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POPSPiracy Spurs Threats to Shipping Costs The company, however, will save on the $200,000 fee the Egyptian government charges to use the Suez canal. "We're hoping if other companies join us, we can put enough pressure on the Egyptian and other governments to solve this problem," says Chief Operating Officer Jan Hammer. Rob Lomas, secretary general of London-based Intercargo, a lobby group, says national shipping associations plan to step up a campaign for more protection off the East African coast. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet said they would keep four warships in the Gulf of Aden, off the coast of Somalia on Africa's horn, where most attacks have occurred. If attacks continue, insurers will continue raising rates for ships making the trek through the Gulf of Aden and the Suez canal until governments prove they can clamp down on the pirates, says Simon Beale, an underwriter with Amlin PLC, a London-based underwriter.
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POPSAlex Colville a great East Coast artist One of Bartending bears HDR pics reminded me of this guy and I thought I would check him out. Check out the interactive profile; it's really really good; of course I'm biased; I've admired this guy since I was a kid.
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POPSUS/UK Intel Warns Obama of Transition Attack
Which would be too convenient for the neocon agenda (pro-war Biden and Rahm Emanuel, et al, already in place in the Obama administration), as well as too irrational for "Al Qaeda" to do, if the fictitious terrorists wanted to halt the war program under the "change" candidate. Really, what would their motive be? (Oh, "They are irrational zealots...and because they hate us because we are free and women can vote", of course). Biden already warned about this certain coming event to "test" Obama (or provide him a pretext to change). He is in the know. Biden already said "you may not agree with us, but we will need your support...mark my words". The only question is, will the public be fooled by this false flag attack, or fear propaganda again, to justify more wars for Democracy against an invisible enemy while the Intel officials always know their scheme and yet can never find them? Hayden confesses there is "no real or artificial spike" in intel to justify their assertion!
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POPSDetroit Automakers a Relic of the Past No one in the private sector is willing to pony up a dime for this business plan. GM stock is below its 1946 price, and one investment house has priced it at zero. The Detroit Three are taking advantage of the passage of the $700 billion financial bailout to argue that they, too, need government money to go on. But as Megan McArdle of The Atlantic argues, the finance firms are different. If credit coagulates, everyone suffers, while if the Detroit Three go bankrupt, their shareholders lose their stake, employee and retiree pay and benefits are cut, and real estate values go down in areas where the companies and their suppliers operate -- but life for most of us goes on. McArdle further argues that the capital invested in keeping the hulk of the Detroit Three operating pretty much as they are, unprofitably, will not be available to those whose startups could morph into the Microsofts and FedExes of the future.
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POPSGoogle can accurately estimate flu activity faster than CDC? "We've found that certain search terms are good indicators of flu activity. Google Flu Trends uses aggregated Google search data to estimate flu activity in your state up to two weeks faster than traditional flu surveillance systems. " Fascinating! I knew that data from Where's George? has been useful to epidemiologists. And now Google, too.
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POPSGoogle Flu Trends ~ How does this work?
used by CDC. Of course, past performance is no guarantee of future results. Our system is still very experimental, so anything is possible, but we're hoping to see similar correlations in the coming year. The doctors keep track of the percentage of their patients who have an influenza-like illness, also known as an "ILI percentage". CDC and state health departments collect and aggregate this data each week, providing a good indicator of overall flu activity across the United States. So why bother with estimates from aggregated search queries? It turns out that traditional flu surveillance systems take 1-2 weeks to collect and release surveillance data, but Google search queries can be automatically counted very quickly. By making our flu estimates available each day, Google Flu Trends may provide an early-warning system for outbreaks of influenza. This is an exciting development, because early detection of a disease outbreak can reduce the number of people affected.
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POPSHeadlines from 2020 - Part V
• The Amish are relocated en masse to unelectrified penal colonies in Alaska because they refuse to pledge allegiance to anyone but God; they fail to accept that Obama is God. Unlike other deportations, this one saves the People's State money because the Amish are pacifists. Their formerly productive farmland is redistributed to ACORN staff and people George Soros likes (until he quits liking them; people do not think about what happens after that). Results similar to those in Zimbabwe fail to be reported in the state media. • The Amish are joined by those Rastas too stoned to fight back, although some Rastas merely remain under state suspicion after conceding that, as per Bob Marley, "the Almighty God is a living man" refers not to Haile Selassie but Barry Obama. • The Red Cross becomes the Red Circle (aka the Red 'O') and blood donations become mandatory. Those without recent donations are denied bread rations. . Mandated "volunteer" camps teach youth educational value of
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POPSQE2: Final farewell most famous cruise ship Incredibly, 15 times more money has been spent refurbishing and refitting the ship than it cost to build. The money needed to make the vessel comply with the Safety of Life at Sea regulations that become law in 2010 would have been prohibitive. Hence Cunard is letting the ship go. Reports are that the iconic red funnel will be taken off and used as an entrance to the hotel. It is rumoured that in its place will be a glass penthouse, the most exclusive room in Dubai.
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POPS Freedom Now Stands Alone not just in the US but in Britain too – shows the intellectual disarray caused by these profound developments. They say politicians must stop trying to hold the cultural line and go instead with the flow of change. In Britain, the Tory party has adopted this strategy. Now there are Republicans saying the same thing. But John McCain is a Republican who does not fit the old template, who does subscribe to some of this ‘change’ agenda on a number of issues. As a result, he was incapable of attacking Obama on the most important grounds of all: that he stood for values inimical to America’s founding principles. When he did venture into this territory, it was half-cocked and far too late, appearing merely like the desperate throw of a loser. The reason he couldn’t do it earlier was that he had no coherent platform of his own. The Republicans screwed up in government, they selected a hopelessly frail and erratic candidate, he ran a shambolic campaign. They deserved to lose.
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POPS"I'm The One They've Been Waiting For" Obama Added To Mt Rushmore video http://www.youtube.com/user/TheNoseOnYourFace?ob=1 The Top Ten Reasons Conservatives Should Vote For Obama ~ Hard-core Obama Convert & propaganda minister or whatever andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 27 Oct 2008 09:33 pm Here's "the daily dish" nine months since that previous post: Those conservatives who remain convinced, as I do, that Islamist terror remains the greatest threat to the West cannot risk a perpetuation of the failed Manichean worldview of the past eight years, and cannot risk the possibility of McCain making rash decisions in the middle of a potentially catastrophic global conflict. If you are serious about the war on terror and believe it is a war we have to win, the only serious candidate is Barack Obama. And last but not least, number three on that list 3. Two words: President Palin.
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POPSRepublicans and Conservatives Endorsing Barack Andrew Bacevich, Professor of International Relations at Boston University David Friedman, Economist and son of Milton and Rose Friedman Christopher Buckley, Son of National Review founder William F. Buckley & former NR columnist Andrew Sullivan, Columnist for the Atlantic Monthly Wick Alison, Former publisher of the National Review Michael Smerconish, Columnist for the Philadelphia Enquirer
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POPSBusch Gardens Tickets Busch Gardens Tampa Bay is a 335-acre park themed like Africa in the 19th century. Do you love to be in Orlando - Buy Busch Gardens Tickets and be there.
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POPSTwo Very Wealthy Men on Taxation Inequality Republicans are more likely to think: “I’m making $80 million a year – God must have intended me to have a lower tax rate. The origin of that belief has been handed down from Abram Vereide (see below), but it goes all the way back to the Puritans. George Bush is not a member of the family, but in the 1970s he attended Bible study meetings in Midland, Texas that were organized by The Family. U.S. economic policy is in part based upon a Christianity for the elite. The Family was founded 70 years ago by Abraham Vereide, a Norwegian immigrant evangelist based in Seattle. In 1935, Vereide said, God appeared to him in a vision and revealed where Christianity had gone wrong: preoccupation with the poor, the weak and the suffering.
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