Thursday, November 22, 2007
[Arabs Muslims Controlling the World] Will OPEC Dump the Dollar? [Our Arab Oil Giants "friends"]
[Arabs, Muslims Controlling the World] Will OPEC Dump the Dollar? [Our Arab Oil Giants "friends"]
businessweek ^ 11/21/07
Will OPEC Dump the Dollar?
BusinessWeek
Iran is pushing OPEC to shift away from pricing oil in dollars and instead to a basket of currencies that could include the euro. ...
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/nov2007/gb20071120_087338.htm?chan=globalbiz_europe+index+page_companies
iran refuses to rule out oil as weapon
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=86871
Can anyone explain to me what on earth gave Bush the idea that the Suadi Arabians are our friends? because it was not the "maginficent" 19 Saudi 911 Hijackers...
Technorati - Freedom 911 Al Qaida Al Qaeda Al Qaida Bin Laden Islamofascism Islam Apes and pigs Terrorism Terrorist oganization Hamas 'palestinians' Al Aqsa Alaqsa Muslims Christians Jews Arabs bombing Infidels Israel US Security Jihad War on Terror Iraq Iran Muslim control OPEC Euro Dollar Arab control Oil lobby Oil Mosque Foreign policy West non Muslims Democracy Venezuela Saudi Arabia Islamic Threat Nukes UAE Islamists
Labels: ahmadinejad, anti Americanism, Arab lobby, control, Goliath, Iran, Muslim lobby, oil, oil lobby, OPEC, Saudi Arabia
Thursday, March 08, 2007
LGF Exclusive: How Much Does It Cost to Buy Global TV News? - [Arab Muslims Control]
LGF Exclusive: How Much Does It Cost to Buy Global TV News? - An LGF reader who worked for Associated Press TV News sent me the following article explaining how APTN works, and suggesting a reason why their coverage of the Middle East is so overwhelmingly biased against Israel:
LGF Exclusive: How Much Does It Cost to Buy Global TV News?
An LGF reader who worked for Associated Press TV News sent me the following article explaining how APTN works, and suggesting a reason why their coverage of the Middle East is so overwhelmingly biased against Israel:
How Much Does It Cost to Buy Global TV News?
The vast majority of the TV news pictures you see are produced by two TV news companies. Presented here is a case for how a large amount of money has been used to inject a clear bias into the heart of the global TV news gathering system. That this happens is not at question, whether it is by accident or design is harder to tell.
You may not realize it, but if you watch any TV news broadcast on any station anywhere in the world, there is a better than even chance you will view pictures from APTN. BBC, Fox, Sky, CNN and every major broadcaster subscribes to and uses APTN pictures. While the method by which they operate is interesting, it is the extra service this US owned and UK based company offers to Arab states that is really interesting.
About the Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is a not-for-profit news gathering and dissemination service based in the US.Formed in 1848, the AP grew up from an agreement between the six major New York newspapers of the day. They wanted to defray the large telegraphy costs that they were all independently incurring for sending the same news coast to coast. Despite being highly competitive, they formed the Associated Press as a collection agency and agreed to share the material. Today, that six-newspaper cooperative is an organization serving more than 1,500 newspapers and 5,000 broadcast outlets in the United States. Abroad, AP services are printed and broadcast in 112 countries.
Associated Press Television News
Associated Press Television News (APTN) is a wholly owned subsidiary of AP. It was formally set up as a separate entity in 1994. It is run as a commercial entity and aims to make a profit. Any profit it does make is fed back to AP (which is non-profit making: APTN profits reduce the newsgathering costs incurred by the 1500 US newspapers that collectively own the AP). APTN is the largest television news gathering player (larger than Reuters, its only true competitor in this field). While AP is based in the US, APTN operates out of large premises in Camden, London. They have news teams, offices and broadcast facilities in just about every important place in the world.
APTN uses news crews and broadcast facilities all over the world to record video of newsworthy events (in News, Sport and Entertainment). These pictures are either sent unedited or very partially edited back to London. Most news is fed back within hours but they also cover and feed certain events live (news conferences in Iraq, press conferences after a sporting event etc.). Most of these stories are sent in with “natural sound”: there is no journalist providing a voice over, but the choice of what to shoot is in the hands of the local producer and camera crew. Local crews are sometimes employed directly by APTN, or more often “stringers” are hired for a particular event or paid for the footage they have already captured.
Once the stories have been fed back to the UK they are edited. This is a round the clock operation. The goal is to produce a 30 minute news bulletin comprising 6 or 7 stories every few hours. These stories are made by editing down the raw “rushes” that come in from all over the world. This is done by a team of producers who work for the news editor. They don’t supply a voice over but they do edit, discard and sequence pictures dictating the emphasis and direction of the story. They will accompany each story with a written description of each shot and the general reason this was a story. This is repeated for News, Sport & Entertainment with a geographical emphasis that shifts around the world as different markets wake and sleep. The output of this is called the “Global News Wire” (GNW).
The Business of TV News
This is how APTN makes its money: news organizations (mostly TV but not all) subscribe to APTN and pay an annual amount to both watch and then re-use the stories that are fed over the GNW. The stories are supplied with sound, but no journalist to do a voice over. Most commercial news stations (like the BBC, SKY, Fox or CNN) would take this feed, decide which pictures to use then re-edit it and supply an appropriate voice over for the story. The video comes with a written description of the shots and the events that occur in them.
The fee for this feed depends on the size of the receiving organization, their audience size and a negotiation with APTN’s sales force. It is pretty much impossible, however, to operate a TV news organization without taking feeds from either APTN or Reuters or usually both. The agreement with APTN usually allows the receiving news channel unlimited use of the video for two weeks. If they want to re-show those pictures after that they have to separately license the pictures (which can cost anything from $100 to $10,000 per 30 seconds depending on the content).
A Separate Service for Arab States
However, there is another significant part of their business model that affects the rest of the business. While most of the world takes news pictures with minimal interpretation beyond editing, the Arab Gulf States have asked for and receive a different and far more expensive service. These states pay for a complete news report service including full editing and voice overs from known journalists. The news organizations in the Arab countries don’t do anything (beyond verify that they are appropriate for local tastes) before broadcast.
What this means is that while there are around 50 people producing news pictures for the whole world working in Camden at any time, there are a further 50 Arabic speaking staff producing finished stories exclusively for the Arab states of the gulf. This has a tremendous effect on the whole feel of the building as these two teams feed pictures and people back and forth and sit in adjacent work areas. The slant of the stories required by the Gulf States has a definite effect on which footage is used and discarded. This affects both the Gulf newsroom and the main global newsroom.
This full service feed is much more expensive for the customers than the usual service, but it is also much higher margin for APTN. This is partly because there is great commonality in what they can send to most of the Gulf States taking this service: stories are made once and used in a number of countries.
Disproportionately Negative Coverage of Israel
Anything involving Israel is a favorite with Gulf Arab states for showing to their viewers. Could this be the reason why Israel receives such a disproportionate amount of particularly negative coverage especially and increasingly ever since the early 1970’s? HonestReporting is usually unable to decide which is most biased: AP or BBC. As the BBC is often using APTN footage, the difference is minor. A significant twist to what is seen, concerns what is not seen. Footage such as the Palestinian mob joyfully lynching two Israeli reservists in Ramallah in October 2000 is held by APTN’s library: any attempt to license this film for reshow is carefully vetted. Requests for the use of “sensitive clips” are referred directly to the Library director. This is not the case with clips that paint Israel in a bad light. Likewise, the re-showing of Palestinian celebrations on 9/11 is considered “sensitive”.
The way in which raw footage such as APTN’s is compiled into a news report and sent round the world has also been analyzed. The Second Draft gives a comprehensive view of how editing can make all the difference. APTN is the gatekeeper that sits between you and the actual event. You will never see what the editors at APTN see before they compile your evening news. What do you think is cut out?
The Wrap-Up
Was this organization set up with this in-built bias on purpose? Is there some way that the expensive payments made by Gulf state governments form part of a deliberate attempt to skew the media?
In “Islam and Dhimmitude” (2002) by Bat Ye’or on p294-296 she recounts how decisions were taken in the wake of the Arab-Israeli war of 1967 to try to put across an anti-Jewish, anti-Zionist message. Successive conferences resolved to contribute vast sums “to universities, centers for Islamic studies, international communications agencies, and private and governmental organizations in order to win over world opinion.” (p296).
The messages from these conferences stressed an addition to the more familiar violent jihad: they also emphasized the importance of jihad by the written and spoken word—what we would recognize as classic propaganda. Without question APTN’s interesting business model represents a concrete example of an ongoing financial “contribution” to an important communication agency promoting a pro-Arab bias.
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Labels: arabs, control, Goliath, muslims
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Islamo Arab Lobby - Mafia
In the UN, EU, and in General
http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.13545/pub_detail.asp The Arab lobby crippling police in security
http://www.scottishfriendsofisrael.org/united_nations.htm Arab lobby and UN
http://www.wzo.org.il/en/resources/view.asp?id=26 The Arab Boycott: Economic War Against the State of Israel
http://www.islamreview.com/articles/europeanfears.shtml Arab lobby functioning through European functionaries, built into the European institutions to influence Europeans
http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/Jewish+Education/Education+FAQ/Hasbara+-+Israel+Advocacy+Resources The campaigns were fueled by the financial and international political power of the Arab lobby in the UN and the world, which exerted pressure through ...
http://www.middleeastfacts.com/Articles/ arabian-fights-how-the-saudis-lobby.php Arabian Fights: How the Saudis Lobby
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15962 Already the Euro-Arab lobby of the powerful replacement theology models Arafat as a Moses, or even ... , casting the Arafatian cult into the Palestinian
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/981 What Riyadh Buys [in Washington]
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/tobin.archives.asp Delegitimizing pro-Israel voices is priority for Arab lobby after Iraq
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=8902 FBI Polarized by the "Wahhabi Lobby"
http://www.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/murawiec200511220847.asp “Talibans with Oil and a Good P.R. Company”
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/usoil.html Their Oil Weapon
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/161 The Politics of Muslim Anti-Semitism
Arab wealth and influence exceeds Jewish
Wealth buys influence. Thirty years of oil wealth have given Arabs wealth that ... is considerably diminished, along with a lot of Jewish lobbying leverage...
http://www.samsonblinded.org/israel_america/3arab_wealth_israeli_influence.htm
Carter's Arab Funding Colors Israel Stance
http://veritas-lux.blogspot.com/2006/11/carters-arab-funding-colors-israel.html
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TRAITORS Arab "americans" see US as ENEMY!
Excerpts from Arab Lobby's cable TV Talkshow
How Arab 'Americans' propogate, whine, imagine, panic!
Tuesday night: May 16 2006
The Arab international cable ART, had a program on it's "Downstairs Cafe" (managed by Aseel Aborno) about how to lobby, how Arab Americans should get involved, to "counter" the (so called) "Jewish lobby".
What is the Arab agenda? Anti Israelism, that's all!
It seems that their entire burning agenda is how Israel is doing, poor group of people have no other issues, but if Israel the victim & the underdog from Arabs' genocide-menace is a bit successful in getting it's message & image across, now, that just kills them.
Never mind the Arabs living inside Israel that their lives are impacted by empowering Israel, then again it reminds us of the 1948 Arab crime on "Palestinians" (then called Arabs, plain) to leave the area (many did) until they -- promised to -- ethnic cleanse the Jews... then, have put them all in shabby camps, denying all aid from reaching the "Palestinians", so that they could play them against Israel's image.
It's, again, not about pro - Arabs as much as anti Israel, racism at it's "best".
They had a guest: prof. Edmond Ghareeb, his title; 'Middle east analyst', he was advocating the idea that Arab Americans should learn from the pro Israel lobby that convinces that Israel is a strategic asset to the US, that it's in all Americans' interest to support her, (here this "professor" had to insert that lying propaganda of course) they convince that it is a democracy (Any proof against that, like Arab women voting in Israeli election, representation in all government branches, equal rights, with often preferential treatments to Arab Israelis over Israeli Jews in Israeli courts, open free speech, what not?).
Even their "moderates" have ridiculous pathetic paranoia
He was 'kind' enough to point out that it's not Jews, but non Jews also (never occurred to him that most non Jews don't need any Jews telling them who's right & who's wrong, I would also ask him then, why call it "Jewish lobby"?), that are in think tanks, lower level of government, journalists, etc. but even a Prof. like him is really diluted that all these journalists that he might perceive as pro Israel (I bet many of them are anti Israel in me eye...) really work in "cooperation" & in coordination", so such libels sounds familiar?
Yes, welcome to Arab Muslim hidden and open dark "theories" rooms, where they describe the individuals they seem to hate as "linked", oh my God, all these individuals must meet every Tuesday night in a secret location on "how to influence".
CNN gets 5,000 emails on an anti Israeli report
He was crying out that why CNN doesn't get any supporting mails from Arab Americans in the anti Israel reporting cases, well, how about the 5,000 emails are spontaneous?
No, the Arab activists can't bring themselves to think that they are just wrong on the middle east, and that most Americans know the overall picture, and there is no "secret get together", silly Professor!
Sam Saad - A lawyer, self proclaimed implant in US government to influence indirectly: "sit down with the -- US enemy"
This lawyer from the midwest: Sam Saad is of Lebanese descent, he tells M. Karram that is against joining the US government (too many dhimmis or apes & pigs?) but advocates to email the congressmen, Sam Saad says to her and to the audiences:
You have more power if you become fiend with them, then you can really influence them, other wise you are just on the side lines (Prof. Edmond Ghareeb interrupts & says: both are needed).
Sam saad: "You have to sit down with the enemy" -- remember that/his statement!
Racist Sam Saad has a problem with too many Jewish representatives
He was really troubled by the fact of 'how many Jewish Representatives', never mind that a Jewish representative does not always mean a Pro Israel Rep. or wise versa, but even a lawyer and "polished" Arab like him has that racial hatred.
CONCLUSION
All in all, the entire theme was about on how to be anti (so called) J. Lobby, naturally anti Jewish racism came up, even in such an Arab American -- supposedly -- moderate forum, Sam Saad's treacherous outburst and Anti Americanism should also not be ignored..
The Arab Lobby - Mafia, in Latin America too
(Nov, 2006)
So you already know the years long grip on the UN by the Islamo Arab "lobby" mafia, how they control, threaten dictate those rediculous anti Israel resolutions or to torpedo anything US wants done in world security, or to torpedo any step that would condemn the Arab militias and the Sudanese government's most heinous crimes, slavery, and genocide in Sudan, now spilling over to Chad as well.
So you know as well about Eurabia, and the Islamic Arab goliath lobby mafia in Europe, how the EU is afraid of the Arab Muslim immigrants' usual violent intifadahs, though it doesn't help them much , all those EU various Arabist decisions.
But I doubt if you heard about the Arab lobby mafia in S. America, not only in Brazil that has around one Million Arabs (Syrian and others), that push for more ties with Arab nations in Lula's years but Venezuela is largely supported by Lebanese Arab merchants in that S. American country.
It appears that Arabs' hatred is that high against the US that they would rather support a socialist that will nwever accommadate the Quran but anti Americanism is enough to be such a great motive.
"Lobby"? actually too much of a soft term to this gang, What? the Arab lobby ever does something good for Arabs? like helping in Iraq, Lebanon or amng "Palestinians"? of course not, but all they are about is ANTI (like anti US or the poll that shows most UK Muslims are anti west), never PRO anything (just like they support Hezbollah's crimes on their own people in Lebanon in causing civilians to die, because anti Israelism is that of a sacred goal to them).
So now you know why a Christian socialist Chavez -- supported by Arabs -- would risk suicide in dealing with anti-all-west the Jihadi monster: Adolf Ahmadinejad.
And of course do not disconnect all of this to the Islamic Terrorist group Hezbollah finance, channeled from "holy" dirty illegal smuggling at the Paraguay - Brazil border.
Arab Muslim Goliath Lobby Mafia, in central America
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1154525889070&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Costa Rica to relocate embassy to TA, Most would be hard-pressed to guess, but the surprising answer to the question is El Salvador. , Costa Rica's president, Oscar Arias, said Wednesday the move was needed to bring the Central American nation in line with international law and mend relations with Arab nations.
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=133&view=item&idx=1138 Last Two Embassies Move to Tel AvivBoth El Salvador and Costa Rica, the last two bastions of political recognition of Israel’s capital, have decided to move their embassies from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv.
They, like many other nations, succumbed to pressure from Arab and Moslem nations which refuse to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital or deal with countries who do.
Even though the US has it's embassy in Tel Aviv, the move that JUST happened -- all of a sudden -- is surely connected to (the open secret) Arab Muslims that have financed the Costa Rican Oscar Arias.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/013296.php Fitzgerald: Fighting against the Jihad in Latin America ... Factors militating against Islamic conversions among Latin Americans: ...
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Related:
The Global Islamic Lobby
- What Riyadh Buys in Washington (2002)
- Europe's Whabbi Lobby (2005)
- The Arab Lobby Loses A Battle
- Exposing the Muslim Lobby(2006)
Labels: Arab lobby, Goliath, Islamic lobby, Islamo Arab lobby, oil
