hostage
You can find videos, info, news and photos about hostage.
Google News (news about hostage)
Youtube (videos about hostage)
This week on The Listening Post, we bring you a critique of the media coverage of the run up to and during the week-long Republican National Convention.We look back at the Ingrid Betancourt rescue by the Colombian government and ask some searching questions.In News Divide, we see what happened when the McCain 'Straight Talk Express' made a stop at in Minnesota for the Republican National Convention, despite the threat of derailment by Hurricane Gustav and shock news of a teenage pregnancy.Like the Democratic party did the past week during its convention, the Republicans wanted to seize this opportunity to display party unity and show off McCain's chosen running mate: Sarah Palin.However, with Hurricane Gustav cutting a devastating path along the Gulf Coast, the party re-choreographed the event to avoid a major PR blunder. When the hurricane was at its fiercest, reporters learned that the dyed-in-the-wool conservative's daughter, Bristol Palin, was about to become a mother, out of wedlock and at the age of 17.In the second half of our show, Salah Khadr poses the following question: was the release of Ingrid Betancourt (and 14 other hostages) by the South American FARC rebel group earlier this year too good to be true? It has been alleged that military personnel impersonated both humanitarian workers in the form of Red Cross and journalists from pan-Latin American TV station, Telesur, as part of the ruse that enabled them to get close to the guerrillas, and release the hostages. The against-all-the-odds success of 'Operation Checkmate' raises a whole host of questions, with regards to the mode of rescue and the long term implications it may have on journalists and aid workers in similar situations. In Newsbytes, we revisit the case of imprisoned Egyptian blogger, Kareem Amer and the new laws that the Mubarak government is employing to keep tabs on internet users. We report on Ingushetian journalist, Magomed Yevloyev, who was shot in the head whilst in Russian police custody. Finally, still in Russia, we see how prime minister and self-styled Action Man figure, Vladimir Putin, supposedly acted the hero when he shot a predatory Siberian tiger dead.Finally, for our Video of the Week, we show you how Al Jazeera made the news in Golden, Colorado, as reported by the Washington Post's Dana Milbank.
Author: AlJazeeraEnglish
Keywords: Listening Post Republican Ingrid Betancourt Colombia FARC Gustav Egypt Kareem Amer Magomed Yevloyev Dana Milbank
Added: September 5, 2008
~Lyrics~I've given up on giving up slowly, I'm blending in so You won't even know me apart from this whole world that shares my fateThis one last bullet you mention is my one last shot at redemption because I know to live you must give your life awayAnd I've been housing all this doubt and insecurity and I've been locked inside that house all the while You hold the keyAnd I've been dying to get out and that might be the death of meAnd even though, there's no way in knowing where to go, promise I'm going becauseI gotta get outta here I'm stuck inside this rut that I fell into by mistakeI gotta get outta here And I'm begging You, I'm begging You, I'm begging You to be my escape.I'm giving up on doing this alone nowCause I've failed and I'm ready to be shown howHe's told me the way and I'm trying to get thereAnd this life sentence that I'm servingI admit that I'm every bit deserving But the beauty of grace is that it makes life not fairCause I've been housing all this doubt and insecurity and I've been locked inside that house all the while You hold the keyAnd I've been dying to get out and that might be the death of meAnd even though, there's no way in knowing where to go, promise I'm going becauseI gotta get outta here Cause I'm afraid that this complacency is something I can't shakeI gotta get outta here And I'm begging You, I'm begging You, I'm begging You to be my escape.I am a hostage to my own humanitySelf detained and forced to live in this mess I've madeAnd all I'm asking is for You to do what You can with meBut I can't ask You to give what You already gave Cause I've been housing all this doubt and insecurity and I've been locked inside that house all the while you hold the keyAnd I've been dying to get out and that might be the death of meAnd even though, there's no way in knowing where to go, promise I'm going becauseI've gotta get outta here I'm stuck inside this rut that I fell into by mistakeI've gotta get outta here And I'm begging You, I'm begging You, I'm begging You to be my escape.I fought You for so longI should have let You inOh how we regret those things we doAnd all I was trying to do was save my own skinBut so were YouSo were You
Author: walaoma
Keywords: Relient Be my escape
Added: September 5, 2008
This week on The Listening Post, we bring you a critique of the media coverage of the run up to and during the week-long Republican National Convention.In News Divide, we see what happened when the McCain 'Straight Talk Express' made a stop at in Minnesota for the Republican National Convention, despite the threat of derailment by Hurricane Gustav and shock news of a teenage pregnancy.Like the Democratic party did the past week during its convention, the Republicans wanted to seize this opportunity to display party unity and show off McCain's chosen running mate: Sarah Palin. However, with Hurricane Gustav cutting a devastating path along the Gulf Coast, the party re-choreographed the event to avoid a major PR blunder. When the hurricane was at its fiercest, reporters learned that the dyed-in-the-wool conservative's daughter, Bristol Palin, was about to become a mother, out of wedlock and at the age of 17.In the second half of our show, Salah Khadr poses the following question: was the release of Ingrid Betancourt (and 14 other hostages) by the South American FARC rebel group earlier this year too good to be true? It has been alleged that military personnel impersonated both humanitarian workers in the form of Red Cross and journalists from pan-Latin American TV station, Telesur, as part of the ruse that enabled them to get close to the guerrillas, and release the hostages. The against-all-the-odds success of 'Operation Checkmate' raises a whole host of questions, with regards to the mode of rescue and the long term implications it may have on journalists and aid workers in similar situations. In Newsbytes, we revisit the case of imprisoned Egyptian blogger, Kareem Amer and the new laws that the Mubarak government is employing to keep tabs on internet users. We report on Ingushetian journalist, Magomed Yevloyev, who was shot in the head whilst in Russian police custody. Finally, still in Russia, we see how prime minister and self-styled Action Man figure, Vladimir Putin, supposedly acted the hero when he shot a predatory Siberian tiger dead.Finally, for our Video of the Week, we show you how Al Jazeera made the news in Golden, Colorado, as reported by the Washington Post's Dana Milbank.
Author: AlJazeeraEnglish
Keywords: Listening Post Republican Ingrid Betancourt Colombia FARC Gustav Egypt Kareem Amer Magomed Yevloyev Dana Milbank
Added: September 5, 2008
Nigel's Darth Vader Hostage Video
Author: DVthedarklord
Keywords: McGill Darth Vader dark lord comedy pran nigel doll hostage
Added: September 5, 2008
Nigel's Darth Vader Hostage Video
Author: DVthedarklord
Keywords: McGill Darth Vader dark lord comedy pran nigel doll hostage
Added: September 5, 2008
Nigel's Darth Vader Hostage Video
Author: DVthedarklord
Keywords: McGill Darth Vader dark lord comedy pran nigel doll hostage
Added: September 5, 2008
Nigel's Darth Vader Hostage Video
Author: DVthedarklord
Keywords: McGill Darth Vader dark lord comedy pran nigel doll hostage
Added: September 5, 2008
Flickr (photos about hostage)
Digg (news relevants about hostage)
Playwright Carol Sinclair went through after needing to talk to approximately 20 different tech support folks at her broadband provider, before they finally sent a tech out to her place to see what the deal was. She allegedly told him she was keeping him hostage until he fixed her internet.... wow... Obviously not a literal statement!
http://digg.com/tech_news/Woman_Arrested_For_Threatening_To_Hold_Broadband_Guy_Hostage
Somalia - A yacht has been attacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden, and the crew from France taken as hostages. The motor yacht Carre D'as was seized by pirates near the Gulf of Aden, and the yacht and French hostages have now been taken to land in Somalia, where they are being kept.
http://digg.com/world_news/Pirates_Attack_Yacht_Taking_French_Hostages_to_Somalia
Canadian playwright Carol Sinclair is scheduled to appear in court later this month on allegations that she held a computer service technician hostage because her Internet connection wasn't working.
http://digg.com/people/Woman_allegedly_takes_computer_tech_hostage
John McCain's 96-year-old mother is being treated like a hostage at this convention, a prisoner of the campaign wars, paraded around like a prop, but silenced mercilessly, even as she seems to be pleading for help. Listent to the audio clip where she says "They won't let me talk!"
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/McCain_s_Mother_gagged_by_his_campaign_straight_talk
Does he really believe that Sarah Palin is qualified to step in if he can't serve? Does he think a Bible-thumping, anti-abortion, abstinence-only, conservative speaks for most American women? Hey John, we get it: This is less about choosing a woman than pandering to the Conservative christians that hold you and your party hostage. Women beware!
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Who_does_McCain_think_he_s_kidding
Selecting this particular woman largely based on her stance on one issue is the latest insult not just to Governor Palin, but to women as a whole -- and to our democracy.
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Marie_Wilson_Hostage_to_Abortion_Politics
Crazy B*%ch
http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Fix_my_connection_or_I_will_take_you_hostage
My life has been quite a journey. I have experienced first hand the 1979 bloody revolution, followed by the hostage taking, war with Saddam Hussein, famine, and the tyranny of the Ayatollah’s regime. At the age of 16 I almost joined the Hezbollah terrorist militia in Gaza to fight the Israelis. A few months later I was to be executed.......
http://digg.com/people/I_am_a_renegade_from_Iran_2
Interview with Toronto punk band Hostage Life from Edgefest 2008 taken from TorontoMusicScene.ca
http://digg.com/music/Hostage_Life_fight_the_system_by_confusing_the_system
... as the revelations keep pouring out about Palin, McCain is surely starting to realize that he has hitched himself to a volatile partner who threatens to upend his entire campaign.
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/McCain_s_Indiscretion_McCain_is_hostage_to_Palin