Monthly Archives: July 2011
Face of Famine
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The woman in the pale orange veil in the above slideshow counts herself as one of the countless refugees of the famine currently raging against the Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti region in the Horn of Africa. Her vacant stare and the premature lines of age in her skin relate the plight of a woman who probably remembers the fading hopes and expectations of her lost youth but no longer has little if any chance of achieving them.
Where and why did it all go wrong? Was this poor woman fated from the start to a life of desperation and disappointment?
As a lad I remember Life Magazine doing an impressive photo spread of the famine that devastated Biafra in the late 1960′s. Biafra was a part of Nigeria that had seceded from the mother country amidst a terrible civil war.
The Life photos were quite powerful, and one of the haunting looks of the photo shoot was the orange hair of the refugees who were caught by the photographers as they died from starvation. A photo in the slideshow above is one such Life photo. It shows a poor skinny woman who is so thin that she appears to be but a boy in the photo. Her hair is the telltale orange that so many of the starving Biafrans suffered through.
The following video is a report about the current African famine:
Now more than 40 years after the Biafran catastrophe, little has changed. Another famine now ravages the African Horn’s wasteland, and millions of people are starving and dying.
As always, civil war and sectarian violence complicate the issue. Photographers solemnly record the despair, devastation and dying for us. Our slideshow depicts a now infamous photo of a vulture watching over a starving child, waiting for meal time. This photo could be from any of the African famines of the last century because there always seems to be another African famine.
Why? Why can’t Africa get it right? Africa faces war after war and famine after famine decade after decade. China has pulled itself up by the bootstraps and is prospering. So has india. But not Africa.
Africa simply languishes. It makes no sense.
- Nasty Dude Urinates on Drug Store Cough Drops – Caught on Video
- Giant Phoenix Dust Storm Caught on Videos
- Lightning Strikes Plane in Midair – Caught on Video
- Man Struck by Lightning Caught on Video
- Air France Jumbo Jet Clips Delta Jet in New York – Video
Nasty Dude Urinates on Drug Store Cough Drops – Caught on Video
A big, scary nasty dude is caught on CCTV video urinating on Walgreens drug store cough drops right out in the open. The public urination appears to have occurred around 10:30 PM local time in Sanford, Florida.
Be careful buying cough drops in Sanford, Florida, although the police have apprehended the alleged desparado and identified him as Larry Donell White Jr., who was arrested after Sanford police received a tip from someone who saw the story on the news.
White allegedly caused $301 in damage by choosing the drug shelves for relieving himself ruining about 100 packages of cough drops in the process. White was arrested on charges of criminal mischief and culpable negligence.
It seems that White refused to inform the police why he chose to urinate when and where he did. Maybe he just had to go?
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Giant Phoenix Dust Storm Caught on Videos
It’s the monsoon season in the Arizona desert, and the following video displays a rarely experienced haboob, or giant dust storm, as it overtakes the city of Phoenix. The enormous storm appears to swallow the city and looks like the CGI special effects that Hollywood often dreams up for movies.
The storm rises a mile high, stretches 100 miles wide and is all too real as the residents of Phoenix will attest to. The vid is embedded with permission from the website of Mike Olbinski, a professional photographer and Phoenix resident fortunate enough to be on the scene just as the giant dust cloud begins engulfing the city.
The video is shot in time lapse photography:
We also have the haboob shot from another angle and from within the dust cloud itself:
