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POPSConservatives Are Such Jokers "Most conservatives are more careful than Mr. Kristol. They try to preserve the appearance that they really do care about those less fortunate than themselves. But the truth is that they aren’t bothered by the fact that almost nine million children in America lack health insurance. They don’t think it’s a problem."
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POPSHappity New Year!! 2008 May what you see in the mirror delight you, and what others see in you delight them. May someone love you enough to forgive your faults, be blind to your blemishes, and tell the world about your virtues. May the telemarketers wait to make their sales calls until you finish dinner, may the commercials on TV not be louder than the program you have been watching, and may your check book and your budget balance - and include generous amounts for charity.
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POPS'End Of The Ethanol Dream' Astounding TV Commentary Frankly, I'd doubt any American broadcaster would have the nerve to say the following with cameras rolling and microphones switched on Absolutely must-see video available here, transcript follows The ethanol craze grew out of alarmism and the deep desire of governments, especially here in North America and Europe, to be seen as green. Now, it's clear that growing corn to make ethanol not only takes more energy to produce than it saves on the other end, but the subsidies, particularly in the States and Europe, for such production is one of the factors driving an international food crisis that, as always, is hardest on the poorest people of the world. (enthusiastic h/t to NBer Par for the Course) http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/05/02/astounding-tv-commentary-end-ethanol-dream
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POPSMalawi averts famine by dropping free-market policies Interesting story. After being pushed for years to adhere to strict free-market policies with regard to agriculture (i.e., abandon subsidies, encourage the cultivation of cash drops, and use foreign exchange to import food), Malawi finally decided to ignore the advice of the World Bank and others and begin aggressively subsidizing inorganic fertilizer and seed for farmers raising food for domestic consumption. As a result they now have a surplus of food and child malnourishment has fallen sharply.
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POPSConservatives Are Such Jokers
MORE: On Wednesday, President Bush vetoed legislation that would have expanded S-chip, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, providing health insurance to an estimated 3.8 million children who would otherwise lack coverage. In anticipation of the veto, William Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard, had this to say: “First of all, whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children, I tend to think it’s a good idea. I’m happy that the president’s willing to do something bad for the kids.” Heh-heh-heh. Most conservatives are more careful than Mr. Kristol. They try to preserve the appearance that they really do care about those less fortunate than themselves. But the truth is that they aren’t bothered by the fact that almost nine million children in America lack health insurance. They don’t think it’s a problem. HERE'S A REALLY SAD STATEMENT FROM OUR PRESIDENT! “I mean, people have access to health care in America,” said Mr. Bush in July. “Af
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POPSBuild Your Vocabulary - Feed The World More: Viral marketing, the compelling game, and the cause it supports are key to the site's success, WFP's Barton says. An ad is featured on the bottom of each page, and it is these advertisers who ultimately fund the checks Breen writes to the WFP. He is looking into Google ads and hiring an ad agency to run the site. Breen has specified that he wants the WFP to buy locally to support farmers in developing countries, rather than using imported food, which tends to depress local crop prices. Breen has already sent $113,000 to the WFP and will send more in increments of $10,000 to $15,000 as advertising dollars roll in, Barton says. Breen says he sends all profits to the WFP, and the site has no political or religious affiliation. He donates his time and pays the cost of leasing the site's servers himself. "Some people like to give money to their colleges or whatever," he writes by e-mail, "and this I what I prefer to do with it."
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POPSUN vehicle seized in Darfur The driver was robbed of his personal possessions, his UN identity card and a hand-held radio. UNAMID reported the incident to the Government of Sudan police and National Intelligence for Safety and Security. The peacekeeping mission in Darfur is working with Sudanese police forces to try to improve their respect for human rights and their ability to enforce the law. UNAMID police in West Darfur are currently preparing to conduct a training course designed for Sudanese Movement Police. The Sudanese forces will be trained in law enforcement, human rights, community policing, child protection and protection of women. The course will be held from November 9 to November 27 and is expected to be attended by 90 local police officers.
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POPSSo why is Africa perpetually poor?? Fascinating article for anybody interested to know how an ENTIRE CONTINENT is kept in poverty. The powers that be are setting about a massive natural resource and land grab from the natives of the continent. Dont forget, its not a huge amount of time when "human resources" were taken from Africa. Thats food for thought about world bankers and G8 - now you know why people protest when every they meet. Please pop this - I think people should at least be aware of this.
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POPS 'Year Of The Liar' An Inconvenient Truth
No one should have the audacity to bore Gore with scientific fact. While the distinction of the Nobel Peace Prize is becoming ever more dubious, the glowing Gore seems to have become a major inconvenience for Mrs. Bill Clinton. “And so, after the obligatory spasms of celebration and the equally obligatory gnashing of Rush Limbaugh’s teeth, will Americans finally get to enjoy one of the great spectacles in political history, as Gore’s ultimate honor levitates him beyond his leading rival, Hillary Clinton, and into the Oval Office, asks Time (In Partnership with CNN) scribe Eric Pooley. Americans who rue Hillary’s rise in presidential election polls will sleep sounder nights when hearing that Pooley said, “If Al Gore gets into the presidential race, I’ll eat my copy of An Inconvenient Truth. (The paperback, not the DVD).” If the book-eating Pooley is wrong and Al Gore dives into the presidential race as Savior of the Planet, there’ll be no peace on earth by this Christmas.
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POPSWorld's New Crisis: Soaring Food Prices "Frankly speaking, that G8 meeting is in June and we cannot wait," Mr Zoellick said, after meeting the IMF and the World Bank's Development Committee. "We estimate that a doubling of food prices over the last three years could potentially push 100 million people in low-income countries deeper into poverty." The World Bank has warned that food prices will remain elevated this year and will probably stay above 2004 levels until 2015. "We estimate that the effect of this food crisis on poverty reduction worldwide is in the order of seven lost years," Mr Zoellick said. He said that almost half of $500 million that the World Food Program recently requested in additional pledges for food aid had been committed, but the May 1 deadline for raising the money would not be met. The parliamentary secretary for international development assistance, Bob McMullan, said yesterday Australia was one of the largest donors through the World Food Program, giving $61.7 million last year.
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POPSWhere Hunger Will Hit in 2030 I know that if the drought keeps up, Australia will have trouble producing enough food, let alone food for export. "Mad Max" may prove more accurate than Orwell. These starving people will not stay at home and die, they will search for somewhere they can grow food. Australia will become more crowded and there will be a lot of market gardens.
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POPSU.N. Suspends Aid Shipments To Myanmar After Government Confiscates Donations White House: Myanmar OKs One U.S. Aid Delivery Earlier Friday, Ky Luu, director of the U.S. office of foreign disaster assistance, had said that skilled aid workers were being forced to sit on the sidelines as victims of last week's cyclone die. His comments reflect mounting frustration among the United States and other countries as they wait for permission from the military-led government to begin trying to help. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354722,00.html
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POPSUN Says World Fisheries Face Collapse “We are getting more and more alarming signals of dramatic changes in the oceans. The recovery from the changes we’re making will probably take a million years.” The report found the most affected areas included those responsible for half the world’s fish catch. A slowing of ocean currents as a result of climate change may over the next 100 years interrupt the transport of nutrients to the most valuable coastal fishing zones, and the flushing away of pollution. In other impacts, Nellemann said he expected more than 50 percent of coral reefs to die by 2050 as a result of rising temperatures, with resulting impacts on tourism. Carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels create an acid when dissolved in water, and could over the coming decades make the sea more acidic than at any time in the past 65 million years, and by 2100 could prevent mollusks in some seas from forming shells.
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POPSJapanese "Research" 1,000 Whales: Delicious! Japan is planing on killing a THOUSAND whale for "research"?!? What on earth are they possibly researching? And what will they possibly do with all that whale? I mean, seriously, imagine EATING a THOUSAND WHALES! I'm confused about this anyway. In the past we hunted whales for oil, not food, which is why whaling was such big business. Since then we have discovered that it is far easier to hunt other things for oil, such as citizens of the developing world. (And thanks to high birth rates those aren't endangered yet!) So the question is: what do the Japanese have against the whales? A thousand whales sounds like they've got a grudge to settle! I mean this isn't just "a little research." This is more like Ahab "researching" the white whale!
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POPSOil-Rich States Starve the World Food Program The OPEC total amounts to roughly one minute and 10 seconds worth of the organization’s estimated $674 billion in annual oil revenues in 2007 — revenues that will be vastly exceeded in 2008 with the continuing spiral in world oil prices. This year, the U.S. had contributed $362.7 million to WFP just through May 4, according to the website. That figure does not include another $250 million above the planned yearly contribution that was promised by President George W. Bush in the wake of WFP’s April warning that a “silent tsunami” of rising food costs would add dramatically to the world population living in hunger. Nor does it include another $770 million in food aid that President Bush has asked Congress to provide as soon as possible. On the other hand, Saudi Arabia, with oil revenues last year of $164 billion, does not even appear on the website donor list for 2008.
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POPSFree Rice You guess the meaning of vocabulary words and Free Rice donates 20 grains of rice to the UN World Food Program!
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POPSRachel Ray's answer to reality TV: Think you can cook? I guess i shouldn't be surprised that this show will exist-- it seems that by the end of the year reality tv contests will cover every genre that exists in the world. I think Rachel Ray has totally overexposed herself-- she was cute and quirky on her 30 minute meal program, but now i find her simply ANNOYING
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POPS The Big Push For The United Nations Power-Grab The United Nations as a "world body" is riddled with corruption and incompetence. Its bureaucracy, agencies and members are overwhelmingly hostile to the United States and other freedom-loving nations, most especially Israel. The U.N. agency, The International Seabed Authority could dictate what is done on, in and under the world's oceans. America would become party to surrender of immense resources of the seas and what lies beneath them to the dictates of unaccountable, nontransparent multinational organizations, tribunals and bureaucrats. LOST's most determined proponents have always been the one-worlders — members of the World Federalists Association (now dubbed Citizens for Global Solutions) and like-minded advocates of supranational government. The transnationalists understand LOST would set a precedent for diminishing, and ultimately eliminating, sovereign nations. It would establish the superiority of international mechanisms for managing "the common heritage of mankind"
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POPSYou make a mess,you clean it up. The statement I made to the Republicans views would be But to people with conscience. It means we made a mess of peoples lives. Will our upper class rich help pay for this mistake? Don`t hold your breath.
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