Following the successful revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt that overthrew entrenched dictators, a new revolution has started in Algeria on Saturday, February 12, 2001. Instead of learning from Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and Ben Ali of Tunisia, Algeria’s dictator Abdelaziz Boutifleka is taking similar actions against pro-democracy protesters. Today he sent out on the streets of Algiers over 30,000 of his police to block protesters from staging demonstrations. And in the afternoon he disconnected the internet. His security forces are also rounding up journalists, and thugs hired by the regime are beating up protesters. Too predictable.
Today is named Day 1 of the Algerian Revolution. We wish the freedom hungry people of Algeria success in their fight against the dictatorship.
Ethiopia’s corrupt dictator Meles Zenawi is nervously awaiting his turn. The clock is ticking.
Latest developments in Algeria
(Telegraph.co.uk) — Mostafa Boshashi, head of the Algerian League for Human Rights, said: “Algerians want their voices to be heard too. They want democratic change. “At the moment people are being prevented from travelling to demonstrations. The entrances to cities like Algeria have been blocked.”
On Saturday at least 500 had been arrested by early evening in Algiers alone, with hundreds more in Annaba, Constantine and Oran taking part in the so-called February 12 Revolution.
“The police station cells are overflowing,” said Sofiane Hamidouche, a demonstrator in Annaba.
“There are running battles taking place all over the city. It’s chaos. As night falls the situation will get worse.”
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HERE comes the third contestant hopefully it will be soon if the military did not involve against the people but
this ARABS are too strong and organized . we should admire them and learn the lesson from it.
Elias keep it up brother informing us Thank you so much..
Rarely comes a Zenith moment when our collective actions fueled by our faith can rain down even the most stubborn hill. The heinous crime committed against our country and her people is now reaching a climatic pitch. The voices of agony are calling out to those of us who are fortunate enough to escape the wrath of this evil tribal-regime called ‘Woyane’. In order to achieve ethnic cleansing much like Auschwitz, the Kaliti prison chamber is a center point of torture and mayhem with impunity. If you can spare a solace moment and a Kleenex to wipe your tears, I urge you to read this torture memo smuggled from the butcher prison hole in Addis Ababa. Keep in mind as you read ‘Sekoka Bemakelawi’, that the author(s) may not even be alive today. At the end we all owe it to humanity itself to carry their cause, translate their pleas and expose Woyane’s human rights violation.
Demonstrated in Egypt, our thoughts and prayer wrapped in action against this evil regime will undoubtedly one day bring Ethiopia her own Tensaye. As Martin Luther King ones said ” In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. …” Please read it! It is written in Ethiopian blood:
http://www.abbaymedia.com/Amharic/Sekoka_bemaekelawi.pdf
Let us rise to dismember Woyane.
Bertu
Accusations of corruption over parking garage contract
Friday, February 11, 2011
Dan Noyes, Chief Investigative Reporter
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — A San Francisco small businessman is lobbing accusations of corruption and influence-peddling at city officials. It has to do with the very lucrative contracts to run the city’s parking garages. The city attorney is investigating the businessman’s claim he has filed. He won the bidding to run six of San Francisco’s most profitable garages, but somehow he lost the deal. For Fred Bekele, the American dream was quite real. He immigrated from Ethiopia 30 years ago and worked his way up in the parking business. “I was a cashier, valet attendant, you name it, and I’ve done everything, and then I say it’s about time for me to do this and I can do this myself, said Bekele of Convenient Parking, LLC, who manages three garages for the city. When the Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA) announced a new, open and fair bidding process, Bekele saw a chance to take his business to the next level. “I bid. Yes, I bid,” he said. “[I won] completely fair and square.” Bekele partnered with a Canadian company and won the contract, pending board approval, to manage six of the city’s most profitable garages, including Civic Center, St. Mary’s Square and Golden Gateway. But behind closed doors, the wheeling and dealing was about to begin. “The companies who did not like the outcome were able to influence powerful people in the city to get this thing reversed or rejected, and that’s exactly what happened,” he said. The claim that Bekele’s attorneys filed against the city and county allege “unfair business practices,” “retaliation,” “intentional interference with contractual relationships,” and more. At the center of the controversy is the relationship between MTA executive director and CEO Nat Ford, who oversees the bidding process, and prominent San Francisco attorney Steven Kay, who also represents the 49ers. Ford told the I-Team that Kay is his personal attorney, but that they had no conversations about the parking garage contracts. Noyes: Any conversation with Steven Kay? Ford: Steven Kay? Not in terms of any parking contracts, he is– he represents me as my attorney from time to time, but no involvement with the parking contracts. No involvement? In a personal and confidential letter Kay sent Ford on behalf of another one of his clients — Pacific Park Management, who lost the St. Mary’s Square garage contract to Bekele — Kay called the bidding an “unjust and inequitable process” and asked Ford to set aside the results. The same day Kay sent that letter, an MTA staff member wrote an e-mail saying Ford was now discussing “rejecting [all the] proposals.” Then, there’s the meeting at Kay’s penthouse office on the Embarcadero, New Year’s Eve 2009. “My partner called me and told me that, you know, these other companies that are second and third place winners want to meet with us at Steven Kay’s office,” said Bekele. Bekele’s claim against the city and county says Kay claimed “he was given approval to mediate the meeting by Mr. Ford,” and that an executive from Five Star Parking, another of the losing bidders, made a threat. “If we don’t renegotiate and give up some of the garages that we had won, they’ll stall the process indefinitely and maybe even get it rejected,” said Bekele. “My client was literally told, ‘We have enough juice,’ and they used the term ‘juice’ to stop your contract,” said Bekele’s attorney Whitney Leigh. Bekele refused to give up any garages, and he did, in fact, lose the contract. It looked like the vote would go well at the MTA board meeting last March. Staff still recommended that Bekele get the contract. “We feel we at this point it would be in the best interest of everyone to go ahead with the awards at this time,” said Bond Yee, MTA director of Sustainable Streets, at the March meeting. Bekele even thanked Ford. But somehow Bekele didn’t get the votes. With two “yes” and three “no” votes, the motion was not approved. One board member tells the I-Team he wasn’t even sure which contract they were voting on, and that he had a hard time getting answers from Ford. So Bekele had just one option — return to the board one last time with his new lawyer, former president of the Board of Supervisors, Matt Gonzalez. “I would rather not be talking about damages a year and a half from now, or two years from now, in front of a jury,” Gonzalez told the board on June 15, 2010. “I would rather not take your depositions or director Ford’s deposition or request documents. I think this board should reconsider what happened in this matter.” Bekele then addressed the board, saying, “I’m going to have to protect my rights and pursue legal action.” Ford finally recused himself from the garage contract process last July because of “a business relationship that may create the appearance of conflict of interest” — Kay. But Ford sent that letter four months after Bekele lost the contract. Noyes: Why not recuse yourself earlier, months before? At that point, the damage was done. Ford: I don’t know if there was any damage done because– Noyes: He lost the contract. Ford: I don’t think– Noyes: Bekele lost the contract. Ford: We, as a staff, recommended the award of that contract. “The agency’s been accused of backroom stuff, and so we take it very seriously,” said MTA board chairman Tom Nolan. Nolan says investigators are looking into how Bekele lost the garage contract and into that meeting in Kay’s office. Nolan: Actually, I think they’re still talking to people who were participants in the meeting about what did in fact happen, and you know, this is Noyes: Who’s talking to people? Nolan: Our people, the attorneys are talking. Noyes: Which attorneys? Nolan: The city attorney — our city attorney. Investigators at the city attorney’s office say they will wrap up the case very soon. Ford and Kay have something else in common — former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. He shares office space with Kay, and Brown recruited Ford for the top spot at the MTA. The mayor tells the I-Team he had no conversations with Ford about the parking garage issue. The I-Team has called and e-mailed Kay and tried to reach executives at Pacific Park and Five Star, and has not heard back.
All the western puppets are trembling in their boots….. All those western propped up despots will have their days numbered. All those US supported tyrants who are dictated via the IMF & WB proxies will be swept by the tide of the people’s fury…… The US is frantically trying to divert the revolutions by trying to instigate chaos in countries that it has no clouts on…. Massive miscalculation!!!
They never learn, them gringos….. lol