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POPS'The Axis of Idiots' - note from a Retired Marine You want to run from Iraq and abandon the Iraqis to murderers just as you did to the Vietnamese. Iraq, like Vietnam, is another war that you were for, before you were against it. John Murtha, you said our military was broken. You said we can't win militarily in Iraq. You accused United States Marines of cold-blooded murder without proof and said we should redeploy to Okinawa. Okinawa, John? And the Democrats call you their military expert! Are you sure you didn't suffer a traumatic brain injury while you were off building your war hero resume? You're a sad, pitiable, corrupt and washed up politician. You're not a Marine, sir. You wouldn't amount to a good pimple on a real Marine's butt. You're a phony and a disgrace. Run away, John.
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POPSSperm Whale Classified Carbon Neutral Prior analysis of whale carbon dioxide emissions attributes 25 percent of carbon dioxide emissions total to the animals in the Southern Ocean region. Subsequent computation lowers the whales’ carbon dioxide emissions estimate to 0.3 percent, which is equivalent to 17 million tons of carbon a year. Lavery and team explain that there are low levels of iron in the Southern Ocean, and the sperm whales each contribute about 10 grams of iron to the surface. Since the iron comes from the whales’ waste material, it takes the form of liquid plumes, effectively acting as a fertilizer and encouraging growth of plankton. Depending on the exact values and environmental conditions, sperm whales can then be classified “either a net carbon sink or as carbon-neutral,” Discovery writes.
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POPSZinnie to Obama: Time's Up on Afghanistan Decision If Zinni is calling for more troops Now then things are more serious than we're hearing. And I bet he didn't use the word "dillydallying". I just read that 8 US soldiers were killed today by roadside bombs. Either support our people there or throw our integrity to the wind and leave.
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POPSVirtual reality tackles 'shell shock "But I'd hit the point in my life where I felt I had zero control and was about to lose the one thing in my life that meant the most which was my family, so I was prepared to try anything." Sergeant Butler demonstrates the computer scenario which was used to help him. On a computer screen I can see the same image projected onto Sergeant Butler's visor. He is in the front seat of a Humvee armed vehicle patrolling the streets of Iraq; each time he turns his head, the viewpoint on the screen changes.
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POPSDisney World Epcot Aqua Tour Disney World Epcot Living Seas Pavilion is located inside the Epcot center. It is a tank that holds 5.7 million gallon of water, 203 feet in diameter, 27 feet deep and home to more than 65 species of marine life.
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POPSMarine Biology - Diploma Online Learn about many aspects of oceanography and marine biology such as how oceans are born and die and how life began and evolved in the sea over the past 4 million years. Final online multiple choice examination and Oxford College Professional Diploma in Marine Biology.
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POPSStudy Online Whether you live in Malaga, Birmingham or Timbuktu you can study online from the comfort of your own home. All you need is a computer and an internet connection.
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POPSThe 'You lie!' aftermath He Should Resign. OK THAT WAS TO NICE , WTF ,WTF, WTF WHO THE HELL HE THINK HE IS FOOLING. OK THAT WAS NOT NICE. SEE HOW THAT WORK.
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POPSWhere's Waldo? "I guess you could cut off the battery packs," he said. "But it's so specialized it really doesn't have many other applications." There are two other drones with similar capabilities at Mote but they belong to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration -- and there are no funds available for them to perform Waldo's mission. "We'd have to go back to sending people out in boats to collect water samples," he said. "That's not a very efficient way to do it." Waldo, a scientific robot used to detect red tide, was last heard from on Monday. Mote is offering a $500 reward. Well it had a pretty long working life I suppose. It was probably eaten by a Great White Shark. That's my guess, anyway.
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POPSUS Hypocrisy Astonishes the World The exceptional “virtuous nation” does not think it is insensitive for America’s bombs to blow innocent villagers to pieces. What does the world think of the United States? The US government is like a criminal who accuses the police of his crime when he is arrested or a sociopathic abuser who blames the victim. It is a known fact that the CIA has violated US law and international law with its assassinations, kidnappings and torture. But it is not this criminal agency that will be held accountable. Instead, those who will be punished will be those moral beings who, appalled at the illegality and inhumanity of the CIA, leaked the evidence of the agency’s crimes. America uber alles! No one counts but us (and Israel). The deaths we inflict and the pain and suffering we bring to others are merely collateral damage on the bloody path to American hegemony.
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POPSMan-made eruptions – 'Plan B' in the battle for the planet - #climate #geo-engineering Giving scientific researchers 10 million to do blue-sky geo-engineering research is not much for a Plan B considering the calamitous concsequences of green house gas emmissions. Plan A to be negotiated at Copenhagen is also totally inadequate because it is predicated on the assumption that people can keep on living as they are: driving, flying, consuming. Too bad that so few of us will even entertain Plan C(onsciousness) which is to change our purpose in life. If everybody's primary purpose in life was nurture and support nature, rather than exploit it for themselves, there might just be a chance. And even if there is no chance, at least we would end up doing the right thing. Virtue is its own reward.
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POPSRed Lobster Read This - Illegals Coming Off the Menu! Red Lobster is not the only organization that profits from illegally obtained marine life that ends up on the menu but they are one of the largest seafood fast food retailers. So the price of fame - get singled out - grin. They used to say you could walk on the water on backs of cod when they were running off the coast of Maine and Massachusetts - no more. Of course they used to say that about salmon in Scotland, the Pacific Northwest, tuna off the California coast, Abalone off of California - Norte and Baja but no more. Gotta have fish three times a day since you gave up you beef or pig three times a day? Think again! Go rent the movie Soylent Green and think about it being about the world in 2020!
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POPSWe are Connected - It's Blowing in the Wind Some doubt how connected we are and how regional or local events can have an impact half way around the globe. Here's a photo of dust from North Africa wending or rather winding up over Great Britain. So if 20,000 Libyans or Tunisians sneeze at the same time: France, Belgium, Nhe Netherlands, England and Sweden can catch cold? If half the trees in the Amazon or the Congo are cut down - there is less humidity rising up in the air and the shifting of the winds and rains back and forth - north and south is changed.
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POPSGrowth of Ocean ‘Garbage Patch’ Alarms Experts Nope, it’s not going away. It’s the smallest pieces that are of most concern, the “bite-sized” pieces that are interacting with the food chain: bottlecaps, bags and wrappers. Plastic sea trash doesn't biodegrade and often floats at the surface, coming from overflowing sewage systems and then drift thousands of miles. The sheer quantity of plastic that accumulates in the North Pacific Gyre, a vortex formed by ocean and wind currents and located 1,000 miles off the California coast, has the scientists worried about how it might harm the sea creatures there. Plastics have entangled birds and turned up in the bellies of fish, and one paper cited by the NOAA estimates 100,000 marine mammals die trash-related deaths each year. Only humans are to blame for ocean debris. Only humans can do something about it.
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POPSRecommended Reading: Much Of Afghan Drug Money Going To 'Our Friends'
"The cost of this may well go beyond the effect on the heroin shipments. When we sat down this week with Amin Tarzi, director of Middle East Studies at the Marine Corps University and a native Afghan, he said that the United States has lost credibility with the Afghan populace by allying itself with warlords who have been known across Afghanistan for many years as criminals. We have, he says, handed a golden issue to the Taliban. They first took power in the 1990's by charging that the existing government was corrupt. Now they can say it again. (Steve Inskeep co-hosts Morning Edition. This is the first in a series of "recommended reading" posts we plan that highlight stories NPR hosts have heard, read or seen that they think are worth noting.)" When you realise that the CIA are indirectly (plausible deniability) responsible for Al Qaeda's actions,and that Bin Laden was and still is a CIA asset, who was sent in by them during the cold war to destabilise Russia, then it makes a
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