gotta love how the usa always supports dictators, unless they fail to support the usa’s military agenda… the usa – proud to support dictatorships round the globe, lol…

saban haim http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haim_Saban was reportedly in talks to buy up to 50% of it a few years ago, but the fact is their is no opacity in the ownership of aj, apparently for a good reason, or because they don’t have to reveal who is calling the shots… qatar is an interesting country for a lot of reasons, not to mention it is essentially a type of dictatorship where a version of modern day slavery is still practiced and it is quite a wealthy country…

can anyone tell me who owns aj? it is hard info to get hold of it seems…

the usa gov’t might like to make a big whinny fuss about wikileaks, but what are they going to do about china, especially if these chinese hacks find some real dirt? granted, there is plenty enough dirt on the usa at this point and those in power are craven enough to think it matters diddly squat……..

glenn greenwald discusses this same topic today as well..
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/

ot – I just saw Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s speech to AIPAC last night(May 23rd). He took a rightwing foreign prime minister’s side against his own president:

No one should set premature parameters about borders, about building or about anything else.

http://mondoweiss.net/2011/05/harry-reid-sides-with-netanyahu-over-obama.html

walt disney is being used for propaganda purposes… condition young kids to get used to body scans and all the rest of the bullshit so that they grow up to evasion of privacy is normal… anything to prop up a country that is clearly headed in the wrong direction and gets full support from some of the props that help hold it up……

arab spring will happen in gaza too, in spite of the usa’s misogynist relationship with israel.. nothing like a bad relationship to screw others in the vicinity…

i agree with jeff kaye and gulf coast pirate..

as for the palestinians expressing non-violence – indeed, a great idea, while israel continues to murder them and steal their land with not a word from the bullshit leader from the usa.. must not have animosity towards israel for its murderous actions, as it is okay for them to steal land and murder anyone who protests in an non violent manner as we saw the past week.. obama is a hypocrite……….

how very typical…………..

i think you are getting at the crux of the matter… if the military industrial complex is going to survive it needs to prop up an excuse for all the expenditures… osama and terrorism have always been seen as justification for the many wars, drone attacks and etc that have gone on for many years…

in the meantime at what point to folks catch on to the idea that these global military operations, covert and overt are actually responsible for an increase in terrorism, not a decrease… trying to get rid of murder with more murder doesn’t sound like a recipe for success to me and it never has….

i think you were banging yer head against the wall before you typed the message too, lol.. might want to stay away from the typewriter…

the war started back in late march this year… the only thing was the mainstream media – corporate run – decided to not tell anyone about it… some people are figuring it out now for themselves it seems… obama is a cog in the mil………

sandinbrick – obama is bringing the usa down! bush and cheney did the same thing… the election and what the usa has come to be is an empty shell of it’s former self..

when secrecy is used to hide laws being broken a leader with vision would challenge the secrecy part for the purpose of maintaining the law part… with obama as with bush and cheney and etc, we have the exact opposite.. secrecy is used to cover up those breaking the law… what a corrupt facade to uphold.. it fools a few i suppose…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfmtUpd4id0

obama on manning at 47 seconds – ‘he broke the law’… wow…..

time for another ross perot, or a 3rd party… wow… manning defines obama and right now it ain’t pretty…

would be nice if this was required reading for those growing up being told to respect the military… the reverse would happen and is what needs to happen..

the snowball has been rolling down the hill for a while now.. it’s gotten more momentum under obama… one can’t excuse the many other ”leaders” who have knowingly or otherwise been responsible for the sorry state of affairs the usa finds itself in…

the usa of bullshit… thanks for being a force for positive change emptywheel..