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POPSLSE introduces hidden orders; delays Baikal It is interesting (and instructive) to note the total absence of any "transparency" considerations in this article. Now to watch for the reaction of the other "national" exchanges and their "governing" bodies.
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POPSRonaldo Frontrunner for Top Footie Award, yet again Wiganfootie, do you agree? Here’s a list of the 23 contenders: • Michael Ballack (Germany) • Gianluigi Buffon (Italy) • Iker Casillas (Spain) • Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) • Diego (Brazil) • Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast) • Michael Essien (Ghana) • Samuel Eto’o (Cameroon) • Steven Gerrard (England) • Thierry Henry (France) • Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Sweden) • Andres Iniesta (Spain) • Kaka (Brazil) • Frank Lampard (England) • Luis Fabiano (Brazil) • Lionel Messi (Argentina) • Carles Puyol (Spain) • Franck Ribery (France) • Wayne Rooney (England) • John Terry (England) • Fernando Torres (Spain) • David Villa (Spain • Xavi (Spain)
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POPSUgly Bug Competition I think that they all are beautiful, but I note that many of them never knew their mother and so did not experience the blindness of a mother's love.
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POPSScientists Create New Life Form to Clean Up Water "We're kind of making a new machine," said Dan Tarjan, a senior majoring in biology at University of Virginia. The live machine is to be entered in The International Genetically Engineered Machine competition, which will be held Halloween weekend at MIT. The annual competition is built on the premise that life can be broken down into a warehouse of off-the-shelf, interchangeable parts and reassembled into creatures that have never existed. Over 100 teams will use synthetic biology (similar to genetic engineering) to show that DNA building blocks (BioBricks) don’t have to come from nature and can be designed and built from standardized parts that behave predictably. The hope is that these tiny factories will produce clean biofuels, powerful new medicines and environmental pollution sponges. Good luck to all contestants.
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POPSSmall Wonders: Finalists From the Nikon Small World Competition Small World is regarded as the leading forum for showcasing the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope. For over 30 years, Nikon has rewarded the world's best photomicrographers who make critically important scientific contributions to life sciences, bio-research and materials science.
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POPSThe winning entries in the Take a view: Landscape Photographer of the Year 2009 competition
In order: 'Sunrise over the Old Man of Storr', Isle of Skye, Scotland by Emmanuel Coupe: Landscape Photographer of the Year 2009 " Overall winner of the 10,000 prize From Blencathra at sunset, Lake District, England by Chris McIlreavy The English National Parks Award Winner Lake District National Park Authority The South Downs near Clayton, West Sussex, England by Tim Morland: runner-up in the Classic View category Award Winner of the Natural England 'Landscape on your Doorstep' Award: Winter nightfall, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, England by Nigel Hillier The Golden Hour, Belstone Tor, Dartmoor, Devon, England by Adam Burton: Winner of the Dartmoor National Park Authority Best image Rosedale Light, North Yorkshire Moors, England by Jim Barter: North York Moors National Park Authority ? Best image Sycamore Gap, Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland, England by Roger Clegg: Northumberland National Park Authority Best image Walking to Lindisfarne, Northumberland, Engl
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POPSPolitical Essay From The Mind of Einstein Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights. (Albert Einstein, 1949)
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POPSInsurers Fight Public Health Plan
The worst-case scenario from the insurance industry's standpoint? The government mandates individual coverage, but also creates a public plan offering consumers a better deal, and drawing them away from the private companies. When nine of 10 Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee sent a letter to President Obama on June 8 opposing the public-option plan, they argued that such a move could destroy private insurers. "Washington-run programs undermine market-based competition through their ability to impose price controls and shift costs to other purchasers," they wrote. "Forcing free market plans to compete with these government-run programs would create an unlevel playing field and inevitably doom true competition." The nine signers have received $2.6 million from HMOs/health services and health and accident insurers to their candidate committees and leadership PACs since 1989. Of them, Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) ranks 11th among all current members of Congress to get $$.
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POPSThis Is Amazing! The Ravages of War In Sand This is an amazing political video. Sand artist Kseniya Simonova won Ukraine's Got Talent competition with her sand art interpretation of what Germany's invasion during World War II did to her people. First minute is slow, but turn on your speakers and sit back for an awesome display of story-telling. -JoeDanger (Daily Paul)
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POPSDeath Merchants: Rick Scott profits off the uninsured
And this isn't the first time that Scott's warnings about the ills of socialist medicine have found an ironic echo in his own healthcare business. Scott argues that socialized medicine rations care and strangles competition, yet just after his first stint as anti-reform spokesman in the 1990s, while he was running the world's largest healthcare company, he was accused of monopolizing markets and choking out the competition while slashing the chain's costs to the point that it affected patient care. And while he asserts that two of the core principles of healthcare reform are "accountability" and "personal responsibility," Scott ran a company that ultimately pleaded guilty to defrauding the government in one of the nation's largest Medicare frauds ever. Two executives went to prison, the company paid almost $2 billion in fines, and Scott was pushed out of the company. Before he could retake the political stage, he had to build his healthcare business all over again.
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POPSFact: Nearly All of Hitlers Beliefs Placed Him On the Far Right[
Many conservatives accuse Hitler of being a leftist, on the grounds that his party was named "National Socialist." But socialism requires worker ownership and control of the means of production. In Nazi Germany, private capitalist individuals owned the means of production, and they in turn were frequently controlled by the Nazi party and state. True socialism does not advocate such economic dictatorship -- it can only be democratic. Hitler's other political beliefs place him almost always on the far right. He advocated racism over racial tolerance, eugenics over freedom of reproduction, merit over equality, competition over cooperation, power politics and militarism over pacifism, dictatorship over democracy, capitalism over Marxism, realism over idealism, nationalism over internationalism, exclusiveness over inclusiveness, common sense over theory or science, pragmatism over principle, and even held friendly relations with the Church, even though he was an atheist.
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POPSNew England Journal of Medicine: Contain health costs by removing profit incentives As long as there is a profit incentive to add services, medical care will be first a business focused on increasing profits rather than a service improving health. "Furthermore, competition doesn’t lower prices in medical care as it does in other markets, because physicians usually choose the services to be provided and are paid largely by insurance " not by the consumers for whose business they would compete if this were an ordinary market."
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