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US Corporate Media ratings plummet as Americans turn away from lies


Press TV
Thu, 31 May 2012 15:16 UTC
The U.S. mainstream media "sell lies on a daily basis", according to Niall Bradley, an editor and columnist in Paris.

Speaking to Press TV's U.S. Desk on Thursday, Bradley said that the CIA, since its creation in 1947, has had a grip on the American media, including its content and the people running it.

"Americans have by and large believed in the myth that they have the freest press in the world."

The recent significant drop in the number of audiences watching the corporate media in the U.S. may be a sign of the "demise of the propaganda military complex's grip on the American public's mind," Bradley said.

The latest figures in the United States show a major drop in America's mainstream news networks viewers.

CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC were all down from May 2011, but CNN was down much more than its rivals, falling 51 percent in total primetime viewers compared to 9 percent for top-rated Fox News and 19 percent for MSNBC.

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UK Guardian on Bilderberg 2012: the technocrats are rising at this year's annual conference

Charlie Skelton
The Guardian
Thu, 31 May 2012 16:26 UTC
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© Nero AngeloDutch Queen Beatrix arrives at the 2010 Bilderberg conference in Sitges, Spain.
Our man at Bilderberg is back for a fourth year and has touched down in Chantilly for the 2012 gathering. The shadowy elite leaders' conference starts tomorrow, so what's on the agenda?

It's all change at Bilderberg this year, with a new chairman, new media and Occupy Bilderberg knocking at the gates.

Everything's set. The hotel is being primped and hoovered, the security is arriving, the press is nowhere to be seen, and I just had a really boring crab salad. It's shaping up to be a vintage Bilderberg.

We were lunching in the Palm Court restaurant of the Westfields Marriott hotel, in Chantilly, Virginia. A few days from now, this hotel will be dripping with billionaires and bankers, industry CEOs and finance ministers, here for the annual Bilderberg summit. "The leaders of the world are coming to our hotel", beams one member of staff. "Are you here for the brunch?"
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CNN Founder Ted Turner Supports Population Reduction To 2 Billion

YouTube -WeAreChange
Activist Post
Thu, 31 May 2012 15:33 UTC
This is one of the 12 videos you will see released on May 31st during our 12 hour Donation Drive broadcast at Bilderberg. Help WeAreChange reach our goal @ http://wearechange.org/donate watch live here http://ustream.tv/wearechange

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War Criminal Henry Kissinger confronted on Bilderberg and Mass Murder

YouTube - WeAreChange
Activist Post
Thu, 31 May 2012 15:26 UTC
This is one of the 12 videos you will see released on May 31st during our 12 hour Donation Drive broadcast at Bilderberg. Help WeAreChange reach our goal @ http://wearechange.org/donate watch live here http://ustream.tv/wearechange

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Wall Street

Who Decides? Wall Street! Fitch downgrades credit ratings of 8 Spanish regions


Economic Times
Thu, 31 May 2012 15:06 UTC
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Private Wall Street firms such as Fitch are responsible for making worthless subprime mortgages have triple-A ratings... today they have the power to squeeze the money supply of regional governments in other continents.
Fitch Ratings downgraded the credit rating of eight deficit-laden Spanish regions including Madrid on Thursday as a recession bites and they struggle to access long-term financing.

Spain's powerful regions, which fund education and health, are pivotal to the country's efforts to slash annual public deficits and rein in mushrooming sovereign debt.

"The rating actions reflect the negative economic and market environment in Spain, which has resulted in depressed fiscal revenues," Fitch said in a statement.

It cited, too, "structural fiscal deficits of the regional administrations, which will require considerable additional efforts to be reduced, and also the difficulties in accessing long-term funding."

Downgraded regions were Madrid, Catalonia, Andalusia, Asturias, the Basque Country, Canary Islands, Cantabria and Murcia.

Among the hardest hit, the northeastern Catalonia region's long-term credit rating was slashed by two notches and left on BBB-minus, one notch above junk-bond status.
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Who Decides? Wall Street! Moody's cuts ratings for 9 Danish banks


Press TV
Thu, 31 May 2012 14:51 UTC
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Because private Wall Street firms know best who is creditworthy and who isn't
Moody's Investors Service has cut its credit ratings for nine Danish banks, citing the impact of the ongoing eurozone crisis on bank loan quality and on their fund-raising capacity.

The ratings agency lowered the debt ratings of the banks, along with the Finnish subsidiary of one of the banks, by up to three notches on Wednesday, AFP reported.

The banks are Danske Bank, Jyske Bank, Sydbank, Spar Nord Bank, Ringkjobing Landbobank, Nykredit, Realkredit, DLR Kredit, and Danmarks Skibskredit. Moody's also downgraded Danske Bank's Finnish arm Sampo Bank.

"Danish financial institutions face sluggish domestic economic growth, weakening real estate prices, and higher levels of unemployment, as well as the risk of external shocks from the ongoing euro area debt crisis," Moody's said.

"Asset quality is deteriorating, and these pressures are expected to continue," it added.

The agency also noted that the significant reliance of most of the financial institutions on market funding has enhanced their vulnerability to the eurozone crisis.
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Smoking

Will crisis-hit Ireland rebel against harsh remedy for ailing Europe?

Ian Johnston
MSNBC
Thu, 31 May 2012 10:50 UTC
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© Adam Patterson/Panos for msnbc.comCarpenter Tony Kenny, 27, believes that continuing economic troubles in Ireland will force him to move to Australia to find work.
Families ripped apart, pay cuts, hundreds of thousands without work, homes lying empty, teenagers with little hope for the future: Many in Ireland have been brought to the brink of despair by a dramatic economic collapse and the harsh remedy prescribed by the European Union.

But unique among the EU's 27 members, Irish voters were Thursday giving their verdict on the policies of austerity as a backlash grows across the continent in countries like Greece, Spain and France.

Both sides in the debate are playing the politics of fear. Ireland's coalition government and much of the establishment implore voters to agree to tight controls on the national debt -- contained in the "Fiscal Stability Treaty" -- warning that failing to do so would result in the EU refusing to provide any further bailout cash.

The "no" campaign counters this is just scaremongering -- saying Ireland would not be cut adrift in time of need -- but engage in some of their own. Austerity will only lead to countless more years of hardship, they say, calling for policies to grow the economy.

Polls put the "yes" campaign ahead, but both sides agree it will be close.

Comment: While the following link is not specific of the situation in Europe, it's worth noting: Cities Are Becoming Cesspools Of Filth, Decay And Wretchedness - which closes with: "So things are going to continue to get worse and.. continue to descend into squalor.

You better get ready."

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Stormtrooper

Propaganda Alert! Iran site buildings completely razed: US think-tank

Fredrik Dahl
Reuters
Thu, 31 May 2012 05:00 UTC
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A U.S. security institute has published satellite images which it said increased concerns that Iran was trying to "destroy evidence" of suspected past research relevant for developing a nuclear weapons capability, a charge Tehran dismisses.

The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) posted them on its website hours after diplomats said the U.N. atomic watchdog showed what appeared to be similar imagery at a closed-door briefing in Vienna.

Western envoys who attended Wednesday's briefing earlier told Reuters that two small side buildings at the Parchin military facility had been removed, and ISIS said its pictures from May 25 showed that they "have been completely razed".

The disclosure followed inconclusive talks between Iran and six world powers in Baghdad last week to address concerns about the nature of its nuclear activities, which Iran says are aimed at generating electricity.

Comment: Images and words about tracks in dirt made by heavy machinery is offered as proof. No mention of earlier International Atomic Energy Agency Reports where the IAEA clearly said Iran is not a nuclear threat and has no nuclear ambitions in any military capacity.

Things are starting to take a repeat roll of Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. The obvious target: Iran.

But, first things first: NATO's 'Civil War' Machine Rolls Into Syria

By the way, construction in and around nuclear sites is not uncommon. In simple terms; a construction company who did work inside the facility leveled the lunchroom they built for their workers, since work at the site was complete. Leave it to the West to always conclude (for us) the worst, while bastardizing free decent people, whose resources the 1% intend on plundering.

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Pirates

Sickening: Israel returns bodies of Palestinians it murdered in 'humanitarian gesture'


The Guardian
Thu, 31 May 2012 06:13 UTC
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Palestinians will be lucky to get their relatives' corpses back with organs intact.
Humanitarian gesture intended to get peace process back on track, says spokesman for Binyamin Netanyahu

Israel has transferred to Palestinian authorities the bodies of dozens of Palestinian militants, saying it hoped the move would help restart peace efforts.

The militants had been buried, some of them for decades, in a desolate Israeli military cemetery for "enemy combatants" in the occupied West Bank. They included several suicide bombers.

The remains of 80 Palestinians were handed over to western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and 11 bodies were set for transfer to the Gaza Strip, controlled by rival Hamas Islamists.

"It is our hope that this humanitarian gesture will serve both as a confidence-building measure and help get the peace process back on track," said Mark Regev, a spokesman for the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu.

"Israel is ready for the immediate resumption of peace talks without any preconditions whatsoever," he said.

Comment: Doctor admits Israeli pathologists harvested organs without consent

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Charles Taylor sentenced to 50 years in prison for war crimes

Owen Bowcott
The Guardian
Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00 UTC
Judge at court in The Hague says ex-Liberia president's crimes were of the 'utmost gravity in scale and brutality'


Liberia's former president, Charles Taylor, has been sentenced to 50 years in jail for being "in a class of his own" when committing war crimes during the long-running civil war in neighbouring Sierra Leone.

Judges at a UN-backed tribunal in The Hague said his leadership role and exploitation of the conflict to extract so-called "blood diamonds" meant he deserved one of the longest prison sentences handed down so far by the court.

Taylor, 64, was found guilty last month of 11 counts of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity, when supporting rebels between 1996 and 2002 in return for conflict gems.

The offences included murder, rape, sexual slavery, recruiting child soldiers, enforced amputations and pillage.

Comment: And the western governments who sponsored him? The western corporations he worked for? When are they getting theirs? Never. Why? Because the ICC is a sham, covering up for the real criminals who plunder people and planet at will.

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