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Nick Wadhams / Associated Press:
U.S., France OK U.N. Mideast truce pact — UNITED NATIONS - The United States and France agreed Saturday on a draft U.N. Security Council resolution that calls for an end to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah but would allow Israel to defend itself if attacked, officials said.
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Richard / EU Referendum:
Qana - the director's cut — I have called this post, "the director's cut", as that is what it is. The narrative here is of how the combination of Hezbollah's media management and modern photo-journalism has turned the recording of a tragic event into theatre, in the best tradition of Michael Moore.
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Say Anything, The American Thinker, Ace of Spades HQ, Natalie Solent, Macsmind and The Volokh Conspiracy
Benjamin Harvey / Toronto Star:
Hezbollah equipped like the `Syrian or Iranian army' — Israel's enemy is no ragtag militia Anti-tank missiles proving deadly — JERUSALEM—Hezbollah's sophisticated anti-tank missiles are perhaps its deadliest weapon in the fighting in Lebanon, with their ability to pierce Israel's most advanced tanks.
Ynetnews:
Tyre raid 'heroic operation' — (VIDEO) Senior Navy official describes details of 13th Flotilla's overnight raid on Tyre, which targeted the Hizbullah terror cell responsible for Friday rocket attack on Hadera. IDF's message of deterrence: Long-range fire into Israel will incur immediate consequences
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:France, US Agree On Cease-Fire Formulation
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Atlas Shrugs, Vital Perspective, Democracy Project, A Blog For All and Right Wing Nut House
Daniel Levy / Haaretz:Ending the neoconservative nightmare
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The Huffington Post, The Mahablog, David Corn, Middle Earth Journal, Amygdala and The Belgravia Dispatch
Little Green Footballs:
Reuters Doctoring Photos from Beirut? — OK, now things are getting weird. — This Reuters photograph shows blatant evidence of manipulation. Notice the repeating patterns in the smoke; this is almost certainly caused by using the Photoshop "clone" tool to add more smoke to the image.
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WILLisms.com
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Rob / Left & Right:
Reuters faking photos — Notice how the pattern repeats in the cloud at the top? — That's not the only thing that repeats: — The top red square is just a copy/paste of the lower. — The photo has been doctored, quite badly.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
The worst photoshop I've ever seen (Update: More evidence) — Not the very worst, of course. The worst professional-grade photoshop, I mean. It is, as Charles asserts, laughably bad: — Half the time you spend when you use the clone-stamp tool is spent on undoing those repeating patterns to make the image look more realistic.
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Ace of Spades HQ
Dexter Filkins / New York Times:
Baghdad's Chaos Raises Questions on U.S. Plan — Over the past year, as American commanders pushed Iraqi forces to take over responsibility for this violent capital, Baghdad became a markedly more dangerous place. — Now the Americans are being forced to call in more of their own troops to bring the city under control.
New York Times:
Lieberman Reduces Effort to Get Out Vote — With only three days left to reverse the course of the Democratic primary race, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman is scaling back on the ambitious ground operation that his supporters had hoped would pull him past his challenger, Ned Lamont …
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New York Times:
Washington Deal Maker Details Palm Greasing — WASHINGTON — In 1992, Brent R. Wilkes rented a suite at the Hyatt Hotel a few blocks from the Capitol. In his briefcase was a stack of envelopes for a half-dozen congressmen, each packet containing up to $10,000 in checks.
BBC:
Mexico full poll recount rejected — Mexico's electoral body has rejected a request by left-wing candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for a full recount of votes from July's disputed election. — Instead, the electoral tribunal's seven judges ordered a partial recount.
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Anti-war, Anti-Israel, Anti-Joe — You fight the global war against jihadist Islam with the political parties you have. — We have two. One is the Republican party, led by George W. Bush. Its heart and mind are mostly in the right place. Its performance as a governing party in time of war is, admittedly, another matter.
Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
The Last Honest Man — Twenty-nine Democratic senators voted in the fall of 2002 to authorize the invasion of Iraq. There isn't enough room on this page to list the Democratic foreign policy experts and former officials, including those from the top ranks of the Clinton administration …
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David Sirota / Sirotablog:Neocon Icon Throws Temper Tantrum About Lieberman's Plight
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Decision '08
Anne E. Kornblut / New York Times:
Clinton Dodges Political Peril for War Vote — There was a time when Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's position on the Iraq war seemed to place her in the same political peril afflicting Senator Joseph I. Lieberman. — The senators, both Democrats, voted to authorize the military invasion …
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