Idiot drivers ram automatic bollards!
March 28, 2008
1 min 45 secs
People will try anything to get around systems put in place to stop them. The drivers above find out the hard way! 
Egyptian bloggers and activists fight oppressive regime
March 20, 2008
image: jailed Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer
Article: BBC, Crossing Continents
Crossing Continents travels to Egypt meeting remarkable women fighting for their rights in a male dominated society. Egyptian women are fighting against female circumcision, the suppression and imprisonment of internet bloggers, poor pay and for workers rights.
Dalia Ziada is a 26 year old activist and blogger who speaks out against the practice of female circumcision, having been circumcised herself. In Egypt it is estimated that over 90 % of the female population are circumcised. Dalia says the key to change is “to change the mentality of Arab women”.
But bloggers who question accepted religious practices are often threatened and Dalia has been accused of being a spy for the CIA. Dalia is also campaigning for the release of Ayman Noor and fellow blogger Kareem Amer sentenced to four years in jail – three years for insulting Islam and one for insulting the president.
The road to real democracy, Dalia believes, lies through women’s rights. “Validate women and you validate the whole society.”
That is brave talk in a country and a region where, as the 2005 UNDP Arab Human Development Report states “In all cases, real decisions in the Arab world are, at all levels, in the hands of men”.
Listen to their story here; BBC radio (one minute of news first, then listen to Crossing Continents).
Kareem Amer – jailed blogger
The case of Abdel Kareem Nabil Suleiman, or “Kareem Amer,” as he’s known in the blogosphere, has shed a spotlight on a growing community of bloggers in Egypt, and on the country’s laws concerning online speech.
To give you an idea of what he did to get arrested, here is a translation from his final blog post last October:
The mere existence of legal provisions that criminalize freedom of thought, and threaten with imprisonment anyone who criticizes religion in any way, is a grave defect in the law.
Two days after he posted those words, he was interrogated by Egyptian police. Eventually, he was convicted of violating the same legal provisions he criticized on his personal blog.
A court convicted him of contempt of religion, specifically Islam, and defaming President Mubarak. Though this is the first time a blogger in Egypt has been convicted by a court for blogging, Egyptian bloggers say free speech and political activists are often arrested and detained.
Snow superman – speed gliding 100mph!!
March 9, 2008
If you like extreme sports this is the pinnacle of them all. Enjoy.
