May 10, 2009 archive

Docudharma Times Sunday May 10

Bill O’Reilly Don’t Know

Much About History

Don’t Know Much

About Anything




Sunday’s Headlines:

She’s Israeli, he’s an Arab. War has made them like mother and son

For Christian enclave in Jordan, tribal lands are sacred

Revealed: cruel fate of miners who found perfect blue diamond

No place for excuses as Jacob Zuma takes power

Papi Silvio ‘to fix up’ teen model as MP

Thousands rally to mark one month of Georgia protests

Karzai in move to share power with warlord wanted by US

Sri Lankan shelling ‘kills 257’

Global warming’s toll: Glacier in Bolivia is gone

Taliban-Style Justice Stirs Growing Anger

Sharia Being Perverted, Pakistanis Say

By Pamela Constable

Washington Post Foreign Service

Sunday, May 10, 2009


ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 9 — When black-turbaned Taliban fighters demanded in January that Islamic sharia law be imposed in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, few alarm bells went off in this Muslim nation of about 170 million.

Sharia, after all, is the legal framework that guides the lives of all Muslims.

Officials said people in Swat were fed up with the slow and corrupt state courts, scholars said the sharia system would bring swift justice, and commentators said critics in the West had no right to interfere.

Today, with hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Swat and Pakistani troops launching an offensive to drive out the Taliban forces, the pendulum of public opinion has swung dramatically.

Iran court hears reporter appeal

A court in Iran is hearing an appeal from jailed US-Iranian reporter Roxana Saberi, two days earlier than originally expected.

The BBC

Ms Saberi’s lawyer said it was not clear when a ruling would be announced, but that he was optimistic that the 32-year-old would be acquitted.

Ms Saberi was convicted of spying for the US – a charge she denied.

The case sparked international concern and US President Barack Obama has appealed on her behalf.

Appeal process

Unlike her original trial, the legal process this time has been arranged to appear fair and open, says the BBC’s Jon Leyne in Tehran.

While Sunday’s hearing is still not open to the public, Ms Saberi’s appeal is being heard before a panel of three judges, and representatives of the Iranian Bar Association are being allowed to attend.

Her lawyer has also been given plenty of notice.

USA

For Victims of Recession, Patchwork State Aid

THE SAFETY NET

By JASON DePARLE

Published: May 9, 2009


WASHINGTON – As millions of people seek government aid, many for the first time, they are finding it dispensed American style: through a jumble of disconnected programs that reach some and reject others, often for reasons of geography or chance rather than differences in need.

Health care, housing, food stamps and cash – each forms a separate bureaucratic world, and their dictates often collide. State differences make the patchwork more pronounced, and random foibles can intervene, like a computer debacle in Colorado that made it harder to get food stamps and Medicaid.

The result is a hit-or-miss system of relief, never designed to grapple with the pain of a recession so sudden and deep. Aid seekers often find the rules opaque and arbitrary. And officials often struggle to make policy through a system so complex and Balkanized.

Late Night Karaoke

All Mixed Up

Saturday is the new Friday

I`m late with my Friday distractions due to a few expected circumstances & a few unexpected.

Nevertheless, I would rather try & distract you a little later than not at all.

This little friend of mine is named Lukey, & we have to all bet our future on our children.

He`s The Wild One.

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Dystopia 7: The Rebels

“Yes: death–or renewal! Either the state forever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it its wars and its domestic struggles for power, its palace revolutions which only replace one tyrant by another, and inevitably at the end of this development there is…death! Or the destruction of the state, and new life starting again in thousands of centers on the principle of the lively initiative of the individual and groups and that of the free agreement. The choice lies with you!”

Peter Kropotkin  

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