GE Puts the Lid on Olbermann's Scathing Attacks on O'Reilly

Little Billy Can't Take As Good As He Gives. 

By Mark Karlin

For nearly 10 years, BuzzFlash has asked its readers for financial support because it doesn't accept advertising.


Now Keith Olbermann knows why.


In a deal between the head of GE (the owner of MSNBC) and Murdoch's FOX News reported in The New York Times, it was agreed that Olbermann would back off his chronic lacerating caricatures of Bill O'Reilly (although it can still be expected that he will go after O'Reilly and FOX, but much less frequently).


In return, FOX and O'Reilly, in particular, will stop attacking the business dealings of GE.  Are you getting the picture of how even MSNBC is affected by big corporate ownership?


A key indicator of what was threatening GE is buried in The New York Times article about the "peace agreement" (which amounts to a decrease in virulent exchanges between O'Reilly and Olbermann). Here are two points worthy of note to indicate that MSNBC talent may be kept on a shorter leash than progressive followers had hoped for:

The reconciliation — not acknowledged by the parties until now — showcased how a personal and commercial battle between two men could create real consequences for their parent corporations. A G.E. shareholders’ meeting, for instance, was overrun by critics of MSNBC (and one of Mr. O’Reilly’s producers) last April....

In late 2007, Mr. O’Reilly had a young producer, Jesse Watters, ambush Mr. Immelt and ask about G.E.’s business in Iran, which is legal, and which includes sales of energy and medical technology. G.E. says it no longer does business in Iran.

Mr. O’Reilly continued to pour pressure on its corporate leaders, even saying on one program last year that “If my child were killed in Iraq, I would blame the likes of Jeffrey Immelt.” The resulting e-mail to G.E. from Mr. O’Reilly’s viewers was scathing.

Like most of the feuds between the right wing media echo chamber and progressive critics, the publicity surrounding O'Reilly-Olbermann slugfest helped the ratings of both programs.


But when FOX started to go after the business dealings of the parent company of MSNBC, GE, television ratings took a second place to corporate interests.


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BuzzFlash loves Keith Olbermann, but in the end he's an employee of GE, and MSNBC is dispensible to them.  They'll milk the progressive wave as long as it doesn't really threaten the entrenched status quo. In the end, their primary interests as a corporation include going nuclear, literally.  GE isn't going to let Keith or Rachel or Ed get in the way of that.


It's all just business to GE and Rupert Murdoch.  GE isn't about to slice its own throat.


Just remember that.


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Let The Sun Shine In......

Sibel's Rogues Gallery

  

Does anyone actually still believe that there is any such thing as Democrati or Republican or Likud Party or other such "political parties?" (At least the Greens call themselves the same thing from country to country....and NO, I am not a member of any political party in any country, including the Green party) As my other said once or twice, 'the Nazis, Fascist and Communists were all political parties before they became enemies of human rights and liberty and

What about regions like Europe and North America, Central Asia, Indonesia, Sub Saharan Africa, Northern Africa,  and others; nationalism?  There really is not much to nationalism these days and hasn't been for a very long time, even though the citizens of regions and states can certainly be

whipped into frenzy of insanity with tactics like deception, especially when fear is used to accomplish the deception. 

Another commonly recognized "sin" commonly used to deceive mankind, brings some major karma with it" --------- it's known as spiritual pride. It matters not, what form it takes; whether the pride is religious in nature or if it is pride connected with a so-called NEW AGE belief system.

Terrorism is nothing new. It is a tactic that been around since mankind decided to stop wandering and to sit down, build villages, city centers, and , of course, then, had something to protect. 

(Of course there are always those who continue to wander and others who wander in more modern ways. Our Global Villages seem to continue to recognize the human need to wander. If we ever completely  forget that wandering brings a special kind of wisdom to the wanderer, as well as to those who allow themselves to be taught, in someway, by the wanderer, our time left as a species is growing shorter, and is moving faster than we thought it would.

I do not particularly care who employs terrorism as a tactic nor what his or her cause is, no matter whether they are men and women in middle eastern garb or very expensive, tailored suits worn by westerners. I DONT CARE!! The use of terrorism is despicable beause being terrorized always brings out the worst in people. It matters not if the exrteme emotion of terror is caused by hijacked planes used as flying bombs in NYC or "shock and awe" over Bahgdad. The results are pretty much the same in all the ways that matter. The outcome is always the same and it is never, ever good for anyone involved in the tactic of terrorism and often not for people who are in no way involved with either the terrorized nor the terrorist....AKA, collateral damage.

Does anyone believe that there are, at the bottom or top of this giant ponzi scheme we call an international economy........ that there are those who are really true winners and/or losers and who are truly free? 

(I had a friend who moved to Mexico not long after returning from his last tour of duty in Vietnam. He lived there with no television and a bare knowledge of Spanish, just outside a charming Mexican village. This was by choice. He just didn't want to know much anymore about anything. The less News the better. He lived in Mexico for about 25 -30 years, if I recall. 

When he returned for his father's funeral, what amazed him most was how the wealthy had incarcerated  themselves in gated-communities, buildings with security that would make NORAD envious and such. He was really quite amazed at a social phenomenon which had occurred gradually, over the years from the early eighties to the middle of the first decade of the 21st century, but for him it was as if had all happened over-night..

Does anyone believe they can begin to even comprehend the world in which the world-elite live?

Does anyone else ever feel like there is a class of people on this planet who are little known if known at all, who barely touch the general reality of the vast majority and yet seem to more-or-less control the reality of the masses? Seems to me that this split reality can be quite dangerous for everyone involved.

Of course, any time someone like me states the obvious, like the western caste system which certainly seems obvious to so many of the inhabitants of planet earth. we expect to be called the loony right or left, depending on which is needed, Commnnists and Fascist, Totalitarians and Authoritarians, Nazis, Chinese Communists or Maoists, Pinkos or, get this...... "Dirty, stinkin' Hippies"

(No, seriously, I actually heard peace activists called "dirty, stinkin' Hippies" by Brooks Brother types and other citizens of Wingnuttia at a peace rally on the National Mall  in late September, 2005. I kid you not, there were people who seem to believe that the gray hairs and some of their grand children, some families which consist of Dad, Mom, daughter and son in a traditional form, as well as families not  quite so traditional.). 

That's not to say that I haven't seen some of the same looniness from the left as I have from the right. 

Unfreakin'believable!

Rogues Gallery

Last year, Sibel came up with a brilliant idea to expose some of the criminal activity that she is forbidden to speak about: she published eighteen photos, titled "Sibel Edmonds’ State Secrets Privilege Gallery," of people involved the operations that she has been trying to expose. One of those people is Anwar Yusuf Turani, the so-called 'President-in-exile' of East Turkistan (Xinjiang). This so-called 'government-in-exile' was 'established' on Capitol Hill in September, 2004, drawing a sharp rebuke from China.

Also featured in Sibel's Rogues Gallery was 'former' spook Graham Fuller, who was instrumental in the establishment of Turani's 'government-in-exile' of  East Turkistan. Fuller has written extensively on Xinjiang, and his "Xinjiang Project" for Rand Corp is apparently the blueprint for Turani's government-in-exile. Sibel has openly stated her contempt for Mr. Fuller.

Sibel's Photos of Some Of Our 'Favorite' Scumbags

Sibel has broken the photos into three different groups.

The first group contains current and former Pentagon and State Department officials.

Richard Perle

Douglas Feith

Eric Edelman

Marc Grossman


Brent Scowcroft



Larry Franklin

The second group is current and former congressmen

Dennis Hastert - Ex-House Speaker (R-Il)
(Dickstein Shapiro)


Roy Blunt - ( R, Mo)

Dan Burton - (R - IN)


Tom Lantos - (D- CA)


?

Bob Livingston - ex-Speaker of the House (R-LA)
The Livingston Group



Stephen Solarz (D-NY)

The 3rd group includes people who all appear to work at think tanks - primarily WINEP, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Graham E. Fuller - RAND

David Makovsky - WINEP

Alan Makovsky - WINEP


?

?


Yusuf Turani (President-in-exile, East Turkistan (Xinjiang))

Professor Sabri Sayari (Institute of Turkish Studies, Georgetown, WINEP)

Mehmet Eymur (Former head Turkish counter-terrorism, MIT)

As you can see, there are a couple of 'Question Marks' instead of photos. I'm not sure why that is the case.

AND THIS AIN'T THE HALF OF IT!!!!!

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Let The Sun Shine In......

Osama worked for the CIA?

The funny thing about this, if there is anything funny about it at all, is that there was a time, not all that long ago, when I would have by-passed this post much as I do the the one reporting that Michael Jackson is from the planet Bullshit in the Dogpiss galaxy  and that all his kids are the first true, balanced Alien/earthlings to be born on planet earth, or some other total horse shit. 

After the last 8 years or so, I've become much more open-minded about what is possible and what is not.  Wonder how that happened. LOL

Sibel Edmonds Bombshell: Bin Laden worked for CIA up to 9/11

www.bradblog.com/?p=7332
 

 

 

Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds dropped a bombshell on the Mike Malloy radio show, guest-hosted by Brad Friedman (audio, partial transcript). In the interview, Sibel says that the US maintained 'intimate relations' with Bin Laden, and the Taliban, "all the way until that day of September 11." These 'intimate relations' included using Bin Laden for 'operations' in Central Asia, including Xinjiang, China. These 'operations' involved using al Qaeda and the Taliban in the same manner "as we did during the Afghan and Soviet conflict," that is, fighting 'enemies' via proxies. As Sibel has previously described, and as she reiterates in this latest interview, this process involved using Turkey (with assistance from 'actors from Pakistan, and Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia') as a proxy, which in turn used Bin Laden and the Taliban and others as a proxy terrorist army.

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Let The Sun Shine In......