Nov 06
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“ Arrivato in dogana in Svizzera, alla richiesta se avesse nulla da dichiarare Chuck Norris ha prontamente dichiarato guerra. Ora è l’imperatore della Svizzera.
— ROUNDHOUSE KICKS
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Oct 15
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“ Ci sono angoli della Sicilia nei quali quello che succede altrove sembra lontanissimo. Il tempo scorre con lentezza inesorabile e a scandirlo ci sono le passeggiate di vecchi comunisti e democristiani per nulla pentiti. Non viene mai negato il saluto o la stretta di mano al pensionato della fiamma tricolore, che ancora immagina di stare ad una cinquantina di anni fa e non capisce perché mai il suo segretario di partito se la fa con quello di un gruppo politico che ha il nome dell’urlo dei tifosi della nazionale di calcio e non distingue se è più disonesto lui o quell’altro che si chiama con l’acronimo della DC preceduto da una U. Da quelle parti gli arabi, gli africani ci sono sempre stati anzi, per dire il vero, in effetti ci abitano da generazioni assieme ad una immensa quantità di altri popoli che alla vista di tanta bella terra si sono fermati e hanno messo su casa. Non fosse stato per la siccità, la peste, le guerre e gli americani, probabilmente sarebbero ancora tutti lì.
— Femminismo a Sud | La rivolta delle rumene
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Sep 23
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West Bank, 2000 - Palestinians fighting the Israeli army - James Nachtwey

West Bank, 2000 - Palestinians fighting the Israeli army - James Nachtwey

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Chechnya, 1996 - Ruins of central Grozny - James Nachtwey

Chechnya, 1996 - Ruins of central Grozny - James Nachtwey

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Sep 22
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Kosovo, 1999 - Imprint of a man killed by Serbs - James Nachtwey

Kosovo, 1999 - Imprint of a man killed by Serbs - James Nachtwey

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Sep 14
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Guatemala, 1983 - Clergy traveled in military helicopters to the mass of Pope John Paul II in the war zone. (via James Nachtwey)

Guatemala, 1983 - Clergy traveled in military helicopters to the mass of Pope John Paul II in the war zone. (via James Nachtwey)

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Sep 12
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Dragging Vietcong Soldier (via Photos that Changed the World)

Dragging Vietcong Soldier (via Photos that Changed the World)

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Sep 11
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Nagasaki Mushroom Cloud This is the picture of the “mushroom cloud” showing the enormous quantity of energy released. The first atomic bomb was released on August 6 in Hiroshima (Japan) and killed about 80,000 people. On August 9 another bomb was released above Nagasaki. The effects of the second bomb were even more devastating - 150,000 people were killed or injured. But the powerful wind, the extremely high temperature and radiation caused enormous long term damage. (via Photos that Changed the World)

Nagasaki Mushroom Cloud

This is the picture of the “mushroom cloud” showing the enormous quantity of energy released. The first atomic bomb was released on August 6 in Hiroshima (Japan) and killed about 80,000 people. On August 9 another bomb was released above Nagasaki. The effects of the second bomb were even more devastating - 150,000 people were killed or injured. But the powerful wind, the extremely high temperature and radiation caused enormous long term damage. (via Photos that Changed the World)

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Sep 10
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Last Jew of Vinnitsa Picture from an Einsatzgruppen soldier’s personal album, labelled on the back as “Last Jew of Vinnitsa,” it shows a member of Einsatzgruppe D is just about to shoot a Jewish man kneeling before a filled mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1941. All 28,000 Jews from Vinnitsa and its surrounding areas were massacred at the time. (via Photos that Changed the World)

Last Jew of Vinnitsa

Picture from an Einsatzgruppen soldier’s personal album, labelled on the back as “Last Jew of Vinnitsa,” it shows a member of Einsatzgruppe D is just about to shoot a Jewish man kneeling before a filled mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1941. All 28,000 Jews from Vinnitsa and its surrounding areas were massacred at the time. (via Photos that Changed the World)

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Sep 09
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Death of a loyalist soldier From 1936 to 1939 Robert Capa photographed the horrors the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, he became known across the globe for a photo he took on the Cordoba Front of a Loyalist Militiaman who had just been shot and was in the act of falling to his death. Because of his proximity to the victim and the timing of the capture, there was a long controversy about the authenticity of this photograph. Historians eventually succeeded in identifying the dead soldier as Federico Borrell García and proved it authentic. This is the best-known picture of the Spanish civil war. (via Photos that Changed the World)

Death of a loyalist soldier

From 1936 to 1939 Robert Capa photographed the horrors the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, he became known across the globe for a photo he took on the Cordoba Front of a Loyalist Militiaman who had just been shot and was in the act of falling to his death. Because of his proximity to the victim and the timing of the capture, there was a long controversy about the authenticity of this photograph. Historians eventually succeeded in identifying the dead soldier as Federico Borrell García and proved it authentic. This is the best-known picture of the Spanish civil war. (via Photos that Changed the World)

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Sep 07
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The Kiss at Times Square by Alfred Eisenstaedt At the end of World War II, in US cities everybody went to the streets to salute the end of combat. Friendship and unity were everywhere. This picture shows a sailor kissing a young nurse in Times Square. The fact is he was kissing every girl he encountered and for that kiss, this particular nurse slapped him. (via Photos that Changed the World)

The Kiss at Times Square by Alfred Eisenstaedt

At the end of World War II, in US cities everybody went to the streets to salute the end of combat. Friendship and unity were everywhere. This picture shows a sailor kissing a young nurse in Times Square. The fact is he was kissing every girl he encountered and for that kiss, this particular nurse slapped him. (via Photos that Changed the World)

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Sep 04
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“ No, no! “Conservatore” [un tratto fondamentale del mio tipo psicologico] è giustissimo: nel senso che prima di cambiare una cosa importante che funziona bene voglio analizzare nelle minuzie infinitesime tutte le parti dell’alternativa. A me il nuovo va benissimo se è migliore del vecchio, ma essere nuovo non è condizione sufficiente per essere migliore. Ad esempio, da qualche anno alcuni progressisti si stanno adoperando per sostituire il pensiero scientifico con quello religioso. Io da buon conservatore guardo con sospetto questa innovazione incipiente, ho qualche perplessità quando sento dire che il relativismo è la morte del pensiero umanistico, ma non sono un reazionario integralista. Se il Pastore Tedesco riesce a dimostrarmi, in condizioni controllate in laboratorio, che con la fede cieca ed assoluta si possono sovvertire care vetuste regole come la legge di gravità o l’irreversibilità dello stato di morte, allora smetterò di essere il cocciuto conservatore che sono e inizierò ad essere un fricchettone progressista come lui! Più seriamente credo sia semplicemente un problema di termini: conservatore sì, ma di che cosa? Se mi chiedessero se voglio conservare la cultura del pregiudizio verso i “diversi” dai “normali” direi di no e non sarei un conservatore. La nostra Costituzione rifiuta la guerra e la pena di morte. Se mi chiedessero di cambiarla nel senso opposto direi di no: la Costituzione resta così com’è che va benissismo; nel qual caso sarei un agguerrito conservatore.
— Hari-ri-wit-Seldon via mail (minimamentadattato con permesso!)
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Sep 03
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Napalm Girl (via Photos that Changed the World) …E, purtroppo, foto di guerra: laddove un gesto come quello di mettere i fiori nei fucili appare giocosamente e forse per questo ingenuamente teatrale - drammatica, cruda, sempre troppo reale… Da Wikipedia: Kim Phúc was a resident in the village of Trang Bang, South Vietnam. On June 8, 1972, South Vietnamese planes, in coordination with the American military, dropped a napalm bomb on Trang Bang, which was under attack from and occupied by North Vietnamese forces. She joined a group of civilians and South Vietnamese soldiers fleeing from the Cao Dai Temple, located in the village along the road, to safe South Vietnamese positions. A South Vietnamese pilot mistook the group as a threat and diverted to attack it. Along with other villagers, two of Kim Phúc’s cousins were killed. Associated Press photographer Nick Út earned a Pulitzer Prize for the photograph. It was also the World Press Photo of the Year 1972. The image of her running naked amidst the chaotic background became one of the most remembered images of the Vietnam War. In an interview many years later, she remembers yelling “Nong qua, nong qua” (“too hot, too hot”) in the picture. After taking the photograph, Út promptly took Kim Phúc and the other children to a hospital in Saigon where it was determined that her burns were so severe that she would not survive. However, after a 14-month hospital stay and 17 surgical procedures, she returned home.

Napalm Girl (via Photos that Changed the World)

…E, purtroppo, foto di guerra: laddove un gesto come quello di mettere i fiori nei fucili appare giocosamente e forse per questo ingenuamente teatrale - drammatica, cruda, sempre troppo reale…

Da Wikipedia:

Kim Phúc was a resident in the village of Trang Bang, South Vietnam. On June 8, 1972, South Vietnamese planes, in coordination with the American military, dropped a napalm bomb on Trang Bang, which was under attack from and occupied by North Vietnamese forces. She joined a group of civilians and South Vietnamese soldiers fleeing from the Cao Dai Temple, located in the village along the road, to safe South Vietnamese positions. A South Vietnamese pilot mistook the group as a threat and diverted to attack it. Along with other villagers, two of Kim Phúc’s cousins were killed. Associated Press photographer Nick Út earned a Pulitzer Prize for the photograph. It was also the World Press Photo of the Year 1972. The image of her running naked amidst the chaotic background became one of the most remembered images of the Vietnam War. In an interview many years later, she remembers yelling “Nong qua, nong qua” (“too hot, too hot”) in the picture.

After taking the photograph, Út promptly took Kim Phúc and the other children to a hospital in Saigon where it was determined that her burns were so severe that she would not survive. However, after a 14-month hospital stay and 17 surgical procedures, she returned home.

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Flower Power: the most lasting image from the last big march on the Pentagon, on October 21, 1967, survives in the collective memory as summing up an era. Carnations in gun barrels were the essence of Flower Power. “I knew I had a good picture,” says photographer Bernie Boston, 73, who took the photo for the Washington Star. His editors, not imagining the significance, buried it deep inside the A section. (via Photos that Changed the World) Foto di pace… (O almeno, gente che ci prova, che ci crede!)

Flower Power: the most lasting image from the last big march on the Pentagon, on October 21, 1967, survives in the collective memory as summing up an era. Carnations in gun barrels were the essence of Flower Power. “I knew I had a good picture,” says photographer Bernie Boston, 73, who took the photo for the Washington Star. His editors, not imagining the significance, buried it deep inside the A section. (via Photos that Changed the World)

Foto di pace… (O almeno, gente che ci prova, che ci crede!)

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Aug 30
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Afghan Girl (via Photos that Changed the World) Who would forget these eyes that have seemed to reflect the harshness of the war? This is the famous photo of the Afghan girl taken by Steve McCurry of National Geographic. It is very rare for a man to see faces of Afghan girls mainly because they are well-covered, thus McCurry seized the opportunity when she showed her face for a few moments. Her photograph made it to the cover of the magazine later on.

Afghan Girl (via Photos that Changed the World)

Who would forget these eyes that have seemed to reflect the harshness of the war? This is the famous photo of the Afghan girl taken by Steve McCurry of National Geographic. It is very rare for a man to see faces of Afghan girls mainly because they are well-covered, thus McCurry seized the opportunity when she showed her face for a few moments. Her photograph made it to the cover of the magazine later on.

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