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POPS Answering Russia 10. Announce the creation of a new information network, much larger and better funded than Voice of America or Radio Free Europe to deliver Internet, TV and radio broadcasts into neo-Soviet Russia so that Russians can learn the truth about their country.
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POPS19th-Century Painter Van Gogh Died Of Self-Inflicted Gunshot 29 July 1890 * Born: 30 March 1853 * Birthplace: Groot Zundert, Holland * Died: 29 July 1890 (self-inflicted gunshot) * Best Known As: The marvelous painter who cut off his own earlobe A 19th-century painter, Van Gogh is almost as famous for his mental instability as for his vivid paintings. His career as an artist lasted only 10 years and coincided with frequent bouts of depression and anguish Among his favorite painters at this time were Jean François Millet, Rembrandt, Honoré Daumier; among his favorite authors, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Harriet Beecher Stowe - all of them interested in the poor and dispossessed. Complementing Van Gogh's dismal subject matter of this time were his colors, dark brownish and greenish tones. The masterpiece of the Dutch period is the Potato Eaters (1885), a night scene in which peasants sit at their meal around a table.
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POPSPart time MP's
Why has Andrew Alexander tried to steal my thunder? Convincing the public that if an MP writes to the local Health Authority, he/she is only doing their duty is remarkable. What makes matters worse is if, as in Blackpool, you have ineffectual Parliamentary representation, it is compounded by totally useless councillors. Much of the problem solving is local and should be undertaken by Councillors. Not so long ago,a former serviceman was working but could not find affordable accommodation. It took three years of pestering and cajoling before the Council could find habitable space for this disabled person, injured in the line of duty. Yet all around, DSS fraudsters duped the system and lived purely by their own rules. Couples open co-habitat at the tax payers expense. If you complain you are hit with the homophobia/race card. How come health young lesbians can afford taxis for every journey when truly disabled people have to use a bus pass? And anyone who had ventured down Hors
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POPSAnother Environmental "Solution" Starts To Fall Apart Signaling a major retrenchment, European Union legislators on Monday proposed ratcheting back an ambitious target to raise Europe's use of biofuels. "I think when we will look back we will say this was the beginning of a turning point for Europe on biofuels," said Juan Delgado, a research fellow specializing in energy and climate change expert at Breugel, a research organization in Brussels. "It will be very difficult now for Europe to stick by its targets." http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/07/business/fuel.php Another Environmental "Solution" Starts To Fall Apart: EU Infatuation With Ethanol Grows Cold, Canada, Too http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/07/08/another-environmental-solution-starts-to-fall-apart-eu-infatuation-with-ethanol-grows-cold-canada-too/#more-5814
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POPSFewer Belgians attending Mass 7% attend church weekly (11% a decade ago) 57% new born children are baptised (65% a decade ago) 26.5% opt for a church wedding (49% a decade ago) 61% for church funeral (76% a decade ago) The full press release (27 pages) is available in Dutch or French
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POPSLiving in the Future Some info and videos about how technology might change daily life in the future: the house of tomorrow, a supermarket of the future and a robotic restaurant.
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POPSFORTRESS EUROPE- no more Iraqi Refugees Stockholm, where 18,600 applications for asylum were submitted in 2007 alone, is gradually closing its doors now that Sweden's highest court has ruled that there is no longer an armed conflict in Iraq. Asylum-seekers must now provide detailed proof of persecution, a practically impossible task for many Iraqis. Despite the millions in assistance it receives from Brussels, Athens feels overburdened by the system. After personally inspecting the country's facilities for refugees, European Parliament MEP Kreissl-Dörfler alleged that the Greeks shove thousands of asylum-seekers "into inhumane deportation camps that one can only enter in rubber boots."
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POPSHow EU Leaders Are Trying to Rescue the Lisbon Treaty "And they are right to do so." ... "The scoundrels in Brussels have sold the European people a lot of things: a single market, the euro, the lifting of many border controls and, most recently, a binding global climate policy. These have all been good things, and they have helped make Europe an eminently livable continent. Despite the many dull moments and emotions that have been negative at best, the end result has been laudable. Most of these improvements would have been held up, if not outright prevented, by referendums. Democracy doesn't mean having unlimited confidence in citizens. Sometimes the big picture is in better hands when politicians are running it, and a big picture takes time."
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POPSEurope Defying US on Cuba-LIFTING Of Sanctions After 44 years of failed American policy in and around Cuba, Central America and so on, finally the day has come! Progress in the endless anti-communist witch-hunt. South Florida Cubans had already the Island divided among only themselves. The Cubans in Cuba would get nothing. Perhaps now the chance will develop, just like East and West Germany. These type of sanctions do not and never have worked. The end of sanctions is near. Bueno!
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POPSUK Parliament OK's EU Treaty, Irish Voters Rejected The Irish people were right. The UK parliament was wrong and disenfranchised their people from their own national sovereignty. The Tories could not prevent it. There are certainly large majorities of people in England, Scotland and Wales absolutely opposed to being under EU government. So much for "representative" government! So while the Irish dissent, the most independent nation in Europe bows to the usurping EU body politic that will strip their right and enlarge the puzzle being built toward World Government jigsaw.
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POPSCreating insignificant events -Futuristic art Vincent Callebaut 'work was lately exhibited in Paris ; ;" To believe in the world means to create events, even insignificant ones, that gets out of control, or create new space-times, even in reduced surfaces or volumes"
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POPSPrime Minister Brown Admits EU Treaty Is Finished
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany’s foreign minister, went further, stating that the Lisbon treaty provisions, which include the creation of a permanent EU president and the widespread abolition of national vetoes, could be implemented without Ireland. “Ireland for a period of time could leave the way free for the integration of the other 26 member states,” he said. In public, British ministers are insisting that a solution to the impasse can still be found. Jim Murphy, the Europe minister, yesterday told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “Only those who previously wished to dance on the grave of this treaty, even before the Irish referendum, are declaring it dead.” However, at this week’s Brussels summit, Brown will refuse to agree to anything that could leave the Irish out in the cold, according to aides. The only EU leader so far to admit that the treaty is dead is Vaclav Klaus, the Czech president, who declared the entire project “finished”.
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POPSA voice of reason What I would like to know is why the Irish were the only country to vote? Actually, I know why, but I thought I would point it out.
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