Saturday, November 07, 2009

5 - 9 Mar 2008 My Opera

5 March Intelligence Daily Featured

INTEL DAILY
America's Moral Deficit
Torture and complicity : Meet the ATA
Senator suggests UN tax on US not such a bad idea
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler - PDF - 162 pages
United Technologies proposes acquisition of Diebold for $40 per share cash
Saudi Arabia's crude oil reserves propaganda
Declining coal supplies add to energy worries
Are we just pretending to be green
Where there is no dentist
The Federal Reserve's rescue has failed
Half the world - nearly three billion people - live on less than two dollars a day
Cut in TV and computer time keeps children slimmer
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America : A Chronological Paper Trail : Free E Book by Author
"Silence is Health

5 March News - Second Edition

Windmill with a twist can provide fresh water from seawater directly
MEMRI Nazis
Hat Tip Raed in the Middle
Columbia kills FARC Negotiator
Chavez : Colombia is the Israel of Latin America
Signing Statements and the Rollback of American Law
FBI had privacy violations in 2006 before reforms
Uribe's IllegaL cross-border raid
Universe submerged in a sea of chilled neutrinos
Autism payout reignites vaccine controversy
( Controversy ! That's not coverage ! Try this There's good stuff on this site. How to paralyze a nation)
American Psycho : An elite exposed in an exit speech
Coastguard staff stage pay strike UK
Earth could be in a neighbourhood dispute with a death star
Weather map interface lets you feel the wind
Boys and girls brains are differentGender differences in languages appear biological
Nine Inch nails hammer a spike into the record industry
Making sense uncommon

5 March Late Links

6 March - Morning Quickpost

Prepaying for gas can leave you broke
( See Patrick MG 's comment )
No doubt about it
Cheap People
Fluoride
Is Barack Obama just another politician ?
Obama "Soprano Style" financial choir
Walmart US Corps fund China's military might
'Protein-friendly' chip offers rapid disease testing
Jeff Healey
War on Terror - The Fear Factory
Obama dating
Barack Obama killed my blog! ( Oops ! )
Blackwater and Obama
Obama mum on NAFTA contact with Canada
( Canadians would know about politicians playing NAFTA sentiment against others while holding to it as policy )
Small explosion rocks New York's Times Square
Stop the bad guys : Haute Secure 2.0 released
BlueGirlRedState
Nightowl Newswrap
Matt Drudge is an asshat
Politics on the bus
Couldn't have come at a worse time ( Secrecy a threat to democracy )
BlueBloggin
How many Texas Republicans crossed over to Hillary ?
Make it so ! A Clinton-Obama ticket ?
Economic Objectorvism
Employment statistics are the best statistics
Tree of life has branches rearranged by evolutionary biologists
Sticky blood protein yields clues to autism
National dragnet a click away
( They'll be rolling out "Robocop" any time now )
The Patent reform Act will harm the U.S. technoogy industry
Vermont towns vote to indict Bush, Cheney
Quackery
I stopped at Ten Percent ( another I need to check on more frequently ) and spotted a note that led me to check AVAAZ, which no longer has that suspicious GWOT warnoff on an international activist site. Ditto The Blue State Yay!
 

6 March Surfing Finds

Violent storms, water shortages in store for Canada
Stop the Second Holocaust Canary in the Coal Mine
( Action to be taken before attacking Iran )
American Respect
Mask of Anarchy
Gaza : Ethnic cleansing on the table ?
What links Uribe, Exxon and Chevron ?
Colombian lies about Ecuador and Venezuela - Part of wider US campaign ?
Iain Dale - The blogging equivalent of the Emperor's new clothes
Ecuador sends troops to Colombian border ?
USS New York - Most inappropriate memorial in history ?
Spain - an election that seems very familiar
Venezuelan Army put on high alert
Mar 6 will be day for Osanloo Mansour
Ben Griffin World Against War speech
Israel prepared to target civilian areas
Prince Harry - the multi-level PR coup
Out of Iraq Bloggers Caucus
Winter soldier : Speaking truth to power
Antiwar movement could roar like a lion in March
Is this what we're fighting for ?
Bush announces no drawdown after July
State Department follies in Iraq
Does America believe in justice for the people of Iraq ? An open response to Matthew Walleser's Informed Comment Editorial on Iraqi collaborators
$3 Trillion, not $60 Billion for Iraq
Posters made in Iraq
The decoupling debate
TalkDigger
Existentialist Cowboy
Call out the instigator, there's something in the air!
Journalist persecuted for documenting Bush family connections to Nazi regime
How to get your city or town to indict Bush and Cheney
Texas has a whorehouse in it
Prison Nation : Over one in a hundred Americans are in prison

7 March - Friday Finds

Who leaked the details of a CIA-Mossad plot against Iran ?
Senator seeks to overturn FCC media ownership rule
Hollywood North says Canada's tax plan is censorship
An ad agency that wants to change the world ?
Can third graders change the world ?
Quantum dot memory may be 'holy grail' of computing
Global water tool
'Thirsty' electric cars threaten water resources
Are plug-in hybrids a path to salvation ? Be careful what you wish for
Morphing aircraft mimics a bird on the wing
Latin American crisis resolved
more parachutes needed ( Um. Clusterfuck Nation predicts more and worse. )
( Today's Alternative News : The dilemma of American corporations and workers )
Blue Girl Red State
Nightowl Newswrap
Are we ready to fight the next war ?
The dumbing down of America
Successful counterinsurgency begins with the family farm
( And I pilfered this link )
New research confirms Antarctic thaw fears
Economic Objectorvism
We all hope we're wrong about climate change
Trust
A short history of America ( ! )
Some interesting maps of electibility vis-a-vis different presidential contenders Cogitamus 

Borrowed Appetizer 8 March

The dysfunction of our times 8 March

World Resources Institute
Flood control is flooding New Orleans
Bill Gates calls for capitalism that serves the poor
Free ! Why $0.00 is the future of business
The myth of the 'Transparent Society'
How good people turn evil
So you want to teach ?
Homeschoolers' setback sends shockwaves through the state
Higher food prices mean downgrading that turkey to a chicken
Clusterfuck Nation - Disarray Paragraph eight (8) to end lists some actions that should be taken to alleviate energy shortages. Denial is trashing any attempt at this.
Existentialist Cowboy
CIA Holocaust claims twenty million victims
CIA Mission : Prop up the right wing and elites; suppress everyone else
secrets of the CIA parts 1-7
How the CIA became 'Praetorian Guard' to America's Fascist right wing
The CIA and Iran/Contra
The speech that may have motivated the murder of Sen. Paul Wellstone
The power of nightmares : the rise of the politics of fear Hat Tip Buzzflash
Read this or George W. Bush will be President for the rest of your life
  

8 March Late Post

talkster.com creates a flutter by offering free international calls on mobile
Worldwide Sawdust
Latin American crisis "Made in the U.S.A."
Why Iraq could blow up in John McCain's face
Michael Pollan : Don't eat anything that doesn't rot
They knew, but did nothing
John McBush 2008
Crandall Canyon mine owner showed 'callous disregard for the law'
KBR avoids $500M in taxes in offshore scheme
Hothead McCain
Vets break silence on Iraq war crimes
Oil's End
Constitutional showdown on Iraq Occupation
Bush may fire CentCom chief Adm. Fallon, replace with commander 'more pliable' to war with Iran
Frankenfoods giant Monsanto plays bully over consumer labeling
China plans another military spending boost
Violence flares against China's doctors
UN lashes Canada over crack-pipe programs
( Don't let public health concerns upset false enthusiasm on prosecuting the 'drug control' farce )
Ahmadinejad in Bagdad tells US to quit Iraq

Articles and Anecdotes 

9 March - Morning Quickpost

9 March Surfing the Net - First Picks

Olmert approves homes for West Bank settlement
Solar energy firms leave waste behind in China
AP probe finds drugs in drinking water
Your brain on Krispy Kremes : how hunger motivates
Insulin independence : doctors combine cell biology,endocrinology to eliminate insulin implants
Detecting diabetes with light
Engineered protein shows promise as a strep vaccine
Molecular biologists devise strategy to starve brain tumours
Biologists surprised to discover parochial bacterial viruses
77 optical illusions and visual phenomena
Pictures taken at just the right time
Britain makes a camera that 'sees' under clothes
New discovery at Jupiter could help protect earth-orbit satellites
Controlling most atoms now possible
Quasicrystal mystery unraveled with computer simulation
Obama wows Casper
Catching a wave : Celtic style
For few, Iraq war has changed everything
BurnAware Free Edition
No Doubt About It
Hillary Clinton ad featuring Jack Nicholson
Art Nature
Hothead McCain
Obama's foreign policy adviser calls rival names
Turning physics on its ear
Democrats - House and Senate caves, votes to give telecoms retroactive immunity
( What's this nonsense about opposition parties ? )
KBR wants rape claim settled privately and KBR war profiteering tax dodgers
SPIRI projects on military expenditure and arms production
As good as cash : until it's not
BlueBloggin
Victor Bout : The bad man who knows too much
Obama wins Wyoming
Stand down y'all, Bush insists US not in recession
Will 2008 candidates address Iraq and Afghanistan war crimes
Patriot missiles: London Times cover story on Winter Soldier
Canada, NAFTA and Obama...wrong it was Clinton
Clinton campaign; Obama equals Ken Starr
How many Texas Republicans crossed to Hillary ?
Voters overwhelm Texas caucus officials
Persona care home owner 'very bitter' as business closes
( Held to standard superior to that required of the government itself NFLD )
The profit in decay
Human language gene gets mice moving
New stem cell technique improves genetic alteration
New species of bacteria contaminates hairspray
Say what ? Bacterial conversation stoppers
New stem cell technique improves genetic alteration
Pakistan opposition to form government
Retailers increasingly boost notebook sales
They criticized Vista : and they should know
Mozila VP talks IE8, Firefox 3
As good as cash ; until it's not
User revolt on social networks here to stay
Build a powerful reputation using the internet
Gawker
Children of America; don't buy Hillary's crap
Data security incident rocks MTV
Whistle-blower : Feds have a backdoor into wireless carrier -- Congress reacts
( Hmm. That the 'rubber stamp' lot ? )
Presidential election insight via data visualization
SXSWi : What makes you Internet-famous ?
SXSWi : Steven Johnson, Henry Jenkins talk youth and collective intelligence
Wiretap Youth Activism
Blue Girl Red State
Time to give the devil his due ( McCain did good )
Feith settles no scores and achieves nothing with his new book
( Another hummer of a post : more to it than the title would suggest. Pale Rider comes through. )
Nightowl Newswrap
( And if you don't read Comments, yours truly threw in this
The Billion Dollar Pen)
Cardboard key to a 'green' office space
also GM invests in electric car maker Think
No tech cure for oceans 'damned' by plastic
Policy standstill could stall US green tech
Chevron, Weyerhauser team up for biofuels
( Don't do us any 'favours'. Why so negative ? Try my 'Ergosphere' link. )
Graffiti in Berlin
Minimum security is much different in Canada than the U.S.
New super-size ferry starts service Nanaimo-W Vancouver, B.C.
The week in 7 stories CBC
Spain's socialists win election

'Coming up' from exploration, I find I've been visited by a treasure in her own right
Huong Lan
I'm a sucker for thoughtful and descriptive language, especially when presented without artifice.
 

9 March Some News - and some "Old News" - that you may not have seen

I was commenting at Ten Percent and the War on Drugs came up - so I added resource material in Del.icio.us. BTW When my Del.icio.us Bookmarks file was started, I had no idea about opening it up to others. Tags came after it was well in progress. You can find others' files there too ! I keep new posts in Furl, Del.icio.us and StumbleUpon as windows in Pageflakes Reading page.

Recent posts by smorgan
NORML Blog
The untold costs of drug testing abuse - PDF

So let's see what RickB has been posting

US war crimes in Somalia : Task Force 88
An exit what ? ( Bush Crime Family : too mild ! )
UN struggling in Burma ( He has lots of Burma info in past posts )
International Women's Day
Uribe's humiliation being downplayed
Torturer also a racist ( War on Drugs Scam : yep )
Burmese Junta : "discipline-flourishing democracy' ?
Standards decline at failing universities
Friday! Propaganda - Duel
Demonising Iran...when it suits
Fuck your militaristic propaganda ( which is what I call Fascism - part of it anyway )
Malignancy ( The taxman and Class War : UK )

DALLAS MORNING NEWS

J. Goodrich : The gender buzz
Broker system costs you years of retirement savings
Foreclosure bus tour gives buyers a different look at shaky real estate market
Eco-friendly project to change N Arlington
Editorial : Paying for north Texas rail transit

The High Calling of our daily work Beta for church blog portal

Godless Liberal Homo
Sign CODEPINK'S Letter to Congress
Women in Iraq live in a Hell we have created

Depleted Uranium posts have come up simply because it is an almost unreported problem that seems to be one of those things people heartily wish would go away. Militarily, a 'sabot round' is a tank-killer : a DU slug will penetrate armour that will deflect conventional rounds. 'Necessity' is a hard argument to deflect also. GlobalResearch.ca is the 'go to' site on this subject - with an informational section.

Depleted Uranium - Revisited - Updated Multiple links in this article
The Case for Depleted Uranium Testing
'Safe' uranium that left a town contaminated

They lied about making bomb grade uranium

Invasion of the Corporate Destroyers
Fighting FTAs
NASCO Corridor
North American Inland Ports Network
The SPPNA or "deep integration"
North American Union

North American Army created without the consent of Congress
Chris Floyd Online : Crushing the Ants - the Admiral and the Empire
George W. Bush - Terrorist in the White House

The Bonehead Compendium
Vol. 85 Circus Maximus : the clown car of American politics

Handful of Congressmen could rule America in event of catastrophe
9/11 attacks harm First Amendment 
 

1 - 4 Mar 2008 My Opera

EarthImage by tonynetone via Flickr

1 March Surfing Safari

Something BIG is cooking in the Middle East
Ominous signs point to a new and deadly phase in Darfur fighting
Judge reverses his ruling disabling web site ( Wikileaks. The judge has clued in to the fact no practical enforcement exists : that it should not hasn't percolated through yet )
Galactic survey reveals a new look for the Milky Way
UW students help El Salvadoran towns build wastewater system
A Roguish Chrestomathy ( To err is humorous )
Thumbstrips ( for Firefox )
Tips for savvy medical web surfing Hat Tip Lifehacker
Eidolon A.I. talks about the Singularity, Judgment Day, TLP
The Intention Experiment ( Jack Chalker fans should relate : Well of Souls & Flux and Anchor series )
Lack of imagination in older adults linked to declining memory Hat Tip Lily 2112
Children with autism may learn from 'virtual peers'
Rights groups renew bid to halt detainee transfers
Israeli force in Gaza is 'excessive' - UN's Ban
( Note the UN assessment is casually dismissed )
More Amercans turn to web for news
BlogMonks
Why Ontario keeps sending patients South
( As long as the idea is not floated that the US is to be emulated : there are far better models available. I see the government received a sizeable discount ! )
In New Media world - everyone is sounding like a beltway insider
TechPresident
It's time to demilitarize US policy in Africa
Also : US among harshest for sentencing children
Teaching boys and girls separately
Frogs could croak if global warming not fixed
Did a Big Bang in our own solar System create Venus as we know it ?
Bottled Water Hat Tip cwlodarczyk
Telus completes wireless network
Something to Digg
Mothers lobby for midwives
Antidepressant study shakes up medicine
Those touched by cancer on Alberta reserve tell stories at legislature
( Except it may not be just oilsands : uranium causes cancer )
Study questions diabetes threshold
Bad patents, evil corporations and the rise of intellectual imperialism
West Antarctic glaciers melting at 20 times former rate
Lessons on Iraq from a founding father
Blue Girl Red State
Nightowl Newswrap
Mukasey won't enforce contempt citations ( That's to the point of being no surprise : law is not enforceable today in the USA )



What Samedi has found - a look at some finds in Del.icio.us

Dragging back into my WordPress experience, I was known to more than a few WordPress bloggers. Samedi shared Del.icio.us links : I had his link earlier today. Sunk without a trace.

A hostage situation
( Deja vu, anyone ? Look at the date )
A state of misery
Digby : Bloggers are part of a revolutionary particpatory democracy
Mowser
The Ratings Mirage
Cave entrances found on Mars
Beyond a 'speed limit' on mutation, species risk extinction
Semidi's Nodes

http://chenzhen.wordpress.com/ decided to list WordPress political blogs. How's that for a link summary to brighten your day ?

Evidence : Patrick Leahy statement on FISA legislative process

Executive Order
Strips responsibility for reporting illegal activity

The Democratic Candidates and Civil Liberties

And I even have a 'geek news source' at I Started Something with some Windoze news

Sunday 2 March - First Notes from the Web

Mar 19 Iraq War Blogswarm
war without comment
Gates urges limits on Turkish raids
( Looking ridiculous without even trying : "Do as I say, not as I do". Which isn't the same as saying it's a bad idea. )
The World According to American Goy
Ordinary Men : Reserve Police Batallion 101 and the war in Iraq
The truth about mutual funds "Funds that impose no cost to purchase have outperformed those that brokers pay themselves to find for their clients." Fool.com
Scott Ritter on the Israeli lobby influence on the United States
Wexler is still working to impeach Cheney
Project to resettle Iraqi allies
Hat Tip Rubber Hose
Health 08 Org
New asbestos exposure limit for U.S. mine workers
Invisible Opportunity
Bush Administration ignores 48,000 messages to protect Baca National Wildlife Refuge
Oil wars Pentagon policy since 1999
Deaths halt diabetes study
Fascism : You really think it'll be this obvious ?
Doomsday Seed Vault in the Arctic : Bill Gates, Rockefeller and the GMO giants know something we don't
....Seeds of Destruction book notes
You Think You Are Free ?
70 mpg ?
( I would have quipped at "The Trick is not to mind it" post - but TypePad acted up. Amanda's "The Price of Right" - which she took time out from blogging to write - should include "Moving the Overton Window" ; making the outrageous seem reasonable. Fallacies should be recognized by the victim of those techniques as well. Propaganda and Mind Control work best on the unprepared. )
Home Schooling at risk in California
( The state has such a wonderful record in raising orphans : the stats for criminal activity for the adults who were state wards as children is quite a jump over being raised in a family atmosphere. Hitler Youth, however, must be 'programmed' and deprived of the knowledge which leads to informed choice. ) Hat Tip Breaking News
9/11attacks made up, says French actress, Oscar-winner

Sunday 2 March - Surfing Finds

Needlenose
Reversing the partisan prism of authenticity ( identity politics )
framing goodness
Chronicle of Lost Liberties
TruthHugger
The nature of our beast is greed
30 years of pride Down Under
democracy cannot stand another 9/11
GAO : a critical challenge facing our nation
Gaza issues toxic water warning
Losing a Voice
Military Religious Freedom Foundation
Last Left Turn B4 Hooterville
"Say it Loud - I'm Liberal and I'm Proud" ( Alicia on one of her too-rare "tell-it-like-it-is" rants : Obama's 'triangulation' getting her p.o.'d about the frame. )
Think Progress
CBS News ignores Iraqi refugee crisis
Rove : Iraq redeployment would cause oil prices to shoot to $200 a barrel
( Don't just read the headline : comments are vital )
Flashback : McCain repeatedly lobbied FCC on behalf of campaign contributors
Credit card market a potential disaster in waiting
DoJ refuses to enforce contempt citations
Visas halted for Iraq and Afghan translators
Gender Buzz
Keeping your ride can be safer
Texas farmers enlist Asian cockroaches to protect crops
The Zoo
Middle East Turmoil
The fat lady sings

3 March BlogRoaming

The Schools the Taleban won't torch
How to lose the Brain Race
Blog Reader Project
Reframing the misnamed 'Global War on Terror'
elBaredei and Iran's nukes
Security,Prosperity and America's Purpose
"Terrorism : A Brief for Americans"
Prospects for Peace
"Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst"
Obama and Israel : Missing the Point
Bush/GOP Reich loves Big Oil
And yes, I Do take it personally
Bill Moyers Journal : Rick Karr on government secrecy ( PBS video )
Communications trade group opposed to amnesty
Reconstitution 2.0
Lebanon/Hamas/Hezbollah/Israel dustup v2.0?
War with Iran File
Monte Asbury's Blog
( Christian counterpoint to the Legions of Hell )
Why the US and Russia care about Kosovo ( You'll never hear this on Faux News )
Selling snake-oil to the Christian Right ?
Is Obama more style than substance ? We consult FactCheck.org
Ecuador breaks off Columbian ties in Andean crisis BGRS has comments on this story
Nixon, Cheney and LeDeluge
Darwin was wrong about wild origin of chicken
Live cells detect food-borne pathogens, toxins
Blogging's good for your health

4 March - Morning News

Internet Explorer 8 will follow web standards by default
( Opera in particular used to complain MSN for example was coded so as not to resolve properly. These days I have to think about the last time I used the main on MSN, Netscape or Yahoo ! BTW If you've never 'gone around to the back' at Google...try it ! )
Greenpeace Australia - News
Columbia says FARC wanted to make radioactive bomb
( Ever looked at Depleted Uranium ? )
Live Bookmarks - Firefox
Add feeds to Google reader in Internet Explorer 7
United States cuts aid to Bosnian Serb party
( Kosovo might have something to do with that ! )
Iran hit with more UN sanctions
Sanctions target government but Iran shoppers feel the pinch
( In North Korea food shortage is chronic. In Iraq, again there is food and water shortage - hundreds of thousands of children died during the years of sanctions before the latest U.S. - initiated change of government. The U.S. has a versatile arsenal of available 'persuasion'. )
Somalis protest after U.S. missile attack
OAS to hold emergency meeting on South American crisis ( the plot thickens )
Police ambushed in Paris suburb
The very model of a modern business mogul
It's so much worse than you think Economy
Cleaner water with a wand
Pavement changes weed seeds
Are immune system molecules brain builders - and destroyers ?
The Earth has more than one North Pole
Lunar eclipse may shed light on climate change
The Semantic Web
Emodied Cognition
Raising our collective consciousness
New 'snapshots' aid quest for fusion energy
PG&E starts getting gas from manure ( A positive trade-off : methane is much more a 'greenhouse gas' than CO2 )
The Indispensible Man
My Forbidden Fruits ( and Vegetables )

4 Mar News Update

How to Read Music
Are immune system molecules brain builders - and destroyers ?
( Autism skyrocketing immediately is suggested because of environmental pollution with exotic substances : instead of vaccines as most suspicious circumstance? )
Laundry Nuts
Natural News
EPA, American Chemistry Council conspire to remove toxicologist Deborah Rice from panel of flame retardant safety
Common prostate cancer treatment causes cancer to spread throughout the body
British study links radiation to heart disease
Economist's View
Bernanke : Banks need to write down loans
The Confused Talk Express ( McCain )
Loyalty Oaths??? California State University fires Quaker for altering oath to reflect her faith
"Methusalah" mutation linked to longer life
Affairs of the lips : why we kiss
Television addiction is no mere metaphor
Question Box brings info to village from Internet with one button
Economic Objectorvism
Oil prices aren't going anywhere
GM's kids are moving back home
Students for a Democratic Society ( Book : the prof has thoughts )
Penny Arcade
Gold can be made magnetic on the nanoscale through oxygenation
Earth's rotation may account for wayward spacecraft
Meme Mashup
Links to edublogs
Police seize $220m of mafia goods
 
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

- 29 Feb, 2008 : My Opera

24 February - BlogRoaming + News
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/2008/02/24/24-february-blogroaming-news


Music Special : Five Great Auditory Illusions
National Association of Broadcasters spent $64million+ lobbying to convince regulators XM Sirius deal would create a radio monopoly
States barred from protecting consumers from defective medical devices
Bacteria use 'invisibility cloak' to hide from human immune system
Amazon corridors far too narrow
Land Rights and Ownership
Gaza diary : Sewage on our doorstep
Waking up teens
Mountain Runner
Terrorist or Nationalist ?
Food insecurity in Iraq
When riding a dead horse, you should dismount
For the homeless,keys to a home
Afghanistan - Korengal Valley "...since 9/11,the US and NATO have used air power as a substitute for ground troops" ( in a phrase, the guarantee of tactical failure to produce anything but continued Afghan deaths )
Straight talk on Afghanistan
Worldwide Sawdust
( This is a great site with a crummy layout. Do not assume the page has not loaded. You have to scroll down to find the goodies. )
"Thought for the Day" Robert Scheer
How easy it is to claim to champion human rights when you exempt your own country from judgment. When did the US ever care about human rights in Cuba, or anywhere else in Latin America before Castro, if those rights conflicted with the rape of the region's resources ? And what a mockery we have made of the cause of democratic rule when our President, twice elected by the people, has created one of the world's most fearsome symbols of torture on the US "liberated" territory of Guantanamo, Cuba"
( Now that's not fair. Vote suppression, ballot fraud and Supreme Court chicanery were all necessary to violate the electoral process sufficiently to front the fraud that Bush was elected. See Bradblog.)
Olbermann timeline : How the Bush administration exploited terror threats for political gain
Battle company is out there ( that NYT story )
After war, new battle to become citizens ( Wasn't Heinlein right ? )
The myth of the surge ( I recall BlueGirlRedState being scathing about that label before it started )
The Real McCain : Senator gets millions from lobbyist "friends" ( It's good enough for Hillary )
Now the Pentagon tells Bush : climate change will destroy us Guardian
( I was ready to pooh the time line - knowing an ice free Arctic likely by 2013. Then I saw the part about sea level rising starting next year. O.K. Realism )
Waterboarding is focus of Justice Department inquiry
Debunking the right's false notions of energy, the environment and economics
How to stay in Iraq for the next million years
Spain's Abengoa to build 280-Megawatt solar plant in US
( I rebel at calling them that. "Wrong" or "Reich" now,..."Liar's Club" works for me. Too harsh. Ha!
Framing Overton Window Media Control)
'Debunking' links
The devil's advocate
Juno talks back to the King of California
Clusterfuck Nation
Dropping Shoes
"The fall of Britain's Northern Rock bank may be the first dropped shoe in a chorus line of big banks dancing into oblivion."
My Two Cents
Cults, Campaigns, and Candidates
Quislings
The Daily Reckoning
There will be blood
"Gold at $1000/oz" "The next crisis will be over food"
"The only way to lock in triple-digit gains"
Gold : for less than one penny per ounce
Just an Earth-bound misfit
Seen around the Internets
It's called 'history'. Learn some of it.
( Yep. I can see how BGRS can relate to this one. 'Tude. The header makes me smile. Hat Tip for the following link )
Department of Malicious Falsehoods
Girls and technology : What Next
PoliTits
Rollin',rollin',rollin' boy my blogroll's swollen
This worries me a lot more than Nader does


24 February - More BlogRoaming + News
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/2008/02/25/24-february-more-blogroaming-news
 
Turkey's Iraq excursion - Barzani draws the line
Going Green
Changing my daily face washing routine ( water saving )
Stickin' it to the Pan
( Whoops. She didn't know that crap was toxic. Huh. Glassware has problems too.
Used to be hospitals used stainless urinals and aluminum pans : I have a problem understanding that. Me ? Mostly, I use stainless steel, thank you. Iron is very porous: though it's great for browning.
I'm not virtuous. I still use some bacon and occasionally char broil with briquettes in a smoker. I'm not vegan : humans are omnivorous by nature. One local in particular finds it odd I eat some fish. This is cattle country.)
Nutrition is a many-splendored thing
Substitutes for baking ingredients
Singing all over this land
Monkeyfister
Is clear channel selling off to Blue investors ?
Bush : "No compromise...Gimme my cover-up"
Those loveable Serbs
Without record harvests every year, we will see famines
The failures of auctioning the shitpile ( Auction Rate security : economic collapse )
U.S. missile hits spy satellite
Future oil wars --- for kids !
The future -- today ! ( Vallejo, California bankrupt )
South Africa collapsing ?
It's too late to protect your ARS
Economic Trend Analysis
Bank of America asks Congress for a $739 Billion bank bailout
Evidence of 'walking away' in WaMu mortgage pool
Credit card reform is coming
Ambac bailout hopes excite bulls
Aging Air Force fleet must be modernized quickly
( On whose dime ? )
UK house price growth slows to a halt
Mens of recession seen in economy NZ
Rising inflation causes unease in Middle East
Bankers get three years prison for Enron role
Shady web underworld seeks multiligual hackers
Rich rivers of black gold in the pipeline
The science behind the law of attraction
( Sounds as 'scientific' as 'Cargo Cult' )
No doubt about it
Nader's bid will change US race
Obama's money cartel
$4.5 million for a boat nobody wanted
McCain's lobbygate
Marching toward Hell
McCain breaks law...that he wrote
Study suggest radiation from mobile phones changes protein expression in living people
( Those would be the kind using them, right ? )
Kansas storm shots
Network -Mad as Hell
Cool Online Tools
English-to-American Dictionary
All your base are belong to us
John McCain is legally too old for most important jobs 


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Just a few StumbleUpon finds
Defeat move to permanently censor wikileaks - Support First Amendment appeal
Americans are brainwashed
Blackspot
Americans look like mindless idiots

29 February - a few hot blogs
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/2008/02/29/29-february-a-few-hot-blogs

Blue Girl Red State
Generation Chickenhawk - the first member of the Royal family to see combat since World War One
It's the procurement fraud, stupid ( criminal investigations near triple figures )
The nightowl newswrap
Like father, like son

The Existentialist Cowboy
Over one in one hundred Americans is in prison
John McCain's 10,000 years of war
Mourning Iraqis blame U.S. troops for massacre of children
Official Conspiracy Theory called "Dogma of Political Correctness"
Official Conspiracy Theory belived only 'by hypocrites and fools'
Why Bush made plans to invade the Netherlands
US cops go out of control : US citizens no longer safe
An epidemic of police thuggery first seen in police-occupied New Orleans


BlueBloggin
An open letter from Barack Obama to the LGBT community
Obama leading in Texas
Another drugged, inebriated, bigoted GOP pervert bites the dust
What more can we do to ruin our military ?
Lloyd Doggett question Pentagon on Afghanistan shortages
Army Chief of Staff General Casey backs up Obama's statement
"Someone else's fault"
Dodd endorses Obama
Obama lead in national polls 51% - 39%
Clinton donors worried by campaign spending

Economic Objectorvism
Dear Sir : we believe we can cure your diabetes. However, we may have also given you HIV...
The NEJM discusses why the government can't do...anything ?
Drinking water in Beijing. Or, if the mountain won't come to Mohammad ...?
Drinking water diversion threatens the lives of millions of farmers
Mazda : William McDonough called...
How to kepp an AUD30Bn surplus...
Want to get more people on public transport ? Facilitate more driving
Did John Edwards have an advantage all along?
The bacon limit : the corner of diminshing marginal utility
A softer world

Politics 'n Poetry
Parliamentary attack on women's rights
This is way better than an Oscar!
Scandal still growing ( AEC )
A sneak attack on women's rights
Chalk River : 'Crisis foreseeable and preventable'

Ten Percent
UK Court gags Ben Griffin, SAS torture whistleblower
Rich thieving scum swine
Gunboat diplomacy
Royal tradition of killing poor foreigners continues
Another journalist swallowed into the gulag
War criminal loses job
US backed regime refused to withdraw from occupied territories
3 weeks until the blogswarm
ExSAS soldier reveals extent of torture
Tesco pulls an Enron
Robots of projection
Cover Ups
NeoCon AEI advance Iranian influence meme
Gitmo-torturer's blues
Gitmo torture tapes not wiped

 
On NBC, 'expertise' means getting Iraq wrong
Huckabee : The Religious Right is alive
Jim Miller on Politics
( Interesting : in the sidebar - a number of links indexed "vote fraud" )
Debunking 9/11 myths - special report
Freedom of Information Law FAQ Hat Tip
IfNot4God
Quaker Agitator
The Swiftboating of Barack Obama
Benjamin Heine
Is climate change making us sick ?
Vets break silence on war crimes Hat Tip
The People's Voice
Wikileaks and Internet Censorship - a comparative study
FlickrRandom
Urban Dictionary
TV show pitch generator
3D Battle Ball
Jokes
Social Bookmarking Traffic
Official Bike Week Daytona
The megalomaniacal Matt Drudge endangered Prince Harry's life
Inexpensive solar cells made more efficient with new sensitizers
ID theft factory found in Canada
Useless applications
Ensure a fast internet connection when you need it
So You Hacked Our Site ?
Researchers discover gene that blocks HIV
Dutch university tests windmill for saltwater desalination
Cannibalism may have wiped out Neanderthals
Flexible robotic fin does away with drag
MS Config Cleanup cleans the cobwebs out of Windows startup
Northrop Grumman gets $40Bn deal to replace Air Force tankers
Air tanker deal provokes row
The classroom heard 'round the world
Meme mashup
The best tasting green superfood powder products
Multivitamins : a health hazard ?
Mountain Runner
Talking about OPSEC
New Media and the Air Force
Understanding Information Effects
Intel Dump
Obama and the 39-man rifle platoon ( :bandit: )
Medical Identity Theft turns patients into victims