"The winning photo shows a poignant, compassionate moment, the human consequence of an enormous event, an event that is still going on," said chairman Aidan Sullivan. "We might never know who this woman is, cradling an injured relative, but together they become a living image of the courage of ordinary people that helped create an important chapter in the history of the Middle East."

Sometimes the most vicious thing you can do to the OPD is to not use violence, give them enough rope to hang themselves.
Remember, if they attack us, it only helps us, unless we attack them, then all people see of us is violence, our message is crushed.

Not all strategies are equal, and it’s not enough to just look at how justified you think it is, there are also overarching consequences which should not be ignored.
Throwing bottles at officers only makes their show of excessive force look justified and damages the footage, they’re well protected by riot gear you aren’t hurting them, but doing that does hurt the protesters next to you.

*hyperlinks and video live at source*

What’s wrong with the world, mama, is the 1%’s criminal wars and rapacious looting.

Occupy exposes the 1% that allows a million children to die every month from preventable poverty when just 1% of our income saves their lives while reducing population growth. Occupy documents and proves the 1%‘s fear-mongered, unlawful, lie-started wars in nation after nation that kill millions, and now legislated with NDAA to “disappear” Americans who stand-up to their crimes. Occupy demands ending debt-damned economics and trillions of the 99%’s dollars transferred to the 1% banksters.

Occupy stands for policy and love for 100% of humanity. Love will manifest when the criminal 1% is arrested and removed from power to harm.

"Where Is The Love?"

*hyperlinks and NEW PuppetGov video live at source*

“Constitutional governments and aristocracies are commonly overthrown owing to some deviation from justice…the rich, if the constitution gives them power, are apt to be insolent and avaricious… In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.” – Aristotle, Politics, Book V. 350 B.C.E.

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Valkyrie opens with the Nazi soldier’s loyalty oath; identical in effect to the 2003-altered US Army Soldier’s Creed: "I will always place the mission first" (as dictated by the leader/fuehrer). The historical hero, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, writes in his diary that Germany has been lied-to by their political leadership, that their creed for peace was a lie to cover offensive wars, that their honorable military engaged in torture and unlawful execution of civilians, and that he could not find the military leadership to confront and end these crimes.

*hyperlinks and video live at source*

The artistic power of PuppetGov‘s The uprising video communicates to a different part of us than academic facts, no matter how powerfully presented.

Let this art touch, inspire, and move your actions.

Resources:
US overthrew Iran’s democracy 1953-1979, helped Iraq invade 1980-1988, now lies for more war (and an analogy if the US were the victim of empire)
What Iran’s president said about Israel, and how US War Criminal 1% lie for war
What IAEA reports on Iran’s nuclear energy/medicine, how US War Criminal 1% lie
US constantly violates war law: arrest Obama before ‘false flag’ war on Iran
Analogy: US wars on Iraq, Iran as US criminal gangster “business”
Occupy This: US History exposes the 1%’s crimes then and now (6-part series)

*hyperlinks and video live at source*

The artistic power of PuppetGov‘s We are the ones we’ve been waiting for video communicates to a different part of us than academic facts, no matter how professionally communicated.

Let this art touch, inspire, and move your actions.

Resources:
US overthrew Iran’s democracy 1953-1979, helped Iraq invade 1980-1988, now lies for more war (and an analogy if the US were the victim of empire)
What Iran’s president said about Israel, and how US War Criminal 1% lie for war
What IAEA reports on Iran’s nuclear energy/medicine, how US War Criminal 1% lie
US constantly violates war law: arrest Obama before ‘false flag’ war on Iran
Analogy: US wars on Iraq, Iran as US criminal gangster “business”

*hyperlinks and video live at source*

The artistic power of PuppetGov‘s Why resistance is essential video communicates to a different part of us than academic facts, no matter how professionally communicated.

Let this art touch, inspire, and move your actions.

Resources:
US overthrew Iran’s democracy 1953-1979, helped Iraq invade 1980-1988, now lies for more war (and an analogy if the US were the victim of empire)
What Iran’s president said about Israel, and how US War Criminal 1% lie for war
What IAEA reports on Iran’s nuclear energy/medicine, how US War Criminal 1% lie
US constantly violates war law: arrest Obama before ‘false flag’ war on Iran
Analogy: US wars on Iraq, Iran as US criminal gangster “business”

Since the first Americans marched off to fight the British for independence, soldiers have been chronicling US wars with paintings and drawings that show the conflicts from the perspective of the troops on the ground.

Here are just a few of the 1,500 works of art by servicemen and women that were on display at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia as part of their Art of the American Solider exhibition.

Beginning with portrayals of trench warfare in World War I, the artworks cover every American conflict through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

War Drawings by US Soldiers (114 pics)

Prof. Kingwell kindly joined me in an exclusive interview and answered my questions about philosophy, popular culture, the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street Movement and ethics in journalism. by Kourosh Ziabari

The Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival (9Pics)

The annual Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival has been held since 1963

There's no looking for crowd validation. There's no waiting for outside redemption. There's no collective bargaining to rely on.

The awakening is you. Only you.

That's what all this ruckus is about. The battle for your spirit and soul. And that's the boat each of us is in. There is nothing more important in this life for you, or me, than waking up. Once that's straightened out the rest will follow.

Sanity restored: Philadelphia puts ‘Christmas’ back in the village
By Daniel Rubin
INQUIRER COLUMNIST
I'd like to thank Mayor Nutter for saving Christmas.
Wednesday afternoon he announced that the city had over-reacted in changing the name of the traditional German Christmas Village on Dilworth Plaza to simply "Holiday Village."
"Christmas Village" it will be once again.
And here I had been ready to bury the decision.
Why not? Pulling the word "Christmas" off the sign over the village gate seemed ridiculous Tuesday afternoon when I walked around that dollop of Deutchland outside City Hall, sampling the hot nuts and sizzling bratwursts, and oggling the tiny elves and fat Santas.

The combined sales at Christie’s, Sotherby’s and Phillips de Pury auction houses topped $1 billion worth of Impressionist, modern and post-war art during a period of continued economic uncertainty.

Lichtenstein’s cartoon style painting from 1964 was sold by Las Vegas casino magnate Steve Wynn to an anonymous telephone bidder at Christie’s.

93 per cent of the 75 lots on offer at the unusually large sale found buyers, four works sold for more than $12 million, and 11 artists set new records.

Perhaps the Roman Catholic hierarchy has woken up to the fact that tens of thousands of Palestinian Arab Christians are forced to leave their ancestral homeland as a result of the brutality and oppression stemming from the ongoing Israeli occupation.

More than two thousand years ago, the frenzied multitude rejected Jesus because they thought he was going to rob them of their “chosen people” status and equate them with the rest of mankind. Today, 2000 years later, under the same chosen people rubric, Palestinian villagers, Christians and Muslims alike, are still being chased, assaulted, and hunted down “because they don’t belong”.

Gilad Atzmon deconstructs the mindset of Mike Gerber, a self-proclaimed Jewish "socialist" who believes that there is a distinctive genre of music called "Jewish jazz", and asks why "Jewish jazz" should be any more acceptable than "Aryan classical music".

Gilad Atzmon argues that the breadth of support shown for the Jazza music festival, held in London on 12 and 13 October, demonstrates that the extent to which the tide has turned in favour of the Palestinian struggle, which has now become "part of Western collective conscience".

Paul J. Balles considers the Norwegian Nobel Committee's decision to award Chinese dissident and poet Liu Xiaobo the Nobel Peace Prize by looking at the qualities that are common to poets and political activists.

What was especially noteworthy about him, however, was his penchant for intellectual honesty. Joe Sobran sought to pursue truth, even when it would lead to the destruction of his brilliant career and ultimately contribute to his early death. Specifically, it was his violation of the taboo pertaining to Jewish power and the U.S. Israelocentric foreign policy that led to his fall. In the 1980s, Sobran was the rising senior editor at William Buckley's National Review, and he seemed to be destined for a brilliant future. But owing to pressure from powerful pro-Zionist Jews such as Norman Podhoretz, that future never materialized, and Buckley ultimately fired Sobran in October 1993.

When Jonathan Blaustein purchased 10 early-season organic blueberries for $1, he was a little upset by this price, because six weeks earlier he had purchased 17 organic blueberries from Chile for the same amount of money. And those blueberries from Chile were from 800 miles away but were half the cost of California berries.

Gilad Atzmon talks to legendary British jazz icon Robert Wyatt about music and “people power” as facilitators of change, support for the Palestinian cause and the fear of democracy and the truth.

Sunday, April 18, 2010
Interview with Carlos Latuff
by Kourosh Ziabari
Independent freelance journalist, Iran
CL: In 2006 a website associated to Likud (Likudnik) published a long article about me, my art, my support to Palestinians and labeled me as an agent at the service of a supposed "Iranian propaganda machine", comparing me with Nazi propagandists.... Along the Palestinian cause I also support human rights organizations against police brutality in Brazil. This kind of activism alone could put me in high risk of life. But, as I said, I don't care; I will continue with my artistic support, 'cause if Zionists worldwide are pissed off about my cartoons, it's because I'm doing something right. Death can stop me yes, but not my cartoons.

Monet Exhibition: World's biggest ever exhibition of paintings by French Impressionist artist

Street artist Edgar Mueller has spent three 'terrifying' days transforming a Moscow pavement into a jaw-dropping waterfall scene.

Stunning stuff

Bishop Donald R. Corder
Camel jockeys, sand niggers and rag heads is employed in the dehumanization of an honorable Arab people not unlike newsreels propagating the barbarous depiction of the Japanese and their subsequent internment in US concentration camps during WW II prior to America’s dropping the bomb.

Both God’s blessing and his generosity are best exemplified this month, as giving alms to the poor, suppressing greed and lust, along with feeling for suffering of the other all dominate interaction between people, bringing out the finest in both men and women.
The Intifada Palestine Team

These works of art could easily be mistaken for oil paintings or watercolours - but they've actually been created on an iPad. The pictures were created using fingers and apps such as Brushes, ArtStudio and Sketchbook Pro. The device is attracting established artists, who are abandoning canvases in favour of the 9.7-inch iPad screen. And some iPad prints are being sold for hundreds of pounds. Corliss Blakely, 59, was one of the first professional artists to put an iPad painting on the internet. An artist for much of her life, she had worked with traditional oil paints before switching to the less traditional medium. Now prints of her work can be bought for up to £220

We came to Gaza in the aftermath of the war, and with our friends the Palestinian Human Rights delegates, we discovered the extent of the «Gaza-strophy». The accounts of dozens of witnesses of Israel's war against Gaza who take us to depth of the Palestinians' nightmare.

documentary film by
Samir Abdallah & Khéridine Mabrouk

Support the production
and screening of
Gaza-strophe, Palestine
visit gaza-strophe.com

Israel agreed to sell South Africa nuclear weapons.

More than that, it makes any aid America gives Israel illegal. If Israel is nuclear, which is now official, and in violation of international treaties, just as with Iraq and Iran, then America has to demand inspections and disarmament. There is no choice. This is the law. Law for Iran, law for Iraq is also law for Israel. Israel has expected this day for years.

New BP Corporate Logos

Artist Antony Gormley unveils spectacular glowing artwork that viewers can walk through
For a new exhibition at the White Cube, Antony Gormley has created Breathing Room III, a cavernous space filled with photo-luminescent frames that form an eerie, glowing matrix. Visitors pass through in darkness, then are cast suddenly into bright light.

From Jesse Owens winning the Olympic Gold in 1936 to the first manned landing on the moon in 1969, here award-winning photojournalist Don McCullin lists his top ten images that define the modern era

The creators of an entry entitled ‘Lights and Colours Of The Alps’, inspired by the mountains of northern Italy, hoped to use mirrors to "symbolise the high altitudes, intense sunlight and the reflective nature of the snow and ice".

Officials at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), which runs the show, say confused birds could fly into the reflective surfaces, risking fatal injury.

It means the Italian pair behind the unusual garden have been forced to paint over the tops of mirrors and drape safety nets across the garden, at a cost of £3,500, only days before show opens to visitors on Tuesday.

By Jennifer Matsui

Novelist Margaret Atwood’s decision to travel to Tel Aviv to share a literary prize worth a million dollars has ignited a controversy in which the septuagenarian author and vice-president of the literary human rights organization PEN International has come under fire by Palestinian rights activists. Ms Atwood’s acceptance of the Dan David Prize, whose previous laureates include Al Gore and Tony Blair, is viewed by Ms Atwood’s critics as a betrayal to the ideals she supposedly represents, and an unwitting endorsement of Israel’s race exclusive policies.

The 1965 painting, Woman with the Large Hat, Bust, is believed to be of Picasso's second wife Jacqueline Roque who married the artist in 1961, and was one of five Picassos to sell at last night's Sotheby's auction in New York.

It hung for 50 years in the Manhatten apartment of Patricia Kennedy Lawford, sister of former US President John F Kennedy and was sold by Mrs Lawford's estate.

In the most lopsided home-video victory in recent memory, "Avatar" catapulted to the top of all three national video charts during its first week in stores.

The top-grossing theatrical film of all time sold 6.7 million units in its first four days of release, 2.7 million of them on Blu-ray Disc.

According to the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales chart, the next biggest-selling release of the week was "Crazy Heart," which sold just 5 percent as many copies as "Avatar," followed by "The Lovely Bones," which finished at No. 3 with 2.9 percent of "Avatar's" sales.
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The video that won the Acadamy Award (what was it called? something about hurt) was a no show.

This proves the Academy Awards is nothing but a biased crock of Bull Sh!t.

Gilad Atzmon reviews Roman Polanski’s film, “The Ghost Writer”, noting the similarities between the fictional former British prime minister in the film, Adam Lang, and suspected war criminal Tony Blair, as well as some crucial differences, such as the absence of Zionists and Israel lobbyists in the film who in fact played a key role in Blair’s government.

Not for the faint of heart. Somewhat bent. Certainly will not appeal to all.

If you easily offended by something as tame as the Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour, do NOT watch.
And don't complain when you do.

Pope on a Rope - by The Meat Men

BTW the poop gave this one a three thumbs up.

OK, we have seen the evil side of the church. But that evil is everywhere ...

A company called Party City must be run by pedophiles.
Here are some of its costume options for girls:

(Judge for yourself. Would you send your daughter out in one of these costumes?)

The Fiumara d'Arte, which translates as 'river of art', is a contemporary sculpture exhibition in open air settings around the Scicilian town of Librino. The pieces are spread out, allowing visitors the opportunity to explore secluded locations

The 'Finestra sul Mare' (Window overlooking the sea ), a 20 metre concrete sculpture made by Italian artist Tano Festa

"The Normandie was the most magnificent of all the ocean liners," said Bill Miller, curator of the "Decodence" exhibit running until January next year at the South Street Seaport Museum in lower Manhattan.

The ship was the largest and fastest of what were known as "floating palaces" at a time when airliners could not yet make transatlantic trip and ships were not just a mode of transport, but islands of fantasy.

Critics have mocked the kitsch canvases of Pal Sarkozy, 82, a former advertising designer. But thanks to his famous son and daughter-in-law his huge paintings will grace the select Espace Pierre Cardin in a one-man show.

The centrepiece will be a large canvas of Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the former supermodel and singer who married the French president in 2008. It depicts her strumming a guitar while seated on a piano. Her husband is featured nearby at his desk.
The canvas was a wedding present for Carla, whom Pal describes as an "adorable girl" who has helped to bring father and son closer after years of estrangement.

A sneak-preview of life's coming attractions for the "mighty" year of 2010. Courtesy of our friends from the Unknown. All quotes are from the December 2009 edition of "The Sedona Journal".

2010 will be the year CONSPIRACY THEORISTS will say, "I TOLD YOU SO!" (At 1:47 on the video.)

Gilad Atzmon views Joel and Ethan Coen’s film “A serious man”  as “a cinematic allegory of Jewish cultural detachment from nature” and “a masterpiece that elaborates on the abnormalities of the Jewish tribal existence”. It “reflects on Jewish Diaspora life, Jewish segregation and the misery of operating within the kosher tribal template”.

"'A serious man' does not explicitly touch upon issues related to Israel, Zionism, occupation, organ harvesting or anything distinctly identified with the Jewish state... Yet, [it] portrays a clear message regarding Israel and Zionism, for Israel is the Jewish state and, in spite of the Zionist promise to erect a civilized nation, Israel functions as a Jewish ghetto and is subject to all the symptoms of abnormality conveyed by the Coens."

Ornaments including an orb depicting former Chinese leader Mao Zedong and another showing drag queen Hedda Lettuce

Designer Simon Doonan, who was in charge of organising Christmas decorations at the White House, did not respond to calls for comment. Neither did the White House.

Guess they were busy doing make up and stuff...