LGF "leaked" names of AP Qana photo conspirators

The rest of the AP internal e-mail is tedious as is most of the LGF commenters so far. What is important here, that all are missing, is that names have been leaked. The media, like Hollywood stars, thrives on exposure and getting the byline and/or recognition. Photographers, reporters, etc all want their name on record -- its part of their resume.

So, knowing names is the first step in reconstructing and analyzing the historical portfolio of the various people involved in this Qana "production". I find it unlikely that participation in a fabrication of this scope and magnitude would be assigned to a newbie at such things. These people are "pros" -- they will have participated in other "reality manufacturing" projects in the past -- and those projects will have their names attached to them somehow.

Its time to start peeling this AP onion - layer, by freaking layer.

LGF

...the Lebanon photo team of Nasser Nasser, Lefteris Pitarakis, Kevin Frayer, Mohammed Zaatari, Ben Curtis, Hussein Malla, Kevork Djansezian and Dalia Khamissy shares this week’s $500 Beat of the Week award.

Today's PSA - kids brush your teeth...

...and while you're brushing, consider laying off the crack pipe and the crystal meth too or you'll wind up looking like this one.

Castro's health will soon involve PETA

Fidel's a gonner. Trust me -- I already sacrificed my neighbor and his whole family ;->

REUTERS

...As many as 3 million people in Cuba and 60,000 people in Florida are believed to be involved in Santeria, according to religious experts...

uses animal sacrifice to communicate with the gods, which makes these tough times for favorite sacrificial creatures such as chickens, goats and, in this case, doves...

Osorio said about 20 people a day are coming into his "botanica" in Miami's Little Havana section to buy birds, powders and jewelry for rituals in which they ask the gods to please finish off Castro so they can return home...

CNN's Bob Franken -- self declared "world citizen"

Jay Rosen has written a long piece here, but one worth reading -- at least skim it for the high points and mindset stuff that explains a lot of what we see on CNN...for surely Franken isn't the only one on the CNN staff with this bizzare outlook.

Press Think

"When I’m Reporting, I am a Citizen of the World.”
That's a quote from CNN's Bob Franken. A tour through his press think shows why I ask the Big Journalism Deans: if schools like yours are supposed to spread the gospel, how do they know they have the religion right?...

“Wearing an American flag while on the air leaves the impression that we are believing the U.S. government and not believing those who challenge the U.S. government.” (Bob Franken.) Weird, pre-emptive statement. How does Franken know what image is left on the retina of viewers?...

Recently heard on the democratic underground

Yep, vest bombers and terrorists are a real passive couch potato bunch. I think this DUmmy has hit the nail on the head indeed.

Comment Link

Religion is brainwashing. It breeds passivity. It negates critical thinking.

Cuba: US to invade Cuba

I guess with the focus on internal politics and wrangling, Condi figures the Cuban military won't be watching the beaches as well and droves of people will take this opportunity to make their moves?

Its been a quiet hurricane season so far...

I think I'd put some pontoons on the 57' Chevy and make a break for it now too.

MSNBC

Cuba government has mobilized citizen defense militias, saying it fears a U.S. attack during Fidel Castro’s health crisis...

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice also made a statement Friday, imploring Cubans not to flee to Florida...

Canadian dopers swipe animal euthenasia drugs

OK,...so could someone explain to me why the thief doing up this stuff himself or selling it to other low-life skells is a problem of some sort to be "worried" about?

CBC

Police have issued a warning about some deadly drugs stolen from a veterinarian's car in East Vancouver on Thursday.

They were able to recover some of the drugs used to euthanize animals, but warn that 11 glass vials of the drugs are still missing.

Police say they're worried the thief may end up using or selling the drugs...

Gitmo guard beaten with bloody iguana tail...

...and others assaulted with much less amusing stuff. Curiously, I bet we won't see hundreds of stories in the NYT about the abuse the guards are getting from these practitioners of the "religion of peace".

It would seem to me that these characters haven't all been beaten into comas is evidence our Gitmo guards have the patience of Job.

Breitbart

The prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay during the war on terror have attacked their military guards hundreds of times, turning broken toilet parts, utensils, radios and even a bloody lizard tail into makeshift weapons, Pentagon reports say.

Incident reports reviewed by The Associated Press indicate Military Police guards are routinely head-butted, spat upon and doused by "cocktails" of feces, urine, vomit and sperm collected in meal cups by the prisoners...

War porn friday - steerable bullets, tiny UAV's, etc

US Army Research Lab goodies.

40mm granades that can adjust trajectory in flight

Switchblade - tiny canister deployed UAV

H/T The Steel Deal

Palm Bay(FL) may act against employers of illegals

Local6

The city of Palm Bay, Fla., is on its way to becoming the first in the nation to fine business owners who hire undocumented workers.

Palm Bay City Council members voted 4 to 1 to pass on for a second reading an ordinance holding employers responsible for hiring only legal workers...

Under the new ordinance, a business owner would face a $200 fine for each infraction and, if found in violation three or more times, prohibited from doing business in the city of Palm Bay...

The final vote will be Aug. 17.

Wingsuit with JET assist skydive

I've seen a lot of wing suit jumps, but this is the first I've seen that used jet engines as a thrust assist.

$384,000 for a busted public toilet...

...but it has an ocean view.

A ramshackle public toilet could fetch 300,000 euros ($384,000) -- the price of a new house -- if politicians in western Ireland get their way...

...The average cost of a home in Ireland, where house prices have gone up 15 percent in the past year, is 299,929 euros...

SR-71A and B-52D on display at Duxford

Think about this for a moment -- the Blackbird is over 40 years old, over 40 years old. It boggles the mind what nifty toys are lurking in hangers somewhere today over 40 years later....

In 1958 the Lockheed Advanced Development Projects 'Skunk Works' began work on a successor to the U-2 spy plane...The result was the Blackbird which made its maiden flight in 1962.

SR-71A
B-52D

Leftists who won't make you projectile vomit instantly

Normally, when I hear the word "manifesto" spoken other than in jest, I do three things -- in this order:

a) Projectile vomit

b) Reach for the closest pistol at hand then start blazing away at whoever uttered it.

c) Quickly bury the evidence in my lilly patch.

However, I'm willing to make an exception for this Euston crew. Yes, they seem somewhat naive, and sure they seem occasionally in denial about human nature and the nature of our enemies.

But, here is the difference -- they seem to recognize that America, with all its flaws, still has something special. They seem not inclined to actively work in support of America's enemies simply because of the BDS that infects much of the left these days.

Heck, maybe 70% of their positions I can even agree with to some degree. Give it a look. Its a refreshing change from the NYT traitors and unhinged moonbats infesting the left in America today.

Euston Manifesto

MySpace gets slapped around hard at Ben's joint

I've looked at MySpace once or twice and was rather underwhelmed. Ben and commenters up the anty and transition into a preliminary phase one smackdown mode with an occasional wuss who won't joyously join in the scrum.

There's some good stuff here -- begging to be collected into a comedic full monty phase two smackdown rant.

Ben Weasel

...And now I'm wondering if there's a different MySpace in an alternate universe because after several months of stumbling around uncomfortably in this world's MySpace...

...Mysapce...Good grief. ...

...myspazz is only useful for one thing...

...you can wait an hour to login because the servers they use are apparently russian military surplus from the cold war ...

...has been purchased by the Fox Network as well, so it's well on the way to becoming another cog in Rupert Murdoch's right wing machine...

..."addicted" to it- addicted to what?...

...and the other half trying to tape their nutsacks between their legs so they can put on a pair of chick jeans...

Speaking of Darfur...

I'm just relinking something I researched a while ago, because this is important stuff.

Darfur Explained

PERA could throttle ACLU extortionist vampires

It used to be that the ACLU had a good reputation. Alas, those days are as gone as gasoline at $.25/gallon and the oh so politically incorrect, extravagantly tailfinned, 1961 Cadillac Coupe you might have pumped that $.25/gallon "hi test" into. The 61' Coupe De Ville, as a concept, has aged much better than the ACLU has.

The ACLU has morphed from an organization of liberation to an organization of repression and extortion - really not much better than a bunch of mafia thugs extorting protection money - in essence, vampires. People commonly think the ACLU is funded by donations and lawyers doing "pro bono" work on its behalf. To a degree this is true. However, the ACLU also collects millions in "attorney fees", even when all the work was done pro bono, that idiot judges award it.


Stop the ACLU

...Moreover, the threat of imposition of orders to pay ACLU’s attorney fees in such cases has caused third parties, like The American Legion and other non-profit organizations, to suffer a chilling effect on their First Amendment rights to participate in such lawsuits to protect veterans’ memorials.

S. 3696 (PERA), and H.R. 2679 (PERA), would put an end to that abuse of benevolently intended laws by the ACLU, or anyone else following the ACLU’s precedents, for instance, Islamist terrorists or their sympathizers in our midst.

This reform of the law should be supported by all Americans across all party, ideological, philosophical, or religious lines.

Simply put, the ACLU’s profiteering at taxpayer-expense by exploitation of benevolently intended civil rights laws intended to benefit poor people is a disgrace...

The Chinese approach to public corruption -- death sentence

I'm OK with this. Some of these US corporate fraudsters might think twice about running a scam on stockholders or the public if they knew they stood a good chance of a bullet in the back of the head.

Xinhua

...Wen Mengjie, former head of the technology division under the Beijing branch of the Agricultural Bank of China, raked 10.73 million yuan (about 1.34 million U.S. dollars) from equipment and software providers and illicitly seized 4.32 million yuan (540,000 U.S. dollars) of public money.

He was sentenced to death in July, 2006, and the ruling is now undergoing a routine review at the Supreme Court. ...

Qana "rescue" pics staged/fake

Qana -- another Pallywood propaganda production the MSM all dutifully collaborated on. If the media is going to distort and lie about this stuff, they need to coordinate better so people looking at the time line can't easily discredit them as happened here. But then again, when a propaganda "production" is a "rush job" its hard to get all your ducks in a row.

EU Referendum blog

...These two sequences illustrate the extent to which photographers on the scene are prepared to ensure that the "shock value" is maximised. ...

Waco TX -- lynching resolution irks, commissioners walk out

A resolution against lynching would seem to be a slam dunk with 100% support these days, but NOOOO, not in the enlightened international megalopolis of Waco TX.

Waco has a checkered past when it comes to heavy handed tactics -- being the site of the Davidian debacle early in the Clinton administration when Torch Reno ordered the final solution to the Davidian problem.

One might think Waco officials would be more sensitive to heavy handed oppressive measures -- like lynching -- because of all the notoriety the Davidians brought the area. Apparently not. Lynching apparently still has its defenders in Waco.

KXXV-TV

After McLennan County Commission passed a resolution in May condemning lynching, it appears that resolution is still a hot debate.

Tuesday several county commissioners walked out of the meeting.

In protest, three commissioners walked out of court today after commissioner Lester Gibson asked them if the resolution can't be posted on the courthouse wall, then why are there unapproved items hanging on almost every floor.
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