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The art of photo montage could be said to have started just after the First World War, but the manipulation
of photographs already had a history going back to the invention of photography in the mid 19th century.
Direct contact printing of objects placed on photographic plates, double exposures, and composite pictures
made by darkroom masking were all popular in the Victorian era. Besides this practical use of combination
photography, Victorians discovered the amusement to be had from postcards of the wrong head stuck on a
different body, or the creation of strange or impossible creatures.
But it was not until the revolutionary times following the "Great War" that artists began to see the use of
montage as a truly new art form. The centre of this explosion of creativity was Berlin, where a group of
artists calling themselves Dada was looking for a new means of expression: one that had more meaning
than the prevailing drift into abstraction, but that did not simply return to the traditions of figurative painting.
As Surrealism became the dominant European art form, photomontage gradually faded into obscurity for
many years, until there was a revival in the 1960s, partly inspired by a renewed interest in Dada. Several
of the artists connected with the Pop Art movement used magazine photos and text to convey the ethos of
the age.
At this time, and to an extent in response to the increasing populism of art, advertisers jumped on
the bandwagon and started to produce more photomontages, a trend that continues to this day.
The next great revival in the use of montage in Europe was connected with the politics of the anti-nuclear
movement of the 1980s.
Much of the imagery at this time was designed for use in banners for demonstrations, producing a very
graphic means of communication.
The history of the "cut-up" started with the still image and cinema, but since those days the field has
expanded to include text, sound, and digital montage using graphics programs like Photoshop, which
will be included in version 2 of this site.
My own photomontages and animations can be seen at my personal portfolio site Pabulum Pix.
Please email me with your feedback and ideas.
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A Caulerpa meadow
Back in the early 1980's, the Wilhelmina Zoo in Stuttgart was looking into various types of seaweed
for use in their aquarium displays.They settled on a species known as Caulerpa taxifolia , since its
bright green, feathery fern-like fronds were quite "pretty", and it was both hardy and fast-growing.
In addition, it produces chemicals that make it taste awful to marine animals, so it wouldn’t get eaten.
By repeatedly subjecting aquarium specimens to harsh conditions and selecting the ones that
survived the best, researchers developed Caulerpa taxifolia (Vahl) C. Agandh , a new-and-improved,
genetically distinct strain which was particularly hardy and fast-growing.
This variety was ideal for their purposes and it was shared with other museums and aquariums.
For a time, all was well and good in the world of marine botany.In 1984, however, a square meter
patch of this new variety of Caulerpa was found in the Mediterranean off the shore of Monaco,
right outside the Oceanographic Museum.
Evidently a little piece of it was flushed down a drain. But while those
organizations involved in dealing with the accidental release exercised their blame-pointing fingers,
Caulerpa spread. It was, after all, particularly hardy and fast-growing.
By the time anyone got around to doing anything about it,
the infestation covered several acres and was beyond
anyone’s control. By 2001, there were thousands of acres
of this remarkably prolific plant clogging coastal waters
around the Mediterranean.
A Caulerpa infestation looks like a vast meadow of leafy, green fronds. And nothing else.The
have been compared to fields of wet, overgrown Astroturf. It grows as much as three inches
a day, fast enough to crowd out other algae, and since it tastes awful, aquatic herbivores
won’t go near it. It grows as much as three inches a day, fast enough to crowd out other algae,
and since it tastes awful, aquatic herbivores will not go near it. Because it creates immense fields
of desert-like undersea monotony, humans are crowded out as well. The bland landscape
becomes uninteresting to divers, diminishing the tourism industry; and seaside fishermen
lose interest as their favorite fish move on to more accommodating waters.Its appearances as
far away as Spain, Croatia, and Tunisia are believed to be the result of Caulerpa being picked
up by fishing nets and anchors. Since it’s particularly hardy, it isn’t bothered by
typical harbor pollution and it happily lies waiting to hitch a ride. A tiny fragment no larger than
a fingernail is all that is needed to spawn a new plant, which means that the usual mechanical
seaweed-removal methods can actually spread an infestation rather than contain it.
Controlling the plant with natural predators is also problematic.While there are a few mollusks
that will munch happily on the other strains of Caulerpa, they cannot tolerate the temperatures
of the Mediterranean, and they would be unable to eat it fast enough to be useful
anyway. Meanwhile, Caulerpa was working its way around the globe via the aquarium trade.
In 2000, two small patches were found off the shore of San Diego, CA. Additional patches were
spotted off southeast Australia. It is believed that these were the result of people dumping the
contents of their salt-water aquaria down the drain. Aware of the danger, agencies in California
sprang into action. Aware of the danger, agencies in California sprang into action.
The state passed a law banning the possession and sale of nine species of Caulerpa.
The City of San Diego topped them by banning all Caulerpa species. The infestations were
dealt with through drastic measures.Marine biologists led an all-out assault on the invader.
Armed with the latest weapons in botanical warfare, they completely covered and sealed
the patches with black plastic tarps to cut off sunlight. Next, they pumped deadly chlorine
under the tarps, killing every last trace of the enemy - along with anything else that had the
misfortune to be trapped along with it.
Six years and $7 million later, California can boast the world's first successful victory over a
Caulerpa invasion. Mediterranean countries are doing what they can with mechanical removal,
and Australia is trying copper sulfate, a potent herbicide. In both places, the infestations
are too large for the California treatment. In both places, the infestations are too large for the
California treatment. Meanwhile the United States has declared a war on mutant seaweed,
exercising the federal Noxious Weed Act (1999) and the federal Plant Protection Act
(2000) to ban the importation, interstate sale, and transport of the menacing Caulerpa.
A public education campaign is also underway in California.Nonetheless, a recent survey
showed that there are still stores selling the banned species. Not only do home hobbyists
frequently lack the expertise to identify the illegal immigrants, but dealers, distributors,and
inspectors may also lack this knowledge.
Bans have also been enacted in Spain, France, and Australia. .
Invasive species are certainly nothing new.The current infestation of rabbits in Australia
is perhaps the most well-known example of a foreign species causing the decline and
extinction of various indigenous species. This invasion was launched by a landowner who
immigrated from England and wanted to continue his rabbit-hunting hobby. Additionally,
in 19th Century America, "acclimation societies" were trendy among those well-to-do who
wanted to better mankind through scientific dabbling.
Members encouraged the introduction and spread of non-native species for various
beneficial uses.
Kudzu, presently infesting the southeast U.S.,was brought over from Japan for use
as animal fodder and ground cover.
House sparrows were imported from Britain to control insects, only to quickly become
annoying to the pest as the insects they were meant to control.
Even after it became apparent that the introduced species were becoming problems,
they still continued bringing in new ones.What separates Caulerpa from other invasive
varieties is that it does not occur in nature.
It is the product of selective-breeding genetic manipulation, pre-packaged with a man-made
advantage which allows it to out-compete natural species Although Genetically Modified
(GM) crops are invaluable in feeding millions of poor– usually by producing more nutrients,
growing in harsher environments, producing larger yields, and/or resisting predators–
Caulerpa serves as a sobering illustration of the risks involved in developing alternatives
which are hardier than their natural cousins. Today this mutant seaweed serves as a test
case for the control of an accidentally-released unnatural strain, demonstrating the importance
of quick and comprehensive action.
Today this mutant seaweed serves as a test case for the control of an accidentally-released
unnatural strain, demonstrating the importance of quick and comprehensive action.
The ease at which it spreads and grows has earned Caulerpa a spot on the World Conservation
Union’s "100 World’s Worst Invasive Alien Species" List.
It remains to be seen whether or not the spread of Caulerpa can be contained, or whether
it will wind up being the equivalent of aquatic kudzu. It remains to be seen whether or not the
spread of Caulerpa can be contained,or whether it will wind up being the equivalent of aquatic
kudzu.
Perhaps over time we'll find some Caulerpa-consuming sea creatures we can introduce to feast
upon the unwanted plants; and hopefully we won't need to find something to control the Caulerpa
eaters.
Failing that, some genetic tinkering might yield some kind of particularly hardy and fast-growing
Caulerpa predator, and we can pit one mutant against another mutant. With enough time, tarps,
and successive creature-eaters, ourvictory over un-nature is inevitable...
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Aware of the danger, the agencies in California took action
approving a law that prohibits the venda and possession of
nine species of Caulerpa.
The infestations have been treated through drastic measures.
Marine biologists led hunt for a plant. Armed with the latest weapons
in war botany, they completely covered areas contaminated with a canvas
of black plastic that prevented the photosynthesis.
Then they bombearam chlorine into the areas covered, killing the algae
killer and anything else that had the misfortune to be trapped along with it.
The life of a fly lasts 24 hours.
Thus, she sees the world where everything is very slow If the fly
thought she think that the houses, the forests and mountains are
eternal. Similarly, we humans, we see the world the human
perspective.We see the mountains they seem to have always
been there.
We see that they are moving.
For us, everything will be finished in 80, 90 or no later than 120 years.
But on a scale of life of a planet, our passage through here amounts
to less than one second in an entire year. magine the misery that mean
for the Earth
A plant that grows 7.5 cm per day will cover the entire planet in
a very short time on a planetary scale.It will be a matter of a few
millennia for this thing to get out of the sea, invade the rivers,
invade the earth. She ? will take the planet. It is easy to see in
this situation a clear risk of human action on something as
complex and delicate nature.We can only condemn everything
that is transgenic or genetically modified as something vile and
potentially disastrous for humans and other living things on Earth.
Clearly, the same way that these environmental cagadas happen,
genetically modified crops are invaluable for feeding millions
of people, producing more nutrients, grow in harsher environments,
producing more fruit, and / or resisting the disease and predators.
But the Caulerpa is a beautiful lesson for all those who think they
can do what they want with the genes of an animal or plant...
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Pope Gives the Americas to Spain Following Columbus' "discovery",
Pope Alexander VI issued a May 4, 1493, papal bull granting official
ownership of the New World to Ferdinand and Isabella. To these
monarchs, the Pope declared: "We of our own motion, and not at
your solicitation, do give, concede, and assign for ever to you and
your successors, all the islands, and main lands, discovered; and
which may hereafter, be discovered, towards the west and south;
whether they be situated towards India,
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BLACK JESUS
The white supremacists advocate that Jesus was white,often diverting attention
by stating that it does not matter what colour Jesus was since he came to save
the world. Yet the world has been presented with a white Jesus though the earliest
images of Him in their possession clearly showed Him not to be white but of a
different hue. When religion was brought from the Black lands to Europe, Jesus
and His mother were worshipped and accepted in their original form without any
problems, but that all changed with the help of the Roman Empire when Augustus
was the royal leader around 31 BC-AD 14.
The Euro-centric Christian world does not know the truth about the real Jesus from
the Tribe of Judah.
Jesus was from the Afrikan continent and not from Europe.
According to Hebrews 7:14, The Tribe of Judah from whence Jesus came, is
a dark skinned nation of people. Jeremiah 14:2 also states that,
"Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground;
and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up." The word black in this verse is qadar which
means dark skinned in the ancient Hebrew. Jeremiah 14:2 also states that.
"Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground;
and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up." The word black in this verse is qadar which
means dark skinned in the ancient Hebrew As Europe prospered, it began to spread
the concept of a white Jesus to the world, especially around the time when the Bible
was being translated from Hebrew to Greek to Latin to English.
The Bible existed among Black people long before it was translated into any
European language, first n Aramaic then later in Coptic and Syriac,which are
languages of the people of colour.
The first English version of the Bible was available around the time of Wycliffe
1380-93, with a King James Version coming in 1611.Europeans were then able
to affix pictures of the blonde,blue-eyed man and his disciples on Bible end-pages
and inserts, to fool the world into believing in a white saviour for salvation.
images of Jesus Christ show Him as a Negro.
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Ethiopian Coptics, Christians before the Vatican with there first 6 or 7 Popes
who were black and an African and Hebrew Christ... If he existed was an African
not Italian, German ,French, Irish, Latvian, Hungarian,Polish , Israeli, Egyptian...
If he existed he was an African I said history proves the folk of the Bible were IN
Africa,not FROM European do a dig check out the DNA of the Christian in the
Catacombs of the Vatican in Rome...
(Ethiopian Collage) Even though the true nature of Christianity and all war is
going to likely wipe out every human non christian trying to save there non
christian soul or kill them saying the baptismal prayer over the remains claiming
"All we want is to give you Democracy". What does this mean to you & what is
America all about?
The 30, or 40 bullet now 50 bullet Cop kill in the name of self defense?
The Nazi's big lie of white supremacy predicated on the jealousy of & hatred of
the"Jew, Gods chosen people" evidenced in texts of Martin Luther's hatred of
that relationship to an invisible "GOD" generating Protestantism and later state
Christianity.
Based on race & supposed racial purity of blood?...
If your so pure so superior why do you have to doctor your genes?
Pleas keep pretending to be God...
Thanks to Merv Griffin and his TV special "Live from the Holey Lands"
every body saw and hers this confirmed by a slightly tipsy Irish catholic
Preast when asked "Hey what who is that black guy doing all dressesed
in white in the midle of the street ?
("Via Della rosa ") Oh Him He's just one of thoes Coptic Christians you
know they were the first Christians and oficiate the stations of the cross...
Poor Merve Had a shit fit screaming "Turn it off turn it off!!
Turn off that fucking camara ! Fuckrisake!
Cut to a commercial god dam it!"
Live on world wide....
"Live by Satellite from
the Holy Lands"...
Live by Satellite from the Holy Lands
(For the first time in my life this guy Merv was making me laugh!
Thanks Merve...For proving what my Grandpa always said..)
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If it states in the Bible that Jesus Christ was a black man why do so many
churches depict him as being white.?
Secondly, why do so many racist hate blacks but worship Jesus Christ?
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It really amazes me to read how ignorant people are.
Jewish is a religion not a color.
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Jesus Christ would of been dark skin,I think more people know this ,because of education.
Where Jesus was born and the history of the time.I always had a great
big smile on my face ,when a racist,talks about how Jesus is this and that,when
I know that Jesus was not white ,It reaffirmed that racist,
are just poorly educated
1 year ago
Jesus is the white version of Yashua Ha Mashiak.
Jesus is a Greek word and Yashua is a Galilean.
So you can give them thier white Jesus back but as long as you know
what is meant in REV-1:14 & 15, you'll know that they worship us.
In their prayers they end it with Amen (Rev-3:14) and everybody knows
who Amen Ra was.
They can't hid the truth 4 ever and they can't hide a Caucasian in Africa-
in particular Egypt where Jesus/ Yashua was 'supposed' to be hiding
from Herod.
* 1 year ago educated
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If he existed Hebrew Christ.
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If he existed Hebrew Christ was black.
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The US and Israel Cannot Attack Iran
The American Empire is Finished
One Way or the Other by
Michael C. Ruppert
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I am certain that - barring divine intervention - the United States is finished; not only as a superpower, but possibly even as a single, unified nation. Michael C. Ruppert, Sept. 21, 2005
January 27, 2006 0800 PST (FTW): The reason why so many Americans on the left and right, whether supporters or opponents of Neocon
tyranny in Washington, are "sold" on the idea that American or Israeli air strikes against Iran will take place this March (or soon thereafter) is simple. It is more frightening for them to ponder the prospect of an impotent America standing exposed and vulnerable in a world that largely -
and for good reason - hates it. Global economic meltdown, chaos and nuclear war are more scary than the evil that Americans have
incrementally compromised themselves into endorsing. The uncertainty of a world no longer tethered to a US center - even one that many
verbally oppose - represents an intolerable leap into the unknown. That leap, however, is a fait accompli.
The US bluffs onward with its saber-rattling rhetoric but the whole planet is calling that bluff. Foreign investment in Iran is increasing, not decreasing. The planet is throwing money into Iran.
Every day I receive three or four stories from diverse sources - marginal internet researchers and mainstream media outlets - stating why an
attack on Iran is, a good idea, or likely, or inevitable. In these two companion pieces, FTW's Military Affairs Editor, Stan Goff (retired US Army Special Forces and former West Point instructor) and I delineate the reasons why such an attack will not (and probably cannot) happen. That is, of course, with one remotely necessary caveat: that stupidity beyond belief has overtaken the US and Israel. I would rephrase that to also include suicidal tendencies beyond belief. Stan and I both know something about these kinds of operations. I've been studying them for 30 years and Stan has been living them for that long.
Any military attack on Iran of any kind will mean the end of the world as we know it. The same thing is true of a US-sponsored assassination attempt on Hugo Chavez or any other "regime change" or intervention anywhere. All such developments would be universally perceived as
US-sanctioned in any case. There is much less reason to fear the US than there was three or four years ago. Near-toothless tigers with bad
gums and fetid gingivitis breath do not inspire fear and awe. They invite attack. A pressure-cooker of pent-up global rage against the US awaits only a pinprick to make it blow.
As I said in lectures throughout 2005 and in my new DVD Denial Stops Here, the world has drawn a line in the sand around Iran. China, Asia, Europe and even Britain cannot (and will not) do without Iranian oil and gas. In 2004, China alone signed $200 billion in long-term oil and gas deals with Iran. Europe and the rest of Asia are in similar investment positions. Japan cannot do without Iranian energy. Malaysia cannot do without Iranian energy. South Korea cannot do without Iranian energy. Germany cannot do without Iranian energy. France cannot do without Iranian energy. India cannot do without Iranian energy. And especially Great Britain cannot do without Iranian energy; especially since four months ago the UK became a net energy importer as its North Sea production continued to plummet with a decline rate approaching 10% per year.
Britain has already ruled out military moves against Iran and it will likely oppose US moves even for sanctions (a necessary precursor) in the UN Security Council.
The world has not forgotten the lies used by the US to justify its invasion of Iraq, nor has it somehow missed the fact that we are getting our Imperial ass kicked there. The world has not missed today's headlines that the US Army is stretched to the breaking point. "The Army?" you
say. "But these are going to be air strikes!"
Stan Goff has spelled it out eloquently in his article: any US or Israeli attack on Iran will give the Iraqi insurgency a combined dose of steroids and meth crystals that will spell utter defeat for the US in Iraq and end the ultra-fragile SCIRI (pro-Iranian Shia)-centered coalition that is now on life support.
Those fueling the "attack Iran" hype argue that "precision" air strikes would likely not involve US ground troops. They forget that as the US has become bogged in the Iraqi quagmire next door, it has made extensive (if tenuous) bargains with Shia militias and the pro-Iranian SCIRI regime that would undoubtedly drop all support for a US-led peace in Iraq in the event of such an attack. As Goff so aptly points out, an attack on Iran, even by Israel alone, would lead directly to a US defeat in Iraq. This would come at a time when US forces are stretched to the breaking point.
Iran has made it abundantly clear that the whole world will suffer oil shortages in the event of a US or Israeli attack. All Iran has to do is to reduce exports and the rest of the world's powers will turn on the US in a minute. The recent lessons of Ukraine and Georgia demonstrate what sudden (and mild by comparison) energy shortages can do in a world where demand has likely already exceeded supply.
Iran is also in a position to close the Straits of Hormuz through which about half of the world's oil passes. It is known (or reported) to have
Excocet, Silkworm and even the deadly Russian Sunburn missiles that would make the job easy.
Oil is not the only weapon Iran can use to rally the whole world (including Europe) against the US. Iran's is a thriving economy, swollen with petrodollars. That money is being used to purchase European/Japanese/Korean-made autos, consumer goods, and high-cost technology.
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