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POPSFood for Thought: Corruption Crusading Truth seeking: Yes the ACORN employees willing to cover child prostitution and income tax fraud is vile. But the Political Right loves to go after poor people and the organizations that help them. The Right is silent about the big $$$$$ corruption, scandals and warmongering within their ranks. That is the scandal: complicit silence about the corruption that truly affects the economic well being of the country.
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POPSVillage of Hope The Mocha Club funds many projects. Check out ways you can support The Mocha Club's efforts. $7 a month can change a life. That's a lot of hope for a little change. (see what I did there with the pun? $7 = a little change.)
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POPSThere is Iraq, Darfur, and Afghanistan and Then There is The Congo! The genocide of Rwanda-Burundi ended there and moved next door into the Congo where there has been ongoing wars and rebellion over its riches since the 1960's - yes, the 1960s. As per usual, it is about money and the power that lets the money flow into the hands of North American and European companies. The latest real driver of child soldiers, rape as war policy, thousands being killed weekly? Uranium and chromium are still important but the rare earths and minerals that have been powering cell phone were the latest and greatest. So who has been paying for the deaths and rapes in the Congo? You and me, texting, web surfing and twittering on our phones keeps the wars going!
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POPSWelfare: The 'Shameless' Generation of Benefit Addicts Almost five million adults live in jobless homes The Crompton family, nicknamed 'Britain's Biggest Freeloaders' by their neighbours in Hull, live in a seven-bed house and get 33,000 a year. Harry Crompton, 51, has been out of work for 15 years and his wife Tracey, 41, has never had a job. Yet thanks to the generosity of the welfare state they receive 32,656 a year. The Cromptons were provided with two semis knocked together by the council at a cost of 20,000. The couple's only income from paid work is 20 a week from eldest son Michael, who has a factory job. They receive a further 628 a week in income support, disability allowance, carer's allowance, child tax credit, plus 120 a week rent on their seven-bedroom house. A working parent would have to earn 46,500 a year to match their income.
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POPSGeronimo Though outnumbered, Geronimo fought against both Mexican and United States troops and became famous for his daring exploits and numerous escapes from capture from 1858 to 1886. One such escape, as legend has it, took place in the Robledo Mountains of southwest New Mexico. The legend states Geronimo and his followers entered a cave, and the U.S. Soldiers waited outside the cave entrance for him, but he never came out. Later it was heard that Geronimo was spotted in a nearby area. The second entrance to the cave has yet to be found and the cave is still called Geronimo's Cave. At the end of his military career, he led a small band of 36 men, women, and children. They evaded thousands of Mexican and American troops for over a year. His band was one of the last major forces of independent Indian warriors who refused to acknowledge the United States occupation of the American West.
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POPSYou Can't Hear The Jackboots, But This Is Still Oppression prying officials be empowered to force their way into the homes of parents who prefer to educate their sons and daughters at home. This is our all-powerful State's angry response to a growing rebellion, by mothers and fathers who are sick of seeing their children bullied, neglected and mis-educated in the state education system, and rightly think they can do a better job. How can the commissars in charge of the Western world's worst schools be fit to judge how well a parent is teaching her own child? The pretext for this invasion of privacy is a baseless suggestion that home education could be used as a cover for child abuse. But these are not subject to Comrade Balls's new inquisition. Why not? Because they don't challenge his desire to march all children into egalitarian comprehensive sausage machines, notorious as they are for violence, ignorance and drugs. peter hitchens ~ daily mail.co.uk
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POPSThe Day of the Dead
Very moving take on what Memorial Day has come to represent to some people. Are we really any freer today for their dying in Iraq and Afghanistan? These are very different wars with very different goals than what America previously fought. There can be no honor in fighting an illegal war. Our military machine is geared toward rewarding soldiers for taking the lives of people who threaten our country, even if those people are defending their own country against US aggression. I’m not trying to disparage anyone whose head is filled with ‘visions of glory’ for fighting for their country. Those visions tend to evaporate pretty quickly when seen in the light of reality. The man responsible for getting us into this situation did it for many selfish reasons. To avenge his father, to create a financial windfall for his cronies, to stimulate our economy and to extend our reach across this planet. And who is paying for it? The bravery we need to see now is in stopping this madness
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POPSIraqi Suicide Mommy Blows Up Her Child In Emergency Food Line Even putting aside our baseline revulsion at terrorism, there are three especially hideous things that jump out from this: 1) A mother deliberately taking her (presumed) child with her as she immolates herself. For all the hundreds of suicide bombings that Iraq has already witnessed, this has got to be a first. 2) This was a line for food aid. Islamists have gone from attacking U.S. soldiers, to attacking Iraqi soldiers, to attacking police stations, to attacking the religious ceremonies of rival sects — on down the line of nihilism until, now, they are reduced to blowing up hungry people seeking sustenance. 3) This hideous crime was played on page four of The New York Times. And a quick scan of other media suggests it got similar B-rate treatment elsewhere.
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POPSJapan child robot mimicks infant learning
We are entering a new age of robotics. there is no doubt about that, at least in Japan. Robots integrated into everyday life is not only a technological feat but also a conceptual and social adaptation. In Japanese world view it is much easier to relate to robots as endowed with souls. This is fascinating, since it seems that we create our future technological world to reflect our beliefs and expectations. "Robots have hearts," said Kokoro planning department manager Yuko Yokota. "They don't look human unless we put souls in them. "When manufacturing a robot, there comes a moment when light flickers in its eyes. That's when we know our work is done." Public opinion in Japan may be more open to robots than in the West, where dark science fiction visions from movies such as "Bladerunner" and "Terminator" have conjured images of robo-soldiers taking over the world. Thanks to such benign cartoon characters as Astro Boy, "Japanese people have a friendly image towards robots
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POPSWhy What's For Dinner May Be About to Change
Obama's 2010 federal budget reflect this, and sets aside a $1 billion annual increase for improving child nutrition in order to meet the President's goal of ending childhood hunger by 2015. Notably, the budget also includes language that -- according to the Administration -- "reflects the President's commitment to supporting independent producers... and investing in the full diversity of agricultural production, including organic farming and local food systems." The budget also increases funding for the National Organic Program, and removes direct payment subsidies for farms that pull in over $500,000 in revenue per year. This reduction in subsidies represents an important shift away from a commodities-based agriculture system where certain crops (namely corn and soy) permeate our food supply and serve as the primary ingredient in everything we eat, from processed snack foods to meat and cheese. As the Administration cuts back on these subsidies and promotes fruits and vegetables
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POPSIsraeli Army T-Shirts Mock Gaza Killings This is truly reprehensible. The sentiment displayed on these shirts serves to perpetuate the animosity and hatred these two nations have for each other. Anyone who condones this type of behavior is undermining any chance to seek a peaceful resolution to their differences. Having said that, and judging from past behavior between these two, I don’t believe for a minute that either side truly wants to find peace with each other but to so blatantly display and promote the killing of pregnant women and children is beneath contempt for human life. And there in lies a major problem this world needs to deal with.
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POPSIDF:"Bet you got raped!""1 shot, 2 kills""Better use Durex" Every child murder and rapist needs one. Durex? No, bullets and his owner designed T-shirt depicting how masterful a boastful killer he really is. Zionist snipers with small minds, smaller dicks and big guns, supplied free gratis by the USA. Dead children only rate one notch. Arab virgins rate 5 notches.
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POPSwoman International woman's day 2009. What do we do when the scope of violence against women is so unimaginable, so extreme and enormous, that it is beyond our vision? Beyond our realm of thinking? How is it possible that we live in a world where one doctor has treated 25,000 victims of rape for mutilation and suffering? For those of us who are safe from the world of the Congo, who are unable to go there, to physically help the thousands of women who are victims of rape as a tactic of war, we read about it. We learn about it. We bear witness to it. So that we can help in other ways. So that we can stop it from ever happening in other places, in future wars. To make rape a tactic of war IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. ANYWHERE.
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POPSPakistani Taliban Leader's Deputy Survives Assassination Attempt Baitullah and Qari Hussain clashed in June 2007 after the latter's foot soldiers launched a series of violent attacks on police in the tribal areas. Qari Hussain's followers conducted beheadings and assassinations of tribal leaders in South Waziristan and the settled district of Tank. He was behind the attack on the home of the political agent of Khyber Agency, which resulted in the death of the agent's six family members and seven guests. Baitullah has also made tribal enemies as his forces have extended their control into neighboring districts such as Tank, Hangu, and Dera Ismail Khan. But these smaller tribes likely would not have the resources to carry out a strike in the heart of Baitullah's territory such as the recent assassination attempt.
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POPS"They are telling their soldiers to KILL CHILDREN" The officer who fired 17 bullets into one 13-year-old girl, carrying her school bag, is charged with minor offences. Shooting a dog on the street would attract larger repercussions in a normal society. Was the policy of killing Arab children in vogue before 2005? "They did not charge him with Iman's murder, only with small offences, and now they say he is innocent of those even though he shot my daughter so many times," he said. "This was the cold-blooded murder of a girl. The soldier murdered her once and the court has murdered her again.What is the message? They are telling their soldiers to kill Palestinian children." The military court cleared the soldier of illegal use of his weapon, conduct unbecoming an officer and perverting the course of justice by asking soldiers under his command to alter their accounts of the incident.
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POPSOperation Lightning Thunder rages on in DR Congo Nankabirwa said the troops were closing in on the rebels and were recovering more items around the LRA base in Camp Swahili. “The number which is under Joseph Kony (LRA leader) is really very small. You need to be patient to detect their movement. If they were big, it would be easier to detect them.”
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