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POPSHistory-Making Edits, Before Photoshop While some people enjoy adding individuals to their images, others prefer to edit them out – as in the cases of these photographs of Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini respectively. In each of the first three photos there was a political compatriot who, after falling from favor, was removed entirely from the scene and thus erased from a part of history. In the final image, a horse handler was edited out to convey a greater sense of grandeur. Perhaps it is simply selective and subjective, but it seems strangely fitting in some way that most of the edits of of American heroes are additive while those of other infamous world leaders are subtractive – but who knows what other manipulations we have yet to catch.
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POPSA Tale of Two Soundbites “Mao’s responsibility for the extinction of anywhere from 40 to 70 million lives brands him as a mass killer greater than Hitler or Stalin.” Hey, that’s pretty impressive when they can’t get your big final-score death toll nailed down to closer than 30 million. Still, as President Obama’s communications director might say, he lived his dream, and so can you, although if your dream involves killing, oh, 50–80 million Chinamen, you may have your work cut out.
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POPSLimbaugh Bad, Mao Good by Mark Steyn
and famously nondivisive figures like the Rev. Al Sharpton and the Rev. Jesse Jackson expressed the hope that, with Mr. Divisive out of the picture, the NFL could now "unify." The second quotation " hailing Mao " was uttered back in June to an audience of high school students by Anita Dunn, the White House communications director. I know she uttered it because I watched the words issuing from her mouth on "The Glenn Beck Show" on Fox News. But don't worry. Nobody else played it. So if I understand correctly: Rush Limbaugh is so "divisive" that to get him fired Leftie agitators have to invent racist sound bites to put in his mouth. But the White House communications director is so undivisive that she can be invited along to recommend Chairman Mao as a role model for America's young. From my unscientific survey, U.S. school students are all but entirely unaware of Mao Tse Tung, and the few that aren't know him mainly as a T-shirt graphic or "agrarian reformer."
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POPSWhite House Boasts: We 'Control' News Media Obama Cabinet Member Anita Dunn: Mao Tse Tung "Favorite Philosopher"; Truth is subjective Video of Dunn's speech, broadcast during a segment of Glenn Beck's evening show on the Fox News Channel, can be seen by clicking following link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi1zg2NOCn8&feature=player_embedded
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POPSObama’s Energy Czar: Socialist Agent For World Government Socialist International Barack Obama’s “climate czar" Carol Browner has been exposed as being a member of Socialist International, a highly influential group headed by a Bilderberg Group luminary that calls for the implementation of global government, despite Socialist International’s attempts to seemingly “memory-hole” information about Browner on their website. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that Obama and his cabinet are preparing to exploit fearmongering about global warming to push new measures of taxation, regulation and internationalism. Obama himself has vigorously promoted the revival of a bill that would slash carbon emissions by 80 per cent, a move that would inflict a new Great Depression, cost millions of jobs, and sink America to near third world status. Obama has also publicly stated his intention to create a new infrastructure of “green brigades” and informants to regulate every aspect of our behavior in the name of saving in the name of saving . . .
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POPSA Maoist in the White House FTA: "Mao Tse-Tung...engineered the mass murder of anywhere from 50 to over 100 million people. Estimates vary so widely because murder on that wholesale scale is difficult to tabulate, especially in a country as backwards as China was under Mao’s long reign. But there is little doubt that Mao has the grisly distinction of being the greatest mass murderer in history." Very frightening people populate the halls of our government now. To announce to *high school* students that this is your model for how to get things done speaks of lunacy.
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POPSMass-Murderer Mao: WH Communication Directors's Favorite Politician the people can say how you can do this? Mao said, 'You fight your war, I'll fight mine'... you don't have to accept the definition of how to do things... you fight your own war. So Anita Dunn, White House Communications Director, has a favorite politician: the Hitler of China, Mao Tse-Tung. The man who slaughtered 70 million innocents. But Fox News is the "enemy". Un-f***ing-believable. Hat tip: Brutally Honest. Others on the case: Michelle Malkin, Ace o' Spades, Hot Air Pundit.
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POPS Obama Won ~ God Is Now Passe What Obama is doing has been done before. Successfully. Pol Pot knew this. Lenin knew this. Mao Tse Tung knew this. Any dictator who conquers a country through force knows this. And Obama knows this. In order for the state to be supreme, fealty to God, and allegiance to family and to communities, must be replaced with fealty to the state. This strategy is now being implemented in America, with increasing success. The traditional family, the backbone of our nation, is being redefined as we speak. The institution of marriage is being undermined by the creeping acceptance of gay marriage. Faith in God is being replaced with faith in Mother Earth. They recognize the basic human desire to believe in a cause or ideal greater than ourselves. By making the environment the new religion, all those higher feelings may be directed and manipulated by the state. God can't save the planet, only man can.
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POPSThe kiwifruit (kiwi) was once called the Yangtao The kiwifruit (kiwi) has been around for more than 700 years? Our knowledge of the kiwifruit goes back to the Yang-tse river valley in China, where it was called “Yangtao.” The court of the great Khans considered the Yangtao to be a delicacy and it was cherishedfor its delicious flavor and emerald-green color. The small, brown, fuzzy “Yangtao” fruit (kiwi) grew wild on vines that wrapped around trees.
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POPS It Takes a Proverb to Run a Village "Give a man a fish, he will eat today. Promise a man a million fish, he will contribute heap big wampum to your tribal election campaign fund." Iroquois "The happy man has two chickens; the wise man shares one with the man who has none. The prudent man reports the happy man to the authorities, so they can wise him up." Cuban "Do not waste your time talking to the yak. Because yakkity yak don't talk back." Mongolian "Even the wisest turtle cannot understand the sea. Get real dude, he's a fucking turtle ." Samoan "If your canoe springs a leak, drill a bigger hole to let the water to drain out." Arapazowee (extinct tribe) "Do not barter your ox if it is still under warrantee." Tamil "The single lotus blossom that brushes against river jade can defeat an army of steel fire-dragon. Well, okay, maybe that's just the opium talking." Chinese
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POPSPrasugrel Delayed The Food and Drug Administration will take another three months to make a decision on Lilly's blood thinner. Given the lack of an advisory panel and the controversy surrounding the drug, this is not a huge surprise. Exactly what info the FDA needs going forward is not clear.
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POPSGovernment asks court to block wider testing for mad cow Bush administration on Friday urged a federal appeals court to stop meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease, but a skeptical judge questioned whether the government has that authority.Other variations of Prions Diseases include Kuru, Alzhiemer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, BSE,Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, CJD,Creutzfeldt Jakob's Disease, Alpers disease, Fatal Familial Insomnia, Scrapies Sheep Disease, TSE,Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies, CWD Chronic Wasting Disease, Transmissible mink encephalopathy, Feline spongiform encephalopathy, Ungulate spongiform encephalopathy,
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POPSPrasugrel Gets Priority Review This is important because some on Wall Street had been arguing that if prasugrel didn't get priority review, that might mean the FDA saw new advantage over Plavix, from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-Aventis. That, in turn, might decrease the chance of approval.
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POPSCommon Sense We are the nation whose President Nixon reached out to and met with China’s Mao Tse Tsung at the same time Mao was funding and arming the North Vietnamese to kill our soldiers in Vietnam. We’re the nation whose President Reagan confronted Soviet President Gorbachev, who at the time had thousands of nuclear warheads armed and pointed at us and was actively funding and arming proxy wars we were fighting in more than a half-dozen nations. We’re the nation whose President Roosevelt said, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”
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POPSPrioNet Canada: prion network join in PrioNet Canada is a Network of Centres of Excellence for research on Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, commonly known as mad cow disease, and other Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies or prion diseases. The PrioNet Canada web site was built to serve as a portal for members and non-members alike, to access the latest findings in prion science and to discover the wealth of possibilities provided by the network concept. Prion Video Watch a short video on prions produced by the Alberta Prion Research Institute. PrioNews Read the Jan-March 2007 issue of PrioNet's newsletter. Mad Cow Mysteries Science journalist Jay Ingram is hosting a four-city prion public lecture series this month. Register now in your city! High Impact Fund PrioNet Canada establishes fund to support research urgencies in real-time BSE/TSE events.
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POPSColony Collapse Disorder Universal Prion 19 Aug 99 webmaster Could a bee sting cause scrapie? Yes, indeed -- there was an apparent near miss 23.6 million years ago in a common ancestor of sheep and cow -- a retrotransposon event that might have boosted prion protein production to levels fostering sporadic TSE. Ruminants contain a 1220 bp mariner retrotransposon in their 3' UTR portion of their mRNA. This element, with its terminal inverted repeats, are described by Lee as a fossil transposase pseudogene with homology to the Mellifera (bee) subfamily. It is probably an old insertion shared by all ruminants since it has 7-8 frameshifts and 5 stop condons -- figure 3 of the Lee paper shows a guided translation and the correct flanking human gene alignment. The insertion in cow/sheep occured between 27587 and 27588 in terms of human 3' UTR numbering, just downstream of the Bov-tA3, greatly increasing the length of ruminant mRNA.
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