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POPSMuslim ritual: Dropping Babies Off Mosque Roof With high child mortality rates, especially in India's rural areas, many people resort to rituals which they believe can ensure their children's health. Child rights activists expressed outrage after the Headlines Today television channel showed the babies being dropped. "This shows the complete failure of the local administration to prevent this practice and to create awareness about children's health," said Ranjana Kumari, a civil rights activist in New Delhi. "It is also a reflection of the lack of access to health services, that forces people to behave in this irrational manner," Kumari told the AP. http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=011008&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=7611198&referralPlaylistId=playlist
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POPSIt's Bad, Very Bad More indication that the nation's economy is teetering on a depression. Just a few points separate the stock market's drop in 2008 from its drop in 1931. New jobless claims are nearly through the roof and the manufacturing sector is in steep decline.
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POPSStock Market in Better Perspective (Graph) This from David Boaz at CATO shows the S & P Index since 1980. The recent tumble has not yet hit the depth of the tumble that bottomed out in 2003. (Click on source to enlarge). The difference is the suddenness and steepness of the drop, setting falling records in days and weeks, instead of months. In his article he also mentions, contrary to current rants, that America's capitalism is far from "unregulated": Certainly we haven’t had any unregulated capitalism lately. As I put it the other day, the kind of capitalism that has encountered the current crisis is “the kind in which a central monetary authority manipulates money and credit, the central government taxes and redistributes $3 trillion a year, huge government-sponsored enterprises create a taxpayer-backed duopoly in the mortgage business, tax laws encourage excessive use of debt financing, and government pressures banks to make bad loans.”
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POPSpen trix interesting-watch the videos-learn to do them-amaze your friends-and others
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