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Municipal elections were completed earlier today, the elections were historic for Kuwait in being the first time women get to run and vote in an election!

The turnout of today’s by-election was 38 percent while the number of voters was 10,646.

The results are as follows -

يوسف مفلح الصويلح 5436

جنان محسن بوشهري 1807

عماد شاكر دشتي 1165

Yousif AlSuwaileh won the seat, congrats to him. What is really interesting is that Jinan Boshihri got a very impressive second place! A woman getting second place in the first election ever in a place like Kuwait has to be a great motivator for all women in Kuwait! Hopefully this will give many more a chance to consider running in the parliament elections coming up next year!

I wasnt following the election news closely until the results, so I didnt really know what the expectations were for results. Personally, I just didnt think a woman would get this close at all! So basically this made me very pleasantly surprised and optimistic for future elections!

كفو اختياركم -

الوطن

القبس

حسين القلاف: انتوا ليش ما تسكتون اذا موعاجبكم الكلام وتبون اتهاوشون طلعوا بره من القاعة.
عادل الصرعاوي: انت شفيك هذه مو اول مرة لك يا اخي وجه كلامك للرئاسة.
حسين القلاف: ليش ما تسمعون
عادل الصرعاوي: يا اخي ما نبي نسمع لك ومو مجبرين نسمع اللي تقوله وعلى كيفنا
فيصل المسلم: هل هذا معقول ان يطرد نائب زملاءه من المجلس.. وين قاعدين.. الحديث له اصول..
الرئيس: اخ فيصل انت ليش واقف اهنيه.. اقعد مكانك.
فيصل المسلم: ليش تطلب مني الجلوس والقلاف يغلط على النواب ويطردهم من المجلس وانت ما تقول شي.
حسين القلاف للمسلم: انت مو شغلك انا ما كلمتك انا
كلمت الصرعاوي… منو اللي حاطك محامي تدافع عنه.. اعرف حدودك ولا تدخل نفسك فيما لا يخصك.
اقعد مكانك… ولا كلمة.
فيصل المسلم: هل هذا اسلوب عضو مجلس في مخاطبة زملائه؟.
حسين القلاف: انت شكو وشدخلك، احترم نفسك، لعنة الله عليك.
فيصل المسلم: لعنة الله عليك انت واحترم نفسك.
حسين القلاف: اقعد مكانك… انت منو الاخ الرئيس خل هذا يسكت ولا يدخل نفسه فيما لا يعنيه.
فيصل المسلم: انا فيصل المسلم واحترم نفسك في مخاطبة زملائك.
حسين القلاف: يعني شنو بتسوي، اللي ما تطوله بيدك طوله برجلك.. اقعد مكانك.
فيصل المسلم: شوف الأخ الرئيس أسلوب كلام عضو مجلس الأمة كيف يكلم زملاءه النواب بهذا الأسلوب الفظ.
حسين القلاف: الى متى نسكت عنك.. اسكت يا حيوان يا قليل الحيا..

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هاهاهاهاهاهاها …. كفو والله!

هذا مجلسكم اللي صوتوله حق معاملاتكم و واسطاتكم

I love propaganda! I love PR work, and I especially enjoy reading and watching posters from propaganda in the past! The Chinese and Nazi German works are the most famous, and of course there is Iraq’s during Saddam’s era!

The Chinese works always show as a people’s leader, the man who is loved by everyone and who is their saviour and hero, giving them everything they need to be happy!

These are some examples of propaganda posters of the time -

I have this excellent book that has all the posters from the Chinese propaganda minds.

One of the most famous pics of propaganda was General Mao swimming accros the river -

Doesn’t this remind you of another famous picture of a leader swimming??

You guessed it! The one and only Saddam! He took a page from Mao’s book, he actually took alot more, his propaganda team tried to show him not only as a leader, but as THE hero!

In the first picture, Saddam is on a horse holding a sword, heading towards alQuds. He is the Salahuldein, the saviour who brought back alQuds to the Muslims.

Look at the second picture, with Saddam’s face near another face, which is Nebuchadnezzar, the old Babylon king who kicked out the Jews back in the day!

Not too subtle, but to the point, and that was his message, that he is the saviour for Islam and the Arabs, and unfortunately, we have enough idiots in our world to believe that!

All these propaganda posters are very similar and intersting, in trying to get a message through. My favourite form of propaganda has to be the German Nazi propaganda material. Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister then, has to be one of the best weapons Germany had at the time! Their message wasn’t on showing Hitler as a hero, as much as showing the threats from the Jews and the weakness of the other leaders and countries, as well as saying that Hitler’s aim of giving supreme power to the Aryan race was good and that you wanted to be part of that elite club!

As well as Hitler as the giver, growing seeds of peace supposedly in this poster -

Alot of the posters done for Nazi Germany at the time were very cool in an modern art kind of way! Its like a bunch of artists on drugs were doing them -

In this cartoon, the truth on its head when the US is talking!

This, by far, has to be the coolest election poster ever made -

This is from the 1932 elections.

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This could go on forever, but its a taste of how important and nice propaganda is!

In Kuwait, there is alot of this propaganda in our daily newspapers, sometimes its subtle, sometimes its pretty obvious. Especially take notice of AlWatan and how they show Ahmad AlFahad, it really is interesting sometimes!