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POPSChavez: US using Dutch Islands to Prepare Possible Attack "Venezuela is being surrounded by military bases," Chavez said. Colombian and US officials have dismissed Chavez's concerns that Colombian bases could be used as launching pads to try to unseat him, saying their sole objective to fight drug trafficking and leftist guerrillas within Colombia.
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POPSChurch Leaders Call for Holy Land Pilgrimage The Ministry of Tourism, eh? I have faith, this appeal has nothing whatsoever at all to do with just making money. So, take a vacation to Israel and help bring peace to the Middle East! Yay! .:) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6NsvJSGMVk
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POPSLittle Girl Bites Her Baby-Sister to Death While Parents Sleep The mother of the killed child told the police that she and her husband had drunk alcohol together and fallen asleep. When they woke up, they saw the elder girl playing with her little sister on the floor. The baby was not moving, nor was she showing any reaction to anything. The woman called the ambulance. The parents are criminally negligent IMO. You just do NOT get plastered, while having children in your care!
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POPSWhy Pluto is No Longer a Planet Astronomers from the association were given the opportunity to vote on the definition of planets. In the end, astronomers voted for the controversial decision of demoting Pluto (and Eris) down to the newly created classification of "dwarf planet". For an object to be a planet, it needs to meet these three requirements defined by the IAU: * It needs to be in orbit around the Sun – Yes, so maybe Pluto is a planet. * It needs to have enough gravity to pull itself into a spherical shape – Pluto…check * It needs to have "cleared the neighborhood" of its orbit – Uh oh. Here's the rule breaker. According to this, Pluto is not a planet.
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POPSEarth On Track For Epic Die-Off, Scientists Say "If we redouble our conservation efforts, we can stem the tide of extinctions and have those species around in the future," Barnosky said. "There is a bit of urgency here. By demonstrating that we have already lost 15 to 42 percent of mammalian diversity, the question is, do we really want to lose any more? I think the answer to that is pretty obvious."
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POPSStunning Statistics About the War Every American Should Know A year from now, we will likely see more than 220,000 US-funded personnel on the ground in Afghanistan. The US has spent more than $23 billion on contracts in Afghanistan since 2002. By next year, the number of contractors will have doubled since 2008 when taxpayers funded over $8 billion in Afghanistan-related contracts. Despite the massive number of contracts and contractors in Afghanistan, oversight is utterly lacking. “The increase in Afghanistan contracts has not seen a corresponding increase in contract management and oversight,” any USAID staff are “administering huge awards with limited knowledge of or experience with the rules and regulations.” According to one USAID official, the agency is “sending too much money, too fast with too few people looking over how it is spent.” As a result, the agency does not “know … where the money is going.”
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POPSChristmas Cheers! Oh, Christmas is such a sentimental time!! .:p The time we think about the things in life that are most important to us, the people we love and all the things we have to be grateful for. The picture just says it all, doesn't it?. Cheers and "Glædelig Jul" to you all. .:) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_sfBp-ryyg
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POPSMerry Christmas, Everyone! Time isn't something I've had enough of lately, to make you all the cool card I wanted to, so this reclip is all you're gettin'!! .:lol: Me and mine, wish you all the best Christmas, with hearts full of love and all the joy you can muster. Have a good one and may I have the joy of seeing you all back happy and healthy and clipping on CM in the new year, too. Cheers. :) (The not so happy little cat is my baby, Aisha.)
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POPSSmart Cats Know What is Best for Them "Coding... CODING!!... For crying out loud...." My cats hated this video and bolted from the room, I dunno what uniPaaS is and I feel SO bad for the black and white cat... but the video still made me laugh. .:lol: Go to the source to watch it.
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POPSBritish Court Issued Gaza Arrest Warrant for Former Israeli Minister Tzipi Livni It is the second time in less than three months that lawyers have gone to Westminster magistrates court asking for a warrant for the arrest of an Israeli politician. In September, the court was asked to issue one for the arrest of Ehud Barak, Israel's defence minster, under the 1988 Criminal Justice Act, which gives courts in England and Wales universal jurisdiction in war crimes cases. According to Israeli sources, ministers who wish to visit the UK in a personal capacity have begun asking the Israeli embassy in London to arrange meetings with British officials. These, offer legal protection against arrest, and can be attended if the officials do face any threat of arrest. Livni, crucially, cannot enjoy any such immunity as she is an ex-minister. Ehud Olmert, the former prime minister, is in the same position.
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POPSHolocaust Survivor Talks About Obama's Peace Prize Around the globe, solidarity actions are already being planned for the week of December 27th--find one near you and join in the action! You can also make a peace prayer flag. Send them to us and we will carry them on the march. The peace prayer flags are an easy and powerful way to make sure your voice is present at this historic event. Peace is not just making nice speeches, as President Obama did in Cairo when he told the Arab world that "we understand that the situation for the Palestinian people is intolerable" and that America would not turn its back on the legitimate Palestinian aspiration for justice and dignity. That is why I am asking you to help us "walk the talk" by supporting the Gaza Freedom March. With love for all humanity, Hedy Epstein and the CODEPINK team. Endorse the Gaza Freedom March! Sign the Pledge
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POPSBlue Whale ‘Song of Death’ Warns World of 2012 Catastrophe But to what Western scientists are now noting to their puzzlingly alarm as to the changing of the Blue Whales song the World over, the Yupik shamans first noted during a 2002 meeting in Yanrakynnot, Russia when in examining the ‘strange portents’ occurring throughout the Arctic Regions of our Planet warned that only 10 years were left before the ‘Time of the Great Ending’ was upon us all again.
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POPSAre the Holy Grail and Ark of the Covenant Hidden...in Denmark?!? "It is undeniable that those who planned and built the churches of Bornholm knew exactly what they were doing and why they did it,'' the authors say. The authors point to a find of nearly 3,000 tiny, intricately carved golden figures unearthed in a 1985-86 excavation of a Bornholm field as lending credibility to their claim of a Bornholm connection. The golden figures have been dated to AD 400-600 when the Merovingians -- a clan of Frankish kings who claimed to be, like Jesus, of the house and lineage of the Bible's King David -- were at the height of their power. Descendants of the Merovingians later settled in Burgundy. In medieval times, the island was known as Burgunderland or Burgunderholm. The book also quotes a AD 417 work by Spanish historian Orosius, which says the Burgundians came from Bornholm. http://www.rense.com/general6/baltic.htm *LOL* I love stuff like this. .:p
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POPSPlant Disease Devastating Vegetable Crops in Eastern U.S. The first symptoms are usually brown spots on the stems, followed by the development of nickel-sized brown or olive-green spots on the tops of leaves and a fuzzy white growth on leaf bottoms. Remove and destroy any infected plant as quickly and completely as possible.
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POPSGod's Coffee "The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything."
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POPSCopenhagen Bike City! Today, the climate-change conference started in my beloved Copenhagen. Ugh. Anyway, whatever the politicians may or may not decide, the people of Denmark aren't waiting around for "orders from above". Be the change you want to see. :) Below is a bonus video! At the end of the video, this cute American guy is having a beer in Nyhavn, which is one of my favourite haunts!! Gotta love it. Cheers, buddy. .:D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrKXSRafDOI Oh...and here's a clip song, of course:... (and yes, I have a bike, too. ) .:p http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CTPLUcQAjk
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POPSWhat's the Difference Between a "Welfare State" and a "Welfare Society? The social market economy seeks a market economic system, rejecting both socialism and laissez-faire capitalism. The system is universal, covering everyone. In Denmark the government even has a constitutional duty to ensure all citizens can have a home and enough to eat. Health care and social security ensure a high minimum living standard for all citizens regardless of their economic situation. The free education maximizes the social mobility, and strives to make it possible for everyone to better themselves. he Nordic model represents a ladder out of dependence (as evidenced by extremely low unemployment). he Nordic countries have strong economies, a high standard of living, low crime rates and are democracies. he Nordic welfare model is a concept that is embraced by all mainstream parties on both the right and left of the political spectrum in the Nordic countries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model
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POPSBathing Baxter Made me laugh. Anyone who's ever been owned by a cat knows, that the only way to bathe a cat, is very, very carefully. :p Janet is an "AARParrothead" devoted to a variety of community-based projects, which she either developed or supports in service of Planet Earth and all creatures great and small. Janet, her daughter Amanda, and her granddaughter Alexandra rescue and find homes for hundreds of stray or abandoned cats simply for the joy and love they give and get from their feline family.
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POPSAre Goldman Sachs Execs Arming Themselves Against the Public? Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein also reversed himself after having previously called Goldman’s greed “God’s work” and apologized earlier this month for having participated in things that were “clearly wrong.” Has it really come to this? Imagine what emotions must be billowing through the halls of Goldman Sachs to provoke the firm into an apology.Talk that Goldman bankers might have armed themselves in self-defense would sound ludicrous, were it not so apt a metaphor for the way that the most successful people on Wall Street have become a target for public rage. Comment on SC submitted by popetodd "I think they know something we don't just yet know. Like when it is all going to come apart at the seams."
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POPSPresident Obama's Secret: Only 100 Al Qaeda Now in Afghanistan New York Times reported that "senior administration officials" were saying privately that Obama's national security team was now "arguing that the Taliban in Afghanistan do not pose a direct threat to the United States". So what's this surge really about, Mr Obama? Hmm? Apparently not Al Qaeda OR the Taliban. Could it be that the core issue is not "defending the American people" -- but establishing a stable U.S. domination over a broad and highly strategic swath reaching from Iran to Pakistan? More Empire-building, Sir? Just asking.... Obama Had Rejected His Own Speech's Surge Rationale
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POPSLiberation Was Just a Big Lie We're not going to send more combat troops to Afghanistan. We're going to listen to the Afghan people instead and send HELP, not hurt. I hope NATO countries and other allies will choose to do the same. Denmark to change focus in Afghanistan
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POPSNASA Experts Claim Evidence of Life on Mars The team has also been studying two other Martian meteorites — Nakhla, which landed in Egypt in 1911, and Yamato 593, which was found by a Japanese expedition to Antarctica. In research due to be published shortly, the scientists claim that both of these fossils also show evidence of microbial life. Bill Clinton, then the US President, said of the research in 1997: “It speaks of the possibility of life. If this discovery is confirmed, it will surely be one of the most stunning insights into our Universe that science has ever uncovered. Its implications are as far-reaching and awe-inspiring as can be imagined.”
Anyway, all the fun stuff in life! Life's way too short to not enjoy it while you can. Eat, drink and be merry. Cheers! 
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