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POPSGet Out of Jail Free: Monopoly's Hidden Maps more (at source): Of all the tools in a military-grade escape kit, the most critical item was the map. But paper maps proved too fragile and cumbersome, said Debbie Hall, a cataloguer in the map room at the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. For hundreds of years, even before World War II, silk was the material of choice for military maps, Hall said, because it wouldn't tear or dissolve in water as easily as paper and was light enough to stuff into a boot or cigarette packet. Unlike maps printed on paper, silk maps also wouldn't rustle and attract the attention of enemy guards, she said.
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POPSFirst Investigation of Cheney to Begin!
The noose around the neck of these war criminals has been tighten and the pressure of thousands of activist and sympathetic politicians has finally paid off: Former U.S. VP Dick Cheney will be investigated. That means subpoenas, that means other info from witnesses maybe coming out - that means the house of cards of the wanna be fascist Bush Administration is now starting to officially crumble. This one issue could lead to other issues and Other Issues now more likely, I think, (issues like torture and beating POWs to death in their cells) -- these more likely to also be investigated -- and the issue of corrupting the justice dept. for political selective prosecutions also appears high on the agenda. Not seeking vengence but I feel we need to set precedent....no man (or woman) is above the law...when you violate the Constitution you will pay a price...when you mislead a nation into war with deliberately fabricated lies you will pay a penality. We need this precedent.
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POPS10 Best Prison Breaks The last 3: Imrali (1974) At a Turkish island jail, Billy Hayes stole a boat and survived to see the movie adaptation—Midnight Express—win two Oscars. Pretoria Prison (1979) Political activists learned to pick locks while in the clink. (Or did a sympathetic guard help?) They opened 10 doors on the way out. Luynes and Grasse Prisons (2001, 2003, 2007) Pascal Payet called in a hijacked helicopter. He later returned in another to lift out two buddies. Recaptured, he did it again—on Bastille Day.
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POPSConservatives: Pro-Torture it is torture and aggressive war that today’s mainstream right will go to the wall to defend, while any and every other view can be negotiated, debated, compromised or abandoned.
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POPSWhat Will They Come Up With Next??? I LOVE Snopes.com...If you get an email that is just too weird, too good to be true, just too awful...it's usually bogus. Every once in a while, something is actually true, or a mixture of truth and lies. Snopes checks them out and tells the truth. It's a fun site just to play around on when nothing else catches your interest. Enjoy.
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POPSThe Battle of the Bulge, December 16th, 1944
It began at dawn on Dec. 16, 1944, 64 years ago today, with rapid assaults through the Ardennes forest, as the Germans blitzed one last time, hoping to split the Allied armies and take Antwerp. Hitler’s hope was to cut supplies to the Allied armies, divide the Brits and Americans, get a separate peace in the West and turn his full attention to the Soviets. The Germans punched a bulge in the Allied line deep into Belgium, giving the battle its name. The battle immediately took on the qualities of a strange Teutonic nightmare. 1st SS Panzer Division elements machinegunned 88 American prisoners in the snow at Malmedy, wounded survivors being finished off with headshots, and murdered 11 black American POWS after apparently torturing them with knives in a ditch at Wereth. In a month and a half of fighting in bitter cold, more than 19,000 Americans were killed, 41,000 captured and 23,000 wounded. Oddly similar casualty numbers on the German side, but they lost.
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POPSReport: McCain suppressed info on POWs left behind Vast evidence concerning prisoners held in Vietnam and Laos - confirmed under oath by two Secretaries of Defense - has been hidden from the public, largely through the efforts of John McCain, says Pulitzer Prize winner Sydney Schanberg. McCain also acted to remove criminal penalties from laws concerning illegal suppression of evidence about MIAs.
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POPSWarner Brothers Block POW Film to Foil John McCain Here they go again! It is a typical of left-wing Hollywood to shamelessly promote liberal Democrats while dumping on Republicans. Here, they are withholding a Hanoi Hilton documentary that shows American POWs in a favorable light. Supposedly, they don't want to influence the election. Of course, TV had no problem airing similar documentaries that let John McCain's Hanoi tormentors to make light of McCain's POW experience.
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POPSJohn McCain: A Veteran against Veterans He takes on the mantle of veteran for political reasons. He's got some nerve accusing Barack Obama of playing politics. That's McCain's M.O. as betrayer MA/POWs and their families so that his father-in-law could sell more beer. I wonder how many houses McCain's back-stabbing bought.
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POPSYep, McCain's record does speak for itself! Comparing the incidents surrounding the fates of three POWs,' who collaborated with the enemy, makes one question why two faced possible execution for treason, while the third won acclaim as a hero fit to be President of the United States.
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POPSChina Admits Taking, burying U.S. POW Army Sgt Richard G. Desaufels, of Shoreham, Vt was taken prisoner by Chinese and held until his reported death. Only now are the Chinese admitting not all American POWs were released.
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POPSThe Gitmo Defeat And AP, among others, reports this story as a defeat for "the Bush administration." Really? I see it as a defeat for the nation. UPDATE: The 5-4 GITMO decision brings to the front, yet again, John McCain's position on judges versus his own policies. McCain undoubtedly supports the 5-4 decision, yet the justices who voted against it, and argued strenuously against it, are of the kind McCain claims to want on the bench. We have seen the same issue arise respecting campaign finance. This is not to say that McCain won't nominate originalists to the bench. But if he does, he will be nominating to the Court individuals who are better adherents to the Constitution than he is.
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POPSFor His Treatment of Children in the 'War on Terror,' Bush is a War Treaties don't mean much to this president, to the vice president, or to the rest of the administration, but they should mean something to the rest of us. According to the US government's own figures, that is how many kids 17 years and younger have been held since 2001 as "enemy combatants"--often for over a year, and sometimes for over five years. At least eight of those children, some reportedly as young as 10, were held at Guantanamo. They even had a special camp for them there: Camp Iguana. One of those kids committed suicide at the age of 21, after spending five years in confinement at Guantanamo. (Ironically and tragically, that particular victim of the president's criminal policy, had been determined by the Pentagon to have been innocent only two weeks before he took his own life, but nobody bothered to tell him he was slated for release and a return home to Afghanistan.)
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POPSWhen will they ever Learn, when will they ever learn, when will they ever learn
Previously, I've offered the Bush gang some undeserved advice. It was simple and even more obvious with time. Whatever instinct they have to do something, then don't. Do the opposite or do nothing. Everything they touch turns to dust. Just a few: Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Iran, Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, waterboarding, rendition, POWs, Dollar, Oil, Economy, Hamas, Gaza, West Bank, Katrina, civil rights, prisons, racism, FEAR. Only one state has prospered and at the US expense. It's economy roars ahead based on false security and terrorism. Iraq's government partly rules Baghdad's Green Zone. Now Lebanon's government may in time rule a Beirut Green Zone. Only Israel benefits. Bush ignored the democratically elected Hamas in Gaza. Then the US provoked a Hamas military takeover. Why? So Israel could practice judicial assassination and Hamas wouldn't talk peace? Never. And when Hamas through Carter offered the peace to the Zionists? The lamest excuse ever?
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POPSand China is Worse than this? What a perversion of justice. And all for ONE trial with a 9 month sentence so far. Out of nearly 700 POWs there may be only 80 cases after all the torture that they will even bring to their kangaroo court show trail. What a system. What an advert for American 'democracy'. Were the Nazis as unjust as this never mind China. I know one thing for absolute certainty; one country is moving forward while the other is racing backwards. Most countries make at least a pretence at dispensing justice to its foes while Bush appears to intend to deliberately offend normal basic standards and to goad even more terrorism to justify his misnomer 'War on Terror'.
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POPSMaiming in your Name: "the sovereign" Bush In a 2003 memo released yesterday, the US justice department extended the sweeping wartime powers claimed by Bush to military interrogators, giving them freedom from criminal laws when questioning al-Qaida suspects. The 81-page brief was released by the American Civil Liberties Union, which fought the administration in court to secure the release of documents. ...Guardian
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POPSLibrary of Congress POWs in Europe Site As part of an effort to digitize over 25 collections relating to veterans experiences in war and personal memorabilia of vets LOC has striven to make these valuable photos, first-hand accounts available on one of their many subsites. Sibling sites are also available for wars after 1945 including Korea, Persian Gulf et al.
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POPSPOWS Memorobilia -- 8th American AF, B17 Bomber Group Great website with meticulous info dedicated to preserving and honoring the history of the 303rd Bombardment Group (H)'s contribution to World War II. They were stationed in Molesworth, England from 1942 until VE Day 1945. Contrary to the movie Memphis Belle it was the Hells Angels ie. 303rdbg that first flew 25 missions in the Euro Campaign
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