Egypt Bans Arabic Broadcaster Al-Jazeera
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera says Egyptian authorities are ordering the closure of its offices covering the street protests in Cairo and elsewhere.
The Qatar-based network has given nearly round-the-clock coverage to the uprising against the regime of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Al-Jazeera’s flagship Arabic channel is considered by some as a possible forum to inspire demonstrators. It also broadcasts in English.
A statement by Al-Jazeera on Sunday called Egypt’s decision an act “designed to stifle and repress” open reporting.
The network has frequently been at odds with authorities in the Middle East, previously facing bans or restrictions in countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
Editor’s note: Al-Jazeera is continuing to post reports, images and video from Egypt — including this video of military jets flying over Cairo on Sunday.
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USMule
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:02pmHeres a thing of beauty Glenn…You might remember this song…a Black Panther sings it…
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED….
The Revolution Will Not Be TeleVised By Gil Scott Heron
Sunday, January 30, 2011, 08:11 PM EST [General]
http://community.myfoxboston.com/1usmule/blog/2011/01/30/the_revolution_will_not_be_televised_by_gil_scott_heron
The Revolution Will Not Be TeleVised By Gil Scott Heron…..
Report Post »GREAT SONG…THE REVOLUTION WONT BE TELEVISED ACTUALLY KIND OF THE FIRST RAP SONG WHEN I WAS GROWING UP ON THE STREETS OF REVOLUTION THE LATE 60‘S AN EARLY 70’S LOL an I was there in Harvard Square during the MAY DAY ANTI WAR Movement when the Black Panthers started the riots there…
Oops I Guess the Revolution Wont be Televised. Egypt shuts down Al Jazeera bureau..But damn Obama is trying to SHUT DOWN FOX NEWS an trying to criminalize conservative talk an thoughts…with his cohorts in the shadow’s of the KABBA HOUSE..the song on the link below..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGaRtqrlGy8
Independencemp3
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 9:11pmIt ’twas a great one, and apropos! Let’s hope we stay televised and connected. Shine the sunlight as long as all the players want the best for all… mmm, do you think they do?
Report Post »rdk
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 3:59pmGood!
Report Post »Houndfan
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:53pmAl Jazeera‘s coverage has been better than the cable news networks and they don’t cut to a car chase
Report Post »as Fox did on Friday. As for Mubarak, with 33% unemployment the people are fed up and want him
out. Why not have the military rule? The people respect the military, but don’t hate them like they
hate the police. The military has the ability to keep out the Muslim Brotherhood.
awiderview
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 7:54pmI watch Al Jazeera in Europe. I generally find the reporting to be unbiased news. Interestingly, in the US, it’s the corporations that are afraid to broadcast Al Jazeera… I think they are afraid of the narrow minded mentality, so evident here. Why aren’t people on this site calling for freedom of the press- including Al Jazeera?
Report Post »republitarian
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 8:48pmHello Europe.
I don‘t know why the big players don’t carry it. I don’t have cable or sat. TV, but it seems like their are 400 channels on there. Surely there is room for lil‘ ol’ Al Jazeera.
As to freedom of the press, anyone is allowed to report, but there is no right to be heard. There are several markets that don’t carry Fox News. I don’t know if people complain about that or not.
Report Post »awiderview
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 9:10pmWhere are the markets that don’t carry FOX News? They must be pretty small markets. BTW: I don‘t agree with a lot of what’s on FOX News, but certainly want it on my TV. There is always something to be learned by hearing opposing views.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 12:55pmHammer meets nail-head! Go figure why corporatocracy doesn’t want an alternative news and information source. :/
Report Post »republitarian
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 6:47pmWatching Al Jazeera English: Live stream now. Great coverage of the situation in Egypt and other African and Middle East countries.
Report Post »millefiore
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 4:36pmIf it can happen there it can happen here. The plans w/ the “kill switch for the internet” for the President to exercise that power over the masses is wrong and our liberties are being trampled on incrementially-Wake up and let your representatives know this type of legislation is off limits now and forever.
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 1:13pmSnow is right about “Information is power, and control over the information and the means of dissemination gives the power into the hands of the controller.” I don’t think any news should be shut down, I just don’t trust any of them to tell the truth without their own political slants….Al-Jazeera I’m sure is only telling the parts they want you to know, not all of it. Just like the news here.
Report Post »joeliberty
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 12:53pmI thought Al-jazeera was a propaganda machine and always wrong? To hear the neo-cons and every one else in their elite circles, they are always right and the rest of are always wrong!
Report Post »jacobstroubles
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 12:45pmOhhhhhhhhhhhh so what red blooded DICTATOR, wouldnt do that?
Report Post »Pleaaaaaaaaaaaase Ohhhhhhhh Pleaaase mr biden,,, tell it isnt so…
Read another stupid bed time store and tell us he’s not a DITCATOR, again
Chicago Ray
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:48amThey finally got smart about that network, It should be jammed across the world.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:33amSnowleopard {gallery of cat folks} I agree that the revolution should be peaceful. But until the judges that think they can change voters elections without repercussions. Then they will keep right on doing the same thing. Most of us out here don’t have the money to hire leagues of lawyers to go after them. Besides it’s really hard to get a lawyer to after another lawyer or judge. They like their jobs too much. But until they have to pay the price for their decisions then nothing will change.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 1:23pmUnderstood, yet somewhere out there has to be some attorneys and judges willing to make the stand and face the fight for what is right.
Report Post »Red Meat
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:09amAre the majority of people posting here retarded? Why would you want the MB to take control of the vandalizing, pillaging, and raping crowds? Wake up!
Report Post »Teapartywoman
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 1:13pmYou will always have elements of crazy people it’s up to the good people to pull together and protect the ones that need it. God help us, this can happen anywhere America is just a ticking time boom. But I do feel America is better them we all think, yes there is an element out and about who wants this to happen. God their are people in this goverment calling for this very thing to happen. Van Jones “bottom up top down and inside out”. And this bull the president just said about stop the name calling and the vitrial, come on who was he talking to his own group of thugs. The 9-12er’s out and about are the most decent, kindest, respectful people I‘ve ever had the plesure to know and I’m proud to call myself one. Keep the faith people, America is great and good and will continue to be no matter what we will go through in the next several years.
Report Post »Mister_Bill
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 10:43am“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, the he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.” (Plato, The Republic) Mubarak has never acted like a democratically elected President. He has suppressed the political opposition and barred the Muslim Brotherhood from even being recognized as a legitimate party. This is what could happen here if we have any more “czars” appointed by the president. There is a bill that would give the president the power to turn off the internet without any judicial restraint right now. Revolution is in the air, vote in 2012.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:12amRevolution may be in the air, yet it needs to be a peaceful, non-violent one; change wrought by the will of the people, for and by the people of the nation. The legislatures of the federal and states need to remember they work for US, not the other way around.
Report Post »TheBMT
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 4:52pmrEVOLution. Borrowing that from Ron Paul’s 2008 campaign. A peaceful Revolution.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 10:40amThey are evil men motivated and possessed by evil spirits; to have laws is one thing as long as they apply equitably to all, but when the masses make laws to control the freedoms of even one individual so the collective whole benefits, then you have tyrany.
Report Post »dizzyinthedark
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 4:18pmHow shall we restrain ourselves when our final freedoms are taken away and we continue to do the non violent stance? I am finding this difficult to see myself rolling over, allowing Barry and his mignions the right to take it all away without batting an eye.
Report Post »Houndfan
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 12:02amWhat are you talking about and how does it relate to the turmoil in Egypt? We may not like it, but Obama was elected. If we don’t like his policies we can peacefully elect someone else at the next
Report Post »election. We have tons of freedom in comparison to someone in Egypt hearing gunfire outside
their apartment scared that looters will break in with little they can do about it.
orcainohio
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 8:02pmSnow kinda like the smoking laws?
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 10:14amHe who controls the dessimination of information has a significant edge over the opposition; it allows you to declare what you want others to hear and manipulate events to your favor and the detriment of others. Information is power, and control over the information and the means of dessimination gives the power into the hands of the controller.
Report Post »Muslim in Chief
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 10:24amI think the Lame stream liberal media is hysterical. If America blocked AL Jazeera, the out cry in the Muslim world would be heard on Mars. Just goes to show you the Hypocrisy of the Islamic world
Report Post »SlippedThroughAWormHole
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 10:24amYep, and that’s what Obama wants too.
Report Post »912828Buckeye
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 10:30amIt would appear the oppressors are still in charge.
Report Post »Jackdaball
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 10:31am@ snowleopard,
100% correct…review history!!
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 10:32amHey SNOWLEOPARD: You mean like what goes on here in the good ol’ USA? Couldn’t agree more!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 10:39am@Jackdaball
I have, especially the great wars. One book I can recommend if you can find a copy is entitled “Sixty Days that Shook the West.” This treaty is great reading, is dynamic and covers the invasion of France by the Germans and Italians at the start of the western campaign.
It covers political, economic and military factors, even with the British.
The speech given by Mussolini on June 10, 1941 shows the true differences between the Republics and the Fachists and Nationalist states.
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 10:45amIt seems to me that Obama and Hilary wanted to quietly throw Mubarak under the bus (to use a delightful American expression). They picked, correctly I think, that Mubarak is finished and wanted as easy a transition to another leader as possible. They doubtless hoped for a western friendly leader that also met the approval of the protesters, thus blocking the Islamists ffom taking power.
This means that Mubarak would have to co-operate and eventually step aside. Undoubyably there would have been sweeteners in it for him.
This latest action makes it obvious that he has no intention of going.
My pick is that things are about to get bloody. The West cannot support Mubarak because he will lose and we don’t want to suffer the future consequences of supportting a man who is about to kill his own people. Westerners should get out quickly. Israel should prepare itself in case the Islamists get in. We should invest in gold.
Report Post »jblaze
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 10:58amThis is all about the Muslim Brotherhood; that is the end game! If not today or next week, it will happen! Read about this group it is Iran doing is dirty work!
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:13amAl Jazeera is an anti western culture TV station , from the outside they look so cool but all of their reporting is about supporting radicals against moderates .
Report Post »Just imagine MSNBC X 100000 .
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:14am@AzDebi
I see the high probability of that kind of control swiftly coming over the nation; again, it will only take one triggering event to set the house of cards shaking. The smallest of fires for cooking and the largest of forest fires have one thing in common, a single spark of flame starts the chain of events off – for good or bad.
It is how we chose to deal with the changes coming, and come they will, that affects the final good or bad outcome.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:26amI think it’s ironic that a Muslim news station is banned in Egypt. And they have been banned in other countries, like Saudi Arabia and Iran. And they are not even conservative. George Bush, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin have nothing to do with this. Isn’t that grand?
Cenorship, gotta love it. Islam – my way or death to the infidel. Such a great religion of peace.
Report Post »exdem
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 12:10pmWe should ban all comment coming from Soros backed media on this situation as well. Almost every show I watched this morning on the unrest in Egypt had people for various Soros orgs. such as The Brookings Institute, Center for American Progress, etc… I dont trust their view on anything. If Soros controls the narrative it should be kept on MSNBC for the percentage of Americans who actually agree with their communistic New World Order utopian society they dream about. We need to stop letting Soros’ viewpoint shape what is happening in our world .
Report Post »TheBMT
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 4:51pmI was getting my news from Al-jazeera rather then the American news agencies since they are the ones over there. They deal with the Middle East every day. It really makes you think, WHY have we been supporting this dictator for 30 years?
Report Post »GdHUs
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 12:50amHey SNOWLEOPARD, get a job! What’s that you say, you have one that you’re spaming 300 times each day? Never mind then.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 12:16pmAL JAZEERA has had BY FAR the most comprehensive, knowledgeable, on-the-ground coverage. Appears they’ve been disconnected. It’s not at all what some represent in here. And THEY know where Egypt is on the map. ;)
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