Scandal of underused high quality free resources for third world education

Brilliant, Rich and Underused – Scandal of Resources for Third World Education

I had the opportunity finally to sample 2 tremendous projects this morning:

1.  Wikipedia for Schools – a free public domain encyclopedia which is up-to-date, brilliantly presented, has great visuals

2. Project Gutenberg – a free public domain collection of out-of-copyright literature in English, French, Finnish and some other languages.  Lacking any nice visual, but has great content (Shakespeare, Conrad, Dickens, Wilkie Collins, R.L.Stevenson, Somerset Maugham, Victor Hugo, but lacking Graham Greene, Deighton, le Carre etc)

Both are offline downloads which should be heavily used in every single school throughout the Third World, which as far as I know have about zero presence there.

What are the National Ministries of Education doing?
What are the Donors and the NGOs doing?

In both cases, nothing.

The Ministries nothing, because there is no kick-back in free stuff, and Third World pro-western dictatorships run ministries on the mission statement of extracting and channelling upwards illegal monies to the President.

The Donors and NGOs nothing because the West does not want the Third World to develop.  Full Stop.  Plain and Simple.  Explains why Development Cooperation/ Aid & Development Sector and Industry is so full of failure, incompetence, rubbish projects badly designed and badly implemented.

Of course there is also one problem – both of these great rich and underutilised resources need computers to be viewed or searched.   This then restricts greatly the potential audience, since only a small percentage of children in the Third World have access to computers at home or at school.

Thus I propose to re-master (see a recent 2011/08 article on my blog http://alexweir1949.wordpress.com ) the content in both cases for viewing on DVD Players with DivX capability (which is most of them these days).  OK – we are still not hitting 100% coverage, but we are getting there.  My guess is we move from 2% of children to an average of 40% (10% -95% range depending on country, urbanisation, electricity provision and income levels) of third world children globally.  Distribution will be by download-and-burn and also by dvd airmail dispatches.

I am hoping that the majority of WFS can get onto one DVD of this kind.  The Gutenberg project is a very different case – there is so much densely packed stuff on the one (2006 version ) dvd that only a small but highly useful fraction will be extracted.  I propose Shakespeare, Somerset Maugham, RL Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, Victor Hugo, the great Russians, Ibsen and some other material.

Since all content is digital, then both projects are open to PC/Machine translation (Gutenberg less so, since we are actually dealing with readable literature and fiction).  Also of course many of the original articles hopefully are available on the Wikipedia website in different languages – therefore the Wikipedia For Schools Project themselves could hopefully in future issue several different language versions (?).

Interested Third World Governments and Ministries, Donors and NGOs wishing to consume or pre-order contact me (alexweir1949@gmail.com)  – I can tell you the answer now – after 3 months there will be zero repeat zero enquiries or offers.

Any government or Donor wishing to fund my efforts and/or to fund dispatches also contact me (alexweir1949@gmail.com) – joke!  – bad joke!

Alex Weir, Gaborone, Botswana, Friday 12 August 2011

Appendix I

Out of interest – the language breakdown for Gutenberg is as follows:

english 31000
french  1866
spanish 288
portuguese 116

german 896
finnish 614
dutch 416
italian 184
swedish 70
latin 62
danish 46
norwegian 30
greek 10
russian 6
There may be other languages I didn’t pick up on…..

Appendix II
For project Gutenberg, average document size is 135k when zipped, probably 1 mb unzipped, approx. 200,000 words, 200 pages per document.

Thus we can think about 50 documents on one DVD-for-DVD-player (out of the 32,000)

It would make sense to have one French, one Spanish and one Portuguese DVD, since these are languages which are relatively widely spoken and read throughout the Third World (150 million, 500 million and 200 million population respectively in Third World)

Alliance Francaise would be an ideal partner for such a project for a French DVD.  Goethe Institute would be an ideal partner for a German DVD, but any direct Third World benefit would be minimal or zero.  British Council for an English DVD?

Alex Weir, Gaborone, Botswana, Friday 12 August 2011

Zero cost Housing for third world

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Zero Cost Housing

Low-Cost Housing is a relatively popular buzzword among Development Cooperation and Architectural Circles.  As far as the Third World is concerned, low-cost housing is actually Housing for the Middle or Lower Middle Classes – it is never Housing for the People.

Zero Cost Housing is exactly Housing for the People – the approach will examine how people in the rural and the urban area house themselves in traditional dwellings built of mud and straw thatching  and in shacks built of corrugated galvanised iron and/or plastic sheeting.  It will consider how such dwellings can be made:

1.  Stronger

2. More rain resistant, heat and/or cold resistant

3. More secure against thieves while inhabited and while empty

4. How a strong-box or something similar can be incorporated for security of possessions, money and documents

5. More secure against wild animals while inhabited

6. How sanitation – external or internal – can be effected, possibly with beneficial by-products such as fertiliser, compost, gas etc.

7. How mains electricity can be safely integrated with the structure. Alternatively generator, solar, batteries

8. How privacy can be provided

9. How personal washing can be integrated, internally or externally

10. How cooking can be integrated, internally or externally

11. How clothes  washing can be integrated, internally or externally

The study by the way may also try to determine how many people who have only lived in traditional and who have lived in both such traditional and western dwellings (usually forward progression but also hopefully sometimes backward progression) rank the various features and  benefits and how much they may be willing to pay or invest to have them.

There we are chaps!  A good idea/ good ideas  – run with it!  Do something for the People!

Alex Weir, Gaborone, Botswana, Thursday 11 August 2011
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Third world requires enhancements in Gmail

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Modifications to Gmail, Yahoo Mail and other web mail packages to adequately serve Third World Requirements

The main requirement which I see is as follows:

Sometimes one will need to delegate someone else to check for one’s email and even to send off an email – because of being geographically out of signal range, or just for convenience – e.g. some small business people may delegate some or all of their email activity to a cybercaf� / internet caf�.

Thus it will be useful to have different passwords and different authorisation levels.  I can envisage the following as being useful:
1.  The master password – which is the only password available at the moment – gives full access to read, delete, compose, send etc all email

2. A low-level password which allows one to view the inbox unread emails only.  This may be on a line-item only basis, or to view the complete email body and even to copy out to a flash ram or something else.  i.e. there may even be 2 sub-passwords here, or one may determine whether it is a read-summary only or read-all-contents password

3. A middle level password which allows one to send email only, with or without also being able to read inbox unread items.  This may even be a one-off password which allows one to log in and see nothing but be able to compose and send off one email only.
The main dashboard with the master password must of course summarise all activity conducted by persons using these lower passwords when the master password user logs in again….

These features should not be so difficult to build in, and should be useful in certain or many third world situations.

Additionally, there should be special operating screens for third world extremely low bandwidth conditions (like one finds in Kigali – the supposed IT Hub (!)) – one should be able to pull up a compose window offline, compose up to 6 or 10 short emails, and then send all at one time and pull back also the first 200 characters of all inbox unread items (and maybe the subject only when gmail or whoever knows or suspects it is an email service – i.e. not an actual communication from a real person).  Then one can conduct a complete email session with 1 or at most 2 client-server calls.

Although I made this the secondary or subsidiary item, on afterthought it is probably a more important requirement to implement than the first set – on which I set out to compose this blog.

Alex Weir, Gaborone, Botswana, Thursday 11 August 2011

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Predatory Economics not Zero Sum Game

Predatory Economics Not a Zero-Sum Game

The world economy is in trouble.  Everyone knows that.   It is important to understand that a gain for one individual or a small group can result in a greatly magnified loss for the global everyone.
A simple example – back in 1977 when I worked in Tanzania, one of our students took a Land Cruiser and driver on a 160 kilometre trip so that he could get his washing done free of charge.  So he saved maybe $0.30 at 2011 prices but the University spent $25 to save him that 30 cents – a ratio of 80:1

Mugabe in the period 1998 onwards committed Zimbabwean troops and munitions to the War in DRC.  He was paid in diamonds, which went into his own pocket and into his own bank accounts all over the world.  The Zimbabwe People and Nation lost a vast amount of money financing that war.  One can guess that he gained $1 bn but the Zimbabwean People lost $3 bn – a ratio of 3:1

John Githongo reckoned a few years back that in Kenya, the President disappears about 7% of GNP every year into his own pocket.  My estimate is that because of the way all government processes are impacted, subverted and diverted by that extractive activity, the real effect is just like 21% of GNP disappearing, i.e. a multiplier of x3 or a ratio of 3:1.  That kind of pattern is repeated in almost every Third World Country, whether governed by a pro-western or by an anti-western dictatorship – theft creates poverty.

Come to the global stage, Hedge Funds, Global speculation and Speculators, Investment banks, wealthy (and sometimes even charitable) personalities who mix with showbiz and politicians.  Credit Default Swaps (CDS) and other nefarious and hardly understood financial instruments.  A global casino.  Huge stakes.  Dangerous downsides.  If we really examine what has been and what is still going on, we will find out that the world has been jeopardised of $10 Trillion so that a relatively few immensely rich people can gain $100 Billion – a ratio of 100:1.  Theft creates poverty, even when and especially when that theft is legal and legalized.

It is no use for the rich and powerful (including Obama and Cameron) to pretend that the existing game can and should continue.  Everyone can see that the King has No Clothes.  But no one dare to say it.  Economists and financiers – like IT people – like to baffle us with their big words.

The Game is Over.

It is not necessary to dismantle or discontinue Capitalism, but it IS necessary to tame and control it – a domesticated animal is immensely more productive and useful to mankind than a wild animal.  The same with Capitalism.  Playing with Capitalism in its present-day form is like waiting for another very very serious accident to happen.

Ha-Joon Chang, the respected Cambridge University Economist wrote an article recently with 5 recommendations:
1.  Establish a UN Ratings Agency
2. Force creditors to absorb a percentage of Sovereign Bad Debts
3. Ban complex financial products
4. Render all tax havens illegal
5. Completely change the incentive structure within and throughout the financial industry to penalize risk-taking

Unless someone can make a very convincing case against one or all of the above, then I propose that they are all implemented immediately.

The rich will bitch.  Tough shit.  Desperate times need desperate – but carefully thought out – measures.

Alex Weir, Gaborone, Botswana, Wednesday 10 August 2011

Revolutionary new technology for Third World Education

A revolution in disseminating educational and vocational information!

In an average third world country, computers are still a rarity.  In fact, smartphones seem to be the way to get quasi-computers out there.   Initiatives like Vodafone’s Webbox (TV/keyboard/set-top-box as computer & internet for $100) are good and to be welcomed, but are essentially a way to get the consumer to spend money on data services and internet.

DVD Players however, are pervasive.  In places without televisions in the home, you will find a TV and DVD Player in the bar or in special video parlours – which are like mini-cinemas.  Action movies are a staple, and they can play all day.  Generators are used if there is no mains supply.

People like me who want to get practical technical development information out there are already going down the computer route, but we need to think about reaching groups who at the moment are below the computer threshold. 

If you can get the MNP (Mobile Network Provider, i.e. the Orange, Airtel, Vodafone, Safaricom, Virgin etc people) to host data without connection charge (like a toll-free number), then there is definitely scope for using smartphones or even CIEM’s (sub-smartphones – Cheap Internet Enabled Mobiles) for free browsing of educational and vocational content.  I am trying this path, but without any success so far, because the fat-cat MNP’s have zero social conscience and are fixated on legal and illegal money-making and on bribing presidents.  The main drawback is the small size of the screens (even a 3.5 inch touchpad can feel cramped).

Coming now to DVD Players, converting what is at present text-with-photos into pure video is an expensive and bulky process.  There are cases when it is justified and justifiable, but in general the cost/benefit ratio is too high.

This leaves us with putting text-with-photos onto dvd’s or flash rams which will play on dvd players.  There are 2 approaches:

1. The CDi-type of approach, which was tried by Philips some years ago, but which seems to have died a death.  It was CD Interactive, and could as far as I can tell read htm and pdf files.  I have tried to make contact with Philips and others on this but am not getting past the usual bureaucratic brick walls…..

2. Using photo-to-slideshow technology – software packages which are designed mainly for home photo collections and maybe business and/or marketing presentations – they can have voice-over also and they can be paused on any or every slide with no loss of picture quality. 

Of these 2 options, (1) is not really an option, so it seems.  The main disadvantage to (2) is bulk – similar to scanned PDF files, there is a serious bulking effect, which greatly increases cost of dissemination.
Htm-with-jpg or gif
40k per page, 100,000 pages per dvd
Pdf from text-with-photos
40k per page, 100,000 pages per dvd
Scanned pdf (colour)
800k per page, 5,000 pages per dvd
Photo-to-slideshow (colour) at 720×576 resolution (DivX4 standard)
400k per page, 10,000 pages per dvd
Spoken audio with 60 words/minute, 3000 characters per page, 5.2 characters/word, mp3 with 1-2 MB/minute
20,000k per page – 200 pages equivalent per dvd
Spoken video with 60 words/minute, 3000 characters per page, 5.2 characters/word, mp3 with 2.4 MB/minute
28,000k per page – 140 pages equivalent per dvd

One must mention also here that one may need to issue both PAL (European standard) and SECAM (USA standard) format DVD’s, depending on the type of dvd player being used and its location/country.  That will double the volume required if dvd’s need to have both formats side-by-side, but will have no effect if separate dvd’s are issued.  Generally, SECAM is used in America North & South, and PAL everywhere else (?).

One additional proviso – to read/play the videos I am creating, one needs a DVD player which has DivX or DivX4 capability – I have checked that out to some extent – DivX and DivX4 have been around since 2003 and are I guess on almost every dvd player these days.  This might merit some further checking and/or feedback from readers *** of this blog?

From some work recently elsewhere on my blog (http://alexweir1949.wordpress.com) , I have determined that school textbooks required per year are typically 1300 pages (130 pages x 10 textbooks) per year at the age of 11.  We can assume that they increase with age, and therefore from the age of 5 till 18, one would expect probably 20,000 pages of textbooks.  This would require 2 x dvd’s as per above (costing $0-40), or if bought as conventional softback paper books would cost probably $2,000-4,000, depending on local pricing.  Of course one would need a TV ($200 – $800 depending on screen size), DVD Player ($30), and electricity supply and cost to view the books-on-dvd, but the TV and DVD would be used also for general family entertainment.
Of course it is better to have a computer-based and interactive system, but if we are realistic, then the DVD option offers excellent value for money, both for the classroom (one TV) and for the home.  It can be a temporary solution before we have universal computer ownership and globally free computer software for education.  My guess is that the DVD solution will have at least 5 years lifetime, and probably 25-50 years.
The impact?
1. Every child and every parent  with electricity, TV and DVD player can afford a complete primary and secondary school text books collection for $ 0.40! 

2. Home schooling may increase

3. State schools will benefit greatly (if they can procure the in-classroom TV’s and DVD’s)

4. Textbook publishers and printers may suffer.  Also authors. Unless some measures are put in place (e.g. funding universal textbooks creation globally, with also localisation programs.  These can be part of International Development Cooperation Budgets)

5. Hopefully some increase in the quality of education

Will this revolutionary move occur easily?  I think we all know the answer.
Will it occur despite opposition? I think we all know the answer.
Will it benefit mankind?  Undoubtedly!

Alex Weir, Gaborone, Botswana, Monday 8 August 2011
PS – it is obvious in going through my 11-year-old granddaughter’s curriculum/textbooks that there is a lot of useless and obsolete material there as well as a lot of good stuff.  Also there is a lot of good stuff missing.  The orientation of existing Third World Education towards western templates (which themselves are inadequate, demotivational and unproductive) and towards educating the elite at the expense of the sub-elites is something which needs to be examined and to be changed.

PPS – although dvd’s cost about $ 0.20 to procure and burn, they typically sell in the Third World for $ 2 – 3 each.  Even that is no barrier to what I propose here.

PPPS – regarding economics of education, additional numbers: class sizes are typically 35 pupils/class, private school fees $2000 – 4300/year, state school fees $300/year, teachers’ wages $2,000 – 10,000/year, direct teaching 1000 hours/year (30 weeks/year x 32 hours/week)

Appendix A
Software required to master the dvd’s:
1.  Scanner stuff – ideally scan to pdf or else directly to jpg – if you can rip apart the book(s) then you can use a sheet feed scanner with output probably 1000 pages/hour or faster.  Otherwise manual scanning to a $60 printer-scanner is very feasible but output limited to 600 pages/day plus requires huge patience.

2. Manipulating pdf (e.g. upside down rotation) – PDFill Pdf tools (free). Plus removing any imperfections (cropping).  You don’t need this is if you scan to jpg.

3. Converting pdf to jpg – www.a-pdf.com – pdf to image free software. Free version leaves unobtrusive watermark along top.  About $30 to get pro-version I think, but not really necessary.  You don’t need this if you scan to jpg, but jpg manual rotation can be tedious, therefore if doing manual scanning remove platen cover.

4. Creating slideshow – www.in-mediakg.de – slideshow XL – costs about Euro 29 or $41 to get the version which allows more than 10 slides per slideshow – well worth the money!

5. Note – these 3 software downloads are about 10 MB each.  All regrettably I think for  windows only – hopefully there are linux alternatives – linux people please advise *** and I will add to / update this blog.

Appendix B
Possible Impact on my http://cd3wd.com/cd3wd_40/cd3wd/  project

1.  I will shortly issue on the dvd mailings (and later on the bittorrent downloads) the above free software for mastering these dvd’s, along with this document.  Then people with cd3wd can produce dvd-player-suitable dvd’s for specific projects if and when they want

2. I will also of course include at least one sample

3. I plan very shortly to produce a learning-to-read dvd-player dvd product, which will initially be aimed at 5-year-old children learning English but may very quickly expend to Adult Education, TEFL, and other languages outside English.  The great advantage of the dvd will be the audio voice-over capability (which books simply don’t have!).  I would prefer to do this with a proper primary school teacher or TEFL teacher, but no one has come forward yet….***

4. I am already making moves to convert those bulky cd3wd scanned-pdf files to OCR’d pdf’s or htm’s.  Should that not go ahead for any reason (like economic) then it may be advantageous to remaster those scanned pdf’s as dvd player slideshows – computers will still be able to access them (but not quite so conveniently), but there will be a huge positive accessibility impact.  We may even give the downloader and/or the dvd recipient the choice which format to receive….

5. Note that the advantage of OCR’ing those scanned pdf’s will open them up to machine translation.  But no one has ever yet shown any interest in translating cd3wd (amazing isn’t it?….)

Alex Weir, Gaborone, Botswana, Monday 8 August 2011

Computerize Third World Learning

Computers must immediately be an integral and integrated part of schools in the Third World

Recently I blogged on http://alexweir1949.wordpress.com about schooling the middle-class or lower-middle-class in African schools.

Since then I started thinking about the economics, and came to following observations and conclusions:

1. US$ 2000-00 per year is a not untypical fee for private schooling in the Third World.   US$ 4500-00 per year can be classified as high-end.  Typical state school fees may be in the region of $300 p.a. (which is punitive for the majority of rural dwellers).

2. Price of decent laptop these days (2011 – Toshiba L650) is about $800-00.  Very useable laptops can be bought for $500-00.  Mickey mouse laptops can be gotten for $140-00 (usually no hard drive, wifi only, 2GB/8GB maximum onboard storage, no capability for external hard drive)

3. Price of smartphones 2011 is typically $150 for a low-cost android 3.5 inch touch-screen ZTE Blade (Orange San Francisco) with 600 mhz processor and 2 gb onboard storage, gprs/edge/3G and wifi.

4. Price of textbooks – an 11-year-old has typically 10 textbooks, average 120 pages, for subjects English, Maths, Science, Social Studies, Religious & Moral, French (or other language).  Cost is about $20/book, $200/year for a high-textbook-cost country ($0.17/page – colour).  This compares with a high-cost photocopy cost (black-and-white) of $0.07/page.

5. Price of TV – coming down, but maybe $200 for a 20 inch screen, $600/32 inch, $800/42 inch (?).  Many even poor households have a half decent TV and DVD Player.

6. Price of DVD Player – probably $30 for a model capable of playing DivX standard

7. Price of blank dvd’s – $0.20 each

8. Given the above, there are several scenarios for private and for state schools.

9. First of all, it is necessary to recognise that the quality of textbooks in the Third World is pretty good (at least in English-speaking countries).  Sure there is still teaching of some outdated subject areas (like fractions and even the whole business of performing arithmetic outside the 1-10 zone in the Calculator and Computer Age).  And there is still intrusion of government and state propaganda into teaching material.   The interesting thing is that very little of school material is rocket science, and quite honestly most teaching material is essentially public domain and/or is/would be relatively simple to reverse engineer.

10. Moreover, the textbooks seem to BE the teaching – distribute the textbooks with relevant and interesting and well-presented material to students who can read, and the learning will take place, with experienced and skilled teachers, with inexperienced teachers, with child-minders/security controllers, or even without schools (the smart kids will teach themselves, and – if encouraged – will even teach the others).

11. Some observations –

a. Given the high level of fees for private schooling, it is ridiculous that one-laptop-per-child is not in place (I don’t mean necessarily these machines from the http://www.OLTP.org  project which are distributed as far as I know entirely without content, and therefore which as a program are bound to fail, or at the least not to succeed – content is the key!).   There are some obstacles to having one-computer-per-child in school:

i. Cost (pretty much an obstacle no more)

ii. Complexity (no longer an objection)

iii. Security – in rowdy classrooms, computer theft would be a major problem. Fortunately, most Third World Classrooms (unlike western classrooms) are NOT rowdy.  Even then, theft could/would be a problem, and could be countered by lock-to-desk, check-out-check-in and use-at-school only and other measures and policies.  Even use of one large-screen computer by the teacher in a classroom could/would be a major improvement

iv. Copyright/stopping copying/making money for the content creators: this problem is best made by creating the materials and distributing universally for free – i.e. make the content public domain.  Fund by paying off the publishers and authors as a once-off or several-years payments.  This would greatly help state schools and home/cooperative schooling, since they would get their material/ content for free.  One of several global programs of content creation (also with locally-funded local content) would make the exercise very affordable.  It could be funded from existing Aid and Development/DevCoop budgets….

v. Fear by teachers of technology and of job-losses

vi. Fear by authors and publishers of losing income

b. A wide variety of technologies could be used:

i. Dvd players could be used in the home (if they have mains electricity/ solar/ generator/ community generator).  One can using photo/jpg slideshow packages create dvd’s with typically 4000 pages of textbooks in readable format per dvd and costing $0.20 each.  The school can provide each year’s content easily within one dvd.

ii. Computers and laptops – belonging to school and/or to student – can be used with local storage of the content -  2 gb or less would contain enough content for one year’s courses

iii. Smartphones could be used with local storage of the content on sd card – probably 4-8gb would be required of internal memory, and a pdf reader and/or html browser.

iv. A local  school computer server can be used with an unlocked wifi system, to provide every student with total access to all school material (but with no external internet connection).  This access can be from laptop, smartphone, wifi tablet or even CIEM (cheap internet-enabled phone – which typically sells for $40 in 2011)

v. USB flash ram can be used if required to carry content and student’s output between home computer/smartphone and school computer or teacher’s server for homework submission.

vi. As systems develop, then dynamic content can be developed, where static content and mini-tests/feedback, complete tests, and even exams are conducted, stored, processed and reported.  Once again this can be developed as one or several global public domain projects (UNESCO can pay for it)

12. Handwriting should be discontinued – everything should be typewritten, and spelling checker should be used also

13. Arithmetic as mentioned earlier can be phased out

14. Use of local copies of Wikipedia and other encyclopedias and even offline Google content should be used

15. Emphasis should be on learning how to learn, and on organising self and others

16. Languages can be done partially or completely using translation packages, offline and online

17. The result of all this kind of stuff?

a. Better educational quality

b. More motivated students

c. Lower cost education

d. Affordable education for all, including those at the bottom of the economic ladder

I rest my case

Alex Weir, Gaborone, Botswana
Saturday 6 August 2011

Politics as Poetry 2 weeks til 2011.08.06

@killianFox africa moble revolution. Uganda needs
#FraudProofVoting to rid themselves of their tiresome pro-western dictator museveni!

Usa uk announce immediate end all foreign wars & adoption of #fraudproofvoting as global election standard. Dj & ftse rise 15%

http://m.ft.com/cms/s/0/219553ac-bec6-11e0-a36b-00144feabdc0.html – excellent article #saudi. 95% oil monies sqandered by saudi royals. Poverty for some saudis. Need #ffraudProofVoting

@johnKampfner #independent british defence budget insufficient for nation which is externally fascist

#uk #torture #inquiry – british are deluded – they do not understand that although internally democratic we are externally #fascist

@ArabDissident #bbc are still the best but can raise your blood pressure when they are in BS/lying  mode, which is occurring more & more

@Gsquare86 @VodafoneEgypt people can sue them in belgian court i think? Relatives of those who died because of vodafone cowardly complicity

@ArabDissident bbc dont like dangerous subjects. They dance to tune of uk fascist foreign policy.  bbc whys banned me over #fraudProofVoting

#malema – corruption sans frontieres – haffajee / miseyi race row a red herring to divert attention from malema & #zuma #southAfrica

Obama bars human rights violators from entering US http://t.co/RhVbzio #news – so #hillary, #robertGates & many others should not exit usa!

15% german children officially poor. No excuse! Insufficient socialism! Too many fat cats! #spiegel

REUTERSFLASH: Swede tried to build nuclear reactor in his kitchen http://t.co/3wM4C7j – great idea actually for third world! Give him job!

Amnesty: US sets up “Atrocities Prevention Board” http://owl.li/5VcOD – will this stop usa itself commiting atrocities?

Amnesty: US plans steps to prevent & respond to atrocities, sets up “Atrocities Prevention Board” http://owl.li/5VcOD – will this stop usa?

@WilliamJHague are they intelligent enough to understand that #fraudproofvoting is a Good Thing?, so you are not?

@afro_swit @Welshman_Ncube what percentage royalty payment? A miserable 2% like #mugabe sweet deal on platinum? Death to dictators! #ironore

@UKMilOps 1 out of 10 chaps! #fraudProofVoting will wipe the floor with your pathetic puerile & deadly wargames! Http://cd3wd.com/seev

Your dictator you’ll no more see, when you run your Poll with #FPV! #fraudProofVoting

@Ghonim now implement #fraudProofVoting to cement your Revolution  @Gsquare86

@msheshtawy @Gsquare86 – important is to get People’s Hands on that $70 bn – cia know where but wont tell you

@wakeup1442 usa foreign aid is pre-sabotaged so as to be useless and ineffective (but it makes money for the perpetrators!) – i know

@WilliamJHague i know #fraudProofVoting was mentioned many times! No! No!! No!

@ArabDissident i discussed #fraudProofVoting. His reaction & lack of followup tells me he is against fpv. There are many fake radicals

@ArabDissident #fraudProofVoting is an explosive issue which separates genuine people from charlatans. It is no trivial sm topic

@ArabDissident i met #tariqRamadan in london. He came over as yet another #fake. Maybe i am wrong but i dont think so

@theblacklist #sirleafJohnson is the biggest thief, and loved by the West. #liberia

http://m.independent.co.uk/;s=nWZGfF5wLtC1ecU8eKR8xQ06;article=1;hp=opinion;/ uk #nhs $10bn project cancelled – combination of IT incompetence, NHS recalcitrance. The Money People robbed taxpayers

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/8678007/Financial-crisis-to-leave-permanent-scar-on-unemployment-warns-NIESR.html – global unemployment inevitable – we must choose socialism, kind capitalism, cruel capitalism or fascism. God watches

@WilliamJHague http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/8678317/Cuts-have-left-our-troops-with-mission-impossible-in-Libya-and-Afghanistan.html – so reduce predatory money-driven use of uk armed forces disguised as world-cop actions! Simple!

@Gsquare86 next time csf and police are active call them the names cia and mossad, since that is who is paying them & who they work for

@AbirKopty usa & uk excel in divide-and-rule tactics. They wish to subvert destroy maim mangle your revolution. #tantawi=cia + mi6 + mossad

@Sentletse @afro_swit good article man. Middle class everywhere are a nasty bunch. Recent impoverishment may be good for their souls. Mzungu

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/steve-richards/steve-richards-history-repeats-itself-in-libya-2330176.html – #fraudproofvoting is the solution http://cd3wd.com but your masters wont allow

@PoshBirdGabi @addthis @Londonist @Al_Fatah69 – #fraudProofVoting can work in conflict zone. Let the People decide! Http://cd3wd.com/seev/

Unholy alliance #tantawi #scaf #mb threaten egypt revolution to dustbin. Usa uk delighted. Now  tunisia. Status quo ante. Business as usual

@UKMilOps @WilliamJHague #libya wargame CAN be switched off. Play #fraudproofvoting before 51% libyans support #gaddafi http://cd3wd.com

@WilliamJHague #libya wargame CAN be switched off. Play #fraudproofvoting before 51% of libyans support #gaddafi. Freedom prosperity peace

#fraudproofvoting, feared by the bad, loved by the good. Feared by usa uk china israel saudi assad khalifa saleh

@stuartWeir #mutharika #fraudproofvoting is the obvious way to eliminate this #prowesterndictator http://cd3wd.com/seev – man or mouse, weir?

@iRev @samikishawi egyptians tunisians could not vote regimes out since elections globally are  rigged with Western connivance. #fraudproof!

@Gsquare86 withdraw. There are better battles to fight & better ways to fight them. The people will prevail over ignorance & fascism

We want our world back. @worldLeaders, you are drunk on money greed & power. You think you are gods, but that is punishable blasphemy

@amnesty & #UN are both fake organizations! Freedom prosperity peace justice security. #fraudproofvoting! Http://cd3wd.com/seev/

@Al_Fatah69 i know mi6 & french intel tried to kill me 1-18 dec 2007 to stop fpv, & they will try again. Http://cd3wd.com/seev/intel.htm

@AntaReportNews it is the best. And also it then goes on by domino effect to eliminate every dictatorship globally. #fraudproofvoting

#fraudProofVoting solves both #Libya & #Syria problems. Is anybody listening? Is everybody stupid or is there something political going on?

http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/31/chance-ramadan-islam-conquests-libya?cat=commentisfree&type=article @abdelBariAtwan it is time for an Election in #Libya using #fraudProofVoting Technology http://cd3wd.com/seev #guardian

@BraamHanekop #passop #zimbabwe #southAfrica #homeAffairs is corrupt corrupt corrupt, passing money upwards to Zuma, darling of the West

@samikishawi israel backs #assad & usa maintains hands off policy. UN completely useless. Without #fraudProofVoting a dismal outcome

#mexico gangleader 1500 #killings – small change compared to usa president & uk pm – they achieve 100000/year for 4 years

President #assad statement on #usa: I am appalled by the usa government’s use of violence and brutality against foreigners overseas

#obama says syria will be better place when UN USA UK enforce #fraudproofvoting as global norm for all countries including china &  saudi

#independentAppeal @celiaDuggan crisis #kenya due to kibaki election fraud 2007 plus 7% kenyan economy theft by kibaki. #prowesterndictator

#independent @celiaDuggan crisis #kenya due to kibaki election fraud 2007 plus 7% kenyan economy theft by kibaki. #prowesterndictator

@johnSentamu backing #fraudproofvoting & #40pcMineralRoyalties can make a real difference to africa’s starving millions

@NickKristof most evangelicals work for cia, in africa and south america

@ted619  government which calls its people rats has a serious problem #libya

@Ghassandwich @samikishawi freedom prosperity peace justice security through #fraudProofVoting http://cd3wd.com/seev/

@celiaWDugger #nyt #maternal #deaths – problem is #prowesterndictators, solution is #fraudproofvoting. But – uk & usa governments refuse!

@Al_Fatah69 if you want him in power then vote for him in fraud proof election which mi6 cia mossad cannot manipulate. Simple

http://smpalestine.com/2011/01/30/on-the-united-states-anxiety-over-losing-an-ally-in-the-middle-east/ – great posting from end of jan2011 by @samiKishawi on #prowesterndictators, usa & #egypt

@Al_Fatah69 quite wrong. 2006 the west tried to kill me to stop my #fraudproofvoting project, which without bias removes PWDs & AWDs

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-libya–the-mission-that-crept-2327706.html – #libya – an #election is appropriáte! Http://cd3wd.com

@Al_Fatah69 so – support #fraudproofvoting & an election in #libya. Http://cd3wd.com

http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gnm/op/s8SmA3hswt2hWlF1Hh390BA/view.m?id=15&gid=world/2011/jul/27/jail-singapore&cat=most-read – #singapore – yet another fu**ing pro-western dictatorship! Remove these injustices & HR offenders  #fraudProofVoting

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/from-mubarak-to-marcos-where-are-all-the-despots-2327029.html – 87% of the mere 8 dictators listed in this poor article are PWDs. There are many PWDs in our cruel world, under radar

@Gsquare86 @lilianwagdy @maggieosama @RashaPress @Abol3araby @NourElakkad – all, 2006 i invented a fraud proof voting system. Can we use?

@jonsnowc4 #West is now in a trap in libya with no way out except an election. Cannot run an election without feared #fraudProofVoting

#icc are truly a puppet of the west! Another fake fake fake organisation! #libya #awd anti western dictator. Make dictatorship history!

Distinguished british newspapers studiously avoid the E-word – they dare not talk election. How many days or hours before Hague capitulates?

Fear & Loathing in London & Washington. #FraudProofVoting is the only way out, but the West squirms & squeals to avoid this Poisoned Chalice

The #West is now in a trap – embroiled in libya with no way out except an election. #fraudProofVoting is the solution, but is feared by West

The #West is now in a trap – embroiled in libya with no way out except an election. Cannot run an election without feared  #fraudProofVoting

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8663293/The-Libyan-campaign-is-running-into-the-sand.html – the libyan campaign is running into an ELECTION using #fraudproofvoting http://cd3wd.com

@UKMilOps @WilliamJHague #tnc. #nato is not authorized to use even $1 of libya’s money nor gaddafi’s stolen money! War must be paid by NATO!

@Gsquare86 police and securityy globally believe they are above the law and prefer to talk about ‘the Law of the Land’. Dangerous fascism

@UKMilOps nick, have you not heard? There will be an ELECTION – using #fraudproofvoting. Stand down – stop destroying people’s assets

@AntaReportNews @WilliamJHague need for #fraudproofvoting in #yemen

@ibnezra the cellphone is mightier than the uzi!

@Gsquare86 #chaos&revolution – the yanks are feeding #scaf this garbage. They wish to bend fold tear & mutilate your revolution

#southafrica government opposes #walmart coming because of possible job losses, totally ignores positive impact on poor of lower prices

@WilliamJHague @UKMilOps correction i would not will not run for #nato or for #hmg but will run for #Libya People #fraudproofvoting

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8664429/Ministry-of-Defence-spends-1billion-on-staff-credit-cards.html – uk #mod massively corrupt – ask @desBrowne

@jonGlennie #guardian – the West does NOT want third world to develop, hence the massive incompetence in all #DevCoop. Minimize benefit/cost

@alScotlandi uk will pay in cash for crimes against humanity by illegal installation of #idiAmin & #Mugabe #cah

@awalgonga2009 in my experience 95% of whites are #racist against blacks. In africa, less than 1% of blacks are racist against whites

@ipsnews #haiti #reconstruction – capability of #aidanddevelopment to waste money to zero benefit must never be underestimated or doubted!

@WilliamJHague the libyan people must determine their own future – hold an election. No western-style rigged BS. #fraudproofvoting

@amnesty #vietnam – pro-western dictatorship. Usa loves that. Amnesty, embrace #fraudproofvoting – make Amnesty History!

#bbc #journalists #worktorule – why dont you guys try telling the truth for a change? Talk about #fraudproofvoting http://cd3wd.com

@StopBombing #fraudproofvoting is much more effective weapon, more targetted, lessexpensive, zero collateral damage http://cd3wd.com

@WilliamJHague why not subject #gaddafi to #fraudproofvoting? I really thought that us brits believed in democracy? Maybe yorkshiremen not?

@mfinancenews @sietsema what about #democracy #freedom via mobile? #fraudproofvoting http://cd3wd.com

@barrybateman ok pwd or awd, i dont like dictators. Kill them or retire them through #fraudProofVoting – Http://cd3wd.com

@ArabDissident un & aid agencies so fu**ing useless, have seen this crisis coming for 6m & done nothing. Usa responsible. Dfid budget gbp7bn

@AnjumKiani correct. Put him in a saudi jail for 21 years. Along with all politicians  who play the race card #breivik

@NickKristof you will never need therapy as long as you believe the lies and obscufation which you peddle. Cover #fraudproofvoting! Coward

@anitamcnaught #fraudproofvoting! And since when is nato a political organisation? If they are then fascist since unelected (like gaddafi)

@anitamcnaught write about #fraudProofVoting. Go on. I dare you. Http://cd3wd.com/seev – solution to gaddafi vs nato impasse

@ipsnews #swaziland #arvs #aids shortage BS – show us the money for generics!

@AntaReportNews google alex weir aids arvs you should find the whole ugly facts on my website & blog. No one pays any attention. Media BS

@AntaReportNews @TheEconomist #aids the cure is already here – ARVs, but the West prefers to  withhold both free & affordable treatment!

Usa uk cia mi6 determined to stop fraud proof voting being used in tunisia and egypt – at all costs and with extreme prejudice

#malawi needs immediate election using #FraudProofVoting to remove this tiresome pro-western dictator mutharika! #m&g

African Villains: Only leaders who are determined to steal from their people are prepared to kill their people

@Gsquare86 #egyelection int observors in practice are ineffective. I offer free public domain fraud proof voting – please RT, gigi thanks

@killianFox africa moble revolution. Uganda needs #FraudProofVoting. Why dont you write about THAT use of mobile phones, you lackey?