YakimaGulagLiteraryGazett

Well, it's still cold, but it's been pretty out because the sun has been out. I have most of the work on the English paper done, I can't do anything else tonight, other than the highlighting of quotes. This is something that most of the other instructors at the Yakima Gulag People's Institute of Higher Re-Education (tm) have not required. Not that it's a huge problem, it's just one more job. I am not sure even the fairly big folder I got will hold everything. The postage was high but at least not prohibitive. I do NOT in the LEAST blame the instructor for this. She works hard to comment on papers and then people don't collect their papers at all! That's so WRONG! To me her thoughts are worth the price of the SASE, and I was gladd to do it.

UPDATES for today:

Mass Grave Near Brcko

http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Rest+of+the+World&month=December2006&file=World_News2006120224548.xml


Gaidar was poisoned

http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Rest+of+the+World&month=December2006&file=World_News2006120184518.xml

Caste Related Violence in India

http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World%5FNews&subsection=India&month=December2006&file=World_News200612018481.xml


Musharraff Reforms laws in Pakistan Regarding Rape

http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Pakistan+%26+Sub%2DContinent&month=December2006&file=World_News2006120223348.xml

This legislation is an enormous step forward into the 21st century and it was very brave of him to do this. His critics have called the law 'un-Islamic. I don't see how that could be the case since adultery is still a crime, and you can go to jail for five years if convicted, or be fined $165, which is a serious chunk of change in Pakistan. Jail sentances for women are almost worse than death since rape is a real danger to women prisoners in all of the sub-Continent. So the penalty is still pretty severe.


Seselj Trial Adjourned Until Further Notice

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/11100.html

Camp Trials Begin

http://www.iwpr.net/?p=tri&s=f&o=325853&apc_state=henptri


Grandson of Serbia's WWII royalist guerrilla leader lodges demand for Dragoljub Mihailovic's rehabilitation

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/01/europe/EU_GEN_Serbia_WWII_Divisions.php


Polonium in Cigarrettes

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/01/opinion/edproctor.php

That's ducky just ducky!

Hacker Story

http://www.scmagazine.com/us/news/article/607961/feds-charge-romanian-hacker-cracking-nasa-navy-networks/



Well it is cold here, but I understand that we in the Yakima Gulag may well be in better shape than people less used to this sort of weather. We are actually a tad warmer than where Ivan the Terrible is now living. I was wearing my other pair of boots yesterday, not my Doc Martin (TM) cowboy boots, but a fairly fancy label, and the sole came loose as I was on my way home. Thank God it wasn't too awful out there, but it was harder getting home because of this. Once home I switched boots and went to take care of some essential business, ie putting my paycheck in the bank and getting some much needed walking around money. Today is to be devoted to the finishing of the final English paper.

Here is today's Karadžić update:

Two War Criminals Hiding in Republika Srpska area of BiH and Serbia

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=L01874531&WTmodLoc=World-R5-Alertnet-4

And the Litvinenko case seeks deeper into Bondean weirdness. There's plenty elsewhere, the BBC and NPR have the most reports.