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POPSStand Up For Your Rights "The highest power in the US government is the Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land...not border patrol agents on a power trip that are about 75 miles from the border. "
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POPSMicrochipping Medicines The information is transmitted to a patient’s mobile phone and then to the internet using wireless technology, to give a complete picture of their health and the impact of their drugs. Doctors and carers can view this information on secure web pages or have the information sent to their mobile phones. The silicon microchips are invisible to patients and can be added to any standard drug during the manufacturing process. Two major drugs companies are investigating the technology, developed by US-based Proteus Biomedical. Trials are to begin in the UK within 12 months. Professor Nick Peters, a cardiologist at Imperial College London, who is co-ordinating trials, said the technology was ‘transformative’. This is all about empowering patients and their families because it measures wellness, and people can actually be tracked getting better,’ he said. ‘Psychologically speaking, that’s hugely helpful for patients and enormously reassuring for carers. Hmmmmm...?
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POPSEnumerated Powers Act "This measure would enforce a constant and ongoing re-examination of the role of our national government," he said. "… It is simply intended to require a scrutiny that we should look at what we enact and that, by doing so, we can slow the growth and reach of the Federal Government, and leave to the states or the people, those functions that were reserved to them by the Constitution."
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POPSThe Enemy Police are educated in the document that people are are anti-abortion, own gold, display an assortment of U.S. flags, or even those that talk about the film Zeitgeist, view the police as their “enemy” and conflates them with domestic terrorists like Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph and other domestic militia groups who have been charged with plotting terrorist attacks. The demonization of militia groups is something that we have come to expect, despite the fact that the very same constitution police officers swear an oath to defend outlines the need for “a well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State”. George Washington himself was a member of a militia.
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POPS46 Of 50 States Could File Bankruptcy "If the Fed doesn’t bailout the States when their cash dries up and the banks don’t loan them money, then our States will be left in financial ruin. This would be a tragic and unprecedented event never experienced in the United States. We are on the brink of something far worse than the Great Depression. "
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POPSThe French Revolution Is Just Getting Started “The bosses caused the crisis, let them pay for it!” said another, while a third declared: “Hands off our public services!” Protesters marched peacefully from the Place de la Bastille in the east of the city to the Place de l’Opera in the west, where skirmishes erupted between dozens of bottle-throwing youths and police in riot gear. Officers repeatedly baton-charged a group of young men who tried to peel away from the demonstration and march towards Sarkozy’s official residence, the Elysee Palace, burning dustbins and smashing street furniture. The demonstrators were tear-gassed and pushed back into streets lined with cinemas and restaurants, where they attempted to set up a road-block of burning bins and overturned at least one car and set it alight.
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POPSIt Was 40 Years Ago Today... Their Final Performance: 40 Years Ago Today: At the end of the last rooftop performance of “Get Back”, the audience applauds and McCartney says “Thanks, Mo” in reply to Maureen Starkey’s applause, and Lennon adds: “I’d like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition”. Spector used some of the talk preceding the master take of 27 January and edited on these comments to make the album version sound different from the single. Because of the talk at the start and end of the take, the different mix and the absence of the coda it is widely believed that the album version was a different take. In fact all three versions use the same ‘take 11′ as the core performance. One can define this ‘take 11′ by listening for the high “hoo!” or “bup!” just before “Get back, Loretta!” in all versions.
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POPS"Magic Cheese" Hoax Bilked Thousands Before long, Van Erpe's marks were selling off cattle and property to raise money to pump into the scheme. To speed things up, she promised hefty bonuses to cheese-makers who enrolled their friends and family. In time, of course, Van Erpe stopped showing up with the big checks and the cheese started piling up. Currently, tons of the stuff are rotting in warehouses in Chile. Van Erpe ran a similar scam in Peru, but, instead of encouraging investors to make cheese, she convinced them to grow mushrooms. Van Erpe was subsequently arrested, and the case is currently being investigated by French authorities. There is no word yet on what Chile plans to do with all the cheese.
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POPSBombs in Paradise For decades, British ex-servicemen who were stationed on Christmas Island in the South Pacific in the 1950s have been embroiled in legal battles, trying to win recognition for their work and compensation for poor health they say is the result of the nuclear tests. Their latest attempt to sue the British government goes before the High Court on Wednesday, when the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is expected to argue the claims have been brought too long after the events. If the MoD loses, the government could face its largest class action yet, involving claims for millions of pounds from 1,000 individuals, say the veterans' lawyers.
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POPSPre$idential Inauguration, Not Much "Change" There
The Four Seasons Georgetown (up to $75,000 for a minimum five-night stay), the Ritz-Carlton (up to $60,000 for a minimum five-night stay) and other top hotels say they have been booked for weeks, even months. The Four Seasons is using the inauguration to introduce its new Royal Suite – a 4,000-square-foot, "bullet-resistant" suite featuring a landscaped terrace, exercise room, library and dining room. A hotel spokeswoman confirmed a guest had booked the suite for the inauguration. The Ritz-Carlton sold a "Politically Correct" package for $50,000, which includes four nights in one of the hotel's suites; two hard-to-come-by seats at the inaugural parade; two tickets to an inaugural ball; a luxury hybrid vehicle with chauffeur on call 24 hours a day; a ball gown and tuxedo from Saks Fifth Avenue; a private in-suite dinner for two at the hotel's restaurant, and more, including a special, inauguration-themed pendant of gold, diamonds, rubies and sapphires valued at $8,000.
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POPSA Brewing Fraud Scandal at the Treasury Department? The federal government took over IndyMac in July, after the bank's stock price plummeted to just pennies a share when it was revealed the bank had financial troubles due to defaulted mortgages and subprime loans, costing taxpayers over $9 billion.
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POPSAround The World Newspapers Say So Long To Bush “A web of manipulation has cost America $900 billion and the lives of 4,000 soldiers — along with at least 500,000 Iraqis.” Perhaps the most original, however, was Pan-Arab al-Hayat newspaper, which “recalled his controversial election win in Florida and how he once nearly choked on a pretzel, watching television.” “Perhaps we could say that fate, which let the American people down first in Florida and then with the issue of the pretzel in the president’s throat, ultimately helped them by making sure the president would spend half his time on vacation,” wrote the paper’s editorial writers. “Indeed, he would have caused twice the damage if he had been more active and focused.” Not everyone wrote badly of Bush. Most complementary, according to Reuters, was the Jerusalem Post, which remarked that Bush had been the best friend to Israel in 60 years.
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POPSBailed-Out Firms Have Tax Havens Obama pledged during his campaign to shut down the ability of U.S. corporations to avoid paying taxes by shipping their income to offshore havens. As a senator in 2007, he joined Levin in proposing similar legislation to curb abuse of offshore tax operations and force companies to be more transparent about their overseas operations in those jurisdictions. Some critics of the loophole argue that the secrecy in tax-haven countries may hide shady accounting at some businesses. Members of Congress say that investigators at the Internal Revenue Service are outgunned in trying to track down who is crossing the line and who is not. "This is a basic issue of fairness and integrity," Obama said in introducing the 2007 bill. "We need to crack down on individuals and businesses that abuse our tax laws so that those who work hard and play by the rules aren't disadvantaged."
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