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Kuwait, Political, press, Rants

lossing faith in newspapers in kuwait ..

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this isn’t my first time writing about newspapers in Kuwait , i believe them all to be bad

saddly everyday i see more proof of that

So now one of the local communication companies Wataniya ( that was bought by QTell a Qatari company ) cut all ad deals with one of the local newspapers ( Alwatan ) now alwatan are angry ( its after all ads lost ) they write a big headline demanding the government to intervene to strong arm the Qatari owners , not only that but they ran online polls and some of its writiers started asking people to drop Wataniya lines in favor of the other company ( MTC ) so the Kuwaiti pride can be restored .

Okay wait a second ! , Kuwait pride ? how is our pride hurt from one company not running ads on one newspaper ? we have over 6 now , so if AT&T didn’t run an ad on Washington post American pride is hurt ?

Not only that , but they forgot to mention one thing , Alwatan owner is also PART OWNER IN MTC !! and he doesn’t state that on the the article they wrote .

the
Editor in Chief is a member of the board in MTC

Kuwait stock exchange information on MTC [English][Arabic]

Kuwait, Rants

2/8 I will not forget ..

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Whatever my government try to do
Whatever the failures at the invasion try to do
I will not forget

Now its been 17 years since the invasion , funny how all the monuments have been removed ( the tank at Sheraton roundabout , the bullet at UN roundabout …etc ) and no mention of the invasion at all on the TV .

Do they think that we will forget ? yes they do , and they are going remarkable success in it , who would have thought that after 17 years of a country invading another you find people marching for the invader soccer win in the invaded country ?
yeah Iraqi marching because they won the Asian cup , excuse me ? its not even 20 years , thousands were killed and we let them march ? the police doesn’t let Kuwaiti march if the national soccer team win and they let Iraqi’s ?

General, Kuwait, Rants, websites

Get my name right !

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So i was checking around blogs as i always do , and saw that Fonzy over at Fonzation posted that he wrote an article for a coffee table magazine called student talk , i didn’t read the article so didn’t want to comment on it , but last week i was at Dunken Donuts salmiya and saw they had couples so i picked up one , after flipping pages after pages of adds with too much colors i found the article , i read it up , nice article but i found this

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Who the hell is Forza , i assume he mean my site , well the site name is Forzaq8 , notice the Q8 at the end ? its what make the nickname unique .

Forza has no meaning when writen alone , the combination of the two worlds ( FORZA + Q8 ) is my nickname and name of this blog.

Its FORZAQ8.NET , the name of the blog is Forza Kuwait , do not short it , do you call lebanon leb ? do you call kuwait ku ? ” o h yeah i had a flight from leb to ku ” has no meaning , same thing when saying forza blog .

Until i get Justice i’ll do serveral things;
first i changed fonzation link in my blogroll into FO , because he enjoy shorting up people nicknames it seem .

other meassures to follow later.

Funny, Kuwait, press, Rants, websites

AlQabas Again

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Another Proof that newspapers in kuwait are becoming wrose every day , i just hope the new newspaper inspire them
to imporve , but i feel it wouldn’t

Now reading today newspapers , i found this on alqabas newspaper

أجريت مسابقة لأفضل زي من مسرحية أو فيلم سينمائي أو عمل تلفزيوني، في مدينة سيئول بكوريا الجنوبية يوم أمس، بمشاركة متسابقين وازياء من مختلف أنحاء العالم. (الصورة: متسابقتان تعرضان ازياء فنية)

Yesterday there was a contest for the best costume from a play or a cinematic movie or a TV series in Seoul in south Korea
with contestant and customes from around the world ( picture : 2 contestant showing their costume )

Link to the article in the newspaper online site

And i was like . Wait a minute , what kind of discription is that ? those customes are for play or TV series , they are for a Game ,
and since i was playing that Game ( World of Warcraft ) i know what they were wearing and what it mean
the company had an event in South Korea at that time also !

from the press relase from blizzard site

SEOUL, South Korea – May 19, 2007 – Blizzard Entertainment® today unveiled StarCraft® II, the sequel to its award-winning real-time strategy game StarCraft, at the 2007 Blizzard Worldwide Invitational event in Seoul, South Korea. The announcement took place inside the Olympic Gymnastics Arena

And it has no relation what so ever to the description they wrote ! , movies ? TV series ? what gives ?

But you may say ” what if they were talking about another event ”

Well the picture they provided in the article clearly show where it was taken ( which by the way they didn’t credit to no one , typical Alqabas fashion )

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See the picture they have , check the upper part

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Now check the Olympic Gymnastics Arena picture
( taken by Yoshito Isono link )

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Here is a bigger Picture of the stadium

My point ? The newspaper had a picture , didn’t know what was happening , someone wrote some random stuff
that may be fine for a student newspaper but i expected better from a respected newspaper .

If you want to check the article in PDF [newspaper site ]

For more about bad perfomance of kuwaiti newspaper you can check my older posts here and here not to forget this

Kuwait, Rants

Its Small , but it hurt …

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Some people think that when you bundle facts and fiction it would pass , as in saying some truth then inserting a lie or fiction

But they don’t know that there are a lot of people when they see a small lie they lose faith , they stop beliving you , and even suspect of what you claim is fact and truth ( even if it is )

There are Many example but this week i saw one , i read a blog with a nice post , he presented some nice facts and i thought it was a good post and i even wanted to translate it to english so the idea might travel and reach bigger crowd ( what most would call the chicken nugget generation ) but then he had to throw something that was out of left field as they say , something unlreated , something preposterous .

In the end i ceased the work i had done , and throw it all away.