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POPSDigital TV, Costly changeover? Sounds like if you are a basic cable subscriber you may be screwed. But like most things this has more to do with back-scatching, palm greasing and huge amounts of money more then anything else.
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POPSGermany plans to take in Christian Iraqi refugees • U.N. estimates 2 million Iraqis have left their country since war began • U.S. tells U.N. it will try to resettle 7,000 Iraqi refugees in United States this year • So far, U.S. has taken in 466 Iraqi refugees • New U.S. plan calls for $18 million for refugee aid, placement in other countries Because we certainly don't want them here. Create a crisis and let other take care of the messy leftovers.
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POPSEcovillages everywhere This community is about 50 miles south of me outside Fairfield Iowa. Home of Maharishi International University. Fairfield hosts an Eco-Fair every year, and has the most homes with solar energy or other green building features in Iowa. Happy to say that my own house will be off the grid by mid July. Yahoo.
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POPSThe Commander-in-Chef Cooks Up a Storm "Bush: And as people are now beginning to see, Iraq is changing, democracy is beginning to take hold. And I'm convinced 50 years from now people look back and say thank God there was those who were willing to sacrifice. "Curry: But you're saying you're going to have to carry that burden... Some Americans believe that they feel they're carrying the burden because of this economy. "Bush: Yeah, well -- "Curry: They say -- they say they're suffering because of this. "Bush: I don't agree with that. "Curry: You don't agree with that? Has nothing do with the economy, the war? The spending on the war? "Bush: I don't think so. I think actually, the spending on the war might help with jobs. "Curry: Oh, yeah? "Bush: Yeah, because we're buying equipment, and people are working. I think this economy is down because we built too many houses."
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POPSCanadian Troops To Patrol US Cities As Food Riots Feared "It is interesting to note, too, that the Canadian peoples, like their American neighbors to the south, were not told of these plans for their Military Forces, and as we can read as reported by Canada’s Canwest News Service, and who say: "Canada and the U.S. have signed an agreement that paves the way for the militarizes from either nation to send troops across each other's borders during an emergency, but some are questioning why the Harper government has kept silent on the deal. Neither the Canadian government nor the Canadian Forces announced the new agreement, which was signed Feb. 14 in Texas." "
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POPSProtecting Drug Makers From Lawsuits Compassion and conservatism are like mixing oil and water. Before Bush Inc. got into office it was argued by the FDA that lawsuits gave patients an added measure of protection . Now this administration says that lawsuits conflict with the agency’s ability to do its job, It seems like this administration considers any of the publics rights to be in conflict with its ability to do its job.
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POPSBarack Obama criticised over 'cult-like' rallies More “The message is becoming dangerously self-referential,” he wrote in Time magazine. “The Obama campaign all too often is about how wonderful the Obama campaign is.” At no fewer than six of Mr Obama’s recent rallies, young enthusiasts have been so overcome with excitement that they have fainted in front of the stage. Indeed, fainting has become so common that a team of medical volunteers is ordered to be on hand to treat the victims, and Mr Obama has interrupted his own speeches to give his followers a blow by blow commentary of their recovery.
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POPS Former NSA Director: "By any measure the US has long used terrorism"
More Moreover, recently declassified documents show that in the 1960's, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to blow up AMERICAN airplanes (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. If you view no other links in this article, please read the following ABC news report; the official documents; and watch this interview with the former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings (click link entitled "Joint Chiefs Guilty-Northwoods"). In addition, the FBI had penetrated the cell which carried out the 1993 world trade center bombing, but had -- at the last minute -- cancelled the plan to have its FBI infiltrator substitute fake power for real explosives, against the infiltrator's strong wishes (summary version is free; full version is pay-per-view).
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