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Alwatan at it again

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Alwatan Daily as always , report things that are un-logical

Alwatan[Arabic]

تحصين الجداول الانتخابية، احكمت امره إدارة الانتخابات في وزارة الداخلية، ومن ضمن ذلك «اغلاق الباب امام مزدوجي الجنسية من التصويت في دائرتين مختلفتين، مثلما كان يحدث في الدوائر الـ 25 قبل الغزو، وبعده بسنوات قليلة».

واكد مسؤول طلب عدم نشر اسمه لـ «الوطن» ان «مزدوج الجنسية لن يستطيع الادلاء بصوته مرتين، حتى لو اختلف اسمه في الاثبات الكويتي عن هويته في الدولة الخليجية الاخرى، وهذا بفضل رصد الارقام الموحدة وارقام الجنسية والبطاقة المدنية، ووضع ذلك في برنامج خاص في اجهزة كمبيوتر سرية، اضافة الى كشوف محصنة يمنع التلاعب فيها».

The election department in the Ministry of Interior is done with securing the electorate list , among it closing the gate on people with dual nationality to vote in two separate districts as it happened before the Iraqi Invasion and couple of years after it

An unnamed Source assured Alwatan Daily that ” A dual Nationality would not be able to vote twice even if his name in the Kuwait ID does not match his Gulf ID and that is by tracking the National Number and Nationality identification and Civil ID and putting all that in secret computer programs and secure list that can’t be manipulated

Now you may be asking , that sound fine and dandy , whats my beef with them ?
I’ll tell you what

What use is it ?

WHY WOULD ANY NONE KUWAITI IDENTIFICATION BE ACCEPTED IN A KUWAITI ELECTION IN THE FIRST PLACE ??!??!??!!??

To vote you need to present your Kuwaiti Nationality paper , you Civil ID or Driving license is not accepted , HOW DO YOU USE YOUR GULF ID FOR IT ?!?!?

Oh and that news report is written by 11 people !! and contain at least 14 news item mashed in one news report …..

Election, Kuwait, Political, websites

Election and Blogs ( part one of many )

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So the Election is back upon us again ( in less than a year none the less )

And it seem there is more interest this year in blogs than the election before it
two example i saw recently which draw my attention

First off , we have a candidate from Jahra , who even featured the blog in his Ad in the newspaper
and unlike the second example , is very active , but he need to talk more about what he is going to do , connect with his potential voters , not an article dump

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The other example is Aseel AlAwadi , she had a blog but since the last election it was collecting dust and just posted a video saying she is going to go into this election also , waste of use of connecting to future and current supporters

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Blog links for who want to check it out

Funny, Kuwait, Political

Happy Independence day Kuwait!

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Happy national Independence Day and libration day Kuwait, at this day 18 years ago Kuwait was liberated from Iraq occupation forces

What you mean I’m late? I’m sorry to inform you but I’m not late in my celebration of Kuwait national day, actually I’m a day earlier than the ministry of defense

From Kuna [Link]

KUWAIT, March 10 (KUNA) — Traffic at Kuwait International Airport will stop from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Wednesday for the Defense Ministry’s military air show to be held in Sabhan area.
Director of Operations at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation Essam Al-Zamel told KUNA all airlines were informed of the closure to change the timings of their flights.

Oh yes the ministry of Defense is going to have a air show on the 11th of March in celebration of the Kuwait Independence day ( which is on the 25th of February )

I wonder, do the USA display 4th of July Fireworks on the 20th of July ?

Kuwait, Political, press

Blair to teach Kuwait how to Governt it self

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This Tidbit headup from AlQabas Daily , this is the link the actual posting in the daily telegraph

While AlQabas is reporting on a figure of more than a million Dollar , the clip at the source of the news clearly say its more

Tony Blair Associates, as the commercial partnership is called, has already signed up its first client, the government of Kuwait, which is understood to have agreed a seven-figure deal for continuing advice from the former Prime Minister.

Mr Blair is counselling the constitutional monarchy of the oil-rich state on “good governance”, according to his spokesman.

Seven figure = > 10,000,000 £ ( pound and not dollars )

clearly AlQabas while having a scope trying to downplay how much he got ( which result in failure , because we can cross check the news just as i did )

I hope we learn something usefull from Tony Blair

Oh yeah , Tony Blair handled Parliment grilling every week , Prime minister …. dealing with grilling … ( hint hint wink wink …)