You would say Fox News is right-wing and anti-Islam ? One of the largest shareholders in News Corp of Rupert Murdoch is Prince Alwaleed bin Talal , the 35th richest man in the world . So indirectly he would own Star News too ;-) Today who owns what can never be really known . All our ecommerce companies are owned via holding companies invested by Russians, Japanese , Arabs , Germans , Brazilians et al . Nothing is national anymore which is bigger than a certain scale. Nationalism is actually now irrelevant where global finance is considered . Just how politicians play religious, ethnic and caste groups , financial interests play national identities , using national egos to bring up and down down currencies or assets . Volatility is King . The Casino makes money both ways ! Alwaleed carries Lebanese citizenship as well as Saudi citizenship. He is known as a champion of moderate Muslim identity. During the 2005 Paris riots, Alwaleed is rumored to have called Rupert Murdoch and asked him to remove the phrase ‘Muslim riots’ to ‘civil riots’. He owns a reported 5-6% in Fox News. He is known to be active in promoting Muslim-Western dialogue, granting millions to top American universities, including Harvard, for Muslim study centers. He also incurred American disdain in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001 when he offered a $10 million check to NYC Mayor Rudolph Guliani but then said that the US had been at fault because of its foreign policies in the Middle East. Guliani, due to popular anger of the remarks, was forced to return the money. His Kingdom Holdings include stakes in News Corp, Citigroup, hotel management companies Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, Movenpick Hotels & Resorts and Fairmont Raffles Holding, as well as hotel real estate such as the swanky Hotel George V in Paris and a stake in the Savoy Hotel in London. In 2012, the Prince and his investment company bought $300 million worth of Twitter shares; theyre now worth upwards of $1 billion. Kingdom Holding could also benefit from a $125 million investment it made in Chinese e-commerce company JD, which filed to raise $1.5 billion in an IPO in January. He also owns extensive Saudi real estate and other assets outside of Kingdom Holding. forbes/profile/prince-alwaleed-bin-talal-alsaud/
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 13:32:32 +0000
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