Trash Walk

The past few days have been the darkest for Pakistan cricket. And they are getting darker. It has been revealed during a press conference in Jamaica that Woolmer had died of manual strangulation.

According to Police spokesman Karl Angell:

“The pathologist’s report states that Mr Woolmer’s death was due to asphyxiation as a result of manual strangulation. In these circumstances, the matter of Mr Woolmer’s death is now being treated by the Jamaica police as a case of murder.”

http://content-pak.cricinfo.com/wc2007/content/current/story/286794.html

“My heart went out to young wicket-keeper Kamran Akmal, who after telling the assembled media he would miss Bob “for the rest of my life,” returned to his seat and broke down in tears.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tms/2007/03/pakistan_players_speak_about_w.shtml

“You can’t pick and choose when to be a supporter.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tms/2007/03/pakistans_emotional_farewell.shtml

Shock and sadness. This guy did a lot for the team, tried his best and died trying. I don’t want to get into the issues that the team and those concerned with it apparently had, and have had for such a long time but this did not include Woolmer.
What’s highly offensive is the way the supposed ‘fans’ react. They act as if the fuckin’ world has come to an end instead of just the world cup. Burning effigies, vandalising houses, chanting death slogans. Wtf. No one is supposed to die dammit, save your protests for the right causes and directed at the right issues. If this is the state of affairs, how will the real issues ever get resolved? Fans like these do not help the cause, they exacerbate the already screwed up situation and this needs to be dealt with.
We need to start protesting intelligently. We need to start directing our frustration at the real causes so that real results are obtained. What a waste of time and energy to shout death slogans and try to amass a lynch mob, would that solve the problem? No, of course not but hey, what the hell, let’s just do it anyway since we are so angry. Motivation needs to be directed to the right qibla; the right focus or all it’s doing is harming the very thing we profess to love.
Changes need to be made and hope springs eternal. Let this be a lesson.

Atreides

“Jeet lo 16 crore Pakistanio kai dil!”

Huh, they are still showing that stupid commercial, in which Inzi, Shoaib, Akmal and Younis are shown getting scared by watching videos of Australian players! Next time, maybe they will show Ireland making Shoaib bite his nails.

During the third day’s lunch break of Pakistan’s second test against South Africa, Sarfaraz Nawaz made some idiotic comments about coach Bob Woolmer in the PTV’s “Expert Opinion” show. I don’t have his exact quote, but Sarfaraz said that foreign coaches only intend to destroy teams, and accused Woolmer of intending to destroy the Pakistan team and conspiring to kick out Shoaib Akhtar, which he deduced from the heated argument scenes between Woolmer and Akhtar.

Sarfaraz should know that it is Akhtar who has had an attitude problem, not Woolmer. He should also know that Akhtar has also been at odds with Inzamam in the past and it doesn’t mean that Inzi was conspiring against Akhtar or intended to destroy the Pakistan team. Now, some would say that Inzi won’t intend to do such a thing because Pakistan is his team. Well, Woolmer also calls Pakistan “my team”, and instead of destroying the Pakistan team, he was the one who coached over the team that destroyed the Ashes winning England team last year in Pakistan.

So, it is not right to say that foreign coach will always intend to destroy the team while a native coach or player will not. Native players can also fix matches, nothing new about it. Sarfaraz demanded to remove Woolmer as a coach, and others have also expressed their dislike for foreign “gora” coaches. Is it because they don’t want a foreigner to take up the job position or is it only discrimination and dislike based on nationality or race?

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I don’t think so. Gibbs called those people “f***ing animals” because of their behaviour, not because of their race or nationality. He probably would have said the same thing if people of another race would have been behaving like animals. Thats not racism.

Check this out:
http://www.supercricket.co.za/default.asp?id=5079&des=sportstalk

First BlogSpot. Now WordPress as well…

I had been trying to view my other blog, www.thequran.wordpress.com, but couldn’t view it. When I tried to view the other WordPress blogs, I couldn’t view them either. But the blogs could be viewed through the www.anonymouse.org proxy server. Which means that …WordPress has been blocked!

What is worse is that, unlike BlogSpot.com, you cannot login to your WordPress dashboard. That is, in blogspot.com ban, you can’t view the homepage but you can login and post. But you can’t even post in WordPress.

How I am posting if I can’t login? I am using Firefox’s Performancing add-on, which does not require me to login to my wordpress.com dashboard.

The ban shows how much afraid those bastards are.

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UPDATE (Jan 19, 2007) :

Sorry I hadn’t been able to update this post because of being busy with a designing project for my institute, my B.Com Part II exams and my increased laziness during exam days.

WordPress.com wasn’t banned completely in Pakistan. Actually wordpress.com wasn’t opening and it was only opening through anonymous browsing website, which meant that it had been blocked. I asked two of my friends, and the blogs weren’t opening at their ends either. Which meant that it had been completely blocked. But just when I hit the “publish” button, another friend in Karachi informed me that the website was working at his end. Which meant that it was probably blocked by my local area network administrator. What really sucked is that the block prevented me to login to edit my post. And I didn’t have time(because of my exams) to go to the slow-as-snail internet cafés near my home.

When I later contacted my LAN administrator, he told me that he had not blocked the wordpress.com blogs either, Which meant that the blogs had probably been blocked by DANCOM, our ISP. I e-mailed them, but no reply.

The blogs are still blocked, but now I am using a kick-ass anonymous browsing tool as login to my dashboard and to access all blocked websites including the wordpress.com blog. Will post about it later.

Some comments on Saddam Hussein’s verdict from:
http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?sortBy=2&threadID=4607&edition=2&ttl=20061108003113&#paginator

There is no doubt that Saddam was an exceptionally cruel dictator bur he should not be subject to capital punishment. He should be kept in prison so that he can appear as one of the main prosecution witnesses at the war crime trials of George Bush and Tony Blair.

Emelle, London

His death will erradicate the final piece of evidence about who supplied him with the weapons in the first place

Gerry, Glasgow

Make absolutely no mistake - this is not a verdict, it is an assassination.

Killing Sadam prevents him from telling any stories about U.S arms dealings to journalists from his prison cell.

Matthew, Chicago

Typical America. Install a dictator, then when he gets a bit too big for his boots, bring him down in a bloodbath.

nik, london, uk

When do we trial ” the other” criminals: George Bush, Tony Blair, Henry Kissinger,Donald Rumsfel, Oliver North, John Negroponte..? S.Hussein’s crimes are nothing compared to the one committed by these Western barbarians, whereby they are responsible for the killing of hundred of thousands, disappearances, torture, the uprooting of entire nations and the destruction and separation of families,…includying my own,…I hope I can see at least one of these men hanged before I die.

Carlos Flores, Vancouver, Canada

Let me get this straight!
Most people never heard of Saddam Hussein before Bush senior invaded Iraq.
We invaded his country twice,accused him of having weapons of mass destruction,accused him of being linked to 9/11,killed most of his family and now we’re sentencing him to death?I don’t support Hussein at all, but to be sentenced to death is a bit over the top.
Why didn’t they sentence Harry S. Truman when he incinerated Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Why was Pinochet so protected in England?

Alex Gache, Netherlands

Two days before the American elections. What a coincidence……………..

Yitzhak Isaac Goldstein, Israel

Great. When will George Bush face trial for the same thing?

Sam, Essex

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Saddam Hussein sentenced to death

What about the bloodier bastards? The likes of Bush and Olmert etc? The bigger criminals against humanity are still on the loose. When are they going to be hanged? Why not hang that fat pig Sharon? Why he is under intensive care?! Wtf?!

Bigger criminals hanging smaller ones!

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After the ban on Shoaib Akhtar and Muhammad Asif for the failed drug test, they are being called “cheaters” because of the “scientific proof” against them.

But they would be cheaters only if they had intentionally taken the drugs. But both players say that they didn’t. Nobody is trying to refute the scientific proof. They refused the B sample tests, right? So it is not about scientific proofs. It is about their intentions.

And they say that Asif’s punishment was lighter because he is less literate than Shoaib, so he could not understand the instructions about banned drugs. Does this mean that the PCB handed out the banned drugs instructions in english language?! To urdu speaking players?! If so,…Idiots.

Instead of giving in to the butchers’ ‘bomb you back to the stone age’ threat, I think Musharraf should have responded like Chavez did: “you are a donkey Mr. Bush, you are a donkey Mr. Danger”:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KWAJVH8pTWI

Here is an article by Muhammad Asadi that I recieved through his mailing list:

The New Mongols

Only the most barbaric and perverse people on earth, possibly in its entire history can threaten the lives and well being of a nation of 162 million in such an off hand manner, as the US elite did regarding Pakistan (according to Musharraf’s claims) and that also not as the ultimate end but as a by-the-way endeavor in order to get to destroy another 30 million in Afghanistan and send them “back to the stone age”.

These US elite are barbarians, in the most explicit meaning of the word, they do not recognize the vast majority of people on earth as “humans”- it is very easy for them to make pronouncements like “get ready to be bombed “. To them you are not human, regardless of the rhetoric of freedom and democracy. They will not refrain from killing you or your kids and grandkids if they interfere with their objectives. Then they call themselves “civilization”, yet are worse than the Mongols, the most perverse barbarians the world has seen. They have a whole history of carnage behind them and proposed barbarism in front of them, and yet they have the audacity to talk about “Islamic-terrorism” and hypocritically about Darfur.

This episode should also tell future generations in Pakistan the true nature of their “sovereignty” which is non existent and the nature of their “leader”, to whom selling books is of greater importance than national sovereignty. When the “president” of a nation answers more to Simon & Schuster and gets a pat on the back for a “good job” as he wags his tail in elation to Bush, a nation with such a “leader” is indeed in deep trouble.

Those of you who ask what else could Pakistan have done, America is too big and strong, let me answer that by asking a simple question, “Would you hand your mama over to be raped just because the rapist was packing a pistol?” If Musharraf couldn’t handle the heat, couldn’t come up with a plan to preserve national sovereignty, he shouldn’t have strutted around as “leader” of a sovereign nation. The Pakistan military by its acts proves to be the indigenous occupation force of the Americans in Pakistan, all this fear mongering is just showmanship, this military sold this nation to the Americans long time back.

Looking out for “best national interest” does not mean you make decisions that surrender national sovereignity (granted there wasnt any before, thanks to the Pakistan military). If you do that then there is no “national interest” since there is no “nation”. Very simple concept, and the person who does that is not a “national leader” but a “foreign occupying force”. Such incidents multiplied might lead eventually to the political authority of this ‘occupation force of the Americans in Pakistan’ i.e. the Pak Army to erode, which would be a step in the right direction.

M. Asadi

To read more articles from the author, visit www.rationalreality.com , www.asadi.org and www.rationalreality.bravelog.com

Inzamam-ul-Haqq and Shoaib Akhtar rank among the top miscreants in Cricinfo’s XI, and Pakistan the most reported country :

http://wwwc4.cricinfo.com/columns/content/story/260544.html

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Crocodile hunter Steve Irwin’s final moments were captured on camera. But should that film ever be broadcast to the watching public?

I think that the video should be made available to public because, as the article says:

“Up till now we have witnessed Irwin sporting with crocodiles, poisonous snakes and tarantulas, always emerging unscathed and as lively as ever. The footage of Irwin’s final film can in itself be regarded as a necessary part of our education: these animals are dangerous, and fooling around with them can be deadly.”