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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 426 ✭✭ddef


    Jesus, just look at some of those pictures...
    Lord forgive us.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭majiktripp


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    As an aside, Dustin the Turkey, come on FFS...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,990 ✭✭✭Darksaga87


    Morlar wrote: »
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    I knew someone would beat me to it!:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 524 ✭✭✭gagiteebo


    I want to thank everyone for this thread, I've spent the last couple of days going through the photos and looking up things that I didn't know about, it has also been a history lesson :) I've laughed, cried and been genuinely sickened and heartbroken at what, we as humans, can do to each other.

    I don't think there was any need for those who criticised other's posts as being silly or irrelevant just because they were about football or Dustin the Turkey. It's a very subjective thing, just because it didn't have an effect on you doesn't mean it didn't have one on someone else, please be mature and open-minded enough to see that and don't add to the growing number of 'nah-sayers' and people who like to knock you down in Ireland...

    Keep posting guys, by far one of the best things I've seen on boards or on the web for that matter :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,461 ✭✭✭Queen-Mise


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    This isn't a photo that shook the world. But it is shocking in it's own right. So much wrong with it - it beggars belief, a lovely place to go sightseeing :confused::confused:

    photograph depicts a group of affluent-looking young Lebanese driving through a South Beirut neighbourhood devastated by Israeli bombings. The image was taken on 15 August 2006, the first day of the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah when thousands of Lebanese started returning to their homes.

    http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/16170/photo-journalism/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,461 ✭✭✭Queen-Mise


    This news story did shock the world though. Incredible photo.

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    A supporter of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is overcome with grief after a suicide bomber set off his charge in an assassination attack that killed Bhutto and many of her supporters December 27, 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The opposition leader’s death sparked days of nationwide rioting, left the country in a state of shock and cast serious doubts on the possibility of democracy in Pakistan.


    http://bop.nppa.org/2008/still_photography/winners/?cat=INN


    All the obvious photos have been posted already on this thread - some of the more modern ones will become classics in time, I believe. This photo just shows how much that man lost - all his hopes and dreams in the murder of Benazir Bhutto..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,461 ✭✭✭Queen-Mise


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    Kenji Nagai, the photographer killed in Burma holds his camera willing to continue taking pictures… of his killer.

    This was Kenji Nagai, a 50-year-old photojournalist killed working for the Tokyo-based APF News who, The Guardian said, had years of experience covering danger zones.

    Kenji was fatally wounded in Yangon on Thursday, and pictures smuggled out of the country showed him clutching a camera as he lay dying

    There is a really good piece on the below link about the suppression of journalists reporting news to the world below.


    http://www.innovationsinnewspapers.com/index.php/category/photojournalism/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3 najva


    Israeli soldiers denouncing Gaza war crimes, describe “the use of ‘permissive’ rules of engagement that cost civilian lives during the recent military campaign in Gaza.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,461 ✭✭✭Queen-Mise


    Queen-Mise wrote: »
    There is a really good piece on the below link about the suppression of journalists reporting news to the world below.


    http://www.innovationsinnewspapers.com/index.php/category/photojournalism/

    Here is another photo of the same killing, a different perspective

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,461 ✭✭✭Queen-Mise


    najva wrote: »

    Horrific to look at najva - but thank you.

    I really think that Israel is one of the most evil regimes around at the moment. All the worst because of the support of the West.


    I often wondered are they not pulled up on their behaviour because the Holocaust. What happened to them was so horrific - the West probably still feel guilty about - hence they are let get away with what they want. It is something that is never brought up in debates.
    The failure of the British army in Iraq (?) in the 1920s has often been cited as reasons why the US will never succeed in Iraq... But the Holocaust is never brought up in debates.

    Maybe I am completely wrong - there is no link whatsoever, but I have often wondered.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3 najva


    <snip- fake photos are fake> Iraq.1.jpgpoor Iraqi mothers1700ir.jpgiraq_children_tortured_66.JPGpoor iraqi child



    The best kept secret of the Bush's war crimes is that thousands of children have been imprisoned, tortured, and otherwise denied rights under the Geneva Conventions and related international agreements.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 845 ✭✭✭tylercollins


    What an amazing thread! I have just sat for the last 2 hours looking at every single picture in this thread.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


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    Or how about getting sentenced to death by stoning under Sharia law..

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    And these people try tell us the west is barbaric!.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


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    And these people try tell us the west is barbaric!.

    Pretty sure I have seen the video footage of that one. I will never forget arguing with a boards moderator (islamic forum) who maintained that stoning adulterous women to death was acceptable in his view. Animal behaviour.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,461 ✭✭✭Queen-Mise


    I am not the better for having looked at the pictures on this page.

    Good point on them calling us barbaric - it reminds me of Europe during the medieval ages. All they need now is to burn a few witches..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,340 ✭✭✭Cmar-Ireland


    Queen-Mise wrote: »
    All they need now is to burn a few witches..

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    This is a website showing communist crimes against humanity by soviet russia in east europe

    Pretty much all of the photographs are disturbing


    http://www.lietuvos.org/istorija/communism/

    Pt 2 is 1945 - 1980 -Soviet & Chineese communist warcrimes

    http://www.lietuvos.org/istorija/communism/communism_2.htm

    (Very nsfw).

    This is one of the more viewable ones (of Katyn)

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    NKVD prison in Vinnitsa

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,461 ✭✭✭Queen-Mise


    I think at the moment the warning on this thread - 'Contains graphic images, may cause distress', just isn't strong enough at the moment with the last couple pages on this thread.

    By god humans are a barbaric species. Man's inhumanity to man beggars belief sometimes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 617 ✭✭✭k99_64


    Dresden.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,461 ✭✭✭Queen-Mise


    Anti-Nazi resistance leader Freya von Moltke dies aged 98
    Prominent member of German resistance during second world war passes away at her home in Vermont

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    A prominent member of the anti-Nazi resistance in the second world war has died at the age of 98 at her home in Vermont. Freya von Moltke died on Friday after suffering a viral infection, her son said.

    Von Moltke formed a group known as the Kreisau Circle with her husband,, Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, which discussed plans for the democratic Germany they hoped would follow the fall of the Third Reich. The group supported the failed attempt on 20 July 1944 to assassinate Hitler.

    Von Moltke moved to Vermont in 1960, where she published her memoirs, Memories of Kreisau and the German Resistance.

    Von Moltke described her life in the resistance with her husband, who was executed for his activities, in an interview in 2002, saying: "To object and then to stand for what you believe in is one of the most important human activities to this day."

    Born Freya Deichmann, into a banking family in 1911 in Cologne, Freya von Moltke met her future husband when she was 18. They were married in 1931 and both received law degrees.

    The couple settled on his Silesian estate, Kreisau, located in present-day Poland. In 1932, they moved to Berlin where Helmuth von Moltke set up an international law practice. An opponent of Hitler's regime from its start, Helmuth von Moltke assisted Jews and other victims of Nazism. Helmuth von Moltke was drafted into the German army in 1939 as a specialist in international and martial law, but during his military service he advocated the humane treatment of prisoners of war and civilians in German-occupied territories under the Geneva conventions.

    In 1947, Freya von Moltke left for South Africa, where her mother-in-law had been born. She worked as a social worker, but grew troubled by the apartheid regime and returned to Germany in 1956, where she began work on publicising the activities of the Kreisau Circle.

    She moved to the US to live with Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, a Dartmouth College professor and social philosopher who had fled Germany after the rise of the Nazis. After Rosenstock-Huessy died in 1973, she dedicated herself to promoting his works, in addition to those of her late husband

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭we'llallhavetea_old


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    i know it wasn't real blood, but it made the headlines.

    this is the best thread i've ever been on, i have bawled my heart out.

    how can we complain about anything?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,273 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    Some previously unreleased pictures from 9/11

    http://www.biker.ie/forum/showthread.php?t=107094
    New 9/11 photos give dramatic view of attack
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    In the air for three hours, Det. Semendinger took three rolls of 36 stills with his personal Minolta Maxxum 7000 camera and another 245 with his digital Olympus U-2100.
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle7022280.ece

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    Some fairly striking images, more here
    http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/new-9-1...3360226/photos


    Finding more

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    A plume of smoke rises up from one of the towers as it collapses

    And some hope
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    Eight years on a new tower rises up at 'Ground Zero'


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 251 ✭✭fikay


    This is a link to a video which has given rise to much debate RE security/policing in recent times.
    Please note that it is very disturbing.

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8b177f60bb


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Is that for real? He looks so relaxed in the lead up to it! The copper doesn't seem too bothered by the whole gig either - just calmly lifts his belongings and strolls out.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 251 ✭✭fikay


    Apparently so:
    The circumstances behind this video took place on 19 Dec 2003 when 47 year old Ricardo Alfonso Cerna was stopped for a traffic violation at around 9.30 am in Muscoy (a resendiental suburb of San Bernardino County about 60 miles east of L.A.). Cerna fled the scene (in his car, then on foot) before shooting the perusing officer, deputy Michael Parhan, twice in the abdomen. (Deputy Paran survived the shooting).
    They brought him in for questioning and as you can see the result was horrific.

    There is an article which goes on to discuss how the video has been used in training here:
    http://www.snopes.com/photos/gruesome/interrogate.asp


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭Hogzy


    RIP
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,460 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    Chairman Mao
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    Venerated in China to this day, despite killing over 10 times more people than Hitler.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭Princess Zelda


    Harold J. Haley (November 14, 1904 – August 7, 1970) was a Superior Court judge in Marin County, California. He was taken hostage in his courtroom, along with several others, during the course of a trial, and murdered during the attempted escape of his captors with their hostages.

    On August 7, 1970, Jonathan Jackson brought guns into Judge Haley's courtroom, where San Quentin inmate James McClain was on trial. McClain was freed along with two other San Quentin inmates, Ruchell Magee and William Christmas, who were present at the trial as witnesses. Jackson and the prisoners took Haley and four other people hostage and attempted to escape.

    Haley, Jackson, McClain and Christmas were killed as the abductors attempted to drive away from the courthouse. Haley was apparently hit by fire from a sawed-off shotgun that had been fastened to his neck with adhesive tape by the abductors. Two of the other hostages were wounded.

    Photographs of the event were taken by news photographers Jim Kean and Roger Bockrath. The best-known photograph by Bockrath shows McClain leading out the hostages, pointing a revolver at police with his right hand while holding a shotgun taped around Haley's neck with his left hand.

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    More information available here


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭seanbmc


    http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/haiti_01_14/h34_21718089.jpg

    "Two year old Redjeson Hausteen Claude reacts to his mother Daphnee Plaisin, after he was rescued from a collapsed home by Belgian and Spanish rescuers in the aftermath of the powerful earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010"

    http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/haiti_01_14/h22_21711223b.jpg


    More pics here http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/01/haiti_48_hours_later.html


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


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    http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1150127.html

    Ireland confirms 'Irish' Dubai killers don't exist
    By Avi Issacharoff and Jack Khoury, Haaretz Correspondents, and Agencies

    ...
    The government added that the Irish passport numbers publicized by Dubai authorities also are counterfeits, because they have the wrong number of digits and contain no letters.
    ...
    British government sources told the Daily Telegraph earlier Tuesday that the three Irish passport-holders were most likely Mossad agents carrying false documentation.
    ...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭raindog.promo


    I'lll have to look up some photos that give hope and that to try balancing the scales on this thread.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    Mark Inglis from New Zealand scaling Everest

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭cosmic


    I'lll have to look up some photos that give hope and that to try balancing the scales on this thread.

    There's Burst of Joy from Sal Verder. A US POW returning from Vietnam, often seen as the defining image of the end of US involvement in the Vietnam war. Great shot.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    A baby Giraffe in a womb

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  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 5,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭G_R


    WindSock wrote: »
    A baby Giraffe in a womb

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    thats one weird looking giraffe:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭raindog.promo


    WindSock wrote: »
    A baby Giraffe in a womb

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    em...................




    ....that's not a giraffe.


    :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    Hands up who's ever seen a baby giraffe in utero?

    o/


    See? It is.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    WindSock wrote: »
    Hands up who's ever seen a baby giraffe in utero?

    o/


    See? It is.

    Another dead giraffe fallen victim of the ivory trade.

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    When will they ever learn!!


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,757 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    Excellent thread.

    These have probably been posted already, but there are so many I have forgotten half :rolleyes:
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    Charles Manson

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    This one still shakes the world today!

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    Lord Kitchener

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    RMS Lusitania's sinking shocks the world

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    Pearl Harbour December 7, 1941. The USS Arizona is pictured in flames

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    Something closer to home, but for me, an iconic Irish image.

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    Scott’s party at the South Pole. From left to right, Scott, Oates, Wilson, Evans. They arrived on 18 Jan 1912 only to find the Amundsen and the other Norwegians had beet them to it. None of Scott's party made it home alive.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,520 ✭✭✭Dubh Geannain


    Dyflin wrote: »
    Excellent thread.

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    Something closer to home, but for me, an iconic Irish image.

    OT but you know Pearse's shot is a side profile because he was image conscious of a lazy left eye or something like that.


  • Moderators Posts: 8,728 ✭✭✭x PyRo


    Best thread ever, anywhere. It has changed my views on life.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 175 ✭✭rjp123




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,534 ✭✭✭Dman001


    Just discovered this thread. After looking through a few pages, I actually wonder how some people sleep at night and live with themselves.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,970 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    rjp123 wrote: »
    Thats a brilliant one.

    Here he is from a different angle:

    http://www.life.com/image/50775498


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,032 ✭✭✭pavb2


    http://images1.fanpop.com/images/soapbox/photography_2845_1.jpg

    Here's a link of picture(if someone can post it) I found fascinating when growing up particularly when you realise the Afrikaaner is about to die.

    Definitely a photo where when you read the circumstances of the story your opinion changes "A thug about to die" is one title or " Generations old battle finally lost" .

    Incidentally Kevin Carter (photograher of vulture and child)was also present at this and missed the picture as he was re loading his camera.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Do you have any links handy to the story behind the pic?


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,032 ✭✭✭pavb2




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  • Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭irishejit


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