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POPSOver 13 Honor Killings in Two Months in Palestine con't "Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas promised last year that he would change this shameless law by the International Women's Day of 2010. But it is seems to be that President Abbas has swallowed his words, as he didn’t change the law. The International Women's Day passed and there were over 13 women murdered in Palestine under the presence of the PA. Abbas and friends just don't care."
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POPSAre you lonesome tonight? Are you, indeed, comfortable in your own skin and delighted in your own company? According to Theodore Zeldin in his wonderful book ' An Intimate History of Humanity' The noise of the world is made out of silences. In all that you do, in company or alone, I hope you go well
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POPSRIN | Rotary's Peace and Collaborative Development Network
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POPSThe west owes Haiti a bailout. And it would be a hand-back, not a handout There is no connection between these two events. But in the public imagination maybe there should be. The world cannot yet find $1bn in debt relief for Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere, a country that spent more in 2008 servicing its debt than it did on health, education and the environment combined and that has now been flattened. But, over a weekend, a single country could rustle up $85bn to keep a single company in business. It is an obscene reminder that, in the world of global capital, distressed assets are still more valued than distressed people.
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POPSRunning Doc: Please limit caffeine the morning of a race! The cases mentioned in the column: * A 33-year-old male running a half-marathon dropped at the 12-mile mark, at 3:10 into his race. The morning of the race, he had drunk two energy drinks and a Starbucks Grande coffee, and used two caffeinated gels. Cardiac catherization revealed a small lesion (less than 20%) but otherwise clean coronaries. * A 42-year-old woman running a marathon dropped at the 24.5-mile mark, 4:10 into her run. She had drunk two large coffees and had three caffeinated gels. Her cardiac cath also showed clean coronaries. * A 26-year-old male also running a marathon dropped at the 25.5-mile mark, 3:25 into his run. He had taken two caffeine pills plus coffee the morning of his race, and also had clean arteries on cardiac cath.
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POPSFrance's Sarkozy says time to end Haiti's "curse" I don't know what Sarkozy means by 'curse,' France has a huge obligation to Haiti. While listening to the radio today I heard that after fighting for and winning their freedom, Haitian's were forced to pay reparations to France. In effect, former slaves had to further purchase their freedom from France, ( principal plus interest). I think that the debt wasn't paid until the early 20th century and the Haitian government had to borrow to pay the interest. As far as I know, newly independent Haiti had no friends; George Washington repaid the loan from France to finance the American Revolution by sending the money and arms to slave owners in Saint Domingue (Haiti). Fact checking in progress ...
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POPSIs the Haiti Rescue Effort Failing? And there is a deeper fear -- a political fear. With President Aristide, the man the US considers too radical for its tastes, anxious to return, there is fear that a possible revolt against the lack of help could turn angry and political. Hillary Clinton keeps telling the Haitians that we are their friends -- but many doubt it.They know that Aristide's Lavalas party is the most popular in Haiti and wants a more profound transformation than the US wants to allow. It had been banned from taking part in scheduled elections next month, that are likely to be canceled now. Haiti's president Preval is weak and dependent on US largesse.
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POPSAnnie Londonderry, the first woman to bicycle around the world - in 1894! More: Annie turned every Victorian notion of female propriety on its ear. Not only did she abandon, temporarily, her role of wife and mother, but for most of the journey she rode a man's bicycle attired in a man's riding suit. She earned her way selling photographs of herself, appearing as an attraction in stores, and by turning herself into a mobile billboard, renting space on her body and her bicycle to advertisers eager to benefit from this colorful spectacle on wheels. Outlandish, brash, and charismatic - a master of public relations, a consummate self-promoter, and a skillful creator of her own myth - Annie was a woman of boundless chutzpah. Indeed, as Annie Cohen Kopchovsky reinvented herself as a new woman - the daring globetrotter and adventurer, "Mlle. Annie Londonderry" - she became one of the most celebrated women of the gay '90s. Yet, until now, her remarkable story has been lost to history.
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POPS!!! Your help is needed!!! PTL!!! I can't help by being there, so I'll do the next best thing, support those that are!!! Please help, even the smallest donation will help!!!!!!!
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POPSGRW | Rotary Rose Parade Float Wins Award Through private donations from Rotarians and friends around the world, the local districts of Rotary International (including 5300 and Glendora), plan, design and construct the Tournament of Roses float for the world's most beautiful parade in Pasadena. Word has just arrived that this year's entry received a Tournament award.
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POPStechnology innovation technology- always makes me think of the "new and improved" line just cuz it is new? doesn't necessarily mean it is improved.............oh well- we all love life's little conveniences - etc.......
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POPSAn Afrian Tragedy Certain African countries are at the receiving end of international scorn for their homophobic views. And rightly so. It is difficult to fathom how, in the 21st Century, this type of backwards thinking could exist. Shame on them.
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POPS Why Climategate Does Matter 3. According to one estimate " by the International Energy Agency " the global cost of dealing with AGW will be $45 trillion (that’s 2/3 of the world’s current entire economic). This will mean our energy bills will rise by perhaps a factor of ten; that we will be subject to more and more pettifogging rules on what kind of lightbulbs we use and how we dispose of our trash " perhaps even how often we’re allowed to fly; it will mean governance by unelected “experts” and technocrats from the UN; it will cripple industry; it will mean higher taxes; it will take money from the middle classes in the Western world and hand them over in the form of “compensation” to kleptocrat dictators in the Third World; it will almost certainly send the global economy diving into a double dip depression. We are, in other words, about to be presented with the biggest bill in the history of mankind.
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POPSMan marries virtual girlfriend "The two of us hope to continue to let our love for each other grow as time goes on." I wish the two of you all the very best with you marriage
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POPSU.S Christian Right Pushes Death Penalty For LGBTs
If they can't legally kill non-heteros and their friends in the U.S., they'll try to see that it happens somewhere else. More from yhe article, below: " The speakers were Don Schmierer, a board member at Exodus International; Scott Lively, president of Abiding Truth Ministries and author of a book that equates Nazism and homosexuality; and Caleb Lee Brundidge who works at the International Healing Foundation which ostensibly "cures" homosexuals. "They told us all things are going wrong because the family is being neglected. Not having more children is one of the things that they said are going wrong. Homosexuality is a way of stopping us from having more children," said Senyonjo. "The law forces Ugandans to spy on each other because you can be punished if you don’t report suspected homosexuals to the police," said Senyonjo. The problem of patriarchy is even more urgent than addressing fundamentalism in the church, Oberholzer told IPS. "LGBTI rights and women’s rights go hand in
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POPSLetters From Rachel Letters home from Rachel to friends and family: http://www.peaceheroes.com/PeaceHeroes/rachelcorrieletters.htm The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice: http://rachelcorriefoundation.org/
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POPSEndangered Bird Becomes Internet Sensation: Sirocco the Kakapo Hits the Big Time Sirocco was featured in a recent BBC series entitled "Last Chance To See," profiling some of the thousands of species of animals in the world that are threatened with extinction, mostly due to human incursion and our effects on wild habitat. A report last summer by the International Union for Conservation of Nature asserts that "nearly one third of amphibians, more than one in eight birds and nearly a quarter of mammals are threatened with extinction." As the Kakapo Conservation website reminds us, "6 billion people on earth; only 124 kakapo." Not a good ratio, and one repeated thousands of times over, around the world. Sirocco is named for a warm Mediterranean wind. Let's hope he wafts into human conscience with a renewed sense of wonder for the amazing and gorgeous creatures on this planet, and a reminder of our responsibility for them.
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POPSObama Snubs Dalai Lama to Please China Obama is scared of China and he thinks that by snubbing the Dalai Lama this will somehow show China the U.S. knows how to choose its friends? This is a disgusting display of kowtowing. And Obama won the Nobel prize for what? Oh yeah, "Extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
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POPSThriving Ink I really dig these shirts. Priority this month though is Heifer International donation, new violin bows (off eBay of course), a tiny violin for Otter perhaps (also off eBay), & and then *maybe* fun stuff.
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