Clipmarks | Vietnam ClipsBird Flu Dies in Our Cold Nosesclipped by: tabseyclippers remarks: So the people who got it have warm noses? or are they all women suffering the hot flushes of mid age? The H1N1 "swine flu" virus is spreading rapidly worldwide, but scientists have puzzled in recent years over why the H5N1 bird flu thus far has yet to do the same. Now a new study blames our cold noses. Avian influenza viruses do not thrive in humans because the temperature inside a persons nose is too low, according to research published May 14 in the journal PLoS Pathogens. Meanwhile here are the latest H5N1 bird flu stats from the World Health Organization: human cases have been reported in six countries, most of which are in Asia ? Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Thailand, Turkey, and Vietnam. There are 424 lab-confirmed cases of bird flu, with 261 deaths worldwide. The first patients in the current outbreak, which were reported from Vietnam, developed symptoms in December 2003 but were not confirmed as H5N1 infection until early 2004. Health officials initially warned that bird flu could become a pandemic. And it still could 34 countries have officially reported 7,520 cases Tags: medical Iconic Photos by Vietnam War photographer, Van Es, RIPclipped by: ratcatcher2clippers remarks: Van Es also covered the Moro Rebellion in the Philippines and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He attempted to return to Vietnam but was not able to do so until 1990. Upon his return to Vietnam, while visiting the countryside, he was quoted as remarking: "It [Vietnam] hasnt really changed since I was last here; but our photos changed the views of those who were lucky enough not to witness this terrible war."
 VIETNAM OUT TO GO WITH "VIETNAM-US-WAR-ANNIVERSARY"  VIETNAM WAR-25TH ANNIVERSARY: UH-1D helicopters airlift  VIETNAM WAR-25TH ANNIVERSARY: A US Marine walks through a gully saturated with punji sticks  DCV32 - 19680206 - UNKNOWN  The lst fights in april near Saigon.  South Vietnamese Navy operation 60 kms south west of Saigon  VIETNAM WAR- 25TH ANNIVERSARY: Operation ¶Oregon¨ a search and destroy mission  VIETNAM WAR-25TH ANNIVERSARY: A Viet Cong prisoner awaits interrogation Hubert van Es was a Dutch photographer who took the well-known photo on 29 April 1975, which shows South Vietnamese civilians scrambling to board a CIA Air America helicopter during the U.S. evacuation of Saigon On 15 May 2009, van Es died in Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, at the age of 67 from a haemorrhagic stroke. He had lived in Hong Kong since the end of the Vietnam War. in Hilversum, Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de |
2009/05/18
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Hugh Van Es, the Dutch photographer whose iconic picture of the fall of Saigon in 1975 became a symbol of Americas failure in Vietnam
2009/05/16
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Clipmarks | Vietnam ClipsPhotographer who took famous Saigon photo diesclipped by: dakotayii HONG KONG ? Hugh Van Es, a Dutch photojournalist who covered the Vietnam War and recorded the most famous image of the fall of Saigon in 1975 ? a group of people scaling a ladder to a CIA helicopter on a rooftop ? died Friday morning in Hong Kong, his wife said. He was 67 years old. His photo of a wounded soldier with a tiny cross gleaming against his dark silhouette, taken 40 years ago this month, became the best-known picture from the May 1969 battle of Hamburger Hill. And his shot of the helicopter escape from a Saigon rooftop on April 29, 1975 became a stunning metaphor for the desperate U.S. withdrawal and its overall policy failure in Vietnam. A few blocks distant, others climbed a ladder on the roof of an apartment building that housed CIA officials and families, hoping to escape aboard a helicopter owned by Air America, the CIA-run airline. Tags: photography Fallen Heroclipped by: Antaraclippers remarks: Major Steven Hutchison, RIP PHOENIX (AP) -- A 60-year-old Vietnam War veteran who was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq has become the oldest Army soldier to die in that conflict, the military said Thursday. Maj. Steven Hutchison, of Scottsdale, Ariz., decided to re-enlist after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the death of his wife, his brother said. Richard Hutchison told The Associated Press on Thursday that his older brother wanted to re-enlist immediately after the 9/11 terror attacks, but that his wife was against it. He signed up again in July 2007 after she died, according to his brother and the Army. "He was very devoted to the service and to his country," Richard Hutchison said. "I didnt want him to do it, but he had a mind of his own and thats what he wanted to do." The Pentagon said Steven Hutchison was killed in Iraq on Sunday. Army spokesman Lt. Col. Nathan Banks said Thursday that Hutchison was the oldest Army soldier killed in Iraq. Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de |
2009/05/15
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Clipmarks | Vietnam ClipsThe Ultimate Analysis of Dick Cheney (Traitor - WY)clipped by: BartendingBearclippers remarks: Works for me. Cheney, who had five deferments himself to get out of going to Vietnam, would rather follow a blowhard entertainer who has had three divorces and a drug problem (who also avoided Vietnam) than a four-star general who spent his life serving his country. Ancient Erotica - including the oldest example of figurative art yet found.clipped by: JohnWaterman This sculpture may look a little bit like a roast chicken, but dont let that distract you - its an incredibly important artistic find At 35,000 years old, the tiny sculpture, carved in mammoth ivory, is believed to be the earliest example of figurative art yet found  The Venus of Willendorf 22,000 and 25,000BC  an erotic scene on an ancient Greek drinking plate 480 and 460BC  An erotic fresco from the recently excavated suburban baths in Pompeii   Woman and a satyr, a Roman erotic fresco from Pompeii  A second-century Roman statue of Pan, the mythological figure, being intimate with a goat  This Roman silver cup, which depicts homoerotic scenes, is known as the Warren cup. It dates back to the first century AD   Australian Aboriginal rock painting of a man with a prominent phallus  This sixth-century Cham sculpture was excavated at the site of My Thuat in Vietnam  Mochica pottery from Peru  Hindu erotic carvings on the Kandariya Mahadeva temple, India, circa 1050BC Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de |
2009/05/14
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Clipmarks | Vietnam ClipsShame Australia Shame !clipped by: beanzclippers remarks: What are we doing there ? Australias Vietnam-Style Killing ProgramLast week, the Australian reported the involvement of Australian soldiers in what it called "a targeted assassination". Australian troops were not only engaged in assassinations but were also openly modelling their campaign on Phoenix, the notorious CIA program of murder and torture. Ted Serong ? a former Australian army officer who joined the CIA ? played a leading role in all of this. Sarong always defended Phoenix. "Yes," he said, "we did kill teachers and postmen. But it was the way to conduct the war. They were part of the Viet Cong Infrastructure. I wanted to make sure we won the battle." Thus Tom Hyland reports that when SAS soldiers accidentally shot a car full of civilians near Tarin Kowt in southern Afghanistan in early July 2006 they neither assisted the injured nor acknowledged their involvement, presumably confident that the rest of the world would never know. Tags: afghanistan Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de |
2009/05/13
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Clipmarks | Vietnam ClipsAmerican kills 5 fellow Soldiersclipped by: Imncladyclippers remarks: The suspect had been disarmed after an incident at the center but returned with another weapon, according to a senior military official in Washington, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation into the shootings was ongoing. American kills 5 fellow soldiers at clinic in IraqBAGHDAD ? An American Army sergeant shot and killed five fellow soldiers following an altercation at a military counseling center in Iraq Monday, officials said. The attack drew attention to the issues of combat stress and morale among soldiers serving multiple combat tours over six years of war. Attacks on fellow soldiers, known as fraggings, were not uncommon during the Vietnam war but are believed to be rare in Iraq and Afghanistan. A brief U.S. military statement said the assailant was taken into custody following the 2 p.m. shooting at Camp Liberty, a sprawling U.S. base on the western edge of Baghdad near the citys international airport. President Barack Obama, who visited an adjacent base last month, said in a statement that he was "shocked and deeply saddened" by the report, adding that "my heart goes out to the families and friends" of all those involved "in this horrible tragedy." cable bluesclipped by: doodleiciousclippers remarks: there are more pics at source- but i think u get the picture..... Just when you think youre on top, the bottom falls out (rack, wires, and all) Since our last issue we received a bunch of perplexing photos from all over the world, showing unceasing struggle of sysadmins, electricians and sound technicians against the sinister Doom of Second Law of Thermodynamics - the one of increasing entropy. Even though the struggle seems futile, various stuff still needs to be done - so these pictures of wiring messes testify that somewhere, somehow, someone actually understands where every cable goes and how the whole thing works:  ... in Ho Chi Minh City, Saigon:  Again in Saigon, what is it about Vietnam and extreme wiring? -                       Examples of good and orderly wiring Almost a work of art...    Speaking of art... Here is the "Tangled Art" by Anthony Gormley:    Tags: wiring A Funny Thing Happened on the Road to Serfdomclipped by: willhelmclippers remarks: ??in the spring of 1972, at Tulane University?students asked Alinsky to help plan a protest of a scheduled speech by George H. W. Bush, then U.S. representative to the United Nations - a speech likely to include a defense of the Nixon administration?s Vietnam War policies. The students told Alinsky they were thinking about picketing or disrupting Bush?s address. That?s the wrong approach, he rejoined, not very creative - and besides causing a disruption might get them thrown out of school. He told them, instead, to go to hear the speech dressed as members of the Ku Klux Klan, and whenever Bush said something in defense of the Vietnam War, they should cheer and wave placards reading, ?The KKK supports Bush.? And that is what they did, with very successful, attention-getting results.? It wasnt hard then to see in Alinskys programs at home, elements of the peoples revolution from Russia, as well as some of the same "in your face" tactics being employed by Hitlers Brownshirts. What Alinskys critics saw was the burgeoning of a national movement, the carefully manipulated construction of peoples organizations, which all had two elements in common: (1) a collectivist creed, which denied the existence of personal responsibility; and (2) an amoral dogma, in which all means were justified by an imaginary utopian end. While most modern Americans remember well Hitlers Holocaust and the Cold War waged by a solid U.S.S.R., many of these same Americans have swallowed some false history regarding the movements that spawned such widespread, horrendous results. In what may be regarded as the most triumphant propaganda victory of our time, fascism has been scrubbed of all its Marxist roots, while communism has been scrubbed of its millions of callous murders. Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de |