Suffice to say that billionaires such as Mayor Bloomberg need not worry about having to pay more taxes any time soon.
All three major cable news networks - Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN - aired Rep. Peter King's (R-NY) opening statement at his controversial anti-Muslim congressional hearing, but then cut away before Bennie Thompson (D-MS), the ranking member of the committee, began his remarks.
"Viewership of Al Jazeera is going up in the United States because it's real news," Clinton said Thursday. "You may not agree with it, but you feel like you're getting real news around the clock instead of a million commercials and, you know, arguments between talking heads, and the kind of stuff that we do on our news," Clinton said. "Which, you know, is not particularly informative to us, let alone foreigners."
"You may not agree with it, but you feel like you're getting real news around the clock instead of a million commercials and, you know, arguments between talking heads, and the kind of stuff that we do on our news," Clinton said. "Which, you know, is not particularly informative to us, let alone foreigners."
And Rick Piltz of Climate Science Watch adds:
And it’s not just about covering the Middle East; we first noticed it in Al Jazeera English’s respectable internationalist focus on the 2009 UN Climate Summit, which most U.S. media essentially ignored.
As his government continued to wage a crackdown on calls for protest rallies, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Saturday pledged to rein in corruption, economic inequality and a host of other problems at the root of widespread frustrations in China.
The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating pace, according to a new NASA-funded satellite study. The findings of the study -- the longest to date of changes in polar ice sheet mass -- suggest these ice sheets are overtaking ice loss from Earth's mountain glaciers and ice caps to become the dominant contributor to global sea level rise, much sooner than model forecasts have predicted.