[AmThinker] Two weeks ago, Al Jazeera America launched, beaming into 48 million homes across the country. The media company that allowed the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now among the dear departed, though not among the dearest... to use it as a vehicle to communicate with jihadists around the world is now on your TV screen and you are paying for it. The network pushed its way onto basic cable packages with several providers. If you subscribe to Verizon, Comcast, Dish Network or DirecTV, you are forced to subsidize Al Jazeera's propaganda as part of your cable bill whether you like it or not.
We should not have to fund Al Jazeera through our cable bills. Americans do not want to pay for their vile propaganda. I'm launching a petition drive calling on cable companies to drop Al Jazeera from their basic cable packages.
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Verizon, Comcast, DirecTV and Dish Network already carry Al Jazeera America, and Al Jazeera has plans to force their way onto more cable bills. Time Warner ...contributed $624,618 to the 2008 Obama campaign... Cable, which carried Current TV, dropped Al Jazeera America. AT &T U-Verse was originally going to carry the network but backed out and is now being sued by Al Jazeera for breach of contract. Cablevision and Cox Communications do not air Al Jazeera America.
Kieran Michael Lalor, a Marine Corp veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom is a Republican Member of the New State Assembly.
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Bravo ATT- U-verse!! And don't back down.
If you have one of these providers... Verizon, Comcast, DirecTV and Dish Network , please immediately make your feelings known. Al-Jizz needs to go or at the least it should be an optional channel.
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Idiots stopped their web coverage. It was never that good to begin with. But paying for such coverage is out of the question. I don't want it that much. Forget about the whole thing. Bunch of liars anyways.
I just never wanted to have to waste a computer for their coverage. That was all. Looks like they took themselves OUT.
Liars anyways. So down with it. BBC is not much... but somewhat better.
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Dumped my TV two years ago. Don't miss the 5 Spanish channels, the 4 home shopping channels, BET, the Kardashians, Bitch Wives of Wherever, Honey Boo Boo...and that's just the tip of the iceberg. 125 bucks a month for 99% crap. Don't miss it at all.
1 it marginally reduces the audience for MSNBC and CNN
2 it is heavily subsidized by the emir of Qatar probably to the tune of tens of millions and maybe a hundred million of dollars per year and the salaries and some other expanses are mostly going to the pockets of Americans
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tu3031 is right on. I dumped our TV connection to Dish Network, and later the local telco wired connection to TV. Will watch movies from time to time, but do not miss the bundled package of sh*t put out by the channels.
Why not pay a basic service fee plus a monthly charge for each channel that you select?
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[Jpost] What is Israel's interest in Syria and the possibility of a US-led attack? Israel's current policy seems to be to stay out of it unless any redlines are crossed, at which point it would act covertly to deal with the threat.
A key reason for the ambivalence of Israeli experts and policy makers is that there is no clear path to take -- both Syrian president Bashar Assad's regime, which is allied with Shi'ite Iran and Hezbollah, and the Islamist-dominated opposition forces are distasteful. Plus, these of us who remember the relevant history, can't think of a simple example of Israel not getting screwed when USA chooses to play it's silly buggers World Policeman in ME.
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Target Saudi Arabia Qatar and UAE who fund the jihadis.
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Again, iff the Bammer includ Admin is supporting the OWG Globalist concept of a "Multipolar World" where so-called Global Federal Unions are dominated or controlled by MULTIPLE GLOBAL CO-SUPERPOWERS, then by extens the Bammer is directly or indirectly, but ohhh-sooo- PcOrrectly-Deniably as good Politicans do, helping Shia Iran to become the World's first Islamic Global Nuclear Superpower, + helping "post-US" Rising China take over East Asia + circa 1/2 of the Pacific.
BRAZIL? OTHER?
POLITICS = MARKETING + PUBLIC RELATIONS = among other definintions, IS GETTING CITIZENS = CONSUMERS, ETC. TO "LIKE" OR "BUY" WHAT MAY NOT NECESSARILY BE GOOD FOR THEM.
And widout having to ask the Voters = Electorate to vote on same in national referendum(s).
YOU KNOW - LEADERSHIP, THE "WILL OF THE PEOPLE/MASSES/FAIR ELECTORATE", + REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY???
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