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Jay-Lo could have been the most popular person that everyone asked for, it still will do jack-poop to help the situation.
More proof that people, no matter where you are, are idiots.
In the words of Elaine Benes, SHUT... UP!
Jay-Lo could have been the most popular person that everyone asked for, it still will do jack-poop to help the situation.
More proof that people, no matter where you are, are idiots.
I find it all the more ironic than Mr. Facebook is Jewish and is now so revered in the arab world. Well done
That's why they changed the original name from Facebookstein.
J-Lo would just be a diversion from the matter at hand.Originally Posted by Ninjahedge
Are you claiming that social media has had no impact on the situation now taking place in North Africa and environs?
Look (one of many many examples): http://www.facebook.com/17022011libya
And just today this was posted at the AJE Live Blog:
4:45 PM :: A video purportedly of a gun battle has been posted on Facebook - which appears to show close range fighting - with men in camouflage outfits - possibly former military members - shooting up a street to the right, and coming under return fire (origin not seen).
We've had conflicting reports as to whether it was recorded in Brega or Tripoli. It appears to confirm earlier reports of running street gun battles in Brega. If it's in Tripoli, it shows the fighting has got much closer to Gaddafi's stronghold than previously thought.
As with other videos sent to us, we cannot confirm the veracity - or where or when it was filmed.
To check it out, click here.
No.
What I am saying is that having the founder on there will do very little. Celebrity only goes so far.
So the site has proven valuable, but the sites owner visiting the actual site would yield very little in comparison.
"Ohh look! A famous person is there, we have to send money!"(Where is Sally Struthers when you need her?)
I see what you mean.
Doubt that Z-man would want to be going into Libya right now, anyhoo.
Gotta be smarter than the guy who wants to keep you down ...
Revolutionary Dates
THE DAILY DISH
02 MAR 2011 06:07 PM
Adrian Covert explains how a dating site helped Libya's opposition coordinate:
On a Muslim dating site called Mawada, there’s a man with a profile titled “Where Is Miriam?” He will frequently receive messages from other Muslim women which read something along the lines of “may your day be filled with Jasmine.” He’s also quite popular with the ladies, amassing over 171,000 admirers. But neither “Where Is Miriam,” nor his admirers are interested in love. They’re interested in toppling the Libyan regime led by Muammar Gaddafi.
According to ABC News, the dating site had been used over the past couple of weeks as a clandestine location to exchange information and words of encouragement regarding the citizen uprisings in Libya.
And it is up to ABC news and The Daily Dish to make suer EVERYONE knows about this clandestine meeting site for the Rebels!!!!!
GJ guys! "News" at the expense of anyone!
This literally made me laugh out loud ahahahahahahahahaah hahahaha
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/wo...M03-FATWA.htmlToo Late, Qaddafi Seeks the Aid of Muslim Clerics
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“Saadi, Qaddafi’s son, asked me to say a word against the protests,” Sheik Qarni told Al Arabiya television, which is based in Dubai. “I refused to back him because they were killing innocent people, killing old men and peaceful demonstrators.”
Instead of supporting Colonel Qaddafi, the cleric issued a fatwa against him
Those clerics and their Fatwa's!!!!!
What a funny world we live in!
>sigh<
The irony of course, I must admit I was partially raised on the Simpsons
From Al Jazeera English Live Blog March 4, 2011 ...
11:07am
Ahmed Radwan is an Egyptian vascular surgeon working as a volunteer in eastern Libya. In this video sent to Al Jazeera, he describes the kinds of injuries he's been treating in the last few days.
Kudos to Al-Jazeera. What percent of Arabs get their news mainly from Al-Jazeera?
From Wikipedia:
As of 2007, the Arabic Al Jazeera channel rivals the BBC in worldwide audiences with an estimated 40 to 50 million viewers. Al Jazeera English has an estimated reach of around 100 million households.
A recent report ...
Al Jazeera Rises As The Arab Autocracies Tumble
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
... In an interminable desert of heavily censored news on state controlled media outlets across most of the Arab world, Al Jazeera Arab network's news being broadcast without censorship stood out immediately as an oasis for it's Arab viewers. It was an almost instantaneous success.
Fueled by the success of the Al Jazeera Arab, the network has since grown into many different media outlets, including the Al Jazeera English (AJE) - launched in November 2006. AJE now reaches to more than 220 million households on 6 continents in more than 100 countries ...
AJN's coverage of the recent unrest in the Arab world has hugely increased it's viewership. It has also helped raise it's international profile and improve it's image. Suddenly from a network that is frequently smirked at by many in the west; it has now become a source of news for millions of westerners. It's viewership in US has skyrocketed. AJE ia available in only select markets in the US but it can be watched online. During this recent Arab turmoil, AJE said, "We have seen a 2000 percent increase in hits on our English-language website, and more than 60 percent of that traffic originates in the United States" ...
I wasn't even aware that there's an alternative: ALHURRA TV
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