Friday, February 27, 2009

Diigo with Firefox

تحديث : الزميل محمد الجوهري قام بترجمة التدوينة
للإطلاع اضغط هنا


You can Add Diigo tool in your Firefox through Tools > Add-ons

In Add-ons screen, search for "Diigo" and click "Add to Firefox"

After installing Diigo tool and restarting your firefox, Diigo toolbar will appear in Firefox

To bookmark with Diigo, highlight the text you wanna add and right-click on it then click "Bookmark thelink with Diigo"

"Add a bookmark to Diigo" screen will appear. Write the tags of the bookmarked link then click "Save"

There is an incredible tool in the bookmarking screen is that you can link your Diigo bookmarks with your Twitter account. You can check "Twitter This!" checkbox and Diigo will tweet your bookmark

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Discussion about the late wave of strikes نقاش حول موجة الإضرابات الأخيرة


The Centre of Socialist Studies is holding a discussion titled : Railway Workers, Pharmacists, Lawyers and Truck Drivers: How can we understand this recent wave of strikes?
Speaker would be Fatma Radwan ... Activist and a researcher in The Centre of Socialist Studies, Monday 2 March 2009. The centre is located in 7 Morad st., Giza.


يعقد مركز الدراسات الإشتراكية نقاشا بعنوان : عمال السكة الحديد , الصيادلة , المحامون , وسائقو النقل ... كيف نفهم موجة الإضرابات الأخيرة
المتحدث : أ/فاطمة رضوان ... الناشطة والباحثة بمركز الدراسات الإشتراكية يوم الإثنين 2 مارس
المركز : 7 شارع مراد ... الجيزة

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

US:Jailing Kids for Cash أمريكا:سجن الأطفال من أجل المال


As many as 5,000 children in Pennsylvania have been found guilty, and up to 2,000 of them jailed, by two corrupt judges who received kickbacks from the builders and owners of private prison facilities that benefited. The two judges pleaded guilty in a stunning case of greed and corruption that is still unfolding. Judges Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. and Michael T. Conahan received $2.6 million in kickbacks while imprisoning children who often had no access to a lawyer. The case offers an extraordinary glimpse into the shameful private prison industry that is flourishing in the United States.
Read the whole report here

سجن أكثر من 5000 طفل من أجل أن يحصل القضاة علي حوالي 2.5 مليون دولار من مقاولي بناء السجون
للمزيد من التفاصيل
هنا

Monday, February 23, 2009

Peasants jail threat الفلاحون مهددون بالسجن


About 130.000 peasants are threatened to go to jail because of the increasing debts, Al-Jazeera reports
قالت الجزيرة أن حوالي 130.000 فلاح مهددون بالدخول للسجن بسبب ديونهم المتصاعدة

Source المصدر



Hussein explosions and terrorism legislation تفجيرات الحسين وقانون الإرهاب


A huge explosion hit Al-Hussein yesterday. One french tourist killed and a lot injured.
Does the explosion have any relation to increasing popularity of Terrorism legislation? Just asking.

انفجار ضخم هز منطقة الحين بالأمس قتلت فيه سائحة فرنسية وأصيب آخرون كثر
هل للتفجير علاقة بزيادة شعبية قانون الإرهاب؟ مجرد سؤال

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Mou'taz Adel arrested القبض علي معتز عادل


Activist Mou'taz Adel has been arrested from the Uni gates after Hakky students day
القبض علي الناشط معتز عادل من أمام بوابة الجامعة بالمنصورة بعد معرض حقي

Students Day In Mansoura Uniٍ يوم الطالب بجامعة المنصورة

Click on the image to see the whole pics اضغط علي الصورة لرؤية كل الصور


A gallery, a lot of visitors, police harassing us, A more-than-200-signed petition

معرض والعديد من الزوار وتحرشات من قوات الأمن وحملة جمع توقيعات وقع عليها أكثر من
200 طالب




Update 4:30 pm : Mou'taz Adel "Protester" has been arrested from the Uni gates
تحديث الساعة الرابعة والنصف : القبض عل معتز عادل من علي بوابة الجامعة


Saturday, February 21, 2009

Cairo university protests احتجاج جامعة القاهرة

Click on the image to see all photos taken by Sarah Carr

اضغط علي الصورة لمشاهدة كل الصور الملتقطة بواسطة سارة كارر


For more details click here لمتابعة التفاصيل اضغط هنا

Proletariat بروليتاريا


Friday, February 20, 2009

Students day in Mansoura يوم الطالب في المنصورةً


An invitation to share My Rights students movement and 6 of April movement in our demands in Mansoura university
Sunday 22 Feb .. 11 am in front of Engineering faculty
دعوة لمشاركة طلاب حركة حقي وحركة 6 أبريل للعمل لمشاركتنا في مطالبنا في جامعة المنصورة
الأحد 22 فبراير .. الحادية عشر صباحا أمام كلية الهندسة

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Unconstitutional Universities Bylaw لائحة الجامعات غير دستورية

The Administrative Court says : The universities is unconstitutional and passes the case to the Supreme Constitutional Court
For Details

محكمة القضاء الإداري تقضي بعدم دستورية لائحة تنظيم الجامعات وتحيل القضية للمحكمة الدستورية العليا
للتفاصيل


Monday, February 16, 2009

Adds-board university الجامعة كلوحة إعلانات

This Add has been posted today in our college - under the permission of the college - in favor of Mina Pharmaceuticals company ... This is how college gets donations and this company advertising their products in our fuckin college carrying the name of our college. The capitalism didn't leave us even in our university...
الإعلان ده تم تعليقه في الكلية النهاردة - بموافقة إدارة الكلية - لصالح شركة مينا للأدوية ... بالطريقة ده الكلية بتجيب تبرعات ليها والشركة بتعلن عن منتجاتها عندنا بإعلان يحمل اسم الكلية ... الرأسمالية مش راضية تسيبنا في حالنا حتي في الجامعة

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Doctors Without Rights conference مؤتمر أطباء بلا حقوق


'Doctors Without Rights' movements is holding a conference at Doctors' Club in Mansoura discussing the latest developments in their struggle ... The conference would be on Monday 16/2 at 1 p.m.
تعقد حركة 'أطباء بلا حقوق' مؤتمرا بنادي الأطباء بالمنصورة لمناقشة آخر مستجدات نضالهم ... المؤتمر سوف يعقد غدا الإثنين 16/2 الساعة الواحدة ظهرا

Saturday, February 14, 2009

In the very beginning في البدء خالص


في البدء خالص كنا سردين
فـ البحور
لقيناها بايخة في حقنا
صرنا سحالي بجناحات زي الطيور
دايرين نلقط رزقنا
طحلب ودود
ودود وطحلب كل يوم في بقنا
شئ مش تمام
طب نبقي إيه؟ قال لك قرود
أصبحنا يا مبارك قرود
برضك زهقنا وقلنا لأ نبقي بشر
وبشر بقينا وإيه بأه
أهو ليل نهار غلب وشقا
أين المفر
أنا عندي حل معتبر
نبقي غجر

صلاح جاهين

Friday, February 13, 2009

Cairo conference coming month مؤتمر القاهرة الشهر القادم


Cairo Anti-War Conference would be from 26 to 29 March 2009

تحدد مؤتمر القاهرة لمناهضة الحرب من 26 إلي 29 مارس القادمين

Struggle arises النضال يتصاعد



The struggle arises! Pharmacists in an open strike and teachers establish their independent union
الإحتجاج يتصاعد! الصيادلة يبدأون اضرابا مفتوحا والمعلمون يؤسسون نقابتهم المستقلة

The Shock Doctrine

Magdy Hussein sentenced 2 years in jail الحكم علي مجدي حسين بالسجن لمدة عامين


The military court decided to sentence Magdy Hussein 2 years in jail accusing him with supporting Gaza
قررت المحكمة العسكرية الحكم علي مجدي حسين بالسجن لمدة عامين بتهمة دعم غزة

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Innocence .. برآءة



Halliburton's Army جيش هاليبرتون


Halliburton's Army
How A Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized The Way America Makes War

New book released


On September 10, 2001, precisely one day before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told senior staff that the Pentagon was wasting $3 billion a year by not outsourcing many non-combat duties to the private sector. “At bases around the world, why do we pick up our own garbage and mop our own floors?” he asked. Soon after, this fortuitously-timed shift in the way the military wages war would bring immense profits to Texas-based military contractor Halliburton, an oil industry service company whose former CEO was Vice President Dick Cheney. Armed with lucrative no-bid contracts, Halliburton/KBR, its affiliates, and sub-contractors would soon provide most of the infrastructure that supports the war in Iraq. Ultimately, the company would face allegations of corruption, negligence, fraud, and corporate crime.

In HALLIBURTON’S ARMY: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War (Nation Books; February 9, 2009; $26.95), muckraking journalist Pratap Chatterjee conducts a highly detailed investigation into Halliburton and its former subsidiary KBR’s activities in Kuwait and Iraq, uncovering much new information about its questionable practices and extraordinary profits. Becoming a Halliburton and a KBR shareholder in order to gain access to as much inside information as possible, Chatterjee also moved to Dubai, where the company recently relocated its headquarters. This Middle Eastern base also afforded him access to interviews with many Halliburton/KBR workers, subcontractors, suppliers, and military liaisons, including Texas engineers and Filipino day laborers, who each played a part in Halliburton’s enterprise.

“The rewards and punishments of Cheney and Rumsfeld’s revolution in military affairs have been profound,” Chatterjee writes, “not least for the soldiers who are now supplied with hot food and showers around the clock. For the Pentagon generals, it has meant that they can do far more with far fewer soldiers….Accompanying this new industry is the potential for bribery, corruption, and fraud. Dozens of Halliburton/KBR workers and their subcontractors have already been arrested and charged, and several are already serving jail terms for stealing millions of dollars….The bulk of workers, however, will not see anything close to that, as the pay for Asian workers probably averages $1000 a month…. These men and women make up Halliburton’s Army, which employs enough people to staff one hundred battalions, a total of more than fifty thousand personnel who work for KBR under a contract that is now projected to reach $150 billion. Together with the workers who are rebuilding Iraq’s infrastructure and the private security divisions of companies like Blackwater, Halliburton’s Army now outnumbers the uniformed soldiers on the ground in Iraq.”

Chatterjee traces the history of Halliburton’s government contracts to the mutually beneficial relationship of its subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) with Texan President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Brown & Root would become a major U.S. government contractor in Vietnam. Two decade later, when Dick Cheney became Halliburton CEO, despite no prior experience in the oil business, he used his Washington connections to orchestrate lucrative Halliburton

In HALLIBURTON’S ARMY, Chatterjee delves deeply into the controversies spawned by the company’s near-monopoly in providing the services that have made the war in Iraq possible, including: contracts in such trouble spots as Angola, Azerbaijan, Iran and Nigeria. But it was the birth of LOGCAP (the Logistics Civilian Augmentation Program) that would find Halliburton/KBR well-positioned to reap the rewards of the shift of services to the private sector. With the Bush Administration’s War on Terror, Halliburton/KBR easily landed highly profitable contracts without the need to bid, allegedly because of the urgency of the situation.


• The network of kickbacks, bribes and fraud involving employees and subcontractors of Halliburton/KBR in Kuwait and Iraq.
• The inordinate number of no-bid government contracts that Halliburton/KBR has secured.
• How Halliburton/KBR botched the repair of Iraq’s oil fields using Iraq’s own money.
• The role Halliburton/KBR’s negligence has played in the deaths of American civilians and foreign workers, and the company’s subsequent refusal to acknowledge responsibility.
• The “human trafficking” that Halliburton/KBR subcontractors use to lure foreign workers to Iraq with false promises.
• Labor exploitation and an unofficial “caste system” perpetrated by Halliburton/KBR and its subcontractors, with sliding pay scales based on workers’ nationalities.
• Free-flowing alcohol among high-level Halliburton/KBR executives in Muslim countries with strict legal prohibitions against these vices.
• How U.S. government employees and military personnel have been disgraced and demoted when daring to blow the whistle on Halliburton/KBR’s questionable practices and accounting.
• Halliburton/KBR’s dealings with corrupt subcontractors and others with questionable reputations.
• The squandering of U.S. taxpayers’ money through gross overcharges on the part of Halliburton/KBR and its subcontractors.

When Dick Cheney was inaugurated as Vice President of the United States in January 2001, the shares of his former employer were beginning a long slide from a healthy $40 per share to $10 a share a year later. By January 2006, thanks to the company’s profits from the “war on terror,” Halliburton’s stock had skyrocketed to a historic high of $80 per share. As Pratap Chatterjee demonstrates, the company’s fortunes are irrevocably linked to the war in Iraq. And even as it answers its critics and faces government audits, Halliburton/KBR continues to be the predominant U.S. government contractor in the Iraq.

HALLIBURTON’S ARMY is a long-overdue, meticulously researched exposé by one of the world’s leading experts on corporate malfeasance.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

UK : Contractors striking بريطانيا : المقاولون مضربون

CNN : UK Contractors continue striking
سي إن إن : المقاولون البريطانيون مستمرون في الإضراب

Sunday, February 1, 2009

US : Highest unemployment rate in 16 years أمريكا : معدل البطالة الأكبر منذ 16 عاما


Al-Jazeera said that the unemployment rate is the highest in 16 years because of the credit crisis
God damn this fucking capitalism
قالت الجزيرة أن معدل البطالة هو الأعلي في الولايات المتحدة منذ 16 عاما بسبب الأزمة المالية
الله يلعن الرأسمالية