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POPSTravel Guide – Video Travel Guide .A video travel guide for international city destinations around the world. You can watch 9 videos for each city around the world on topics such as tourist attractions, tours, nightlife, hotels etc.
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POPSLocal Council Jobs - Australia & New Zealand Local Council Jobs is the leading job board for Australian and New Zealand Councils to advertise job vacancies. Search for a new job today! Sign up for our weekly job newsletter or apply online today.
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POPSWhere Sara Ruled Edwards said she believes, as does Palin, that creationism ought to be taught in schools along with evolution, and that Barack Obama must be stopped. And Edwards assured me that humans have nothing to do with climate change, a position her pal Sarah used to share but has backed away from in recent weeks, saying that "some of man's activities" are "potentially causing some of the changes in the climate right now." Munger, who writes the Progressive Alaska blog, told me Palin is not just a creationist, but a "young Earth" creationist who believes that man and dinosaurs once shared the planet, and that the world will end in her lifetime. Palin-tology, you might call it. Can anyone feel good about supporting a vice presidential candidate who ruled a town with worse municipal planning than we have in Los Angeles?"
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POPSChristopher Coan Update If you are reading this, it's because you actually care about missing children and persons, so PLEASE take a moment and visit Myspace for Chris Coan. Even if you don't have any tips, a simple "good luck with the search" OR "You're in my thoughs and prayers," could make a world of difference to family members searching for Chris.
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POPSMichigan Voter SUppression: Lose Your House, Lose Your Vote THIS is how Republicans steal elections. This sort of shit is part of how they stole 2000 & 2004. Trying to underhandedly disenfranchise Americans like this is unconscionable. Notice it's almost always the Republicans who are trying to get fewer people to vote with their policies, and the Democrats trying to get more people to vote. Besides, the Republicans buddies on Wall Street are the ones who caused the fucking housing crisis, and now they want to use that fact to rob Americans of the right to vote? Why do the Republicans hate America so much?
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POPSHiring Friends And Lashing Foes
"The new mayor also tended carefully to her evangelical base. She appointed a pastor to the town planning board. And she began to eye the library. For years, social conservatives had pressed the library director to remove books they considered immoral. “People would bring books back censored,” recalled former Mayor John Stein, Ms. Palin’s predecessor. “Pages would get marked up or torn out.” But in 1995, Ms. Palin, then a city councilwoman, told colleagues that she had noticed the book “Daddy’s Roommate” on the shelves and that it did not belong there, according to Ms. Chase and Mr. Stein. Ms. Chase read the book, which helps children understand homosexuality, and said it was inoffensive; she suggested that Ms. Palin read it. “Sarah said she didn’t need to read that stuff,” Ms. Chase said. “It was disturbing that someone would be willing to remove a book from the library and she didn’t even read it.” “I’m still proud of Sarah,” she added, “but she scares the bejeebers out of me
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POPSNo More Billboards in Xi'an This from the blog of Intelligent Travel: the city of Xi'an has plans to remove billboards from the capital's walls. The move is part of a larger effort to restore Xi'an's heritage by controlling development and population growth.
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POPSLose Your House, Lose Your Vote The Michigan Republicans’ planned use of foreclosure lists is apparently an attempt to challenge ineligible voters as not being “true residents.” One expert questioned the legality of the tactic. “You can’t challenge people without a factual basis for doing so,” said J. Gerald Herbert, a former voting rights litigator for the U.S. Justice Department who now runs the Campaign Legal Center, a Washington D.C.-based public interest law firm. “I don’t think a foreclosure notice is sufficient basis for a challenge, because people often remain in their homes after foreclosure begins and sometimes are able to negotiate and refinance.” As for the practice of challenging the right to vote of foreclosed property owners, Herbert called it, “mean-spirited.”
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POPSMassive police raids on suspected protestors in Minneapolis The hammer is coming down in Minneapolis in advance of the Republican National Convention. Unlike Denver which saw no protests to speak of, RNCC is expecting trouble. My friend Jane Hamsher and Glenn Greenwald are covering activities by the various local and federal police agencies working in concert together to disrupt the protestors in advance of the convention.
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POPSPolice Raid Homes in Twin Cities Prior to RNC The above is from Glenn Greenwald. As is always the case with Greenwald's posts, it's worth reading in its entirety . While it seems at first read to be a preemptive attempt to stop protests, a moment's thought should tell you that it guarantees them. In fact, it may even provoke violence. While I hesitate to say that the St. Paul police are trying to ensure riots for the networks, I can't say it doesn't look like they are.
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POPSBicycle City Just Around the Corner Bicycle City is in the planning/development stages and much of the information and images displayed on this website are meant to simply convey concepts and ideas rather than representations of fact. Reservation Update: It has been suggested that, because we are unable to disclose the location of the upcoming Bicycle City community at this time, our reservation amount was too high. With this in mind, we are lowering the reservations to $250, which is still fully refundable. We will refund the difference to those who have already made reservations in the original amount. To reserve an opportunity to purchase a residential lot or a condominium unit, or to rent an apartment in the future Bicycle City development, please use the instructions below. Your deposit is fully refundable. You can cancel at any time for a full refund.
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POPSOfficials May Evacuate New Orleans as Gustav Nears If a Category 3 or stronger hurricane comes within 60 hours of the city, New Orleans plans to institute a mandatory evacuation order. Unlike Katrina, there will be no massive shelter at the Superdome, a plan designed to encourage residents to leave. Instead, the state has arranged for buses and trains to take people to safety. Since the storm (Katrina), the Army Corps of Engineers has spent billions of dollars to improve the levee system, but because of two quiet hurricane seasons, the flood walls have never been tested. Floodgates have been installed on drainage canals to stop any storm surge from entering the city, and levees have been raised and in many places strengthened with concrete. Scientists cautioned that the storm's track and intensity were difficult to predict several days in advance. The Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals planned to move animals to shelters elsewhere in the state and in Texas.
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POPSKremlin Unleashes "Mafia-on-Steroids" Style Chechen Thugs ........continued........ to disband the unit. The generals refused. At the time, their stubborn support for the outlaw Yamadaev Brothers seemed baffling - a quiet Chechnya was a longstanding Russian goal. But last week, it all made sense: Putin's military, which had been planning the invasion of Georgia for many months, intended to unleash the worst criminals in uniform it had on the Georgian people. Why? Two reasons: First, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin wants the Georgians to suffer - to really suffer. And Chechens are the world's subject-matter experts in atrocities. Second, this gives the Russian army itself a veil of deniability: When Putin's spokesmen insist that the Russian military isn't involved in the worst savagery in Georgia, they're technically telling the truth (if we don't count air attacks and artillery bombardments), since the Chechen thugs on their payroll are on the job.
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