Archive 4
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Iran -There are
lots of Iranians where I live, you must know.. I have
lots of friends there …and I always thought why Iranian women are so
feminine and tender but they raise such aggressive sons?
Untitled (First Abstract Watercolor) by Wassily Kandinsky. ►ET
in Tehran “Khameini is dead,”
my sister-in-law tells me. “They’ll announce his death during Ashura.” ►Romania to join the Eropean Union
►Musukuru”Congratulations! You are a grandfather!” His wife was sitting there outside their house holding a tiny baby in her arms. Patson did not know his first born son had a girlfriend .... For a while Patson just stared at his wife and the baby and the young teenage mother who sat nearby. She was still a child herself and had not even finished school. The girl had given birth to the baby at her own rural village but then her mother had said she had no money and would not support them.
►Bureaucracy
Each floor
held a different surprise. It smelled like deodorant and unwashed men as
we headed to the second floor. ►Anectode A YOUNG Winston Churchill, on the eve of the first world war, took a gamble that changed the course of history. As First Lord of the Admiralty, he decided to convert the British navy from Welsh coal to imported oil. The resulting gains in speed gave Britain's navy a decisive advantage over Germany's.… ►Baghdad Burning I'll meet you 'round the bend my friend, where hearts can heal and souls can mend... WORK SUCKS
►Healing Iraq By mid 2004, he unilaterally elevated his religious standing and proclaimed himself Grand Ayatollah Mahmoud Al-Sarkhi Al-Hassani. He also issued theological challenges to more established and senior clerics in the Hawza, boasting that he is the most knowledgeable or foremost cleric (al-marja’ al-a’lam) and is capable of solving the most intricate jurisprudential issues (ishkalat). ►Mortar attack video - Afghanistan New Mortar attacks against US Base ►deATH OF AN INSURGENT VIDEO - Whom the bell tolls for. ►It’s
time to partition Iraq
.Turn
the channel. Except for the final score, the war in Iraq is over.
►Saddam trial is a theatre. It is a Hollywood show to divert attention from the
destruction of Iraq and the massive war crimes committed against the Iraqi
people. Like the invasion, the "tribunal" is illegal and has no legitimacy in
occupied Iraq ►Fire.
"They
were all Iranians."
► Funny sad story So, basically Afghan politics are the exact opposite of US politics and exactly the same: in the US, companies pay the candidates. In Afghanistan, camdidates pay the companies. And in both countries those who don’t pay anyone generally get what they paid for. ►East Europe Believe in the Carpet and Ye Shall Be Saved! Brasov, Romania has a fine Gothic cathedral ►Taxi driver ...when I visited St. Petersburg, there were tons of these private mini-buses scooting around the city. Plenty of public transportation available, little (private?) white vans go where buses and trams don’t go, and anyone with an automobile could be a private taxi.And people had the freedom to flag down cars and pay the drivers to take them places if they were heading in the same direction - that certainly saves on gas!
►GTBank’s Eurobond Issue:Over-subscribed
►Benin When you get to the village of Ganvie, it’s like an apparition out of a dream.... Exactly how much wealth does Africa lose every year? Third World repayments of $340 billion each year flow northwards to service a $2.2 trillion debt, more than five times the G8's development aid budget I ►Iraq 2006 Bush, far from being remembered for establishing democracy in Iraq, will most likely be remembered as the man who brought ayatollahs' rule to Iraq ►Baghdad. Insurrection The confusion and conflict between the Americans, the army and the Ministry of interior is producing a situation where the citizens don't know anymore whether the security personel in the street are friends, enemies, terrorists or simply criminals and thieves. To sum up: Al-Maliki’s success will be measured by whether he can bring the Sunnis in, pay public sector workers on time, keep the electricity current on, and arrange for the coalition troops to leave. I have the chance to sit with an Iraqi singer who also plays on Lute and asked him how could he sing and play on these crazy days, the artist said “ I live in Sader city, I can’t walk in the street carrying my Lute with me, Iam hiding it here and there in fear some gunmen would see me and kill me, I have received many threats ordering me to give up singing because it is Haram or I would be killed but I love art it is in my blood, which is better to be a singer or a killer?”
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► Islam
►Reinventing the wheel Each day starts with the reinvention of the wheel, and ends with its next disappearance each evening, as the sun sets over the Congo River. ►Syria Syria, accused by the U.S. of supporting terrorism, plans to end its currency peg to the dollar by December to reflect closer trade ties with Europe, ►Crapistan To shashlyk ►SEE FinlanD BY BIKE The bike trail/road system of Finland is just as comprehensive as the automobile road system, ►Taxi driver ...when I visited St. Petersburg, there were tons of these private mini-buses scooting around the city. Plenty of public transportation available, little (private?) white vans go where buses and trams don’t go, and anyone with an automobile could be a private taxi.And people had the freedom to flag down cars and pay the drivers to take them places if they were heading in the same direction - that certainly saves on gas!
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