Who is to be held responsible for the media blackout on Bahrain? Did the US aid Bahrain in surpressing and killing it's own people? Is it ethical that CNN is taking money from foreign governments, also dictatorships?

**Nutsack** · October 07, 2012, 01:21 AM

I just saw a podcast guested by former CNN reporter Amber Lyon. She did stories on Bahrain for CNN, where she entered the country in order to get hands-on reports from the people who were organizing an uprising against their regime. For anyone who doesn't know Bahrain is a small island-nation in the Persian Gulf that is probably oil rich, and is only like 40 miles across the gulf from Iran. Oh probably also worth mentioning is that the US has a military base on the island with what I guess to be 10,000 based there, but don't quote me on that figure. Apparently after she had been arrested and held at gunpoint by the Bahraini government she was deported and not allowed back into the country again. Well, I guess they collected enough film to make a documentary which aired on CNN, but not on CNN International which it was also supposed to be aired on. This is important because CNN is the largest English news network in that region. Apparently, as she found out which probably also was the reason she was sacked, was that CNN has taken money from the regime in Bahrain, along from a lot of other countries like Georgia, Kazakhstan and more. Once they knew that a story on the Bahraini uprising was going to be covered, the regime had apparently called up CNN and demanded censorship, which they essentially did. So what you get on CNN isn't news, it's a mixture of real news and censorship.

http://vimeo.com/50802185

That is the link to a video of the Joe Rogan podcast in which she guested. She has a website where she also protests against the NDAA and has a video where police officers in Anaheim crack down on protestors by shooting rubber bullets (40mm rubber bullets), she was even shot at herself for no other reason than that another person besides her had yelled out the words "pig". Apparently if a police officer gets called a "pig" then he has sufficient reason to fire rubber bullets at civilians, I did not know this was common in America, land of the free.

http://www.amberlyonlive.com/AmberLy...HOME_PAGE.html

That's her website. But my main question is, did the US provide weapons to Bahrain which in turn, they used against their own people? Supposedly we did, a lot of them as well. What about the media blackout on Bahrain, we didn't hear nearly as much about Bahrain as we did on Egypt, and yet, the situation in Bahrain was a hundred times worse? Does that have anything to do with us having a

ing military base there? Seems legit. Also, Joe Rogan brought me here.

**King Gambrinus** · October 07, 2012, 01:27 AM

Thank god this has been brought up again. It's absolutely scandalous, what happened there, and people are quick to forget we probably sold weapons to these people. Just shows you the ignorance of the Libya policy...

**Nutsack** · October 07, 2012, 02:01 AM

Probably because the base on Bahrain is very strategic for the future attack on Iran. I am now convinced we are actually going to war with Iran. For everyone further interested on this issue, please watch the Joe Rogan podcast guested by former CNN reporter Amber Lyon, link posted in OP. She quit her job on CNN when she realized that they wanted her to spew out propaganda.

Also, worth noting is that we were supposed to have gone to war with Iran in 2007, if a woman by the name of Gwyneth Todd didn't foil the plans to fake an attack on America in order to gain a casus belli to go to war. http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/08...ho-stopped-it/

**Fluttershy** · October 07, 2012, 12:22 PM

Originally Posted by Nutsack

Probably because the base on Bahrain is very strategic for the future attack on Iran. I am now convinced we are actually going to war with Iran. For everyone further interested on this issue, please watch the Joe Rogan podcast guested by former CNN reporter Amber Lyon, link posted in OP. She quit her job on CNN when she realized that they wanted her to spew out propaganda.

Also, worth noting is that we were supposed to have gone to war with Iran in 2007, if a woman by the name of Gwyneth Todd didn't foil the plans to fake an attack on America in order to gain a casus belli to go to war. http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/08...ho-stopped-it/

I assume you are trolling... right?

the same Iran weve been "about to attack" for what... the past decade? BTW... the website you linked ... before ANYONE takes the OP seriously lets look at some of the other Stories from nutsacks "source"

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/10...saurs-on-mars/

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/09...eptember-2012/

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/08...ionist-terror/

SOUNDS LEGIT

**Thorn777** · October 07, 2012, 03:30 AM

Or because syria is not about democracy either, but controll and cohesion of soveriegn nation states under the Washington Consensus umbrella, our present day Pax Romana. And hence forth the killing and distruction is an murderous and deceitful act on behalf of USA and its lackeys.

Hence the whole situation is, and no one of decency and understanding should support any of this.

**AqD** · October 07, 2012, 03:40 AM

Do Americans have no news agency other than CNN? Nobody has balls to report that on TV?

**~~John ''True Grit'' Wayne~~** · October 07, 2012, 04:50 AM

Of course they supported them.We cant afford to let any Islamists take over and declare the West as evil and the devils sperm then declare Jihad on us.

**Heinz Guderian** · October 07, 2012, 06:57 AM

Bahrain has a majority Shia population which have fond relations with Iran.

If an opposition movement achieves democratic representation, then they may move to remove any American bases and have closer relations with Iran because it may represent the will of the majority.

America doesnt want this because they will potentially lose out if Bahraini people get representative democracy, lose an important base and potentially give Iran a closer springboard to the Gulf. So America does not want to be shown supporting the opposition but continues to arm and support the Bahraini government.

Its about national interests. Morality and "doing the right thing" has nothing to do with it and has had nothing to do with American foreign policy for the last 70 years.

I dont blame America for this, i would do the same thing.

Just dont keep telling me that America is the good guy. Its infantile.

**Thorn777** · October 07, 2012, 09:24 AM

Originally Posted by Heinz Guderian

Bahrain has a majority Shia population which have fond relations with Iran.

If an opposition movement achieves democratic representation, then they may move to remove any American bases and have closer relations with Iran because it may represent the will of the majority.

America doesnt want this because they will potentially lose out if Bahraini people get representative democracy, lose an important base and potentially give Iran a closer springboard to the Gulf. So America does not want to be shown supporting the opposition but continues to arm and support the Bahraini government.

Its about national interests. Morality and "doing the right thing" has nothing to do with it and has had nothing to do with American foreign policy for the last 70 years.

I dont blame America for this, i would do the same thing.

Just dont keep telling me that America is the good guy. Its infantile.

Question really is though, who really represents these "American interests". Is it the everyday middleclass American struggling to get by, or the strike three times your out ghetto workslave, or is it once again that creme de la creme doing so much harm in this world in order to keep the current monetarist/MIC system they love so much going?

If the first two Americans wasnt told this fairytale over and over again, they would not regard this as their "American interests".

The American people are better than that, And Im amazed "you would do the same thing". What it does, it is destroying America. At least the parts of America most Americans would actually fight for.

**hellheaven1987** · October 07, 2012, 11:23 AM

Originally Posted by Heinz Guderian

America doesnt want this because they will potentially lose out if Bahraini people get representative democracy, lose an important base and potentially give Iran a closer springboard to the Gulf. So America does not want to be shown supporting the opposition but continues to arm and support the Bahraini government.

Not just US but more importantly, Saudi Arabia absolutly wants no beach head for a Shia armor thrust into Sunni heartland. It is not just a West vs Persia but also Persian vs Arab and Shia vs Sunni war.

**Nutsack** · October 07, 2012, 11:43 AM

It's not always about Shia vs. Sunni, you have to remember that these people are first and foremost arabs, and that this ethnic divide is stronger than the religious divide. They have relatives over in Saudi and Qatar. Of course the protestors would kick out the american naval base, there is no question about that but this doesn't mean that they have a political connection to Iran, that is fearmongering propaganda which Gwenyth Todd exposed was actually going to be used as a cause for war against Iran back in 2007. The navy had plans to connect Iran with Shia muslims in Bahrain and therefore make some sort of connection that would be a cause for war against Iran, in 2007, so saying this today is irrelevant. Bahraini protestors, Shia or Sunni, regardless wouldn't have any political ties to Iran and isn't going to be a threat to the US. The US is protecting it's naval base and is supplying a regime with weapons to kill protestors in the process.

This woman is in hiding right now for exposing a propped up plan, the exact same of which some of you guys are talking about right now. It was eventually going to be a Gulf of Tonkin event but in 2007, it's not hard to believe that the US could do something like this again.

**Condottiere 40K** · October 07, 2012, 08:10 AM

Anschluss seems a pragmatic solution and will promote Arab brotherhood.

**magpie** · October 07, 2012, 08:41 AM

One has got to laugh at CNN the great social channel, Always sneering at Fox and other's .
Seems this young lady has exposed their hypocrisy big time. I did see a short interview of her,s and she had a rough time in Bahrain.
Of course she really got stomped on by her CNN bosses and their backer,s.
Bahrain has violence every day with arrests and shooting of demonstrator,s plus the dawn house raids.
Some 10 plus doctor,s and medical staff have been thrown in prison for treating injured protester,s.
The Bahrain cops are lead by an ex British Police commissioner he had some experience in Ulster and took his talent,s to Bahrain.
Of course the Wahhabi Saudi's are up to their neck's in helping the Bahrain Princes keep their boots on the population's neck,s.
Still they are staunch allies of the U.S. And Britain and buy a ton of arms from them, plus they are a great market for rubber bullet's and gas canister,s.
Also they help out with the huge naval facilities for the U.S. fleet.
So its no surprise that not much new.s gets out about the situation in the west.

**Emperor Arcturus Mengsk** · October 07, 2012, 11:07 AM

It's good to see some USA'ans that don't believe their foreign policy is about helping other nations

**Fernandez_1492** · October 07, 2012, 11:53 AM

RT jas reported on Baihrain

**Heinz Guderian** · October 07, 2012, 01:25 PM

That doesnt change the fact that Bahrain was supported politically, is being supported politically and is still being armed by the USA......Fluttershy.

**Fluttershy** · October 07, 2012, 01:33 PM

Originally Posted by Heinz Guderian

That doesnt change the fact that Bahrain was supported politically, is being supported politically and is still being armed by the USA......Fluttershy.

Which does NOT mean we are just about to invade Iran

**Imperial** · October 07, 2012, 01:33 PM

pffffft.

The US has supported worse regimes, big whop.

**NotYetRegistered** · October 07, 2012, 01:55 PM

Gwyneth Todd, survivors of a rogue regime, holds information that could bring America’s “cardboard cutout” democracy to its knees.

The night Admiral Cosgriff sent Todd out to meet a CIA informant in Dirza, Todd’s clearances were stripped, she was cut off from all contact and abandoned, abandoned and hunted by death squads of Bahrainian secret police who had been tailing her.

“GW” married to an official of the Australian Ministry of Defense, is in Australia ducking endless US ploys to silence her on her direct access to information that could put a virtual army of Bush era top officials in prison for life or worse.

This just sounds like a bad spy movie. I searched for RussiaToday sources on this and they don't even have articles on this, only small sites I've never heard of. Anyway, so she has information that could put a virtual army of Neocons in prison.. and she's being hunted by them.. and she doesn't publish them. Ok. And then she supposedly gets hunted by FBI agents. And then this incident happens.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/bungl...#ixzz28dsHlL3j

Clearly a very important threat.

I doubt she's important, to be honest, as the article likes to portray her.

Note: This is an attack on the article, not so much what Nutsack said.

**magpie** · October 07, 2012, 02:21 PM

Lets face it folks its not in the interest of the U.S and British Governments to have Bahrain run by the countries majority.

Of course its different with Syria, democracy must be supported.

Also of course the Wahhabi Saudi regime have a slight problem with their Shia section of the population who inhabit most of the oil rich region of Saudi Arabia.

They are being suppressed as well as the Bahrain people, Arrests, shooting's the usual pleasantries. Not a lot reported about that either.

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