Venezuela: Some Things Never Change

In Saner Thought

Yes the Right wingers are going nuts making the case against Maduro….of course using socialism as the premise for the failure of the government….but nothing they are doing is new…..the US has a game plan for regime change that has not changed in decades.

Seriously!  It is the same plan almost every time.

We should all beware of those regime change charlatans….all of them…..

The tragedy of U.S. foreign policy has been that in its quest to do good globally, it has invited all kinds of charlatans to lobby Washington to do their bidding. The language of these actors is seductive and frequently plays on Americans’ reverence for freedom and democracy. In the Middle East, the cacophony of voices demanding U.S. support has time and again entangled America in regime change wars that can’t be won.

While these foreign actors purport to support U.S. interests, their narratives are often self-serving…

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Hanoi! WTF?

In Saner Thought

It has been announced the draft dodging president will meet our enemy Kim in Hanoi Vietnam……

Sorry I spit on this decision!

As a Vietnam vet I do not feel that Hanoi is a proper meeting site, DaNang would have been better…..but I would not expect a guy that daddy bought him some bone spurs so he could stay behind and play little rich boy while others did the right thing and served their country.

That rant is over with more on the news of the “summit”…..

Trump is now confirming that the talks will be on February 27 and 28 in Hanoi, and said he expects North Korea to “become a great Economic Powerhouse” because of how great and capable Kim is.

The two leaders held a summit last year in Singapore, and had agreed to a future meeting at the time, though the exact details were long withheld…

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Liu Shuwei


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Liu Shuwei 刘树伟 was born in 1985 Tangshan and currently lives in Shanghai, China. He received his Bachelor of Engineering in Guangdong University of Technology in 2009, then he decided to do what he really love such as photography, design and writing. He’s a finalist of LensCulture Portrait Awards 2016, a finalist His works got exhibited internationally include Power Station of Art, the State Hermitage Museum, Artefiera Bologna, JIMEI × ARLES Photo Festival Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Vu Photo.

Above is a selection of several series, which he introduces as follows:

“Visible Darkness”
2016, photography and video
A series I started out of my fear of losing sight. I though blue would be the last color I could see, like when Derek Jarman discovered “Blue is darkness made visible.”

“Friendship and the pink triangle”
2017, photography and collages
My fear came true, what the works experienced has became part of itself in 2018.

“The Garden”
2017, photography and collages
It’s about the way we meet, the way we rebel, the way we treat the same and the different.

“Childhood Revisited”
One of the first projects, back in 2012. I guess my works are all about distances from the world. This one is about distance in time.

“Into the Blue”
This is another part of Blue trilogy. As Rebecca Solnit wrote: “Blue is the color of longing for the distance you never arrive in, for the blue world. The blue at the farthest reaches of the places where you see from miles, the blue of distance. This light that doesn’t touch us, doesn’t not travel the whole distance, the light that gets lost.”


More information: liushuwei.com

Cabezon Peak in San Ysidro, New Mexico

Cabezon Peak

With an elevation of nearly 8,000 feet, Cabezon Peak is the largest of over 50 dramatic volcanic formations that dot the otherwise barren and otherworldly desert shrubland of the Rio Puerco Valley.

Cabezon Peak is a steep-sided and symmetrical basalt volcanic plug that formed during the eruptions of the Mount Taylor volcanic field millions of years ago. The basalt monolith is one of the most prominent landmarks in northwestern New Mexico, dominating the landscape. (Visitors with a keen eye will notice it bears a striking similarity to the larger Devils Tower in Wyoming, which is also a basalt volcanic plug.)

Cabezon, which is derived from the Spanish and translates as “big head,” is believed to have religious significance for the local Pueblo and Navajo Indians. Numerous myths abound, but a particularly popular Navajo legend holds that a giant was slain on Mount Taylor, located to the west, and the giant’s severed head landed to the east, becoming Cabezon Peak. As the legend goes, the giant’s blood congealed to form the volcanic lava flows to the south.

The views from the summit of Cabezon Peak are impressive, looking out over much of northern and central New Mexico. Accordingly, the 1.9-mile hike to the top is a favorite among climbers. It is not, however, for the faint of heart. Basic mountain climbing experience and proper gear, including a helmet, are required for this technical climb along the scree-covered trail and up the nearly vertical cliffs. Acrophobes will definitely find this climb unpleasant. 

Donald Trump’s SOTU, AOC, and the History of Red Baiting DJT has no problem with Fascist Russian Dupe though – lol

“Here, in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country,” Donald Trump said in his State of the Union speech, adding that, “Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.”

Source: Donald Trump’s SOTU, AOC, and the History of Red Baiting

الفصل الأخير من سقوط القدس : أسرلة المدارس | nadiaharhash

الفصل الأخير من سقوط القدس : أسرلة المدارس   بدأ هذا الصباح بنقاش بيزنطي بيني وبين ابنتي على طريق المدرسة، انتهى الى محاولتها بإقناعي بأن أشاهد فيديو قصير عن طالب ثانوية ما في أمريكا وضع وزير التعليم للمساءلة وانتهي آلامر بتغيير لصالح طلاب المدارس. بينما دخلنا بعملية مد وجزر في محاولة فرض كلامي على…

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Hungary gives tax breaks to boost population, stop immigration

Only a male fascist would come up with such a plan – 4 years of being pregnant to “save” money? And how much will it cost to raise the four children – or is the next step to give them over to state nurseries? Prime Minister Viktor Orban has announced tax benefits and subsidies to encourage families to have more children. He said the policy was meant to create more Hungarians instead of promoting EU-backed immigration.

Plummeting insect numbers ‘threaten collapse of nature’ | Environment | The Guardian

“The main cause of the decline is agricultural intensification,” Sánchez-Bayo said. “That means the elimination of all trees and shrubs that normally surround the fields, so there are plain, bare fields that are treated with synthetic fertilisers and pesticides.” He said the demise of insects appears to have started at the dawn of the 20th century, accelerated during the 1950s and 1960s and reached “alarming proportions” over the last two decades. Advertisement He thinks new classes of insecticides introduced in the last 20 years, including neonicotinoids and fipronil, have been particularly damaging as they are used routinely and persist in the environment: “They sterilise the soil, killing all the grubs.” This has effects even in nature reserves nearby; the 75% insect losses recorded in Germany were in protected areas.

Source: Plummeting insect numbers ‘threaten collapse of nature’ | Environment | The Guardian

‘Maduro, our amigo’: loyalists in Venezuela cling to their man

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Protests put Chavista movement in a dilemma – ditch their leader or go down with him

In the final weeks of Hugo Chávez’s life, shattered followers flocked to a palm-dotted square in downtown Caracas to pray for the recovery of “El Comandante”.

Six years on, with Chávez’s leftist Bolivarian revolution seemingly in its death throes, some are returning to appeal for the survival of his successor, Nicolás Maduro. “There are millions of us,” insisted Fernando Andrade, 69, a retired electrician and one of hundreds of mostly elderly Chavistas queuing to sign a pro-Maduro petition in Plaza Bolívar last week. A few hours later, Maduro appeared and was greeted with chants of: “Maduro, amigo! El pueblo está contigo!” “Maduro, our friend! The people are with you!”

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In revering Trump, the religious right has laid bare its hypocrisy | Samuel G Freedman

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The evangelical fortress around the president can look like a problem, but progressives can use that heresy to fight opponents

The annual anachronism known as the National Prayer Breakfast attracted its usual array of clergy, military, and political leaders in Washington on 7 February. Most prominent of all, of course, was Donald Trump, who used the de facto pulpit to call for outlawing abortion, among other positions dear to the Religious Right.

Yet the presidential comment that most typified all that has gone morally haywire with the supposedly moral majority came when Trump praised the “abolition of civil rights”. You can consider that statement an innocent, if embarrassing, misreading of the Teleprompter. Or you can hear it as a Freudian slip.

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