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►Price
of bread
kate Bodyinmotion
Mapping
the war on poverty
June 5, 2008
Having spent the majority of my adult life on African soil, trips back
to the US are full of both nostalgia and contradiction. Visiting my
mother’s workplace in the Bronx is one of the most dramatic of these
contradictions.
►Doctors
in POland So
I waited. And then, I waited a bit more. I read some of the drug company
flyers hanging around the place. And then I did some more waiting. I
paced around the little waiting room, all the while waiting some more. I
went outside the waiting room and down the corridor - but even there, I
was still waiting.
►Docs
and Quacks Those who
know me even casually know that I am a libertarian/right-wing nut. By
rights, I should hate the medical system here. But I can’t, because even
before I am a libertarian, I am a utilitarian; and Uruguay’s medical
system WORKS!
►So
if pee could potentially be worth as much as this, I guess the old
phrase 'golden shower' has a whole new connotation!
Ms Carnivorous.
My dentist
►Argentina
►Chinese
products
ZIM NEEDS PEACE. NOT CHINA ARMS: Chinese vessel carrying weapons destined for Zimbabwe
►Zimbabwe.
Elections April 2008
More victims from Zanu PF’s Operation
Mavhoterapapi (Where you put your ‘X’)
April 13th, 2008
►Ahmed
I gotta go now to
get to Mansour to meet the guy I told you about. They have threatened
him few days ago and he has vanished since then.
Iraqi artist, Salam Atta
Sabri.
►Treasure
of Baghdad
Let's build our country. Let's put the differences aside and
remember that we are all Iraqis as we always were. Let's not
give our enemies a chance to tear us apart. History has already
recorded their crimes that will never be erased. What remains is
us, our unity, our freedom and our Iraq.
►When
a husband
How does anyone of you beat his wife as he beats the stallion camel and
then embrace (sleep with) her?”
►Water
Bottled water
phil
Have you ever bought a bottle of bottled water? If you
did you pay attention to where it was from? How much did you pay for it?
Welcome to one of the biggest and most dishonest scams on the earth today.
 ►Thanks.
GOOD JOB MR. BUSH
Unlike the visits of the other presidents who came
to Iraq after the "liberation", Mr. Najad , got the whole red carpet
treatment worthy of a Visiting president. In his joint press conference with
President Talabani, Najad said that " A visit to Iraq without the dictator
is a truly happy one,".
►Miss
Carnivorous goes straight
In Afghanistan we need to be meaner than the
Taliban in order to win the war
►Quran
for dummies
Quran 2:47 actually opened
with the incredible assertion:
“O children of Israel!
Remember those blessings of Mine with which I graced you, and
how I favoured you above all other people.”
►Albania
How
We Do Laundry in Tirana
When I
became mayor of Tirana it was like entering a Kafka book and becoming a
person in danger of becoming totally metamorphosed by the very heavy
power of the past and of the total lack of authority and hope in the
city.
Tirana was totally left behind and was
very similar to a transit station in that everybody was thinking of how
to escape.
It was the greyest, dustiest, most
hopeless city ever imagined.
Every free piece of land was seen as
a space to be occupied, so all the parks disappeared and every building
was in like a permanent state of pregnancy because every building got
bigger and bigger.
►ElectionsThe
Zanu PF politburo gathered in sombre mood.
“I thought the elections were free and fair,” said one member. “SADC
promised us they would be declared free and fair even before they took
place.”
►Africa Violence
"They were shouting and telling Tsvangirai that they could kill him on
that night and nothing would happen to them,” said the officer.
Initiation
kate bodyinmotion
November 19, 2007
Malawi,
along with neighbors Zambia and
Mozambique, have male secret
societies called the Gule Wamkulu.
It is the members of these secret
societies that dress in costume,
unknown men inside, to attend
rites representing Mother Earth,
the British Colonialist, and…the
fire dancer?
The
fire dancer, Maninja, attends
initiation rites demonstrating the
dangers of playing with fire, i.e.
HIV but somehow I think there was
some prior meaning.
We
were told that in Malawi, between
colonization, Westernization, and
urbanization, these rites aren’t
practiced so much anyone. But not
three days later, driving through
the Zambia bush, we saw the fire
dancer running along the side of
the road to a ceremony.
►Trash
beth jakob
Dennis Nyandoro
Cocorioko Newspaper
Limited
The sign reads: "It is forbidden by law to dump trash on this site, punishable
by fines." I'd say most of the trash in Ouaga ends up at places like this.Now you know.
►WORK
SUCKS A survey
►Bangalore
THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF JHATKA
Manual rickshaw and pollution are hand in glove.
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►Going
postal
Me:- "Why wasn't it delivered?"
Rather Hot Postal Working Girl:- "Dunno!"
Me:- "Why didn't you send a notice to make my friend shlep down to the
local sorting office as a tease and then tell them they needed to shlep
down to this out of the way office, you know, like you did to me?"
Rather Hot Postal Working Girl:- "Dunno!"
Me:- "OK - so what now?"
Rather Hot Postal Working Girl:- "Hmmm... Well You need to go the next
room and wait for your number to be called out for YOUR
package!......But you need to be in this room too, so we can advise you
about your friends package!"
Me:- "Talented as I am my Dear, I cannae be in two places at the same
time, what do you recommend?"
Rather Hot Postal Working Girl:- "If I was you I would wait halfway,
between this room and the next and just keep your ears open - very
open!"
Me:- "Fair enough, I like a challenge!"
►Transport
After we had decided the exact car we wanted, the negotiations were done
on the phone. All paperwork was brought to my office to be signed off
and the car was delivered at home with a red ribbon tied around it!
►Religion
Among the many miracles on offer was a
declaration that 2008 was the year of Supernatural Wealth Transfer.
I imagined money falling from the sky, or a mysterious transfer into all
believers' bank accounts from the Bank of God.
►Gypsy
Romanian gipsy run a lot of dirty business
(prostitution, drugs, etc) in Romania or in other European countries (like
Spain or Italy). They show their gold jewelry in every occasion. They
think gold is power and they are very proud of that illusion.
J
►Traffic
Police
►Taxi
Travel on the streets of Krasnodar
just got a whole lot easier. All
of Krasnodar is talking about a
“crazy” new taxi service called
Maria Rafaela Taxi, which is, gasp,
using Mercedes B Class 170 white
minivans.
►Food
Special It’s that time of year again when this spot offers its tribute to the humble
Polish Christmas carp.
In
town squares all over the Czech Republic there are large tanks full of
carp. Carp or capr as they are called in the Czech Republic are the
centre of the Christmas meal - the Czech equivalent of turkey. Shoppers
buy the live fish and take them home, even keeping them in the bath
until the time comes to kill and eat them .
do you speak
Italian ?
►A
Story Without Words
SPECIALS
►Religion
"Yet Upasana's
proclamation led us all to believe that she was actually talking about
her previous birth," he said. "She claims that the spacecraft was hit by
a huge ball of ice that sent it crashing and ended her life."
►Bureaucracy
Ask Carpetblogger! How Do I Become a
Bureaucracy Usta Like You? Think like an Ottoman-era bureaucrat
►Transport
Now here we are, in the Heartland
of America. (I wonder which state is the Bileductland of America? They
sure keep quiet about it.)
►Taxi
The rickshaws in
Pakistan: tiny, three wheeled yet carries up to a total of 4 grown ups,
still maintains a high speed and manages to re-arrange your entire organ
content, ending up with your heart literally in your throat, for a mere
price of 15 rupees
►Banking
My brother-in-law went to al-Rafidain Bank, one of the famous banks in
Baghdad that has branches everywhere in the country. They went to the
branch in Ilwiyah neighborhood, near Karrada. As soon as he got in, he
noticed that the bank was neglected. Dust was everywhere, the smell of
cigarettes filled every room there. From behind the counter, one of the
employees gave him the bad news.You are not registered in this neighborhood. You can’t open a bank
account unless you live here!!!!!
►Banking
I
hate going to the bank. I hate it because I know that I will enter a
calm, contented (well, almost!), human being, and exit a rabid animal.
►Globalization
Monrovia’s eggs, as it turns out, are not grown locally. Nor are they
sourced from within West Africa, or even elsewhere in Africa, for that
matter. Monrovia’s eggs are shipped from India. How, precisely, is a
question for a later day. But, if the eggs are from India, what is the
origin of other basic, cheap, core products? Like the ground pea?
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►Finance
Two years ago, a camel cost little more than a goat,
which is nothing. The price has since trebled.”
Interesting times for those with camels, who have endured years of camel
snorts.
►Helsinky.
May Day 2008
►May
Day 2008. Istanbul
►May
Day. Baghdad 2007
►Racist
eggs Miss Carnivorous
►SHORT
STORIES Miss Carnivorous
The Democrats system of delegates
More proof that lefties and Christian
fundamentalists are a lot alike
The Democrats system of delegates was set up in order to prevent anyone from
being made to "feel bad." Everyone running in a Presidental primary gets a
delegate, whether anyone actually votes for them or not. The Dems don't want
to hurt anybody's feelings or make them feel left out. Ahhh, how sweet.
►The
shelter
On this day but Seventeen years ago, hundreds of
innocent Iraqi civilians were hiding from the American terror
bombardments in a bomb shelter in Amiriya neighborhood west of Baghdad.
They didn’t know that the crows were hovering over the building. The
children were playing, women were chatting and praying for safety and
the elderly were either reading or praying too. Then, a sudden shock,
huge fire and then everyone melted on the floor and the walls.
►Marriage
DM
Shiite seeks VGL SF for love
ZEYAD
SOMEDAY MY PRINCESS WILL COME. BUT
WHAT IF SHE IS A SUNNI?
►Baghdad Burning
►Healing
Iraq
George Bush, Dick Cheney and their advisors may want to look up the
unpopular Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of the last century between Great Britain
and the nominally independent Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq,
They may also want to look up how that treaty ended.The Prime Minister
tried to escape Baghdad in a woman's dress, but he was captured, shot,
tied with ropes, dragged on the streets, mutilated beyond recognition by
Iraqis who hit the corpse with slippers, and then hung from a building
in central Baghdad and later burned.
Zeyad 6/05/2008
Europian
Union
►Italy
“Where will you go,” I asked them. “Will you
go north to France? Will you go south to Africa? Will you go west to Portugal?
Or will you go east to Italy?”
“We are going to Italy,” Flat Stanley said. “They have rigatoni in Italy.
►Italy
It
was night time by this stage, but being the courageous foreigner I got
off the bus, thanking the driver and the old people telling them to have
a nice night.
►Romania
Shelly Roberts
No one in Romania ever says "Yes." just
once.
They say "Da. Da." Sometimes they say "Da. Da. Da.
Very often they say "Da-da. Da-da-da."
Often it really means "No."
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