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POPSCheney to Ukraine: US supports your security How much tension is this hypocritical, armageddonist is going to have a war, to keep he and GW in office, if it means a world war. Putin has to answer this and Dick passes the problem on. Why has he not been impeached?
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POPSGeorgia is the graveyard of America's unipolar world Cont... There has been much talk among western politicians in recent days about Russia isolating itself from the international community. But unless that simply means North America and Europe, nothing could be further from the truth. While the US and British media have swung into full cold-war mode over the Georgia crisis, the rest of the world has seen it in a very different light. As Kishore Mahbubani, Singapore's former UN ambassador, observed in the Financial Times a few days ago, "most of the world is bemused by western moralising on Georgia". While the western view is that the world "should support the underdog, Georgia, against Russia ... most support Russia against the bullying west. The gap between the western narrative and the rest of the world could not be clearer." And that has the neocons scare witless!
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POPSRed Primer for Children and Diplomats Part III by Victor Vashi
Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union, sought to reclaim all of the areas formerly controlled by the Czars, especially the fertile Ukraine. As a result, four years of chaos and conflict followed in which Ukrainian national troops fought against Lenin's Red Army, and also against Russia's White Army (troops still loyal to the Czar) as well as other invading forces including the Germans and Poles. By 1921, the battles ended with a Soviet victory while the western part of the Ukraine was divided-up among Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia. But when Lenin died in 1924, he was succeeded by Joseph Stalin, one of the most ruthless humans ever to hold power. To Stalin, the burgeoning national revival movement and continuing loss of Soviet influence in the Ukraine was completely unacceptable. Beginning in 1929, over 5,000 Ukrainian scholars, scientists, cultural and religious leaders were arrested.... http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/stalin.htm
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POPSTwo bears kill visitor at zoo The tragedy occurred in the morning of July 13 when a drunken man came to the open air cage and tried to take a photo with the brown bears but fell into the cage and lost consciousness, the TV channel said, citing eyewitnesses.
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POPS24 hours in pictures - April 11th
7. Rome, Italy: Silvio Berlusconi puts out his hand for television host, Bruno Vespa to smell, during the recording of a show. Berlusconi asked Vespa to smell his hand saying it has "the scent of sainthood" because of what he believes he's had to go through during the election campaign 8. Sao Paulo, Brazil: Journalist Felipeh Campos and fashion designer Rafael Scapucim kiss after getting married in a candomble religious ceremony, the first of its kind in Brazil 10. San Juan Alotenango, Guatemala: This town hall was gutted after riots between locals and police which left two dead and 30 wounded. The incident occurred after the police captured a criminal that locals wanted to lynch 11. Manchester, UK: The swimming pool is reflected in a disco glitter ball during the World Short Course Swimming Championships 14. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: A light installation above the city which is part of the Luminale 2008 festival 15. Wuhan, China: A worker walks on top of a pil
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POPS24 hours in pictures - April 21st 13 Tokyo, Japan: A street performer is surrounded by amateur photographers and spectators while she is interviewed by local TV reporters during a promotion for the 'maid cafe' in which she works for as a waitress 15 Alajuela, Costa Rica: Light technicians at sunset during the second day of Imperial Festival at the La Guacima racetrack 4 Old City, Jerusalem: An Orthodox nun holds a palm frond during the Greek Orthodox Palm Sunday Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher
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POPSMikheil Saakashvili:"Rose Revolution" Of The Republic Of Georgia The task of rebuilding a country plagued by two wars with neighboring regions and a limping economy during his first year in office has been anything but easy. Mr. Saakashvili studied law at Kiev University and the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg before earning his LL.M. from the Law School. After a year as an intern for New York City-based Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, Mr. Saakashvili's superior intellect and energy won him a job offer with the firm. He declined, choosing instead to return to Georgia to take up a political career. By 2000, President Shevardnadze had appointed him justice minister, but the young Columbia graduate resigned two years later in a remonstration of what he perceived to be widespread corruption and cronyism among the Georgian leadership. Mr. Saakashvili was soon mounting daily protests - drawing tens of thousands of discontented supporters - against parliamentary elections marred by fraudulent practices.
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POPSImages of Nijinski Vaslav Nijinsky was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1989 and was one of the most gifted male dancers in history and he became celebrated for his virtuosity and for the depth and intensity of his characterisations. Nijinsky had a nervous breakdown in 1919 and his career effectively ended. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia and taken by his wife Romola (a Hungarian countess) to Switzerland where he was treated by psychiatrist Eugene Bleuler. He spent the rest of his life in and out of psychiatric hospitals and asylums. Romola devoted her life entirely to his care and her devotion to him was complete. Nijinsky died in a London clinic on 8 April 1950 and interred in London until 1953 when his body was reburied in Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris, France.
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POPSFungus that feeds on radiation in Chernobyl A truly amazing feat of nature. From the most infamous nuclear power plant accidents in the world, life springs forth. In conditions that would kill any other organism. I have a hard time believing that it's even possible.
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