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POPSOverpopulation, finally The unpopular truth is that education only works if the educatee has the congenital intelligence to appreciate what’s being taught. We can train anyone to do just about anything, if there’s an immediate reward for it, like on the job training. But we can’t convince them it’s a good idea unless they have the brains for it. Every idea matches an intelligence level and above; if someone is below that level, the idea seems to them like magic, silliness or witchcraft and they ignore it when at home.
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POPSVancouver Winter Olympics 2010 Protest Walking downtown just days before the Olympics are scheduled to begin there was quite a buzz around town. While most of the people we encountered were there to enjoy the Olympic atmosphere, some were there with a different agenda. Do you think it's acceptable for people to be killed for opposing the government? How can you help? http://bit.ly/cPKZdP Read more: http://www.tune-in-tokyo.com
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POPSR.I.P Cap and Trade Morano says Capitol Hill Democrats will have to spin the bill as a climate bill because there is zero support to actually pass real cap-and-trade legislation.
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POPSU.S. soldier 'waterboarded his own daughter, 4 Tabor, a soldier at the Lewis-McChord base in Tacoma, Washington, was arrested after being seen walking around his neighbourhood wearing a Kevlar military helmet and threatening to break windows. Police discovered the alleged waterboarding when they went to his home in the Tacoma suburb of Yelm and spoke to his girlfriend. She told them about the alleged torture and the terrified girl was found hiding in a closet, with bruising on her back and scratch marks on her neck and throat. Asked how she got the bruises, the girl is said to have replied: 'Daddy did it.' Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk
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POPSThe Progressive Tantrum "Also read Gerard Alexander on liberal condescension. It occurs to me that American liberals are re-learning the lesson of the old left-wing chant: The people united can never be defeated. And it's driving them up a wall." - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020403698.html
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POPSWatch Every Super Bowl XLIV Ad Recent Lists * 2010 Super Bowl Ads * Top 10 Ways to Improve the Pro Bowl * Top 10 Accomplishments by Athletes 40 and Over * Top 10 Stunningly Short Coaching Stints * NBA Midseason Reports view all lists via http://bleacherreport.com/tb/b2Pd0
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POPSRed Cross: How to help – not hinder – Haiti
More: Storage space is scarce in every post-disaster setting. A huge influx of goods needs to be housed somewhere. In Banda Aceh after the Tsunami, health centres had to sacrifice patient’s rooms to store inappropriate drugs. The irony is that the medicines sent in to help people instead reduced the number of sick people who could access treatment… Drugs that are not required, those that have expired or have no expiry date have to be destroyed. Incineration is preferred as this prevents the hazard of land filled medicines contaminating water supplies or drugs being collected and sold on the black market. In Eritrea after the war of independence, seven truckloads of expired aspirin took six months to burn. The real tragedy is the cost of this process. In the Venezuela floods in 2000, seventy percent of donated pharmaceuticals had to be destroyed. To be able to cover this cost, a support line to provide psychological support to the survivors had to be shut down.