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POPSGlobal Financial Crisis in Pictures Look: The Bailout did not stop this! The only things looking good are gold (soaring), government bonds (safer investments), the dollar (which has rebounded) and oil prices (which are now below 90 buck a barrel; hopefully $3 per gallon gas is coming soon; but we want 1.50 per gallon like when Bush and the war-spending neocons seized power, massively increasing government spending and national debt). World stock markets have plunged after government bank bail-outs in the US and Europe failed to stem fears of slower global economic growth. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones fell 370 points, ending below 10,000 for the first time since 2004. UK and French indexes also suffered big falls. For a definition of futures index in these charts go here.
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POPSFlexitarianism "Given the environmental, cruelty and health impact of a meat-based diet, going vegan is best, going vegetarian is good, and being a flexitarian is like smoking two packs of cigarettes instead of ten, beating one pig down the slaughter ramp instead of two, and pouring a pint of gasoline down a drain instead of pouring down a gallon."
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POPSBriar Patch recipe My mom used to make this all the time when I was a kid and I loved it! However I suppose now due to health reasons, she leaves out the stuff that makes it yummy.
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POPSCool Uses For Old Grounds It works really well as an exfoliant and the oil in the beans leaves your skin really soft and moisturized. Cheap and eco-friendly! :)
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POPSIndia has had bird flu but is banning poultry related products from nations that have had it too - I India has meat eaters but is predominately a vegan nation - but they raise poultry to export and have had outbreaks of avian flu in their flocks. Now they are banning importation of poultry products from other nations that have similarly afflicted. It all sounds a bit ironic, oxymoronic, and strange. Will they complain when and if other nations ban the import of birds from India? There are smart ways to break the pandemic threat but India and others are not looking beyond the easy and political.
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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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POPSDebate over slaughtering horses gains new life I always have been - and always will be - against killing horses for human consumption. It can never be humane, and we could come up with other solutions to the equine over population if we REALLY wanted to.
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POPSJapanese dolphin drive hunts and the dolphin captivity industry
The dolphin captivity industry, by purchasing dolphins from the drive hunts, are maintaining the drive hunts by keeping them economically viable. Both Japanese and Western dolphin trainers can be seen in these videos, so it's not merely a local thing to Japan. Since the early to mid 1990s, SeaWorld has no longer purchased dolphins from the Japanese drive hunts for good PR, and has turned to a breeding program. However, there are now plans to build a new SeaWorld in Dubai, UAE. How do they plan to procure enough animals to open this new park? I very much doubt that the breeding program that SeaWorld maintains would sufficiently produce enough animals to stuff into a whole new park with a whole new Shamu show, and their other animals such as bottlenose dolphins? Especially with the high mortality rate in their parks as it is, with another Orca dying unexpectedly in one of the SeaWorld parks just recently. So how would they do it? Without the restrictions imposed on SeaWorld in the
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POPSTop 10 Foods That Increase Cancer Risk (cont.)About 1,444,920 new cases of cancer were expected to be diagnosed last year–while 559, 650 people were expected to die from the disease, according to the American Cancer Society. That’s more than 1,500 people a day. What a startling statistic. In the book Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic (New Society Publishers, 2007) by Liz Armstrong et al, the No. 4 solution is “Eat a Healthy Diet.” Listed within are the 10 Foods and Drinks to Limit or Eliminate:
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POPSFrancophilia FTW While I don't agree with all of the oversimplifications in this article, it's an interesting and somewhat valid take on recent market events, although the line about the short sellers is not only oversimplified but inaccurate. As a country wWe're awfully smug about free market capitalism while not really practicing it.
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