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POPS Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China
October 21st, 2009 by Key October 14, 2009, the 30th annual awards ceremony of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund took place at the Asia Society in New York City. Lu Guang from People’s Republic of China won the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his documentary project “Pollution in China.” August of 1993 he returned to post-graduate studies at the Central Arts and Design Academy in Beijing (now is the Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University). During graduate school, he studied, traveled all over the country and carved out a career, became the “dark horse” of the photographer circle in Beijing. Skilled at social documentary photography, his insightful, creative and artistic work often focused on “social phenomena and people living at the bottom of society”, attracted the attentions of the national photography circle and the media. Many of his award winning works focused on social issues like, “gold rush in the west”, “drug
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POPSUS Press Freedom Improves At the bottom of the list were Turkmenistan, North Korea and Eritrea "where media are so suppressed they are nonexistent," said Reporters Without Borders. Iran dropped to No. 172 from No. 166, with Reporters Without Borders saying the disputed reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had fostered a paranoia about journalists and bloggers. "Automatic prior censorship, state surveillance of journalists, mistreatment, journalists forced to flee the country, illegal arrests and imprisonment -- such is the state of press freedom this year in Iran," the group said. The ranking was compiled from hundreds of questionnaires completed by journalists and media experts around the world and reflecting press freedom violations that took place between Sept. 1, 2008 and Aug. 31, 2009. The complete ranking can be seen at www.rsf.org/en-classement1003-2009.html Read more at source.
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POPSObama Meeting with The Daliai Lama Is Delayed more @ clip source For the first time since 1991, the Tibetan spiritual leader will visit Washington this week and not meet with the president. Since 1991, he has been here 10 times. Most times the meetings have been "drop-in" visits at the White House. The last time he was here, in 2007, however, George W. Bush became the first sitting president to meet with him publicly, at a ceremony at the Capitol in which he awarded the Dalai Lama the Congressional Gold Medal, Congress's highest civilian award.
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POPS Organs For Health Care and I don’t want to spend the rest of my career waste-deep in a tub of hybrid vehicle battery acid. I just want to note a major beneficial aspect of the one-party autocracy system that Friedman left out. The work camps for political prisoners. Not only would they be a great place to throw angry peasants and annoying right-wing talk show hosts, shutting them up and making them a useful source of cheap labor for jobs that undocumented comrades don’t want to do, like working in vats full of whatever chemicals they need to make all the ”green” stuff. But the government also could sell their organs to help pay for universal health care. There, that’s my idea.
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POPSAmerican Socialism & Chinese Capitalism We have urged China to join us in our quixotic attempt to prevent global warming. She has refused, arguing that her per capita consumption of energy is the lowest of any industrial country. Except for the leftist economists, economics tells us that we should let the prices of different energy sources determine when a new source is ready for development. No subsidy would be required if we let the market make the decision. Totalitarian China accepts this approach; free market U.S. takes the Soviet prescription. American firms are currently not investing in the United States. Net non-residential investment is barely enough to replace capital that is wearing out. Instead, billions have been wasted by corporate managers who have been engaging in such foolishness as buying back corporate stock. All this does is increase share prices that will supposedly justify management bonuses when earnings stagnate. Even banks did this throughout the run-up to the financial crisis, . . . . .
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POPSNotes for G20 Bear in mind that the people they'll be trying to impress have notoriously little concern for civil liberties and freedom of speech. Russia is still the most dangerous industrial nation to be a journalist in. China does not even have journalism. It has propaganda and a gulag for anyone who disagrees with the government (and this is accepting the possibility that they don't just shoot you). These are the sort of people that we WILL be trying to impress this September. As the situation becomes more and more desperate in the US, one shudders to imagine what will be considered acceptable means by the White House. CLIP SOURCE: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_632687.html
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POPSMajor nations drop goal of halving C02 more: The removal of a reference in the MEF draft to halving emissions by 2050 is a blow to efforts to secure a new U.N. climate pact in December. MEF nations account for 80 per cent of world greenhouse gas emissions, largely caused by burning fossil fuels. Last year the G8 outlined a "vision" of halving emissions by 2050, without setting a base year. Major developing countries did not sign up for a 2050 goal, arguing the rich first had to set deep cuts in their own national emissions by 2020. A draft G8 statement seen by Reuters today agreed the rise on global temperatures should not exceed 2 degrees Celsius. That would mark a breakthrough by EU states in convincing the United States, Japan, Russia and Canada that a 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) limit is the necessary threshold beyond which climate change will reach danger levels. G8 leaders meet later today.
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POPSGod or Darwin? some statistics... though i used the same headline as the article, i do not agree to it. Evolution is not equal to religion and they are merely two different perspectives of the same reality. Each one portrays a different worldview, a different world, a different view. the direction in religion is one of preservation, maintaining the existing order as it , whilst in evolution the dynamics are in constant motion of exploring new orders which by nature are transitory.
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POPSWE DEAL IN EXPORT IMPORT FROM CHINA, BATHROOM FITTINGS, HOTEL FURNITURES, HOTEL AMMENITIES,FURNITURE WE DEAL IN EXPORT IMPORT FROM CHINA, BATHROOM FITTINGS, HOTEL FURNITURES, HOTEL AMMENITIES,FURNITURES, CHINA LIGHTS, ROAD LIGHTS, CHANDLIERS, HOME APPLIANCES, SWARMA KABAB MAKER, CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS, SANITARY WARE, TILES, PIPE FITTINGS, GLASS, ACP, WOODEN FLOOR, WOODEN DOORS, SHUTTERING PLY, FINGER PRINT BIOMETRIC LOCKS, FIRE ALARM SYSTEMS, CCTV SECURITY CAMERA SYSTEM, ROAD TRAFFIC CONE, BARRIERS, DELINEATORS, ROAD STUDS, SPEED BREAKER HUMP, CHEMICAL, MINERALS, SCRAP, WEIGHING SCALE MACHINE, PRINTERS, PAPER, MOBILE PHONE, BATTERY ACCESSORIES, COMPUTER PERIPHALS ACCESSORIES & ETC, WE CAN SOURCE, BUY, SELL ANY PRODUCTS TO AND FROM CHINA.
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POPSMurdoch CEO Labels Bloggers “Political Extremists” The source of the establishment’s move to claim that bloggers and alternative media outlets are “extremists” or at worst “terrorists,” as we first reported in September 2006, was a White House strategy document that the government had been following since 9/11. In a September 5, 2006 speech President George W. Bush referred to the document as “an unclassified version of the strategy we’ve been pursuing since September the 11th, 2001,” that takes into account, “the changing nature of this enemy.” The strategy paper on how to ‘win the war on terror’ cites “conspiracies” as one of the wellsprings of terrorism and threatens to “address” and “diminish” the problems they are causing the government in fulfilling their agenda.
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POPSIMPORT EXPORT CHINA WE DEAL IN EXPORT IMPORT FROM CHINA, BATHROOM FITTINGS, HOTEL FURNITURES, HOTEL AMMENITIES,FURNITURES, CHINA LIGHTS, ROAD LIGHTS, CHANDLIERS, HOME APPLIANCES, SWARMA KABAB MAKER, CONSTRUCTION MATERI..
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POPSSouth Korea Gets 40 U.S. Missiles For Destroyer - North Korea Threatens Japan I wonder if we just aren't giving N Korea every opportunity to develop a weapon they can and will use against S Korea. Thus, drawing the U.S. into a regional war again. Seems there is nothing short of declaring war ourselves that will stop the "idiot" little weasel of a dictator, Kim Jong-il, of N. Korea. Inevitably, any conflict with N. Korea will put the U.S. at odds with China. They don't publicly approve of all what N. Korea does, but the country does provide a buffer zone between the West and Communist China.
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