An Indian Village Head..

Chhavi Rajawat Mayor of Soda, India

Progress and developement are not only against the typical norms, but also by hard work, sincere effort and deep envisions of the community..!!

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30-year-old Rajawat, India's youngest and the only MBA to become a village head; the position mostly occupied by elders, quit her senior management position with Bharti-Tele Ventures of Airtel Group to serve her beloved villagers as sarpanch.

Rajawat participated in a panel discussion at the two-day meet at the UN on March 24 and 25 on how civil society can implement its actions and spoke on the role of civil society in fighting poverty and promoting development.

There was a sense of disbelief among ministers and ambassadors from diverse nations when the chairperson of the 11th Info-Poverty World Conference held at the United Nations introduced the jeans-clad Chhavi Rajawat as head of a village in India.

For, from a distance one could easily mistake Rajawat, an articulate, computer-savvy woman, for a frontline model or at least a Bollywood actress. But she is sarpanch of Soda village, 60 kilometres from Jaipur, in backward Rajasthan and the changing face of growing dynamic rural India.
by: Thakur Shiv Kumar Raghav
Thanks to Maliha Raza Khan

http://soda-india.in/
https://www.facebook.com/VillageSoda

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The Fourth Estate..

Kathleen Wells commented: "The media, which is suppose to be the 4th Estate, has done us all a disservice. Our media is negligent, reckless, because it isn't concerned with truth-telling, but rather, it's about nepotism and promoting friends and friends of friends. And it's not about exposing different points of views or diverse opinions."

I strongly believe that Media does not fit to be the 4th Estate; anymore.. Yes, it was a great vision to have a monitor representing the public and filling the gap between other Estates and true beneficiaries.. What had happened is totally different.. Media turned to be a venture business and an oppression tool.. Media Revenues are phenomenonal, while monopoly the people became a principle process..

Occupy The Media.. (Many Journalist don't know what this slogan means..!!)

The entire Arabic Spring is falling apart by inadequate enthusiastic media personnel, who had unnecessarily ignited the public, while were incapable to provide proper assessment or road maps for understanding.. Hidden operatives of the political regimes master the media, along with associated business lobbies and interest groups.. The people are easy prey for game changers and new players.. Always, the media institutions still standing, serving the holding masters.. Pity, how many of those "intellect-claimers" are part in the unmerciful mechanism of "Rule and Profit"..!!

Intellectual oppression is a crime against humanity , as it hinders all potentials and opportunities..

As per today’s rates; You may own a TV Channel for $100K, a Tabloid for $ 50K or a hit DVD for $20K..!!

In my Middle Eastern journey, I had came across many “Journalists”; whom mostly are not qualified for any intellectual performance.. They are in their positions; not by eligibility, but by complex circumstances.. They solely and uncontrollably master the ivory access to people’s minds.. There is no adequate Code of Conduction, nor a Regulatory to manage their performance..

I can comfortably tell that there are many deliberate plots to prevent any regulatory on the media operations..!!
Journalists enjoy the absolute, yet justified anarchy of the modern world..!!

Each of them sincerely believes how the title attests their skills, integrity and excellence in addressing any issue.. They create causes of their personal concern, prosecute by their short knowledge, and envision myths to infect the public.. Yes, among them many good ones, but the majority are not..!

 

أعتقد اعتقادا قويا أن وسائل الإعلام لا تصلح أن تكون الأساس المدني الرابع

نعم ، أنها رؤية عظيمة أن يوجد جهاز يمثل العامة ويردم الهوة بين الأسس المدنية الأخرى والمستفيدين الحقيقيين .. لكن ما حدث هو مختلف تماما .. حيث تحولت وسائل الإعلام إلى عمل تجاري وأداة للقمع .. ايرادات وسائل الاعلام صارت فلكية ، بينما احتكار عقول الناس أصبح المبدأ

احتلال وسائل الإعلام .. كثير من الصحفيين لا يعرفون ماذا يعني هذا الشعار

الربيع العربي يتهاوى بسبب عدم كفاية العاملين في وسائل الاعلام ، لقد أثاروا الجمهور بدون داعي ، في حين كانوا غير قادرين على توفير التقييم السليم أو خرائط لطريق التفاهم .. النشطاء الخفيين للأنظمة السياسية تسيدوا وسائل الإعلام ، إلى جانب جماعات المصالح التجارية والضغط المرتبطة بهم ، دائما الناس هم فريسة سهلة لقواعد اللعبة المتغيرة واللاعبين الجدد ، المؤسسات الإعلامية لا تزال قائمة ، وفي خدمة الأسياد الجدد ، كم من هؤلاء ممن يدعون الذكاء والفكر هم جزء من آلية عديمة الرحمة تسمى أحكم وأربح

القمع الفكري هي جريمة ضد الإنسانية ، كما أنه يعيق جميع الامكانيات والفرص المتاحة

وفقا لأسعار اليوم ، يمكن تملك قناة تلفزيونية بمائة ألف دولار ، أو صحيفة تابلويد بخمسون ألف دولار أو دي في دي بعشرون ألف دولار

في رحلتي في الشرق الأوسط ، قد جئت عبر كثير من الصحفيين ، معظمهم ليسوا مؤهلين لأي أداء فكري .. وهم في مواقعهم ، ليس من قبيل الاستحقاق ، ولكن بواسطة ظروف معقدة .. هم فقط وبدون حسيب ولا رقيب يمكنهم السيطرة والوصول إلى عقول الناس .. حيث لا يوجد قانون كافي لتنظيم وإدارة أدائهم

استطيع ان اقول بكل ثقة أن هناك العديد من المؤامرات المتعمدة لمنع أي عمليات تنظيمية لوسائل الإعلام

الصحفيين يتمتعون بالحرية المطلقة ، أنها حالة الفوضى الفريدة في العصر الحديث

كل واحد منهم يعتقد بصدق كيف أن لقب المهنة وحده يشهد على مهارته ونزاهته وتميزه في معالجة أي قضية .. أنهم يخلقون قضايا تقوم على أسبابهم الشخصية ، ويلاحقون الأخرين بدون معرفة حقيقية ، ويجسدوا الأساطير ليصيبوا بها الجمهور

نعم ، من بينهم كوادر جيدة كثيرة ، ولكن الغالبية ليست كذلك

Riverdance..

Riverdance Show in Radio City Hall in New York in 1996.

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all Irish People..!

Clooney & Sudan..

It is never fair to compare Clooney to our folks, or vs. versa.. He is secured relaxed (estimated $15 mln), seeking a legacy for his name, and has staff and fan to advise, support and protect.. Our folks are quite different.. Each is unsecured worried (GDP per Capita $2,220), seeking bread to provide and has no one to intelligently advise, support or protect..

Those who have the preparedness in Sudan; are either abroad, or living patriotic dreams on land.. Fewer are truly seized inside, bringing some life to repeated slogans and banners.. Yet, this is all could be.. Pity..!

I actually don't compare.. but highlighting the basis of typical political analysis.. Welfare Criteria, GDP Distribution and Culture Profile..

How fatal to only focus on our case; no need to discuss others, as each has its own geopolitical stand and breakdown.. I had questioned for the last 20 years; and still do; about who would list down (the Sudanese National Security Framework: SNSF).. Either we don’t know, or we can’t know..!!

Inevitably that each community has an elite; regardless what, how or where.. Your question is fair on their creditability..But they are, the same as Al-Inqaz; are our own domestic products.. They had not been imported, nor imposed (I disagree with the late AlTaib Saleh).. We need to be brave enough to question both integrity and essence of our sociopolitical culture..!!

We should be more mindful professional.. Stop consuming politics.. and Miss what possibly to be done; because of our destructive tendency for generalization, decomposition and complacence.. We should learn the lessons, to excel not to pass..!!

Arabic Photoshop

Not far from the previous photo of debate..

The original set did not include Israeli soldier or Palestinian women and girls..!!

The modern curse of Arabic Culture is named: Photoshop..

Skills to decieve; not to impress..

However, the theme is adequate to wherever atrocities occur..

Yet; let's include “integrity” in the modern Arabic vocabularies..!!

Underwater Prayers..

Underwater operations can’t last for 4-5 hours..

This is against biology and HSSE regulations..

Accordingly, prayers to be performed on land, on shore, with no need for such acrobatic themes or incredible actions..

It is another unnecessary propaganda; which adds no true value to believers or otherwise..

Pity; it only feeds the Muslim masses that are sharply turning from intelligent to miraculous beliefs.. From respectful mindfulness to hysterical hallucination..!!

Latest person had attempted for underwater show; of Cabinet Meeting; was Mohamed Nasheed; The President of Maldives, who lately was forced to resign as his false capacity to resolve the fatal problems of the tiny islands was proven idle..

khartoum is Flouting..

Picture of a house in omdorman collapsed well water cycle and caused the death of the husband and wife on the spot and this is cause to question how to dig this wells and to any depth up and how it commends and Trcef on this well its like bomb ticking which may collapse at any moment, causing another disaster and no doubt .. It will occur

Why not to happen..?
1989 a Jordanian researcher signaled how potable water (40% from wells) is polluted in Khartoum, by leakage from the excessive domestic sewage system.. The urban landscape had grown 300% since that time..

Engineering-wise.. Khartoum is flouting on sewer..!!

Regretfully, we were possessed with the historical civil service of Sudan.. Unfortunately, most politicians professionals and academics did not realize that those outdated operational models do not fit the modern civic management nor capable to regulate the livelihood of the citizens.. There is a need to admit the pitfall of the system, and professionally call for appropriate and adequate transition into modern applications of management and development.. Urban management is the sole proof of civilization; fits the UN definition that all more than 90% of Sudanese live in Slums..!!

Once they said that the pen is the mightiest weapon to use.. I’m not sure how it is in the cyber world; whereas only 1% has access to internet.. Expression is not valuable, if people can’t reach or interact..

This is why our “Sudanese” NGOs are short and defective.. Reliance on political change or activities is not the solution, but the peoples’ will to make difference regardless who seats in Peoples’ Palace..!!

Maybe I’m old to act, as my generation had already ruined the whole country..!! I hope the new generations are much focused than mine, and much determined than mine to “rebuild” and “reunite” Sudan..!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slum

Why Golda Meir was right..?

"The peace in the Middle East would only be possible when Arabs love their children more than they hate us”

Golda Meir, the fourth prime minister of Israel

Despite my disagreement on the theme; I need to appreciate the data on Muslim causalities during the last 60 years.. It is interesting and new approach to assess the creditability and integrity of political regimes in their countries..

Between a theory and its implementations; whereas measurements vary.. Within this context; Islam, Christianity and Judaism are theories, which so far were not philosophically denounced; yet, agreed how the implementers had deviated throughout history..

As politicians are addicted exercise the “lip-service”, religious fanatic do the same.. Their campaigns are practically political rather than spiritual.. Pan-Arab fights are severly bloody, with excissive elements of tribalism, hysteria and sentiments within..

Most of the rival Arabic politicians, individuals or groups, are alike the above “Sowrd Fighting Belly Dancers”.. They do not have any serious cause; yet, they use lethal tools.. The show is always exciting and exotic enough to attract audiences..!!
 

Why Golda Meir was right (II)
BURAK BEKDİL
burak.bekdil@hurriyet.com.tr
March/07/2012

In the half a year since I wrote “Why Golda Meir was right” (Hürriyet Daily News, Aug. 23, 2011) the Syrian death toll has moved from 2,000 to over 7,000 - about five times more than the Palestinian casualties during Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in late 2008 and early 2009.

These distressing figures forcefully remind us of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s famous dictums: 1. Muslims don’t kill, and 2. (Jews) know well how to kill.

“Why Golda Meir was right” aimed to illustrate unpleasant death statistics in a way Islamist ears refuse to hear:

“Sudan is not in the conventional Middle East, so let’s ignore the genocide there. Let’s ignore, also, the West Pakistani massacres in East Pakistan (Bangladesh) totaling 1.25 million in 1971. Or the 200,000 deaths in Algeria in the war between Islamists and the government from 1991 to 2006.

“But simple, strictly Middle East research will give you 1 million deaths in the all-Muslim Iran-Iraq war; 300,000 Muslim minorities killed by Saddam Hussein; 80,000 Iranians killed during the Islamic revolution; 25,000 deaths from 1970 to 1971, the days of Black September, by the Jordanian government in its fight against the Palestinians; and 20,000 Islamists killed in 1982 by the elder al-Assad in Hama. The World Health Organization’s estimate of Osama bin Laden’s carnage in Iraq was already 150,000 a few years earlier.

“In a 2007 study, Gunnar Heinsohn from the University of Bremen and Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum, found that some 11 million Muslims have been violently killed since 1948, of which 35,000, (0.3 percent) died during the six years of Arab war against Israel, or one out of every 315 fatalities. In contrast, over 90 percent who perished were killed by fellow Muslims.”

More recently, in a blistering critique of Iran’s sectarian support for the Syrian regime, Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç said on Feb. 5: “I am addressing the Islamic Republic of Iran: I do not know if you are worthy of being called Islamic. Have you said a single thing about what is happening in Syria?”

Mr. Arınç was right. All the same, someone else could have simply asked: “I am addressing Turkey’s good Muslim rulers: I do not know if you are worthy of being called good Muslims. Have you said a single thing about what happened in Sudan? About what is happening in Bahrain? Which religion is the perpetrator of never-ending murders in the Middle East and North Africa (including Syria)? Why do Muslims kill other Muslims en masse, then turn around and tell the entire world that ‘Muslims don’t kill?’ What is the world’s real Muslim population if all of these killings have been perpetrated by non-Muslims?”

Why did thousands of Turks who gathered in a demonstration to protest the Khojaly massacre of 1992 praise and semantically impersonate Ogün Samast, the killer of Turkish journalist of Armenian origin Hrant Dink? Why did they shout “You are all Armenians, you are all bastards?” Were those Turks, who were ready to butcher any Armenian in sight, Buddhists?

But according to Mr. Erdoğan, the too-visible hate-speech at that demonstration merely constituted an “isolated/individual incident.” In other words, none of the hate slogans, chants and placards at the gathering are worth investigating legally. Would Mr. Erdogan think the same if the same hate speech had been directed at Muslims or Turks? Are we not all equal before the law?

Mr. Erdogan is siding with the Syrians oppressed by the al-Assad regime. Perhaps he should lend an ear to one of the victims, a one-legged revolutionary singer undergoing medical treatment in safe Turkish territory. Time magazine quotes the man, one of the 300 who have fled to Turkey in the most recent wave of refugees, as saying: “We’d rather accept Israel than Bashar […] The Israelis didn’t do to the Palestinians what Bashar has done to Syria.”

Who, really, knows better how to kill?
This article: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/Default.aspx?pageID=449&nID=15397&NewsCatID=398
Previous Article: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/default.aspx?pageid=438&n=why-golda-meir-was-right-2011-08-23

Ethiopian Domestic Workers in Lebanon..

Abusing the domestic workers became a trend from Morocco to Indonesia..
I can't understand why..??
However; I can confirm our prehistoric hunting genes and modern psycho perpetration..!!!

I may salute Philippines and Indonesia for the strong stand to defend their citizens..
Yet ILO is playing (or maybe they truly are) dumb..!!

"The scenes of the Ethiopian domestic worker being beaten outside the Ethiopian consulate were considered as a crime by all those who saw them. The Lebanese state mobilized... its efforts, especially the cabinet and the Lebanese public opinion that strongly denounced what happened, calling for harsh sanctions against the perpetrator of such acts in the future.
Ali Mahfouz is the man seen in the video footage, abusing the Ethiopian worker; LBCI identified him through his plate number. Ali tried to justify his act by denying that he beat her; he stressed that the worker tried to commit suicide more than once and that he tried dealing with her humanely, but she refused to go to the airport for deportation.
Labor Minister Salim Jreissati told LBCI that the Ministry of Labor decided to take the necessary measures to punish the perpetrator who turned out to be an employee in the domestic workers’ office. Jreissati said that the ministry summoned the domestic workers’ office for an urgent meeting on Monday, adding that a formal complaint will be registered.
As for Chakib Kortbawi, he told LBCI that this act cannot be justified, adding that justice will be served and that the public prosecution launched an investigation in this case.
The Ethiopian Consulate’s employees told LBCI that they remember the incident, adding that it is not one of its kind. They called on the Lebanese authorities to interfere and protect Ethiopian nationals.
Caritas identified the Ethiopian worker, stressing that they were following up on her case since she was admitted in Deir el-Salib hospital two weeks ago.
This Ethiopian girl may be lucky that pictures of her were taken while being abused, but many other domestic workers are being beaten and abused behind closed doors.

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An Ethiopian girl Kidnapped and Dragged into a car brutaly by a group of coward Lebanese men in in broad Daylight in the middle of the city and no one coming for help! This incident must have happened this month, in the first weeks of March 2012 in Lebanon! Please try identify the the young woman inorder to inform her family and relatives back home and try also to identify the group of men to bring them to justice!!!!"

Are there true "MEN" alive..?

As copied from the Facebook page of صحي الرجال ماتو في كرري or True; Men had died in Kerreri

Interesting Thread...

Jehad Makhoul: يللي مطالب بالمساواة فليتحمل وزرها !!

Adil Abdalla: Kerreri was the place for the battle of Omdurman 1898; which had ended with EgyptoBritish rule of Sudan. Sir Herbert Kitchener commanded a force of 8,000 British regulars and a mixed force of 17,000 Sudanese and Egyptian troops.They managed to defeat troops of Sudanese Ansar or Dervishes, numbered around 50,000.
Local floklore marked it as the End of Sudanese Manhood..!!

Adil Abdalla: Agree, but "Men" are inevitably expected to be Cavilers..!

Moonfleet Eldai: بنات مهيرة زاتن ماتو !!!

Omar Thiab: هذه ليست مساواه... هذه قلة نخوه ورجوله وشهامه...

Sameh Abosaif: أنا عايز اعرف الرجاله عند التوتوك بيشجعوا ولا إيه

Jehad Makhoul: it seems Arab culture still not ready to accept women equality ...in the West a woman could grill a man if he stands to give her his seat in a public transport ! Women are imposing it themselves trying to prove that they do not a man's hand and they can just do ot themselves !! I still consider that a woman is the weaker partner, but I guess it is due to cultural raising ! In the US, Canada, Europe many women start a family at the sperm bank as single parent depending on their own work and building careers and, they do not even have domestic helpers !

Moonfleet Eldai: يا جماعة يمكن الباص سايقاهو مرة و معاها صحباتها ومافي حاجة ماتخليهم يجربوا يدفروا عربية ! المسألة مانخوة بس المسألة فيها أنوثة تم التخلي عنها

Adil Abdalla: So far, I accept what Omar had said.. Global culture is not necessarily fair; much of it is dirven by lobbiests and people of particular concerns; which is well known.. If equality is such acceptable logic, why men are not bosed in "Bikinis".. PR industry is $100 billion business..!!
Then, all cultures, Philosiphies and Faiths had drawn gender profiles, which we unsuccessfully try to replace for the last century.. Still evey female awaits a male to propose, regardless how pro-fiminization she is.. These facts should not be ignored..!!
Last; we can not change our culture in few years to accept models that had been in the western lab for since WWII.. Our rates of HDI are so low that 70% of our people will not understand such phrases, 24.9% will pretend to accept, and only 0.1% will consciously reject..

Adil Abdalla: ‎@ Sameh, they are cheer-men, only they need short skirts and some sexy acrobatic moves..!!

Adil Abdalla: ‎@ Hesham.. Our factually men are declining.. They had sold the country, and their own pride.. so they have to play dumb..!!