Een stel patriottische webloggers uit Amerika heeft genoeg van het slechte nieuws uit Irak. Zij richtten de Alliance of Free Blogs op.
En roepen op om de verhalen van familieleden of vrienden die dienen in het amerikaanse leger in Irak of Afghanistan te publiceren op hun logs. Positieve verhalen uiteraard.
Yet, anytime I talk to one of our troops who has actually been in Iraq, the outlook is quite different. I hear how nice and thankful the Iraqi people are. I hear of all the progress that is being made. (The Alliance).
Jammer dat de amerikaanse soldaat Moja van het warlog Turning Tables eergisteren naar huis is gevlogen. Hij logde een paar maanden op bijna poëtische wijze over de vertwijfeling, de rotzooi en het leed in Irak. Maar op 23 september vloog hij in de buik van een C5, het grootste vrachtvliegtuig van het amerikaanse leger, naar huis:
as i climbed up the entrance ladder…i turned a took my last look at iraq…and i thought of river…and salam…my last 7 months…and the road ahead…my life waiting for me not so patiently in the states…
the plane starts rolling…i can feel the disorientation…my guts moving the wrong way…the plane looks like it is stationary…but i can feel the movement…it feels weird…there’s an exhilaration…and dramatic shift in inertia…a big angling…shaking…rattling…a thump…and it’s smooth sailing…air born…home free…
oh…never fear…there is more… (Turningtables.blogspot)
The picture on the right was taken by Richard Seaman ©,
although it had never been on our server we would like to thank Richard Seaman for taking this picture and sharing it with the rest of the world.
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Dus als ik het goed begrijp zijn Amerikaanse Bloggers een Jihad begonnen en misbruiken daarvoor op schaamteloze wijze hun spreekbuis om weerloze medestanders te ronselen. Die tactiek hebben ze vast van Osama Bin L. afgekeken…
Precies, en nog bedankt voor de logtip Bouvries!
Het is hard nodig dat de media in de VS worden aangepakt. Kijk maar wat Neil Cavuto van Fox News schrijft:
“I remember when I first started out as a print reporter, I covered a local school board hearing. It was fairly uneventful with the board at the time nearly unanimously voting for a new funding initiative to expand the local high school.
Yet when I watched TV coverage that same night — yes, this was a small market — the story was completely different. The reporter, who just dashed in and out of the meeting, mind you, focused on the one board member who opposed the funding.
Looking at that report, you’d think it was a big fight. But it was no such thing. I learned something then: The media often times gets it wrong. And now I think it’s getting this Iraq (search) thing wrong.
The media talks up a president in trouble there, but says nothing of his successes there: the shops doing business again, the residents worshiping again, the power and water returning again.
You’d think the U.S. is alone there. You’d never know there are 27 other countries with us there.
You’d think the whole world is laughing at us. But both Germany and Russia are more with us. It’s France that’s opposed to us. Why is that?
The French say it’s because we’re delaying democracy in Iraq. This from the same people who had not one lick of trouble selling stinger missiles to Iraq. The country that says free the Bedouins, had no problem dealing with a butcher, who liked to kill the Bedouins.
Beware people who say they’re on the side of good, yet have no trouble dealing with devils.
Beware reporting that those people represent all people, or all views.
Cover them, but for God’s sake, quit worshiping them.
I’m not saying, let’s get even. I am saying, let’s get real.
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Die bloggers hebben helemaal gelijk hoor. Iedereen is bevooroordeeld!
CARLOS,
IF YOU’RE GOING TO STEAL PHOTOS FROM PEOPLE’S WEBSITES, LIKE THE C5 GALAXY PHOTO YOU STOLE FROM MY WEBSITE, THEN PLEASE HAVE THE DECENCY TO AT LEAST GIVEN THE OWNER CREDIT FOR THE PHOTO.
RICHARD SEAMAN
RICHARD,
IF PEOPLE ARE NICE ENOUGH TO DISTRIBUTE AND PUBLISH YOUR PHOTOS ON THE INTERNET SO THAT OTHERS CAN ENJOY THEM AS WELL, PLEASE HAVE THE DECENCY TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE PERSON, IN THIS CASE CARLOS, FOR THEIR TIME AND EFFORT
JAN DES BOUVRIE
P.S. IF YOU DON’T WANT TO HAVE YOUR PHOTOS DISTRIBUTED THEN DON’T PUT THEM ON THE NET!
RICHARD,
PEOPLE WHO TALK TO ME IN CAPSLOCK I DON’T CONSIDER AS DECENT. PLEASE GROW UP AND TRY TO ACCEPT THE REALITY OF CYBERSPACE.
YOUR OPINION IS SOOOOO 1998
CARLOS.
RIGHT ON, CARLOS!
JAN DES BOUVRIE
You’re a real hypocrite, aren’t you Carlos? In your copyright notice you tell other people to give credit to the original author, but you don’t do it for other people:
“Sargasso permits others to copy, distribute and display the work. In return, licensees must give the original author credit.”
You now have my photo stored on your server, even though I have a copyright notice on my website:
“Our images are included from other sites, and not stored on our server, unless they are copyright free.”
I’m sure this is total bullshit, too, like the rest of your website:
“If -by accident- a copyrighted image has been used by mistake and you want us to remove it, please email us at [email protected] to inform us, and action will be taken.”
Dear Mr. Seaman,
I am glad you found your CAPSLOCK button, makes you look a bit less hostile. In the past two years of the existence this blog we never (ever!)encountered a person complaining about temporarily borrowing their pictures.
When I look for appropriate illustrations I browse Google and I am not going read the concerning websites in detail.
Being just one of the bloggers of Sargasso I don’t have access to [email protected] so I don’t know if you sent anything to this address.
The whole copyright text on your website breaths aggressiveness, which astonishes me because you were born on a peacefull island? I looks like you have blown up this copyright crusade a little too much. I can understand your bandwith problem, however I never borrow large images. If you had asked it in a friendlier way you probably wouldn’t get reactions like you have seen. Because our disclaimer isn’t bullshit and we are reasonable people.
The picture currently displayed on Sargasso is from Google:
http://images.google.nl/images?q=tbn:pYhqwawPugQC:www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/C5Banking35DegreesLeftFrom11oClockThumbnail.jpg
blame Google…
Good luck with your Crusade.
Do you have a lot of friends mr Seaman?
I guess not…
@Seaman: If you proudly display your photographs on the net, you should be happy that others like them so much that they are willing to use them and link to them.
But no: you apparently have a full time job searching the web for people who have used your pictures. What a sad life you must have…
@Richard: I just took a look at your site and you even have instructions there about how I can use your photo’s as wallpaper on my computer.
“A wallpaper photo allows you to set up the photograph on your computer monitor as “wallpaper” so that it’s always there in the background.
Yet you don’t want people to download or use them on their computers. Strange….
Disclaimer and copyright notice: the above sentence in italics was literaly taken from the website of Richard Seaman. To avoid any copyright claims by Richard Seaman, I hereby acknowledge Richard Seaman for the construction of the above sentence as well as the choice for the individual words used in said sentence