Not all things are as they seem:
But at the British end of the Murdoch empire, there have recently been signs that this is far from being the case. For the past two years, for instance, its television arm, Sky, has been teamed up with the world’s richest enviromental lobby group WWF (income £400 million a year), in a bid to “help combat climate change” by saving the CO2-rich Amazon rainforest.
Then a few weeks back there was that curious episode when the Murdoch Sunday Times published a grovelling correction of a story familiar to reader of this blog which soon made headlines round the world as “Amazongate”.
This was the scandalous story, first dug out by the tireless researches of Richard North, of how the IPCC’s latest 2007 report had included a shock-horror claim that 40 percent of the Amazon rainforest was under threat from climate change. This had no scientific basis whatever. The only source given for this claim was a WWF propaganda sheet, which in turn had drawn its key sentence from the website of a small Brazilian environmental advocacy group set up by Dr Daniel Nepstad of the Woods Hole Research Center (in turn closely linked to the WWF).
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Rather more shadowy still, however, are the Murdoch family’s links with Bill Clinton’s Climate Change Initiative. The head of strategy and communications for this influential and lavishly funded body is James Murdoch’s wife Kathryn.
The “Climate Initiative” is in turn part of the William J. Clinton Foundation, fast-becoming one of the richest foundations in the world. It is supported to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars by the likes of Bill Gates of Microsoft. Thanks not least to its involvement with climate change, it likes to boast that it has recently been named as one of the world’s “Top 10 Green NGOs”.
Both Rupert Murdoch and his son are listed as among the Clinton Foundation’s leading donors. Rupert, along with Barbra Streisand, was one of the three sponsors of a project to reduce the “carbon footprint” of 20 major cities.
So that’s how they are paying for the royal wedding.
WAG? was William J. Clinton’s VP, no?
How could WAG? be “Cleared” when there was no trial? Was the DA also the Judge?
WAG’s defence is mooted to have been: I did not inhale.
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“Al Gore Cleared in Sexual Assault Case by Portland District Attorney
“Former Vice President Denied Allegations; District Attorney Says ‘Matter Is Closed'”
“Former Vice President Al Gore did not commit acts of sexual harassment “appropriate for criminal prosecution,” according to office of the district attorney of Portland, Oregon, which has been investigating allegations that Gore made unwanted advances to a masseuse at a Portland hotel in 2006.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/gore-affair-district-attorney-case-criminal-prosecution/story?id=11292348
It is Roger Ailes that makes Fox news what it is — Fair, balanced and unafraid. Murdoch would have us all curl up in Obama’s arms.
From last January, at Whiskey’s Place”
“Stick a fork in Fox News (and News Corp profits). Recent articles in the New York Times and The Daily Beast show that Murdoch’s adult children, and his current wife Wendi, loathe the conservative bent of Fox News that is more profitable (estimated $700 million to $1 billion operating profit per year) than CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, and the news broadcasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC combined. Murdoch cannot live forever, and as soon as he passes, the Murdoch family will fire Roger Ailes and run Fox News (and its profits) into the ground. The WSJ too, will come under pressure to be a mere, “me-too” earnest, SWPL lifestyle rag, instead of a serious business newspaper with a conservative editorial page (mostly). Indeed in the Wall Street Journal, this process is already underway…”
Lots more at the link.
I don’t watch TV. I don’t watch Fox, and I don’t watch CBC. Two ends of the same continuum.
Canadians cannot really comprehend the magnitude of the lies we are told every day about the USA until we go and -live- in the USA for at least a year or two.
Americans, same thing but in reverse.
Fox dials back the intensity a bit, they have a couple of commentators with half a clue, but over-all, not a reliable source of -knowledge-.
I must admit they positively SHINE in comparison to all their competition. All other TV essentially destroys knowledge, with the exception of Discovery channel. If you know to shut it off when the animal shows come on, anyway.
Here in Ontario Loblaws stores are charging a nickle for every plastic bag you use to carry your groceries to your car.Several sources have claimed that 2 cents of this charge goes to the WWF,if this is true then we are supporting a cause that we may not believe in,I don t want one penny of my money going to that organization.
On the other hand is Loblaws getting a tax deduction for this forced donation of other peoples money,or even worse will this be converted into carbon credits for the benefit of Loblaws at the expense of their customers.
To Frankemm in Ontario. May I suggest going to costco and buying a bunch of plastic bags and save your money. A box of Costco Plastic bags are less then a penny each. In eeeeevil Alberta I save my Walmart bags and take them to Super Store.