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Friday 30 September 2016

Bugs / Aleppo endless death series

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Eastern Oregon | by austin granger

Eastern Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 29 September 2016

Eastern Oregon | by austin granger

Eastern Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 29 September 2016

Eat More Fowl | by Lost America

Eat More Fowl. Abandoned roadside complex, Halloran Springs, California. Smoke from the Blue Cut Fire, full moon night.: photo by Troy Paiva, 16 August 2016

Lo-Gas Eat 1993 | by Lost America

Lo-Gas Eat 1993. Halloran Springs, California, off of Interstate 15, overlooking the eastern approaches to Baker, 15 miles away. A late afternoon June monsoon, in 1993, when the gas station was freshly refurbished with a new set of islands, and the mechanic roved the steep grade with his tow trucks helping stranded motorists.
: photo by Troy Paiva, 26 September 2016


Lo-Gas Eat 2016 | by Lost America

Halloran Springs, California, a lonely exit off of Interstate 15, overlooking the eastern approaches to Baker. On a 108 degree night in August 2016, the gas station and restaurant long abandoned, the view of the valley obliterated by smoke from the Blue Cut fire, 100 +miles to the southwest: photo by Troy Paiva, 16 August 2016

Fireball XL5 | by Lost America

XL5. Dry-lake fringes of Edward AFB, Califonia.: photo by Troy Paiva, 4 August 2014

Bugs | by efo

Bugs [Richmond, California]: photo by efo, 29 September 2016

Bugs | by efo

Bugs [Richmond, California]: photo by efo, 29 September 2016


Desperate for his dead father, passed away while he was out, came back to see the disaster! #Aleppo endless death series Haven't got enough!: image via Zouhir AlShimale @ZouhirAlShimale, 29 September 2016 

Letter from Aleppo: 'We will not be able to keep going this way for long'

'We will not be able to keep going this way for long': photo by Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters, 29 September 2016
  
Letter from Aleppo: 'My city is not just a death toll':  A Syrian Civil Defense member and resident of Aleppo reflects on the worst onslaught the city witnessed since 2011: Al Jazeera News, 29 September 2016

Aleppo - During the past week, Aleppo has been the target of the worst aerial onslaught since the start of Syria's civil war in 2011. More than 400 people were killed, hundreds of others wounded, and several buildings flattened since a short-lived ceasefire broke down last week. Here, Beebers Mishal, 31, one of the founders of the Syrian Civil Defense in 2013 and a resident of Aleppo, reflects on the humanitarian situation in the city and world reaction to it.

I don't remember when I woke up this morning, I don't remember when I went to sleep. I don't sleep easily, no one here does. The aerial bombardment is relentless all across the city.  In our lives there is no such thing as sleep. 

I have three civil defence certificates, and another on the laws of war and peace. The last one is not mandatory, they teach it to people who want more information. I can say with full confidence that the international community does not enforce any of the laws of war.

This same community has been watching what is happening in Aleppo for eight days. Aleppo is burning and the world is watching silently.  Russian warplanes have not stopped bombing us, not for a second.

They've dropped all kinds of forbidden munitions: phosphorous bombs, cluster munitions and the powerful bunker buster. I've seen these bombs destroy entire neighborhoods and bury people alive.

The regime is targeting areas that were struck before, resulting in more casualties.

There is no food and we are running out of water. The only supply road to the city was closed. No one can afford to buy a piece of bread because the prices are too high. People are eating one meal of rice and mint, or one packet of instant noodles a day

Journalists ask me how many people died on this day or that day, but Aleppo is not just a death toll.

Every fired missile is a story. Seconds after an explosion, our units go straight to the area and start pulling people from under the rubble.

Maybe the bomb destroys the entire building. Maybe there are five families inside when it does.

We saved a man from under the rubble after three hours of searching. After one attack, an 11-day-old baby was missing. We found her by listening to the sounds of her cries from beneath the wreckage. 

Three of our headquarters were also attacked and some of our vehicles were destroyed. So we risked heavy shelling and used our hands to lift the pieces of the shattered homes, and rescue the people underneath.

But even those pulled out might not be saved.

We are running out of fuel, hospitals are working under fire with limited electricity and medicine.

We will not be able to keep going this way for long.  

This isn't new for us. This is our routine. Hear a bomb, go to the site, identify people and get them out. In the last few days, we didn't stop, not even for a moment. The use of powerful munitions mean our work is never done. There is no "start time" for what we do. I don't have a life outside the White Helmets.

Of course, the war has an effect on me. I am married, but my wife is not with me. She is safer in the Aleppo countryside. But I am stuck here, in the besieged city.

Before the war I was working as a language teacher and a public servant. I don't have children.

In four years, I have witnessed the carnage of innocent children. I've heard the sound of people struggling to breathe their last under the rubble.

This is not normal. No one can express what this feeling is like.

We always say, when the war ends whoever is left will need psychological help to feel what normal people feel like again. 

I was one of the founders of the Syrian Civil Defense in 2013. In the past three years and a half I have witnessed thousands of massacres, bombings, air strikes.

But the past few days in Aleppo have been unbelievable.  You can see sorrow in the eyes of the people.

You can hear the crash of bombs and death everywhere. They only have memories of blood, displacement and destruction.



814 residential areas, 13 industrial areas and 236 agricultural fields have been targeted by airstrikes  #HolocaustAleppo: image via Primo Ahmad @PrimoAhmad, 29 September 2016 
  


3 volunteers were killed in Al-Bab area after an Airstrike targeted them during response to rescue operation yesterday. rest in peace guys: image via Khaled Khatib @995Khaled, 29 September 2016



3 volunteers were killed in Al-Bab area after an Airstrike targeted them during response to rescue operation yesterday. rest in peace guys: image via Khaled Khatib @995Khaled, 29 September 2016
 

N. Aleppo : Opposition fire Grad missiles at Regime forces gathered in #Handarat Camp: image via Christian Turner @CombatChris, 29 September 2016

Bugs

A man holds a fishing rod as floating trash hits the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar Hassan Ammar/AP
A man holds a fishing rod as floating rubbish hits the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday: photo by Hassan Ammar/AP, 29 September 2016

A man holds a fishing rod as floating trash hits the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar

A man holds a fishing rod as floating rubbish hits the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday: photo by Hassan Ammar/AP, 29 September 2016

Mercedes Benz CEO Dieter Zetsche delivers a speech on the first day of the press days of the Paris motor Show,  on September 29, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL MEDINAMIGUEL MEDINA/AFP/Getty Images Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images
Mercedes Benz CEO Dieter Zetsche delivers a speech on the first day of the Paris Motor Show: photo by Miguel Medina/AFP, 29 September 2016

Mercedes Benz CEO Dieter Zetsche delivers a speech on the first day of the press days of the Paris motor Show,  on September 29, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL MEDINAMIGUEL MEDINA/AFP/Getty Images

Mercedes Benz CEO Dieter Zetsche delivers a speech on the first day of the Paris Motor Show: photo by Miguel Medina/AFP, 29 September 2016


Lt. Gen. Ranbir Singh, the Indian director general of military operations, at a news briefing in New Delhi on Thursday: photo by Reuters, 29 September 2016


Lt. Gen. Ranbir Singh, the Indian director general of military operations, at a news briefing in New Delhi on Thursday: photo by Reuters, 29 September 2016


INDIA - An Indian paramilitary trooper looks on in Srinagar. By @TauseefMUSTAFA #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffard, 29 September 2016  

Indian soldiers as they patrol along a barbed-wire fence near Baras Post

Indian soldiers as they patrol along a barbed-wire fence near Baras Post on the Line of Control (LoC) between Pakistan and India some 174 kms north west of Srinagar. India’s military has carried out “surgical strikes” along the de facto border with Pakistan in Kashmir to thwart a series of attacks being planned against major cities, the army said on Thursday.: photo by AFP, 29 September 2016

Indian soldiers as they patrol along a barbed-wire fence near Baras Post

Indian soldiers as they patrol along a barbed-wire fence near Baras Post on the Line of Control (LoC) between Pakistan and India some 174 kms north west of Srinagar. India’s military has carried out “surgical strikes” along the de facto border with Pakistan in Kashmir to thwart a series of attacks being planned against major cities, the army said on Thursday.: photo by AFP, 29 September 2016

Police officer walks in the middle of Indonesian union workers protesting against a government tax amnesty on their way to the presidential palace in Jakarta

A police officer walks in the middle of Indonesian union workers protesting against a government tax amnesty on their way to the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia on Thursday: photo by Darren Whiteside/Reuters, 29 September 2016

Police officer walks in the middle of Indonesian union workers protesting against a government tax amnesty on their way to the presidential palace in Jakarta

A police officer walks in the middle of Indonesian union workers protesting against a government tax amnesty on their way to the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia on Thursday: photo by Darren Whiteside/Reuters, 29 September 2016

U.S President Barack Obama (L) and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry disembark Air Force One upon landing at Israel's Ben Gurion International airport to attend the funeral of former Israeli President Shimon Peres, in Lod, Israel September 30, 2016.

U.S President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry disembark Air Force One upon landing at Israel’s Ben Gurion International airport to attend the funeral of former Israeli President Shimon Peres, in Lod, Israel: photo by Kevin Lamarque/Reuters, 30 September 2016

U.S President Barack Obama (L) and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry disembark Air Force One upon landing at Israel's Ben Gurion International airport to attend the funeral of former Israeli President Shimon Peres, in Lod, Israel September 30, 2016.

U.S President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry disembark Air Force One upon landing at Israel’s Ben Gurion International airport to attend the funeral of former Israeli President Shimon Peres, in Lod, Israel: photo by Kevin Lamarque/Reuters, 30 September 2016

Technicians visit a new hybrid operating room of the IHU, Institute of Image-Guided Surgery in Strasbourg, France, September 29, 2016. The hybrid operation room of the IHU combines the most advanced minimally invasive surgery techniques and the latest medical imaging technologies, resulting in the most advanced surgery platform of the world. Picture taken September 29, 2016.  REUTERS/Vincent Kessler

Technicians visit a new hybrid operating room of the IHU, Institute of Image-Guided Surgery in Strasbourg, France. The hybrid operation room of the IHU combines the most advanced minimally invasive surgery techniques and the latest medical imaging technologies, resulting in the most advanced surgery platform in the world.: photo Vincent Kessler/Reuters, 30 September 2016

Technicians visit a new hybrid operating room of the IHU, Institute of Image-Guided Surgery in Strasbourg, France, September 29, 2016. The hybrid operation room of the IHU combines the most advanced minimally invasive surgery techniques and the latest medical imaging technologies, resulting in the most advanced surgery platform of the world. Picture taken September 29, 2016.  REUTERS/Vincent Kessler 

Technicians visit a new hybrid operating room of the IHU, Institute of Image-Guided Surgery in Strasbourg, France. The hybrid operation room of the IHU combines the most advanced minimally invasive surgery techniques and the latest medical imaging technologies, resulting in the most advanced surgery platform in the world.: photo Vincent Kessler/Reuters, 30 September 2016 

he canton of Bern is pictured from the summit "Chasseral" (1607m) based in the Jura Mountains, in the canton of Bern, Switzerland,

The canton of Bern is pictured from the summit “Chasseral” based in the Jura Mountains, in the canton of Bern, Switzerland: photo Anthony Anex/EPA, 30 September 2016 

he canton of Bern is pictured from the summit "Chasseral" (1607m) based in the Jura Mountains, in the canton of Bern, Switzerland,

The canton of Bern is pictured from the summit “Chasseral” based in the Jura Mountains, in the canton of Bern, Switzerland: photo Anthony Anex/EPA, 30 September 2016

Thursday 29 September 2016

Looking to the sky

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Stacks of bread are seen at a damaged bakery after an air strike in the rebel-held Bab al-Maqam neighbourhood of Aleppo: photo by Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters, 28 September 2016

The price of bread


A man works at a bakery in the rebel-held town of Douma, east of Damascus, providing bread for impoverished families during Ramadan: photo by Sameer Al-Doumy/Agence France-Presse, 19 June 2016


 
A man works at a bakery in the rebel-held town of Douma, east of Damascus, providing bread for impoverished families during Ramadan: photo by Sameer Al-Doumy/Agence France-Presse, 19 June 2016

A Syrian man works at a bakery in the rebel-held town of Douma, east of the capital Damascus on June 19, 2016, as a part of an initiative to distribute bread to impoverished families in the Eastern Ghouta area during the holy fasting month of Ramadan. The bakery is managed by the Douma Society which was created in 1960. / AFP / Sameer Al-Doumy (Photo credit should read SAMEER AL-DOUMY/AFP/Getty Images)  

A Syrian man works at a bakery in the rebel-held town of Douma, east of the capital Damascus, as a part of an initiative to distribute bread to impoverished families in the Eastern Ghouta area during the holy fasting month of Ramadan. The bakery is managed by the Douma Society which was created in 1960.: photo by Sameer Al-Doumy/Agence France-Presse, 19 June 2016
  

A picture taken on June 19, 2016 shows pita bread at a bakery in the rebel-held town of Douma, east of the Syrian capital Damascus, as a part of an initiative to distribute bread to impoverished families in the Eastern Ghouta area during the holy fasting month of Ramadan. The bakery is managed by the Douma Society which was created in 1960. / AFP / Sameer Al-Doumy (Photo credit should read SAMEER AL-DOUMY/AFP/Getty Images)

Loaves of pita bread are baked in an oven at a bakery in the rebel-held town of Douma, east of the Syrian capital Damascus, as a part of an initiative to distribute bread to impoverished families in the Eastern Ghouta area during the holy fasting month of Ramadan.: photo by Sameer Al-Doumy/Agence France-Presse, 19 June 2016



Bab al-Maqam oven where the bread mingled with blood and body parts in devastation ... #Aleppo this morning #HolocaustAleppo
: image via Hozaifa Dahmaan@hozaifadahmaan, 28 September 2016



And the blood and the body and the bread - this scene familiar for years in Syria, where Assad has targeted bakeries and bread queues to kill the largest number of Syrians #HolocaustAleppo: image via Hozaifa Dahmaan@hozaifadahmaan, 28 September 2016



6 people were killed and many injured in Al-ma'ady neighborhood in Aleppo city after an Airstrike targeted their queue in front of a bakery
: image via Khaled Khatib 995@Khaled, 28 September 2016



Price of bread Cost of being human in #Syria #Aleppo. It's your Soul #Assad warplanes killed over than 30 civilians in Aleppo #HolocaustAleppo: image via taim shami @taimshamii, 28 September 2016


Warplanes knock out Aleppo hospitals as Russian-backed assault intensifies: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 29 September 2016


Looking to the sky



People look at the sky fearing another air strike in the rebel-held al-Myassar neighbourhood of Aleppo: photo by Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters, 28 September 2016



Civil Defence workers search for survivors at a site hit by an air strike in the rebel-held al-Shaar neighbourhood of Aleppo: photo by Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters, 28 September 2016

 

People dig in the rubble in the search for survivors at a site hit by an air strike in the rebel-held Tariq al-Bab neighborhood of Aleppo: photo by Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters, 28 September 2016

 

A boy inspects the rubble after air strikes on the rebel-held Tariq al-Bab neighborhood of Aleppo: photo by Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters, 28 September 2016


Corps déchiquetés et médecins impuissants à Alep dévastée par @KaramAlmasri25 #AFP: image via Agence France Presse @afpfr, 27 September 2016 


#Syrie: Kerry menace Moscou, l’ONU dénonce des «crimes de guerre» à Alep par @KaramAlmasri25 / @GebeilyM #AFP
: image via Agence France Presse @afpfr, 28 September 2016


 

If President Bashar al-Assad's forces do recapture the ancient city it would mark a turning point in the war, which has killed an estimated 400,000 people and displaced millions: photo by Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters, 28 September 2016
 

order of battle, as the shades of evening come down



A photograph released on September 25 2016 by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syrian government troops at Handarat camp in the north of Aleppo after its recapture: photo by Sana Handout/EPA, 28 September 2016

Jets pound Aleppo in government push to take city: Government fighter jets backed by Russian air force pound rebel-held Aleppo, as ground assault begins:

Syrian government forces and their allies began a major ground offensive to retake the opposition-held east of Aleppo on Tuesday, the biggest ground assault yet in a massive new campaign that has destroyed a US-backed ceasefire.

More than 275,000 civilians are believed to be trapped inside the besieged rebel-held sector of Aleppo, where intensive bombing over the past week has killed hundreds of people, many trapped under buildings brought down by bunker-busting bombs.

Only about 30 doctors are left in rebel-held Aleppo, coping with hundreds of wounded each day who are being treated on the floors of hospitals that are bereft of supplies.

The World Health Organization called for the "immediate establishment of humanitarian routes to evacuate sick and wounded" from the besieged eastern part of the city.



Oh hey. Just being super comfy with my cats. #snowpantherqueen #selfie: image via Audra Auclair @AudraAuclair, 28 September 2016


Crowd turns its back on Hillary #Clinton as photo captures the age of the #selfie: image via Linda Yueh Verified account @lindayueh, 26 September 2016


Always time for a #selfie #NYFW: image via Sophie Beam Verified account @Sophie Beam, 26 September 2016


This is my 98th #selfie since the previous one, couldn't capture my Lipstick shade correctly. #reallifeproblems
: image via Dr Natasha @bajwas24, 26 September 2016


A photograph made available on 27 September 2016 shows a tourist taking a selfie in front of the Sphinx, Giza, Egypt,
 A tourist takes a selfie in front of the Sphinx, Giza, Egypt. The United Nations’ ‘World Tourism Day’ is observed today.: photo by Khaled Elfigi/EPA, 27 September 2016

A photograph made available on 27 September 2016 shows a tourist taking a selfie in front of the Sphinx, Giza, Egypt,

A tourist takes a selfie in front of the Sphinx, Giza, Egypt. The United Nations’ ‘World Tourism Day’ is observed today.: photo by Khaled Elfigi/EPA, 27 September 2016


Best #Selfie: image via Alice Vachet @AliceVachet, 25 September 2016

Untitled | by mhh

[Nassau Bay, Texas]
: photo by mhh, 28 February 2016


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[Nassau Bay, Texas]
: photo by mhh, 28 February 2016


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[Nassau Bay, Texas]
: photo by mhh, 28 February 2016


Untitled | by TomOlson

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: photo by Tom Olson, 28 November 2014

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: photo by Tom Olson, 28 November 2014
 

Valentino Spring 2017 "War" collection
: photo by Gio Staiano/Nowfashion, 24 June 2016

 

Valentino Spring 2017 "War" collection: photo by Gio Staiano/Nowfashion, 24 June 2016
 
Valentino Spring 2017 "War" collection
: photo by Gio Staiano/Nowfashion, 24 June 2016



Valentino Spring 2017 "War" collection
: photo by Gio Staiano/Nowfashion, 24 June 2016



Valentino Spring 2017 "War" collection: photo by Gio Staiano/Nowfashion, 24 June 2016



State television reported that the army had retaken al-Farafra district in Aleppo's Old City, while engineering units were clearing mines in the area: photo by Sana Handout/EPA, 28 September 2016


Free Syrian army fighters queue as they head towards their positions in the northern rural area of Aleppo: photo by Khalil Ashawi/Reuters, 28 September 2016



A vehicle drives past damaged buildings in the northern Syrian rebel-controlled town of al-Rai, in rural Aleppo: photo by Khalil Ashawi/Reuters, 28 September 2016