THE 45 MOST POWERFUL PHOTOS OF 2011

While its a good thing to stay up to date on music and fashion, being informed on whats going on around the world is also very important. With that being said, I'm a firm believer that knowledge is power. The the picture above is off Harold Camping ( The guy that said the world was supposed to in back in May). I guess we have to wait until 2012 for the world to end? Im still waiting for the computers to rule the world (Y2K plug for all of you who are old enough to remember that proclaimed disaster). Any who here are the 45 most powerful photos of 2011. Im only sharing the ones I found to be the most compelling. You can find the list in its entirety over here. 

1. Robert Peraza, who lost his son Robert David Peraza in 9/11, pauses at his son’s name at the North Pool of the 9/11 Memorial.
(Getty Images / Justin Lane)

3. This sightseeing boat, Hama Yuri, was pulled 1300 feet from the coast and somehow balanced itself on a two story house during the tsunami in Japan.

4. Members of the national security team receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House on May 1.
(Reuters / HANDOUT)

8. A before and after shot of Joplin, Missouri after a massive tornado on May 22.
Source: zeitlosimagery

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19. Firefighters of Ladder Company 4 — which lost seven men on 9/11 — perched together on their aerial ladder, watching a news bulletin in Times Square declaring that Osama bin Laden was dead on May 2.

Source: lens.blogs.nytimes.com

20. Slain Navy SEAL Jon Tumilson's dog "Hawkeye" lies next to his casket during funeral services in Rockford, Iowa. Tumilson was one of 30 American soldiers killed in Afghanistan on August 6 when their helicopter was shot down during a mission to help fellow troops who had come under fire.

22. Cars are abandoned on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive during the "Snowpocalypse" in February.

Source: chicagotribune.com

24. 84-year-old Dorli Rainey was pepper sprayed during a peaceful march in Seattle, Washington. She would have been thrown to the ground and trampled, but luckily a fellow protester and Iraq vet was there to save her. (Joshua Trujillo / seattlepi.com)

30. Mihag Gedi Farah, a seven-month-old child, is held by his mother in a field hospital of the International Rescue Committee in the town of Dadaab, Kenya. The baby has since made a full recovery.

(AP / Schalk Van Zuydam)

33. A woman cries while sitting on a road amid the destroyed city of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan after the massive earthquake and tsunami.

(Reuters / ASAHI SHIMBUN)

39. A Libyan rebel is pictured with Gadhafi's golden gun.

(Getty Images / Philippe Desmazes)

40. Harold Camping speaks about the end of the world. The world was supposed to end on May 22 of this year. ***LOL SUPER DEAD AT THIS ONE**

(AP / Marcio Jose Sanchez)

44. A distressed bride attempts suicide in China after her fiance abruptly called off their marriage. Still in her wedding gown, she tried to kill herself by jumping out of a window of a seventh floor building. Right as she jumped, a man managed to catch and save her.
(Reuters / CHINA DAILY)