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AKA Dee Biggins
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Category: INTERESTS
FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE JEWS
FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE JEWS
First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.
IT IS HAPPENING AGAIN.
IN FACT, IT NEVER STOPPED.
v.2000
First they came for the hackers.
But I never did anything illegal with my computer,
so I didn’t speak up.
Then they came for the pornographers.
But I thought there was too much smut on the Internet anyway,
so I didn’t speak up
Then they came for the anonymous remailers.
But a lot of nasty stuff gets sent from anon.penet.fi,
so I didn’t speak up.
Then they came for the encryption users.
But I could never figure out how to work PGP anyway,
so I didn’t speak up.
Then they came for me.
And by that time there was no one left to speak up.
– Alara Rogers http://www.alara.net
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Then They Came for Me (A New Twist)
By Stephen Rohde, a constitutional lawyer and President of the ACLU of Southern California. Adapted from the original by Rev. Martin Niemoller (1937).
First they came for the Muslims, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Muslim.
Then they came to detain immigrants indefinitely solely upon the certification of the Attorney General, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t an immigrant.
Then they came to eavesdrop on suspects consulting with their attorneys, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a suspect.
Then they came to prosecute non-citizens before secret military commissions, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a non-citizen.
Then they came to enter homes and offices for unannounced “sneak and peek” searches, and I didn’t speak up because I had nothing to hide.
Then they came to reinstate Cointelpro and resume the infiltration and surveillance of domestic religious and political groups, and I didn’t speak up because I had stopped participating in any groups.
Then they came for anyone who objected to government policy because it aided the terrorists and gave ammunition to America’s enemies, and I didn’t speak up because…… I didn’t speak up.
Then they came for me……. and by that time no one was left to speak up.
“Upon further reflection, I have decided that I am irked by this. First, some background on the original context. It is worth remembering that this was said by a fellow who barely escaped execution after Hitler had executed about ten million people in his death camps, including about six million Jews. When this pastor talks about “coming for the Jews”, he does not mean a few thousand here or a few hundred there – he means nearly a complete sweep of the Jewish population of Europe. To pretend that what we are seeing with the Bush Administration is somehow comparable to Hitler strikes me as deeply disrespectful to the memory of those who suffered real persecution.
Here is another example of how this poem can be trivialized. [original link refered to this web site from talkleft.com]”
– Tom Maguire on the Talkleft.com web site
Now “They” Are Coming For Us
Repeal the Patriot Act Now!
Trivalized, my eye! Don’t fall victim to the pseudo arguments of the ACLU. Such sentiment provided the very foundation from which the SS proceeded to perpetrate their horrendous crimes against their own people with impunity. The incremental escalation of denial of rights, liberty and the pursuit of happiness progressed from small carefully chosen, seemingly trivial ones, through apparently logical rational ones, all the way to genocide – one small step at a time. If you truly respect Freedom and the souls of the millions who sacrificed their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to purchase and
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RUSSIA BUILDS FEMA CAMPS ALASKA
Russia Builds FEMA Camps For Americans On The Alaska Islands That Obama Gave Away!
ON MAY 27, 2012 FEATURED NEWS
“The Obama Administration is reportedly giving away Wrangell, Bennett, Jeannette and Henrietta islands in Alaska to Russia. The Federal government drew the line to put these seven Alaskan islands on the Russian side….”
More: Russians Behind Michigan Nuke Explosion! Chicago Next?
Many Americans have quickly drawn the conclusion that OIL INTERESTS are the PRIMARY REASON. However, based upon prior research, I would like to suggest there are even darker reasons BEHIND this give-away of these Alaska islands. Especially when it appears that martial law is so very near in North America.
As I write this intriguing article, I am living literally here ON THE COAST OF ALASKA. I have been here helping a friend since December 2011. No one here but God knows about the hidden prayers I am compelled to pray over the state of Alaska, America’s FUTURE SIBERIAN-TYPE GULAG STATE. Alaska is filled with detention camp facilities and closed military bases like Fort Greeley that can also be used similarly, including America’s largest known detention facility reportedly able to hold up to one million helpless Americans or more, under martial law.
This huge detention facility flies joint American and RUSSIAN flags…and Russian military advisers operate this gulag…uh, I mean detention camp. Just like the ruthless Russian military have ALWAYS operated Russia’s infamous Siberian gulag detention camp system for decades. Just like the American military also run the infamous GITMO in Guantanamo Bay, or Abu Ghraib in Iraq.
MILITARY AND DETENTION CAMPS (with sordid abuses of prisoners) always seem to go together…kinda like a macabre version of “eggs n’ bacon” or “burgers and fries”combinations: one just doesn’t seem complete without the other.
Some years ago, I was a guest on Lenny Bloom’s “CLOAK AND DAGGER” broadcast, then out of Toronto, Canada, with his co-host Sherman Skolnick.
As they interviewed me about my in-depth investigative journalism exposing the New World Order gulag agenda for Canada, Sherman Skolnick interrupted me to insert some startling information:”Did you know that, even as we are speaking, RUSSIAN MILITARY UNDER SECRET TREATY WITH THE U.S GOVERNMENT are building DETENTION CAMPS FOR AMERICANS ON ISLANDS OFF THE COAST OF ALASKA????”
No, I didn’t…but I did know through a previous trip to investigate the NWO agenda in Alaska, that it was destined to become AMERICA’S FUTURE “GULAG STATE.” The detention camps and closed bases are HERE. The U.N/FEMA prisoner boxcars with shackles are HERE. Foreign troops are HERE. A joint American/Russian military tunnel beneath the Bering Straits (using military nuclear boring machinery) is HERE. Detention camps for Americans off Alaska’s coast are HERE.
Based on years of researching the NWO agenda for America, and repeatedly uncovering Russia’s secret involvement at various times, I personally believe that this island give-away may be tied in more, with the Russian role in detention camps for Americans under martial law…perhaps Alaska’s versions of “Alcatraz” prison to detain America’s most determined “NWO RESISTER” freedom fighters under MARTIAL LAW.
Although at that time of our broadcast in 2004, Skolnick alluded to the Aleutian Islands as where they were secretly building the detention camps, ANY islands with appropriate terrain can be used for such purposes. While OIL and natural resources may indeed be, a motivational part of this, Obama Alaska island give-away to PUTIN. I would like to suggest that there may be darker underlying reasons that neither Obama or Putin dare mention to the American people.
Keep a watchful eye on Alaska, the future “GULAG STATE.”
http:// http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com/2014/03/russians-and-fema-camps-in-alaska-video.html?m=1
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~The truth about Waco Texas Bikers~
Four weeks after the deadly May 17th shooting incident outside a Waco Twin Peaks restaurant, more details have come out concerning the incident, but significant questions still remain about the actions taken by law enforcement and the police’s account of what transpired.
Although the national mainstream media has largely moved on from the Waco story, if critics of the police are correct, the incident represents an unprecedented civil rights violation and media cover-up campaign by the Waco authorities.
Police in Waco still have yet to state how many bikers, if any, were killed by the police, or to explain why the police showed up in force at all prior to the meeting on May 17th.
In a statement on Friday, the police said that of 16 officers that were in the parking lot, only three fired a total of 12 shots. However, the statement still didn’t clarify how many of the bikers were killed by police. Authorities say they have not recieved final autopsy results that would clarify ballistics.
Then there’s the issue of the vague charges and mass arrests: if innocent people were arrested, held for weeks, and publicly accused of heinous crimes, it’s a nightmare scenario for dozens of people, impacting their work, family and personal reputations.
There are mounting reasons to believe that’s what happened. As the AP reported on May 22nd, over 115 of the men taken into custody had no criminal record but were still held on $1,000,000 bond, for what have been called ‘fill in the name” charges of engaging in organized criminal activity:
Waco police have said that all those arrested after the shooting belonged to criminal motorcycle gangs. Most of them were being held on $1 million bonds Thursday, charged with engaging in criminal enterprise. Nine people were killed in Sunday’s shootout.
Although dozens of those arrested do have criminal records, 117 did not have any convictions listed under their names and birthdates in a database maintained by the Texas Department of Public Safety. The database also shows five of the people killed had convictions in Texas.
One example of how the police seem to have ignored the line between biker groups with known criminal connections, and non-criminal motorcyclists, involves four men from the Austin area who were part of a motorcycle club called the Grim Guardians: Juan Garcia, Drew King, Jim Harris and Bonar Crump.
There is nothing at all to indicate the Grim Guardians are anything more than what they claim to be: a group of Christian motorcyclists committed to helping children. Austin police do not have the Grim Guardians listed as a criminal biker gang.
The Grim Guardians motorcycle club is an offshoot from a group called Guardians of Children that Garcia, King, Harris and Crump all belonged to. The Guardians are focused on helping victims of child abuse, often visiting children and conducting charity rides.
A February 2014 article in the Seguin Gazette shows Crump posing with other Guardians of Children as they gathered to help abuse victims in Guadalupe County.
Nor do the Grim Guardians’ backgrounds indicate criminality. Garcia has an engineering degree and worked for the city of Austin. Crump graduated from Baylor University with a degree in English, and from Oklahoma Baptist University with a history degree, and he owns his own business.
However, since the four were arrested, the incident has cast a shadow over their lives, because the Waco authorities immediately took a “Guilty Until Proven Innocent” attitude.
Grim Guardians members King, Harris and Garcia were featured in a previous Breitbart Texas story because they were arrested near the Twin Peaks scene, but hadn’t actually been there. They were given a smaller bond and then released, but once Waco officials realized they had been released, they ordered the trio re-arrested… before they were eventually released again.
In the initial press conference after the shooting, Waco Police described “three men” on their way to Twin Peaks who had been arrested, making it sound as though the three were en route to take part in a planned biker brawl.
However, now that a police incident report has surfaced, it appears King, Harris and Garcia were arrested for being at the scene, and wearing leather jackets with Grim Guardians patches. There’s no indication that the police officer actually knew who the Grim Guardians are, or what they do.
The police report says:
While speaking with all three men as they sat in the grassy area, noticed tall three were wearing a black leather vest with several patches indicating they were a motorcycle club member. All three had on a black leather vest and on the back of it had the name GRIM GUARDIAN, ROCKER on the top patch and in the center of the black leather vest had a round patch with the symbol of half of a skull on one side and half of a Viking helmet on the other. Also a small patch MC standing for motorcycle club and a bottom rocker patch stating the words SLAUGHTER CREEK, representing the part of the city they were from.
The smearing of criminal and non-criminal bikers doesn’t just extend to groups like the Grim Guardians. It may apply to individuals with connections to the two biker groups that have been identified as outlaw gangs involved in the Twin Peaks shootings: the Cossacks and the Bandidos.
After reports saying that one of the nine people killed – 65 year old decorated vet Jessie Delgado – had no criminal ties or club affiliation, a piece in the Dallas Morning News two weeks ago Friday raised new questions about another man killed. The article says that Cossacks member Richard “Bear” Kirschner of Richardson had no criminal record, and that he drove to the Waco event with his wife, in their family car.
The Morning News piece quotes friends of Kirschner who praise him as a gentle family man, but also includes a quote from “Lori,” a friend of Kirschner, who echoed some of the rumors swirling as more doubts are raised about the police account of the Twin Peaks incident.
In fact, Lori said, the biker community is rife with reports about witnesses who heard the discharge of lots of high-powered weaponry after a few initial pop-pop sounds of handguns. The reports sounded like they came from “muzzled or suppressed high-powered weapons,” said Lori, though she wasn’t there. The theory is that the heavy fire came from tactical police officers.
(…)
Isn’t it hard to identify supressed high-powered gunfire? Not for the biker community, many of whom are ex-military and have been around firearms a lot, Lori said. Speaking of that day in Waco, she said, “The Leatherneck Club was there. Different mom and pop groups. The Foreign Legion riders group. Many of them were veterans. You learn to differentiate.”
The Waco police press release on Friday confirmed the use of suppressors.
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2015/06/14/four-weeks-later-waco-police-narrative-unravels/
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All men who hate have the curse of Cain
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~The night of the broken glass~
THE “NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS”
As the synagogue in Oberramstadt burns during Kristallnacht (the “Night of Broken Glass”), firefighters instead save a nearby house. Local residents watch as the synagogue is destroyed. Oberramstadt, Germany, November 9-10, 1938.
On the night of November 9, 1938, violence against Jews broke out across the Reich. It appeared to be unplanned, set off by Germans’ anger over the assassination of a German official in Paris at the hands of a Jewish teenager. In fact, German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and other Nazis carefully organized the pogroms. In two days, over 250 synagogues were burned, over 7,000 Jewish businesses were trashed and looted, dozens of Jewish people were killed, and Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools, and homes were looted while police and fire brigades stood by. The pogroms became known as Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass,” for the shattered glass from the store windows that littered the streets.
The morning after the pogroms 30,000 German Jewish men were arrested for the “crime” of being Jewish and sent to concentration camps, where hundreds of them perished. Some Jewish women were also arrested and sent to local jails. Businesses owned by Jews were not allowed to reopen unless they were managed by non-Jews. Curfews were placed on Jews, limiting the hours of the day they could leave their homes.
After the “Night of Broken Glass,” life was even more difficult for German and Austrian Jewish children and teenagers. Already barred from entering museums, public playgrounds, and swimming pools, now they were expelled from the public schools. Jewish youngsters, like their parents, were totally segregated in Germany. In despair, many Jewish adults committed suicide. Most families tried desperately to leave.
About 17,000 Polish Jews are expelled by Germany and forced across the border with Poland. Poland refuses to allow the Jews to enter. Most of the deportees are stranded in the no-man’s-land between Germany and Poland near the town of Zbaszyn. Among the deportees are the parents of Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old Polish Jew living in Paris, France.
NOVEMBER 7, 1938
GERMAN DIPLOMAT SHOT IN PARIS
Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old Polish Jew living in Paris, shoots Ernst vom Rath, a diplomat attached to the German embassy in Paris. Grynszpan apparently acts out of despair over the fate of his parents, who are trapped along with other Polish Jewish deportees in a no-man’s-land between Germany and Poland. The Nazis use the shooting to fan antisemitic fervor, claiming that Grynszpan did not act alone, but was part of a wider Jewish conspiracy against Germany. Vom Rath dies two days later.
NOVEMBER 9, 1938
JOSEPH GOEBBELS DEMANDS RADICAL ACTION
German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels delivers a passionate antisemitic speech to the Nazi party faithful in Munich. The party members are gathered in commemoration of the abortive Nazi Putsch of 1923 (Adolf Hitler’s first attempt to seize power). After the speech, Nazi officials order the Storm Troopers (SA) and other party formations to attack Jews and to destroy their homes, businesses, and houses of worship. The violence against Jews lasts into the morning hours of November 10th, and becomes known as Kristallnacht—the “Night of Broken Glass.” Several dozen Jews lose their lives and tens of thousands are arrested and sent to concentration camps.
NOVEMBER 12, 1938
NAZIS FINE JEWISH COMMUNITY
The Nazi state imposes a fine of one billion Reichsmarks ($400,000,000) on the Jewish community in Germany. Jews are ordered to clean up and make repairs after the pogrom. They are barred from collecting insurance for the damages. Instead, the state confiscates payments owed by insurers to Jewish property holders. In the aftermath of the pogrom, Jews are systematically excluded from all areas of public life in Germany.
Copyright © United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
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~Gas lighting the American people~
Ingrid Bergman in the 1944 film Gaslight
Gaslighting or gas-lighting[1] is a form of mental abuse in which false information is presented with the intent of making victims doubt their own memory, perception, and sanity.[2] Instances may range simply from the denial by an abuser that previous abusive incidents ever occurred, up to the staging of bizarre events by the abuser with the intention of disorienting the victim.
The term owes its origin to the play Gas Light and its film adaptations, after which it was coined popularly. The term has been used in clinical and research literature.[3][4]
Gaslighting
A form of intimidation or psychological abuse, sometimes called Ambient Abuse where false information is presented to the victim, making them doubt their own memory, perception and quite often, their sanity. The classic example of gaslighting is to switch something around on someone that you know they’re sure to notice, but then deny knowing anything about it, and to explain that they “must be imagining things” when they challenge these changes.
A more psychological definition of gaslighting is “an increasing frequency of systematically withholding factual information from, and/or providing false information to, the victim – having the gradual effect of making them anxious, confused, and less able to trust their own memory and perception.
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~Oregon Coast~
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~I left my heart in Portland Oregon~
Just returned from a month visit from Portland Oregon where my kids and grandkids reside. It was a good reminder of what I love and miss the most. Family and Portland. We are moving back soon. Home is where the heart is and my heart lives in Portland.
The breweries, the art, and the atmosphere of freedom. What a beautiful place it is…
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~Southern Pacific~
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~Illusion~
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~Another day~
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~The Desert through my eyes~
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~Another beautiful day~
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~The railroad~
“This is our history – from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges – our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation’s infrastructure.”
~Cory Booker~
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~Dreams~
“Poetry is a dream which gives us vision; photography is a reflection of our dreams that give us hope.”
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~B&W VS Color~
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~Confined~
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~Abandoned~
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~wild flowers~
On my way home yesterday I noticed the landscape was filled with the warmth and colors of spring. The entire desert seemed to be decorated over night by the hand of God. What a lovely sight.
I was compelled to pull off the highway to snap some shots.
As Louis Armstrong suggested in his song…
“it’s a wonderful world,” and, that it is…
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~B&W~
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~St. Patrick’s day hike~
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~Texas Hill Quarry~
Just another rock hound day at the Texas Hill Quarry in Arizona. Tinker loved it. She’s such a good hiking friend.
”
My dog creates a soft rhythm in my heart
”
~Dawna Bowles~
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~Reflections~
Storms
of
my
past
A
hunting
A
memory
Of
long
ago
Follow
When
I
allow
Clouds
To
Blur
My
Vision
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~The beauty in the midst of the storm~
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After the desert storm…
~Desert landscape~
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~This evening skies~
Wild memories
How they linger…
~There’s no place like home~
~I’ve been hiding in the wilderness~
~Desert rocks~
My sun shines
~Railroad Reflections~
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~Drive by shootings~
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~The only alternative~
You are always in my mind.
Even when I’m not there.
My thoughts of you…
A reminder of a mountain that is impossible to climb.
Rendering no other choice.
I must leave myself behind.
Again…
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~B&W Things~
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~Cacti perspectives~
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Arizona winter cacti
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~Regarding the railroad~
“This is our history – from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges – our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation’s infrastructure.”
~Cory Booker~
t
I just couldn’t let this year end without posting one last train photograph.
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
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~I’m painting my old shed~
I am painting my shed. I finished one side today. Have three more to do. I was so sick of looking at old metal that I decided to do something, other then complain, about it. Staying in the solution.
Another beautiful day here. 58° and sunny. Life is good.
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~home~
I am going home because that’s where my heart lives..
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~Cacti~
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Merry Christmas from Arizona
Merry Christmas everyone! I have been so busy with my crafts that I have neglected my WordPress. Finishing up with dinner today and I’ll be back in the saddle again. Hope everyone is having a blessed Christmas.
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
~Charles Dickens~
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~Regarding dogs~
A dog knows everything about you
And loves you regardless
Unconditionally forever and always
No matter what
She knows you better than you know yourself
Dogs are like that
Angels in disguise
A girl’s best friend
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Rush hour traffic in the desert~
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~Under the bridge~
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~Uninvited guests~
Are reluctantly welcomed…
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~Drive by shootings~
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~Regarding Peace~
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”
~Jimi Hendrix~
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~Regarding propaganda of war~
“One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, 1938
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I used to feel small and insignificant
Until I took a photograph
of my shadow
I felt a sense of greatness
When I posted my shadow on the wall
Photography is like that…
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Regarding The Railroad
“The Railroad is an therapeutic map for me to find my peace.”
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~In Living Color ~
Color eases our perceptions
It reveals all truth o itself
Unlike a black and white photograph
That persuades us to analyze
What we have envisioned
Its message to be
Then when we are convinced of it
We awake the next day
Only to find that it has changed
While we were sleeping
In living Color…
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☆Too Much Turkey 4 Tinker☆
Tinker had eaten a little bit too much turkey on thanksgiving.
She is so fat she can’t fit into her winter clothes from last year.
I had to get her a new outfit yesterday at the Ross.
I can’t believe it’s almost been a year since I adopted her from the animal shelter. I remember when I first set eyes on her she was so tiny/skinny and frightened.
The pound attendant said they had found her running wild in the city of Yuma. She was living on the streets for thanksgiving last year. It breaks my heart to think of it.
Alone, starving, and certainly terrified!
I look at her now and she’s so contented. Always happy and just a precious addition to our family. I’m so thankful to have spent this Thanksgiving with her. She ate until she was full, well, maybe over full, but don’t we all overeat on the Holidays. Then she climbed into her new fluffy winter bed and, well, here are the pictures, see for yourself if you think maybe she ate too much.
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B&W photography & life
“There is a gray area between the black and the white, and it’s called balance.”
“The things I see sway me to become better, See more, and believe.”
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~Peace~
“Serenity is to find Peace in the midst of the storm.”
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
~A verdict on fire~
Leaves a raging sky…
A Divided nation…
With
Lies
Now
Lies
Broken…
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
~Tinker~
My sweet little Tinker all cuddled up in her new, soft, warm bed.
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
~Disconnected~
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~Yuma Hot Air balloon~
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
~A LITTLE HUMOR IS GOOD FOR THE SOUL~
Once upon a time, a mother made her son a wristband. On it was written: WWJD? This, of course stood for: “What Would Jesus Do?” She instructed her son to look at the wristband before making decisions on how to live his Christian life.
A week later she was shocked to see that her son had become friends with prostitutes, was hanging out with ‘sinners’ — even buying people another round of beers!
Worse still, he had walked into their church the previous Sunday and tore down the book store, overturned the tables and threw the cash register through the window, he then made a whip and chased the pastor out of the building, declaring he was turning God’s house into a den of thieves.
Most shocking was what happened when his mother went to picket the local abortion clinic. To her embarrassment, her son was also there, but he was standing with the women who just had an abortion, and yelled at the protesters: “You who are without sin, throw the first stone!”
The mother was very distressed, but fortunately she found a solution to this terrible problem. She made another wristband, this time it read: WWAPD? This, she explained to her son, stood for: “What Would A Pharisee Do?” She took the old WWJD? wristband and burned it.
Since her son has been wearing the new wristband, looking at it to help him make his decisions, he has become a dedicated tither, a public prayer warrior, an active condemner of ‘sinners,’ judges with wrath, and has a great reputation as a godly young man amongst other religious people.
Needless to say, the mother is very happy now. She only wishes Jesus would take notice and follow her son’s good example.
~Mick Rooney~
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[by Donna Brown Bowles (C)2014]
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
~Bridge over troubled water~
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
~Sunset~
A sunset is a preparation for night
Also a memorial for today
Night sets the stage
For morning’s sun rise
Darkness can be a solace
When you realize
It is always darkest
Just before the dawn
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~Watercolor~
This is my third attempt at water color.
I think I’m getting a little closer to my goal.
I ran it through PhotoShop a few times to see what would happen. It was fun:)
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
~Regarding Art~
“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
~George Bernard Shaw~
“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.”
~Pablo Picasso~
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
~We Need Change ~
Nothing changes if nothing changes.
I’m not sure if I can express what’s in my heart. All I know is that it feels like broken glass and it ripping me a-part.
A-part of me wants to be set free. Yet a part of me is afraid.
I read and search beyond the scenes, behind the stage where lies are practiced to deceive. A media without consciousness, lusting for blood, death and power, for anyone who might interfere.
Many are willing to be sacrificial lambs. Eager to please, in exchange for popularity and exceptance. Willing to slay their own, for monetary gain. They sleep well, and moan in their secret dreams.
Many are unaware. They are trapped, and are intimidated into sharing a feast with hungry wolves that duel upon their breast, and leave them feeling defiled.
Many know, as I, but do nothing to stop them. We write, read, paint, create, and photograph to excape. The ugliest truths that were ever told.
We read political propaganda, and know it’s a lie, as it eats like a cancer into our consciousness, and rapes our minds. Creating a great divide, between the truth, and the red tides of death that crush our hearts and silence our screams!
I hate how I feel! I just want to run as
long as it takes, to stop feeling, and knowing all that I do. It is so sorreal!
Why am I paralyzed?
Why are you?
Why do I wait for the slaughter?
Why do you?
When will I stand?
When will you?
When will I fight?
When will you?
When will we take back our land?
When it’s too late?
The time has come and…!
Very soon it will be gone…!
Wake up and take a stand!!!!
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While I was sleeping…
I closed my tired eyes one night.
Exhausted by the sight of our world.
Disease of deception crept in.
When I awoke, years had passed.
What happened?
How could this be?
Why did you let this occur?
Why didn’t anyone stop them?
We are prisoners of the enemy!
A thousand hollow eyes stare back at me.
One man speaks out…
“The barb wire protects us from the enemy!”
I look around as to find a way out.
Another demands, “This is a new America!”
The “puppets” shout, “Yes we can.”
I stand in protest; I run!
An American soldier slams
A gun into my chest…!
“Relax, you’re not going anywhere!”
“You’re one of the reasons we’re all here!”
“No, I exclaimed, you can’t blame this on me!”
I’m sure it was planned by the enemy!
The soldier raised his brow, and glared a chilling stare then turned his head to hide the tears.
HE said,
“The American troops were sent away in order to train foreign troops, to conquer our land and we had no way to let you know.A lie is all that you were told because of the media blackouts around the world. All communication was blocked by Bush and Obama alike. NOTHING was done to execute their plan!”
“But I was sleeping”, I exclaimed!
His tears fell into my heart…
While a sleeping nation fell a-part…
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~A dogs loyalty~
“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
~Mark Twain~
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You can…
Burn our books,
Limit our freedoms
Deny our inalienable rights
You will never possess
The wisdom of our minds
Nor the freedom of our spirit’s
We are not bound by this world
Our allegiance is omnipresent
A light you cannot see…
We are free….
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
~Carmine stains~
Trains
Delivering
Merchandise without names
Made by absent faces crying in the rain forever…
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
~Artist~4~Peace~
I paint what I can’t express in words
I write what I can not paint
Drops of paint drip off my brush
As rain runs down my window
Blurring my perception
of what I think I see
My brush caresses with colors
In a memory of uncertainties
Upon an empty canvas
willing to be free
I now sit alone with thoughts
That have no place to go
They slam against my chest
Shooting pains into my heart
That take away my breath
Purging what I’ve hidden
Deep inside of me
unto a sarcastic template
Insisting words that I should see
Fonts in Braille as I tap reluctantly
I turn my head away
As a pianist’s fingers
Pounding chopsticks on the keys
So is my will to remember
My lost forgotten dreams
How did you know
Where to find me
I was lost so long ago
A confirmation that art
Wakes a sleeping soul
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
~Moon Beams~
Moon beams a bequeath of vision
As the night unfolds
Elimination of fears unknown
A colored space of light
In a blackness of time
Do not be fooled by what you feel
Sometimes our fears are so unreal
Perceptions of dark maybe
Is an absence of light
Dark is only a limited reflection
Of its ability to absorb
A mirrored perception
Do not fear in the darkest hour
Faith is the substance of things unseen
Follow
Him
And
just
believe
It’s
Time
Can you see…?
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
Still waiting…
Don’t want to be left behind…
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A troubled girl by a troubled world…
My sister painted me today
She was troubled by the state of our
world in so many ways
She said painting takes it all away
So here I am
Used as a canvas
As a healer of pain…
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~Regarding Ants~
This is by far the biggest ant hill I have ever seen. Just goes to show that in fact, hard work pays off. They have built an ant castle:)
Amazing!
“It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”
~Henry David Thoreau~
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Heaven in the mirror…
May be closer than it appears…
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I was wondering…
What makes a man refuse to see
Why can he look up in the sky and see the clouds and still not see the light
Or smell the grass
Or feel the breeze
Or touch the blue
Of the Skies
Why
Oh
Why…
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Regarding Freedom
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
~Abraham Lincoln~
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
Rumbles in the still of the night…
Trembling in your dreams…
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~A feeling without evidence~
Will persuade you to awareness
In your search for truth and…
Can be painfully obvious when discovered.
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Regarding Kindness…
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
~Mark Twain~
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~Train Art~
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Wasting time…
“Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes time and annoys the pig.”
~Mark Twain~
Carry the message of love to those that want to learn.
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
Arizona style…
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
Capture time…
A photograph is a feeling about an awareness of something inside you that you always wanted to know, yet the more you feel it, the less you understand it, but long to…
And you continue to capture particles of time and awareness of the moment
Your photograph is a reflection of who you are, or maybe what you want to be, or where you can go…
At times you get lost, and you are glad because if you didn’t, it wouldn’t be worth the journey…
Time has come and gone…
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Decorated Dam
Seashells serve the dam as a decor, cleverly laid upon the banks for the eye of the lens to adore.
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Bridge to peace
A place to hide and feel what I never could
Escape from the other side where things are not what they seem
I used to believe I had no place to go
But I found this perfect place inside
Under here…in 1904
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Damn Landfill…:)
Arizona mud resulting in the exhumation of millions of mollusk shells.
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Under the bridge…
Art is what gets us beyond what is real. It makes reality more real. It also shortens the distance we gotta travel to see how connected we are.
(Laura Pritchett, Sky Bridge: A Nove)
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Fenced off
Pinhole photography
Regarding the cinema
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
DESTINY
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DESTINY
Awakened in a dream.
A reminiscence of lapsed time.
A mirrored reflection.
When summer lasted for years.
Wild flowers in fields of gold.
Reflecting all the stories told.
Vivid rainbows after a storm.
A promise to all who had known..
When the sun out shined the winters cold.
When I had the wings to fly.
Clouds began to cry.
Alone, their tears fell.
Then they took away my sky.
Pain cut deep within my soul.
In preparation for my journey that lied ahead.
It is my road alone.
I must trudge in isolation.
A road less travelled.
A destiny till my end.
God, will You hold my hand?
~Donna Brown Bowles (C)
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[by Donna Bowles (C)2014]
Memories…
“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever. . . it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”
~Aaron Sussman~
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Capture the moment…
“You don’t take a photograph. You borrow it, when you capture a moment of time and savour it.”
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B&W photography
“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”
~Ansel Adams~
“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”
[~Ansel Adams~1902 – 1984]
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The lens to the soul…
“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!”
~Ted Grant~
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
Graffiti Lux and Murals Luxuriating in Ephemeral Art
http://graffitiluxandmurals.com/
Visit this page to view an extraordinary display of street art.
It’s absolutely beautiful!
Graffiti Lux and Murals
Luxuriating in Ephemeral Art
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
Focus on photography or be silent
“When words become unclear, I shall focus on photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
~Ansel Adams~
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