Kuwaiti National Assembly has been DISSOLVED!!
it’s a sad sad day…the kuwaiti parliment has been dissolved…waiting for more news!!
5869 comments May 21st, 2006
Egypt: Award-Winning Blogger Among New Arrests
(New York, May 10, 2006) – Egyptian security officials arrested 11 more political reform activists, including an award-winning blogger, Alaa Ahmed Seif al-Islam, Human Rights Watch said today. This brings to more than 100 the number of people detained over the past two weeks for exercising their rights to freedom of assembly and expression.
Approximately half of those arrested are members of the Muslim Brotherhood who were putting up posters and distributing leaflets protesting the April 30 extension of emergency rule for another two years. The Emergency Law has been in effect since President Hosni Mubarak came to power in October 1981. The others were detained for demonstrating in support of a group of judges campaigning for greater judicial independence.
“These new arrests indicate that President Mubarak intends to silence all peaceful opposition,” said Joe Stork, deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa division.
The latest arrests occurred on May 7 near the South Cairo Court where activists arrested on April 24 were scheduled to appear before a judge. Police released three of the 11 new detainees, but transferred the remaining eight to the Heliopolis state security prosecutor, who extended their detention for 15 days. The eight detained are: Ahmed `Abd al-Gawad, Ahmed `Abd al-Ghaffar, Alaa Ahmed Seif al-Islam, Asma’a `Ali, Fadi Iskandar, Karim al-Sha`ir, Nada al-Qassas and Rasha Azab.
On May 8, authorities extended for another 15 days the detention of a dozen activists arrested on April 24. They initially faced charges of blocking traffic, but the authorities later transferred their cases to state security prosecutors. Yesterday, authorities extended the detention of 28 activists arrested on April 26 and 27 for another 15 days. All those arrested between April 24 and May 7 for demonstrating now face charges of “insulting the president,” “spreading false rumors,” and “disturbing public order” under the parallel state security legal system set up under the Emergency Law.
According to a statement published on an activist Web site, activists detained between April 24 and 27 have begun a hunger strike to protest prison conditions, including threats of torture and ill-treatment.
“The activists detained over the past two weeks should be released immediately, unharmed,” Stork said. “The Egyptian government is responsible under international law for their safety.”
The campaign of judges for greater judicial independence has become a rallying point for political reform activists. The Judges’ Club, the quasi-official professional organization for members of the judiciary, refused to certify the results of last year’s parliamentary elections after more than 100 of the judges reported irregularities at polling stations. In February, the government-controlled Supreme Judicial Council stripped four of the most vocal judges of their judicial immunity.
taken off http://www.hrw.org/
9831 comments May 16th, 2006
summer water shortage in kuwait…!!
read an article the other day from a link up in hilaliya.com about a water shortage coming up this summer :
KUWAIT: Sources at the Ministry of Energy expect water shortages in the summertime and are already warning residents to reduce their daily consumption. Manager Eng. Muneer Al-Ramadan said that the problem is difficult to resolve and will not be avoided unless citizens and expats cooperate with the state.
Eng. Al-Ramadan recalled last year’s problems of water shortage and the weakness in water pumping in some areas and high buildings, which forced the ministry to arrange for the strategic storage of water. He called upon all concerned to remember that Kuwait has very little natural water and therefore must rely on seawater that has been treated to make it suitable for consumption. He argues that Kuwait has one of the highest rates of water consumption anywhere, and this is mainly due to over-consumption and carelessness in the use of water, reported Al-Rai Al-Aam.
Kuwait’s hyper-arid climate and few natural water resources require it to rely heavily on desalination and imports for almost all of its fresh water supplies. The country’s annual rainfall of about 4.3 inches doesn’t even begin to satisfy the 2.4 million residents needs for fresh water. The average person uses about 50 litres of water a day for drinking, cooking, bathing and sanitation.
In 2004, the government began water rationing. Energy Ministry officials said that annual average daily production fell 16 million gallons short of demand. The Energy Ministry projected a water shortfall for 2006 of 53 million gallons. Energy Ministry officials called that Kuwait’s per capita water consumption is the highest in the world. It increased from an average of 45.3 gallons (206 litres) in 1979 to 111 gallons (504.6 litres) in 2003.
remembered a line for u water wasters out there “if it’s yellow let it mellow…if it’s brown then just flush it down” … paid commercial by the kuwaiti water reservation program:P!!
12773 comments April 20th, 2006
essay by chicagoist
i’ve just posted an essay written by my friend Chicagoist … any comments on the essay could be posted here..thank you
19855 comments April 19th, 2006
Farewell letter from Che to Fidel Castro
this just killed me…i found this on the internet and i thanked god that Che` isnt still alive to see fidel right now !!
i leave u with the letter:
Fidel:
At this moment I remember many things: when I met you in Maria Antonia’s house, when you proposed I come along, all the tensions involved in the preparations. One day they came by and asked who should be notified in case of death, and the real possibility of it struck us all. Later we knew it was true, that in a revolution one wins or dies (if it is a real one). Many comrades fell along the way to victory.
Today everything has a less dramatic tone, because we are more mature, but the event repeats itself. I feel that I have fulfilled the part of my duty that tied me to the Cuban revolution in its territory, and I say farewell to you, to the comrades, to your people, who now are mine.
I formally resign my positions in the leadership of the party, my post as minister, my rank of commander, and my Cuban citizenship. Nothing legal binds me to Cuba. The only ties are of another nature — those that cannot be broken as can appointments to posts.
Reviewing my past life, I believe I have worked with sufficient integrity and dedication to consolidate the revolutionary triumph. My only serious failing was not having had more confidence in you from the first moments in the Sierra Maestra, and not having understood quickly enough your qualities as a leader and a revolutionary.
I have lived magnificent days, and at your side I felt the pride of belonging to our people in the brilliant yet sad days of the Caribbean [Missile] crisis. Seldom has a statesman been more brilliant as you were in those days. I am also proud of having followed you without hesitation, of having identified with your way of thinking and of seeing and appraising dangers and principles.
Other nations of the world summon my modest efforts of assistance. I can do that which is denied you due to your responsibility as the head of Cuba, and the time has come for us to part.
You should know that I do so with a mixture of joy and sorrow. I leave here the purest of my hopes as a builder and the dearest of those I hold dear. And I leave a people who received me as a son. That wounds a part of my spirit. I carry to new battlefronts the faith that you taught me, the revolutionary spirit of my people, the feeling of fulfilling the most sacred of duties: to fight against imperialism wherever it may be. This is a source of strength, and more than heals the deepest of wounds.
I state once more that I free Cuba from all responsibility, except that which stems from its example. If my final hour finds me under other skies, my last thought will be of this people and especially of you. I am grateful for your teaching and your example, to which I shall try to be faithful up to the final consequences of my acts.
I have always been identified with the foreign policy of our revolution, and I continue to be. Wherever I am, I will feel the responsibility of being a Cuban revolutionary, and I shall behave as such. I am not sorry that I leave nothing material to my wife and children; I am happy it is that way. I ask nothing for them, as the state will provide them with enough to live on and receive an education.
I would have many things to say to you and to our people, but I feel they are unnecessary. Words cannot express what I would like them to, and there is no point in scribbling pages.
16414 comments April 19th, 2006
Remembering the legend!!
this is the legend…my range rover caught fire last summer and i had to post some pics from the aftermath…enjoy!!
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29683 comments March 30th, 2006
new banner’s up
the new banner is up..the site is still under construction sooooo if u have any ideas or comments just post them…thanks
6521 comments March 29th, 2006
Neo-Nazis are amazing!!!
i was just surfing around the internet when i stumbled on something that made my eyes pop out…im just going to paste it…tell me what u think!!
The World Cup in Germany is set to become a battleground between facists and Muslims, an Italian member of a new European neo-Nazi movement warned.
In a statement published by Italian daily Repubblica, the memeber of AS Roma’s notorious ultras hooligan group claims neo-Nazis across Europe met in Braunau in Austria to plan attacks against supporters from Islamic countries during the World Cup in Germany from June 9 to July 9.
“We are united. For the first time we are talking and planning together, with the English, the Germans, the Dutch, the Spanish, everyone with the same objective. At the World Cup there will be a massacre,” said the Italian ultra.
“We will all be in Germany and there will be Turks, Algerians and Tunisians. The Turks, we can’t stand them. In our country (Italy) there are not many, but in Germany, there are many of those guys there. They are Islamic terrorists.
“We will attack them. They are all enemies that need to be eliminated, just like the police. If we make the Roman greeting (the fascist salute) they put us in prison. We will be tens of thousands. Nothing but the English are feared.”
34950 comments March 21st, 2006
where the hell is the security!!
i stayed up on wednesday to watch what was happening to a jail in jerisho and this amazed me soo much…israeli troops were bombing the hell out of the place just to get some guys who were actually prisoners!!!..can u believe that!! why would they do that?? first, lets get the facts straight…
1.a guy called Ahmed Sa3adat was in jail and they want him badly
2.he was tried by a palestinian court and sentenced to jail
3.american/british troops were guarding Sa3adat’s jail
guess what, the american/british troops all of a sudden disapeared just before the israeli troops decided to go in..nice idea guys;)
what really pisses me off is the fact that israel motives are that there are fears that the palestinian authority would set Sa3adat free!!!!!
why would they let him go if they put him there in the first place?? and is that really the way to solve things?? just ask for the the guy and they’ll be happy to hand him !!
9267 comments March 17th, 2006