http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/tedturner/ en-us Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:21:10 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363959/posts Mark Cuban (born July 31, 1958) is an American billionaire entrepreneur.[1] He is the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, an NBA basketball team,[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cuban ___________________________________________ Mark Cuban Backed De Palma's 'Redacted' to Promote New Movie Distribution Business By Lynn Davidson, September 4, 2007 Why does a small-budget movie like Brian De Palma's “Redacted” matter? Because of the ripple effects. The media have reported the film as "a ferocious argument against the engagement in Iraq for what it is doing to everyone involved.” Meaning the media are taking these deeply anti-war, anti-military storylines as De Palma intended, as a serious discussion of... various sources http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363959/posts#comment Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:21:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363437/posts No knock on his "good friend" Jeff Bewkes -- or on Superman -- but Ted Turner wishes that he was running Time Warner so that he could make some changes at Cartoon Network and CNN, the cable news channel he founded 29 years ago. At CNN, he wants "less fluffy news and more international news," especially about China, Turner says in an interview set to run on Bloomberg TV on Friday. "Less talk, more news," he says. As for Cartoon Network, Turner tells anchor Betty Liu, "If I had control of it, I'd put 'Captain Planet' on at a top... Hollywood Reporter http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363437/posts#comment Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:45:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346766/posts Ralph Nader has been many things: lawyer, consumer-rights bulldog, political activist and perennial third-party presidential candidate. He has now added a new title to his business card: fiction writer. His latest book, Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!, is a 700-page populist fantasy in which a small group of billionaires and media moguls — led by Warren Buffett and including Ted Turner, George Soros, Bill Cosby, Yoko Ono and Phil Donahue — pool their massive resources to reform the U.S. With the help of a $15 billion war chest and a p.r. campaign starring a talking parrot, the group successfully... Time http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346766/posts#comment Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:46:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1463062/posts August 14, 2005 -- LONDON — The $21.3 billion United Nations oil-for-food scandal has now widened to include the brother of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Kobina Annan, the Ghanaian ambassador to Morocco, is said by investigators to be "connected" to an African businessman at the center of the scandal. The probe into Kobina's dealings are at an early stage and he has not been interviewed. However, investigators are understood to suspect that Michael Wilson, an African businessman, and Kobina had a business relationship at the time of the scandal. A source close to the investigation said: "We believe Kobina Annan... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1463062/posts#comment Sun, 14 Aug 2005 12:05:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278973/posts The New Jacobin Elite | Print | Written by William F. Jasper    Wednesday, 24 June 2009 06:00 The Socialist Party of Great Britain is celebrating the reissuing of Peter Taaffe’s book, The Masses Arise: The Great French Revolution 1789 -1815. “Its republication by Socialist Publications, in time for the 220th anniversary of this great event in July 2009, is extremely timely,” says the party’s website. A different page on the party’s site promoting the same book instructs readers: “An understanding of the French Revolution remains crucial for all revolutionaries. Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky studied it intensely to gain an... The New American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278973/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:20:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257308/posts SOME of America’s leading billionaires have met secretly to consider how their wealth could be used to slow the growth of the world’s population and speed up improvements in health and education. The philanthropists who attended a summit convened on the initiative of Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, discussed joining forces to overcome political and religious obstacles to change. Described as the Good Club by one insider it included David Rockefeller Jr, the patriarch of America’s wealthiest dynasty, Warren Buffett and George Soros, the financiers, Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, and the media moguls Ted Turner and Oprah... The Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257308/posts#comment Sun, 24 May 2009 13:38:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248257/posts Friday May 8, 2009 Pro-Abortion Organization Upset by LifeSiteNews' Coverage of Development and Peace Recognizes and supports CCODP's funding of pro-abortion movement By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman UNITED STATES, May 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An abortion advocacy group in the US has criticized LifeSiteNews for exposing the involvement of the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (CCODP) with the funding of pro-abortion, homosexualist, and anti-Catholic groups in foreign countries. "RH Reality Check," a blog created by Ted Turner's United Nations Foundation for the purpose of promoting abortion "rights," has published an article by a contributor who recognizes that, indeed,... LifeSiteNews.com -- Your Life, Family and Culture Outpost http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248257/posts#comment Mon, 11 May 2009 00:48:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2211069/posts "Not doing it [fighting global warming] will be catastrophic. We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but in 30 or 40 years, and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals. Civilization will have broken down." -- CNN founder Ted Turner on PBS's Charlie Rose, April 1, 2008. Mark Levin presents the "Dan Rather Award for Stupidest Analysis", Ted Turner wins it, Ed Meese accepts on Turner's behalf. Media Research Center http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2211069/posts#comment Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:03:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2179049/posts Like. Hi! I’m all excited today! I just started this blog! At 71! Which is so funny, since I'm such a luddite (wow! I didn't even know I knew such big words)...I'm a big fat technophobe. Like. I didn't even start shaving my armpits until my friend showed me how to do that last summer. Like. I also didn’t even google anything until my friend taught me how this past summer…because…well…I'm dumber than Nancy Pelosi! Feed Your ADHD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2179049/posts#comment Thu, 5 Feb 2009 18:21:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2171172/posts A top United Nations official who once served on the White House National Security Council has been picked for deputy secretary of the Homeland Security Department, a move that would place two women at the top of the department for the first time. President Barack Obama's nomination of Jane Holl Lute, a retired Army major who worked on the NSC under President Bill Clinton, was announced Friday by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Napolitano and Lute are the first women to hold their positions. Since it was launched in 2003, the department has had three secretaries, two men and one... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2171172/posts#comment Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:06:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2158926/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2151244/posts#7 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2158926/posts#comment Mon, 5 Jan 2009 14:23:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2151244/posts Last week during a FoxNews interview with Bill O'Reilly, Ted Turner, who founded what has become (in their own words) "the world's largest cable news network "claimed that Fidel Castro's Stalinist regime has never killed anyone. O'REILLY: Fidel Castro, do you admire the man? TURNER: Yes. O'REILLY: Now he has murdered people. He's imprisoned people. There are political prisoners now. He won't let his people use the Internet. Nobody can use that. And you admire the guy? TURNER: Well, I admire certain things about him. He's trained a lot of doctors, and they've got one of the best educational systems... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2151244/posts#comment Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:31:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140651/posts "And the KGB, I think, was an honorable place to work. And it, it gave people in the former Soviet Union, a communist country, an opportunity to do something important and worthwhile." Breitbart/You Tube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140651/posts#comment Mon, 1 Dec 2008 05:02:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140533/posts “The KGB, I think, was an honorable place to work” with “worthwhile” achievements, CNN founder Ted Turner contended in an interview aired on Sunday's Meet the Press in which he blamed the U.S. for starting the battles with Vladimir Putin “by putting the Star Wars system in Czechoslovakia and Poland” and, when host Tom Brokaw recalled that Leonid Brezhnev reacted to Jimmy Carter's outreach by invading Afghanistan, Turner retorted with moral equivalence: “Well, we invaded Afghanistan, too, and it's a lot further -- at least it's on the border of the Soviet Union.” Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140533/posts#comment Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:04:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2140452/posts Here is video of bizarre CNN Founder Ted Turner appearing on Meet the Press where he told Tom Brokaw he saw the "crash" of the automotive industry coming years ago and declared that the "days of big automobiles" and "fossil fuels are over." Ted Turner has a history of saying outrageous things. The day may come when there will be viable alternatives to "fossil fuels," but their day is far from over. . . . . (Watch Video) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2140452/posts#comment Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:45:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2136129/posts On tour with his new book Call Me Ted, CNN founder Ted Turner unloaded more of his typical liberal nuggets on the Tavis Smiley show on PBS Tuesday. He pounded Bush’s pro-life position on the UN Population Fund: "We said we were going to pay, but the Bush administration never issued the checks. So women are dying of unsafe abortions." He still had old Cold War lessons: "I learned that the Russians, if you're nice to them - if you treat people with dignity, respect, and friendliness, they'll almost always reciprocate the same way." He trashed Fox News for backing... News Busters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2136129/posts#comment Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:37:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2081524/posts DUBAI, Sept 12, 2008 (AFP) - A senior Saudi cleric has issued a religious decree saying the owners of television networks broacasting "depravation and debauchery" may be killed, Al-Arabiya television reported on Friday. "The owners of these channels propagate depravation and debauchery," said Saleh al-Luhaidan, chief justice of the supreme judicial council, the highest judicial authority in the ultra-conservative Saudi kingdom. He made the remarks on radio in response to a caller who asked him to give an opinion on what he said were "immoral" programmes on Arab television during the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, a source at... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2081524/posts#comment Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:45:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007062/posts The current food shortage is going to get worse before it gets better – at least that’s the way the founder of CNN sees it. Ted Turner was interviewed by CNBC’s Bob Pisani on the April 25 “Closing Bell.” He addressed the recent food shortages causing rationing and riots all over the globe and said it’s just a sign of things to come. “There are a lot of different problems being caused by an ever-increasing number of people in a finite-sized world,” Turner said. “The resources of the planet just can’t keep up with the demand and I’m afraid this... businessandmedia.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007062/posts#comment Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:03:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998027/posts Joe D’Aleo posted this chart on icecap.us a while back and I wanted to make sure you see it. Click on the chart for full size. “This is the latest decadal plot from February 1998 to February 2008 of global temperatures from Satellite (UAH MSU lower troposphere) (blue) and land and ocean variance adjusted surface (Hadley CRU T3v) (rose) plotted with Scripps monthly CO2 from Mauna Loa (green).”You can easily see the downward trend in temperatures over the past decade and the increase in CO2 over the same time period of about 6%. A decade definitely is not a long... WOOD TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998027/posts#comment Mon, 7 Apr 2008 18:15:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1996645/posts By now I'm sure you have heard about Ted Turner's comments on Charlie Rose the other night. He's concerned about global warming. Oh .. poor Ted. Things are just getting too hot for him, and clearly his brain is starting to cook. Anyway ... Today Ted said that if we don't do something about global warming in about 40 years most of us will be dead and the rest of us will be living in Somalia or Sudan eating each other. He also said that there just too many people in the world. Too many people? OK .. we did... NEALZ NUZE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1996645/posts#comment Fri, 4 Apr 2008 14:11:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995638/posts Interviewed Tuesday for Charlie Rose's PBS show, CNN founder Ted Turner argued that inaction on global warming “will be catastrophic” and those who don't die “will be cannibals.” He also applied moral equivalence in describing Iraqi insurgents as “patriots” who simply “don't like us because we've invaded their country” and so “if the Iraqis were in Washington, D.C., we'd be doing the same thing.” On not taking drastic action to correct global warming: Not doing it will be catastrophic. We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will... Newsbusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995638/posts#comment Wed, 2 Apr 2008 20:08:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1966623/posts Asked at the National Press Club's luncheon on Monday “what do you see as the future vision for CNN now that Fox is gaining in market share and popularity?”, CNN founder Ted Turner leaned into the microphone and, prompting laughter and applause, produced a loud sputtering sound as he blew air through his lips with his tongue sticking out slightly -- aka "blowing a raspberry" or issuing a "Bronx cheer." "... the right-wingers have every right to have a network of their own and they've got one.” News Busters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1966623/posts#comment Thu, 7 Feb 2008 20:20:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1966587/posts CNN founder Ted Turner, the largest private landowner in Nebraska and the United States and the nation's largest bison rancher, said Wednesday that he is about done buying new ranches. He said he would like to reach 2 million acres nationwide before he dies — about 40,000 acres more than he currently owns. "I'm almost done. I've got enough," said Turner... The 69-year-old billionaire, philanthropist and conservationist said he isn't interested in free-standing ranches anymore, only "reasonably priced" parcels adjacent to his current operations, which include five ranches in Nebraska near Gordon, Oshkosh and Mullen. The ranches cover 425,221 acres,... Omaha World-Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1966587/posts#comment Thu, 7 Feb 2008 19:36:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1931858/posts Ted Turner's men didn't flinch... When the auction was over, they walked away with what they came for: 26,300 acres of prime ranch land, at a cost of nearly $10 million. "It hasn't taken long to find out he's serious," said Duane Kime, a rancher and Turner neighbor who was outbid by about $100,000 by the CNN founder. But what exactly is Turner serious about? The question gnaws at folks here and in other rural areas of the country ... Turner has amassed 2 million acres over the past two decades to become the largest private landowner in the country.... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1931858/posts#comment Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:13:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1904442/posts End of an era for TBS, Braves, fans For three decades, Braves games have been beamed around the country on TBS. They became America's Team — but Sunday, America will watch for the last time. All across America Sunday, thousands of people like Bill DeArmond of Winfield, Kan., will say goodbye to an old friend. For three decades, they have watched the national telecasts of Braves games on TBS, turning Atlanta's baseball team into — at least for a while — "America's Team." Today, America will watch for the last time. The Braves' season finale at Houston marks the end... Atlanta Journal Constitution http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1904442/posts#comment Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:06:54 GMT