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t r u t h o u t | Iraq: The Age of Darkness - 0 views

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t r u h o | Iraq: The Age of Darkness

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    In the immediate aftermath of the 2003 invasion, the triumphalist verdict of the mainstream media was that the war had been won; Iraq was assured of a benevolent, democratic future. The Times's writer William Rees-Mogg hymned the victory: "April 9, 2003 was Liberty Day for Iraq … It was achieved by "the engine of global liberation," the United States. "After 24 years of oppression, three wars and three weeks of relentless bombing, Baghdad has emerged from an age of darkness. Yesterday was an historic day of liberation."
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Obama's view of liberal criticisms - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - 0 views

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Obama's view of liberal criticisms - Glenn Greenwald Salon.com

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    At a $30,000 per plate DNC fundraiser, the President explains that it's your fault if you're dissatisfied
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The Right's Power of Media Money - 0 views

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The Right's Power of Media Money

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  • thinkahol * on 05 Dec 10
     
    In assessing what went wrong with the U.S. political process over the past few decades, it's easy to see the broad outlines of the right-wing Republican ascendancy and the liberal-left Democratic decline, an imbalance that has now left the nation incapable of doing much besides waging endless wars, bailing out too-big-to-fail banks, slashing taxes for the rich, and running massive deficits.
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TV Guide Magazine | News | Is TV Starting a New Civil War? - 0 views

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  • Susan Thur on 24 Apr 10
     
    "In a U.S. torn by dissent over health care, immigration and Barack Obama, rhetorical rage is the new norm. Just turn on Fox News and MSNBC. Partisan talkers like Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity on the conservative-leaning FNC and Keith Olbermann and Ed Schultz on their liberal counterpart MSNBC inflame their eager fans with colorful, merciless and sometimes misleading attacks on the opposition. A generation ago, no matter how divided their politics, Americans got their news from the same source-"the lame stream media," to quote Fox contributor Sarah Palin. Almost the entire country was watching back in 1968 when CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite declared the Vietnam War not winnable. Four years later, he was deemed the most trusted man in America."
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Bias at Fox News? The Bill Sammon memos - latimes.com - 0 views

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Bias at Fox News? The Bill Sammon memos - latimes.com

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    Love it or hate it, Fox News has shaken up the media establishment and achieved financial success by airing the views of strident conservative pundits. Yet while the network has never made any bones about the political slant of opinion shows hosted by the likes of Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity or Bill O'Reilly, executives often claim that its news coverage is "fair and balanced." A memo revealed this week by the liberal watchdog group Media Matters calls that into question.
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John Burns' "ministering angels" and "liberators" - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - 0 views

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John Burns' ministering angels and liberators - Glenn Greenwald Salon.com

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    A new investigation of the media's false reporting of the Saddam-statute story reveals ongoing press pathologies
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Fox Viewers Overwhelmingly Think We Should Prepare for Alien Invasion Before Fighting C... - 0 views

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Fox Viewers Overwhelmingly Think We Should Prepare for Alien Invasion Before Fighting Climate Change | AlterNet

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    A new (supposedly) NASA-funded study postulating that aliens may attack humans over climate change had all the ingredients for a perfect Fox faux controversy - it bolstered their anti-science narrative, painted their opponents as clownish radicals, and highlighted wasteful government spending on a supposedly liberal casue. Fox reported the "news from NASA" several times several times today, presenting it as official "taxpayer funded research." A chyron on Fox and Friends read: "NASA: Global warming may provoke an [alien] attack." But as Business Insider pointed out, they're "wrong" - "That report was not funded by NASA. It was written by an independent group of scientists and bloggers. One of those happens to work at NASA." NASA distanced itself from the report as well, calling reports linking the agency to it "not true." Host Megyn Kelly finally corrected the record this afternoon, saying, "I was making that up." But before she did, she was so bemused by the study that she directed her viewers to complete a poll on her website which asked how we should respond to the study: "Immediately increase efforts to curb greenhouse gases," "Develop weapons to kill the Aliens FIRST," or "Gently suggest scientists research how to create job." Not surprisingly, most suggested they research something else. But more than six times as many respondents (19 percent to 3 percent) said we should focus on building weapons to kill aliens before curbing greenhouse gases. Watch a compilation:
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Roger Ailes' Secret Nixon-Era Blueprint for Fox News - 0 views

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Roger Ailes' Secret Nixon-Era Blueprint for Fox News

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    Republican media strategist Roger Ailes launched Fox News Channel in 1996, ostensibly as a "fair and balanced" counterpoint to what he regarded as the liberal establishment media. But according to a remarkable document buried deep within the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, the intellectual forerunner for Fox News was a nakedly partisan 1970 plot by Ailes and other Nixon aides to circumvent the "prejudices of network news" and deliver "pro-administration" stories to heartland television viewers. The memo-called, simply enough, "A Plan For Putting the GOP on TV News"- is included in a 318-page cache of documents detailing Ailes' work for both the Nixon and George H.W.
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TP: Die nukleare Mogelpackung - 0 views

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  • Frankreich ist stolz auf seine 58 Atommeiler, die ihm seine energetische Unabhängigkeit garantieren. Dieses und andere Ammenmärchen deckt nun eine europäische Studie auf Die Studie wurde von den europäischen Grünen in Auftrag gegeben und will den gängigsten Mythen, die von der französischen Atomlobby unablässig propagiert werden, den Garaus bereiten.
  • Noch dazu hatte die Beziehung Frankreichs zur Nukleartechnologie unter denkbar schlechten Vorzeichen begonnen, war doch Messmer höchstpersönlich 1962 im Zuge eines Unfalls bei einem Atomversuch in Algerien verstrahlt worden. Den ehemaligen Premier dürfte es allerdings nicht so arg erwischt haben, ist er doch im stolzen Alter von 91 Jahren verstorben. Ganz im Gegensatz zu den Veteranen und einheimischen Anrainern der französischen Nuklearversuche, deren Leiden Messmer bis zu seinem letzten Atemzug nicht anerkennen wollte (Die Verstrahlten der Republik).
  • Stolze 77% des französischen Stroms waren 2007 nuklearen Ursprungs. Sarkozy hat sich, wie seine Vorgänger, wohl durch diese beeindruckenden Zahlen der Nuklearindustrie blenden lassen. In einer anderen Lesart fällt dieser imposante Prozentsatz nämlich etwas kläglicher aus: Sieht man sich nämlich den gesamten Energiekonsum des Landes an, fällt der Anteil der Kernkraft auf 16% zurück! Fast drei Viertel der verbrauchten Energie kommen in Frankreich von fossilen Brennstoffen, und da wiederum zur Hälfte vom Erdöl.
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  • Die Studie der europäischen Grünen weist zudem darauf hin, dass Frankreich nach 35 Jahren Kernkraft einen höheren Erdölverbrauch hat als Deutschland oder Italien, das ja nach Tschernobyl aus der Kernkraft ausgestiegen war.
  • laut den Analysen der EU-Grünen haben die Kernkraftwerke in Frankreich einen erklecklichen Energieverbrauch. Auch mit der so hoch angepriesenen energetischen Unabhängigkeit des Landes sei es nicht sonderlich weit her. Gemessen am Gesamtenergieverbrauch des Landes belief sich diese angebliche Unabhängigkeit 2007 auf 8,5%, statt der offiziell verkündeten 50%!
  • Auch die Kosten des Uran-Imports wurden in dieser Studie berücksichtigt.
  • Zudem betreibt der französische Energiekonzern EDF trotz der Kernkraft auch noch Kohle- und Erdölkraftwerke, wovon eines aus dem Jahre 1968 stammt. EDF hat kürzlich entschieden, wieder 2600 MW aus den Erdölzentralen zu beziehen. So sauber und rentabel scheint die Atomenergie also nicht wirklich zu sein.
  • Wirklich wurde der EPR nur an Frankreich und Finnland verkauft. In beiden Fällen kommt es zu erhebliche Verzögerungen beim Bau. Der EPR in Flamanville am Ärmelkanal ist noch immer nicht fertig und hat bereits eine Budgetüberschreitung von 20% gezeitigt. 2012 soll es dann endlich so weit sein. Die finnischen Bauarbeiten haben zu 38 Monaten Verspätung und 2,5 Milliarden Verlusten geführt.
  • 3 Millionen Haushalte befinden sich laut EDF in einer prekären, energetischen Situation. Sprich: Sie können ihre Stromrechnung nicht mehr begleichen, und ihnen ist im Winter kalt.
  • och dazu haben die ungewohnten Kältewellen dieses Winters in Frankreich gezeigt, dass EDF kurzeitigen Konsumspitzen, so z.B. um 18 Uhr, wenn alle nach Hause kommen, nicht nachkommen kann. Die Kernkraft ist laut "Sortir du Nucléaire" eine Basisenergie und punktuellem erhöhtem Energiebedarf nicht gewachsen
  • noch letzten Januar vermeldeten die hochaktiven französischen Kernkraftgegner, dass die Umweltkontrollen sämtlicher Atommeiler Frankreichs nicht mehr funktionstüchtig seien. Die Genehmigungen der Laboratorien, die für die Messungen der Emissionen zuständig sind, seien allesamt ausgelaufen. Diese Laboratorien sind EDF-Unternehmen. EDF kontrolliert also die Emissionen von EDF, was nicht gerade Vertrauen einflößt.
  • Trotz alledem werkelt Frankreich, bzw. Präsident Sarkozy, fleißig an einer weltweiten Atomrenaissance. Das französische Staatsoberhaupt hat EPR-Kernkraftwerke an Libyen, Algerien, Marokko, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabien, Jordanien und Südafrika verkauft, das allerdings jetzt darauf verzichtet. Kürzlich hat Sarkozy 4 Stück davon an Berlusconi und das noch atomkraftfreie Italien verkauft.
  • bei all diesen EPR-Verkäufen vorerst bloß um Verkaufsversprechen
  • Was den Strompreis anbelangt so sei dieser ein wenig niedriger als in den anderen EU-Ländern, aber bei weitem nicht so billig, wie von der Atomlobby versprochen.
  • abgesehen davon, dass eine Weiterverbreitung der französischen Atomtechnologie dem obersten nuklearen Handlungsreisenden offenbar gar kein Kopfzerbrechen bereitet. Sogar im Falle von "Schurkenstaaten" wie Libyen.
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Radical Islam stirs in China's remote west - 0 views

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  • In a backstreet of the old Silk Road city of Kashgar, Chinese authorities have been spray-painting signs on dusty mud brick walls to warn against what it says is a new enemy -- the Islamic Liberation Party.
  • China says Hizb ut-Tahrir are terrorists operating in the far western region of Xinjiang, home to some 8 million Muslim, Turkic-speaking Uighurs, many of whom chafe under Chinese rule.
  • As in another strife-hit Chinese region, Tibet, many Uighurs resent the growing economic and cultural impact of Han Chinese who have in some cases been encouraged by the government to move to far-flung and under-populated parts of the country. Beijing accuses militant Uighurs of working with al Qaeda to use terror to bring about an independent state called East Turkestan.
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  • But it seems unlikely they represent the threat to Xinjiang that China likes to portray, said Dru Gladney, a Uighur expert and president of the Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College, California. "For most Uighurs who are activists, though some of them are very religious in their Islam, their main goal is sovereignty for Xinjiang. Hizb ut-Tahrir doesn't support that. They support a worldwide Caliphate, not any one independent region," he said.
  • In Kashgar, a city close to the Pakistan and Afghan borders, some women not only cover their heads, but also veil their faces. In some cases, dark brown cloths envelope the whole head. Clocks in many mosques, restaurants, cafes and shops are set to Xinjiang time. This is two hours behind Beijing time, the official standard for the entire country, which means China's sun does not set until after 10 p.m. in Kashgar in the summer.
  • Many are not convinced Hizb ut-Tahrir is the threat the Chinese government says it is in Xinjiang. "This does not exist. They have come up with this group's name themselves," said Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the exiled World Uyghur Congress. "They are trying to mislead the world and deflect from concern for the Uighur people."
  • China maintains the threat is real. Hizb ut-Tahrir is likewise banned in countries such as Uzbekistan, where it has also been blamed for violence.
  • In November, China's Xinhua news agency announced sentences ranging from death to life in jail for six Uighurs accused of "splittism and organising and leading terrorist groups", and implicated Hizb ut-Tahrir.
  • "What we want is simple -- freedom," said a Uighur resident of Xinjiang's regional capital, Urumqi, who asked not be identified, fearing repercussions with the authorities. "But there are too many Han and too few of us."
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