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Miley Cyrus Twerk VMA 2013 Full Performance (LIVE) ‘We Think the Price Is Worth It’ Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died.

‘We Think the Price Is Worth It’

I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it? Social Security Cuts Are Media’s ‘Center’ The White House plan to cut Social Security benefits has been praised by major media as a brave move towards the "middle" by Obama, as well as an effort to use a more "accurate" measure of inflation.

Social Security Cuts Are Media’s ‘Center’

Neither claim is credible. When the World’s Richest Billionaire Owns Your Paper. Carlos Slim is the world’s richest person.

When the World’s Richest Billionaire Owns Your Paper

His father, Julién Slim Haddad, immigrated to Mexico from Lebanon as a teenager, and by the time Carlos was born, the family was well-off, having acquired a number of businesses and real estate in Mexico City. Slim took his father’s financial lessons to heart, starting a stock brokerage that slowly grew to a corporate empire.

Today he owns, among other things, América Móvil, Latin America’s largest wireless services provider. How To Detect Bias In News Media. Media have tremendous power in setting cultural guidelines and in shaping political discourse.

How To Detect Bias In News Media

It is essential that news media, along with other institutions, are challenged to be fair and accurate. The first step in challenging biased news coverage is documenting bias. Here are some questions to ask yourself about newspaper, TV and radio news. Clear Evidence The Pentagon Exist Solely To WAR PROFITEER Off The American Taxpayers.

“Failure of Epic Proportions: Obama’s TreasuryNominee Jack Lew and his Pro-Bank, Austerity, Deregulation Legacy. Black bush dave chappelle. Alessio Rastani on why Goldman Sachs Rules The World. Economy - modern marvels stock exchange - Quants, the alchemists of Wall Street. Www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/op_42.pdf. Www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp_698.pdf. Is Libertarianism the Velvet Glove Over the Iron Fist of Racism? Bernie Sanders Goes off on Charles Koch. Charles Koch: No Minimum Wage will Help the Poor. Wall Street CEOs Are Nuts. By James Kwak “Geithner’s team spent much of its time during the debate over the Senate bill helping Senate Banking Committee chair Chris Dodd kill off or modify amendments being offered by more-progressive Democrats.

Wall Street CEOs Are Nuts

A good example was Bernie Sanders’s measure to audit the Fed, which the administration played a key role in getting the senator from Vermont to tone down. Another was the Brown-Kaufman Amendment, which became a cause célèbre among lefty reformers such as former IMF economist Simon Johnson. ‘If enacted, Brown-Kaufman would have broken up the six biggest banks in America,’ says the senior Treasury official. ‘If we’d been for it, it probably would have happened. Oh, well. That’s one passage from John Heileman’s juicy article in New York Magazine.

Professor Griff on Illuminati Princess Miley Cyrus & The Twerking Industrial Complex. Seymour Hersh Belatedly Follows Mother Agnes Mariam in Exposing Big Lies About August Syria Chemical Attack; US Cuts Off Aid to Syrian Terrorist Rebels; US Backing Neo-Fascist Mob in Kiev. The Guardian. The Guardian is a British national daily newspaper.

The Guardian

Founded in 1821, it was known as The Manchester Guardian until 1959. From its beginnings as a local paper it has grown into a national paper associated with a complex organisational structure and an international multimedia and web presence. Scott Trust Limited. The Scott Trust Limited is the British company which owns Guardian Media Group and thus The Guardian, The Observer as well as various other media businesses in the UK.

Scott Trust Limited

In 2008 it replaced the now-defunct Scott Trust, which had owned the Guardian since 1936. History[edit] Guardian Media Group PLC. Guardian Media Group PLC. Has chaired The Scott Trust since 2003.

Guardian Media Group PLC

She was formerly an independent director of Guardian Media Group plc, director of programmes at Channel 4 Television, managing director of BBC Network Radio and a Guardian journalist. She is a Trustee of the British Museum. Guardian Media Group PLC. The Scott Trust was formed in 1936, but the history of the Trust and Guardian Media Group began more than a century earlier with the launch of the Manchester Guardian on May 5, 1821.

Guardian Media Group PLC

The paper was founded by John Edward Taylor to promote the liberal interest in the aftermath of the Peterloo Massacre. Politically, Taylor was a reformer. Rosie Gray (rosiegray) on BuzzFeed. Assad's Favorite Nun To Meet Republican Conservatives. ‘Whole families murdered’: Syrian rebels execute over 80 civilians outside Damascus. Seymour M. Hersh · Whose sarin? · LRB 19 December 2013. Barack Obama did not tell the whole story this autumn when he tried to make the case that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical weapons attack near Damascus on 21 August.

Seymour M. Hersh · Whose sarin? · LRB 19 December 2013

In some instances, he omitted important intelligence, and in others he presented assumptions as facts. Seymour Hersh Alleges Obama Administration Lied on Syria Gas Attack. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh has dropped yet another bombshell allegation: President Obama wasn't honest with the American people when he blamed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a sarin-gas attack in that killed hundreds of civilians. In early September, Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States had proof that the nerve-gas attack was made on Assad's orders. "We know the Assad regime was responsible," President Obama told the nation in an address days after this revelation, which he said pushed him over the "red line" in considering military intervention. But in a long story published Sunday for the London Review of Books, Hersh — best known for his exposés on the cover-ups of the My Lai Massacre and of Abu Ghraib – said the administration "cherry-picked intelligence," citing conversations with intelligence and military officials.

Here's what Hersh alleges: Search. Mother Agnes Mariam: Exposing the Syrian Chemical Hoax. Mother Agnes Mariam is a Carmelite nun who has been living and working in Syria for the past 19 years. Now, she is seeking to set the record straight on the lies and disinformation that is driving the NATO powers toward war against the people of Syria. UPDATE: Mother Agnes is currently giving a series of lectures in Canada. To learn more about where she will be speaking, please click here. This is the GRTV Feature Interview with our special guest, Mother Agnes Mariam de la Croix. It was originally aired on August 28, 2013. Mother Agnes Mariam de la Croix: I am not Syrian. But during the event and the demonstration, we noticed a big, a huge difference between what we were living, what we were seeing, what we were experiencing on the ground and what others around us were living and the everyday, you know, everyday, because of the International Media, to the point that we felt it was a trick.

This Coalition, you know, what is the legitimacy of this action? (Note: Missing Words Shown as — ) ‘Whole families murdered’: Syrian rebels execute over 80 civilians outside Damascus [VIDEO] Dec 15, 2013, RT.com Over 80 civilians in a town northwest of the Syrian capital of Damascus have been executed by Islamist rebels, sources within the Syrian military told RT. Many others were kidnapped to be used as human shields. Government forces are continuing a large-scale operation against Jabhat al-Nusra and Liwa Al-Islam fighters, who captured the town earlier this week. The Washington Post. The Washington Post (WP) is an American daily newspaper. It is the most widely circulated newspaper published in Washington, D.C., and was founded in 1877, making it the area's oldest extant newspaper. Located in the capital city of the United States, the newspaper has a particular emphasis on national politics. Daily editions are printed for the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.

The newspaper is published as a broadsheet, with photographs printed both in color and in black and white. In 2008, Marcus Brauchli replaced long-time executive editor Leonard Downie, Jr., serving publisher Katharine Weymouth.[5] In November 2012, Weymouth announced that Boston Globe editor Martin Baron would take over Brauchli's position on January 2, 2013.[6][7] Jeff Bezos.