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POPSAvoid Genetically Modified Organisms - Why? How. The why for me is simple. 1. GMO enables humans to rapidly alter an eco-system by introducing a new plant, insect, microbe, or animal population in large scales. When nature - the large system - senses over-population within any sub-system, it assumes something is wrong; out of balance. That triggers a reaction to restore balance, most often with what we call a disease, unintended consequence, or predator that acts to restore the balance. Humans make believe we are smarter than nature and can always "outsmart" nature. 2. GMO is dramatically different from traditional means of creating hybrids. Traditional creation of new hybrids takes enough time to see if unintended negative consequences were missed and enough time for the natural system to not over-react to a perceived imbalance.
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POPSEastern Congo, one story - Francoise No Fundamentalists here just a fifty year struggle over diamonds, rare minerals for computers, cell phones, nuclear weapons and millions of people killed, marginalized, exploited, and abused - in full view of world's leaders but out of sight and out of mind for most of us.
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POPSPower to the Pedal People! Home of Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts is also home to people powered hauling. college towns - gotta love em and it's my hometown too.
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POPSHow Many times Has Your Burger Been Nuked? Before you even get a chance to cook it too much or too little, it may have been irradiated numerous times because it's "cheaper" for them to nuke it instead of making sure the packing and grinding process is clean!
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POPSGive Peace a Chance? Not here, not now, it seems Sometimes I wonder what would happen if the "leaders" in Palestine and Israel went to sleep for 20 years - would the ordinary people figure out how to live together in peace? At the least, they could could probably figure out how to speak plainly about what they were doing and why.
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POPSWhat is Freedom of Press and Speech Worth? More than 80 journalists have been killed this year - it was 30 in the Philippines in one incident. Cowards, wannabe dictators, and people who want to run your life fear, persecute and kill journalists. The unfunny thing is that some "news" organizations seem to delight at inflaming people against the "media" and those who defend free speech and press. Of course they do the same with inflaming people against anyone they don't like and refuse to take responsibility when someone dies. Words and speech have power, they know it. this article demonstrates that truth.
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POPSThumb in Eye of Trashiest Eco-Corporate Terrorist! In the name of short term advantage, hoped-for-profit, and self-delusion many corporations are spending like crazy and lying up a storm to convince political leaders to be as dumb as they are. Here's a chance to point out who you think is the worst. My personal favorite is Monsanto with its Round-up ready genetically modified food. The crux of it is that thay are betting that they are smarter than nature and that flooding the world with round up (which originally debut in Viet Nam as Agent Orange) willdo us no harm and that nature will never figure out how to attack is monoculture crops. Go ahead and think about it a bit and then vote.
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POPSA Step Climber solution to watering crops - cool! Keep fit and water your crops at the same time - cool. Wonder if some savvy and mechanically inclined investor can buy up step climbers people no longer use - grin - or never really used and retro fit them - recycle - as water pumps for third world use!
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POPSRacism + White Nationalism = What % of Anti-Immigration Reform? It is going to be hard to figure this one, since John Tauton and his ilk have been practicing for more than ten years how to hide within and behind causes and organizations that seem to not be racist or white nationalists. The closer we get to real reform, the easier it will get - the specks of foam on their suits, the more outlandish their claims and the increase in hate crimes. The ugliest part will begin to resemble the break up of the former Yugoslavia - when people were urged to take part in torture and mass killings to serve the "cause" of ethnic cleansing.
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POPSHelp Save The World with Your Computer - Interested? Long ago, I participated in a global network doing computations for the genome project. Now you can lend your down time on your computer to fight AIDS, MS and work on clean energy. IBM is hosting. Window, Linux and Mac systems welcome!
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POPSWe Owe Veterans and Active Duty Warriors Better Than This Cheney's old firm let their sub-contractors expose US soldiers and Iraqi's to a burning toxic waste pit that will cause years worth of injuries and illness. Cotracting out is good for profiteers like the former- Vice President and his buddies but an evil brew for our troops.
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POPSWorld Economic Crisis = 30-50K more kids may die by 2010 I am worrying about paying property taxes, others are planning on buying less for Christmas, some are wondering what comes after unemployment runs out. Thousands of thousands of women in Sub-Sahara Africa are wondering which babies, if their baby will survive. If you knew one of the women, whose baby will probably die if nothing changes - what would you do? Sorry, I had to ask but I have to.
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POPSUS Troops Risk All for Safety of Chinese and USA imperialism? At first blush, the story sounds win-win: China "invests" in Afghanistan, hires out of work Afghans, helps stabilize economy. US troops make it safe for Chinese "private" company to exploit mineral resources. Exploit is the right word. Two thirds of the economies in the developing world are still structured by past imperialistic dictates to supply North America, Europe, and Japan with raw materials to make products for themselves and to sell worldwide are greater profit. So Afghan copper profits will go to Chinese banks and when copper runs out, what do Afghans have? In a number of African nations who have sold such rights to Chinese, they did not get the jobs either; the Chinese brought in Chinese workers. Imperialism 21st century style is no kinder than it was in 18th century.
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POPSMama said: "there'd be days like this." Hopeless Hopi What I like to know is where do you go to report a planetary rapist, pimps for Peabody Coal, and the ravaging of land held sacred for thousands of years by Hopi and Navajo who only walk with us as spirits now? The sickest of criminals and lifelong bullies are those who commit crimes against humanity just because they can - aka: Peabody Coal.
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POPSBe Proud America - Afghan Women's Writing Project Get a tissue or two, sit back and read this account of a young Afghan woman about the last few days she had with her American mentor - Rosemary. It is truly amazing how brave and dedicated some people are and that more often than not - their story does not go nearly as far as the people they touch.
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POPSUnique 9-11 project - 490 tape art figures in Manhattan This project, stunning in its impact, was carried out by Michael Townsend -artist and son of a guy I used to work with. In his words: "This website, the Eleventh of September: an act of remembrance, is the cumulative result of 30,000 hours of volunteer effort, compiling five years of documentation and biographical information relating to the those who passed away and the journeys through New York City. "
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POPSYou Can't Take Back Executing an Innocent
Long past time in Ohio to end the death penalty and in the other states and the Federal government - why? Think about all the headlines over the past few years about the mess in Illinois over people on death row or in for life who were proved innocent. This has been repeated in a number of other states due to the effort, in part, of the Innocent Project. But they cannot be everywhere nor investigate all cases. Here's the point: If you sentence someone to life and find later on a mistake was made, the solution is to release the person and look for the real offender. If you execute an innocent, there is no way out. Across the country, people who have been accused of nearly the same kind or type of murder get death penalty specifications in once jurisdiction and not in another. We are not just talking about one state versus another state - the variation exists within states, county to county. That means no equal justice for the accused or the relatives and friends of the victims. W
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POPSKatrina Woes Fatigue Syndrome Why is it so difficult to stay on course? Why can no one in power keep their promises? Why does everyone keep blaming someone else? Why, I ask myself, does this seem to be related to the Congo, Darfur, Burma, Gaza, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador?
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