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POPSYankees Go Home: US 'diplomacy' in Ecuador Did anyone imagine that the last fascist state in South America, Columbia could cross Ecuador's border without sanction of the Yankee master. I hadn't known about the primary reason for the US stirring it with Ecuador previously. I hadn't know the the US lease is up on its Ecuador and wouldn't be renewed unless Ecuador could have a similar base in Miami!!! The nerve of Correa! Did you know of this affront to Bush imperialism? I'd say he's getting off light with the blatant incursion into his territory! Probably only round one.
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POPSRobofish A realistic robot sea bream developed by engineers at the University of Kitakyushu which glides through the water like a real fish will be released into the sea to perform a wide range of oceanographic survey tasks.
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POPSDN!: The books that Dodo supporters should NEVER read, ever!
We arrange a huge loan to that country from the World Bank or one of its sister organizations. The money never actually goes to the country. It goes instead to US corporations, who build big infrastructure projects -- power grids, industrial parks, harbors, highways -- things that benefit a few very rich people but do not reach the poor at all. The poor aren’t connected to the power grids. They don’t have the skills to get jobs in industrial parks. But they and the whole country are left holding this huge debt, and it’s such a big bet that the country can't possibly repay it. So at some point in time, we economic hit men go back to the country and say, “Look, you know, you owe us a lot of money. You can't pay your debt, so you’ve got to give us a pound of flesh.” I was recruited by the National Security Agency, the nation’s largest and perhaps most secretive spy organization.It claims to only work in a cryptography, you know, encoding and decoding messages, but in fact we all know t
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POPSBest Business Resources on the Web With millions of websites and blogs at our fingertips, we at Karrass decided to find some of the most useful business sites to share with our readers. The following is a list of websites and blogs that we think provide some great business information and resources. We know there are plenty more out there.