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- AdmiralAdama, on 10/12/2007, -35/+137"Fauxtography" has been going on along time and seems to always be used by Islamists with the naive (or willing) belief of AP, Reuters, and other Mainstream Media.
Here are links for anyone digging for more info.
Roundup of Reutersgate -- or the (same Lebanese woman loses same house 50 times story)
http://www.zombietime.com/reuters_photo_fraud/
Good roundup of fauxtography here:
http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2006/09/27/le-monde-tackles-fauxtography-at-last-surprised-by-the-results/
A classic: The fake "Israel hits red cross ambulance" hoax
http://www.zombietime.com/fraud/ambulance/ - scheper, on 10/12/2007, -39/+136Why did I read all of these dugg down comments? ;o;
- NoamSayin, on 10/12/2007, -28/+114LGF stikes again.
- billjackson, on 10/12/2007, -36/+119Why am I not surprised?
- AdmiralAdama, on 10/12/2007, -42/+120Green Helmet Guy is freezing dead babies for the next Israeli "atrocity"
Green Helmet Guy for the uninitiated is the Hezbollah PR Guy/Mortician/"Red Cross Worker" that shows up with dead babies at the sites of alleged Israeli "atrocities"
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22123_Green_Helmet_Admits_Staging_Photos&only
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22029&only&rss - wintermd, on 10/12/2007, -28/+103Where is Green Helmet guy? Giving advise no less?
- noreturn, on 10/12/2007, -15/+67Good links.
I think the best part of the photo is the fact that the US doesn't even use those kinds of grenades any more. Unless I'm misinformed, they stopped using the "pineapple" grenades, with the gridmarks on the outside, quite some time ago. That is old ordnance, and is unlikely to have been supplied recently. - foopirata, on 10/12/2007, -6/+51@Stevethenotsogreat
My gosh how gullible can you be????
Can't you see that the "parade" by Green Helmet Guy was aimed at the media to demonize the Israelis? Can't you see it is only one more (see the Al-Dura incident) of a long string of "useful idiocy" by the mainstream media?
They are not for peace. They are for war, THEIR war, a war that THEY win, and if they can't win they'll capture "hearts and minds" any obscene way they can in order to turn the soft heart of the nations, the gullible "give peace a chance" crowd, the poor ones that can't see the pistol held in their faces cause they're too enamored of the perfectness of the dark circle before their eyes, the high-horse-and-morals crowd that will just say we need to "respect their customs and individuality"...open your eyes, raise the veil they want you to wear... - JamilHussein, on 10/12/2007, -13/+58I am shocked! Shocked I tell you!
At how lousy the Photoshop work is. - xGORDOx, on 10/12/2007, -6/+50They don't preach against war, they are propaganda to promote it.
Are you blind? - Asianwaste, on 10/12/2007, -5/+44Anyone remember the GI Joe POW's that Al Qaeda in Iraq was posting?
Edit: Stevethegreat if you think these doctored photos were promoting peace, then you're an idiot. - JammieWF, on 10/12/2007, -14/+50Some seriously cheesy fauxtography.
- holzp, on 10/12/2007, -7/+41If those were actually American bullets they would not say 'Made in the USA", they would say in teeny print on the back "Made in China."
- foopirata, on 10/12/2007, -8/+39@Stevethenotsogreat
"I only saw Israel attacking Lebanese territory making many casualties"
My point exactly. Israel was brutally attacked, with 10 dead soldiers, 2 kidnapped ones, and a barrage of katyushas to cover the action. Unprovoked. This all took place on Israel's side of the border. But you only saw what the mainstream media spoonfed you, and that same media was spoonfed by Hizzballah goons, just like the Green Helmet Guy. And your bleeding progressive heart ate it all, with some nice "anti-imperialist" gumbo to boot.
You are being blinded with what they want you to see. They want you to feel bad for who you are so you'll more easily become what they want you to be. Which can be said in one single word: dead.
Open your eyes before they come to drag you into the streets for being an infidel. - Endtroducing, on 10/12/2007, -11/+42Who did they think they were fooling?
- manchu2, on 10/12/2007, -14/+44@AnotherCanadian:
"chavez (the most elected leader in the world)"
Yup, the most elected leader in the world. Thanks to his newly acquired powers to rewrite laws by personal decree, I'm sure he'll continue to be re-elected for years and years. "CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez defended his plans to rewrite dozens of laws by decree, saying his country has a vibrant democracy and that the world's real "tyranny" is led by President Bush. Signing a newly approved congressional measure that grants him broad lawmaking powers, Chavez said it will allow for changes to lead the country toward socialism but denied it poses any threat to democracy or individual freedoms." ( http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/02/02/chavez.venezuela.ap/index.html ) Not everyone in Venezuela was so sure about that, though:
- "If you have all the power, why do you need more power?" said Luis Gonzalez, a high school teacher who paused to watch in the plaza, calling it a "media show" intended to give legitimacy to a repugnant move. "We're headed toward a dictatorship, disguised as a democracy." ( http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/01/31/chavez.venezuela.ap/index.html )
- "Historian Ines Quintero said that with the new powers, Chavez will achieve a level of "hegemony" that is unprecedented in Venezuela's nearly five decades of democratic history." ( http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/01/31/chavez.venezuela.ap/index.html )
There's your hero. - Asianwaste, on 10/12/2007, -5/+35@Stevethegreat
Maybe you've forgotten just how these false reports of crimes and tragedies start more wars. Hitler started World War II with false radio reports that Poland attacked a remote radio station when it turned out the Nazi's did it themselves. The whole 9-11 conspiracy theory bull is the belief that Bush created the greatest doctored up tragedy to wage war on the middle east.
Sure Israel may have bombed the country. People have died and it sucks. I agree with you that it's wrong. Do you think the people that make these photos and paint a picture that is a stretch of the the truth are at all right to do this? Wouldn't you think all that would do is breed more hate and promote a full scale war against Israel? - Asianwaste, on 10/12/2007, -5/+34Let's summarize madmack's knowledge of the topic with one simple observation: Iraqies is spelled IRAQIS.
- Vincep1974, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27According to the document I linked to.. here is the percentage each country had in Arms sales to Iraq during the entire time period of Saddam's regime:
USSR 54.78
France 13.67
China 12.33
Czechoslovakia 6.75
Poland 4.2
Brazil 2.63
Egypt 0.85
USA 0.59
Denmark 0.56
Austria 0.47
Romania 0.46
South Africa 0.35
Russia 0.33
Serbia & Mont 0.27
Switzerland 0.27
Hungary 0.25
Canada 0.23
Germany (FRG) 0.23
Italy 0.21
UK 0.18
Jordan 0.16
Spain 0.07
East Germany (GDR) 0.06
Unknown country 0.04
Turkey 0.02
UAE 0.01
Australia 0 - GabrielS, on 10/12/2007, -10/+36Sheesh. Charles Johnson is not a conservative. Exposing Iranian attemtps to implicated the UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT in a attack in their country is a serious event.
- thatsmyaibo, on 10/12/2007, -9/+35Note to self: look for design job in Iran. They are in desperate need.
- AdmiralAdama, on 10/12/2007, -27/+53The Iranian design schools are so humiliated we may see the first graphic-designer suicide bomber soon!
- natty27, on 10/12/2007, -12/+37at least we didnt set celine dion upon the world. zing!
- Vincep1974, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28joe:
You dont know *****
If you look at that, you'll see that we sold Iraq less than 1% of thier military purchases.
http://www.sipri.org/contents/armstrad/TIV_imp_IRQ_75-05.pdf/download
Please take your talking points to Dhimiitudes.org - understudy, on 10/12/2007, -41/+65I have never seen so many dugg down comments in a row.
_ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27The USA boxed ammo shown in the picture is not military issue. It is made by Winchester for consumer use and is commonly known as generic "White Box" ammo. It is a low velocity and sub par by manufacture standards. Wal-Mart sells it.
- bcismar, on 10/12/2007, -7/+30joeoreilly
Way to go. don't let ignorance get in the way of shouting out a lefty talking point.
How about you break out a list of the US supplied weapons to Iraq. I can easily provide a 20 to 1 ratio of Soviet weapons that were in the Iraq arsenal. Why? Because is was the USSR that equipped Iraq, not the US. In the Iraq Iran war, it was Iran that used US made weapons which were provided before the Shaw was sold out by,,, oh yeah,,, that champion of the Democrats Left, Jimmy "Frightened of Rabbits" Carter.
Now if you want to accuse the French of selling weapons to Iraq, you will be well on your way to being right. But why reveal the complicity of the lefts model nation, and end up GOREing your own Ox?
When will the adults form the left speak up on Digg?
Oh yeah. I forgot.
You can't be an adult and a digg Lefty.
That would be an Oxymoron
Emphasis on MORON. - OriginalLucid1, on 10/12/2007, -8/+31Liberals?
- jellygraph, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26lol, one thing is clear: iranians sucks at photoshop
- hoserjoe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25@StevetheThickasaPost
What you miss is that the Iranians/Iraqis/Lebanese are malevolent, ignorant, lying BS artists. This method of lying as if everyone else is stupid, is part of their BS culture. Thus, none of their claims (like the ones you believe) can be considered to be true. Including all their claims of dead babies everywhere, and bombed daycare centers, and innocent mothers with no arms and legs. They lie, therefore everything they say is BS. No sympathy from this reader. - NoamSayin, on 10/12/2007, -7/+29Bet you'd sell your mother for a chance to move to America.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+31"I am very surprised. I never knew an entire country had the arms or opposable digits to "photoshop" something. Seriously, people. Specify something: Iranian government, Iranian press, Iranian Photoshoppers Union of Severely Upsettable Individuals. Lets actually narrow down the entity to something applicable here as an entire country lacks the prowess, will, and even common mindset to collectively "photoshop" something, or do many things we attribute to an entire country. Don't sensationalize this ***** further."
It's apparent that you're an ill-informed, leftist idiot who probably refuses to believe anything you disagree with.
If you're intelligent and informed, then you'd realize that almost ALL of the Iranian press is controlled by the government, certain things from AP and Reuters are filtered out of broadcasts if they have to do with the Iranian Government. So, if you are capable of simple deduction (which is something you probably missed out on when you dropped out of high school to rebel against "The Man") - then you'd realize that something like this was influenced by the government. - hoserjoe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21@joeoreilly
Joe, the numbers are freely available on the internet, so no need to make a spectacular ass of yourself in public claiming that the US and UK supplied all of Iraq's weapons. Iraq's biggest weapons suppliers were actually Russia and France. Oh, I guess we can give you credit for the 1/2 mile long Iraqi super cannon built in the UK to hurl atomic bombs and old Ladas at Israel, except everybody thought it was some kind of a joke. - manchu2, on 10/12/2007, -5/+25@AnotherCanadian:
I want you to step back for a moment, take a deep breath, and think about what you just typed:
"he was given that power unanimously by the legislature"
Then go back and read the CNN.com articles I linked to: "Chavez's opponents at home have been strongly critical of the "enabling law" approved Wednesday by the entirely pro-Chavez National Assembly, calling it a lurch toward authoritarianism" (http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/02/02/chavez.venezuela.ap/index.html )
A law unanimously passed by an ENTIRELY PRO-CHAVEZ NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. That's some remarkable feat! This is old Communist style Politburo stuff here. - Shinyhappy, on 10/12/2007, -9/+29I think that some people in the current Iranian government are trying destabilize the region and cause war.
- lowkeynz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24excellent point. someone should fax the whitehouse.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21I've finally figured out how a discussion such as falsifying news stories and pictures to further shia imperialism (al-taquia) turns into a discussion about how "it's all our fault" or "bush lied" or "global warming" or "chavez".
It's kinda like when you catch a spoiled rotten girfriend cheating on you,, (she changes the subject and gets ready to yell at you in anger about, as Monty Python would say "something completely different") - Vincep1974, on 10/12/2007, -17/+37LOL But you'll trust Iran. You ***** autistic retard.
- lunchbucket, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22Newsweek, who you'll recall went bananas over wholly imaginary tales of koran flushing at Gitmo, cherry picked this image from a series that demonstrated the Iranian origin of the cache.
- Glynth, on 10/12/2007, -10/+29Well, gee, if you could look past your nose you might see that LGF doesn't MAKE or WRITE the news, they merely get the word out.
- 5N00PY, on 10/12/2007, -20/+39This has 120 diggs...why isn't it on the front page?!
- AdmiralAdama, on 10/12/2007, -23/+42Jamil Hussein is real! Where did they find you?
- Ark7, on 10/12/2007, -6/+25Or you're just an intellectual coward. But yeah, it must be that you have better things to do than to defend your ideals. That's it.
- RadicalRon, on 10/12/2007, -8/+27Nice to see the "Truthers" trying to bury this. lol
Sorry bastards. - Glynth, on 10/12/2007, -11/+30Next time you claim we don't have evidence... um, be sure we actually DON'T have evidence. Because it's painfully obvious.
For one - and just one piece - of evidence, see:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/13/wiran13.xml
Which just happens to be another article highlighted by LGF: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=24426_Iranian_Sniper_Rifles_in_Iraq&only
Y'see, whether you happen to like the FACTS they find or not, conservatives are QUITE "in the know" about a lot of things. Things that SHOULD be common knowledge, but blind Lefties somehow don't connect the (obvious) dots, miss the (obvious) big picture, ignore and in fact repress/attack the details that lead to the WHOLE truth. (Notice, I say "blind Lefties," not "Leftists - who are of course ALL blind" - if you don't catch the difference, that's your problem.) - Glynth, on 10/12/2007, -9/+27Uh huh. You stick with those talking points. It's not like they've been disproven a thousand times over or anything.
- foopirata, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20@Stevethereallynotsogreat
"Misrefering to my nick doesn't make you more right than I am."
I am so sorry I have hurt your feelings. In the future I shall refer to you simply as SteveWhoThinksHimselfGreatSoEveryoneMustAgree, ok ?
"it's you who finds just Israel's retaliation against 12 casualties with some thousands in the opposition"
Hizzbalah's action provoked a war. In a war, people die. It happens, and the concept of a "clean war" where only combatants die, nowadays, is wishful thinking. I wish it was different, but it is not. Specially when one of the sides chooses to use the civilian population as a shield and media pawns. If Hizzbalah had any care for the population of Lebanon, they'd think twice before provoking Israel. It's called a detente - now, after he's repeatedly admitted his mistake, Nasrallah will think twice before repeating his ill-fated actions. The detente works.
"it is you who believes that Muslim extremism have such a grip to the Muslim world that one day a whole flock of 1.5 billion will come in your doorstep calling you infidel"
I don't need 1.5 billion. I know what 19 did, and I've seen what a single one with a bomb strapped to his chest can do in a restaurant.
"it is you who bought the fear and allowed such crimes to take place."
That makes absolutely no sense.
"Unlike you I had the luck to befriend some Muslim people"
Funny...where do you get the "unlike" from? You don't know who I am, you don't know my past, you don't know who I befriended or not, where, or when. And yet, you jump to unfounded conclusions. Way to go on trying to win a logical argument, NotSoGreat.
" the same started to happen in many Muslim countries but wars were always halted the progress and people had to start over."
Ok, you just shown you have no idea of what you're talking about. Show me ONE modernist movement in an Islamic country that has been stopped by a war. ONE.
"Travel the world it will make you some good to dismiss some of your outdated beliefs."
Again, you don't seem to care about knowing what you're talking about before opening your mouth. I suggest you stop and adopt another argumentative direction.
"every great Empire/Country came after a great period of peace, ancient Athens (480-430BC, Pericles Era), Rome (Pax Romana), UK (colonial period), USA (post civil war)"
You do realize how much you contradict yourself in this sentence, right? Every single one of these was the fruit of either a defensive, consolidation or an expansionist war (or wars). You seem to be lacking a clue. "Pax Romana" itself was anything but peaceful (what, you don't read Asterix?).
"What is there not to understand? It is clearer than a crystal clear pond"
Your version, perhaps. But when you let the mud of those strange things called "facts" get in the way...big no-no. Well, at least now I know who I am trying to have a discussion with. You seem to have come to a battle of wits severely under-gunned. - wintermd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Lets all be PC here..
Now for 1) The Iranians are the good guys
2) The USA is bad
we all know that answer, because the MSM and the French said so.
Now lets all sing together "Kum by ya" - lunchbucket, on 10/12/2007, -9/+27Made the front page 1 minute ago, 3:40 p.m. MST , @ 190 diggs.
- AdmiralAdama, on 10/12/2007, -36/+54The useful idiots will use a "moral equivalency" argument -- Bush did it with WMDs in Iraq so how can we say anything about Iranian photoshoping? We must be defeated now!
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