7 posts tagged “world”
The ceiling of the major building in the Temple of Heaven complex, Beijing. It appears to have been freshly painted shortly before our visit as it was bright and stunning. The Temple of Heaven, literally the Altar of Heaven in traditional Chinese. Construction of the complex began in 1420, and was thereafter visited by all subsequent Emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties. The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, seen above, is a magnificent triple-gabled circular building, built on three levels of marble stone base, where the Emperor prayed for good harvests. The Temple of Heaven was registered on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1998. The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests is 32m in diameter and 38m tall. It has four inner, 12 middle and 12 outer pillars, representing the four seasons, 12 months and 12 traditional Chinese hours respectively. A wooden building, it was built without a single nail.
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The Matterhorn (German), Cervino (Italian) or Cervin (French), is a mountain in the Pennine Alps. With its 4,478 metres (14,692 ft) high summit, lying on the border between Switzerland and Italy, it is one of the highest peaks in the Alps and its 1,200 metres (3,937 ft) north face is one of the Great north faces of the Alps.
The individual pieces of the chocolate bar Toblerone are claimed by its maker Kraft to be formed in the likeness of the Matterhorn.
Zermatt (French: Praborgne) is a municipality in the district of Visp in the German-speaking section of the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
It is located at the northern base of the Matterhorn in the Pennine Alps, about 10 km from the border with Italy.
Zermatt has a permanent population of around 5,500 people, although the actual population varies considerably through the seasons as tourists come and go. The village is situated at the end of Mattertal, a north-facing valley, at an altitude of 1,620m (5,315ft). The valley is a dead end; although the border with Italy is close, it cannot be crossed by road, as it traverses a glacier at an altitude of over 3,000m. Zermatt is the starting point of the Patrouille des Glaciers and the Haute Route.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matterhorn
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermatt
Two girls of the Himba tribe in northern Namibia, near Etanga.
Texans Dobbs and Jones discuss America's demise, DC's fake left-right dialectic being key players in this ongoing tragedy. Dobbs is a CNN anchor and also works for CBS. His Lou Dobbs Tonight attracts 800,000 nightly viewers. This Alex Jones interview is remarkable in that you have a major mass media presence, Dobbs, allowing himself to be questioned by the conspiracy world's alpha male. This would have been inconceivable a few years ago. But then the dollar is sinking against everything, the middle class is disappearing, the borders are wide open, bankers dependent on increasing debts are allowed to further enslave humanity, military budgets perpetually inflate, the poor get poorer, the rich richer, ecocidal industries pave and pour concrete over more and more of Earth, our legal rights are increasingly strip mined, the nurdles piling up in the biosphere and food chain are ignored because we prefer to demonize plant food, CO2--it's fucked-up out there.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/
http://www.infowars.com/
Lou Dobbs: U.S. Heading For Stagflation Crisis
CNN host slams Fed's depreciation of dollar
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2008/030608_stagflation_crisis.htm
CNN host Lou Dobbs says the U.S. economy is heading for a stagflation crisis as a result of the U.S. government's policy of dollar depreciation and that the only solution is for the American people to restore a proper Constitutional system of government.
Dobbs told The Alex Jones Show today that the decline of the dollar was, "a clear signal as to how much trouble this economy is in," added to a 9 trillion dollar national debt and a 6 trillion dollar trade debt.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/
http://www.infowars.com/
Lou Dobbs continues with Alex Jones on the economic crises, the sham election with no offer of change, the North American Union and deceit and bad policy by the Bush Administration after 9/11... a date that Lou says startled him into action.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2008/030608_stagflation_crisis.htm
Click photo of this Penan hunter and then again for slideshow. Photos from Borneo, Rwanda, Zaire, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Thailand, Afghanistan, Mexico, Northern Ireland...
Borneo: Member of the Penan hunters and gatherers returning home with lunch. Copyright: Nick Rain.
This is Garbage's The World Is Not Enough video.
