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POPSObama Has Won The 100 Metres at The 2012 London Olympics
Thus, with President Wilson alone, the Nobel Peace Prize death toll is over 50 million and counting. Occasionally the peace prize has gone to actual peace negotiators but usually, per Teddy Roosevelt, when there was nothing left to negotiate. Carlos Saavedra Lamas got his in 1936 for mediating between Bolivia and Paraguay in the Chaco War (1932-35). Both nations were exhausted, 100,000 soldiers were dead, and the Chaco was--as it had been and remains--a vast, useless weed patch. Likewise, Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan (1976) and John Hume and David Trimble (1998)--the four of them were standing around when, after 500 years, the fool residents of my ancestral homeland ran out of ammo and beer. Of course, if you go around giving prizes left and right (mostly left) for more than a century, you're bound to give some to worthy people once in a while. With the Nobel committee this usually involves the Red Cross (1901, 1917, 1944, 1963). But the Red Cross doesn't bring peace . . .
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POPSObama’s French Lesson newest provocation did not warrant the imposition of tougher sanctions. Do the tally. In return for selling out Poland and the Czech Republic by unilaterally abrogating a missile-defense security arrangement that Russia had demanded be abrogated, we get from Russia . . . what? An oblique hint, of possible support, for unspecified sanctions, grudgingly offered and of dubious authority " and, in any case, leading nowhere because the Chinese have remained resolute against any Security Council sanctions. Confusing ends and means, the Obama administration strives mightily for shows of allied unity, good feeling, and pious concern about Iran’s nuclear program " whereas the real objective is stopping that program. This feel-good posturing is worse than useless, because all the time spent achieving gestures is precious time granted Iran to finish its race to acquire the bomb. Don’t take it from me. Take it from Sarkozy, who could not conceal his astonishment at Obama’s naïveté.
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POPSAnother useless exercise in smartough diplomacy There were, of course, two illicit nuclear projects stopped during that period, though the U.N. had nothing to do with it. One was Libya's clandestine nuclear kit, which al-Qaddafi--spooked by the fate of Saddam--agreed to hand over to the U.S. in late 2003. The other was Syria's North Korea-abetted secret reactor. That was destroyed in 2007, not by a U.N. resolution, but by an Israeli air strike.
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POPS Morford on Useless Drug Wars
Damn, there goes my meth supply Thank God for big local drug raids, because now you can't get coke or pot or Ecstasy anymore. Oh wait...the column continues: Is it not brutally true? Is this not pretty much the norm now, the common wisdom, going on nearly 40 years of the modern and abysmal "War on Drugs" and hundreds of billions of dollars spent and countless thousands of lives lost and prisons overflowing, and yet we're a nation that's more illegally drug-happy than ever? Sometimes you just have to ask. Because truly, this grand and insidious "war" must be one of our greatest national embarrassments, an enormous, unspoken failure, far worse in its way than the lost and disgusting war in Iraq, given how it's caused more misery and more pain and more destruction across multiple decades and nations and governments and continues to cost countless billions of dollars and yet has, as all stats and studies reveal, almost zero effect on the overall drug culture of the nation. This w
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POPSWe Are Making Our Selves, OUR NATION, POORER - And Other Nations RICHER. If we drill in these places then we will lower the cost of energy WORLDWIDE and that will help the world's economy. IT'S A WIN-WIN-WIN-WIN-WIN: We make more money; we send less overseas to unsavory nations; we lower our costs and the energy costs of the whole world - and it doesn't harm the environment one iddy-biddy bit. SO WHY DON'T WE DO THIS!? Where's the leadership from Bush!? WHY HASN'T MCCAIN SPOKEN OUT ABOUT THIS!? Where's the freakin' Congressional GOP!? Useless.
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POPSOur Own Grocery Bill Let's pay our grocery bill first, before succumbing to a UN prerogative. The Useless Nothing doesn't work very well anyway.
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POPSDoes Our Energy Future Hinge on Iran? IIn a sensible world .. ...governments would come up with a plan to use the last of the oil to help all nations build up their renewable energy infrastructure. We cannot afford to waste another drop of oil, either on useless consumer garbage or on war.
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POPSBoot United Nations Now!
cont: Here you have an open-and-shut case of a rogue, dictatorial regime kidnapping and holding hostage innocent soldiers...soldiers that were not in Iranian waters when they were apprehended. The Brits have the GPS data to prove it. One of the sailors is a woman, making the situation all the more outrageous. On top of all this, Iran is parading the soldiers on TV...in direct violation of the Geneva Convention. And what does the UN do? Nothing. Why? Because the UN is anti-American, and that makes it anti-Brit. It's time for not only the United States to pull out of the United Nations but for us to kick them out of the United States. Let's form another international organization composed of countries with elected governments that adhere to principles of economic freedom and guaranteed rights for their citizens. The UN? Give it Haiti. The two deserve each other. The left always tells us we need the U.N. as a place for countries to settle international disputes. Tell me just one
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POPSIPCC report criticised as too optimistic A few irrelevance is accepted, since IPCC includes many processes such as collecting materials, researching on them, peer review and so on. But large one is unacceptable. Let me think on it... this means that climate is changing much faster and greater in terms of scale than the professionals have been thought, doesn't it? This is because the scientists probably had written papers, refering what they could get at the moment and assuming the future process of climate change from the materials. If this is true, climate science itself can be seen as useless.
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POPSMany Drugs sold on the Internet are Fake! Buyer beware! Often when we think we are getting a good deal, we end up getting burned. If it sounds to good to be true, it most likely is! Don't be fooled by what an ad claims. The Internet is a veritable boiling pot of thugs, thieves and con artists. If you are truly interested in getting and staying HEALTHY, try going to: http://www.zavita.com/healthforlife/
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POPSSpreading Genocide to Chad Thanks to the N.Y.Times and Nicholas D.Kristof we are hearing more and more about this most terrible situation.How brave of Ann Curry to report on this tradegy.But,where is the United Nations???The people of Darfur and Chad need HELP !!!
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