[Ccpg] herb snake miso flogged on a plain

[seedmind at usa.net]

From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl at intrex.net> wrote:
>Can you buy miso in Jerusalem? Locally made
like we have here in NC?
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hi larry-
the miso i've gotten here seems mostly imported, though there is a surpisingly
good selection. what i'd really like is the chunky-with-intact-grain miso they
used to have at Community Foods in santa cruz, Follow Your Heart in santa
barbara, and the Fairfax, CA healthfood store too (the Good Earth?). now THAT
was some tasty miso, with seaweed tidbits and not to salty/strong so that you
good practically eat it straight. do they have that in NC?

>Do you live anywhere near here?
>http://www.pbase.com/amihays/image/41213713
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that looks like the north, i'm smack in the center... of the universe
some say.

here's a little article that would seem to influence how friendly hipsters are
toward fundamentalism/war on terror targets:

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Fundamentalists flog Somali woman in public
Strict religious punishment raises fears of Taliban-style regime

Thursday, August 24, 2006 Posted: 1529 GMT (2329 HKT)


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An Islamic Courts official, right, prepares to lash a Somali woman in public
in Mogadishu on Thursday.

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Islamic leaders in Mogadishu gave a woman 11 lashes
for selling cannabis Thursday, the first female to receive such punishment
since the fundamentalist rulers took over the capital in June.

The woman, who throughout the beating insisted she was innocent, was flogged
alongside five other men at the Yassin Square in Mogadishu in front of several
hundred people. The small bundle of cannabis, worth around $1 on the streets
in the capital, was burned before the crowd.

"The reason we punished them was that we want to stop people selling and using
drugs," said a local security official, Sheik Omar Hussein. "We believe as
Islamists that people should stay away from drugs."

The imposition of strict religious rule has sparked fears of an emerging,
Taliban-style regime. The United States accuses Somalia's Islamic leaders of
harboring al Qaeda leaders responsible for deadly bombings at the U.S.
embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.

Somalia has not had a police force or judiciary for 16 years since the
warlords overthrew longtime dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991 and then
turned on each other, carving much of the country into armed camps ruled by
violence and clan law.

The Islamic leaders stepped into the vacuum in Mogadishu and most of southern
Somalia, projecting themselves as a source of stability.

Late Tuesday, Islamic militiamen raided a makeshift video hall in Mogadishu,
beating up viewers watching an Indian film. Like the Taliban, members of the
group appear to see any secular entertainment as un-Islamic.

Somalia has a weak transitional government set up two years ago with
U.N.-backing, but it has been unable to assert its authority beyond Baidoa,
150 miles (240 kilometers) northwest of Mogadishu, and could only watch
helplessly as Islamic militants seized the capital in June.

Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. 


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