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I was killed in the Capitol. Brutus killed me.

Notjudging by the tarts we had at tea yesterday... cannon balls, simply cannon balls.

And third, it had to be what Amitabha calls infinitely expandable.

The Pop Tart, the Pringle, Cheez Whiz, none of that stuff.

This is an occasion for the world to speak up against the unspeakable.

At the same time Amitabha was obsessed with this drip irrigation technology that had been invented in Israel.

And I actually saw and met women who had been flogged by being caught eating vanilla ice cream.

The Abolition of the Punishment of Whipping Act, 1996, is a landmark development for which the Government of Pakistan should be congratulated.

There was lasagna, there was casseroles, there was brownies, there was butter tarts, and there was pies, lots and lots of pies.

The Special Rapporteur did not receive information permitting him to assess the extent of the use of whipping as a punishment in prisons.

The Abolition of the Punishment of Whipping Act appears to leave untouched the provisions of the Pakistan Prisons Act, 1894 and the Pakistan Prison Rules.

(16) The Committee reiterates its deep concern that corporal punishments such as flogging, and in a few cases even amputation of limbs, are still prescribed by law and practised in the State party, in violation of article 7 of the Covenant.

If you could only see the infidels as the angels draw away their souls and strike their faces and their backs, (saying) Taste the torment of burning

And if you see the angels when they are removing the souls of the disbelievers, hitting them on their faces and their backs Taste more of the punishment of the fire! (Punishment in the grave is proven by this verse.)

If thou couldst only see when the angels take the unbelievers, beating their faces and their backs 'Taste the chastisement of the burning

And couldst thou behold when the angels take away the life of those who disbelive striking their faces and their backs taste the torment of burning.

And if you could see when the angels take away the souls of those who disbelieve (at death), they smite their faces and their backs, (saying) Taste the punishment of the blazing Fire.

If only you could see, as the angels take away those who disbelieve, striking their faces and their backs Taste the agony of the Burning.

And if you could only see when the angels took away the souls of the unbelievers, striking them on their faces and backs, saying 'Taste the torment of burning.

If thou couldst see how the angels receive those who disbelieve, smiting faces and their backs and (saying) Taste the punishment of burning!

Were you to see when the angels take away the faithless, striking their faces and their backs, saying , Taste the punishment of the burning.

If you could see the angels when they carry off the souls of the unbelievers, beating their faces and their backs, saying 'Taste the punishment of Burning!

And if you could but see when the angels take the souls of those who disbelieved... They are striking their faces and their backs and saying , Taste the punishment of the Burning Fire.

Would that you could have seen the angels taking the souls of the unbelievers away from their bodies and smiting their faces and their backs saying, Suffer the burning torment.

And had you seen when the angels will cause to die those who disbelieve, smiting their faces and their backs, and (saying) Taste the punishment of burning.

If you could see, when the angels take the souls of those who are bent on denying the truth at death , how they strike their faces and backs saying Taste the punishment of the Burning!

If thou couldst see, when the angels take the souls of the Unbelievers (at death), (How) they smite their faces and their backs, (saying) Taste the penalty of the blazing Fire

Although the Government of Pakistan has taken some positive steps to improve the situation of human rights within the country, such as the creation of the Ministry for Human Rights, the ratification of the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the partial abolition of flogging, there appears to be a lack of real political will to address the issue of impunity.

In 2002 I met this incredible entrepreneur named Amitabha Sadangi from India, who'd been working for 20 years with some of the poorest farmers on the planet.

As of today, IDE India, Amitabha's organization, has sold over 300,000 farmers these systems and has seen their yields and incomes double or triple on average, but this didn't happen overnight.

In his statement, he addressed continuing occurrences of the practice of corporal punishment, such as amputation, stoning, flogging and beating, surveyed the jurisprudence of international and regional human rights mechanisms, and concluded that any form of corporal punishment is contrary to the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

The explanation given to the Special Rapporteur by spokespersons of the Government as to why the Abolition of Punishment of Whipping Act did not also cover the hadd punishments was that it was unlikely that there would be sufficient support in Parliament for such legislation.

Like this Agricultural workers in Africa, whipped and beaten, showing us how they were beaten in the fields before they escaped from slavery and met up with our film crew.

FRANKFURT Critics of the US Federal Reserve are having a field day with embarrassing revelations of its risk assessments on the eve of the financial crisis. By law, the Fed is required to publish the transcripts of its Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings with a five year lag.

And so, Amitabha decided that he would take that innovation and he would redesign it from the perspective of the poor farmers themselves, because he spent so many years listening to what they needed not what he thought that they should have.

However, with the introduction of the Hudood Ordinances in 1979, purportedly to give effect to Islamic law, there was renewed use of corporal punishment for ordinary crimes. For example, Amnesty International cites Pakistani media as reporting that, as recently as 8 October 1995, two Irishmen were flogged with five lashes in Peshawar Central Jail on conviction for smuggling hashish.

Understandably, the exposure of the IPL as a morass of deceit, discredited by spot fixing episodes engineered by unscrupulous bookies and venal players, has deflated such heady notions. Cricket continues to hold many Indians in thrall, but many others have forsaken it in the wake of the IPL revelations.

ITHACA In recent months, emerging economies have experienced capital flow whiplash. Indications that the US Federal Reserve might taper its quantitative easing (QE) drove investors to reduce their exposure to emerging markets, sharply weakening their currencies and causing their equity prices to tumble.

France is mostly concerned with its own problems, particularly the supposed malfunctioning of its political class and the apparent laziness of the French public, which is blamed for weak economic growth, especially when compared to the United States. France needs a debate on European Union affairs, but only as long as it does not degenerate as is common in Europe into self flagellation.

I can't bear it. I can't bear it.

I can't take this!

Bury him, I say, and have done with him.

I... I... I gotta.

C, C, C.