaps this one should be added to it when it grows a bit.
This giraffe aimed for a tree that, to the untrained eye, looked like it was leafless and without nutrition.
Make me smile! :-)
Dikhololo
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This is another shot taken from the sunrise on the Ferry in North Sydney, I loved the way the sun was lighting the water between the pans of ice in this shot
This rhododendron is in my front yard and is one that I had trouble finding when I planted the Bed... It has been around for at least a hundred years so I guess people want the newer ones and not the old standbys....I also have a Cynthia in the back yard but it isn't blooming yet... I put this one in the little video but wanted it so I could see it all the time :-)
This distinctive 1.5-story residence stands as one of Pacific Grove’s larger early homes, showcasing a strong Queen Anne influence through its intact architectural features and period craftsmanship. The steeply pitched gable roof is adorned with decorative boxed cornices and fishscale shingles, echoed again in the gable detailing. A small front porch, bracketed and embellished with fishscale shingles, welcomes visitors, while a large rear porch offers additional outdoor space. The exterior is clad in horizontal wood drop siding, and a charming bay window with two bracketed cut-away corners adds visual interest and stylistic flair. Windows are segmented 1-over-1, framed with decorative sills and trim, and complemented by stained or leaded glass and transoms. The house retains its original form and materials, with the exception of the expanded rear porch, and remains a well-preserved example of Queen Anne design from Pacific Grove’s Early Development period (1873–1902), notable for its authenticity, craftsmanship, and architectural integrity.