That photo by Carlos Barrias [Reuters] of President and First Lady Trump looked a bit odd to me, because within seconds of that photo, Melania Trump dropped 30 pounds.
Reuters has a history of photojournalistic malfeasance.
Carlos Barrias’ Reuters bio includes this gem:
“I was very moved after covering the earthquake in Haiti. I was one of the first journalists from Reuters to arrive, and I was there for about 45 days. It was long and tough. You can see human beings at their most basic instinct for survival.
It was a very weird feeling in Haiti because I know I was there doing my job, and I would like to feel that our job means something for people, but at the same time I felt powerless. What do you say when a kid comes to you and asks you for water and food, and you have nothing but a camera? I couldn’t answer that question, and I felt frustrated that I couldn’t do anything.”
[Confidential to @ReutersBarria: I don’t know you, never met you, but you’re full of sanctimonious crap. You were in Haiti for 45 days without food or water? Sure you were. Please click on this. The first 50 seconds are just for you.]
Tags: fraud, photo manipulation, photojournalism, Politics, Progressives, Propaganda, Reuters
morning y’all
smile and be happy
strike fear into the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere
The Morning Report – 07/9/19
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=382177
well this should be fun
https://www.oann.com/president-trump-to-hold-social-media-summit/
Good catch bunk. Thx!
I gotta get to bed, 16 hour night shift hurts…bad.
Rain delay at Old Trafford..
I dont think NZ will pull this off against India.
heh
Trump should counter Team Garbage Girls’s obnoxious plan to snub America and visit the DC Democrats by inviting to the WH America’s real team, the FC Dallas under-15 boys who beat them. And he should give each teen victor a flag.#caring
The judge has told the WH they can’t change the legal team working on the census case
but it’s not rigged or anything……………..
quote of the f-ing day
from ace of spades
“Twitter is a place where the mentally ill show off their Mental Illness Merit Badges.”
coldwarrior wrote:
Neither do I.
Still it ain’t over until it’s over!
🙂
Look there another flying pig joining the circuit!
🙂
Bunk posted the nipple pictures!
heh
Sen. Mitch McConnell on the NBC report that his great-great grandfathers owned slaves:
“You know, I find myself in the same position as president Obama. We both oppose reparations and we both are the descendants of slave owners.”
Read the text carefully and it seems cadets were tasked to climb as far up the 55ft rock wall as they could.
https://futurearmyofficers.army.mil/2019/07/09/motivating-climb/
Now, someone I know made it all the way to the top.
41,000 YEARS?? What the hell is the upper limit?
Nemotodes survive 41k years in permafrost
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/ancient-life-awakens-amid-thawing-ice-caps-and-permafrost
It is estimated that more than a million of bushels of human and inhuman bones were imported last year from the continent of Europe into the port of Hull. The neighbourhood of Leipsic, Austerlitz, Waterloo, and of all the places where, during the late bloody war, the principal battles were fought, have been swept alike of the bones of the hero and of the horse which he rode. Thus collected from every quarter, they have been shipped to the port of Hull, and thence forwarded to the Yorkshire bone grinders, who have erected steam-engines and powerful machinery, for the purpose of reducing them to a granulary state. In this condition they are sent chiefly to Doncaster, one of the largest agricultural markets in that part of the country, and are there sold to the farmers to manure their lands. The oily substance, gradually evolving as the bone calcines, makes a more substantial manure than almost any other substance, particularly human bones. It is now ascertained beyond a doubt, by actual experiment upon an extensive scale, that a dead soldier is a most valuable article of commerce; and, for ought known to the contrary, the good farmers of Yorkshire are, in a great measure, indebted to the bones of their children for their daily bread. It is certainly a singular fact, that Great Britain should have sent out such multitudes of soldiers to fight the battles of this country upon the continent of Europe, and should then import their bones as an article of commerce to fatten her soil! (10)
https://shannonselin.com/2016/07/napoleonic-battlefield-cleanup/
Some interesting history at that site
Is this a great country or what.
https://youtu.be/CjY0mm-xiLY
@ eaglesoars:
THAW THE NEMATODES!
THAW THE NEMATODES! EVERYBODY!
THAW THE NEMATODES!
Bunk X wrote:
my worst nightmare – they find spiders.
Anybody wanna figure this one out?
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein shipped a shredder from the Virgin Islands to Palm Beach in 2008, shortly after reaching a non-prosecution agreement. Then, in March of this year, Epstein shipped a tile/carpet extractor from the Virgin Islands to his Manhattan home
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1148776004195946496
Well, this is what the ChiComs have been stealing
carrier-based, stealth drones
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-09/mysterious-flying-wing-stealth-drone-makes-appearance-chinese-promo-video-photo
I picked the wrong life to stop drinking.
bed time, nite
@ eaglesoars:
Worms? Just don’t eat them.
The Diet of Worms 1521 was an imperial diet (assembly) of the Holy Roman Empire called by King Charles V.
In our One More Thing Dept
So the other day Border Patrol had a huge cocaine bust on a ship in port – over 20,000 pounds – and guess who owns the boat?
JP Morgan
wha?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-09/us-authorities-seize-jp-morgan-owned-container-ship-used-13-billion-cocaine-bust
Also, Bill Barr’s dad was CIA
coldwarrior wrote:
With rain in the air and winning the toss, Williamson does the unspeakable and BATS FIRST!
What was the man thinking?
Blind harry could tell that in those conditions, especially with a brittle batting line up and two openers who are totally out of form, you just HAVE to BAT FIRST! With five wickets in hand and just 29 balls left in the innings, 250-260 would be possible as long as the Indians don’t get into the tail enders. 260 is just NOT ENOUGH of a target defend in a World Cup. Even if the weather intrudes again and they go all Duckworth Rules the Indians have got the batting firepower to finish this quickly.
With have of the NZ team of also-rans who are passed their prime the selectors need to be looking for jobs that include the phrase… “do you want fries with that?”
Sheesh!
WQilliamson is a class batsman and normally a steady Captain but on occasion he makes a crazy decision totally out of left field!
#&$%@&*
🙂
Possum wrote:
The most dangerous thing on a battlefield is an officer (cadet) with a map and compass!
🙂
Especially when you hear the phrase… “Hmmm well in that case where do you think we are?”
🙂
This particular cadet we all know and love was placed in front of a 55 foot tall climbing wall and the objective was to climb up as far you feel comfortable with.
Objective, and test was NOT to climb to the top.
Cadet we all know and love ignored orders.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Map and compass is tomorrow I think.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Dad was with 25th ID, 13th artillery, back in the late 60s and could confirm that. Some funny stories, some not so funny.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
This particular cadet I would trust with my life.
more heh
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/07/09/aoc-sued-blocking-people-twitter/
@ Possum:
That’s nice. I would still trust the senior NCO even after the cadet gets commissioned.
NZ beat mighty India!!!!
From Armstrong, how corporations buy creative energy inventions to prevent innovation How the news lies.
“In Tokyo, a man came to me with a magnetic engine. He wanted me to help him and take it public. He left me a scooter and told me to test it out. You plugged it in once and thereafter it self-generated power and did not need to be plugged in again. I was skeptical at first. I asked him why he was coming to me? He said he had been to all the top auto manufacturers and everyone wanted to buy it. He was offered $50 million and turned it down not because he wanted more, but because they wanted to shelve it so it would not see the light of day. That was another project they ensured was killed in my affair.
Make no mistake about it. There are those who lie awake at night trying to figure out a way to silence me. They do not want a computer that can forecast things they do not want the people to know. Think about it. In reality, how a politician even runs for office promising to fix the economy when we live in a world that is so interconnected. The implication of what Socrates actually does is far-reaching politically. This not about buying and selling trade recommendations. This is about fundamental change. There are those who want me silenced for they then see it as if I did not speak, then the trend would not happen. That is absurd. The CFTC accused me of manipulating the world economy because, in their distorted mind, I said the stock market would rally to new highs in 2010 when nobody else did and because I was correct, that meant more people listened to me and that is why it happened. That is really absurd. But people in power view they can lie to the public and thereby they manipulate the future so they applied the same theory to me.
When Barron’s reported that forecast of new high back 2010, they published it as a joke. They never again reported our forecasts and they certainly never called to even ask why was it correct. There is so much fake news you will never see the truth. Take Bloomberg. Why will they never publish real articles on corruption and how the banks walk on water never prosecuted? When the bulk of their clients are the institutions who buy their terminals, it would not make good business sense to talk negatively about the people who you rely on for your income.
This is the sad state of fake news. They will NEVER speak ill of the system. It will never happen. They are NOT there to tell you the truth. They are there to sell you advertising.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
😆
shows yinz that we don’t know diddly!
After acclaimed performances in “Cross Creek,” ″Sweet Bird of Youth” and other dramas, Torn turned to comedy to capture his Emmy as the bombastic, ethically challenged television producer in “The Larry Sanders Show.” Created by and starring Garry Shandling, HBO’s spoof of TV talk shows aired from 1992 to 1998 and is widely credited with inspiring such satirical programs as “30 Rock” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”
Born Elmore Rual Torn, the actor adopted the name Rip in his boyhood, following the tradition of his father and uncle. It was the subject of endless ridicule during his early days as a stage actor in New York, and fellow drama students urged him to change it.
With customary stubbornness, he refused, eventually overcoming the jokes with a series of powerful performances that led to his being regarded, along with Marlon Brando, Paul Newman and James Dean, as actors of a postwar generation who brought tense realism to their craft. He was also a political activist who joined James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte and other cultural and civil rights leaders for a frank and emotional 1963 meeting with then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy about the country’s treatment of blacks.
Rip Torn…RIP, Rip.
he has the greatest actor name ever.
Now in France you can press “hate” on all social media with a single alert button. Given French attitudes, my magic eight ball says ‘back
fire’. It will piss off the left if anybody complains about them.
http://www.unz.com/gdurocher/dark-days-in-france/
@ coldwarrior:
Rip Torn was a great actor. Those were the days when the movie studios didn’t want their actors to be political. Now you are blackballed if you are quietly conservative. James Woods had his Hollywood agent, a man he’d worked with for many years, fire him. The agent apologized and said that his other actors pressured him to do it or they would leave. The tolerant left will cost you your job in Soviet Hollywood. Woods has no trouble finding work. Besides, he says he bought Apple stock early. 🙂
@ yenta-fada:
{{{yenta}}}
A storm swamped New Orleans streets and paralyzed traffic Wednesday as concerns grew that even worse weather was on the way: a possible hurricane that could strike the Gulf Coast and raise the Mississippi River to the brim of the city’s protective levees.
When the Levee Breaks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwiTs60VoTM
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT02/refresh/AL022019_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind+png/143913_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind.png
crying won’t help ya, praying won’t do ya no good
yenta-fada wrote:
reasons I wish I were a hacker = # 1
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/07/10/michael-moores-tribute-to-rashida-tlaib-is-totally-normal-and-not-at-all-creepy-video/
@ Twitchy
You have got to hear this poetic homage to Rashida Talib by Michael Moore.
I don’t even want to tell ya.
Louisiana is going to get hit by what may be a hurricane by the time it makes landfall. Vermillion parish is under a (voluntary for now) evac order. At best, New Orleans is in for another bad flood. A couple days out, keep an eye peeled.
https://www.klfy.com/tracking-the-tropics/tropical-depression-expected-to-form-in-gulf-today-or-tomorrow-impacts-possible-for-acadiana/
@ RIX:
sorry, I got 21 secs in and started laughing………..leaps police barricades in a single bound……
sorry Mike, yer still not getting laid………..
coldwarrior wrote:
Un-F**king believable.
And I missed it!
Ahhhh !
Apparently at the beginning it was 3 for 5 runs or something. Boult must have eaten raw steak for breakfast!
As ever the Kiwi openers went for bugger all …. again.
Guptill MUST statistically in line for a BIG score soon. Pleeeease make it in the final against either England or Australia.
As you intoned…. whaaaat would we know?
🙂
HEH!
The gutters of New Delhi must be awash with blood from slashed wrists! They take their cricket VERY seriously there.
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
Choking down this rather underdone humble pie. Garkkk
🙂
What the hell do I know?
🙂
RIX wrote:
You have to ask yourself why he keeps looking down at his notes to deliver that ‘speech’. He even turns a page. He could check his watch instead…
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s unbelievable.
yenta-fada wrote:
Lot’s of questions about Michael Moore, like why is there a Michael Moore?
@ Aussie Infidel:
A brilliant innings by NZ on the defense.
Historic!
@ Aussie Infidel:
India is in mourning…that side is the best in the world.
I fear England v Aussies tomorrow is the real final.
Can NZ beat either of them?
@ rain of lead:
We’ve been sending down huge amounts of water from the Ohio river.
It’s been insane rain here
@ yenta-fada:
Shut up and act…as it were
eaglesoars wrote:
Besides, she’s already taken. At least twice — and at the same time.
@ AZfederalist:
BOO HISS!!
RIX wrote:
And he’s so stupid he doesn’t realize that she’d be the first to feed him to the starving and rioting masses.
coldwarrior wrote:
I seriously doubt it, but that’s what I said about NZ India.
What the f**k do I know?
🙂
Either way I personally can’t lose. The cricket is riveting viewing.
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Guptil 1-14 is just wrong.
Sorry, I could do that
I’m rewatching the highlights.
India had a 4.8 need run rate to win. Heroic work from NZ
The opening 3 overs of NZ bowling was crucial
@ Aussie Infidel:
I’ve rewatched NZ opening 3 overs bowling 5 times.
Master class.
This was key.
@ Aussie Infidel:
That was an ODI for the ages.
@ Possum:
There was an article in UNSI’s Proceedings about physical fitness vs. survival.
In WWII, those who were most fit, the biggest and strongest, were the first to succumb after capture. They didn’t have enough body fat to survive starvation.
Same was noticed decades earlier during the War Between The States.
@ rain of lead:
https://youtu.be/swhEa8vuP6U
@ Bunk X:
This is also evident in ICU survival rates, esp with trauma
coldwarrior wrote:
There is absolutely nothing but chaos about the Kiwi bowlers. It’s the up and down form of the batsmen that is the real worry. With the exception of Williamson who always gives es a captain’s knock, the rest are patchy and playing with batsmen like that is akin to playing with a cigarette lighter in a powder store. Most times it ends badly with the odd occasion where you run out of flints and survive. The Black Caps have been OK for almost the whole World Cup. OK but never really setting the globe on fire. They have every time just scrapped enough together when needed top win.
Supporting a team like this plays hell with the nerves!
🙂
Guptill HAS to get his shit together in the Final! If he does then the Kiwis are capable of actually bringing this one home.
chaos = CLASS
Well chaos …… too if you’re on the receiving end of a Boult lightning bolt!
🙂
morning y’all
You insult half your audience — you lose half your audience!
Great job, ladies!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/07/nice-work-rapinoe-us-soccer-final-viewership-down-by-almost-half-thanks-to-trump-bashing-anthem-protesting-national-team/
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Well, at least he’d be useful
morning, rain!
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2019/07/10/nyt-whats-mystery-behind-sharp-drop-arrivals-southern-border/
Quote
So here we have the captain of the American women’s soccer team reluctant to sing the national anthem. Do you know what I think this babe may be angling for? Kaepernick. She wants a Kaepernick deal with Nike. Damn straight. She’s angling for a Kaepernick. She’s showing Nike she can be just as anti-American as Kaepernick. Give me a chance. Let me do the LGBTQ angle of Kaepernick.Rush Limbaugh
quote
“The world is not sliding, but galloping into a new transnational dystopia. This development has not been properly recognized outside of national security circles. It has been hidden by secrecy, complexity and scale. The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a threat to human civilization. Julian Assange
new thread
@ rain of lead:
@ rain of lead:
i despise soccer with the very core of my being. it is a sport for the poor played by sissies and supported by socialists.
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2014/06/25/on-soccer/
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2013/12/02/sports-the-american-male-and-recombinating-dna/
aaaaand I’m back
shocked face
I haz one
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pg-e-knew-for-years-its-lines-could-spark-wildfires-and-didnt-fix-them-11562768885
paywall 🙁
damn
Trump said: I’m hereby ordering every department and agency in the federal government to provide the Department of Commerce with all requested records regarding the number of citizens and non-citizens in our country. They must furnish all legally accessible records in their possession immediately.
that’s gonna fuck some people up