Wednesday, 30 November 2011

Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, give a man a bank and he can rob the world.

NaomiAKlein Naomi Klein
Just doing my morning "I'm not Naomi f-ing Wolf" corrections. Love that half the people I have to correct r journos.

#nov30 WHY I AM STRIKING

dudeonabike Ross X
Recall LAPD's motto: "To Protect and Serve." Bus boarding LAPD at Dodger Stadium to evict @OccupyLA reads: "Not in Service."

Occupy L.A. Eviction: Is LAPD Restricting Coverage With Last-Minute 'Pool Media'?

drugmonkeyblog Drug Monkey
Call the transit cops! RT @Dirk57: RT @willrolls: There's a guy on the train doing nothing, no smartphone, just staring out of the window.

We did change the world a bit, we knocked it off its axis a little

Bonus:

(Thanx Dangerous Minds!)

simonowens Simon Owens
Definition of "HOLY FUCKING SHIT" bit.ly/ttz5wy

Pepper-Spray Creator Decries Use of Chemical Agent on Peaceful Occupy Wall Street Protesters

Senate Votes To Let Military Detain Americans Indefinitely, White House Threatens Veto

Banks May Have Illegally Foreclosed On 5,000 Members Of The Military

Ross MacManus, who has died aged 84, was a popular singer and trumpet player and in later years became well known as the father of Elvis Costello; his choice of career as a band singer, although it afforded him security and a measure of recognition, precluded him from developing his talent fully, as his son has observed publicly on several occasions.
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Massive WWI Human Sculptures

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It's almost impossible to comprehend the scale of these historic photographs by Englishman Arthur S Mole and his American colleague John D Thomas, who were commissioned by the US government to take the pictures as a way to raise morale among the troops and raise money by selling the shots to the public during WWI.
In the photo above, "there are 18,000 men: 12,000 of them in the torch alone, but just 17 at the base. The men at the top of the picture are actually half a mile away from the men at the bottom," explains Arthur's great nephew Joseph Mole, 70.
Mole and Thomas were the first to use a unique technique to beat the problem of perspective after they devised a clever way of getting so many soldiers in the pictures. Joseph explains: "Arthur was able to get the image by actually drawing an outline on the lens, he then had the troops place flags in certain positions while he looked through the camera. It would take a week to get all the outlines right, but just 30 minutes to move all the men into position to take the shot. It must have been amazing to watch."
What's makes the story even more fascinating is that instead of profiting from the sale of the images produced, the photographers donated the entire income derived to the families of the returning soldiers and to this country’s efforts to re-build their lives as a part of the re-entry process...
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