What should you know about the "WESTERN MEDIA"

What is "WESTERN MEDIA" ?
           

So, first of all lets start with the definition of "western media".

"The  Western media refers to the news media of the Western world.It evolved during the second world war to counter the media of Soviet Union".
For example, the leading NEWS channels in USA are CNN, FOX NEWS, etc.And the popular NEWS papers are Washington post, The News, etc.

                                         What we think that the main goal of this media is freedom of speech, to inform people whats going on around the world and get to the truth.But what people don't know is how politicized this media is and what they really want to achieve.

                                        What you should know and what i am going to discuss here are the goals of western media behind the scene. I will discuss mostly about American media but let me point out that i am not generalizing the whole American media/media, there are journalists, who perform there responsibility honestly and have no secret mission.Following is the brief info about the behind the scene goals;

Political Goals :

                                       Media is the main source to achieve the political goals of politicians or war lords. Political goals can be positive but i am here to discuss the negative scene, which the media make it look good for you. Those goals are to hide the truth from the people, to justify their wrong decisions and to get the support of the local people by feeding them lies or keep the busy in another story.

                                      The points that i am going to discuss below are mostly political too and all these tactics are used to mislead the people. 

Brain washing :

                                     This is one of the main goals.The major problem here is that the people don't even know that they are being brain washed.Now a question will arise in your mind that "how they are brain washing you".Well its not such a hard question to answer,lets define brain washing, brainwashing refers to the involuntary reeducation of basic beliefs and values" The term has been applied to any tactic, psychological or otherwise, which can be seen as subverting an individual's sense of control over their own thinking, behavior, emotions or decision making.For example if  you don't know anything about a country, religion or any other story etc then the media is the only way through which you get to know a little bit and so it all depends on them that what they want you to know because many people don't have tome or guts to research about that story to get to know the real truth.Media really effects the way you think about anyone any group because they will give you only one sided view or the negative view of the story.

Biased media :

                              Biased means " unfairly prejudiced for or against someone or something "
Western media is highly biased in the selection of events and stories that are reported and how they are covered. We all know how biased North Korea media is there are many western journalist and news producers give only one sided view and are unable to give a neutral point of view. 

Double standard :

                             Its a major problem with western media, their double standard on a specific country or a religion especially Islam.For example the word terrorist is used as a synonym for Muslims and if a Muslim commit any hate crime, you will see breaking news all over the media that a "terrorist Muslim"  has done this and there will be talk shows on that but when a non-Muslim commit the same crime they will just call him a criminal and that story will not get much coverage.

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'BBC silent on Israeli crimes against Palestinians'

The BBC, that paragon of broadcasting, repeatedly fails to give the necessary context when reporting events in occupied Palestine. The rest of the mainstream media are equally guilty but we still tend to look to the BBC as the standard setter, a lofty position from which it has slid a long way recently.


In its many reports about the three teenage Israeli squatters allegedly kidnapped and murdered by Hamas, I have never heard the BBC explain that the Fourth Geneva Convention, article 49, forbids an occupying power to transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies and that doing so constitutes a war crime.

So when it comes to pinning the blame for the triple killing the finger must surely point to Israel’s prime minister Netanyahu and his delinquent government. By wilfully expanding their illegal settlement policy even when so-called peace talks were going on, and knowing full well that reprisals might follow, they deliberately put these youngsters in harm’s way.

We know that at least one of them lived in a settlement built on stolen land. Information on the others is hazy but WAFA, the Palestinian news agency, refers to all three as settlers. If that’s the case, they were trespassers in the West Bank. And like all squatter-settlers their very presence on Palestinian territory, let alone their arrogant behaviour, would have been provocative in the extreme and an affront to the rightful Palestinian residents. The risks to the boys’ safety were painfully obvious.

Many suspect, with good reason, that the abduction and murder was a false flag operation, in which case the finger of suspicion stays pointed at Netanyahu. Of course, Netanyahu is determined to pin the blame on Hamas one way or another. There are many in the British parliament too who are eager to give Hamas a good kicking and seem to have made up their minds already. For example,

Robert Halfon (Harlow) (Con): “The world has seen the tragic and brutal murders of three Israeli youngsters, most probably by Hamas. Will my right hon. Friend give the Israeli Government every possible support at this time? Does he agree that, far from showing restraint, Israel must do everything possible to take out Hamas networks, and will he give the Israeli Government support in that?”

The Prime Minister (David Cameron): “What I say to my hon. Friend, who I know is passionate about these issues, and to everyone in the House, is that this was an absolutely appalling and inexcusable act of terror, and one can only imagine the effect on the families and friends of those poor teenagers, and what happened to them. It is very important that Britain will stand with Israel as it seeks to bring to justice those who are responsible...”

But Israel still hasn’t produced evidence that Hamas was responsible, as when Netanyahu’s spin doctor was challenged repeatedly by a lone BBC reporter in this video clip.

The British government, questioned in the House of Commons, says it has seen and heard no evidence that Hamas was involved.

On 1 July Hugh Robertson, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office told MPs: “As for who is responsible, it is too early to say. The British Government have no firm evidence…The Israeli Government are very clear about the fact that Hamas was responsible… but we have no hard evidence in London to back that up.”

Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield) (Lab) asked: “Will he [Robertson] say to the House, in the appalling situation we are in at the moment, what he thinks are the responsibilities under international law of the Palestinian Authority and what are the responsibilities of the Israeli Government as an occupying power in the West Bank, and will he confirm that collective punishment of the Palestinian people is a crime under international law?” But Robertson simply sidestepped the point about Israel’s responsibilities and the collective punishment inflicted on the Palestinians. It wouldn’t do to upset those nice racist friends of Mr Cameron in Tel Aviv.

Squatter-settlers are often armed, behave abominably and are protected by the Israeli military. Many are religious nutters. What would the citizens of Witney in Oxfordshire or Kansas City USA make of gun-toting, foreign intruders swaggering down their high street causing mayhem, burning olive groves, driving residents from their homes, harassing shoppers, terrifying children on their way to school and even driving their cars at them?

The death of any youngster is a tragedy. And it is obscene to claim, as some do, that one young person is more precious than another. So here’s another piece of context you won’t hear from the BBC or any other mainstream medium. Since the second intifada (September 2000) 1,656 Palestinian women and children have been killed in the occupied territories by Israeli security forces and civilians. In the same period just 256 Israeli women and children were killed in Israel by Palestinians. The arithmetic puts the tragedy of the three Israeli teenagers in a more sobering light. The figures are supplied by B’Tselem, an Israeli information and human rights organisation.

As of yesterday, at least 640 Palestinians had been arrested since the start of the Israeli military crackdown following the alleged disappearance of the three teen settlers, who were later found killed. These included 59 released prisoners in the exchange deal of 2011, including 11 pre-Oslo prisoners bringing up the number of pre-Oslo prisoners in Israeli jails to 41, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement.

11 Members of Parliament had also been arrested, bringing up the number of imprisoned parliamentarians to 22. The number of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails now stands at over 5,800.

Yesterday, in a Commons debate ‘Protecting Children in Conflict’, Grahame Morris (Easington) (Lab) said: “There is a danger that the current climate of vengeance and retribution will worsen the situation. Uri Ariel, the Israeli housing Minister, has called for a “proper Zionist response”, meaning an acceleration of Israel’s illegal expansion of settlements in the west bank and East Jerusalem and a programme of punitive house demolitions. The Israeli Deputy Minister of Defence, Danny Danon, said that Israel should make the entire Palestinian leadership pay a heavy price for the killing of the three Israeli teenagers, and Mr Lieberman, the Israeli Foreign Minister, advocated a full-scale invasion of Gaza as a legitimate response. In the name of security, rights, justice and peace, the demands of these politicians must be rebutted, resisted and challenged by the international community.”

He might have added, the international media. But the BBC and the rest still treat those animals with utmost reverence.
                                                           source:http://www.abna.ir/english/service/europe/archive/2014/07/11/623188/story.html

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400 killed in Aleppo in recent air strikes...

400 killed in #Aleppo in recent air strikes, says Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Shaar district on 16 December:

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Entertainment’s worst moments of 2013

WORST MOVIE

It’s a tie between two supposed comedies that revel in political incorrectness while committing the fateful error of being entirely unfunny.

InAPPropriate Comedy: ShamWow! TV pitchman Vince Offer’s vapid sketch comedy fiasco earned zero stars from me while burying Adrien Brody’s career by casting him as Flirty Harry, a flinty-eyed cop dressed in capri pants who sneers, “Go ahead, make me gay.”

Linda Barnard

Movie 43: When this gross-o-rama slithered unheralded into movie theatres last January, I described it my review as the worst movie ever made. My opinion hasn’t changed. Produced and co-directed by Peter Farrelly, Movie 43 is discharge from an overloaded sewer, a series of sketches attempting to one-up one another for bad taste. It’s also the biggest waste of talent in cinema history, with such stars as Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Liev Schreiber, Kate Bosworth and many more punching a time clock for Farrelly’s creatively bankrupt laugh factory. My only regret is that I couldn’t give it a rating lower than zero stars out of four.

WORST CELEBRITY

Justin Bieber: Through bucket-pissing, brothel-visiting, unlawful graffiti, excessive partying, balcony spitting and misogynist song lyrics, our tiny national terror’s greatest crime is still his refusal to pull his damn pants up.

Malene Arpe

WORST GAME

Star Trek: With the arrival of the next generation of game consoles, it was a good year for gaming, as many stellar titles sent the old gen out with a bang. But that didn’t stop plenty of dreck from filling store shelves and hard drives.

Sure, everything is a matter of taste, but one game that easily sank to the bottom of the barrel was Seduce Me, a PC-only game that was supposed to be an erotic adventure, but instead is a silly card matching game that’s even more laughable than its premise.

But that’s not our worst, particularly if we take into account the unfortunate feeling of dashed expectations. Star Trek: The Game gave false hope to this life-long Star Trekfan for a decent action game featuring the young Kirk and Spock. A third-person co-op shooter with little personality, poor graphics and full of glitches, this was a bad game that went where too many games have gone before, and quickly ended up in the discount bins where it belongs.

Raju Mudhar

WORST STAGE SHOW

Fortune and Men’s Eyes: Birdland Theatre’s production of Fortune and Men’s Eyeshas to stand out as the worst stage show of 2013, despite some stiff competition from the Stratford Festival’s Romeo and Juliet.

Why was it so bad? For a variety of reasons. It made John Herbert’s classic piece of Canadian drama seem tedious and pointless, which it isn’t. It made a quartet of young actors look appalling, except for the brilliant David Coomber, who triumphed in this theatrical disaster. But, worst of all, it continued to destroy the once-promising reputation of Birdland Theatre, which used to do great shows like Assassins and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. Stefan Dzeparoski — who also helmed 2010’s worst showSoulSeek — directs in the kind of self-indulgent style I would call Eurotrash if I didn’t feel so fondly about Europe. Stop this man before he kills again.

Richard Ouzounian

WORST ARTWORK

The Miraculous Journey: Got to hand it to Damien Hirst. He makes it easy. In 2013, though, he outdid himself in sheer crass over-the-top extravagance. In fall of this year, Hirst unveiled “The Miraculous Journey,” 14 enormous bronze sculptures tracing human in-utero development, from conception to birth, ending with a newborn baby boy, all parts intact. To give an idea of the scale of things, the baby is 46 feet long.

That this happened on the behest of the royal family in Doha, Qatar, one of a handful of terrifyingly flush Middle Eastern republics bent on using its infinite purchasing power to buy artistic credibility overnight, should come as no surprise.

“The Miraculous Journey” is either the apex of self-absorbed hubris or an extension of the monumental in-joke Hirst has been plying with increasing transparency his whole career. I’ve always felt his more recent work, especially, has been an elaborate critical performance about the stratospheric excess of the international art market, and a dare to the public at large to call him on it.

Oddly, no one ever did. And so we have “The Miraculous Journey,” which I can imagine to be a miracle, in Hirst’s mind, in that someone was willing to fund such a monumental simpleton’s fantasy, to the tune of $20 million no less. Damien Hirst does things because he can; and so long as there are deep pocketed sources who believe he should, the joke will ever be on us.

Murray Whyte

WORST INTERNET MEME

Harlem Shake: The backlash started in March. But the damage was already done. By early February, the Harlem Shake was a meme, a retina-singeing, eardrum-detonating series of copycat videos that proved talent was not a strict condition of popularity in 2013.

The dance craze inspired more grainy replicas than any other video this year as athletes, celebrities, soldiers and worker drones from every social rank gyrated in front of cameras, convulsing like they’d been jolted with billion-watt stun guns.

As the meme took hold, corporations rushed into the YouTube hinterlands. And the proletariat groused about the myth of grassroots virality. Or something like that. Not that it really mattered. Rich, poor, the Harlem Shake transcended class. Anyone could be a dancing fool provided enough sitting fools were willing to click.

Vinay Menon

WORST TV SHOW

Dads: Maybe it’s just funnier when you have cartoon characters being profane. Or here’s a novel idea — being borderline racist isn’t funny, period. One thing is for sure:Dads, the sitcom by Family Guy creator Seth Macfarlane and starring Seth Green, Giovanni Ribisi and Martin Mull, is the biggest television dud of 2013. The plot centres around two thirtysomething guys who have their lives interrupted when their dads move in with them. The show fails on so many levels that the rare zero percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes may actually be generous. Of course, that didn’t stop Fox from ordering another half a dozen episodes in October.

Tony Wong

WORST BOOK

The Demonologist: While anyone can write a bad book, it takes a bit of talent to write a truly terrible one. Andrew Pyper can write, but his relentless pursuit of blockbuster bestsellerdom lands him in a hot mess — one might also say, with a wink to one of 2013’s biggest bombshells, an inferno — of epic proportions in The Demonologist, a misguided attempt to channel the spirit of Dan Brown.

Pyper’s hero is David Ullman, an English professor specializing in Paradise Lost — he may well remind you of Brown’s Robert Langdon — who must drive across the U.S. unlocking a series of riddles in order to recover his daughter, who was kidnapped by a demon.

Like a lot of great bad books, the kind you actually enjoy, one wants to read The Demonologist as a parody. Of course, this makes its earnest tone even funnier. Indeed, the plot is so ludicrous and finally incoherent that one wonders if the whole thing was only meant to represent the frantic delusions of a bookish middle-aged man having a bad day.

Alex Good

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How Google Glass Could Be Your Smart Home Command Center...

If Google Glass blossoms into the everyday wearable of Google’s wildest dreams, we’ll have every incentive to keep the smart visor glued to our faces all the live long day. Glass is handy for travel, commuting and generally being out and about, and it could also mean big things for that nebulous future we’ve collectively dubbed “the connected home.” 

This realm roughly extends from just beyond the threshold of our smart-locked front doors through our automated thermostat-rigged walls on into the kitchen—a potential smart gizmo playground—to that epicenter of home life turned tech marketing cliche, the living room. 

Few would argue that such smart homes aren't one of the next big things. Homes in the U.S. already boast over half a billion internet-connected devices. Many of these are designed to work with smartphones and tablets, which may be approaching a saturation point, but a whole new class of gadget is about to barge in the front door. 

And Glass? Well, Glass is with us all of the time, in this hypothetical future scenario at least. So let's play along.

Glass As A Command Center

We don't surrender our smartphones as we cross into our homes—in fact, home smartphone usage shows quite the opposite behavior. For the connected-home relevance of Google Glass, that's a good thing. Glass is the perfect smartphone proxy. In fact, one of my favorite places to wear Glass is in my home office. It keeps me focused on the task at hand by freeing my mind from the digital itch to check email and have my attention whisked off by the ever-spinning social carousel. 

Smart home automation company Revolv clearly saw the potential for Glass at home too, releasing an early walkthrough of its Google Glass app, which replicates the features in its Revolv for smartphones. 

Other home-tech innovators should take note, particularly as Glass picks up steam with a wide consumer release and future hardware updates. Revolv has the right idea, tying an array of smart home devices into a single cloud controller (for $299, it's worth mentioning). 

The Contextual Home

With its heavily modified Android guts, Glass is essentially a vessel for Google Now, Google's eerily accurate software effort to serve up the information we need before we even know we need it. Triggered by cues like time and location, Glass knows when we're at work—it happily lets us know how long it'll take to get there in traffic—and it knows when we're back home too. 

It's not hard to imagine the possibilities with all that sensor data and the geofences that Google Now (or Apple's Reminders) use as cues. Wearing Glass, you walk into the kitchen and are met with the relevant apps—Allthecooks' recipe list, for instance. Settle down on the sofa, and Glass conjures up a directory of the night's best TV listings.

Or say those listings were culled from a not-yet-hatched bit of Glassware, such as Netflix, Xbox or even a proprietary smart TV app for Glass. You could discover and navigate shows and movies just by swiping and tapping Glass, all via your home Wi-Fi—similar to how mobiles already work with Chromecast. 

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REPORT:Syria sides fight for keeps as Geneva peace talks loom.

By Jim MuirBBC News, Beirut

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NEWS;THAILAND ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTS, NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2013

   1.THAILAND ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTS, NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2013                     Thai opposition to hold mass rally in Bangkok in campaign to down government - @BBCNews                               read more on bbc.co.uk

  2.                  CUBA                                                                                                                                 

                    Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro meets with former Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Havana - @AP

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  2.                LYBIA CONFLICT                                                                                                                    

        8 others injured in reported suicide attack at checkpoint near Benghazi, Libya - @AFP

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  2.                  LATA, TEMOTO, SB                                                                                                       

        Magnitude 5.1 earthquake hits southwest of Lata, Solomon Islands - @USGS

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Afghanistan: aircraft crash kills six US soldiers - Isaf

Afghanistan aircraft crash kills six US soldiers 

ISAF

Six American soldiers have died in a crash involving an aircraft in southern Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) says.

The cause of the crash in Zabul is unknown and an investigation is under way, Isaf said.

Initial reports indicated there was "no enemy activity in the area" at the time of the incident, a short statement said.

US defence department officials confirmed the victims' nationalities.

The deputy governor of Zabul province told the Associated Press news agency that a Nato helicopter had crashed in the remote district of Shajau.

It was not clear if he was referring to the same incident.

The crash is one of the deadliest incidents for the Nato-led coalition in recent months.

There have been a number of crashes involving Nato aircraft over the last decade - either due to accidents or enemy fire.

In 2011, the Taliban said it had shot down a Chinook helicopter over Wardak province, killing 38 people, most of them Americans.

Earlier this year, Isaf handed over security for the whole of Afghanistan to Afghan forces, but some 97,000 troops remain.

The Isaf force currently has soldiers from 50 contributing nations - including some 68,000 from the US - providing military back-up when needed.

By the end of 2014, all combat troops should have left. They will be replaced by a smaller force that will only train and advise, which will need approval from the Afghan government.

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