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POPSThe Perils of Cheap Oil CONT'D: "When economic growth resumes across the globe, demand for oil will surge once again. Only this time around, given the constraints presented by declining oil fields and the current apparent freeze in investment in new oil production capacity, the supply-demand equation will likely send oil prices shooting back up, perhaps even further than before. "Which is why now is the time, more than ever, for government leadership that promotes conservation, energy efficiency, fuel economy, and increased production of renewable energy. Waiting until the economy recovers before tackling energy would be a huge, huge mistake."
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POPSA Credit Crisis or a Collapsing Ponzi Scheme? 
the scheme is exposed, because when legal authorities begin examining accounting records of the so-called enterprise they find that many of the 'assets' that should exist do not." here’s where we are today. The promoters have clearly not vanished as in outcome 1. In fact, they are behaving as if they know they have nothing to fear. We are definitely seeing all the signs of outcome 2: the scheme is collapsing under its own weight; there are panic runs around the globe wherever Wall Street has left its footprint. outcome 3 Instead of arresting the perpetrators and shutting down the schemes, Federal authorities have developed their own new schemes and pumped over $2 trillion of taxpayer money into propping up the firms while leaving the schemers in place. Equally astonishing, Congress has not held any meaningful investigations. This has left many Wall Street veterans wondering if the problem isn’t that the firms are “too big to fail” but rather “too Ponzi-like to prosecute.
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POPSRevealing the complexity behind things we take for granted..astonishing forms "Viewed at extreme magnifications of 1,000 times or more, the natural world acquires a surreal beauty, rich with astonishing forms and spectacular patterns. A new book, Nano Nature, gives us a rare glimpse into this bizarre 'nano' world. Using a scanning electron microscope (SEM), which can view objects at extreme magnification, Nano Nature explores this hidden world, revealing the complexity behind things we take for granted - a butterfly wing, a polar bear's hair or a fruit fly's eye. The images are produced in monochrome and then hand tinted to enrich their detail.'
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POPSMcCain for President I love Krauthammer. You never have to wonder what he really believes. He places his feelings/emotions aside and views the plain facts that we face between our two choices for the Presidency. We can have a rookie at the helm which his own VP choice recognizes will make us vulnerable, a puppet manipulated by questionable (even unknown) puppeteers or a person with knowledge and experience of what is actually going on in the world?
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POPS1 Voter - 72 Registrations - - Welcome to the World of Obama Obama and "community organizer" Obama are closely linked. And now we have widespread proof of voter fraud throughout the country. Now let's find proof the ManChild is directly behind this fraud and send him packing off to the Big House (not the White House) where he belongs.
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POPSSaving Viewsheds We often think little of the "backdrop" of our lives, but sometimes that is spectacular scenery we don't want to lose sight of.
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POPSA Better Strategy on Opium in Afghanistan The statistics are bleak and we are pursuing typically myopic policies in Afghanistan. Hitchens (whose writing I think is superb) makes a great case for a different approach. "in the short term, hard-pressed Afghan farmers should be allowed to sell their opium to the government rather than only to the many criminal elements that continue to infest it or to the Taliban. We don't have to smoke the stuff once we have purchased it: It can be burned or thrown away or perhaps more profitably used to manufacture the painkillers of which the United States currently suffers a shortage. (As it is, we allow Turkey to cultivate opium poppy fields for precisely this purpose.)"
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POPSSuperholographic Model of the Universe An extraordinary article. The idea seems to hark back to Leibniz's monads which always seemed very strange but has followers in the philosophy world. The discoveries of science seem to be getting more counter-intuitive as time goes by
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POPSJustice Dept Appoints Special Prosecutor Response to Justice report citing lack of White House cooperation in investigation of the presence of political pressure in firing US Attorneys, "abdicating" of responsibility by former AG Gonzales. Astonishing - Bush Justice Dept goes after Bush White House, appointees.
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POPSMcCain Hopes You Delete This! It is astonishing how low the McCain Camp will stoop to get their McGrumpypants elected. Anyone, who believes an emailed FORWARD should not be operating a computer... because they are DBR... "Dimwitted Beyond Rehabilitation"! Fight Back email brian@politicalaccuracy.com any forwards you receive no matter who it happens to be lying about!
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POPSAhmadinejad accepts Israel's right to exist Iran's president finally opens himself to the possibility of recognizing Israel's right to exist, and no one reports on it. I am no fan of this bastard, but when he makes threatening statements about Israel, his words make headlines. But when he starts to soften his stance, his words are ignored. Is this because the media is afraid to report anything positive about this man? And who are they afraid of upsetting?
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POPSKennedy Released from Hospital Decent of McCain to mention it... sad to see the last Kennedy in such state... almost astonishing how one family could be so blessed and so cursed at the same time. Hopefully he'll pull through this one.. hard to critique the guy when he's ill...
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POPSWater consumption to produce our daily goods Astonishing! You never hear about this: so eating less meat en drinking less coffee you'll save dozens of times more water than showering shorter and what we normally do to save it... I know it's logical, but you just don't think about it...
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