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Thursday 27 July 2017

shadow of the beast, blocking out the sky / bodies in the water

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The oldest image of a human face. Mammoth ivory portrait head sculpted over 25,000 years ago at Dolní Věstonice #IceAgeArt: image via The Ice Age @Jamie_Woodward_, 25 July 2017


Lots of Democrats crossed over to vote for Trump in the Youngstown area. Here's a sign that's still up on Route 7: image via Jenna Johnson @wpjenna, 25 July 2017 

Trump

 The shadow of Air Force One, with President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump aboard, is seen on approach to Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport, in Vienna, Ohio, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, en route to Struthers, Ohio, where they will visit AMVETS Post 44.: photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP, 25 July 2017

Trump

The shadow of Air Force One, with President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump aboard, is seen on approach to Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport, in Vienna, Ohio, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, en route to Struthers, Ohio, where they will visit AMVETS Post 44.: photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP, 25 July 2017

Trump

 A protester is escorted out of the Covelli Centre during a rally as President Donald Trump speaks, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Youngstown, Ohio.: photo by Tony Dejak/AP, 25 July 2017

Trump

A protester is escorted out of the Covelli Centre during a rally as President Donald Trump speaks, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Youngstown, Ohio.: photo by Tony Dejak/AP, 25 July 2017

Trump 
President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 26, 2017, during an American Legion Boys Nation and the American Legion Auxiliary Girls Nation event.: photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP, 26 July 2017

could be opera or Greek theater. Instead, target practise


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Reading The Pictures Retweeted CNN Breaking News
Reading The Pictures added,
The teleprompter.
image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 27 July 2017

Trump
White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci speaks during a interview with CNN, Wednesday, July 26, 2017, at the White House in Washington.: photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais, 26 July 2017


Right now: Central Mediterranean Sea: image via Santi Palacios @SantiPalacios, 25 July 2017

EU Libya Migrants

 Sub-Saharan migrants wait to be rescued by aid workers of Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms in the Mediterranean Sea, about 15 miles north of Sabratha, Libya on Tuesday, July 25, 2017. More than 120 migrants were rescued Tuesday from the Mediterranean Sea while 13 more —including pregnant women and children— died in a crammed rubber raft, according to a Spanish rescue group.: photo by Santi Palacios/AP, 25 July 2017



'This is hell on earth' | Eyewitness to a Harrowing rescue on the Mediterranean via @TIME Photo @SantiPalacios: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 26 July 2017

EU Libya Migrants

 Sub-Saharan migrants receive life jackets as they are rescued by aid workers of Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms in the Mediterranean Sea, about 15 miles north of Sabratha, Libya on Tuesday, July 25, 2017.: photo by Santi Palacios/AP, 25 July 2017



 We are still sailing with 168 survivors and 13 dead bodies aboard @openarms_fund  rescue vessel.. Central Mediterranen Sea...: image via Santi Palacios @SantiPalacios, 25 July 2017

EU Libya Migrants

 Two young migrants sit in a boat after being rescued by aid workers of Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms in the Mediterranean Sea, about 15 miles north of Sabratha, Libya on Tuesday, July 25, 2017.: photo by Santi Palacios/AP, 25 July 2017

EU Libya Migrants

Two young migrants sit in a boat after being rescued by aid workers of Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms in the Mediterranean Sea, about 15 miles north of Sabratha, Libya on Tuesday, July 25, 2017.: photo by Santi Palacios/AP, 25 July 2017

EU Libya Migrants

Migrants wait to be rescued by aid workers of Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms in the Mediterranean Sea, about 15 miles north of Sabratha, Libya on Tuesday, July 25, 2017.: photo by Santi Palacios/AP, 25 July 2017



'This is hell on earth' | Eyewitness to a Harrowing rescue on the Mediterranean via @TIME Photo @SantiPalacios: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 26 July 2017



'This is hell on earth' | Eyewitness to a Harrowing rescue on the Mediterranean via @TIME Photo @SantiPalacios: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 26 July 2017


We are still sailing with 168 survivors and 13 dead bodies aboard @openarms_fund  rescue vessel.. Central Mediterranen Sea...: image via Santi Palacios @SantiPalacios, 25 July 2017
 
 

We are still sailing with 168 survivors and 13 dead bodies aboard @openarms_fund  rescue vessel.. Central Mediterranen Sea...: image via Santi Palacios @SantiPalacios, 25 July 2017

 

We are still sailing with 168 survivors and 13 dead bodies aboard @openarms_fund  rescue vessel.. Central Mediterranen Sea...: image via Santi Palacios @SantiPalacios, 25 July 2017


At that time they were standing on 13 corpses, including mothers, wives and husbands of those who were still alive.: image via Santi Palacios @SantiPalacios, 26 July 2017


Night aboard Open Arms rescue vessel. On the way to the SAR zone, off the Libyan coast.: image via Santi Palacios @SantiPalacios, 19 July 2017


Awaiting, stand by, waiting... Open Arms rescue vessel Central Mediterranean Sea, off the Libyan coast: image via Santi Palacios @SantiPalacios, 20 July 2017


Now: 12 miles off the Libyan coast.: image via Santi Palacios @SantiPalacios, 23 July 2017
 
 

Today: 301 people rescued by @openarms_fund on the high seas, off the Libyan coast. #refugees #migrations: image via Santi Palacios @SantiPalacios, 23 July 2017

 

Today: 301 people rescued by @openarms_fund on the high seas, off the Libyan coast. #refugees #migrations: image via Santi Palacios @SantiPalacios, 23 July 2017

 

Today: 301 people rescued by @openarms_fund on the high seas, off the Libyan coast. #refugees #migrations: image via Santi Palacios @SantiPalacios, 23 July 2017


  
An exhausted African migrant rests aboard a Spanish NGO rescue boat in the Mediterranean Sea, July 23, 2017. Photo @SantiPalacios: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 23 July 2017
 
Nigeria Building Collapse

Onlookers watch as rescue workers search for survivors in the rubble of a collapsed building in a densely populated neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria Tuesday, July 25, 2017. Rescue work is still ongoing.: photo by Sunday Alamba/AP, 25 July 2017

Pakistan

Pakistani relatives of suicide bombing victim mourn during a funeral in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, July 25, 2017. A suicide bomber on a motorcycle struck near a police team in the eastern city of Lahore on Monday killing more than 20 people and left many more wounded. An outlawed Taliban faction claimed responsibility.: photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP, 25 July 2017
 
India Monsoon Floods

Indian rickshaw drivers wade through a water logged street following heavy rains in Allahabad, India, Tuesday, July 25, 2017. The monsoon season in India runs from June to September.: photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP, 25 July 2017

India Monsoon

An Indian barber sits on a stool waiting for customers inside his shop on a flooded street following monsoon rains in Kolkata, India, Tuesday, July 25, 2017. The monsoon season in India runs from June to September.: photo by Bikas Das/AP, 25 July 2017


#France A fire fighting Canadair aircraft flies to drop water over a fire near Carros. Photo @ValeryHache: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 25 July 2017


#France France battles raging fires on Cote d'Azur #AFP Photo @ValeryHache: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 25 July 2017


#France France appeals for help in fighting Cote d'Azur fires #AFP Pascal Pochard-Casabianca: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 25 July 2017



#France A fire in Artigues, as part of a blaze that has consumed swathes of land for a second day in a row. #AFP Photo Anne-Christine Poujoulat: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 25 July 2017


#France 10,000 people evacuated after fires in southern France #AFP Photo Anne-Christine Poujoulat: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 26 July 2017



#France 10,000 people evacuated after fires in southern France #AFP Photo Anne-Christine Poujoulat: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 26 July 2017

France Wildfires

Sunbathers are being evacuated from the beach in Le Lavandou, French Riviera, as plumes of smoke rise in the air from burning wildfires, Wednesday, July 26, 2017. French authorities ordered the evacuation of up to 12,000 people around a picturesque hilltop town in the southern Cote d'Azur region as fires hopscotched around the Mediterranean coast for a third day Wednesday.: photo by Claude Paris/AP, 26  July 2017

France Wildfires

Sunbathers are being evacuated from the beach in Le Lavandou, French Riviera, as plumes of smoke rise in the air from burning wildfires, Wednesday, July 26, 2017. French authorities ordered the evacuation of up to 12,000 people around a picturesque hilltop town in the southern Cote d'Azur region as fires hopscotched around the Mediterranean coast for a third day Wednesday.: photo by Claude Paris/AP, 26 July 2017


Sunbathers are evacuated from the beach in Le Lavandou, French Riviera, as plumes of smoke rise in the air from burning wildfires.: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 26 July 2017
 

Seeing variations of this from the #FrenchRiviera. Cinematic yes, but all is not right. @AFPphoto: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThe Pix, 27 July 2017 


#Palestinians Muslim worshippers pray outside Lion's Gate which leads to the Al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem's Old City. Photo @gharabli_ahmad
: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 27 July 2017


Israel Palestinians

Jerusalem's Old City is seen through a door with the shape of star of David, Tuesday, July 25, 2017. Israel has begun dismantling metal detectors it installed a week earlier at the gates of a contested Jerusalem shrine, amid widespread Muslim protests.: photo by Oded Balilty/AP, 25 July 2017



Palestinians walk past a house occupied by a group of Israeli settlers the previous day in Hebron on July 26. Photo @hazembader1: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 26 July 2017
  
Syria Raqqa

A U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fighter looks through a hole at Islamic State militant positions on the front line of the industrial district on the eastern side of Raqqa, Syria, Wednesday, July 26, 2017.: photo by Hussein Malla/AP, 26 July 2017

Syria Raqqa

A U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fighter looks through a hole at Islamic State militant positions on the front line of the industrial district on the eastern side of Raqqa, Syria, Wednesday, July 26, 2017.: photo by Hussein Malla/AP, 26 July 2017


A boy makes his bed as he prepares to sleep with his family on a roadside pavement in the old quarters of #Delhi #India #Asia @AFPphoto: image via Chandan Khanna @Chandanphoto, 26 July 2017

Nepal Agriculture

A Nepalese farmer couple eat their lunch while they take a break while working in a paddy field in Khokana, Lalitpur, Nepal, Wednesday, July 26, 2017. Agriculture is the main source of income and employment for most people in Nepal, and rice is one of the main crops.: photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP, 26 July 2017

Nepal Agriculture .

 A Nepalese farmer couple eat their lunch while they take a break while working in a paddy field in Khokana, Lalitpur, Nepal, Wednesday, July 26, 2017. Agriculture is the main source of income and employment for most people in Nepal, and rice is one of the main crops.: photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP, 26 July 2017

Venezuela Political Crisis

A demonstrator wearing a mask adorned with rosaries stands near a barricade during a 48-hour general strike beginning Wednesday in protest of government plans to rewrite the constitution in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, July 26, 2017. President Nicolas Maduro is promoting the constitution rewrite as a means of resolving Venezuela's political standoff and economic crisis, but opposition leaders are boycotting it.: photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP, 26 July 2017

Venezuela Political Crisis

A demonstrator wearing a mask adorned with rosaries stands near a barricade during a 48-hour general strike beginning Wednesday in protest of government plans to rewrite the constitution in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, July 26, 2017. President Nicolas Maduro is promoting the constitution rewrite as a means of resolving Venezuela's political standoff and economic crisis, but opposition leaders are boycotting it.: photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP, 26 July 2017
 
Dhaka | 2017 | by Sohail Bin Mohammad

Dhaka | 2017: photo by Sohail Bin Mohammad, 18 July 2017

Spidies | by jutharatp

Spideys: photo by Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet, 18 June 2017

Spidies | by jutharatp

Spideys: photo by Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet, 18 June 2017

Spidies | by jutharatp

Spideys: photo by Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet, 18 June 2017

Untitled | by J. Ward

[Los Angeles]: photo by J Ward, 13 July 2017

Untitled | by J. Ward

[Los Angeles]: photo by J Ward, 13 July 2017

Untitled | by J. Ward

[Los Angeles]: photo by J Ward, 13 July 2017

Untitled | by Ilia Izotov

[Untitled]: photo by Ilia Izotov, 7 February 2017

Sengokuhara, Hakone, July 2017 | by Shin Noguchi

Senyokuhara, Hakone, July 2017: photo by Shin Noguchi, 23 July 2017

....and should the wind again turn, and carry off the sleepers from their beds...


Portugal Wildfires

Railroad sleepers burn at the Barca da Amieira-Envendos train station outside the village of Sao Jose das Matas, near Macao, central Portugal, Wednesday, July 26 2017. More than 2,300 firefighters with more than 700 vehicles are tackling wildfires in Portugal, where every summer large areas of woodland are scorched. The flames were being driven by powerful winds across steep hillsides of dense pine and eucalyptus forest Wednesday.: photo by Armando Franca/AP, 26 July 2017

Portugal Wildfires 

Railroad sleepers burn at the Barca da Amieira-Envendos train station outside the village of Sao Jose das Matas, near Macao, central Portugal, Wednesday, July 26 2017. More than 2,300 firefighters with more than 700 vehicles are tackling wildfires in Portugal, where every summer large areas of woodland are scorched. The flames were being driven by powerful winds across steep hillsides of dense pine and eucalyptus forest Wednesday.: photo by Armando Franca/AP, 26 July 2017

2 comments:

TC said...

Marlon Brando interview on Dick Cavett Show

14:30 ff On acting "We act to save our lives, every day"

25:35 ff "There's one Indian in there"

TC said...

Marlon Brando -- Outtakes