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Egypt too powerless and corrupt to act

January 1, 2013July 25, 2013

Robert Fisk: The Rotten State of Egypt is Too Powerless and Corrupt to Act

There was a day when we worried about the "Arab masses" – the millions of "ordinary" Arabs on the streets of Cairo, Kuwait, Amman, Beirut – and their reaction to the constant bloodbaths in the Middle East. Could Anwar Sadat restrain the anger of his people?

And now – after three decades of Hosni Mubarak – can Mubarak (or "La Vache Qui Rit", as he is still called in Cairo) restrain the anger of his people? The answer, of course, is that Egyptians and Kuwaitis and Jordanians will be allowed to shout in the streets of their capitals – but then they will be shut down, with the help of the tens of thousands of secret policemen and government militiamen who serve the princes and kings and elderly rulers of the Arab world.

Battle over future of public broadcaster

January 1, 2013July 25, 2013

SOUTH AFRICA: Battle Over Future of Public Broadcaster

Stephanie Nieuwoudt

CAPE TOWN, Feb 3 (IPS) – A powerful coalition of civic organisations is calling for a complete overhaul of the legal framework of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) to force it to fulfil its public broadcasting mandate.

At a meeting on Jan. 29, the Save our SABC Coalition said they would step up their focus on the SABC Amendment Bill that is awaiting the signature of President Kgalema Motlanthe. However, the coalition is also lobbying for a separate, new SABC Act which addresses programming content and issues like board appointments, transparency and funding models.

Response from mercedes benz south Africa to media review network

January 1, 2013July 25, 2013

Response From Mercedes-Benz South Africa to Media Review Network

We have been made aware, that during the course of last week individual staff members from our company sent out emails with content of which members of the Islamic community may take offence.

The respective employees acted in a private initiative and illegally abused our company email for this purpose. Mercedes-Benz South Africa has a zero tolerance policy in this regard and we instantly initiated disciplinary action.

On behalf of Mercedes-Benz South Africa as well as on behalf of Daimler AG in Germany I would like to reiterate our pride in our long successful history and tradition as global multi-cultural and multi-national organisations. In fact, our diversity has always been an integral and elementary contributor to our success.

I would like to express my deep and sincere regret for this incident and promise that we will do everything possible to ensure, that something like this does not happen again.

Dr Hansgeorg Niefer
President & CEO
Mercedes-Benz South Africa (Pty) Ltd.

Hamas leader mashal Obama changedUSrhetoric only

January 1, 2013July 25, 2013

Hamas leader Mash’al: Obama changed US rhetoric only

Bethlehem – Ma’an – Senior Hamas leader Khalid Mash’al on Thursday criticized US President Barack Obama’s historic speech to the Muslim world as insufficient.

In a televised speech in response to Obama’s 4 June address in Cairo, Mesh’al said that Obama had changed US rhetoric toward the Palestinians, but not the situation on the ground.

“What Obama said wasn’t new and wasn’t enough,” said Mash’al, speaking from Damascus where he resides in exile.

While Obama called for the creation of a Palestinian state, Mash’al criticized the US leader for failing to specify the boundaries and nature of that state. He also said Obama had rejected the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes in what is now Israel.

The Hamas leader also noted that years of negotiations with successive Israeli governments had failed to yield an agreement.

With regard to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech in June at Bar Ilan University, Mash’al said the leader made it clear that they reject Palestinian rights to Jerusalem and the right of return, adding that Hamas "rejects the Israeli stance."