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POPSWhat, Me Worry? Sure, we don't need resources or manufacturing capability. We can just use our magic paper! Fasten Your Seatbelts... It's gonna be a bumpy ride..
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POPS Hidden Gobi Desert relics found more: The current Austrian-Mongolian treasure hunt team found two more boxes. Mr Eisenriegler told the BBC World Service they were filled with "the most amazing Buddhist art objects". "It is of tremendous value for Mongolian culture because Buddhism was almost extinct in the Communist times, especially in the 1930s. "I'm totally exhausted right now but I'm also totally impressed with what I've seen." The latest finds will be put on show at the Danzan Ravjaa Museum in Sainshand, 400km (250 miles) south of the Mongolian capital, Ulan Bator. About 20 boxes remain hidden in the desert.
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POPSSearch for the Lost Tomb of Genghis Khan Genghis Khan was perhaps the greatest and most ruthless conqueror the world has ever know. More than three million people may have died during the bloody creation of his empire. During his twenty year reign Khan subdued the Russian princes; his army conquered Persia, Asia Minor, Korea, South-East India, Indonesia, and China.
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POPSAfghanistan Made Easy
Years of reporting from combat zones in Bosnia, Uganda, the Sudan, Sierra Leone, Pakistan, Ethiopia and Eritrea have convinced Kaplan (Balkan Ghosts, The Coming Anarchy) that Thucydides and Sun-Tzu are still right on the money when they wrote that war is not an aberration and that civilization can repress barbarism but cannot eradicate it. Reminding readers that “The greater the disregard of history, the greater the delusions regarding the future,” Kaplan conducts a brisk tour through the works of Machiavelli, Malthus and Hobbes, among others, to support his advocacy of foreign policy based on the morality of results rather than good intentions. From those classics, he extracts historical models and rationales for exploiting military might, stealth, cunning and what he dubs “anxious foresight” (which some may regard as pessimism based on disasters past) in order to lead, fight and bring adversaries to their knees should they challenge the prevailing balance of power.
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POPSgobi desert yields rare find it went on to say that these skeletons were first spotted in 1978- then excavated some 20 years later.....but it wasn't till 2001 that researchers were able to unearth all 25 of the sinornithomimus-or Chinese bird mimic skeletons. They were brought to the University of Chicago for research and preservation....but will return to China at the end of the year-
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POPSEarthjustice Joins in Fight to Stem Mining Pollution in Mongolia (cont.)Moreover, the situation is likely to grow worse. The opening-up to foreign investment in 1997 -- and the discovery of some of the world's largest deposits of coal, uranium, copper, and gold -- has led to an explosion in the mining sector. Thousands of exploration licenses have been issued to foreign mining companies from China, Russia, the United States, Canada, and elsewhere eager to exploit these vast resources.
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POPSChina scams can kill - and they continue to! New Zealand's biggest dairy company bought into China and had its fingers badly burned as the scamsters in China doctored their milk. The big dollars lured our major company now they have become victims of Chinese scam. A huge cost for a pretty basic lesson.
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