Yes, I saw pictures like that on the front of The Dallas Morning News, and USA Today.

Can't be a sign of any lefty bias on part of the media. My Liberal friends assure me the media leans to the right.

Thanks for the hat tip, Charles.

Your friend is right. The liberal media does lean to the right, if that provides the correct angle to film more DEAD BABIES.

Yet MSM always reminds us that publishing images of 9/11 will just "breed anger."

Evidently in Colombia, journalists believe that cleavage sells better than carnage...

Daily Kos votes for "most hateful" FReepers and vows to "track them down."

I am singled out as a "Christian sicko." Who'da thunk?

I am sickened that these poor children are caught in the middle of this crisis, and there is no mitigating the facts: children are being hurt.

The problem is, the front page news often defines the difference between a forest and a tree.

I've said it here and elsewhere many times. At least Israel is being merciful and humane enough to use precision weapons, as opposed to those frigging things Huzzuhbullshite uses. Those things are glorified buzz bombs. Point, launch, and pray to some tin "god" that it hits a primo target when it runs out of fuel.

Remember this when you see all of those whinging, crying wrapped up women hamming it up for the camera - they danced and sang and passed out candy when the Twin Towers fell and when the Beslan massacre happened... never forget my friends.

Guys, I was commenting on this in the previous thread.

Take a look.

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

Christ!

Milking it?

How many hours did that ass-hat walk around with the same dead kids?

At least they didn't keep dressing them up in different outfits. I see he had time for a couple of costume changes!

Seriously sick and f*^@ed up.

Where have the pictures of dead Israelis been? Huh?

I can't believe Mel Gibson was dumb enough to fall for the MSM's/proterrorist version of this Hezbolla-planned atrocity.

Mel Gibson ought to do a full out mea-culpa tour of Israel and visit Israeli victims of islamofascist terror attacks to show he "gets" it.

#11 Ward Cleaver

Hmmm. . . that's a very good question, Ward; where are the pictures of the Israeli victims, anyway?

(Also, where is there some mention of the fact that Hezbollah is still firing missiles at Israel?)

msmspeak...israelis are used to pain and suffering...bombs in the basement of schools dot blowup...time? who cares about time? get the picture?

Hizbullah purposefully targets civilians and purposefully operates in civilian areas in order to maximize civilian casualties on both ends.

Israel purposefully limits its military from operating with maximum tactical effect in order to minimize civilian casualties - such as tipping off areas of operation that Israel intends to attack and warns people to get out of the areas.

Israel fires back at rocket launchers firing into Israel, and gets castigated because civilian casualties ensue.

The fault lies not with Israel, but with Hizbullah - who not only instigated this conflict, but who is playing the media like a virtuoso.

To see the Calgary Sun, from traditionally conservative (for Canada) Alberta, to feature such a picture on its front page is truly sad.

I wonder how much critical care has been denied to wounded children in Lebanon so that they could be posed for photos?

I DON'T KNOW ABOUT ANYONE ELSE.

But the fact that these pictures are from the A/P, al-reuters, begs the question of complicity.

How can civilians be positioned on weaponry, by just yards from civilian housing?

Next, staging photos with what appears to be some of the same folks, when civilians are killed?

I think these news agencies are up to more than just being lead around.

I think there caught red-handed.

#11 Dead Israeli civilians are not photogenic ...

/s

# 17:

I wonder how much critical care has been denied to wounded children in Lebanon so that they could be posed for photos?

Sweet Lord, I never thought of it that way. Now I really feel sick.

The photo also appears on the cover of today's New York Post. Meanwhile, I had written the Post to include copies of the photos that first ran in the Aussie paper showing Hizbullah in action - operating heavy weapons in civilian clothes in a residential area.

Good report here quantifying what's known up to now:

Was The “Qana Massacre” Staged By Hezbollah?

There are other mysteries. The roof of the building was intact. Journalist Ben Wedeman of CNN noted that there was a larger crater next to the building, but observed that the building appeared not to have collapsed as a result of the Israeli strike.

What we do know is that sometime after dawn a call went hour to journalists and rescue workers to come to the scene. And come they did.

While Hezbollah and its apologists have been claiming that civilians could not freely flee the scene due to Israeli destruction of bridges and roads, the journalists and rescue teams from nearby Tyre had no problem getting there.

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

More and more evidence is turning up that this whole thing was completely staged.

Hate and anti-Semitism alone are not enough to explain this. I am increasingly coming to believe there are secretive financial incentives for the MSM to carry the same stories in lockstep.

A central money repository to keep them loyal to "the cause."

Who might be behind it is anyone's guess, but the Short List would not be too difficult to compose.

Why doesn't the media call Hezbolla's members insurgents like the ones terrorizing Iraqis? It's the same story, only Shiite instead of Sunni murdering their own and anyone in their way of achieving power by terrorist means.

That same "rescue worker" is seen on the front page of today's Financial Times wailing and holding another child used as a "religion of peace" human shield.

Contrast the way this scumbag is 'holding' the child with the way our guys cradle a child. This scumbag IS offering up the child for propaganda only. Why else parade up and down the streets for maximum exposure.

#22 Geepers:

The absence of a real rescue effort was explained by saying that equipment was lacking.

Well, now, that's odd, I seem to recall rescue workers swarming to the WTC site immediately even if they had to use little more than their bare hands. Hm.

I think in this case "equipment" refers to "camera equipment".

I'm pissed off at today's New York Post; running the now infamous staged dead baby pic on the cover with the caption "ENOUGH".

Thank G-d and al-Goor for the Web!

#18 formercorpsman

Yes, I too think the reporters and photographers are complicit.

Pose, click, caption, "report."

[Link: www.ctv.ca...]

Israel resumes strikes

His comments come as Israel resumed air strikes in the area of the village of Taibe. An Israeli army spokesman said they were done to protect ground forces in the area, and were not targeting anyone

Gee, ya'd think Israel might have actually lied about appeasing the terrorists...thos evil Joooish bastards...

/sarc

Snippet from an article from today's Der Speigel:

I used to live until 2002 in a small village near Mardshaun, which was in the majority inhabited by Shia Muslims like myself. After Israel left the Lebanon in 2000 it didn't take long until Hezbollah had control of our village and all the others around as well. Greeted and cheered as successfull resistance fighters, they also set up rocket dumps in bunkers in our village. The social work of "God's Party" consisted in building a school and in the other case of a residential block on top of the bunkers. A local sheik told me that the Jews will loose in any case, either because they will get hit by rockets, or if they attack the dumps, because they will be condemned by the world's popular opinion, due to the then killed civilians.

I knew that I had to protect my family against such "welfare". These people don't care about the Lebanese population, they use them as shields, and, after they have been killed, for propaganda purposes.

I barely dare to day it, but as long as they exist, there will be no peace and rest.

Berlin, Dr. Mounir Herzallah

Excatly as planned. Hezbollah use women and children as human bomb shields in the hope they'll get killed so they can use them as propaganda (and if they can't get enough deaths, they'll be sure to make some themselves) - and Western media eat it up raw every single time. Well thank God for the Internet. We won't be so easily fooled this time. (I actually was fooled last time in 1982, where I totally blamed Israel. I was just a small boy, and few things now enrage me so much as remembering the one-sided propaganda media coverage that so manipulated me)

The difference is obviously that Israel is trying to kill the Lebanese, while Hezzbollah is obviously firing only hollow foam tubes filled with flowers and love letters.

Oh, they're not?

Never mind then...

Where is rock singer Sting (or other artists) to sing about whether the Palis love their children too, as he did about the Russians during the Cold War?

MSM leftists and antisemites are so exposed as the dupes of the Caliphate! Babbazee is right about these Gramcian socialists being the Caliphates' willing tools.

Lifting the Umbrella of Missile Terrorism
Focus must be on Syria.

...The West must focus on the pivotal role of Syria. It is the exposed bottleneck in the Hezbollah supply chain. Its airports serve as conduits for a steady stream of missiles from Iran. And its factories are churning out many of the missiles now raining down on Israel. And attempts to control the Lebanon-Syria border won’t work. The border is too long, and too porous.

The only thing that has any hope of bringing light to the end of the tunnel is a robust Security Council resolution under Chapter VII that requires Iran to stop supplying weapons to Syria, and requires Syria to stop supplying weapons to Hezbollah. The Council should demand of Syria a transparent accounting of the weapons shipments it has received from Iran, as well as a comprehensive declaration of Syria’s missile production infrastructure, with full details of its inventories and disposition of missiles. Syria must then be required to admit U.N. inspectors at all of its military and civilian airports, as well as its missile production facilities. And finally, the resolution should authorize the use of all necessary means, including the use of force, to enforce its terms.

In the meantime, the world must recognize something about the innocent civilians in Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon whose homes and lives have been devastated by this war. Over a third of Lebanon’s population voted for Hezbollah in the last elections. They did not cast their votes for peace. What they voted for was war, and war is what they got.

In light of that, one is justified in asking what their calls for an immediate ceasefire really mean. Do they mean that they have changed their minds, and now would rather have peace? Or do they simply mean that they want Israel to stop fighting, and accept life under an umbrella of missile terrorism?

Though important, the question is academic. Hezbollah has vowed to fight on. And it will, as long as Syria is able to keep a veil over the flood of weapons that is flowing, from it, and through it, into the tortured land of Lebanon.

sms111

The sad thing is that almost all media outlets will cover news that will get them the most viewers, which in turn gets them better ratings, and brings in the most money from advertizers.

That on this same day almost two times as many people died in Iraq from muslims killing muslims is a good indication of that.

"...CBN: You've worked in the major media. Do those reporters understand that when Hezbollah and Hamas say they want to wipe Israel off the face of the map, they mean it? Or do those reporters view them as a couple of groups with reasonable moderates who'll be open to compromise, and ditching their more fanatical demands, when it's time to cut some future deal?

(CLIFF)MAY: I think they don't often understand how much Hamas and Hezbollah mean what they say. The reporters do what you call "mirror imaging." They think, "If I said that, I wouldn't mean it, so if they say that, they can't mean it." They think, "This is a political group. That's maybe their negotiating posture, but surely they're willing to back off." They don't understand what we've just discussed. It's not a negotiating posture. It's a religious conviction. And because it's a religious conviction, it's very hard for them to back off from it.

One thing you have to say is that Hamas and Hezbollah are very candid. They're not devious about what they want...for the most part. It's there in their charter. They won't remove it. They feel to remove it would be to fail to do their religious duty. So they're telling us what they want to do...they're telling us what their ambitions are. The question is whether we'll listen. And I think as you rightly point out, in the major media, a lot of people are not listening and not believing.

from an interview by a Mr. Strand at [Link: www.cbn.com...]

heads up I am in my car rush limbaugh just brought up the kana 4 hour dead child parade & is linking to the picture site from his site.

#18 formercorpsman

Yes, I too think the reporters and photographers are complicit.

Pose, click, caption, "report."

This begs to question, is the same media facilitating pictures of the civilians on the weaponry, and the pictures of the dead children, not liable for the deaths?

They have knowledge of the potential for military retaliation. They are more than just coincidental to the death of these children.

#36 alegrias:

I think they don't often understand how much Hamas and Hezbollah mean what they say. The reporters do what you call "mirror imaging." They think, "If I said that, I wouldn't mean it, so if they say that, they can't mean it."

In my own conversations I've seen LOTS of that. I'll cite exactly that same fact--that Hamas/Hizballah are, by charter, committed to the violent destruction of Israel--and I'll get back something like "oh, well, the US Constitution includes references to slavery, that doesn't mean we practice it now, do we?" There is a deep-seated refusal to believe anybody "in this day and age" could believe anything so bloodily simple-minded as "kill all the Jews".

Occasional Reader (#27),

The absence of a real rescue effort was explained by saying that equipment was lacking.

Well, now, that's odd

Especially odd since there's a backhoe prominently displayed in the background of some of the pictures.

And apparently there were no injuries, only deaths.

The Battle of Brick Lane...
...and the failure to support Muslim feminists against a howling reactionary mob
Hat tip: The Corner

...In London, the police have begun to defend free speech only selectively, telling people under threat from foaming fundamentalist fringes that they “cannot guarantee their security”. When a Muslim man held up the Mohammed cartoons at a Free Speech rally in London earlier this year to demonstrate his support for free speech, he was actually arrested for a “public order disturbance”. When my friends at the Liberal magazine printed the cartoons, they were told by the police they were on their own. What right have the police to decide to abandon chunks of the population to fanatics? Why did they not guarantee the safe passage of camera crews on Brick Lane?

The Battle of Brick Lane has been another small deflating pin-prick for our free speech – and for some of the bravest women in Britain.

Read the whole thing.

Hezbollah not as popular as the MSM wants you to believe...

THE LEBANESE MEDIA are the best in the Arab Middle East, and perhaps the freest, not because of any noble principles but because they are so competitive. Every Lebanese media outlet represents a political interest, sometimes several political interests, and all the major political parties own TV stations. (In this regard, Hezbollah really is just like every other political party, though no one else does "martyr kitsch" like the Party of God.) And the people of Lebanon take their cue from the media. Insofar as rumors are also a medium, they, too, represent political interests. My friend Fawaz called last week from Lebanon with reports of a rumor.

"There are lots of stories going around Beirut that Hezbollah M.P. Mohammed Raad is dead," says Fawaz. "And get this--more than 500 Hezbollah fighters have been killed and are lying around area hospitals. That's a lot of virgins on call."

Whether or not such rumors are true, they indicate something about the state of affairs right now in Lebanon. There are many Lebanese imagining, fantasizing, hoping against hope that Hezbollah will be wiped from the face of the earth. Some are even joking about it.

"The new one," Fawaz says, "is that they're going to play the next World Cup in the Daheyh [the Shiite neighborhood]--the whole thing's been leveled nice and flat."

[Link: www.weeklystandard.com...]

The Islamic fanatics that seek to terrorize the world are lovers of death, and are so because they hate the God of the Holy Bible, and are therefore joined with the god of the evil world-Satan!

Proverbs 8:36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

July 31….(FOJ) I don’t know about everyone else, but I for one am getting pretty sick and tired of watching all these lunatic Muslims burning our wonderful Christian-rooted American flag. I just wonder what would happen if we burned some of those terrorist flags they keep flopping around all over the place with their icons of terror emblazed on them, such as a Russian AK-47, and pictures of ugly fat old men that preach hatred out of their demonic religious books. The green Hamas flag even states that “there is no God but Allah.” That is an insult to all non-Muslims! So the burning of the American flag by these blood-thirsty infidels of Hell is nothing more than a symbolic attack on the God (Jehovah) that oversaw the blessed birth of our nation.

[Link: focusonjerusalem.com...]

the pictures from Qana were cynically staged and exploited in a way that will turn your stomach

Fortunately, I have a cast iron stomach. This many car swarm photos and Islamic snuff films later, they can show me anything and I won't flinch. Fact is, for every one of these staged photo ops they do, it only lessens how much I see them as people.

Anymore, I would feel worse accidentally hitting a dog with my car. Why? Dogs don't chant "Death to America!" Dogs don't have the ego to use other dead dogs to further their cause. Dogs don't lie. Dogs don't go from cute little puppies everyone wants to hug and rescue to full-blown terrorists when they grow up like some people do.

Ultimately, I don't see dogs as collateral damage. But I'm beginning to live with the idea of collateral damage more and more easily when it comes to people, particularly during times of war.

The photos they are splattering across the newspapers are just that - collateral damage - and I can live with it.

Does anyone here know whether that so called Pali village of Qana is the selfsame New Testament bibical village of Cana where Jesus the Joooish rabbi of Nazareth performed his first so called miracle of turning water into wine at a wedding?

Just curious no press ever mentions this town's joooish past, predating its okkupayshun by islamic fundamentalists.

FOLKS, the media has tripped up.

You know me by now, I don't rant on this blog.

The photos totally screw those taking them.

It reveals forethought and knowledge.

They are responsible for the deaths of these people.

Unfortunately here in the real world dead children = one less adult jihadist.

Rush Limbaugh posted the link to EU Referendum and just spent the last 15 minutes talking about it.

I must do a big I told you so...

Venezuela Threatens to Cut Oil Exports to US

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Venezuelan Energy Minister warned that in case White House officials do not give up their belligerent policies towards Caracas, his country will stop oil exports to the US.

Speaking to reporters prior to leaving Tehran on Sunday, Rafael Ramirez stressed that Venezuela has not pledged everlasting oil supplies to the United States, and further threatened that if Washington carries on with its provocative policies in Latin America, Venezuela will provide a decisive response to such moves.

With 1.5 million barrels of oil exports to the US on a daily basis, the world's fifth major oil exporter, Venezuela provides for a major part of the United States energy needs.

[Link: www.farsnews.com...]

Don't forget the dead and raped black muslims in Dafur the media has been ignoring for years. Nor the killings in Taiwan or church burnings in Indonesia being ignored by the MSM in their efforts to protect their allies (Hiz).

Not sure what sickens me more...

the fact that they use their dead for propaganda purposes, or that the MSM enables them by publishing the pictures.

So which came first, demand from the MSM for pictures of the dead or terrorists offering them up for sale?

OT: in today's National Post, little green footballs got a mention in one of the editorial pieces... Linky

Rush Limbaugh is talking about this on his radio program right now, and bannering a link to eureferendum on his webpage. Hope that they have a LOT of bandwidth available, because this is going to generate a great deal of traffic.

Another aspect to Big Media sponsoring terrorist is the 9/11 photos of pali swine dancing and singing at the destruction. The photos & videos circled the world.

Then arafart told Big Media do it again and die. No dead urinalists.

Big Media are the world's enemy...

My #49...With 1.5 million barrels of oil exports to the US on a daily basis, the world's fifth major oil exporter, Venezuela provides for a major part of the United States energy needs. Iran will move soon also...they have a plan.

I'm about to say something heartless,which is very out of character for me.

I can't get too upset about dead Muslim babies because at least they won't grow up to kill my kids.

If I lived in a war zone, and the emeny dropped warnings of upcoming bombins, I would have started walking in the opposite direction.

The sick, twisted culture of hate, destruction, and death IS the "root cause" of the problem. We (I mean true freedom-loving societies) must provide whatever incentive necessary for that to happen. Sadly, we have to kill them faster than they can kill us until they decide to change their mind set or are all gone.

Israel is a sovereign country, NOT a terrorist group, and even she gave warnings (I don't recall the Japanese doing so at Pearl Harbor or Germany before the Blitz, or our doing so before Hiroshima and Nagasaki). Israel is the most civilized, compassionate foe any country could possibly face, and they don't fight for conquest, only for their own survival.

Why Israel Must Win the Middle East War

[Link: www.cbn.com...]

(hint hint, they're doing the GWOT Coalition a big favor and saving lives)

#52 bofh

Hope that they have a LOT of bandwidth available

Blogspot (Blogger) is owned by Google now... bandwith should not be an issue :)

Imagine if we'd had to stop WW2 every other day because of civilian deaths, while the Nazis and Japanese got a free pass to do whatever they wanted.

Well, we would've lost, right?

Unless we learn to ignore the media and just do what has to be done, WE ARE GOING TO LOSE.

A death cult in action.

Oh for just one day of unvarnished truth to flow down like a river...

My soul is sick to death of injustice and lies.

#52 bofh
Rush is hammering it home.
Way to go, Rush!

It was front page, top of the fold in my paper (St Paul Pioneer Press).

the Lebanese “rescue worker” we see in many of these photos parades around with a dead child for four hours, even changing his clothes and continuing the exhibition.

Hmm, don't think they mentioned that.

Meanwhile, how many 14-year-old Arab boys do you suppose the French foreign minister has to bang every night in order to tire himself out to the point where he can ignore his own moral bankruptcy?

CAIR COMES OUT OF THE CLOSET...

CAIR Labels Israel A Terrorist State

(CNSNews.com) - An Islamic advocacy group accuses Israel of waging a campaign of terror in southern Lebanon. Moreover, the Council on American-Islamic Relations says U.S. support for "Israeli terror" is undermining America's credibility and interests worldwide. "Whenever civilians are attacked to achieve a political goal, the charge of terrorism must be applied, whether the terrorist is an individual, a group or a state," said CAIR Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper. Full Story

ISLAM IS NOTHING BUT HATE AND THE KORAN A BOOK OF WAR! [Link: www.cnsnews.com...]

Why isn't the UN helping to evacute these people who everyone claims doesn't have the money to leave the area... especially since we are speaking far enough away out of missle range --- of which Israel announces where the targets are.

Funny I never saw any of these childrens faces on the front pages of any newspaper:

Israeli children - Victims of Palestinian Terrorism

[Link: www.take-a-pen.org...]

The propaganda works because too many people in the West are cowards. They are all to willing to sacrifice anything or anyone for peace. They do not realize that what they do in the name of peace makes the war they wish to avoid inevitable. When war finally comes to consume them and their loved ones, they will blame everyone but themselves.

Rush said Bibi N. will be on in 15 mins.

Wonder if Rush will address the shootings in Seattle? I hope so. He's doing great commenting on the Islamofreaks.

#45 yes, they are one and the same.

Abe Pollin who owns sports teams in the DC area and Stu Eizenstadt (sp?) a former politician of some sort, have been appealing for contributions to joooish charities in the DC area, on Fox News Cable.

Anyone know of any other movers & shakers willing to speak out on behalf of the Israelis, the true victims in this fight to the death?

For anyone who wants to listen to Limbaugh...
[Link: www.newsradio610.com...]

Staging a "massacre". I wouldn't put anything past the craven animals of Hizb'allah.

For all the years Israeli citizens were massacered by human bombs the global responce was oh those poor palestinians have to be inconvienced with an apartite wall.

#49 storagemanager 7/31/2006 09:21AM PDT

Couldn't help but notice the US flag is all ugly and crumpled, but the Venezuelan flag is neat and pristine...

Listen to Rush.

Hey Doss!

#55:

I can't get too upset about dead Muslim babies

Yeah, that's pretty heartless. (And by the way, how do you know they're all Muslim?) Let's place the blame squarely where it lies--on the terrorist scum who started this war and who hide behind civilians--without losing our humanity.

even she gave warnings (I don't recall the Japanese doing so at Pearl Harbor or Germany before the Blitz, or our doing so before Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Actually, we did.

#76 O.R.
It's not a new thing.
Great link, btw.

don't know if this has already been mentioned ,but there are two well written articles on this subject on " The Brussels Journal"

19:39 Olmert: Lebanon offensive will end when rockets cease, soldiers are returned

19:40 Olmert: We`ll end offensive when northern Israel no longer threatened (Haaretz)

[Link: www.haaretz.com...]

#26 newsjunkie_ky 7

Yeap. any sane human would try to cover up a dead child out of respect of him/her, the parents or other people.

Occasional Reader

The name stated in the news story was a Muslim one. Of course I blame the terrorists, but the society that allows them to function as they do must accept some responsibility for those actions.

Children are innocent, but their parents aren't, and those parents bring up those children to lose that innocence and hate us.

Looks like yet another case of The Wolf Who Cried Boy.

Howyadoin' Teacake?

Going to get a sandwich for lunch. Back later.

Mark Levin...
While the World Condemns Israel...
07/31 09:52 AM
AFP reports:Six people were killed in shootings and 10 wounded in a grenade attack on a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims in Indian Kashmir, police and the army said.Indian troops shot dead four Muslim rebels during a fierce gunbattle near the de facto border dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan.More here.

And I assure you, there will be no world outrage, emergency U.N. session, or media hysteria about this purposeful slaughter of human beings by Islamo-Nazis.

In WWII we purposely bombed civilians to damage moral and the enemy’s war making capability. We even used nukes to win the Pacific. These actions crated vast collateral damage, but vastly reduced our casualties, and we did not have the world crying about our cruelty. Today the good guys do their best to avoid civilian casualties, and are condemned for any collateral damage, while the bad guys almost exclusively target civilians and do not get condemned. I just do not get it. If you lay down with dogs, plan on getting fleas. If you hang out with Hamas and Hezbollah plan on suffering collateral damage. When you let them build your schools and homes on top of their ammo dumps, plan on getting blown away. When you let them shoot missiles from your building, yard or neighborhood, plan on having a few bombs returned your way. Why does the world choose to not understand? It is truly Orwell’s “1984” where up is down and down is up.

Reuters count way up today?

#54 With 1.5 million barrels of oil exports to the US on a daily basis, the world's fifth major oil exporter, Venezuela provides for a major part of the United States energy needs. Iran will move soon also...they have a plan.

I don't know if you noticed but Hugo Chavez was in Iran over the weekend and received the Iranian Regimes highest decoration.

Over half of youth people in largest cities are non native

Over half the young people in Amsterdam and Rotterdam come from a non-western background, according a new report by Statistics Netherlands. Known as the CBS in Dutch, the bureau said that while the number of non-western first-generation residents has been decreasing slowly since 2004, the second generation continues to grow. One in three residents of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague come from a non-western background. That is far greater than elsewhere in the Netherlands.

Beheading Nations - The Islamization of Europe's Cities

In the Netherlands, Muslims will soon make up the majority in all major cities. "Today, we have 1 million Muslims out of 16 million Dutch," according to Frits Bolkestein, Dutch politician. "Within 10 years, they will have an absolute majority in both Amsterdam and Rotterdam. We are staring into the face of a shortly to be divided community. Muslims have the right to their own schools, so there is no teaching of evolution, gay teachers are not tolerated but anti-Semitism is." A researcher for the Netherlands Ministry for Immigration and Integration found that 40% of young Moroccan Muslims in the Netherlands rejected Western values and democracy. Six to seven percent were prepared to use force to "defend" Islam, and the majority were opposed to freedom of speech for offensive statements, particularly criticism of Islam.

We are witnessing a dramatic change in Europe, which men like Bolkestein see as underlined by a drop in national confidence in European countries over the entirety of the last century. The immigration problem, he said, "has to do with the loss of confidence in one's own civilization. It started with World War II, which was really a mass European suicide. Then, the rise of fascism, the Holocaust and the 1968 student cultural revolutions across Europe. There is no clear European identity today. This has a real impact on foreign policy."

Douglas Murray attended a conference in memory of the murdered Islam critic Pim Fortuyn in 2006, and noted with concern the strict security
measures and what he saw as a nation under siege. "All across Europe, debate on Islam is being stopped. Italy's greatest living writer, Oriana Fallaci, soon comes up for trial in her home country, and in Britain the government seems intent on pushing through laws that would make truths about Islam and the conduct of its followers impossible to voice. Europe is shuffling into darkness. It is proving incapable of standing up to its enemies, and in an effort to accommodate the peripheral rights of a minority is failing to protect the most basic rights of its own people." A survey in April 2005, after the murder of another critic of Islam, Theo van Gogh, indicated that 32 percent of Dutch people wanted to emigrate abroad.

#81 As Golda Meir implied; they hate the Jews ( and us! ) more than they love their children ...

galloping granny 7/31/2006 09:47AM PDT
#54 With 1.5 million barrels of oil exports to the US on a daily basis, the world's fifth major oil exporter, Venezuela provides for a major part of the United States energy needs. Iran will move soon also...they have a plan.

I don't know if you noticed but Hugo Chavez was in Iran over the weekend and received the Iranian Regimes highest decoration.

Satyar Imami

Chavez receives Iran's High Medal

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez received the high medal of the Islamic Republic of Iran, yesterday in Tehran
[Link: www.farsnews.com...]

Al Qaeda manual is a blueprint for hate that reveals a sinister plot to invade & conquer

...In "The Management of Savagery," Naji argues that the jihadis failed in the past to establish an Islamic state because they were focused on toppling local regimes. These efforts were fruitless, he argues, because jihadis were seen as fighting their own people, which alienated the masses. Moreover, the local governments proved impervious to revolution as long as they were supported by the U.S. Based on his understanding of power politics, Naji says that the jihadis had to provoke the United States to invade a country in the Middle East.

This would 1.) turn the Muslims against local governments allied with the U.S.; 2.) destroy the U.S. aura of invincibility, which it maintains through the media, and 3.) create sympathy for the jihadis, who would be viewed as standing up to Crusader aggression. Moreover, the invasion would bleed the U.S. economy and sap its military power, leading to social unrest at home and its ultimate withdrawal from the Middle East.

Naji had hoped that Afghanistan would play out in this manner for the U.S., as it did for the Soviets. Now, Naji places his hopes on Iraq. Once the U.S. withdraws from Iraq, he contends, the jihadis must quickly move to invade neighboring countries.

Some countries are particularly ripe for jihadi incursion: Jordan, Nigeria, Pakistan and Yemen, as well as North West Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. These areas were selected by Al Qaeda because of each region's geographic features, weak central governments, the receptivity of the people and the proliferation of weapons and jihadi propaganda. The plan, according to Naji, is to conduct small- to medium-scale attacks on crucial infrastructure (like oil or tourism), which will cause the government to draw in its security forces. Chaos or "savagery" will erupt in the unpoliced areas.

Then, the jihadis will move into these security vacuums and provide basic services to people, who will welcome an end to the instability. The final goal is to establish a single global state ruled by a pious Muslim dictator, the caliph, who will implement a strict interpretation of Islamic law.

Drawing on the experience of jihadis in Egypt and Algeria, Naji cautions his readers that no plan will succeed unless the jihadis learn how to respond to public opinion and manipulate the media. ...

via John Podhretz

Podhoretz - pimf

Sad, sad, really sad. There are no words to describe the savagery of Muslims...yes Muslims! And let no one tell me I am generalizing because since the so-called moderates keep silent and these things propagate within their midst and religion they are complicit in the crime. I’m sick of it. The world ought to wake up and realize that we are in a WAR. A war between good and evil. God bless Bush, Israel and our only European ally…Blair.

#65 ted - Funny I never saw any of these childrens faces on the front pages of any newspaper:

Israeli children - Victims of Palestinian Terrorism

Ted there is a very simple reason that you do not see these children on the front pages of any of the main stream newspapers.

These are beautiful pictures of smiling children whose lives have tragically ended. You might have noticed, however, that the days of Donna Reed on television are long since past. What sells in this day and age is gore, violence, & horror - in TV, in music, in video games.

There is a reason that shows like CSI are the biggest money makers around.

19:50 Olmert: We will not apologize to those who question Israel`s right to exist (Haaretz) [Link: www.haaretz.com...]

19:49 Olmert: Hezbollah serves the interests of Iran and Syria (Haaretz)

19:48 Olmert: no state would put up with `murderous attacks` like those we have faced

19:47 Olmert: We are not fighting the Lebanese people; we are fighting terrorism (Haaretz)

19:45 Olmert: We won`t abandon our desire to lead a normal existence (Haaretz)

19:43 PM Olmert: Israel is `determined to win` the conflict in Lebanon (Haaretz)

19:40 Olmert: We`ll end offensive when northern Israel no longer threatened (Haaretz)

19:39 Olmert: Offensive will end when rockets cease, soldiers are returned (Haaretz)

19:34 Olmert: There is no cease-fire and there won`t be one in coming days (Haaretz)

***ATTENTION LGF SHOPPERS***

Today's Multi-Colored (I was planning large (20+) font, probably magenta text on a yellow background with purple dashed borders) has been postponed for at least 12 hours (and more likely, until lunch tomorrow) because Tropical Disturbance 99L hasn't organized quite as well as I expected, and may never become a tropical cyclone. Now, it is close to having a closed surface circulation, but shear is displacing its thunderstorms East of the center, and it has dry air to its North.

If it develops in next 24 to 36 hours, it will threaten (probably) Florida to Carolinas, if it develops past that point, it may threaten South Florida or the Gulf.

BTW, NHC has scheduled a recon to this badly sheared system off the North Carolina coast, but I am not impress.

#88 Fjordman: Your post reminded me of a quote, but I cannot place it:

"The lights are going out ... all over Europe. We shall not see them again in our lifetimes."

Chilling.

#96 Zulubaby

Is that a surprise or is that a surprise ?
I mean, I am surprised !

/surprise tag

//GOOD !

Rice labeled 'black spinster'

While US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been in the Middle East meeting regional alongside Israel's military campaign in Lebanon, media outlets controlled by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party the past few days have been using racist rhetoric in their reports, referring to the American representative as the "black woman," "raven," "colored dark skinned black lady" and "black spinster."

--

According to a translation by Palestinian Media Watch, the PA daily Al Hayat detailed Wednesday's Ramallah protests in which Rice was described as a "raven" who "brings only destruction."

Al Hayat featured pictures of ralliers brandishing anti-Rice placards, some reading, "Murderer Rice go to Hell" and "Get out." One placard had Rice drinking the blood of dead babies and stating, "I need more blood."

A cartoon last week in the PA controlled Al Quds depicted Rice pregnant with a monkey. A caption read, "Rice speaks about birth of new Middle East."

What sells in this day and age is gore, violence, & horror

And sex. Don't forget sex.

There is a reason that shows like CSI are the biggest money makers around.

Actually I have no particular problem with the CSI shows. The cops are the good guys, the evildoers get caught, the shows are pretty well-written and -acted. And while they are graphic, they're not, IMHO, pornographically so; they show the results of violence, they don't glorify it.

#97 Ed

Tropical Disturbance 99L hasn't organized quite as well as I expected, and may never become a tropical cyclone

We sincerely participate to your pain and we share your grief.
Maybe we can get a hurricane another day, don't despair !

Unless Venezuela wants to destroy their own economy, they'll keep selling oil to someone, which means total global supplies will stay nearly the same, which means we'll start buying more oil from new suppliers(perhaps from the Mid-East), which will cause some price increase due to the added shipping costs, but it won't seriously impact the US.

IIRC, Venezuela's oil production is dropping, due to Chavez's efforts at imposing socialism on PDVSA and the first steps he has taken towards nationalizing the assets of foreign energy companies.

#100 zulubaby: From your quote--

"colored dark skinned black lady"

Department of Racial Slur Redundancy Department

The Qana smokescreen
By Michelle Malkin · July 31, 2006 12:45 PM
First, take a look at mob scenes across the Muslim world this weekend, ostensibly--ostensibly--in response to the civilian deaths in Qana, Lebanon (via Yahoo! News). Angry Muslims from Beirut to Gaza to Lahore are setting fire to American and Israeli flags. Burning effigies of Western leaders. Raising their voices in death chants:

[Link: www.michellemalkin.com...]

#103 Ed:

IIRC, Venezuela's oil production is dropping

Oh, yeah.

Ain't socialism grand?

#94 gg: "What sells in this day and age is gore, violence, & horror - in TV, in music, in video games."

Give me crack and anal sex
Take the only tree that's left
stuff it up the hole
in your culture
Give me back the Berlin wall
give me Stalin and St Paul
I've seen the future, brother:
it is murder.

Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold
and it has overturned
the order of the soul
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant.
- Leonard Cohen

#96 Redpepper - Quotation

I’m reminded of a cartoon from an ancient edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica 1940 Year Book that graced the shelves in my home as a young kid growing up outside of Boston during WWII. The Cartoon showed a clearly Nazi stalhelm or helmet with SS runes being used to snuff out a single candle. The inscription below, I came to realize later in life was first uttered by British Liberal government Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey on the eve of the outbreak of World War I:

‘the lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.”

This is disgusting. Don't the media know that they are being used by terrorists? Many of these photos were staged, and the photographers knew that they were being manipulated. Ethics anyone?

Yeah, apparently some cats were also severely damaged in several attacks. Looks like its time to switch sides.

Something to cheer you up about the state of leftism in Latin America... from the NYT, oddly enough. (Who can't resist throwing in a bizarre slap at Bush, of course.)

I think NYT overstates the case somewhat (e.g. I think the Uruguayan government is further to the left than they represent), but the chavistas did suffer big defeats in Peru and Mexico.

Poitiers-Lepanto

Its ok, while neither the 12Z GFS nor Canadian develop Tropical Disturbance #99L, both predict development of the next 2 African waves coming off the coast by next Sunday, giving us what would be Chris and Debby!

If the MSM cares this much they should be driving for the complete removal of all swimming pools and trampolines from the earth.

#101 Actually I have no particular problem with the CSI shows. The cops are the good guys, the evildoers get caught, the shows are pretty well-written and -acted. And while they are graphic, they're not, IMHO, pornographically so; they show the results of violence, they don't glorify it.

I like CSI too for much the same reasons as you. The gore does not particularly bother me, because I used to be a medical professional and have seen as bad or worse. And I am an adult who knows that this is all just plastic and fake blood.

The gore bothers my 9 yo grandchild though, so much so that we have to Tivo CSI and watch it after she is in bed.

I can assure you, it would not have been allowed on television 40 years ago, not to mention most of the other trash that passes as "entertainment" these days.

My sisters and Mom didn't see it quite the same way last Tuesday on Galveston near San Luis Pass, but the tropical wave (which developed a surface circulation just before moving inland, so it was never named as a cyclone, despite 90 km/hr winds at Galveston) during their 4 day vacation, but I thought it was impressive that the wind and rain that spoiled there beach visit had come all the way from Senegal to Texas.

20:03 Olmert: We should be ready for pain, tears and blood (Haaretz)

Make no mistake...he understands the cost. [Link: www.haaretz.com...]

You can walk softly and carry a big stick all day long. But if you don’t use the stick to whack someone it becomes just that a stick and in some cases a crutch. You must also try to minimize civilian casualties, I’m sure Israel is doing that. But if you do not hit the enemy hard they will not stop.
It’s time we dropped a big stick on Iran.
Nuke iran, nuke islam. Win the peace!
SUPPORT ISRAEL!

#110 This is disgusting. Don't the media know that they are being used by terrorists?

Of course they know. And I don't mean to burst your bubble, but the days of "independent" corporate media in the US are long since gone. Virtually all media in the US - and I do not mean just newspaper, I mean newsmags, movies and even a big chunk of the Internet - are owned by just two corporations

Just take a look at AOL-Time-Warner, which also owns Disney. Track that one down and be prepared for a surprise.

Even "fair and balanced" Foxnews is partly owned (>5%) by a Saudi billionaire.

Olmert: No other country can teach us moralityPrime Minister Ehud Olmert spoke out on Monday against international criticism, saying that Israel was responding to threats just as any other country would.

Speaking before northern residents in Carmiel, Olmert said that Israel was committed to the most basic laws of morality that have been part of the Jewish heritage for millennia, adding that no other countries could teach Israel morality.

ISLAM HAS NO MORALITY...JUST KILLING..LIES AND HATE...THE KORAN IS AN EVIL BOOK OF WAR!.. [Link: www.jpost.com...]

Does anybody remember pictures of dead ARAB kids, that were killed by Hisb'Allah a couple weeks ago? In Israel.
Of course it was also Jews' fault because they had not provided enough protection for Arabs from Arabs.

So Arab kids deserve tears ONLY if they killed by Jews.

Iran's president started his infamous speach about whipping Israel with imagining "world without America".

I hope all these lefties remember that only alive woman can have abortion and only alive gay can or wants to marry.

#7 Alouette 7/31/2006 08:54AM PDT

Daily Kos votes for "most hateful" FReepers and vows to "track them down."

After watching the documentary "Obsession" and seeing the similarities between early Nazi Germany and todays worldwide Islamofascist movement, especially as pertains to propaganda, I can not help but wonder if "Kos Kids" are the contemporary version of "Hitler Youth."

Speak your mind, this is still America.

OT- maybe
I recently was accosted in the grocery store by a representative of a major newspaper in my area. She was pushing for subscriptions. I told her in no uncertain terms I was not interested but she persisted. I insulted her newspaper in every way possible, but she would not give up. She was literally begging me to buy. For the price of the Sunday paper, which we buy only for coupons, and to clean glass, we could have it delivered all week. I said I did not wish to participate in the unnecessary downing of trees and the filling of landfills just to save a few cents. I attacked the ideology of the newspaper, told her it's views are 180 degrees the opposite of mine and that I did not care to give aid and comfort to the enemy. This had to go on for more than 15 minutes. I smiled and continued to nail her paper right and left. Finally, when I pointed out to her that five people had already passed and she had lost the opportunity to persuade them, she gave up.

Gerard van der Leun has just posted a first-rate essay on "The Weaponization of Children":

THE NEW BATTLE FLAG now being waved high over the armies of Allah mustering across the world is not the banner of Muhammad, but a flag almost as ancient as the prophet, the Bloody Shirt. Among the weak in arms and courage and righteousness, the Bloody Shirt is their weapon of mass distraction; their attempt to storm the moral high ground and hold it as they wait for their reinforcements of love, peace, compassion and truce to flow in from the far corners of the world screaming "Stop this barbaric war that slaughters, for God's sake, innocent women and children!"

The fools of the world oblige with numbing predictability and regularity. After all, who among us is not moved by endless images of dead babies sheathed in blood with body parts hanging by a shred of gristle, with the blank stare of eternity glazing their eyes? What "civilized" person secure in their happy world of languid summer days, mall festivals brimming with second-rate food and third rate crafts, concerts on the lawn with wine and traveling minstrels, could not want this distant tribal slaughter to stop, stop, stop this very instant? To see the Bloody Shirt, as the Hezbollah in Lebanon drag their children from the rubble and parade them before the world, is to want all replaced with the Rainbow Flag immediately – no matter who must suffer, no matter how many Jews must die in that distant country where "after all the Israelis aren't so much Jewish as they are Zionist oppressors who, if they just gave up a little more, would be left in peace. I mean, look at that. Children are dying every minute there. Have you no compassion?"...

The Palestinians, and by extension their rollicking sidekicks around the Muslim world, are the masters of dead-child porn. Looking at the recent releases from this sick culture is like watching a very unfunny Monty Python clip from the Holy Grail movie where the cart is pulled through the city with the chant, "Bring out your dead!" And the dead are brought out once they are determined to be photo-op worthy...

I feel [compassion fatigue] not so much because of the platters of dead babies being served up in Gaza and Lebanon, but rather because I know it for what it is – the cynical attempt by a weak and cowardly cadre of killers to manipulate my compassion gland that is just as base and unrelenting as the attempts of pornographers across the internet to manipulate my lust...

Read the whole thing.

Link: [Link: americandigest.org...]

Here is a heads-up for the Lame Stream Media from the good folks at Powerline.

Vital Perspective also notes Article 28 of the 4th Geneva Convention:

The presence of a protected person may not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations.

So the civilian casualties are, under the Geneva Convention, Hezbollah's responsibility.

OT but important. Megan McArdle, sitting in for Glenn has posted a link to an email sent by an American in Ramallah.

The Israeli government has openly
admitted that their invasion into Gaza was not related to the
kidnapping of the Israeli soldier. It was something that they have
been wanting and planning on doing for months on end now. But even if
we were to play devil’s advocate and imagine that the invasion into
Gaza was directly related to the kidnapping, I’ve completely lost
count of the death toll just in Gaza (not including Nablus or any
other region in the West Bank), but it is definitely over 200
Palestinians. And if that is not enough, in one night alone, over 150
Palestinians in Nablus were “kidnapped” by Israeli soldiers and they
are yet to be released. Because of the number of these detainees, the
Israeli soldiers have taken over schools in Nablus to hold these
Palestinians. This death-toll also doesn’t include the countless
homes, farms, and livelihoods that have been destroyed by Israeli
tanks and bulldozers.

Now that my stay has nearly come to an end, the thought of leaving
Palestine is very painful

Somehow I think I can live with this dufus's pain.

Also, if you want to directly provide assistance to Israelis displaced by the war, try The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington. The 'Donate Now' link is on the left.

#122 Connecticut Yankee

...I feel this not so much because of the platters of dead babies being served up in Gaza and Lebanon, but rather because I know it for what it is – the cynical attempt by a weak and cowardly cadre of killers to manipulate my compassion gland that is just as base and unrelenting as the attempts of pornographers across the internet to manipulate my lust. The main difference being that the Terrorists are getting better at their game and you don't have to swear you're 18 to see their creations. Most major media outlets around the world are only to happy to beam it into your brain 24/7.

If you aren't sure exactly who has the moral high ground in the current struggle in Lebanon, you might reflect that while it is possible to see a grown man on the Lebanese side of the struggle dangle a shredded child by an ankle for the world's cameras, you don't ever see that sort of thing at an Israeli funeral, do you? And while you might be feeling very, very bad for the dead and dangled child, you might also ask yourself where the pictures of all the dead Hezbollah and Hamas warriors are? Don't see many of those, do you? Or perhaps you do, if you ask yourself what sort of man could hold up a dead child by the ankle to be photographed. Or what sort of man could seek out and take the picture and make sure it got out to the ever accommodating Associated Press? Because you do see the "brave" terrorist warriors in these pictures after all. They're the ones digging up the kids. Indeed, the terrible truth that we in the West cannot confront is that, in some instances, they're the ones that are killing the kids in the first place. As we know if we are honest with ourselves at this stage, there is nothing too base and too vile for the proud "warriors" of Islam to do in the service of their anachronistic god; their banner is the Bloody Shirt, and they will never have enough blood to quench it. And any blood, as long as it is not theirs, will do. ...

That says it all.

#112 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades 7/31/2006 10:11AM PDT

Thanks for update. This is really unscientific of me, but it's been a little too quiet down there, for too long. I'm thinking something big is gonna come soon, East Coast for sure. The Outer Banks has been having a fairly easy time of it for what, five years now?

BTW: My vote is for you for most likely 3,000,000th lgf post!

The only thing that is disproportionate – and grotesquely, obscenely so – is the way in which so many in Britain and the west are determined to prevent Israel from defending itself against this terrible threat. And in doing so they fail to see that how gravely it threatens themselves, too. If Israel loses this fight against Iran’s proxy, those western imbeciles will have handed Iran and Islamist fascism a stunning victory against the entire free world. Every poisonous distortion in the British media brings that dreadful outcome one step nearer.

Melanie Phillips, on the media campaign against Israel.

[Link: www.melaniephillips.com...]

I saw the pictures in EU Referendum, of that fellow waving dead children around, then switched on the BBC early evening news lies, and who did I see? Yes, him and another like him. Are they from the Media Wing of Hezbollah, responsible for PR? Do they hang around the Press all the time, doing quick acting roles for different scenes, when required?

The following is a bit of sarcastic humor, but there's quite a bit of reality behind it...

A guy in Paris sees a pit bull attacking a toddler.
He kills the pit bull and saves the child's life.
Reporters swarmed the fellow.

"Tell us! What's your name? All Paris will love you!
Tomorrow's headline will be:

"Parisian Hero Saves Girl from Vicious Dog!"

The guy says, "Well, I'm not from Paris.

"Reporters: "That's OK. Then the whole of France
will love you and tomorrow's headline will read:

'French Hero Saves Girl from Vicious Dog!'"

The guy says, "I'm not from France, either."

Reporters: "That's OK also. All Europe will love you.

Tomorrow's headlines will shout:

"European Hero Saves Girl from Vicious Dog!"

The guy says, "I'm not from Europe, either.

"Reporters: "So, where ARE you from?

The guy says, "I'm from Israel."

The next day's headlines read:

"Israeli Murders a Dog, Leaves a Girl Bleeding!"

"Israeli Brings Violence to Paris: a Pet is Murdered, Girl Wounded"

"Israeli Attack: One Dead, a Wounded Toddler Rescued".

#58 tigger_2005:

Imagine if we'd had to stop WW2 every other day because of civilian deaths...Unless we learn to ignore the media and just do what has to be done, WE ARE GOING TO LOSE.

I'm willing to say what most other folks are too politically correct to admit: The advent of global television is undercutting our ability to fight wars, by humanizing the enemy.

We won World War II because we didn't dwell too much on the collateral consequences of our military actions. We bombed cities and shelled coasts without thinking too much about who was getting killed. Intellectually we knew that civilians were getting killed, but we tried to put it out of our minds and get on with our jobs. But now, thanks to CNN and all the other TV news media transmitted instantly via satellite from the war zone to our TV screens, it's getting rammed in our faces, night after night after night.

You can't destroy the enemy if you start to regard them as human beings as decent as yourself.

It does no good to intellectualize about how Hezbollah is using human shields. The visual images of maimed children and wailing mothers speaks right to the heart. It's why U.S. propaganda films in World War II used newsreel footage of women and children fleeing Nazi air raids and wailing over loved ones killed by Nazi bombs. Now that same sort of propaganda is being created by the enemy and broadcast into our homes.

I'm not sure these were muslim children; I thot Hezbullah stayed in the Christian region so as to maximize infidel deaths.

Either way, we know for a fact the IDF warns prior to bombing so civilians can leave. If they don't leave then it's pretty easy to think Hezbullah holds them hostage for mass casualties and pr.

#129 NJDhockeyfan,

That's exactly what the msm does to Israel on a daily basis.

You nailed it.

if there were truly scores of dead children etc., ... why were the MSM only able to get pictures of 2?

Almost every front page in the world is showing the same picture.

On another note: Funny how the pictures of the World Trade Center couldn't be plastered all over the TV & newspapers for fear of "upsetting" Americans, or out of respect for the dead...but to hurt the U.S. & Israel?...no problem...print away!

#7 Alouette

Daily Kos votes for "most hateful" FReepers and vows to "track them down." I am singled out as a "Christian sicko." Who'da thunk?

From the link [Link: www.dailykos.com...] :

We should definitely track down the true identities of those freepers who advocate violence and glorify the death of innocent children. There is no difference between these beasts and Nazis, Bin Laden etc. We should hold freerepublic accountable for those comments full of hatred and violence... I suggest we should set up a team to monitor and record every freeper hater. Folks, don't underestimate them. I have no doubt if they can get away, they will have no problem killing every liberal.

That the writer of the above paragraph and his or her fellow travellers do not understand how mentally deranged they are is simply amazing.

#45 alegrias 7/31/2006 09:19AM PDT
Does anyone here know whether that so called Pali village of Qana is the selfsame New Testament bibical village of Cana where Jesus the Jewish rabbi of Nazareth performed his first so called miracle of turning water into wine at a wedding?

I own an original map by Christophoro Weigelio of "Terra Sancta" (Holy Land) engraved in 1724. This map is a depiction of Israel with the boundaries of the twelve tribes. I believe that during this period of time (18th cent.) this was the european view of Israel, rejecting the legitamacy of the caliphate.

On this map, Cana is shown as a major city in the Tribe of Aser located about 5-10 miles inland between the port cities of Sidon (to the NW) and Tyrus (to the SW). This misprojection is typical of maps of this time, particularly involving lands far from Europe. This would be the Cana or Qana in the news today (WSW of Tyre), and appears to be the Biblical Cana in both the Old and New Testament.

While I certainly back Isreal in this latest round of "fun" in "God's Monkey House" (as PJ O'Rourke once called the Middle East), people need to be before they don't start sounding like the Moonbats that think the CIA took down the WTC.

My photo work is ocassionally used by Reuters, and I can assure you that if you're looking at the time stamps on the images in an effort to develop a timeline, you're barking up the wrong tree. The time stamp has nothing to do with when the image was taken, it only refers to when the image was placed on the wire service's network. The only thing you can be sure of, is that the image was not taken AFTER the time listed on the time stamp.

In the case of high demand events, like this one, the wire services will rush an image or two of the event out on its wire (since the news business is often a "first service with an image on the wire wins" environment) and then additional images will be transmitted as time allows for editing. In some cases, the same images will be re-sent with a different caption or byline later as additional information comes in.

For example, today if you go to Yahoo News and search for photos of George Bush, you'll see photos from a speech he made today at a Coast Guard facility in Miami. If you go by the time stamps on them, it would appear that the President spoke for close to three hours! What this really means is that AFP and Reuters kept pushing out photos of the event over a three hour timeframe. The APes so far are MIA, so their stuff is still probably in their pipeline and will pop up later.

This doesn't mean that the photos of the bulding and dead children weren't a managed media event, but you need to be a little more careful when making accusations. When Rush was going on and on about the timing of these photos and came right out and stated that Hezzbolah (sp?) blew the building up themselves, I could only hear nutty professors talking about remote controlled planes flying into the towers on 9/11, and had to turn the radio off. There's no need to chase the Left down some of the same rabbit holes!

Life after Qana
Salon - 4 hours ago
Human Rights Watch will issue a formal accusation of war crimes against Israel later this week, but the bombing will resume Wednesday. By Julie Flint. July 31, 2006 The Israeli bombardments were so intense ...

Kfar Qana massacre may strike back at Israel RIA Novosti

Israeli army flattening Hezbollah posts on Lebanon border Khaleej Times

Top Stories on Google News right now. What media bias?

Check out Getty Images. From 104 photos at Cana from three different photographers, I can count three (maybe four) distinctly different children being taken from the area. There is also one teenager who looks to be in combat clothing, a bearded man you may be a combatant, and several bagged bodies (with one non-adult). The Press is being incredibly in irresponsible reporting this story.

[Link: editorial.gettyimages.com...]

#135 biff

This would be the Cana or Qana in the news today (WSW of Tyre), and appears to be the Biblical Cana in both the Old and New Testament.

Biff, thank you so much for researching this! You're an angel.

Holy Smokes, the town of Cana where Jesus walked is where today the jihadists murder.

# 130 Right Side

When they see US murdered, they dance in the streets and pass out candy. If they saw video of our dead children and wailing mothers, they would get a good laugh out of it. They are not the same as we are; we feel compassion for everyone, even our enemies. They don't.

I no longer feel anything for them. I'm numb. They've pulled their disgusting propaganda stunts too many times. Now I just wish we'd plant another big one on the "rescue workers" (and hopefully on any media shills present), just like they do with their bombs that are timed to go off to kill people who respond to the first explosions.

They are teaching me to hate them, each and every one of them, with a cold, black hatred.

#7 Alouette 7/31/2006 08:54AM PDT

Daily Kos votes for "most hateful" FReepers and vows to "track them down."

I am singled out as a "Christian sicko." Who'da thunk?

Well, as mhking on FR likes to say,

"Just Damn!"

And here I was, numbering you among my Jewish friends... of course, as a lifelong Christian who got dubbed an "Honorary Jew" by no fewer than four Rabbis, I got used to weird looks when I'd tell people "I have to hurry to the Temple to sing..."

"I thought you were Episcopalian?"

"Yep, lifelong..."

You could sometimes hear the mental gears stripping as they tried to process this information.

Seriously, I put on waders and wandered over to kos... yeow! I keep forgetting what masters of displacement and projection lurk in such cesspits.

Sheesh Alouette, you're not doing very well in their poll:

Which freeper is the potential killer?

NRA2BFree 7 votes - 9 %
Lady Jag 10 votes - 13 %
Alouette 3 votes - 4 %
Shimmer128 2 votes - 2 %
caryatid 4 votes - 5 %
All 48 votes - 64 %

74 Total Votes

And the truly pathetic thing about kos land is the demographics show that most of them aren't kids.

#142 Geepers 7/31/2006 02:36PM PDT

Sheesh Alouette, you're not doing very well in their poll:

Which freeper is the potential killer?

NRA2BFree 7 votes - 9 %
Lady Jag 10 votes - 13 %
Alouette 3 votes - 4 %
Shimmer128 2 votes - 2 %
caryatid 4 votes - 5 %
All 48 votes - 64 %

74 Total Votes

And the truly pathetic thing about kos land is the demographics show that most of them aren't kids.

I recall that ( linked to it, but dogged if I can locate it quickly )-- weren't they mostly over 50 or 60, income $50,000 or more a year?
( That is assuming the respondents answered accurately... )

backhoe (#143),

That's what I recall. Buncha die-hard hippies wanting to relive their glory days.

#144 Geepers 7/31/2006 03:34PM PDT

backhoe (#143),

That's what I recall. Buncha die-hard hippies wanting to relive their glory days.

I could probably find that link ( it's buried back in all that stuff I maintain on Free Republic ) but I remember being surprised... but not really.

I'm from that era, but 'way back then I was a Biker-- had the beard sometimes, but little else in common with that grubby bunch of slackers.

check out the third from left, third row the diario de tarde, they don't even bother to show pictures. The cartoon says it all. Brazil is very anti-Israeli

#2

My Liberal friends assure me the media leans to the right.

If the entire MSM leans to the right, how far left atr your friends?

We met on the beach amid rumours of war,
your hair in your hand, what you saw you won't say
as the newspapers blew in the wind.

I can see you're one of that kind
who carry 'round a time bomb in their mind, no one knows
when you'll slip the pin.

Rumours of War.
Rumours of War.

I see that your dress is torn at the edge,
you were lost, intense, like a man on a ledge, waiting to jump
as the waves break over the shore.

You say there's a storm that can't be delayed,
and lately it seems to be comin' this way, you can hear it break
like the slam of a door.

Rumours of War.
Rumours of War.

You tell me, "Just look all around, at the past and the present,
at the cross and the cresent, the signs and the planets
are lining up like before."

There are souls on fire in the day and the night,
on the left and the right, in the black and the white,
you can see it burn in the eyes of the rich and the poor.

Rumours of War.
Rumours of War.

Rumours of War.
Rumours of War.

-Al Stewart, 1983(?) Rumours of War from Russians & Americans

muslims... that's spelled l-i-a-r-s.

WHAT? How politically incorrect of me. Could I actually mean to disparage all muslims?

Yes, I could. The disgusting, depraved islamists lie continuously to we kafirs. "Moderate" muslims lie continuously to themselves.

Across the western world
The lights are going out
The gypsy armies of the evening
Have lit their fires across
The nether side of town
They will not pass this way again

So here in the night
Leave your home it's time for running
Out of the light
I see the horses of Mohammed coming

The Holy Sister bars her doors against the East
Her house has stood too long divided
The uninvited guests are breaking up the feast
She may not bid them leave again

So here in the night
Leave your home it's time for running
Out of the light
I see the horses of Mohammed coming

I dreamed I stood like this before
And I'm sure the words that I heard then
Were much the same
It's just an old Greek tragedy they're acting here
Held over by popular acclaim

So here in the night
Leave your home it's time for running
Out of the light
I see the horses of Mohammed coming

Al Stewart (again) - 1980 Constantinople from 24 C/Parrots

#110 UniversityConservotarian:

This is disgusting. Don't the media know that they are being used by terrorists?

Some of them actually sympathize with the terrorists. Have a look at this fawning commentary by Julie Flint, who was ABC News correspondent in the Middle East till 1990 and is now an independent journalist:

Like it or not, Hezbollah is fact of life in Middle East

By Julie Flint, an ABC News correspondent in Lebanon from 1983 to 1990.
Published July 31, 2006

...Hezbollah now lives in the mainstream of Lebanese politics, not in the small Iranian-controlled terror cells that attacked American soldiers and took American hostages in the 1980s.

Today Hezbollah is a strong social and political movement headed by an articulate and charismatic cleric, Hassan Nasrallah, who enjoys considerable popularity among many Lebanese. It has two government ministers, 14 members of parliament and an experienced and efficient guerrilla force far stronger than the Lebanese army. Most critically, Hezbollah has the devotion--not just the support--of many of Lebanon's Shiite Muslims, who make up almost half the country's population.

Hezbollah is not the Palestine Liberation Organization, which could be crushed and sent packing from a country that was not its own. Hezbollah cannot be defeated without exterminating the entire Shiite community. U.S. policy in the area will fail, with disastrous consequences regionwide but especially in Iraq, as long as Washington accepts Israel's caricature of Hezbollah as a bunch of fanatics who "want their own people as human shields ... [and] civilian casualties on both sides."...

For the last 15 years, Hezbollah's Lebanese face has been becoming increasingly moderate--first under the leadership of Abbas Musawi, who ended hostage-taking, despite internal opposition, before being killed by an Israeli helicopter gunship in 1992; then under Nasrallah, who took Hezbollah into the government, despite internal opposition. Today Hezbollah does not seek the establishment of an Islamic state in Lebanon and does not endeavor to impose Islamic morals, even in the predominately Shiite southern suburbs of Beirut.

The party is a complex, broad-based amalgam of many tendencies and cannot be wished, or blasted, away. If the Israel Defense Forces succeed in killing Nasrallah, Hezbollah will splinter and its most radical wing, closest to the caricature, will come to the fore. Then we'll see the petrochemical complexes of Haifa rocketed; then we may see new attacks on Westerners in Lebanon.

Have the U.S. and Israel forgotten the lesson of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon: that force resolves nothing? Yes, the PLO sailed out in the end. But Hezbollah rode in and is still fighting Israel 20 years later, more determined and more organized than Yasser Arafat's men ever were. To keep northern Israel safe from Hezbollah's missiles, Israeli forces would have to police a "buffer zone" 80 miles deep, the range of Hezbollah's Zelzal 2 rockets. Israeli public opinion will not accept that.

In the end, there will have to be a negotiated political settlement. It would be so much better to seek it now. Instead of standing by as Israel blows up Lebanon to rediscover the futility of force, the U.S. should demand an immediate cease-fire and open direct talks with Iran and Syria, which support and supply Hezbollah. This is a time for statesmen, not petulant schoolboys.

To this Julie Flint, Hezbollah is "moderate" and Nasrallah must not be killed. Israel's entirely accurate charge that Hezbollah uses human shields is a mere "caricature." And force never solves anything--the wail of the Moonbat peacenik Left. And she's typical of the MSM.

The fishing boats go out across the evening water
Smuggling guns and arms across the Spanish border
The wind whips up the waves so loud
The ghost moon sails among the clouds
Turns the rifles into silver on the border

On my wall the colours of the maps are running
From Africa the winds they talk of changes coming
The torches flare up in the night
The hand that sets the farms alight
Has spread the word to those who're waiting on the border

In the village where I grew up
Nothing seems the same
Still you never see the change from day to day
And no-one notices the customs slip away

Late last night the rain was knocking at my window
I moved across the darkened room and in the lampglow
I thought I saw down in the street
The spirit of the century
Telling us that we're all standing on the border

In the islands where I grew up
Nothing seems the same
It's just the patterns that remain
An empty shell
But there's a strangeness in the air you feel too well

The fishing boats go out across the evening water
Smuggling guns and arms across the Spanish border
The wind whips up the waves so loud
The ghost moon sails among the clouds
Turns the rifles into silver on the border

On the border
On the border
On the border

Yes, it is Al Stewart, yet again, On The Border from his hit album of 1975 Year Of The Cat. Seems to me that the tunes above foreshadowed current events...