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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1 - 4 August 2008 Opit's LinkFest! at My Opera

Refugee camp for Rwandans located in what is n...Image via Wikipedia

 

4 Aug - Blog Wrapup

Ed in 08
Yep. An ad. No charge either.
Housing lenders fear bigger wave of home defaults
U.S. adds 30 days to Marines' tours in Afghanistan
Extinction threatens half world's primates
Craig Murray
Who will protect us from Scotland Yard ?
Jack Straw, Mrs Straw and the prevention of justice in the BAE bribes scandal
The Smith Institute : New Labour's corrupt tax dodge
China taking over Africa according to old eugenics plan
That was a link out of Dad 2059 who may have a problem topping that story
Will the aliens finally reveal themselves ? ( X-Files movie )
Some musings on the world of science fiction - Arthur Clark/Fred Pohl collaborative novel due in bookstores Aug 5
Talking to Gliese ( 581 c ), ancient temples and Aldrin speaks out
Interstellar betting, the White Knight and lunar agreements
P.I.L.G.R.I.M.$ ; mysterious, super-elite society
40th anniversary Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Press release with links
Particle physics rap : making the Hadron Collider sing
Suzie-Q
Cheney argued against releasing innocent detainees because 'they'll all get lawyers'
The other shoe dropped... so much for our retail-based economy
The future of blogging revealed
Ten Percent
NETCU ** ( New Goon Squad )
WWF
Congo Basin passes 1 million ha ( hectares ) milestone in swing to sustainable forestry
Flawed U.S. regulations on captive tigers
Climate Change means more floods for a drying Thames basin
( low ground that. Did anybody factor in a 20 foot increase in sea level ? )
Scraping the bottom of the world oil barrel a significant new climate risk ( Athabaska Tarsands )
Call for crackdown after illegal fisher abandon boat on Bali reef
Congo wetland largest to receive international recognition
It's a frackin' cracker

4 August - BlogRoaming

Ten Percent
It's a mystery...ongoing poverty...some millionaire should be able to figure out why the serfs are poor
Culture for 'em - Pop music
Government funded security shows forced on corporate broadcasters
A deliberate and deadly confusion - asylum seekers turned away from clinics and hospitals- NHS policy
Medsin pursuing FOIA from 2004
Blackwater or DEA ? Culver City raid
Look around you - Maths
Opposition leader found in rubbish dump grave - Colombia
Bush Kills the NPT with India's special treatment..."the US insists that Iran do MORE than is required of it, while it has violated the NPT itself by promising cooperation with India"
The journalist they didn't kill ( Quite : Martha Gellhorn winner's permanent injuries and near death from police assault )
Smarter than the average bear
Time is upJournal entry -
A bit of a 'time out' too from world affairs : going through life changes and giving a loving description of what was ( too briefly ) home
The Good Guide to Shadowy Organization ( No alarms went off today - but I had an alert at a Good site two days ago. )
Halifax harbour, once an open sewer, is now open for swimming
CSIS lax about making contractors keep secrets
Brazil wants $21billion to protect the Amazon rainforest
16 police killed in China border attack
Prescription data used to assess consumers ( Cherry picking heaven )
Doctors urged not to screen elderly men for prostate cancer
The 'suicide' of U.S. Army Private LaVena Lynn Johnson
Cryptogon
Italian Army deploys to cities : mayor bans public gatherings of three of more people
( Who will play el Duce ? )
Why does RCMP refer to flesh-eatring murderer as 'Badger'?
Royal bank of Scotland poised for biggest loss in UK banking history
Biometric database to be formed in Israel
War criminal Karadzic protected by U.S. until he broke deal in 2000
Revamp of U.S. spy agencies shifts power
And now: White House briefed on potential for Mars life
Lilly trained sales force to ignore risks associated with Zyprexa
Professor Nocera claims 'almost 100%' conversion efficiency
Anglican Communions slow-motion schism is about more than the Bible
Letters from Afghanistan Installment #4
Letter from Afghanistan Installment #5

I especially recommend the series at Scholars & Rogues 'Letters From Afghanistan'. I think I read them all completely. You will need to use 5 links which are all on post #5.

4 Aug - Further Blog News

In Maine, a laptop for every Middle Schooler
New Brunswick, next door in Canada, has pioneered computer literacy in society, not just class. Maine wouldn't have to go far for a 'read' on what works.
Then again, this article reminds me of the attitudes covered in 'Mr. Holland's Opus', where the value of music in the curriculum was downplayed in the quest to better automate the production of unquestioning drones capable of passing set quizzes : a restriction on freedom of thought and inquiry. Julia Roberts in 'Mona Lisa Smile' illustrated 'social conditioning' in operation perfectly.
AfroSpear's post on the previous list only partly covers this insidious programming.
Inquisitor : tech
Google preps human-based translation service
Inquisitor 3Search aid for Safari
The Arabist
Links listed and a June 23 note on banning of female circumcision in Egypt
New Arab Diplomacy
Why do you deny
Beau Bo D'or
Gas price rises and fuel poverty
Beijing Olympics T-Shirt ( Har ! )
House of Lords becomes Amnesty Multinational
DWP Department of Work or Prison
Gordon Brown, Baghdad publicity shots
New Scientist - Climate Change
Software predicts where el Nino will strike next
Is climate change causing an upsurge in U.S. tornadoes ?
33% of China's carbon footprint blamed on exports
BlueBloggin
Job loss helps the economy. Great. Now we have a displaced voter crisis
H.R. 5843 Are most Americans responsible adults, Try H. R. 5842 ( elimination of certain Marijuana penalties )
Pot for Pain : Congressman Ron Paul introduces medical marijuana legislation
Afro-Netizen
Indictment sought for police Taser death in Louisiana
The color line online ( from )
Lampoon of NYT cover art
A black-white diabetes divide
Miami's housing crisis reveals grave racial and gender disparities nationwide The Media Consortium
Time
The Nation
Affirmative Action largely irrelevant to the Black poor
Suzie-Q
Karl Rove - the Fugitive ?
Former FBI official : White House told FBI to blame anthrax attacks on al Qaeda
Fl bank goes under : First Priority gets shotgun wedding to SunTrust Bank!
Nancy Pelosi cleaning out the swamp ( not ! )
How Daddy Warbucks and his pals scr*wed the American people - The Mandrake Mechanism ( The Fed and $ )
Graham : Talks about McCain's flip-flop this week about raising taxes as a Social Security fix
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is dead at 89
Bu$hCo, Beijing and the Olympic torch
Olbermann Countdown : Anthrax attacks an inside job ?
Olbermann covers Dick Cheney Iran false flag story - Cheney weighs fratricide to sell war on Iran
( Now that's a Worst Person in the World topper )

4 Aug BlogRoaming

Record heat forces closure of Canada Arctic park
Canadian infrastructure at peril from climate change, engineering panel warns
PTCL ITI Connectivity with SMW 4 down - the net stumbles and crawls
Blood & Treasure
behind the bird's nest : architectural changes in Beijing
when the reason the lying bastards were lying to us was discoverable
( obviously not without looking in 'the wrong places' )
this inert thing - a lesson in literary style
victory for localism - local nutter finally cleared of frameup
mugging the burglar ( gas prices )
different values of 'insurgent' ( spying by NRA )
adventures in hateland ( Church shootings )
what he said ( 'strategic' stupidity )
Scum-watch : yet more pathetic BBC-bashing
Grumpy Lion
Evidence shows McCain a racist from way back when
Can McCain get any lower or more pathetic ?
We know McCain is a liar : Is he a racist too ?
A new award : The Lion's Butt Award
a view from the bridge at Clapsotronics
Nader is on the ballot in California
( Clapso is running a Nader blog in the tradition of the Ron Paul blogs now.
He says that if the Dems and ReThugs aren't to win their sham contest between two 'more of the same' candidates, [ McSame and Nobama ] Peace and Freedom party is the only game in town. 6% of ballots - with no media coverage - exceeds the 5% needed to be deemed a 'real' party and heading to 45 states.
I'd also point out that both 'the Left' and 'Conservatives' want a working Constitution back. That's pretty much everyone, hm ?
)
Afro Spear
What about the black community,Obama ?
More blackface in German advertising ( agents provocateurs ? )
A Journey into Womanhood ( agenda claims positive results for 10 years research of outreach to black girls)
Do animals possess Rights that we are bound to respect...and should a Nigga care ?
"We are trained and we train ourselves to stay in our mental shoe boxes, support only the causes within the shoebox, leave our brains in a safety deposit box,...in our shoebox. DO NOT THINK OUTSIDE THE SHOEBOX....inability to 'see' the obvious relationship between all things is conditioned : the shutters are scientifically implanted from Day One."
We need to be quick against Black people who pull us down : Holland
Animal Farm ( Hasn't read it. Shame. Required reading in our schools. )
Advice Goddess
Violence Against Men
( There was a brouhaha against the rape laws and a desire for 'speedier justice' a few weeks back. I know there's a lot of shit going on. Is the likes of this better ? )
Because it doesn't cost them much doesn't mean you get to steal it
Breakups for Assholes
Uncle Miltie on smoking pot
A man can't get pussy in Saudi Arabia ( come-on title for a quip : after a human-interest story )
Girls Can Fly link Amy posted in a note about a deceased aviator
Sitemeter causing Internet Explorer failure ( Except Firefox on Ubuntu is logy as all get out also )
Too much bad press

4 Aug - a collection of Real News

Booman Tribune
Anthrax questions ( another...say what ?...dead suspect )
Wal-Mart organizes for McCain
Bush's payback for the CIA
Those fear and smear emails...
David Kelly ( re: anthrax )
Iran Daily
New diabetic drug unveiled ( odd choice of words )
OIC foreign ministers discuss Gaza
( article : op-ed : Perspective "Heart-rending developments in Gaza now turn it into the world's largest concentration camp where women and children are dying only because they are opposed to Israeli Occupation are not random....the crisis there should not and cannot be ignored by the world, particularly those laying permanent claim to defending human rights and the rule of law." [ Nice dig,that] )
Fierce battle for Chad capital
The Canadian
Iraq War is a Eugenics orchestrated genocide masquerading as an anti-terrorist operation 'Dirty bombs'
America, what about the Iraqis ?
Oil War wastes British and American lives in Afghanistan. Is Iran next ?
Is an oil pipeline behind Canada's war in Afghanistan ? [ a hit ! What we get are 'War Infomercials' ]
Eugenics bias of U.S. ruling elites leading to American refugees fleeing to Canada
First Nations Insights : Poisoned water in Canada, poisoned world
"When you have a cabal running things, as is happening now, there is no such thing as democracy"
"Get up, Stand Up, Stand Up for your Rights"
Rural Canadians get poisoned water from livestock and human waste runoff
North American Union Watch : Fascist organizations in Canada and U.S. try to stop free flow of information on the Internet
Steven Harper government pursues NAU agenda to break up Canada through "new deal for the provinces"
Canadians must inspire a new nationalism against the fascistic ambitions of the NAU and globalization
Toxic tailings from the tar sands : Alberta's new directive worse than useless"The real issue with tailings is that they are incredibly toxic and pose a significant threat to human life and the ecosystem in general"
"there is no evidence anywhere that industry's plans for reclamation will work"
Canadian perspective : privatized health care won't deliver
Steven Harper's apology with native chiefs betrays a public relations scam
Crisis looms as corporations seize control of commodities
Why is Habeas Corpus such a threat to those in power ?
Abbas denies asylum to supporters from Gaza
Where are the world's nuclear weapons ?
Inter Press Service
The G8 has no legitimacy
Trade : New world order in Doha's wake
Fuji : another effort to muzzle the media
The momentum of AIDS prevention is waning
Phillipines: "Church ban on contraceptives is adding to poverty" [ 'Be fruitful and multiply' sounds like a scheme to outnumber the competition ]
Thailand : River diversion plans for whose benefit ?
US considers deploying radar defense system to Israel
Court slams state for ignoring order to change West bank fence route
Government okays first round of bill to collect everyone's photo and fingerprint ( Shades of Nazi Germany )
Common Dreams
Deluded we stand on race and gender
No time for DitheringGarrison Keillor
Americans move Left, New York Times misses it
Comcast unleashes the lapdogs
( The 111th Fighting Keyboarders' hometown heroes )
Bush's fierce global war of denial
We're losing the ability to think
'The parade of shrill, unserious extremists' at today's Impeachment hearings
Why are Democrats taking money from Wal Mart ?
( On this one I'll volunteer the old snark "I'll give you two guesses...and the first one doesn't count" )
Do you want Free Trade, or Fair Trade that helps the poor ?
EPA gagged. What does the agency have to hide ?
( Fire them all. They aren't allowed to do their jobs. Remember, in this case, the rot starts at the top. )
Afghanistan : Not a Good War
Shining a Light on U.S. abuses
We lie and bluster about our nukes - and then wag a finger at Iran

Blue Girl Red State is double posting : new site at They Gave Us a Republic

Emerging scientific discipline of aeroecology
Cutting the brakes on the immune system : new gene variant implicated in Lupus

 

3 August - Intel Story Headings

Blacklisted News
Is the DEA contracting Blackwater ?
Revamp of U.S. spy agencies shifts power
McCain : U.S. neighborhoods need Iraq-style 'surge'
Police seizing guns before crime is committed
U.S. seizes laptops without suspicion of wrongdoing and shares personal data files with private companies
Venezuela to nationalize Spanish bank
BBC fined for deceiving viewers
Brain mechanism can turn off the trauma of bad memories
Study shows signs of toxicity of maize approved for human consumption
Desperate Haitians eating mud
Police given medals after raiding wrong house
UK supermarkets divided on decision to use human waste as fertilizer for crops
EPA tells its staff : Don't answer watchdogs' queries
Russia's new Great Game
Welcome to the 21st Century Police State

Intelligence Daily
Russia-China end decades-long border dispute
Living in Hell for life
Food crisis may hit one billion
Schwarzenegger lays off thousands of state employees
A Labor Department that cheats Labor

U.S. warns Israel
IMF loans linked to tuberculosis in former Soviet republics
That other military draft : "I didn't sign up for the Navy to be in the Army..."
Russian state TV suggests US trading in drug trafficking from Afghanistan ( Air America ? )
George W. Bush authorized 911 attacks says government insider Stanley Hilton ( from Global Research via Prison Planet )
Congress quietly removes martial law provision
Video : American Veterans for Peace call for Impeachment

3 August - Quickpost while the link works

The del.icio.us file holds links on sites with articles that didn't survive downloading from my web connection - which has been especially problematic for over two weeks ( that and finding my way around a new desktop and OS. It doesn't matter how 'intuitive' something is - and I have to give Ubuntu credit - the first floundering around is a proper pain. Then again, I have found more nice surprises.) I've been waiting for hours to post Clipmarks and Del.icio.us entries and to get stories for a post.

JPL : Climate
Solar Baseload Update
Shipping costs start to crimp globalization anti Wal-Mart
Exposing lies, myths and propaganda about Ronald Reagan
We won the Cold War
The USSR collapsed because the US brought pressure to bear
Ronald Reagan defeated communism....all 3 are nonsense
...'we live in a camouflage society in which some psychopathic traits...are tolerated and even valued.'
estimated 70,000 or more political killings in el Salvador, 20,000 from the Contra war in Nicaragua,100,000 in Guatemala
destroyed trade unions, exported jobs and technology, plunged the nation into depression
Vets' suicide rate stunning
GOP became a kooky cult ( list of methods used )
'GOP thinking is circular and symptomatic of psychosis. They claim to disdain poor people while deliberately creating conditions guaranteed to make more of them.' ( Or fearful and taking power away from others while assaulting them )
Rand Report utterly discredits Bush, leaving McCain without a campaign
Bush Sr's Faustian trade bargain with China or How US/China trade threatens to wipe out the US Middle Class
'We have a younger generation who have no experience with so many things - local businesses and tight knit communities, affordable, convenient and efficient public transportation,wages in a household that allowed one person to support a family,homes that were homes not investments,easy access to public recreation,confidence in the safety of food and other consumer items,all regulated and inspected for the public welfare,freedom from the relentless intrusion of corporations into our lives...'
'Standing Tall for America' means firing your workers and sending their jobs to India'

1 August - Tactics of Terror - Declaring Enemies

Tom Usher started me on an 'information-egg' hunt to see if I could make some connections that weren't obvious. This ( no model of understatement ) was my starting point.
I haven't 'gone on' about it at length here on my own blog, commenting at times at other venues, but I have been convinced that most 'debate' about what is going on in the world is in many ways shallow and uninformed. It's like trying to conduct a conversation with an Alzheimer's patient : salient information about background history is missing in large swaths and there is no recognition that this causes total irrelevancies and transient concerns to dominate public 'consciousness'.
Worse, the same 'arguments' go on ad infintum ( forever, already ).
I'm really not bright and creative enough to reason my way through to informed conclusions without information !
We've all heard the reports of how journalists are 'embedded' with troops. That sounds much like the old 'guided tours' in the USSR where you could only go where the authorities wanted. Deviation was 'spying'.
Similarly I think Broken Soldier is spot on how "Support the Troops" is a lie.
Name-calling is used to discourage reporting by serious researchers and discredit their arguments in advance of their submission. That's why the 911 gang finally got listed here. Often they themselves are timid about their positions - not wanting to appear crazed radicals. Ah, the benefits of 'framing' 'discussion'.
I actually had one 'blogger' try to dissuade me from even considering what they had to say as 'subversive' and cruel to the families of the bereaved.
Would that be the same bereaved who tried to demand accountability ?
In a similar case I'll remind you of the attitudes of a certain lady who is unwelcome at George Bush's ranch and wants to run against "Impeachment is off the Table" Pelosi ( though NP has attempted to recant of late ).
Ha ! I'm convinced most people are afraid of being ostracized over what is frankly a perverted position foisted upon us all by what is literally a 'Mind Control' programming of public discourse.
I've been incensed by the lack of real tangible aid to the young people who have - in all sincerity - gone into [War is] Hell and realized far too late that Satan really exists. I'm not being 'religious' here. It's been known for years that police won't investigate Satanic groups/cults because they have an unfortunate habit of leaving behind a trail of dead investigators who get caught up in 'ritual sacrifice'. Convenient, hm ? Isn't the current revelation about military control of US press reporting of the war ( and odd 'detentions' of journalists, - or mysterious deaths and attrition rates ) a 'high sign' that control isn't just about spying on Americans, but controlling what they think and how they discuss as well ? Chomsky is more credible every day.
Nor has there been an ongoing awareness of how everything is 'all of a piece' and there is no great mystery about what has been happening.
Greed, secrecy, disinformation. They lead to unbridled power. Who do we know like that ?
Still, information like the poisoning of Iraq's water - and America's too for that matter - haven't been seen in context of the U.S. and what is called a 'water empire'. That's the way slavery is kept going. People are forced to 'do as they are told'.
It's like a sales primer."What's the best Method to make a sale ?" Answer : "All of them."
That's how monopoly works : control everything. The U.S. laws against them are not enforced and we have monopolies establishing control of all necessities of life on a Global scale.
Some can see what is happening : the pattern of events eventually becomes clear. They are a nuisance that will be abated.
Depleted Uranium has been deployed in Iraq, the Balkans, etc. One side effect of radiation is similar to PTSD
link
That can be augmented by culling the 'intelligentsia' and getting rid of them. The flight of Iraqi doctors and professors is not accidental. They are targeted.
Side effects of a campaign of fear will even affect Americans, distracting them and making them less able to defend themselves.
Depression

Is there anything here from 'wild and wonderful' sources ? I've tried to avoid citing anything questionable. Discussion would be nice.

Would I close a post saying aloud those things we all think about but don't discuss without a link to somebody else's worthy transgression of politeness ?
Detoxify yourself

Great migrations deserve protection
How the first stars came into existence

Early August - Late Night

Balloon Juice
'Fool us three times, we all lose'
Notes on Billmon's article at DKos - 'record' distorting
The Great White Hope
PTSD
McCain isn't a pup and was a POW. Think this report says anything about him ? Currently there is a big hoo-ha about the hippocampus shrinking after trauma, causing depression, forgetfulness, irritability...and stupidity. Note the date on the article. So it's something that needs to be verified today as a marvelous discovery which might lend help in treating vets ? Fast workers those scientists. I always did wonder what were 'Official Secrets'.
Ehud Olmert resignation throws Israel into turmoil
The Smith Institute : New Labour;'s corrupt tax dodge
Hong Pong
Iran-Contra Cliff's Notes on hostage crises, PSYOPS and GOP perception management
July 18 has an exceptionally interesting-looking list of links
Gates strategy stresses unconventional warfare
Suzie-Q
Senate reacts to Court ruling with new call for testimony from Rove and Bolton
Watchdog : Bush turning intelligence agencies on Americans
U.S. lost 2.3 million good jobs to China since 2001 !
Scahill : Blackwater now in the private intelligence business
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT Not the Onion : sci-fi reporting
They're putting anti-aging enzymes in the water
io9 The Culprits - posting 30 a day
Obama promises to violate the 13th Amendment
Transcriptase Hat Tip
The Angry Black Woman
Contrary Brin
poli-miscellaney
5 best note taking tools
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28 - 31 July 2008 Opit's LinkFest! on My Opera

AbuGhraib13Image via Wikipedia

 

31 July - Early Picks

Photography is not a crime
LAPD chief opposes tougher laws against paparazzi
NYPD proving to be out of control
Yale students' lawsuit unmasks trolls, opens Pandora's box
Suzie-Q
Absolute Power, No Responsibility : White House reaction to DOJ hiring scandal
Greedy BP makes L555 a second as it 'picks the pockets of the poor'
Judge says White House Aides can be subpoenaed
Congress should rescind the State of Emergency declared by Bush
George Washington's Blog
Be scared as you could be ( ongoing recruiting scams, threats and intimidation. Will there be 'Press gangs' next ? )
Exxon profits breaks records of any U.S. corporation
Military censorship of the war in Iraq ( When safe civilian cowards ( AWOL etc ) hide what they do so go on about ... )
Bush's legacy of torture
America! Home of the Peeping Tom Society
Regime change coming to Israel
What's in the future for the US Presidency
Forget the Surge ...violence is down in Iraq because ethnic cleansing was brutally effective
Air Force looks to laser-proof its weapons
SEC to recognize corporate blogs as public disclosure
Ho9llywood has finally figured out how to make web video pay

30-31 July - some BritBlogging in the mix

To destroy al Qaeda, we must end the war on terror : Rand Corporation
Canadian Arctic sheds ice chunk
Pickled Politics
'Obama has angered millions of blacks' ( from disinformation central )
So, who wants nuclear power, then ? ( Pointing out there were good and sufficient reasons to abandon the practice )
Council ban on atheist websites ( Hardly promoting goodwill between men )
Miliband and Harmon to challenge Brown ?
Politics is war by any other means
Disabled married off for entry into the U.K.
A cat amongst the pigeons ( exercising whimsy )
and back on June 24 'A great piece on asylum' : which has ideas applicable to the immigration squabble
rather than 'This is how anti-terror laws are used' style screw-ups.
Craig Murray
New Labour and Reality
Law Lords back corruption ( Do you get this impression ? The Brits expect government to jack them around as a matter of course and raise holy hell about it. The U.S. acts too busy with distractions to react with a call to arms : though the incidence of miserable excuses for management is reasonably common in both cases. )
Chiseling the blindfold ( away from the eyes of 'Justice' )
We are all Aztecs now Sunday Herald
( CACI doing Scot census : thought likely to pass private data to CIA )
Jack Straw, Impresario of Torture, lurks towards No. 10
Civility in Politics, and other thoughts ( Brilliant )
Hurray for Glasgow East
Barack Obama on Tim Spicer
Shameless - Brown at the Knesset
More neo-colonial war for oil ( Niger )
Making a killing : Marketing the new dogs of war ( Sri Lanka, PMC, Executive Outcomes : extensive recollections )
Bannaga
Prefabs and more prefabs, gadgets and
Two new drugs promise longer, healthier living
10 ways to get the internet on HDTV
Gartner's top 10 disruptive technologies to 2012
Blue Girl Red State
Now they want the challenges kept secret ( DOJ wants dirty laundry unseen )
Wingnuts and things that actually work
Beware of the true believers around you
Hate to have to tell you this, but Joe Klein is right again
Ten Percent
Police win appeal to not pursue criminals
George Orwell starts a blog ( Diary entries will each be published on the 70th anniversary of their writing)
Apply here for an MA in blog reading
A wingnut doco and no one can mention the CIA
BlueBloggin
Hat tip to citizen activism against sleazy Texas politics
Texas Alliance weekly roundup

Rabbi unveils a secret of God

Until last night, I used XP Home with Firefox + Thunderbird ( I started with Seamonkey and whatever Mozilla release preceded it ), Avant, Flock, Opera... I had fun.Despite a mechanical trap on email and a thorough antivirus scan .... I ended up with an 'invisible' Trojan.
My email account ( with 100's of spam messages a day ) was permanently blocked because of outgoing...not incoming...spam !
Reformat database. Windows obliterated. Ubuntu is my OS now. So far I've been distracted with DNS viruses interrupting our local system to figure out if it's really quicker ( no antivirus ).
Now why would the morning be the best time to post ? I have to wonder if that's when a disruptive account logs onto our network.
Despite having tried a KDE Desktop on Mandriva ( formerly Lindows ) before I wonder about finding my way around a new OS. Already I am impressed by a built-in 'splitscreen' that allows me to switch views on one viewer to give a spreadsheet effect.Firefox and toys work. Hurray !

 

30 July - Late BlogRoaming

Bush : "No regime should ignore the will of its own people"
( The Fuhrer is a funny guy. He must crack himself up. )
Chaotic Good
Banning the Messiah
Chomsky on "Protest Voting"
Tricks to deal with dementia
Broken Soldier
'Support the Troops' is an American Lie
You must be the change you wish to see in the world
( Bob Costa reminds me of the Way of the Wizard )
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness
( He's tired. Got that right. Still deep when he can't think straight. And watching Strong Bad videos ? O.K. Homestarrunner)
Oil Israel Logistics
Perspectv : an election mashup that proves nothing but looks good doing it
US Governors launch West Coast Ocean Action plan
Deep Sea News
Health Care Reform - Corporate style
New uranium plan keeps New Brunswickers in the dark
( Lepreau nuclear plant is built on a fault line. Trusting government to use sense is obviously not a prudent plan. )
Tech Cominco coals up
Mistrust risks violence, interfaith meet told
Chinese authorities order Olympic hotels to install spy gear
Internet sites still blocked for Olympic reporters
Uncensor - activism against China's net censorship
Status of Chinese People
China's Olympics best-case scenario
US Congress acts to suspend bid to upgrade Pakistan fighter fleet 'W'
Blue Girl Red State
IG for Interior : Abandoned mines pose an 'ominous' threat to public health and safety
Wikipedia gets it right - locks Edward's page against tripe
Tom Tomorrow
Ted Stevens indicted !
You should go read this
An update from the front lines in the housing market
( Windhorse isn't heard from all that often. He tends to make an impression. Recommended )
Thanks for nothing ( ouch )
Crazy neocon tries to get in awl business ( Likely to get killed )
Out of Iraq Bloggers Caucus
Lost unto this world
Real News - Is Iraq ready to explode ?
SBA questions Blackwater contracts
Conference to lay plans to prosecute high level war criminals
A message about AFN from Walt Flanagan
Real News : Iraq events moving out of US control
Sham impeachment hearing update
Watching Those We Chose
Nightowl Newswrap
Keeping the crimes straight clickable diagram
Lotus - Surviving a Dark Time
Some questions answer themselves
..."why don't we read about some lefty nutso going into some church or meeting and shooting the place up because they hate conservatives ?"
Footnote to the preceding, lest we forget Dept. ( Turkey and the PKK )
Reality Check ( what was the purpose of the Surge ? )
Humpty-Dumpty visits the Middlle East ( Brown in Israel )
The Geekinator ( First piece I've come across on the potential importance of water on the moon )

29 July - News

Fatal drugs, uneducated patients
( Meds are poisons. Seriously. They are 'concentrates' of natural substances, altered by the procedure. Use with respect. Anybody who thinks you can take them without allowing for caution and an eye for side effects is living in la-la land.
Synergy is when drugs and/or diet interact to pervert the effect. I can't eat grapefruit when taking my blood pressure tabs and expect they are 'antagonistic' to each other. )
Cloned beef has already entered the U.S. food supply
( The Koreans were already rioting over BSE. This should really help things along. )
Overfeeding your child may be considered a crime
( Timing is everything. With the price of food skyrocketing, this may well become another example of useless intervention : or not if people stuff themselves with junk because of costs. Besides, it would be impolitic to demand corn starch be removed from foods ! Ditto aspartame. )
Obesity linked to gum disease
A small supplement company's fight for health freedom
Biodiversity in the Amazon may be the result of Ice Age climate change and ancient flooding, not river barriers
Food chemists use 'edible antifreeze' to make smoother ice cream
( 'Safe' - just like milk from cows taking hormones to increase production )
Secret life cycles of atmospheric aerosols can be illuminated with new technology
WTO talks collapse after Ch

29 July - Morning News and Views

Ukraine declares state of emergency
Russia and U.S. close to nuclear deal
( The U.S. is sabotaging this itself as a result of all the kool-aid put out on Iran : which is a lot closer to Russia should a bad case of stupids be possible. What's this nonsense about Russia providing the noose for its own hanging again ?
Tell me which is the greater threat : a nation buying a reactor system for domestic power - or one with MIRVs on ICBMs ? )
Ahmadjinejad condemns world powers for atomic arsenals
Russian ambassador : UN chief exceeding his authority
Russia starved of top professionals
Mental health survey stuns British Parliament
Bridge worries persis a year after the I-35 disaster
Coral reef 'glue' may not stick under climate change
Lensless on-chip microscope inspired by 'floaters' in the eye
Pardon my Paradox
War with Iran thought to be unlikely at Doug's Darkworld
Isolating Iran backfires ( again )
Dancing Tree
Boycott of Jewish poets
Prisoner swap
Worse than Apartheid
Ten Percent
Just so we're clear about this Occupation thingy
( Israel and Palestine / U.S. and Iraq : doesn't it seem too much for coincidence ? )
Ultra violence and addiction
Illusion of Democracy
SNP hires Abu Ghraib's CACI for Scottish census ( ! )Amar Anwar accuses Scottish government of selling its soul ( Its what ? )
Laughing as I go
The suing of the torturers of Abu Ghraib begins...also news on the Uighurs of Guantanamo *
Surveillance changes behaviour * ( BTW Canucks : didn't a secret trilateral agreement between the US-Britain-Canada designate us electronic snoop HQ ? )
Hrrrm... Israeli citizens to receive new gas masks
Army recruiters threaten high school students

29-30 July Late Links - News

How air pollution affects nature
"substantially harming every ecosystem type in the northeastern and midAtlantic United States...pollutants ranging from mercury to ground-level ozone are impacting the services nature provides us too. Significant environmental problems in Air, Soil and Water."
Saving the High Seas
Biofuels major driver of world food price rise
( Corn was hit by flooding in the MidWest and hail in Alberta )
Do chickens raised in the U.S. taste funny because we chlorinate them ?
Brzezinski,Obama,AIPAC & Iraq War
TomGram : Mercenaries at Work
( Tom writes for Buzzflash : this is a link to a TomDispatch piece which will fly around the net full tilt. These are taken so seriously there's even a list of releases catalogued independently. )
Bush O.K.s soldier's execution
Crooks
Industry money gushed to McCain after reversal on drilling
India signs agreement with US to carry out lunar exploration
Incertus
Stay classy, y'all
Okay, this is funny but ...
Um, Bill ? ( Kristol stretches credidiblity and sense...still )
What about that 'paying Caesar's things to Caesar' thing ?
( A church is supposed to be non profit : if it isn't...well then, nail it ! )
Oh ouch ( McCain raising faux pas to a high art : that's 'putting his foot in it' to the hoi polloi )
Horror Journalism - NYT assesses 'modern literacy'
"No one's ever said you should read more books to get into college"
( educators : no head-banging please )
Learning lessons - power of media narratives
Talk about missing the point
( Talk about misconstruing the point. Given my opinion of the 'media' -- lower than a snake's belly -- I'm not even sure who's the one doing it. )
Books replaced by their movies ( Oddly, losing a lot of detail and colour in the change of medium )
Some publication news and the Random Ten ( Songs )
Annette Tadeo at Netroots Nation
Snubbing atheists on the campaign trail ( The New Jews on the Reich Wing Hate Parade ? )
Modern Day Slavery
Some Schadenfreude
Liberal media, my ass
Young Republicans, desperate to be relevant ( that's kind )
Desperate for attention ? ( McCain VP schtick )
Where the women at ? ( Tossed off the workforce )
Working remotely : it sounds good but how do you actually do it ?
techdirt
Why does the recording industry get to decide who gets threatening letters from ISPs ?
Textbook publishers continue to freak out over file sharing ( better put it online )
Is privacy that Cuil ? ( search startup collects no personally identifying information )
WiFi worries still going strong in the UK
MPAA still clueless : claims anti-piracy is why Dark Knight had a huge opening
Microsoft plays practical joke on people to convince them they like Vista
Senator introduces unConstitutional bill to ban sale of certain video games to minors
( will that curtail the Army doing it ? )
Another quasi-government agency lending money to troubled banks (Corporate Welfare : opening the spigot of public funds )
What is the Arab World's problem ?
( This a trick question ? Wherever it is, you can bet the problem is the U.S. : not least of all because they couldn't identify the Arab World if it bit them in the ass . )
Google Lively - even lamer than Second Life
Cable cos get 5 years to switch to digital mode India
Aussie schools go high-tech Voice recognition software
Site guesses your sex via age-old web flaw
How to do business with a Blacklisted Russian weapons company
The Shield Law : Truth or Fear Mongering ?
Virgin Galactic unveils "White Knight Two"Launch Vehicle
NYC will get its first new subway line in 70 years ( Just in time for sea level to rise 20 feet )
How to Unclog traffic
Blogger Gorshkov will dish dirt on Russian politicians - for a price
China will install deep-mooring system in Arctic Ocean
Expedition to deepest lake bottom set for plunge

28 July - Further BlogRoaming

Truthdig
The Military-Industrial Complex : It's much later than you think
"government secrecy protects it and it degrades our system of checks and balances"
First look at 'W'
Plodding down the information highway ( McCain online initiative : humor )
An unlikely pair fight the death penalty
Second Wind for WTO talks ? ( this IS the organization that has been the target of repeated bombings )

300 They were the only ones willing to defend the Bush Administration
Don't Panic !
Mother Mae I borrow $25 billion ?
:" bAdmin does its part to support the free market"
Oh The AGony ! "Jesus Christ on a bed of linguine. There's nothing to say except that 182 days is 182 days too long."
Activist judges - Part 911
"the long process of scraping the Chimperator's shit off the Constitution continues"
If I were covering McCane's campaign McCain gets Social security but criticizes system

Truthout
DOJ illegally discriminated against non-Republicans
McCaskill takes on Military-Industrial Complex
Iraq : poised to explode
Terrifying ally against Terror
Bush hails Pakistan as ally against extremists

Goodling's actions violated DOJ policy and Federal Law ( violated Gonzales' policy ? )

Voters rolls in several states purged !

Farm animals rights law would require room to roam

Online speed reader

How Skype & Co. get around firewalls

I knew "Welcome to Pottersville" and Jurassic Pork's vitriol were gonzo, but seeing the old Blogspot listed at '300' I searched again.
Look who's at Buzzflash !
Welcome to Oceania : Your friends from Ingsoc

Finally. Welcome Back to Pottersville
Great moments in Republican journalism part 341 ( JP knows that's an oxymoron. The "Great White North" was a time-filler Canadian skit that 'took-off, Eh !' )
John McCain's Facebook page
... and the Persian Gulf will tell ( odd header for the Bugliosi video )
Mission Accomplished...Again
( Well...he's no 'Surrendercrat' ! That is satire BTW. You don't 'surrender' anything when you walk away from genocide reported [ ? ] as a sporting event yielding lovely graft while promoting it as a humanitarian act. )
What good is experience if you can't remember it ?
( In getting shot down or killing fellow crew ? Fine qualifications for Executive .... dummy. )
If a Democracy falls in the middle of a wilderness...
The scorpion and the frog... a Republican retelling
The whiteboarding of history, starring John McCain and the CBS

Worldwide Sawdust
( Layout revised ! Loads so you can see the posts right away . I even had a bitch typed in before the site resolved. )
Like the little Satans we are
Murdering God : of shotguns, Capitalism and Moral Expediency
Renegade Justice : an interview with former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias

28 July - More BlogRoaming

The Existentialist Cowboy
Treason and Conspiracy : How Bush and his 'Material Supporters' betrayed the nation

Prohibited conduct
Torture
Cruel or inhuman treatment
Performing biological experiments ( on people )
Murder
Mutilation or maiming
Intentionally causing serious bodily injury
Rape
Sexual assault or abuse
Taking hostages

Bush's presence mocks the principles of U.S. independence

The Enemy is Us !

( Sidebar : Breaking News plus Updates on OpEd News and Buzzflash stories )

OpEd News
Secret biowarfare agenda
Propaganda and the South African AIDS crisis
Impeachment blockading excuse : Fear ye the terrorists. Who ARE they ? Read and see
The fight to hold on to our HAVA-compliant lever voting system
The vast and dangerous transfer of American spying to mercenary companies
US warns Israel 'There will be no USS Liberty Part II'
Note to MSM : Stop saying 'The Surge (TM) Worked' and the Occupation is a 'War'
Egypt seizes Israeli radioactive cargo
Top Secret government database used in Bush spy program : USA - Police State
Conyers tries to kill Impeachment Hearing before it starts
Can 'War on Corruption' replace 'War on Terror' ?
Drugs in Afghanistan
... "nobody ever tried to explain how to win over the farmers while destroying their crops"
Women suicide bombers seeking revenge in Iraq

The Heathlander

Shimon Peres on the Wall
Sly Fox ( as in Faux )
How Israel deals with unarmed demonstrators
Four years on, the annexation wall remains ( 723 kilometres or 449 miles )
Norman Finkelstein vs. Dov Weisglass
Hossam on the struggle in Egypt militant labour activity
Israel's abuse of journalists

Dad 2059's Blog
The Octopus and the Edgar Mitchell controversy

What makes us sick

A ,microscope measuring picometers

28 July, - First Picks - BlogRoaming

Firefox tip : save multiple pages as MHT files in one go !
'Dinosaur eel' inspires body armor of future
The Slime of the Ancient Mariner McCain : Hat Tip >
Blue Girl Red State
Premature, presumptuous and wrong about damned near everything
Vet suicide numbers
Money, not ideology or nationalism, drives the Iraqi insurgency
Parsons fails in Iraq but keeps luctrative government contracts
How is Agricprocessers still in business ?
Purity trolls and broadband access
So who is giving money to McCain ?
Beat Cancer
U.S. military says soldiers fired on civilians
No Doubt About It
Collateral damage - America's war against Iraqi civilians
Energy ! Obama McCain the same
Impeach ! Highlights
Desert Peace
Death penalty, a punishment for civilians, is not sufficient in Israel
The ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem
Tools of Occupation as weapons
Settler attacks are treated like rape
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