Tag: Fake Facts

CNN erases West Bank and Gaza Strip | The Electronic Intifada

Map excluding West Bank and Gaza Strip

America’s MSM view of the Middle East, in this case CNN leaves Palestinian Gaza and the West Bank out of its picture of the Middle East as if the territories illegally occupied by Israel are legal. While the Golan Heights are shown here as Syrian territory CNN fails to mention Israel’s illegal occupation of it as well. Their’s is a totallt fake view of the region. Meanwhile, the Jewish Diaspora, the majority of Jews living outside of Israel, are fast becoming Anti- The Israel State. Israel may once have has claims to self defence but that fake claim was lost years ago when it became the primo aggressor and occupier in the region.

No such correction has been forthcoming from CNN or GPS, which raises the prospect that CNN’s cartographers do not recognize the reality of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory. Until corrected, the map seemingly portrays just one uninterrupted Israeli apartheid state. This is, of course, the political reality – one that makes more likely the struggle for equal rights in one state rather than Palestinian statehood in disconnected West Bank and Gaza bantustans.

Source: CNN erases West Bank and Gaza Strip | The Electronic Intifada

Where do Afghanistan’s refugees go?

As a scholar specializing in forcible displacement and refugees, I see this harrowing scene unfolding within a broader context of Afghanistan’s long-standing displacement crisis. This includes an unequal sharing of refugees between the developed world and economically disadvantaged countries.

Source: Where do Afghanistan’s refugees go?

The Daily Caller is receiving money from Trump and GOP groups while its subsidiary participates in Facebook’s fact-checking program | Media Matters for America

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Snake Oil selling has always been an American tradition. At least pet rock’s were refreshingly honest as was a can of Fresh Air. James Murdoch couldn’t “TAKE IT ANYMORE” Tucker Carlson wants to do more selling (ODT)

The Daily Caller is a right-wing publication with a history of promoting false information and hiring or publishing white nationalists and other bigots. In 2019, Facebook began partnering with Check Your Fact for the social media giant’s fact-checking program. Popular Information’s Jugg Legum documented in March how the Daily Caller used “its role as a Facebook fact-checker to boost Trump and discredit a mainstream media outlet, Politico.”

Check Your Fact states on its “about us” page that it is “a for-profit subsidiary wholly owned by The Daily Caller, Inc. Majority owners of The Daily Caller, Inc. are co-founder and publisher Neil Patel and co-founder Tucker Carlson. The Daily Caller’s fact-checking team is funded by The Daily Caller’s general news budget, as well as revenue generated through advertising.” (Carlson sold his stake in the Daily Caller last month.)

via The Daily Caller is receiving money from Trump and GOP groups while its subsidiary participates in Facebook’s fact-checking program | Media Matters for America

Old Dog Thoughts – Molesting Aunty, and her budget.

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Andrew Bolt’s Blog,3/4/19 2 things is all you need to know about this budget; Abbott’s Debt and deficit disaster 16.8% to 42% of GDP; Tax Cut drop shot;

EDITORIAL: Sketchy GC Mayor Tom Tate lies — local Murdoch rag covers it up

Gold Coast developer mayor Tom Tate has brazenly lied about his longstanding business relationship with alleged fraudster Frank Kovacevic — and the local News Corp scandal sheet has let him get away with it.

News recently emerged that Kovacevic has been attempting to offload the Picasso sketch he, with the assistance of the colourful mayor, allegedly cheated from prominent Flamenco guitarist Fernando da Costa several years ago.

And while the Gold Coast Bulletin reported some of the details of this scam, this News Corp publication allowed Tate to claim in its pages this month, unchallenged, that Kovacevic had never  been his “business associate”.

IA HAS REPORTED THE TRUTH — AS DID THE GCB, ONCE!

As Independent Australia readers would be well aware from our meticulous investigations into the colourful exploits of Tom Tate and “Frankie Four-names” Kovacevic, this is an outright, brazen, lie.

Tate’s decades long business relationship with Kovacevic documented comprehensively in IA, but it has also been affirmed under oath by numerous parties, including Tate and Kovacevic, both inside and outside court.

via EDITORIAL: Sketchy GC Mayor Tom Tate lies — local Murdoch rag covers it up

Damned if they do: Trump played TV networks with dishonest address and they fell for it again | Salon.com

“The big scam of the whole address is that there is a crisis,” Wallace said. “There is no crisis.”

Not on our Southern border, maybe. But if our news organizations keep caving to a President skilled at manipulation and fond of an authoritarian style of governance, there will be.

via Damned if they do: Trump played TV networks with dishonest address and they fell for it again | Salon.com

Donald Trump isn’t partial to facts — and he can’t be beaten by them – Donald Trump’s America – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Donald Trump gestures with his hand as he speaks to governors.

Mr Trump, as we well know, isn’t particularly partial to “facts”. He didn’t care about them in 1989 when he took out a full page ad in the New York Times calling for the death penalty for a group of innocent teenagers, and he doesn’t care about them now.

Mr Trump knows he’s lying. He doesn’t care. His supporters know he’s lying. They don’t care either.

via Donald Trump isn’t partial to facts — and he can’t be beaten by them – Donald Trump’s America – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)