If you live in the Countryside most of the time like I do, you are completely thirsty for cultural events and social life. Galleries and museums offer time to see how other creatives work. To show how people in a gallery and museum enjoy the peace and quiet and take time to look back into the past.
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The National Portrait Gallery in London is an art gallery in London housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. It is located in St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar Square. The gallery was founded in 1856 and holds the most extensive collection of portraits in the world. It is a popular tourist attraction and a significant cultural institution in the UK. The House of Commons, 1833 By Sir George Hayter This panoramic painting depicts the first session of the newly elected House of Commons, after the Reform Act was passed in 1832. At the front are key figures from the House of Lords: including the Prime Minister Earl Grey, who delivered the act, and his predecessor, the Duke of Wellington, who opposed the legislation. The Reform Act was a foundational moment for British democracy. It extended the vote to a larger number of men and recast electoral boundaries to encompass new industrial towns. However, only men could vote or stand for Parliament at that time, as seen in this picture Unable to sell this enormous painting, the artist, George Hayter, seen in the right-hand corner, eventually persuaded the government to buy it for the newly founded National Portrait Gallery.
I have a big request for those who follow my constant nagging and no-nonsense Rottweiler chatter: Would you please have a look at some old photos and give me feedback because I cannot decide which photos I should use for an exhibition. Too much time has past and and my experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq rather confirmed my suspicion that NATO, in its search for a new role after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact, was pursuing a plan to strive for global hegemony in order to gain economic advantages. At the end of the previous millennium I was involved in one of the usual NATO messes and quickly learnt how self-serving NATO was in creating yet another protectorate. SFOR was no longer good enough for them and even in Bosnia the demands became louder and louder that NATO should get the hell out of Bosnia. The Serbian province of Kosovo, where it all began on the Field of Blackbirds in 1989, was finally created. During the war in Bosnia, I had already learnt about the latent racism towards certain minorities, such as "yes, they are 'THEM', they always have a party" The "THEM" were Roma. Their settlements were generally left to their own devices, even in Bosnia, if their geographical location was not of strategic importance. The discrimination against the Roma became quite obvious in Kosovo, which was "liberated" by NATO. Well over 100,000 Roma were expelled from their settlements and homes within just 12 months. All this happened with the full knowledge of NATO, UNMIK, OSCE and UNHCR. None of these organisations tried to stop these expulsions. On the contrary: every conceivable method was used to try and keep these arbitrary expulsions, or rather ethnic cleansing that would have made a Karadjic proud, under wraps and as secret as possible by all these organisations.
![]() The Museum of Antiquities in Berlin, commonly known as the Antikensammlung (Collection of Classical Antiquities), is one of the most prestigious collections of ancient art and artifacts in the world. It's part of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin State Museums) and is primarily housed in two locations: the Altes Museum and the Pergamon Museum, both situated on Berlin's Museum Island, a UNESCO World Heritage site. “Altes Museum” was opened in 1830. The Altes Museum is one of the oldest museums in Berlin. Designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, it originally housed all of Berlin's art collections. It’s Collections are primarily displaying the classical antiquities from ancient Greece and Rome. Highlights include Greek vases, sculptures, and the renowned "Berlin Painter" vase. The there is the “Pergamon Museum” which opened in 1930. The Pergamon Museum is named after the ancient Greek city of Pergamon. The architects had been Alfred Messel and Ludwig Hoffmann. The Collections: The museum is famous for its monumental reconstructions of archaeological structures, such as: The Pergamon Altar which is a massive altar originally built in the 2nd century BC in the city of Pergamon. Then there is the Ishtar Gate: A beautifully reconstructed gate from the ancient city of Babylon, adorned with glazed brick reliefs and the Market Gate of Miletus: A grand Roman gate from the ancient city of Miletus. And last, but not least the Mshatta Facade: An elaborate facade from the early Islamic desert palace of Mshatta in Jordan. The real internationally known Artifacts are the bust of Nefertiti: Though part of the Neues Museum, the Bust of Nefertiti is one of Berlin’s most famous antiquities. The Praying Boy: A Greek bronze statue from around 300 BC. And some nice Fayum Mummy Portraits: Roman-Egyptian mummy portraits showcasing remarkable portraiture. Divide et impera is the third of three political maxims in Immanuel Kant's Perpetual Peace (1795), Appendix I, the others being Fac et excusa ("Act now, and make excuses later") and Si fecisti, nega ("If you commit a crime, deny it"): "Divide et impera, the reprobated axiom of tyranny, is under certain (some) qualifications, the only policy, by which a republic can be administered on just principles." Kant refers this tactic when describing the traits of a "political moralist."
dit. Recently, I had a conversation with a client who had become increasingly unhappy about the decline in her falling profits going on for months. I asked her if she could tell me the reasons she thought were responsible for the declining profits. Sure, she immediately came up with all the well-known reasons, high rents and taxes, the dying local economy, a new competitor nearby, etc pp….
When she had finished listing all the reasons she could think of for the decline in business, I asked her if she noticed anything on the list. She thought about it for a few minutes and then said she couldn't think of anything else or anything wrong. I then asked her if she had noticed what all these reasons had in common. But after a few minutes she gave up. She couldn't see what I wanted her to see. When I explained to her that she had no control over the things she had mentioned, she had no way of changing them. Of course, control over something is a thing when control becomes self-control, but if she has no power over the circumstances that lead to her dwindling sales, she can only fight the decline of her business if she looks for reasons that are within her control. I have seen this tendency time and time again over the last few years. When something goes wrong, the first thing we often do is look for things that are out of our control. But there is no point in looking for things that are out of our control because there is nothing we can do about it. If instead we look for things that we can influence, then we have a chance of changing things. I know from my own experience of political assessments of situations in countries with a socially unstable society how frustrating it can be to only see the things that people have no control over and then use these factors to make excuses. It's the same old story about the half-full or half-empty glass of water. My client was not happy when I explained that this was just a list of excuses. All she needed to do to make a positive change was to find things she had control over that would lead to a different outcome. One of the advantages of French culture is that a meal often leads to a relaxed situation. I worked with him for about half an hour and we found a number of things that he had control over that would improve his business. This advice is not limited to business. In our daily lives, we often do the same thing. We find many things that are wrong, but we tend to look outside ourselves for the reasons. We can't control the things outside of us. Look within. Look for things you can control. Change the things you can change and over time you will change your life. However, there is only one option against political arbitrariness and autocratic institutions such as the Commissioners of the European Union, who appoint each other like the Commissars of the Politburo in Moscow at the time: relocate production to more promising, future-oriented markets. You know how I define the economic and social classes in this country? The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep 'em showing up at those jobs.
When did Ukraine become a problem for Western Civ? When Victoria Nuland & Company in the US State Department decided to make it a problem in 2014. Before that, going back into the mists of history, Ukraine was not a problem. It was a rather poor frontier province of Russia, and for a while was badly mistreated by Stalin, but it was not a problem outside of Ukraine and, frankly, it was none of our business. And in a matter of months, as Russia rolls up on the Zelensky regime, it will cease to be a problem for anyone.
Bourgeois decay means the beginning of a kind of Neo-Feudalism. In the past, the financial outlay required to maintain palaces and castles was hardly worthwhile, but today even the upper middle-class villas are almost impossible to maintain.
Those who have been growing used to the absurd will feel at ease in these times of ours.....3/4/2019 Journalistic rules, often referred to as journalistic ethics or principles, provide guidelines for reporters and news organisations to uphold professional standards in their work. Of course, digitalization and the News-Circle 7/24 have led to some worrying changes, but I still stubbornly stick to the rules I learned many years ago. I don't think it's even necessary to point out to you that I don't accept assignments from yellow press, gossip news, celebrity rumours under any circumstances. Never! These journalistic rules serve as a foundation for ethical journalism, guiding reporters and news organisations in their mission to inform the public and uphold democratic values.
Here are some key journalistic rules:
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