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Why do Arabs buy weapons instead of bread?
The Arab world is heading towards more poverty, hunger and unemployment, even though it sleeps on a lake of various natural resources, and the real reason behind this is mismanagement and political corruption, and the lack of logic among those who run our Arab countries, as many Arab countries still buy weapons and ammunition With billions of dollars, instead of buying bread and food with this money, and instead of investing it in development and development projects.
By Zernouh.abdo4 years ago in The Swamp
Legislative corruption
“Corruption in Iraq is with intent not to show.” This phrase I have been repeating frequently in my writings since 2006. I have also talked a lot about what I call “legislative corruption”; It is the corruption that occurs within the framework of the law that the corrupt themselves legislate in order to establish the clientelist structure that governs the state, or in order to cover up their corruption, or at the very least, in order to provide an opportunity for this corruption! After the adoption of the 2005 constitution, the legislative and executive institutions colluded in passing laws that legitimize corruption through their authority, and perhaps the most prominent example of this is the so-called social benefits! The federal budget laws allowed to grant members of the Presidency Council/President of the Republic and his two deputies, the Prime Minister and his deputies, the Speaker and his deputies, the right to improvise an amount of one million dollars per month, without any controls or subjection to real oversight or scrutiny! And these “social benefits” were not canceled until 2012! The legislative and executive authorities continued to frame corruption legally, by “designing” the federal budget laws so that every article and paragraph in it would serve the political forces/parties that transformed state institutions into mere fiefdoms for the leaders of those forces and parties; By subjecting the budget of ministries, agencies, or entities not linked to a ministry or governorate, to bargaining, deals and extortion; From the parliamentary committees concerned with the budget, to the moment of approving this budget! The funny thing here is that the follower of the approval of the legal articles, can easily know the entity or the investor who is behind this article, or that paragraph, by analyzing the articles of the budget law! For example, a “person” put a paragraph of his own personally in the budget law for the year 2021, which is an article that provides a solution to a nation that one of his companies is going through, and it is certain that he could not have passed that article without agreement with the Legal Committee, and the Finance Committee (and he was its vice-chairman ), and an agreement with the Presidency of the House of Representatives, and finally with the deputies themselves who voted on that paragraph, complicity or ignorance! Another attempt is recently being made to pass the point of major corruption, through a law currently being discussed in the Iraqi parliament, which has been called the “Emergency Support for Food Security and Development” law, with allocations of more than $24.1 billion! In order to pass it, the atmosphere was prepared by electing a special temporary financial committee to pass this law, and the majority of the members of this committee have nothing to do with a specialty called economics or finance! is supposed to legislate laws, no one noticed that this law violates the internal system of the Council of Ministers No. 2 of 2019, which is determined in Article 42 / second, which stipulates that it is not within the authority of the government to manage daily affairs / Conducting business “proposing bills or contracting loans”!The Federal Financial Management Law No. 6 of 2019 stipulated in Article 13 that in the event of delay in approving the Federal Budget Law, the disbursement will be made at a rate of 1 to 12 or less of the total actual expenditures for the current expenditures of the previous fiscal year on a monthly basis, until the approval of the federal general budget , as well as the disbursement of the total annual allocations for the ongoing investment projects whose allocations are included during the previous and subsequent year according to the preparation and implementation accounts, which allows the government to conduct daily affairs to carry out its duties without any problem, and the evidence is that three months have passed without a federal budget for 2022 and there was no confusion! The argument that the law “made up” and promoted by its main investors, is that this law is necessary for food security, development and poverty alleviation, with an inevitable focus, of course, on the current crisis in global markets as a result of the Russian-Ukrainian war, especially with regard to wheat! Simply the political actors behind this law want to convince us that after the failure of 17 federal budgets, and hundreds of billions of dollars, a complete failure to provide services, or to alleviate poverty, they will succeed today in achieving food security, through a temporary law until the approval of the general budget for the year 2022! It is clear that the “urgency” in “tabbing” this flimsy law made them get involved in a real legal farce. Article 2/3 talked about financing the account designated for this law through “external and internal loans” with no more than 6.7 billion dollars. However, Article 3 / IV of the law talked about allocating 10% of the entire account, i.e., the amount of 2.41 billion dollars, to “pay off the external debt and the debts of importing gas and purchasing energy,” meaning that the law borrows an external debt to repay, with these loans, part of the external debt ! If there was a real need to secure food security for the Iraqi citizen because of the recent developments, and because of the delay in forming the Iraqi government, and thus the adoption of the Federal Budget Law for 2022, it would have been possible to go to the adoption of an exceptional law that would allow the Ministry of Finance to provide twice the amount that was allocated for importing basic materials that enter into The ration quota for the Iraqi citizen, and this amount would be more than enough not only to achieve food security, because international prices did not reach double their price, and will not reach it in any way, but to provide a strategic stockpile of these materials, and this amount will not exceed 2 billion dollars At most. The “emergency support” law has exposed the ploy of the influential in immoral investment in the funds that were achieved recently due to the rise in oil prices in global markets, especially that the current political impasse with regard to the election of the President of the Republic and thus the formation of the government, and then the approval of the federal budget, may delay this Investing for an indefinite time, so it was necessary to circumvent this by using propaganda expressions such as food security, development and poverty alleviation!
By Zernouh.abdo4 years ago in The Swamp
China learns lessons from the Ukraine war
The eyes of those interested in international relations continue to focus on China, to monitor the development of its positions on the Russian-Ukrainian war. Will it be inclined to persuade Russia to bet on peace in Ukraine, or will it use this crisis to weaken the West, which makes it the next target, which must be controlled? China adopted a cautious attitude at the beginning of the conflict, but soon began to adopt a sharp tone toward the United States.
By Zernouh.abdo4 years ago in Confessions
Earth Day and messages that don't die with age
These days are the forty-sixth anniversary of the Glorious Land Day, and attention is directed to historic Palestine, after the recent confrontations in the Negev, Beersheba, Hadera, Bani Brak, Ramat Gan and Umm al-Fahm, which restored the glow of that glorious historical day.
By Zernouh.abdo4 years ago in Confessions
Legislative corruption
“Corruption in Iraq is with intent not to show.” This phrase I have been repeating frequently in my writings since 2006. I have also talked a lot about what I call “legislative corruption”; It is the corruption that occurs within the framework of the law that the corrupt themselves legislate in order to establish the clientelist structure that governs the state, or in order to cover up their corruption, or at the very least, in order to provide an opportunity for this corruption!
By Zernouh.abdo4 years ago in The Swamp
Europe and Ukrainian refugees
With the Russian war on Ukraine, Europe found itself facing an unprecedented challenge, not only in the strategic and military sense, but also in the humanitarian and societal sense, with this large and continuous influx of Ukrainian refugees towards its various countries.
By Zernouh.abdo4 years ago in Confessions
Asymmetry in the cyber threat between Russia and Ukraine
In the weeks leading up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine was hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, in which servers were flooded with illegal requests by loading the server infrastructure too high, causing it to stop working. A day before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in particular, important government sites in the capital, Kyiv, were paralyzed, as well as the headquarters of the government, parliament, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other state institutions. Ukraine has blamed Moscow for the cyber attack.
By Zernouh.abdo4 years ago in Confessions
The Americans lied, even if they believed... and they would not believe
A state of eruption that could explode at any moment in the West Bank, especially since the blessed month of Ramadan is at the door, as a result of the continued killings carried out by the occupation army daily against the Palestinians, devouring the land and the disturbances of daily life, and the threats of settlers to storm Al-Aqsa and prepare for more attacks on the occasion of their religious holidays.
By Zernouh.abdo4 years ago in The Swamp
Palestinian people away from stereotypes
Ramallah is a beautiful, small city full of life, and most Palestinian cities can witness a high activity, compared to other Arab cities due to the problem of limited land, and amid the features of the density of living in the Palestinian space, it can be noted that the intense tension and from nothing, and from no place, can It causes a clash, for living in Palestine is a life on the edge, open to all possibilities, and the instability that starts from the economic situation, which depends largely on hundreds of thousands of workers linked to work permits in (Israel) does not stop there, but extends to wars of ideas and visions among the Palestinians themselves.
By Zernouh.abdo4 years ago in The Swamp
Arabs after Ukraine
The Arabs today seem to be waiting on the sidewalk of history. Although most Arab governments voted internationally to condemn the Russian military campaign in Ukraine, while few of them refused or abstained from voting, the Arab public seemed different, and mostly enthusiastic about Russian President Vladimir Putin, perhaps Except for currents in the Syrian arena, which witnessed a bloody Russian intervention that prevented the fall of Bashar al-Assad's group.
By Zernouh.abdo4 years ago in The Swamp
