Category Archives: Kuwait

kuwait , my great country ( at least in my eye ) it has its up and downs , but its still my country

Its Small , but it hurt …

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.

Losing Faith in Newspaper reporting

It may sound as a small thing but if newspaper can’t fact check their reporting who will ?

today i was reading AlQabas newspaper and read a report about Freedom in Bahrain , today part was about internet freedom and i read this

مدونات المجهولين
الضغط الذي يتعرض له المدونون في البحرين وخشيتهم من المساءلة والاعتقال جعلهم يكتفون باطلاق مدوناتهم بوحي مستعار نقتص من مدونة الزميلة باسمة القصاب بعضا من هذه الاسماء الاثيرية التي لا تعني لاحد من هواة التقارير شيئا : المسكوت عنه، صوت المواطن، مدخنة الرياش، حشد بلا وجه، مداس آية الله، سراديب الصمت، مارون الراس، درب الفراشات، صندقة الملا، طاحونة الادرج، بحرين فوكس، فوبيا، عرين محمود، زرنوق بحراني، جدل، شقيقي 72، ان كنت ذا راي، بحرانية، فوضى، السواد الاعظم، ازاميل، تأملات، تراتيل الانتظار، ارض دلمون او ما تبقى من اوال، اللامنتمي، جدار مخطط، مزاجية، الاميرة، قصر الامبراطور، هذيان، هوامل، اثر الفراشة،، واكثر من هذا العدد لا نعرفه.
هذه الاسماء اختفت لانها غير محمية ولانه لا يوجد قانون يؤمنها، وحتى قانون الصحافة لا يتدخل في شؤون المدونين

Translation

unknown Bloggers
The pressure that blogger in bahrain face and they fear that they will questioned and arrested made them start their blogs
with nicknames and from the blog of basma al qasab we pick up some of these names : ……… ( bunch of names )
Mahmood Den
and more of these who we don’t know
these names have disappeared because they are not protected and there is no law to save it , even the press law does’nt interfere with them

So the guy couldn’t fact check anything ? just list few blogs and thats it ?
without even checking the rest of the names i know Mahmood’s Den , its the oldest Bahrani Blog and most famous , he was just arrested in bahrain ( so much for not interfering )

Now it maybe a Small Fact , but when the reporter can’t even Fact check a small thing like that ( which would take him what ? 10-20 minute , as he listed them off a blog already so he has the links ) and whats with disappeared ? i’m sure if i check the list i would find most of them still online and posting , or he just add stuff for dramatic effect ? how can i belive anything that reporter or Alqabas post now that a small thing and they can’t get right ?

More examples
Late news
Bad reporting ?
Stealing Pictures ?

Oh and one great line from the article ( show you how much he knows of internet )

وحتى الانترنت بالغ السرعة فلا يناهز 15 غيغا
وهذا مؤشر على ان ثمة تعمدا في حصر مجال الانترنت على الغالبية العظم
Even high speed internet does not go over 15 Gb which is an indicator that they want to limit the internet for all

OH MY GOD , 15 Gb is limiting !! i want to know what the hell was he smoking !

Kuwaiti Blogger Conspiracy …

Alwatan Newspaper discovered a kuwaiti blogger conspiracy
according to their news post

تشير هذه الشخصية البرلمانية الى ان «التجربة اثبتت ان المدونات الالكترونية نوعان، احدهما مؤقت أو غير متواصل يظهر ويغيب أو ربما يظل فترة بسيطة فلا يعود بعدها، وهذا وراءه نصف هواة أو مبتدئون أو نزوة فرّغت شحنة نفسية وانتهت.. اما الثاني فهم اصحاب اجندة عمل واهداف مرسومة ويتبعون تنظيما أيا كان حجمه.. فعملهم ليس صدفة أو نزوة، وفي النوعين تتوافر السرية.. الاول ضاعت حقيقته باستبعاد صاحبه عما اقدم عليه.. والثاني يظل يتداول فعله مع محيط عمله وفق آلية لها حدود العلن وآفاق الكتمان».

The Parliament member says that the ” experience prove that blogs are two kinds , one is a temporary and not continued appear and disappear and maybe stay for a short while but never return and this is from half amateurs
the second kind are people with agenda and planed targets and follow what ever its size , their work is not Coincidence and in the two kind there is secrecy , the first the Truth is lost about why he did it and the second still commenting his crime

This is going to be the first part of my expose on Kuwaiti bloggers

Our first is nibaq with his blog Savior Machine
some of you know nibaq as the guy who is running KuwaitBlogs site
on his blog about page he claim

I work in the import/export business. We import um stuff, and export…nothing.

Is that the truth ? check this and think

On his blog Wednesday April 4, 2007 , he posted that he is in Turkey

I am 80km from Istanbul in a small hotel needing a ferry ride and a two hour drive

Kuwaitis in Turkey thats normal right ? well no , its not the traveling season yet , because most schools / Universities aren’t on vacation yet , yet nibaq went to Turkey

And Check who else is in Turkey now

KUWAIT: The tour of His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser AlـMohammed AlـSabah to Turkey

Coincidence ? i think not

more to come ….

Searching for News about new government in kuwait ? , kuna is not where to get it

its kinda sad that i wanted to read offical news about the new government and i check Kuna site
Kuna is Kuwait News Agency and is the offical one

I have been trying to check the online site for 30 minutes now its been giving me errors
imeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool. This may have occurred because all pooled connections were in use and max pool size was reached.

why should i check newspaper sites ( alwatan is the only one updating online it seem )

My advice to Kuna ? Pay for a better Host