[color=black]Israel-Arab business deal
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[color=black]Israeli millionaire to purchase 50% of Al-Jazeera shares[/color]

[color=black]Israeli businessman Haim Shiban intends to acquire 50% of shares of Qatar-based satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera. The channel has gained reputation after the September 11 attack in the US; it has become one of the world's leading channels providing coverage of the latest news of the Arab world. The information has been reported Saturday by a Lebanese newspaper Al-Mustakbal with reference to Israeli sources.[/color]

[color=black]According to the Lebanese newspaper, for the last several months, the Israeli businessman has been having talks with the channel's owner Sheikh Khamad ben Khalifa al Tani regarding this matter.[/color]

[color=black]The offer has first been made to emir about six months ago during his visit to Qatar along with American ex-president Bill Clinton. The newspaper reports that emir took the offer seriously. Both men began negotiating. However, their talks ended after emir decided to audit the channel.[/color]

[color=black]According to the newspaper, Shiban has purchased a portion of American company Fox for $1.5 billion USD. In addition, last year he's become a shareholder of a German company Bru Sat 1 for 225 million Euro. He also owns 23% of shares of second Israel's channel, reports RIA "Novosti".[/color]

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There goes any kind of hope of continuing to get real news and not just propaganda from Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera often showed the Jews and Israel in their true light, the Jews certainly can't continue to let that go on. I am starting to wonder if there IS anything left these people do not own and therefore control.

He used to be a 'los angeles businessman'. Why don't they call him International jew/gangster?

By Michelle Locke
ASSOCIATED PRESS
1:29 p.m. September 8, 2004

BERKELEY – A University of California regent who had been criticized for his attendance record at board meetings announced Wednesday he is stepping down.

Regent Haim Saban, a Los Angeles businessman who founded Fox Family Worldwide and Saban Entertainment, producer of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, said in a statement that he is resigning effective immediately due to personal reasons.

"My position on the board was an honor, and I feel blessed to live in California and hope to be given the opportunity to serve this great state again in any way," said the 59-year-old Saban, who was appointed to a 12-year term by then-Gov. Gray Davis in 2002.

Earlier this year, state Sen. Jeff Denham, R-Merced, had recommended that Saban resign after the San Diego Union- Tribune reported that Saban had missed a majority of board meetings.

UC records indicate Saban's attendance waned after his appointment. In the 2001-02 year, Saban attended all six meetings of the investment committee of which he was a member, according to university records. For the 2002-03 year, Saban attended one of his five audit committee meetings and five of 12 investment committee meetings.

UC's board is made up of 18 regents appointed by the governor and confirmed by the state senate, one UC student appointed for a one-year term, and seven elected officials, including the governor.

Regents set policy for the nine-campus system, which has more than 200,000 students and an annual budget of $14 billion. Current regents include John Moores, owner of the San Diego Padres, and Sherry Lansing, chair and CEO of Paramount Pictures Motion Picture Group.

Regents are unpaid and are expected to attend six, two-day board meetings per year. They also are expected to participate in other committee hearings, some of which are held by teleconference, that may be scheduled at other times in the year. They make campus visits and are sent thick stacks of documents to read before meetings.

Still, a resignation is rare. One regent has stepped down in the past five years, and that was due to health problems.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will name a successor to fill out Saban's term, which expires in 2013.

I wonder if this will wake up the rest of the Arab fence sitters?... just might!

If those legendarily oil-rich Arabs we're always hearing about really do exist, they should make Al-Jazeera's owner, Sheikh Khamad ben Khalifa al Tani, an offer he can't refuse.

.....and hymie stretches out his greasy hands to take control of another media.

Same shit, different day!

You don't have the brains God gave a rock! Stop being manipulated by Zog false flag fronts!

Al Jazeera claims to be the only politically independent television station in the Middle East but is far from it! It is solely dependent on the emir of Qatar for funding and as every WN's knows...who funds...controls!

For those of you who don't have a clue, Qatar is a stanch ally of the United States! Qatar is in fact controlled by major US Oil Companys that include Chevron, Texaco, Exxon, and Mobil oil!

Qatars wealth comes from natural gas. Five hundred trillion cubic feet of it lies beneath the Persian Gulf and is the largest single natural gas field in the world.

Qatar is for the most part a US base thats sits on some of the most strategic real estate in the Middle East. Since the end of the first Gulf War, the United States has used Qatar to store everything from Humvees to tanks to missiles to MRE's!


Now getting back to Al Jazeera. It is now considered a fairly mainstream media network, though more controversial than most, but still "mainstream"! And now coincidentally a jew-Israeli businessman "intends to acquire 50% of shares of Qatar-based satellite TV channel"!

Comon Volks....you're smarter than this!!!!

Canada, Al Jazeera, and Fox
By Rondi Adamson

Al Jazeera has been deemed acceptable viewing for Canadians ... but Fox News? No. It's currently only available to Canadians with illegal satellite connections. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), a federal agency that decideswhat constitutes appropriate viewing and listening for Canadians, and that, last month, granted Al Jazeera the right to broadcast in Canada, is a paleo- concept. That culturecrats in Ottawa have, as their mandate, the protection of "Canadian values" and promotion of "Canadian content" reeks of rightthink, doublespeak, and social engineering.

On the surface, the Al Jazeera decision
seems to jell with the CRTC's raison d'être, but the reasoning isn't consistent. The commission says Al Jazeera doesn't compete with existing channels. True enough. We don't have a 24-hour Arabic news network that bubbles with anti- Semitism and anti-Americanism. We do, however, have a public broadcaster with barely concealed anti-American and anti- Israeli biases. Canadians should perhaps be grateful their taxes don't fund Al Jazeera as they do the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

What Canadians most certainly do not have is a conservative news network. Yet Fox News was told in 2000 that it could broadcast in Canada only if it offered a schedule with 15 percent Canadian content. I'm grateful this proposal never took off, particularly when I see the Canadian version of MSNBC - Matthews, Scarborough, et al., interspersed with a distressing array of Northern talking heads singing the praises of Canadian multiculturalism, social programs, and niceness.

CRTC defenders - and there are many in Canada's arts community - say the agency is simply trying to shield Canadian sensibilities from nefarious outside influences. (Read: conservative American influences.) The reluctance to allow access to a network that might shake up the status quo is a reflection of national insecurity. The issue isn't whether people will like everything they see on Fox News. CNN, NBC, ABC, and CBS all broadcast here sans Canadian content. But they're relatively centrist. And no one seems concerned that BBC World airs here or that the CBC 24-hour cable channel carries its nightly newscast. So the BBC is competing with existing stations - but it has all the right (or, better said, left) biases. If Al Jazeera were rejected, the CRTC would be called intolerant by many in a nation where moral relativism has become the norm. One man's fatwa is another man's hockey game.

The CRTC is again considering an application from Fox News - a decision is expected in the fall. Curiously, in clearing the way for Al Jazeera, the CRTC included a waiver asking distributors to edit out "abusive comment." This sets a dangerous precedent: If we watch Al Jazeera - and I'm not convinced we shouldn't be allowed to - we should be exposed to what it truly is, not a sanitized version. Not to mention that if Fox News is permitted in Canada, I wouldn't be astonished if "abusive comments" (Read: pro-American) were replaced with a test pattern.

• Rondi Adamson is a Canadian writer.

[QUOTE=LeVig]Israeli businessman Haim Shiban intends to acquire 50% of shares of Qatar-based satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera.[/QUOTE]

Doesn't seem kosher to me.