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POPSWhen Haiti Falls Apart: Making Sense of Mass Tragedy | Care2 Healthy & Green Living Haiti is decidedly the country that just can’t get a break. The country has fallen victim to just about every blight and impediment a developing nation could care to know (colonialism, famine, slavery, disease, political corruption, occupation, neglect, and global profiteering) and I know that had the infrastructure as well as the general well-being of the county was in place, we would have avoided the startling severity of this tragedy (to put it into perspective, the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake that hit the San Francisco Bay Area registered 7.0 on the Richter scale, comparable to the recent Haiti quake, and killed only sixty-three people instead of the hundreds of thousands).
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POPSProfiteering In Haiti I left off the petition link so that you can write your own letter in case you don't like the MoveOn organization. Personally, I'm not crazy about them but I thought that this petition was a very common-sensible suggestion.
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POPS How Junk Debts affect Credit Reports and Scores Credit account holders have to wait for at least seven years before their bad debts will fall off from their credit reports. A credit account holder has to be patient enough to wait for their bad debts to fall off before they can take steps in increasing their FICO score and their general credit worthiness rating. The recent debts of the credit account holders have to qualify for the out of statute of their debt agreement.
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POPSFor All You Wingnuts Take a look at corporate welfare and the business of war profiteering for a change instead of trying to turn greedy I don't wanna pay my fair share of taxes bitching and moaning loud-mouthed asses into some kind of a hero for your own get rich aspirations.
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POPSWhy are Healthcare and Military Costs So High? Theft! The word "shoddy" comes from a descriptin for civil war uniforms made from scrape wool that would fall apart in the rain. Shoddy, is an apt description for the ethics of the companies listed below, which even after paying huge fsetlements for false claims are still getting government contracts. We have met the enemy - and he is us because we continue to vote for those who will not manage and do their job.
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POPS Let Them Eat Dirt from the report. But the mainstream media did not report these conflicts and instead piled on the "global warming" and "carbon offset" bandwagons. The carbon offset market quickly exploded. In fact, $92 billion worth of offsets were estimated to change hands in 2008. But wanton profiteering appears to be the sole rationale for "carbon trading". Put simply, a wide range of respected scientists, environmentalists, researchers, agriculturalists, and activists believe that carbon offsets are a "scam", "fantasy", "fiction", "nonsense", "fraudulent" and worse. And they've been saying so since 2000, though to read the newspaper you wouldn't know it. The World Rainforest Movement, for example, investigated these bizarre financial ties and concluded that the IPCC report must "...be shelved due to their clear conflict of interest and a new report instigated which will be free of the taint of intellectual corruption."
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POPSHey Buddy! Got Some Spare Change? A Billion? OK, so it's a dream that I see the head of DOD standing at Pennsylvania Avenue - Gates - asking people walking by for spare change to fund the wars, buying and building weapons, feathering his nest for retirement. And I say: "Sorry, I only have fare for a bus ride to Kabul and back - maybe later. Say, didn't you used to be famous? Why don't you get a job? I say. He get angry and starts yelling, "I only asked ya for a billion! Everyone has a billion!" It was embarrassing - there was some white spit on his chin.
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POPSOPEN LETTER TO CONGRESS: YOU ARE BEING DECEIVED ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING
The facts are: The sky is not falling; the Earth has been cooling for ten years, without help. The present cooling was NOT predicted by the alarmists' computer models, and has come as an embarrassment to them. The finest meteorologists in the world cannot predict the weather two weeks in advance, let alone the climate for the rest of the century. Can Al Gore? Can John Holdren? We are flooded with claims that the evidence is clear, that the debate is closed, that we must act immediately, etc, but in fact THERE IS NO SUCH EVIDENCE; IT DOESN'T EXIST. The proposed legislation would cripple the US economy, putting us at a disadvantage compared to our competitors. For such drastic action, it is only prudent to demand genuine proof that it is needed, not guesswork, and not false claims about the state of the science. DEMAND PROOF, NOT CONSENSUS Many alarmists are profiting from their activism. There are billions of dollars floating around for the taking, and being taken.
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POPSU.S. House narrowly approves War Funding A rather amazing close vote! -- The vote by the House to approve the use of force against Iraq, in 2002, was more than two to one. It seems the bill also contained giving billions in credit to the IMF...do other countries mix up their legislation like this? Wouldn't it make more sense...wouldn't it actually be SANITY to vote on the content of one issue at a time? Especially when it's an issue of war? Of course, the IMF is probably some economic war profiteering and economic exploitation agency....so maybe they go together quite well. I mean...it's not like the IMF sponsored programs to feed the hungry or heal the sick, no?
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POPSGore Lies To Congress About Personal Finances Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore left the White House seven years ago with less than $2 million in assets, including a Virginia home and the family farm in Tennessee. Now he’s making enough to put $35 million in hedge funds and other private partnerships. Gore invested the money with Capricorn Investment Group LLC, a Palo Alto, California, firm that selects the private funds for clients and invests in makers of environmentally friendly products, according to a Feb. 1 securities filing. Capricorn was founded by billionaire Jeffrey Skoll, former president of EBay Inc. and an executive producer of Gore’s Oscar-winning documentary film on global warming. http://greenhellblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/gore-lies-to-congress-about-personal-finances/
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POPSProfiteering How dare they capitalize on Peace, Understanding and Brotherhood! Everyone knows the American Way is to capitalize on War, Hatred and Destruction.
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POPSComing to America Soon Get ready for anti-hoarding laws against those with the responsibility and intellect to prepare themselves for disaster.
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POPSClimate Change - What You Can Do Great site--act now to help--It's a new era and we need to hit it running to recover and repair the damage of the Boooshies disastrous effect on the environment--they set us back 35 years in just 8 yrs and held us back from any progress, the fuckin' incompetent profiteering asses! (OK, I prolly didn't need that last phrase but they're still doing the damage as you read this--all to benefit industry profits)
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POPS"(Didn't Know I Was) Unamerican" more lyrics: DIdn't know I hated my country For acknowledging the Truth This war is despicable profiteering At the expense of our youth And what I believe In Looks like heaven to me - All of humanity Living as community In relative harmony I know it's just a song But if the whole world sang along How much longer would it be this way?
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POPSFour more years??? When you think about things like this, which nearly a decade of Republican rule in America has accomplished, it boggles the mind to think that this is actually a close race. Do people think that by voting back in the party that made things such an unholy mess, they're going to suddenly change their tune and fix everything they messed up? Let's not be ridiculous. The Republicans got what they wanted; 8 years of catering to the whims of unscrupulous profiteering companies, making the gap between the rich and the poor larger than it's ever been in America. Experience tells us it'll just be more of the same if they vote a senile, bad-tempered, hair-trigger old Republican into the office of President. So why aren't the polls showing a landslide for Obama? It boggles the mind!
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POPSAmerica's Broken Infastructure "But the bailout won't solve the longer-term problem, which is threefold: The country doesn't invest enough in transportation infrastructure, it often spends money on the wrong things, and the current gas tax is no longer a viable funding source. Congress will have to address all of these issues when it crafts the next transportation bill." However, I do NOT agree with a vehicle mileage tax. What I'd like to see is corporate welfare and war profiteering abolished. That ought to free up some funds to invest in ourselves for a change.
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POPSUS Weighs Stepped-Up Military Forays Into Pakistan Why don't we just hand over all the decisions to the Generals and Admirals and get it over with? We might as well save money on elections an other such futile circuses. Just call it The Disunuted States of the Pentagon. just cut out "the people" As middlemen and go directly to the profiteering Korporations and ask them what they need to bring in more obscene $$$$$$. Why fuck around voting?
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