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POPSPhillppines-Thailand Diplomatic Relations Philippine relations with Thailand are among the oldest and most fruitful in Philippine history. Since the establishment of diplomatic ties on 14 June 1949, relations between the two countries have been characterized by cordiality, harmony, and dynamism.
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POPSTranspiral is A Tramway Spiral is a fascinating concept structure that can be compared with the nature and universe. The concept is to design a Tramway as a combined element leaving out-of-the-way the idea of interior and exterior.
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POPSInconvenient TRUTH Best line: "To reduce modern climate change to one variable..is not science. To try to predict the future based on just one variable in extraordinarily complex natural system is FOLLY (emphasis added)."
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POPS"The bigger the state, the smaller its people." " The state sucks out creativity and dynamism just as much as secularism does. Why do anything for yourself when the state will do it for you? Why take care of others when the state will do it for you? Why have ambition when the state is there to ensure that few or no individuals are rewarded more than others? America has been the center of energy and creativity in almost every area of life because it has remained far more religious than any other industrialized Western democracy and because it has rejected the welfare state social model. "
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POPSStations of the Cross XI It is from the blood of Christ that all draw the strength to commit themselves to promoting life. It is precisely this blood that is the most powerful source of hope, indeed it is the foundation of the absolute certitude that in God’s plan life will be victorious.
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POPSandLinux andLinux is a complete Ubuntu Linux system running seamlessly in Windows 2000 based systems (2000, XP, 2003, Vista; 32-bit versions only).
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POPSHave We Already Tipped Over The Edge? By 2012, it will be more than half on the dole, and this will be an electorate where the majority of the electorate will be able to vote itself more lollipops from the minority of their compatriots still dumb enough to prioritize self-reliance, dynamism and innovation over the sedating cocoon of the Nanny State. That is the death of the American idea – which, after all, began as an economic argument: "No taxation without representation" is a great rallying cry. "No representation without taxation" has less mass appeal. For how do you tell an electorate living high off the entitlement hog that it's unsustainable, and you've got to give some of it back?
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POPSPeggy Noonan is Spot On What I like about this clip is the fact that she says that even though experience may be a red herring, Sarah Palin isn't qualified.
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POPSSocial welfare programs do not keep a country from prosperity
The Nordic states have also worked to keep social expenditures compatible with an open, competitive, market-based economic system. Tax rates on capital are relatively low. Labor market policies pay low-skilled and otherwise difficult-to-employ individuals to work in the service sector, in key quality-of-life areas such as child care, health, and support for the elderly and disabled. The results for the households at the bottom of the income distribution are astoundingly good, especially in contrast to...American social policy. The U.S. spends less than almost all rich countries on social services for the poor and disabled, and it gets what it pays for: the highest poverty rate among the rich countries and an exploding prison population. Actually, by shunning public spending on health, the U.S. gets much less than it pays for, because its dependence on private health care has led to a ramshackle system that yields mediocre results at very high costs.
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POPSThe clash of Tocquevillians and Gramscians "While economic Marxism appears to be dead, the Hegelian variety articulated by Gramsci and others has not only survived the fall of the Berlin Wall, but also gone on to challenge the American republic at the level of its most cherished ideas. For more than two centuries America has been an "exceptional" nation, one whose restless entrepreneurial dynamism has been tempered by patriotism and a strong religious-cultural core. The ultimate triumph of Gramscianism would mean the end of this very "exceptionalism." America would at last become Europeanized: statist, thoroughly secular, post-patriotic, and concerned with group hierarchies and group rights in which the idea of equality before the law as traditionally understood by Americans would finally be abandoned. Beneath the surface of our seemingly placid times, the ideological, political, and historical stakes are enormous."
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POPSKohjinsha SC -- Japan's Eee PC killer Kohjinsha SC, the latest UMPC from Japan is now availlable in an English-language version in the U.S. for $1100. The Kohjinsha SC, featuring a 7" touchscreen, is equipped with the Intel Atom processor clocked at 1.33 GHz, 1GB RAM, 60GB HDD, built-in Wi-Fi and a built-in GPS module.
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POPS The Geopolitics Of $130 Oil Stratfor Analysis
* The period from 9/11 until today that has been defined in terms of the increasing complexity of the U.S.-jihadist war—a reality that supplanted the second phase and redefined the international system dramatically. With the U.S.-jihadist war in either a stalemate or a long-term evolution, its impact on the international system is diminishing. First, it has lost its dynamism. The conflict is no longer drawing other countries into it. Second, it is becoming an endemic reality rather than an urgent crisis. The international system has accommodated itself to the conflict, and its claims on that system are lessening. The surge in commodity prices—particularly oil—has superseded the U.S.-jihadist war, much as the war superseded the period in which economic issues dominated the global system. Rather, it means that a new dynamic has inserted itself into the international system and is in the process of transforming it. Stratfor intelligence company delivering in-depth analysis
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POPSAfrica's ICT Wave "the power of IT to transform the continent, and on its ability to help countries “skip steps in development”"
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POPSA meritocracy of dunces, clusterfucks!!!! great turns of the phrase in here!!!! A nice ballsy gamble of a war. Sure, it could throw the region into chaos, bankrupt this country, and dye the fertile crescent red with the blood of civilians; yet an audacious war is like a red lollipop—who isn't powerless to resist it?Tom friedman As Judy Miller pursues freelance projects out in Sag Harbor, doggedly accompanied by the rotting corpse of her career, she likely has much time for rumination. And it's tough to imagine these sessions of thought don't sometimes include spleen toward Jeffrey Goldberg. How did she end up getting screwed by Ahmed Chalabi and the neocons— metaphorically, of course— re: Jeff Goldberg
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POPSJapan's Aging Population and India's Opportunity " In his book Utsukushii Kuni e (Toward a Beautiful Nation) published earlier this year, Mr Abe says, "We should aim for a country that is seen by people around the world as a place where they want to come to work, want to invest, in short a country that gives everyone a chance. To those who resonate with Japan's national character and ideals, to those who wish to educate their children here, or to those who want to be Japanese, we should open our doors wide. Moreover, we should do this because it will contribute to the dynamism of Japan." India's software companies that have probed the Japanese market for the past seven years with but marginal success would be keen to see how the policy unfolds under Mr Abe."
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