As if the Network News wasn’t bad enough as it is, without the addition of sickening stuff like this.  Another reason why I emphasize, “DON’T WATCH THE NEWS!!”  Its almost pure propaganda and only serves at dumbing us down and keeping people afraid.

Original Article Here

In Chinese culture, every year has an animal mascot. It’s the “year of the monkey,” for example, or the year of the rooster. For NaturalNews, 2012 is the year of consciousness (or conscious awakening, in a sense).

Does this mean we’re going to abandon the mundane daily news of planet earth and float off into la-la land where we start chanting mantras and worshipping self-proclaimed enlightened gurus? Hardly. In fact, in 2012 I want to talk with you about what I call grounded consciousness. Or “holistic consciousness.”

And why? Because it is the lack of consciousness that’s behind every corporate crime, government conspiracy, political corruption, Big Pharma scheme and environmental crime that takes place on our planet. Those who lack consciousness engage in “you versus me” crimes of selfishness — stealing, exploiting, destroying, deceiving — yet such behaviors come from a place of ignorance about consciousness and the universe around us.

Let me make this really practical and easy to understand by invoking characters from popular culture:

Yoda taught Luke Skywalker that all things are connected. “The Force,” as he explained it, flowed through all living things and bound them together in a kind of mystical universal energy. George Lucas was right on the mark when creating this fictional character, because “The Force” really does exist, and it’s made of consciousness.

It is a sense of not just self awareness but of connectedness with other living things. The truly conscious person is not merely “awakened” about their own existence, but is fully aware and even spiritually attuned to the reality that we are not really separate from other living things around us.

Sure, we have our own individual ideas, egos, memories and actions. So we are still individuated (which is a good thing), otherwise we wouldn’t even be able to talk using the word “I” (which some gurus say is an illusion anyway).

But technically, when we talk about “I” we should really be talking about “we” because everything that one person does is reflected throughout the other conscious creatures and beings on our planet, so that even seemingly personal, individuated actions inevitably become “we” results.

This isn’t some fleety, high-minded blabbery. It’s real. It’s practical. Allow me to give you an example:

Suppose a selfish, low-consciousness corporate CEO says, “I’m going to dump this toxic waste into the river because that saves ME money, and it makes ME more profits.” So he dumps the waste into the river.

Downstream, a billion living creatures start to become damaged by the toxic waste: The fish, frogs, turtles, trees, plants and perhaps even cities full of people who use the river as their water supply. This, in turn, creates “a disturbance in the Force,” as Obiwan described it in Star Wars. The disturbance spreads sickness, disease and dysfunction. That dysfunction inevitably makes its way back to that same corporate CEO — perhaps the mutated offspring of some woman who drank the polluted water grows up and becomes a violent criminal who car-jacks the CEOs granddaughter and murders her in the process. While the CEO will decry “how terribly violent our world has become,” he will disavow the truth that he poisoned the world and made it more destructive.

The violence that happened to his daughter was the inevitable result of his own acts of violence unleashed upon the world through toxic chemicals.

Even individuated, “we” still share a common thread

From the point of view of universal consciousness, there is no “I” — there is only “we.” And WE are affected by everything that each one of us does. If you take pharmaceuticals, you are contributing to the destruction of the planet because those chemical medications pass through your body and get flushed down the toilet where they chemically pollute the planet. Someone who says, “I need these antidepressants so I take them” is really saying “screw the planet, I am willing to poison the world in order to try to mask my own symptoms of depression with a toxic chemical.”

So, you see, the corporate CEO who pollutes the planet is not much different from the 40-year-old housewife who feels depressed and pops pharmaceuticals throughout the day. Both are operating out of an illusory sense of what I call spiritual isolationism — the false belief that we are disconnected from our world (and from each other) and that we can do whatever we wish as long as it helps us in the short term, regardless of what it does to other living, conscious beings in the long term.

This is the stunted point of view from which all deception is based — all wars, GMO contamination, government conspiracies and corporate poisoning of the people is conducted from this place of spiritual isolationism.

Spiritual integration, in contrast, is what you might call the process by which a person comes to a sense of self awareness about the relationships between all living things. “Awakening” is integration. It’s also the path of the Jedi, to use the Star Wars metaphor again, because it relies on using the Force as an ally in the protection of life.

The spiritual (Jedi) farmer

A woman who grows a garden is a spiritual farmer in that she gives new life to seeds. When a plant creates a seed, at first that seed is just a biological machine held in stasis, awaiting the right moment to sprout. When a seed sprouts, consciousness enters the plant in the same way that a soul enters the developing fetus right after the moment of fertilization.

Both a human fetus and a garden seedling are conscious beings with a sense of awareness, a (limited) sense of self, a functioning nervous system and increasingly complex awareness of its immediate environment.

The idea that plants have consciousness has been taught throughout many early human civilizations, of course. The American Indians believed this, as did the Inca. Indians believed the desert Saguaro cacti were sacred beings, watchers over the land. And when you’re in the presence of these amazing beings, you can’t help but agree with them.

Trees have nervous systems. Weeds in your back yard engage in social networking through the chemical transmission of messages about external threats. A blade of grass may not have the physical brain of a human being, but it has what I call “a sliver of consciousness.” That doesn’t mean I feel guilty mowing the lawn, but it does mean I carefully consider my actions when altering any natural landscape, removing trees, planting trees, and tending the garden.

As humans, we are especially gifted with mobility that allows us to be caretakers for other forms of conscious life, including both plants and animals. We have the arms and legs that trees don’t (except in Lord of the Rings, I suppose). So we can move around, meaning we can create life (plant seeds), or we can destroy life (GMOs).

My point in all this is that the destruction of life always comes from a place of spiritual ignorance. A person who could callously and mindlessly destroy life (or poison the planet with GMOs, for example) is a person operating from a total lack of understanding about the consciousness that ties us all together. When Israelis say they want to kill Palestinians (or vice-versa), this is done from a place of giving in to the “dark side” of the Force — the seductive, destructive side, which seems powerful at first but is actually a sign of spiritual weakness.

To harm another human being, as the Buddhists say, is to harm yourself. Why is that true? Because underneath the individuation and the ego, there flows a current of connected consciousness. It flows like a river through all living systems. To destroy life is to disrupt the flow of that river — an act that inevitably darkens your own reality as well. There is no act of violence that is undertaken in isolation. All acts of both violence and compassion are reflected (and even magnified) throughout the fabric of reality. This idea is echoed across all world religions, including Christianity.

Police state fear is only possible from a place of low consciousness

An important point to understand in all this is that no society has yet achieved the recognition of consciousness that exists throughout all living systems. Our human societies remain in their infantile stage, operating from a place of individuated ego, and lacking the deeper understanding of connectedness that becomes obvious when the true nature of consciousness is firmly grasped.

War is the ultimate expression of disconnectedness. When one nation decides to murder the people of another nation, this is an act of extreme ignorance tempered by anger and wrapped in illusion.

Police states — like the one into which the USA is now descending — are the day-to-day expression of disconnectedness and ego. Think about the whole message of the terror-driven police state: YOU might be a terrorist. So I, the TSA agent or the federal law enforcement agent, must destroy you before you can destroy me. This is the philosophical foundation of Darth Vader.

So rather than working on ways to stop creating enemies — or ways to nurture peace, liberty and prosperity — the police state government is intent on isolating and separating people, creating division and fear that drives people apart. Whereas peace is achieved through the integration of cultures (i.e. western white people going to visit the mosques of Islam, to understand their culture better), terrorism is achieved through the spreading of suspicion and paranoia that drives people away from each other in fear while concentrating power into the hands of the “Dark Lords” (evil tyrants like Janet Napolitano, who only lacks a black cape and a loud respirator).

This is the whole point of the “If you see something, say something” campaign that depict white people, black people, and brown people as possible terror suspects to be treated with total paranoia. The government, you see, is in the business of lowering consciousness and creating division instead of peace. Peace pulls power away from governments and puts it into the hands of the People. War and fear, on the other hand, keeps power concentrate in the hands of government.

Love and compassion, on the other hand, are the vibes of raising consciousness and creating mutual respect. Governments do not teach love and compassion because such concepts are self destructive to governments.

The way out of terrorism, war and government tyranny

All this makes the pathway out of terrorism, war and fear rather obvious. You cannot “fight” tyranny and win with force. Tyranny thrives on the death, the destruction and the fear that goes with that application of force. Tyranny can truly only be conquered by awakening people to the greater truths about who they are, how they are connected, and how they all experience holographic fragments of the same stream of consciousness that flows through all living things.

The way to stop war, in other words, is to teach those who commit war so that they realize they have been operating under the illusion of false individuation. A cat might initially be scared by its own shadow on the wall — and it might attack that shadow — but once it realizes the shadow is simply an expression of itself, it recognizes the foolishness of fighting its own shadow, and it calmly walks away.

On our planet today, when one nation commits murder (war) against another nation, it is fighting its own shadow, and the solution to such shadow fighting is not to “build bigger bombs,” but to raise awareness of the situation so that those involved both realize the silliness of it all and decide to walk away, embarrassed of how childish their actions now seem.

The end of government deception, corporate conspiracies, never-ending war, mass murder, Big Pharma’s poisoning of the world, and even day-to-day muggings is found not simply in physical security, but in conscious awakening.

Does this mean you should stop thinking about self defense preparedness and start meditating away all your problems? Absolutely not: Until all the other people are also spiritually awakened, you must take prudent, practical measures to protect yourself and your family in the physical world. But as you do so, strive to teach and exemplify an “awakened” course of action that avoids violence and encourages people to connect with the deeper, higher truths of who they really are (and how they’re connected to everything else).

Carry a stick, in other words, but use it to support your neighbor rather than strike them down.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/034554_consciousness_awakening_2012.html#ixzz1j2N3I462

In our feature documentary, “PROGRAMMING THE NATION?” we illustrate numerous examples of print advertisements that are believed to contain imbedded subliminal imagery, (according to the experts we talked to who originally discovered them). They consist mostly of things like the letters S-E-X, phallic symbols, death masks etc…

One of the most frequent questions I continually get asked is, “how does such subliminal imagery work to positively affect sales?” For some reason, most people, (even after watching the film), still don’t understand, (or even want to believe), that its possible for skulls and penises to increase consumption. So, this blog article is dedicated to this topic in hopes of addressing this common misnomer.

First and foremost, its important to clarify that subliminally imbedded “taboo” imagery is usually found in alcohol and tobacco ads. The following explanation only pertains to these two products.

On a conscious level, the ads are typically meant to convey positive associations with the product. Such as, smoking / drinking gives you “independence” makes you “sexier” will “attract” the opposite sex, allow you to have more “fun”, etc…

But, on a subconscious level, by using disturbing subliminal imbeds, (such as those described above), the ads can also deliver a second layer of information that is meant to provoke deep seeded unconscious anxieties and/or neurosis.

The reason they do this is simple. Most people smoke and drink more when they’re nervous. So, its only logical to assess that by increasing their anxieties or neurosis they could effectively increase consumption of these products.

In other words, the taboo subliminal imbeds are essentially used as subconscious “fear factors” to get people to drink and smoke more – without anyone having consciously realized it. UNTIL NOW!

Above is an edited clip from several sections of our documentary, “PROGRAMMING THE NATION?” that may help illustrate this more effectively.

Above is a clip from our feature documentary – “PROGRAMMING THE NATION?” - about media consolidation and mass-media global conglomerates.

THE BIG 6 GLOBAL MEDIA CONGLOMERATES

Scroll down… Do you or your family see any films made by these production companies, watch any of these television stations, listen to any of these radio channels, read any of these newspapers or magazines, or visit any of these websites? Guess what? You’re supporting them and their Global agendas!

TOTAL ASSETS = $22.96 Billion

Film Production and Distribution
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Vantage
MTV Films
Nickelodeon Movies
Republic Pictures

Television Networks
MTV
MTV2
MTV Hits
MTV Jams
mtvU
Nickelodeon
Nick 2 / Nick at Nite
Nick Jr.
TeenNick
Nicktoons
CMT
CMT Pure Country
CMT (Canada)
TV Land
VH1
VH1 Classic
VH1 Soul
BET
BET Hip-Hop
BET Gospel
Centric
Palladia
Comedy Central
Logo
TMF
VIVA
Comedy Gold
Spike

Internet
Atom Entertainment – (AddictingGames, Atom Uploads, Shockwave.com)
BET.com
GameTrailers
GoCityKids
MTV.com
Nick.com
Neopets
Quizilla
Xfire

Miscellaneous Assets
Viacom Consumer Products
Bubba Gump Shrimp Company
MTVN Direct
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Viacom International, Inc.
KGBS-CA

TOTAL ASSETS = $54.384 Billion

Studios
20th Century Fox
Fox Filmed Entertainment
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Fox 2000 Pictures
20th Century Fox Television
20th Television
Fox 21
Fox Television Studios
Fox Television Studios International
Fox World Productions
Fox World Australia
Fox TV Studios France
Fox TV Studios India
Natural History New Zealand
Fox Faith

Broadcast TV
Fox Broadcasting Company (Fox), a US broadcast television network
MyNetworkTV a US broadcast television network
Fox Television Stations Group,a group of owned and operated Fox television stations
Saeta TV Channel 10, channel of Uruguay
ITV plc (7.5%), a British broadcast television network and the UK’s largest advertising revenue based broadcaster
News Corp Europe
bTV, a broadcast television network in Bulgaria. They sold this to CME in February 2010.
B1 TV (12,5%), a broadcast television network in Romania, in partnership with Ismar International NVkkkk
Fox Televizija, a broadcast television network in Serbia (49%). They sold this to Antenna Group in January 2010
Fox Turkey, a Turkish terrestrial channel (56,5%) (formerly TGRT)
Imedi Media Holding (100%), a Georgian radio and TV broadcaster.
Israel 10 (9%), a terrestrial channel in Israel.
LNT (100%), a terrestrial channel in Latvia
TV5 Riga (100%), a terrestrial channel in Latvia
Cielo (100%), a free channel in Italy
ANTV (20%), a private television station in Indonesia, under the administration and label of STAR TV
Prime Television New Zealand – commercial TV station, interest held through stake in SKY Network Television

Satellite TV
British Sky Broadcasting, United Kingdom & Ireland (39.1% holding). In practice, a controlling interest.
SKY Network TV, New Zealand (44%)
SKY Italy, Italian satellite TV service
SKY Germany (49.90%), Germany’s largest pay TV provider
Tata Sky (20%), an Indian DTH HDTV service (in partnership with Tata Group)
Foxtel (25%), Australia, a joint venture with Telstra (50%) and Consolidated Media Holdings (25%)
FOX Italy, Italian Broadcast and Production Company (with 2 HDTV)
STAR TV, an Asian satellite TV service having 300 million viewers in 53 countries (it acquired STAR Vijay and Asianet, two prominent south Indian networks)
Phoenix Television (17.6%), satellite TV network with landing rights in Hong Kong, and select provinces on Mainland China.

Cable TV
Fox Business Network, a business news channel.
Fox Classics, a channel airing classic TV shows & movies
Fox Movie Channel, an all-movie channel that airs commercial-free movies from 20th Century Fox’s film library
Fox News Channel, a 24-hour news & opinion channel
Fox Sports Net, a chain of US regional cable news television networks broadcasting local sporting events linked together by national sports news programming. Local channels include “Fox Sports Southwest”, “Fox Sports Detroit”, etc. (some affiliates are owned by Cablevision).
Fox College Sports
Fox Sports International
FX Networks, a cable network broadcasting reruns of programming previously shown on other channels, but recently creating its own programming, including the Emmy Award-winning programs The Shield and Damages.
Speed Channel
FUEL TV
Big Ten Network, cable and satellite channel dedicated to The Big Ten Conference, launched Aug 2007 (49%)
National Geographic Channel (joint venture with National Geographic Society) 67%
National Geographic Channel International 75%
Nat Geo Mundo (joint venture with National Geographic Society)
Nat Geo WILD (joint venture with National Geographic Society)
Fox International Channels, domestic cable channels offering different formats of Fox programming in over thirty countries worldwide.
Fox
Fox Life
Fox Life HD
Fox Crime
FX
Fox Horror
Fox Movies
Fox Sports
Speed Channel
National Geographic Channel
National Geographic Channel HD
National Geographic Wild
National Geographic Adventure
National Geographic Music
National Geographic Junior
Cult
Next:HD
Voyage
Real Estate TV
BabyTV
Fox Toma 1 – Spanish language television production.
Fox Telecolombia – Spanish language television production. (51%)
Utarget.Fox – European and Latin American online ad company, plus now handles TV ad sales.

Middle & South America
Fox Latin American Channels – channels available in over 17 countries in Latin America
National Geographic Channel
National Geographic Channel HD
National Geographic Wild
Nat Geo Music
Universal Channel
Universal HD
Fox Channel
Fox HD
FX
Fox Life
Syfy
Fox Sports
Speed Channel
Baby TV
Utilisima
Fox One-Stop Media – advertising sales for company owned and third party channels in Latin America
LAPTV (60%) (Latin American Pay Television) operates 8 cable movie channels throughout South America excluding Brazil.
Telecine(12.5%) operates 5 cable movie channels in Brazil.

Australia
Premier Media Group (50%)
Fox Sports 1
Fox Sports 2
Fox Sports 3
SPEED
FoxSportsNews
Fuel TV Australia
Premium Movie Partnership (20%) – movie channels, a joint venture between 20th Century Fox, Sony, NBC Universal, Viacom and Liberty Media

PLATFORMS

India
Hathway Cable & Datacom (22.2%), India’s 2nd largest cable network through 7 cities including Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai & Pune
Taiwan
Total TV (20%), Pay TV platform with JV partner KOO’s Group majority owner (80%). News Corp also has a 20% interest in the KOO’s Group directly

Music and Radio
Fox Film Music Group
Nashe (50%)
Best FM (50%)
Fox Studios Australia
Blue Sky Studios
Fox Entertainment Group
New Regency Productions (20%)
Regency Enterprises (20%)
BSkyB Studios London, England
FOX Star Studios New Delhi, India

Australian Newspapers published by News Limited
The Australian
Community Media Group
Cumberland-Courier Newspapers
The Courier-Mail
The Sunday Mail
The Cairns Post
The Gold Coast Bulletin
The Townsville Bulletin
The Daily Telegraph
The Sunday Telegraph
Herald Sun
Sunday Herald Sun
The Weekly Times
Leader Newspapers
MX
The Geelong Advertiser
The Advertiser
The Sunday Mail
Messenger Newspapers
The Sunday Times
The Mercury
Quest Newspapers
The Sunday Tasmanian
Northern Territory News
The Sunday Territorian
The Tablelands Advertiser

Fiji / Papua New Guinea Newspapers
Fiji Times (10%)
Nai Lalakai (10%)
Shanti Dut (10%)
Papua New Guinea Post-Courier (National) (62.5%)

UK and Ireland Newspapers published by subsidiaries of News International Ltd.
News Group Newspapers Ltd.
The Sun (published in Scotland as The Scottish Sun and in Ireland as The Irish Sun)
News of the World (ended publication 10 July 2011 due to cellphone tapping scandal)
Times Newspapers Ltd.
The Sunday Times
The Times
The Times Literary Supplement

US newspapers and magazines
The New York Post
Community Newspaper Group
The Brooklyn Paper
Bronx Times-Reporter
Brooklyn Courier-Life
TimesLedger Newspapers
Dow Jones & Company
Consumer Media Group
The Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal Europe
Wall Street Journal Asia
Barron’s – weekly financial markets magazine.
Marketwatch – Financial news and information website.
Far Eastern Economic Review
Enterprise Media Group
Dow Jones Newswires
Factiva
Dow Jones Indexes
Betten Financial News
Local Media Group
Ottaway Community Newspapers
STOXX (33%)
Vedomosti (33%)
SmartMoney
The Timesledger Newspapers of Queens, New York:
Bayside Times, Whitestone Times, Flushing Times, Little Neck Ledger, Jamaica Times, Astoria Times, Forest Hills Ledger
The Courier-Life Newspapers in Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Paper
Caribbean Life
Times-Herald Record
The Leader – Corning, NY

Australian Magazines
SmartSource Magazine
Alpha Magazine
Australian Country Style
Australian Golf Digest
Australian Good Taste
Big League
BCME
Delicious
Donna Hay
Fast Fours
GQ (Australia)
Gardening Australia
InsideOut (Aust)
Lifestyle Pools
Live to Ride
Notebook
Overlander 4WD
Modern Boating
Modern Fishing
Parents
Pure Health
Super Food Ideas
Truck Australia
Truckin’ Life
twowheels
twowheels scooter
Vogue (Australia)
Vogue Entertaining & Travel
Vogue Living
Inside Out

Internet
Fox Interactive Media
Foxsports.com – website with sports news, scores, statistics, video and fantasy sports
Hulu (27%) – online video streaming site in partnership with NBC Universal and The Walt Disney Company.
Flektor – provides Web-based tools for photo and video editing and mashups.
IGN Entertainment – Internet entertainment portal (Includes the sites IGN, GameSpy, TeamXbox, 1up.com, and Askmen.com)
Giga.de
Slingshot Labs – web development incubator (Includes the sites DailyFill).
Strategic Data Corp – interactive advertising company which develops technology to deliver targeted internet advertising.
Scout.com
WhatIfSports.com – sports simulation and prediction website. Also provides fantasy-style sports games to play.
Indya.com – ‘India’s no. 1 Entertainment Portal’
ROO Group Inc (5% increasing to 10% with performance targets)
News Digital Media
News.com.au – Australian-oriented news website
News Lab
CareerOne.com.au (50%) – recruitment advertisement website in partnership with Monster Worldwide.
Carsguide.com.au
in2mobi.com.au
TrueLocal.com.au
Moshtix.com.au – a ticket retailer
Learning Seat
Wego News owns minority stake in Wego.com
Netus (75%) – investment co. in online properties.
REA Group (60.7%)
Realestate.com.au
Casa.it (69.4%), Sky Italia also holds a 30.6% share
atHome group, operator of leading realestate websites in Luxembourg, France, Belgium and Germany.
Altowin (51%),provider of office management tools for realestate agents in Belgium.
Propertyfinder.com (50%), News International holds the remaining 50%
Sherlock Publications, owner of hotproperty.co.uk portal and magazine titles ‘Hot Property’, ‘Renting’ and ‘Overseas’
ukpropertyshop.co.uk, most comprehensive UK estate agent directory.
PropertyLook, property websites in Australia and New Zealand.
HomeSite.com.au, home renovation and improvement website.
Square Foot Limited, Hong Kong’s largest English Language property magazine and website
Primedia – Holding co. of Inside DB, a Hong Kong lifestyle magazine.
TadpoleNet Media (10%) Hosts of ArmySailor.com
New Zealand
Fatso – leading online DVD subscription service (ownership through stake in Sky Network Television).
Fox Networks – one of the largest international ad networks.
Expedient InfoMedia blog network.

TOTAL ASSETS = $66.524 Billion

HBO
Cinemax
HBO Independent Productions
HBO Multiplexes
HBO on Demand
Cinemax Multiplexes
Cinemax on Demand
HBO HD
Cinemax HD
HBO Video
HBO Domestic and International Program Distribution
HBO Films
Picturehouse (co-owned by New Line Cinema)

HBO Asia
HBO Czech
HBO Hungary
HBO India
HBO Poland
HBO Romania

HBO Latin America Group
HBO Latin America
HBO Brazil
Warner Channel
E! Latin America
Cinemax Latin America

Turner Broadcasting
Adult Swim
Boomerang
Cartoon Network
truTV
TBS
TNT
TCM
WPCH
CNN / U.S.
Airport Network
HLN
HD Networks
TNT HD
CNN HD
TBS HD
Cartoon Network HD
Adult Swim HD

Production Companies
Cartoon Network Studios
Williams Street
Court TV Original Productions
TNT Originals
TCM Productions
TBS Productions
CNN Originals
Headline News Productions

International
TCM & Cartoon Network / Asia Pacific
CNN en Español
CNN International
Cartoonito
TNT Latin America
TCM Europe
Pogo
Cartoon Network
Retro
Space
MuchMusic Latin America
I.Sat
Infinito
HTV
Fashion TV Latin America

Joint Ventures
Accent Health
Cartoon Network Japan (Via Japan Entertainment Network, a joint venture with Itochu)
CNN+
CNN Chile
CETV
CNN-IBN
CNNj
CNN TÜRK
CNN.de (German)
CNN.co.jp (Japanese)
NBC / Turner
NASCAR Races
n-tv
Zee Turner Ltd (India)
BOING

Radio Services
CNN Radio
Court TV Radio
Headline News Radio
CNN en Español Radio
Headline News en Español Radio

Websites/Broadband Services
Adult Swim Video
Cartoon Network Video
Court TV Extra
Crime Library
DramaVision
TheFrisky.com
GameTap
CallToons
Play On! Powered by ACC Select
Super Deluxe
The Smoking Gun
TNT Overtime
Toonami Jetstream
Very Funny Ads
CNNStudentNews.com
CNN.com
CNN Mobile
CNN Newsource
CNN to Go
CNNMoney.com
SI.com
PGA Tour.com and PGA.com
CNN Pipeline
NASCAR.com
Bamzu.com

Private Networks
Dealer Entertainment Network
The Checking Network

Warner Bros.
New Line Cinema
New Line Distribution
Picturehouse (co-owned by HBO)
New Line Home Entertainment
New Line International Releasing
New Line Merchandising/Licensing
New Line Music
New Line New Media
New Line Television
New Line Theatricals
Warner Bros. Pictures
Castle Rock Entertainment
Warner Bros. Pictures International
Warner Independent Pictures
Warner Bros. International Cinemas
Warner Bros. Studios
Warner Bros. Consumer Products

Warner Bros. Television Group
Warner Bros. Television
Warner Horizon Television
Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Witt/Thomas Productions
QDE Entertainment ( 50%, with Quincy Jones and David Salzman) (Affiliate)
Warner Bros. International Television
Telepictures Productions
The CW Television Network (50% with CBS Corporation)
The CW Daytime
CW Now
Warner Bros. Animation
Hanna Barbera
Looney Tunes
Kids’ WB!
The WB

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group
Warner Home Video
Warner Premiere
Warner Bros. Family Entertainment
Warner Bros. Domestic Cable Distribution
Warner Bros. Technical Operations
Warner Bros. Anti-Piracy Operations
Warner Bros. Digital Entertainment
Warner Bros. Consumer Products

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Monolith Productions
Rocksteady Studios
Snowblind Studios
Surreal Software
TT Games
Turbine, Inc.
WB Games
WB Games Chicago
Warner Bros. Online

DC Comics
Mad Magazine
Vertigo
Wildstorm

Warner Bros. Theatrical

TIME Inc. Magazines

25 Beautiful Gardens
25 Beautiful Homes
25 Beautiful Kitchens
4×4
Aeroplane
All You
Amateur Gardening
Amateur Photographer
Angler’s Mail
Better Digital Photography
Bird Keeper
BMX Business News
Bulfinch Press
Caravan
Chat
Chat Passion Series
Coastal Living
Cooking Light
Country Homes & Interiors
Country Life
Cycle Sport
Cycling Weekly
Decanter
Entertainment Weekly
Essence
Essentials
European Boat Builder
Eventing
Farm Holiday Guides
First Moments
For the Love of Cross Stitch
For the Love of Quilting
Fortune
Freeze
Golf magazine
Golf Monthly
Hair
Health
Hi-Fi News
Homes & Gardens
Horse
Horse & Hound
Housetohome.co.uk
Ideal Home
In Style
In Style Australia
In Style Germany
In Style UK
International Boat Industry
Land Rover World
Leisure Arts
Life
Livingetc
Look Magazine UK
Marie Claire
Maghound
MBR-Mountain Bike Rider
Media Networks, Inc.
MiniWorld
Mizz
Mizz Specials
Model Collector
Money
Motor Boat & Yachting
Motor Boats Monthly
Motor Caravan
NME
Now
Now Style Series
Nuts magazine
Oxmoor House
Park Home & Holiday Caravan
People
People en Español
Practical Boat Owner
Practical Parenting
Prediction
Real Simple
Rugby World
Ships Monthly
Shoot Monthly
Shooting Gazette
Shooting Times
Soaplife
Southern Living
Sporting Gun
Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated for Kids
Stamp Magazine
Sunset
Superbike
Synapse
Targeted Media, Inc.
The Field
The Golf
The Railway Magazine
This Old House
This Old House Ventures, Inc.
Time
Time Asia
Time Atlantic
Time Canada
Time Distribution Services
Time Europe
Time for Kids
Time Inc. Custom Publishing
Time Inc. Home Entertainment
Time Latin America
Time South Pacific
TV & Satellite Week
TV Easy
TV Times
Uncut
VolksWorld
Wallpaper Navigator
Wallpaper
Warner Publishing Services
Wedding & Home
What Camera
What Digital Camera
What’s On TV
Who Weekly
Woman
Woman & Golf
Woman & Home
Woman’s Feelgood Series
Woman’s Own
Woman’s Own Lifestyle Series
Woman’s Weekly
Woman’s Weekly Fiction Series
Woman’s Weekly Fiction Special
Woman’s Weekly Home Series
World Soccer
Yachting Monthly
Yachting World

TOTAL ASSETS = $69.206

The Walt Disney Studios
Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group
Walt Disney Pictures
Touchstone Pictures
Hollywood Pictures
Disneynature
Marvel Studios

Animation
Walt Disney Animation Studios (formerly Walt Disney Feature Animation)
Pixar
DisneyToon Studios
Skellington Productions

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (formerly Buena Vista Pictures Distribution Inc.)

Buena Vista International
Miravista Films
Patagonik Film Group (joint venture between Disney and Artear Argentina)

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (distributes under the following labels: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, Touchstone Home Entertainment, Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment, ABC Video, Buena Vista Home Entertainment)

El Capitan Theatre

Disney Music Group
Walt Disney Records
Hollywood Records
Mammoth Records
Buena Vista Records
Disney Music Publishing (see Buena Vista Music Group page for a list of publishers that are part of Disney Music Publishing)

Disney Theatrical Productions
Hyperion Theatrical
Disney Live Family Entertainment
Disney on Ice – produced by Feld Entertainment
Disney Live – produced by Feld Entertainment

Disney Character Voices International

Disney-ABC Television Group

U.S. Television Networks:

ABC, Inc

ABC Television Network
ABC Daytime
ABC Entertainment
Greengrass Productions
Victor Television Productions
ABC Kids
ABC News
ABC Owned & Operated Stations
WLS-7 Chicago, Illinois
KFSN-30 Fresno, California
KTRK-13 Houston, Texas
KABC-7 Los Angeles, California
WABC-7 New York City
WPVI-6 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
WTVD-11 Raleigh-Durham
KGO-7 San Francisco, California
Hulu (ABC 27%, NBC Universal 27%, News Corp 27%, Providence Equity Partners 10%, Hulu Employees 9%)

Disney ABC Cable Networks
Disney Channel
Disney Junior-formerly Playhouse Disney
Disney XD-formerly Toon Disney & Jetix
ABC Family – formerly Fox Family & The Family Channel
SOAPnet

U.S. Cable Network Equity Holdings:
Lifetime Entertainment Services and A&E Television Networks [joint venture between Disney (37.5%), Hearst Corporation (37.5%) and NBC Universal (25%)]
Lifetime
Lifetime Movie Network
Lifetime Real Women
A&E Network
The History Channel
The Biography Channel
History Channel International
Military History Channel
Crime & Investigation Network
NOTE: In 2009, Lifetime Entertainment and A&E were merged as NBCU was given an equity share of 25%.

Production & Syndication Divisions:
ABC Studios – formerly Touchstone Television & ABC Television Studios
Walt Disney Television Animation
Disney-ABC Domestic Television – formerly Buena Vista Television
Walt Disney Television
Buena Vista Studios
BVS Entertainment/Saban Entertainment library – some or all of the Power Rangers rights sold to Saban Brands
DePatie-Freleng Enterprises / Marvel Productions, Ltd. library.
Disney-ABC International Television – formerly Buena Vista International Television
Disney Educational Productions

International Television Networks & Programming Platforms:
Disney Channel Worldwide
Disney Channel (25 channels worldwide)
Playhouse Disney (9 channels worldwide)
Disney Cinemagic
Hungama

International Business Ventures
Walt Disney International Business Ventures & Business Development
Super RTL, Germany (joint venture between Disney [50%] and RTL Group [50%])
RTL II, Germany (15.75 % stake)
UTV Software Communications (32 % stake)
NET TV, Spain (20 % stake)

Radio:
Radio Disney

Publishing
Hyperion Books
ABC Daytime Press
ESPN Books
Hyperion East
Hyperion Audiobooks
VOICE

ESPN, Inc.
(Disney 80%, Hearst Corporation 20%)

ESPN and HD
ESPN2 and HD
ESPN on ABC – formerly ABC Sports
ESPN Classic
ESPNews and HD
ESPN Deportes
ESPNU
ESPN Now
ESPN Plus
ESPN Original Entertainment
ESPN Pay-Per-View
ESPN Regional Television
ESPN International (see for complete list of channels)
ESPN America
ESPN Star Sports (joint venture between Disney (50%) and News Corporation (50%))
TSN (20%)
ESPN Radio
Mobile ESPN
ESPN3
ESPN The Magazine (published by Hearst Corporation)
ESPN Books (an imprint of Disney’s Hyperion Books)
ESPN Home Entertainment (currently distributed by Genius Products)
ESPN Outdoors
BASS
ESPN Digital Center

Disney Interactive Media Group
Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG)- Websites & Online Destinations

Disney Online
D23
Disney Auctions
ABC.com
ABCNews.com
ABC News Now
ESPN.com
ESPNsoccernet
Go.com – formerly GO Network
FamilyFun.com
Wondertime.com
Disney Family (Family.com)
TouchstonePictures.com
BVOnlineEntertainment.com
Muppets.com
HollywoodRecords.com
LyricStreetRecords.com
ABCFamily.com
Video.com
SOAPnet.com
Oscar.com
ClubPenguin.com
Hulu (27%)
Hundreds of other websites relating to Disney properties & businesses, just a few are listed above

Mobile Services and Entertainment
Disney Mobile Studios
Starwave Mobile
Living Mobile
Minds Eye Productions
Enorbus
mobile2win China

Disney Interactive Studios (DIS) – formerly Buena Vista Games
Avalanche Software
Black Rock Studios
Fall Line Studios
Junction Point Studios
Playdom
Wideload Games
Tapulous

Disney Consumer Products
DisneyShopping.com
Disney Store
World of Disney Store
Disney Apparel, Accessories & Footwear
Disney Food, Health & Beauty
Disney Home & Infant
Disney Publishing Worldwide

U.S. Children’s & Family Magazines:
Disney Adventures
FamilyFun Magazine
Wondertime

Children’s Books:
Hyperion Books For Children
Jump At the Sun
Volo Books
Michael di Capua Books
Disney Press
Disney Editions
Disney Libri
Disney Educational Productions

Global Children’s Magazines (hundreds of publications are included, listed below are just a few)
W.I.T.C.H.
Topolino
Disney Princess Magazine
Winnie the Pooh Magazine
Fairies Magazine
Mickey Mouse Magazine
CrossGen – restarted as an imprint by Marvel Comics
Disney English
The Baby Einstein Company
The Muppets Studio, LLC (formerly Muppets Holding Company LLC)
Disney Stationery
Disney Toys
Disney Electronics

Disneyland Resorts
Anaheim, California, United States
Disneyland – 1955
Disney California Adventure – 2001
Downtown Disney (California)

Resorts:
Disneyland Hotel
Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel
Disney’s Paradise Pier Hotel

Walt Disney World Resort
Through Walt Disney World Company:
Magic Kingdom – 1971
Epcot – 1982
Disney’s Hollywood Studios – 1989
Disney’s Animal Kingdom – 1998
Downtown Disney (Florida)
Pleasure Island
Downtown Disney Marketplace
Downtown Disney Westside
ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex

Water Parks:
River Country – 1976-2001
Typhoon Lagoon – 1989
Blizzard Beach – 1994

Resorts:
Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge
Disney’s Beach Club Resort
Disney’s BoardWalk Inn
Disney’s Contemporary Resort
Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort and Spa
Disney’s Polynesian Resort
Disney’s Wilderness Lodge
Disney’s Yacht Club Resort
Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground
Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort
Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort
Disney’s Port Orleans Resort, French Quarter
Disney’s Port Orleans Resort, Riverside (formerly known as Disney’s Dixie Landings Resort)
Disney’s All-Star Movies Resort
Disney’s All-Star Music Resort
Disney’s All-Star Sports Resort
Disney’s Pop Century Resort

Tokyo Disney Resort
Urayasu, Chiba, Japan, near Tokyo (owned and operated by The Oriental Land Company through a licensing agreement with Disney)

Tokyo Disneyland – 1983
Tokyo DisneySea – 2001
Ikspiari

Resorts:
Disney Ambassador Hotel
Tokyo DisneySea Hotel MiraCosta
Tokyo Disneyland Hotel

Disneyland Paris
Opened on 12 April, 1992 as the Euro Disney Resort. Located in Marne-la-Vallée, France (Disney 51%, public shareholders 49%)

Euro Disney S.C.A.
Disneyland Park – 1992 (opened as Euro Disneyland)
Walt Disney Studios – 2002
Disney Village – 1992 (Opened as Festival Disney)

Resorts:
Disney’s Davy Crockett Ranch
Disneyland Hotel
Disney’s Hotel Cheyenne
Disney’s Hotel New York
Disney’s Hotel Santa Fe
Disney’s Newport Bay Club
Disney’s Sequoia Lodge

Hong Kong Disneyland Resort
Penny’s Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong (Disney 48%, Hong Kong Government 52%)

Hong Kong International Theme Parks
Hong Kong Disneyland – 2005
Inspiration Lake – 2005

Resorts
Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel
Disney’s Hollywood Hotel

Disney Cruise Line
Disney Magic – 1998
Disney Wonder – 1999
Castaway Cay – 1998
Disney Dream- 2011
Disney Fantasy- 2012

Disney Vacation Club
Disney’s BoardWalk Villas, Walt Disney World Resort
Disney’s Beach Club Villas, Walt Disney World Resort
Disney’s Old Key West Resort, Walt Disney World Resort
Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa, Walt Disney World Resort
The Villas at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge, Walt Disney World Resort
Bay Lake Tower at Disney’s Contemporary Resort, Walt Disney World Resort
The Villas at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge, Walt Disney World Resort
Disney’s Vero Beach Resort, Vero Beach, Florida
Disney’s Hilton Head Island Resort, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
The Villas at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa, Disneyland Resort

Adventures by Disney

Walt Disney Imagineering

Outreach Programs
DisneyWorldwideOutreach
VoluntEARS
ABC A Better Community
Team ESPN
Learning Together! from Disney ABC Cable Networks Group
Movies, Magic & More from The Walt Disney Studios
Disney HAND
Disney’s Environmentality
Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund

Other Assets
Marvel Entertainment
Marvel Animation
Marvel Characters, Inc.
Marvel Comics
Icon Comics
MAX
Ultimate Comics
Marvel Toys
It’s a Laugh Productions
Jetix Animation Concepts
POW! Entertainment – 10% of the outstanding shares of stock[1]
BVS Entertainment

TOTAL ASSETS = $137.7 Billion

Sony Pictures Entertainment

Motion Pictures and Home Entertainment
Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group
Revolution Studios
Columbia Pictures
TriStar Pictures
Sony Pictures India
Sony Pictures Classics
Sony Pictures Releasing
Sony Pictures Releasing International
Monumental Pictures (Russia)
Screen Gems
Triumph Films
FEARnet

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions
Destination Films: A “niche” motion picture company purchased by Sony in 2001.
Stage 6 Films: A direct to video label created in 2007.
Affirm Films: A motion picture label launched in 2008 to release gospel and Christian films.

Television Production and Distribution

Sony Pictures Television Group
(formerly Columbia TriStar Television Group) The successor-in-interest to Columbia’s television division (first Screen Gems, later Columbia Pictures Television, Coca-Cola Television, TriStar Television (A division of Columbia Pictures Television), and Columbia TriStar Television), as of 2004 the unit was producing 60 titles for various television outlets globally. Contains a library that includes more than 35,000 episodes of more than 270 television series and 22,000 game show episodes under the Columbia TriStar Television brand, and the television rights to the Embassy Pictures library (including The Graduate and The Lion in Winter) and also the owner of the television division “Embassy Television”–among most recent notable shows in this library are Seinfeld, King of Queens, Days of our Lives and The Young and the Restless.

Adelaide Productions
Barris Industries: Formed in 1965 by Chuck Barris as Chuck Barris Productions.
Barry & Enright Productions (post-scandal), including Jack Barry Productions.
Crackle
Culver Entertainment
ELP Communications (ELPC) and Tandem Licensing Corporation (TLC): The two in-name only units of Sony Pictures Television own the productions’ copyrights presented by Norman Lear’s companies: Tandem Productions and ELP Communications (series from T.A.T. to ELP Communications). The companies were formed by Bud Yorkin and Norman Lear in 1958 as Tandem Productions. Yorkin sold his shares to Lear in 1975. Lear sold Tandem/Embassy Television to The Coca-Cola Company in 1985 and later became Embassy Communications in 1986 (later became ELP Communications in 1988). ELPC and TLC are part of Sony Pictures Entertainment since 1991.

Embassy Row: A television and digital production company by Michael Davies known for producing Power of 10, the 2005 version of Chain Reaction, and the current incarnation of The Newlywed Game for GSN. SPT acquired the company on January 14, 2009.

Four D Productions: Independent production house founded by Danny Arnold in 1974. Acquired by The Coca-Cola Company in 1986.
GSN: (joint venture with DirecTV)
Merv Griffin Enterprises: Founded in 1964 by Merv Griffin as Merv Griffin Productions. He sold his company to The Coca-Cola Company in 1986 as Merv Griffin Enterprises and was a subsidiary of Columbia Pictures Entertainment from 1988 to 1991 and Sony Pictures Entertainment from 1991 to 1994.

The Minisode Network
Sony Movie Channel
Stewart Tele Enterprises: Formed in 1964 by Bob Stewart

Sony Pictures Television International
Formed in 1995 as the worldwide television distribution arm for Sony Pictures Entertainment. Formerly known as Columbia TriStar International Television from 1995 to 2002.

Tuvalu Media: A Dutch production company based in Holland, Netherlands. SPT acquired a majority stake in the company in March 2010.
2waytraffic: Acquired by Sony in 2008, this television production company owns a number of formats, most notably including Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?.
SPE Networks
Sony Aath
Sony Entertainment Television
Animax: Instituted in Japan by Sony in 1998, Animax is the world’s largest anime television network,[13] with respective networks operating across Japan, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, South America and other regions.[14] However, Animax was cut off from Vietnam cable network in 2010 without any reason
AXN: Formed in 1997, AXN is Sony’s entertainment television network, which airs across Japan, Asia, Latin America and Europe.

Other Sony Pictures Operations

Sony Pictures Music Group
Sony Pictures Family Entertainment Group
Sony Pictures Consumer Products
Sony Pictures Digital Productions Inc.[4][15]
Sony Pictures Imageworks
Sony Pictures Animation
Sony Station
Sony Pictures Network
Sony Pictures Mobile
Sony Pictures Digital Networks
SPiN
SoapCity
Screenblast
Advanced Platform Group APG

Entrance to SPE main lot in Culver City

Sony Pictures Cable Ventures, Inc.
Sony Pictures Studios: The actual physical buildings, land and movie-making equipment properties in Culver City, California. Includes 22 sound stages, ranging in size from 7,600 to 43,000 square feet (700 to 4,000 m²)
Sony Pictures Entertainment (Japan) (SPEJ): The company plans, produces, manufactures, sells, imports, exports, leases, broadcasts and distributes movies, TV programs, videos and audio-visual software in Japan. The company web site says it was established on February 10, 1984,[16] predating Sony’s acquisition of Columbia Pictures Entertainment by 5 years. SPEJ was formed in 1991 through the merger of Columbia Tristar Japan, RCA Columbia Pictures Video Japan, and Japan International Enterprises.[17] Based in Tokyo, Japan.
Sony Pictures Loot: A newly formed group of developers that creates experiences and products for PlayStation Home. Their products include premium personal spaces and decorative ornaments and clothes/costumes for the users personal spaces and avatars. The premium personal spaces have equipment that allows users, if hooked up to a video capture system, make their own machinimas in Home.[18]
Sony Pictures Studios Post Production Facilities
Worldwide Product Fulfillment
Sony Pictures Technologies
Digital Authoring Center provides educational seminars for film-makers preparing stereoscopic productions. Also known as Sony Pictures Digital Authoring Center.
Colorworks, established in 2009, provides digital image production services such as digital restoration, digital intermediates, scanning and film recording, digital dailies and asset management

Sony BMG Music Entertainment

Sony BMG Music Entertainment began as the result of a 50–50 joint venture between Sony Music Entertainment (part of Sony) and Bertelsmann Music Group (part of Bertelsmann) completed on March 4, 2004. It is one of the Big Four music companies, and includes ownership and distribution of recording labels such as Arista Records, Columbia Records, Epic Records, J Records, Jive Records, RCA Victor Records, RCA Records, Legacy Recordings, Sonic Wave America, and others. The merger affected all Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group companies worldwide except for Japan, where it was felt that it would reduce competition in that country’s music industry significantly.

Labels Include
Arista Records
Upstate Records
Columbia Records
Epic Records
J Records
Jive Records
RCA Records
Zomba Records

Products

PlayStation
PlayStation2
PlayStation3
PlayStation Portable (PSP)
Universal Media Disc (UMD)
PlayStation Move, an accessory that allows players to control video games using motion controllers
VAIO – laptops branded as VAIO. Previously Sony has disabled hardware virtualization on their high end VAIO laptops
TV’s
Radios
Digital cameras, ranging from point-and-shoot models to digital SLRs.

Over the years, Sony has introduced these standards:
Umatic (~1968)
Betamax (1975)
Betacam (1981)
Compact Disc with Philips (1982)
3.5 inch Floppy Disk (1982)
Video8 (1985)
DAT (1987)
Hi8 (1988)
MiniDisc (~1990)
Digital Betacam (~1990)
miniDV (1992)
DVD with others (~1995)
DVCAM (1996)
Memory Stick (1998)
Digital8 (1999)
Universal Media Disc (~2003)
HDV with JVC (~2004)
Blu-ray Disc with Panasonic and others (2006)

TOTAL ASSETS = $751.216 Billion

Media Assets

NBCUniversal
(49% ownership, remaining owned by Comcast)

NBC – National Broadcasting Company

NBC Network Television stations
WNBC 4 – New York
KNBC 4 – Los Angeles
WMAQ 5 – Chicago
WCAU 10 – Philadelphia
KNTV 11 – San Jose/San Francisco
KXAS 5 – Dallas/Fort Worth²
WRC 4 – Washington
WTVJ 6 – Miami
KNSD 39 (cable 7) – San Diego²
WVIT 30 – Hartford

NBC Entertainment
NBC News
NBC Sports
NBC Studios

NBCUniversal Sports & Olympics
NBCUniversal Television Group

Universal Media Studios
NBC Universal Television Distribution
NBC Universal International Television

EMKA, Ltd.
NBC Universal Digital Media

NBC Universal Cable

A&E Television Networks (co-owned with The Hearst Corporation and Disney/ABC):
A&E
The Biography Channel
Crime & Investigation Network
The History Channel
The History Channel en Español
History Channel International
Lifetime
Military History Channel

Bravo
Chiller (horror-themed cable channel, launched March 1, 2007) [1]
CNBC
CNBC World
MSNBC (co-owned with Microsoft)
NBC WeatherPlus
mun2
SyFy
ShopNBC
Sleuth
USA Network
Universal HD
The Weather Channel
WeatherPlus

NBCUniversal Global Networks
LAPTV (Latin America) – co-owned with Paramount Pictures (Viacom), MGM and 20th Century Fox (News Corporation);
Telecine (Brazil) – co-owned with Globosat Canais, Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks, MGM and 20th Century Fox;
Universal Channel Latin America (except Brazil
Universal Channel Brazil (co-owned with Globosat Canais);
Sci Fi Channel (Latin America)
NBCUniversal Global Networks España.

Telemundo
KVEA/KWHY – Los Angeles
WNJU – New York
WSCV – Miami
KTMD – Houston
WSNS – Chicago
KXTX – Dallas/Fort Worth
KVDA – San Antonio
KSTS – San Jose/San Francisco
KTAZ – Phoenix
KBLR – Las Vegas
KNSO – Fresno
KDEN – Longmont, Colorado
WNEU – Boston/Merrimack
KHRR – Tucson
WKAQ – Puerto Rico

Universal Studios (co-owned with Vivendi)
Universal Pictures
Focus Features
Rogue
Working Title Films
Universal Studios Licensing
Universal Animation Studios
Universal Interactive
Universal Pictures International
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Universal Home Entertainment Productions
United International Pictures (co-owned with Paramount Pictures/Viacom);
Universal Operations Group
Universal Production Studios
Universal Parks & Resorts
qubo – Qubo Venture,LLC

Primary business units

GE Capital
GE Capital Aviation Services, GE Energy Financial Services, GE Real Estate, GE Americas, GE Asia and GE Europe, Middle East & Africa
GE Technology Infrastructure
GE Aviation, GE Healthcare and GE Transportation
GE Energy
GE Energy Services, GE Oil & Gas, GE Power & Water
GE Home & Business Solutions
GE Appliances & Lighting, GE Intelligent Platforms
NBC Universal (49% ownership)

Healthcare

GE Healthcare
Amersham plc
Datex Ohmeda
Whatman

http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/CIA_Media_Operations_in_Chile,_Jamaica,_and_Nicaragua

Below is a YouTube video with Fred Landis from 1981 outlining how CIA media works in Jamaican Newspaper.

You’ve seen these famous logos countless times on billboards, passing by on trucks, and at the grocery store, but there is more to them than meets the eye. If you take a closer look, you will find that these recognized logos have hidden images and messages. Check out these inventive designs that cleverly use white space and optical illusions to display subliminal messages.

FedEx

This logo appears to be very simple, but if you look at the white space between the “E” and “x” in “Ex,” you’ll find it is more complex than you thought. Can you spot the arrow?

Tostitos

These popular party chips are a staple at many backyard BBQs, but chances are, you’ve never noticed the hidden celebration scene concealed within the letters. The second and third “t’s” are sharing a chip over an “i” that is dotted with a salsa bowl. Yum!

Le Tour de France

Named the world’s most famous and prestigious cycling race, bike-lovers and non-cyclists alike are familiar with the event’s emblem. However, you might be missing out on the logo’s most interesting aspect. After careful examination, you’ll notice an image of a person riding a bicycle; the yellow circle is the front wheel and the r is the body.

Amazon.com

Amazon.com has become a go-to source for electronic commerce. Clearly there is an arrow under Amazon, but have you ever thought about its significance? Take a look at where the arrow begins and ends: a and z. This secret message seems to conveys that Amazon offers everything from A to Z!

Hershey’s Kisses

The Kisses logo doesn’t have much to it, but if you look at it sideways, you might see a chocolate kiss formed between the K and the I.

Toblerone

There’s a slightly obscured bear within the Matterhorn Mountain if you look closely. That’s because the candy bar hails from Bern, Switzerland, a city supposedly named for a bear.

Big Ten

Penn State became the 11th member of this university athletic conference, hence the embedded “11” in this logo. That is, until the University of Nebraska–Lincoln became number 12, ushering in a new logo era.

Northwest Airlines

Before merging with Delta, Northwest’s logo was one of the best in the industry. The N and W within the circle are fairly obvious, but did you know the circle also serves as a compass? And guess which direction the arrow in the upper-left-hand corner (or the beginning of the w) is pointing?

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A REFLECTION OF THE FILMMAKING PROCESS
“Mockumentary Turns To Documentary Over Several Years”

In the wake of the release of my documentary, Programming the Nation, in New York City, I’m constantly reminded of the age-old adage: “It’s about the journey, not the destination.” Looking back now, I realize how true this is.

Somehow, upon receiving my B.A. in film and literature from UC Santa Cruz in 2000, I managed to complete several original screenplays. After graduating, I spent the next two to three years feverishly re-writing those screenplays in a concerted effort to get a green-light through the Hollywood Dream Machine. Even after successfully advancing to the top five percent of the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Competition (sponsored by the Academy of Motion Pictures) and signing with a WGA agent (who lived in Atlanta, since none in L.A. were interested!), my desire of making a feature film still did not come any closer to fruition.

Of course, back then, I never really kept budgetary constraints in mind while writing. But, after getting very little traction trying to peddle what I realized were multi-million-dollar, character-driven stories, I finally decided to try something new. I decided to write a low-budget script—meaning one with minimal locations and characters and virtually no special effects. Worst case scenario, I thought I could produce and direct it myself with the help of a skeleton crew… And that was basically how the idea of Programming the Nation? came about—as an experimental script that took a mockumentary approach and incorporated a narrative storyline of the moviemaker himself. The storyline was based on the history of subliminal messaging in America, and a fictional government conspiracy upon which the director had apparently stumbled.

Admittedly, I was also heavily motivated by the events that transpired on 9/11, and the ways in which the mainstream media and the Bush administration were beating the drum for war with Iraq… even though there was no evidence of Iraq’s involvement with terrorism, nor were any weapons of mass destruction ever discovered upon their soil. This sounded a lot like government mind control to me, whether it was subliminal or not.

After spending over a year writing and researching the film, not only did I find the topic extremely fascinating, but it was a lot of fun creating dialogue for various authors and experts based on their actual books and essays on the subject. Once the script was finished, I immediately dove into pre-production, but found myself in a dilemma over whether to proceed with shooting based on the original script, or to change directions entirely and make it a traditional documentary, as numerous colleagues urged me to do (particularly considering that the subject matter seemed more than capable of standing on its own).

I concluded that this would all iron itself out and began contacting, arranging and conducting interviews, figuring it was better to move forward and shoot something than do nothing. Then I hit the obstacle known as financing. Financially, there was no way I could continue to travel and speak with experts on the subject on my own dime alone. So I took it upon myself to learn the business side of moviemaking, something I was unfamiliar with and never taught in film school. I formed an LLC, wrote a business plan and somehow successfully raised enough capital to keep production moving forward.

After about two years and more than 30 interviews with a variety of authors and experts including Wilson Bryan Key (Subliminal Seduction), Dr. Eldon Taylor (Mind Programming), William Poundstone (Big Secrets), Noam Chomsky (MIT Professor of Linguistics), Douglas Rushkoff (Media Virus!), Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!), Mark Mothersbaugh (musician from the band Devo/founder of Mutato Muzika), Geoff Tate (singer of Queensryche) and Dennis Kucinich (a U.S. Congressman of Ohio), I realized there was no way I could trivialize the issues and subject these people were so passionate about by inserting the narrative originally set out in the script. So we proceeded to re-write, edit, raise additional capital and spend more than four year in post-production, taking Programming the Nation? from mockumentary to documentary.

I guess it just goes to show that although you might not always know where a ship is headed when you set sail on a journey, if you hang on, enjoy the ride and navigate through stormy waters, eventually you’ll reach land and coast to shore. Where you end up might be a total surprise.

Programming the Nation? opens at the Quad Cinema in New York City on Friday, August 19th and in Los Angeles and San Francisco later in September.