Saturday, September 11, 2010

6 - 9 August 2008 Opit's LinkFest! at My Opera

Say Goodnite America!Image by Templar1307 via Flickr

9 Aug - Posting past signal loss

Cyrano's Top Stories
When does the lesser evil become just plain evil ?
Canadian ISPs plan net censorship
Evolve or die : can we shed our moral primitivism before it's too late ?
The 'Invisible Hand' is picking your pocket
A little bit pregnant : Freedom of Speech in America
The Greanville Journal
A Ghastly Anniversary
Why McCain may well win
The Anti-Empire Report : Obama and the Empire
America is the Rogue Nation
Russia wins control of Turkmen gas
Fastened to a dying animal - thoughts on media and useless elections
Brave New Films(Brave New Films for a 'Brave New World' - Aldous Huxley )
Josh McCarter claims media still failing us on Iraq
Matt Stoller says U.S. can't choose sides in an Iraqi civil war
Controversial anti-smoking drug linked to vets' suicidal tendencies
Democrats on Fox News wasting time
Will the CIA overthrow Bolivia's Evo Morales ?
Congressman takes on military recruiters in his district
Surfer Laird Hamilton on protecting our oceans
REAL NEWS
ANP : Blood in the streets ( in USA )
Omar Khadr lawyers sue PM
Russian troops take control of South Ossetian capital
CJtv
Naomi Wolf on creeping fascism
IRS Watch
Ebullent Skepticism
A Conservative's Garden of False Narratives : who are you calling a moonbat anyway ?
A Disneyland of Militant Ignorance : the American Normalization of Mass Murder
Roasting marshmallows on the American Reichstag fire to come
Privileged grotesques, ordinary monsters and the Iraqi deathscape
The Democratic party and the infantile omnipotence of the ruling class
"Bush administration has bestowed upon itself the right to bestow upon itself absolute power
To hell with centrism : we must reclaim the inspired edge
A soul defying tacit approval of torture : how did we come to this ?
Listen up you Christo-Fascist bullies - you Apostles of Perpetual Psychosis - It's time somebody called you out
Master Species
Nanoparticles make cancer cells rise
Ron Suskind's transcripts on the Habush letter
( Falsifying intel )
Throw away your telescreen
We Feed the World - globalization and scarcity amid plenty
Raytheon 9 : resisting war crimes is not a crime
Zapatista! - Mexican revolt
Bay of Pigs - Declassified
The Great African Scandal
Hiroshima Bombing
Taxi to the Dark Side ( torture )
The battle for Haditha
Aurora future browser concept

 

9 Aug - No quiet weekend

PRISON PLANET
Fighting with Russia spreads to cities across Georgia
Shelling of South Ossetia capital stopped
U.S. attacks Russia through client state Georgia
Israel backs Georgia in Caspian oil pipeline battle with Russia
We are at war with Russia declares Georgian leader
Putin : war has started
Georgia disputes control of south Ossetian capital
Global politics add oxygen to a smouldering dispute
Study cautions against strike against Iran's nuclear facilities
Russia mulls arms in Belarus to counter US shield
Oil prices slide beneath $116
Greenspan says federal company would best ease crisis
Dollar soars to 5-month high as turnaround eyed
Watch 3000 blacklisted Internet channels for free
Maryland troopers spied on activist groups : protesters added to database of terrorist suspects
Plan to put Tasers in Unionville schools gets mixed reviews
Jersey abuse case : 'Old Boy Network' is obstructing police investigation
Ivins could not have applied high-tech coating to killer Anthrax
Bin Laden firm to build Saudi Arabian prisons to replace Guantanamo Bay
Secret EU security draft risks uproar with call to pool policing and give US security data
Cyber attacks from China and Russia threaten to bring Britain to grinding halt
The future of the iPatriot Act
British government launches measles fearmongering campaign amid public distrust of vaccines
Terrorism : The Unfounded Fear
Georgia declares state of war with Russia
Najaf aims to become 'capital' of Iraq's south
Google's ad network ; now with double the cookies
When Google disowns you
How Copyright is holding back the creative class
South Ossetia crisis explained
Georgia calls for ceasefire in South Ossetia fighting
Did you really not know DNS problems are bad ?
Calif Supreme Court finds noncomplete clauses invalid
Neanderthal bone yields complete Mitochondrial genome
Announcing the frequent liar rewards program
Suzie-Q
Pelosi to Boehner : offshore drilling would not impact fuel prices until 2030
( Has nobody bothered to point out the gall of Rethugs giving Dems economic advice ? )
Top CIA order to forge Iraq-9/11 letter came on White House stationery
US attacks Russia through client state Georgia
not a campaign platform i would want ( Yep, Somebody has. Ha ! )
Pickled Politics
Concerns over policing of climate camp
Russia invades, China parades...
Brendan O'Neill, whitewashing the Chinese regime
Updating Sharia for the UK
Vogue Black issue 'sold out'
The Patriot Act's war on charity
The face of the modern war criminal
Cynthia McKinney : inventing terror at home
The Black Agenda Report
The FCC and the Emperors of TV have no clothes
Obama won't address specific black concerns
Corporate media makes greens invisible
How to stop the foreclosures
Is Africa a Cold War battleground ?
Press Rights. If only the truth were known
The Authoritarians
Ten Percent
Home repossessions up a nudge
RUSSIA TODAY
Georgia resumes shelling the South Ossetian capital
UN inaction fuels military conflict
Georgia says it controls most of South Ossetia
UN hits Iran with more sanctions
Poland set to make AMD decision
Israel blocks arms sales to Georgia
Ukraine promises to return stolen Russian gas
Israel using aid to recruit spies
Russia accuses Georgia of trying to discredit peacekeepers
le debacle
"Whom the Gods would destroy...they first make friendly with the Americans" - Georgia
No one believes it. Is it so ?
BlueBloggin
Israel,Iran and the new neocons
McCain two-step : unemployment consequences in Chicago
Obama answers union questions but McCain declines
NTEU questions ( tax collection outsourced )
H.R.800 wants you to have choices : McCain doesn't
Corporate America prepares for battle against worker campaign to roll back assault on the middle class
American Leftist
"The new Cold War" escalates
A dirty adventure ( 4 posts )
"Former Israeli generals also serve as advisers to the Georgia military"
A suppressed past of indiscriminate killings of South Korea civilians by US forces is slowly being exposed
The uncontrollable violence of war
Washington Mutual death watch

 

8 Aug - BlogRoll Posts II

INVISIBLE OPPORTUNITY : HIDDEN TRUTHS REVEALED
Secret Shots : worst coverup in the history of the US military
Bruce Ivins : the movie
The FBI's emerging, leaking case against Ivins
Ace Ventura on the Howard Stern show discusses 911, Iraq
What the Iraq forgery says about 9/11
Questions about the Anthrax suspect and his interaction with mental health professionals
Chemical traces of high explosives in WTC debris
Bush Hitler Family Values
China to censor Internet during Games
Obama will continue awful Bush policies
Why Organic
Myanmar cyclone : random act of nature ? May 6
Big Media rulings Apr 25
A 7,600-word disappearing act
Pentagon Unmanned Spokesdrone completes first mission Onion satire
Afghanistan makes Iraq look easy
Empire Burlesque : Chris Floyd Rich Kastelein
Living Death : the eternal now of Hiroshima
The Serpent's Egg : Solzhenitsyn and the origins of America's Gulag
Road Visions : Adventures in the Poison Factory
War without End, Amen : Into the Afghan Abyss with Obama
Bodyguard of Lies : the truth behind the "Surge's" smokescreen
Black Milk Blues : Elite Power and the Efficacy of Force
MASK OF ANARCHY
The good dictator faces impeachment
Iran - Stoning halted
China -Human Rights - Bad - Economy - Goood
Chevron lobbyists accused of 'misleading Congress'
Passport fiasco - another privatized cock-up
Monbiot attacks Channel 4
The Radical Mormon
AP slammed quite appropriately
Shin Bet blackmails dying Gaza patients for intelligence
Israeli violence shoots a man in foot on video and siege kills 3 month old baby
Oh the depravity of my people !
Jenin - video on attack on Refugee Camp by IDF 2002
Ritter : "We're already at war with Iran"
HR362 stalls after pressure on representatives grows ( Blockade )
COMPLEX SYSTEM OF PIPES
Shining India... ( violence )
What Africa needs
The other Tibet
Watch out ( Batman and fascistic propaganda )
Cheaaarrrge ! ( transportation infrastructure )
,,,or barbarism ( Italy and uneven 'justice' )
GDAEman
Premier Diebold election solutions
GI's miss own weddings, baby's first words during long Iraq tour
Christina Applegate : get well, stay well
Swinging wildly ( self correcting free markets )
MOLLY'S BLOG
Obama's rhetoric ( preservation of American Empire )
Behind Obama's rhetoric ( attraction is the notion he's for real change )
Greyhound bus murder - the ghouls move in
The Perseids are coming
Southern Ontario ARA shuts down fascists in London ( Ontario )
Support disabled activist banned from restaurant not serving wheelchair users
Bolivian miners strike against meager pension offer
Korea : stop arrests of trade union leaders
The Blue State
Todd's Daily Picks ( news shorts )
The Smirking Chimp
Is Karl Rove the Anthrax killer ?
Report from Iraq : if the Iraqi army wants to buy $10.6 bn in weapons, then let's have a fire sale !
The amoral morons who rule in our name
Cannibal Democrats and other very bad things
Children reflect their parents : patrolling the streets of Baghdad's al Rasheed district
Interview with Vincent Bugliosi : prosecuting George W. Bush for murder
Greed and panic
It's the torture,stupid : restoring human rights must be the next Prez's top priority
The McCain plan : Homer Simpson without the donut
How to put Rove behind bars for years
Extra!@ Extra! Dog bites man. Read all about it ( Hamdan farce )
No Name for the River : how the media complicate racial awareness
President Obama up against the Middle East 'Berlin Wall'
Remembering the anthrax scare
Trust me, John McCain doesn't know what bad press looks like
McCain's energy plan : improved light bulbs
King George 'surged' against American patriots too
Obama is right : It's easy to reduce the Nation's ( and your own ) fuel bill dramatically
Why McCain may well win
Terror from the Inside
A brief history of firearms policy fraud
R-Squared Energy Blog
EPA denies ethanol waiver
The hydrogen electrolyzer debunked ?
Tester's energy plan
Pinning Pelosi
Taxes vs. Subsidies
Watch Stephanopoulos grill Pelosi
The flawed thinking of the administration's torture advocates
What are Progressive Values ?
Wickedness
Our Future
War Room to track economic crises
The perils of privatization
Proof we can go green. Now.

 

8 Aug - BlogRoll Posts

British crime lords rule 40 billion Pound underworld
Choice snippets of the day Aug 4
The Situationist
Self-handicapping and Managers' Duties of Care - Abstract
Fractured Bonds ( race-based marriage annulments )
Beyond Revenge : the Evolution of the Forgiveness Instinct
Political Psychology in 2008 : How our unconscious votes
Situationism's improving situation : Social Psychology reaches its tipping point
Gatekeepers inside out - legal ethics
Do we miss racial stereotypes today that will be evident tomorrow ?
THINK PROGRESS
Confirmed : Cheney will participate in the RNC convention
McCain blogger lies, insinuates Obama has received more money from Big Oil than McCain
ThinkFast ( News shorts )
EPA's Johnson says he's not resigning
Miers and Bolton push for further delay in Congressional testimony ( Attorney purge )
Bush White House has its own interrogation room
American Conservative : It was Feith's office - not CIA - that forged the Habbush letter
Note to DHS : Searching a laptop is not the same as searching a backpack
Flashback : In 2007 McCain said Paris Hilton is the kind of issue that gets more attention than it deserves
Hamdam sentenced to 5.5 years in prison, though he may still be detained indefinitely
Rove baselessly claims that EIA agrees that 'oil drilling would bring down prices'
U.S. military puts Iraqi prisoners in wooden boxes
U.S. and Iraq 'close to a deal' on 2010 withdrawal timeline
McCain promises to help Ohio residents who lost their jobs because of his campaign manager
Limbaugh compares civil rights organizations to al-Sadr : they both disrupt the society
Israel building up strike capabilities against Iran
Bolton : Regime change in Iran would lead to greater stability in the world
( where have we heard this before ? )
Suskind : Rumsfeld declared that Iraq would 'bend' and 'succumb' to U.S. views
( ain't Democracy wunnerful ? )
Mukasey appoints torture apologist as his chief of staff
Was Bruce Ivins 'suicided' as Hitler's Rommel was ?
The Zoo
McCain vs. McCain
GOP to nominate Paris Hilton
Intensify the nationalism quick !
Tom Paine
Catastrophic Conservatism's costs in Iraq
Conservatives treat their constituents like suckers
Why we don't shoot back
The real story of the 110th Congress : the Right Wing block-and-blame game

7 Aug - RSS news reviewed

Global food crisis threatens HIV control
Tropical warming tied to flooding rains
MacKay announces air support for Afghan mission
Rochester physicist's Quantum "uncollapse" theory verified
Perseid meteor shower to peak August 11 and 12
National Geographic News
Web Doomsday Averted : Kaminsky
Mozilla labs considers grafting IM onto Firefox
Ubuntu attracts the lion's share of attention from LinuxWorld's smaller crowds
A lot more at stake in TorrentSpy vs. MPAA Email snooping lawsuit
( definition of what 'snooping' is )
Serious trade unions and how they conduct themselves
THE DAILY GALAXY
More on NASA's life on Mars controversy - what's your bet ?
NASA Mars video - images show water flows and new impact craters
Genetics show how prehistoric cultures migrated and shared knowledge
Algae - a solution to peak oil ? Virgin Airlines says 'yes', others say 'no'
K-2 : Mount Everest's deadly sister
Former counter-terrorism czar : there is going to be an i-9/11 and i-Patriot Act
Midas touch cures cancer
Join the Galaxy 'Extra' Beta
Space URL's - Daily Flash
GreenPlanet - Daily Flash
Grab your 'Galaxy' Google gadget
Pristine 14 million year old valley found in Antarctica
Bigger threat than global warming : mass species extinction
New study offers a reality check : 'No child left behind' is increasing dropout rates
The Gemini Paradox : why are galaxies in the early universe old ?
The biofilm matrix : researchers discover the key to powering the planet with garbage
Predicting 'space weather' - new insights from the Hinode Solar-optical telescope
Shanghai Streets : China's technology and economic future - a Galaxy video classic
China's Olympic terror plot - was another Munich in progress ?
OneGeology
Ten Percent
Blacklist Culture ( Confidential information dispensed like candy )
Bio-class warfare ( Convoluted false science to give cover to cheating sick vets )
Anthrax and Zimbabwe ( anthrax vaccine history and effects )Dr Meryl Nass
The Right to Bully
Grey Lady revealed ?
Kids in America
Show them your Cross ( Red Cross insignia used for FARC hostage rescue )
Imperious ( Irony alert(s) re Bush's Iran warnings on anniversary of Hiroshima and criticizing China's human rights record while prosecuting in a military kangaroo court. How do we know Iraq WMD scare was a lie ? Because you don't attack countries with WMD ! )
Security ? What security ? Automatic toll systems and Passports found easily hackable
Good night's sleep eludes many in U.S.
Nissan shows off new hybrid,electric vehicle and fuel cell stack
Linux Foundation releases killer development tool
Record your desktop with Linux tools
This is HorseshitCindy Sheehan
The Existentialist Cowboy
An irrelevant campaign of 'Just Words' - every four years
Assassinations, White House child prostitution, cover-ups and terrorism - Democratic Senator to be assassinated soon
They may take our lives, but they will never take our freedom !
"When the forces of oppression come to maintain themselves against established law ; peace is considered already broken." Che Guevera
A Police State update : execution of Mexican without access to consular services could make things rough for Americans abroad
Anti-War website operator threatened by armed thugs
( Hm. I knew a journalist who lived in fear for his life for years. Now Bloggers. Such is Progress. )

7 Aug - Morning Blog News

New focus on children at AIDS seminar
Costly fuel brings dozens of airlines to their knees
500 : Deadly U.S. milestone in Afghan War
( "Stand by to Repel Boarders"...whoops. Pirates complain about attrition. )
Jesus General
How a bill becomes law : McCain oil edition
Bare Naked homophobia : Mud Wrestling Edition
Comments from Left Field
Hamden guilty of 'material support', acquitted of more serious charges
"After seven years and numerous court challenges including two Supreme Court rulings,the Bush administration (sic) finally stumbled its way to its first conviction in a military commission for a crime that is routinely handled in federal courts....The Bush administration has completely devalued the concept of a war criminal."
Paris Hilton strikes back
( A Hoot... that still pushes nutzoid Offshore Drilling. It doesn't need 'environmental studies' : there have been disasters already)
"Accountability is not...in every case...a virtue." ( He's such a Dick )
The housing crisis gets wilder and deeper
China tells Bush to stay out of other countries' affairs ( More restrained than pointing out his 'Human Rights Record' is in high negative numbers )
Tories' military funding plan means 'guaranteed decreases' ( Or a bolloxed budget )

Another corporation issuing marching orders
What's really killing newspapers
FBI seizes local Maryland library computers ( No court order )
Library confrontation points out privacy dilemma
( 'Professional law enforcement' based on the ethos of fictional '24''s mindset - as a matter of routine privilege)
Introducing a new 'E & P"' feature on the 'new' New Journalism
Six new TV channels in India to increase Murdoch's profile
John Edwards' war on poverty
( Isn't saying 'war on' the kiss of death to an initiative after the last few decades ? )
Big Oil, Big Influence
At BlogHer
Let video games read your mind with headset
Make Them Accountable

INTEL DAILY
U.S. accused of backing terrorism in Pakistan
Nuclear treaty rattles India's government
Working poor unready to revolt
US financial system in crisis as government hides truth to prevent bond market panic
South Africa : General Strike against price rises
Venezuela's Chavez pushes for new world financial system in Argentina
A new round of nuclear lies
Militarizing the social sciences **
Guantanamo detainee convicted in rigged military trial

Payroll and unemployments data confirm US in recession
Moscow seizes control of agricultural exportsIndia a thriving e waste dump yard

6 August - Blog Finds

PEACE EARTH & JUSTICE NEWS
New Rx for kids a tough pill for Dad to swallow
Meat habit is fueling world famine
Harper in Victoria : served with 95 Articles of Condemnation
( Heads Up : a shocking summary )
AGITPROP : Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Propaganda
Happy PDB Day ! ( 8 years since President's Daily Brief warns of Al Qaeda attack )
Republican Family Values ( Slavery Gets Shit Done )
Eight years ago...Acceptance Speech
Then they came for the Lawyers ( Layoffs )
Things younger than John McCain ( Ouch )
Ten Percent
White House faked letter to tie Saddam to 9/11
They Gave Us a Republic
Real Iraq Reality and Real News on 'Surgin' ( REAL NEWS ? Ah-Ha ! )
GOA : Iraq rakes in billions in oil profits while the United States pays for reconstruction
( Who trashed the joint ? )
Informed Voters
Celebrating another 100 women political bloggers ( List hits 500 total )
Drug Interactions Guide
( From another of Catherine's Blogs )
Tithing is UnScriptural under the New Testament
NEWSHOGGERS
Rumored SOFA political analysis
( Bush - al-Maliki 'breakthrough' [ proposed translation : next act in American Puppet Theater ] )
Dems put hold on Pakistan F-16 proposal ( 'Holds are traditionally respected.' Hm. So was Habeas Corpus. )
Political Theater Part II
"Cheap gas and energy independence are mutually exclusive"
Gag rule could make a U.S. come-back
who hijacked our country
If your IQ is lower than your shoe size - sign this petition ( oil baron wish list )
Liberality
July 30 - The Buffalo Theory ( makes a great analogue to the distribution curve of people wising up to the fact that they've been scammed : and the pain has just begun )
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