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LOS ANGELES — When a Republican consultant tried to interest a reporter for the Torrance (Calif.) Daily Breeze in GOP challenger Mattie Fein’s response to a story about Rep. Jane Harman, the reporter’s reply was blunt:
“Don’t call or e-mail us - we’ll call you if we’re interested. And if you haven’t got it yet, we’re not interested.”
Amy Miller of Red State says: “If this surprises you, you are not paying attention.”
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JmsA| 8.13.10 @ 3:13PM
I stopped reading the L.A. Times approximately 10 years ago when I noticed that the readers' opinions section reached a liberal to moderate/conservative ratio of 15:1. Stories such as this by Mr. McCain are commonplace here in L.A. The only major southern California newspaper with any credibility left is the OC Register. The Daily Breeze has a circulation of approximately 70,000, which will hopefully decrease after a few more folks get wind of this type of selective, one-sided "journalism."
CJohnson| 8.13.10 @ 7:12PM
Daily Sleeze started out as a bulletin for people to brag about their kid, their rich wedding and their fantastic travel experience...When did it become a newspaper?
Yosemeti Sam| 8.14.10 @ 12:30AM
Perfect example of the Leftoid Backwater Stream Media Public Enemy No. 1 - LMSB PEN1 for short.
Tony Ryals| 8.14.10 @ 4:39PM
The media,including Sidney and Jane Harman'sNewsweek of course,never covered the Kuwait
stock fraud and suicide scandal last year involving Jane and Sidney
Harman and their Harman International stock pump and dump that they
allowed the KUWAIT ROYALS TO OPERATE FOR THEM.The very same Kuwait
royals who hated Saddam Hussein and at the same time did security for
the WTC and Dulles Airport as well as some undisclosed ’security’ at
the U.S.Los Alamos nuclear FACILITY WITH LESSER KNOWN W BUSH BROTHER
MARVIN WHILE RUNNING THEIR SECURACOM STOCK FRAUD AGAINST AMERICAN
INVESTORS AT THE SAME TIME ! !
There is no doubt about U.S.CONGRESS, the Harmans and Barack Obama
regime collusion with and protection of Kuwait royals who pumped and
dumped Harman International stock shares while even knowing the Al
Sabahs also ran the Securacom stock and security company fraud whose
incompetence contributed greatly to 9/11. AND IT IS CLEAR TO ME THAT
AFTER THE WTC DEATHS OF 3 thousand people followed by A WAR OR WARS
THAT MAY HAVE KILLED OVER A MILLION BY NOW,IT IS CLEAR THAT THE
HARMANS ARE NOT JUST STOCK SCAMSTERS – THEY HAVE COVERED UP THEIR
FELLOW ROYALS – THE KUWAIT ROYALS OF KUWAIT – AND Marvin Bush’s role
in 9/11!
http://www.phillyimc.org/en/91.....irport-wtc
9/11,Carl Levin,Senator Jane Harman International,Kuwait Securacom,
Marvin Bush,Al Sabah,Dulles Airport ,WTC
by Tony Ryals | 07.29.2009
After all they are royalty,both Sheikh Sabah al Sabah of Kuwait and
Queen Jane Harman of Venice, California,aren’t they ? And now one of
the Sheikh most loyal subjects and leader of the Kuwait orchestrated
illegal Harman International NYSE pump and dump to defraud American
small investors is dead.Just goes to show as that old saying goes dead
men or dead subjects of the Sheikh can’t tell tales……
The Kuwaiti stock or ’securities’ fraudsters Citicorp and Kuwait’s
ruler, Sheikh Sabah al
Sabah,et.al. were so confident, (before the U.S.SEC stepped in at
unbelievable speed for that corrupt bureaucracy) that California
Senator Jane and Sidney Harman’s Harman International,would’t mind
stock manipulation and illegal ‘pump and dump of Harman International
and would have remained silent about if only the SEC did.
After all they are royalty,both Sheikh Sabah al Sabah of Kuwait and
Queen Jane Harman of Venice, California,aren’t they ? And now one of
the Sheikh most loyal subjects and leader of the Kuwait orchestrated
illegal Harman International NYSE pump and dump to defraud American
small investors is dead.Just goes to show as that old saying goes dead
men or dead subjects of the Sheikh can’t tell tales....
http://www.arabtimesonline.com...../157895/t/‘SEC-drops-Kuwait-case-charges’/Default.aspx
‘SEC drops Kuwait case charges’..against KAMCO also been dropped
The SEC that month filed a lawsuit against Braikan, UGB and its Kuwaiti unit KAMCO, accusing them of having improperly earned millions of dollars from trades in shares of two US firms, Harman International Industries Inc and Textron Inc......
martin j smith| 8.15.10 @ 8:05AM
The only reason to "read" or really study and MSM media is for one purpose only: To see what the Socialist-Communist_fascist alliance is thinking and how they see the news. Its like reading say Pravda or Izvestia during the USSR days and today--or reading the "news" from Iranian Government sources. Nothing more.
Let me say this: I believe NO ONE. But, relative to the MSM the right blogosphere,Fox news and others together have more of the truth relative to the MSM by miles.
Rowdy Boots| 8.15.10 @ 1:33PM
Great. Another weak minded "journalist" who thinks that hiding reality from the public will get them the
"society" they want.
This reporter perverts freedom of speech into freedom to lie, freedom to obfuscate and freedom to hide facts.
Great. Los Angeles and all it's denizens are responsible for this corruption.
Rowdy Boots
Vinny| 8.16.10 @ 12:04PM
Liberalism/Socialism/Progressives has proven to be an unworkable time tested failure. If you need proof you need look no further than all the states who are Liberal, broke to the point of bankruptcy.
As far as this so called reporter is concerned, if this is what they are turning out in colleges with a journalism degree, please demand a refund.
Tony Ryals| 8.16.10 @ 6:42PM
Speaking of Hazem Al-Braikan,( the Kuwaiti subject and stock manipulator mentioned in news article of July 2009 above who was closely connected to the Al Sabah royal family and who 'suicided' shortly after his trading scandal involving Sidney and Jane Harman's Harman International stock shares last year) - the SEC of Bernie Madoff and NASDAQ windfall profits connected Mary Schapiro and her IG H.David Kotz(who has lied about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and even Goldman Sachs shares being victims of 'naked shorting' a term virtually made up by Beltway stock criminals launder their real short selling profits offshore where it is safe from American investors they stole it from !) - is of course NOT investigating what our national security compromised California Congresswoman Queen Jane Harman knew and when she knew it about Kuwait stock manipulators connected to Kuwait royal family touting or promoting her and husband Sidney's over valued Harman International speaker systems stock in the first place !? And is or was she aware that at least one member of the Kuwait royal family was also involved with W Bush brother, Marvin Bush,and Wirt Walker III in Securacom a subsidiary of Al Sabah royals KuAm or Kuwait American Company that had some responsibility for Dulles airport and WTC security onor around 9/11/01 !?
And besides proving to be a BIG security failure that day it was also a securities' or stock fraud,(that started selling or 'trading' at $8.50 on U.S.market in 1997) just like her and Sidney's Harman International turns out to be in light of its use by the Kuwaiti and Al Sabah stock fraudsters and their criminal family members that Jane and Sidney Harman collude with to the detriment and insecurity of the American public and her California constituents.
SEC dropsHarman International connected Kuwait case charges
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Dead Asset Manager's Heirs Settle SEC Claim Over Fake Harman ...
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Bloomberg - David Scheer - 4 Aug 2010
Hazem al-Braikan died in an apparent suicide in July of 2009, the Kuwaiti Interior Ministry said at the time, after the SEC linked him to "highly profitable ...
SEC settles trading case involving hoaxes, suicide%u200E - Forexyard
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Providence Business News
Bahrain's UGB says SEC drops Kuwait case charges
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Kipp Report - Frederik Richter - Will Waterman - 6 Aug 2010
The SEC that month filed a lawsuit against Braikan, UGB and its Kuwaiti unit KAMCO ... Harman International Industries Inc and Textron Inc. UGB said charges ...
'SEC drops Kuwait case charges'
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Arab Times - 6 Aug 2010
The SEC that month filed a lawsuit against Braikan, UGB and its Kuwaiti unit ... in shares of two US firms, Harman International Industries Inc and Textron Inc.