“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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Penny, wow,
You are deep, really deep.
@abscam Murtha (He was never indicted for anything, but that type of illiteration is par for the course, when it comes to Fox News pussies. And Man Coulter, as well. She’s a heck of a guy!).
I’d like to address each of your little bullets, but I’ll pick one.
“Can you imagine Kerry, Clinton and the rest voting for a war and then undermining it?”
You mean, if they, for instance, would not send enought troops (overwhelming force), because your def. sec. was a draft-dodging pussy? And sent them without proper body armour, or reinforced humvees?
Can you imagine an administration sanctioning no-bid contracts for the VP’s former company that he was CEO of, allowing subsidiaries to charge soldiers upwards of $45 for a six-pack of coke?
Treason. Un- American.
And Cheney refuses to give up stock options for halliburton. (Un ethical).
Doesn’t matter.
Half the dimwits in this country get “news” from Fox.
The other half are watching “survivor” or “American Idol” (almost a s big a joke, as the idea that “Jay Z.” actual makes money, doing….what”)?
“Dumb All Over”
FZ, ’81
Always Right
I think Rummy served.
also, could you list any other companies that can do what Haliburton does? Seriously.
Schlumberger comes to mind.
Then I draw a blank.
http://www.hoovers.com/free/co/burn.xhtml?ID=10697
(actually goes on to say there are 34 Halliburton competitors)
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11525
“….The fact that Vice President Dick Cheney once headed Halliburton as CEO from 1995 to 2000, holds stock options presently worth an estimated $400,000 in the company and is receiving deferred compensation from Halliburton even while vice president, supplies additional cause for speculation about the firm and the Defense Department….”
TT-
Yes, I stand corrected (rather deflates my compelling arguement, doesn’t it!)
Secretary Rumsfeld, aviator. ’57-’61.
these look like companies that bid against Halihburton in different fields, but I don’t think many of them are all emcompassing (maybe Bechtel) where it would then require multiple companies in different fields. Also, don’t forget, Haliburton let some bids to subs.
This Dell craptop sucks.
> Can you imagine Iraq left as Vietnam was?
Just what was achieved in Vietnam? Ecocide? Genocide?
> Can you imagine Iran with the bomb?
Like anyone else who has it, it’s all but unusable except as a deterrent.
> Can you imagine Israel wiped off the earth?
See above.
> Can you imagine our economy wrecked from no oil?
It’s wrecked already. The richest nation on earth has the highest per capita incarcerated, the most poverty amongst the industrialized world, and a government under the influence of a large military-industrial complex.
> Can you imagine Kerry, Clinton and the rest voting for a war and then undermining it?
Well, I believe in not compounding mistakes.
> Can you imagine POW’s and terroist given trials during war?
Of course; by something better than a kangaroo court, in fact.
> Can you imagine a solution without simply stretching the truth?
You want solutions? You can’t handle solutions; they’re too difficult; and too “unsexy.”
You want to address crime? Address the inequalities of society: poverty, lack of education, discrimination, lack of prospects.
You want to address terrorism? Address the inequalities of a people: poverty, lack of education, discrimination, lack of prospects, abuse of human rights.
You want to address corruption? Address the structural shortcomings of government: the revolving door between congress and corporations, political appointments, and vote-buying.
You want to address world peace? Address the inequalities between nations: help and teach the people how to feed themselves, prosper, and vote(!) rather than provide ruling elites with the military means to preserve power.
The liberals focus more on people. The conservatives currently focus more on corporations. Move too far to the left and the economy will suffer; too far to the right and the people will suffer.
Let’s see, we have the richest nation in the world with the highest population per capita in jails and the highest poverty of the industrial world, overspending dramatically in weaponry. Seems to me we’ve been leaning too far to the right. We have the likes of Enron, Halliburton, etc., including Fox, which secured its then-foreign owner a piece of a lucrative pie by catering to the agenda of the elites. After all, it’s easier to sell “us versus them” than “us versus us.”
Which brings us back to Bill O’Really. A small-minded, under-educated, ultra-conservative who cannot see past his nose, he gets it “bass-ackwards” because he sees the iPod as a problem when, in fact, it’s a pointer to the solution!
The center is where we have to move to. And it’s two steps to the left of where we are.
Less is More,
We have the highest per capita incarcerated, the most poverty amongst the industrialized world because we have the most blacks of any industrialized nation.
per capita!
Tim,
I don’t really mind the dirt balls that Rush exposes, the eight balls on the other hand kind of piss me off!
Magic Word/function…as in conjunction, junction what’s your…
Jerry T,
The US does NOT have the highest percentage of black people per capita in the industrialized world. Even if we did, that has no significant bearing on US crime and housing statistics.
Congratulations. You just pulled a Michael Richards.
gzero,
My post was a facetious reply to Less is More.
BTW, I’ve been a Nazi a lot longer than Michael Richards. Besides, he’s no Nazi, he’s named after the jew archangel Mich’a’el.
Frank,
Got anymore Psyc. 101 definitions of me?
88
MW/did…as in did I clear that up for you?
gzero,
What industrialized nation has more blacks than the US?
Less is
When you say address these issues, you offer no action to take. Anyone, and I mean anyone can point at problems all day and criticize those who try, good or bad. Show an actual path to take. Lets hear a real solution to any of these problems.
Address that.
Jerry T:
South Africa.
Murtha was caught on tape saying that he wouldn’t accept the bribe “at this time” but was open to one in the future. He should have been indicted. Scum just like you always wrong.
Those are solutions. They won’t work in a day, sorry. The problem is not mathematical. The solution for you is vote for the side that’s nearest to the center. One that seeks to reduce inequality between Americans, and between nations, not exacerbate it; that shows relatively better respect for human rights and good governance.
Take Iran, for example. When Mossadegh wanted more Iranian oil for Iranians, British Petroleum cried foul. You found a solution for and with our cousins across the Atlantic: Operation Ajax. Instead of working or the betterment of the Iranian people, your pawn chose to live like the Russian Romanovs, and the result was the Iranian Revolution – a disaster for everyone with repercussions extending to the present.
Now let’s look at Al Jazeera:
Al Jazeera claims to be the only politically independent television station in the Middle East. It now rivals the BBC in worldwide audiences with an estimated 50 million viewers. Al Jazeera was started with a US$150 million grant from the emir of Qatar.
The channel began broadcasting in late 1996. In April of that year, BBC World Service’s Arabic language TV station, faced with censorship demands by the Saudi Arabian government, had shut down after two years of operation. Many former BBC World Service staff members joined Al Jazeera.
An incorrect, but widely reported, criticism is that Al Jazeera has shown videos of masked terrorists beheading western hostages. When this is reported in reputable media, Al Jazeera presses for retractions to be made. This allegation was again repeated by Fox News in the USA on the launch day of Al Jazeera’s English service, 15 November 2006.
You either believe in free speech or you don’t. If you do, then you can get a better understanding of the Arab world by listening to them. Al Jazeera is a moderating influence in the Arab world. If you didn’t want them reporting about Abu Grahib then you should’ve followed the Geneva Convention in the first place.
Armchair bigots wouldn’t bother to dig any deeper, so here’s more from wikipedia – that most basic source of information:
In 1999, New York Times reporter Thomas L. Friedman called Al-Jazeera “the freest, most widely watched TV network in the Arab world.” The station first gained widespread attention in the west following the September 11, 2001 attacks, when it broadcast videos in which Osama bin Laden and Sulaiman Abu Ghaith defended and justified the attacks. This led to criticism by the United States government that Al Jazeera was engaging in propaganda on behalf of terrorists. Al Jazeera countered that it was merely making information available without comment, and indeed several western television channels later followed suit in broadcasting portions of the tapes.
On 25 March 2003, two of its reporters covering the New York Stock Exchange had their credentials revoked. NYSE spokesman Ray Pellechia claimed “security reasons” and that the exchange had decided to give access only to networks that focus “on responsible business coverage”. He denied the revocation has anything to do with the network’s Iraq war coverage.
“Responsible business coverage”? That’s an interesting phrase right there. What next? Go after wikipedia?
Thank you for your brilliant post, Jane. Don’t forget, I am also “really very, very creepy…”, “scary, very scary”. “Dispicable” “gross”. Bla Bla.
Either ya’ll are the same person, or there’s a bunch of you who are equally idiotic!
2 more years, and we’ll have Gore or Kerry, or, possibly Ms. Clinton (who has bigger balls than silver-spoon, fake-cowboy, draft-dodging, FLIP-FLOPPING, coke-snorting, beer-swilling, grade C-average Bush) as President.
Now, when am I always wrong?
Murtha was NOT INDICTED FOR ANYTHING. HE WAS CLEARED.
See, I am RIGHT!
Compare that to some of your clowns.
Tom DeLay (he quit).
Trent Lott (he quit).
Mark Foley (he quit).
Jack Abramhoff.
What a joke! Shall I go on?
Murtha is twice the man of little-boy George and draft- dodger Cheney combined.
There. See? Once again, I am RIGHT.
You?
You are spooky. Very spooky.
Icky. Very Icky.
Always Right wrote:
“2 more years, and we’ll have Gore or Kerry, or, possibly Ms. Clinton (who has bigger balls than silver-spoon, fake-cowboy, draft-dodging, FLIP-FLOPPING, coke-snorting, beer-swilling, grade C-average Bush) as President.
Now, when am I always wrong?
Murtha was NOT INDICTED FOR ANYTHING. HE WAS CLEARED.
See, I am RIGHT!
Compare that to some of your clowns.
Tom DeLay (he quit).
Trent Lott (he quit).
Mark Foley (he quit).
Jack Abramhoff.
(add to that: Rush Limbaugh-drug addict, Bill O’Reilly-abusive adulterer)
What a joke! Shall I go on?
Murtha is twice the man of little-boy George and draft- dodger Cheney combined.
I’ve always found it funny how right wingers are so quick to call “liberals” or people with left leaning political views as wimps, yet when look at the list of conservative heroes who, when faced with the possibility of serious jail time, all punked out, they’re strangely silent.
Take Iran, for example. When Mossadegh wanted more Iranian oil for Iranians, British Petroleum cried foul. You found a solution for and with our cousins across the Atlantic: Operation Ajax. Instead of working or the betterment of the Iranian people, your pawn chose to live like the Russian Romanovs, and the result was the Iranian Revolution – a disaster for everyone with repercussions extending to the present.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
LESS IS MORE brings up something of vital importance.
People like to say “Carter had the Iranian Hostage crisis under his watch”.
We began meddling for OIL in 1951, and are still, and will continue, to pay the price.
I challenge anyone, after reading that article (others available if you don’t like wikpedia) to say I am “always wrong”.
Go ahead.
Yes, thanks gzero.
I forgot about Rush.
It’s true, though.
Loud & brash, yet thin skinned & cowardly.
Creepy, very creepy. Truly digusting persons. Scary, too. Very scary. Gross. Dispicable.
(Hey, I’m getting the hang of this. I don’t even have to think).
Now there’s a thought: Ms. Clinton. We could do a lot worse than her … probably will too.
Back to Al Jazeera:
“The Jerusalem Post(!) wrote:
Daniel Seaman, head of the [Israeli] Government Press Office, said, “I have only the utmost respect for Al Jazeera in Israel. They’ve tried their best to be fair, and even if I disagreed with their coverage at times, it was not one-sided. Given their audience, they show the Arab side, the Palestinian side of the conflict, but they also present Israel’s side.”
Asked if he thought Al Jazeera was fairer to Israel than, say, CNN and BBC, Seaman replied, “Absolutely, they’re much better than CNN or BBC.”
@ Towertone
Hey Titty, better keep that Dell – it’s where you belong…
gzero,
South Africa, good point. I always use them as an example.
An example of a shining economic star collapsed after majority rule is introduced into a black nation.
They have a terrible crime and poverty rate. Probably commensurate with the number of blacks that they have, per capita,
Rhodesia comes to mind as well.
But I was thinking about industrialized western “non black” nations with my previous comment. It’s kind of taken for granted that a black African nation would have more blacks than an European based Anglo nation.
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gzero,
I find it funny that if you are a left wing liberal tree hugger that CNN, BBC etc. are viewed as right wing news, but if you are a right wing neo-con or Nazi, they are considered left wing “jewish” owned press.
I guess the jew Einstein was correct…it’s all relative…