“Over the past week the hashtag #GazaUnderAttack has been used hundreds of thousands of times, often to distribute pictures claiming to show the effects of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza.”
The hashtag has received 375,000 retweets in eight days.
“A #BBCtrending investigation has found that many of these images are not from the latest conflict and not even from Gaza. Some date as far back as 2009 and others are from conflicts in Syria and Iraq,” the report said.
Those Moderate Muslims!
BCF: Muslim working for Homeland Security re-sues Experts Who Exposed His Terror Ties
Related: Religion of Peace Update for the month of June.
More Pavilions At Folkfest
Renegade Regulator
As widgets go, this was a big one, it arrived on a pallet, tied down with steel strapping. The product was thoroughly tested by a man named Mustafa and the widget failed all of its safety tests. The [Canadian Standards Ass’n0 sent the product back to the manufacturer for modification.
So far, so good. The manufacturer was pretty big, nearly as big as their widget, and the steel strapping that they used was company branded. That is, their company name was printed on the strapping…
This is just astonishing.
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
The state’s environmental fanatics over thirty years ago cancelled the critical tertiary phases of the California Water Project and the federal Central Valley Project. I guess those in the Bay Area whose lives rest on Hetch Hetchy delivered reservoir water deemed reservoirs for all others passé and so 19th century.
The result is that a brilliantly engineered water transfer system — 80% of Californians live where 20% of the state’s rain and snow fall — designed to incrementally expand as population grew, became frozen in amber. We had a wonderful water storage system for 23 million people in 1980. But it proved completely inadequate for the 40 million plus of 2014, who assumed household and drinking water, irrigation supplies, and clean hydroelectric power came out of thin air.
h/t Maz2
Name That Party!
On corruption charges – Ex-New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin sentenced to 10 years. More here.
(h/t Kevin B)
Reader Tips
Tonight we span the globe to bring you Paris-born chanteuse Françoise Hardy, as she floats alone in her pajamas through the urban ether singing the English language version of her romantic, melancholy ballad Dans le monde entier.
The comments are open, as always for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Apparently the course instructions were written in English.
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
And I do mean “hitchhikers”. (h/t Tom)
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
No one has ever found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Not ever. And certainly, not now.
Best Caption?
Seen at the Literati Cafe in Los Angeles.
“Manitoba” – Old Indian Word Meaning “Flood Plain”
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Global News, July 8th – Climate change will force Manitoba to continue the flood fight in years to come, Emergency Measures Minister Steve Ashton said Tuesday.
Brandon Sun, July 8th – On June 19, 1881, he wrote, “the water started to rise suddenly. The Indians said it had never happened before and that the high water was usually in April.”
h/t Mike W.
Wild Rose Country
To think they were this close to getting the word “Alberta” scrubbed.
h/t James Mac
Operation Empty Chair
Hans Blix – call your office: Iraq Informs UN That “Terrorists” Have Seized a Major Iraqi Chemical/Nerve Agent Weapons Storage Facility
Vicarious Tolerance
This “conspicuous forgiveness,” a kind of vicarious tolerance, can be quite striking in its boldness and disregard for facts, with acts of savagery being met with improbable excuses and rhetorical diversions. Generally from a safe distance. In 2011, following the London riots, China Miéville, a middle-class Marxist and member of the International Socialist Organisation, claimed to be “horrified” that members of the press and public had used the word feral when describing the career predators and assorted thugs who, seeking excitement and a sense of power, had beaten passing pensioners unconscious and burned random women out of their homes. And who, on the arrival of firefighters, had dragged them from their vehicles and punched them insensible.
To use the word feral when describing such people was, Mr Miéville said, our “moral degradation far more than [theirs].” You see, by referring to such behaviour as savage and anti-social, we are the degraded ones in Mr Miéville’s eyes, the ones in need of chastisement.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
The Star is reporting about Rob Ford's time in rehab. Which is disgusting. Not becoming of Canadian journalism. http://t.co/g5bG1jTYMk
— Justin Ling (@Justin_Ling) July 9, 2014
Reader Tips
Tonight fellow Australians Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue sing Cave’s 1996 composition Where the Wild Roses Grow.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Wildrose begone
The Alberta Government has announced its intention to remove the wild rose from Alberta’s license plate and add the Government of Alberta website address.
Doug Griffiths, Minister of Service Alberta:
“Our current licence plate…lacks features to help make our roads and communities safer.”
h/t Jamie MacMaster
Those Moderate Muslims!
At least four Canadian MPs and possibly some senators appear to have been forced to huddle in a bomb shelter in Jerusalem Tuesday after Israeli Defence Forces sounded the alarm because of fears Hamas terrorists would send rockets into the capital.
B.C. Conservative Bob Zimmer, B.C. New Democrat Jasbir Sandhu, Manitoba Conservative Ted Falk and Newfoundland and Labrador Liberal Yvonne Jones were in Israel as guests of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA). It wasn’t immediately clear which Canadian senators were on the trip.
“America: Imagine the World Without Her”
On his latest podcast, Adam Carolla remarked about the great divide of the reviews of Dinesh D’Souza’s latest film, “America: Imagine the World Without Her”. At the moment they currently are as follows:
That’s a pretty wide gap between “top critics” and the public. It would make for an enlightening article to interview those professional film reviewers to get a sense of their lifelong voting patterns and their feelings about their country and its history. If the same questions were honestly answered by American journalists, would the results be very different?