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POPSThe sleazy advocacy of a leading "liberal hawk" What Galbraith kept completely concealed all these years was that a company he formed in 2004 came to acquire a large stake in a Kurdish oil field whereby, as the NYT put it, he "stands to earn perhaps a hundred million or more dollars." In other words, he had a direct -- and vast -- financial stake in the very policies which he was publicly advocating in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and countless other American media outlets, where he was presented as an independent expert on the region. As Cobban wrote: Galbraith has never expressed any such regrets, and last November, he was openly scornful of Bush's late-term agreement to withdraw from Iraq completely. The revelation that for many years Galbraith had a quite undisclosed financial interest in the political breakup of Iraq may now further reduce the clout, and the ranks, of the remaining liberal hawks.
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POPSWho is Sanja Jovanovic Sanja Jovanović is an Croatian swimmer. She is best Croatian lady swimmer. She holds many Croatian records and also several world records in short pools. She is best in backstroke swimming on 50m and 200m. Shes born in most beautiful city on earth, Dubrovnik
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POPSU.S. Still Backs Ukraine in NATO NATO seems set on expanding. Albania and Croatia became new members a few months ago. NATO now includes: Iceland, Denmark, Canada, Belgium, France, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, U.K., USA, Greece, Turkey, Germany, Spain, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia NATO is fighting in Afghanistan.
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POPSIs Your Lawn Killing You? Vinegar, an old standby for a variety of household chores, is also said to be a potent herbicide. Then there’s corn gluten. I’m not sure what corn gluten is exactly, but it’s supposed to be a weed killer extraordinaire.
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POPSCompanions of St. Nicholas These servants are often associated with, but are distinct from Saint Nicholas' helpers in the Netherlands and Flanders (called Zwarte Piet , meaning Black Pete(r) in English). SHORT STORY RESEARCH
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POPSUnstable Activation and Why Parachutists Die It might be thought that it is the risk that the parachute won’t open, but in a dissertation he is defending at Umeå University in Sweden on March 27, Anton Westman shows that carelessness or lack of skill in controlling your body or your parachute through the air is considerably more dangerous.
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POPSU.N. expert raps U.S., allies for anti-terrorism tactics Scheinin cites "consistent, credible reports" that countries involved in facilitating extraordinary renditions in various ways included Bosnia and Herzegovina, Britain, Canada, Croatia, Georgia, Indonesia, Kenya, Macedonia and Pakistan. Suspects then were transferred to "mostly unacknowledged" detention sites in Afghanistan, Egypt, Ethiopia, Jordan, Pakistan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, Thailand, Uzbekistan "or to one of the CIA covert detention centers, often referred to as 'black sites,' " according to the human rights report. Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, said it was "a fairly major black mark" for any country to be targeted in such a report.
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POPSUNICEF Report 2009: Capitalist Babies LOSE to Socialist Babies! Those damned Swedes again. Why are they always showing up capitalism. Axis of Evil, what's why. You cannot trust those Socialists. Invade now! So what if they're neutral. What's that got to do with babies lives? What about all the contraceptives I handed out in Africa and Asia to reduce immigration. The US for whites! We can't be coming in behind the Cubans. We've had an embargo on them worst than Gaza, well forever. Don't know why. Don't care either. That Fidel didn't die after all our tries. Bucking Commie. ... from a fading George, on his last day, ordering the invasion of both Sweden and Cuba. Fortunately, no one was listening. Not even Cheney, who is in hiding in Afghanistan!
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POPSWomen trafficking, horrible also in numbers Some more horrifying statistics: In the region of South Eastern Europe, comprising Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, 90% of foreign women in the sex business are alleged victims of trafficking, 10% to 15% of these women and girls are under the age of 18 years. The majority of victims are recruited in Albania, Bulgaria, Moldova and Romania. The women and girls are often initially trafficked on the local market. They are being moved from one place to another and after a while sold abroad. following a movie i saw, thought to look into figures and was amazed. this is one of the lowest levels that human is reaching. and i say human because putting it away, shoving it aside, excusing oneself from that sight will not do. it is something in within human capabalities, and we should acknowledge that, also the strive to undo it.
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POPS Dubrovnik - is there a cover up? there is something very smelly about the goings on regarding the finding of a girl's body - in all their eagerness not to leave a stain on tourism, the local authorities (public servants in Croatia ) are exposing their inabilities to cover up - it will be interesting to see what a post mortem in Australia arrives at.
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POPSWalking speed in different cities 32) Blantyre (Malawi); 31.60 A new study by quirky psychologist Richard Wiseman has revealed that people's average walking speed in cities has increased by 10% in the last decade. People from 32 countries were timed walking over an 18 metre (60 foot) stretch of un-crowded pavement, and the results were compared to findings from a similar study conducted in the 1990s (by Robert V Levine at California State University).
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POPSMost Ethical Destinations? Worried about your travel footprint? Want to support tourism in a developing country but don't want to support bad environmental practices or human rights abuses? Check out this list of "most ethical destinations" compiled by ethicaltraveler.org.
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