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                         Afternoon Posting.

• Top economists: The second Great Depression has arrived.David Rosenberg, market guru, has officially declared that the US economy is in a state of depression, and he sees the economic superpowers woes worsening.Citing the period from 1929 to 1932 and the eerie similarities, Rosenberg said, "We may well be reliving history here. If you're keeping score, we have recorded four quarterly advances in real GDP, and the average is only 3 percent." The same happened during the early 1930s stock market rebound of 50 percent after the 1929 crash.If all that's not enough, Griffiths points out that the United States' shrinking M3 money supply now matches the average decline seen from 1929 to 1933.Despite the gloom and doom, it's best to remember that things could always be worse. How? Well, an asteroid could hit Earth tomorrow.Read the whole story here.

• Google Maps Misplaces Lincoln Memorial!A curious thing has been happening on Google Maps -- the Lincoln Memorial is being misplaced in favor of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, which is a good half a mile south of the more famous memorial.According to the Geographic Travels blog, this "misplacement" has been happening for about two days now. Typing "Lincoln Memorial" into the regular Google search bar brings up a number of listings related to the Lincoln Memorial, yet shows a map of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial.Is this a Google Maps glitch, or could this have anything to do with the fact that conservative radio and TV host Glenn Beck is holding a controversial "non-political" rally at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday?"Change you can't believe in?Full story here.Google and the CIA invest in analytics firm.

• Beck talks faith in rally coinciding with anniversary of King's speech.But Lloyd Marcus, another black Republican, said he supported Beck's efforts."Go Beck," he said. "This is a fantastic rally and the people there don't give a hoot about race.At a preview event Friday night attended by more than 2,500 followers, Mr. Beck described the event as a revolution – “the beginning of the end of darkness.”"More here and here.Beck, Palin tell thousands to 'restore America'.

• Video:Saudi Arabians Torture Employees-'Hammer Nails' Into Sri Lankan Housemaid, her testimony here.

• FBI data: Hate crimes against Muslims rare!Numbers have declined over recent years, but above pre-Sept. 11 level.WASHINGTON-Hate crimes directed against Muslims remain relatively rare, notwithstanding the notoriety gained by incidents such as recent vandalism at the Madera Islamic Center. Jews, lesbians, gay men and Caucasians, among others, are all more frequently the target of hate crimes, FBI records show. Reported anti-Muslim crimes have declined over recent years, though they still exceed what occurred prior to the 9-11 terrorist attacks."We see hate crimes generally go in spurts, and are often in relation to international or domestic events," Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said Friday.Full story here.

• Belgian cardinal offered to hush up sex case!BRUSSELS — Roman Catholic Cardinal Godfried Danneels of Belgium offered to keep a sexual molestation case against a bishop secret until the bishop retired, an official said Saturday.Full story here. 

• The fatwa that governs muslim soldiers fighting in iraq and afghanistan ... make that, the fatwa that governs american muslim soldiers, and points "the way". i came across an interesting little tidbit in imam feisel abdul rauf's book, "what's right with islam: a new vision for muslims and the west,"so he fired off a request for a legal ruling from islamic authority, in the person of sheik yusuf al-qaradawi, as to whether american muslim would be permitted under islam to fight against their co-religionists there. muhammad abdur al-rashid, and american army officer, is asking a qatari sheik whether islam will permit american troops to fight in a war as directed by their chain of command. do you understand that? an american army officer.in short, we rule that american muslims must fight in this situation, because it serves the greater long terms interests of islam that he do so, in this instance.Full story here.

• As many as 350-people in Brussels demonstrate against Iranian stoning.An estimated 350 people demonstrated this afternoon against the stoning of Iranian women Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani on the steps of the Brussels Palace of Justice.More than 60 Belgian organizations resist this and have campaigned in several cities.Worldwide there are now a total of 109 events held in 106 cities against the stoning.Full story here (Google translate).

• The Most Fiscally Irresponsible Government in U.S. History.Current federal budget trends are capable of destroying this country.There is an instinctive conclusion among the American public that President Obama's stimulus package has failed to create a sustained recovery. Unemployment has increased, not declined; consumers have retrenched; housing starts have crashed along with mortgage applications; and there is a fear that a double-dip recession may very well be in the pipeline. The public perception, reflected in Pew Research/National Journal polls, is that the measures to combat the Great Recession have mostly helped large banks and financial institutions, and that's a view common to Republicans (75 percent) and Democrats (73 percent).Only one third of either political leaning thinks government policies have done a great deal or a fair amount for the poor.Read the full story here.

• Turkey fumes over Iran VP's 'genocide' remark.FM Davutoglu demands explanation after Iranian Vice President Hamid Baghaei says mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Empire constituted 'genocide.' Mottaki: Iran's position was in line with Turkey's stance on the issue.Iranian Vice President Hamid Baghaei caused an uproar when he said the mass killings and deportation of Armenians during the waning days of the Ottoman Empire constituted “genocide.”“A hundred years ago the Ottoman Empire committed genocide against a certain number of Armenians,” he was quoted as saying by Iranian news agency IRNA.Full story here.

• Iran says probe on detained U.S. hikers to end soon.Investigations into spying allegations against three American hikers detained in Iran will be completed soon, Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi said in a news report on Saturday.Full story here.

• Bottles, stones and smoke bomb hurled during English Defence League demonstration in Bradford.Bottles, stones and a smoke bomb were thrown during demonstrations by supporters of the English Defence League and opponents from Unite Against Fascism in Bradford today.Police were forced to erect a temporary barricade around the city's Urban Gardens, where the EDL group has been meeting throughout the day.At present there is only one entrance open to the Gardens and protesters have to pass through metal detectors to gain entry.Full story here.

• One Muslim Nation’s Brave Support of Israel.Tiny Azerbaijan, a majority Muslim nation, has taken a risky stand by befriending Israel despite attempts by Iran and Russia to destabilize her.Why choose to shake the hand of the most despised country on earth? Who is this gutsy player and why has it taken such a risk to befriend the friendless?The bond between Israel and Azerbaijan is more than a sign of friendship. It is a sign of hope.This candle lit by two nations in a world battling darkness may well be the light that restores the sight of mankind.Full story here.

• Ladies Night With Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.Iranian regime. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spent some time with the ladies this week.They decided to take a group picture.Smile Ladies!Full story here.

• A Clarion Call to Ordinary Barbarians: It's Time to Fight.Or, if you prefer French: Aux armes, citoyens! Aux barricades!The battle for the GOP may not wait until after November. There's a real possibility we start having that fight right here and right now.The only thing necessary for the triumph of oligarchy is for good voters to do nothing. Let's stand together and fight—and let's be sure to fight together, for as Ben Franklin said, "We must all hang together, or most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." There are no other options.Full article here.

• CNN Paints Hezbollah as More ‘Tolerant’ Than GZM Protesters.If the MSM doesn’t understand why Fox News is cleaning their clocks, one big reason is that otherwise American viewers are confronted with two choices when it comes to cable news: watch MSNBC and be called racist, or watch CNN and be dubbed Islamophobic.But then, this isn’t the first time a CNN journalist has publicly insulted his viewers (or the lack thereof).The full story here.

• HT:AmericanThinker.Debt, Depression, Default. America is in Deep Trouble.Consumers are spending less. Small retailers are closing shop -- even cable television subscriptions are seeing a loss in revenue. Mike Shedlock of The Toledo Blade highlights America's economic woes with the following.Read the full story here.

• Homeland Security head praises Chicago city's security cameras.U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday ranked Chicago’s Big Brother network of well over 10,000 public and private surveillance cameras as one of the nation’s most extensive and integrated — and Mayor Daley wants to make it even bigger. “Expansion of cameras citywide is one of the highest priorities that will help us here in the city of Chicago,” Daley said with Napolitano at his side.

• Vladimir Putin to drive 1,300 miles across Russia in Lada.Vladimir Putin has carefully crafted the image of a man of action over the past few years, being pictured bare-chested in various hunting shooting and fishing poses.He has been pictured fighting fires, shooting whales with a crossbow and piloting a fire fighting plane.His latest endeavour is a slight departure from his usual macho pursuits.The Russian Prime Minister is undertaking a 1,300-mile road trip across Russia's far east in a humble Lada.Compare to the American President.Full story here.

• U.S. lays out Mideast peace plan.A U.S. peace plan calls for Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a settlement in a year and actually implement it over 10 years, Yedioth Ahronoth said.A document drawn up by the U.S. administration calls for the two sides to hold frequent meetings with the aim of reaching an agreement on final "status issues" within a year, the newspaper said Friday.Read the rest here.

• Attack on Iran’s nuclear sites unlikely - Russian expert.A series of new military hardware tests by Iran, including missile units, has given cause for reconsidering the seemingly forgotten possibility of the republic’s conflict with the West. Among other things, experts from across the globe resumed arguing whether a US or Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities is likely to happen.

• HT:TheEndoftheAmericanDream.50 Random Questions.In the age of the Internet our attention spans have been reduced to approximately that of a squirrel, but sometimes it is good to sit back and think about the bigger picture. What does all of this change mean? Is it good? Is it bad? What kind of a future are we headed for?This article is going to answer none of those questions.Instead, I am going to share with you a whole bunch of questions that have been stewing around in my head.Hopefully they will stimulate your thinking as much as they have mine.The following are 50 random questions for you to think about this weekend...

• Cold empties Bolivian rivers of fish.Antarctic cold snap kills millions of aquatic animals in the Amazon.With high Andean peaks and a humid tropical forest, Bolivia is a country of ecological extremes. But during the Southern Hemisphere's recent winter, unusually low temperatures in part of the country's tropical region hit freshwater species hard, killing an estimated 6 million fish and thousands of alligators, turtles and river dolphins.Scientists who have visited the affected rivers say the event is the biggest ecological disaster Bolivia has known, and, as an example of a sudden climatic change wreaking havoc on wildlife, it is unprecedented in recorded history."In the rivers near Santa Cruz there's about 1,000 dead fish for every 100 metres of river."Read the whole thing here.

• Heirloom Diseases.You’ve probably heard of heirloom vegetables. You know, they’re the ones that have been preserved by passing seeds down from generation to generation. Heirloom varieties are generally at least 50 years old, but many are 100 years or older.While heirloom vegetables are actually benign–and frequently very tasty–it seems to me that we are currently witnessing an alarming wave of another type of heirloom: diseases.Full story here.

• 3 Iranian Jews killed in West Hollywood.Iranian Jewish community leaders says men found dead in apartment were not wealthy, had no criminal pasts. 'The only thing that sticks out is there was nothing significant about them,' he says.Full story here.

• Vigilante Bedbug Exterminators.Can the dreaded pests invading America be battled with supplies from your local hardware store? Brian Ries talks to amateur exterminators facing bedbugs with nothing but do-it-yourself attitude.Full story here.

MFS - The Other News

                          Morning Posting.

• 148 Balochistan women, 168 kids disappeared by force, U.N. told.In a written submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council ahed of the 15th session in September, the A.L.R.C.said Pakistan is beset by grave and widespread human rights violations by various State-agencies and institutions, notably by the notorious Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and the military.The women and children have reportedly been disappeared by the Pakistani intelligence agencies for interrogation over alleged links to Balochi separatists and militant groups.

• Undue interference in the choice of religious leaders.Turkey recognises only four religions: Sunni Islam, the Greek Orthodox Church, the Armenian Apostolic Church and Judaism. It also seeks to determine which religious leaders are elected. Foreign policy appears to shape its choices.The Turkish government continues to interfere in who leads the Greek Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic and Jewish communities. It also determines who leads the Diyanet, the Presidency of Religious Affairs, the highest Islamic religious authority in the country, Forum 18 News Service reports. This violates the rights of each religious group. The Turkish state recognises only four religions: Sunni Islam, Greek Orthodox Church, the Armenian Apostolic Church and Judaism. Other religions are neither recognised nor formally allowed; however, they are de facto tolerated. Moreover, no religious community in Turkey at present has independent legal status in its own right—which means for example that no religious community can own property.The government chooses the head of the Diyanet. Other Muslim groups are not recognised. Even if they are tolerated, the latter can be banned at any given time.Religious freedom is far fetched in Turkey unlike in the EU.

• Relief organisations 'discriminating against Christian&Hindu flood victims': report.Christians and members of other minority religions are being treated as second-class citizens, said Father Mario Rodrigues, the Lahore-based director of Catholic Mission."They often receive little assistance or are excluded altogether," he told Fides, the Vatican's news agency. Aid is being delivered by "government officials sympathetic to Islamic fundamentalism or by Muslim relief organisations", Fides claimed in its report, citing other unnamed aid workers.About 200,000 Christians in Punjab province and about 600,000 Christians and Hindus in Sindh province have been affected by weeks of monsoon rain.

• Hard-Line Iran Daily Calls French First Lady A Prostitute.France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, has come under attack by Iran's state-controlled media over her support for an Iranian woman, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who has been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.In a letter addressed to Ashtiani, Bruni wrote last week that her husband, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, was trying to secure her release."I just can't see what good could come out of this macabre ceremony, whatever the judicial reasons put forward to justify it," Bruni wrote. "Shed your blood and deprive children of their mother, why? Because you have lived, because you have loved, because you're a woman and because you're Iranian? Everything within me refuses to accept this."Read the whole story here.

• HT:BarenakedIslam.OBAMA slashed the entire NASA budget except for his ‘outreach to MUSLIMS ONLY’.And you thought the Regime had backpedaled on this outrageous idea? Think again. Using your tax dollars, Obama is inviting Muslims to U.S. Space Camps, even Muslims from enemy countries like Libya, home of the now set free Lockerbie bomber.

• New book: Arab lobby rules America.New book by Mideast expert Mitchell Bard claims Arab lobby, headed by Saudis, 'has unlimited resources to try to buy what they usually cannot win on merits of their arguments'

• Erick Stackelbeck: Rauf Is a Shariah Supremacist.Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, CBN Terrorism Analyst Erick Stakelbeck joins Frank for a candid discussion on the traditional methods of Muslim Brotherhood operatives in the West. Erick explains how Imam Rauf’s moderate persona was intentionally cultivated in the United States in order to advance the Muslim Brotherhood’s totalitarian version of Islam under Shariah law.

• Barack Obama 'to visit Jerusalem and Ramallah to press for peace'.President Barack Obama will visit Jerusalem in coming months to press for a Middle East peace deal to be signed this year and implemented within a decade, according to a leaked White House report.
• One of these days a great leader will offer to lead the world into total peace. He will be recognized throughout the world as a man of peace. He will promise to solve the Middle East conflict. He will bring harmony in the ecumenical-ecclesiastical church. He will offer economic solutions to the world's problems. He will arise as a world leader of peace and prosperity and within three years and a half will become the world's greatest dictator.Beware when this man appears on the world scene. His leadership will take the world into the Great Tribulation of Terror, wars, suffering and death.

• Brewer Condemns Report to UN Mentioning Ariz. Law.In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Brewer says it is "downright offensive" that a state law would be included in the report, which was drafted as part of a UN review of human rights in all member nations every four years."The idea of our own American government submitting the duly enacted laws of a state of the United States to 'review' by the United Nations is internationalism run amok and unconstitutional," Brewer wrote.Governor Brewer you rock!Read the whole thing here.

• Dubai’s Grand Mufti calls for curb in marriage to foreigners.The Grand Mufti of Dubai is calling for a curb in marriages between locals and foreigners as the price of marrying native brides has soared to more than £300,000.“Emirati women are forbidden to marry foreign men. This injustice and the rise of Emirati men marrying foreign women have forced 30,000 Emirati women into spinsterhood.”

• OK you’ve waited long enough, it’s time to get the party started. Our launch date is Sept. 8th 2010. Feel free to yell it from the rooftops. RightNetwork launches on television, web and mobile.Website - Twitter - You tube.

• Iraqis Auction Computers Donated for Kids.U.S. Military Questions How $1.9 Million in Computers Bought by U.S. Taxpayers Were Auctioned for Less Than $50,000.The U.S. military wants to know what happened to $1.9 million worth of computers.

• Sacrilege: The Obama-Holder 'Justice' Department Won't Pursue Trial of USS Cole Bomber, Plus: a Memo to Ace Regarding the NRSC.The Washington Post's Peter Finn reports that the Obama administration has decided not to prosecute the apparent terrorist mastermind behind the USS Cole bombing in 2000. Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri had been accused of orchestrating the attack that killed 17 American sailors aboard the Cole ten years ago.

• HT:WeaselZippers.Pentagon and DOJ Travesty: Troops Can Serve and Die.but their votes won’t necessarily count.Pentagon Grants MOVE Waiver to Five States. (What a surprise. The states getting the waivers are ALL Blue States.)

• HT:MotherJones.Northwest and Northeast Passages Now Open."It is now possible to completely circumnavigate the Arctic Ocean in ice-free waters, and this will probably be the case for at least a month. This year marks the third consecutive year—and the third time in recorded history—that both the Northwest Passage and Northeast Passage have melted free. The Northeast Passage opened for the first time in recorded history in 2005 and the Northwest Passage in 2007. It now appears that the opening of one or both of these northern passages is the new norm, and business interests are taking note—commercial shipping in the Arctic is on the increase, and there is increasing interest in oil drilling."

• Life in the hell hole: A makeshift casino, football, but also worrying signs of stress - Inside the mine where 33 men are trapped.Emaciated, wild-eyed and stripped to the waist, with tangled hair and whiskery, dirt-streaked faces, they look like a tribe of cavemen living in some twilight netherworld.Trapped in an eerie underground cavern where nights and days merge, they cling to survival via meagre supplies passed almost half-a-mile down a tiny borehole - their tenuous, umbilical link with the lives they left behind.Yet, watching the extraordinary first video of the 33 Chilean copper miners who have been trapped in claustrophobic torment for 24 days, and who have been told it will take months to free them, what strikes you most forcefully is their utter lack of self-pity.Read the whole thing.

• Drought in Russia Ripples Beyond the Wheat Fields.Early reports from Russia’s harvest indicate that yields of wheat and barley are down sharply, as predicted after a major drought here this summer that has helped send global wheat prices up sharply since June.Expressing anger over the higher bread prices in Russia that have accompanied the rise in grain, Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin said Friday, “Someone is simply cashing in on the circumstances.” Prosecutors have recently raided bakeries in Moscow on accusations of price gouging.

• Pentagon Report Shows that China Is Ready for War.In 2005, I quoted General Zhu Chenghu, a top-level Chinese army officer, as saying what would happen if America interfered with Taiwan: “If the Americans are determined to interfere [then] we will be determined to respond. We… will prepare ourselves for the destruction of all of the cities east of Xian. Of course the Americans will have to be prepared that hundreds… of cities will be destroyed by the Chinese.”Read the rest of the story here.

• Ground Zero Muslim center may get public financing.The Muslim center planned near the site of the World Trade Center attack could qualify for tax-free financing, a spokesman for City Comptroller John Liu said on Friday, and Liu is willing to consider approving the public subsidy.

• Do we really understand Native Indians' anger on tobacco taxation?After the 1992 and 1997 commotion regarding attempts to impose taxation on Indian cigarettes, Buffalo and other locations of the New York State are once again getting ready to undergo similar experiences following information on a potential uprising of Native-Indians in various parts of the State as Governor David Patterson renewed his plan to start collecting taxes on cigarettes sold by Native-Indians.The governor's decision has been supported by businesses statewide who, during a Thursday's news conference in downtown, called on state leaders to stick with the plan, according to Buffalo News.On their side, Indians continue to protest against the state decision alleging that it infringes their sovereignty.

• Who Is Really Funding the Ground Zero Mosque?For weeks, critics of the 13 story $100 million mega-mosque complex planned for the immediate Ground Zero vicinity have been asking where the funding will be coming from. Its sponsors refuse to provide any information and have even refused to rule out taking contributions from other countries including Iran and Saudi Arabia.We know that radical Islamist organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood operate through many front organizations. Could the funding of the Ground Zero mosque be all part of an elaborate mosque-in-the box shell game to cover up something far more sinister? Maybe not. But we won’t know until the Ground Zero mosque developer Sharif el-Gamal and his financial backer Hisham Elzanaty begin to come clean about where their money is really coming from.

• U.S. Zionist group claims discrimination over its stance on Israel; Rightists call IRS "Obama's Gestapo".Right-wing group Z-Street says U.S. Treasury withholding tax breaks because its position on Israel differs from the Obama administration's."Not only is it patently un-American but it is also a clear violation of the First Amendment for a government agency to penalize an organization because of its political position on Israel or anything else," Z-Street said in a statement Friday.

• HT:WeaselZippers.Italy: Islam Denied Income Tax Revenue.Mosques in Italy will not receive a share of income tax revenue the Italian government allocates to religious faiths each year. Hindu and Buddhist temples, Greek Orthodox churches and Jehovah’s Witnesses will be eligible for the funds, according to a bill approved by the Italian cabinet in May and still must be approved by parliament.

• Obama’s AmeriKKKa: Condemning Our Nation Before the United Nations.For the first time in our nation’s history, the State Department has submitted a report to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights about human rights issues in this country. The United States is now on the same level as North Korea, Cuba, Libya, and Iran. We are just one nation among many, no better or worse.

• Why Americans believe Obama is Muslim.There are several reasons that some Americans believe that Barack Hussein Obama is quite possibly a Muslim, and here in this article the attempt will be to give the relevant reasons why some Americans consider this not only a possibility but a likelihood. Please click the links throughout for the substantiation of the statements to follow. People here is Phoenix may or may not have interest in this, yet it is highly relevant to know what the faith of our Nation's leader is. Motivations become more apparent when incite into the person is known. This article will not solve this, yet it will give a deeper incite into the reasonings why so many believe that much about our leader is questionable.

• Two Iranian Activists Win Press-Freedom Awards.Two Iranian rights activists arrested on their way to the funeral of a senior dissident cleric last year have won international press freedom awards, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports.The two are jailed blogger Kouhyar Goudarzi and prominent women's rights activist Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh.The two were arrested on their way to take part in the funeral in Tehran last December of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, which attracted tens of thousands of mourners.

• Obama and the Jews, Part 2.

• American Founders and Islam.The more we learn, here in America, and right here at home in Phoenix about the truths we face, the better able to face them, we all will be. It has been said many time that Thomas Jefferson’s Qu’ran is a symbol of something further, but to be clear, there is good reason for the fact that Mr. Jefferson needed the information within it. Problems on the high seas and in Islamic waters caused issues of a need for knowledge of what exactly America was facing.

• 'Torturer Of Tehran' Loses His Untouchable Status.With a frightening reputation and friends in high places, Said Mortazavi for years appeared to have the untouchable status that bred impunity and led his enemies to label him the "torturer of Tehran."As a judge and prosecutor, he shut down more than 60 newspapers, detained scores of journalists and political activists, and was even implicated in the murder and torture of Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi, who died in the custody of interrogators in 2003.But now, it seems, Tehran's fearsome former chief prosecutor may have met his nemesis -- brought low by violent events that have shocked Iran's political establishment into seeking a high-profile fall guy.

• Tell EPA to reject lead ammo ban."The U.S. Supreme Court says Americans have an individual right to keep and bear arms. The EPA says the bullets for those guns may be banned as an environmental hazard," an Investors Business Daily editorial claims.Close but not quite. Per the National Shooting Sports Foundation, they're "considering a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) – a leading anti-hunting organization – to ban all traditional ammunition under the Toxic Substance Control Act of 1976, a law in which Congress expressly exempted ammunition."

• In One Azerbaijan Village, 'Carrying Water Is Women's Work'.In this small, dusty village in central Azerbaijan, daily life for the local women begins at dawn and ends at sunset. What happens in between, say several Celebiler women, is nonstop labor."First we go to the fields," says one woman dressed in a colorful housecoat. "Then we come back and get our buckets and walk a long distance from here to get water. Then we come home, and begin washing clothes by hand. It's torture for us.""You can't think about resting," says another. "There's no water, no gas. This is real rural life."The women smile ruefully when asked if they have time for small luxuries like relaxing or watching soap operas. Television, says one, is for people who have nothing to do -- and finding such a woman anywhere here is impossible.