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POPSThuggish & Blatant:"Civil" Voting Rights. HAH! If you're thinking straight, this oughta really piss you off. This land is being taken over - unashamedly, illegally, immorally, and with the in-your-face, F-you sentimentality of a street thug. Listen to Obama's speaking tone. He makes no avoidance of sounding like a thug and the message to supporters is loud. And it is clear. Those in political and judicial positions have the go-ahead to treat with disdain any motions or discourse which may speak to the fair policy and treatment of the election process, and has been extending across the board to include speech and thought - kicking the most basic American rights of liberty right in the nuts.
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POPSHasty Imitation of Bretton Woods If they don't act like impudent children, there may be some good from it. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -< "Instead the leaders who attend will be challenged to “agree on a common set of principles for reform,” White House Press Secretary Dana Perino told The Times. It will then be up to financial experts “to put meat on the bones when it comes to fleshing out the principles.” >-
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POPSProgressive Voter Guide to Water Issues
1. SCARCITY Thirty-six U.S. states are facing water stress and scarcity in the coming decade, with Western states such as California, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada already experiencing water stress. Last year, the southeast, including the Atlanta area, nearly ran out of drinking water completely. * Solution: We need to cut down on our consumption of water and employ conservation practices in our homes as well as in industry and agriculture. We need public education about conservation practices, incentives for reducing consumption and increasing efficiency, and new regulations for agriculture and industry. We also need regulations to protect against the pollution and overpumping of groundwater. * Obama's position: Obama says he believes we need to take preparatory measures to ensure our water supplies are used efficiently and equitably. He supports the development of a national water conservation strategy, in coordination with states and municipalities. He plans to cre
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POPSAssad accuses extremists of targeting Syria As-Safir newspaper reported that Abed al-Ghani Jawhar, the leader of the recently-arrested “terrorist cell,” has not left the Akkar area of North Lebanon in the last 48 hours. One of the arrested members said that Jawhar had made calls to Syrian people during the last month and was in Damascus three days before the explosion on September 27, the paper said. The paper added that he came back to the North few hours after the explosion, which, it said, should encourage the two countries to increase their security coordination. http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=63112
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POPSIndian warships to patrol Gulf of Aden "The government on Thursday gave permission for formal anti-piracy patrols by our warships in the region, which will be carried out in coordination with DG Shipping. The intention now is to work closely together with foreign navies in an international task force to thwart piracy," said another official.
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POPSYang Tai Chi - National 24 Forms In 1956, the National Physical Culture and Sports Commission of the People's Republic of China, developed a simplified and shortened version of the Tai Chi Chuan form. It was based on the Yang family style of Tai Chi Chuan. The new short form consisted of 24 movements, and could be performed in 4 to 8 minutes. Sifu Chris Bouguyon uses this form as an introduction to Tai Chi for people who want to increase their core strength, balance, coordination and concentration.
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POPSTerence McKenna and Rupert Sheldrake speak on Morphogenetic Field Theory A morphogenetic field (a subset of morphic field) is a hypothetical biological (and potentially social) field that contains the information necessary to shape the exact form of a living thing, as part of its epigenetics, and may also shape its behaviour and coordination with other beings (see also morphogenesis). This hypothesis is not accepted by the scientific community, who consider it pseudoscientific.
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POPSCounterintuitive physics may help everyone drive home quicker
The second concept, the Nash equilibrium, occurs when an individual cannot choose a better strategy for himself if other individuals keep their strategies unchanged (i.e. an individual can not improve his situation by changing unilaterally). In the traffic situation, say you know which routes the other drivers take, maybe because you’ve tried different routes to find out which is the fastest way to get home from work. After trying different routes, you choose the route that is fastest for yourself. Then you cannot find a faster route as long as the other drivers stick to their same routes (which they do, because they cannot find faster routes, either). But if many drivers could change their routes simultaneously, then the effect might be a decrease in everyone’s travel time, and society would come closer to the social optimum rather than languishing in the Nash equilibrium. The scientists found that modifying the network structure can sometimes lead to faster overall travel times,
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POPSSocialism Coming to America? Senator Jim DeMint said: “This plan does nothing to address the misguided government policies that created this mess and it could make matters much worse by socializing an entire sector of the U.S. economy. This plan fails to oversee or regulate the government failures that led to this crisis. Instead it greatly increases the role for Secretary Paulson whose market predictions have been consistently wrong in the last year…” So far, there has been no discussion about what got us into this mess and the only solution being talked about is more of the same failed monetary policies. If passed by Congress, Paulson would assume the dictatorial power and authority to designate financial institutions “as financial agents of the Government” and order them to perform “all such reasonable duties related to this Act as financial agents of the Government as may be required of them…” Having so much control over a so called 'free market' negates the very idea of "free".
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POPSNational and South Sudan governments sign accord According to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, and the Interim National Constitution the two national bodies have to define the legal framework in the fields of joint competence, also to agree on the modalities to implement the federal attributions. The legal affairs committee is one of the eleven panels set by the Joint Political Executive Committee meetings between the National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) on the implementation process of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA).
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POPSBirth of the Blitzkrieg - September 1, 1939 "Success is achieved through surprise and speed, which keeps the enemy off balance. Maneuvering is coordinated through the use of radio, which was used so extensively by the Germans that individual tanks carried their own equipment. The French, by comparison, hardly used radio at all. The French High Command was not even connected by radio to units in the field. Instead, it dispatched orders by motorcycle courier from its headquarters outside of Paris. Incidentally, the German Wehrmacht never officially used the word blitzkrieg -- literally, "lightning war" -- though it did appear in several prewar German military publications. It came into popular use after turning up in Time magazine's coverage of the Polish invasion."
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POPS Coffee meet a "drop" of milk ....Fascinating... "some images showing milk splashing into a cup of coffee to demonstrate how tiny the splashes really are. I don't use any sound/photogate triggers for my high speed photography. These are all single images. Just my camera, a pipette or syringe, good eye/shutter finger coordination and patience, patience, patience....."Irene M�ller
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POPSPossible 'Sleep Gene' Identified When closed, the channel shuts down and the fly sleeps. The insomniac fruit flies had less of the Sleepless-produced protein. The lack of sleep didn't come without consequences. The Sleepless fruit flies lived about half as long as fruit flies that did not carry the mutation. They also experience impaired coordination and restlessness in their few hours of sleep.
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POPSOfficial: U.N. Lost $10M In Burma for additional funds for Burma. An economic professor at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, Sean Turnell, said yesterday that the figure of $10 million in Burma losses is "not inconsistent" with his own estimate. "But why is the U.N. handing any foreign currency to the Burmese regime anyway?" the economist, who was one of the first to expose the loss, said, adding that such handouts only strengthen the ruling junta. "Presumably the government is benefitting somehow" from the exchange rate, Mr. Holmes said yesterday, though he acknowledged that he could not calculate how much of the $10 million that had already been lost went directly to top generals or their associates. A similar foreign exchange plan led to losses of U.N. funds in North Korea. The Bush administration has spent $47.2 million so far on assistance to Burma, according to government documents.
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POPSDeadliest Attack in Afghanistan The Afghan Interior Ministry hinted that the attack was carried out with help from Pakistan's intelligence service, saying that "terrorists have carried out this attack in coordination and consultation with some of the active intelligence circles in the region." The Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, said Pakistan condemned the attack and terrorism in all forms. Unfortunately we have no more troops to send to Afghanistan.
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