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POPSThe Emperor's New Clothes? It was a branch of the French intelligence services that finally helped convince the U.S. government in 2004 that the bar codes were fake after they and the CIA commissioned another company to try to detect the messages and were unable to uncover anything. But by then Montgomery was already making headway with other software claims. His company got a contract with the Air Force to handle video shot by unmanned Predator drones. He claimed his program could recognize weapons in the surveillance video. In 2004 the U.S. Special Operations Command reportedly gave his company a $30 million no-bid contract for “compression” and “automatic target recognition” technology. Montgomery even got a security clearance. But a former worker told Playboy that he had helped fake some 40 demonstrations of the software.
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POPSIt’s Official! Media Matters Morphs Into One-Stop Fisting Information Clearinghouse
According to Lott, “The kit was actually for making a “dental dam” " designed to prevent STD transmission during oral sex.” Which, of course, was pretty obvious, given that the kit reportedly consisted of “a single plastic glove, a package of K-Y lubricant,” and instructions titled “How to Make a Dental Dam From a Latex Glove.” Did you get that? GLSEN’s porn pushing on 14 year-olds was OK because they were instructing the young teens on how to build dental dams and not on how to fist. Oh, that’s a relief. After all, shouldn’t every child know how to build a dental dam? It’s now clear that Media Matters will go to any length to defend any perverted act by any Obama Administration official. Even if they have to defend child porn books and dental dam techniques to do it. How sad. UPDATE: Media Matters just can’t help themselves. Here’s their latest rant defending child porn promoter Kevin Jennings: Read full post http://bit.ly/6Sr3AC
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POPSGiant Dams: Mutli-Threats to Humans and Planet
Hydropower dams may play a role in creating and releasing methane but the greater danger has not yet been investigated or evaluated. What's that? What effect(s) does the disruption and rapid change of the larger natural system cause? Multiple dams on the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi Rivers aided river transportation and controlled some annual flooding beginning in the 1930s. The result(s)? The Mississippi Delta not only stopped growing, it has begun to disappear. The natural barrier that helped to protect New Orleans from storm surges undermined - literally. Redistribution of soil along all the rivers - history and greater reliance on fertilizers and pesticides. There is now a 70 mile dead zone at the end of the Mississippi that is growing each year. The Three Gorges Dam complex in China - its impact(s)? Flyways of migratory birds disrupted/altered. A role in the spread of Avian Flu? Who's got a bandage for my foot, I think we shot ourselves again!
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POPSTransit mixer India's leading construction equipment manufacturing company provide construction machinery and road construction equipment. Our wide collection of heavy equipment including concrete batch plant, concrete mixer truck, cement fly ash silo system, hydraulic sweeping machine, hydrostatic sensor pavers finisher, ready mix concrete batch plant, soil compactor, and a series of road construction equipment like road roller, vibratory roller, soil compactor etc.
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POPSThe Renaturation of the Iraqi Marshlands In the years 2003, 2004 and 2006, Ikhlas Abbis traveled through the marshlands of southern Iraq. He took photographs of the process of development taking place in the swamps, which were drained under Saddam Hussein in the 1980s and reflooded after his overthrow.
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POPSJamaca Bay Salt Marsh (NYC-area) Sinking Delightful and thoughtful blog with her photographs. Salt Marshes sinking for a number of reasons but like the delta below New Orleans and the Everglades swamps, the chief reason is our (humans) changing natural water, mineral and sediment/soil flows by building dams, highways, suburbs and watering lawns, as well as filling swimming pools and growing crops that use more water than natural flora.
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POPSRIVER DOLPHINS River dolphins have no predators, except for humans. In December 2006 the Yangtze river dolphin, called the baiji, succumbed to pollution, propeller blades, dams, and overfishing; it became the first cetacean to be declared "functionally" extinct—meaning the species cannot renew itself, even if a specimen or two still exist. "Losing the baiji is like taking a chain saw to the cetacean tree of life," says Hamilton. "We've lost 20 million years of independent evolution." The Ganges river dolphin is also in grave danger; only a few thousand remain, and they live in some of the most polluted rivers on Earth.
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