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16-06-2012 03:26 Dan Willis is one of the Disclosure Project's twenty Top Secret military witnesses that testified at the National Press Club in Washington DC in 2001 in front of every major media, an event that should have changed the world but was manipulated by a controlled media. He explains the history of how a secret government operating illegally within our National Security system has maintained control of the media and secrecy for over 50 years. He served in the US Navy as a high speed code operator at the Naval Communication Station in San Francisco as well as combat action in Vietnam. An ex-radio broadcast engineer and ABC newsman, Dan has taken a keen interest in how the media has withheld disclosure of the full message to the public, a message based on the hundreds of credible military and intelligence witness testimonies. Disclosure Project site

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Alien Disclosure and Media Manipulation with Dan Willis - Video

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KURT BUSCH MEDIA CONTROL - Video

* Fairfax to restructure Sydney Morning Herald, The Age

* About 1,900 jobs to go, sees annual savings of A$235 mln

* Media (Frankfurt: 725292 - news) sector in major shakeup, News Ltd seen cutting staff

* Fairfax confirms Rinehart has lifted stake to 18.7 pct

* Fairfax shares rise 7.4 pct, market up 2 pct (Adds investor comment)

MELBOURNE, June 18 (Reuters) - Australia's Fairfax Media (Munich: 884229 - news) , publisher of some of the country's leading newspapers, will overhaul its top mastheads and slash almost one-fifth of its staff, the beginning of a widespread shakeup of Australia's media sector.

The media industry's old guard is struggling with a massive shift online, declining advertising revenues for newspaper and TV, and shrinking market share for free-to-air TV as consumers' choices multiply for news and entertainment.

Fairfax - which publishes the 181-year-old Sydney Morning Herald, Australia's oldest newspaper, as well as the Australian Financial Review and Melbourne's The Age - said it will cut 1,900 jobs over three years from its staff of 10,000.

It will also shut two printing plants and reduce broadsheet newspapers to tabloid formats as it refocuses towards online distribution.

"All the world's newspaper companies are experimenting with what sustainability looks like," said Margaret Simons, the head of the University of Melbourne's Centre for Advanced Journalism.

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UPDATE 3-Australia's Fairfax to slash newspaper jobs as media landscape shifts

FRANCE'S Socialists have won control of parliament, handing President Francois Hollande the convincing majority he needs to push through his tax-and-spend agenda to battle the eurozone debt crisis.

The Socialists' bloc obtained 314 seats - an absolute majority in the 577-seat National Assembly - and so will not need to rely on the Greens or the far left, according to official results.

The far-right National Front was set to return to parliament for the first time since 1998 after winning two seats in the south of the country, although party leader Marine Le Pen lost her own bid for a seat.

Mr Hollande, who defeated conservative Nicolas Sarkozy in the presidential election in May, had urged voters to give him the MPs he needs to steer France through the eurozone crisis, rising unemployment and a faltering economy.

"The task before us is immense," Hollande's Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said as results came in from the run-off vote. "Nothing will be easy."

Mr Sarkozy's UMP and its allies won 229 seats, the Socialist-allied Greens 17 seats and the far-left Left Front 10, according to final results released by the interior ministry yesterday.

While Mr Le Pen's anti-immigrant and anti-EU National Front (FN) was set to return two to four MPs to parliament, she will not be among them.

Mr Le Pen, who has said her success in the first-round parliamentary vote made her party France's "third political force", demanded a recount after she was narrowly defeated by a Socialist in a northern former mining constituency.

But the telegenic Le Pen nevertheless rejoiced in the overall success of her party, whose image she has fought to soften from the days of her father Jean-Marie's provocative outbursts.

"This is an enormous success," Marine Le Pen said in Henin-Beaumont.

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Socialists take majority control in France

You might not be used to barking orders at your television set, except to bellow dissatisfaction at a minister's responses in a Jeremy Paxman interview on Newsnight. Nor might you be used to gesturing at the screen, unless it's to wave your fist at the sight of Piers Morgan or Simon Cowell.

But perhaps you should get used to voice and gesture recognition behaviour. Microsoft's Xbox known to many as a video-games console for indulging in shoot-'em-up pastimes such as Call of Duty or Battlefield is about to make its big play to be the control system for all your home entertainment.

Not only that but the introduction of its SmartGlass technology, unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and his team this month, will allow users to continue watching, playing and interacting with Xbox content via their phones and tablets too.

The arrival of the SmartGlass app in the final quarter of this year will coincide with the critical launch of Microsoft's new Windows 8 technology, including new smartphones and tablets all based on the distinctive "smart tiles" interface already present on Xbox. But it is SmartGlass's compatibility with Apple's iOS and Google's Android, which gives Xbox the chance to dominate the living room.

SmartGlass is recognition of the now common practice of dual screening watching a TV show or film while using a laptop, phone or tablet simultaneously, often to comment to friends on social-media sites about what you are watching.

What will make it a game changer is if Xbox's content partners broadcasters, film studios, etc are able to provide SmartGlass with sufficient additional features that your viewing experience is transformed.

Explaining the new system at Microsoft's giant campus in Reading, senior company executive Neil Thompson compares the potential to the bonus DVDs sold with feature films.

The battle to control the home entertainment market is at a critical juncture and Microsoft faces serious competition. BSkyB, Virgin Media and the BBC-supported YouView project are among those developing fresh living-room products designed to realise the potential of internet-based television.

But Thompson claims that with the new Xbox features there's no need to go out and buy a fancy state-of-the-art television set at all. "We can give people the ability to make whatever TV they have got now into a smart TV," he says.

Launched in 2002, the Xbox experience has changed dramatically. It carries the BBC iPlayer and, for a 30-49 Xbox Live annual subscription on top of the console outlay of 149, a wide range of on-demand television and film services from partners such as Channel 4, Lovefilm, Netflix and Blinkbox. It has a vast library of music and video from Microsoft's own Zune service and users can access the Internet on their television screen via Microsoft's Bing search engine.

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Ian Burrell: Microsoft unveils secret weapon in war for the future of entertainment