10 Pictures that rocked the world

[No Passaran]

Why our work matters

Burial Of an Unknown Child

This picture shows the world’s worst industrial disaster, caused by the US multinational chemical company, Union Carbide.

Nilgunyalcin Child Vulture

Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture nearby. It is quite obvious that the child was starving to death, while the vulture was patiently waiting for the toddler to die so he can have a good meal. Nobody knows what happened to the child, who crawled his way to a United Nations food camp. Photographer Kevin Carter won a Pulitzer Prize for this shocking picture, but he eventually committed suicide three months after he took the shot.

Palestine Father Saving Son

Images from the video footage of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah being shot dead in the Gaza Strip. The scene was filmed by a France 2 cameraman.

Starving Boy

Wells felt indignant that the same publication that sat on his picture for five months without publishing it, while people were dying, entered it into a competition. He was embarrassed to win as he never entered the competition himself, and was against winning prizes with pictures of people starving to death.

Lynching Of Young Blacks

This is a famous picture, taken in 1930, showing the young black men accused of raping a Caucasian woman and killing her boyfriend, hanged by a mob of 10,000 white men. The mob took them by force from the county jail house. Another black man was left behind and ended up being saved from lynching. Even if lynching photos were designed to boost white supremacy, the tortured bodies and grotesquely happy crowds ended up revolting many.

Last Jew Of Vinnitsa

Picture from an Einsatzgruppen soldier’s personal album, labelled on the back as “Last Jew of Vinnitsa, it shows a member of Einsatzgruppe D is just about to shoot a Jewish man kneeling before a filled mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1941. All 28,000 Jews from Vinnitsa and its surrounding areas were massacred at the time.

Hector Pieterson

Hector Pieterson an icon of 1976 Soweto uprising in apartheid South Africa. Dying Hector being carried by a fellow student. He was killed at the age of 12 when the police opened fire on protesting students. For years, June 16 stood as a symbol of resistance to the brutality of the apartheid government. Today, it is known as National Youth Day — a day on which South Africans honour young people and bring attention to their needs.

Biafra

When the Igbos of eastern Nigeria declared themselves independent in 1967, Nigeria blockaded their fledgling country-Biafra. In three years of war, more than one million people died, mainly of hunger. In famine, children who lack protein often get the disease kwashiorkor, which causes their muscles to waste away and their bellies to protrude.

Abu Ghraib

Beginning in 2004, accounts of physical, psychological, and sexual abuse, including torture, rape, sodomy, and homicide of prisoners held in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq (also known as Baghdad Correctional Facility) came to public attention. These acts were committed by personnel of the 372nd Military Police Company of the United States Army together with additional US governmental agencies.

Bushmeat

This photo shows a gorilla family in southeast Cameroon (minus the alpha male silverback, who managed to get away) that had been slaughtered in their nests by a bushmeat hunter early one morning.

@ http://www.itvnews.tv

[BlooInBloo]

1. Chinese tank-stopper dude. Soldier blowing off Vietnamese guy's head off, Iwo Jima flag...

So many.

[SidDithers]

2. Naked napalmed Vietnamese girl running down the road...

is another that comes to mind.

Sid

[BlooInBloo]

4. Yah - couldn't remember if it was a boy or a girl, so I dropped that example.

[No Passaran]

8. I read about that girl. Isn't she living in Canada now?

[BlooInBloo]

13. No idea.

:(

[SidDithers]

15. Yup, she's in Toronto now...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Th%E1%BB%8B_Kim_Ph%C3%BAc

Sid

[pnorman]

100. Here's a recent photo of her:

pnorman

[lesliewhitebird]

140. I remember seeing her on 'Oprah' or 'Donahue' after the 20th anniversary

or something...That should have been on the pic list for sure!

[GreenPartyVoter]

40. Yes, I was surprised not to see that one in the list.

[pepperbear]

114. dupe

[BonnieJW]

118. That's the one I thought of.

I was in grade school when it came out and I was horrified. Bad dreams for years.

[No Passaran]

6. ...

[TahitiNut]

9. It wasn't a "soldier" ... it was the chief of police in Saigon holding the pistol.

:eyes:

[BlooInBloo]

11. Ah - thanks.

[Touchdown]

39. I think I remember the victim being suspected Viet Cong, but never confirmed.

Does that sound right?:shrug:

[TahitiNut]

45. He was a 'proud' Viet Cong. The chief of police's family was killed by the VC.

I think it's understandable, even though not acceptable. It's almost impossible for people who've not lived in a war zone to comprehend. That's NOT to excuse ... but the reality (or surreality) of such conditions is an essential perspective, imho.

[DissedByBush]

105. He was VC

He had recently killed some Vietnamese and Americans and was summarily executed right after his capture.

I don't care what he did. You don't summarily execute anyone.

RW would give this a pass because the victim was VC yet still point out Che Guevara's summary executions. Hypocrites.

[cherokeeprogressive]

18. The Burning Monk

[Statistical]

21. That one always got me. I mean it is dedication to light yourself on fire. n/t

[cherokeeprogressive]

25. Me too. I wasn't even ten years old the first time I saw it.

All I knew about Vietnam was that I had two uncles there, one on his first tour, one on his second. I don't think I had even heard of Buddhism at that point.

He was 66 years old, and sat upright for 10 minutes after lighting himself on fire. Afterward, his body was re-cremated, but his heart remained intact. Many Vietnamese consider him to be a bodhisattva. His self-immolation inspired a few Americans in their protest of the Vietnam war.

"Thích Quảng Đức's actions were fatally copied in the United States in protests against the Vietnam War. Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker pacifist, poured kerosene over himself and set light to himself below the third-floor window of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara at the Pentagon on November 2, 1965. Alice Herz, an 82-year-old woman, also burned herself that year in Detroit, Michigan.<47> Roger Allen LaPorte self-immolated outside the United Nations building in New York City on November 9, 1965. Florence Beaumont burned herself to death outside the Federal Building in Los Angeles on October 15, 1967. George Winne, Jr., a student, self-immolated on May 10, 1970 on the campus of the University of California, San Diego and died the following day."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c

[pnorman]

96. "Florence Beaumont"

I've always had a nagging but faint recollection from that time and place. i had initially placed it close to Little Tokyo (not too far from the Federal Building), but I could have been mistaken. It was that of coming on a simple hand-written cardboard poster on the sidewalk, describing that self-immolation event. I recall no press notice then, but that was during the period when the media was "patriotically toeing the official government line". Since then, I've tried to research that for particulars, but with no luck. I had finally concluded it must have been a "false memory", until I saw this. Thanks!

Were I a card-carrying Christian, I'm sure that there'd be a suitable ritual to perform in her honor. But instead, I'll offer my heart-felt THANKS to her and all the others! To offer one's life for an "official" cause is honorable, and the next of kin will also be honored.. But to do so for "subversive" reasons, means that there would be NO "official honor"; "official" calumny instead, extending to a few generations. And most of the scissor-bills ("sheeple") would be bellowing: "Un-American". THAT takes real Courage!

pnorman

[4_TN_TITANS]

128. Not to mention amazing mind control

to not show any pain.

[BlooInBloo]

30. :(

[Captain Hilts]

50. Yes, those three are in the top ten. nt

[DissedByBush]

63. The murder/execution of Col Rojas

An enemy commander in the war, on orders of Che Guevara. That one is hard to look at.

The mass graves at Katyn, 22,000 Poles murdered on orders of Stalin.

The skulls in the Killing Fields of Pol Pot of course.

There's also a moving picture out there of the Siberian labor camps Stalin sent people to be worked to death in.

[RedCloud]

90. ?

It would seem you have a certain tilt about your photos.

[DissedByBush]

102. Bloodthirsty killers engaging in mass murder

Does tend to make for some striking photos.

[NashVegas]

70. It's a Funny Thing

Sometime ago there was a "!0 Photos That Changed the World" thread someone posted, and like this thread, it was glaring that the photos like the ones you and others name were missing from the collection. After some inspection it became clear the reason had to do with sales and ultimately someone (other than the person who posted them, who was just 'trying to get a conversation going') trying to increase the value of their copyrighted collection by marketing it as THE definitive list of the most important photos of all time.

Of this collection, all are important but Hector Pieterson, Biafra, and Abu Ghraib (of course, but if you look at the cropping, it's an awful version) are the ones I recall some notoriety of at the time of their publications.

[No Passaran]

83. lol

I don't even know that thread. But that's funny nonetheless

[SidDithers]

3. Happy to kick and rec this post...

there are so many more that could be added to this list.

Good post.

Sid

[lpbk2713]

5. Mary Vecchio's pic had a large impact on a lot of people.

I still remember every detail.

[Uncle Joe]

7. And the Vietnamese Girl running naked down the street after the napalm attack.

It's amazing what humans can do to one another when their "leaders" are weak, ignorant, fearful, greedy, power hungry and corrupt.

Thanks for the thread, No Passaran.:thumbsup:

[inna]

10. astounding, shocking, powerful, sad. recommended. nt

[KansDem]

12. I would include these as well...

[BlooInBloo]

14. and...

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/10/09/carlos_narrowweb__300x365,0.jpg

[one_true_leroy]

27. What is the story behind this one?

I've seen it before, but never knew its context.

[BlooInBloo]

28. (facepalm)

[one_true_leroy]

31. well, I'm fairly sure it happened before I was born...

and since I grew up without TV...

some events have slipped through the cracks.

C'mon! Help a guy out here!

[msanthrope]

67. Do you feel as old as I do Bloo? n/t

[BlooInBloo]

88. Doubt it. I wasn't alive at the time. I know about all sorts of things that took place...

before I was alive. That's what my (facepalm) was for.

[A HERETIC I AM]

32. US Olympic Track Team members Tommie Smith and John Carlos, 1968 Mexico City Olympics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Olympics_Black_Power_salute

I remember seeing them do it. I was 9 at the time living about 20 miles outside DC, near Gaithersburg, MD. 1968 was an incredibly eventful year.

[one_true_leroy]

36. Thanks!

I read the wiki article and it made me wonder what other protests have occurred at Olympics by athletes.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

56. Track and field athletes who won medals at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City

During the playing of the national anthem, they gave the Black Power salute.

[Solomon]

76. Oh it was huge at the time. I was thirteen.

And as an African American who went to segregated schools, and caught the tail end of Jim Crow, I can tell you, it made us mighty proud. Mighty proud.

It was a necessary step. The athletes became pariahs for it. But still, well worth it in my opinion for what it did for broken psyches.

That is one of the most bittersweet stories I have seen. None of them are celebrated or even known for the most part. But boy did they have a powerful impact - and not just in America, but all over the world. Just for that one instant in time.

It was consciousness raising type of thing. And not just with blacks. The whole damn world, baby.

[LynneSin]

121. Another memoriable Olympic photo 4 years later....

[Arugula Latte]

47. ....

[fortyfeetunder]

103. As a little kid I was struck by that picture

I was in first grade when JFK was shot. When I saw this photograph, I remember asking my mom what had happened, and she told me to stop asking so many questions.

But she forgot one thing: I could read newspapers at that age, and eventually figured it out for myself.

[Arugula Latte]

109. I was struck by it too (although I was born a few years after the fact).

For one thing, it just looked so theatrical and staged. And Oswald's face -- wow.

Another photo I always remember was from, I think, a book called "Life Goes To War." It was a photo of a little French boy in short pants who has just received a new pair of shoes, either during or shortly after World War 2. He is clutching the shoes to his chest with a look of ecstasy on his face. I remember that photo made me feel guilty for taking all the material things for granted.

I wish I could find it online ...

[av8rdave]

131. The "theatrical and staged" look was taken advantage of by a photoshopper years later

You can get it on a t-shirt at northernsun.com

[Echo In Light]

16. Kent State

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

17. 10 more

My Lai



Nelson Mandela Free



Kent State Massacre



Nixon out



Defying tyranny Beijing



Defying tyranny Chicago '68



Defying Tyranny Salvador Allende



Defying Tyranny - Murdered nuns, El Salvador



Gaza



I have a dream

[Maru Kitteh]

19. and

[SidDithers]

23. Then and now...

Sid

[ZombieHorde]

20. Your OP actually made me tear up some, K&R&nt.

[Geoff R. Casavant]

41. Me too

It felt like my throat wouldn't be big enough for all my screams.

[Just-plain-Kathy]

78. All these photos are very overwhelming. ...All so disturbing but I appreciate them being posted.

K&R

[tammywammy]

22. k&r

[Xenotime]

24. So much horror and suffering portrayed on DU today..

I hope this isn't a shift in attitude.

[Mad_Dem_X]

82. Me, too.

Those pictures shook me to my core.

[Jersey Ginny]

95. Agreed. I wasn't quite ready to be so shaken up. Maybe a warning?

For those of us who are really bothered by these pictures. The photos are outstanding, I just want to say.

[PVnRT]

26. Hiroshima

If that doesn't drive home man's ability to destroy, nothing will.

These may not rock the world, but they stand out from my lifetime:

The fall of the Berlin Wall:



Challenger:



Oliver North:



Oklahoma City:



The World Trade Center:

[RedCloud]

91. First ex-marine to disgrace Congress

The rest throughout history came to cooperate. This clown was paramilitary and had put on his garb to make folks think he was legitimate.

[closeupready]

29. I had never seen that first one.

Just makes me :cry:

[Mari333]

33. actually i clicked and now I am crying

wish i wouldnt have clicked

[GreenPartyVoter]

42. I'm crying too, but hard as it was to see them, it was a powerful reminder of the many things

in this world we need to work against.

[Political Heretic]

34. K&R

[bigwillq]

35. Wow.

K and R.

[comrade snarky]

37. Not every picture that changes the world is one of brutality

“Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth . . . home.”

Edgar Mitchell of Apollo 14

[BlooInBloo]

38. :)

[Captain Hilts]

51. Here's another...

[BlancheSplanchnik]

79. Thank You!

I knew there had to be some women's voices somewhere

[Captain Hilts]

81. Yeah, hard to find. Sad.

ER: It sucks.

[Raine1967]

137. Women? Here ya go!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Suffragettes,_New_York_Times,_1921.JPG

[joshcryer]

61. I see your "Earth Rising" and raise you "Pale Blue Dot":

[AllenVanAllen]

138. I love this picture

and Carl Sagan's eloquent commentary about it:

"Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."


Peace! :hi:

[joshcryer]

62. And of course, the Ultra Deep Field:

[RedCloud]

92. Hoorah! Our sun may never grow old and die on us!

Just that that galaxy eating Andromeda is coming and it's sooner rather than later... No photos forthcoming...

[comrade snarky]

115. It's coming right at us!

[KittyWampus]

77. Thank You. I MUST note that some DU'ers get off on posting disturbing photos.

I presume it gives them an illusory feeling of power.

[Arugula Latte]

43. Another happy iconic photo:

[DissedByBush]

141. That's the one I was thinking of posting!

It is an excellent one.

[Touchdown]

44. Dustbowl Okie in the Depression...

Iwo Jima



Jimmy Swaggert



Maybe too soon... but Obama's inauguration



Nuremburg

[lpbk2713]

46. One that always tugs at my heart ...

... and I hope it never stops tugging at my heart.







Little John-John, November 1963.

[BlooInBloo]

53. Fixed link....

[lpbk2713]

84. Thanx

Don't know what happened. It worked when I posted it.


:thumbsup:

[PretzelWarrior]

48. kick. the power of photos. amazing.

now we know why governments want a lockdown on pictures and videos that tell what no amount of volumes of written/spoken testimony can.

[proud patriot]

49. All very powerful

:(

[Arugula Latte]

52. Man plays accordion across from White House day after FDR dies:

[Arugula Latte]

54. School integration, Little Rock, Arkansas:

[Arugula Latte]

55. Nazi-run concentration camp:

[ProgressiveProfessor]

57. The Muhammad al-Durrah photos are fraudulent

There are enough real tragedies why destroy your message and credibility by using fakes?

[Xithras]

58. Fake or not, they rocked the world.

A photo doesn't need to be genuine to be influential. The photo of the raising of the flag at Iwo Jima was faked too, but it was still hugely influential.


And while there are accusations that the al-Durrah shot was a setup, and that it would have been the Palestinians who shot him in the firefight, the official line is still that the boy did die in the firefight...no matter how that came to be or who fired the shots that killed him, or whether the video actually showed him drawing his last breath.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

66. I don't think the Durrah one did. Minor kerfluffle at best until they were debunked

More outrage in France over those who were daring to question Ch2 and the reporter than the shooting itself.

[AtheistCrusader]

130. Iwo Jima wasn't faked.

It was just not the photo of the first flag to go up. The first flag was fairly small, and could not be clearly seen from a distance.
"Colonel Johnson wants this big flag run up high so every son of a bitch on this whole cruddy island can see it."


Half of the men in that 'faked' photo died fighting on that island.

[OxQQme]

59. 1929

[SanchoPanza]

60. Some of my favorites

Hazel Brant Walking To Little Rock Central High School, 1957


Promontory Point, 1869


Sunset on Mars, 2005


Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, 1911


Jan Rose Kasmir vs. National Guard at the Pentagon, 1967


Pillars of Creation (Eagle Nebula), 1995


Truman Defeats Dewey, 1948


Signing of Camp David Accords, 1979


Yalta Conference, 1945


James Blake Miller (Marlboro Man), 2004

[pinniped]

64. LHO getting assassinated by JR.

.

[Piewhacket]

65. I lived through all this in real time and it still hurts. Rec, but I'm not looking at any more.

[keepCAblue]

68. Tiananmen Square, 1989

[keepCAblue]

69. Iran, 2005

Two teenage boys hung for being gay

[keepCAblue]

71. Evacuation of Saigon, 1975

[grantcart]

106. Mistakenly labelled as an embassy evacuation

It actually is a picture of CIA foriegn employees and dependents being evacuated from an apartment building.

[HughMoran]

72. Thanks for the warning

Quite gruesome :(

[keepCAblue]

73. Space shuttle Challenger Explosion, 1986

[lpbk2713]

85. I saw that live from about 75 miles away from the Cape.

I didn't need a radio to tell me it was bad.

[Uzybone]

74. This was sent on postcards

[keepCAblue]

75. Global Warming / Polar Bear, 2005

[DUlover2909]

99. I have looked at them all, and this is the saddest one.

I saw the gorillas, which was appalling, but this one threatens so many more animals and entire species. These animals have no idea what's happening or why. They are totally innocent. My God can we please stop this mad dash to destruction?

[Mad_Dem_X]

80. Jesus Christ.

:cry: :cry: :cry:

[lpbk2713]

86. One image that is burned into my consciousness that I won't post here ...

... people jumping out of the top floors of the burning WTC.

[aikoaiko]

87. Falling Man

It still evokes much emotion.

[sce56]

89. Ok these may not have rocked the world but they sure gave me a kick!

Artful satire



The Fourth Stooge







The original



Real non-photoshopped picture from last debate

[sakabatou]

93. WTF was up with McCain in that photo?

[sce56]

104. Then you did not see one of the funniest threads ever on DU

I keep getting a bug error searching for the topic McTounge photoshop challenge
See if you can view this thread!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7479912

[sakabatou]

133. Can't see the thread

[sce56]

144. Yep looks like the admin deleted it or it is an honest bug

The original had over 650 posts to it! Here is one I did later on that had a few from the OP
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x412192

[grantcart]

107. he had stepped in front of teleprompter so the host couldn't read the final

closing so he 'camped' a weird look and tried to get out of the way.


It really did capture the whole essence of the two campaigns.

[sakabatou]

134. Yep, he did.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

94. Another iconic image, or two

[Goddess me]

97. I remember all of these things

People think more of death and destruction than love. We seem to only love after death instead of before. Aren't you tire of this? When does it end? Where is there any love documented in any of these photos?

The funny thing is that there is no one, not anyone in the world who can say what happens after death. Yet, we cling to the idea that death is more beautiful than life. Why is that?

When will we stop living in the pretend world of death and start to live like human, compassionate, loving people we were meant to be? When? How many deaths will it take?

[DaveinJapan]

98. Japan surrenders; USS Missouri

[Captain Hilts]

139. Three ruff 'n' tuff guys:

[chill_wind]

101. Iraq. Ali.

Ali Abbas.

[Beacool]

108. One thing that never ceases to amaze me is the cruelty of human beings.

We are the most destructive species on the planet.

:cry:

[defendandprotect]

110. k i c k -- back tomorrow --

[AlecBGreen]

111. a few

THE GREATEST


Bob healing Jamaica


Jimi!

[Imagevision]

112. geeeze, Abu Ghraib, the United States only made it to... #9...!

[No Passaran]

126. The are in no particular order n/t

[flyarm]

113. John John Kennedy saluting his fathers coffin!! as a small little boy...eom

[begin_within]

116. More...

[snake in the grass]

127. What is the picture...

...of the man kicking the other off the roof? I'm not familiar with it.

[begin_within]

135. It's a stunt photo

I can't remember the guy's name but his "art" is having himself photographed in ways that make him look like he's in great peril and about to die. None of them are real of course, they're all carefully set up, so I should not have included that photo in this thread.

[snake in the grass]

143. I can't tell you...

...how much that relieves me. I'll admit, the more I looked at it, the more I find the entire setup unlikely, but you never know. Thanks for writing back.

[Lancer]

117. And more.

Frenchman crying. Liberation of France. August 1944.



Rosa Parks.



Gordon Jackson plays "Going Home" as FDR's casket leaves Warm Springs for Washington, April 1945.



The "Lone Jewish Woman" holding off Israeli security forces. 2007.



The Munich massacre. September 1972.



Katrina.



RFK funeral train. June 1968



Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima. The second flag-raising, February 23, 1945. L-R: PFC Ira Hayes, USMC; PFC Franklin Sousley, USMC; Sgt. Michael Strank, USMC; PFC René Gagnon, USMC; Pharm. Mate 02 John Bradley, USN; Cpl. Harlan Block, USMC. Sousley, Block and Strank died in the battle.

[GrantDem]

119. Sad to say that picture number five is from my hometown.

A terrible legacy for Marion, IN.

[LynneSin]

120. This one from 1986 about AIDs in America

at at time where we still weren't really mentioning it. Did Reagan even say the word yet at that time?

[Lochloosa]

122. Jonestown

[TomClash]

123. Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photographs

[steaa]

124. Some which come to my mind..

Boxing day Tsunami -







Beslan school hostage siege -



Rachael Whitear who died of a Heroin overdose, her parents released this image of her -



Famine -



Hurricane Katrina -



Armenian genocide -



Gulf war, best friend in a bodybag -



Waiting -



Crematorium at a concentration camp in Weimar, Germany -



Brother finds his sister laying dead, in the back of a truck during Vietnam war -



Girl who survived the concentration camps during WW2 is in a home for disturbed children, what she has drawn is her 'home' -



War in Gaza -

[sonias]

125. All tragic images

Wouldn't it be nice if we had great memories of what humankind is capable of. It always is the worst in our humanity that we remember. Unfortunately while we cringe in horror at the images, we don't seem to learn. We keep repeating and allowing these horrible miseries to continue.

:cry:


Sonia

[B3Nut]

129. Surprised to not see W. Eugene Smith in this thread

Tomoko in her bath, 1971

Smith made this photograph of a girl born deformed due to mercury poisoning in the fishing village of Minamata, Japan, due to decades of pollution by the Chisso corporation. Smith received a savage beating by yakuza goons at the behest of some of the company's officials.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_disease

Toxic Sludge Is Good For You!

Todd in Cheesecurdistan

[southernleftylady]

132. How about a picture of that man holding up a ballot looking for Chads in 2000? That shook my worldnt

[begin_within]

136. And this one

[midnight]

142. I believe all this horror can be traced to greed.

[lpbk2713]

145. Any others?

:kick: