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S. Arabia's Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal Control on US' (& other) media

Posted on 02/15/2009 1:09:29 AM PST by Righting

ARAB MUSLIM CONTROL on western MEDIA
 
Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal, chief executive of S. Arabia’s Kingdom Holding Company Control on US  (& other) media
 
Who owns CNN?
The answers might surprise you (or maybe not). Ever wonder why CNN and Time are so blatantly pro-islamic. Ever wonder why these weasels want are tooo eager to toe liberal / islamic propaganda??
A good chunk of AOL Time Warner is owned by Prince Alwaleed Ibn Talal the Saudi billionaire. It is well known that Prince AlWaleed is a front for the Saudi royal family. All of the oil money that is swindled from Aramco the Saudi oil company is "invested" by Prince Al Waleed and his company.  (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1465942/posts, http://blogs.sun-sentinel.com/sports_basketball_heat/2008/09/beasley-hurt-ea.html?cid=132826195#comment-132826195)
From the 'Saudi Online' page:
RIYADH, 12 March — Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal announced yesterday that he has spent $1 billion on stocks over the last six months, including another $500 million on Citigroup.
“Already the world’s largest shareholder in Citigroup, the prince’s shareholding in the world’s most profitable bank is now around $10 billion,” said a press release from his Kingdom Holding group.
“At about $43, Citi’s share price was at too attractive a price,” the prince said in the statement.
And he added $450 million to existing shares in AOL Time Warner. “The price was very cheap at around $23,” the prince said.
“I believe in the power of the AOL brand and I am already a shareholder in this global media giant. Therefore, when the price reached lucrative levels, we decided to increase our stake. The weakness in AOL’s stock price is temporary as it reflects the temporary weakness in several areas in which it is involved,” Alwaleed said.
He also increased his stake in priceline.com to $100 million, or 5.4 percent of the company.
http://www.saudia-online.com/NewsMar02/news06.shtml
 
AOL BIAS - This is a growing guide to AOL political and religious bias seen by AOL subscribers as
demanded by its Arab owners.
Alwaleed,Arab,owned,Arab,money
AOL shows political and religious bias in its news coverage. The bias is also seen in the use of AOL message board
censorship policies.  Poster's messages are deleted by AOL monitors violating AOL's own Terms of Service, TOS.
Time Warner has taken no action to stop the bias but has looked into it.  They did nothing.  AOL is owned by Arab money.
Alwaleed spent $1 billion on stocks recently
RIYADH, 12 March — Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal announced yesterday that he added $450 million to existing shares in AOL Time Warner.
“The price was very cheap at around $23,” the prince said. 
http://www.dicksguides.com/ZDGKN/POLS/AOLissues/AOLownedbyArabs.htm
 
Is CNN International Really - ANN or the Arab News Network ??
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/comments/122382
 
CAIR, WAMY to launch massive propaganda campaign“We are planning to meet Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal for his financial support to our project ....
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/011934.php
 
Georgetown’s Capitulation to Radical Islam  
By Joe Kaufman and Jeffrey Epstein
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, January 06, 2006
Georgetown University was built with a Catholic and Jesuit identity.  This bit of information is proudly displayed on the school’s website.  But like Bethlehem in Israel, that identity is quickly being lost to a radical strain of Islam, as a counter-terror symposium has been abandoned and a pro-terror conference has been confirmed.  Indeed, one of America’s most prestigious universities appears to be under siege.
Fearing violent reprisal from militant Muslim members of their student body, the school’s conference center rejected an educational symposium being hosted by America’s Truth Forum (formerly the People’s Truth Forum), a non-partisan, fact-based organization whose sole mission is to educate the American people on topics of national security.  In this case, the subject matter to be discussed involved the “Underlying Roots of Terrorism: The Radical Islamist Threat to World Peace and National Security.”...
While the counter-terror symposium was shunned, an organization associated with violence has been awarded a forum.  From February 17 - 19, the Palestine Solidarity Movement (PSM), an activist group that has expressed its willingness to work with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, will be holding its “Fifth Annual Divestment Conference” on Georgetown University’s campus.  At past events, shouts of “Kill the Jews” and “Death to Israel” could be heard amongst the crowd.  And according to a news report, during PSM’s last conference, when a resolution to condemn terrorism was voted down, “the delegates erupted in cheers.”
When PSM announced its event, it’s interesting to see who they sent a press release to.  A site that devotes a page to the release, Palestine Monitor, is said by one source to be a “PRO-TERRORIST SITE.”  This is easy to understand, as the website contains numerous pages glorifying the Intifada (uprising) against Israel.  Another location that prominently displays the press release is Ramallah Online, a hate site that equates the Jewish Star (Star of David) with the Nazi Swastika.
Not wanting to anger its on-campus insurgency, the university has remained hush about the event.  The consideration of a small matter of money may also be on Georgetown’s mind.  The PSM conference is coming on the heels of a $20 million donation to the school, given by a fairly effluent Saudi sheikh, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.  This is the same sheikh who had previously donated $27 million to a telethon that raised money for the families of suicide bombers.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=3398EF71-9067-4C86-88D2-9A8AD51427A5
 
Hamas.... at least $50 million from wealthy Saudis like Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal, ...
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?archive=112006
 
Saudi Prince Al Waleed bin Talal hoster of telethons for suicide bomber families buys large share of Fox News
Saudi prince advocates strategy of business not boycotts to 'influence American public opinion"
September 25, 2005
http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/1109
 
Saudis Buying Shares of Fox lets freakin take over the oil fields already in saudi arabia... Prince al-Waleed ibnTalal already owned stock. ...
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=17651_Saudis_Buying_Shares_of_Fox
 
New Islamic satellite channel launched
March 8, 2006
Filed under: Newspapers — Hans Henrik Lichtenberg
Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal, the chief executive of Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Holding Company, has officially launched an Islamic satellite channel seeking to project Islam as a religion of moderation, the Arab News online daily reports. Al-Resalah (The Message) has been broadcasting informally since last Wednesday. At a press conference on Monday, Prince Alwaleed said the 24-hour channel would target an Arab audience, especially young people, by projecting ‘our Arab heritage through a modern medium.’. Al-Resalah will be the forerunner of a future English-language Islamic channel for Western audiences. The prince said the new Islamic network would provide a platform for a dialogue on religious, social and economic issues affecting everyday life, but its priority would be to counteract the misconceptions of Islam in other societies. Tarek Alsuwaidan, the channel?s general manager, said that 40 per cent of the programmes would be youth oriented, 30 per cent would target women and families, and 10 per cent would focus on children, Arab News reports. (AKI,March 08, 2006)
http://blog.newspaperindex.com/category/newspapers/page/7/
 
Saudi Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal owns 5.46 percent of Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate News Corp.
http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/002958.html


TOPICS: Politics; Religion
KEYWORDS: alwaleedbintalal; alwaleedibntalal; cnn; fox; mediabias; msm

1 posted on 02/15/2009 1:09:29 AM PST by Righting
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To: Righting

The turn of events in the last several years leaves almost no doubt that we are almost owned lock stock and barrel by these people.

Right on up to the White House.

I wonder if Obama’s election was a gimme for these people.


2 posted on 02/15/2009 1:20:47 AM PST by Califreak (Stimulus-paying back donors and vote farming)
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To: Righting
One day CNN International did a special coverage for the Hajj . But no coverage for Christmas . Now I know why .
3 posted on 02/15/2009 1:21:41 AM PST by Indian_Fighter_Kite
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To: Indian_Fighter_Kite
One day CNN International did a special coverage for the Hajj . But no coverage for Christmas . Now I know why . Sounds like another 'Christiann AmanPour' job...
4 posted on 02/15/2009 1:36:59 AM PST by Righting
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To: Righting

5 posted on 02/15/2009 1:48:48 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out
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The Failure of Western Universities [incls. Middle East studies, MESA, Saudi funding at Georgetown and Harvard, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, John Esposito, Martin Kramer, Daniel Pipes] Kari Vogt, historian of religion at the University of Oslo, has stated that Ibn Warraq's book "Why I am Not a Muslim" is just as irrelevant to the study of Islam as The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion are to the study of Judaism. She is widely considered as one of the leading expert on Islam in Norway, and is frequently quoted in national media on matters related to Islam and Muslim immigration. People who get most of their information from the mainstream media, which goes for the majority of the population, will thus be systematically fed biased information and half-truths about Islam from our universities, which have largely failed to uphold the ideal of free inquiry. Unfortunately, this situation is pretty similar at universities and colleges throughout the West. London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), scene to a growing number of anti-Semitic incidents from an increasingly pro-Islamic campus, issued a threat to one of its Jewish students to cease his protests against anti-Semitism at the University. Gavin Gross, an American, had been leading a campaign against the deterioration of conditions for Jewish students at SOAS, which is part of the University of London. SOAS had witnessed an escalation of anti-Jewish activity, in both severity and frequency. At the beginning of the year, the Islamic Society screened a video which compared Judaism with Satanism. Meanwhile, in a move to "promote understanding between Islam and the West," Saudi Arabia donated about SR13 million to a leading British museum. The officials said the money from Prince Sultan would pay for a new Saudi and Islamic gallery, which would help to portray Islamic culture and civilization in right perspectives. It would also help fund scholarships for Saudi students at Oxford University. The Saudis and other oil-rich Arabs are busy buying influence over what Westerners hear about Islam. Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, a member of the Saudi Royal Family, is an international investor currently ranked among the ten richest persons in the world. He is known in the USA for a $10 million check he offered to New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani in October 2001 for the Twin Towers Fund. Mayor Giuliani returned the gift when he learned that the prince had called for the United States to "re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause." Prince Talal is also creating a TV channel, Al-Resalah, to target American Muslims. He already broadcasts in Saudi Arabia. In 2005, Bin Talal bought 5.46% of voting shares in News Corp, the parent of Fox News. In December 2005 he boasted to Middle East Online about his ability to change what viewers see on Fox News. Covering the riots in France that fall, Fox ran a banner saying: "Muslim riots." Bin Talal was not happy. "I picked up the phone and called Murdoch [...] [and told him] these are not Muslim riots, these are riots out of poverty," he said. "Within 30 minutes, the title was changed from Muslim riots to civil riots." http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4257
6 posted on 02/15/2009 1:48:48 AM PST by Righting
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

I haven’t seen this one, kudos.


7 posted on 02/15/2009 1:50:05 AM PST by Righting
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

8 posted on 02/15/2009 1:52:09 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out
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To: Righting

your post inspired me. makes the point nicely


9 posted on 02/15/2009 1:54:17 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out
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To: chuck_the_tv_out
As a 'master of this art'... Can you embed this too?
10 posted on 02/15/2009 2:56:10 AM PST by Righting
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To: Righting
You've missed a rather important bit of Alwaleed bin Talal patronage; according to Percy Sutton, former attorney for Malcolm X and Charles Rangel, Bin Talal, through Khalid al Mansour/Donald Warden, sponsored Barak Obama’s Columbia and Harvard educations. Some, al Mansour among them, claim that the mentoring began while Barry was at Occidental. Both of Barry's roommates were from elite Pakistani families with whom Barry stayed during his visit to Pakistan in 1981, before his transfer to Columbia. This was the time when Barry himself proclaims that he had found his calling in black nationalism. Al Mansour became a principal legal agent for bin Talal some time in the mid 1970s. Through al Mansour, bin Talal became a prolific supporter of black nationalist causes - hardly Barry's background after Indonesian schools as a Muslim, and prep school in Hawaii.

I just don't see why bin Talal would see it in his interest to cripple the American economy, and with it our ability to defend the Saudis. I do see signs, even on the 14 Feb Wall Street Journal editorial page, that Saudi investment is affecting our media (see the dishonest smear of Dutch MP Geert Wilders, who was refused entry to England to show his short film, Fitna, in Parliament, for which he was invited.) Bin Talal is a major supporter of CAIR, and of Wahabbi Mosques, which constitute about 90% of Mosques in the US. Does he own Obama? Who knows, but we sure as hell won't learn about it from ‘our’ media.

11 posted on 02/15/2009 2:57:31 AM PST by Spaulding (Wagdadbythebay)
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To: Spaulding

Thanks for pointing out to us, this important item!


12 posted on 02/15/2009 3:00:53 AM PST by Righting
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To: Righting

I considered something like that, but considered that it just gives the anti-oil leftards ammunition.

a bottom banner of “Don’t drill here, don’t drill now” would probably cut the right balance I think

http://www.oldversion.com/download_Paint_Shop_Pro_6.02.html


13 posted on 02/15/2009 3:04:28 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out
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To: Righting

Khalid al Mansour/Donald Warden, sponsored Barak Obama’s Columbia and Harvard educations.You have three guesses what else they sponsored!


14 posted on 02/15/2009 4:15:27 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Righting

Good post. I’m sure the globalistas will be along shortly to re-educate you.


15 posted on 02/15/2009 6:05:32 AM PST by CowboyJay (Stop picking on Porkulus. He's not fat, he's just big-boned.)
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