Tuesday, December 22, 2009

2-4 May 2007 Opit's LinkFest on My Opera

2 May - Morning News Picks

Barracks for Charlie Co. CO 2/508 82n Airborne
HT The Broken Soldier
The inevitable result of lies, graft and neglect: money 'spent' without oversight or accountability causes these results everywhere.
U.S. brings Iraq-like surge to Afghanistan
No one else has a clue what to do, obviously - except the self-styled masters of success and cooperation ( and graft).
The Bomb Squads : how to survive a Gaza refugee camp
Britain's Brown mauled in local elections
Medial Journal calls for review of Taser safety Objects to reliance on company statements. Again: oversight MIA
Thailand floats idea of rice cartel
Australia, the largest producer, has been hit by drought : note the cartel is proposed as a model to increase food prices, a normal effect of scarcity in a 'free market'; not to combat starvation. Price gouging/monopoly of an essential for life thus becomes an economic model due to political opportunism.Basics of Empire : talk Free Trade and act Monopoly.
Global Food Crisis : The Tickling Bomb
GM crops good for streams ?
Charred earth examined as carbon-storing option
Ugly parasitic plant reappears after two decades
Finally, digital poducts flow from Kodak's labs
Using the Wikipedia API
Learning to use Boolean Search Operators in Google
Open your favorite websites directly from Vista Start Menu
Mozilla speaks out against free-but-proprietary web apps
Oosah : a hub for your personal online media
Google offers snapshot of VisualRank efforts
8 dirty secrets of the Security Industry
Woman believed to be D.C. Madam kills self
How convenient - for the embarassed and powerful
Beijing chooses Edmonton for key Confucius Institute
Singapore research breakthrough to usher in low-cost solar cells ?
Race to algae-based biodiesel heats up
Utilities, plug-in cars : near collision ?
Personal, 'green' airplanes propel foward

3 May - First Look at the Web

Yesterday's extensive links list died of misadventure. The featured blog was
The Existentialist Cowboy and Len exceeded himself - if that's possible. Time pressures are encouraging me to skip the precis and just encourage you Hart-ily to go see what's up.

You name it, exercise helps it
New kind of star discovered in Big Dipper
In '88, a lesson in using symbols as bludgeons i.e., truth would be disastrous, focus full-bore on bullshit
The Moderate Voice
Who tried to kill Hamid Karzai ? "Now comes the search for the perpetrators, conducted by the perpetrators themselves."
Court upholds NC's public financing of judicial campaigns
Disgruntled Republicans crossing over in Democratic Primaries aren't just obeyin Rush Limbaugh
Why Liberation never felt so good and other Glorious News from Bush's Forever War
Credit card crackdown
A Lost Story ( worth finding )
Can any candidate take us out of Oceania and back to the U.S.A.? Or is that solely up to us ?
Rumors of conspiratorial undergound movements are usually Bull$*#&

3 May - More BlogNews

Secret Bush "Finding" Widens War on Iran
Contractors Gone Wild
U.S. bombs hospital
The Carter Coup
protect_democracy's submissions
Kiko's House
Why Liberation never felt so good and other Glorious News from Bush's Forever War
David Hackworth: An Appreciation
Quotes from around yon blogosphere
Jackboot Feminism : New details emerge on WVWV's voter suppression scandal
Newspapers 1 : On the brink of extinction ?
Newspapers 2 : The decline and fall of MoDo
The few, the proud, the bad
Cuba looks to biotechnology
rotests against GM crops in India HT Christian Commons
U.S. declares War on Poor
Soaring food and fuel prices threaten many more than just 100 million worldwide with hunger
OPEC says oil prices may hit $200 a barrel ; not could but will
424 days and still no arrest of top bankers for fraud and theft
Imagine a Secretary of State whose idea of foreign policy is abolishing nuclear weapons
US State Department and Pentagon disagree on Iran as state sponsor of terrorism
Jimmy Carter wins in a landslide 64% of Israelis favor negoiations with Hamas
Turn on the light in Israel
Jeremiah Wright advances anti-racism and truth light years relative to his detractors
Obama would have denounced Martin Luther King Jr.
Obama offended by truth offends me
Scalia asks "Has anyone ever referred to torture as punishment ?" Yes
How much did Rumsfeld know ?
( Start with the 1990's war game first for background Post Saddam Iraq Don't forget "Cheney" on YouTube explaining why the Gulf War did not include invasion of Iraq.)
Future of lucrative chloresterol drugs murky

4 May - Afternoon Browsing

Selling the war ***
American and Israeli War Crimes : Same Atrocities : Different Responses
Ten Percent
Q2N Relentless : MI6 war pimp chums up with Mossad
Clinton stands by 'obliterate' line
Q2N Relentless : Bush planning 'surgical strike' in Iran
351 reported dead fom cyclone Nargis in Burma
Q2N Relentless : Bush secretly authorizes assassination of Iranian officials
Hundreds feared dead in Mynmar cyclone
Put up or shut up ( Israeli intelligence and Iran )( Comments are excellent)
Iran gives ultimatum to Total, Shell
Iran announces it is seeking membership in the Shanghai Cooperative Association
A study in passive resistance
A brief expose of a fraudulent war
Epilepsy seizures in kids lessened by high fat low carbohydrate diet
Enzyme could be malaria's weakest link
Why alcohol makes you loosen up and lash out
MRSA superbug invades public schools as conventional medicine ignores natural cures
Cholera study provides exciting new way of looking at infectious disease
Information Operations : Doctrine and Practice
Army looks to buy minesweepers for Afghanistan Canada
COMMENTS FROM LEFT FIELD
Fred Hiatt on why air strikes are bad in Somalia but good in Iraq
On Peace and Cognitive Dissonance
A Writing Contest to Unite the Left
Phony 'National Day of Prayer' pushes right-wing judges
The state of the Democratic party's union ( insightful )
The Existentialist Cowboy
Twilight of the American Empire
China issues an alert over hand, foot and mouth disease
Agrobacterium and Morgellons Disease : A GM Link ?

4 May - Newsbreak

The prize of oil : Falkland Islands
The new predators of press freedom
Gummen grab Iraqi journalist from car and kill her
Bangladesh wants closer relations with Iraq
BlueBloggin
Iran-Pakistan-India Nexus - the new silk road
Somalis protest US strike
Happy Mission Accomplished Day The list of 'how he's done'
Bush-Cheney Israel disinformation campaign to justify an attack on Iran
Surplus US food supplies dry up
Chief international energy economist Fatih Birol : "Leave oil before it leaves us"
Rising energy costs and the future of hospital work
Police Ethics

4 May - Afternoon Browsing

Selling the war ***
American and Israeli War Crimes : Same Atrocities : Different Responses
Ten Percent
Q2N Relentless : MI6 war pimp chums up with Mossad
Clinton stands by 'obliterate' line
Q2N Relentless : Bush planning 'surgical strike' in Iran
351 reported dead fom cyclone Nargis in Burma
Q2N Relentless : Bush secretly authorizes assassination of Iranian officials
Hundreds feared dead in Mynmar cyclone
Put up or shut up ( Israeli intelligence and Iran )( Comments are excellent)
Iran gives ultimatum to Total, Shell
Iran announces it is seeking membership in the Shanghai Cooperative Association
A study in passive resistance
A brief expose of a fraudulent war
Epilepsy seizures in kids lessened by high fat low carbohydrate diet
Enzyme could be malaria's weakest link
Why alcohol makes you loosen up and lash out
MRSA superbug invades public schools as conventional medicine ignores natural cures
Cholera study provides exciting new way of looking at infectious disease
Information Operations : Doctrine and Practice
Army looks to buy minesweepers for Afghanistan Canada
COMMENTS FROM LEFT FIELD
Fred Hiatt on why air strikes are bad in Somalia but good in Iraq
On Peace and Cognitive Dissonance
A Writing Contest to Unite the Left
Phony 'National Day of Prayer' pushes right-wing judges
The state of the Democratic party's union ( insightful )
The Existentialist Cowboy
Twilight of the American Empire
China issues an alert over hand, foot and mouth disease
Agrobacterium and Morgellons Disease : A GM Link ?

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