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POPSStudy Of Countries I do not claim that sites such as this are the be all and end all of research regarding any given country. But still they are fairly comprehensive. If any given country or nation intrigues you then I recommend further research. If this site creates a even greater thirst for knowledge then I will have done something useful.
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POPS100+ countries adopt cluster bomb ban in Dublin This despite the absence of the United States, China, Russia, Israel, India and Pakistan -- all major cluster bomb stockpilers and producers. Supporters said they hoped the treaty would pressure them to change track or shame them into not using cluster bombs. "We all know that there are important states not present, but I am convinced that we will have succeeded in stigmatising any future use of cluster munitions," Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin said.
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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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POPSPoll finds worldwide support for Obama
This speaks for itself doesn't it? It's a real good feeling knowing that the majority of the world also see how much better Obama would be. Thanks for all that support. Unfortunately the real red-necks,red-necks red-necks might try to use this AGAINST Obama their political 'modus operandi' being always trying to divide people and spread hate and fear. So the majority of the people in Europe liking Obama, would be used by these Republican neocon neofascist as another reason why Obama is "anti-America." Basically, warmongers and folks like that try to get power by insulting everybody else and putting them down. Fortunately -- for us all -- their days appear numbered. If Obama supporters just keep working and advocating and those who go door-to-door keep going door-to-door and those who make telephone calls keep making telephone calls, etc....winning this election in less than two weeks will be a 'Slam Dunk' (certain to happen). Elections do matter; this one more than m
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POPS24 hours in pictures - Apr 14 2 / 15 Baghdad, Iraq: A resident displays a charred Qur'an after a shop burned down. Several shops at the market, in the east of the city, were set on fire when a roadside bomb went off, hitting a US vehicle
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POPSRebel General Vang Pao Rides Again!* (*almost) Agh! And just when I thought I'd seen the last of my old nemesis, General Vang Pao, leader of the Hmong rebel army in central Laos, he strikes agian! Or... almost. Don't you hate it when, on the eve of your coup d'etat, your mercenary army gets arrested by the ATF? Somehow it seems like this would make an interesting movie, or an even better Frederick Forsyth novel!
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POPSUS Loves Peace? Practices WAR! Only! "Who has China been invading lately? Russia? Fidel? Those perfidious (and perfumed) French? Heck, even Saddam couldn't touch this record for aggression, especially once you account for the fact that the U.S. government assisted his foreign soiree into Iran (complete with the chemical weapons, of course) and likely green-lighted the one into Kuwait as well. ...AlterNet
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POPSNew species discovered in Greater Mekong Discovering new species all the time! Among the most bizarre to be discovered was a hot-pink, spiny dragon millipede, Desmoxytes purpurosea.. The millipedes have glands that produce cyanide to protect them from predators. Scientists believe that the shocking-pink colouration is a warning that they would make a fatal snack. "They would do well to heed this warning," concluded a WWF report on the Greater Mekong discoveries.
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POPS"WOMEN ARE HEROES" post it LARGE "Women Are Heroes" is done by a 25 year-old artist who goes by JR. He photographs women across the world, in countries like Sudan, Sierra Leone, Cambodia and Laos, as well as Brazil. Then he prints extreme enlargements of the images, and wallpapers the sides of buildings in the neighborhoods of the women he documents… but then also posts them in a very large format in Western cities. In Brazil, thousands of killings by police are going largely unpunished because of public approval for a perceived crackdown on crime, reports the U.N. envoy, Philip Alston. Clashes with police killed a record 1,260 civilians in Rio de Janeiro state last year. JK's previous project, "Face2Face" made portraits of Palestinians and Israelis doing the same job and posted them face to face, in huge formats, in unavoidable places, on the Israeli and the Palestinian sides. "Face to face" is necessary. Within a few years, JR will come back for "Hand in hand".
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POPSTyphoon Ketsana blasts Cambodia In the Philippines, the government said it now believed 246 people had died after the storm struck on Saturday, a figure that is expected to rise as mud is cleared from the worst affected areas. Almost two million people were affected by the flooding in Manila, the worst to hit the city in 40 years. At one point, 80% of the city was submerged. Ketsana, with winds of up to 100km/h (60mph), hit the Philippines early on Saturday, crossing the main northern Luzon island before heading out toward the South China Sea. Officials say more than 40cm (16in) of rain fell on Manila within 12 hours, exceeding the average for the whole month of September. Meanwhile forecasters said a new storm forming in the Pacific Ocean was likely to enter Philippine waters on Thursday and make landfall later on the northern island of Luzon.
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