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Please Try To Forgive Richard Mellon Scaife

Between 2001 and 2009, Richard Mellon Scaife’s foundations contributed $7,875,000.00 to Islamophobic groups. Among the recipients were the Center for Security Policy ($2,900,000), the Counterterrorism & Security Education and Research Foundation ($1,575,000), and the David Horowitz Freedom Center ($3,400,000). The Richard Mellon Scaife foundations did not respond to requests for comment.

Fear, Inc.The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America - Wajahat Ali, Eli Clifton, Matthew Duss, Lee Fang, Scott Keyes, and Faiz Shakir
Center for American Progress August 2011

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/08/pdf/islamophobia.pdf

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER - 9/11 Anniversary: What the TV Networks Are Planning

A network-by-network rundown of the retrospectives, specials and live coverage planned in connection with the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
In connection with the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, U.S. television networks are planning an ambitious schedule of retrospectives and original programming. Here's a network-by-network breakdown ....
CBS
CBS News will be live at Ground Zero beginning Friday, Sept. 9 with The Early Show and the CBS Evening News broadcasting live from Ground Zero Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Evening News anchor Scott Pelley will lead off the division’s live Sept. 11 coverage beginning at 8 a.m. Bob Schieffer also will anchor Sunday public affairs show Face the Nation live from the site, while 60 Minutes will present an 9/11 themed broadcast.
Robert DeNiro – whose Tribeca Film Festival grew out of the ashes of 9/11 – hosts CBS’ 9/11: 10 Years Later (Sept. 11, 8 p.m.), an update of French filmmakers Jules and Gedeon Naudet and ’James Hanlons original documentary that contained the only known footage of the first plane crashing into the World Trade Center. (The Naudet brothers were shooting a documentary with the firefighters from Engine 7 in Lower Manhattan at the time of the attacks.) The new film includes updates with firefighters who appeared in the original film as well a tour of the ongoing construction efforts at Ground Zero.
ABC
Diane Sawyer heads back to Good Morning America to anchor the program with current co-host George Stephanopoulos beginning at 8 a.m. on Sept. 11, with Robin Roberts at Ground Zero. David Muir, Christiane Amanpour and Katie Couric (who was anchoring NBC’s Today show with Matt Lauer ten years ago) also will contribute to the broadcast. Later that night (10 p.m.), newsmagazine 20/20 will have Remembrance and Renewal: 10 Years After the 9/11 Attacks.
NBC/MSNBC
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel will anchor Day of Destruction – Decade of War (Sept. 1, 9 p.m.), examining how the world has changed since that fateful day.
NBC News will be live at the various memorial sites beginning at 8 a.m. on Sept. 11 for America Remembers. Brian Williams will anchor from Ground Zero with Meet the Press host David Gregory at the Pentagon. Tom Brokaw, who anchored the network’s 9/11 coverage ten years ago, also will contribute to the special broadcast. (It will be simulcast on MSNBC.) And NBC News anchors recall personal memories of that day for 9/11: In Our Own Words (Sept. 11, 8 pm).
CNN
In addition to live coverage of the Sept. 11 memorial dedications in New York, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Penn., CNN also will bow multiple themed documentaries. Footnotes of 9/11 (Sept. 6, 11 p.m.) features interviews with people who are literal footnotes in The 9/11 Commission Report – and became figurative footnotes to history – such as the ticket agents who checked in some of the terrorists and the maintenance technician who answered a call from one of the planes under attack. CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta examines the effects of the toxic dust and noxious fumes at Ground Zero in Terror in the Dust (Sept. 7, 11 p.m.). Beyond Bravery: The Women of 9/11 (Sept. 8, 11 p.m.) profiles female rescue workers at Ground Zero.
DISCOVERY/SCIENCE CHANNEL/OWN
Steven Spielberg’s six-hour documentary The Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero focuses on the planning and building of the 104-story One World Trade Center, which will air commercial free Aug. 25 at 8 p.m. and conclude Sept. 1 at 8 p.m. on Discovery. The Rising will encore on The Science Channel, Sept. 11 beginning at 5 p.m.
OWN explores personal stories of twins whose siblings were killed in the terrorist attacks in The Twins of the Twin Towers, Sept. 11, 9 p.m., and the lives of five widows of firefighters killed that day in From the Ground Up (Sept. 11, 10:15 p.m.).
A&E/BIO/HISTORY
A&E and Bio Channel have four 9/11 themed programs including When Pop Culture Saved America (Sept. 5, 8 p.m. on Bio), a two-hour documentary that looks at the flurry of celebrity headlined charity concerts, telethons and specials in the wake of the attacks. The net also has 9/11 themed installments of Bio series I Survived (Sept. 6, 8 p.m.) and Beyond: Messages from 9/11 (Sept 10, 10 p.m.). A&E’s Portraits from Ground Zero (Sept. 10, 10 p.m.), has photographer Andrea Booher – one of only a handful of photographers allowed unfettered access to Ground Zero in the days after Sept. 11 – tracking down the subjects in many of her photos from that day, including a firefighter searching for the body of his best friend and a Franciscan friar ministering to the dead.
The centerpiece of History channel’s 9/11 programming is 9/11 The Days After (airing commercial-free Sept. 9, 9 p.m.), a follow-up to the net’s haunting documentary 102 Minutes That Changed America. The new film, also from husband and wife filmmakers Seth Skundrick and Nicole Rittenmeyer, is culled from hundreds of hours of amateur and professional video footage and examines the days immediately following the terrorist attacks. History will also rerun 102 Minutes in a global simulcast across A&E Networks Sept. 11 at 8:46 a.m. ET, the moment the first plane hit the North Tower. Additional History programs include: Voices From Inside the Towers (Sept. 10, 9 p.m.); and Making the 9/11 Memorial (Sept. 11, 8 p.m.). History.com will webcast the dedication of the Flight 93 Memorial in Shanksville, Penn., live Sept. 10 at History.com/Classroom.
NAT GEO
National Geographic Channel updates its 2005 documentary Inside 9/11, which still stands as the network’s most-watched program with nearly 18 million viewers. Inside 9/11: The War Continues (Aug. 28, 9 p.m.) examines the ongoing war on terror including the killing of Osama bin Laden last May. Additional programming includes: George W. Bush: The 9/11 Interview (Aug. 28, 10 p.m.) featuring the former president in his first wide-ranging interview about the events of that day; CIA Confidential: 9/11 Mastermind (Aug. 29, 10 p.m.), about Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM), the most notorious 9/11 figure after bin Laden; and 9/11: Where Were You? (Aug. 30, 10 p.m.), about the decisions made by rescue workers, an FAA official and others on that day.
PBS
PBS’ investigative program Frontline – which has already produced more than 45 hours on the attacks and America’s response to them – bows two new installments. Top Secret America (Sept. 6, 9 p.m.) examines the dark side of the “war on terror,” from the creation of black site prisons abroad, to targeted killings and the multi-billion dollar terrorism industrial complex. The Man Behind the Mosque (Sept. 13, 9 p.m.) profiles Sharif El-Gamal, the real estate developer spearheading the proposed Islamic community center near Ground Zero. Additional 9/11 programming from the public broadcaster includes: NOVA: Engineering Ground Zero (Sept. 7, 9 p.m.), which follows the five-year construction of One World Trade Center and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum; NewsHour: American Remembers 9/11(Sept. 11, 8 p.m.), a special installment of the nightly broadcast covering the memorial observances at Ground Zero, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Penn.; and Great Performances (Sept. 11, 9 p.m.), which will telecast the Sept. 10 New York Philharmonic Concert at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall marking the tenth anniversary of the attacks.
Email: Marisa.Guthrie@thr.com

NY Post Exclusive

A muscle-bound firefighter who appeared as Mr. March in the 2011 FDNY calendar was arrested for allegedly assaulting his transsexual girlfriend -- a stunner who was famously booted from "America's Next Top Model." Taylor Murphy, 28, is charged with assault, criminal mischief and criminal obstruction of breathing for allegedly attacking Claudia Charriez two weeks ago in front of Flashdancers, a Midtown jiggle joint, and again later at a nearby hotel. Murphy was arraigned last night in Manhattan Supreme Court and was freed without bail. Murphy's gal pal, Charriez, 30, who lives in Los Angeles, made it to the semifinal round on "America's Next Top Model" in 2006 before she was disqualified because she was born a male. She told The Post yesterday the attack began when Murphy became jealous during their visit to the Times Square nudie bar, where several men asked her for a lap dance. "A couple of guys saw me and wanted me to dance for them, " she said. "Then the owner came up to me and asked if I wanted to work for him. "[Murphy] said he thought I was flirting with those guys." They argued, and Murphy allegedly became violent on the sidewalk, shattering her cellphone on the ground and dragging her down the street by her hair, Charriez said. "He pinned me into a telephone booth and strangled me, then let go and started crying." The gender-bending model broke free from her 6-foot-3, 220-pound boyfriend, jumped in a cab and fled to her hotel on West 35th Street. Murphy was waiting when she got there and began biting, punching, kicking, slapping and choking Charriez, cops said. "I told him to leave and that I didn't want to see him again," she said. "It set him off, and he slammed me into the bed and strangled me again with so much force." Charriez fled to a friend's apartment, but Murphy allegedly followed her and banged on the door until the girls called the cops. "I was covered in bruises. My lip was split and pieces of my hair were falling out," she said. "He called me from jail today and said he wanted me to write a letter saying it didn't happen." - JAMIE SCHRAM, REBECCA ROSENBERG and DON KAPLAN

Ali Farzat

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Masked gunmen severely beat Syria’s best-known political cartoonist on Thursday, breaking his hand and leaving him to bleed on the side of a road in Damascus, activists said. The attack came days after the artist, Ali Farzat, published a cartoon showing President Bashar al-Assad hitching a ride out of town with Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya, who was toppled from power this week. - NADA BAKRI

Shepard Fairey beaten up after spat over controversial Danish mural

Artist best known for the posters that helped elect Barack Obama is accused of peddling pro-government propaganda
"I have a black eye and a bruised rib," Fairey told the Guardian. According to reports, 41-year-old Fairey and his colleague Romeo Trinidad were punched and kicked by at least two men outside the Kodboderne 18 nightclub in the early hours of last Saturday morning. Fairey claims the men called him "Obama illuminati" and ordered him to "go back to America". - Xan Brooks, Dominic Rushe in New York and Lars Eriksen in Copenhagen

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/aug/12/shepard-fairey-beaten-danish-mural

Stockholm bans advertisements for street art show

Stockholm's city council has been criticised for forbidding advertisements featuring street artSTOCKHOLM. The Swedish capital refused to allow advertisements for the annual “Art of the Streets” event, which took place from 13 to 14 August, to be put up in public spaces. National theatre company Riksteatern planned the event and its organisers described the decision as censorship. It rented an aeroplane to fly over Stockholm, carrying a banner that read: “Graffiti can't be stopped.” Similar advertisements were permitted last year, but despite the difficulties in marketing this year's event, the number of visitors almost doubled, reaching 5,900. “Art of the Streets”, which is planned to travel to other Swedish cities, consisted of shows and workshops, plus a panel discussion on Stockholm's zero tolerance policy regarding graffiti. - Clemens Bomsdorf

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Judge Squashes Photographer Janine Gordon's Copyright Suit Against Ryan McGinley

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Aug 16 2011

The Fabric of I'm a Lover not a Fighter

We Will Always Be Triple A

"Markets will always rise and fall," Obama told the nation. "No matter what some agency may say, we've always been and always will be a AAA country."
Money is Fiction - Little LeRoy Madoff

August 6 2011

Andy Warhol's 83rd Birthday
Money is Fiction
Little LeRoy Madoff
Aug 8 2011 The Tea Party Downgrade
On Friday night, Standard & Poor took the unprecedented step of downgrading the nation’s long-term sovereign credit rating to AA+ from AAA, claiming that “the fiscal consolidation plan that Congress and the Administration recently agreed to falls short” of what is “necessary to stabilize the government’s medium-term debt dynamics.” In explaining its decision, the rating agency argued that the Budget Control Act Amendment of 2011 did not do enough to slow down government spending and specifically condemned Republicans for turning the debt ceiling into a political football and refusing to consider increasing taxes or allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire. But the Obama administration also raised questions about the agency’s ruling, pointing out that it had made an astounding $2.1 trillion error by projecting “the nation’s debt as a share of gross domestic product to reach 93 percent by 2021,” fully 8 “percentage points higher than the figure administration officials believed the rating agency should have used.” S&P — admittedly no oracle, given its negligence in failing to identify “the risks of subprime mortgages during the housing bubble” — conceded the mistake, but concluded that the revisions didn’t “meaningfully affect” the conclusion. Since two other ratings agencies have thus far maintained United States’ AAA rating, however, “many analysts say it’s not so clear that it will deliver any immediate shock to financial markets or to consumers.” - Igor Volsky

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S&P Strips U.S. of Top Credit Rating

Unprecedented Downgrade Comes After Last-Minute Standoff; Treasury Says Decision Is 'Flawed by a $2 Trillion Error'
Money is Fiction - Little LeRoy Madoff
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903366504576490841235575386.html