Sunday, November 08, 2009

1 - 10 April My Opera

Aerial view of Guantanamo Bay, collected from ...Image via Wikipedia

TidBits

A shut-down lost the short post I had going. Just a few bits from MTA News then
Suburban Guerilla - Media Bias
Media Matters - UN Human Rights Council deplores media portrayal of Islam ( They can add the blogosphere too. There's lots of really ripe trash out there. See comments. )
Plagairism Detector Approved
ACS
Nightmare at Guantanamo Bay

1 April - News 2

Double-decker SmartForTwo
At launch, mytopia shows social networks how to play nicely together
Build a free full-feature web forum with Lefora
Top 10 Science Hoaxes
The ancient mechanics and how they thought
Nexus Facebook Friend Graphing
Universal "Mega Man Effect"
Japan : URL's are totally out
How to increase your WiFi signal
Five Things You Need to Know to Understand the Latest Violence in Iraq Jarrar and Holland "lay it out"
PM, Dawa, SIIS plan liquidation of Sadrists in Basra
Spinning the bloodshed in Basra
Why I was right about Iraq
PM faces last-minute questions over 1000 more troops
Hungary's political crisis deepens
How conservatives have duped us in the global warming fight
Coast Guard auctions off lighthouses
SEIU : Healthcare, Labor and Politics
Stand strong against hate
SPLC lawsuit : Indian workers defrauded by recruiters, forced into slave-like conditions
CDC bosses ignored warnings
No Doubt About It
American government tortures German citizen
Lehman Brothers raised $3 billion Monday in an effort to quiet talk on Wall Street that it might be the next investment bank to run into trouble
Hillary Clinton is nuts !
Cell phones more dangerous than smoking
Learn to be kind
Replacing wire with laser
More powerful solar cells
New therapies fight phantom noises of tinnitus
U.S. is alarmed as some exports veer off course ( U.S. gets alarmed a lot as it attacks worldwide )
Blue Bloggin
Economic Stimulus Package Arrival Date
What military recruiters don't say can kill
- End 'stop loss' policy
class-action suit against extended service
Hillary Clinton Campaign : Financial Deadbeats
Alphonso Jackson's Resignation ; more Bush corruption
U.S. Army deserter denied asylum
Day says RCMP reforms growing
( Public Disclosure )
Comments from Left Field
John McCain : clueless
America's Gulag
Graphic Clarity : Everyone does better under Democrats
Finally, scientific proof of the obvious
FAA lax with airlines

Late Links

Blue Girl Red State
Nightowl Newswrap
Truth in labeling is pro-consumer, not anti-business
When emotion and agendas hijack the debate...
Ukraine to join NATO ?
K-Lo gets it backwards
Bell throttles its Internet competitors
Google docs : Your online office ?
Poor nations demand climate money
Australia begins to carbon capture
Sick Gazans die in 'avoidable tragedies' - WHO
Danes get unlimited free music
Judge to RIAA : You can't sue over songs 'made available' via P2P
Radical Mormon
Disband NATO
32nd Anniversity of Palestinian land day protests and Israeli massacre
US wardrums continue to beat and drop soundbytes ( repeat to yourselves over and over again that we must attack Iran )
Nutrient-dense, ready to use food working wonders among the malnourished
Welcome to Pottersville
Nobody's Fool
Burning Bush
Eugenics against gays or tragic irresponsibility ? AIDS
our Lonesome Cownoy
 

News 'from the Front'

Those who control oil and water will control the world
CBC censors its own oilsands report
Ontario seeks vision for clean energy
Bush caused financial market 'meltdown'
Harper won't confirm report of U.S. troop pledge in Afghanistan
Clinton and Obama decoys for SPP ?
Afghanistan : Overview
( Please note : I consider this includes disinformation - or at least a 'tailored' view. Nothing is mentioned about USA support for the Taleban [ or is it al Qaeda ? The narrative keeps changing. ]
via the CIA or the fact the 'West' has been messing with Afghanistan and area since the 12th of never. Britain lost 12,000 at one go at the Khyber Pass- in 1835 ! Do recall the British Empire included Pakistan/India. Candian military assessment has been the thing is 'unwinnable' under current NATO [ not UN ] 'strategy'. Afghanistan's official website included a history of the country. I'll check later. )
Extend Afghanistan mission if NATO sends more troops - panel
( See the switch ? NATO - not the UN. And the Liberals are no alternative. Chretien, Liberal Prime Minister, sent the first Canadian military 'presence' to this army-eater : without parliamentary discussion, let alone approval. Outnumbered in desert and mountains by opposition which is part of the population; lovely. Quell Afghan nationalists ; by bombing towns and villages from the air. One bunch of thieves and murderers has no moral high ground to criticize another. These days, that includes us. So. It's true in Iraq : do we call this operation invasion and occupation also ? Or does using a 'cat's paw' change anything ?)
Tanks move in to quell riots in southern Yemen
Unprecedented collapse of central valley salmon is no surprise - Sacramento
Climate in the News
Royal Canadian Air Farce set to end
Canada's visible minorities top 5 million
Rising ferry rates cause impassible gulf in B.C.
UAE stages camel beauty contest
Vive le Canada
Headlines at bottom

2 April BlogRoaming

H2ON Coast
Weeds and climate change
Hope for controlling zebra mussels
Local watershed councils work to restore salmon to the North Coast while preserving local economy
( That'll be a challenge. The numbers resemble possible extinction more than 'loss'. I seem to recall warnings about Cheney-initiated policies a couple of years ago. )
Catchup on Chinook, climate change, World Water Day
Six years of California current hypoxia climate-related and possible new trend
Glaciers melting on Mt. Hood, OSU researchers record important outcomes
National Geo. on water, climate
Climate change impacts and coastal community resilience
Cautionary tale from the Great Lakes takes a new twist ( botulism - birds dying by thousands )
U.S. doctors support socialized healthcare
Newshoggers
newshoglets ( picks )
Government forces in new show of force in Basra
The five most ridiculous lies you were taught in history class 
 

2 April Late Links

 

Easter Rabbit

rabbitvoz.s Xanga site
The 2004 US election was stolen : Rabbit says so !
The coming showdown in Iran "Once Israel hits the U.S."
YouTube : Rabbitvoz's video channel
Radioactive wounds of war
Iranian nukes
9/11 Nothing lasts forever : Part 1 Motive ( Play with it. There's more )
In These Times
Debt : Our 9 Trillion Pound Gorilla
YouTube for smart people

3 April BlogRoaming

The hard drive went down earlier. I spent a lot of time just kibitzing in the computer shop. This was posted from another machine.

What the classroom didn't teach me about the American empire
StoryCorps
The Biz Buzz "Press Release Journalism"
Who are these 'unnamed diplomats' ?
Ten Percent
Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex
Irony still dead ( More like sardonic oversupply )
The stupid drug war lumbers on
India, dammit ! ( Myanmar )
Leni Riefenstahl 24 and Gitmo
Techno Lynch Mob
New arms race is GO! ( Economic stimulus. Usefulness of production not a criteria. )
Iranians disapprove of attacks on civilians more than Americans
Torture from the top
Paddington Gitmo
Bell Canada takes heat from customers for limiting online speed
High court won't hear challenge of secrecy provisions in terror case
( i.e. It is not considered necessary to even provide a pretense of fairness because of constraints mandated by an alleged potential threat : which will never abate. )
NATO answers Harper's request for troops
( Watch this be construed as a 'commitment' by Canada : without being discussed in the House )
NATO endorses Europe missile shield ( Not an idea designed to reduce risk ; when it makes Russia nervous. )
Politics 'n Poetry
Navajo nation still suffering from previous uranium mining activities
Safety flaws revealed at new French reactor ( Sounds like a headline from the early 60's )
From the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
ACTION : The postcard project
Premier Wall, this is for you ! ( Saskatchewan )
Uranium : It's really tearing our community apart
Warped priorities in SK
A Fine Imbalance
Shame on foreign policy
Finally here in Kathmandu ( lovely post )
Abu Aardvark
Iraq testimony: Odom and Rosen and Bears, oh my
"... face a deteriorating political situation with an over-extended army"
"Iraq does not exist. It has no government."
"Iraq remains an extremely unstable and failed state, with many years of bloodshed yet before equilibrium is attained."
Time for another MB and democracy panel.
round up the usual suspects
um, I thought there no jobs ? ( increasing icendiary effect )
Agitprop : o, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Propaganda
Can I Haz Iceberg ?
You go to war with the army you have
George W. Bush, Nation Builder
A big steaming pile of freedom
drop your weapons
Falling down
BlueGirlRedState
The nightowl newwrap
Where are you, Kit ? ( Bond )
Is this compassionate conservatism ?
US Army sends troops to war in untested body armor
Wingnut logic at work
Deja vu
The Ugly American
Bastard Logic
PSA : Protest against Bill C-484 Infringement on reproductive rights
Channeling Jonah Goldberg
Craig Murray
Not a day longer ( executive detention without trial )
The Iraqi Surge...again
http://beforeyousignup.info
Dad 2059's SF Blog
Space tourism race to heat up
Ancient Sumerians record meteor event
I, Cyborg
The Outer Limits ( Original Series )
Computers and epilepsy
Hubbard
Crusader chromosomes
Are UFOs and Bigfoot part of the same phenomena ?
Benjamin Fulford interview Part Two,Three
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
Cocoa growers stand against DDT use in Uganda
Nine lies about climate change
The Daily Galaxy
Are global warming models accurately predicting the future ?
We're witnessing the birth of a new planet
Stonehenge meets 21st-Century science
Big discovery, tiny black hole
USA - prison nation ?
Will the Arctic be the next Saudi Arabia ? New discoveries show 400 billion barrels may be trapped below
'Hybrid' and 'Surge' global words of the year
World's first 2/7 eco-island
Robonauts - future of robots in space
 
 

4 April - News Picks

Semidi.tumblr
Google Maps Flight Simulator
Government API's and MashUp Dashboard
US taxpayer contribution to Iraq war
Federal contracts by state
Visualizing earmarks
Red vs. Blue Media
Clipmarks 3.0
Sex abuse, violence alleged at Teen jails across U.S.
( The state has an abominable reputation as custodian of children that was old when Charles Dickens wrote his newspaper dramatizations : which became books. One big problem is lack of instinctive emotional ties, connection, etc. between custodian and ward. Antagonism would be a better characterization. Another problem is 'privatization', where the state abdicates direct responsibility to execute its overruling of private family authority. Justification is therefore lost. Mass media and public education further depersonalize inputs to the young - a lack of direction which leads to rebellion and gangs because social identity is compromised. )
Agents at polygamist ranch checking 'safety of children'
Navajo Nation likely to lose Internet
Pirates seize French cruise ship
Iraqi PM freezes raids targeting militia
Federal ban on contracts with IBM lifted
U.S. to send more troops to Afghanistan next year
Defying the 'enemy'
Indian soap operas face ban in Afghanistan
Canadians come under fire near Gaza strip
More than 1,000 in Iraq's forces quit Basra fight
( It casts the most doubt on the advisability of what they were being ordered to do. You'd have to consider them 'an informed source'. )
Man convicted of knowingly spreading HIV sentenced to 18 years in prison 
 

4 April - Mixup

Seamonkey crashed with the last previous list.
Battlestar Galactica is back - with cliffhangers
Ten Percent
Tesco attacks ! Guardian fires back tying to silence tax discussion
Friday ! Pulp babies
Remember - the ruling class murdered Martin Luther King
"Our real enemies are no more than a quick drive away."
Peoples Geography
Andy Singer Medley
To the Americans who defend liberty, thank you
Job market in a more just world
Sand's the invention of the Diaspora : shattering a national mythology ?
Tibetathon at the 2008 Beijing Olympics
On Iraq at the fifth anniversary of the invasion
Complex System of Pipes
refuse/resist - Basra and Britain
( informative post and links on al-Sadr
antiwar icon - world's no #1 terrorist
facilitating and incentivizing empowerment through technology
( And I thought I abused the language through innocent obfuscation )
genocide olympics and frontier capitalism
world against war
women's liberation, and men's
Britain's antiwar movement - new research ("ethical arms-dealing policy" snort)
antiwar marches - who goes and why
The Tibet Card
"...U.S. excels at propaganda...continues to win over the very people it has betrayed and caused to be killed."
Another poor year for overseas aid
Pitchfork TV takes a stab at music videos
Monte Asbury's blog
A better look at Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Trinity Church
 

5 April - News - Afternoon Report

Beware the new new thing
Gold vs. Dollar
Lawyer who threatened file-sharers banned six months
Scientist link laptops to detect earthquakes
World Bank accused of climate change hijack"
Shoppers scrimp as food prices rise
'Stuffed and Starved' makes sense of the global capitalist food system : Book Review
Health-care system needs new ideas
52 girls removed from Texas compound
Alberta researchers gets $50,000 grant to help paralyzed patients walk
Latin Investment
Taser answers too slow
Officials confirm Iran's role in brokering truce between Iraqi government and Shiite cleric
( Of course Iran is dangerous. They work towards peace ! )
Army worried by rising stress of return tours to Iraq
( Can you even imagine what life has become for Iraqis ? I can't )
Police fire on Tibetan protesters : 8 die
Historic Quebec military building destroyed
80,00 jobs cut in U.S. : rate of unemployment rises
Labour shortage solutions
Haitians riot over prices and attack U.N. peacekeepers
Are carbon cuts just a fantasy ?
Feds announce funds for carbon-capture research
Why physics of the impossible are closer than you think
Mastering the high-tech tools that help us
How to destroy your computer
30 Error messages you never want to see
Dumb Laws
Fun Trivia
One letter words
Accent Identifier
Creative Thinking
Hibernation tested for space travel
Empire :Film Reviews, Movie News and Interviews
Mattress eco-matters : don't take it lying down
No doubt about it
Camels worth millions
Clintons tax info
McCain voted against MLK Day
Despite investigations, Blackwater to keep working in Iraq
U.S. Economy : Employers to cut most jobs since 2003
FDA - Fasting - Child Abuse - Health
Yahoo falls after after Reuters says Microsoft reevaluating
The future of online media
Bear Stearns deal
McCain' voodoo health economics
Every click you make
The Colbert Bump
Blue Girl Red State
And you thought no one resigned this week !
This has been a long time coming
Let's talk about the B1-B ( the second 'B' stands for 'Boondoggle'
Afternoon Roundup
Another wingnut Congressman who needs to be unemployed
The war in Afghanistan enters an escalation phase
Another indication of how bad things are
FEMA tells everyone to suck eggs

 

9 April Current Headlines

 

10 April - First Blogs of the Day

From BlueGirlRedState referral
MOUE MAGAZINE
Indie Retailer of the Day: Mixed Bag Thursday
Divine Trash : Psycho each Party
I sense a distinct lack of clean hands ( Torture )
Speaking of airline safety ( Backstory on the cancellations )
Quote of the week
Bush, Pelosi disagree on Colombia FTA
Sometimes there isn't a hidden meaning
Only Commies are against child labor
Prisoners' families must write extra tiny ( Restriction on free speech ) **
Another contribution
WE TORTURE I thought of looking at item three
THE GALLOPING BEAVER
Spring reading ( sustainability )
Condescending strikes again ( Bush aides approved interrogation tactics)
( Still Orwellian : torture is not recognized as interrogation by courts. The reason is not airy-fairy. It does not yield usable information. False confessions are available by the bushel, however. )
Cuba : The accidental revolution
Florida lawmakers pass take-your-guns-to-work law ( ! )
Do-overs ( why Afghanistan is unwinnable )
"Resistance will end when the occupation ends"
Oh joy. Awaiting with bated breath ( Or, the Pope does dark comedy )
The high-minded thing to do ( dealing with bigotry )
No permanent bases in Iraq
The five rings of Beijing ( Don't miss. This simple idea will go viral )
 
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