Bahrain US Media and Government, working together so you don’t know

Revolution 99 Updates: Bahrain Our Evil Buddy. Media and Us Government, working together so you don’t know
26 March, 2012 – by Worldwide Hippies

There were No, Zero, Nada stories from any Main stream Corporate news outlets about Bahrain this morning. Voice of America, and Global Research were virtually the only one’s reporting about the United States funded Kingdom.

There were a few UBEAT fluffy articles in the Arab press.Worldwide Hippies is using this page today to highlight the trials and censorship going on there.

Your tax dollars are being spent to torture, murder, and violently put down any protests there.

Owners of Corporate Media are also the owners of the weapon factories here in the US doing big business in Bahrain. Interesting!

Bahrain and Belarus Added to an ‘Enemies of the Internet’ List

A media rights group has added to its list of countries with the most restrictions on Internet freedom. At the same time, the group removed Libya and Venezuela from a list of countries considered under surveillance.

Reporters Without Borders released the lists earlier this month in its latest “Enemies of the Internet” report.

The report notes the importance of the Internet and social networks in the Middle East during what has been called the Arab Spring. It says social media like Facebook and Twitter have been firmly established as tools for protests and vehicles for freedom.

The group identifies twelve countries as “Enemies of the Internet.” Among them are Burma, China, Cuba, Iran and North Korea. The list also includes Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

Bahrain and Belarus are the newest additions to the list. Reporters Without Borders says Bahrain used repressive measures to block news and information after unrest began in the Arab world last year. The group says the government has used a combination of methods to suppress the opposition. These include keeping international media away from the country, arresting bloggers and harassing human rights activists.

Delphine Halgand heads the Reporters Without Borders office in Washington. She says Bahrain has a very developed system for watching and blocking online communications. She says the country has increasingly used these systems in reaction to the political unrest.

DELPHINE HALGAND: “The authorities in Bahrain were able to arrest bloggers and netizens for what they are publishing online. And actually even one of these people who was arrested for what he was publishing online died when he was in detention.” …more