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POPSDo Jews Really Provoke War & Bank Scams? > Richard Perle's Pentagon advisory group > Former deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz, now head of The International Monetary Fund. > Elliot Abrams > Kenneth Adelman > Douglas Feith > William (Bill) Kristol - Irving Kristol > American Enterprise Institute (AEI) > Project for the New American Century (PNAC) > The Heritage Foundation > Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA). >American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) > American Israel Public Affairs Committee Below are Chairman or CEO's of the Major Big Bank failures in the USA ( > Lloyd Blankfein: Chairman & CEO of Goldman Sachs Here. > Stephen Roach: Managing Director & Economist of Morgan Stanley Here. > Martin Feldstein: Director of American International Group (AIG) Here. > Alan Fishman: CEO of Washington Mutual (WaMu) Like most of us we've heard such accusations throughout history: divided loyality, pushing nations into war, and fleecing the bankin
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POPS30 Google Apps You’ve Never Heard Of On the other hand, there are quite a few apps I have heard of! Still, this list is a highly useful one! To learn more on this, visit the site pl. Couldn't clip it all...
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POPSForum Mania I believe Pbforum was trying very hard to suck me into there Web of Fourms today....Wikiepedia says ..Upgrades can cost anywhere from $99.50/year to many thousands for enterprise deployments. In the Forum ( I noticed that most of the posts had been made at least 5 months ago...I felt as if I were the only one physically in there reading posts, and asking a few questions...I think there was one guy in their and he brought up the question of wanting his one domain. Do I sound suspicious to you....maybe I'm a tad bit paranoid. I wish I had never logged on with my Yahoo account...but they use that ID verification now...but it's funny Yahoo will not let me access another screen name (yahoo) to retrieve a domain that I bought almost 2 years ago....yahooooo right.
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POPSSchool Choice in A Socialist Country
Continued: Before the reform, most families depended on state-run schools following a uniform national curriculum. Now they can turn to the "friskolor," or "independent schools," which choose their own teaching methods and staff, and manage their own buildings. They remain completely government-financed and are not allowed to charge tuition fees. The difference is that their government funding goes to private companies which then try to run the schools more cost-effectively and keep whatever taxpayer money they save. "If you run a good operation then you make a profit. But you won't get any students if you are bad," she said. "You have to do a good job to get money; that is even more important for a private school." "Today, I think we have at least as good quality if not better than some independent schools because we have really joined the battle and use our money in a much better way," said Eva-Lotta Kastenholm, who is in charge of public schools, a suburb of Stockholm.
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POPSVirtual Unreality (Part 2) Looking from the perspective of a futuristic, perfect virtual reality, we are forced to question the very essence of our existence. What is the point of living if a utopia is provided for us? Once the superficial shell of reality is peeled from us, what is left of the human soul? What are the common denominators of our existence? The virtual world paradigm opens up our eyes to the limitations of reality, and shows us the true essence of what it means to be human.
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POPSThe Wolf is Back; Neocons Control "Security" Policy The return of Wolfowitz to Bush government was missed by many. Dated December article, but very important. When you see "Security" think "war planning" instead. The pairing of he and James Woolsey (both of the infamous Project for a New American Century) in the same panel is an indication of "fixing the intelligence around the policy" to go to war again.
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POPSPoseur Shareholders ExxonMobil Annual Shareholder Meeting
"By bona fide shareholders, I mean those shareholders who have invested in ExxonMobil for the time-honored and socially responsible purpose of making money while providing society with the vital good and services that it needs. We see ExxonMobil as a company with a track record of true social responsibility that few institutions whether public or private can match. "Not only is ExxonMobil perhaps the most profitable business venture in the history of capitalism, but the company helps provide society with its lifeblood, petroleum products. ExxonMobil employs more than 80,000 people and earns and returns billions of dollars to millions of investors every year. "In the last five years ExxonMobil's share price has soared from below $40/share to above $90/share. In these uncertain economic times, what's not to like Yet some shareholders like many of those who will follow me today see this success as a scourge that they intend to exploit for their own dubious social and political ends.
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POPSS.F. Mayor's Climate Aide - $160,000 a Year At least 25 city employees work directly on initiatives related to climate-control efforts in San Francisco. Here is a sample of those jobs and what they are paid: $160,720 - Mayor's Office: Director of climate protection initiatives $800,000 - Department of the Environment: Eight-person Energy and Climate Program team led by a climate action coordinator - at a total cost of more than $800,000 $146,218 - San Francisco Public Utilities Commission: Projects manager for the climate action plan $156,655 - San Francisco Public Utilities Commission: Assistant to the general manager for water enterprise (works on how climate change is going to impact the region's water supply) $190,091 - San Francisco International Airport: Manager of environmental services $116,584 - Municipal Transportation Agency: Manager of emissions reductions and sustainability programs
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POPSJeremiah Owyang - Challenges of the Enterprise INTRAnet Jeremiah is becoming one of my favorite bloggers on social tools and the enterprise lately. This post made me think about an old employer and how they used their Intranet - barely more than a way to provide down-loadable HR docs <sigh>. They didn't get it, and I'm afraid many mid-size companies will for some time.
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POPSThe Right Answer in New Orleans A 1-1 replacement of affordable housing units should be part of any redevelopment. In the Allentown area, federal projects have also resulted in a net loss of affordable units.
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POPSInfographic delight: Indianapolis Museum visualized Refreshing use of technology in the arts/social arena. The Indianapolis Museum uses an enterprise dashboard to visualize vital stats normally buried in paper. E.g. amount of energy consumed per day visits: online/offline, average duration, member/casual/students, etc. artworks: new acquisitions, on loan, most visited, etc. gardening activity: new blooms, H2O consumption, etc Loved the 3rd grader stat. :)
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POPSAmerican Participants of the North American Forum Mr. William W. McIlhenny, Policy Planning Council for Western Hemisphere Affairs Dr. Peter McPherson , President, National Association of State Universities & Land-Grant Colleges Ms. Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow, Migration Policy Institute # Dr. George Miller, Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory # Mr. George Nethercutt, Chairman, US Section of the Permanent Joint Board on Defense, US – Canada (Security) # Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Journalist for Wall Street Journal (Area Specialist) # Dr. Robert A. Pastor, Director, Center for North American Studies, American University, Washington, DC
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POPSCheney Orders Media To Sell Attack On Iran "It will be coordinated with the American Enterprise Institute, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, Commentary, Fox, and the usual suspects, writes Rubin, "It will be heavy sustained assault on the airwaves, designed to knock public sentiment into a position from which a war can be maintained. Evidently they don’t think they’ll ever get majority support for this—they want something like 35-40 percent support, which in their book is “plenty.”
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POPSNeoLiberals Stiched Up Wealth of Nations. 
Their purpose was to develop the ideas and the language which would mask the real intent of the programme - the restoration of the power of the elite - and package it as a proposal for the betterment of humankind. Their project was assisted by ideas which arose in a very different quarter. The revolutionary movements of 1968 also sought greater individual liberties, and many of the soixante-huitards saw the state as their oppressor. As Harvey shows, the neoliberals coopted their language and ideas. Some of the anarchists I know still voice notions almost identical to those of the neoliberals: the intent is different, but the consequences very similar. An early experiment took place in New York, which was hit by budgetary disaster in 1975. Its bankers demanded that the city follow their prescriptions - huge cuts in public services, smashing of the unions, public subsidies for business. The neoliberals and their backers would use bribery or force. The Democrats were neutered by
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POPSKrugman Tell it Like It Is. While the Republicans try to shoot down healthcare for underprivileged children claiming it leads to socialized medicine, Paul Krugman explains how we already are providing the same insurance for children in via public education. Another Krugman attempt to reveal the hypocrisy of the right-wing Republicans.
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