Your Jordanian Conspiracy Dose(s)

An internal crisis is brewing and a huge backlash is beginning to take place on the Jordanian “political” platform. The root of this is the government’s move to remove its reservations with regards to the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). 
They basically opened Pandora’s box; the IAF (Islamic Action Front) says that [...]

Highlights of King Abdullah’s interview With David Gregory

On dealing with Bush:
“I think he was dedicated to moving the process forward.  I think I was getting frustrated with the team that didn’t have a sense of urgency. ”
On Agreeing with bush that in 2008 “Despite these frustrations and disappointments, the Middle East in 2008 is a freer, more hopeful and more promising place than [...]

King Abdullah on Torture

I don’t have the exact text yet, but basically his answer  should make us pause for some time and think about his policy in governing.
In response to a question about the HRW report on Jordan being a proxy interrogator, the king said that he asked “his people” if it was true, and they denied, but [...]

Today’s best person in Jordan.

Fahed ElKhietan.

A massive cover up?

A couple of days ago I linkedto a story published on ammannet with regards to some MPs warning  journalists not to report on some of the findings about food safety issues in the past 7 years.
Now here is the interesting part: More than a year ago a small restaurant in jerash was determined to be the cause of [...]

Corruption squared

Alarab Alyawm reports on the ministers council approving the duty free car policy which has now became a state policy for  paying off MPs and others. What is different about this is that the 16 MPs had already gotten their duty free pay-off since they are military retirees. The previous policy which was overridden by [...]

A new Sahel Majali Mega Project

I don’t know what one should do when he/she reads something like this.
OK, here are my issues:
1- Sahel El Majali is talking about it. It is a multi-billion project.
2- How they came up with the numbers is beyond my mental abilities.
3- Why link with authoritarian regimes that are much powerful than our authoritarian regime? This [...]

Like father, like son

The Majali Clan, or shall I call the majali royal family is at it again just like they have been at it forever.  Jameel El Nimri of Alghad reports on a case which stinks so bad that I can taste it in my mouth.
Long story short, The “Decent House for Decent Living royal initiative(surprise)” which was [...]

Your MPs want you to eat shit

without the need to know about it. So If you ate shit and you are still alive why do you care to know if something you ate was actually shit.
Rationale: Stability of food consumption norms, and to avoid “panic”.
Courtesy of your MPs.

Abbas to get two

new Russian lets-get-the-fuck-outta-here helicopters.
Destination:Where else, Amman.