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POPS Who says it's green to burn woodchips? Almuth Ernsting from Biofuelwatch said: "It's almost unbelievable that we're creating vast areas of monoculture, mile after mile, just to be cut down as fast as they grow, to be shipped thousands of miles to be burned just for people's electricity. It just doesn't make sense. What about all the habitat that gets destroyed along the way?" Arrrghhh!!!! Please pass on ... retweet ... whatever. Somewhere I line must be drawn. See how woodlands can support multiple livings, and how complex they really are... www.worldwidewood.wordpress.com.
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POPS Greenhouse Gas Emissions Decrease By 2.8% The House is expected to pass the measure later this year, but its outlook in the Senate is uncertain. "If opponents of the House climate-change bill want to reduce pollution through unemployment and the economic decline, then that's their choice," said Daniel J. Weiss, director of climate strategy at the liberal Center for American Progress. Mr. Weiss said he would not be surprised if global-warming emissions remain stable this year, but predicted they would rebound next year along with the economy. Other climate scholars said the House's climate-change bill could itself prevent the economy from rebounding. "The lesson to learn is that a decline in emissions is caused by a recession and the bill aims to force a permanent recession," said Ben Lieberman, a senior energy and environment analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation. "As long as the economy shrinks, so will carbon emissions."
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POPSECONOMIC ALTERNATIVES- NORWAY Much to be learned from a society that believes in education and the responsibilities of a government to do ALL for its people. Not perfect perhaps, but a systemic difference in approach and execution of the rule of law. Economic law is the bases for law for the people.
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POPSDear Ali Khameini, Here's How To Get Nukes by Claudia Rosett
Who are we? Our team includes experts skilled in leveraging the biggest bang for the buck in one of the world's few remaining bull markets: Nuclear proliferation. For years, we have been pooling our knowledge and talents to serve a sophisticated and select clientele (including each other). What's the secret of our success? It all begins with the basic confidence that if you really want to get the bomb, no one is going to have the nerve to stop you (except maybe the Israelis, but we're working on that). Sure, those democratic states will talk, and bargain, and hog air time on Al-Arabiya. But in this global game of chicken, if we put the pedal to the metal, they'll flinch. Worried about U.N. sanctions? Fuggedaboutit. We have compiled a full set of sanctions-busting best practices, field-tested by Saddam Hussein under Oil-for-Food and Kim Jong Il during the Six-Party Talks, with input from the Somali pirates and the offshore-banking division of the Myanmar junta;
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POPSOrigins of Global Warming This site contains the true origins of the global phenomenon of the environmental movement. When you read the sources you will understand why it invades every topic of our daily lives.
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POPSLack of Sun Spots May Lead to New Ice Age I've been reading about the Sun spot problem for years now. The mainstream media need to wake up and realize that the Earth is on the verge of entering a VERY LONG cooling period that could reduce the world food supply substantially.
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POPSWill McCain Oppose $845 Billion Earmark? Obama/Smith Bill Obama has been busy on the campaign trail but Rep. Adam Smith, the sponsor of the Global Poverty Act in the other body, has been busy complaining about my coverage of this matter! In addition to seeking to eradicate poverty, that Millennium Declaration commits nations to banning "small arms and light weapons" and ratifying a series of treaties, including the International Criminal Court Treaty, the Kyoto Protocol (global warming treaty), the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Millennium Declaration also affirms the U.N. as "the indispensable common house of the entire human family, through which we will seek to realize our universal aspirations for peace, cooperation and development." Does anybody seriously believe that? Does Rep. Adam Smith? Does Senator Barack Obama? Does Senator McCain? It is now on the verge of passage by the full S
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POPSBlended Realities, Blended Lives As part of our continued research on human-futures interaction, we will take a people-centric approach. We will start with the human experience and ask questions about how we'll navigate a future where we have multiple personas, play games to solve serious problems, and how the interaction between individuals, groups, and machines is creating new kind of knowledge.
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POPSRow over Russian held Art
Confirming the Russian move, Zinaida Bonami, of Moscow's Pushkin Fine Arts Museum, said the Russian federal cultural agency notified them on Tuesday that it would not issue an export license for the works, which include The Dance by Matisse and Maternity by Gaugin. This month Russia ordered the British Council to suspend its operations outside Moscow, accusing it of operating illegally — a decision Foreign Secretary David Miliband said threatened to damage Moscow's global standing. e said descendants of two prominent 19th and early 20th century Russian art collectors, Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov, had not ruled out legal action over their claims to the works. In 2003 Shchukin's grandson, Andre Marc Delocque-Fourcaud, sued in an unsuccessful bid to remove from the Pushkin's travelling exhibition paintings he claims the Bolsheviks looted from his grandfather in 1918. Delocque-Fourcaud's complaint centred on 25 artworks which included paintings by Picasso, Degas and Van Gogh
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POPS U.N. Tax Scheme:::Sen Inhofe Says “fuhgetaboutit” The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is warning of global taxes but notes that help is on the way in the form of Senator James Inhofe’s proposed anti-global taxes legislation. Headlined, U.N. globotaxes: Fuhgetaboutit, the May 30 editorial declared: Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., is on the verge of telling the United Nations, “Don’t even think about it.” Mr. Inhofe will be introducing a bill mandating the U.N. not advocate or promote global taxation — since the hopelessly dysfunctional polyglot of poppycock is musing about “new sources of development finance.” Or for those not fluent in bureaucratic Esperanto — taxing Americans.
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POPSUS: Seeking Vengeance not Justice is self-defeating!!!
The US ignored promising overtures from longstanding adversaries, rejected the advice of previously close allies, and set dangerous precedents that will haunt US foreign policy for decades. Through it all, US policymakers either relied on or hid behind the excuse of faulty intelligence, which contributed to the failures to track the Sep11 perpetrators prior to the attacks The "global war on terror" has been going on now for over 6 years. Its emphasis on military responses - in Afghanistan and Iraq - has only swelled the ranks of terrorist organizations. The erosion of civil liberties has undermined democracy at home and raised serious doubts abroad about US credibility. The failure to put adequate funds into homeland security - particularly port and border protection - has put too great a burden on local governments. The hostility to international mechanisms such as the International Criminal Court has weakened the very institutions that can properly address terrorist organizatio
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POPSLatest global warming first: Climate refugees face mass exodus Last year we heard of Shishmaref , an Alaskan Inuit village that had to relocate, Puvirnituq, in Northern Quebec where igloos are no longer viable , but Bangladesh has 140 million people "Bangladesh is nature's laboratory on disaster management," said Ainun Nishat, representative of the World Conservation Union and a government adviser on climate change. As temperatures rise and more severe weather takes hold worldwide, "this is one of the countries that is going to face the music most," he said. Bangladesh is hardly the only low-lying nation facing tough times as the world warms. Scientists say it in many ways represents climate change's "perfect storm" of challenges because it is extremely poor, extremely populated and extremely susceptible.
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