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...asked that I give him a pseudonym, runs a car-alarm business: the nouveau riche at the top of this corrupt society can easily afford his $45 systems to protect their new Nissans and Protons. But Karim cannot feed his family of four on his meager monthly food ration. His earnings at the shop let him buy a little meat, a bit of chicken, to supplement the basics. When I ask him if anyone avoids the birthday parade, he looks at me as if I were daft. Anyone in Baghdad who has a job and wants to keep it shows...
...more to stop mobile mayhem. In the U.K. the tabloid press has regularly accused service providers of guilt by inertia. "Their pathetic inaction is responsible for a crime wave and pretty soon someone is going to be murdered for their mobile," blasted the Express. The French daily Libération also attacked service providers for their slowness in finding a solution...
...Overthrow the Oppressive Patriarchy” badge and the “Tool of the Cookie-Selling Establishment” badge. I wear fleece. I own a Nalgene. With this background in ruggedness, 47 days in the wilderness with nothing but the clothes on my back, a ration of corn mush and the mocking smirks of the cameramen would surely be no problem...
...Thursday titled "The Global War on Terrorism: The First 100 Days." Leaving no victory unsung, the report details everything the U.S. has accomplished so far, from freezing $33 million in terrorist assets at home (coalition partners have frozen another $33 million abroad) to air-dropping 2,423,700 food ration packets to Afghan civilians. And only one mention that "much dangerous and difficult work remains to be done" in the hundreds and hundreds of days ahead...
...biggest key to the game will be the turnover ration," Murphy said. "If we come out with no turnovers, we will have a great chance of winning...