found on http://www.atomicantiques.com/2010/02/03/german-racers To learn more see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1908_New_York_to_Paris_Race
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Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts
Sunday, March 27, 2011
New York to Paris Race of 1908 (The Great Race), the German entry drivers in the top photo
found on http://www.atomicantiques.com/2010/02/03/german-racers To learn more see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1908_New_York_to_Paris_Race
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
AMC's THE WALKING DEAD Zombie Invasion has Begun!
The cable network is staging "zombie attacks" in 26 major cities -- hundreds of extras in zombie makeup roaming landmarks such as the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., Big Ben in London, The Prado Museum in Madrid.
The stunts will commence at daybreak in Taipei and Hong Kong on Tuesday, Oct. 26 and moves across the globe during a 24 hour period and culminates at the show’s Los Angeles premiere.
Across the globe, several thousand supporters of the show - sporting dusty, tattered clothing spattered with blood - began with a trance-walk around their favorite city frightening some pedestrians and confusing others.
But nothing would kill their spirit.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Futurama's New, New York in Legos = Beautiful
to be one of the best animated shows to ever grace our television sets. Well it looks like artist Matt De Lanoy shares our love of Futurama but has a lot more skills than your friends at Gfest. He built this mini version of New York in legos. Spending two years on this project called "World of Tomorrow", he managed to built several known building structures from Futurama, and to install lights so it can be viewable at night as well. Enjoy all these amazing pictures below.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
The 9/11 Masterminds?????
I was listening to the news the other day and I heard the latest regarding the alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and 4 others that confessed?? under questionable (torture) circumstances.They alleged masterminds are to be tried in New York.
They are to be tried for the murders of 2,900 plus people on 9/11.
(Is this the real reason New York refused to honor the petition with 80,000 signatures for a new 9/11 investigation?)
Quite a few things went through my mind and I have a few questions.
#1. Haven't we been told for years by our Presidents that Osama-Bin-Laden was the mastermind behind 9/11? Remember the wanted dead or alive thing?
Here is something from Wikipedia regarding:
"The United States government determined that Al-Qaeda, headed by Osama bin Laden, bore responsibility for the attacks, with the FBI stating "evidence linking Al-Qaeda and Bin Laden to the attacks of September 11 is clear and irrefutable". The Government of the United Kingdom reached the same conclusion regarding Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden's culpability for the 11 September attacks."
#2. Didn't Bush try to convince us all that Osama-Bin-Laden was responsible for 9/11 and in charge of those who supposedly flew the planes into the Twin Towers?
#3. Didn't our military go bomb Afghanistan, and send troops over there after Osama and the rest of the Taliban that Osama was supposedly in charge of?
#4. If we have had the masterminds of 9/11 in custody for years then why are our solders still over there in Afghanistan? Why are we sending more to catch a possible non existent Al-Qaeda?
#5. Can we really believe what Khalid Sheikh Mohammed says after he has publicly stated "I make up stories"?
#6. What about the scientific peer reviewed paper that talks about the Thermitic material that was found in the dust of the towers?
#7. What about the lack of NORAD response to 9/11?
#8. What about Bush,Cheney and Rumsfeld's failure to do their jobs the day of 9/11?
#9. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is a Bosnian Citizen as well as a Pakistani citizen NOT A AFGHANISTAN citizen. Did we attack and wage war in the wrong country? Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was born and captured in PAKISTAN NOT AFGHANISTAN.
#10. What about tower 7's collapse?
#11. What about the 9/11 commissioners statements saying the investigation had been obstructed by our own government and 9/11 Commission co-chair Lee Hamilton saying; "There are ample reasons to suspect that there may be some alternative to what we outlined in our version . . . We didn't have access . . . ."?
#12. What about the ex-CIA veterans that challenge the official reports about 9/11?
#13. If Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the others are the masterminds of 911 then either our government lied or was extremely wrong in everything they have told us regarding Osama and 9/11.
Which is it and how can I ever trust anything they say ever again?
Saying that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed masterminded 9/11 does not answer the questions of the 9/11 families regarding 9/11. It does not explain why whistleblowers told 9/11 family member Patty Casazza that before 9/11 the government knew the exact date and exact targets.
This also does not explain the many anomalies and unanswered questions that have been brought up worldwide regarding the events of 9/11.
Just because they have found a "Mastermind" (possible Patsy) to blame 9/11 on does not answer any of the questions I have regarding 9/11 and our governments involvement in some form or another. As a matter of fact it just brings more questions. I wonder if the government hopes that if they make a huge deal out of this "911 Mastermind??" will we the Truthers just go away?
The answer to that is NO.
Right now the old saying that Truth is stranger than fiction is proving itself to be a fact.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Remembering the Stonewall Riots
40 Years Later, Still Second-Class Americans
By Frank Rich
June 27, 2009
LIKE all students caught up in the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s, I was riveted by the violent confrontations between the police and protestors in Selma, 1965, and Chicago, 1968. But I never heard about the several days of riots that rocked Greenwich Village after the police raided a gay bar called the Stonewall Inn in the wee hours of June 28, 1969 — 40 years ago today.
Click here to read the full article on The New York Times website.
By Frank Rich
June 27, 2009
LIKE all students caught up in the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s, I was riveted by the violent confrontations between the police and protestors in Selma, 1965, and Chicago, 1968. But I never heard about the several days of riots that rocked Greenwich Village after the police raided a gay bar called the Stonewall Inn in the wee hours of June 28, 1969 — 40 years ago today.
Click here to read the full article on The New York Times website.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
At a Peace Rally for Iran on June 25th, 2009
by Kenneth Reveiz
NEW YORK - June 28, 2009
I found out about the rally through an old high school acquaintance’s Facebook status:
“PEACE RALLY FOR IRAN NEW YORK Candle Light Vigil for NEDA and all those who have been so BRAVE in IRAN. Please come and support them. Wednesday, Jun 24 - 7:00pm New York Metro Union Square NYC www.freeiranbracelet.org”
The website sells, as the Live Strong campaign did, bracelets. It plans on “donating the proceeds to Reporters without Borders, who have continuously put their lives at risk in various countries throughout the world, so that the truth can be shown to all the citizen’s [sic] in the world.”
After work—still dressed in suit and tie—I took the subway to Union Square and watched as, at around 7:10PM, under a slowly graying sky, scores of Iranians and non-Iranians stretched columns of green across the plaza. Green, of course, is the color of Islam.
“This is solidarity for Iranian people,” one woman explained in a British-schooled accent to her daughters, who were dressed like twins but weren’t twins. The shorter girl held an unlit candle, a perfect white circle.
At the edges of the expanding display of color, a bearded man held a large sign. It read “DEATH TO DICTATORS,” around which words he had pasted black-and-white computer-printed pictures of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, among others I did and didn’t recognize.
I was surprised to find opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi on the poster. In fact, the bearded man was speaking to a tough-looking, white-haired police officer, complaining that he had been “pushed away” from the general demonstration. The others—one woman was near tears: “This is hurting! This is not our message!”—had been incensed by his “message of violence.” Claiming he had every right to be there as they did, it was determined that he should stand a little off to the side.
He spoke to a young woman with a tape recorder, explained that all those pictured on his poster were “basically the same,” explained that Mousavi was a hard-line dictator, no different from Ahmadinejad. I had heard one student call Ahmadinejad a “monster,” an “inhumane form of human being,” as “not deserving any kind of respect,” and “not part of Iran anymore.” I wondered if this man felt the same way about Ahmadinejad as she did, and still thought the comparison to Mousavi valid, I should have asked. In any case he spoke into the recorder with conviction, gently affirming his opinion, answering questions with the self-assurance of a serene and special truth.
An older, visibly distressed woman tried to interrupt the interview. “So aggressive—why is he so aggressive?” she asked after he and the reporter ignored her. Her husband cautioned her to not “entertain him.” I realized that, with black pen, he had scribbled into the eyes of his dictators.
There had been other rallies, in front of the United Nations building, at Union Square. This is what one tall, bespectacled redhead told me as she stretched a paper bag filled with pins to the crowd of at least a hundred.
One pin read, “NEDA Your voice will never die,” referring to a girl who was shot dead, allegedly by a Basij soldier. Videos and pictures of the brutal killing of the Iranian—now a martyr—circulate all over the Internet. “Neda” is Farsi for “voice.” A computer graphic of a dove, whose ruptured heart had plummeted centimeters below its body, accompanied the words.
The other pin read “WHERE IS MY VOTE?”
Sure enough, at the center of Union Square, which slowly grew darker, was, surrounded by a perimeter of young, white roses, a perimeter of white candles slowly being lit, which itself held down a banner, green and large: “WHERE IS MY VOTE?” with a splatter of blood; above the words were pictures of a brutalized Neda and more words: “Rest in Peace;” “Free Iran.”
As I walked back to the subway a man drew, with a compass, inky circles into a notebook.
NEW YORK - June 28, 2009
I found out about the rally through an old high school acquaintance’s Facebook status:
“PEACE RALLY FOR IRAN NEW YORK Candle Light Vigil for NEDA and all those who have been so BRAVE in IRAN. Please come and support them. Wednesday, Jun 24 - 7:00pm New York Metro Union Square NYC www.freeiranbracelet.org”
The website sells, as the Live Strong campaign did, bracelets. It plans on “donating the proceeds to Reporters without Borders, who have continuously put their lives at risk in various countries throughout the world, so that the truth can be shown to all the citizen’s [sic] in the world.”
After work—still dressed in suit and tie—I took the subway to Union Square and watched as, at around 7:10PM, under a slowly graying sky, scores of Iranians and non-Iranians stretched columns of green across the plaza. Green, of course, is the color of Islam.
“This is solidarity for Iranian people,” one woman explained in a British-schooled accent to her daughters, who were dressed like twins but weren’t twins. The shorter girl held an unlit candle, a perfect white circle.
At the edges of the expanding display of color, a bearded man held a large sign. It read “DEATH TO DICTATORS,” around which words he had pasted black-and-white computer-printed pictures of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, among others I did and didn’t recognize.
I was surprised to find opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi on the poster. In fact, the bearded man was speaking to a tough-looking, white-haired police officer, complaining that he had been “pushed away” from the general demonstration. The others—one woman was near tears: “This is hurting! This is not our message!”—had been incensed by his “message of violence.” Claiming he had every right to be there as they did, it was determined that he should stand a little off to the side.
He spoke to a young woman with a tape recorder, explained that all those pictured on his poster were “basically the same,” explained that Mousavi was a hard-line dictator, no different from Ahmadinejad. I had heard one student call Ahmadinejad a “monster,” an “inhumane form of human being,” as “not deserving any kind of respect,” and “not part of Iran anymore.” I wondered if this man felt the same way about Ahmadinejad as she did, and still thought the comparison to Mousavi valid, I should have asked. In any case he spoke into the recorder with conviction, gently affirming his opinion, answering questions with the self-assurance of a serene and special truth.
An older, visibly distressed woman tried to interrupt the interview. “So aggressive—why is he so aggressive?” she asked after he and the reporter ignored her. Her husband cautioned her to not “entertain him.” I realized that, with black pen, he had scribbled into the eyes of his dictators.
There had been other rallies, in front of the United Nations building, at Union Square. This is what one tall, bespectacled redhead told me as she stretched a paper bag filled with pins to the crowd of at least a hundred.
One pin read, “NEDA Your voice will never die,” referring to a girl who was shot dead, allegedly by a Basij soldier. Videos and pictures of the brutal killing of the Iranian—now a martyr—circulate all over the Internet. “Neda” is Farsi for “voice.” A computer graphic of a dove, whose ruptured heart had plummeted centimeters below its body, accompanied the words.
The other pin read “WHERE IS MY VOTE?”
Sure enough, at the center of Union Square, which slowly grew darker, was, surrounded by a perimeter of young, white roses, a perimeter of white candles slowly being lit, which itself held down a banner, green and large: “WHERE IS MY VOTE?” with a splatter of blood; above the words were pictures of a brutalized Neda and more words: “Rest in Peace;” “Free Iran.”
As I walked back to the subway a man drew, with a compass, inky circles into a notebook.
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