| Blogosphere discovers fraud... |
| Richard North at the blog EU Referendum has assembled a series of Reuters, EPA, and AP photos, credited to various photograpers. Via sequence, timing, and astute obervation of clothing worn by those in the photos, North reveals the rescue workers are almost certainly Hezbollah soldiers posing as rescue workers and staging "rescue photos" with the same dead children used as props multiple times. UPDATE: Via Memeorandum you'll find more information and comments on this story at Confederate Yankee, BLACKFIVE, All Things Beautiful, The American Thinker, Israellycool, Jay Currie, Gateway Pundit, The Volokh Conspiracy, The Real Ugly American.com, Power Line, Macsmind, Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, It Shines For All, Jerusalem Post, Blue Crab Boulevard, Israel Matzav and TigerHawk. When will the story make it to NBC or CBS or the NYT? UPDATE II: More questions from Reuven Koret: Lebanese rescue teams did not start evacuating the building until the morning and only after the camera crews came. The absence of a real rescue effort was explained by saying that equipment was lacking. There were no scenes of live or injured people being extracted. There was little blood, CNN's Wedeman noted: all the victims, he concluded, appeared to have died while as they were sleeping -- sleeping, apparently, through thunderous Israeli air attacks. Rescue workers equipped with cameras were removing the bodies from the same opening in the collapsed structure. Journalists were not allowed near the collapsed building. Rescue workers filmed as they went carried the victims on the stretchers, occasionally flipping up the blankets so that cameras could show the faces and bodies of the dead. But Israelis steeled to scenes of carnage from Palestinian suicide bombings and Hezbollah rocket attack could not help but notice that these victims did not look like our victims. Their faces were ashen gray. Their limbs appeared to have stiffened, from rigor mortis. Neither were effects that would have resulted from an Israeli attack hours before. These were bodies that looked like they had been dead for days. Viewers can judge for themselves. But the accumulating evidence suggests another explanation for what happened at Kana. The scenario would be a setup in which the time between the initial Israeli bombing near the building and morning reports of its collapse would have been used to "plant" bodies killed in previous fighting -- reports in previous days indicated that nearby Tyre was used as a temporary morgue -- place them in the basement, and then engineer a "controlled demolition" to fake another Israeli attack. |
| Link posted by Steve Antler : 8:14 AM |
Saturday, July 29, 2006
| Laughing to keep from crying... |
| Absolutely hilarious -- the American left is now demanding we understand is is a myth -- An absolute myth I tell you! -- that Hezbollah "hides" behind "civilians." Nope, they stay as far away as they can from civilians we're told. Yet even as the American left speaks, Hezbollah's victorious ability to stay alive and continue shooting rockets emboldens them to smilingly demand we conceed precisely the opposite. As Ghaleb Abu-Zeinab of Hezbollah's political bureau recently bragged "The only way they can get Hezbollah out of the south is to empty the whole area of its population." UPDATE: Here are photos proving the case. |
| Link posted by Steve Antler : 5:20 AM |
Thursday, July 27, 2006
| These people know how to win elections? |
| Steven Pearlstein and David Sirota -- neither of whom has ever run a business nor earned an economics degree -- gravely explain how the Democrats ought to hold advanced international trade hostage to furtherance of the socio-eco-liberal agenda. |
| Link posted by Steve Antler : 1:16 PM |
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
| Sorry -- wrong numbers... |
| I simply don't understand this LA Times editorial. Are its mistakes and misdirections intentional, or do the editors really believe: 1. The modern upsurge in international trade began in the aftermath of 9/11 3. The extra $300 billion trade resulting from success in the Doha round would have put a "genuine dent" in global poverty. Go to this web site and get the numbers. 1. Since 9/11 total world exports have increased by 68%, but this is a fraction of the 200% increase recorded since 1991. The new era of globalized free trade began not with the fall of the WTC Twin Towers, but rather with the downfall of world communism. 2. The extra $300 billion lost owing to the Doha round's failure represents less than 3% of total world exports -- hardly enough, one would think, to eliminate what the editorial calls the global poverty "contributing to the instability and despair that [spawns] wars, terrorism and other...tragedies." UPDATE: Some clarity here. |
| Link posted by Steve Antler : 9:09 AM |
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
| "Cowardly blending..." |
| Jan Egeland: I heard they were proud because they lost very few fighters and that it was the civilians bearing the brunt of this. I don't think anyone should be proud of having many more children and women dead than armed men. |
| Link posted by Steve Antler : 6:01 AM |
Friday, July 21, 2006
| Kill the beast. Slit his throat. Drink his blood. Oh, the horror... |
| Oliver Stone's new movie is gaining lots of attention on the right. People may be missing the most important point. The politics of Stone's movies run from beneath contempt to basic conventional Hollywood. Yet his filmed biography of Nixon did a great job of communicating the anti-snob appeal of the guy, and alongside JFK and The Doors (as well as, of course, Coppola's Appocalypse Now) the film deserves to be shown in some sort of film festival centered on modern treatements of James George Frazer's The Golden Bough. I can't wait to see World Trade Center to see whether it is the United States itself that now occupies the role of Kurtz in Oliver Stone's ongoing and very personal retelling of Golden Bough/Heart of Darkness. UPDATE: Here's John Podhoretz's take in the NY Sun. |
| Link posted by Steve Antler : 5:30 AM |
Thursday, July 20, 2006
| In the long run we are dead... |
| If you want to appreciate just how lost the US really is, consider these numbers: The whole project is now tied down in environmental impact statements. The Environmental Protection Agency set a standard that radiation from the site should not exceed 15 millirems a year (about one chest x-ray) for 10,000 years. Environmentalists screamed that wasn't enough. They wanted a million years. A federal court, of course, agreed. So the EPA set a standard of 350 millirems for the next million years (about two-thirds of what people in Denver get from natural sources) and environmentalists are screaming that isn't good enough either. Nobody has suggested how these standards are to be monitored. Acceptance of the religion of environmentalism has led us to argue in court -- in a seemingly rational manner -- over whether the appropriate policy horizon is ten thousand versus one million years. |
| Link posted by Steve Antler : 6:41 AM |
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
| The enemy of my enemy... |
| For the present, Israel is Hezbollah's worst enemy. This makes it best friend to the Silent Arab Majority -- for the time being, of course. |
| Link posted by Steve Antler : 5:56 AM |
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
| What's on second? |
| "[T]he hard left has a moral eliteness that is obnoxious." Sen. Charles Schumer (D) NY |
| Link posted by Steve Antler : 9:40 AM |
| I don't know is on third... |
| Interesting how much of the U.S. left takes a position more critical of Israel than, say, that of Saudi Arabia? Here's Gun Toting Liberal's take on the matter: Fact is, we've got some emergencies of our own going on over HERE at this particular time. I FEEL for Isreal, I really DO. But I am feeling MUCH more sympathy for my fellow Americans who are being mercilessly victimized by outsourcing and corporate monopolies; the lack of healthcare; a war of our OWN being waged in the Middle East; threats to our OWN country by North Korea; falling wages due to threats to our sovereignty by our Southern neighbor; rising gasoline prices; and political scandals and corruption of a level never before seen in our country. So please FORGIVE ME if I appear to be a bit frigging NUMB to the plight of another country in a far off land at this particular time. (And by the way don't you just LOVE this blogger's use of CAPS to express points of EMPHASIS -- and his unique spelling of Israel?) |
| Link posted by Steve Antler : 6:16 AM |
Monday, July 17, 2006
| Who's on first? |
| Captain Ed: For all their talk, the Arabs understand that Israel really presents no long-term threat to their own regimes. Israel does not covet land outside of their own territory and parts of the West Bank. They do not want Lebanon for themselves, nor Jordan nor Syria. They want to be left alone. Iran, on the other hand, wants to pick up where Saddam Hussein left off. Rather than a pan-Arab vision, though, the mullahcracy wants to reestablish the Caliphate, a pan-Islamism with Teheran in charge. That puts all of their regimes at risk, regardless of whether Iran fails or succeeds. The result -- we now have the singular event of Arabs taking Israel's side in a conflict with other Arabs. Check your window this morning, because pigs may soon begin to fly. |
| Link posted by Steve Antler : 9:08 AM |
Friday, July 07, 2006
| Everyone was either re-assigned or "relocated"... |
| John Hindenraker has the closest thing to the Iraqi WMD smoking gun to date. Why does this suddenly bring to mind those old movies where the Pharaho has all the palace guards killed so nobody will ever know the secret location of the tomb? |
| Link posted by Steve Antler : 2:54 PM |
| A tower of cards...not... |
| It would appear the biggest lesson about 9/11 so far not learned by the international terrorist community is World Capitalism cannot be brought to its knees by damaging the New York financial centre. |
| Link posted by Steve Antler : 7:36 AM |
| The trains now run on time... |
| Or: what happens when courts achieve too much power. |
| Link posted by Steve Antler : 6:33 AM |
| For those still interested... |
| This ought to be the definitive statement of precisely why, in socio-scientific terms of course, Enron and Ken Lay were evil. |
| Link posted by Steve Antler : 6:09 AM |
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
| Why more than one? |
| A likely answer can be found at The Corner: It's very interesting. According to early reports they fired two SCUDS followed by what may have been their long-range test missile. If this was the case the SCUDS were clearly meant to draw fire from our missile-defense systems. Then the long-range missile reportedly failed in flight. It would be great if we actually took it down, but in-flight failure doesn't help the North Koreans in their drive to intimidate the world. It certainly shows that they take our missile-defense threat seriously, even if some people on this side of the world do not. |
| Link posted by Steve Antler : 4:58 PM |
| More evidence... |
| It is all too easy to make light of this -- ha ha, the US judiciary continues to assert control over the US military establishment. And where do these lawsuits end? What's their ultimate goal? The answer is scary. |
| Link posted by Steve Antler : 7:04 AM |
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