Tuesday, April 13, 2010

29 May - 3 June 2008 Opit's LinkFest! on My Opera

29 May - Signs of the Times

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 - Quick Picks

Contrary Brin
Good and bad companies...and VP choices
... the stupid 'left-right' political axis has blighted our thinking for far too long
... CEO candor
... Jim Webb
...'Quotation Fest'
Counter Currents
How the oil crisis has hit the world
Manufactured Reality : Two steps forward , one step back
Pain and Conscience
American Complicity
U.S. soldiers launch campaign to convert Iraqis to 'Christianity'
The other criminal war
Pens and Swords : Book Review : How American media report Israel-Palestine conflict
Bush, toilet scientists and 'heavy eating' Indians
Fascism : the night of broken glass in Rome
A tale of two storms : Myanmar and New Orleans
GNN profile : ShiftShapers Protest in America has become more symbolic than effective
Poisonous plutocracy pushes ecomomic inequality
The strategy of concealment : communication critique
Guerilla News
34 convicted in display at U.S. Supreme Court
The anatomy of neoconservative propaganda
McClellan and his media collaborators
Methane release could cause abrupt, far-reaching climate change
Oil Crisis rage spreads
The Mega-Pentagon : a Bush-enabled monster we can't stop
Nanoparticles used to trap oil drops
U.S. record $4/gal gas remains a bargain in Europe
Saudis retaining dollar peg
Guantanamo former asylum seeker faces death penalty
Gitmo judge axed for speaking out
AQ Khan back in news
Subprime fiasco reveals manipulation by mortgage brokerages
Intelligence Daily
Bush at center of intelligence leak ( Plame )
Thousands of Iraqis protest agreement for indefinite U.S. Occupation
Fourth FDIC-insured bank closes
Global demand squeezing natural gas supply
Chertoff keen on Israeli airport security technology
The crash of the U.S. economy has begun

31 May - Evening Views

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 
 

2 June - Quick Notes

Sensationalism : conventional media's only answer to the long tail ?
Blue Girl Red State
Somehow, someway we have to return sanity to immigration policy
Making charity cool again
The hostages no one talks about
William the Bloody said WHAT ?
General William Odom passed away
Another turf war in the making ( Undercutting intelligence )
Geeky civil war ( Military blogging )
Gitmo judge axed for speaking out
Suzie-Q
Cheney : forced to apologize for his sick incest joke
The NIST Bu$hCo and the WTC Investigation
Going to war with Iraq was wrong, Australian PM Rudd admits
US accused of holding terror suspects on prison ships
Israeli troops killed 45 Palestinians including 5 children last month
Exxon Mobil is staring at regime change, monumental changes...
More war lies and propaganda
McClellan : Bush should have fired Rove after Plame leak
Australia abandons Bush & McCain's 100 Year War !
Scientist simulate jet colliding with World Trade Center
Cluster bombs, Made in America
Jobs or air pollution - is this a false dichotomy ?
Ten Percent
Dear Cowards
Raytheon 9 - Eamonn McCann
Was Florence Nightengale primarily a religious figure ?
Culture for 'em - Pirates of the Caribbean
Beach News ( Coral reef bleaching )
The world's most successful bug hits dolphins
Magnetic bone implants
Malicious software threatens internet economy
Why it takers 2000 gallons of fresh water to produce one gallon of milk
Marijuana chemical cannabidiol halts spread of breast cancers
Bananas are dying, killed by corporate monoculture
The ADHD scam and mass drugging of children
Warm coronal loops hold clue to mysteriously hot solar atmosphere
Bringing sunlight inside
Thousands 'abused by gangmasters' 
 

3 June - BlogRoaming

Blue Girl Red State
Afghanistan enters another summer
GM forced by consumer demand to finally get a clue
Pumping up the specter of the bogeyman
"Illegal immigrant" kills cyclist
Relocate these troops to Fort Gordon
General McPeak blasts McCain on foreign policy
Nukes & Spooks
May was Afghanistan's most violent month
Waxman wants to know if Cheney involved in leak
Sen. Rockefeller peeved with CIA's Hayden
Suicide prevention on the battlefield
Pakistan : pouring gasoline on a fire ( deliberate; even routine practice )
Pagan sect at Pakistan border lives among conservative Muslims
Is Sen. McCain politicizing the military ?
Memo to Scott McClellan : here's what happened
Secrecy-obsessed administration now more so : new catchall class for information government wants to 'control' new secrecy directive
Archived sites Unbossed website of the week(s)
Army suicides rise again
Speculation driving oil price skyward
Feds reduce water to valley farms
Commentary : an indictment of our army's competence
Commentary : It's time to do right by our troops
Propaganda and the media
Both McCain, Obama exaggerating Iran's nuclear program
Obama clinches nomination
New satellite photos show Amazon rainforest shrinking
BlueBloggin
Obama claims Democratic nomination
Prove me Wrong - Cheney eyes Iran using Mad Cowboy George
Mush has to leave Pak or face prosecution : Karzai says Western forces bungled war on Taliban
Ten Percent
Range Balls
Has the war on terrorism proved to be a greater threat to a free society than terrorism itself ? I'm leaning towards a 'Yes'.
QN2-War Tour
Mask of Anarchy
Death Penalty for Knife Crime
Israeli terrorist escapes justice...for now
The Role of the West in the Establishment of Hamas
McClellan sticks the knife in
Cluster bombs to be banned ?
Pinochet allies arrest ordered
Italy turning more Fascist by the day
Peoples' Geography
Lebanon gets a president : the Doha scorecard
Nineteen families : poverty, inequality and who rules the roost in Israel
Franklin Lamb : Franklin of America-Arabia
Nakba Day 2008
Notables ( Anne likes tools too )
The CIA's car bomb university
The Extentialist Cowboy
Psychopaths rule the world
The conspiracy of rich men that threatens the peace, the world and the environment
....Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
American plans to loot Iraq oil and other Bush war crimes
Systematic discrimination faces Palestinian refugees in Lebanon Hat Tip Pardon my Paradox
Our Descent into Madness ( Or whimsy )
Coco Wang's Earthquake Strips
Thoughts on the art of Community Southwest
Hand-cranked waiting machine
An explanation, a typewriter, and cameras you can download
The Curta Calculator
On alimony and feminists being sexist
Foray into Fiction
Politics 'n Poetry
Harding on Dief Lake nuke
Ardent activist passes on
Iraq war resister faces deportation from Canada
US nuke regulator destroying safety review documents
Hearing on how mega-mines get approved
Scrap AECL !
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
DDT opposition in Uganda : business, not environmentalists
Motivation 101 : How NOT to
 

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

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

26 May - Surfing Finds

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

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

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

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

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.
Not available

24 May - News Picks - Blogstyle

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

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