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POPSThe Best Way to Control the Masses Remember FDR’s words: “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.” When the Shadow Powers determine the choices available to us they control us. Sure it’s subtle. You bet it’s effective. And we all think we’re free.
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POPSScience Never Stops :-) This is an entertaining and fairly level headed “what the future will bring” piece. It covers the promise and perils of a pretty diverse set of topics: nuclear power, space travel, power transmission, aviation, food production, urban growth, race relations and even (sort-of) outsourcing.
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POPSBlood Puddle Pillows Okay, I know these are morbid, but they make me laugh. At first, they look scary, but they then you look closer and they actually look kind comfy! I forgot to clip the link for info on how to make these
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POPSIraq: US IED Fatalities by Month The goal of this website is to document coalition casualties for Iraq. We attempt to be up to date, precise, accurate and reliable. There are many other sites on the web that list information of Fatalities from Iraq , but few if any of them do this in an analytical fashion. We endeavor to provide not just a list of names but a resource detailing when, where and how fatalities occurred.
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POPSBritain's favourite word is love, actually Although love was the top choice overall and the number one choice for women, antidisestablishmentarianism was the top choice for men and the ninth most favourite word on the list. Regionally, Welsh contributors favoured the word "cwtch" (cuddle) and Scots favoured "numpty" (an abbreviation of "numbskull"). I have my own set of favorite words and I've always been interested about other people's favorites. What is your favorite word?
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POPSBanks to lend you your own money! From the Daily Mash: "Chancellor Alistair Darling said the decision had been taken in tandem with the banking industry, adding: "They used a lot of dirty words I'd never heard before and one of them had an angry looking dog."
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POPS24 hours in pictures - Apr 14 2 / 15 Baghdad, Iraq: A resident displays a charred Qur'an after a shop burned down. Several shops at the market, in the east of the city, were set on fire when a roadside bomb went off, hitting a US vehicle
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POPSMcCain whiffs on Shi'ites & Sunnis yet again! "and repeated the false claim that Muqtada al-Sadr declared the ceasefire in Basra last week." Would your average armchair news-watcher make that mistake? Again and again? This is important, friends, not as a put-down of McCain, but as an essential part of the evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of candidates for the most powerful elected office on earth. Does he have it together on the basics of foreign policy?
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POPSChildren of Mansouri Remembered. "In all, six people were killed, including Abbas Jiha's wife, Mona, and three of his children. Overwhelmed with grief, he tore at the vehicle with his bare hands, soon followed by the U.N. Fijian troops from the checkpoint. The Israeli helicopter remained in the sky over UN Checkpoint 1-23 for another five minutes. Then it flew away. ... Robert Fisk -- Excerpted from Made in America: a lethal weapon's return policy, Harper's Magazine, August 1997; and The Great War For Civilization, Chapter 19 "Now Thrive The Armourers...";
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POPSHousing Price data I didn't realize this data was made publicly available. Very interesting to see exactly how the market is performing in various cities.
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POPSCrazy Art -Pics Seems rather impossible without photoshop but he is Chinese, so they some weird acrobatics sometimes.
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POPSImages Of Only One Tiny Sun-Spot On Sun's Surface
There is also plenty of anecdotal evidence that 2007 was exceptionally cold. It snowed in Baghdad for the first time in centuries, the winter in China was simply terrible and the extent of Antarctic sea ice in the austral winter was the greatest on record since James Cook discovered the place in 1770. It is generally not possible to draw conclusions about climatic trends from events in a single year, so I would normally dismiss this cold snap as transient, pending what happens in the next few years. This is where SOHO comes in. The sunspot number follows a cycle of somewhat variable length, averaging 11 years. The most recent minimum was in March last year. The new cycle, No.24, was supposed to start soon after that, with a gradual build-up in sunspot numbers. It didn't happen. The first sunspot appeared in January this year and lasted only two days. A tiny spot appeared last Monday but vanished within 24 hours. Another little spot appeared this Monday.
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