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POPSWising-up about pirates: Why force will fail Look around and you see them off the coast of Somalia, in Hamas, in Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, in Palestine, Afghanistan, Africa, Pakistan, India, in Mexican drug cartels, in gangs on the streets of LA, and in jails across the United States.
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POPS"Your honour, we now have the fashion police." Good move by the judge. Though I personally don't like such a fashion, but what would different between America and Iran if we were to institute such measures? And do I see "town voters" backed this petition? Whoa.
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POPSAngels & Demons: It's A Thriller, Not A Crusade - May Face Vatican Boycott Had Mr. Donohue and his allies waited to see Angels & Demons before criticizing it, they would have seen references to struggles within the Church between faith and science, but they would also have seen clear signs of support for the pursuit of science at the highest levels of the Vatican. Indeed, one of the first scenes of the movie depicts a scientist at the high-tech CERN laboratory...and he is a priest.
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POPSApple to acquire Twitter? This would be very cool and, in my opinion, very smart for Apple. Not only because of the mobile appications for twitter that Apple could further leverage for the iphone, but also because it would give apple an amazing presence in the consumer web and potentially search space.
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POPSState of the Blogosphere / 2008 The lucky bloggers who made it big (and then ended up creating companies out of it and doing it full time) are most likely the ones making big bucks. How easy it is to get 100K unique view? I say not much.
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POPSAFP: World hails Obama's 'brilliant' victory A victory for the American people, and definitely something to celebrate the world over. The article has quotes from various world leaders, just about all looking forward to a new era in American governance. A very interesting bit from the end: 'In Obama, an ancient fishing town on the Sea of Japan -- Obama means small shore in Japanese -- residents dressed in Hawaiian skirts did a hula dance in celebration, embracing Hawaiian-born Obama as one of their own. "I'm so excited because Obama shares our town's name. But even if the town was called McCain I would still support Barack Obama," said 44-year-old dancer Masayo Ishibashi.'
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POPSComing soon: Fatwa on yoga Soon what color one can, or cannot, use may just be the subject of these folks... As if there aren't enough problems in this world to worry about. Talk about extreme micromanagement....
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POPSFilms today, books tomorrow? by Mariam Mokhtar "But the scariest thing is how the Puteri Umno motion was passed without debate. An important call such as this should have warranted a little more scrutiny. If the Government were to accede to their request, then it is all Malaysians, who will suffer. Not just Muslims. Movies like the Harry Potter films will not be screened. Lord of the Rings, and even The Wizard of Oz will have to be banned. And what about science fiction films? Alien, Predator and others, may be full of horror, or lack unexplained traditional elements, and thus, will not fit in any religious teaching." In short - ban fucking everything. Would that make 'em happy?
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POPSBoycott products by Jewish companies: PPIM While the intention may be noble, i.e. to send a strong message, the repercussions are going to affect Malaysians (not the US or Israel), of whom thousands are employed by these so-called "Jewish companies". A majority of which are Muslims. Incidentally, PPIM has also been consistently calling for the boycott of 3 entities specifically (although not mentioned by name in the article): Starbucks, McDonalds, and Colgate.
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POPSIf Obama Is Serious, he should get tough with Israel An article such as this is perhaps testament that world opinion is, at large, against Israel in the way it man-handled Gaza, deploying disproportionate force, which has resulted in over 600 dead, and thousands injured. How Obama will address the complex issues will be interesting to see...
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