26-31 May 2007 Opit's LinkFest! on My Opera

26 May - Surfing Finds

Monday, 26. May 2008, 20:15:24

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By the Sewers of Babylon
The Daily Howler
Klein plays the fool !
Brainwashing America
Scenes from the Tar Wars
Inside a Louisiana company's chemical spy op
The Big Farm Scam
The U.S.dollar hits an oil slick
How to Rule the World after Bush
Cryptogon
Whither the price of oil ? ( Futures market thinks this is a 'price bubble'; Iran having trouble selling its oil )
Teenage student isolates microbe that breaks down plastic ( Nice backgrounder )
New Zeland : business booming for debt collectors
Energy fears looming, new survvalists prepare
California home prices drop 32% amid foreclosures
U.S. rice farmers want class action against Bayer
Student researching al-Qaeda tactics held for six days ( How do you research a sham problem - foreign meddling ? Sham in the sense foreigners won't be 'solving' it at least. )
British to outlaw discrimination against military
Needlenose
War Brides ( War Widows Club )
Sistani : a beard full of "Hell No" on U.S. bases ?
Politicians fiddle while the oceans burn
Moue Magazine
Link roundup : Memorial Day Edition ( + stats fragging 'Support the Troops' )
Fox News jokes about an Obama assassination
Why Pakistan gets a nuclear pass
Israel has 150 nuclear weapons
Greetings Earthlings
The benefit of bifocal thought
"how a 'win-win' situation could be best obtained from a two-party negotiation"
( Heh. Negotiation occurs when both parties are convinced they will lose. )
Can we get it together on planet Earth ? cultural divergance
When the message matters - communicating importance
Ideology - first thoughts on peception and belief
Feeding your mind - RSS links in sidebar
Blogging for dissidents
Avoiding human rights
Rights and obligations - domestic helpers in Hong Kong
Lack of forgiveness can affect our health

29 May - Signs of the Times

Thursday, 29. May 2008, 22:24:39

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Rocket fuel, pesticides and pharmaceuticals swirl in America's troubled waters
Continuity of government and the ENDGAME scenario
The Existentialist Cowboy
The real reason Fox is upset with Hillary
Scott McClellan : Bush misled Americans to go to war
Evidence that Bush will cancel elections and declare martial law
Karl Rove : Best at the Worst
While Bush drags U.S. into Dark Ages other nations forge ahead
Arresting John Bolton
Terrorism and the New World Order
Station Charon
"Can You Say 'Coup d'Etat' ?"
September 11,2001 The day the reset button was hit on over two centuries of American history and allowed for new doctrines of preemptive war, the domestic police state and the codifying of torture into the law of the land.
How to Seize a Country
A Clean Break : a new stategy for securing the realm
Targets mean police focus on minor crime
Money Laundering and the dirty truth
Writedowns push CIBC to $1.1 Bn loss
Cluster bomb ban, rejected by U.S., to be adopted in treaty
Google Earth now viewable in web browsers
Iraq's ancient tablets to get new, virtual life
Satellites, beekeepers track climate change response
Doug's Darkworld
Mystery object spotted on Mars
We could have won Vietnam
Through thick and thin - history repeats itelf again

31 May - Evening Views

Saturday, 31. May 2008, 22:52:13

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Who's the superpower now ?
Mel Hurtig - the truth about Canada podcast
China evacuates 197,000 as quake rivers swell ( FEMA nowhere to be seen )
Myanmar warned over forcing cyclone survivors home
No Doubt About It
McCain redux - Mr. 'Straight Talk' has a lot of splainin' to do
( This is more complete than is convenient to precis )
Israeli nukes - like we didn't know
The hidden chemical in cans ( bisphenol A )
Scott McClellan hits White House in new book
Resign Bush Cheney
Your ISP may be selling your web clicks
Obama's security detail
Solar cooking
Jesus' General
Lanny Davis on why Liberals are anti-Semites
Department of Book Reports 70 : Crazy School
The Trojan Horse of Bulging Gayness
FEMA's naked ladies
DFo Androids Dream of Electric O'Reilleys ( How about eclectic sheep ? )
McUlysses
Memoriable Day ( contrast )
Blood and Roots, Blut & Boden : American racism rearing its ugly head
Nationally sold kids' comic called 'Training Manual for next Pogrom against Jews'
Elephant paints self portrait
Academe's Dirty Little Secret
The Social Bookmarking Frenzy
A Moveable Feast : the Del.icio.us web
Fever can unlock autism's grip ( temporarily )
Oil bubble could prove threat to pension funds
BlueBloggin
Sen. Bill Nelson makes false statement to DNC committee
The leaky Bush - Probable Cause for Treason
That awful sucking sound "We don't know what we paid for in Iraq" : U.S. paying its allies to fight war in Iraq
WAR - who still believes in Bush
Can wounded soldiers vote ? No, Maybe, Well OK
Lead exposure linked to violent crime, brain changes
Eco-Diary Rescue 5.31
Informational Post - Articles / 'Daily Kos Environmentalists' **
Solar charged lawnmower
Green globetrotting with Ecofabulous
An Immodest Proposal for winning and ending the War on Terror
Democracy for America
Existentialist Cowboy
Bush tells another bald-faced whopper, claims he has 'laid foundation of peace !'
Garling Gauge
Pelosi threatens to interfere in nomination process
Military recruits thousands more warbots for new unmanned surge
Free game hopes to save gorillas
The link between voter fraud and restrictive ID Hat Tip Over the line, Smokey !
US Attorney scandal was about voter suppression
Drop the Cuba embargo !!
fma7
Mind detox XIX : Cyrano's Journal Online
Mind detox XVIII
( List of articles with introductions. This blogger is a buddy who was out of circulation for a while; another opinionated Canuck - with vitriol and facts )
A debate on U.S. actions in the Balkans, the independence of Kosovo, Iraq Sanctions and Humanitarian Intervention
( The way it's often done today, humanitarian invention would be apropos. The Wes Clark info is worth chasing down. )
Canada is the security blanket for American motorists and power companies
Tony Blair's leap of faith
Cloistered shame in Israel

21-26 May 2007 Opit's LinkFest! on My Opera

May 21 - Found on the Blogs

Wednesday, 21. May 2008, 22:11:45

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Memorial Day Post
Lions led by Donkeys
Contrary Brin
Corn,ethanol,farms, food and the logic of the granary
The history and common sense of farm subsidies...and what happened
What does any of this have to do with biofuels and ethanol ?
The right way to apply hard liquor
IPS News
Women's Co-operative buys in bulk to beat food inflation
Czech Republic: people battle radar site
Muslim youth try humour to rout stereotypes
U.S. might just choke the WHO
Not enough done to protect biodiversity
School recruiting could violate international protocol
NewsDaily
A proposed ban on cluster bombs could jeopardize U.S. participation in joint disaster relief and peacekeeping operations around the world ( Promise ? )
PR Watch Audio
Blue Girl Red State
Peace breaking out in Lebanon ?
They violated international law, they employed torture, and Condoleezza Rice is complicit
The spy who posted his professsional resume
The Existentialist Cowboy
Bush's conspiracy to Create an Amerian Police State Part VIII : Atrocities are justifed with lies, myths or propaganda ( or ? )
Ten Percent
Naomi Klein on Golden Shield
The Independent Censor Mark Steel on the Raytheon 9
Bush here in June - you're not fucking welcome
Afghanistan - the Dirty War ( Death Squads )
The Sheriff of Nottingham anti-'terror' squads terrorize university
Data Mine ( data glut )
George plays a blinder - Monbiot
Continuity of government : the road map for martial law
iraq update
Pentagon 'three-day Blitz' plan for Iran
Blackwater reminder
New Iraq deployments could maintain U.S. force level
bomb,bomb,bomb Iran : updates
destructive rural realities in iraq and seeds of democracy
Iraq seed treasure destroyed
PEJ News
Oil companies complicit in rights abuses
Romeo Dallaire compares Canada and the US to terrorist organizations ( Lt-Gen )
Conference on Defence Association's charitable status questioned
Canada and B.C. have abandoned the right to vote of citizens without fixed residences
Intelligence Daily
Israel proposes naval blockade of Iran
Israeli press reports Bush pledge of war on Iran
Israel to privatize prisons for profit
NSA destroyed evidence of domestic spying
Vaccines...how to create disease and genocide
( Did you get the bit where, after taking women and children from their homes because their men were suspect because of an anonymous 'tip' that was never substantiated ( not the men taken - too sensible ), the kids were to be immediately vaccinated over the objections of their mothers ? )

24 May - So much for 'Supporting the Troops' in a valiant effort

Saturday, 24. May 2008, 00:28:04

vets chimperator

It's late and my connection is suffering gremlins. I thought I'd see what you thought of the author of the Smirking Chimp - a lady with passion.
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/author/sheila_samples
Articles and Answers ( see Intel )is a collaboration in which she had been involved. If you login to the bb Forum there called 'Today's Thoughts' Steve Mungie's file piece lays out the legislative and bureaucratic sandbagging arrangements designed to deny veterans fair treatment.

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24 May - News Picks - Blogstyle

Sunday, 25. May 2008, 00:00:29

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South American nations found union
Did statin drugs cause Senator Kennedy's brain tumour?
The energetic contamination of beef products
Another looming Bush disaster
Over 50% ocean shark species threatened with extinction
Balneus
Olympic competitors should be naked
Oil is like tobacco, so increase prices !
Rudd loves cluster bombs ?
Fight corporate psychopaths with cryptic crosswords ?
Livability in Victoria
What we should have learnd from Keynes
Mobile phones, EMR, brains, suicide, sleep, sterility ( I read the long version )
Mountain Runner
American public diplomacy wears combat boots
Contracting out foreign military training
Understanding Smith-Mundt's barriers
U.S.-Iraqi forces raid Shiite areas during prayers
Thousands march against South Africa violence
No Doubt About It
Pill culture pops - self medication epidemic
Homeland Insecurity - 'How to win friends and influence people ?'
NAFTA on steroids - NWO
Renewable energy commercialisation in Australia
At last, Burma opens it doors to aid
How safe are vaccines ?
( or, how to seem to address a question you pose )
Gold nanoparticles resurrect failed HV drug
BlueBloggin
Clinton's RFK assassination remark
Bush promises war on Iran, then denies it

26 May - Weekend News on Blogs

Sunday, 25. May 2008, 23:06:28

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Bugs harmed by nuclear radiation ?
Googling Google
How this blog saved my life and saved me $100,000
Blue Girl Red State
"What if a Democrat wins ?" - stirrings in the 'apolitical' military ( snark, that )
EPA absolutely failing at risk assessment
Aftershock in China
General Accounting Office weighs in on use of contractors
Is th world really running out of oil?
The Existentialist Cowboy
FBI evidence that indicts George W. Bush for mass murder, war crimes and torture
( Justice Dept. report )
'Executive privilege' : legitimate or cover up ? ( bullshit )
Exposed: a world wide network of idiots and ideologues
Dad2059's SFBlog
Yet another One World Order weapon against humanity 'The Codex Alimentarius'
Some evidence for the Living Earth
Does the NWO Matrix include 'The Matrix' ?
Dogma and the Technological Singularity
HAL the Ironman, more Anthropic Principle and Warp Drive
Heathlander
Norm Finkelstein arrested in Israel
Hamas ready to accept a Palestinian state
Apartheid Israel
How to deal with peaceful protesters
Save the children ? Not if they're Palestinian
Ten Percent
Free Hich ! ( from Complex System of Pipes )
Free Hicham Yazza
Error...yeah, right ( Credit ratings unchanged after bad reports )
Friday ! Bill O'Reilly tantrum
Raytheon 9 Days 3&4
The Sheriff of Nottinngham II Masters student writing dissertation on terrorism hounded
Burma Relief
Complex System of Pipes
shock doctrine comes to manchester
possession of radical material
result ! abortion limits
free derry 2008
while I should have been revising - denial of education
dark days
a week in blackandtanchester

18-20 May 2007 Opit's LinkFest! on My Opera

18 May - Miscellaney interrupted by headlines

Sunday, 18. May 2008, 14:20:59

green energy cars

KeyScrambler
( Something I've used for months and had forgotten to install on the new drive. )
Leno fears Top Gear USA may suck ( Ouch! The cultural limitations implied here on the ability of U.S. people to get 'real news' affects media survivability too. )
Open U.S. borders to efficient cars
Is a motor scooter in your future ?
( I ride. There's a reason they're called 'murdercycles'. Over 50% of fatalities are caused by bikers being cut off by traffic turning in front of them. And : windshields and fairings have added immensely to both quality of ride enjoyment and ability to take a ride in cooler conditions. )
It's not called the Air Car
PSA-Venturi parnership selected to provide electric vans to the French Post Office
SunTory Mermaid HT AutoblogGreen
The karma of lithium-ion batteries
Ottawa moves to limit smog-causing chemicals in paint, cleaners
Canadian doctors head to China quake zone ( Where they should be well received. Dr. Bethune's historical Chinese effort won't have hurt their odour a bit. But it's the Canadian military's water-providing expertise which is likely most needed - and least likely to be used. Such are the consequences of regressing from UN peacekeeping to complicit Imperial adjunct. Remind me once again why we're in NATO. )
Canadian shelters destined for Burma land in Thailand ( Just in time to forward them to China if Myanmar doesn't immediately 'get a clue'. )
Family of man stranded by no-fly list appeals to Ottawa to bring him back( Privacy concerns all right. Privacy to enjoy guilt free from charges of misconduct or liability for starters. Never been charged. All I need to know. )
BAE executives detained in US over Saudi case
Mine removal a dangerous, endless task in Afghanistan
BlueBloggin Kennedy's hospital date has loosed vitriol in comments. BossKitty closed them because of obscenity of 'thought': and added a character reference of the participants. )
McCain's YouTube problem just became a nightmare

18 May - News of the Blogs

Sunday, 18. May 2008, 23:17:52

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Olympic swimmers learn from sharks,dolphins
The Israeli lobby and why it isn't good for Israel
Fledgling rebellion on Facebook is struck down by force in Egypt
Mass killings in South Korea in 1950 kept hidden from history
No Doubt About It
A shameful chapter in US history
Big brand hiding
Abuse of Power in Texas
Detainees drugged for deportation
Saudi Nukes
Run Your Car on Water ( now the ads are all over the place, questions should start. See tags ' alternative-energy' in Opit's Bookmarks on Delicious. Upper left on Links page. )
Clean cheap nuclear power ? ( Radical tech )
The court where whistleblowers win 1% of the time
"Policy suggests public integrity is more dangerous than treason"
Lougheed gets green light for GPS III saellites
Splotchy Virus story
Clapso
The poor don't profit from it either
Over a century of Dem and Republican rule - the real enemies ( Jerry's on a proper rant : not to say he's inaccurate ! )
The rise of the Wal-fare system
The dem White Rabbit is running late
It just gets curioser and curioser - Dems continue to Fund 'War'
Military families call on Congress to reject Pelosi's betrayal of our troops
.....the DIRTY DEMS have NO INTENTION of ending the war
(and a post that looks like it was excerpted straight from 'Dilbert' )

19 May - Checking Mail

Monday, 19. May 2008, 08:10:11

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The Rock HT MsBeHaven ( sidebar )
Toxic chemicals are maiming thousands around the world
Water - AlterNet
The Triple Threat : Our Food, Water and Climate Challenges
Sinking without trace : Australia's unknown climate change victims
Latin America : Why there's a water crisis in the most water-rich region
To save rivers, help farmers
Turkey plans to sell lakes and rivers to corporations ( ! )
Asia teeters towards food crisis from lack of water
Goldman Prizewinner saves one of the world's most important drinking sources
Those who control oil and water will control the world
Inverted totalitrianism : a new way of understanding how the United States is controlled
Democracy in America is a series of narrow escapes, and we may be running out of luck
Anarchism shouldn't be a dirty word
Obama stands up to Bush, the FCC and Big Media
Outsourced warfare represents a radical,dangerous, disgusting ideology
U.S. Sergeant refuses to go to Iraq : "This Occupation is UnConstitutional and Illegal"
Why some hospitals are allowing unnecessary suffering
UC Law bans classroom web access
Government Secrecy and the mysterious Cyber Initiative
Why buying CNet makes sense for CBS
Windows XP's Afterlife

19 May - Old Haunts

Monday, 19. May 2008, 10:27:16

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Royal Enfield Dealer Promo HT Fixer and Gordon Do watch "Big Brother is Watching You,much closer than you think"
Outta the CornfieldBloggers selected for the DNC
( This is an Out of Iraq Bloggers Caucus member )
OOIBC
'We Mourn the Dead From Iraq'
Admiral Fallon out at CENTCOM, pushed diplomacy
There will be no 'Iraq Savings' ( sounds real )
Here is a portent for the fall
Watching Those We Chose
Does the government want blacks to smoke more ?
W's ingenius argument
Vote movers : moving back the Blue Dogs
5 Energy Monitoring Startups to help you cut home power
Will a canary be our last meal ?
Political Animal
Religion and happiness
Red Light Cameras
How old is John McCain ?
McCain and the lobbyists
The small donor revolution
Down the memory hole
No oil for you
Guantanamo "If they'd been on the battlefield, they'd have killed any detainee as an enemy. But they're not willing to see them killed in the wake of a sham trial."
Talking to terrorists ( 'Flip-flop' McCain )

20 May -Norwegianity

Tuesday, 20. May 2008, 09:57:54

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Norwegianty
Too much of this blog is news to review it properly ( a cessation of blogging has been announced : a not uncommon event for prolific bloggers ). Past experience tells me this should be a highly rated read. So does this...

"Obama's not an African American he's an African American. You see the difference, right ?

The words are the same, but one means somone descended from ancestors who were brought to the New World in chains. The other means someone who was born in Africa ( or whose parents, grandparents, etc. were) but who is either a naturalized or native born American. Obama's father was African, but he wasn't brought here in chains.

Chains make all the difference. If you know an American racist ( and who doesn't? )at some point you've heard them talking about Africans. Howeve rudely they made the reference, chances are it wasn't as rude as their contempt for African Americans ( the kind associated with chains ). Or maybe you have heard nothing of the sort and are wondering if I'm batshit insane, a blue-eyed idiot flapping his gums about shit he knows nothing about.

Except I've worked with hundreds of African clients, coaching them on geting jobs in America. Ghanians, Cameroonians, all kind of Nigerians, some North Africans, a handful of South Africans, one Ugandan, and lots and lots of Eritrean, Tigrean, Oromo, Sudanese and Somali refugees. They all had one thing in common : they knew that American racists treated them better than native African Americans and they exploited that difference. When racist peckerhead supervisers and co-workers said to them "You're not like ...", my clients would smile, nod their head, and keep working. Whether they were or weren't different was irrelevant , the important thing was to stay on the "You're OK for a nigger" side of the line.

Because American racism isn't so much about color as it's about property and some people don't let go of property well. In this case generation after generation of American racists have taught their children the same lesson in how to be mentally diseased. And a similar number of generations of healthy Americans have taught their children how to exploit that mental illness, keeping working whites, blacks, browns, tans, yellows, etc. at each other's throats.

If racism ever ended in America, economic justice would prevail. But so long as we stay at each other's throats, the parasites at the top will continue to eat our lunch, cherrypicking our ranks for lovers, lieutenants and goons while keeping myraid rules in place for keeping us in our place.

It doesn't what color you are, when you hear someone say the word nigger, they're just cheering for the status quo and 400 more years of economic imbalance and continued rule of the parasite class over the rest of us."

(There's more. Good posts get lost because they aren't current.)