Lambs to the slaughter (Dancing with Drumpf in Lie-Lie Land) / The Chosen (Sasikumar Ramachandran: Chennai)

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 R0017932_1 [Lincoln]: photo by Jeff Larson (Raw Power), 10 February 2017

 R0017932_1 [Lincoln]: photo by Jeff Larson (Raw Power), 10 February 2017

 R0017932_1 [Lincoln]: photo by Jeff Larson (Raw Power), 10 February 2017

Lambs to the slaughter

A Crowley classic as Jared, Reince stare. W Miller, spotlights forward line, WH presser as running the gauntlet #lambstoslaughter Photo @Stcrow: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThepIx, 17 February 2017

Joseph, the son of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, presses his face up again a window in the Oval Office as he waits to board Marine One.: image via Stephen Crowley @Stcrow, 17 February 2017
 

Joseph Kushner in Oval glass. Make up kiss for orthodox journalist his zeyde sacrificed yesterday? Shabbat shalom! Photo @evanvucci: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 17 February 2017

@realDonaldTrump leaving the Oval Office with his grandchildren, Arabella and Joseph, en route Mar-a-lago in Palm Beach, FL.: image via Stephen Crowley @Stcrow, 17 February 2017

@realDonaldTrump boards Marine One with his grandchildren, Arabella and Joseph, en route Boeing Co in S Carolina; Mar-a-lago in FL.: image via Stephen Crowley @Stcrow, 17 February 2017

 Jared and Ivanka walk to AF1: image via Zeke Miller @ZekeJMiller, 17 February 2017

Acting National Security Advisor Lt. Gen Keith Kellogg (Ret) is awaiting POTUS at the top of the Air Force One steps: image via Zeke Miller @ZekeJMiller, 17 February 2017

POTUS waves from AF1: image via Zeke Miller @ZekeJMiller, 17 February 2017

Air Force One and the 787-10 in the backdrop: image via Zeke Miller @ZekeJMiller, 17 February 2017

The head-on angle: image via Zeke Miller @ZekeJMiller, 17 February 2017

Boeing welcomes the President: image via Zeke Miller @ZekeJMiller, 17 February 2017

Boeing welcomes the President: image via Zeke Miller @ZekeJMiller, 17 February 2017

Trump visible sitting in the captain's seat of the 787-10: image via Zeke Miller @ZekeJMiller, 17 February 2017

Sunrise at Joint Base Andrews as Air Force Two prepares to take @VP Pence and @SecondLady to Germany and Belgium: image via Marc Lotter @marc_lotter, 17 February 2017 

Jeb!: image via Bradd Jaffy @BraddJaffy, 17 February 2017



DAY 3 - Journey on both sides of the US-Mexican border by AFP photographers @JimWatson_AFP and @GmoAriasC #afp: image via Sylvain Estibal @Sestibal, 15 February 2017

"X" Mural of US/Mexico cooperation. Nogales AZ 2/17 photo @JimWatson_AFP @AFPphoto: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 17 February 2017

       

DAY 3 - Journey on both sides of the US-Mexican border by AFP photographers @JimWatson_AFP and @GmoAriasC #afp: image via Sylvain Estibal @Sestibal, 15 February 2017

DAY 3 - Journey on both sides of the US-Mexican border by AFP photographers @JimWatson_AFP and @GmoAriasC #afp: image via Sylvain Estibal @Sestibal, 15 February 2017

 

DAY 4 - Journey on both sides of the US-Mexican border by AFP photographers @JimWatson_AFP and @GmoAriasC #afp #Mexico: image via Sylvain Estibal @Sestibal, 16 February 2017 



DAY 4 - Journey on both sides of the US-Mexican border by AFP photographers @JimWatson_AFP and @GmoAriasC #afp #Mexico: image via Sylvain Estibal @Sestibal, 16 February 2017 


 
DAY 4 - Journey on both sides of the US-Mexican border by AFP photographers @JimWatson_AFP and @GmoAriasC #afp #Mexico: image via Sylvain Estibal @Sestibal, 16 February 2017

DAY 3 - Journey on both sides of the US-Mexican border by AFP photographers @JimWatson_AFP and @GmoAriasC #afp: image via Sylvain Estibal @Sestibal, 15 February 2017

DAY 4 - Journey on both sides of the US-Mexican border by AFP photographers @JimWatson_AFP and @GmoAriasC #afp #Mexico: image via Sylvain Estibal @Sestibal, 16 February 2017

 Tires used by the US Border Patrol to grade the road, making fresh track easily seen; and a tree grows through the border fence: image via Jim Watson @JimWatson_AFP, 16 February 2017

Migrants rest after storming a fence to enter the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, Spain, Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. An emergency team in Ceuta is assisting more than 300 migrants who crossed the fence surrounding Spain's enclave in North Africa early Friday, a spokesman for the local Red Cross said.: photo by Jesus Moron/AP, 17 February 2017

A man shows the injures on his hand as he sits on the ground after storming a fence to enter the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, Spain, Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. An emergency team in Ceuta is assisting more than 300 migrants who crossed the fence surrounding Spain's enclave in North Africa early Friday, a spokesman for the local Red Cross said. Spain's Civil Guard said that a surveillance camera registered how more than 500 people approached the fence with tools and clubs that they used for breaking one of the gates.: photo by Jesus Moron/AP, 17 February 2017

The Chosen

WEST BANK - Clashes following a weekly demonstration against expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel in Kfar Qaddum. Photo Jaafar Ashtiyeh: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 February 2017

GAZA STRIP - Demonstration of the "Combatants For Peace" association on a road close to al-Khader, against the Israeli occupation.. Photo @TomCOEX: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 16 February 2017

 
NORTH KOREA - A pedestrian passes portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il-Sung (L) and Kim Jong-Il (R) in Pyongyang. Photo @edwardesjones: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 February 2017

IRAQ - Fighters of the Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitaries stand guard by defensive positions near the frontline village of Shar'iah. @ahmedafp #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 February 2017
  

IRAQ - A fighter of the Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitaries stands guard in a foxhole near the frontline village of Shar'iah. @ahmedafp #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 February 2017 

 
NICARAGUA - A disguised dancer takes part in the XIII Poetry Festival in Granada, some 45 kilometres from Managua. Photo @intiocon #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 16 February 2017

PHILIPPINES - A boy and his dog beg for alms along a street in Manila.  Photo @herime23 #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 16 February 2017

PHILIPPINES - A worker sleeps on a rickshaw full of pumpkins along a street in Divisoria Market in Manila.  Photo @herime23 #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 16 February 2017

IRAQ - A displaced girl plays on a swing at the Al-Agha camp where Iraqi families are taking shelter. Photo @ahmedafp #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 16 February 2017

GAZA CITY - A Palestinian boy walks next to a flooded street in Gaza City following heavy rainfall. Photo @mohmdabed, 16 February 2017: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 16 February 2017

GAZA STRIP - Palestinian children look from inside their impoverished home following heavy rainfall in the Jabalia refugee camp.  Photo @TomCOEX: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 16 February 2017

 

The Chosen

We are a kind people

and this is how we roll

you engender

we neutralize

and in thus wise foreclose

appropriate forsake

all that we were given

at accelerating pace

as though it had never been ours

and there had never been a piece

for you

 

YEMEN - Blood stains are seen at the site of an air raid that hit a funeral reception in the Arhab district. Photo Mohammed Huwais #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 16 February 2017

 

Children displaced by fighting in Mosul watch a visit by United Nations officials at a camp east of Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. The United Nations says they are temporarily pausing aid operations to neighborhoods in eastern Mosul retaken from the Islamic State group for security reasons as IS insurgent and counter attacks continue to inflict heavy civilian casualties there.: photo by Bram Janssen/AP, 15 February 2017

An Afghan refugee showers in an abandoned warehouse where he and other migrants took refuge in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. Hundreds of migrants have been sleeping rough in freezing conditions in central Belgrade looking for ways to cross the heavily guarded EU borders.: photo by Muhammed Muheisen/AP, 15 February 2017

Palestinians ride in a boat with a national flag as a rainbow appears over Gaza City, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2017: photo by Khalil Hamra/AP, 15 February 2017

An elderly Yemeni man works in his shop at al-Melh marketplace in the old city of Sanaa,Yemen, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017: photo by Hani Mohammed/AP, 15 February 2017

Hussein Zeino Danoon and Shahad Ahmed Abed arrive at the Khazer camp for people displaced from Mosul for their wedding on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. It's the second marriage to take place in the IDP camps east of the city where tens of thousands are living, having fled the fighting in Mosul.: photo by Bram Janssen/AP, 16 February 2017

Palestinian rescue members evacuate a woman from her flooded home during a heavy rain storm in Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017: photo by Khalil Hamra/AP, 16 February 2017

German Chancellor Angela Merkel sits in a questioning at an investigation committee of the German federal parliament looking into alleged U.S. surveillance in Germany and the activities of Germany's own foreign intelligence service in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017: photo by Markus Schreiber/AP, 16 February 2017

President Donald Trump calls on a reporter during a news conference, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, in the East Room of the White House in Washington.: photo by Andrew Harnik/AP, 16 February 2017

Demonstrators gather in Baltimore, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, as part of a nationwide protest called A Day Without Immigrants. Immigrants around the U.S. stayed home from work and school Thursday to demonstrate how important they are to America's economy and its way of life. The boycott was aimed squarely at President Donald Trump's efforts to crack down on immigration, legal and illegal.: photo by Patrick Semansky/AP, 16 February 2017

More than a thousand protesters participate in a march aimed squarely at President Donald Trump's efforts to crack down on immigration Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, in Chicago. Immigrants around the country have been staying home from work and school today, hoping to demonstrate their importance to America's economy and its way of life.: photo by Charles Rex Arbogast/AP, 16 February 2017

A Buddhist monk, his face in the shadow of the gate he is standing behind, waits inside Wat Dhammakaya temple in Pathum Thani province, Thailand, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. Hundreds of police in Thailand are carrying out a raid on the headquarters temple of a controversial Buddhist temple sect to detain its chief, a monk facing criminal charges including accepting $40 million in embezzled money.: photo by Sakchai Lalit/AP, 16 February 2017

Models wearing fashion from the Marc Jacobs collection are seated after walking a sidewalk runway on Park Avenue during Fashion Week, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, in New York: photo by Bebeto Matthews/AP, 16 February 2017

Masked Kashmir protesters throw stones and bricks at Indian policemen during a protest in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. Police fired teargas and rubber bullets to disperse Kashmiris who gathered after Friday afternoon prayers to protest the killings of civilians and the recent warning by Indian army chief of tough action against locals hampering counter militancy operations.: photo by Dar Yasin/AP, 17 February 2017

Residents chat near the house of Siti Aisyah, the Indonesian woman suspected to be involved in the killing of the North Korean leader's half brother in Malaysia, in Tambora neighborhood in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. Family and former neighbors of Aisyah are stunned by the arrest of the young mother who they say was a polite and quiet "nice girl.": photo by Dita Alangkara/AP, 17 February 2017 

Men watch a weekly dogfighting event in Paghman district of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. Dogfighting is a popular form of entertainment during the winter season in Afghanistan as public matches are held every Friday, which is the official weekly holiday in the country. Dogs do not fight until death but rather until one dog pins another, or one of the fighters runs away.: photo by Rahmat Gul/AP, 17 February 2017

Lourdes Vasquez who is disabled, casts her vote ahead of Sunday's election, from her house in Quito, Ecuador, Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. Ecuadoreans will elect a new president, vice-president and National Assembly alongside a referendum on tax havens on Sunday.: photo by Dolores Ochoa/AP, 17 February 2017 

A model displays a 2017-18 Fall/Winter creation by Spanish designer Agatha Ruiz de la Prada during the Madrid Fashion Week in Madrid, Friday, Feb. 17, 2017: photo by Francisco Seco/AP, 17 February 2017

Male hippopotamus Nino, left, and female hippo Pippa play in their pool at the Le Cornelle Animal Park, in Valbrembo, near Milan, Italy, Friday, Feb. 17, 2017.: photo by Antonio Calanni/AP, 17 February 2017

Baby gorilla relaxes on her mother Kibara at the zoo in Leipzig, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. The female baby gorilla was born on Dec. 4, 2016 and was named Kianga on Thursday.: photo by Jens Meyer/AP, 17 February 2017

Sasikumar Ramachandran: In Chennai

[Untitled, Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 13 February 2017

[Untitled, Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 9 February 2017

[Untitled, Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 8 February 2017

[Untitled, Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 13 February 2017

[Untitled, Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 14 February 2017

[Untitled, Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 12 February 2017

[Untitled, Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 11 February 2017

[Untitled, Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 11 February 2017

[Untitled, Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 11 February 2017

[Untitled, Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 13 February 2017

 

[Untitled, Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 13 February 2017

 

[Untitled, Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 8 February 2017

[Untitled, Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 7 February 2017

[Untitled, Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 6 February 2017
 

[Untitled, Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 13 February 2017

 

 
Seabirds perch on electric cables beside a river in Manila, Philippines on Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. Many birds fly over Pasig river and Manila bay to search for food.: photo by Aaron Favila/AP, 17 February 2017

 

A pedestrian passes a new piece of art by street artist Bambi in London. in London, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. The work, entitled Lie Lie Land, features a dancing British Prime Minister Theresa May and President Donald Trump in the pose made famous by the movie La La Land.: photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP, 16 February 2017