Analysts theorizing that the real threat to the general turned president may come from within the military not that you would get any of that from a gyptian Media Outlets most of which do the governments bidding and initially tried to ignore this story now theyre just trying to make it go away our starting point this week is cairo. When egyptians revolted against president Hosni Mubarak in 2011 the spark was external it came from to news you know where the Arab Spring Movement began before spreading across north africa this recent unrest back to back fridays of scattered demonstrations was also triggered from the outside from spain but by an egyptian inside were going to go. And i dont believe the gospel of the refinery. Muhammad ali is a wealthy contractor now living in barcelona his family grew rich through building contracts involving the Egyptian Military hes also a part time film and Television Actor when he started going online on september 2nd he had political stories to tell tales of corruption at the very top and the acting skills to tell the. World mohamed ali is that guy that you sit down with at the cafe and have a hookah with on a thursday night everybody understands him they feel him he connects everyone knows that theres massive systematic corruption and much of it has been linked to the control of the army of the economy and laid out in very clear terms by names by numbers by they still look to them or if you say they were in the food the cure for. It and the very fact that he also came out and said that he himself was corrupt if you even more credibility and that paved the way for the kind of viral takeoff of his videos he claims that he was contacted by the army to build a palace for sisi in a few months and according to our confidence 250000000. I was. Looking for myself so these sort of allegations very detail very tangible and given his position within this transaction it sounded credible and it really shocked the public. 12 days after the 1st of muhammad alis videos went online knowing that millions of egyptians were watching from president Abdel Fattah Elsisi responded on allies stories of lavish president ial spending in a country where more than 30 percent of citizens now live below the poverty line sisi had this to say. Early. The president s public response served as a cue for Egyptian Television channels which had done their state controlled best to ignore the alley videos and to finally confront them. God might be the how could they have actually been in this weird situation where they are claiming the protesters are terrorists or supported by the Muslim Brotherhood what is good then beyond that that im not feelin. In now and then a. Day but at the same time theyre also denying that there are actually protests in egypt but the idea. That its you know to brainwash. Them what they did at the fort the fear its so why dont you that its kind of a will to book received but this leaves many egyptians unable to to see whats happening was gorgeous which is why it took me to for example to see the protests most of the traditional mainstream pundit he actually interviewed alis father who is a National Weightlifting tompion who himself this kind of his son some of them were montana so theres that kind of usual kind of textbook attempts by the media to didier to demise the protests and to defame whoever is trying to lead. But even that didnt work and so the next step was for the talking heads to come on and say dont listen to him because if you come into the street we will now. All my chair. Is it me that it that are going to come at all egyptian media over the past 2 years has become so we owned by the Intelligence Services now when the Intelligence Services control much of egyptian media it becomes an extension of the arm of the president. Many of the foreign Media Outlets covering this story are beyond the control of the c c government aljazeera is based in qatar aljazeera arabic its can arab news channel and Aljazeera Mubasher which focuses on live news events have both given the story heavy play now shot hes an egyptian channel located in istanbul it too was providing the kind of coverage domestic egyptian channels simply cannot the authorities in cairo have periodically blocked access to other channels and platforms including b. B. C. Arabic and Facebook Messenger and the s. I. Yes the government body that accredits foreign journalists issued them with a warning on september 22nd that the government was quote carefully monitoring unquote coverage reminding those reporters to abide by what it called professional standards it was pretty much a warning to jordan ellis if you continue to critically cover certain topics of certain issues you might be kicked outside egypt for example and it follows really policy of trying to trick coverage by International Media operating in egypt many Television Channels being a prime example of chad and others. Have been painted with the same brush. Some of the work by. Professional some of the work has left some room for criticism but as has happened in the past during critical moments of 0 because of its Financial Resources is able to provide video that many others within the government sphere will not. So many do lean on that. When ill just iraq covers the story it periodically reminds viewers that dozens of reporters remain in the gyptian jails including the networks own Mahmoud Hussein imprisoned for more than a 1000 days now yet to be charged with a crime for all of the official efforts to control the political narrative the egyptian authorities cannot stop news from happening. What muhammad ali began from barcelona has been followed up by egyptians posting their own videos and many of them appear to be military personnel that and some other developments egyptians saw last year suggest that what is unfolding is not a Popular Uprising but the 1st signs of what could be a soft coup elements within the military who were once loyal to the former general turned president now preparing to depose him. Now these videos are showing is that there might be growing fissures from within the military establishment after think about the last president ial election in egypt the last year most of those that sat challenge president sisi the former military man they would not have run for office if they didnt think there was internal support and mohamed ali has been saying its not the military thats out there thats the good people its ccs mismanagement of the military for his own benefit is what the problem is and that is sisi is number one concern it is not a simple as a dictator gone broke and the people rising to tell him to leave. There are forces clearly within the egyptian state. That are looking to finalize a solution right now and we are in a wait and see. Spoken to many people on the ground. And then the cations are that the very same people who 3 weeks ago were saying dont jump in the fray this is a battle between the generals. Are now saying well i know. This arrogance cannot be allowed and hundreds of the rest that there is genius sending out messages that theyre looking for a fight. And i believe that the people that. Were discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers tarik naafa tarik following up on our lead story from last week on Climate Change the 16 year old activist the swede gretta tom burke very much the face of this story being subjected to a lot of criticism in the media some of it personal and nasty and much of it is coming from socalled climate skeptics who yes do still exist and are still being given space in some corners of Mainstream Media theres also some hate speech and thought journey through and in that for example from michael novels of the right wing outlets daily while he said this on fox news this past week the climate hysteria movement is not about science if it were about science it would be led by scientists rather than by politicians and a mentally ill swedish child who is being exploited by her parents and fox news was forced to apologize for not his comments even admitting that they were disgraceful the network for that have no plans to book him in the future but we saw more of this kind of thing from another Rupert Murdoch owned Media Outlets sky News Australia present and you balts delivered a monologue claiming to be concerned about the child abuse is being subjected to. All those activists those reckless politicians who treated this chronically anxious and just a 16 year old is the new messiah and ashot in some sense at last. Now able to see. Theyve been patty not just to a collective histeria to an extraordinary child abuse and i dont suppose things are any more civilized on social media its always worse online through the tweets by british political scientist Justin Murphy he said if you think. The maturity its a guy Global Policy making then you cannot object to jeffrey dean paying fixed senior all of the sex at scene was of course the american billionaire accused of serial sexual abuse of children who took his own life last month to. This torrent of sex abuse with the kind of dignity and maturity some of her critics clearly lacked she tweeted i honestly dont understand why adults would choose to spend their time mocking and threatening teenagers and children for promoting finds when they could do something good instead i guess they must simply feel so threatened by ok thanks to our. Muslim invaders feminists out to destroy our way of life and the coming White Genocide those are among the obsessions online of the far right theyve been weaponized and monetized by some skillful provocateurs on the webs primary video platform you tube through which they have entered the homes and the minds of millions the content typically disguised as cutting edge journalism can have real life ramifications viral material that is capable of not just radicalizing the views of those who watch it but driving some of them to acts of violence among the best known practitioners of the art the rebel media its a small canadian outlet but has an influence that goes well beyond that countrys borders the rebels list of contributors includes british and american voices names like Hopkins Robinson and gorkha known for peddling some toxic tropes at home and happy to be granted an outlet offshore the listening posts flow phillips now on the rebel you tube and one case study of far right radicalization online. Inside the d. C. Beltway bringing you the stories that the Mainstream Media just wont cover the Mainstream Media doesnt have. To actually ask you these questions dropping the ball you stop covering stories that actually matter to joe sixpack at home when i 1st found right wing media and far right media on you tube i was in a very difficult time in my life. I had just dropped out of college and had to move back home and i went to youtube in an effort to try to fix myself. This is caleb kent. 5 years ago he turned to the internet in search of information 40 fell into was a you tube shaped hole a far right content a new community a new identity. I remember i was watching gavin to get us to meet goal of the east is to convert it convert or die gavin would talk about. He would talk about helping to generate culture or that its its dangerous that theyre invading the west and that theyre going to take over western civilization theyre not about assimilation theyre about changing and its working and i also remember i would watch war in southern. As more of a reporter she would go to rallies ok you know im good im good i just got. Out of my arse and you know shed be getting bottles thrown out or bricks thrown out or and she would just continue to march forward and i had a lot of respect. Lauren south and mcinnes just to have a cause to persuasive just sometimes pretty poisonous character has given us a platform by the web will be a fringe online canadian outlet. Channel currently boasts 1200000 subscribers with some of its more viral videos regularly getting hits in the millions because its content is inflammatory its tagline a fearless source of news opinion and activism you wont find anywhere else. To ever drink and to refugee and to climate liberal and a lot of things and they kind of say that theyre about challenging mainstream narratives and like a Real News Organization they dont look for balance but they simply try to create narratives that anger. Really get people riled up. We put this description of the rebels content to the founder of the outlet as a real event he wrote back twice both times he dismissed the description saying it was a matter of opinion not fact and that quote ill be honest i dont care what aljazeera has opinions of me are we made it clear in follow up emails that it was not aljazeera is opinion we were requesting his comment on. Levant as a conservative canadian broadcaster and former political operative following the closure of his previous employer Sun News Network canadas failed attempt at fox news he started the rebel welcome to the show as well where it had no parameters on what could be said and didnt require a high tech studio just a green screen and a camera. Michael coren worked with levant in the sun news days he got the call up to join the rebel back in 2050 i found where he presented politics to be the store. Certainly wasnt my approach but then when sonny was closed he called me telephone and asked if i would work for it and i had this sort of change of view some time early about 6 months earlier and ive been writing things and and i remember saying to measure im not brand you know i would be right for you and he said no no way we want all sorts of opinion on it and i said ok and i work for them this could be a record for one day others lasted a little longer in its short history the rebel has employed the whos who of the far right launching the careers of homegrown canadian personalities like stalin and faith goldie and offering a platform for more established far right agitators like us based maginnis and former trump operative sebastien go all the u. K. s Katie Hopkins and tommy robinson. Have been the bright cant tell me roberts. And he who is a commentator who was once the founder of the English Defense League has reported on you know muslim great and uses that have of terminology why one narrative was altogether deleted and replaced by another right after they came back last classic or here in canada there is content showing the trouble with faith called you talking about there was a conspiracy the government was hiding the fact that it was a muslim shooter who did this really trying to sort of create a whole other alternate universe of information. Fake goldy proved to be too radical even for the rebels the coverage of a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville America and to follow up interview with a new nazi website the day stormer got her fine setting off a domino effect one cofounder quit and a host of contributors backed away. So it was kind of a moment for them and looked like they were falling apart because they had lost in a very short order all of their highest profile personalities we came to think that no