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POPSLearn to Rescue Yourselves I'd liked to have seen FEMA issue a release like this before hurricane season. We still want to believe a magical white stallion will rescue us no matter how little we do to help ourselves. FTA: "“Within 72 to 98 hours from the time of impact of a disaster, you only have each other to depend on for help,” Cruz told The STAR in an interview. “People are so reliant on (hotlines like) 911, thinking it’s (rescue) going to happen (soon). The fact is it’s not,” he added.
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POPSTorture Tactics
Russia = Stalags in Siberia 5***** comfort, freezing temps, food that even Jagged's cockroaches would not touch, naked ice cold water treading for 48 hours, real Russian roulette, failure to divulge secrets = locked up in dungeons naked for 1 week, min 50 degrees celsius, certain death! Latin American states = As above only not so cold therefore homosexual rapings by pervert prison guards, cat o nine tail whippings, buried alive in coffins for 24 hours, non-cooperation results in disappearance into hidden mass graves in the tropical rain forests, insects do the rest! India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, etc: Torture for max 48 hours as above, pigs food, non-cooperation = certain removal of organs for sales to Europe operated by Dr. Deaths, resulting in certain death! Arabian countries = everything mentioned above, non-cooperation results in a swift removal of the hands with a sharp sword, further non-cooperation, the head! Isreal: Mainly as above + Jackbooted guards kicking the sh
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POPSAdventure Tour Destinations Going on an adventure tour is a way to deliberately choose a little more than a picture postcard from the country, you are visiting. It is also a great way to meet new people with some of the same interests as you have.
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POPSKatrina on Ice Its payback for the years of slavery that Obama some how identifies with, when in fact his father was from Africa, a muslim and possibly somewhere in that family's history on the opposite end of slavery than America's blacks. But, a minor inconvenient point, right? Do you see how stupid you liberals sounded to the rest of the common sense people in America during the Katrina disaster? Come on media people, fair is fair, you have to cover the ice storm with the same breathless horror as you did the Katrina disaster, otherwise aren't you risking the Republicans using the Fairness doctrine argument against you? To the people of America who are affected by this ice storm, hang in there and thank you for showing the rest of the country how true Americans handle a crisis, without resorting to raping, murder, looting, and whining. Take care Americans and I'm praying for you.
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POPSSouth Korea leases 3.2 million acres in Madagascar
"For African governments, the incentive to sign deals such as the one between Madagascar and Daewoo is equally clear. Millions of African farmers lack money for fertilizer, basic tools, fuel and transport infrastructure to efficiently grow crops get them to market. While international organizations have plowed billions into health and education, agriculture in Africa has lagged badly, hugely exacerbating the food crisis of the past year. "These governments are desperate to get capital into agriculture," says von Braun, who believes the drive by giant companies to lock up land deals could benefit poor African countries whose governments negotiate wisely. Although Daewoo plans to export the yield of the land it is leasing in Madagascar, it plans to invest about $6 billion over the next 20 years to build the port facilities, roads, power-plants and irrigation systems necessary to support its agribusiness there, and that will create jobs thousands of jobs for Madagascar's unemployed. Jobs
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POPScoconutoil.com: learn the truth about coconut oil The more reading and research I do, the more it seems that we've been sold a bundle of lies about food. How many things that we were told were horrible seem to actually be fine? Butter, eggs, saturated fats, etc. And the things that were supposed to be healthy are really not. Vegetable shortening/margarine/other hydrogenated fats, canola oil, fat-free/sugar-free stuff, non-fat dairy products... I find myself leaning more and more towards Michael Pollan's advice: If your grandmother* wouldn't recognize it, you shouldn't eat it. *Your grandmother, or somebody else's – I don't think either of my grandmothers would have recognized fish sauce, chana dal, or pickled ginger, but if she'd been Thai, Indian, or Japanese, they would have.
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POPSGhana At A Glance Cosmic Volunteers offers international volunteer programs in 8 countries.Cosmic Volunteers is an international not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001 with operations in Ecuador, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nepal, Peru, the Philippines, Vietnam
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POPSOn The Warpath, Bogota, Caracas And Quito
With Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, following Mr Chávez's lead, this week's events sent Latin America's diplomats scurrying to prevent war enveloping the neighbourhood. But they also laid bare that Colombia's government is coming close to breaking the back of the FARC, and in the process threatening to shine light on its murky relations with neighbouring governments. Mr Uribe's “democratic security” policy has achieved a dramatic change. By expanding the security forces, he has driven the FARC from populated areas, while persuading most of the paramilitaries to demobilise. Officials reckon they have reduced the FARC's ranks to fewer than 11,000. But the guerrillas withdrew to the vast tropical lowlands, to areas they have controlled for 40 years. There they resisted a two-year offensive by 18,000 troops. The army could not get near the FARC's seven-man governing secretariat, of which Mr Reyes (the nom de guerre of Luis Edgar Devia) was a member.
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POPSChikungunya (tropical disease) spreads to Europe A combination of minor mutations in the chikungunya arbovirus and the increasing range of the Asian tiger mosquito (due to climate change) has led to debilitating outbreaks of chikungunya in northern Italy and elsewhere. Since tiger mosquitoes are now common in parts of North America as well, a broader spread of the virus is feared.
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POPS Hedge Fund Traders Chasing Carbon Off-Sets The Kyoto Protocol allows 36 rich countries to meet limits from 2008-12 on their production of greenhouse gases by buying emissions rights from developing nations. About 190 countries attending the Dec. 3-14 meeting in Bali are edging towards launching negotiations on a successor deal to Kyoto, which is deemed too weak to win the battle against climate change. Delegates were expected to draft on Saturday the first details of a negotiating agenda.
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POPSReport Finds Deforestation Offers Very Little Money Compared To Potential Financial Benefits Right on! Finally! Perhaps, it is not too late. The same logic would have to apply to the owners of forests everywhere. It would make woodland an even better investment than it is now. Properly worked woodland can already combine income and capital appreciation far in excess of financial assets. The only risk is fire. So it would be worth investing in the best fire prevention measures and constant monitoring.
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