Fieldnotes on Humanity

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Today, President Hamid Karzai announced that his government would build new prisons for detainees transferred from the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay.  According to the media, the U.S military would take back hundreds of Afghan prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The prison for these detainees would be completed within two years, said Karzai.  It is unknown under what circumstances Karzai acquiesced to the US demand to transfer the prisoners, but one thing is obvious: all those who were transferred are now going to be transferred by the CIA rendition operation, snatching people from their homes and villages and transferring them to Guantanamo Bay. It is extraordinary how such things are happening right now, but what would you say when the empire flexes its muscle? 

According to a news source, Britain announced that its troop numbers in Afghanistan will peak this year at 5,700, with the deployment of thousands of fresh soldiers as part of NATO's occupying force there. The 4600 additional troops include 3300 for a special force task with reconstruction and fighting against the drug trade in a dangerous district in southern Afghanistan.

---------- Tow new private television channels in the name of Saqi and Hera have launched broadcasting in the western of the country Herat province. Saqi started broadcasting on Friday with four hours broadcasting daily. Hera start broadcast six hours daily. Beside of four private channels like Ariana tv, Tolo tv, Ayna tv, Afghan tv and including one government TV these two is launched outside of the capital. According to the ministry of information and culture more than 25 other private channels are registered to started the gradually the transmission. Las week Afghan TV accused and punished to 50000 Afghanis equal to 1000 U.S dollar for broadcasting a un-islamic pictures which showed a half naked body of woman in TV. Now the entire channel started censorship.

------- A few days before four people involved in theft and armed robberies. A local officer has said to the Media that more than 200 thieves had been arrested during the past one month. However, residents complained organized gangs of robbers and dacoits were still active in the area. There are still many armed gangs and thieves in the commanders, incidents of robberies, theft and dacoits were difficult to contain, believed the residents. A week back police arrested two armed men recovered three lifted vehicles with a number of other valuables from them in the same area. Most of the crimes are recorded as the people who left the front of war, now they joined to a different kind of gangs and robbers which mostly ambushing the highways. Government had still was in struggle to end this but still people are witnessed of increasing crimes in the country.

--------- If we could shrink the earth's population to avillage of precisely 100 people, with all the existinghuman ratios remaining the same, it would looksomething like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere,both north and south 8 would be Africans 52 would be female48 would be male 30 would be white70 would be non-white 70 would be non-Christian30 would be Christian 89 would be heterosexual11 would be homosexual 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealthand all 6 would be from the USA. 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would havea college education 1 (yes, only1) would own computer. When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective,we realize the need for acceptance, understanding and education. And, therefore... If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back,...

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