To those who do not know, Charlie Black who is John McCain’s chief advisor had said earlier that a terrorist attack on USA would create a big advantage for McCain. Richard Clarke appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann and said that Charlie Black’s comments are “politics of fear” and advised McCain to fire him immediately “Charlie Black ought to be gone tomorrow morning.”
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Add comment June 24th, 2008
Did they, USA, think that this stupid move will work?! Creating a news channel in the Middle East and publicly announcing that it is backed by the government of USA, actually the U.S. government spent $350 dollars from taxpayers on this project, if they just asked, they would have known that this project is simply not going to work. The funny thing is that they thought they will be spreading democracy in the Middle East through such a channel.
So although here in the Middle East we know for a fact that its a flop, you know there in U.S. they love surveys and polls, so a new survey done in six countries in the Middle East stated that only two percent tune to the channel as a first choice for news source.
“Arabs sit in their homes in front of the television, and they surf like crazy,” said Hisham Melhem, a Washington-based anchor for al-Arabiya. “You rarely find someone who says they watch al-Hurra. It may be number 10 on their dial. But definitely not first, not second, not third, not fourth.”
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The NBC journalist and host of “Meet the Press” Tim Russert has died today after noon after collapsing at NBC’s Washington news bureau. He was 58 years old.
Few minutes ago Tom Brokaw on NBC said “It is my sad duty to report that my friend and colleague, Tim Russert, the moderator of Meet the Press, collapsed and died earlier this afternoon. He will be missed, as he was loved, greatly…”
UPDATE: The funeral will be closed to the public.
[Via TVNewser]
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In the past few months I have been getting requests from Arabs all around the world, some from Egypt some from UAE and many from Europe, in countries such as UK, Germany and even Finland.
All sending in emails asking me to resume my coverage of Qalam Rasas, you see few months ago I used to talk about each episode and provide some videos of the episode too. There was one reason why I stopped doing that, its because I am lazy, who knows me knows this scary fact 
Anyway, I will try my best to cover each and every episode from now on, that means starting from the episode of the 13th of June 2008.
The reason why I started the coverage is because I felt that Hamdi Qandeel was not given the same interest as other political shows, lets say such as Alqahera Alyaum with Amr Adeeb, I watch all kind of shows, but I see a huge coverage for Alqahera Alyaum, 10 O’clock and those kind of shows.
Forums, Yahoo Groups and many many Facebook Groups cover and discuss and upload videos of those shows, except of Qalam Rasas, although Qalam Rasas is the most daring show of them all, no one, I REPEAT, NO ONE can say on their shows what Hamdi Qandeel says on Qalam Rasas.
That is why few months ago I created the Qalam Rasas - Hamdi Qandeel Facebook Group, join and discuss and find out all about the show.
Here is the episode of the 6th of June 2008:
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I was trying to find a video that would summarize the primaries, showing the highlights of what happened during the five months. Yesterday I was watching COUNTDOWN and was amazed on how they made a video of just what I was thinking. The way they combined events was clever and funny in sometimes. Watch……
Add comment June 11th, 2008
I never thought that I needed to talk about this, thinking from my side that everybody knows about it, but it seems that many many many people do not have any idea about it. Its the channel streaming over P2P, there are many applications now that provide the streaming of many channels. Sports, Entertainment, News, Cartoons, everything.
The most famous clients out there now are both SOPCAST and TVU Networks. There are others such as PPLIVE, PPMATE, PPSTREAM and others. All what you need to do is just download any of those clients and start watching.
If you were not able to find a channel to watch on any of those clients, which is very very rare, but if that happens, or you simply do not want to waste your time looking for the channels, you can always check two great guides for watching sports over P2P.
There is LiveFooty and MyP2P, LiveFooty is more straightforward, but MyP2P has a larger collection of channels and many sports other than just soccer. So stop feeling sorry for yourself and enjoy the Euro 2008 matches ONLINE for FREE 
Again this method is preferred if you can’t get the Aljazeera Sports Channels subscription. Because watching it on Aljazeera has its own taste, their coverage is really nice. I am a subscriber and I know.
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Few minutes before Euro 2008 started today both Aljazeera Sports +1 and +2 on ORBIT changed to Aljazeera Sports 1 and 2. Those are the free to air channels that ofcourse do not air Euro 2008. I have already talked about this before, it was pretty clear that Euro 2008 wont air on ORBIT. But people still had hope, mainly because when they called ORBIT call centers they were told that the championship will be aired on Aljazeera Sports +1 and +2, which is ofcourse not true.
Many many subscribers are mad and frustrated now from both Aljazeera and ORBIT. I would suggest them to aim their anger on ORBIT because they were the ones giving false hope to their customers.
If you are an ORBIT subscriber what would you do ?
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Although the schedule is available on many many sites, but I did receive requests from readers to add a GMT time match schedule.
So Here we go (GMT Time):
7 June - 16:00 : Switzerland v Czech Republic
7 June - 18:45 : Portugal v Turkey
8 June - 16:00 : Austria v Croatia
8 June - 18:45 : Germany v Poland
9 June - 16:00 : Romania v France
9 June - 18:45 : Netherlands v Italy
10 June - 16:00 : Spain v Russia
10 June - 18:45 : Greece v Sweden
11 June - 16:00 : Czech Republic v Portugal
11 June - 18:45 : Switzerland v Turkey
12 June - 16:00 : Croatia v Germany
12 June - 18:45 : Austria v Poland
13 June - 16:00 : Italy v Romania
13 June - 18:45 : Netherlands v France
14 June - 16:00 : Sweden v Spain
14 June - 18:45 : Greece v Russia
15 June - 18:45 : Turkey v Czech Republic
15 June - 18:45 : Switzerland v Portugal
16 June - 18:45 : Austria v Germany
16 June - 18:45 : Poland v Croatia
17 June - 18:45 : Netherlands v Romania
17 June - 18:45 : France v Italy
18 June - 18:45 : Greece v Spain
18 June - 18:45 : Russia v Sweden
Add comment June 7th, 2008
For Programmers/Geeks I do not need to elaborate, just watch the clip and laugh and just feel sorry for those who do not know that this line does not mean anything.
For all other people, THIS LINE DOES NOT MEAN ANYTHING, the CSI NY writers are just so freakin LAZY.
I used to like CSI, but CSI: Miami and CSI: NY is just a sad crappy copy.
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I love comedy shows, who doesn’t, and believe me I love Ikbis too, I am actually an Ikbis user, and I do find their contest ideas interesting, Airplane Contest Singing Contest and so on. They even have a new contest choosing the best of your uploaded images to be hanged on their wall, you might end up getting an Ikbis mug, I know its not much but still new and nice way to engage the users. They are trying to build an interactive community, so that is great.
Their latest “thing” is a new Comedy show named “Ground Zero”, Only 2 episodes have been released til now, and more to come for sure. They are very short episodes, each episode has 3 segments, Movie Dubbing, Lost in Translation and Coming Soon Movies. The show has some other tiny segments, such as the intro and the end bits. I will be a liar if I say I didn’t laugh, I did laugh but I think, and after watching both episodes, the only “FUNNY” part of the show is the “Doblage” Movies Dubbing segment.
The other segments are simply NOT FUNNY, the intro is ok the Movie Dubbing is Hilarious, the Lost in Translation segment were they translate English sentences or proverbs into Arabic which could sound funny is not really funny, but the really really REALLY annoying segment is the last one where a pirate appears and start speaking in English and tries to crack a joke or two and then they show a movie’s trailer, that I can easily say is not funny and even ANNOYING.
The two guys, Mike V.Derderian and Mohammad Jaradat are talented, and I see potential in the show, and it might end up to be a net sensation, but they really need to reorganize their show, cancel segments and add new segments. The possibilities are endless here.
Here are both Episodes…
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