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POPS Obama’s U.N. Mistake On Tuesday the Obama administration did it again: It ran for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council. As expected, the administration won election to represent the Council’s Western European and Others Group — it was a three-state contest for three spaces. The Council is most famous, not for protecting human rights, but for its obsession with Israel. In its three-year history it has: * adopted more resolutions and decisions condemning Israel than condemning the 191 other U.N. members combined; * entrenched an agenda with only ten items, one permanently reserved for condemning Israel and another for condemning any other U.N. state that might “require the Council’s attention”; * held ten regular sessions on human rights, and five special sessions to condemn only Israel; * insisted on an investigator with an open-ended mandate to condemn Israel, while all other investigators must be regularly renewed;
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POPSThings Cops Know, (and Things They Want You to Know) * Watch out for the CSI effect. There is no machine that we can drop an eyelash into and come up with the DNA profile, fingerprints and mugshot of the owner in 2 minutes. * When you see an emergency vehicle behind you with its lights and sirens on: pull to the RIGHT, and Stop. We are usually required to pass cars on the left.
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POPSGreen Hawaii About a Hawaiian project to build a wave energy generator offshore in the ocean. This is part of a partnership, intended to transform Hawaii into one of the world’s first economies based primarily on clean energy resources.
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POPSRobert Crais - Free Fall Five minutes after his new client leaves his office, Elvis and his partner, the enigmatic Joe Pike, are hip-deep in a deadly situation as they plummet into a world of South Central gangs, corrupt cops, and conspiracies of silence. And before the case is through, every cop in the LAPD will be gunning for a pair of escaped armed-and-dangerous killers - Elvis Cole and Joe Pike.