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Post from Afghanistan

Friday, April 24, 2009

Yesterday I had a call a living in Chicago Afghans under my Epost, I decided to translate: Dr. Mohammed Daud Miraki had obviously have my email address, I ordered his book "Afghanistan after Democracy" some time ago.

Afghanistan After Democracy

Dr. Mirakis book "Afghanistan After Democracy"

I would then see firsthand what is happening in Afghanistan itself: After German troops are there. Dr. Mirakis picture story shocked me. Then I read the book nor the German Afghanistan connoisseur Christoph Hörstel ( "bomb Afghanistan: The Bundeswehr in Your Eyes" ), I can only recommend if you want something closer to deal with the matter. (more ...)

Against the Grain: The real gunman

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

If the media roller rolls again, I take always happy to brush.

A common direction for me has something threatening, and I imagine it figuratively a bison herd before, the drums on the prairie diversity of opinion; in the distance, perhaps lurks an abyss, which the excited herd animals no longer perceive the drums, snorting and stomping of conspecifics is simply overpowering and drowned out any warning signals. The clouds of steam, smoke from the nostrils and ears of snorting media armada make, deaf and block the receptors of the olfactory bulb in order to perceive the stench of actual scandals.

When I feel that something should be scandalized and someone will trigger certain emotions in me like a Pavlovian dog saliva, then I block, something goes against the grain, and then I brush up against the grain. I would hardly have believed that I would have to write something about guns and gun laws, I am surprised to themselves.

My childhood was marked by strict pacifism my parents, u .a itself. in a comprehensive ban on weapons in our children practically expressed. The reason for the ban was acting under painted and staged and so understood by us children: because our parents had both lived through the war. Both knew shoot what and bomb was, and I can only do write because my mother was on that day that her house was wiped out by a direct hit in the basement of the house next door to assist with her mother and her siblings a neighbor, whether the permanent air strikes threatened to lose his mind. (more ...)