by Seamus OBlimey » Sun Jul 30, 2006 7:11 am
"Fox News Says Hezbollah 'Certain' To Nuke Major City<br><br>Channel is terror group's biggest cheerleader as Americans hit with the sum of all fearmongering<br><br>Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | July 27 2006<br><br>Following the ceaseless bombing of Lebanon, Fox News has gone thermonuclear in its mission to drive fear into the hearts of Americans by insisting that Hezbollah's use of a nuclear device in a major US or Israeli city is inevitable and that only increased surveillance of Americans can stop it.<br><br>Couched in a bizarre Hannity and Colmes demonstration, where a Geiger counter (soon to be a common household object apparently) was used to measure radiation of packets placed in the two presenter's pockets, guest Cham Dallas, director for the Center for Mass Destruction Defense, was determined to get his message across.<br><br>Dallas: Sometime in the future there's going to be a nuclear weapon used in the United States - certainly a radiological device is going to be used and a lot of radioactivity is going to fall on American citizens.<br><br>Colmes: You say that like it's a certainty, like there's no question it's going to happen.<br><br>Dallas: There's no doubt in my mind that at some point in the future we will have a radiological device probably soon and a nuclear device at some point five or ten years after.<br><br>Dallas fingered Pakistan and North Korea as the likely suppliers of nuclear weapons without informing the viewers that the receipts for this technology are in the hands of the US government - Rumsfeld fast-tracking nuclear capability to North Korea and the Bush family protecting A.Q. Khan's network.<br><br>Not content with saying it twice, Dallas snapped up the chance provided by Hannity to repeat his doomsday creed a third time.<br><br>Hannity (referring to Hezbollah and Al-Qaeda): Do you doubt that these terror groups could get a weapon - if they did there's no doubt they would use it against Israel is there?<br><br>Dallas: There's no doubt in mind that if I should say when one of these terror groups gets a weapon like Hezbollah - within the next decade - they will use it within a time of their choosing, but they would use it.<br><br>And a fourth time!<br><br>Hannity: So the likelihood is that within ten years it would not be shocking to you in any way for people to turn on this news channel and find out that a nuclear device has gone off in a major city around the world?<br><br>Dallas: I'm certain of it.<br><br>And a fifth time!<br><br>Hannity: You're certain of it - you have no doubt?<br><br>Dallas: There's no doubt in my mind about it.<br><br>Five times in the space of two minutes - nuke - major city - inevitable - rinse, wash, repeat.<br><br>Nuke - major city - inevitable - sell your rights down the river for a geiger counter.<br><br>As if this overdose of 'duck and cover' type fearmongering wasn't enough to stomach, the next day Fox's 'Big Story' show hosted by John Gibson picked up the 'you're all gonna die' baton and ran with it with glee.<br><br>Gibson's guest was CEO of Investigative Management Group Robert Strang, who makes a mint from building up security companies and selling them on for tidy profits - hyping imaginary terror threats puts bread on his table.<br><br>Set to accompanying booms and explosions on one side of the screen, Gibson and Strang eulogized about Hezbollah's ties to Al-Qaeda and how their deadly cells were ready for activation within the US.<br><br>Saying a massive terror attack on US or Israeli soil was all but certain, Strang pleaded with fellow guest Judge Andrew Napolitano to increase surveillance of phone calls and e mails - intoning that only Big Brother could save us from the inevitability of mushroom clouds over America."<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2006/270706hezbollahnuke.htm">Prison Planet</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>And...<br><br>"Blair risks 'poodle' jibes to join Murdoch's jamboree <br><br>Prime minister knows applause at conference will come at a cost <br><br>Michael White<br>Saturday July 29, 2006<br>The Guardian <br><br><br>On Sunday afternoon an executive jet will interrupt Tony Blair's five-day US visit to fly him from San Francisco on a short hop to the Monterey peninsula. Waiting for the prime minister will be 500 of Rupert Murdoch's News International executives, plus their partners and VIP guests, who are in conference at the luxurious Pebble Beach golf resort until Thursday.<br><br>Mr Blair will stay only two or three hours, give his address on a favourite theme, leadership in the modern world, take questions and probably attend a reception. In an audience of admirers of his unfashionable pro-Americanism he is certain to be well received. Mr Murdoch himself admires steadfastness in adversity. "Iraq means Rupert will never dump on Blair," explains a close Murdoch-watcher.<br><br>But Mr Blair knows from experience that he will pay for the applause: his enemies at home will see it as yet further proof of a "poodle" relationship with the Australian-turned-American media tycoon, scarcely less malign than the servility he supposedly gives President George Bush, whom he saw yesterday.<br><br>Media gossip, unconfirmed by insiders, claims that if Mr Blair had turned down the invitation, it would have gone to David Cameron, the kind of rising star News International prides itself on cultivating. Given Mr Murdoch's known coolness towards the Tory leader (he thinks "not much" of him, he told CBS TV last week), that seems unlikely. Gordon Brown would be a better bet. "I like Brown very much on a personal level," he said on CBS.<br><br>Either way a ticket to a Murdoch-fest is one politicians deem worth having and Mr Blair is only one of several star speakers at Pebble Beach, who include Bill Clinton and California's governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. And at least two possible 2008 presidential contenders will be present, the maverick Arizona Republican Senator John McCain (Rupert is a fan) and Al Gore, who is close on green issues to son James Murdoch, head of Sky TV.<br><br>These jamborees are staged every few years at a major tourist destination. For Mr Blair it is a swansong. He first spoke at a Murdoch conference in 1995, a year after becoming Labour leader. It was his entry into the big time of first-class travel and VIP suites. Tomorrow's speech may be a year before he throws off the relative austerity of elected office and joins the Clintonian lecture circuit full-time.<br><br>Apart from the speeches, what goes on at a Murdoch-fest? Insiders, who speak on condition of anonymity, say they vary. In Aspen there was golf, hot air balloons, white water rafting and an unfortunate experiment with strippers. Cancun, run by Lachlan Murdoch, was gruelling from 8am working breakfasts to dinner time.<br><br>"It depends on Murdoch's mood. If he thinks we've been having too much fun he says 'we have have more work, it's not a jolly'," explains one veteran attender.<br><br>Sometimes there are mainly plenary sessions, sometimes working groups charged with explaining their strategy to colleagues or listening to a successful businessman from another field entirely. The Yahoo! entrepreneurs, who made more money in a few years than Murdoch has in a lifetime, have appeared. "Rupert is fascinated by big business, he admires successful rivals, even al-Jazeera," says another insider. General Tommy Franks, head of the Iraq invasion, was a popular turn.<br><br>The theme at Pebble Beach is new media, and how to achieve synergy and integration with older media. Mr Murdoch came late to the internet and lost millions. Encouraged by MySpace's success, the great networker is back and - at 75 - keen to learn more. All four UK Murdoch editors, Rebekah Wade (Sun), Andy Coulson (News of the World), Robert Thomson (Times) and John Witheroe (Sunday Times) will be there, along with NI's UK capo, Les Hinton, and a few favoured executives or writers.<br><br>Some attenders will never recover from a gaffe at Pebble Beach. The conferences are replete with malicious stories: the executive who produced that striptease at Aspen; the woman columnist whom Murdoch personally slapped down; the fumbling tabloid executive whose presentation bombed. Down - or out - they go.<br><br>In tomorrow's speech Mr Blair is expected to rehash familiar themes - the need for democracy and open markets, for greater cooperation to defeat the challenges of poverty, global warming and terrorism, the urgent case for reform of bodies such as the UN. A message U2's Bono, another speaker, will probably reinforce.<br><br>Mr Murdoch knows how to play the global game. In an idealistic moment he boasted that his satellite TV stations had helped destroy Soviet tyranny, though he backed down in China when Beijing pulled his chain. Candidates in Beijing elections do not depend on the Sun's support to succeed.<br><br>"We regard the occasion as a useful opportunity to get our case across," explains a Blair aide."<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,,1832815,00.html">Guardian</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
