“Al Jazeera International, the English version of leading news broadcaster, Al Jazeera, announced the selection of a wide range of Apple products to deliver a comprehensive, end-to-end solution for the media organization,” AME Info reports.
“Catering to a wide range of media requirements, the Apple-based technology project is set to deliver a total solution ranging from editing to storage needs. With a reputation for using cutting-edge technology, Al Jazeera plans to use the latest from Apple’s portfolio of solutions to revolutionize the functioning of the TV station’s video network,” AME Info reports. “Al Jazeera International is 24-hour English language news and current affairs channel headquartered in Doha, Qatar. A subsidiary of Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera International is the world’s first English language news channel to be headquartered in the Middle East.”
AME Info reports, “Partnering with Apple’s Independent Marketing Company for the Middle East, Arab Business Machine Ltd… Al Jazeera chose cutting edge technology which includes 41 MacBook Pro and Final Cut Studio for journalists, a 70 TB Apple storage solution using 10 Apple Xserve 7 TB XRAID and 14 Apple Xsan Software Licenses, plus 12 PowerMac G5 Quad, 2 PowerMac G5 Dual Core and 19 Apple Cinema HD Display 23′ for editing and design.”
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“The new democrats that got elected ran on more conservative platforms,”
True…take a look at the Democrat Senator from NV, pro-gun & anit-abortion.
Re: much of the rest of the post.
The American press is very selective in the news articles the report on. Take a look at the 10:00 news some night and switch from ABC to CBS to NBC. You will all three of them reporting on the exact same story often at the exact same time in the hour. Didn’t enough things happen in the world that they could report on a few different things?
Also, Christians are the most prosecuted group in the world. More people die due to their Christian belief than any other reason.
If you’re in the US, read the Economist every week. At least this way you get at least a little more global perspective.
I found the WMDs
Rainy Day : That Islam versus Christianity skit is superb. Thanks.
U.S. media, “they hate us because of our values”
Aljazeera, “they hate us because we drop bombs on them and prop up dictators like we did for years with saddam hussien in iraq”
So…the terrorists have won, then?
Stuart
There is another book you might try reading that tells what the Iranians are leading the world to. Actually, there are two, the Bible and the Koran. Whether this is divine knowledge or not is irrelevant. If the the people set it in motion, it is real.
I have read 1984, Brave New World, Animal Farm, and many others. Does this mean I am not an idiot?
Also, why do you think the Western press has never reported about arms deals with Middle Eastern countries? It has been common knowledge to most people I know for years. What is your point there? Do not deal with other countries unless they are perfect? Do yo think that since we helped the Mujahaden fend off the Russians we should have known Osama would turn on us? Or that because we have had a beef with Iran since 1978 and supported Iraq in their war against the fundmentalist that we knew he would invade Kuwait?
Maybe it is you that should do some more reading. Idiot.
Stay the course! G.W. Bush wait! I never said that!
Al jazeera and the rest of the liberal mainstream media are anit-american, terrorist lovers. BBC suck donkey dick!
Heroin must have his tourniquet around his neck.
If a preacher is a homosexual, all conservatives are? What if he had been a liberal arts teacher? A boy scout leader? Nice liberal attitude there.
Womens Rights and suffrage was a universal battles, not just from liberals.
Teddy Roosevelt was a leading proponent of the conservation movement.
On racial equality, the Democrats HAD to have the Republicans help to pass many laws, as too many of their liberal counterparts were against it.
What is economic justice? a job for all, or welfare? figure out which party does what.
“Liberals are just too busy reading books not written by Ann Coulter to be as well-organized as the well-financed rightwing machine. But that’s changing….”—-Man, that is just stupid.
I am usually glad when Apple gets contracts … not this time.
Maybe this will cause them to “think different”, as in, “I wish our society could build something this cool instead of just destroy”
Fox not news…..????? You libs are freaking crazy. Say it with authority like it’s a known fact and maybe people will believe you. The rest of the media is a joke. Fox is the only un-biased network out there. Listen to what’s being said and you’ll figure it out you twurp.
Yes, hairbo, the terrorists have won. America is now reeling in a paranoid fantasy world.
Most of these posts are appalling, from even a simple common sense perspective.
It seems like every American voice is a squeak in the ever-accelerating wheel of their self-destruction, perpetuating that ever-loudening chorus of “If you ain’t with us, yer again’ us!”
And, of course, don’t forget the refrain, “If you don’t speak the same language and look different, and have been portrayed as stupid and violent in movies, then we’re also again’ya!”
Have any of you ever been outside America? No, really, I don’t mean Mexico or Canada, or Europe. I mean, have you been to Dubai? Have you been to Colombo? Have you been to Cairo?
The majority of you base all your “facts” on what the media says rather than first hand experience. Let me tell you I’ve been around the world, I’ve met many different people from different cultures, and all people are pretty much the same, with superficial differences.
You think “foreigners” are the violent ones who want to destroy America because it’s so amazing and so big and powerful. What a friggin’ joke. The majority of people just want to live their lives in peace, go to work, come home, spend time with their family, go to a sport game, meet friends, just like us. And guess what else? THEY HAVE A CONSCIENCE. Just because they’re not Yankees doesn’t mean they’re soulless evildoers who want to oppress and destroy others.
The stereotype of a “foreigner” as some violent terrorist jealous of the success and freedom of the USA has taken over your feeble minds. Why? Because your governments despise education (read: independent, critical thinking) so much and don’t adequately fund it, the American public is getting stoopider and stoopider every day, and more and more ready to lap up that drivel about the evil foreigners from overseas who just ain’t white enough for you’s.
Really, this is the beginning of the end for the USA. It’s just going to implode under the weight of its people’s stupidity.
Loganson wrote:
“They rejoiced in the mulitudes who died on 9/11. Women and children? Yes, they rejoiced to see them dead. They are trying to repeat that evil over and over again.”
Fuck. What a stupid fuckass idiot you are. You really believe that shit don’t you? You tell me how many of those people you say rejoicing over the dead of 9/11 with your own 2 eyes in person and I’ll give you your IQ (hint: it’ll be the same number).
What a fucktard. This is why your country is dying. The terrorists are doing it – it’s YOU.
You’re probably also the types who think the Russians were ready to invade and turn you all into commies. History has shown that to be a crock of shit, and history will show you all in 20 years what a crock of shit your politicians are spoonfeeding you now.
Love it or Leave it wrote:
“I dunno. Airing videos of terror murders, along with press releases from Bin Laden, qualifies as promotion to me.”
So what does that make the western media that also reports this, including Fox? Kinda makes your argument invalid. It also says that you don’t even read the Al Jazerra site or view their news channel. If you did, you’d understand what you your like are saying here is complete nonsense. They often run critical stories on governments in the Middle East and further afield. So disliked is AJ by corrupt regions that they’re always trying to stop AJ spreading the news.
You’re just parroting the “goodies and baddies” diatribe of people who are peddling insidious agendas from our own backyards.
You won’t find any love in AJ for Osama – news is news, an exclusive is an exclusive. They have a more sophisticated and honest understanding of the problems in the Middle East than what we hear through conventional media outlets. You don’t think CNN or Fox wouldn’t air an exclusive? Talk about ignorance of reality!
Bloody oath I disagree with the way Western Governments operate – installing dictators and growing fat and lazy off the profits and human suffering their derived from. How is that any better than the nutjob Taliban or Osama?
Maybe it’s about time you yanks stopped meddling in world affairs and left it to people who know what’s going on. God, what a bunch of arrogant, insular twits.
Relying on only one view-point, one side of the story, one source of information is unhealthy and DANGEROUS.
Why am I even arguing with you idiots?
Rummy’s Pension,
Oh I’ve done plenty of reading and know exactly what our western governments have been doing to other countries.
“It has been common knowledge to most people I know for years. What is your point there?”
Most people don’t know about these things, and it suits the interests of capitalists that people don’t know and especially don’t understand. People in your circle might know some of what has gone on, but it’s pretty clear you have a fairly superficial understanding yourself.
Western governments promised to rebuilt Afghanistan after driving out the USSR, but then when they did leave, the promises to rebuild the country evaporated as quickly as the morning dew in the desert. This left a country, bombed into the stone age, with no effective government, no infrastructure and no trust for western promises of “freedom”. In a power vacuum, which we helped create, the Taliban rose. A people humiliated, abandoned, angry at our deceit. And we came again, promising freedom, promising to rebuild the country. Once again, it was just all talk.
And we wonder why they get pissed off at us??
Lets look at Iraq – the west helped install Saddam, replacing a popular, progressive, independently minded government elected by the people.
Iran: we helped overthrow a progressive government intent on nationalising its oil resources whose riches were being siphoned back to the west. This was replaced by a corrupt, inept regime which in turn was overthrown by the people resulting in the hardline regime which stayed in power for some time, lost influence, and has now regained a great deal of that influence.
Egypt: another democracy in the making, crushed once again by western meddling when we didn’t like the direction their popular, progressive and independently minded government was taking. What did we do? Installed a corrupt regime to do our bidding.
Would you like me to keep going? I’ve got a whole list of countries – about 30 at last count – many of them young democracies, or countries taking great strides towards democracy.
How about we move away from the Middle East and look at Europe – we have Greece, Italy, Spain.
Asia – The Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand.
Central and South America – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia.
Virtually all people who wanted to control their own destiny, build their own style of democracy, keep their countries wealth primarily for their own people and build an independent future.
But no, we had our sticky little fingers on their assets and riches and we just simply couldn’t let go. We had to have it all for ourselves.
The price of our greed has been many millions of innocent civilian lives, and the lives of those defending their freedom. The lives of their husbands, wives, parents, children who were tortured, murdered and disappeared – so we could have cheap stuff.
I certainly don’t want any part of that. I disown it absolutely.
“Even the axis of evil chooses Mac Technology!”
Not too sure about that. While we do know that Rush Limbaugh uses Macs, still no word whether Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity do.
And there you have it from Frank, who is enlightened, literate, lighthearted, and not a bigot.
This proves he needs to sit down because he doesn’t have a leg to stand on while judging others.
These two post surprise me, Frank, and if you were to claim you didn’t make them, I would have to beleive you.
And Stuart, who has never gained anything from America and hopes to be there when we fall.
You should pray that we never DO leave the world stage. Check in to the money that we pour into other countries through grants, loans, charities, and gifts. This reguardless of their governments. No other five countries added together even comes close.
The problem is, you don’t hate America. you hate the fact that we are more successful-not perfect,but trying-than any nation in history. That fact drives small minded people to extremes, in action and in logic.
On Afghanistan, where the US helped drive out Communism, where were the Muslims to help there brothers? The oil money that flows throughout? Of course, Stewy, the West owes everyone. Didn’t see Europe doing too much. Didn’t see China or Japan help. The Saudis? Kuwaitis, Iraqis, Iranians? Where were they Suart?
All the countries you name, your info is probably as tilted as it is for Afghanistan and Iraq. You do each of these peoples a disservice, claiming they have no power or sense of what is going on. List every evil in the world, and if an American is anywhere near, we as a nation must have caused it. Have we screwed up? Of course. Do we cause all the problems in the world? Not hardly.
Did you forget China? Just look down at your computer when you claim to disown your part. And join the Peace Corps, go help other countries, you don’t deserve the benefits you spit on.
Goodness, what a mess. Good time to bring up enron? Well, OK-
How Enron Worked the President …(This is an interesting bit of information that you don’t hear much about.)
A. Enron’s chairman did meet with the president and the
Vice-president in the Oval Office.
B. Enron gave $420,000 to the president’s party over
three years.
C. It donated $100,000 to the president’s inauguration
festivities.
D. The Enron chairman stayed at the White House 11 times.
E. The corporation had access to the administration at
its highest level and even enlisted Commerce and State
Departments to grease deals for it.
F. The taxpayer-supported Export-Import Bank subsidized
Enron for more than $600 million in just one transaction.
Scandalous!!
Best of all ¦the president under whom all this happened
WASN’T George W. Bush…….
SURPRISE…..It was Bill Clinton!
ARE YOU READY FOR MRS. CLINTON ??
Goodness, what a mess. Good time to bring up enron? Well, OK-
How Enron Worked the President …(This is an interesting bit of information that you don’t hear much about.)
A. Enron’s chairman did meet with the president and the
Vice-president in the Oval Office.
B. Enron gave $420,000 to the president’s party over
three years.
C. It donated $100,000 to the president’s inauguration
festivities.
D. The Enron chairman stayed at the White House 11 times.
E. The corporation had access to the administration at
its highest level and even enlisted Commerce and State
Departments to grease deals for it.
F. The taxpayer-supported Export-Import Bank subsidized
Enron for more than $600 million in just one transaction.
Scandalous!!
Best of all ¦the president under whom all this happened
WASN’T George W. Bush…….
SURPRISE…..It was Bill Clinton!
ARE YOU READY FOR MRS. CLINTON ??
Goodness, what a mess. Good time to bring up enron? Well, OK-
How Enron Worked the President …(This is an interesting bit of information that you don’t hear much about.)
A. Enron’s chairman did meet with the president and the
Vice-president in the Oval Office.
B. Enron gave $420,000 to the president’s party over
three years.
C. It donated $100,000 to the president’s inauguration
festivities.
D. The Enron chairman stayed at the White House 11 times.
E. The corporation had access to the administration at
its highest level and even enlisted Commerce and State
Departments to grease deals for it.
F. The taxpayer-supported Export-Import Bank subsidized
Enron for more than $600 million in just one transaction.
Scandalous!!
Best of all ¦the president under whom all this happened
WASN’T George W. Bush…….
SURPRISE…..It was Bill Clinton!
ARE YOU READY FOR MRS. CLINTON ??
Anna Piphany:
It was during a Republican-controlled Congress. Gee, you don’t suppose Newt and his cohorts got anything from Enron, do you?
In Baghdad talking to an American soldier he asked ‘Hey Aussie did you guys drive here’.
I told him yes!
Donald
Sounds like there was money for all.
Of course, you never hear Newts’ name mentioned when Dems are taking credit for the so called “balanced budget” now do ya?
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Really? So y’all didn’t walk?
Why does something simple as this article so quickly turn into political mud slinging? We should all be happy that a major news outlet is choosing Mac, especially in this part of the world. If you want to see what we’re dealing with in the Middle East when it comes to Apple, check out http://www.emiratesmac.com.