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POPSJust give us the money... The thugs want the money but don't want to reform. These elites making noise are the ones who take bundles of American aid, eat the funds in corruption, still spout anti-American rhetoric, and support the Taliban while suppressing democracy and human rights of smaller nations like the Sindhis. Let's hope President Obama sticks to his guns and follows through with trying to enforce it. He may have to then finally give up this strategy and face the fact that he will not get honest cooperation out of Pakistan and its brutal, fanatic and dangerous military.
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POPSUnsustainable Agriculture Heads for a Collapse While at the same time, the pressure to produce has increased -- India has trebled its chicken consumption. The chickens are raised in factory farms, wasting 3 times the protein and calories. As the rich consume more meat, prices go up and the poor become more malnourished. (The global scenario is repeated within the country).
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POPSTaliban whip woman for socializing with a Man Sindhi women's rights groups protested in Hyderabad against the Taliban atrocities in Swat. The video is disturbing. The punishment is similar to what happens in Saudi Arabia: By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: March 10, 2009 A 75-year-old widow living in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to 40 lashes and four months in jail for mingling with two young men who are not close relatives, her lawyer said Monday. The newspaper Al Watan said the woman, Khamisa Sawadi, met with two 24-year-old men in April after she asked them to bring five loaves of bread to her home. The two men, her nephew and his business partner, were arrested by the religious police after delivering the bread, the newspaper said.
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POPSDeath Penalty for Dancing Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance, when you're perfectly free. Since we live where everything is music, everything is dancing. Watch the dust grains moving in the light near the window. Their dance is our dance. We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless, directed by the one who teaches us, the pure joy of the sun, our music master. -- Rumi (Coleman Barks translation)