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POPSTen ways NOT to survive Another list where you should definitely read the full article. Basically, though, this is a list of ten mistakes that many people are likely to make that will leave them unprepared in the event of an emergency or disaster. These are all good points to consider.
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POPSStill not able to update Clipmarks Does anyone else have this trouble. I have asked for help but no reply, I was wondering if anyone here had any solutions. This is bugging me and has happened since the last update. I asked for help then but no solution has been offered I have the same trouble with amplify, again asked for help but no reply.
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POPSPoor Tom Cruise Now this is funny. Where's your sense of humour Tom, up in smoke? Nows there's two words I'd never thought I'd tag together, lol.
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POPSUK's Surveillance Society, and Their Devices This is in the UK but being deployed in America too. This BBC site has on-going reports and videos that are very informative, and awakening. See their latest video report here on deployment of "unregulated road cameras" that are screening all vehicles through license plate recognition. The word "freedom" is losing its meaning entirely when government can do whatever it wants.
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POPSAN ITSY BITSY BABY BAT PUP So tiny and helpless. When it grows up with his/hers brothers and sisters in your yard, you won't have to worry about annoying insects bugging you.
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POPSFort Hunt's Quiet Men Break Silence on WWII Ah, the good old days, when you softened someone up by gaining their confidence and then stabbed them in the back. :) Of course, people are much different today. I seriously doubt a steak dinner today would get a suspected terrorist to spill his guts. Still, it goes to show that information can be obtained by more humane methods than torture.
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POPSBill Moyers-wire tapper He should probably first ask that of himself. Bush's surveillance programs — whatever you think of their legality — are at the very least targeted at terrorists. Back in the good old days when Moyers was part of the Johnson administration, he had no problem with wiretaps simply as matter of personal political gain. From Morley Safer's memoir, Flashbacks:
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POPSThe philosophy of kissing Kafkaesque kiss -- a kiss that starts out feeling like it's about to transform you but ends up just bugging you. Sartrean kiss -- a kiss that you worry yourself to death about even though it really doesn't matter anyway. Cartesian kiss -- A particularly well-planned and coordinated movement: "I think, therefore, I aim." In general, a kiss does not count as Cartesian unless it is applied with enough force to remove all doubt that one has been kissed. movement involving greater nose-to-nose contact, but colder Nietzscheian kiss -- "she/he who does not kiss you, makes your lust stronger."
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POPS10 Disturbing Trends in Subliminal Advertising What once was a sale, is now manipulation in many cases. The sale of something that is not wanted before the sales talk, and unwanted and forgotten a week later. Also known as viral marketing. I've clipped the titles, but there are more detailed examples on the page.
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POPSChess Got More Info Than Torture - Steak Dinners Helped Several of the veterans, all men in their 80s and 90s, denounced the controversial techniques. And when the time came for them to accept honors from the Army's Freedom Team Salute, one veteran refused, citing his opposition to the war in Iraq and procedures that have been used at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. "I feel like the military is using us to say, 'We did spooky stuff then, so it's okay to do it now,' " said Arno Mayer, 81, a professor of European history at Princeton University.
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POPSDiana bugged by USA spooks An accident? Maybe, but US spies were listening in to Diana's calls the night she died. MI6, the UK Secret Service were not informed. Why were they listening and why was Henri Paul, the driver in the pay of the French secret service? "Curiouser and curiouser" as Alice in Wonderland was wont to say.