Mr Williams, CEO of News Limited in Australia says we do not need to worry about the domination of the Murdoch press because we now have digital media! “Let’s see if it works” said Dick Smith.
It is impossible to have a well-informed community when the main channels of communication are biased and partial.
You cannot trust anything broadcast as “news” from any of the major media outlets.
Physicists have created an atomic gas with a sub-absolute-zero temperature for the first time
The military official charged with investigating Rachel Corrie’s killing in Gaza testified Friday that he had not been to the site of the killing because he thought it was dangerous, the Rachel Corrie Foundation said.
“For those who’ve come across the seas
The Australian Government has outlined a series of new legislative initiatives with which it will attempt to protect its corporate tax base and rein in the tax minimisation strategies of corporations such as search giant Google, which expects to pay just $74,000 in corporate income tax for the 2011 calendar year in Australia, despite making an estimated $1 billion in local revenue.
Dead mothers, teachers and babies in Gaza yet media overwhelmingly focuses on rocket fire into Israel.
Syrian rebels are fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad. Started with street protests that were fired upon. 35,000 victims. Over 250,000 people fleeing the country. Over 1 million people moved out of their home.
I would consider the uprising as strong as any due process petition having enough power to eject the government. The government clearly does not represent these people or have any intention of governing properly for all people of their country. Any government that orders the death of its people is not a proper government.
Assholes largely share a thick sense of moral entitlement. Just as hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue, late 19th and early 20th century businessmen like Cecil Rhodes, Albert Beveridge and John D. Rockefeller all felt a need to invoke entitlement on a cosmic scale, in effect sensing that something might be majorly amiss.
The US government and military fear freedom and transparency, marking anyone who advocates such a position as an enemy of their state.
An arbitrarily sorted list of IT tasks that would be very nice for people to be aware of. know when they should be done, and be able to perform them. The top item really should be bookmarking this page so you can refer to it later. Which would be 11. I would be OK with that.
After Lyon’s crew returned from Bahrain, CNN had no correspondents regularly reporting on the escalating violence. In emails to her producers and executives, Lyon repeatedly asked to return to Bahrain. Her requests were denied, and she was never sent back. She thus resorted to improvising coverage by interviewing activists via Skype in an attempt, she said, “to keep Bahrain in the news” … “censorship was devastating to my crew and activists who risked lives to tell [the] story.”
Pick a likely bombing site and see if you are within a worrying distance.
Note that if your city isn’t a military target then consider that you are now a civillian target and the best spot to bomb is where population centre.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been granted political asylum by Ecuador, but he remains holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. If he leaves the compound, he will be arrested and extradited to Sweden, where he faces allegations of sexual assault. Assange denies the allegations and claims they are part of an effort to get him to the United States to face more serious charges related to his work for WikiLeaks. High-profile defenders like Michael Moore and Oliver Stone have recently published editorials in support of Assange. Now, professor and activist Noam Chomsky weighs in.
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