Posted on July 14, 2009 by jordanreformwatch
Remember this? Mohammad Al-saleh used his relationship to the king in the documents and in the case against Henry Sargeant III and Mustafa Abu-Naba’a. If I were the King I would really be pissed off- unless I had a stake in this.
Now leaving the ethical issues aside, what the fuck is this! I mean come on!
The [...]
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Posted on June 30, 2009 by jordanreformwatch
Ahhh..The swine-flu with all the accompanying conspiracy theories..A Jordanian “Scientist” specializing in diseases claims that Mecca And Medina are somehow isolated from disease, thus there is no need for the talk about the possible outbreaks that might result from the millions of pilgrims being in extreme proximity while performing Hajj..
Kill them Pigs..Go To hajj..You will be disease [...]
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Posted on April 26, 2009 by jordanreformwatch
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 [...]
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Posted on April 16, 2009 by jordanreformwatch
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 [...]
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Posted on April 15, 2009 by jordanreformwatch
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 [...]
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Posted on April 15, 2009 by jordanreformwatch
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 [...]
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Posted on April 13, 2009 by jordanreformwatch
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 [...]
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Posted on April 12, 2009 by jordanreformwatch
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.
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Posted on April 7, 2009 by jordanreformwatch
new Russian lets-get-the-fuck-outta-here helicopters.
Destination:Where else, Amman.
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Posted on March 31, 2009 by jordanreformwatch
we-shouldn’t-talk-about-how-Aids-can-be-transmitted because this might give the youth an idea on how to go ahead and have sex. It is the same logic behind the catholic church’s stand, where they say that you shouldn’t use condoms because you are not supposed to have sex in the first place. Thus if you were to go ahead and [...]
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