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Al Jazeera: The Terrorist Propaganda Network

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The Problem with Al Jazeera

"Few Americans realize how faithfully the channel has parroted the propaganda of terrorist groups."

"Editorial positions would need to change for their views to change, and the direction needs to come from Rupert or Lachlan Murdoch themselves," Forde concluded. "They would need to see that they're losing readers, advertisers or shareholders as a result of their current views for there to be a shift."

That is their weak spot. Money.

Many, if not most, visitors arrive into Liverpool by train. As you exit Liverpool Lime Street, like most stations, you come face to face with a long line of taxis, eager to capitalise on weary and confused travellers. But, unlike most stations, nearly every taxi has the words “Do not buy The Sun” emblazoned on the side in place of an advert or the company’s phone number.

The taxi has taken you to wherever you want to be in Liverpool. Perhaps that’s the Tate at the Royal Albert Dock, one of the cathedrals that can be seen from all over the city like overbearing parents, or perhaps you want to go to Anfield, home of Liverpool Football Club.

One thing in common with all these places, and in fact everywhere in Liverpool, is that you won’t see anyone buying, selling, or reading The Sun. Even major supermarkets such as Tesco have stopped selling the newspaper in the area citing “no demand”.

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t's bigger than that, they don't think the same way. It's not so much about nation states as Western Imperialism. As far as they're concerned America was involved in the Crusades. You never got a clean sheet from the Arab World when you declared independence.

America is responsible for the Crusades, and the actions of the British and French Empires in the last couple of centuries. From their point of view the only thing that's changed are the accents.

That's the mindset you're dealing with.

Lindsey Graham
@LindseyGrahamSC
· May 3, 2016
If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it.

Justin Baragona
@justinbaragona
· Jan 24
Jake Tapper: You think Trump is actually concerned about corruption?

GOP Sen. James Lankford: Yes, I do.

Tapper: Can you provide me any examples of Trump expressing concern about corruption?

Lankford: You're trying to put me on the spot!

WP columnist

...the WH was looking into weakening the law that prohibits bribery around the world.

President Donald Trump wanted to strike down a law that prohibits companies from bribing foreign officials, calling the ban "so unfair" to American companies, two Washington Post reporters recount in a new book.

In the spring of 2017, Mr Trump was at a briefing with Mr Rex Tillerson, then the secretary of state, and aides in the Oval Office. At the mention of a bribery allegation, Mr Trump "perked up" and told Mr Tillerson that he wanted his help in scrapping the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the authors write.

That law, enacted in 1977 and heavily enforced since around 2005, prohibits companies that operate in the United States from bribing foreign officials to obtain or retain business. It has become a major factor in corporate decision-making about operations abroad.

Mr Trump said that it was "just so unfair that American companies aren't allowed to pay bribes to get business overseas", according to the book, A Very Stable Genius, by Mr Philip Rucker and Ms Carol Leonnig.

"I need you to get rid of that law," Mr Trump told Mr Tillerson.

Mr Tillerson explained to the president that he could not simply repeal the legislation, according to Mr Rucker and Ms Leonnig. He pointed out that Congress would need to be involved in any effort to strike it down.

Undeterred, Mr Trump told Mr Stephen Miller, a senior policy adviser, to draft an executive action to repeal the law. Mr Tillerson, the authors write, later caught up with Mr Miller in the hallway, where Mr Miller said he had some scepticism about whether that plan for unilateral executive action could work.

The Securities and Exchange Commission and Justice Department began enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act more concertedly about 15 years ago. It has led to huge fines for companies, including engineering conglomerate Siemens and Brazil's state-owned energy company, Petrobras.

Sceptics of the law have included Mr Jay Clayton, the chairman of the SEC, whom Mr Trump nominated to the position in early 2017. Clayton was an author of a 2011 paper that argued that America's anti-bribery policies tended to hurt American competitiveness.

Despite such criticisms, top administration officials have pledged to uphold the law.

"We will continue to strongly enforce" anti-corruption laws, Mr Jeff Sessions, the attorney general at the time, said in a speech in April 2017.

And under the current attorney general, Mr William Barr, enforcement actions have continued to roll in.

"I need you to get rid of that law," Mr Trump told Mr Tillerson.

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