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POPSWhere bombs were born, birds now flock More than 4.7 million tons of low-level waste remain at Fernald in a fenced-off, 110-acre pile encased in thick liners and caps made of synthetic material, clay, rock and clean soil. The 65-foot-high, grass-covered mound snaking along an edge of the preserve is about the length of two Empire State Buildings laid end to end. The rest of the radioactive waste - more than a million tons - was shipped to storage and disposal sites in Nevada, Utah and Texas. I'm not sure how I feel about this. I can express a naughty thought, that I hope the toxic waste sent to Texas goes near Bush's home, and far away from Wiccan Texan.
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POPSIndian Truat Fund Scandal- 1887 the US government took control of the properties and never paid a nickel for the oil, timber etc etc. 121 years of rip-off. Now a judge agreed to pay some. My question: Where are the billions, not millions?
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POPSRace, crime, community, and redemption From Kasinitz, Philip, John H. Mollenkopf, Mary C. Waters, and Jennifer Holdaway. 2008. Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age. New York: Russell Sage Foundation pp. 127-128
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POPSMcCain's Surge in Iraq Crippling Efforts in Afghanistan The death rate for American troops in Afghanistan last month was four times that of Iraq. The last two months have been the deadliest of the war for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan since 2001. And today, Afghanistan sustained the deadliest single terrorist attack since 9/11 when suspected Taliban militants blew up the Indian embassy in Kabul. This is directly attributable to negligent policies set forth by the Bush administration--an administration dangerously obsessed with Iraq at the expense of the Real Global War on Terror. When many were urging the U.S. to focus on Afghanistan and Pakistan in early 2007, the Bush administration--with the support of Senator John McCain--launched the "surge" of troops into Baghdad. Unfortunately, Iraq is not, as John McCain says, the "central front" in the War on Terror--and it never has been. If there is such a thing, it is in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
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POPSHow George Washington's Savvy Won The Day Fighting force. Washington's vision was vindicated in the winter of 1776-77, as his Army, often working with militias, scored quick-hitting successes at Trenton, Princeton, and other parts of New Jersey. Washington even made the best of a painful setback after the British conquest of the nation's capital, Philadelphia. Settling in for a hard winter at Valley Forge, Pa., Washington built a distinctively American fighting force even while exercising political skills that allowed him to overcome insubordinate rivals in the Army and to mollify critics in the Continental Congress. Just as important, he had won the lasting support of America's civilian authorities, to whom he returned all power at war's end. Hearing of that gesture, Britain's King George III said that Washington would be the greatest man in history if it was true.
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POPSKOKOPELLI VERY ANCIENT PETROGLYPH OF THE HOPI AMERICAN INDIAN.......WHO MESMERIZED HUNDREDS OF INDIAN WOMEN WHEN HE PLAYED HIS FLUTE FOR THEM. HE WAS THOUGHT TO HAVE FATHERED HUNDREDS OF INDIAN CHILDREN
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POPSObama Adopted as Honorary Member of Crow Tribe He is the very first candidate who has taken an interest in American Indian issues and visited an Indian Reservation for a campaign rally. Incredible! And yet another reason to vote for Obama. Watch flash presentation of the rally at the official site of the Crow Tribe Apsaalooke Nation website www.crowtribe.com
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POPSAt last? Policy shakeup on Native American issues? "Few have been ignored by Washington for as long as Native Americans." says Obama at Crow Nation. Promises Native American advisor on senior White House staff. Crow Nation spokesman: "His heritage of being poor, of being an outsider, you know those two things are the commonalities that he has with us."
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POPSThe Mountain That Lost Its Top
The devastation being wrought on Appalachia is best appreciated from the air. An organisation called Southwinds offers people an eagle-eye view of the carnage, not readily appreciated from the road. Another way to see what’s going on behind the ridge-line is to take a Google Earth virtual tour of an online memorial to the 470 mountains blown up and levelled in recent years. The act of destroying a million-year-old mountain has several distinct stages. First it is earmarked for removal and the hardwood forest cover, containing over 500 species of tree per acre in this region, is bulldozed away. The trees are typically burnt rather than logged, because mining companies are not in the lumber business. Then topsoil is scraped away and high explosives laid in the sandstone. Thousands of blasts go off across the region every day, blowing up what the mining industry calls “overburden”. The rubble is then tipped into the valleys - more than 7,000 have already been filled - and more than
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POPSBiographies by nationalities Great resource for cursory search for biographies Just enough information to lead one to do a more in depth search. Happy bio researching
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