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POPSQuakes Follow Typhoons, Pacific Plate Swarms with 6.0+ Shakers A violent 24 hour period of Pacific activity which followed an already violent week. 10/7 Breaking news--The Vanuatu region quakes have triggered Tsunami alert for as far as New Zealand. Earthquakes also followed on the heels of the major typhoons in both the Philippines and Taiwan, specifically. An article from Science Daily in June said this regarding typhoons and quakes: ScienceDaily (June 12, 2009) — Scientists have made the surprising finding that typhoons trigger slow earthquakes, at least in eastern Taiwan. Slow earthquakes are non-violent fault slippage events that take hours or days instead of a few brutal seconds to minutes to release their potent energy But what we have observed recently is not "slow non-violent quakes", but major ones following typhoons. There must be another reason for this strange coincidence in the Philippines and Taiwan in particular.
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POPSGulf oil to drop dollar-denominated pricing Starting in 2018, the Gulf states will no longer sell their oil for dollars. They will instead use a "basket" structure which will include Chinese, Japanese, and European currencies, gold, and a yet-to-be-created common Gulf currency. This could, to put it mildly, have very far-reaching effects.
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POPSEvidence that the "swine flu" vaccine is toxic, especially the adjuvant squalene 
Dr Mercola explains: "Gulf War veterans with Gulf War Syndrome received anthrax vaccines which contained squalene. MF59 (the Novartis squalene adjuvant) was an unapproved ingredient in experimental anthrax vaccines and has since been linked to the devastating autoimmune diseases suffered by countless Gulf War vets. The Department of Defense made every attempt to deny that squalene was indeed an added contaminant in the anthrax vaccine administered to Persian Gulf war military personnel – deployed and non-deployed – as well as participants in the more recent Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program (AVIP). However, the FDA discovered the presence of squalene in certain lots of AVIP product. A test was developed to detect anti-squalene antibodies in GWS patients, and a clear link was established between the contaminated product and all the GWS sufferers who had been injected with the vaccine containing squalene. Evidence and other related info @ source
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POPSA glossary of terms in foreign affairs The Jericho 1 missile, which can carry nuclear warheads or about 1,000 pounds of chemicals or high explosives, was launched from a missile-testing facility at Yavne, Israel, on April 6 and landed about 40 miles from the USS Anzio, they said. . . . ne of the Defense Department officials ... said the repeated "no-notice" launches have made the Pentagon think that the Israelis are trying to prevent the United States from monitoring the tests and acquiring technical data about the operation of the Jericho.
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POPSNext Stop - The Dead Zone Grows and Grows You know there is a dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, south of New Orleans, right? You didn't even more reason to read this. But the harsh news is that one of the only ways to reduce its growth, it to use less fuel, walk more, drive less. Pretty harsh? Climate change and clean up is not going to be easy - did you think?
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POPSFDNY's New Fire Boat to Honor 343 Bravest Smith told the station that the letters spelling out 'Three Forty Three" were all cut from World Trade Center and welded on by the shipyard's workers. Not only will the fire boat be the biggest, he said it also will be the highest in capacity, pumping close to 50 thousand gallons a minute -- equivalent to about 50 average size city fire engines. "This thing as far as looking at fire fighting as a battle this thing's a nuclear weapon compared to what they've got," he said. The ceremonial launch will consist of the traditional breaking of a champagne bottle across the bow, followed by the first splash down of the ship into the Gulf. FDNY officials in attendance at the ceremony will include: Chief of Special Operations William Seelig, Chief of Marine Operations James Dalton, Battalion Chief of Marine Operations Michael Buckheit and Retired Chief of Special Operations William Siegel.
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POPSSwarms of Earthquakes Lately Today Indonesia had 12 quakes over 5.0 , including one of 6.7. This week Japan had a 6.7, India a 7.6, and the last 30 days includes many more within the U.S., and around the Pacific Rim. Only one article addressing this was found here: Quakes and Typhoons: What's Up with Mother Nature? Typhoon Morakot was the first to strike, slamming into Taiwan Sunday ... a 7.1-magnitude earthquake rumbled off the Japan coast, also on Sunday . On Tuesday, Japan was struck again by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake that triggered a small tsunami ..., according to news Minutes before, another earthquake had ruptured in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, north of India's Andaman Islands . the magnitude of that temblor at 7.6.
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POPSBahrain Business Directory Bahrain Business Directory - Bahrain YellowPages a business directory and telecommunications for telephone numbers, addresses, hotels, restaurants, banks, malls, formula 1 cars, hospitals and for all business information in Manama, Bahrain.
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POPSPink Dolphin Have you ever seen a pink dolphin? Me either...but Believe It or Not!, here it is! Charter boat captain Erik Rue, 42, captured this image after the mammal first surfaced in Lake Calcasieu, an inland saltwater estuary, north of the Gulf of Mexico in southwestern USA. He said: "I just happened to see a little pod of dolphins, and I noticed one that was a little lighter. "It was absolutely stunningly pink.” It is actually an albino dolphin. A close relation of dolphins, the Amazon River Botos, called pink dolphins, live in South America in the Amazon. USA Photo: CATERS NEWS
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POPSKODACHROME: First Great Color Film Remembered in Photos The demise of Kodachrome came just three days before a National Geographic exhibition, "Kodachrome Culture: The American Tourist in Europe", opened in the society's Washington, D.C., headquarters. The exhibit, which will run until September 7, 2009, shows Americans' burgeoning fascination with vivid color photographs of Europe.
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POPSBahrain Closed Newspaper After Ahmadinejad ’Insult’ The insult? Someone alleged he was of Jewish ancestry. Only in the Arab world would some imbecile consider that an insult. I mean, anyone with half a brain recognizes the contributions that the Jews have made to the modern world (Advances in medicine, science, etc…).
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POPSNew York Times Poll Repudiates Obama-Powell Big Gov't Approach " Fewer than half? This is not news, really. This just the first time the New York Times has reported it. We have been telling you for weeks that if you look at polling data issue by issue by issue, a majority of people disapprove of Obama's plans but that his overall approval ratings is up there in the sixties. It's now in the fifties at both CBS/New York Times and NBC/Wall Street Journal. " ewer than half of Americans saying they approve of how he has handled health care and the effort to save General Motors and Chrysler. A majority of people said his policies have had either no effect yet on improving the economy or had made it worse, underscoring how his political strength still rests on faith in his leadership rather than concrete results." That approval number, when it stays over 60%, is license to steal another industry or another sector of the private sector economy.
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POPSMore Whose Line Is It Anyway than you knew existed online Some funny snarky comment in the thread: The moment at which I realized the gulf between the hosts of the British and American versions was when during a game where the players had to recount some story in the style of a particular author, Josie Lawrence (ha-cha-cha) announced she was going to do it in the style of Louisa May Alcott. By was of explanation, she mentioned that Alcott was "notable for writing 'Little Women' and 'Little Men.'" Clive Anderson added, "Yes, and little else." Can anyone imagine Drew Carey pulling that one off? Clive Anderson certainly had some quick come backs to some of the audience member suggestions and his verbal sparring with Greg Proops was always amusing: Audience Member: Masturbation! Clive: There was a cry of masturbation but I think you're on your own with that one. Audience Member: Premature ejaculation Clive: Come again?
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POPSMore Czars Than There are in the Russian Section of Hell The Obama Administration is not the first administration to appoint someone with broad powers to oversee a function. You know. A “czar.” So, why stop at 25-30 czars? Why not appoint a bunch more: * Gaffe Czar: Joe Biden. Sure, he’s vice-president, but he’s already doing the job of Gaffe Czar; why not make it official? * News Czar: Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf. You knew him as “Baghdad Bob.” He’d fit right in with this Administration. And it would give Robert Gibbs a break from having to make up explanations for things all by himself. * Anti-semitism Czar: Jeremiah Wright. He’s already promoting anti-semitism as much as anyone is this country. This would give him a larger platform. * Fashion Czar: Michelle Obama. Remember Jackie Kennedy? Michelle Obama is equally qualified. Except for having poor taste in clothes. And men. Previously, we’ve had Drug Czars, Energy Czars, and so on. But, Barack Obama has gone Czar crazy.
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POPSAhmadinejad Wants America To Apologize ~ Obama Wants To Apologize In related news... Iran sent 6 warships into the Gulf of Aden today. http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-39868320090525 Ahmadinejad Challenges Obama to Public Debate What will they debate? TEHRAN (AFP) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday ruled out any talks with world powers on Tehran's nuclear drive, but said he was open to a debate with US President Barack Obama. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090525/wl_mideast_afp/irannuclearpolitics They both want US troops out of Iraq. They both want Israel to give up land.
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POPS Nuke Talks With Paris ‘Go Well’ Russia has also expressed interest in helping the Kingdom develop a civilian nuclear energy program. The Gulf Cooperation Council said in 2007 it was studying a joint nuclear energy program and had been in touch with the UN atomic energy watchdog about cooperating over such a scheme. At the Riyadh news conference, Lagarde said France has renewed its pledge to cooperate in the oil sector and in any effort to help improve the global economic situation. Paris has also sought participation in the multibillion dollar Saudi railway project by offering its expertise in the high-speed train project linking the holy cities of Makkah and Madinah. During her talks with King Abdullah, Lagarde handed him a message from Sarkozy.
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POPSSomali "Pirates" or Militia Coast Guard--New 'Gulf of Tonkin' Incident? You might have guessed there was another side to the story, but you will never hear about this on MSM: But the “pirates” have the overwhelming support of the local population for a reason . The independent Somalian news site WardherNews conducted the best research we have into what ordinary Somalis are thinking - and it found 70 percent “strongly supported the piracy as a form of national defense of the country’s territorial waters.” One of the pirate leaders, Sugule Ali, said their motive was “to stop illegal fishing and dumping in our waters … We don’t consider ourselves sea bandits. We consider sea bandits those who illegally fish and dump in our seas and dump waste in our seas and carry weapons in our seas.”
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POPSFox News began the call for an armed revolution
Beck cheers them on. "This isn't a crazy scenario," he says. The survivalist thing is "likely" to happen. The collapse of Mexico will lead to "a possible uprising here in the United States." Then he turns back to the Wall Street Journal guy. "Real quick, how much are taxes in our scenario of 2014?" "If we tried to pay for all of the spending we have done in just the last 18 months with higher tax rates, the Heritage Foundation and other groups have estimated that the tax rate at the top would have to go to 80, 90, perhaps even 95 percent, which means that 95 percent of everything you make would have to go to the government just to pay for what we have already spent." "And what happens to the people when you start taxing?" "This is going to be violent," another guest answers. "The cities are going to look like Dodge City. They're going to be uncontrollable. You're going to have gangs in control, motorcycle marauders. You're not going to have enough police or federalis, just lik
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POPS Is This Ignorance Or Mendacity? I wonder if those eminentoes and worthies really believe that warfare in Gaza is a thing of the past, and that the time for reconstruction is nigh? Take a representative news item from Yedi'ot Aharonot, dated February 28, "Experts: Grads in Ashkelon were advanced." . . . the two Grad rockets that landed in Ashkelon Saturday morning were new and improved models, capable of greater destruction than those usually fired from Gaza. One of the rockets hit a school in the southern city, and succeeded in penetrating the fortification used to protect it from projectiles. … The Grad rockets that hit Ashkelon were two of only five or six locally manufactured 170 mm rockets ever fired at Israel, experts say. The rarely used rockets have a range of 14 km (8.6 miles) and are capable of massive damage, evident from the destruction witnesses described on the scene of Saturday's attack.
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POPSObama Seeks to End Oil, Gas Industry Tax Breaks That fee would replace the "use it or lose it" provision that Democrats have tried to place on leases of federal land. "The tax breaks Obama intends to repeal for the oil and natural gas industry include the manufacturing tax credit, the enhanced oil recovery tax credit and the marginal well tax credit," the report tells us.
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POPSChinese heros save the day!!! The crew on the Chinese ship, MV Yandanghai, had prevented the pirates from boarding by taking evasive manoeuvres and training their fire hoses on their skiff. Two of the Yandanghai's crew were reported to be lightly injured in the attack.
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