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POPSAustralia's Dark and Dirty Secret Thousands of citizens are now calling for action against the cruel trade in kangaroo fur and meat and I am confident that the Parliament will act. This is a cruel trade … every year, 440,000 joeys are pulled from their pouch when their mothers are left to die.'' The push, which comes just six months after Russia placed a ban on kangaroo meat after concerns of contamination with E.coli bacteria, has also received an unexpected fillip from the former Polish prime minister Professor Jerzy Buzek, who is the president of the European Parliament. He said the campaign was ''important and valuable'' and wished it every success in encouraging ''as many EU citizens as possible to support'' the project''.
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POPSUS Corporatized Medicine Condemns Medical Marijuana Patients To Death Cheryl's case is not unique. All across America, hospitals are booting patients off of organ transplant lists because of their use of cannabis. Being a legal user of cannabis for medicinal purposes in the now fourteen states that recognize that right is of no help; even legal medical marijuana patients are essentially given a death sentence by hospital and insurance bureaucracies for their use of a safe, non-toxic herbal remedy. More on site.
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POPS2009 Mensa Invitational Winners Announced # Inoculatte : To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. # Osteopornosis : A degenerate disease. # Karmageddon : It’s like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it’s like, a serious bummer. # Decafalon (n.): The gruelling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you. # Glibido : All talk and no action. # Dopeler Effect : The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. # Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web. # Beelzebug (n.) : Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out. # Caterpallor ( n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you’re eating.
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POPSShrimp's Dirty Secret Upon arrival in the U.S., few if any, are inspected by the FDA, and when researchers have examined imported ready-to-eat shrimp, they found 162 separate species of bacteria with resistance to 10 different antibiotics. And yet, as of 2008, Americans are eating 4.1 pounds of shrimp apiece each year -- significantly more than the 2.8 pounds per year we each ate of the second most popular seafood, canned tuna. But what are we actually eating without knowing it? And is it worth the price -- both to our health and the environment?
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POPSMiracle of Ice-Travelling Dog "Captain Jan Jachim said if his ship had passed that way a few moments later the dog would never have been spotted amid the gloom He said: ‘We were just at the right place at the right time.’ And he added that few boats chart those waters at that time of year ‘Baltic was drifting with the current further and further out to the open sea. He would have gone further if we hadn’t seen him.’" That is one lucky pooch!
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POPS20 Things That Happen in 1 Minute Oprah Winfrey makes $523 while the average person in the world makes $0.013. A Nike factory worker in Vietnam makes $0.0014 while NIke makes $36,505. Something screwy here.
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POPS 3-Second Memory Myth Debunked, Fish Can Remember for 5 Months Fish not only remember, they can increase their food-catching skills and even carry out acts of deception. For example, cleaner fish in reef environments act on their best behavior when a larger feeder is nearby. Warburton said: "What's fascinating is that they co-operate more with clients when they are being observed by other potential clients. This improves their 'image' and their chances of attracting clients."
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POPSHaiti is full of oil and the US wants it (Flashback) According to Daniel and Ginette Mathurin, the Lake District, with cities like Thomazeau and Cornillon, contains important oilfields. Asked about the non-operation of those sites, Ginette Mathurin said that these deposits are declared strategic reserves of the United States of America. While citing his imcompréhension of such a situation, remember that the Caribbean is seen as the back yard of the United States. But Daniel Mathurin And Ginette indicate that the American government had in 2005 authorized the use of strategic reserves of the United States. The door should be used by politicians to launch Haitian négiciations with American companies in the context of the exploitation of these deposits adds Daniel Mathurin. The specialists contend that the government of Jean Claude Duvalier had verified the existence of a major oil field in the Bay of Port-au-Prince shortly before his downfall.
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POPSTea Party Becomes the 'Vote Our Way or We Shoot You' Party Jeffrey McQueen: We can go to the soap box, the ballot box, or we can go to the jury box. And hopefully we won't have to go to the bullet box. Ashbrook: Bullet box? Are you talking about armed revolution? McQueen: Have you seen the ammunition sales the last twelve months? So remember, folks, health care for the poor? That's Nazi BS! True American heroes take up arms to overthrow democratic elections. Got it?
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POPSIsrael and Egypt continue to Squeeze the Lifeblood out of the People of Gaza According to the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Israeli air force bombing attacks killed seven Palestinians in Gaza, including three civilians. Since the ceasefire a year ago, a total of 84 Palestinians, including at least 27 civilians, and one Israeli (a soldier) have been killed and another 160 Palestinians and seven Israelis have been injured in Gaza and southern Israel. Israeli forces have opened "warning" fire at farmers as far as 1,000 meters (3,200 feet) from the border. A parallel ban for Gaza fishermen is applied to sea areas beyond three nautical miles from the coast, though often this distance is less in practice. This week, in nine separate incidents, Israeli naval forces opened "warning" fire at Palestinian fishing boats along Gaza's coast, forcing them to return to shore.
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POPSShocking Report: U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret 'Jesus' Bible Codes U.S. military rules specifically prohibit the proselytizing of any religion in Iraq or Afghanistan and were drawn up in order to prevent criticism that the U.S. was embarked on a religious "Crusade" in its war against al Qaeda and Iraqi insurgents. One of the citations on the gun sights, 2COR4:6, is an apparent reference to Second Corinthians 4:6 of the New Testament, which reads: "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." Other references include citations from the books of Revelation, Matthew and John dealing with Jesus as "the light of the world." John 8:12, referred to on the gun sights as JN8:12, reads, "Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." Read the rest of this stunning report here.
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POPSAmerica's Third World: Pine Ridge, South Dakota "The police captain blames 90% of the reservation's problems on alcohol dependence. And according to the law, the reservation is supposed to be dry. The few options available to young people include joining a gang or the military or bootlegging. Youth suicide is on the rise. Tribe president Theresa Two Bulls is also contending with startlingly poor health for young and old reservation residents alike; half of the Oglala Sioux over 40 have diabetes and the infant mortality rate is three times the national average."
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POPSRicky Gervais on Atheism Ricky Gervais: "If there is a god why did he make me an atheist? That was his first mistake. Well, the talking snake was his first mistake..." :-p :-D
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POPSNon-Believers Giving Aid: a religion-free way to help disaster victims 1. 100% of your donation will be go to these charities: not even the PayPal fees will be deducted from your donation, since Richard will personally donate a sum to cover the cost of these (capped at $10,000). This means that more of your money will reach the people in need. 2. When donating via Non-Believers Giving Aid, you are helping to counter the scandalous myth that only the religious care about their fellow-humans. It goes without saying that your donations will only be passed on to aid organizations that do not have religious affiliations. In the case of Haiti, the two organizations we have chosen are: * Doctors Without Borders (Médecins sans Frontières) * International Red Cross
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POPSAnother Christian Right Madman Suggests Haiti Earthquake May Be God's Wrath But wait! The Reverend is not 100% sure that this Tuesday, God decided to finally stick to Haiti. In fact, "That God would exclusively want to exact a toll on Haiti or any other people group is inconclusive." So, maybe, maybe not. What makes Shuler keep such an open mind? Because ... bad things happen to white people too. Duh. "To hold to such a conviction is to maintain that a tornado that wipes out a church in Oklahoma is also God’s judgment."
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POPSSewage as a Measure of Society's Drug Use The Oregon study is not the first to test wastewater for drugs, but it's the first to use the methodology to spatially map drug prevalence. And its most exciting result is likely that it shows just how geographically widespread drug use is. Researchers studied wastewater samples from 96 municipal water treatment facilities throughout Oregon. These represented one-day snapshots of 65 percent of the state's population's sewage. The results show that drugs are found in all sorts of communities -- everywhere from small, rural towns to suburbs and inner cities.
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POPSIsrael on course to maim and kill women and kids in Gaza..AGAIN. "The 22-day Israeli offensive last year saw weeks of relentless air, land and sea incursions against the Palestinians in Gaza. It left more than 1,400 people, including hundreds of women and children, dead. It also devastated a large part of the infrastructure in the impoverished coastal sliver which has been under an Israeli blockade since 2007. Israel has recently stepped up saber-rattling against the Palestinians in Gaza, with Israeli planes dropping thousands of leaflets across Gaza in December, urging Gazans against cooperating with the resistance fighters based in the region, and threatening a new attack." Looking forward to howls of outrage by clip-on-tie, Antara et al at impending loss of civilian life in Gaza.
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POPSRacing to End to Horse Slaughter You can give horses a second chance While The HSUS and horse rescue organizations across the country work tirelessly to give every horse a second chance, thousands of American horses are still shipped across our borders each week for slaughter because the horse slaughter industry can outbid them. Ask your U.S. Representative and Senators and to support The Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (H.R. 503/S. 727). It will ban the barbaric killing of American horses for human consumption, including the export of horses across our borders for slaughter.
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