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Another Photo-Journalist added to the roll of honor.
On 2011.01.29 13:00 , Savageduck wrote:
On 2011-01-29 08:56:48 -0800, Alfred Molon said: There was an Iraq war video on wikileaks showing a US helicopter machine-gunning an AP photographer in Bahgdad. Apparently the guy on the helicopter mistook the camera of the photographer as an RPG device. Not nearly as bad as US Air Force F4 fighters strafing two US Coast The Iraq footage is much worse than that event. Non combatants were killed. It was one of the most disgusting displays of callousness I've ever seen. -- gmail originated posts filtered due to spam. |
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Another Photo-Journalist added to the roll of honor.
On 1/29/2011 3:49 PM, Savageduck wrote:
As of 09:45AM, 1/29/2011, 1.41 Tunisian Dinar = $1US = €0.74 (...er, there's an Ap for that) So your wide range guesstimate was not too close. You remind me about the Chinese guy in San Francisco who pays for everything with yuan. He reviewed his hotel bill. The first day his lunch cost 100 yuan. On the second day 110 yuan and on the third, 120 yuan. He asked why the price was different even though he had the same thing every day. the manager looked at the bill and said "fluctuations. the Chinese guy said: "fluck you Amelicans." -- Peter |
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Another Photo-Journalist added to the roll of honor.
On 2011-01-29 13:33:05 -0800, Alan Browne
said: On 2011.01.29 13:00 , Savageduck wrote: On 2011-01-29 08:56:48 -0800, Alfred Molon said: There was an Iraq war video on wikileaks showing a US helicopter machine-gunning an AP photographer in Bahgdad. Apparently the guy on the helicopter mistook the camera of the photographer as an RPG device. Not nearly as bad as US Air Force F4 fighters strafing two US Coast The Iraq footage is much worse than that event. Non combatants were killed. It was one of the most disgusting displays of callousness I've ever seen. Worse is subjective. Callousness is your opinion. In combat the normal reaction is to neutralize a perceived threat, and sometimes that action has to be taken in a split second. It is not a movie, or TV, or a place for Monday morning quarterbacks. Have you ever been under fire in a combat situation? My little "meditation in green" was determined by a Selective Service number of #54 and a 1-A status. Footage is one thing the results of the event another. You are making a categorical judgement based on what you saw in the Iraq footage without any knowledge of the other event. When US. Coast Guard Cutters, flying the Stars & Stripes are shot up with multiple passes by USAF F4's with 20mm cannon, 5 inch Zuni rockets, & 2.75 ARA rockets with flechette (beehive) loads, you don't quantify the event. It was as bad for them as it was for the photographer in Iraq. One of the Cutters was sunk. The carnage continued with more strafing runs on victims in the water. The skipper of one cutter was beheaded by a rocket blast on the third pass while he tried to signal recognition codes and stop the attack. The F4's made 8 runs and a B-57, which had started the whole thing, dropped a string of cluster bombs on them. Page was lucky to survive with shrapnel wounds to his arm, a flechette penetration of his cheek, nose, and orbit of his left eye, a flechette wound in the small of his back and a shrapnel slash to his inner thigh. The executive officer lost both arms and a foot. There were several other wounded. Four other crew and a Vietnamese interpreter were killed When you are being killed it doesn't matter much if you are a non-combatant, or not, when you are being killed by your own side. ....and Page was a non-combatant photographer. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Another Photo-Journalist added to the roll of honor.
On 1/29/2011 12:49 PM Savageduck spake thus:
On 2011-01-29 11:09:09 -0800, David Nebenzahl said: On 1/29/2011 6:41 AM Bowser spake thus: On 1/29/2011 3:10 AM, David Nebenzahl wrote: On 1/28/2011 10:56 PM Rich spake thus: On Jan 28, 4:39 pm, Savageduck wrote: French photo-journalist Lucas Mebrouk Dolega 32, dies after being hit in the head by a police fired tear gas grenade in Tunis while covering the disturbances in Tunis for Paris Match. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/0...-lucas-mebrouk... Maybe like hockey players did, one day they'll finally start wearing protective helmets during riots in violent, Third World ratholes? Even a bike helmet would have saved the guy. I'm sure Tunisians would love to hear their country referred to that way ... but of course, who cares about them? Their lives aren't worth as much as ours are. That's true. But what's the exchange rate? Pretty easily calculated, using news stories in the MSM and their relative ranking (i.e., page placement in the newspaper, etc.). I figure it's somewhere in the neighborhood of 50:1 to 100:1. As of 09:45AM, 1/29/2011, 1.41 Tunisian Dinar = $1US = €0.74 (...er, there's an Ap for that) So your wide range guesstimate was not too close. So what does the currency exchange rate have to do with it? I think you may have missed my point here, which is the "value" of human life. -- Comment on quaint Usenet customs, from Usenet: To me, the *plonk...* reminds me of the old man at the public hearing who stands to make his point, then removes his hearing aid as a sign that he is not going to hear any rebuttals. |
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Another Photo-Journalist added to the roll of honor.
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:22:29 -0500, peter
wrote: : On 1/28/2011 4:39 PM, Savageduck wrote: : : French photo-journalist Lucas Mebrouk Dolega 32, dies after being hit in : the head by a police fired tear gas grenade in Tunis while covering the : disturbances in Tunis for Paris Match. : : http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/0...ouk-dolega-32/ : : : Those guys put as much on the line, with less backup than the bravest of : troops. I have nothing but admiration for them. And now photographers, probably including some of the same ones, are taking similar risks to bring us the truth about what's happening in Egypt. The U.S. is being begged and cajoled to take on a major role in helping rid Egypt of Hosni Mubarak. We won't, of course. For nearly two generations American policy in the Middle East has been dictated almost exclusively by Israel, and Mubarak is as close to a friend as Israel has in the Arab world. But at least Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are saying some of the right things, calling on Mubarak to reform his government and stop trying to crush the protests. That's as much as we can expect; and quite frankly, most Americans don't know what course of action would lead to a good outcome in Egypt. All we know for sure is that whenever we try to throw our weight around, things seem to get worse for whomever we're trying to help. As for what our attitude would be in the best of all possible worlds, I prefer this excerpt from our declaration of independence from Great Britain in 1776: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its power in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." If only. Bob |
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Another Photo-Journalist added to the roll of honor.
On 2011-01-29 17:01:13 -0800, David Nebenzahl said:
On 1/29/2011 12:49 PM Savageduck spake thus: On 2011-01-29 11:09:09 -0800, David Nebenzahl said: On 1/29/2011 6:41 AM Bowser spake thus: On 1/29/2011 3:10 AM, David Nebenzahl wrote: On 1/28/2011 10:56 PM Rich spake thus: On Jan 28, 4:39 pm, Savageduck wrote: French photo-journalist Lucas Mebrouk Dolega 32, dies after being hit in the head by a police fired tear gas grenade in Tunis while covering the disturbances in Tunis for Paris Match. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/0...-lucas-mebrouk... Maybe like hockey players did, one day they'll finally start wearing protective helmets during riots in violent, Third World ratholes? Even a bike helmet would have saved the guy. I'm sure Tunisians would love to hear their country referred to that way ... but of course, who cares about them? Their lives aren't worth as much as ours are. That's true. But what's the exchange rate? Pretty easily calculated, using news stories in the MSM and their relative ranking (i.e., page placement in the newspaper, etc.). I figure it's somewhere in the neighborhood of 50:1 to 100:1. As of 09:45AM, 1/29/2011, 1.41 Tunisian Dinar = $1US = €0.74 (...er, there's an Ap for that) So your wide range guesstimate was not too close. So what does the currency exchange rate have to do with it? I think you may have missed my point here, which is the "value" of human life. For me still 1:1. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Another Photo-Journalist added to the roll of honor.
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:27:32 -0800, Savageduck
wrote: On 2011-01-29 13:33:05 -0800, Alan Browne said: On 2011.01.29 13:00 , Savageduck wrote: On 2011-01-29 08:56:48 -0800, Alfred Molon said: There was an Iraq war video on wikileaks showing a US helicopter machine-gunning an AP photographer in Bahgdad. Apparently the guy on the helicopter mistook the camera of the photographer as an RPG device. Not nearly as bad as US Air Force F4 fighters strafing two US Coast The Iraq footage is much worse than that event. Non combatants were killed. It was one of the most disgusting displays of callousness I've ever seen. Worse is subjective. Me, I'm wondering how they tell the "non-combatants" from the suicide bombers. I guess if you check the body and don't find an explosive vest under the civilian clothes, it's a non-combatant. Or, if it's a civilian who has already planted and covered up an IED he or she reverts to non-combatant status. The suicide bomber who killed 52 Iraqis in Tikrit in January managed to leave a pretty disgusting display of callousness. -- Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida |
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Another Photo-Journalist added to the roll of honor.
Savageduck wrote:
For me still 1:1. Yes. If, "All men are created equal", that's a pretty good ratio. |
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Another Photo-Journalist added to the roll of honor.
On 1/29/2011 5:51 PM Savageduck spake thus:
On 2011-01-29 17:01:13 -0800, David Nebenzahl said: On 1/29/2011 12:49 PM Savageduck spake thus: On 2011-01-29 11:09:09 -0800, David Nebenzahl said: On 1/29/2011 6:41 AM Bowser spake thus: On 1/29/2011 3:10 AM, David Nebenzahl wrote: On 1/28/2011 10:56 PM Rich spake thus: On Jan 28, 4:39 pm, Savageduck wrote: French photo-journalist Lucas Mebrouk Dolega 32, dies after being hit in the head by a police fired tear gas grenade in Tunis while covering the disturbances in Tunis for Paris Match. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/0...-lucas-mebrouk... Maybe like hockey players did, one day they'll finally start wearing protective helmets during riots in violent, Third World ratholes? Even a bike helmet would have saved the guy. I'm sure Tunisians would love to hear their country referred to that way ... but of course, who cares about them? Their lives aren't worth as much as ours are. That's true. But what's the exchange rate? Pretty easily calculated, using news stories in the MSM and their relative ranking (i.e., page placement in the newspaper, etc.). I figure it's somewhere in the neighborhood of 50:1 to 100:1. As of 09:45AM, 1/29/2011, 1.41 Tunisian Dinar = $1US = €0.74 (...er, there's an Ap for that) So your wide range guesstimate was not too close. So what does the currency exchange rate have to do with it? I think you may have missed my point here, which is the "value" of human life. For me still 1:1. Again, you miss my point. For me it's 1:1 too. But that's not the conclusion any Martian would come to if they were to come down to Earth and observe the relative worth placed on American lives and non-American lives in the US. Evidence? Just watch the news or read a newspaper ... -- Comment on quaint Usenet customs, from Usenet: To me, the *plonk...* reminds me of the old man at the public hearing who stands to make his point, then removes his hearing aid as a sign that he is not going to hear any rebuttals. |
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Another Photo-Journalist added to the roll of honor.
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 19:28:27 -0800, David Nebenzahl
wrote: : On 1/29/2011 5:51 PM Savageduck spake thus: : : On 2011-01-29 17:01:13 -0800, David Nebenzahl said: : : On 1/29/2011 12:49 PM Savageduck spake thus: : : On 2011-01-29 11:09:09 -0800, David Nebenzahl said: : : On 1/29/2011 6:41 AM Bowser spake thus: : : On 1/29/2011 3:10 AM, David Nebenzahl wrote: : : On 1/28/2011 10:56 PM Rich spake thus: : : On Jan 28, 4:39 pm, Savageduck wrote: : : French photo-journalist Lucas Mebrouk Dolega 32, dies after : being hit in the head by a police fired tear gas grenade in : Tunis while covering the disturbances in Tunis for Paris Match. : http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/0...-lucas-mebrouk... : : Maybe like hockey players did, one day they'll finally start : wearing protective helmets during riots in violent, Third World : ratholes? Even a bike helmet would have saved the guy. : : I'm sure Tunisians would love to hear their country referred to : that way ... but of course, who cares about them? Their lives : aren't worth as much as ours are. : : That's true. But what's the exchange rate? : : Pretty easily calculated, using news stories in the MSM and their : relative ranking (i.e., page placement in the newspaper, etc.). : : I figure it's somewhere in the neighborhood of 50:1 to 100:1. : : As of 09:45AM, 1/29/2011, 1.41 Tunisian Dinar = $1US = €0.74 : (...er, there's an Ap for that) : : So your wide range guesstimate was not too close. : : So what does the currency exchange rate have to do with it? I think you : may have missed my point here, which is the "value" of human life. : : For me still 1:1. : : Again, you miss my point. : : For me it's 1:1 too. But that's not the conclusion any Martian would : come to if they were to come down to Earth and observe the relative : worth placed on American lives and non-American lives in the US. : Evidence? Just watch the news or read a newspaper ... Actually, I'd bet money that I watch the news and read a newspaper just as much as you do. And I think you're full of ****. Bob |
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