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Subject: Al-Jazeera expands
Al-Jazeera's fresh eye on Africa
If wars and genocides were Africa's only news, African newspapers and international news networks like CNN would run the same stories. But Al-Jazeera International (AJI) aims to be different.
As part of a "fresh 360 degree [change] to news coverage," the soon-to-be-launched television network plans to run African news stories as part of its normal news cycle -- not just when violence occurs.
"For South African viewers, a fresh approach means two things. We will treat any African story as a normal news event, and we won't fall into the trap of only dealing with Africa when there's war," explains Claude Colart, the senior producer at AJI's Johannesburg bureau, which began setting up earlier this year.
AJI, the English-language offshoot of Al-Jazeera Arab Language News Channel, launched in 1996, will start broadcasting worldwide, 24 hours a day, from next March or April. Like its Arabic-language parent, it will headquartered in Doha, Qatar.
It announced on Monday that former senior e.tv and SABC reporter Kalay Maistry will be its Southern African correspondent.
Established last year, AJI has hired a string of "name" international reporters, including Steve Clark, previously executive producer at Sky News, and Riz Khan, who hosts a show on CNN. The MD, Nigel Parsons, previously directed Associated Press Television News.
When the network begins broadcasting next year, its anchors will not address "our viewers in North America" or any other region, as the network will broadcast the same content worldwide.
Kuala Lumpur, London and Washington DC are three of the 30 locations around the world where it will have bureaus. It is half way to establishing a bureau in Kenya, and has plans to have an office in West Africa.
Two of the three staff members in Johannesburg are South Africans, which Colart says reflects Al-Jazeera's commitment to ensuring that its staff are drawn from all nationalities and religions. Despite Al-Jazeera's popularity in the Arab-speaking world, AJI has already hired Israeli reporters.
Interviewed this week, Maistry said that the fact that the bureau was based in Johannesburg did not mean its news coverage would focus on South Africa.
She said she expected some viewers to be drawn to the network out of curiousity and others out of "morbid fascination". Either way, "when people see what we have to offer, they will have a chance to make up their own minds".
South African viewers will be able to view AJI on satellite television. The network is still negotiating with SABC to air its programmes on public television.
The channel expects to have a global audience of more than a billion English-language speakers.
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Subject: TWA Flight 800 truth emerging..
Engineer takes FBI to court
Graeme Sephton is a man on a mission. After seven years of effort, the electrical engineer affiliated with the University of Massachusetts has forced the FBI to defend its record gathering in a federal appeals court in Boston.
Like retired United Airline pilot Ray Lahr on the west coast, Sephton is focusing on one key area of inquiry in the case of TWA Flight 800. This is the airliner that crashed on the night of July 17, 1996, off the coast of Long Island.
Lahr's ongoing case in the Los Angeles District Court pivots on the calculations used by the National Transportation Safety Board and the CIA to postulate a 3,400 foot post-crash climb by the nose-less 747. This contrivance was critical in that it allowed the authorities to explain away the testimony of the 270 eyewitnesses who saw an ascending object strike the plane.
Sephton v. FBI pivots on one essential category of evidence as well. Specifically, Sephton wants the FBI to share the forensic information derived from the foreign objects embedded in the bodies of the 230 people killed in the crash. What the FBI has been telling Sephton for the last five years is that its agents can find virtually none of the forensic details about these objects, although released documents make clear that the FBI logged in hundreds of unidentifiable objects as evidence relating to the initial explosion.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47561
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Subject: no one believes 'Kwan lies
Does al-Zarqawi exist?
Baghdad - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's faction has claimed responsibility for attacks that have left hundreds of Iraqis dead, and the United States has called him the most dangerous terrorist in Iraq.
Still, even as al-Zarqawi threatens more chaos - in recordings and internet messages - many Iraqis believe the Jordanian militant does not even exist and is merely a phantom created by the Americans to sow unrest in the country.
Similar disbelief greeted Britain's explanation that its soldiers, arrested in southern Iraq disguised as Arabs, were on an undercover hunt for terrorists. Instead, some Iraqis argue the soldiers were out to kill Shi'ite Muslims and blame the murders on Sunnis in hopes of sparking civil war.
Such conspiracy theories are common among Arabs and may seem laughable to outsiders. But in Iraq, where rulers from British colonists to Saddam Hussein regularly played one ethnic group against the other, imagined plots can seem reasonable - a fact that may have dire consequences for US efforts to build a stable Iraqi government.
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Subject: Jackson, jew-truther
Anti-Semitic? That's not Jacko's message, says rep
Michael Jackson's handlers are going to defend him against charges of anti-Semitism - and to retaliate against the former advisers who sparked his latest controversy.
This week, the Anti-Defamation League demanded that Jackson apologize for allegedly calling Jews "leeches" in a recorded phone message.
"Michael Jackson has an anti-Semitic streak," ADL director Abraham Foxman said. "It seems every time he has a problem in his life, he blames it on Jews."
Jackson attorney Brian Oxman doesn't dispute that Jackson left the "leech" message, in which he allegedly accused Jews of leaving performers penniless.
But Oxman tells us: "I have been with the Jackson family for 15 years, and I'm Jewish. I have never once seen anything anti-Semitic from him or from his family."
Well, Jacko did anger Jewish groups with his 1995 song "They Don't Care About Us," which included the lyrics "Jew me, sue me, everybody do me, kick me, kike me."
Jackson later apologized and changed the lyrics, though he claimed the song was intended to fight prejudice.
The "leech" rant was one of several embarrassing recordings released by an attorney for two former Jackson advisers, who claim the Pop King owes them millions.
You can bet the Gloved One is making a fist.
Jacko's attorney Brent Ayscough confirms to us that he's going to hit former business manager Marc Schaffel with fraud allegations.
Ayscough has been debriefing "West Wing" producer Joe Becker, who has claimed that former gay-porn producer Schaffel swindled him out of $120,000 by telling Becker the money would go to a Jackson-sponsored 9/11 charity.
Ayscough has also found interesting reading in Diane Dimond's Jackson bio, "Be Careful Who You Love," in which the author cites 13 former Schaffel associates who claim he conned them into investing in movies that were never made.
Schaffel's lawyer, Howard King, didn't return a call by deadline.
Meanwhile, Jackson attorney Tom Mesereau thinks he may have saved his client's life when he helped him beat child-molestation charges.
"I don't think Michael Jackson would have survived prison," Mesereau tells Barbara Walters in an ABC interview airing Tuesday.
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Subject: bird flu spreads through Indonesia
Virus spreads 'all over' Jakarta
Bird flu has been detected throughout the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, with the country's Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono admitting: "It's very serious. Based on our research, the virus has spread all over the city."
Saturday, November 26, 2005
Bird flu has been detected throughout the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, with the country's Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono admitting: "It's very serious. Based on our research, the virus has spread all over the city."
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Subject: funny shit
Ja Rule lost his gangsta cred long ago: He had a string of cheesey rap-sung songs, stared in a video based on Grease, and embarassed himself in a fued with 50 Cent. Now Ja's playing Bat Mitzvah at Miami steakhouses. What a wanksta.
The New York Times (which recently talked about this very blog) reports that Ja Rule and his finest collab-hoe Ashanti performed for an hour at the Bat Mitzvah of Amber Ridinger.
"The Ridingers, who recounted the evening in an interview, proudly acknowledge that their booking two pop stars for a party that would typically call for a kitschy cover band wearing ill-fitting tuxedos was a social achievement, even in Miami money circles. In this case the stars worked free as friends of the family, the Ridingers said."
See Je Rule isn't for sale as any punk ass wedding singer, he just happens to want to perform at Bat Mitzvahs. He really enjoys celebrating a girl accepting responsibility to follow Jewish law and tradition.
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Subject: 2006 movie: "The Sentinel"
A suspense film based on the novel by former Secret Service agent Gerald Petievich. Special Agent Pete Garrison (Douglas) suspects that the neo-Nazi Aryan Disciples have positioned one of their own in the White House, but his investigation is cut short by a blackmailer who knows of his affair with the First Lady Sarah Ballentine (Basinger) and tries to frame him for murder. Though he is officially relieved of his duties, Garrison doesn't stop trying to prove his innocence and save the presiden't life. He comes into a direct confrontation with his protege, hardheaded Agent Breckinridge (Sutherland).
When a colleague is murdered, Secret Service agent Pete Garrison is put in charge of the investigation. But Garrison himself becomes a suspect after he is blackmailed by someone who knows of his affair with the first lady. Stripped of his duties and now a fugitive, Garrison races to prove his innocence and save the president's life.
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