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pluralFirst I'll start on the lighter side with some youtube clips which amused me:
Funny clip from Israel
Brains over Braun
Then to shift 180 degrees an article which seems to credibly assert the staging of "journalistic" photographs.
In the next frame, we have the same girl, this time apparently being placed in the ambulance. Also taken by AP,this time by Mohammed Zaatari the caption here reads:
A Lebanese rescuer carries the body of a young girl recovered from under the rubble of a demolished building that was struck by Israeli warplane missiles at the village of Qana, near the southern city of Tyre, Lebanon, Sunday, July 30, 2006. Dozens of civilians, including many children, were killed Sunday in an Israeli airstrike that flattened houses in this southern Lebanon village - the deadliest attack in 19 days of fighting.
Intriguingly, though, the dateline given is 10.25 am, three hours after she has already been photographed in the ambulance.
This seriously disturbs me, not even for the propaganda aspects, after all propaganda in media coverage of the middle east is old news, what disturbs me is the extent and length of time. Taking the body of a child out of an ambulance and parading it around for a photoshoot which exceeded three hours in length, is beyond obscene and disgusting.
and more info on the Qana tragedy:
Meanwhile, the Lebanese Red Cross workers reported on Monday that 28 bodies, 19 of them children, were removed from the rubble. The count is lower than the some 60 bodies reported by news agencies, quoting Lebanese security officials. Survivors say 60 people were in the building at the time of the strike.
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The IDF account and those of survivors present contradictory versions of the Qana deaths. The IDF said that there is an unexplained gap of about seven hours between the IAF strike and the first report that the building had collapsed. Residents' accounts say only 10 minutes went by between the strike and the collapse. The survivors say rescue teams arrived only in the morning, as night conditions made the rescue mission difficult. The Red Cross in Tyre received a call for help only in the morning, explaining their late arrival. Sami Yazbek, chief of the Tyre department of the Red Cross, said his office received a call only at 7 A.M. The ambulances were further slowed by the bombed roads leading to Qana.
"I can't say whether the house collapsed at 12 A.M. or at 8 A.M.," said Eshel. "According to foreign press reports, and this is one of the reports we are relying on, the house collapsed at 8 A.M. We do not have testimony regarding the time of the collapse. If the house collapsed at 12 A.M., it is difficult for me to believe that they waited eight hours to evacuate it."
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In the second IAF strike on Qana, which took place at around 2:30 A.M. Sunday, IAF planes bombed two targets located about 500 meters from the building that collapsed, and in the third strike, at around 7:30 A.M., three targets were bombed 460 meters away from the building, Eshel said. He told reporters that an analysis of photographs of the strikes, taken by cameras installed in the warplanes, showed that the four bombs dropped during the second and third strikes hit the intended targets, and that an IAF plane sent on a photo sortie in the afternoon confirmed that the intended targets had been hit.
This AFP photograph shows Beirut demonstrators with a giant poster of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that was used in a rally protesting the accidental killing of civilian human shields, along with terrorists, in Qana: What seems odd about this is that the banner was unfurled within hours after the Qana attack took place. The building where the civilians died was bombed on Sunday morning, and the demonstration took place during daylight hours, later the same day.
Obviously these prompt some peculiar questions, although I'm not sure I'm willing to go where they seem to be leading quite yet, definitely bears watching the resulting investigations closely.
and I'll end it with an interesting article by Warren Buffett:
Why I'm not buying the U.S. dollar
Funny clip from Israel
Brains over Braun
Then to shift 180 degrees an article which seems to credibly assert the staging of "journalistic" photographs.
In the next frame, we have the same girl, this time apparently being placed in the ambulance. Also taken by AP,this time by Mohammed Zaatari the caption here reads:
A Lebanese rescuer carries the body of a young girl recovered from under the rubble of a demolished building that was struck by Israeli warplane missiles at the village of Qana, near the southern city of Tyre, Lebanon, Sunday, July 30, 2006. Dozens of civilians, including many children, were killed Sunday in an Israeli airstrike that flattened houses in this southern Lebanon village - the deadliest attack in 19 days of fighting.
Intriguingly, though, the dateline given is 10.25 am, three hours after she has already been photographed in the ambulance.
This seriously disturbs me, not even for the propaganda aspects, after all propaganda in media coverage of the middle east is old news, what disturbs me is the extent and length of time. Taking the body of a child out of an ambulance and parading it around for a photoshoot which exceeded three hours in length, is beyond obscene and disgusting.
and more info on the Qana tragedy:
Meanwhile, the Lebanese Red Cross workers reported on Monday that 28 bodies, 19 of them children, were removed from the rubble. The count is lower than the some 60 bodies reported by news agencies, quoting Lebanese security officials. Survivors say 60 people were in the building at the time of the strike.
...
The IDF account and those of survivors present contradictory versions of the Qana deaths. The IDF said that there is an unexplained gap of about seven hours between the IAF strike and the first report that the building had collapsed. Residents' accounts say only 10 minutes went by between the strike and the collapse. The survivors say rescue teams arrived only in the morning, as night conditions made the rescue mission difficult. The Red Cross in Tyre received a call for help only in the morning, explaining their late arrival. Sami Yazbek, chief of the Tyre department of the Red Cross, said his office received a call only at 7 A.M. The ambulances were further slowed by the bombed roads leading to Qana.
"I can't say whether the house collapsed at 12 A.M. or at 8 A.M.," said Eshel. "According to foreign press reports, and this is one of the reports we are relying on, the house collapsed at 8 A.M. We do not have testimony regarding the time of the collapse. If the house collapsed at 12 A.M., it is difficult for me to believe that they waited eight hours to evacuate it."
...
In the second IAF strike on Qana, which took place at around 2:30 A.M. Sunday, IAF planes bombed two targets located about 500 meters from the building that collapsed, and in the third strike, at around 7:30 A.M., three targets were bombed 460 meters away from the building, Eshel said. He told reporters that an analysis of photographs of the strikes, taken by cameras installed in the warplanes, showed that the four bombs dropped during the second and third strikes hit the intended targets, and that an IAF plane sent on a photo sortie in the afternoon confirmed that the intended targets had been hit.
This AFP photograph shows Beirut demonstrators with a giant poster of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that was used in a rally protesting the accidental killing of civilian human shields, along with terrorists, in Qana: What seems odd about this is that the banner was unfurled within hours after the Qana attack took place. The building where the civilians died was bombed on Sunday morning, and the demonstration took place during daylight hours, later the same day.
Obviously these prompt some peculiar questions, although I'm not sure I'm willing to go where they seem to be leading quite yet, definitely bears watching the resulting investigations closely.
and I'll end it with an interesting article by Warren Buffett:
Why I'm not buying the U.S. dollar
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Date: 2006-08-02 07:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-02 07:52 am (UTC)while I'm very pro-capitalist, I've been saying for a long time that the US has lost its way and can no longer be considered a capitalist country.
Capitalism has a rational, that is ratios and balances between debt and income among other things, we've moved far beyond that into what I would consider a consumerist economy rather than a capitalist one.
That is that our economy is fueled by reckless consumption and requires the propigation of that recklessness to keep moving.
This among other things is why I've chosen to live (and continue to live) outside the US for the past few years (and the determinable future).
I posted the article because I believe he is spot on, or very close to it.
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Date: 2006-08-02 10:41 am (UTC)i know thats what im saying. people like jeremy always seem to want to argue that this is somehow a good thing
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Date: 2006-08-02 01:04 pm (UTC)All things change and come around again, brother. The only thing that can kill this country IMHO is to cut off the ability to be creative in solutions. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me in no uncertain terms that inovation was dead. There was NO WAY it was possible for I as member of an economy that had hit its zenith could possibly hope to see real gains in my station... This was the same man who thought I was wasting time learning to use computers by programming toys... the same man, in fact who disuaded me from invesitn $80K in MSFT back in '84... When I see the comercialization of things like 'make' magazine, and an underground movement of the promotion of tinkerers... I can't help but believe that while things look grim now, they will get better. When I was in graduate school the SINGLE thing I saw in myself and other Americans that was utterly lacking in students from every other country was a deisre to dream... to try new shit and be good with utterly humilating yourself with some whacked-out idea that more often than not turned out to be bullshit. But the point was that every once and again, it wasn't and it would have NEVER been found by not taking the risks and applying the creativity to make it happen.