-Jan 17,2008 My Opera

Weekend Blog Reviews
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BlueBloggin
History of US-backed dictators redux
Bush said what? US should have bombed Auschwitz ( and Gitmo ? )
Angry Musharraf warns US - he means it this time ( knows what happened to Saddam, a US tool )
If this was the Mafia ( If? )
Fred Thompson surges...backwards
Bush can't help himself
"His weapons are being used to kill our kids so he cannot be an honest mediator."
( Succinct : hopefully obvious )
Blackwater gases US troops
Palestinians: Bush won't pressure Israel ( Sure he will : not for peace,however )
Blue Girl Red State
Friday Catblogging
Consequences of the Surge in Iraq
Let's talk about port security
What do you have to do to get fired around here?
Calm the hell down,people ( Blackwater, gas, overreaction : when Pale says that - I listen )
LTC Jordan 'cleared'
The 'Bush' of the Democrats
A Ron Paul flare-up on RedState equals hilarity
And then there were three .. Bill Richardson drops out
Rather's suit goes forward--Will the truth come out?
Dad 2059's SF Blog
Hubble Update
The BiPartisan Manifesto
The Report from Iron Mountain
( Dad does politics differently : he's off and running with new 'finds': wargaming made operational. Oops : I said that for quite a while - just not on this level of complexity. )
The Branson Borealis - private space enterprises
'Second Life' to keep Mars crews company
Space Daily
Space War
An interview with a Livermore physicist
Daily Galaxy
There are not only more potentially habitable planets, but many more
Radiohead going green
John Stewart on New Hampshire primary
18 Billion Suns - Biggest Black Hole in the known universe discovered - and it's BIG
Ouch - Robots to feel pressure and pain
Do Androids dream of electric sheep?
The Milky Way's X-Factor : Rogue, planet devouring black holes
China 3.0
Could supernova explosions damage Earth ?
Economic Objectorvism
Going nuclear
How does one eliminate plastic shopping bags without inconveniencing customers?
Key economic developments and prospects in the Asia-Pacific region 2008
Violence and excess mortality in Iraq
Evaluating public expenditure: Measuring Outcomes
The French word for taxation
HowTo: The Quantity theory of Inflation. Or. China's idiosyncratic monetary policy at it again
Hypoxia (environmental) : oxygen depletion,a reduced concentraion of dissolved oxygen in a waterbody leading to stress and death in aquatic organisms
"personal protection and personal music for people on the go"
( This is a world-class find for most outrageous - and offensive - commercial offering )
Existentialist Cowboy
Invasion of the vote snatchers - live free: or Diebold
Bush promises to nuke Iran ( s/b another 'He Said WHAT'? )
Princeton University reveals how the GOP steals election
How the GOP benefitted and continues to benefit from Lincoln's assassination
The armies not there, te battles not fought
Bhutto knew too much about Bin Laden, 911,the CIA
George McGovern: George W. Bush is guilty of 'numerous impeachable offences' and Dick Cheney is a Chicken Hawk
An Administration of Lies, BS and Bunkum
The recession is close...and you cut taxes
Fundamental Freedom
Comic relief??
Benjamin R. Barber on PBS' Bill Moyers Journal
Army major blogged about his death
January 11, 2008 is the six-year anniversary of the arrival of the first prisoners at Guantanamo Bay
Israel to brief Bush on options for Iran strike during visit
Informed Comment
US video of Iran speedboats doctored
Irrepressible Info
Censorship News
Heathlander
Gravel on the presidential candidates
So much for the "Last Resort"
Israel rejected numerous opportunities to avoid confrontation with Hizbollah
"Hiding behind civilians" - a fabrication
Monte Asbury's Blog
France best, US worst in preventable deaths
How Big Business raids the Third World through the World Bank
McCain: "100 years in Iraq is fine with me"
Astrologers 1: Monotheisists 0
"Jesus challenges the nature of religion,which ever threatens to turn us into heartless rule-keepers"
( Monte even surprises me sometimes - though I should know better. It's just that I agree so heartily with him on this that it's hard to keep from cheering - and why should I ? Yaahoo ! )
Norwegianity
Only officer convicted of anything at Abu Ghraib has had his conviction thrown out
whistleblower gagged
Military rape
Politics 'n Poetry
Wall deflecting for Harper?
Isotope crisis has moved US to seek other sources
Linda Keen: What it means to Stand Up for Canada
Ten Percent
A town called Malice: Oh yeah, Jenna ain't racist
Friday Futureama: Bender's Big Score
Civilisation marches on
"Another person killed by police with tasers. And 81 people arrested as the supreme court ponders should the kidnapped and tortured inmates at Gitmo be allowed access to U.S. courts because that's like a really, really hard question - retarded tyranny or civilisation. Yeah, you big learned distinguished geniusesweigh that one up, it's a toughie!"
Operation Phoenix
Gulag Friday! Six years of Gitmo & Binyam Mohamed update
ACLU renews campaign to close down the gulag on rented Cuban land
"this 'security' excuse has become the cover-all brand over any and all government wrongdoing and in a democratic state it is simply not acceptable, it is a meaningless use of words to not actually give a reason while appearing to do so."
Homeland Security...of the vote?
"U.S. officials said they would unveil on Friday reasonable and inexpensive national requirements to implement an identification card program critics call a costly invasion of privacy."
" The Supreme Court appeared ready Wednesdat to uphold the nation's strictest requirement that voters show photo identification before casting a ballot."
Keystone Tonkin Mash-Up and other damn lies
"With winter deepening, Gazans will be forced to live without lights and electric heaters eight hours a day because Israel has cut supplies to the territorys' only electric plant in half"
"The Israeli army stepped up a broad offensive in the Gaza strip starting Thursday and killed at least 11 Palestinians in a 24-hour period after militants fired a rocket that struck deep into Israel."
" U.S. warplanes have dropped more than 18,000kg of bombs on more than 40 targets in the southern outskirts of the capital city, Baghdad."
The Tonkin Commemorative Geography Quiz
Bush: U.S. could 'easily' be in Iraq for 10 years
Blackwater used CS gas on civilians and U.S. troops
Denying the obvious: Th so-called Global Warming skeptics
Top Ten Shock Blogs
Special privileges for Bible classes Hat Tip Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
TomGram: If the GWOT were gone...
Welcome to Pottersville
Histrionic Chutzpah Theater Presents...
"Not your typical bank..." Citizens'... not so much
One way to beat rush-hour traffic OMFG time
San Diego voters confront Board of Supervisors
Clinton's Diebold Bump
Raw footage of Iranian speedboats harassing US warships
What we get if Hillary wins

Weekend Blogging Fix
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/2008/01/13/weekend-blogging-fix

I just went for it. Links away !


Blogging for kindness
Iraq eases curb on Baath officials
Blue Girl Red State
Go Read This Now
Organ donor overhaul call
Warning on stealthy Windows virus
Al Jazeera
Guantanamo protests worldwide
What if everything you believe is wrong?
Non-attendees find faith outside church
Clipmarks - All Popular Now
FBI Agent : Lack of expertise stymies war on terror
blogTV
Bush tanked the U.S. economy
A second company promises 100mpg engine
Ad Water4Gas
AfroSpear
Super Delegates: The "Undemocratic" Democratic Party primaries
Who is Lovebabz and why should you care
Obamamania : a view from north of the 49th Parallel
Advice Goddess
Jan 10 When 'Science Journalism' is 'National Enquirer' journalism
Agitprop
More big shitpile - Countrywide
All Things Pakistan
Arts Pakistan - a place to visit
Roti in Pakistan
Terrorists hit Lahore with a suicide attack
The colourful Mil vs Dil relationship in Pakistani society
Coconut seller
Being a patient in a Pakistani hospital ( Echoes of Iraq )
Thatta Kedona - a self-help project
Reshma and son: The Voice of the Desert ( no longer available )
More crises in Pakistan - Electricity, flour, sugar, water, sui gas crises - what is the way out?
altmuslim
The arabization of Islam
American Leftist
Haditha: no murder charges
extreme manifestation of the violence and degradation that U.S. troops inflict upon Iraqis as a matter of course
Only 151,000 violent Iraqi deaths?
Death of Philip Agee
exposed the brutality of U.S. covert operations around the world in the 1970's and the men responsible for them
Amused Cynicism
Should Blair get half a million?
Making a profit from user-generated content
Huckabee is unfit to be president
Siemens, Nazi collaborators
Balneus
Rudd incites violence
Cycles and trains
Monkey maths
Should Reserve Bank count smiles?
Obsidian Wings
Obama Christ, Superstar ( forget the allusion for a moment: this is insightful )
AT&T's new love for Copyright
Gender and New Hampshire
( I'm not getting into a comments thread 396 entries long when I arrived. I'll just note DieBold seems the best explanation of how this result appeared. )
Attending the World
U.S. Elections: the AIPAC factor
Balloon Juice
The Macro Embassy as microcosm
Is the reconciliation starting?
Onion editor to move to MoveOn
The Goldberg Principle - you can prove any thesis true if you make up your own definitions of words
Another day in Paradise -- Iranian speedboat theater/scam
I can has unity pony?
( As in dog-and-pony show ? )
Call me Karl Rove
I got what America needs right here
( Not for sensitive ears - but what a righteous send-up ! )
Let their people come: Breaking the deadlock on global labor mobility
Blinded by our Spite (interesting--but quite possibly OTL because vote theft caused change)
Bastard Logic
Twisting the Knife - Women's Rights
Temp agency hell in Ontario
Ceaseless wonders - investigative journalism from an unexpected source
Tad Safran's American Beauty
There's a riot going on ( say what? )
Omar Khadr
Prosecuting a child soldier for war crimes : without due process
But why mustn't we tear down that dirty little house?
Statins for all diabetics urged
Iowa caucus results explained
Jon Swift
Google bombs Jon Swift
Out of Iraq Bloggers Caucus
The Face of War
And still the Baghdad embassy isn't complete
Obama: I was against the war before I became weaselly?
151,000 - The Forgotten Number
David Swanson: "To Nancy with all due respect" ( Catchy phrase, that )
Shell and Total preparing to Loot Iraqi oil field near Syria...what that garners for the rich, who are not like you & I
More on why Iraqi soldier killed two U.S. soldiers - defending woman?
Provocation in the Strait of Hormuz
" If Iranian warships ever made it as close to the American coastline as US warships now lie to Iranian shores, our military would in all likelihood attack them. Iran is not attacking our warships - parked on their doorstep."
The Moral Instinct
Worldwide Sawdust
WA state Senator introduces resolution to impeach Bush and Cheney
John Stewart on Chris Matthews : That guy's insane
Senator's inquiry into mega-church money hypocrisy sparks church-state showdown
A Surge of more lies
Cheney-Bush's billion dollar Baghdad firetrap
Crony capitalists: History's still hangin' around
Seven steps to a Homeland Security campus
Our shameful Guantanamo anniversary
Big Pharma front group launches anonymous blog to publish an 'enemies list'
Doubts grow over Iranian boat threats
No Immunity Deal ( CIA torture tapes destruction )
Levite begone: releasing the Samaritan within
"Contrast to Christ's message...our nation consists of grossly deformed social, political, economic and cultural systems that idoctrinate us into the quasi-religion of "it's all about me" while conditioning us to reflexively reject nearly all things related to the collective 'US' "
Princeton points out Diebold machines extreme vulnerability to fraud
Bagram detention center now twice the size of Guantanamo
Recession -- who cares?
Blackwater - Privatizing gas warfare?
Pentagon,Big Pharma: Drug troops to numb them to horrors of war
Argentine scientist designs low-cost configurable solar roof
FBI finds Blackwater trucks patched
Election can be stolen 'in under a minute' with Diebold machines
$900 gold - what's behind it?
Did mcCain benefit from Bhutto assassination?
Mountain Runner
Predicting counterinsurgency
What's in your reading pile?
First State, now the White House?
America's upper classes have gone AWOL
Galaxy hunting made easy - Quasars light the way
Is your heart racing for the wrong reason?
Culture influences brain function
Heads up, Chris Matthews! Here come the bloggers
I wonder why we have to keep bailing out banks?
Build your own high-res wallpaper with PaperMaker
WallPaperMaker
Starfish for Windows
Humans blamed in coral reef disappearance
BlueBloggin
FBI phone lines cut, critical surveillance missed
No doubt about it
High risk loans - an investigation into the mortgage crisis
Lake Erie UFOs are stars on YouTube
the Real UFO Project

Two more 

Hospital deep cleaning under fire
The ubiquitous unidentifiable 'spokesperson' for the Department of Health has an interesting way of rephrasing the following : There is no excuse for improper sanitation procedures and we don't have one.
Childhood obesity : a lifetime of danger

16 January - Morning Picks
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/2008/01/16/16-january-morning-picks

 

A few - mostly news - current items

Kongregate : Games
Lengthy volunteer stints burn out military wives
Latest trick from the RIAA: Pissing off reviewers with annoying voice-over anti-piracy messages
Unlawfully wedded wife
Predatory starfish threatens Indonesian waters
Low testosterone, more mens' fractures
Help for intimate pain womens' health
Study shows strides in diabetes care
What the world's healthiest guys know
Is kosher food safer ?
Britain's police balk at plug-in to FBI database
( What odds that position will be overridden within a month ? )
Head of Canadian nuclear regulator fired
( Blame the boss : not the impossible position he was put in. Read "Politics 'n Poetry.WordPress )
Probiotics affect metabolism
BlueBloggin
Pentagon and CIA : authorized for secret ops in Pakistan
John Edwards: America Rising, coast to coast
NBC out of control with Kucinich appeal
Michigan's uncommitted/ Kucinich could help Obama and Edwards
Musharraf speaks to the Democratic Candidates
John Edwards neck and neck in Nevada
What a follow up line from Musharraf
PNG nickel mine under fire
Experts' fear of further flooding U.K.
Existentialist Cowboy
How the CIA created a corporate, ruling overclass in America
The CIA created Al Qaeda and there is 'Probable Cause' to charge George W. Bush with High Treason!
Exit polls: Obama won New Hampshire

Evening News
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/2008/01/17/evening-news


British Council caught in real life 'absurd episode'
Now we really have a crisis
Russia's man in London leaving the foreign office yesterday
St. Peterburg Times
Russia to assess U.S. democracy
Moscow angered by British council defiance
Thousands protest in Tbilisi claiming election rigging
High global oil prices boost Russia's trade surplus
Italian businesses resist Mafia with Internet site
Jerusalem indicates use of force against nuclear Iran
Say 'No' to tightening control over civil society
Caucasian Knot
No electricity and heat at hospitals and kindergartens of the capital of Dagestan
Red Cross calls for answers to disappearances
Russian railway wins tender in Armenia
Belarus considers buying advanced Russian air defense system
Iranian navy receives stealth-capable submarine
Can Blackwater be prosecuted?
Suzie-Q
Pakistan People's Party wants UN investigation on Bhutto murder
Wexler : Cheney Impeachment stronger than Watergate
U.S. Supreme Court also in complicity of Constitutional Treason
How the Pentagon planted a false story (Hormuz)
Kucinich's "Space Preservation Act" ignored by BushCo
European Press: It wasn't a miracle - Hillary won via a rigged vote