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Thursday 3 November 2016

Best Five Dollars: Two or Three Poems from the Thirty Years War

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A medic attended to a man wounded in airstrikes in Yemen on Sunday: photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters, 2 November 2016

 

A medic attended to a man wounded in airstrikes in Yemen on Sunday: photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters, 2 November 2016 


Dying cyclist has bike stolen moments after being hit by car: image via Independent US @IndyUSA, 2 November 2016

 
 
Election in Kashmir.Photo/Tauseef MUSTAFA: image via Tauseef MUSTAFA @Tauseef MUSTAFA, 30 April 2014

Members of the Indonesian National Police (BRIMOB unit, Mobile Brigade Corps) hold riot guns as they stand in position during a security forces drill ahead of the Regional Head Elections 2016 in Jakarta, Indonesia
 
Members of the Indonesian National Police (BRIMOB unit, Mobile Brigade Corps) hold riot guns as they stand in position during a security forces drill ahead of the Regional Head Elections 2016 in Jakarta, Indonesia: photo by Bagus Indahono/EPA, 2 November 2016

Members of the Indonesian National Police (BRIMOB unit, Mobile Brigade Corps) hold riot guns as they stand in position during a security forces drill ahead of the Regional Head Elections 2016 in Jakarta, Indonesia

Members of the Indonesian National Police (BRIMOB unit, Mobile Brigade Corps) hold riot guns as they stand in position during a security forces drill ahead of the Regional Head Elections 2016 in Jakarta, Indonesia: photo by Bagus Indahono/EPA, 2 November 2016


IRAQ - An Iraqi soldier takes position in Gogjali, a few hundred metres from Mosul's eastern edge during #MosulOps. By @Kilicbil @AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 2 November 2016

 
Iraqi forces patrol the village of Gogjali, on Mosul’s eastern edge, on Wednesday as clashes continue between the Iraqi military and Islamic State forces: photo by Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse, 2 November 2016


Iraqi forces patrol the village of Gogjali, on Mosul’s eastern edge, on Wednesday as clashes continue between the Iraqi military and Islamic State forces: photo by Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse, 2 November 2016  


IRAQ - Iraqi civilians flee the village of Gogjali, a few hundred metres from Mosul's eastern edge during #MosulOps. By @Kilicbil #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 2 November 2016


Iraqi Army vehicles make their way through Gogjali on Wednesday: photo by Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse, 2 November 2016


Iraqi Army vehicles make their way through Gogjali on Wednesday: photo by Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse, 2 November 2016



Beards, mandatory under Islamic State rule, are trimmed at a mosque in Gogjali as civilians take shelter from nearby fighting: photo by Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse, 1 November 2016


 

Beards, mandatory under Islamic State rule, are trimmed at a mosque in Gogjali as civilians take shelter from nearby fighting: photo by Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse, 1 November 2016


An Iraqi special forces soldier 1s welcomed in Gogjali on Wednesday. Soldiers were going house-to-house hunting for weapons, booby traps and Islamic State fighters.: photo by Marko Drobnjakovic/Associated Press, 2 November 2016


An Iraqi special forces soldier is welcomed in Gogjali on Wednesday. Soldiers were going house-to-house hunting for weapons, booby traps and Islamic State fighters.: photo by Marko Drobnjakovic/Associated Press, 2 November 2016


An Iraqi refugee who fled Mosul hangs her laundry at the UN-run al-Hol refugee camp in Syria's Hasakeh province. By @Delilsouleman #AFP
: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 2 November 2016


SYRIA - A Syrian man sits next to a boy at a make-shift hospital following an airstrike in the rebel-held town of Douma. By @AbdDoumany #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 2 November 2016



Syria - Life in Syria's Douma revolves around rhythm of bombs. By @SameerAlDoumy #AFP
: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 2 November 2016




Syria - Life in Syria's Douma revolves around rhythm of bombs. By @SameerAlDoumy #AFP
: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 2 November 2016



Syria - Life in Syria's Douma revolves around rhythm of bombs. By @SameerAlDoumy #AFP
: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 2 November 2016



#France - Last shelters destroyed at 'Jungle' migrant camp in Calais. By Denis Charlet #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 2 November 2016


INDIA - A Kashmiri student looks out of a window of a partially burnt government high school in Goripora. By @TauseefMUSTAFA #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 2 November 2016

 
#India Birds fly over the corridor of the Jama Masjid at sunrise in New Delhi By @Money_Sharma @AFPphoto: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 2 November 2016

The Commanders (Iraq I)

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Demolished civilian and military vehicles lining Highway 80 (aka The Highway of Death), route taken by Iraqis fleeing Operation Desert Storm, 18 April 1991: photo by Tech Sgt. Joe Coleman (US Air Force), 1991


When the Medina Luminous Division marched into
Divine Anger in the Energy Refuge Theatre--
Bottle green starlight chaos,
Blood rivers in the sand, dust flecked with bits of Sumerian gods --
The Commanders felt good about themselves,
They said Say hello to Allah
And the Medina Luminous Divison said hello to God.

Next the In God We Trust Division was drawn out of K City
It was Bravo-20 on the Basra Road
Rockeye and Hellfire lived up to the instruction manuals
As the fireballs digested the convoys of the helpless
The Commanders paused to gas up
Their F/A-18s, their humvees, their Apaches
Then moved out to incinerate the Hammurabi.



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Three F-111 Aardvark and one EF-11 Raven, First Gulf War, 1991: photo by US Air Force, 1991


Well, you gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet...

-- phaneronoemikon, 2009


Interrogation (Iraq II)

sebati  0009-114 | by sebati

0009-114: photo by sebati, 11 November 2003

sebati  0009-114 | by sebati

0009-114: photo by sebati, 11 November 2003

sebati  0009-54 | by sebati

0009-54: photo by sebati, 27 April 2003

sebati  0009-54 | by sebati

0009-54: photo by sebati, 27 April 2003

sebati  0009-55 | by sebati

0009-55: photo by sebati, 30 April 2003

sebati  0009-55 | by sebati

0009-55: photo by sebati, 30 April 2003

sebati  0009-112 | by sebati

0009-112
: photo by sebati, 11 November 2003


 

0009-112: photo by sebati, 11 November 2003

You always have to know the right question

The one to which there can never be a correct reply


sebati  0009-113 | by sebati

0009-113
: photo by sebati, 11 November 2003


0009-113: photo by sebati, 11 November 2003

sebati  0009-117 | by sebati

0009-117: photo by sebati, 11 November 2003





0009-117: photo by sebati, 11 November 2003

Carnivalesque (Iraq III)

Untitled | by penso

[Untitled, Monument Valley]: photo by Fabien Penso, 22 July 2015

Untitled | by penso

[Untitled, Monument Valley]: photo by Fabien Penso, 22 July 2015

Untitled | by penso

[Untitled, Monument Valley]: photo by Fabien Penso, 22 July 2015


ode aan john ford. | by gr0uch0

Ode aan john ford. John Ford, meester van de amerikaanse cinema en de man die John Wayne groot gemaakt heeft, prefereerde Monument Valley als locatie in zijn westerns. Dit punt in het bijzonder, nu dan ook genaamd Ford's point. Ford en Monument Valley waren altijd met elkaar verbonden. Na het filmen van de eindscene van My Darling Clementine in de studio vond Ford dat de achtergrond reproductie van Monument Valley niet voldeed en eiste dat de set op locatie in Monument Valley herbouwd werd voor deze laatste legendarische shot. Momenteel is Monument Valley een Navajo reservaat en een heilig gebied voor de Navajo. Navajo zien in de buttes ed. dieren en elementen die ze toeschrijven aan de goden. Tegenwoordig exploiteren de Navajo dit als een park waar alleen zij in mogen gidsen: photo by groucho, 21 June 2007

Best Five Dollars | by LowerDarnley

Best Five Dollars (Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona/Utah border): photo by Jim Rohan, 30 June 2015


Untitled | by penso

[Untitled]: photo by Fabien Penso, 5 September 2015


Untitled | by penso

[Untitled]: photo by Fabien Penso, 5 September 2015


Untitled | by penso

[Untitled]: photo by Fabien Penso, 5 September 2015

There they go again, those americans. Use the world as a pit stop
and what you don't use up, fuck up.
Run it back and do it again
and they won't remember, not yet having been born
when the present thirty years war
began. Besides, that was so, like, BI.

And after all this, there they go again
jumping into their cars
and madly driving off the edge of the planet
to pick up something at Safeway.
Any thing. To keep from thinking about
the carnivalesque pretend election gameshow.

Freedom and democracy and great stuff are hidden under
one of these shells. You can't see them, but they're there.
Okay. Now I'm going to turn this first shell over.
Nothing under this one.
Wait ha! Wait, what? Wait wah-wah!

Okay. Now I'm going to turn this second shell over
First thing you'll notice: the great stuff.
Then later the pain the vacancy like always
only different this time
speedier like
the intention to deceive converging with the need

to be deceived
at vanishing point. Still the Indian
will walk his horse out to the butte
every day
and the tourists will pay
"good money"
to get that perfect picture.

*BI = Before Internet (vernacular)


A Navajo man on a horse poses for touris...A Navajo man on a horse poses for tourists in front of the Merrick Butte in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Utah, on May 16, 2015.

Merrick Butte in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Utah: photo by Mladen Antonov / AFP via FT Photo Diary, 27 May 2015

 A Navajo man on a horse poses for touris...A Navajo man on a horse poses for tourists in front of the Merrick Butte in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Utah, on May 16, 2015.

A Navajo man on a horse poses for tourists in front of the Merrick Butte in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal park, Utah, on May 12, 2014. Monument Valley has been featured in many Westerns since the 1930s, including director John Ford’s best-known movies and has become the epitome of the American West: photo by Mladen Antonov/AFP, 12 May 2015

Just finished watching #TheSearchers on #more4. Monumental in every way.: image via Brian Coyle @brianscoyle, 27 December 2014
 
Level IV


A new born baby between some 1000 #refugees and #migarnts in a three level wooden boat as they try to cross to #europe off shore #libya
: image via Aris Messinis @ArisMessinis, 2 November 2016



MEDITERRANEAN SEA - Member of NGO @PROACTIVA_SERV tries to calm #Refugees on a damaged boat during a rescue operation. By @ArisMessinis
: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 2 November 2016



MEDITERRANEAN SEA - A member of humanitarian NGO @PROACTIVASERV waves at refugees on a rubber boat during rescue operation. By@ArisMessinis
: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 2 November 2016

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