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POPSMany of Scotland's seabirds are too hungry to lay eggs Most of the seabirds depend on sand eels - which used to shoal in vast numbers. Shetland fishermen have stopped catching them, but scientists believe climate change could be to blame for their continued decline, which is causing the birds to starve. Lower fish numbers lead to lower numbers of adult birds surviving from one year to the next, and not enough chicks being produced and surviving to replace them. Sea temperatures have risen by up to two degrees in the past 20 years and that may be causing the sand eels and the plankton on which they depend to move to cooler waters.
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POPSAustralia needs one-child policy: ex-MP Over population is the greatest threat to the survival of the human race. It doesn't just happen in poor African countries. The shortage of water and food will soon be everywhere. Kanck is the devil's advocate on this one and someone has to kick off the thinking process involved..
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POPSLeaked Menu of George Will's Catered Dinner Party for Barack Obama Hors d’oeuvres Skewers of Unmitigated Gall Fingerless Sandwiches Record Dow Asiago-Spinach Dip Mercury-Infused Bay Scallops with Deregulation Coulis Chickenhawk Balls Wrapped in Old Glory Choose one from the following courses: Soup du Jour Torture Chowder Intellectually Dishonest Bisque Puree of Lying Sack of Potato Soup Salad Segregated Greens with Reaganesque Croutons Cryto-Fascist Pasto Appetizers Heartless Artichoke Tartine Propagandistically Stuffed Mushrooms Clams in a Half Cell Indoctrinated Shrimp Cocktail Entrees Beef Orwellian War on Terror Risotto Shredded Constitution with Well-Placed Leeks Bipartisan Turducken™ Cold Shoulder of Pork and Earmark Dumplings Tax Refund Gruel with Coal Ash Croquettes Half-Baked Change over Discouraging Pilaf Dessert Illegally Wiretapped Tiramisu Cinnamon Renditioned Flan Wingnut Brittle Gelato Quid Pro Quo Cookies Trickle-Down Huckleber
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POPSIn the name of the Palestinians International humanitarian relief organizations are sharply restricted in their activities ; badly needed food supplies are not getting through. The June 19 - December 19 truce was conditional on an end the siege and the blockade of Gaza, and partial opening the Egyptian border crossing. Neither Israel (nor Egypt) has respected these conditions ; the Palestinian population has been the victim of inhuman treatment, for weeks, months and years now. Are we to ignore these realities in order to justify the massacres now unfolding before our eyes ? Are the Palestinians responsible for their own misfortune because rockets were launched from Gaza ? The failure of memory is compounded by a loss of all sense of proportion : the number of Israeli victims is now multiplied by a factor of one hundred, two hundred, three hundred Palestinian civilians murdered by Israeli government fiat.
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POPSWhales buried as survivors do well Still no reasons can be found for beachings such as these. One could suggest food shortage but that is more of a recent problem and whales have been doing this forever.
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POPSBaxter Black Blogs Baxter Black is a cowboy poet, veterinarian and now blogger. Selah Independent has published a thought provoking blog about the shortage of cow doctors.
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POPSI was wrong, Bush was right: Clinton A lot of people still don't care about, or don't accept, that a food shortage for all is actually happening. The water shortage is tipped to lead to wars. Watch the film "Mad Max" for a glimpse of a future.
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POPSA Better Strategy on Opium in Afghanistan The statistics are bleak and we are pursuing typically myopic policies in Afghanistan. Hitchens (whose writing I think is superb) makes a great case for a different approach. "in the short term, hard-pressed Afghan farmers should be allowed to sell their opium to the government rather than only to the many criminal elements that continue to infest it or to the Taliban. We don't have to smoke the stuff once we have purchased it: It can be burned or thrown away or perhaps more profitably used to manufacture the painkillers of which the United States currently suffers a shortage. (As it is, we allow Turkey to cultivate opium poppy fields for precisely this purpose.)"
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POPSLarge dog savaged by killer squirrels continues: Mikhail Tiyunov, a scientist in the region, said it was the first he had ever heard of such an attack. While squirrels without sources of protein might attack birds' nests, he said, the idea of them chewing a dog to death was "absurd". "If it really happened, things must be pretty bad in our forests," he added. Komosmolskaya Pravda notes that in a previous incident this autumn chipmunks terrorised cats in a part of the territory. A Lazo man who called himself only Mikhalich said there had been "no pine cones at all" in the local forests this year. "The little beasts are agitated because they have nothing to eat," he added.
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POPSCooking Dash Download In Cooking Dash, Flo returns to cook dishes instead of serve them. When Cookie the Chef leaves Flo`s Diner to pursue a career on a popular reality cooking TV show, there is a shortage of chefs in DinerTown as Cookie invites them all to appear as guest stars. Flo, with her grandmother, help out at all four DinerTown restaurants and ends up hosting with Cookie on a Hollywood set of Flo`s Diner!
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POPSThe Group Of Eights' Empty Rhetoric With rising gas costs, Americans in a variety of polls have shown by a majority they now want to explore offshore drilling, so this move will be popular among that majority and John McCain has been pushing for it as well. Reported on June 26, 2008, the InsiderAdvantage/Poll, asks "Do you favor or oppose increased exploration and production of oil and natural gas off the coasts of Florida?” Favor (61%) Oppose (32%) No opinion (7%) Rasmussen- June 17, 2008: "67% Support Offshore Drilling, 64% Expect it Will Lower Prices." Zogby- June 26, 2008: "74 percent support offshore oil drilling in U.S."
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