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Wednesday 30 August 2017

Homeland Security: Lorenzo Thomas: Downtown Boom (Houston) / Edward Sanders: Armed GE-Raytheon House Protecting Robots

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Opinion: Why are crucial questions about Hurricane #Harvey not being asked? | @Guardian: image via climatehawk1 @climatehawk1, 29 August 2017


 
Most of the media won't mention #climatechange, even in the midst of climate catastrophe.: image via George Monbiot @georgemonbiot, 30 August 2017




Texas showing us all how it's done: together. (courtesy M. Alvarez): image via Michael Del Moro @MikeDelMoro, 29 August 2017


The George R. Brown Convention Center, home to more than 9,000 Harvey victims.: image via Robert Gauthier @rgaut999, 29 August 2017 


The George R. Brown Convention Center, home to more than 9,000 Harvey victims.: image via Robert Gauthier @rgaut999, 29 August 2017 



The George R. Brown Convention Center, home to more than 9,000 Harvey victims.: image via Robert Gauthier @rgaut999, 29 August 2017

Harvey

Evacuees escaping the floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey rest at the George R. Brown Convention Center that has been set up as a shelter in Houston, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017.: photo by LM Otero/AP, 29 August 2017

Harvey

Evacuees escaping the floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey rest at the George R. Brown Convention Center that has been set up as a shelter in Houston, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017.: photo by LM Otero/AP, 29 August 2017

People take shelter at the George R. Brown Convention Center after flood waters from Hurricane Harvey inundated the city on August 29, 2017 in Houston, Texas. The evacuation center which is overcapacity has already received more than 9,000 evacuees with more arriving.

People take shelter at the George R. Brown Convention Center after flood waters from Hurricane Harvey inundated the city on August 29, 2017 in Houston, Texas. The evacuation center which is overcapacity has already received more than 9000 evacuees.: photo by Joe Raedle / Getty Images, 29 August 2017


Little moments in a big disaster. Harvey.: image via Robert Gauthier @rgaut999, 29 August 2017 


Little moments in a big disaster. Harvey.: image via Robert Gauthier @rgaut999, 29 August 2017 


Little moments in a big disaster. Harvey.: image via Robert Gauthier @rgaut999, 29 August 2017 



Little moments in a big disaster. Harvey.: image via Robert Gauthier @rgaut999, 29 August 2017


Trump's Homeland Security press release 5 months ago: cut FEMA and flood insurance to free up funds for border wall: image via Patrick Egan @patrick_J_Egan, 27 August 2017

A great book by a great guy, highly recommended!
John P. Lopez Retweeted Donald J. Trump
John P. Lopez added, 
My city is underwater. People losing everything. Unrelenting storm. Medical/1st responders on NO sleep. Thanks for book recommendation, tho.
tweet via John P. Lopez @LopezOnSports, 27 August 2017
 

@wpjenna, expert chronicler of @realDonaldTrump, on how even a visit to storm-battered Texas becomes all about him: image via Mark Berman @markberman, 29 August 2017
 

Heckuva lede, @jdawsey1: image via Ashley Parker @AshleyRParker, 29 August 2017

Trump Harvey

President Donald Trump, accompanied by first lady Melania Trump, waves as they walk from the White House to the South Lawn, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, to board Marine One for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., then on to Texas to view the federal government's response to Harvey's devastating flooding in Texas.: photo by Jacquelyn Martin/AP, 29 August 2017

Trump Harvey

President Donald Trump, accompanied by first lady Melania Trump, waves as they walk from the White House to the South Lawn, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, to board Marine One for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., then on to Texas to view the federal government's response to Harvey's devastating flooding in Texas.: photo by Jacquelyn Martin/AP, 29 August 2017



President Donald Trump, accompanied by first lady Melania Trump, waves as they walk from the White House to the South Lawn, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, to board Marine One for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., then on to Texas to view the federal government's response to Harvey's devastating flooding in Texas.: photo by Jacquelyn Martin/AP, 29 August 2017



Mark KnollerVerified account @markknoller
Pres Trump gives press a thumbs up on the way out the door with to Marine One. (Pool photo )
Reading The Pictures Retweeted Mark Knoller
Reading The Pictures added,
Beyond her heels, new boots, THAT hat, it's the sense of the performative. The me. The instinct to pose. It even makes DC rain feels stagy.
image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 29 August 2017 
   

@realDonaldTrump and @FLOTUS board Air Force One for a trip to Corpus Christi, Texas for a briefing on Hurricane Harvey.: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 29 August 2017


Doug MillsVerified account @dougmillsnyt
. and board Air Force One for a trip to Corpus Christi, Texas for a briefing on Hurricane Harvey. 
Reading The Pictures Retweeted Doug Mills
Reading The Pictures added,
Yes, off to a flying start. The 500 year lack of self consciousness.
image via Reading The PIctures @ReadingThePix, 29 August 2017


@realDonaldTrump and @FLOTUS walk off Air Force One as they arrive in Corpus Christi, Texas.: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 29 August 2017

 

Rusty Hooks @IMRustyHooks
My and in her hat have arrived in
Reading The Pictures Retweeted Rusty Hooks
Reading The Pictures added,
You don't think Hicks sent 1 page, 1 line memo(s): don't draw attention to yourselves? #Harvey 1 thing to Trump: yuge branding opportunity.:
image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 29 August 2017
Twice in the last four days President Trump has appeared in a hat his campaign is selling for $40: image via Citizens for EthicsVerified account @CREWcrew, 29 August 2017
 

 Standing on the front of a fire truck @realDonaldTrump and @FLOTUS speaks outside the fire house #5 after briefing on Hurricane Harvey.: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 29 August 2017



Doug MillsVerified account @dougmillsnyt
Standing on the front of a fire truck and speaks outside the fire house #5 after briefing on Hurricane Harvey. 
Reading The Pictures Retweeted Doug Mills
Reading The Pictures added,
Assume the snipers are the point here, and the larger logistics.
image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 29 August 2017

Trump Harvey

President Donald Trump, accompanied by first lady Melania Trump, holds up a Texas flag after speaking with supporters outside Firehouse 5 Corpus Christi, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, following a briefing on Harvey relief efforts.: photo by Evan Vucci/AP, 29 August 2017

Trump Harvey

President Donald Trump, accompanied by first lady Melania Trump, holds up a Texas flag after speaking with supporters outside Firehouse 5 Corpus Christi, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, following a briefing on Harvey relief efforts.: photo by Evan Vucci/AP, 29 August 2017


@realDonaldTrump holds the Texas flag with @FLOTUS as he makes remarks to supporters outside the fire house in Corpus Christi, Texas.: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 29 August 2017


President Trump holds up a Texas flag outside a fire station in Corpus Christi: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 29 August 2017
 
 

Smokestacks of chemical plant, Corpus Christi, Texas: photo by Marc St. Gil for the US Environmental Protection Agency, November 1972 (US National Archives)



Oil storage tanks and petro-chemical plant, Lake Charles, Louisiana: photo by Marc St. Gil for the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica Project, June 1972 (US National Archives)



 

Burning discarded automobile batteries, Houston, Texas: photo by Marc St. Gil for the US Environmental Protection Agency, July 1973 (US National Archives)


Chemical plants, New Orleans:
photo by Marc St. Gil
for the US Environmental Protection Agency,, c. 1973 (US National Archives)



Cypress swamp between La Place and New Orleans
: photo by Marc St. Gil for the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica Project, c. 1973 (US National Archives)



Oil pollutes water in drainage ditches which surround the Olin-Mathieson plant, Lake Charles, Louisiana: photo by Marc St. Gil for the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica Project, June 1972 (US National Archives)



Contaminated water in drainage ditch behind Pittsburg Glass Company plant, Lake Charles, Louisiana: photo by Marc St. Gil for the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica Project, June 1972 (US National Archives)
 

#Redneck hurricane survivor skills 101 brilliants! #Harvey: image via Steve McGranahan @stevemcgranahan, 30 August 2017

Harvey

Chris Gutierrez, second from right, helps his grandmother, Edelmira Gutierrez, down the stairs of their flooded house and into a waiting fire department truck in the Concord Bridge neighborhood as Addicks Reservoir surpasses capacity due Tropical Storm Harvey, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, in Houston.: photo by Michael Ciaglo/Houston Chronicle via AP, 29 August 2017

 Harvey

Chris Gutierrez, second from right, helps his grandmother, Edelmira Gutierrez, down the stairs of their flooded house and into a waiting fire department truck in the Concord Bridge neighborhood as Addicks Reservoir surpasses capacity due Tropical Storm Harvey, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, in Houston.: photo by Michael Ciaglo/Houston Chronicle via AP, 29 August 2017

Harvey

A rescuer moves Paulina Tamirano, 92, from a boat to a truck bed as people evacuate from rising waters from Tropical Storm Harvey, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017 in Houston.: photo by Michael Ciaglo/Houston Chronicle via AP, 29 August 2017

 Harvey

A rescuer moves Paulina Tamirano, 92, from a boat to a truck bed as people evacuate from rising waters from Tropical Storm Harvey, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017 in Houston.: photo by Michael Ciaglo/Houston Chronicle via AP, 29 August 2017

Harvey

An elderly man is carried to dry ground as he evacuates a neighborhood in west Houston inundated by floodwaters after water was released from nearby Addicks Reservoir when it reached capacity due to Tropical Storm Harvey on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, in Houston, Texas.: photo by Charlie Riedel/AP, 29 August 2017

Harvey

An elderly man is carried to dry ground as he evacuates a neighborhood in west Houston inundated by floodwaters after water was released from nearby Addicks Reservoir when it reached capacity due to Tropical Storm Harvey on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, in Houston, Texas.: photo by Charlie Riedel/AP, 29 August 2017

Harvey

Jannett Martinez holds her cat Gigi as she rides a boat out of her neighborhood which was inundated after water was released from nearby Addicks Reservoir when it reached capacity due to Tropical Storm Harvey on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, in Houston, Texas.: photo by Charlie Riedel/AP, 29 August 2017

Harvey

Jannett Martinez holds her cat Gigi as she rides a boat out of her neighborhood which was inundated after water was released from nearby Addicks Reservoir when it reached capacity due to Tropical Storm Harvey on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, in Houston, Texas.: photo by Charlie Riedel/AP, 29 August 2017

Harvey

Demetres Fair holds a towel over his daughter Damouri Fair, 2, as they are rescued by boat by members of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and the Houston Fire Department during flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey, which hit Texas last week as a Category 4 hurricane, in Houston, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017.: photo by Gerald Herbert/AP, 28 August 2017

Harvey

A member of the Houston Fire Department holds Madelyn Nguyen, 2, after she and her family were rescued by boat during flooding Tropical Storm Harvey in Houston, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017.: photo by Gerald Herbert/AP, 28 August 2017

Harvey

Rescue boats fill a flooded street at flood victims are evacuated as floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey rise Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, in Houston.: photo by David J. Phillip/AP, 28 August 2017

Harvey

Rescue boats fill a flooded street at flood victims are evacuated as floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey rise Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, in Houston.: photo by David J. Phillip/AP, 28 August 2017
 
Our latest pictures from Houston as flood waters rise: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 29 August 2017

Harvey

Highways around downtown Houston are empty as floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey overflow from the bayous around the city Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, in Houston.: photo by David J. Phillip/AP, 29 August 2017

Harvey

Highways around downtown Houston are empty as floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey overflow from the bayous around the city Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, in Houston.: photo by David J. Phillip/AP, 29 August 2017

Lorenzo Thomas: Downtown Boom (Houston)

There are no gospel singers
Anymore
 
On the corners
They held down for Jesus
Valets park cars
At restaurants for fancy people
On expense accts or dates
 
So many times
People come up to me
And say, Billy
Hey wait a minute
You not Billy!
 
You can see the new ballpark
Just past the Courthouse

But which way is redemption?

Lorenzo Thomas (1944-2005): Downtown Boom, from Time Step (2005) 

File:Gospel singers Pike Place Market Seattle Washington 2010.JPG

Gospel singers on the Pike Place Market, Seattle, Washington: photo by Marmaduke Percy, 5 June 2010

 

#Harvey tayfununun bıraktığı yağış 10 km2 tabanı ve 3.2 km yüksekliği olan bir depoya sığacak kadar! Türkiye'de tayfun görmek isteyenlere!: image via Baris Onol @thepeacepanda, 30 August 2017 

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Minute Maid Park, Houston, Texas, interior view, with J.P. Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo buildings visible in background
: photo by Amir Assadi, 15 May 2004

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Minute Maid Park Houston, exterior: photo by WhisperToMe, 20 July 2008

 

Gospel singer Yolanda Adams of Houston at New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Fair Grounds, New Orleans, Louisiana: photo by Kim Welsh, 29 April 2012


Harris County Courthouses, Houston, Texas: photo by Mick Watson, 19 January 2009



  #USA View of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet Hurricane Katrina memorial as Hurricane Harvey makes its way to Louisiana. Photo Shawn Fink #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 29 August 2017


A look back at the day #HurricaneKatrina hit New Orleans: image via Getty Images @GettyImages, 29 August 2017
 
 
A look back at New Orleans, before and after #HurricaneKatrina: image via Getty Images @GettyImages, 29 August 2017



As #Harvey strains resources, including rescue, we are seeing more pix reminiscent of #Katrina. Photo Joe Raedle @GettyImages #Houston: image via reading The pictures @ReadingThePix, 29 August 2017

PEOPLE OF EARTH | by Jack Simon

People of Earth [San Francisco]: photo by Jack Simon, 20 September 2015

PEOPLE OF EARTH | by Jack Simon

People of Earth [San Francisco]: photo by Jack Simon, 20 September 2015

PEOPLE OF EARTH | by Jack Simon

People of Earth [San Francisco]: photo by Jack Simon, 20 September 2015

R0004961 | by shah toufiqur rahman ovi

R0004961: photo by shah toufiqur rahman ovi, 3 July 2017

R0004961 | by shah toufiqur rahman ovi
 
R0004961: photo by shah toufiqur rahman ovi, 3 July 2017

R0004961 | by shah toufiqur rahman ovi
 
R0004961: photo by shah toufiqur rahman ovi, 3 July 2017

DSC_8018 | by N A I M A

DSC-8018 [Bangladesh]: photo by Naima Hossain, 31 July 2015

DSC_8018 | by N A I M A

DSC-8018 [Bangladesh]: photo by Naima Hossain, 31 July 2015

DSC_8018 | by N A I M A

DSC-8018 [Bangladesh]: photo by Naima Hossain, 31 July 2015
   
Algiers | by ADMurr
 
Algiers [Louisiana]: photo by Andrew Murr, 29 August 2017

Harvey

Kevin Lazenby, of Richmond, Texas, waits after being evacuated from the flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey at a shelter opened at the Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017.: photo by LM Otero/AP, 29 August 2017

Harvey

Kevin Lazenby, of Richmond, Texas, waits after being evacuated from the flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey at a shelter opened at the Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017.: photo by LM Otero/AP, 29 August 2017

Ghosts of the Past (Protection)


Cumulus rising, 1957 | by MichaelRyerson

Cumulus rising, 1957. Atom bomb test in Nevada, 1957.: photo by Michael Ryerson, 19 August 2017


Armed GE-Raytheon House Protecting Robots: glyph by Edward Sanders, 29 August 2017
 
VANISH TOILET BOWL CLEANER
WOMAN'S DAY
04/01/1949
p. 92

Judson Dunaway Corporation advertisement for Vanish Toilet Bowl Cleaner: Woman's Day, 1 April 1949 (Gallery of Graphic Design)

LISTERINE ANTISEPTIC
NEWSWEEK
06/11/1951
p. 6

Lambert Pharmacal advertisement for Listerine Antiseptic: Newsweek, 11 June 1959 (Gallery of Graphic Design)

MUM DEODORANT
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
07/01/1949
p. 1

Bristol-Myers advertisement for Mum Deodorant
: Good Housekeeping, 1 June 1949 (Gallery of Graphic Design)


LISTERINE ANTISEPTIC
FAMILY CIRCLE
11/01/1957
p. 1

Lambert Pharmacal advertisement for Listerine Antiseptic: Family Circle, 1 November 1957 (Gallery of Graphic Design)

CASHMERE BOUQUET SOAP
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
04/01/1936

Colgate-Palmolive advertisement for Cashmere Bouquet Soap
: Good Housekeeping, 1 April 1936 (Gallery of Graphic Design)


102 in the shade

Bath House | by [ | ^ ! ^ | ]

Bath House: photo by Hillol Choudhury, 13 August 2017
 
Bath House | by [ | ^ ! ^ | ]

Bath House: photo by Hillol Choudhury, 13 August 2017

Bath House | by [ | ^ ! ^ | ] 
Bath House: photo by Hillol Choudhury, 13 August 2017 
 
 
Donkeys and cattle are herded by Trey Holladay, a civilian search and rescue worker, through a neighborhood west of Houston.: photo by Andrew Burton / The New York Times, 29 August 2017

 
Donkeys and cattle are herded by Trey Holladay, a civilian search and rescue worker, through a neighborhood west of Houston.: photo by Andrew Burton / The New York Times, 29 August 2017
 
The Big Show | by [ | ^ ! ^ | ]
  
The Big Show: photo by Hillol Choudhury, 14 August 2017
 
The Big Show | by [ | ^ ! ^ | ]

The Big Show: photo by Hillol Choudhury, 14 August 2017