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POPSHistory-Making Edits, Before Photoshop While some people enjoy adding individuals to their images, others prefer to edit them out – as in the cases of these photographs of Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini respectively. In each of the first three photos there was a political compatriot who, after falling from favor, was removed entirely from the scene and thus erased from a part of history. In the final image, a horse handler was edited out to convey a greater sense of grandeur. Perhaps it is simply selective and subjective, but it seems strangely fitting in some way that most of the edits of of American heroes are additive while those of other infamous world leaders are subtractive – but who knows what other manipulations we have yet to catch.
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POPSMake a Difference on International Day of Climate Action! Von 7ten bis 18ten Dezember 2009 wird in Kopenhagen die Klimakonferenz der Vereinten Nation stattfinden und u. a. sind die Möglichkeiten gegeben sich auf folgenden Seiten zu registrieren und mitzugestalten: * Klimakonferenz der Vereinten Nationen http://en.cop15.dk/ * Klimaforum 2009 http://www.klimaforum09.org/ *Diskussionsforum Climate-chance http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=12932&uid=155168890422#/my.climate.chance?v=app_2373072738
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POPSUse 3D building models to impress clients 3D building models are essential for competing in today’s market. Consumers expect to be able to visualize their projects on computers but getting 3D building models is a breeze with turbosquid! You can use them and impress your customers without breaking the bank.
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POPSUrge World Leaders: Vote No to Biased Goldstone Report I'm here at the emergency session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, facing a draft resolution by the Arab and Islamic blocs that seeks to endorse the biased Goldstone Report"a 500-page document that falsely accuses Israel of “deliberate attacks” against civilians during its defensive war against Hamas rocket attacks last January. (For details, see www.unwatch.org/goldstone.) Adoption of this dangerous text will trigger proceedings toward the indictment and prosecution of Israeli leaders and officers in the International Criminal Court. What’s at stake is the very survival of democratic societies under the assault of terrorists"enemies of human rights who cynically invoke its protective cover. The debate began yesterday and reaches its climax today. UN Watch will be there to address the assembled delegates. Representing us will be none other than Col. Richard Kemp, former commander of the British forces in Afghanistan,
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POPSUN Says No Nukes! Now What? I think this is big news. U.S. President Obama might consider this the high point of his foreign policy, right now. But "the devil is in the details," -- the reality remains to be seen -- and are all these world leaders going to continue to pretend that Israel doesn't have nukes? This resolution could be twisted to become another excuse to go to war with Iran? Make life difficult for Iran? Or maybe actual steps to get rid of the world threat of weapons that are too dangerous to use? Certainly, the propaganda would make us fear "Islamic terrorist," running around with nukes in a suitcase -- and on the other side of the coin the "secret," not to be mentioned by the West, possession of nuies by unreasonable zionist extremist doesn't set well with many.
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POPSSpain: Honduran Coup. Turmoil
At the UN today the PM of Spain said the recent coup in Honduras was not acceptable. Recent Background: The deposed President secretly returned to the country but they quickly had to seek asylum in the Brazilian embassy, which then became a focal point for street protest and a police siege. While invading and occupying countries over ten thousand kilometers from home the Americas have been heating up. Shootings on the border yesterday by federal agents and that never use to happen. Plans for U.S. troops to move into military bases in Columbia was also complained about at the UN. Under the guise of fighting terrorism and/or fighting the Drug War these invasions take place, but many times this is just excuses and lies. At least we should, imo, return to our Constitutional procedures for declaring war...it is clearly wrong to be starting all these wars and not obeying our own laws on how to do this properly, but almost pointless to tell this to the hypocrite flag-waving wa
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POPSCongo Basin Genocide: Truth and Reconciliation? Read and wonder will the world stand by the next genocide - well it already is taking place in the Sudan. Figuring out why we let this happen and how we play into it is step one for preventing the next one and ending this one - no?
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POPSIce Returns as Greenland Temps Plummet "The mayor cautioned against thinking that the freezing temperature indicated that global warming claims were overblown. He noted that a nearby glacier had retracted more in the past two decades than in recorded history. But he noted “‘We Greenlanders have acclimated to changing conditions over the past 1100 years,” said Frederiksen. “Temperatures change at regular intervals.”"
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POPSNeda's Murder Was Not Staged
But, according to Iran's Press TV, police chief Esmaeil Ahmadi-Moqadam declared Wednesday that the shooting was a "prearranged scenario" — a "premeditated act of murder" that could not have been committed by Iranian police. The White House called that allegation part of Iran's "ongoing campaign of misinformation" about the country's widely-disputed June 12 presidential elections, which returned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to office and sent hundreds of thousands into the streets in fury over what they claim was a stolen election. "I think the notion that the death of an innocent woman would be staged is — even with them — it's shocking," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Wednesday. Moqadam led the investigation following an order from Ahmadinejad inquiring about the "suspicious" nature of the shooting. The Iranian president said even before the investigation that anti-government "elements" were behind the killing — presumably fingering either foreign agents or even the
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POPSCongress Objects to CIA Lies But Not Torture and Murder? So what do you call a country if not a "tyranny" when its top officials dispatch their henchmen around the world to murder their enemies? That’s how the Soviet Union’s Joe Stalin worked. "No man, no problem." Stalin was no believer in respecting the sovereignty of other countries or bothering with their courts. Just go in and kill the guy. Apparently, Cheney worked the same way. And like Stalin, he authorized torture. This totalitarian streak runs deep both in the White House and CIA. The U.S. had been involved in the assassination or attempted assassination of 37 world leaders and more than 50 U.S. foreign interventions, mostly by the CIA, ranging from blackmail to armed overthrow. Blum also cites evidence of CIA meddling in 30 foreign elections. The crimes of our presidents and the CIA today represent everything America’s Founders despised.
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POPSRacists @ "Free Republic" blog Target Malia Obama Some of the quotes in Free Republic's original thread, as reported by the Sun: "Could you imagine what world leaders must be thinking seeing this kind of street trash and that we paid for this kind of street ghetto trash to go over there?" "They make me sick .... The whole family... mammy, pappy, the free loadin' mammy-in-law, the misguided chillin', and especially 'lil cuz... This is not the America I want representin' my peeps." EDIT: As {{Antara}} points out in the comments, Chris Parry is a hypocrite in favor of lighting fires to point out. But in regards to the Free Republic, I think a long look at the general tone there for some time will support the conclusion that if Parry was throwing lit matches, he was throwing them into a raging bonfire.
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POPSMother of teen is mad-as-hell about the Sarkozy, Obama photo Her mom added, "She is really skinny and only ever wears pants. Mayara is timid and ashamed of her body. This was the first time in her life that she wore a dress, and it was borrowed from a friend in the shantytown because she doesn't own one." The high school sophomore, who hails from one of Rio de Janeiro's slums known as favelas, had been picked by UNICEF to join the counterpart Junior 8 forum of teenagers because she stood out as a community volunteer. She shares a single room with her parents and two younger brothers and can't afford the bus fare to attend a good high school. "Why are they looking at her like that? This is a girl who is articulate and intelligent and just wants to do the right thing," the father said. "Instead, they are forcing her into a negative light."
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POPSWould You Let This Girl Drown? "I also wonder if our unremitting focus on suffering and unmet needs stirs up a cloud of negative feelings that incline people to avert their eyes and hurry by."
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POPSPlease ask Berlusconi to keep his promise and help Africa fight hunger
On Wednesday, Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi is hosting the G8 and other world leaders in l'Aquila, Italy. Although some countries are showing leadership, the G8 as a whole are behind on their promises, and Mr. Berlusconi is easily the worst of the group. He has no credibility to lead this meeting. To date, has delivered only 3% of his 2005 promise to Africa. While other countries are making aid increases in an effort to keep their word, he has cut aid. To some of us this is just par for the course, but to some it could mean the difference between life or death. With this summit, he has a last chance to earn back some of his credibility. Prime Minister Berlusconi must act decisively in the next three days to start turning his miserable failure on development into something we can take seriously. He must restore the aid cut, find additional money for agriculture as he has promised, and budget for a serious plan to get back on track for delivering the commitment he made at the
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POPSPope calls for Israel to be wiped off the map When asked whether his latest statements have anything to do with the fact that he is German and that his chief speech writer and spiritual advisor was the recently pardoned holocaust denier Richard Williamson. The Pope replied: "I'm 82 you know". When asked how he suggested Israel be wiped off the map, his Holiness replied: "Ahh, good question, um, condoms, oh wait, lack of condoms, banning condoms, it's one of those isn't it?". Speaking from his Los Angeles mansion, a drunk, naked and slurring Mel Gibson was quoted as saying: "You go Popie, see I told I was right about those damn Jews". He then passed out in a pot plant.
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