CNN/Time/Warner's Blitzer blithely repeats myth ISIS "stole millions and millions of dollars". WTF?
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Never mind. He was "interviewing" war monger Steve King, exclusively, of course, no fact loving liberal allowed in this bit of theatre.
The American media is corrupt to the core, they are the blockade that needs to be removed more than the GOP blockade they cover for.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, Time/Warner's top institutional shareholders are all banks, or that slippery spawn of banks, private investment capital corporations paying 15% tax rate.
Top Institutional Holders
Holder Shares % Out Value* Reported
JP Morgan Chase & Company 47,516,149 5.39 3,104,230,014 Mar 31, 2014
Vanguard Group, Inc. (The) 41,429,139 4.70 2,706,565,650 Mar 31, 2014
Massachusetts Financial Services Co. 36,740,125 4.17 2,400,232,366 Mar 31, 2014
Dodge & Cox Inc 35,759,899 4.05 2,336,194,201 Mar 31, 2014
State Street Corporation 34,382,701 3.90 2,246,221,856 Mar 31, 2014
Capital World Investors 30,991,367 3.51 2,024,666,006 Mar 31, 2014
Capital Research Global Investors 23,962,837 2.72 1,565,492,141 Mar 31, 2014
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. 23,252,471 2.64 1,633,486,087 Jun 30, 2014
FMR, LLC 22,203,686 2.52 1,450,566,806 Mar 31, 2014
Viking Global Investors, L.P. 21,649,553 2.45 1,414,365,297 Mar 31, 2014
http://www.businessinsider.com/isis-never-stole-430-million-from-banks-2014-7
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Iraqi officials, including prominent former exile Ahmed Chalabi, have been cited in international media detailing the heist and lending credence to the story.
However, according to Iraqi bankers, this story still remains unconfirmed and unlikely.
“Nobody until now has confirmed that story,” Atheel al-Nujaifi, governor of Nineveh province which includes Mosul, told the Financial Times.
Alaa Karam Allah, the CEO of Iraq's United Bank for Investment, corroborated that view. According to Allah, the bank's branch in Mosul continued to work normally and had not suffered any assault.
"Not a single center had been stolen from the bank. Isis never put a hand on the money," Talal Ibrahim, the executive director of the private Union Bank of Iraq, told the Financial Times.
*******Tellingly, ISIS itself has never claimed to have seized money from any institution in the city. ISIS has bragged, though, of its seizure of millions of dollars worth of US military equipment from the Iraqi military after it fled the city.
Among the equipment ISIS ransacked in Mosul were 1,500 U.S.-supplied Humvees and 52 American made howitzers."
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that this dildo is in no way a serious journalist.
And, no one calls him out on it. Where is the proof of this? Sounds like one of his many Talking Points from the usual war-mongering sources.
Thank You for this post! 