stopdropandrun:

Jonathan Hobin Re-Creates the World’s Most Infamous Tragedies with Children

more of the album  here

lohrien:

Weerapong Chaipuck

1. The ciy  ofBagan formely Pagan, Mandalay Region. Myannmar or Burma.

From the 9th to 13th centuries, the city was the capital of the Kingdom of Pagan, the 1st kingdom to unify the regions that would later constitute modern Burma. During the kingdom’s height between the 11th and 13th centuries, over 10,000 Buddhist temples, pagodas and monasteries were constructed in the Bagan plains alone, of which the remains of over 2200 temples and pagodas still survive to the present day.

2. The great three vulcanoes; City of Surabaya in the East Java Province Indonesia. 
Mt.Bromo(middle-active with faint smoke) ,Batok(front-completely inactive) and Sumeru(the highest at back-intermittently active) 

3. Milford Sound Island, New Zealand.

4. Takepo lake, New Zealand

5. Duoyishu village, Yuanyang, Yunan ; China.

theneighbourhoodsuperhero:

Guantanamo Bay detainee Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif’s uncle and son are overcome with emotion as they stand above his remains in the Shawlak Mosque in Yemen prior to his burial.

Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, a 36 year old man from Yemen who had spent the last eleven years of his life imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay without any charges held against him, was “found dead” in his cell on the 8^th of September, 2012, in what was ruled a suicide by the United States without any sound evidence presented to support the claim.

For Abdul Latif’s son Ezzudin Adnan Latif, who had never met his father as he was born after Abdul Latif travelled to Pakistan seeking medical attention, the first and last sight of the father he spent almost eleven years dreaming of and yearning for was of a body-bag. Ezzudin had gotten to know his father through the rare, heavily censored letters he received from him.

“You told me in your last letter, you’re coming to me, and you will never leave me again, Father,” said Ezzuddin while looking at the box of his father’s remains and crying loudly.”

Due to the mysterious nature of Abdul Latif’s death, his family intended to perform an independent autopsy in Yemen to determine the cause of his death. However, the United States kept Abdul Latif’s body for over three months after his death, causing his body to decompose to the extent that an autopsy would not be possible and Abdul Latif’s body had become an “unbearable sight,” as described by his brother. 

Lawyer Mark Falkoff described in an Amnesty International Report some of the conditions faced by Latif and other inmates inside Guantanamo Bay:

“… They had been held in total isolation, they had been subjected repeatedly to stress positions, sleep deprivation, blaring music, and extremes of heat and cold during endless interrogations. Female interrogators smeared simulated menstrual blood onto the chests of some detainees and sexually taunted them, fully aware of the insult they were meting out to devout Muslims. They were denied basic medical care. They were broken down and psychologically tyrannized, kept in extreme isolation, threatened with rendition, interrogated at gunpoint and told that their families would be harmed if they refused to talk. They were also frequently prevented from engaging in their daily prayers—one of the five pillars of Islam—and forced to witness US soldiers intentionally mishandling the holy Koran.”

While imprisoned, Abdul Latif participated in hunger strikes to protest his treatment, during which he wrote the “Hunger Strike Poem”:

They are criminals, increasing their crimes.
They are criminals, claiming to be peace-loving.
They are criminals, torturing the hunger strikers.

They are artists of torture,
They are artists of pain and fatigue,
They are artists of insults and humiliation.

They are faithless — traitors and cowards –
They have surpassed devils with their criminal acts.

They do not respect the law,
They do not respect men,
They do not spare the elderly
They do not spare the baby-toothed child.

They leave us in prison for years, uncharged,
Because we are Muslims.

Where is the world to save us from torture?
Where is the world to save us from the fire and sadness?
Where is the world to save the hunger strikers?

But we are content, on the side of justice and right,
Worshipping the Almighty.

And our motto on this island is, salaam.

* There’s a hunger strike going on in Guantanamo Bay by the prisoners who never had a chance to go through a fair trial nor humane treatment.

Pre. Obama won the “Nobel Peace Prize” back in 2009 for shutting down the Guantanamo Bay.

But nothing has really changed. The US foreign Policy is creating more terrorists…

thekhooll:

Treehouse Community

Finca Bellavista (FBV) is a sustainable treehouse community situated on 600 acres of land in the mountainous South Pacific coastal region of Costa Rica. FBV is the brainchild of Mateo and Erica Hogan, a married couple from Colorado who fell in love with Costa Rica.

meganvictoriaheaton:

Arnensee Lake, Switzerland 

The waters of Arnensee in Switzerland are so clear they cause boats such as the one in the picture to appear as they are hovering in the air. 

The lake is located in Canton of Berne in Switzerland, and can be easily reached with a little planning. Although that first picture has made the lake relatively known, it’s still usually a quiet, tourist-free place.

(Source: our-strange-yet-beautiful-planet)

majorreisman:

Hindu devotees make offerings to a statue during Holi celebrations at the Banke Bihari temple on March 26, 2013 in Vrindavan, India. Photos by Daniel Berehulak.

growhousegrow:

Color!  25 places that look abnormal but are actually real.

(Source: tommcready)