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L’Inde a vécu la plus grande grève de l’histoire humaine
▻http://www.directmatin.fr/monde/2016-09-03/linde-vecu-la-plus-grande-greve-de-lhistoire-humaine-737701

Selon les syndicats, ce seraient ainsi près de 180 millions de travailleurs, hommes et femmes, qui ont manifesté pour s’opposer à la politique économique du gouvernement. L’Inde comptant environ 1,250 milliards d’individus, ce serait donc un septième de la population qui a arrêté le travail pour une journée. Mais ces chiffres n’ont toutefois pas pu être vérifiés de façon indépendante.

The Biggest Strike in World History ? No Thanks, We’re Focusing on the New iPhone
▻http://fair.org/home/the-biggest-strike-in-world-history-no-thanks-were-focusing-on-the-new-iphone

And yet there was virtually no coverage of the strike in commercial US media, according to searches of the Nexis news database. Not a word on ABC, CBS or NBC. No mention on the main cable news networks—CNN, Fox and MSNBC—either. (The Intercept‘s Zaid Jilani—9/6/16—noted that there was one mention on CNN International, when “the CEO of the human resources consulting firm ManpowerGroup cited the Indian strike as part of global concerns about technology suppressing wages.”) Neither the PBS NewsHour nor NPR touched the story.

Not a single US newspaper found in the Nexis database—which includes most of the major papers, like the New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today—reported an original story on the strike. (Associated Press had a brief, 289-word report, which ran on the New York Times‘ website and was doubtless picked up by other papers.) The Wall Street Journal, whose full text isn’t on Nexis, also skipped the Indian strike story.

That’s an example of the kind of story US corporate media don’t care about. What do they care about? Well, Apple is planning to release a new version of the iPhone next week. That’s already making news: CBS did a segment on its Money Watch program (9/7/16) previewing the phone, as did NPR‘s Morning Edition and All Things Considered (9/7/16); the product was front-page news in USA Today (9/8/16) and the Wall Street Journal (9/8/16), while you had to turn to page A12 in the Washington Post (9/7/16) or the first page of the business section in the New York Times (9/8/16) to get your future cellphone news.

A hundred million or more workers striking for their rights hold no interest for the news managers in US corporate media. But a new gadget from a prominent advertiser? Now, that’s the news that’s fit to print.

La « #réalité » telle que façonnée par les #MSM

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Delivers Stunning Summary of US Imperialism and Native Resistance
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/us-imperialism-and-native-resistance

On The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC, Lawrence explains why a protest by Native Americans in North Dakota reminds us of the history American always tries to forget.

Trump to Receive First Classified Briefing - ABC News
▻http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-receive-classified-briefing-tomorrow/story

Certain staffers in the FBI’s New York Field Office have been told to expect a special guest tomorrow: Donald Trump.

He is scheduled to receive his first classified briefing as the Republican Party’s presidential nominee, according to sources notified of the upcoming visit.

Trump is planning to take with him New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a former Defense Intelligence Agency director who has become an outspoken supporter of Trump, a senior campaign official said.

Clinton Clinches Democratic Nomination
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/clinton-clinches-democratic-nomination

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews has revealed that the major television networks plan to call the Democratic primary for Hillary Clinton during the day on June 7th — hours prior to the close of polls in...

The Lying Filter – How to Use Yours - Shelly Palmer
▻http://www.shellypalmer.com/2016/04/lying-filter-use

Jefferson in Paris

In the closing paragraph of this note Jefferson asserts, “I never had an opinion in politics or religion which I was afraid to own. A costive reserve on these subjects might have procured me more esteem from some people, but less from myself.”
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I don’t like to discuss religion or politics in polite company. It’s pointless. Both subjects provoke passionate lectures espousing personal worldviews, and minds are seldom, if ever, changed.
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Each party has a TV voice: #MSNBC filters hard left, #Fox_News filters hard right and #CNN filters somewhere in the middle (although it is always accused of leaning left). The Interweb (#Twitter, #Facebook, #Blogs, etc.) is clearly useless; it splits precisely along party lines.

None of this is surprising, nor is any of it news. We’ve always had filters – they’re just better now than ever before. As soon as you find something you agree with, you can stop reading; your personal worldview has been validated. But … are the “facts” really facts?
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Here’s the truly unfortunate part: it is abundantly obvious that the vast majority of people don’t care. Why bother to fact check? If you spend any time reading the millions of words written about the race for the White House, you will quickly realize that politics and religion share a single attribute: they are faith-based.

What is the truth? Whose truth? With whom can you debate and discuss the issues? Where are the facts? What has happened to civil, social discourse?

#politique #médias #USA

Why Hillary Clinton Spells Democratic Party Defeat
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/why-hillary-clinton-spells-democratic-party-defeat

It is clear that the rig-the-vote wing of the Democratic Party, from Deborah Wasserman Schultz to the “liberal” commentators and regular pundits on MSNBC, PBS, and the most of the other mainstream...

Where 2015’s mass shootings have occurred, in 1 map

In July, we created a map showing the locations of the year’s mass shootings to that point. That map used data collected by ShootingTracker.com, a crowd-sourced project attempting to catalog incidents in which four or more people were injured or killed by gunfire — a broader definition of the term “mass shooting” than the one used by the federal government.

Geography of Poverty Southwest | msnbc
▻http://www.msnbc.com/interactives/geography-of-poverty/sw.html

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Today on MSNBC we launch the latest chapter of our on going report, The Geography of Poverty: A Journey Through Forgotten America by Matt Black Photography and reporter Trymaine Lee. Please check out this important and moving project on poverty in America at www.msnbc.com/geographyofpoverty"

At least 54 Colombian girls sexually abused by immune US military: Report
Mar 23, 2015 posted by Adriaan Alsema
▻http://colombiareports.co/more-than-54-colombian-girls-sexually-abuses-by-us-military-report

Colombian Report on US Military’s Child Rapes Not Newsworthy to US News Outlets
▻http://fair.org/blog/2015/03/26/colombian-report-on-us-militarys-child-rapes-not-newsworthy-to-us-news-outlets

Yet here we are, over 72 hours since the Colombian and foreign press first reported on the allegations, and there’s a virtual media blackout in America over the case. Nothing on CNN, nothing on MSNBC, nothing in the New York Times or Miami Herald. Nothing in Huffington Post. Nothing in Fusion or Vice. Why?

As UK authorities and NATO officials stress the importance of clamping down on “false Russian” narratives in the media, perhaps our own media could stop providing a shining example as to why such anti-Western narratives are so often the only outlet for certain ugly truths.

MSNBC Is Moving “Away From Left-Wing TV” to What?
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/msnbc-is-moving-away-from-leftwing-tv-to-what

The executives at MSNBC are doing some shifting around of its network schedule. A source from the network said MSNBC is ditching its left-wing stance. According to the source, “Going left was a...

Chris Hayes Spoofs White Power Structure, Has No Clue How To Stop Culture Of White On White Violence
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/chris-hayes-spoofs-white-power-structure-has-no-clue-how-to-stop-cul

Riffing off an article by Gawker columnist Cord Jefferson yesterday, Jefferson and MSNBC host Chris Hayes satirized the right’s concern with “black on black violence,” rolling footage of a recent...

Cenk Uygur Blasts Corporate Media for Soap Opera Coverage & Toeing Establishment Line
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/cenk-uygur-blasts-corporate-media-for-soap-opera-coverage-and-toeing

Abby Martin speaks with host and founder of The Young Turks, Cenk Uygur, discussing why he left his job at MSNBC, the corporate media’s superficial coverage of news events and the recipe for...

Justin Bieber Beats NSA Spying on MSNBC?
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/justin-bieber-beats-nsa-spying-on-msnbc

When MSNBC cut from an interview of former Congresswoman Jane Harman on NSA spying to cover the setting of Justin Bieber’s bail at $2500, it raised questions about MSNBC’s journalistic standards...

Martin Bashir says Sarah Palin is an ’idiot’ and suggests someone should defecate in her mouth
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/martin-bashir-says-sarah-palin-is-an-idiot-and-suggests-someone-shoul

The British journalist Martin Bashir, who is currently working as a political commentator for US network MSNBC, has sparked outrage by calling former Republican Party nominee for Vice President, Sarah Palin, a ’world class idiot’, and suggesting someone should defecate in her mouth.

Bashir, who is most famous for his high-profile interviews with Princess Diana and Michael Jackson, used his afternoon show to launch a scathing attack on Ms Palin over her comments comparing the US national debt with slavery.

Million Mask March - Imgur
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Million Mask March

The biggest protest in human history. But apparently it isn’t newsworthy to: A) CNN B) Fox News C) MSNBC D) BBC E) All of the above

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#MillionMaskMarch

Bush promised Iraqi civilians a better future. What are their lives like now? | MSNBC
▻http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/bush-promised-iraqi-civilians-better-future

Estimates of the full civilian body count vary widely, but it clearly exceeds the 133,000 violent deaths confirmed from news reports and morgue records. In a 2008 study known as the Iraq Family Health Survey (IFHS), a team assembled by the World Health Organization sampled households from around the country and concluded that news reports had captured only a third of all violent civilian deaths. The IFHS also found that indirect, nonviolent deaths had increased by 60% in during the years following the invasion, just as the State Department had feared and predicted. At 2011 rates, that 60% increase would represent 81,600 excess deaths every year—the better part of a million over the course of a decade.

Death rates are just one measure of the Iraq war’s long-term impact. Here are some of the health challenges the country still faces in 2013…

Conflicts of interest in the Syria debate
▻http://public-accountability.org/2013/10/conflicts-of-interest-in-the-syria-debate

Sur les liens financiers directs et indirects des « experts » et « think tanks » qui ont appelé aux frappes contre la Syrie avec l’industrie de l’armement et la non divulgation de ces liens par les médias étasuniens.

During the public debate around the question of whether to attack Syria, Stephen Hadley, former national security adviser to George W. Bush, made a series of high-profile media appearances. Hadley argued strenuously for military intervention in appearances on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and Bloomberg TV, and authored a Washington Post op-ed headlined “To stop Iran, Obama must enforce red lines with Assad.”

In each case, Hadley’s audience was not informed that he serves as a director of Raytheon, the weapons manufacturer that makes the Tomahawk cruise missiles that were widely cited as a weapon of choice in a potential strike against Syria. Hadley earns $128,500 in annual cash compensation from the company and chairs its public affairs committee. He also owns 11,477 shares of Raytheon stock, which traded at all-time highs during the Syria debate ($77.65 on August 23, making Hadley’s share’s worth $891,189). Despite this financial stake, Hadley was presented to his audience as an experienced, independent national security expert.

Though Hadley’s undisclosed conflict is particularly egregious, it is not unique. The following report documents the industry ties of Hadley, 21 other media commentators, and seven think tanks that participated in the media debate around Syria. Like Hadley, these individuals and organizations have strong ties to defense contractors and other defense- and foreign policy-focused firms with a vested interest in the Syria debate, but they were presented to their audiences with a veneer of expertise and independence, as former military officials, retired diplomats, and independent think tanks.

The report offers a new look at an issue raised by David Barstow’s 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times series on the role military analysts played in promoting the Bush Administration’s narrative on Iraq. In addition to exposing coordination with the Pentagon, Barstow found that many cable news analysts had industry ties that were not disclosed on air.

If the recent debate around Syria is any guide, media outlets have done very little to address the gaps in disclosure and abuses of the public trust that Barstow exposed. Some analysts have stayed the same, others are new, and the issues and range of opinion are different. But the media continues to present former military and government officials as venerated experts without informing the public of their industry ties – the personal financial interests that may be shaping their opinions of what is in the national interest.

L’héritage d’Obama et la culture US : défendre l’assassinat d’enfants de 4 ans par des #drones (The Guardian) — Glenn GREENWALD
►http://www.legrandsoir.info/l-heritage-d-obama-et-la-culture-us-defendre-l-assassinat-d-enfants-de

Ce matin, dans l’émission Morning Joe sur la chaîne MSNBC, qui portait sur le dernier débat présidentiel (entre Obama et Romney – NdT), l’ancien parlementaire de droite et invité du jour Joe Scarborough s’est lancé dans une critique virulente des assassinats d’innocents par des drones actuellement menés par le Président Obama. En réaction, Joe Klein du magazine Time, et fervent supporter d’Obama, a rétorqué par l’argument le plus ouvertement psychopathe qu’on n’ait jamais entendu sur ce sujet. L’échange, qui commence à la 7ème minute de la vidéo ci-dessous, est très révélateur à plusieurs égards.

Voici les extraits les plus significatifs de cet échange provoqué lorsqu’un invité, Mike Barnicle, s’étonne du peu d’attention et de débats soulevés dans l’opinion publique par le fait qu’Obama se permette de tuer qui il veut « sans autre forme de procès ».

SCARBOROUGH : « Ce que nous faisons avec les drones est étonnant : le fait qu’au cours des huit années du mandat de Bush – lorsque beaucoup de gens posaient des questions légitimes quant au droit international –- Mon Dieu, tout ça a été balayé par notre politique de recours aux drones qui dit ceci : si vous avez entre 17 et 30 ans et que vous vous trouvez dans un rayon d’un kilomètre autour d’un suspect, nous pouvons vous faire sauter, et c’est exactement ce qui se passe... Les opérations visent les méchants mais sans le moindre égard pour ceux qui les entourent et qui se font tuer par la même occasion... C’est quelque chose qui posera problème dans les années à venir...

KLEIN : « Je ne suis pas du tout d’accord... cette politique a été remarquablement efficace » –

SCARBOROUGH : « pour tuer des gens »

KLEIN : « pour décimer des méchants, beaucoup de méchants – et sauver des vies américaines aussi, parce que nos troupes n’ont plus à intervenir... On n’a plus besoin de pilotes parce que ça se fait à coups de manettes depuis la Californie. »

SCARBOROUGH : « Mais moi ça me choque. Parce que ça se fait à coups de manettes depuis la Californie – c’est tellement aseptisé – ça paraît tellement propre – et pourtant à l’autre bout vous avez des fillettes de 4 ans qui se font exploser parce que nous avons une politique qui dit « vous savez quoi ? Au lieu d’aller sur le terrain et de prendre des risques pour aller chercher les terroristes cachés dans une banlieue de Karachi, nous allons nous contenter de faire exploser tous ceux qui les entourent. »

« C’est ça qui me dérange... Nous n’emprisonnons plus les gens : nous les tuons, et nous tuons tous ceux qui les entourent... Je déteste parler comme un militant de Code Pink (organisation progressiste anti-guerre – NdT). Je vous dis que ces – ouvrez les guillemets - « dommages collatéraux » paraissent tellement proprets avec une manette en Californie – tout ça va nous attirer des ennuis. »

KLEIN : « Si c’est mal employé, et il y a un véritable risque d’abus si vous n’avez pas les bonnes personnes au gouvernement. Mais la véritable question est celle-ci – à qui est l’enfant de 4 ans qui est tué ? Ce que nous faisons c’est de limiter la possibilité que des enfants de 4 ans se fassent tuer ici par des actes de terrorisme aveugle. »

#stupid_idiot

Good Morning America’s Sam Champion Comes Out At Thomas Roberts’ Wedding | The New Civil Rights Movement
►http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/good-morning-americas-sam-champion-comes-out-at-thomas-roberts-wedding/media/2012/10/05/50393

Good Morning America’s Sam Champion Comes Out At Thomas Roberts’ Wedding

by David Badash on October 5, 2012

in Media,News
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Sam Champion, co-anchor of ABC’s “Good Morning America,” announced at MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts’ wedding that he and his fiancé, Rubem Robierb, are getting married New Years Eve. Champion, who is 51 and a Kentucky native, has worked for ABC, first at a local New York City station, since 1988.

“Mr. Champion is the first co-host of a network morning television show to publicly identify as gay. He is expected to talk about his upcoming wedding on Monday’s ‘GMA’,” the New York Times reported:

Mr. Champion’s sexual orientation was no secret to the staff of “GMA,” nor to his colleagues and competitors in the media industry. He exuberantly showed off his engagement ring to colleagues the day after becoming engaged and brought Mr. Robierb to parties with fellow co-hosts. But he didn’t speak publicly about it.

That changed last weekend when Mr. Champion and Mr. Robierb attended the wedding of Thomas Roberts, an MSNBC anchor who is also gay. Jacob Bernstein wrote the following in a Sunday Styles section story about the wedding, published online on Friday afternoon:

Among the 170 or so guests at the reception was Sam Champion, the weather anchor at ABC’s “Good Morning America.” He took a turn on the dance floor with his partner, the photographer Rubem Robierb.

“We’re getting married New Year’s Eve in Miami,” Mr. Champion said in the spirit of the moment.

Mr. Robierb corrected him: “We’ll do it here officially, and then have a party in Miami.”

Offering him congratulations and “Good luck with the wedding planning,” Daily Beast writer Andrew Sullivan notes that Champion “comes out in the new low-key, AC360 way in a vows column for another gay couple’s wedding in NYC.”

Bin Laden Letters? Or Lies of the US government? – As‘ad AbuKhalil
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/blogs/angry-corner/bin-laden-letters-or-lies-us-government

The language of the documents makes clear what we have known all along: that al-Qaeda carries a strong sectarian message against all Shias (in one document, Octavia Nasr was described as “Shia” because she was fired by MSNBC – according to the author of the document – after she described Fadlallah in “glowing” terms.)

We don’t know who authored those documents and I for one don’t take at face value any of the claims of the US government. The documents thus far contradicted US stated views about 1) links between al-Qaeda and Iran; 2) links between al-Qaeda and al-Awlaki; 3) links between al-Qaeda and al-Shabaab.

I should also say that in some cases one can raise questions about the authenticity of the letters. Specifically, why would bin Laden refer to suicide operations as “fidai operation” when all his crowd strictly refers to them as “martyrdom operations.”

Et ça commence à marcher

Arrêt sur images - (Proposition de) Lobbying anti-Occupy Wall street
►http://www.arretsurimages.net/vite.php?id=12507

(PROPOSITION DE) LOBBYING ANTI-OCCUPY WALL STREET
Par Gilles Klein le 21/11/2011
Selon la chaîne américaine MSNBC, une société de loobying a proposé un plan d’un coût de 850 000 dollars à l’association des banques américains (ABA) pour dénigrer le mouvement Occupy Wall Street en démolissant son image.
"Dans un mémo de quatre pages, la firme de Washington Clark Lytle Geduldig & Cranford (CLGC) propose à l’Association des banques américaines (ABA) de mener une « recherche » sur Occupy Wall Street pour « construire un récit négatif » sur le mouvement, « à placer dans les médias », ainsi que sur « ceux qui les soutiennent", selon ce mémo publié par MSNBC, détaille le site de L’Expansion. Si les démocrates soutiennent OWS, « cela voudrait dire davantage qu’une gêne passagère pour Wall Street. Cela peut avoir un impact de très longue durée, politique et financier, pour les compagnies au coeur » de Wall Street."

L’ABA a répondu qu’elle n’avait pas sollicité ce plan qui lui a été proposé par la société et qu’elle n’avait pas donné suite à la proposition, mais la polémique est lancée. Deux auteurs de la proposition ont travaillé pour un des responsables républicains du parlement américain. La campagne de lobbying devait durer 60 jours et attaquer le mouvement en montrant qu’il "agit avec cynisme comme un ennemi politique, pour miner sa crédibilité".

Skinhead’s Story of Redemption, With Help from SPLC, to be Told in MSNBC Documentary | Southern Poverty Law Center

Erasing Hate
►http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/news/skinheads-story-of-redemption-with-help-from-splc-to-be-told-in-msnbc-doc

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In 2005, at a white power music festival in Kentucky called Nordic Fest, Widner met his future wife, Julie, who was also active in the white power movement. Together, they began to see the hypocrisy of the skinhead culture and realized it was no place to raise a family. Despite death threats and harassment, they left the movement.

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The SPLC provided financial aid that allowed Widner to get the tattoos removed from his face and hands at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. Each treatment left Widner’s face badly blistered and swollen – a sort of penance for his violent past.

Là c’est l’amour qui a ouvert les yeux, après la marie jeanne, qui guérit de la haine...
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ROMANCE – Kadhafi entretenait une passion secrète pour Condoleezza Rice | Big Browser
►http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2011/08/26/romance-kadhafi-entretenait-une-passion-secrete-pour-condole

Dans le complexe résidentiel déserté par Kadhafi, le butin de guerre retrouvé par les rebelles est pour le moins hétéroclite. Entre les armes plaquées or, les nombreuses statues à l’effigie du « Guide » déchu et les canapés en forme de sirène, les journaliste de l’agence de presse américaine et de la chaîne américaine Msnbc signalent un surprenant album photo. A l’intérieur, une série de portraits de l’ancienne secrétaire d’État américaine sous l’administration de George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice.

#Romantisme

Arrêt sur images - Photo de Ben Laden mort : photomontage ?
►http://www.arretsurimages.net/vite.php?id=10986

Via son compte Twitter, l’émission « web-participative » Les Observateurs de France 24 (informée par Gilles Bruno, du site l’Observatoire des médias) indique avoir repéré sur la toile le second cliché original qui a sans doute servi pour le photomontage :

Les chaînes CNN et MSNBC assurent par ailleurs que le corps de Ben Laden a été immergé en mer, sans que le lieu et les circonstances de cette inhumation n’aient été précisées. Les autorités américaines n’ont pas confirmé, mais les commentaires fusent déjà sur le net.

Leaked: US government strategy to prevent #leaks - TechSpot News
►http://www.techspot.com/news/41889-leaked-us-government-strategy-to-prevent-leaks.html

The US government’s 11-page document on how to get various US government agencies to prevent future leaks has been leaked to MSNBC. It doesn’t get any more ironic than that.

►http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/01/us_strategy_to.html