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POPSWho Are The Real Pirates In Africa's Waters? Like the pirates of the ``golden age’’, today's Somali pirates see themselves as fighting for justice. As Sugale Ali told the October 1, 2008, NYT: ``We don’t consider ourselves sea bandits. We consider sea bandits those who illegally fish in our seas and dump waste in our seas and carry weapons in our seas. We are simply patrolling our seas. Think of us like a coast guard.’’ ``The truth is, if you ask any Somali, if getting rid of the pirates only means the continuous rape of our coast by unmonitored Western vessels, and the production of a new cancerous generation, we would all fly our pirate flags high. It is time that the world gave the Somali people some assurance that these Western illegal activities will end, if our pirates are to their operations. We do not want the EU and NATO serving as a shield for these nuclear waste-dumping hoodlums.’’
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POPSRobinson awarded US honour "Throughout her career, in particular in her role as President of Ireland and as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and more recently through her work as founder of the Ethical Globalisation Initiative, Mary Robinson has been an outstanding advocate and champion for human rights and fairness for all. "Irish people everywhere are very proud of her being honoured by this award and her many achievements during a distinguished career of advocacy," he added.
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POPSIndia to issue all 1.2 billion citizens with biometric ID cards
Keeping tabs around the world • Compulsory national identity cards are used in about 100 countries including Germany, France, Belgium, Greece, Luxembourg, Portugal and Spain • ID cards are not used in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the Irish Republic or Nordic countries • German police can detain people who are not carrying their ID card for up to 24 hours • The Bush Administration resisted calls for an identity card in the US after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 • In Australia street protests in the 1980s forced the Government to abandon its plans for a card • Plastic cards are favoured over paper documents because they are harder to forge • Most identity cards contain the name, sex, date of birth and a unique number for the holder • South Korean, Brazilian, Italian and Malaysian ID cards contain fingerprints. Cards in some countries contain information on any distinguishing marks of the holder • Objections t
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POPSElegant Simplicity - simple sustainable lifestyle I think this very apt for these times I have an idea for local netwotks that would facilatate and encourage sharing and cooperation in local communities , basically localisation as opposed to globalisation I've already come across the transition towns network which is promising also http://transitiontownsireland.ning.com/ its on the ning platform which allows people to develop their own social networks for specific groups of interest who would be up for a clipmarks group like this on ning? which could facilitate local area meet ups and a chat facility and more connectivity between the community
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POPSAssault On ‘Global New Deal’ By European Union Leaders The assault by European Union leaders also represents a defeat for President Barack Obama, who is desperate for other big economies to copy his $800 billion stimulus plan. Adding to the disarray, a draft of the agreement Brown hopes to secure was leaked to a German news magazine, prompting suggestions of “dirty tricks” by Berlin. The draft stated that Britain wanted a “$2 trillion” global fiscal stimulus. However, the figure appeared only in brackets, indicating agreement on the package had yet to be reached. The stimulus would boost world growth by 2% and employment by 19m, the draft said. The rest of the document was mainly general pledges. “We believe that an open world economy, based on the principles of the market, effective regulation and strong global institutions, can ensure sustainable globalisation with rising well-being for all,” it said.
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POPSConservatives and Globalization again slaves to corporatism and the establishment--the hippies were right---when our presidential candidates move to the middle they all become members of the establishment party
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POPSA Brief History Of Political Correctness established in 1923 by Felix Weil, Marxist son of a millionaire German trader, in association with Frankfurt University. The work of the Institute, which came to be called the Frankfurt School, was to translate Marxism from economic into cultural terms. Political Correctness as it is known today was created by that Institute. Essentially the task had been completed by the end of the 1930s. Other key members of the Frankfurt School were Theodore Adorno, Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse. Fromm and Marcuse introduced the central sexual element into Political Correctness. The call for sexual liberation, which will supposedly lead to human sensual happiness, figures prominently in the work of the Institute. In a 1936 essay, ‘Egoism and the Movement for Emancipation’, Frankfurt School director Max Horkeimer discussed the “hostility to personal gratification inherent in bourgeois culture.” He referred favourably to the Marquis de Sade for his “protest…
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POPSThe Riots Have Begun Across The World It always sends a chill down my spine when I read the words, the "New World Order". It used to be the stuff of conspiracy theorists, but here it is, casually mentioned in the MSM.
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POPS High Drama & High Finance Not only has Ferguson been described as 'the most brilliant historian of his generation' by The Times, he's been rated as 'one of the world's 100 most influential people' by Time magazine. From the first coins of ancient Mesopotamia to the rise of China and the credit crunch, via the Medicis of Renaissance Italy, the Scottish clergymen who created the first insurance company and the dynasty started by the first Nathan Rothschild, Ferguson provides a clear and masterful financial history of the world. He shows, for example, how the high-financial scam of a Scottish murderer resulted in the French Revolution, how the bond market settled the outcome of the American Civil War, and, chillingly, how a previous era of globalisation and prosperity was ended almost overnight by the surprise catastrophe of World War I.
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POPSBush critic wins economics Nobel The criticisms of the Republican Party and Bush were not mentioned in the other clip. I had read a couple of his articles in the Times and thought they were informative (advantage of a computer, never would have seen the paper otherwise.
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POPSKrugman Wins Nobel in Economics Look for the right to really hate this. It gives you an idea of just how devalued unregulated markets and supply-side economics has become. It's too bad it took a market-failure to finally kill it off.
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