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Al-Jazeera, the Arab news station, is preparing to launch an international English-language version of their channel. What do you think?

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• #7 Comment from x86sleepingpilsx 
  5/22/06 8:45 AM | Permalink

  Al-Jazeera is NOT a mouthpiece for terrorists anymore than our network news stations are a mouthpiece for imperialists.  Perhaps you should TRY reading it first before deceiding " that 'merica don't need none of them for-eign talkin' news programmes".  Al-Jazeera has been in English for a while and is really worth a read. Should't you know how you are percieved by the people you are invading?
• #6 Comment from johnmac665 
  5/9/06 4:32 AM | Permalink

  By disallowing the Al-Jazeera broadcast in the United States would be the ancient method of casting out.  To cast someone or a group out of society means to deny them society: kept out of the village (national) borders.  The problem is we buy billions of dollars of oil from Muhammad's village, so to get rid of Muhammad we need to cut off everything, and find for ourselves.  Right now the economics ways and means dictates that must know about them, and understand their problems before the Democratic Party--that kept nuclear power plants from being built--start screaming that their poor people they pretend to represent have no heating, no cooling, and no way to travel to the distant centralized post office to get their welfare checks or scoot illegal immigrants around and abuse national borders: the California Abortion Party took off from high office to support the illegal immigrant boycott of American economics and American independence, so they must understand the issues as well.  It is serious because this does create a neurotic situation where we want the oil, but must invade them because they cannot control their tribal raiding impulses: that is correct we trade with tribal raiders.  It is best to know about them, but we can exercise the reciprocal routine and when they deny us broadcast rights then we should deny them the same where in order to find your friends means they must be nice or get nothing.
  
• #5 Comment from johnmac665 
  5/9/06 4:01 AM | Permalink

  The United States embraced information of all types through Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Speech while respecting the symbol of the All-Seeing-Eye of society that has been placed on the one dollar bill--spend a dollar and someone is watching for that dollar, among other things being watched, while we empower ourselves, and the United States eagle symbol on the dollar bill is also the symbol of Zeus, we really respect ourselves.  By allowing the Al-Jazeera broadcast on the United States market that allows them to show who they are about, and it allows them to send back information of the United States: the power is when they see conflicts and problems with their culture due to another example, and it will fuel change in the Arab world--media does this, empower for better changes because the truth is always hanging over the media's heads when the reporters report.  The Universe expresses duality where we all perceive by contrasts and to have one you must have the other--the United States calls this Mother Nature or Universe, ancient myths might call it Diana (by personification) or the Universal Goddess by an archetype--but the truth remains that to make it work the best the United States needs to be allowed to broadcast in the Arab nations, or only the United States will benefit by understanding their dogma and problems, and we win the best because censorship is despicable in the United States except for the strongest culture taboos where time and place is also important (we do not want to see a nude Janet Jackson, by example, during the Super Bowl that is a sport and not Club Flesh--time and place).  Does the United States get to broadcast in the Arab nations to make it correct, and we still win when we embrace the ability to know information from different perspectives and decide for ourselves (information is survival and this is ancient)?
  
• #4 Comment from mdrameri 
  5/9/06 1:17 AM | Permalink

  yes let them have a voice here so we can have more internal divisions among the public. After all, anything that will ruin the U.S.,is now being waved around by the media,endorsed by the legal system and bought by the politicians that sell us out.
  Dianne
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• #3 Comment from lasubo 
  5/8/06 9:12 PM | Permalink

  Not interested in what Al-Jazeera has to say, they are terrorist supporters.