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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)
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there is a terrible war in Mexico with the drug cartels. this was taken from ONE drug lord's house and burned to the ground. apparenly its 207 MILLION dollars
this is the SOME of the amount travelling north and leaving a path of utter destruction in its wake. Entire villages are threatened by the cartels. Mexican government has lost control. one reputed drug lord is shipping a ton of cocaine a month to the US. The violence is now spilling over the border into th USA. There are parts of Arizona, Texas and increasing parts of California that the US government has abandoned the rule of law due to the dangers. You travel at your own risk.
this reports says it all on one days violence related to drugs...
'According to El Universal, more than a third of the 69 Mexicans killed between Friday and Saturday died in Ciudad Juárez just over the border from the Texas city of El Paso. Several were beheaded, but the toll did not include the victim discovered early on Friday whose face had been stitched on to a football.'
In March, a rancher was shot and killed which has upped the ante.
this has lead to the creation of civilian groups. Like the long established Minutemen, there are civilians now creating patrols to defend the border and the accusations of racism by immigration groups. Far away in Washington with politics mixed in, the reality of the border is lost.
what the cartels 'own' and the creation of a narco state
the face of human trafficking....murder and rape is common as people flee north
the simple fact is the drug cartels are better armed in many cases than the mexican military.
i was going to link to some of the photos...but quite honestly they are too disturbing. some of the gangs are using mutilation as a weapon. the most recent ones have regressed to using hammers. decapitation is the order of the day frequently with limbs removed to hinder identification. search at your own risk.
the tied hands of people murdered by drug cartels...
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED>....NSFW.. the bloody path to drugs
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Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky in a picture from 1912.
He was a pioneer of color photography, and you can see why. What he would do is take three different pictures of the same thing, each with a different filter: Red, Green & Blue. The pictures he got are amazing.
Keep in mind that these are 100 years old.
Link to the story plus many more pictures
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well if we are posting pioneeers of colour photography....
Albert Kahn was a fellow pioneer of colour photography and even visited Ireland.
a similar photographer is Albert Kahn
he travelled through europe and used the same method of layering photos. He also went to asia, africa, middle east, balkans and americas and financed other photograpers as he was a wealthy banker until he lost it all in the 1930's in the wall street crash.
A couple of photosBetween 1909 and 1931 they collected 72,000 colour photographs and 183,000 meters of film. These form a unique historical record of 50 countries, known as "The Archives of the Planet".
Ireland
Irish Woman
Switzerland
Bulgaria
WW I Somme
WW I Plane
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More Albert Kahn, some taken as early as 1909 when he began his project.
Cambodia
More of Ireland
all photos in Ireland were taken in 1913Two fishermen characteristic of the west coast, gentle, pleasant and hardened to poverty. They love Ireland with a passion, I would say, with lyricism as they all speak poetically. But what surprises most is their openness and their great interest in everything. The boy is dressed in a skirt which is common in the region for all boys up to the age of 12.
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Belgian cyclist Wouter Weylandt who died after crashing during Monday's third stage of the Giro d'Italia.
Weylandt, whose girlfriend is pregnant, moved to the Leopard-Trek team at the start of the season after turning professional with Quick Step in 2005.
RIP.
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The day Andy Irons(world famous surfer) died definitely shocked the world's surfing community. He had withdrawn from a competition and was found dead in a hotel room the following morning on november 2nd. His wife was 7 months pregnant at the time.0 -
James Zwerg after being attacked by a Mob for supporting Civil Rights.
"The Greyhound bus doors hissed open. Zwerg had volunteered to go first. The mob swarmed him as he stepped off the bus, yelling, "****** lover! ****** lover!"
Then, as the mob grabbed him, Zwerg closed his eyes and bowed his head to pray. "The Lord is my light and salvation, of whom shall I fear ... "
The mob dragged him away.
What happened next would furnish the civil rights movement with one of its most unforgettable images.
Photographers eventually broke through and snapped pictures of what the mob had done to Zwerg and another Freedom Rider, John Lewis. The pictures were broadcast around the world."
CNN Story on the attack:
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by far the worst thing I have ever seen on the internet....worst then any beheading etc.
Cannot believe what they did, watched the video and lasted 35 seconds before I nearly puked....
Honest to god...the worst thing I ever seen.....I really wish I could unsee this
I saw this video last year, it was the worst mistake ever. Like the other poster i wish i could unsee this. I can read and watch things and never be affected in any way but this is the most disturbing video ever to be on the net. I couldnt sleep or eat for days after it ..........horrific!!0 -
Not sure if this was done yet, but this picture always stirs emotion in me:
http://d284656.u38.hosting.digiweb.ie/img/2008/11/16/columnists/paul-williams/jerry-mc-cabe.jpg
There's something very heroic about this photo of that handsome, honourable, patriotic Irishman, detective Garda Jerry McCabe. He bravely sacrificed the only possesion that was truly his for the sake of us Irish people. Even in death he looks like a leader, ready, clean and upright. You will never be dead to Ireland Jerry, RIP
i think its shocking to be honest, and that rag posting it:mad:0 -
Not shaking the world, but flooding it.
Great series of new pictures. http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/05/mississippi-floodwaters-roll-south/100069/0 -
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by far the worst thing I have ever seen on the internet....worst then any beheading etc.
Cannot believe what they did, watched the video and lasted 35 seconds before I nearly puked....
Honest to god...the worst thing I ever seen.....I really wish I could unsee this
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http://everyday-i-show.livejournal.com/45132.html
I am not going to post any of the photos - they are a good few there. . An eclectic collection of black & white photos from the 20th Century - some of them would be definite additions to this thread.
Well worth looking through.
EDIT: OK I lied - I have to post this one.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQbqzaRAql8
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