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A masked protester gestures towards the police during a protest in Srinagar: photo by Reuters, 6 August 2016

INDIA - Tear gas canister explodes as Kashmiri protestors clash with Indian officers in Srinagar. By @TauseefMUSTAFA: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 6 August 2016


Kashmiri Muslim women shout anti Indian slogans during in a protest march organized by women separatist group Dukhtaran-e-milat, or Daughters of the Nation, shortly after a day long curfew in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. The protesters shouted slogans against Indian rule and denounced the killings of Kashmiri civilians during the recent unrest.: photo by Dar Yasin/AP, 2 August 2016

 #Kashmir Danish Rasool, 22, was laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard in Wagoora #Baramulla district today: image via Syed Ai Geelani @sageelani, 6 August 2016

Clashes continue in Kashmir as government forces shot dead three civilians on August 05, 2016. @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 5 August 2016

It can not get scarier than this. All the pellets find the same spot. #KashmirBlindSpot #Kashmir: image via Syed Ai Geelani @sageelani, 6 August 2016

‘Join the separatists’: Kashmir cop tells IAS officer after Facebook spat: image via Hindustan Times @htTweets, 6 August 2016

India charges sedition for Facebook post calling to leave Kashmir. RT to make it backfire.: image via Kenneth Roth @KenRoth, 6 August 2016

PAKISTAN - Children pose as injured Kashmiri children during an anti-Indian protest in Islamabad. By @farooqnaeem1: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 5 August 2016

INDIA - A child wraps himself with a plastic sheet to protect himself during heavy rainfall in Shimla. By @AFPphoto: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 5 August 2016

AFGHANISTAN - Afghan youths enjoy a ride on swings in the city of Kabul. By @NoorullahShirz #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 5 August 2016

SYRIA - Rebel fighter reloads magazine of his weapon during clashes with regime forces in Ramussa. By Fadi Al-Halabi: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 5 August 2016

SYRIA - Rebel fighters fire towards positions of regime forces in Ramussa. By Fadi Al-Halabi #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 5 August 2016 

 SYRIA - Members of opposition forces sit in an armoured personnel carrier in neighbourhood of Aleppo. By @omarnajdat: image via AFP Photo Department @AFP photo, 6 August 2016

Attacks and fighting forced 25k people to flee their homes in #Aleppo, #Syria @UNICEFmena: image via UNICEF Verified account @UNICEF, 5 August 2016
 

#INDIA A woman walks with her child past burnt out shops following a militant attack on a market at Balajan Tinali [photo Biju Boro @AFP]: image via Catherine Moreau @CatherineMoreau8, 6 August 2016 

INDIA - Blood stains the floor of a shop after a militant attack at Balajan Tinali . By @AFPphoto #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 5 August 2016

AFGHANISTAN - Refugee families return to Afghanistan through Pakistan border crossing at Spin Boldak. By Jawed Tanveer: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 6 August 2016

#Brazil An Olympic torch bearer runs through Rio de Janeiro on August 3. #AFP Photo by @YasuyoshiChiba: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 4 August 2016

 #Afghanistan An Afghan street vendor, Mohsen, 16, prepares fresh lemon juice for customers photo by @Farshadsyan: image via Catherine Moreau @CatherineMoreau8, 6 August 2016

#Rio2016 The Opening Ceremony seen from the Mangueira Favela. By @iandrej #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFP photo, 5 August 2016

 

In this June 22, 2016 photo, butterflies congregate on the shore of the Igarape Mapi River near the community of Ceu do Mapia, in Amazonas state, Brazil.  The butterflies gather attracted by the minerals that accumulate on the sandy shore. Ceu do Mapia revolves around an ancient psychedelic tea locals know as the Holy Daime. The Ayahuasca brew is sacred to Ceu do Mapia villagers, who use it in rituals that blend together Indian beliefs with Roman Catholicism.: photo by Eraldo Peres/AP Photo, 4 August 2016 

In this June 22, 2016 photo, a boatman gets ready to cross the Purus river near the city of Boca do Acre, Amazonas state, Brazil. The Purus river provides the main access to the community of Ceu do Mapia in a trip of more than four hours deep in the Amazon jungle of western Brazil.: photo by Eraldo Peres/AP Photo, 4 August 2016 



In this June 22, 2016 photo, girls run amidst a plantation of Chacrona (Psychotria viridis) one of the components of an ancient psychedelic tea locals know as the Holy Daime in Ceu do Mapia, Amazonas state, Brazil. In the early 1980s a rubber tapper named Sebastiao Mota de Melo, nicknamed Godfather Sebastiao, took hundreds of followers deep into the forest to create Ceu do Mapia, a new village that would live by the Ayahuasca tea doctrine.: photo by Eraldo Peres/AP Photo, 4 August 2016

  
  
In Brazil's Amazon, this community's culture revolves around an ancient psychedelic tea.  Photo by Eraldo Peres: image via AP Images@AP_Images, 3 August 2016

In this June 22, 2016 photo, a cauldron with the mixture of Jagube (Banisteriopsis caapi) and Chacrona leaves (Psychotria viridis) is brought to a boil during the preparation process of a psychedelic tea, in Ceu do Mapia, Amazonas state, Brazil. The Cult of the Holy Daime was started in 1930 by a descendant of slaves.: photo by Eraldo Peres/AP Photo, 4 August 2016



In this June 22, 2016 photo, a woman wearing a white crown warms up next to a bonfire during a break in the service of the church of the doctrine of the Holy Daime, in Ceu do Mapia, Amazonas state, Brazil. During the all night service men and women line up in two separate rows to drink the psychedelic tea after making the sign of the cross. They then sing together prayers and psalms in a large circle.: photo by Eraldo Peres/AP Photo, 4 August 2016



In this June 23, 2016 photo, members of church of the doctrine of Holy Daime stand during a religious service, at dawn, in Ceu do Mapia, Amazonas state, Brazil. Most services last all night and into the morning.: photo by Eraldo Peres/AP Photo, 4 August 2016



In this June 23, 2016 photo, girls talk at sunrise after an all night religious service of the church of the doctrine of the Holy Daime in Ceu do Mapia, Amazonas state, Brazil. For the service women wear shiny white crowns on their heads, green sashes over their shoulders and green belts around their waist..: photo by Eraldo Peres/AP Photo, 4 August 2016

GAZA CITY - A Palestinian farmer checks greenhouses in Gaza City. By @mohnmdabed #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 August 2016

INDIA - Labourers are silhouetted against the clouds as they work on an upcoming highrise in Mumbai. By #thisisindia: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 August 2016

HAITI - A boy runs with a football while playing on a sport court in Port-au-Prince. By @hectorretamal #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 4 August 2016

Terror in Filipino slums as bodies pile up in Rodrigo Duterte's drug war: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 4 August 2016 

Terror in Filipino slums as bodies pile up in Rodrigo Duterte's drug war: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 4 August 2016

Terror in Filipino slums as bodies pile up in Rodrigo Duterte's drug war: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 4 August 2016

#Philippines 1/2 - Human toll as bodies pile up in Philippine drug war @AFP #AFP Photo by @herime23: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 4 August 2016

#Philippines 1/2 - Human toll as bodies pile up in Philippine drug war @AFP #AFP Photo by @herime23: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 4 August 2016

#Philippines 1/2 - Human toll as bodies pile up in Philippine drug war @AFP #AFP Photo by @herime23: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 4 August 2016

#Philippines 1/2 - Human toll as bodies pile up in Philippine drug war @AFP #AFP Photo by @herime23: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 4 August 2016

#Philippines 2/2 - Human toll as bodies pile up in Philippine drug war @AFP #AFP Photo by @herime23: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 4 August 2016

#Philippines 2/2 - Human toll as bodies pile up in Philippine drug war @AFP #AFP Photo by @herime23: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 4 August 2016

#Philippines 2/2 - Human toll as bodies pile up in Philippine drug war @AFP #AFP Photo by @herime23: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 4 August 2016

IRAQ - Iraqis light candles at site of an explosion which killed more than 300 people in Baghdad. By Ahmad Al-Rubaye: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 4 August 2016

#IRAQ The site of an explosion which killed more than 300 people in Baghdad one month ago. #AFP by Ahmad Al-Rubaye: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 4 August 2016

Iraqis walk past the site of an explosion which killed more than 300 people in Baghdad’s Karrada district: photo by Ahmad Al Rubaye / AFP Photo, 4 August 2016

AFGHANISTAN - Shopkeepers and volunteers carry out products as a fire rages at the shopping mall in Kabul. By @kohsar: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 August 2016

AFGHANISTAN - Shopkeepers and volunteers carry out products as a fire rages at the shopping mall in Kabul. By @kohsar: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 August 2016

AFGHANISTAN - Shopkeepers toss rolls of fabric out of a window as a fire rages at shopping mall in Kabul. By @kohsar image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 4 August 2016

A masked man attends a demonstration called by Morocco’s February 20 protest movement in Rabat: photo by Youssef Boudlal / Reuters, 4 August 2016

 

Punks from around the world gather in Blackpool for the four day Rebellion Festival in Blackpool, England: photo by Christopher Furlong, 4 August 2016



Punks from around the world gather in Blackpool for the four day Rebellion Festival in Blackpool, England: photo by Christopher Furlong, 4 August 2016

A soldier from Indonesia’s Rapid Reaction Strike Force jumps out from the back of an Air Force transport plane during a parachute training exercise in Tarakan, North Kalimantan province: photo by Fadlansyah/Antara Foto/Reuters, 4 August 2016



A soldier from Indonesia’s Rapid Reaction Strike Force jumps out from the back of an Air Force transport plane during a parachute training exercise in Tarakan, North Kalimantan province: photo by Fadlansyah/Antara Foto/Reuters, 4 August 2016

 
A woman carries a sack outside a market during heavy rains in Chandigarh, India: photo by Ajay Verma/Reuters, 4 August 2016



A woman carries a sack outside a market during heavy rains in Chandigarh, India: photo by Ajay Verma/Reuters, 4 August 2016

A French soldier patrols near the Biarritz's beach, France. The challenge of protecting churches, synagogues, tourist haunts, beaches, summer festival sites, airports and train stations is among the most daunting tasks security forces have faced in recent times in France, and Europe.: photo by Bob Edme / AP, 30 July 2016   

People cool off on a beach in Qingdao, Shandong province, China: photo by Reuters. 30 July 2016 

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Cemetery, Italy (Isola di San Michele, Venice): photo by Austin Granger, 25 July 2016

Melons (Santa Clara, California): photo by efo, 30 July 2016

Party dresses (San Jose Flea Market): photo by efo, 30 July 2016

Party dresses (San Jose Flea Market): photo by efo, 30 July 2016

Party dresses (San Jose Flea Market): photo by efo, 30 July 2016

@PaulManafort @realDonaldTrump One of Our Homeless MAGA Brothers Needs Help. #MAGA #Trump: image via Battle Beagle @BattleBeagle, 5 August 2016 

HAPPY SATURDAY NIGHT EVERYONE! I'll leave you all with this: #Trump the builder-in-chief: image via ALWAYS TRUMP! @AlwaysTrump, 6 August 2016

Melania Trump denies violating U.S. immigration laws: image via Yahoo News @YahooNews, 4 August 2016

Jeremy Corbyn addressing Hull earlier today. Won't see this on the BBC. #WeAreHisMedia: image via Jeremy Cliffe @Jeremy Cliffe, 30 July 2016

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Before a campaign stop at a boutique tie manufacturer in Denver and a rally, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton raised money from a deep-pocketed donor with a potential interest in one of the most controversial issues facing voters in Colorado this November. Clinton attended an Aspen fundraiser Tuesday hosted by Charif Souki, who amassed his fortune working for natural gas companies including one he founded last year, Tellurian Investments. The debate about fracking is intensifying in Colorado. In recent months, activists in the swing state have been pushing ballot initiatives to limit the practice while the oil and gas industry has pushed back with a multimillion-dollar campaign. Above, Clinton is seen speaking during a campaign rally with democratic vice presidential nominee U.S. Sen Tim Kaine at Fort Hayes Vocational School on July 31, 2016 in Columbus, Ohio.: photo via International Business Times, 5 August 2016

Clinton "short circuits" on email answers: image via ReutersTV @ReutersTV, 6 August 2016

Getting caught #WhatMakesHillaryShortCircuit: image via Jon Stall @JonStall2009, 5 August 2016

Those damn millennials #WhatMakesHillaryShortCircuit: image via Jon Stall @JonStall2009, 5 August 2016

 
"Acting" Human #WhatMakesHillaryShortCircuit: image via Jon Stall @JonStall2009, 5 August 2016

Heathcote Williams: Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton: The total obscenity of the American Dream

The total obscenity of the American Dream
Comes to fruition in Donald J. Trump:  
“We need a leader that wrote ‘The Art of the Deal.’ ”
He declares on his Presidential stump.

What’s wrong is that Trump’s best-selling volume,
On the virtues of property speculation,  
Wasn’t written by him but by one Tony Schwarz  
(Now dreading Trump as leader of his nation).

‘The Art of the Deal’ established Donald J. Trump  
As the archetypally successful tycoon.  
Schwarz presented him in the best possible light --
Striving to hide a poisonous buffoon.

“I put lipstick on a pig,” Schwarz later would say  
When overcome with remorse,  
For he’d branded Trump as a winning charmer,  
One that an electorate could endorse.

Whereas in his Presidential run-up ‘the Donald’  
Would soon reveal his true colours:  
“It really doesn’t matter what the media write”, Trump says,  
“As long as you’ve got a young piece of ass.”

Despite self-enchanted claims to be a self made man  
Trump’s wealth has been largely inherited  
From father Fred, a slum landlord and speculator,
Who was once notoriously prosecuted

By the US Justice Department for refusing
To rent to African-Americans --  
To do so clashed with the beliefs
Fred gleaned From his attendance at KKK rallies. 

It’s said the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree  
And so the son is true to Fred’s prejudice  
With Trump’s plans to exclude Mexicans with a wall  
And to make Mexico pay for the privilege.

Trump’s first wife, Ivana, famously claimed  
That Trump was a fan of Adolf Hitler  
And that he kept a copy of Hitler’s speeches,  
“My New Order,” in his bedside cabinet.

“The beauty of me is that I’m very rich,” says the gilded toad.  
“The point is, you can never be too greedy.” 
“My IQ is one of the highest -- and you all know it!”
He then changes gear to become simply creepy:

“I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter,  
“Perhaps I would be dating her.” 
If he can sink to using incest as a come-on to gain the White House  
What’s to stop such a perv killing her or perhaps eating her?

When the publisher Random House gave him an advance
Of half a million to write his autobiography,  
They sent a mock-up to Trump Towers for his approval --  
They’d not held back on the typography:

They’d featured his name, TRUMP, in gold block capitals  
With him being depicted as a new Alexander the Great.
“Please make my name much bigger,” responded the man
Whose vampirish megalomania was his favourite trait.

Schwarz saw Trump as driven by an insatiable hunger  
For “money, praise, and celebrity.”  
He described him by saying “He’s a living black hole!”
And he viewed his mindset with hilarity.

Trump would insist that an apartment  
In one of his latest developments  
Has been sold to a Prince or a Sultan  
To add kudos to his establishment.

“Prince Charles has bought several”, he’d insist
Although there wasn’t a shred of evidence,  
But snobs and New York sheep fell for his ploy  
And Trump gained his golden recompense.

This mega-vulgarian who blows his own trumpet  
So hard you think he’s likely to blow a fuse --
This red-faced Aryan with his combed-over hair
Is a charlatan whose every game-plan is a ruse.
 
He has 3,500 outstanding lawsuits pending.  
He takes rides on the ‘Lolita Express’  
To a Caribbean island filled with underage girls  
Thanks to Jeffrey Epstein, a slave to excess --

A convicted sex criminal, friends with Prince Andrew,  
Bill Clinton, and other white trash sleazeballs.  
Trump joined him as a sex-tourist and an orgy-goer  
With a penchant for raping 13-year-old girls.

One alleged victim, not named in Court documents,  
Claims that during one “savage sexual attack”  
Trump tied her to a bed, then “proceeded to forcibly rape” her 
While she “loudly pleaded” for him to stop.

The billionaire “screamed that he would do whatever he wanted”.  
Trump struck her with his open hands then threatened the girl:  
“Were she ever to reveal any of the details of the sexual abuse”,  
She and her family “would be physically harmed if not killed”.
 
At the age of 22, Trump had four military deferments  
To get out of fighting in Vietnam.  
He claimed he’d had an “uncomfortable bone” in one his feet 
Yet couldn’t remember which foot caused the ‘problem.’

That his millionaire father was instrumental in this great patriot  
Avoiding Vietnam was also the truth --
Leaving Trump to say flippantly that his “personal Vietnam” 
Was to have avoided sexual diseases in his youth.

Trump’s buildings are erected by conning unpaid craftsmen.  
His Trump University peddles Mickey Mouse degrees.  
Here’s a man who declares war on ‘political correctness’  
As it stops him from abusing whomsoever he pleases.

Foul-tempered and violent he singles out hecklers  
To be beaten up or pepper-sprayed by bodyguards. 
“I’d like to punch him in the face,” he says of a protester --  
This Neanderthal, and virulently racist blow-hard.

Now imagine Donald Trump in the White House,  
Conjuring his self-serving lies out of thin air.  
With his sleek little fingers fondling the nuclear codes,  
The demagogue grins and mutters, ‘Do I dare?’

“It’s freezing and snowing in New York -- we need global warming!” 
Is Trump’s take on an apocalyptic predicament.  
“It’s impossible to keep him focused on any topic,” says Schwarz,  
“Other than his own self-aggrandizement.”

“All Moslems should leave the United States now”,  
Says Trump on a populist roll.  
The US father of a Muslim soldier killed in action
Condemns Trump as “a black soul.”

Donald Trump’s warmongering rival is little better --
A humourless Iron Lady in hock to Wall Street:  
Who crows after Gaddafi’s murder by CIA stooges:
She sadistically gloats, “We came; we saw; he died!”

Secretary Hillary Clinton’s emails show that Libya’s plan  
To create a gold-backed African currency to compete  
With the dollar was the real motive for NATO intervention,  
And Hillary’s death squad saw the job was complete. 

Hillary’s role in the bombing of Libya 
As the US Secretary of State  
Led to a body-count of over twelve thousand
And to ISIS’s regime of hate.

Clinton leaves a trail of more bloody coups: 
Both in Honduras and in the Ukraine. 
Appropriately nine out of ten US arms makers.
Are generously funding her campaign.

When the “women’s candidate” kills women  
With drones and with Cruise missiles,  
It’s hard not to think her feminism’s selective  
And if not conflicted, then utterly specious.

Despite 400,000 civilians being killed in Syria  
This neo-con Mother Kali calls for more.  
Unable to mind her own business, she demands  
‘Regime change’ which is code for war.

Hillary Clinton’s support for the jihadis in Syria  
Would further fuel the Islamic State --  
Now with powerful US weapons and equipment
With which to revive its Caliphate.

She has armed Saudis with sophisticated weapons  
To carry out genocide in the Yemen.  
“The nuclear option should not be off the table”  
She has said in relation to Iran.

Bill and Hillary’s private slush fund,
The Clinton Global Foundation,  
Gives only ten percent to charity  
Despite its noble intentions.

The Clinton Foundation exists to open the door  
To the third world’s valuable resources:  
If corporate interests donate to its crooked coffers  
Then the Clintons will pressurize world leaders.

If these are the best candidates that are on offer
In the US’s petri dish of democratic depravity,  
Then maybe it’s time for the system to crumble  
And to be replaced by nonviolent anarchy.

It’s sick to have billionaires or their puppets  
Controlling the future of the species.  
US democracy doesn’t count as democracy  
But only as a notifiable disease.

Heathcote Williams: Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton: A Foaming Sleazeball from Hell versus An Iron Lady whose Hands Drip with Blood, via International Times, 4 August 2016

 
Technician Steven Heinz adjusts a remote camera at the Youth Center at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: photo by Carlos Osorio/AP, 5 August 2016 

Technician Steven Heinz adjusts a remote camera at the Youth Center at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: photo by Carlos Osorio/AP, 5 August 2016 

 
Mikoyan MiG-29 jet fighters of the Strizhi (Swifts) aerobatic team fly in formation during the International Army Games 2016, in Dubrovichi outside Ryazan, Russia: photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters, 5 August 2016 



Mikoyan MiG-29 jet fighters of the Strizhi (Swifts) aerobatic team fly in formation during the International Army Games 2016, in Dubrovichi outside Ryazan, Russia: photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters, 5 August 2016

Syrian rebels inspect the wreckage of a Russian Mi-8 military transport helicopter after it was shot down along the administrative border between Idlib province, northwestern Syria and neighboring Aleppo. Russia's defense ministry announced the downing of the helicopter, which it said was carrying three crew and two officers and said that all five people on board were assumed dead. The attack came as Syrian opposition fighters and their jihadist allies battled government forces outside Aleppo in a bid to ease the regime's siege of rebel-held parts of the northern city.: photo by Mohamed Al-Bakour / AFP, 1 August 2016

 
The sun is seen through the cloudy sky, beside the bronze sculpture of Victoria, in Berlin: photo by Clemens Bilan/AFP, 5 August 2016



The sun is seen through the cloudy sky, beside the bronze sculpture of Victoria, in Berlin: photo by Clemens Bilan/AFP, 5 August 2016
 


A Turkish girl gestures under a huge picture of modern Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk at a rally in Gundogdu Square in Izmir: photo by Emre Tazegul/AFP, 5 August 2016



A Turkish girl gestures under a huge picture of modern Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk at a rally in Gundogdu Square in Izmir: photo by Emre Tazegul/AFP, 5 August 2016

 
A cross is pictured in front of the plain of Chablais at the summit of Croix des Chaux (2012m) above Gryon VD, western Switzerland: photo by Anthony Anex/EPA, 4 August 2015



A cross is pictured in front of the plain of Chablais at the summit of Croix des Chaux (2012m) above Gryon VD, western Switzerland: photo by Anthony Anex/EPA, 4 August 2015

#sunset in Sardegna on June 8, 2016, in Alghero #AFP Photo by @cacaciotti: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 4 August 2016

AFGHANISTAN - Youth try to catch fish in the waters of the Kabul river near Jalalabad. By @NoorullahShirz #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 4 August 2016

A man takes a fishing boat on a lake in Shi’en, Hubei Province, China: photo by Reuters, 4 August 2016

A man out fishing on a lake in Shien, Hubei Province, China: photo by Reuters, 4 August 2016