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POPSLunar New Year this weekend - bird flu makes comeback! Millions upon millions of birds in live markets for sale for Lunar New Year - Avian Influenza spread by contact with feces, urine and sweat - get the picture - an unintended but real annual mutation lab for flu viruses that is now global because poultry market has been globalized and industrialized. Some other headlines: Ban on import of chicken, eggs from Nepal to UP district, Egypt reports two more H5N1 cases, Cambodia culls bird flu-affected ducks, Bangladesh culls 13000 chickens after bird flu outbreak, Media Report: Two Indonesian Bird Flu Cases. Roll the dice, when will bird flu cross over to the big time? But we gotta make money huh?
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POPSwhatreallyhappened.com: CLIMATEGATE: A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY "The recent exposures of fraud coming from the Hadley Climate Research Unit, then followed by similar exposures at New Zealand's NWIA, Australia's climate center, and NOAA have only confirmed the doubts arising from the obviously NON-scientific methods employed by the Anthropogenic Global Warming supporters, hereinafter called the "Global Warming Cult". I call them a cult because of the abandonment of scientific method by many of the acolytes, together with a recent British Court decision that declared belief in Global Warming was accorded the status of a religion. "
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POPSWars sending U.S. into ruin. Obama’s Afghan “surge” of 30,000 new troops will cost an additional $33 billion — more than Germany’s total defence budget. Military and intelligence spending relentlessly increase as unemployment heads over 10% and the economy bleeds red ink. America has become the Sick Man of the Western Hemisphere, an economic cripple like the defunct Ottoman Empire. The Pentagon now accounts for half of total world military spending. Add America’s rich NATO allies and Japan, and the figure reaches 75%. China and Russia combined spend only a paltry 10% of what the U.S. spends on defence. There are 750 U.S. military bases in 50 nations and 255,000 service members stationed abroad, 116,000 in Europe, nearly 100,000 in Japan and South Korea. Military spending gobbles up 19% of federal spending and at least 44% of tax revenues. During the Bush administration, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars — funded by borrowing — cost each American family more than $25,000.
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POPSCairo to Cape Town: A two family Africa adventure Two families, two vehicles, five children – and 25,000 miles up and down Africa in six months: the adventure of a lifetime jangano2009.synthasite.com. The blog: jangano2009.blogspot.com. The video: youtube.com/jangano2009
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POPSTerry is Sacked Mmm! Suppose this will be an excuse now,when they are losing all their matches!
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POPSSpecies of the Day - 5th February 2010 - Testudo-kleinmanni
The Egyptian Tortoise, Testudo kleinmanni, is listed as ‘Critically Endangered’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM. This Middle Eastern and North African tortoise has a golden-coloured shell and minute shell size of less than 14 cm. Currently, the main threats endangering this species are intensive commercial collection for the national and international pet trade, and habitat destruction which has led to its disappearance from much of its former range in scrub desert and coastal dunes. Agricultural expansion, cultivation, overgrazing, and urban encroachment have put enormous pressure on the Egyptian Tortoise’s fragile and dwindling habitat, dramatically reducing available vegetation for food and cover. Nationally protected in Egypt and Israel, including through community-based protected areas, but not in Libya, this species is also protected from international trade, although these laws are often not enforced. Its future will depend on the establishment of more pr
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POPSEgypt Gets Smart on Preventing Flu All avian flu is passed through contact with feces, urine, and sweat. Ending the crowded live markets cuts down contact between birds and birds and people, as well as mutation of the influenza. If Indonesia, Viet Nam, Cambodia, India, and China would do the same - all influenza would plummet!
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POPSTop tips for travellers booking holidays to Sharm el Sheikh Anyone who has booked cheap flights to Egypt but is undecided about how to spend their days in the sun may be interested in the suggestions made by one travel journalist. Writing in the Daily Mail, Gareth Huw Davies picked out the best six activities to take part in during a trip to Sharm el Sheikh.
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POPSTop tips for travellers booking holidays to Sharm el Sheikh Anyone who has booked cheap flights to Egypt but is undecided about how to spend their days in the sun may be interested in the suggestions made by one travel journalist. Writing in the Daily Mail, Gareth Huw Davies picked out the best six activities to take part in during a trip to Sharm el Sheikh.
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POPSIsrael and Egypt continue to Squeeze the Lifeblood out of the People of Gaza According to the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Israeli air force bombing attacks killed seven Palestinians in Gaza, including three civilians. Since the ceasefire a year ago, a total of 84 Palestinians, including at least 27 civilians, and one Israeli (a soldier) have been killed and another 160 Palestinians and seven Israelis have been injured in Gaza and southern Israel. Israeli forces have opened "warning" fire at farmers as far as 1,000 meters (3,200 feet) from the border. A parallel ban for Gaza fishermen is applied to sea areas beyond three nautical miles from the coast, though often this distance is less in practice. This week, in nine separate incidents, Israeli naval forces opened "warning" fire at Palestinian fishing boats along Gaza's coast, forcing them to return to shore.
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POPSGenocide in Gaza Heats up: Protest 2
The israeli's are now building a wall on the Gaza-Egyptian border, tightening the noose even more. Slowly, step-by-step, we are watching a million and a half people being starved to death in front of our eyes. The protest has heated up, though, with individual citizens and groups bravely trying to burst through the barricaded and defeat the embargo and bring aid to these suffering people. But the Israeli progoms of genocide continue, not letting anyone into Gaza; not letting anyone out; hindering work, destroying farms and industry; prohibiting fishing; denying medicine and building supplies; killing people. This clip is about one of the largest delegations of politicians to go directly to Gaza, themselves. As far as I know there are, of course, no U.S. politicians there -- and you have to read about things like this in newspapers from China (like this clip). US support of this genocide must stop. It's a disgrace and against our principle, a true bloody crime against humanity.
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POPSThe Top 10 Quotes From Barack Obama in 2009 5) NBC: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — can you understand why it is offensive to some for this terrorist to get all the legal privileges of any American citizen? Obama: I don't think it will be offensive at all when when he's convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him. 4) Our friends have fought and bled and died alongside us in Afghanistan. And now, we must come together to end this war successfully. For what's at stake is not simply a test of NATO's credibility -- what's at stake is the security of our allies, and the common security of the world. 3) Oprah: What grade would you give yourself, for this year? Obama: Um, good solid B+ ...Oprah: So B+, what could you have done better? Obama: Well B+ because of the things that are undone. Health care is not yet signed. If I get health care passed we tip into A minus. 2) But I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can
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POPSPossible Mafia ties to violence against African immigrants in Italy much more @ clip source. Anti-immigration sentiment spurred by Silvio Berlusconi and his interior minister (a member of the separatist Norther League), is also responsible for this violence. Italy is a beautiful country and despite the racism and xenophobia I enjoyed my time and I want to return this summer. Recently I met a very nice Italian couple. One of them said that she loves to visit Italy, but doesn't want to live there anymore. She is happier in Egypt.
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