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POPSWhy is India 30 minutes out of step with everybody else? After the standardization conference, most countries "rounded off" their local time, as it were, so that it differed by a whole hour(s) from GMT and from adjoining time zones. But some, for reasons of geography or politics, rounded off to the half-hour.
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POPSTrue cost of chevron Another evil, ugly-American corporation. There is a series of photos at the site depicting what these unconscionable corporate zombies are doing to people around the world all in the name of profit. They are in Burma, Canada, Ecuador, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Philippines, and of course in the US. Please don’t give these unethical bastards your money. It only encourages them to continue ruining people’s lives everywhere.
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POPSEasy to be Hard - In Russia and China's UN Stall As long as China and Russia back up the Burmese Generals by stopping concerted international action against Generals eating their own people, it's easy for them to do as their horrific hubris urges them on to new heights of inhumanity toward their own people.
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POPSBurmese villagers 'forced to work on Total pipeline' more (at source): The soldiers ordered villagers to build a new camp in late March. The land where they set up the new camp belongs to local villagers ... the soldiers ordered villagers to help build it. Villagers had to cut bamboo, wood, and leaves for the building and at the same time they had to build it." Burma's junta, the State Peace and Development Council, officially outlawed the use of forced labour in 1999. However, campaigners say troops routinely force civilians to work for them and those who refuse are often beaten, tortured or sometimes killed. Total insists that forced labour is not used around the pipeline. On its website, the company states: "The local inhabitants around the Yadana pipeline say that they are happy to have us there. They are, above all, grateful that there is no forced labour in the area around our pipeline."
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POPSGecko Remains - One Hundred Million Years Old I like the comment right at the end: "The fossil tree resin preserved the gecko's sticky toe hairs, called lamellae, which are also found on modern-day geckos. Such hairs enable the small reptiles to hang on to vertical surfaces or walk upside down--and have even inspired an artificial "gecko tape" that could someday give its users Spider Man-like clinging powers. "
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POPSAung San Suu Kyi Found Guilty of Breaking House Arrest And the beat goes on. The excuse they used this time to hold her came in the form of some American fool who snuck into her home, against her wishes, telling of a dream he had of her assassination. Of course, they would have just made up some other flimsy reason to keep her locked away from her followers. I somehow doubt Obama is going to send anyone to Burma to rescue this guy. There is hope though, Burma has been identified as possibly receiving nuclear plans from North Korea. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/21/burma-north-korea-nuclear-clinton
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POPSWill She and Burma Ever Be Free? Burma has been in the military's hands since the 1960's. It is perhaps, testimony of the courage of its people, that there is anything left of free will there. Can we stand by and let this happen - another voice for freedom silenced because the world did nothing?
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POPSBurma: India, China, help free parliamentarians 13 parliamentarians were arrested during the crackdown in the fall of 2007 and are still in custody. 6 have died in custody and 2 were assassinated. Myanmar/Burma has 13 parliamentarians who are still serving sentences for participation in the 1990 election. "The Inter-Parliamentary Union says it is delighted with the recent release of two Colombian hostages kidnapped by the FARC guerrilla group."
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POPSRestaurant review: Burma Superstar's new location in Oakland's Temescal District I so want to try the tea-leaf salad: Left to my own devices, I went for the obvious - starting with the tea leaf salad ($9). The pile of pungent, soft, fermented tea leaves is so alluring I might follow it into a dark alley some night. Arrayed around the tea leaves are small heaps of ingredients of all different textures and flavors - potent dried shrimp and fried garlic slices (too many, really), crunchy split peas, nutty sesame seeds and peanuts, tomatoes, lemons, and on and on, all over a bed of chopped romaine. Tossed tableside, it's a three-ring circus in your mouth.
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POPSAsia's Axis of Evil? Throws up a theory and then debunks it. How to keep your job. (And I legitimize it by clipping it to clipmarks)
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POPSMurdoch CEO Labels Bloggers “Political Extremists” The source of the establishment’s move to claim that bloggers and alternative media outlets are “extremists” or at worst “terrorists,” as we first reported in September 2006, was a White House strategy document that the government had been following since 9/11. In a September 5, 2006 speech President George W. Bush referred to the document as “an unclassified version of the strategy we’ve been pursuing since September the 11th, 2001,” that takes into account, “the changing nature of this enemy.” The strategy paper on how to ‘win the war on terror’ cites “conspiracies” as one of the wellsprings of terrorism and threatens to “address” and “diminish” the problems they are causing the government in fulfilling their agenda.
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POPSNo Country for Old Elephants Here we go folks...Keep 'em in captivity so they can die for your pleasure seeking fans: or let them be free for all to enjoy, just knowing they are still with us. Those nasty methane emitting creatures (sarcasm) Which way would you like to live? Eh? What did you say? Freedom? Hmm seems like we've had to kill to get that done before doesn't it? *note: The article also said that the infant mortality rate is double in zoos as well. Interesting too, that they live longer in a working environment as well.
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POPSWhy George Orwell wrote 1984 Orwell served in Burma as a member of The Indian Imperial police, saw poverty and failure, but the Spanish Civil War and the rise of Hitler, and the NAZIs, gave him a political direction, and his work after 1936, was to warn against the establishment of a totalitarian state. There is more at the site, with more background. Orwell died Seven months after 1984 was published, due to the effects of tuberculosis, and an allergic reaction to a new medication. While he was in Hospital, writing 1984 they took away his typewriter, but he continued to write longhand with a ballpoint pen, despite his failing health
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POPSPortrait of Queen ( yeah right) Elizabeth, and world's longest title .....Sovereign of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert, Sovereign of the Royal Family Order of King Edward VII, Sovereign of the Order of Mercy, Sovereign of the Order of Merit, Sovereign of the Order of the Companions of Honour, Sovereign of the Royal Victorian Order, Sovereign of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, Sovereign of the Order of Canada, Sovereign of the Order of Australia, Sovereign of the Order of New Zealand, Sovereign of the Order of Barbados, Sovereign of the Order of Valour, Sovereign of the Order of Military Merit, Sovereign of the Order of Merit of the Police Forces, Sovereign of the Queen's Service Order, Sovereign of the New Zealand Order of Merit, Sovereign of the Order of St. Andrew, Sovereign of the Order of Logohu, Sovereign of the Order of the Star of Melanesia. ... But that's a bit of a mouthful, so we'll go with 'her on the ten bob note' for the occasion.
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POPSFree Burma's Pro Democracy Prisoners An online NGO in action. As learners of political knowledge, do we have a responsibility to support campaigns for freedom? If you think so, here's a campaign worth supporting
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