U.S. removes Internet sanctions against Iran, Cuba and Sudan

“The change in policy removes restrictions from companies like Facebook, Twitter and others to offer services in those regions. In a Senate hearing last week on Human Rights and the Law, a key issue discussed was the lack of access to U.S. Internet based applications.”
Well, again it seems they know nothing about what really happened and they do it for the sake of companies’ profits; the mentioned service are already work in Sudan -I will talk about my country- with all features including the confirmation of the identity using local mobile phone number through SMS -which is a service that they have to pay for the Sudanese mobile companies for!!!
Service that do not work including sites registration, hosting, trade directories -like LinkedIn, the earthhour.org web site!!!! -which I mentioned in an earlier post, downloading of Flash player, Chrome browser, Java, login to support in Cisco and Sun, and so on.
Now the question time: why now? search for the beneficiaries and you will sure get the answer….

For all I know the three countries does not change their policy in any way in the past few years in any form, and if they want to convince us that they want people to communicate with civil rights organizations, let us do not forget that those governments have proxies to shut down any thing they want the time they want and people who can jump over those proxies are a few….

http://government.zdnet.com/?p=7515

A year of Obama

the last address to the “Iranian people” is remind me of the song by Sheree “Ronnie talk to Russia” back in the 80s; the message “please help us good Iranian people because our policy to get your government and president down sucks”!!!!
As I predict since his wining of the elections, Obama is going to be an other sad Gorbachev with four years in “power” and a lecturer for the rest of his life sucking the bitter moments of his time in the office. All his fans are sick now because for a year he just thrown to a wheel of meetings and a failure after another.

Food Inc.

A must see documentary, and do not think it is for people who lives in the first world only cause this “new food technology” is headed its way to the third world as well specially the developed world; now all these is there in the gulf, Egypt, Sudan, North Africa and every where. While our meat industry is still safe some how, poultry, dairy and vegetables productions are there already!! 13,000 milk cows will enter Sudan in the next two years from Australia and Netherlands for just two large companies as well as the dry milk ingredients we already have in yogurt and milk which are imported in whole -the powdered milk- and it became a part of our meals already.

War on Terror

A Muslim who lives in Yemen for months, his father reported to the US embassy that his son became strange and he may linked with “terror groups”, fly from Europe with all the security checks in the airports after 9/11 and yet managed to get his “fireworks” to an American plane!!!!

You have to blame your intelligence agencies Mr. Obama not so called “Alqaeda” and ask them do all the measures, regulations and rules in airports worth it? do all the checks and delays that people suffer from works? oh, I remember: Taliban has just bomb a CIA camp; so do not ask them at all.

The amazing thing is that it seems the same Bush’s speech about “War on Terror” is on again, the same words and reasons one more time; Now who do you want to bomb? Yemen and Nigeria are the wrong answers because the are not among the “Axis of evil“, right?

Karzai is back!!!!

“Western governments have suddenly transformed Afghan President Hamid Karzai from tainted candidate into legitimate victor. A key factor was the decision by his main opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, to withdraw from the second round of voting and not to boycott it.”

The third lesson in democracy by our western teachers: if you can not win by election, work around & threating will help you as long as you are our pet….
the first lesson was: election is not the choice of people as we learned in Algeria & Palestine; the second lesson was kill and displace as many people as you want since we ordered you as in Pakistan & Central Africa….

Nobel prize

I do think that the Nobel Committee means may be the winner for the next year!!! how can Obama just wins with all that continue in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the most important the operations in Pakistan with millions displaced and thousands killed -according to the official number which is always less than the truth- with the support of the US directly and in some cases with their own forces. I think we moved from double standards to multi-standards where the louder voice is making the news!!!!!!
After all it is the prize that made by the guy who invented dynamate….

Swine Flu

If the health officials continue to check the passengers for swine flu after the journey, the number will sure reach the 1 billion that the WHO said about it. Why the check do not take place before departure? if a passenger found positive, do they take all the other plane passengers to quarantine? or do they have any treatment? the guy was with them during the whole journey!!!

Unless they think he just got infected in the tunnel or the stairs!!!
Every day passed, my doubts about this “Swine flu” issue rise more and more…

So who will benefit the most? the pharmaceutical giants of course; and you can be sure of this since the flu season is on the way plus the Haj -the Saudi officials will try their best to work hard and avoid any infections during the Haj days with three millions plus of pilgrims in a small place.

So it is not the matter of how fast this flu spreads, it is about how officials put strategies and plans to reduce the number of infections to the minimum.

Google Chrome

Since its launch, google chrome is forbidden to be used in Sudan! you can not even download it or install it!!! a month ago, it is available to all Sudanese users. Do not think they change their mind, cause other services are still locked; but mostly they add tracing software to it; so if you have a good firewall and can manage your connections and IP well, go for it; otherwise keep away.
For me, it is not a good browser for me since it relay allot on caching; firefox is my solution so far.

Cummonest America

General Motors Corp filed for bankruptcy protection in New York on Monday in the third-largest Chapter 11 case in U.S. history.

GM said in a submission with its bankruptcy filing that its board of directors had voted on Sunday to approve the move to seek court protection in a reorganization that will be funded by an additional $30 billion from the U.S. government.

The U.S. Treasury plans to provide $50 billion in financing to GM and take a 60 percent stake in a reorganized company.

After this the company will be owend in 72.5%  by the US Government, 10% or more by the United Auto Workers and other small stacked holders!!!!

In Europe; Opel, SAAB, and Vauxhall is under way to the same road of their owner GM.

Also, President Barack Obama said on Monday that a court’s approval of the sale of Chrysler’s assets to a group led by Italy’s Fiat SpA will allow the automaker to emerge stronger from bankruptcy.

As Chrysler web site announced: “When the transaction is completed, the Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) will own 55 percent of the new company and the U.S. and Canadian governments will own proportionate shares of a 10 percent stake. Fiat will initially hold a 20 percent ownership stake in Chrysler.  Fiat will have the right to increase its ownership stake an additional 15 percent in three increments as it meets the following criteria: 5 percent for bringing a 40 mpg vehicle platform to Chrysler to be produced in the U.S.; 5 percent for providing a fuel-efficient engine family to be produced in the U.S. for use in Chrysler vehicles; and 5 percent for providing Chrysler access to its vast global distribution network to facilitate the export of Chrysler vehicles. Fiat cannot become a majority owner until after all U.S. government loans have been completely repaid.“

A whole study & researches about the Capitalism & the power of  workers’ Unions must be started immediately; this is not a joke put a serious business which will affect 60% or more of the working power around the world -consider dealers and repair work shops around the world among other businesses like advertising and so.

I think after this, it is time to thank Cuba and stop referring  to FIAT as “fix it again tomorrow”.

United Auto Workers

Former South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun commits suicide

Former South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun commits suicide Saturday morning; after he served from 2003 to 2008 and earlier this month, he was questioned about allegations that he took more than $6 million in bribes from a businessman while in office. He admitted that his wife took the money as a loan to pay off debts, but denied that he was aware of it in advance!

How many official have to jump off their windows in Sudan? and I do not mean only in the last 20 year of “Ingaz” period -although it is the worst among all time, but also since the independence.

We now reach a point in which officials refuses to be questioned!!! and If they questioned and found guilty; this mean they will have a promotion and just moved to another position where they can start over and over!!!

Allah will not change what happened to people untill they change themselves.