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Gibraltar: Charles Pears for the Empire Marketing Board, c. 1930 (National Archives UK)
Any evening when the sirens are not yet wailing, it may be safely concluded they are merely waiting to again begin to wail, louder than before.
It is thought to be controlled chaos, by those who hold the power and implement the controls. But the earplugs (made of compacted money) must be ground deeper and deeper into the head, to keep the siren noise out. And chaos too is capable of waiting, to get a better start.
If anything in this is random, surely it is not the larger pattern of events, which now follows a course that should be recognised as completely logical (that is, absolutely insane).
It is thought to be controlled chaos, by those who hold the power and implement the controls. But the earplugs (made of compacted money) must be ground deeper and deeper into the head, to keep the siren noise out. And chaos too is capable of waiting, to get a better start.
If anything in this is random, surely it is not the larger pattern of events, which now follows a course that should be recognised as completely logical (that is, absolutely insane).
Gang tags. 187 over a crossed out XIV indicates the possibility or threat to kill, 187 is the California Penal Code for homicide, XIV is the Norteños symbol for the Nuestra Familia prison gang. Car in driveway is a 1963 Ford Galaxie, 3rd Street, West Oakland: photo by Dave Glass (Dizzy Atmosphere), 15 July 2006
2523 Martin Luther King Way, Oakland: photo by Dave Glass (Dizzy Atmosphere), 18 October 2009
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Danny's Liquors, Corner of Peralta, Center and 17th Streets, West Oakland, California: photo by Dave Glass (Dizzy Atmosphere), 10 April 2009
Danny's Liquors, Corner of Peralta, Center and 17th Streets, West Oakland, California: photo by Dave Glass (Dizzy Atmosphere), 10 April 2009
Danny's Liquors, 1624 Peralta, West Oakland, California: photo by Dave Glass (Dizzy Atmosphere), 1989; colorized version posted 28 August 2007
Oakland_iphone: photo by Koci Hernandez, 11 May 2010
Oakland_iphone: photo by Koci Hernandez, 11 May 2010
Lake Merritt BART Station, Oakland: photo by Ann Xiang (dotann), 14 April 2009
Oakland: photo by djpurity, 3 July 2009
Melrose, East Oakland: photo by djpurity, 12 April 2009
East Oakland (North Kennedy Tract): photo by djpurity, 12 April 2009
Oakland Central Station: photo by Sharon Hahn Darlin, 18 August 2010
Oakland Station 0047. The former Southern Pacific train station in Oakland. It's been abandoned since the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989. I've been scheming to get in for a few years, and got my chance today. It's a beauty: photo by Christopher Hall (Dead Slow), 8 April 2007
Excel 23rd yard Oak 90's: photo by !@#$%&*!, 23 July 2009
Endure (23rd Street, Oakland): photo by !@#$%&*!, 23 July 2009
Untitled (Schmoe?) (14th and International Boulevard, Oakland): photo by !@#$%&*!, 23 July 2009
Gigs One (Oakland Trax): photo by !@#$%&*!, 7 August 2011
KRASH AMEND Oakland. Konsider Oakland Deadly: photo by !@#$%&*!, 8 November 2000
Oakland Puppies. Saucie and Barbie, Oakland afternoon strolls conversing with the neighbors: photo by Olivia Wright (Perpetually), 19 January 2008
Hanjin Terminal, Port of Oakland: photo by B I R D, 13 October 2005
Port of Oakland: photo by David Bayliss (reflect/refract), 28 May 2012
Man on roof, East Oakland, night: photo by Dennis McGuira, 10 March 2012
Even Oakland: photo by Presley Martin, 12 January 2006
Oakland sunrise. West Oakland BART station: photo by Sergio Ruiz (sirgious), 19 January 2011
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