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POPSSnowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme 
If a man has the faith the size of a mustard seed, he can say to a mountain 'move', and it will move. Started in 1949, the scheme provided employment for returned soldiers, 'New Australians', who came to Australia after WW2 to start a new life, to provide electricity for the states of N.S.W. and Victoria, and to turn the 'Snowy' River from it's flow into the ocean, back inland to the irrigation area in central N.S.W. The Government tried to sell the scheme in 2005, but widespread protests, arguing it was not theirs to sell, from people including 100 Mayors from N.S.W., prominent politicians, and conservationists, prevented the sale. As a result of the drought-in Australia, droughts go hand in with bush fires, Lake Jindabyne reached an all time low of around 10%.in 2005. Today the level is around 60%. 'Old' Jindabyne is beneath Lake Jindabyne. They decided to move the town. when the dam was built. Parts of it can be seen when the dam is low or when fishing. Particularly the steeple.
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POPSThousands rally to mark 'death' of Australian river The Murray River has suffered neglect at the hands of both major parties at both state and federal level. Too hard. Maybe it will rain. The river was destined to fail when they built a hydro electric scheme at the top of the river and diverted water into another river after ww2
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POPS60th anniversary: BERLIN Blockade / Airlift Something BIG that Americans really could be proud of ... if only. It is ironic now that the great BLOCKADE BUSTERS of 1948 are now the principles in the implementation of a similar BLOCKADE of Gaza, supporting THE fascist Zionist power! Now Russia is a reluctant co-conspirator with the US, the EU and UN party to this pending atrocity against the democratically elected power.
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POPSWill America Be The Next Nazi Germany? Everyone likes to say, "Hitler did this", and, "Hitler did that". But the truth is Hitler did very little. He was a world class tyrant, but the evil actually done by the Third Reich, from the slave-labor camps to WW2 was all done by German citizens who were afraid to question if what they were told by their government was the truth or not, and who because they did not want to admit to themselves that they were afraid to question the government, refused to see the truth behind the Reichstag Fire, refused to see the invasion by Poland was a staged fake, and followed Hitler into national disaster.
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POPSWhen Journalist LIE, Innocence Dies! Rarely since the WW2 has a people been so vilified as the Palestinians. Rarely has a people been so frequently excused and placated as the Israelis. Israeli embassies are now buttonholing editors around the world, saying that it's not fair to call Israel's PM "hard-line". And the reporters are falling into line. ... R Fisk I think he should know.
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POPSPolish WW2 War Criminal Escapes to Israel He was a member of the State Security and the commandant of the Stalinist-era concentration camp Zgoda in Świętochłowice, Poland. Of 6,000 inmates that he was responsible for, that 1,695 people died under him "by deliberately giving low food rations, systematically torturing and mistreating prisoners, and failing to take sanitary precautions." Zgoda camp was set up by the Soviet NKVD, the forerunner of the KGB , after the Red Army entered southern Poland. The camp was later handed over to the Communist Polish secret service, the notorious Urząd Bezpieczeństwa. In March 1945, Morel became a chief of the labour camp.
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POPSLituania: The Jewish story is forgotten Only the story of the Soviet occupation is remembered, yet there wer THREE TIMES more deaths during the Nazi occupation. Vilnius, capital of Lithuania and once known as the Jerusalem of the North, hardly remembers its Jewish dead.
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POPS Smoking hurts mind... Stalin, Chirchill led their nations through WW2 with puffing pipes, in WW1 American black soldiers have crawled to the night attacks on European battlefields with lighted handmade cigars, even beign good targets for enemy... Smoking hurting not only mind and body, but families and nations. Remember peace pipes of American Indians?
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POPSWarsaw Ghetto/Gaza Strip: Nazis/Zionist. Both = DEATH Collective punishment = Death of children Democracy = Hamas Holocaust = Palestinians Innocent Jews = Innocent Arabs Nazis = Zionists While fascist Zionist Minister mouthing off equals higher and higher fuel prices for all. Only oil companies and bankers gain.
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POPSSearch Method for American War Dead of WW2 American Battle Monuments Commission oversees and maintains the 24 permanent American burial grounds on foreign soil. A great tool for family who are unsure or unaware of a family member's WW2 burial spot.
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POPSPOW Eupherma--Photosnaps, medals , POW artwork Plenty of POW info relating to the The 303rd BG was an Eighth Air Force, B-17 Bomber Group stationed in Molesworth, England. Their motto "Might in Flight". Some of the airmen found themselves POWs in Nazi Germany .Comprehensive well preserved primary docs --Photosnaps, Medals, artwork, journals, id cards and forged papers for escape are found on this terrific site.
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POPS Dalai Lama: China causing 'cultural genocide' In WW2 their was genocide and it was by the country hosting the Olympics that year. Is there a parallel here with China who is not hosting this year - the genocide they are causing within their own region?
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POPSETHNO-NATIONALISM: Clash of Peoples Jerry Muller is professor of history at the Catholic University of America. his most recent book is "The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Modern European Thought." This article is drawn from an essay in the March/April issue of Foreign Affairs.
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POPSWW1 Kid Soldiers: B&W pics "After the WW2 very young boys were still able to enlist in the American services. This went on until the early fifties. Nowadays the USA is the only country where an association called Veterans of Underage Military Service (VUMS) exists. It was formed in 1991." "Buckles enlisted in the American army at age 16 in 1917. During his summer vacation from school he went to the Marine Corps recruiting office to enlist, told them he was 21, but he was turned down: too small. He tried the Navy: too flatfooted. He then went to the Army and they accepted him. "The old sergeant advised me that the Ambulance Service was the quickest way to get to France because the French were begging for ambulance services". In France he served at several locations. After Armistice Day he was assigned to a POW escort company to return prisoners back to Germany. In WW2 while working in the Philippines, the Japanese army seized him and he stayed in a POW camp for more than 3 years.
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POPSWiesenthal Blackmail Backfires. Irish President
The SWC has nothing to do with the Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal and has no expertise in the restitution of looted art, he says. "There are 11 Jewish organisations who have this expertise but SWC is not one of them." The centre already had "form" on Ireland, having clashed with Mary Robinson during her tenure as UN human rights supremo as well as attacking Ireland's role on the UN Security Council, both in relation to Israel. "The allegations given to them about the Hunt Museum would have been manna in their campaign against Ireland." The "sensational and calculated manner" in which Dr Samuels first announced his suspicions in an open letter at a time when Ireland held the EU presidency was "both undiplomatic and offensive," she writes. "The decision to challenge the Irish authorities in a sort of blackmail game was unprofessional in the extreme." : "There has been much talk about moral obligation during this inquiry. It is, of course, important to recover and return items unla
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POPSFamily values threatened, says panel Family values went out the window when the extended family died out. This death happened after WW2, when children were forced to travel to find work. These extremists are not in touch with reality as per usual.
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POPSThe Horror of war - pic of a baby crying No too graphic but very disturbing. A great site to look at pictures of ww2 or whenever. I have visited the site many times and always keep on coming back for more to remind my self of the horror of war. Peace.
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POPSWorld War 2 Wallpaper I found a really cool world war 2 wallpaper at this site, there's a lot of other wallpapers there that are free and pretty cool looking. I wish there were more like this though. Its still worth checking out.
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