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10 - 20 Mar 2008 - My Opera

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10 March - Quickpost


Friday Quickpost 14 March

No Accounting for Taste
Friday Covers
Chile's failed economic laboratory
Clean green laundry for a cleaner environment
Cyber demonstration : more than 21,000 join in protest against online Censorship
Titan II accident McConnell AFB Kansas, 1978
Billony
Mighty Rex Star Wars Guide to the Candidates HT Caer Corvus ( That would be a "murder" of crows on the header ? )
Walking Upstream
Clinton Campaign Affirmative action Campaign dog whistles
Geraldine Ferraro has jumped the shark
Lack of imagination and lie-bertarian social fallacies
Jury nullification and the war on () drugs

Surface Deployment and Distribution Command
Military Global

A World of Trouble 15 March

The Worldwide Network of U.S. military bases
The war on military history
Military history is for male writers only
Oral history project captures Iraq stories
Veteran dedicates career to preserving military history
History invades military turf
PBS - Military
2004 Military News Archive
Immigration meltdown vs. war meltdown and US elections
Longer-lived grannies may have fewer grandchildren
The faceless and the dead - the Guardian and Iraq's refugees
Documents and articles on the invasion and recolonisation of Iraq
War in Iraq - Historical Analysis and facts
The Israeli-Lebanon Water Wars
Owning the Weather - the secret agenda of weather manipulation
Aluminum, heavy metals and chemtrails
( Zionist conspiracy links are chronic at some information nexuses. Zionism is a historically recorded Israeli fringe movement. Haaretz published an article decrying growth of its influence in Israel - funded and abetted by the U.S. White House - in April 2006. Myself, I know no reason to believe the tail wags the dog : although the U.S.S. Cole incident and allegations of Kissinger's plans are deeply troubling. Such information is posited as hate-mongering by those who torture and kill en masse without compunction. )

18 March - First Picks

Thickest, oldest Arctic ice is melting
Gurkha veterans seek equal rights
Russia foresees new problems with the West
Parelli and other House challengers have a plan
Dominion Power : Outright lying starts here
VB Dems
Green Jobs : Obama walks the talk
Author Arthur C. Clark dies ( Sci-Fi buffs lose a legendary Master )
Southern Baptist leaders shift position on climate change
Storms flood parts of central U.S., killing two
FCC living in the dark ges ; a threat to net neutrality aims
Online oligarchy : old guard dominate net news coverage
Omega-6 fatty acids found to be dietary cause of depression, heart disease
Raw honey : exploring the benefits of this ancient superfood
Cutting-edge computing helps discover the origin of life on Earth
Algorythm finds the network - for genes or the Internet
Link between Alzheimer's and stroke illuminated
On the trail of genetically modified pathogens
New aspirin-like substances may provide safer way to fight heart disease
Tories press post Office rethink
Ending Iraq war is a bipartisan objective ( And who keeps the political bagman from running play ? The 'profits' - in inflatobucks - are astounding for those gouging the American people. Those who decry the analysis 'class warfare' ignore major and obvious shifts in income demographics : aided by tax policy which exempts those with the ability to pay. An what underpins America's 'economic miracle' ? Steal from the poor. )
Lee Publications
Mountain Runner
Talking about the Principles Smith-Mundt
Strategic Information Operations, an example
Understanding the purpose Public Diplomacy
Military power of the People's Republic of China 2007 PDF - Report to Congress
Balneus
2020 Submission : Topic 3: Sustainability (C), (A)
Euro vs UDS as premier currency
Would McCain make the US more progressive than a Dem win ?
Ultra Jewish cut help arrested child-molester escape justice
Red tape good for economics : The Economist
The Economist : Iraq cost the US $25K per household
Media sexualization of children inquiry
Regulations on LUV required

Mar 18 - Some articles of note

UK teachers told to rewrite history
( History is written 'by the winners' )
And now for the really bad news...
How many child prostitutes is Bush responsible for ?
How to destroy a country in five years
( Hey. Saddam was trained by ... wait for it ... the U.S.A. )
Tomgram : The Eight Inside-the-Beltway Fundamentals of the Iraq War
" * A belief that all answers of any value are to be found in Washington among the serried ranks of officials, advisors, former officials, pundits, think-tank operators and other inside-the-Beltway movers and shakers, who have been tested over the years and found never to have a surprise in them. Most are notable mainly for having been wrong so often. This is called 'experience'. "
( This would be an ironic description if it were inaccurate. It is, however, merely scathing. )
Digital artwork by Rado Javor
Fight itchy skin the natural way 

19 March - BlueGirlRedState

Humane Society sues FDA over downer cows
( Rather like taking down Capone with the Income Tax evasion charge )
Blue Girl Red State
A lone voice among the deluded
Someone call Petraeus on this...
Five years ago today
They are not just commas, Mr. Bush
Fifth Anniversary Observations ( central lies of Bush propaganda machine )
None shall serve their country
( I have a rather different 'take' on this than Pale Rider : see comments. I'm glad for the tip. )
High tech and high anxiety in Iraq
FSA investigates 'market manipulation' as bank shares plunge
Protesters 'surrender in Tibet'
( The Dali Lama is a dedicated pacifist. Looks like the Chinese propaganda about his inciting violence have caused the desired aftereffect. )
Five years of Iraq lies
independent media center
Hushmail
OpenSAM
The Nightowl Newswrap
Another system that worked, destroyed by the Bush administration
( Picked up by The Carpetbagger )
This is their guy ? Seriously ? ( McCain's dementia [ not a formal diagnosis ])
Dude - you're not going to get rich with that thing
( Better to get a private water treatment kit )
DIN McConnell can't tell fact from fiction ( Good tale, though )
Do we even HAVE a Secretary of State ?
Read the whole thing ( Resigning a commission I love it. But I have to leave it.)
Cellphone pictures in Lhasa

March 19 Iraq War Blogswarm 

19 March - Late Links

A thirsty planet looks for solutions to water shortage
Considering the historie and nature of Blogs of Note
Five Years Ago Many Top Newspapers Opposed War
Bush bashes PBS ( again ) and the New York Times helps
( Vivisection of the operation to deprive Americans of information )
Hillary's Voice
If Social Security were a private company, the Washington Post would be sued for libel
Post-Apocalyptic Film and The Postmodern Apocalaypse ( Not sure what was being imbibed here : just a bit of nerdishness becuz. o.k. ! )
City of Seattle gives bottled water the boot
Visa shares boom in boon for bank owners
Dollar tough to sell
Staph-caused pneumonia more common in U.S.
Botnet Scams are Exploding
StumbleVideo
DISQUS Behind the scenes blog
New browser eases web sharing
US-carrier spat 'breaks' net
Retune the body with a partial fast
The Existentialist Cowboy
Darrow, Darwin and Dayton
How the GOP will benefit from impending economic collapse
( Whew ! Len pulled out all the stops on this one. )
American Concentration Camps
Dances with Wolfowitz, et al
Freedom of Thought
Call them on the absurdities Demand that they make sense !
Bush and the CIA
US Drugged
12 Questions I would like to see asked of Hillary Clinton
Poor Man's War
The Sociological View - review of an AlterNet article ( wonderful )
"When Change is Not Enough : Seven Steps to Revolution"
Alien Contact, 9/11 and MKULTRA ( SDI too ! Bear with the feeling the guy's mad : he's brilliant )
Hello Everyone ! ( Guess he's not been posting long - this time. I'm not opening up an AOL a/c to comment at this time, so will merely note, for his info via trackback, his stat counter should not register his visits to his own blog at all )

Dad2059 - if you stop by - you have to "collect" this one.

20 March - First Look at the Web

The Folly of Attacking Iran
( The worst part of this movement is that it's necessary. I believe the stories about Iraq's intentions to be precisely what the CIA leak said : Bu$h$hit. That's why "Quotations from President Ahmadinjad from Iran" are there : compare them with 'news' reports seen by Americans about what he says. Ain't Propaganda wunnerful ? It also distracts from paying attention to real issues - Civil Rights for instance - and attacks on the functioning of American government at all levels. I don't have to tell you about that : Len Hart at "Existentialist Cowboy" is doing a much better job than I ever could. Ditto "Clusterfuck Nation". )
Folo is in action revealing Louisiana corruption : has interesting RSS sidebars
Radical Islamists no longer welcome in Pakistani tribal areas
We live in a Nightmare. Death and carnage is everywhere.
Five years after Iraq's 'liberation', there are worms in the water
Thiscould perhaps help account for that )
Oil and Gold prices continue to plummet
OECD slashes US growth forecast
States' data obscure how few actually finish high school
State disciplinary actions against educators ( Death of a thousand cuts ? )
Iraq War has transformed the tech-savvy US military
States step up to aid vets returning from Iraq
China tensions sway Taiwan election
S.C. Highway Patrol : videos lead to probes HT McClatchey
Human trafficking steps from the shadows
The Worst Foods in America
( It happened I was playing Evanescence when I blogged this - " Weight of the World" )
Folate intake linked to genetic abnormalities in sperm
 

20 March - News Update

Walter Reed and Beyond Special Report - WaPo
The struggle to defeat roadside bombs
( Still searching for technical solutions to the problem of how best to continue to defy Iraqi resistance to foreign occupation )
EDS to install software for Pentagon
Fantasies on Iraq
China's patchy Tibet blackout
( Lessons from Burma ? "Chinese lost any sense of indignation at being deprived of straight news by party censors". Bwahaha ! Please excuse me.
Why is it more proper to achieve the same result by suppressing independent press via economic means ? It's more efficient ! )
Conventional search results for "Reporters without Borders" ( Um. Reporters sans Frontiers )
Core Arguments
( The perennial nuke proposal. I have sources here. I suggest a good look through posts at Politics 'n Poetry as a start. They were good enough for a lot of 'eyebrow-raising' : not least of all because of multiple serious problems in supply and essentially permanent radioactive waste deposits ; plus a history of problems with 'containment'. )
The Darfur Tragedy Video - WaPo
( That was the "Feelgood" version of the news ! Let's have a comparitive look at BlueGirlRedState )
More good news ! ( Libby disbarred )
One more down ( Photoshopping Maureen Dowd )
War profiteering kills ( Soldiers lost to shoddy construction ! )
The Washington Post editorial page blows chunks ( hehe )
The Nightowl Newswrap
America slides further and further towards a Depression

Jonestown 20 March

Jonestown
"After These Messages" highlights the problem of the uninformed consumer drone : good comments led me to some new finds
Iraq War Blogswarm ( Oh. Wow. Fairlane does let it all hang out most of the time. )
The Irony and the Ecstasy ( Spotlight on sex, not violence, as litigated 'indecency'. That has to be one of the biggest all by itself : a true affront to public morality : degrade natural function which has basic attraction while ignoring/promoting destruction. These are 'civil' authorities ? Right. These are the people who imprison addicts instead of seeking effective rehabilitative measures. Not that that's likely to be easy. )
"I Tried" adds more to that train of thought.
"Spitzer was exposed not because what he did was wrong he was exposed because he's a dick."
Suzi Riot : Rants from the Left
March 19 Blogswarm : The Women of Iraq
Women Do serve in combat
The Roving Ellipsis
( I'm not going to precis this chap : a progressive with her own thoughts who likes to work out the details. Recommended.)
The Divine Democrat
Race Bait and Switch
Recommended posts
Five years of peril - Five years without peace
"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people"
Post of useless information ( "Crime" )
( Do read the St. Paddy's Day post : a personal anecdote of an experience similar to many )
Flashes of Life
( Compare and contrast )
Lindsay's Lobes
Jan 30 Emotion in the Marketplace
Xpatriated Texan
Has links to other blogs and notes on current events

20 March BlogRoaming

Technilicious.tv
Make Firefox open multiple homepages everytime it's started
( or you could open a feedreader but what the heck )
G Mail Send images but not as attachments
Reduce the sensitivity of your notebook's touchpad
Audio Ad Hosting - Pay per Play advertising
Cellware - Upcoming mobile social network

I visited Dad2059 and was reading UFO links and following contents when I decided to follow The Highwayman Now, like Pastor Tom Usher my childhood was perverted by some very different ideas and attitudes than the usual. I wondered if I wasn't in danger of wetting myself reading "A Conversation with God".
That will change fast if you pay attention to "Well..can't say I didn't warn yuh"
Ass-kissing elitist shills moderating media forums
( There's a definite "Matt Bastard" style of blogging here. I was suspected of having a command of "language" by Folo yesterday...there's a fair chance, though I hadn't demonstrated...so ear-burning warning for the delicate. You I should send to Rude Pundit for edification. Don't miss the close of that last bit. It shows why the regular military forces, U.S. Coast Navy and Coast Guard, Canadian Navy, U.S. National Guard are "out-of-place" to do their presumed duty of defending the country "from all enemies foreign and domestic". )

Don't think that Dad2059 is restricted to the wild and wonderful - although his tastes are somewhat, ah, eclectic. "Federal Reserve Bubble Bath, updated" is an original and effective description of the current financial scam which is only beginning the theft of American property from the current owners.
"Transhumanism, Utility Fog and Rules of Uplift" is not your eveyday post. It's short enough...you should peek.
"Was this a response to the 1974 Arecibo broadcast ?" SETI stuff.
"Some Singularity Signs" ( Do you know of Vernor Vinge ? AI becomes self-aware ideas )

Since I was looking up the URL for The Rude Pundit I took a look. "Being Dick Cheney means never having to say I'm wrong." Suddenly, rudeness is appropriate, if inadequate.
"Photos that make the Rude Pundit want to down three Klonopin with a fifth of Wild Turkey"
And a blow-by-blow of Barack Obama's race speech...in inimitable style.
( He may be crude...he's surely not stupid. )

Anyway, I went over to Real Liberal Christian Church to find some bozo had spammed the joint and login to WordPress was necessary to comment. Not happening. But: I had been thinking of Mandate from God...the post here...at the Highwayman. So...
There are hungry people even in the United States : Statistics from the US conference for mayors
Corn for fuel : Serious environmental,health and economic fallout
Fuel prices : Impact on food prices
Foreclosures and bankruptcies : Home foreclosures, bankruptcies, subprime-mortgage debacle, unemployment, stagflation, college loans
Waging wars on borrowed money : Sacrifice, savings, irrational consumption, credit disaster, expensive wars, reserve currency, the Petrodollar, the Euro, inflationary pressures
( Hey. That doesn't even list the total post. You really have to wonder why these uninformed parochial ivory tower types think they have anything to contribute to the discussions about the way society works. :jester: )

20 March Late Links

Balneus
Recession benefits from Left perspective
Timely inquiry announcement
Adam Smith and the financial crisis
For some young Tibetan exiles, the Dalai Lama's 'Middle Way' is a road to failure
Getting smart about Cuba ( Bravo ! )
Guantanamo : The Bigger Picture
AlterNet
Bush diplomacy : Predator planes are conducting assassination by air
Iraq Vets : Racism endemic ; comes from top of command chain
Turkey, Iraq and Syria to form collaborative water institute
Trade, Climate and Bali
The best home remedies may be sitting in your spice rack
150,000 free images and sounds
Clueless guys can't read women
1/3 of military women sexually harassed
Foreign Policy in Focus
The War at Home
Memorializing Iraq
Iraq's "Hidden" War Raed Jarrar - Riverbend's 'middle'
( I can scarcely recommend this article highly enough for its clarity and description )
Rule, not reconciliation
( I'm having a hard time distinguishing this from 'ruthless suppression' )
Resisting the Empire
The Million Year War Tom Engelhardt
" It is a delusion to believe that the U.S. Military is a force that stands between Iraq and catastrophe."
World Ownership Noam Chomsky
The professor as Open Book
NY lawmaker wants to outlaw targeted web ads
Cool online tools
Ancient asteroids formed at Solar system's heart
Deadly floods ravage MidWest Slideshow
Heading for the Olympics ? Beware of Big Brother ( Be afraid, be very afraid, etc. The power of 'suggestion' never lets up. Mental programming depends on influencing people to think in directed patterns. Fear causes stress, fatigue, confusion and capitulation.)
Foundation offers $10M for gas sipper
Reaching out to lay audiences : communicating science through museums,science centers and community programs
Get the most from your rechargeable batteries
This site of leaked documents is so good, the government broke the Constitution to shut it down
( I guess the strategy of avoiding problems by not making a big fuss about the site could only work for so long ! )
Reading with the enemy
UW workers say comprehensive sex ed cuts teen pregnancies
A long-running mystery, the common cramp
( I've had terrible multiple cramps : several Brewer's Yeast tablets taken daily ( 4-6 ) until I kill a bottle seems to cut incidence for an indefinite period. A GP suggested that when I was a boy as a cheap source of Vitamin D. I've done that for decades but only once every several years. Go figure. )
Post traumatic gene ID'd
The Neanderthal-Human split : very ancient history
No Doubt About It
Plans for anti-terror unit found in garbage
HBOS : Malicious traders in the city try to topple the Halifax bank
$ Keep Bailing $
US Supreme Court investigates the right to bear arms
Another YouTube hack
FCC and Fox go to Supreme Court
Democrats in Florida say No to revote
Amazing Google Earth
15 April 2008 Countdown !
Slump moves from Wall Street to Main Street
Fox News endorses Barack Obama

 


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