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POPS Inconvenient Goof The embarrassing error cast another shadow over the conference after the controversy over the hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, which appeared to suggest that scientists had manipulated data to strengthen their argument that human activities were causing global warming. For Gaia’s sake, he’s not a scientist, he’s an alarmist! Didn’t the Norwegian Nobel Committee make that clear? He can’t be expected to stick to facty stuff. Too much depends on it. Jules Crittenden http://bit.ly/6sXBQJ
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POPSChinese white tea may fight obesity White tea, which is not especially popular in modern China, gets its name from the downy white fur that covers the unopened bud and is typically three times as expensive as traditional black or green teas.
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POPSChina Wants Guarantees on Its $682 Billion of U.S.Treasury Holdings While China may be posturing after suffering $5 billion in losses on its $10.5 billion investments in Blackstone, Morgan Stanley and TPG, this is a very serious threat. Granted, China does not have many options of where to invest its surplus cash A decline in reserves “isn’t likely because of China’s huge twin surpluses,” Yu said. China “should diversify its reserves away from U.S. Treasuries if the value of China’s foreign- exchange reserves is in danger of being inflated away by the U.S. government’s pump-priming,” he said. Although this is most likely a preamble to a diplomatic escalation arising from Geithner's initial claims about currency manipulation by China, the threat that the U.S. may lose it largest foreign debt purchaser should be enough to make people in the administration very worried. China is currently in a position of strength relative to the U.S., and only an altruistic desire . . .
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POPSChina tries to block French sale of stolen Chinese art Ah, the price of Imperialism: Franco-British army stole it in 1860; Chinese, of course, want it back. Est value £16-20million. Give it back and apologize, I say. “If we had to give these two pieces free to China, we would have to hand back the Obelisk on the Place de La Concorde and numerous paintings in the Louvre,” a Christie's employee told lepoint.fr news site. Imagine! The robber nation losing riches, rather than the nation that was robbed! Sounds a bit like justice! Could open a can of worms, eh?
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POPSAn Underground City Beneath Beijing, Why? Beijing's Underground Hideout With Khrushchev and the Soviets breathing down his country's metaphorical neck, Chairman Mao ordered the construction of a vast underground city to serve as a shelter during an invasion, air raid or nuclear war. This was no minor undertaking. In the late 1960s, the population of Beijing reached 7.5 million residents . In short order, the residents of the capital city were put to work excavating their enormous air raid shelter. Most of the digging was done by hand, and the work was shared by adults and schoolchildren alike. This communal venture fit nicely into Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution -- a massive campaign to support the communist movement and thwart counterrevolutionary ideas. From 1969 to 1979, the people of Beijing focused their attention underground. Watch Reuters video at website: Building the $500 million Beijing Olympic Stadium
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POPSBeijing Olympics-- Opening Ceremony ...Update: Iraqis Given Rousing Ovation The beautiful woman in the Iraqi delegation is sprinter Dana Abdul-Razzaq. President Bush and Laura Bush joined in the ovation. http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/07/olympic-panel-lifts-ban-on-iraq-allows.html Final thoughts on the Opening Ceremony-- Amazing! China put on a wonderful show. UPDATE: I posted the Iraqi version video after the NBC clip was yanked.
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POPSGay Marriage Ban Overturned By Cal Supreme Court IN THE SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA ) ) ) S147999 ) In re MARRIAGE CASES. ) Ct.App. 1/3 Nos. A110449, ) A110450, A110451, A110463, 1 ) A110651, A110652 ) ) San Francisco County ) JCCP No. 4365 ___________________________________ ) In Lockyer v. City and County of San Francisco (2004) 33 Cal.4th 1055 (Lockyer), this court concluded that public officials of the City and County of San Francisco acted unlawfully by issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in the absence of a judicial determination that the California statutes limiting marriage to a union between a man and a woman are unconstitutional. Our decision in Lockyer emphasized, however, that the substantive question of the constitutional 1 City and County of San Francisco v. State of California (A110449 [Super.validity of the California marriage statutes was not before this court in that proceeding, and that our decision was not intended to reflect any view on that issue. (Id. at
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