The German school system is increasingly failing to provide skilled workers to key areas, such as law enforcement

“The essence of Last Stop is that you might take the same route every day but what you see, the ebb and flow on the street takes on a random nature, like a series of fleeting mini soap operas” – George Georgiou, Last Stop, 2015     In Last Stop, London-born photographer George Georgiou captured the city through the windows of double-decker buses. His view, mostly from the top deck, shows us the city unfolding on the street below. “We fill in the blanks, a little like when we drive past an accident on the highway, we glimpse the crashed car and imagine the rest. How we perceive became an important element in the work.” Georgiou says. “Are they secret lovers or a married couple? The essence of the project is that you might take the same route everyday but what you see, the ebb and flow on the street, takes on a random nature.” As with so much great street photography, we are invited to imaging the stories between…     “The lower level is very close to the street, where I’m almost touching the people in the traditional form of street photography. The upper deck allows me the distance to capture the layers of the urban landscape.” – George Georgiou, Last Stop     “In 2008 I returned to London having spent the last nine years living and working in Eastern Europe and Turkey and was surprised by the speed of change that had taken place. I wanted to document the city, its movements and migrations, its landscape and architecture, its diversity and energy. I wanted to understand how so many people from all over the world manage to share the same space.” – George Georgiou     “In sitting behind the window, I also became invisible but the bus also gives you the privilege to see and understand the emotional content of London’s everyday movements, rhythms and rituals.” – George Georgiou     “The essence of the project is that you might take the same route everyday but what you see, the ebb and flow on the street takes on a random nature. To capture this flow, the concertina format reflects and mimics the feel of a bus journey, but more importantly it gives the viewer the opportunity to create their own journeys by spreading the book out and combining different images together. This moves the book away from an author-led linear narrative to one of multiple possibilities.” – George Georgiou     “As a photographer I wanted the challenge of not having full control, taking whatever free seat there was next to the window, only being able to photograph, what was within reach of my static position and in front of me. Just a fleeting glance. Nonetheless, my photography is not detached. I try to capture and understand the emotional content of London’s everyday movements, rhythms and rituals. I am part of this, it is also my movement, my community, my home.” —George Georgiou   Children play in the gardens of a housing block along the route of Bus 188 between Russell Square and North Greenwich. [This image was photographed through the window of one of London’s double decker busses and is part of ‘Last Stop’, a photo project now published as a book, which aims to document the city, its movements and migrations, its landscape and architecture, its diversity and energy.]   Via: AscentureVegegtal The post Last Stop: Watching London From A Double Decker Bus appeared first on Flashbak.

"If LA residents attacking government officials with the express purpose of thwarting enforcement of the laws is not insurrection or rebellion, what is?"

Notable quotables from Axios, Vi Lyles, JB Pritzker, Sonia Sotomayor, Bill de Blasio, Jeffery C. Mays, Joy Reid, Tucker Carlson, and Gary Bauer.

The US mainstream media tends to operate by encouraging a certain prefabricated outrage. Sensationalized narratives are cultivated along predictable tracks. But no less egregious is what the media chooses to ignore. Few events of late have better exposed the ideological underpinnings of the media – and of the elite whose narratives it plugs – than the recent brutal and shocking murder of a young Ukrainian woman on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina.  

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent estimated Sunday that the federal government would have to return about half the revenue it’s collected from tariffs if the Supreme Court upholds a ruling that reciprocal duties are illegal. While he expressed confidence that the top court would side with the Trump administration, losing that revenue windfall could worsen the deficit outlook significantly.

The Department of Homeland Security said Monday that it has launched an immigration enforcement operation here as part of the Trump administration’s effort to target “sanctuary cities,” and immigrant advocates said several people in heavily Hispanic communities have been detained. The agency did not provide details of the scale or duration of the undertaking in Chicago, which will be led by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The announcement came after President Donald Trump vowed for...