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Thursday 11 May 2017

bodies . space / Trust (A Time for Heroes)

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Untitled | by J. Ward

[Untitled]: photo by J Ward, 20 April 2017

Untitled | by J. Ward

[Untitled]: photo by J Ward, 20 April 2017

Untitled | by J. Ward

[Untitled]: photo by J Ward, 20 April 2017

DSC_3940 | by ilanbenyehuda

DSC_3940: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 2 May 2017

DSC_3940 | by ilanbenyehuda

DSC_3940: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 2 May 2017

DSC_3940 | by ilanbenyehuda

DSC_3940: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 2 May 2017

Untitled | by J. Ward

[Untitled]: photo by J Ward, 20 April 2017

Untitled | by J. Ward

[Untitled]: photo by J Ward, 20 April 2017

Untitled | by J. Ward

[Untitled]: photo by J Ward, 20 April 2017

DSC_4088 | by ilanbenyehuda

DSC_4088: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 2 May 2017

DSC_4088 | by ilanbenyehuda

DSC_4088: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 2 May 2017

DSC_4088 | by ilanbenyehuda

DSC_4088: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 2 May 2017

Hotel 710 | by J. Ward

Hotel 710 [Downtown LA]: photo by J Ward, 2 April 2017

Hotel 710 | by J. Ward

Hotel 710 [Downtown LA]: photo by J Ward, 2 April 2017

Hotel 710 | by J. Ward

Hotel 710 [Downtown LA]: photo by J Ward, 2 April 2017

DSCF2609 | by ilanbenyehuda

DSCF2609: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 16 August 2016

DSCF2609 | by ilanbenyehuda

DSCF2609: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 16 August 2016

DSCF2609 | by ilanbenyehuda

DSCF2609: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 16 August 2016

Untitled | by J. Ward

[Untitled]: photo by J Ward, 3 June 2016

Untitled | by J. Ward

[Untitled]: photo by J Ward, 3 June 2016

Untitled | by J. Ward

[Untitled]: photo by J Ward, 3 June 2016

Sans titre | by Guy Le Guiff

Sans titre [Paris]: photo by Marco Giusfredi, 18 April 2017

woestijn voetbal | by GJ B&W

woestijn voetbal [Erg Chebbi, Morocco]: photo by GJ B&W, 21 April 2017

woestijn voetbal | by GJ B&W

woestijn voetbal [Erg Chebbi, Morocco]: photo by GJ B&W, 21 April 2017

A place called Home -- just don't turn around too fast
 
Li Suet-wen

Li Suet-wen and her son, 6, and daughter, 8, live in a 120-square foot room crammed with a bunk bed, small couch, fridge, washing machine and small table in an aging walkup in Hong Kong as she pays HK$4,500 ($580) a month in rent and utilities. That’s nearly half the HK$10,000 ($1,290) she earns at a bakery decorating cakes.: photo by Kin Cheung/AP, 17 March 2017

Sin
  
A resident who gave only his surname Sin, 55, tidies up the bed in his “coffin home” in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, “coffin homes” and other inadequate housing.: photo by Kin Cheung/AP, 4 May 2017

Mr.Yeung

A resident who gave only his surname Yeung, takes rest in his “coffin home” in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, “coffin homes” and other inadequate housing.: photo by Kin Cheung/AP, 28 March 2017

Tse Chu
  
 Tse Chu, a retired waiter, sleeps in his “coffin home” in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, “coffin homes” and other inadequate housing.: photo by Kin Cheung/AP, 28 March 2017

Mr.Yeung, Mr.Lui

Residents who gave only their surname Yeung, left and Lui, take rest in their “coffin homes” in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, “coffin homes” and other inadequate housing.: photo by Kin Cheung/AP, 28 March 2017

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A bus drives past a residential and commercial building where the “coffin homes” are located in Hong Kong. There’s a dark side to the property boom in wealthy Hong Kong, where hundreds of thousands of people priced out of the market must live in partitioned apartments, “coffin homes” and other inadequate housing. As a new leader for the territory prepares to take office, housing unaffordability remains one of the Asian financial center’s biggest social problems.: photo by Kin Cheung/AP, 25 April 2017

Lam, Wan, Kitty Au

Hong Kong residents, who gave only their surname, Lam, top left, Wan, top right, and Kitty Au, pose at their “coffin homes” in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, “coffin homes” and other inadequate housing: photo by Kin Cheung/AP, 4 May2017
 
Simon Wong

Simon Wong, an unemployed man, watches TV in his “coffin home” in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, “coffin homes” and other inadequate housing.: photo by Kin Cheung/AP, 4 May 2017

Wong Tat-ming

Wong Tat-ming, 63, sits in his “coffin home” where is crammed with all his meager possessions, including a sleeping bag, small color TV and electric fan. He and another elderly resident complain to a visiting social worker about bedbugs and cockroaches.: photo by Kin Cheung/AP, 2 March 2017

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An illegal rooftop hut is seen in Hong Kong. There’s a dark side to the property boom in wealthy Hong Kong, where hundreds of thousands of people priced out of the market must live in partitioned apartments, “coffin homes” and other inadequate housing. As a new leader for the territory prepares to take office, housing unaffordability remains one of the Asian financial center’s biggest social problems.: photo by.Kin Cheung/AP, 6 May 2017

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A set of grimy toilets and single sink shared by the coffin home’s two dozen inhabitants, including a few single women, is located at a flat in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, “coffin homes” and other inadequate housing.: photo by Kin Cheung/AP, 28 March 2017

Wong Tat-ming

Wong Tat-ming, 63, sits in his “coffin home” which is next to a set of grimy toilets in Hong Kong as he pays HK$2,400 ($310) a month for a compartment measuring three feet by six feet. It’s crammed with all his meager possessions, including a sleeping bag, small color TV and electric fan.: photo by Kin Cheung/AP, 28 Marchl 2017

Mr.Lui

 A resident who gave only his surname Lui, has dinner in his “coffin home” in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, “coffin homes” and other inadequate housing.: photo by Kin Cheung/AP, 28 March 2017

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 A resident walks outside his illegal rooftop hut where is located next to a public housing estate, at the background, in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, “coffin homes” and other inadequate housing.: photo by Kin Cheung/AP, 6 May  2017

Cheung Chi-fong

Cheung Chi-fong, 80, sleeps in his tiny “coffin home” where he cannot stretch out his legs in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, “coffin homes” and other inadequate housing.: photo by Kin Cheung/AP, 28 March 2017

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A five year-old boy plays outside his tiny home which is made of concrete and corrugated metal on the terrace of a apartment block as he lives with his parents in an illegal rooftop hut where is located next to a public housing estate at the background in Hong Kong.: photo by Kin Cheung/AP, 20 April 2017

Kitty Au

 Kitty Au plays with her hamster in her “coffin home” in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, “coffin homes” and other inadequate housing: photo by Kin Cheung/AP, 4 May 2017

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A man walks in front of a residential and commercial building, center, where the “coffin home” are located in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, “coffin homes” and other inadequate housing.: photo by Kin Cheung/AP, 25 April 2017

Trust (A Time for Heroes)

 
#Lavrov - @realDonaldTrump meeting has just started | В Овальном кабинете началась встреча С.Лаврова с Д.Трампом #RussiaUSA #РоссияСША: image via MFA Russia @mfa_russia, 10 May 2017




@realDonaldTrump says FBI Director Comey `was not doing a good job' during a meeting with Henry A. Kissinger. #comeyfired: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 10 May 2017

But some have longer phantom-limb memories than others (unAmerican 'cultural memory': recalling Hank's 'good job', back in 'the day' of The Secret War)
 

A series of craters caused by the US bombardments in Ban Khay, Xieng Khouang province, Laos. Hundreds of craters still dot the landscape of the area.: photo by Matilde Gattoni/Tandem Reportage via The Observer, 31 January 2015


 

Buan Kham lost her lower right leg when a 500lb bomb her husband had stored beneath the house exploded: photo by Matilde Gattoni/Tandem Reportage via The Observer, 31 January 2015


Chan Duong Ly, 85, a monk at the Wat Phia Wat monastery in Muang Khoun, the former capital of Xieng Khouang province. The city was extensively bombed during the war and almost totally abandoned in 1975. The monastery, which dates back to 1322, was bombed by the US in 1966 because it was suspected of having been converted into a food storage area used by the North Vietnamese. The blackened and scarred Buddha statue in the monastery courtyard is among the few remains of the pre-war period.: photo by Matilde Gattoni/Tandem Reportage via The Observer, 31 January 2015


Tham Piu cave, on the outskirts of Muang Khoun. Laos. Here, on 24 November 1968, a US strike killed 374 civilians who were sheltering in the cave in order to find refuge from the American bombardments.: photo by Matilde Gattoni/Tandem Reportage via The Observer, 31 January 2015



 Kampuang Dalaseng lies on the ground demonstrating how he would hide from the bombs during the Secret War in Laos. ‘I hate Americans to this date. They bombed, burned and destroyed everything. If their president was here, I would slap him in the face.’ A former professor of French, 84-year-old Kampuang lived under the American bombardments for five years.: photo by Matilde Gattoni/Tandem Reportage via The Observer, 31 January 2015



Kampuang Dalaseng lies on the ground demonstrating how he would hide from the bombs during the Secret War in Laos. ‘I hate Americans to this date. They bombed, burned and destroyed everything. If their president was here, I would slap him in the face.’ A former professor of French, 84-year-old Kampuang lived under the American bombardments for five years.: photo by Matilde Gattoni/Tandem Reportage via The Observer, 31 January 2015


Nyoua Yang, 16, from Nam Kha, lost her right eye one afternoon in 2009, when the hoe she was using to clear the grass from her family’s rice field hit a cluster bomb. ‘ I just remember a small explosion, then a piece of shrapnel went into my eye.’ Yang, who was 11 at that time, lost her eye after a doctor refused to operate on her because she was too young.: photo by Matilde Gattoni/Tandem Reportage via The Observer, 31 January 2015

[By 8 December 1970] U.S. efforts to interdict the trail were in full swing with the USAF's Operation Igloo White. Electronic surveillance devices were dropped to monitor vehicle-and-troop movement in Laos, and a constant orbit of manned and drone planes relayed the signals from under the jungle blanket to the Infiltration Surveillance Center in Thailand. There, two computers processed high-speed printouts showing which sensors had been activated, how often, and when. Other computers fed this information to an Airborne Battlefield Command and Control aircraft which then called in appropriate air power. A typical day over Laos saw the Ho Chi Minh Trail hit by thirty B52 bomber strikes and three hundred USAF, USN, and USMC aircraft. C130 transport planes, mounted with Gatling mini-guns, flew night and day to strafe convoys and troop marches. Bombs mounted with lasers and televisions were sent against cave entrances. Cluster bombs were sowed over Binh Trams. Mines and booby-traps were airdropped, some designed to demolish trucks, others to mangle a man's foot so he became a burden to his comrades. The destruction was staggering...

Keith William Nolan: from Into Laos: The Story of Dewey Canyon II/Lam Son 719, Vietnam 1971


Hillary Clinton has long invoked Henry Kissinger as a mentor -- her infamous emails show that they corresponded with some frequency when she was secretary of state. Kissinger, architect of the "Operation Menu" covert bombing campaign in Laos and Cambodia in 1969-70, is widely perceived as a war criminal. He also won a Nobel Peace Prize.: photo by Dirck Halstead via The Guardian, 13 February 2016

Leg prostheses on display at the Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise (COPE) Center in Vientiane, Laos, 05 September 2016. COPE was created to provide Unexploded ordnance (UXO) survivors with access to orthotic and prosthetic devices. During the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1973, US troops dropped more than two million tons of bomb on Laos and estimated one third of the nearly 300 million bomb dropped were failed to detonated. Laos is hosting the 28th and 29th ASEAN Summits and Related Summits from 06 to 08 September 2016.  EPA/MAST IRHAM
 
Leg prosthesis on display at the Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise (COPE) Centre in Vientiane, Laos: photo by Mas Irham/EPA, 5 September 2016


Prosthetic arms on display at the COPE Visitor Centre, Vientiane. COPE is a local not-for-profit organisation providing access to prosthetic devices and rehabilitation services to people with disabilities. One third of its patients are UXO-related victims: photo by Matilde Gattoni/Tandem Reportage via The Observer, 31 January 2015

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Glad to see people aren't letting his crimes go unnoticed. If the U.S. cares about war crimes, start with #Kissinger
: image via Matthew Yoder @MrMarbless92, 10 February 2015

To Kissinger

The amoeba is mountainous Hank!

It dwarfs your think tanks you neoid!

So jack off my octopus!

I don't care if you did make it with Barbara Walters of the Today Show!

Hit the deck 4 eyes!

The meat train won't be late for the grave and you're on it!

Jelly arms are coming for you across the black glyphs!

The cellophane is crinkling!

Earmuffs won't be enuf!

You big donkey made out of orlon!

Spirochetes et yr Mom!

Ach Nein!

When the storm of time movies hits the protein sources

Popeye'll take you one-on-one you shell of Frankenstein!

You'll climb off the food chain soon enuf anyhow Henry!

The gods of death live in yr shoes!


.........................................5 November 1972

#PhotoOfTheYear #CodePink making CitizensArrest of #WarCriminal #Kissinger #JustBrilliant #IWishIWasThere: image via Ruthanasia #BDS @Ruthanasia, 2 February 2015


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Anti Trump protest outside the White House today: image via Reid J. Epstein @reidepstein, 10 March 2017
 
Remember when?
JUST IN: Dakota Access pipeline leaked oil in South Dakota Remember when they told the protesters to go home because the pipeline was safe? That it wouldn't leak? That it'll be fine?
image via jordan @JordanUhl, 10 May 2017


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