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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)
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8-year-old Boston bombing victim Martin Richard.
I know this isn't a "shocking" picture of the event itself but this photo has been seen all around the world over the past 24 hours and the poignancy of the sign Martin is holding makes his death all the more sadder
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The Boston bomb where the little kid got killed brought back my memories of these 2 poor lads who were killed by the IRA in Warrington in 1993.
They are Johnathan Ball aged 3 and Tim Parry aged 12. As a young Irish teenager at the time I felt so much shame.0 -
I will never condone the killing of civilians by any army or force, especially children, and I am not sticking these up as a sick form of tit for tat, killing children is the most disgusting thing anyone could ever do in my eyes, regardless of their "cause" or "orders"!
But these are the children killed by the RUC and British Army with plastic bullets and other weapons solely for being Catholics in Belfast.
Francis Rowntree, aged 11
Stephen Geddis, aged 10
Brian Stewart, aged 13
Julie Livingston, aged 14
Carol-Anne Kelly, aged 12
These are only a few. Sorry the pictures are so bad, the best pictures of them are pictures of the murals painted of them down different Catholic/Nationalist areas of Belfast. I just cannot understand how any fully grown man/woman of a trained armed force could look through the sight of their gun and pull a trigger knowing these were only children!
Both sides of the struggle have a lot to answer for with the innocent people they killed.0 -
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"A Hockey Dad Breastfeeds His Two Year Old Son"
I came across this interesting image by accident. Trevor Mac Donald is a gay trans gender man who has a son that he conceived and delivered naturally. His partner is the biological father. Despite transitioning before becoming pregnant, he has managed to maintain a breastfeeding relationship with his toddler son. Obviously this image isn't "earth shaking" but it certainly presents a number of taboos, gender identity and transition, gay parenting and extended breastfeeding (feeding beyond two years old.)
The Dad, Trevor, is a popular writer and blogger. Here is the article I stumbled across.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/trevor-macdonald/how-i-learned-to-be-a-bre_b_1452392.html0 -
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There are many photos too horrific to post (or even to link to) here. People can research more on it themselves if they so wish.
Poor kids suffering because of evil war mongers and companies like Dow Chemical and Monsanto.
Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."
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Stopped reading that when they dragged upDr Silly Bollox MD wrote: »Cancer is primarily an environmental disease with 90–95% of cases attributed to environmental factors and 5–10% due to genetics.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2515569/
mobile phones and power lines cause cancer
There is no accepted biological mechanism to explain the epidemiological results; indeed, the relation may be due to chance or confounding.
- In this update of a large nationwide cohort study of mobile phone use, there were no increased risks of tumours of the central nervous system, providing little evidence for a causal association.
And besides atmospheric oxygen can be considered as an important environmental mutagen
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The above painting shows Henry Tandey carrying a wounded soldier at Ypres. Henry was the most decorated enlisted British soldier of WW1, receiving both the Victoria Cross and Distinguished Conduct Medal. Now this painting may not have shook the world but it did make a lasting impression on a young Adolf Hitler who saw the picture in a newspaper report of Henry receiving his Victoria Cross in 1918. Hitler immediately recognised him as the person who saved his life!
Adolf Hitler and Tandey encountered each other after the battle at Marcoing. According to Tandey, as the Germans were retreating, a wounded German man limped into his line of fire. He stated, “I took aim, but couldn’t shoot a wounded man, so I let him go.” The German soldier saw him lower his rifle and nodded his thanks before wandering off.
It was reported that Hitler highly regarded Tandey and his decision to spare his life. So much so that Hitler acquired a large copy of the above painting and hung it up at his mountaintop residence at Berchtesgaden - the eagles nest. He proudly showed of the painting to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain when he visited Hitler’s Berghof residence in 1938. When Chamberlain asked about the painting Hitler said, “That man came so near to killing me that I thought I should never see Germany again. . . .”
Upon learning the wounded man’s identity years later, Tandey remarked, “If only I had known what he would turn out to be. When I saw all the people, women and children, he had killed and wounded I was sorry to God I let him go.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Tandey0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROrpKx3aIjA
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