[mekrob]

Currently watching Al-Jazeera. Just the news; covering the Palestinian situation after Israel cut off fuel supplies which have run out (fuel needed to produce electricity). Don't expect Fox to cover that.

[deeciduous]

A good open web site is
english.pravda.ru
This lays the skinny on military moves, kind of interesting.

But
A news agency calls themselves

FOX? And this worries no one?
Fox in the chicken coop?
Foxy?
Smart and sneaky as a fox?

the elite symbols that are not recognizable to the public,
lets them think they are a level smarter or something.

[Alcassin]

"We should find Saudi Arabia every 4 years"
10 mins.

Link
Part II

[roccman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Alcassin', '"')We should find Saudi Arabia every 4 years"
10 mins.

Link

[Alcassin]

Oh, I think guys from AlJazeera use Savinar's site :D
Updated, part II inluded

[Armageddon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('roccman', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Alcassin', '"')We should find Saudi Arabia every 4 years"
10 mins.

Link

[SeaGypsy]

http://english.aljazeera.net/

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')ver the last several months, Al Jazeera has been given unhindered access to the largest-ever leak of confidential documents related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There are nearly 1,700 files, thousands of pages of diplomatic correspondence detailing the inner workings of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. These documents – memos, e-mails, maps, minutes from private meetings, accounts of high level exchanges, strategy papers and even power point presentations – date from 1999 to 2010.

The material is voluminous and detailed; it provides an unprecedented look inside the continuing negotiations involving high-level American, Israeli, and Palestinian Authority officials.

Al Jazeera will release the documents between January 23-26th, 2011. They will reveal new details about:

the Palestinian Authority’s willingness to concede illegal Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem, and to be “creative” about the status of the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount;
the compromises the Palestinian Authority was prepared to make on refugees and the right of return;
details of the PA’s security cooperation with Israel;
and private exchanges between Palestinian and American negotiators in late 2009, when the Goldstone Report was being discussed at the United Nations.
Because of the sensitive nature of these documents, Al Jazeera will not reveal the source(s) or detail how they came into our possession. We have taken great care over an extended period of time to assure ourselves of their authenticity.

We believe this material will prove to be of inestimable value to journalists, scholars, historians, policymakers and the general public.

We know that some of what is presented here will prove controversial, but it is our intention to inform, not harm, to spark debate and reflection – not dampen it. Our readers and viewers will note that we have provided a comments section in which to express opinions. In keeping with our editorial policies, we reserve the right to excise comments that we deem inappropriate, but all civil voices will be heard, all opinions respected.

We present these papers as a service to our viewers and readers as a reflection of our fundamental belief – that public debate and public policies grow, flourish and endure when given air and light....

[mos6507]

None of this should be a surprise to anybody. You can't have diplomacy without some degree of compromise. Unfortunately the Palestinian public aren't interested in compromise. Oo it forces the PA to be two-faced, saying one thing to its people and acting differently with Israel. That's true I think of a lot of middle-eastern leaders, who through pragmatics alone (no love of Israel, mind you) have to cooperate to some extent. If they want an absolutist position, they can have Hamas, which yields them nothing.

[Keith_McClary]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'U')nfortunately the Palestinian public aren't interested in compromise. Oo it forces the PA to be two-faced, saying one thing to its people and acting differently with Israel.

[timmac]

Good News: Al Jazeera Kids Channel Coming to American TV…


Bye-bye Barney. Hello Farfur!

(The Blaze) — Considering her recent praise for Al Jazeera, Hillary Clinton might do cartwheels when she hears about this story.

Al Jazeera, the controversial Arab news network often criticized for its unfriendly-to-America bent, is trying to figure out a way to get on American cable television. So what idea did it come up with? Use the kids. Yes, Al Jazeera has just announced plans for an English-language network for children — in North America.

According to the magazine Fast Company, the project is supposed to be completed by the end of 2012. And while the new channel will feature some original programming, content will also “be a mix of syndicated shows from other sources and original programming, dubbed into English, from the already existing Arabic-language Al Jazeera Children’s Channel.”

Keep reading…

This show is bound to make the left weak in the knees. It’s an animated series about the Crusades where Christians are the bad guys and 11th-century Islamic warlord Saladin is the hero.




Bye-bye Barney. Hello Farfur!

[Sixstrings]

I don't know tim, what's your point are we supposed to be scared of Al Jazeera?

Fox News scares me. And MTV if I land on that by accident, and Dancing With the Stars, and oh that medical channel is the worst with all the "mystery diagnosis" horrible disease shows and gruesome surgeries.

I don't watch Al Jazeera. And I don't watch Press TV because yes that's Iranian. RT clips I'll watch now and then but I don't like it too much because it's propaganda -- I'd respect Max Keiser a lot more if he'd have something to say about Russia for a change.

But Al Jazeera.. why are they scary? Look at what's happened in the middle east.. without Al Jazeera doing honest coverage (something Egyptian state TV was not) we wouldn't have seen all these dictators topple one after the other.

It's free speech tim.. nothing more American than that.

[timmac]

Well half my post did not post, can't seem to get any pics loaded, keeps kicking them out, the pics would show more of my post, will see if I can get them loaded later.

Peak Oil site is running sloooow.

[mos6507]

This is one case where I side with the borg happyface.

It's a free country but I suspect there will be plenty of disturbing crap on this channel. But then I'm also disturbed by Home Shopping Network, American Idol, and the 700 Club.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('timmac', ' ')It’s an animated series about the Crusades where Christians are the bad guys

[mos6507]

Actually the lesson muslims need to learn about the Crusades is not that the crusaders were bad. That's been drilled into them for 1000 years. The lesson they need to hear today, is that Saladin was more chivalrous than the europeans, and he would be ashamed at terrorist tactics.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'A')ctually the lesson muslims need to learn about the Crusades is not that the crusaders were bad. That's been drilled into them for 1000 years. The lesson they need to hear today, is that Saladin was more chivalrous than the europeans, and he would be ashamed at terrorist tactics.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '
')Most Muslims are ashamed of terrorist tactics.

[dorlomin]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/24/qatar-planes-libya-high-stakes

An intersting view of Al Jazeera as a key to popularity on the Arab street (a phrase that is rapidly dating) to offer a measure of protection to the rulers of Qatar. Bit like Abramovitch and Chel$ki.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he richest 1% of US Americans earn nearly a quarter of the country's income and control an astonishing 40% of its wealth. Inequality in the US is more extreme than it's been in almost a century — and the gap between the super rich and the poor and middle class people has widened drastically over the last 30 years.

(snip) How did the gap grow so wide, and so quickly? And how are the convictions, campaign contributions and charitable donations of the top 1% impacting the other 99% of Americans? Fault Lines investigates the gap between the rich and the rest.

This episode of Fault Lines first aired on Al Jazeera English on August 2, 2011 at 0930 GMT.
Video documentary, 25 minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdVODFombco&feature=player_embedded

[Outcast_Searcher]

Naturally this is posted on "The Daily KOS", a site so far left it excites MSNBC.

Naturally, the fact that the top 1% pay far more of the proportion of federal taxes than the proportion of their income isn't mentioned.

Naturally, one of the main reasons, advanced technology -- requiring advanced education to utilize, which governments are NOT dealing with, is not even cited as a reason.

I'm sure this gets the left wing all excited and happy to have some boogeyman (oligarchs) to rave about, but it does nothing to identify or fix the real core problem.

Considering who runs the Middle East, and especially Saudi Arabia, isn't raving about oligarchs in the U.S. kind of ironic?