tip of the iceberg

It's not that they're making the news; it's that they're framing the reaction.

Could that be Adnan Hajj in that top fauxto?

Time to scour the entire REUTERS mideast portfolio.

Reminds me of a punch line: "when their lips move."

Does hizballah consider this to be their enviromental duty of "recycling?"
:-)

And this breaking news just in: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

Reconstituted agitprop ...

Not just Reuters. This is AP and AFP too. In fact, I have come to think (after 4 straight days of scourig archives) that perhaps some of these guys file with one service under one name and the next under another. There simply aren't many other ways to explain multiple shots of the same incident from exactly the same angle/perspective under two different names. See the Kiddos in the Fire Zone thread a couple back. I have an identical shot, different fauxtographer.

A Lebanese woman looks at the sky as she walks past a building flattened during an overnight Israeli air raid on Beirut’s suburbs August 5, 2006. (Adnan Hajj/Reuters)

Well, he didn't say over which night...

There's also another shot of this woman in which as I recall she is searching around the ruins, making this "casual passerby" shot suspect. I think I saw it at Eureferendum but I could be wrong about that. Nevertheless, I am positive there is this other pic.

This building is the "gift that keeps on giving".

/ poor reference to Eddie in Christmas Vacation

Yes framing gets you your pulitzer, forget about reporting facts and news anymore.

OT heads up,Paul Belien's under attack again.

The photos are real,the Israelis keep blowing the building up every day and then the magical concrete jinn rebuild it every night.

Ain't nobody here ever heard of multi-use buildings before?

/ducks

August 5, 2006 modifies the "A Lebanese woman looks at the sky as she walks past a building..." part, natch.

Hey, English is his second langauge.

Journalists would sell their children into slavery for a hint of a good story. God bless the blog.

And Preview should be my first language.

The building that we saw in two different photos on July 24 and August 5 ... was actually photographed first on July 18:

answer later

That's not recycling. It's urban renewal, Hizbullah style. They figure that why buy a bombed out building when you can bill for three at three times the price.

I wonder if our intrepid fauxtographers are auditioning the next round of posers? They sure need some new talent.

A picture's worth a thousand lies.

...

Karridine had an XP Operating System meltown yesterday, not recovered yet... stay tuned...

And every time those damn jews blow that building up, the proud hezbos are gonna rebuild it!
They never quit!

#4 aaron's rantblog
I bet they are over there deleting pictures; to cover thier butts!

They'll be happy to dismiss this as their own sloppy incomepetence.

Maybe the tanks that are rolling across the border can hit it again...and again...and again!

Creating the news to fit their bias. This is just the tip of the iceberg. What else DON'T we know about?

Come on, folks, have you ever looked at fast food stores? They all look alike.

There's no mystery or agenda here - 3 different locations of Pita Hut got hit. :)

And don't forget THIS PHOTO of the same woman in front of the same building, which -- as revealed in the updated and newly-dazzling Reuters Photo Fraud page -- I describe as

Further demolishing the credibility of this photograph is yet a different image of the same woman by AFP, this time "inspecting the destruction," in a scene in which she is obviously cooperating with the photographer -- contradicting the implication of the Reuters photo in which she is supposed to be just a passerby.

It's funny, they seem to be using the same accounting techniques to count their dead. Count one body 4 or 5 times, whatever, not like anyones gonna audit them or anything!

Winston Smith is going to have one hell of a busy day at the Ministry of Truth tomorrow.

Walter in Golden, Co

Month in the life of a reuters fauxtographer:

1 day taking pictures

29 days smoking the hookah w/ local hezbo posers.

Let me try again;

The building that we saw in two different photos on July 24 and August 5 ... was actually photographed first on July 18:

If not 1980.

Good to see those enormous bombed-out sets that Stanley Kubrick constructed for Full Metal Jacket are still getting some use...

/do I need to say it?

Maybe this is the contemporary incarnation of those old movie studio lots in Southern California. A little dab of paint, a new facade or two, and presto, what was formerly a street in Jenin becomes a street in Beirut...

galloping granny, I salute your hard work! If the government belongs to us citizens, surely the press does, too.

Pure evil.

The head of the snake is not Tehran. It is Moscow and Beijing.

In a way, this is like the Magic Smoke. This building's unique paint job makes it sooo obvious. Now, watch one of our Reuters lurkers mention this to Green Helmet, who'll pull a Cristo and cover the entire side of the building in white tape.

"We're Desperate" by X

i play too hard when i ought to go to sleep they pick on me because i really got the beat some people give me the creeps every other week i need a new address landlord landlord landlord cleaning up the mess our whole fucking life is a wreck we're deperate get used to it its kiss or kill coca-cola and a motorola kitchen nauga-hyde and a tie-dye t-shirt last night everything broke

Look on the bright side, the construction industry will boom for years in Lebanon.

I notice that the Hezzies always overstate the amount of civilians killed, but there never seem to be any guerilla fighters killed. How odd! Israeli rockets must have a civ-dar.

#25 carridine

Bummer. I rebuild my OS at least every 6 months. Or, you can get a good fresh build and gather the image with Ghost and sysprep it and just reimage if you have a crash.

Reimage takes about 20 minutes.

So, is it possible that the building was destroyed on the 18th, and the 1st and 3d photos above were taken within minutes of each other, and then distributed by the fauxtographer at different times, and the captions are inaccurate as a result?

OK! I quickly have updated my Reuters page to incorporate this new find by Charles!

Third pic down Gollum Woman walks by bearing a mug only Gollum Male could love.

(Gollum Male)

Insidious

How racist of us to point out the fraud that is going on here with these images.

Not like the nice people of the left who are happy to let this kind of lying propoganda pass.

At least they know the first rule of propaganda, it doesn't work unless you repeat it ad infinitum. Sort of like liberal mythos in the west. J. Edgar Hoover was a transvestite, etc. If you keep repeating it, eventually some fools will believe.

Meanwhile Adnan might not be stringing for Reuters anymore, but his retreads are playing at IRNA.

How do the camera boys get out their casting calls? Is there a Lebanese version of Variety?

For some reason the phrase “Wag the Dog” comes to mind.

Dėja vu. All over again

and again.

and again.

and again.

This is all getting to be a bit much. Are these faux faux somanabitch fakers all along the news feed chain really this stupid or do they assume that we are?

Yeah, I know.
I know.
I know.

The war as "Ground Hog Day". Is "Green Helmet" Bill Murray?

Who need news, when you cna make it up. This is just sad.

These fauxtographers were probably thinking that the infidel world was so frikking stupid that they could fake photos, stage photos, photo shop photos, get the $500 AP 'bonus', collect a Reuters paycheque, damn the Israelis day in and day out and never get caught.

Well-ain't paybacks a bitch?

#25 Karridine

You too? On the same night, at the same time?

In my case, in the midst of fixing the multiple (featuring multiple fix, reboot, fix, reboot etcetcetc), XP Pro issues, McAfee suddenly turned it's auto-update function back on, (I keep all auto update functions turned off because I'm an on-line gamer), and began updating itself, for the third time this week.

So later, much later, I think I've got everything resolved, I read/post some LGF and go off to play some Day of Defeat. I'm involved in a heavy firefight, my teammates are counting on me to hold the flank by myself,(I can do that), and suddenly XP begins auto-updating - again, pitching me out of the game, but only after freezing me in place long enough for me to get overrun and killed. Teamspeak stayed functioning just long enough for me to hear the anguished wails of my teammates as their formerly solid left flank utterly disappeared into thin digital air...

"These 11 updates require a reboot."

*Blink*

...and my machine reboots itself. But not before Spysweeper begins updating itself as well, again without prior permission.

You guessed it, Spysweeper update failed. "Remove and reload Spysweeper system please."

Maybe I should just break this box down into it's base components and ship them off seperately to the three software companies who think they now own it.

===

My PC now looks like a Lebanese building automatically updated by the IDF air force, repeatedly.

SHIMS
AND
SPLINTS,
R

When will the bouncing football logo be back? On the good side, the truth about the MSM is gettin out.

This just in:

Israel says BBC not reporting war fairly
By GIL HOFFMAN

The Foreign Ministry is under pressure from Israeli citizens to resume its boycott of the BBC and to withdraw credentials from its reporters due to "one-sided" reports on the war in Lebanon, Israeli diplomatic officials said Wednesday.

More

#56

the infidel world was so frikking stupid

Give muslim welfare checks just by showing up in the west.

Well I guess it was such a good strike they thought it needed repeating.

#44 Stuck-in-CA

You just aren't nuanced enough to understand Quantuum HisbullShi'ite, specifically Schrödinger's Lebanese.

An uninjured person in Lebanon is a probability function. It cannot be ascertained with certainty whether that person is a HizbShaitan terroristfreedom fighter or not. Even if you see him firing a Katyusha or beheading a 'collaborator'.

Whenever one of these people is wounded, killed, or captured by the IDF, the wave function collapses, and we know for sure whether the Lebanese person is a combatant or civilian.

By which I mean that we find out that the person is a civilian. Even if he is killed with a Kalashnikov in one hand and a Hizzy flag in the other. Because you know how those A-rabs love to just fire their AKs in the air peacefully.

"Dude, come on down to the pinwheel building later. They're having another fauxto shoot, with free kebabs for everybody. Achmed's coming, and so's Mohammed."

#33 redshirt 8/9/2006 07:01PM PDT

It's funny, they seem to be using the same accounting techniques to count their dead. Count one body 4 or 5 times, whatever, not like anyones gonna audit them or anything!

I noticed today that all the dead body pics coming out of Lebanon are now wrapped in blankets on the stretchers and encased in plastic bags covered with the cedar flag.

Guess Hizballah has been reading the blogs. Or the MSM is clueing them in ...

/taking bets on who?

Israel says BBC not reporting war fairly [Link: www.jpost.com...]

"the only international English-speaking news outlet that is downright hostile to Israel on every level."

IMHO the BBC is doing better than usual, but that just speaks to my low opinion of them.

saw this last night and was wondering if I could get a copy of the video (which I have not got yet) .. but I did get a transcript here:

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: Well, you know, you have to be very careful. Obviously, both sides in this conflict want their stories out. Israel, you know, provides public spokespeople very readily. If you're dealing with the Israeli military, they don't want you, you know, wandering around their artillery fields like where we are now, or wandering around their positions. So they often have press people who will actually sort of help you if you need interviews and the like.

While on the Hezbollah side, it's really interesting — I was in Beirut, and they took me on this sort of guided tour of the Hezbollah- controlled territories in southern Lebanon that were heavily bombed. They are much cruder, obviously. They don't have the experience in this kind of thing. But they clearly want the story of civilian casualties out. That is their — what they're heavily pushing, to the point where on this tour I was on, they were just making stuff up. They had six ambulances lined up in a row and said, OK, you know, they brought reporters there, they said you can talk to the ambulance drives. And then one by one, they told the ambulances to turn on their sirens and to zoom off, and people taking that picture would be reporting, I guess, the idea that these ambulances were zooming off to treat civilian casualties, when in fact, these ambulances were literally going back and forth down the street just for people to take pictures of them.

Un-fucking-believable!

bad link in my prior post.

Here is the correct link .

It's amazing
Charles does more damage to the MSM in 48 hours of a weekend than most people do in a year.

So Charles..
What do you have planned for next weekend?

#65 Luigi 8/9/2006 07:26PM PDT
Israel says BBC not reporting war fairly [Link: www.jpost.com...]

"the only international English-speaking news outlet that is downright hostile to Israel on every level."

IMHO the BBC is doing better than usual, but that just speaks to my low opinion of them.

BBC is just letting its viewers know its ok to hate jews and Israel, its any good elitist British twits job

#39 Goddessoftheclassroom

galloping granny, I salute your hard work! If the government belongs to us citizens, surely the press does, too.

No thanks needed. If we don't have truth we don't have anything. Nothing I hate worse than a lie - as my children will all confirm.

I put together a slide show this morning of pics that I found showing the infamous Qana pics - specifically the ones we've been questioning- being used all over the world on protest signs. Lo and behold, right there in the mess is Green Helmet's Headless Baby 1996!

You know if we've found this many lies in such a short time that this is massive and has been going on for years. How much different would the world be for all of us, everywhere, if our "free" press had been telling the truth all these years?

I bet for starters most of the mess in the MidEast would never have happened.

OT but heads up needed this is from CT blog:

Participants on key Arabic-language Al-Qaida chat forums on the Internet have announced their intent to launch collective cyberterrorist attacks tomorrow, August 10, aimed at interrupting or denying service to other pro-Israeli websites--namely the "Internet Haganah" cyberterror watchdog site run by Aaron Weisburd. When I asked him what he thought of the purported threat, Aaron expressed strong skepticism that these efforts would produce any noticeable disruption in access to his site. He replied, "They have a reasonable chance of slowing down the responsiveness of one domain of the ten associated with the Internet Haganah web site."

More importantly, these would-be attacks represent part of a growing wave of similar defacement and denial of service attacks targeting various American bloggers and pro-Western websites.

This coincides with Black Tuesday: eg microsoft released 11 security bulletins today, time from release of vulnerabilities until exploits are in the wild is now less than a day in most cases. I would advise patching your gates gear tonight if you haven't.

#23 Stuck-in-CA 8/9/2006 06:55PM PDT

A picture's worth a thousand lies.

Remember that old saying that goes "A lie travels round the world before the truth gets out of bed?"

62- The Monster-

Thanks for clearing that up for me!

The only women left there are the burka-clad enslaved ones who can't leave.

OT:
More phake photos?
No Quarter: OIL SPILL rivalling Exxon-Valdez, 30K tons est. so far

/inquiring blogger wants to know

We search ze clue

We examine ze ėvidence

Main non! Dit cet bloggėr

#25 carridine 8/9/2006 06:56PM PDT

Karridine had an XP Operating System meltown yesterday, not recovered yet... stay tuned...

So did one of my kids. And Homeland Security hs a emergency warning out to all Windows users to update pronto. It's even being reported on Israeli news.

39 updates - than G_d for DSL

#27 Black George Bush 8/9/2006 06:57PM PDT

#4 aaron's rantblog
I bet they are over there deleting pictures; to cover thier butts!

I'll guarantee you one thing Black George. Each and every time for the last three days or so that someone on this blog has mentioned a specific fishy pic it disappears faster than you can say boo.

That kiddies in the shooting range pic was gone kaboom in less than 10 minutes. Luckily, some other fauxtographer captured the exact same frame and it was also elsewhere.

If you see something TAKE A SCREENSHOT before you mention it on the blogs!

Is there or has there ever been an honest wartime photograper? Surely there has to be at least one or two. Is there not some outrage on their part that these clowns are turning their profession into a sick joke?

The cyberjihad starts tomorrow, probably based on the new vulnerabilities MS released today. For DDOS attacks they need hundreds of enslaved personal computers in a "bot-net" attacking at once. Get patched so you don't add to the effect unwittingly.

#81 Thanos 8/9/2006 07:43PM PDT

The cyberjihad starts tomorrow, probably based on the new vulnerabilities MS released today. For DDOS attacks they need hundreds of enslaved personal computers in a "bot-net" attacking at once. Get patched so you don't add to the effect unwittingly.

Also remember that if your computer is not plugged into the wall it cannot be used for bad stuff even if it got infectedd. At the very least unplug the thing from the phone jack when you aren't using it.

I got one word for all you PC users having problems...MAC.

/once you go MAC you never go back

#79 GG

How do you take a screenshot?

Charles, I don't normally blogwhore round these parts, but I went off on this post at my place and thought you should have a look.

Thanks.

OT

[Link: reuters.myway.com...]

Israel should splatter the proof of identification across all its papers, across it's TV and across all Lebanon TV (as it interferes with the signals)

All proof should be sent to AP, Reuters.

It's time Israel started winning the PR war.

Let's see some visual proof NOW and lets splatter it in the faces of the anti-semetic world.

I have examined the Photos,
And I can assure you that they are not fakes.

My stamp of approval is with Reuters.

[Link: upload.wikimedia.org...]

Oh! It's all about why the Left are suffering from Judenhass.

I think I nailed it.

It's Groundhog War! They're doomed to keep shooting that scene until they get the whole war photographed exactly right!

#80 Bobblehead wrote:

Is there or has there ever been an honest wartime photograper? Surely there has to be at least one or two. Is there not some outrage on their part that these clowns are turning their profession into a sick joke?

Eddie Adams, The AP photographer who snapped the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of South Vietnamese General Nguyen Ngoc Loan shooting his prisoner at least later expressed guilt over how distorted it was, and that it ruined Ngoc's life:

After the photo was seen around the world, the AP assigned Adams to hang out with General Loan. He discovered that Loan was a beloved hero in Vietnam, to his troops and the citizens. "He was fighting our war, not their war, our war, and every — all the blame is on this guy," Adams told NPR (in what may have been the most surprisingly courageous NPR interview I've ever heard). Adams learned that Loan fought for the construction of hospitals in South Vietnam and unlike the popular myths, demonstrated the fact that at least some South Vietnamese soldiers really did want to fight for their country and way of life.

Just moments before that photo had been taken, several of his men had been gunned down. One of his soldiers had been at home, along with the man's wife and children. The Vietcong had attacked during the holiday of Tet, which had been agreed upon as a time for a truce. As it turned out, many of the victims of the NC and North Vietnamese were defenseless. Some three thousand of them were discovered in a mass grave outside of Hue after the Americans reoccupied the area. The surprise invasion, turned out to be a military disaster for the Vietcong, but a huge strategic victory because of its effect on American resolve.

But at the time, all of this was irrelevant to people like Loan. It was an ugly, shocking assault. The execution of the prisoner was a reprisal. It was an ugly thing to be sure, but wars, civil wars especially, are profoundly ugly things.

Adams wrote in Time magazine, "The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. What the photograph didn't say was, 'What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American soldiers?'"

the eternal victim building.

83 sailordude

I adore mine.

#76 oil spill

30K tons est. so far

11 million gallons of crude oil. / 2000 = about 5000 if oil weighs 1 lb/gal(water 7.5 lb/gal).
[Link: www.epa.gov...]

Hey these folks can't do math either.

Hello folks - OT

Here is a funny cartoon from Michael Ramirez

94 RTLM

Thanks, man...

This guy is my favorite political cartoonist.. and I owe it all to you..

These buildings have been down more times than a $2 dollar whore.

Update: Nyt "All the propaganda WE think that's fit to print"

re #72 I hereby absolve and apologize to all three software companies I unfairly maligned in #57. Thanks guys, well done, carry on.

re re #72 Aaron Wiesburd is our David, Internet Haganah is his sling. Charles is our Atlas, we are all on his broad shoulders. Hold the line gentlemen, stand here.

#92 Amalie

Mac's don't play Day of Defeat, case closed.

GET
ME
GONE,
R

OT:

Arrests tied to terrorism

TracFones being bought in bulk at area retail stores are suspected of being shipped overseas and used to detonate roadside bombs, officials said.

On Wednesday, two men suspected of having ties to terrorism were arrested in Marietta after purchasing several phones at area stores.

Full story here

#76 jetprop
#93 jrdroll

Oil spill

So far in a brife search, I have seen reported; 15,000 BBL (depending on gravity about 2,200 tons) spilled, 15,000 tons spilled, 110,000 BBL spilled(~16,400 tons) and 30,000 tons spilled.

All from a power plant.

Thanks Amalie -

just found Gullom at flickr. I have not seen this one yet. How bout anyone else? sending it to zombie now.

#100 easy
I ain't disputing oil spilled. But what the f%%k. A power plant has the same storage capacity of an OIL TANKER. Maybe but I sense BS from journalists with a meme.

#93 jrdroll
#100 easy

Thanks for the link & info.

lemme try again here

#99
Notice that the "p" word (profiling) made an appearance in the article.

Oh no, they're just carefree dudes on a roadtrip.

I don't know if Charles has posted this yet but more staged photos found.

#104 jetprop

Check out oil spills. Exxon Valdez uisn't the worst and the amount is in decline:
[Link: www.isaa.org.uk...]

#107

We need someone to photoshop her into the Fauxto Pieta. The perfect Virgin Mary. Why didn't our intrepid camera boys think of that?

#105 fraxinus americana

I don't think it's the same woman

Gollum Woman's left thumb is malformed and her skin is much paler

Gollum Woman is more more ghastly looking than her.

ahh well ... it is getting late here on the east coast.

In a way, I don't blame the islamonazi terrorists for lying and deceiving. Lies and deception are the home ground of truly evil bigots, be they nazi, communist or islamist.

What I find truly unforgivable is the lack of diligence by the western much vaunted free media. They are free to give us the truth, not a nazi version of it.

There is a lot of destruction left in Beriut form the civil war. Some enterprising blogger (I work and have two toddlers) should see if any buildings destroyed by the IAF where even standing last year.