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So, naturally, the Egyptian Government moved to shut Al Jazeera down.
It’s what John Bolton, Frank Gaffney, and Hosni Mubarak would do, although at least the latter hasn’t bombed them.
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| By: Attaturk Monday January 31, 2011 1:30 am | |
That one news agency that so many conservatives wanted to have bombed out of existence (including George Bush) when they were in Iraq and Afghanistan…and sort of got their wish…has become indispensable to pretty much the entire Western World over the last few days in Egypt.
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Comcast (a.k.a. Scumcast) and most other American cable companies have used a simpler and easier approach to censoring Al Jazeera: just don’t offer access:
The live feed from Al Jazeera on FDL’s Egyptian Revolution page is very much appreciated. The direct URL is:
Al Jazeera’s petition page, “I want Al Jazeera English”, where you can email your cable or satellite provider, is:
Direct contact information for Comcast, Time Warner, and DirecTV, along with information on how to get Al Jazeera from those media providers that do offer some access, such as the satellite channel LinkTV (available via DirecTV and Dish Network), are provided at the end of Ryan Grim’s article.
It pales beside the irony that we’ve given billions to this wretched regime.
Good morning, pups. It’s Monday so we’ve got The Pasty Little Putz and Krugman. In “The Devil We Know” The Pasty Little Putz has a question: Has Hosni Mubarak’s rule made America safer, or less safe? Prof. Krugman, in “A Cross of Rubber,” says the Fed and the European Central Bank are under a lot of pressure from bankers to do the wrong thing and raise interest rates.
Here they are.
The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and the biscuits are out of the oven. Where did January go? I’m being told by Delilah that breakfast is late, so I’d better go and do something about that. Have a great day.
I recall the incident and reviewed the video. For shame. Meanwhile, the satellites are still streaming video– *we* just don’t get to see it.
John Bolton is rooting for Mubarak and the current regime to weather the storm.
It is a good thing that America is finally discovering Al Jazeera and other news channels rather than the usual American propaganda trash, and it is about bloody time.
Really encouraging to see Ø taking a strong and decisive stance with Egypt /s*
Jeeze the putz really is a bloody putz!
Hey putz listen up…America’s string of petty dictators around the world and particularly in the ME have done nothing but stoke anger and resentment about and against the Great Satan lo these many decades and if you haven’t got that message yet I suggest you take your pasty little ass and get out into the real world and away from your ivory-fucking-tower.
They do not want us to know what they are doing to Egypt ——What do they have planned—–
Three very senior military personnel are the answer to the people’s request for Bread, Dignity, Freedom & Peace??
How cynical and calculating is that???
Color me completely unsurprised.
That it is, among the “western” countries, America and Israel that still cling to the hopes that Mubarak will prevail really tells all one needs to know about Mubarak, Israel and America. Oh yes, into that mix one can throw in the prick Abbas, yet another American puppet.
He actually says this:
Of course, he comes to all sorts of wrong conclusions because he’s the Putz.
Six members of Al Jazeera English’s team have been arrested in Cairo.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2011/jan/31/egypt-protests-live-updates#block-22
http://twitter.com/nolanjazeera/status/32049197700087810
http://twitter.com/nolanjazeera/status/32047062488981505
But they’re still on line, getting calls in from other journalists on the down in the demonstration. It’s not clear if the images of Tahrir Square, which is packed with people again today, are cut. I sincerely hope not, given that those live images are one way that the people in the street are protected from possible aggression from the police, which is again being deployed in the street.
Tense times. What courage from Al Jazeera’s journalists and from the Egyptian people.
Edit: An update from Dan Nolan’s twitter – he’s one of the detained AJE journalists:
http://twitter.com/nolanjazeera/status/32051442894241793
People from all walks of life are in the Square. Religious leaders. Thousands of people, more than the reporter can see. Atmosphere is hopeful/confidence. Government reports are dismissed by the crowds as ‘more of the same’. It is only a matter of time, the protestors say, before the Mubarak regime is gone. Sounded as if the reporter was talking by phone.
The Putz is less of a putz than usual. Can’t hit a home run every at-bat.
Our rabid friends on the other side of the aisle are genuinely confused about where to go with this one. If they push O for destabilizing Mubarak, they have to disown their last eight years of regime change. If they push O for not destabilizing Mubarak, they have to eat the negative consequences. One thing you know — they’ll blame him for everything after it happens, and claim victory for the invisible hand for any success.
The Egyptian people have enough to worry about without having the Mighty Wurlitzer making noise. And it’s inspiring to watch a country strive for freedom without having the clown cars of the right whizzing around.
Sharif Kouddous, who has been tweeting from Cairo, will be on Democracy Now this morning.
What a great link! All the main stream press commentary one could ever want at your finger tips!
I found this interesting:
“Americans don’t like to admit this. We take refuge in foreign policy systems: liberal internationalism or realpolitik, neoconservatism or noninterventionism. We have theories, and expect the facts to fall into line behind them. Support democracy, and stability will take care of itself. Don’t meddle, and nobody will meddle with you. International institutions will keep the peace. No, balance-of-power politics will do it.
But history makes fools of us all. We make deals with dictators, and reap the whirlwind of terrorism. We promote democracy, and watch Islamists gain power from Iraq to Palestine. We leap into humanitarian interventions, and get bloodied in Somalia. We stay out, and watch genocide engulf Rwanda. We intervene in Afghanistan and then depart, and watch the Taliban take over. We intervene in Afghanistan and stay, and end up trapped there, with no end in sight.”
The fact History will make fools of us all does not stop us from letting our opinion be known, does it! :-)
Al Jazeera, and also The Guardian, have done a great job on reporting about the situation in Egypt.
I remember Tuesday tuning into Couric while I fixed supper. She devoted half her news program to analyzing The Speech That Had Not Been Given; the Rebuttal That Had Not Been Given To The Speech That Had Not Been Given; and The Rebuttal That Had Not Been Given To The Rebuttal That Had Not Been Given To The Speech That Had Not Been Given. She topped it all off with the problems with the seating arrangement to The Speech That Had Not Been Given.
In five seconds, she summed up what was happening in Egypt with an oh, I think something is happened in Egypt.
After dinner, I checked in the Al Jazeera and The Guardian.
Watching Al Jazeera all weekend via webstream has been a revelation. They make all U.S. news outlets look stone cold foolish.
The times they are a-changin’ back.
From 1966 and the crimes of Nixon the 1970 you could depend on the news to be honest and delivered with honor.Today in the 21st centry it’s entertainment puppits on strings pulled by there masters.We had and hour a day of news like AlJazeera has been this past week.We need more than a change in the three branches of goverment we need news from reporters with honor and not fluff for cash.