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Sinjar: first images show total devastation

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The first images from Sinjar show the Iraqi town show scenes of total devastation. An estimated 200,000 people lived in Sinjar before it w...

The first images from Sinjar show the Iraqi town show scenes of total devastation. An estimated 200,000 people lived in Sinjar before it was overrun by ISIL fighters in August 2014. Hatred hangs in ruins of Iraq’s Sinjar: https://t.co/oZeJjk9sJL pic.twitter.com/llL0y6gcir— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) 19 Novembre 2015 “This is frightening,” said one young Kurdish fighter. “When you look at what Sinjar was and how it is now. The town is in ruins, it is worse that Kobani.” Sinjar’s 50,000 strong Yazidi population was purged after it was overrun. Kurdish forces take control Kurdish leaders say their word is now law, a strong message to other groups in the area and the wider international community. #QassimShesho fled #Iraq for #Germany in 1990. Now,... http://t.co/SoWNHipOxa pic.twitter.com/QQQAFgE4Z9— Trending Iraq News (@Iraqolizer) 23 Novembre 2014 “Those who did not hurt anyone and did not cooperate with Daesh can return. We do not have an issue with them. But they must live under the flag of Kurdistan and be part of the Kurdish region.” senior Kurdish commander Qassem Shesho told journalists. Mass grave of Yazidi women discovered in Iraq after Sinjar offensive https://t.co/VEWoOcncf2— The Independent (@Independent) 15 Novembre 2015 The Kurdish forces say more than 5,000 Yazidi citizens of Sinjar were killed by IS, 5,000 taken prisoner and the remaining were killed. There are fears of further power-struggle fighting between groups in the region. Sinjar: what we know *Sinjar has a key strategic position on Highway 47, the main route linking IS-held Mosul in the east with the group’s de facto capital Raqqa in the west. *Islamic State had held the town since an offensive in August 2014 *The population was previously around 200,000 mainly Kurdish and Arab Muslims, both Sunni and Shi’ite, Christians and Yazidis *An estimated 50,000 Yazidis fled after Sinjar was overrun and were stranded on nearby Mount Sinjar *Yazidis accuse the Sunni Muslim community of collaborating with IS *Sinjar has a key strategic position on Highway 47, the main route linking IS-held Mosul in the east with the group’s de facto capital Raqqa in the west. Less

See the first images of Jupiter from Juno

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The first images of Jupiter taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft have arrived back on Earth. The probe arrived in orbit around the biggest pl...

#BREAKING: First images of #debris from #EgyptAir flight #MS804 released

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Pictures showing the first pieces of debris believed to be from the missing EgyptAir flight MS804 were released in Alexandria, Friday. The ...

EgyptAir MS804: First images of recovered debris released

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The hunt for missing EgyptAir flight MS804 intensified on Saturday as Egypt’s military released a video of the first debris found during i...

First images of Tikrit battle in Iraq

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Philae sends first images but concern over probe’s stability on comet

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The European Space Agency successfully landed a probe on a comet on Wednesday. The probe, known as Philae, has transmitted sign...

Yemen: FIRST IMAGES Russian Consulate in Aden damaged during Saudi airstrikes

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The Russian Consulate General in the Yemeni sea port of Aden was damaged during airstrikes launched by the Saudi-led military coalition agai...

Italy: FIRST IMAGES after defendant shoots and kills witness against him in court

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At least two people were killed and another injured after a man opened fire at a Milan tribunal, at the Palace of Justice, Thursday. Early r...

Syria: FIRST IMAGES show Syrian army retreating from Palmyra as IS gain full control over city

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Footage from Wednesday shows the Syrian Arab Army fleeing the ancient city of Palmyra, as Islamic State militias (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) ad...

Snap election in Sweden after new government’s first budget is defeated

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Sweden is to hold its first snap election in over half a century after the new minority centre-left government’s first budget was defeated...

Gay wedding for Luxembourg PM a first for serving EU leader

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It is a marriage that will go down in the history books. The prime minister of Luxembourg has become the first serving leader in the Europ...

It is a marriage that will go down in the history books. The prime minister of Luxembourg has become the first serving leader in the European Union to marry someone of the same sex. Xavier Bettel tied the knot with his Belgian partner, architect Gauthier Destenay. A law allowing gay marriage came into force in Luxembourg in January. “I wish everyone to be as happy as I am,” said the prime minister. “Thank you to the people of Luxembourg, thank you, and to everybody, I make no distinctions, thank you everyone.” The Belgian Prime Minister and his wife were among those invited. Charles Michel said: “The message is one of good spirits, of joy and of congratulations, and, most importantly, of happiness. This is the message I bring today.” Other guests say it is a great image to send around the world. TV presenter Stephane Bern said: “Because he’s the prime minister, it’s a message to send to others, especially when homophobia is on the rise in some European countries.” The prime minister of Iceland became the first serving leader in the world to marry a same-sex partner back in 2010. Luxembourg residents passed on their congratulations. One woman said: “It could be a change for the future, because it might encourage others to be courageous to get married too.” Another woman said: “It might bother some people but that will always be the case. People won’t budge from their opinions. But it’s all about happiness, which you can’t be against. It’s about being free in this country.” Luxembourg is one of nearly a dozen EU states that now allow gay marriage; Ireland holds a referendum on the issue next week. Congrats to Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Xavier Bettel on his wedding to Gauthier Destenay! http://t.co/ZQ9nuxqns9 pic.twitter.com/RkiqXBov1X— Freedom to Marry (@freedomtomarry) May 15, 2015 Luxembourg’s gay PM marries his partner http://t.co/yaV9xIy6Rl #LGBTI pic.twitter.com/8fw8IXHCu2— Gay Star News (@gaystarnews) May 15, 2015 Luxembourg’s prime minister first EU leader to marry same-sex partner http://t.co/sejjYUZLMk— The Guardian (@guardian) May 15, 2015 Luxembourg’s Openly Gay Prime Minister Xavier Bettel Is Now a Married Man: VIDEO http://t.co/00Vxswo7aA pic.twitter.com/4D4GyzyNGG— Towleroad (@tlrd) May 15, 2015 Less

Pluto pictures stun scientists as the first probe close-ups reach Earth

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Pluto is slowly giving up some of its secrets after the first High Definition close-up views were relayed back to Earth from NASA’s New Ho...

First body pulled from Shenzhen landslide, at least 81 still missing

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Rescuers at the site of the Shenzhen landslide have pulled out the first body from the rubble. Efforts are being focussed on six main sear...

Princess Charlotte: Photos released to mark first birthday

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New photographs of Princess Charlotte have been released to mark her first birthday. The images of Britain’s youngest royal, who turns ...

NASA’s Juno probe returns first photo of Jupiter

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NASA’s Juno probe has returned its first in-orbit photo of Jupiter. A sunlit section of the planet and several of its big moons are visi...

Tokyo poised to elect first female governor – exit polls

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Tokyo appears poised to welcome its first ever female governor. Exit polls project Japan’s former Defence Minister Yuriko Koike has beat...

First video images of Zionist crimes in Gaza's Shujaiyya

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Mountain Dew

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Mountain Dew was first created in Virginia in 1948. It was bottled and sold by the Minges family. It is known as a soft drink, but Mountain ...

Time-lapse Compilation...I'm Learning!!!

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My feeble attempts at time-lapse photography. Sure, they aren't perfect, but they are getting better. I need to learn to match the speed of ...

My feeble attempts at time-lapse photography. Sure, they aren't perfect, but they are getting better. I need to learn to match the speed of my images to the FPS to make them smoother, but I'm getting there. The first two of the series was done without an intervalometer, something to time the shots, which is a shame, I think they were possibly the best scenes I captured. The third in the series is a little out of focus (the auto focus picked up the trees instead of the clouds), but it is some cool footage...a hail storm passing in front of my house. Wicked storm, and well worth watching by itself, but I threw in a few more so you can see what I've been trying. Also, if any Leakers have tips or suggestions that would be helpful, please leave them in the comments...for those of you who don't know me, I do read them and give out thumbs where they are deserved. My only goal is to produce a better video for you guys, and I appreciate the help. Specifically, the main areas I'm struggling in are with the timing...you'll notice in the later images that it appears to stutter...is there a formula, or a rule of thumb for determining how long each image should be displayed? Does it all depend on your shutter speed and/or the time between each image? Also, when I transfer the images to video, I lose a lot of the quality. It's my fault, I know. I generally just use Windows Live Video, but I also have Avid Studio, but it seems terribly difficult to use, especially for the simple stuff I need it for. I'm sure there are some settings that I could adjust, but I'm really a safety guy, so it's like I'm learning a foreign language, and I really don't even know how to ask the questions, so any help in that area would be cool. My images are 12.2 MP, but in the video it looks like I was using a potato cam...lol. Thanks guys!!! Hope you enjoy it LiveLeak. Peace. Music: "Acoustic Meditation" by Jason Shaw Acoustic Meditation by Jason Shaw is licensed under a Attribution 3.0 United States License. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jason_Shaw/Audionautix_Acoustic/ACOUSTIC_MEDITATION_________3-14 Less

Our Place in History

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The uncertainty of life and the certainty of death unite all of us who come to this existence on this blue planet. Reuploaded with permissi...

The uncertainty of life and the certainty of death unite all of us who come to this existence on this blue planet. Reuploaded with permission of Pangea Progress. http://www.youtube.com/user/pangeaprogressblog/ http://pangeaprogress.blogspot.com/ "Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance. The first that we associate with Copernicus, Newton, and Galileo that taught us that we weren't living on the central body of a limited universe. And that Darwin's was the second that taught us that we were not separately created in the image of a benevolent deity, but were part of a history of genealogical connectivity of all living things." - Stephen Jay Gould "A general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the god portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy much less of a universe." - Carl Sagan "I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E.O. Wilson reminded us, tribal carnivores. We are programmed by our inheritance to see other living things as mainly something to eat, and we care more about our national tribe than anything else. We will even give our lives for it and are quite ready to kill other humans in the cruelest of ways for the good of our tribe. We still find alien the concept that we and the rest of life, from bacteria to whales, are parts of the much larger and diverse entity, the living Earth." Dr. Lovelock "Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows...There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whiles this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." ― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species Song: Two Steps from Hell - Heart of Courage) Less

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