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11 - 17 July 2008 Opit's LinkFest! on My Opera

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17 July - Quick choice of topical articles

Friday, 18. July 2008, 05:17:57
Naomi Klein : Bush sees crises in fuel, food, housing and banking as chance to exploit us more
Our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over
10 banks that could be the next to go under
Commanding Heights : the battle for the world economy
Can outsiders manage change in alien cultures ?
McCain in 2003 : We can just muddle through in Afghanistan
Why Karl Rove should go to jail
Probe finds abuses in Illinois jail
Climate change to cause irreversible health risks
( I was going to list AP's article on giving Iran a chance : then remembered they don't like free advertising. Just as well. The article was just more warmongers' propaganda. )
Law professor : Democrats let Bush get away with it
Berry St. Beacon
Monaco Coach to close 3 plants sending 1400 workers to the unemployment lines
Kashmir clash
Iraq to U.S. - we want you out
PADD this - petrroleum districts
Preserve, Protect, Defend
America's Medicated Army
Jonestown
The change we need ( Part 2 )
"For the United States to make the transition from a war society to a peace society..."
( We have met the enemy...and he is us )
Carol for Peace

13 July - Late News

Monday, 14. July 2008, 05:46:56
I have decided I have 'Media Bias'. Enjoy.

KBR charged with 'homicide' by mother of eletrocuted soldier ( Blue Girl has comments on this )
Homeland Security violates 4th Amendment with warrantless laptop searches
Torture and warrantless surveillance are the same issue
A panel calls for new war powers legislation !
"thanks to Bush Europe faces new nuclear missile threat"
British soldiers accused of sickening sex assault on Iraqi boy
Iraq and Afghanistan : Dual Fronts "Why are the Taleban the enemy ?" 
( I just asked something similar at Blue Girl )
Misconceptions about 'moral conduct' waivers
Standards in our society have changed over the years 
( allegedly : and you know the unreliability of that )
Don't blame Bush, blame the last 60 years of American government
German papers say many have lost faith in America because of Bush
( The only tools Bush has are to lie and act stupid. That's right - 'act' )
'Breakthrough' in malaria fight
Iran discovers billion barrel oil field
8 new nuclear plants for Britain
Why is hemp off the biofuel menu ?
Regular cars can run on hydrogen
US court slaps down pollution law
Plan for healthier eating in America : ban GMOs
The people of Iran have chosen the path of reform

13 July - Postus Interruptus

Monday, 14. July 2008, 03:29:08
If anybody knows how to retrieve unconfirmed data from the server, I have 3 posts lost to interrupted continuity. Here we go again.

Bastard Logic
Ego and ambition : privileges only white men can enjoy
"Constraint is Intolerable"
"...that fear should trump concern for due process and indeed for justice is a recurring theme in American history."
Citizenship and submission - another kind of extremism
Larry Wilkerson : what the next President should do about Cuba
Bill C-484 : Dion's official reply
The By-God toughest tool of the Patriarchy EVA ( health care in USA )
On Rite Aid's LGBTQI outreach program...
Bush's new BFF
Blue Girl Red State
U.S. base overrun in Afghanistan
No Status of Forces Agreement with you
So they can't agree on peace, but can come together to find solutions for the Dead Sea ?
( Jordan, Israel and Palestine co-operate on a joint project )
No, we don't need Hummers
Yes he will Cut and Run -- because he wants a legacy
David Martin catches the Army in a startling admission
Bush gives Israel a tentative 'OK' to strike Iran
McCain asked about PNAC and 9/11 at Town Hall

12 July - News

Saturday, 12. July 2008, 15:24:12
U.S. federal judge rules that Bush is a felon
BlueBloggin
Extraordinary passings
No end to Cheney mischief - blocks environment repair
Mounting sense of crisis over Iran
Food and oil shortage - politics and religion guilty
Pentagon authorizes Evangelists to proselytize in Iraq
Mixed signals confuse Iran-US confrontation - dangerous
No doubt about it
Bush signs spy bill, ACLU sues
Obama's pro-telecom immunity amnesty federal crime
Rush Limbaugh corporate welfare whore and thief
How the Senate voted
Shame !
Privnotes - send messages that will self-destruct after being read
Karl Rove flees the country
FCC says ComCast violated internet rules
Libertanarianism : a not so lunatic fringe
( This from the same media that pans 'libruls'. Another WTF moment )
Militarism is a feature of U.S. socioeconomic system
Follow the oil money
Vote up if you think Pelosi has been blackmailed or bribed ( How about threatened ? )
Singapore judge Earnest Lau becomes a net hero
Intellectual Property Restrictions at airports may make Johnny Mnemomics outta us
The brain hides information from us to prevent mistakes
Favthumbs : your del.icio.us bookmarks visualized
Knowing looks : Using gaze aversion to tell when children are learning
Empathy comes naturally to children
Turkey says to play active role in Mediterranean Union
China executes Uighurs for terrorist links
ex-U.S. defense analyst gets prison term in spy case
Egypt kills man at Israel border, 30 migrants held
Digital Inspiration
QR codes : share text and web addresses inside images
Free sounds to relax your brain or improve concentration levels
Google Docs - the perfect tool to live blog any event
Wi-Fi mapping and mobile social networking from WeFi
Computer stupidities
Computer enhancers Humour
Hamas, Hezbollah websites hosted by Canadian servers
Companies hurt while inventories waylaid at ports by CBSA rules
Mexico finds no salmonella in tomatoes
Roche to suspend HIV research , seeing no advances
Superfast vocal muscles in songbirds : hundred times faster than the blink of an eye
An American pastime : smoking pot
Newly discovered young galaxy creates 4000 stars per year

 

11 July - NewsBlogging

Saturday, 12. July 2008, 04:04:19
Worse than Apartheid
Ten Percent
Friday! Adam Buxton - Today on Xantiar
Prisoner 650 - The Grey Lady of Baghram ( Woman held in U.S. custody in Afghanistan for more than four years, part of the Disappeared from Afghanistan )
More Israeli Poll madness
Failed Responsibility : Iraqi refugees in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon
U.S. opens Iraq to Israeli warplanes ?
John Howard used terror arrest for electoral ends
Mixed Messages ( Torture 'compensated', not prosecuted )
Damned if you do, damned if you don't
Total Wankers
No More Blank Checks for War
Israel plans to lobby Washington for an attack on Iran
Assad agrees on Syria's central role in the region : France agrees : US divided
Lebanon gets a government
As Paris boosts Assad, US adds sanctions
Assad : "Bush cannot make peace" ( No problem. He chooses war. )
Balneus
If you wish the U.S. ill, you'll love this New legal threat to school science in the U.S.
If Imams were like RC priests ( and Archbishops )
Carbon trading : why not join ETS ?
Bottled water : as terrible as we expected
Utilizing children's play for clean water
Dorval gets fluoride water back
Lead linked to violent crime and shrinks the brain
Prolonged sitting turns off fat-burning enzyme
Autism and a link to brain development
AMA admits decades of discrimination against black doctors ( opinion ) ( Heh. I often prefer 'fiction' because it says it's a lie - and illustrates abstract truth. Whereas 'nonfiction' seems an oxymoron. )
Lowering chloresterol in kids starts with diet, exercise
There are alternatives to statins, but check with a doctor first
Why dermatologists still deny the link between acne, diet
Believe in Jesus, or die
"There seems to be an inverse relation between George W. Bush's wars of liberation and the Bill of Rights at home. The longer our military fights in other countries to keep Americans free, the more freedoms Americans seem to lose. Why is that ?"
Libel and defamation law for bloggers
Physicians routinely protect incompetent colleagues : 45 per cent admit failure to report
More regrettable loss of innocent life ( After a while, constant repetition of a 'mistake' invalidates any plea of 'accidental/unavoidable/unforeseeable event' )
Usenet blocking intensifies
How various network access control technologies work
Internet users stop ComCast, Net Neutrality win on the horizon
Flipping the Linux switch, Linux web tools
All-In-One Media Player Classic Home Cinema Edition
Ethnic Indian Media in the US
AOL implements Vodoop's OpenID based authentication
Sudan's president to be charged as war crimes suspect
Ontario hardest hit as full-time jobs tumble in Canada
IndyMac BanCorp is seized
Global Economic Trend Analysis
U.S. taxpayer bailout of China over Fanny Mae
Brantford construction site closed down by Six Nations protest
Food before Fuel
In deal for Italian bike company, Harley seeks to broaden its base
Larry Wilkerson : what the next President should do about Cuba
Genetic link to teen tobacco addiction
Czechs see oil flow fall and suspect Russian ire on missile system
( Oho. They only 'suspect' Russian ire. It seems the message isn't clear enough. )
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5 - 10 July 2008 Opit's LinkFest! at My Opera

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10 July Surfing

Friday, 11. July 2008, 05:15:42
ACLU sues over new surveillance act
American Energy Policy - Asleep at the Spigot
Weak dollar sends Vatican into the red
Calif. National Guard joins firefighting effort
Toyota to make Prius in the U.S.
Ignoring the Foundation of Economics
Busted : Bankers and the Digital Economy
Battle of the iPhone Apps - MySpace v. Facebook
WordPress and TypePad spawn mobile blogging
Global Consciousness Project
Jonestown
The Change We Need ( Part One )
How to Love Your Country
+ Linky Luv ( aside from the Blogroll )
Impolitical
Continuing the theme today : failing to stand up for Canadians overseas
Frankly, we do ( Harper ignoring the blatant illegality of Gitmo )
Another federal public servant gets the boot in questionable circumstances
Guergis watch : on Jimmy Chen's ordeal in China
Harper is the new Bush on the world stage
PMO's office to get more political under new communications director
NEP fearmongering continues
Blue Girl Red State
Weapons will always improve in war
The Existentialist Cowboy
The Psychopathic Origins of Bush / GOP Wars, Torture and Injustice
Bush : Three generations of betrayal and High Treason
Lair of the Blue Bear
Utah Hero Larry Bergan makes the SLT
( I have no idea what that's about : but the sign is priceless counter-spin )
Effects of a changing climate on extreme weather events in North America ( chart )
medialens
News International threatens Media Lens with legal and police action
Complex System of Pipes
a few emails
Scientists uncover ebola virus' "Achilles' Heel"

9 July - NewsBlogging

Thursday, 10. July 2008, 05:01:05
Congress destroys 4th Amendment
Lawbreaking is now the law
Barack Obama breaks promise, flip-flops, and backs telecos
Obama supporters organize to protest candidate's stand on telecos
U.S. Senate to grill tech industry over online privacy
( Nobody needs to tell them that consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. )
Upvote if you have lost faith in the U.S. government
Fannie Mae, Freddie losses make them 'insolvent'
India's economy hits the wall
Net Movement Politics
Ottawa moves to block texting revolt
Google slams 'throttling' of internet traffic in Canada
Ottawa revamps mortgage rules
U.S. war resister granted stay of deportation order
New evidence supports exploding asteroid
Future of Chinese herbal medicine 'up in the air'
Nissan plans electric cars in Portugal
Alternative energy vexes autos and utilities
Home-based hydrogen refueling station
Portal : Nuclear Issues
Yellowcake explained
French firm 'quits Iran gas deal'
African leaders know G8 hypocrisy when they hear it
Half of UK forces 'ready to quit'
Moscow 'deeply distressed' over missile shield deal ( Nothing like painting yourself with a bullseye )
Nuclear Issues Portal
Red State Road Trip 2
Physics - getting a raw deal in schools ?
Schools cutting bus service because of fuel prices
Newest fertility treatment could be a diet
Government going backwards in health care Alberta
Your flat screen TV could be killing the planet
The Free Bird Database
Yahoo! radically opens web search with BOSS
Virtual Worlds take over the online world
Internet flaw prompts biggest security fix in web history
It's time to protect the U.S. from the ultimate Denial of Service attack

9 July - NewsBlogging

Thursday, 10. July 2008, 04:57:48
Congress destroys 4th Amendment
Lawbreaking is now the law
Barack Obama breaks promise, flip-flops, and backs telecos
Obama supporters organize to protest candidate's stand on telecos
U.S. Senate to grill tech industry over online privacy
( Nobody needs to tell them that consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. )
Upvote if you have lost faith in the U.S. government
Fannie Mae, Freddie loses make them 'insolvent'
India's economy hits the wall
Net Movement Politics
Ottawa moves to block texting revolt
Google slams 'throttling' of internet traffic in Canada
Ottawa revamps mortgage rules
U.S. war resister granted stay of deportation order
New evidence supports exploding asteroid
Future of Chinese herbal medicine 'up in ther air'
Nissan plans electric cars in Portugal
Alternative energy vexes autos and utilities
Home-based hydrogen refueling station
Portal : Nuclear Issues
Yellowcake explained
French firm 'quits Iran gas deal'
African leaders know G8 hypocrisy when they hear it
Half of UK forces 'ready to quit'
Moscow 'deeply distressed' over missile shield deal ( Nothing like painting yourself with a bullseye )
Nuclear Issues Portal
Red State Road Trip 2
Physics - getting a raw deal in schools ?
Schools cutting bus service because of fuel prices
Newest fertility treatment could be a diet
Government going backwards in health care Alberta
Your flat screen TV could be killing the planet
The Free Bird Database
Yahoo! radically opens web search with BOSS
Virtual Worlds take over the online world
Internet flaw prompts biggest security fix in web history
It's time to protect the U.S. from the ultimate Denial of Service attack

 

5 July - Further BlogRoaming + News

Saturday, 5. July 2008, 22:36:13
Nanotube Radio
Secret Report : Biofuel caused food crisis Hat Tip
High on a Hill
Attacking Iran ? How does $300 oil sound ?
Angry businesses organize anti-Yelp websites
Opera fixes bugs in flagship browser
A view from the bridge at Clapsotronics
The document we celebrate today ( July 4 )
Only an Idiot fights a war on two fronts - a shortage of troops in Afghanistan
( Since they are foreign adventures, lacking real strategic significance, surely some inconveniences can be tolerated ! )
mcPain
us escalating covert operations against iran : report
preston on politics : barr says he's no nader
Psyops
Video shows Zimbabwe 'vote-rigging'
Giant rubber snake could be future of wave power
All Things Pakistan
A.Q. Khan speaks out
Civil service is no longer an alluring career for Pakistanis
Amused Cynicism
The war on drugs don't work
Open letter to Indiana Gregg
An introduction to Rational Wiki
USA copies torture techniques from communist China
Superstition schools teach superstition ( 'creationism' taught in British schools )
God-botherer wants his hands on TV license-payers' money
More on Open Source Symbian
Boycott Friesland Foods and Zwanenberg
Digital Fascist jackboot policies
Craig Murray
Andrew Mackinlay - an honest man in Parliament
Moon dust : astronaut health hazard ?
Agriculture linked to frog sexual abnormalities
As web traffic grows, crashes take a bigger tolldownforeveryoneorjustme
Man flying lawn chair lifted by helium balloons
22 civilians killed by airstrike - Afghanistan
The Galloping Beaver
When the lobbyists scramble over the side...
Lobbyist Registration Regulations effective July 2
Would you like fries with your bigotry ?
Media Coalition Chronology
Nostradamus ain't got nuttin' on these guys - 'Good Will Hunting' ( What I missed ! Yikes. )
As DFAIT crawls out of two years of darkness
The best description of Fox News...evah !!
YeS,YeSS,YeSSS, oh YeSSSS ! ( Economic...ah...stimulus )
Money for nuthin' Clear Channel in $400 million deal with Limbaugh
Priest returns his Order of Canada in a huff ( just like 'the Rest of the Story' - oho )
It's only torture when they do it
Top Canadian commander in Kandahar blows off Taliban jailbreak : " It's not my job."
The 10 most awesomely bad moments of the Bush presidency ( and the intro of those that didn't make the list isn't bad either )
Believe him, it's torture video story
Antarctic pictures
If you can't read the science properly, the science can't help you
The OOC makes controversial appointments ? Never.
( Outrage brews before confidential list is released or recipients notified )
Only in Canada - weighing in on war and politics ( liking those who get it wrong )
( But in the definitely unfunny department - and this time it's Canucks who are doing the unconscionable and deserve an appointment in the Hague, go to June 24 )
Abdelrazik : another Arar ( and there's no 'escape clause' for miscreants up here ! )
Operation Enduring Pipeline ( Afghanistan )June 21
Molasses = Immigration Process
And in the continuing war on women
Mississippi River reopens for shipping as flooding wanes
Danish isle runs completely on renewable energy

 

5 July - News Picks + Online Comments

Saturday, 5. July 2008, 16:40:22
BBC Front Page
Tuning out from content overload

( There we go. This is a 'recommendation site'. I've not dealt with what I'm 'up to' here much, so an overview - though 'About' and 'Links' should tell the more thorough explorers. [ If you haven't at least looked at 'Links' you're missing a major resource of this place. ]
I thought the common 'Just Google for Information' a cop-out. If you don't know what questions to ask, how can you use tools effectively...and what are they anyway ? So I survey what I run across online and collate it using a number of methods. This blog is just a handy place to index what's going on : and occasionally vent when things get too outrageous - which should be common these days. Nobody can keep up with all the data : but I can and do survey a number of sources to try and collect the most interesting and/or topical. 'Del.icio.us' is my most comprehensive ongoing effort because it gives me a topical index which can be accessed in a variety of ways : though that wasn't my initial practice. Plus I check others' saved lists for topics of interest. I still may not decide indexing the first time around a place and revision is ongoing : but respect suggested 'tags' and rely on that too.
I try to be selective towards analysis and independent thinking : there are 'Popular Sites' for 'Hot Topics' and they have lots of contributors. Of course, some are listed.
And yes, this is a part-time 'one-man-band'. On the plus side - no advertisers, no revenue, no overhead. Just because I can be as mouthy as I like doesn't mean I intend to abuse the privilege. )

BBC psy-ops propaganda arms of Anglo-American False Flag operations

Canada ruling boosts U.S. deserter
What safety net ?Bu$hnomics 101
Farmers caught in the poppy trade ( A plague of thieves )
Tofu 'may raise risk of dementia'
U.S. candidates practice their U-turns

Rove to Judiciary Chairman : "No, I'm above the Law !" ( Frogmarching is in order )

Police : Problem of scams persists

EUROPEANS ! You have until Monday to contact your MEP and save the EU from a three-strikes copyright rule !
New 'Orphaned Works' Copyright Bill works its way through Congress
( Do you believe coincidental timing an accident ? )

Bringing Ireland to Baghdad - how the Resistance will eventually kick the invaders out"Mao : the enemy wants to fight a short war, but we will not let him"
U.S. journalist photographs grisly aftermath of attack in Iraq : gets booted by the military
U.S. continues to brutalize Iraqis in the cause of the 'Surge'"Five years after the invasion, to speak of this urge to surge and its results as 'success' or as 'good news' is essentially obscene."

Frontier years give might to ex-guerilla's words

Despair drives suicide attacks by Iraqi women

New Zeland truckers turn out in force for Friday protest

Intelligence Daily
151 Congressmen derive financial benefit from war
Eager to tap Iraq's oil, industry experts suggested military intervention( Bush and Cheney are from what industry ? )
Bush administration encouraged oil deal in Kurdistan, undermining Iraqi 'national security'
It's official. The crash of the U.S. economy has begun
Bearish battalions : Almost everything that could is going wrong for world's stockmarkets
Russian official : Russian military 'deeply corrupt'
USA deeply concerned about Russia's interest in uranium-rich Mongolia( Reactor-Market implications )
Breaking Iraq and blaming Iran : British 'black ops' and the terror campaign in Basra
Frenchman researching bacteria which creates ethanol for fuel killed in London
Japan set to show off its expertise on energy frugality
Iran : US can invest in our country
India : Waging war on Iran unacceptable
Russian state TV suggests USA involved in drug trafficking from Afghanistan( Augmenting CIA budget in the style of Vietnam ? )
Senators accuse Homeland Security of bullying states on National ID
U.S. faces dilemma with Japan's fading support for re-writing Constitution
( Better the U.S. should consider adopting it ! )
The forgotten casualties : Falling through the cracks in the Army's duty of care
Top soldier recruited for law firm's ranks

Employers use federal law to deny benefits

21st Century Law Enforcement at its finest
Oh Canada! Here comes the manufactured 'Pro-Life' outrage

'Public Committee against torture in Israel' : Special indictment edition
Appletree

The new oil order

Germany passes law aimed at reducing carbon emissions
Why fly when you can float ?

Mapping the structural core of the human cerebral cortex

The computer of tomorrow

Netvibes now fully integrated with Google Search

U.S. Independence Day : flags should be upside-down and at half-staff at best

5 July - Morning Musings

Saturday, 5. July 2008, 14:06:05
Extinction 100 times closer than expected
European Parliament rushes towards Soviet Internet
ICann loses control of its own domain names
TruecryptHidden Operating System
No Doubt About It
Bush heckled at July 4 speech
Bush's Secret War on Iran by Seymour Hersch
Happy 4th ( Independence from Corruption )
Obama to stay in Iraq - Naomi Klein
Google must hand over YouTube data, judge rules
Hillary voters are voting Ralph Nader ( ! )
The new branding of Obama
Congress approves $400 million dollars for secret war in Iran
Gen Wes Clark on McCain - is it Swiftboating ? ( Not what I saw )
Who's planning our next war ?
( If that's conservative news, Americans are pretty much on the same page )
Blue Girl Red State
Phlebotomy is an invasive procedure - leave it to the professionals ( re: collecting blood samples - over protest - for lab work - as reckless endangerment )
Did Bush learn his negotiating 'skills' from Mugabe ?
On this day ... ( July 4 )
Justice Initiatives : Pretrial detention ( Gitmo too )
The 60's begin to fade as liberal professors retire ( When 'liberal' - resisting government tampering with freedom - had not been freepered into a cussword )
It's time to label conservatives for what they are"Something-for-nothing-conservatives"
Obama fuels 'pullout' debate with remarks
Marijuana arrests in 1996 most in nation's history( Analyzing the 'war on drugs' )
What the Fourth means
Suzie-Q
Senator Kucinich challenges Speaker Pelosi on Impeaching Bush ...help me resore 'rule of law' in America
Chavez to U.S. : Stop your Iran threats ... links U.S. activity to spike in oil prices
Bush heckled to screams of : "War Criminal ! War Criminal !"
True Patriotism
...Respecting the rights of others
...Protecting the rights of the accused
...Giving everyone an equal shot
...Supporting out Constitution
...Acknowledging our need to work together
...Rejecting a politics of fear
...Understanding our role in the world
There will be war with Iran ! But when ? Before or after the election ?
Ron Paul : I hear members of Congress saying "If we could only nuke Iran..."
Have a wonderful 4th of July !!
Obama hedges on withdrawal
The Fed's are lying big time...Fed's Bullard says bank's credibility is on the line
( It shouldn't have any )
Bush used phony patriotism to start war
Something Big is going on
" Ron Paul : Being an unchallenged sole superpower was never accepted by us with a sense of humility and respect. Our arrogance and aggressiveness have been used to promote a world empire backed by the most powerful army of history."
"...it was never destined to last and now we have to pay the piper."
The Summer of Awful
Cindy McCain's fortune
Populist Party
None dare call it treason
"A dark shadow government has the genuine control. We are left looking outside as our wealth and blood spew onto the desert sands and our values compromised for the benefit of a few."
Thousands of protesters of G-8 in JapanFrance backs expansion
Regulatory pressure increases on credit card industry ( Locking the barn after the horse has gone )
U.S. banking conspiracies
American Ugly
Russia warns of "new war" in Abkhazia conflict ( Georgia )
Extreme weather changes caused by human fuel-burning denied by tiny hired, disingenuous minority
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30 June 1 July 2008 - Opit's LinkFest! at My Opera

Collage of images taken by U.S. military in Ir...Image via Wikipedia

1 July - Surfing

Wednesday, 2. July 2008, 05:43:46
Warning to copyright enforcers : Three strikes and you're out ( Beautiful )
Monte Asbury has been busy at Clipmarks
Travel guide to man-made disasters ( Don't let George see these )
World's poor hit hard as disaster tally rises
Antro Solo gets 150 mpg
Iranian blogger with excellent photos
Data loss : the ultimate cluestick
Malware silently alters wireless router settings
Majikthise
American Family Association : "Tyson Homosexual" bound for Olympic Games
Fake federal agent fought phony drug war in Missouri
States designate police, firefighters and EMT's as 'terrorism liason officers' ( i.e. official snitches )
Rolling back the astroturf : PUMA founded by McCain supporter
High school 'pregnancy pact' is urban myth
Army doesn't check whether contractors are on arms trafficking watch list
Ezra Klein
In Praise of Senator Cardin remarks on transit
Mongolia calls state of emergency
France plans revolution in space
NASA satellites watch polar ice shelf break into crushed icemain sheet will slowly accelerate into the sea
Video of dying mental patient being ignored spurs changes at Brooklyn hospital
Diabetes underrated, insideous and deadly
The Existentialist Cowboy
John McCain is an unstable, hot-headed...
Scott McClellan : Bush misled Americans
Psychopaths rule the world
Buzzflash
Barr : GOP says one thing and does another
The candidates' idiotic debate over the War on Terror
McCain campaign continues GOP tactic of scaring Americans into voting Republican
Mentally ill Republicans
Iran-Contra's 'lost chapter': Reagan administration brought CIA tactics home to reshape the way Americans perceived the world
Bush is destroying America : Congress & MSM enable him
Vidal : Bush ended US as a republic
Bloomberg
Disorderly drop in US dollar can't be ruled out
 
Calif. firefighters battle more than 1400 blazes
Iran in the crosshairs : the threat may not exist

 

1 July - Intermittant Surfing

Wednesday, 2. July 2008, 02:46:55
Adobe advances rich media search on the web

How we read online
( With frustration, today. I've a solid connection and DNS errors all over the place, especially AlterNet - while listening to online radio ! And Firefox 3.0 is in too ! Plus I finally took the plunge and installed SP3 for Windows - after checking to see my AMD didn't have the glitch HP users have experienced. )

There is no Iraqi insurgency
Life under Muqtada : Inside Baghdad's Shiite slums
The war in Iraq is pure murder
$300 Billion down the tubes : wasteful spending on weapons systems

The media don't care about the other kind of terrorists
The Family's Values : America's most secretive ( and influential ) religious organization
U.S. federal telework legislation clears house

Arbitration is a corporate scam
Medical fraud tops $60 billion a year
The contraception failure

Is Iowa another Katrina ?
( Using material by Warren Street Blue Girl Red State )

Why are the world's lakes disappearing ?
Innovative outfit eSolar signs first deal for utility-scale solar plants

Kucinich's mammoth case for impeaching Bush

BooMan Tribune
Best Health Care in the World ! "Words fail me." Video
Can the Blogosphere please grow up ? ( Ouch. An Atrios/BooMan reminder it's possible to 'win' a battle and lose a war )
Obama : not yet the change we need ? Steve D

( I saw the last election as Americans running like mad from politicians promising war. Since neither Obama nor McCain clearly say 'we're getting out of there yesterday ! ' - and the Democratic majority has continued to fund the Occupation - I can't see John Q. Public figuring either one of them, candidate or party, is worth the powder to blow them to hell, regardless of how pretty the speech.

Put that against the disintegrating economy - all profits and sustenance gone - and Mr. Cheney will have his national emergency against the background of bitched infrastructure, spoiled crops, and ruined water supply and utilities. The basics of survival loom large, with loss of homes, jobs and power providing the scourge, along with water-borne disease and chemical pollution. Too much ? Iowa was June 10 and FEMA is MIA. )

Defending WesClark

New washing machine uses just a cup of water

 

1 July - Canada ( Dominion ) Day -

Tuesday, 1. July 2008, 14:36:39
Canada was a choice, not an accident
( The title's a good point - that the article doesn't clearly make early on. Canada began as a voluntary association of semi-autonomous states in a mutually agreed framework. Also 1867 is only the year that started with four - on the same date as Germany - but Newfoundland, for instance, joined in 1949.
I hear ignorant comments about French and Indians. Mohawks, for instance, fought with British troops as allies. Neither they nor the Quebecois are subject nations, as Quebec entered into an arrangement which gave them specific rights and the government certain duties - such as access to federal government services in French throughout Confederation, a historical result of their treaty with Britain in acceding to British rule peaceably.
Former Acadia had been cleared and resettled with English speaking people by Britain to deprive France of a coastal ally. St. John, New Brunswick - N.B. and Nova Scotia being two provinces which had comprised that French colony, and many of whose descendants became Lousiana's 'Cajuns' - was a British-surveyed city established in 1852, and had a high proportion of United Empire Loyalists - refugees from the American revolution. A U.E.L. descendant from there myself, I had a teen girlfriend who claimed to be descended from Benedict Arnold, and she was quite proud of that. )

Truth is Sedition and Falsehoods are Patriotism
Delaware Watch
Injustice Served
That's why they call it Imperialism ( no-bid Iraq oil contracts mandated by US )
9 in 10 see rising gas prices causing family hardship ( results of an energy-intensive economy )
The Montana Legacy Project : 320,000 Acres preserved
Company designs and maintains organic garden in your backyard
Nazi Jews : a historical paradox
Multiple jabs have not made troops sick : study
Laser treatment could help kill superbugs
Outrage brews as Ottawa set to honour Morgenthaler
( Some obviously prefer their 'heroes' not be combative. There's a recipe for rot. )
Wind appears on verge of becoming power player
Study finds long benefit in illegal mushroom drug
Junk food substitutes
Feds may consider euthanizing wild horses in the WestUS
sync - MSN gadgets blog
Google quietly tests social network
Cloud computing - the future takes nebulous shape
Zytu - Search safe
7 people from around the world with real mutant superpowers
Smoking ban helps 400,000 to quit
New tool would help internet providers thwart file-sharing ( but is that a good thing ? )
Profile features are NOT going awayNetflix
BlueBloggin
Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly RoundUp ( blog posts catalogued )
House Committe hears transgender issue ( systemic workplace discrimination )
Blue Girl Red State
Boy Is Gerald's Face Red ! ( Absolutely incredible malfeasance - impersonating a federal officer con )
Scott Ritter goes after David Albright ( con on another scale - WMD )
The Existentialist Cowboy
George Bush is NO Thomas Jefferson
Sacrilege at Monticello
( Maybe he can formally piss on the statue while in the area )
John McCain is an unstable, hotheaded liar, unfit to be President
Carlin : 'We can bomb the shit out of your country'
Steve Kangas : the origins of the Overclass- the business origins of CIA crimes
Bombing Iran and the role of the expert pundits
CIA agent : Iran nuclear program evidence was ignored
Ten Percent
Abracadabra
Shame these wars and dangerous threats keep distracting us from democracy
Administrative Rape ( Gaza Gelhorn prizewinner harassed ) Israelis assault prize winning journalist
EARTHtimes
Peruvian miners ready for a national strike
Articles and Answers - News and Views
MotherJones
The Peoples' Voice - News and Viewpoints
'Surviving hell' is a reality of peace for Gaza civilians

30 June - Final

Tuesday, 1. July 2008, 06:37:59
Reading the Newswrap at Blue Girl Red State
Magnetic device could zap migraines
Hunt for al Qaeda ineffective ( Stirs things up just fine )
Squeezing oil from a stone
A 2-billion-year window into the earth

I put up the UFO Map on Google - why not, right ? Current distribution puts almost everything over the continental USA in an unmistakeable concentration : almost exclusive.

Contrary Brin
So many ways Obama could use jiu jitsu - Candidates who agree on much
U.S. and Europe near agreement on data accessable by private firms
Secret law begs question : Is this America ?
David Brin Clipmarks
Mukasey has denied House oversight DoJ documents
( Another one who shouldn't let the door hit him on the way out )
Virtual Keyboard
WobZIP-Uncompress on the fly

 

30 June - Evening News

Tuesday, 1. July 2008, 02:47:22
Former Abu Ghraib detainees sue U.S. contractors
4 judges targeted by bombs in Iraq
Military to seek death penalty for USS Cole suspect
"It will use this information in a military commission proceeding that provides none of the safeguards that protect from an unjust conviction. These procedures--and the torture committed by our government--clearly violate both U.S. law and the moral standards that are the foundation of our country." ( In other words...no problem. )
Court rules in favor of Chinese Muslim held at Gitmo
Spy chief defends Peru's Fujimori
Local air quality advisories lifted due to offshore winds Vallejo, California
"Second-wave" HIV hits young black gays
Satellites pinpoint Earth's auroral radio chatter
Alzheimer's drug may prevent brain damage in preemies
Meet the steel-melting solar mirror
Gene editing could make anyone immune to AIDS
U.S. federal court rules it can't hear Arar's complaint "Foreigners have no Constitutional Due Process Rights in the U.S."
( Great tourism promotion )
Disabled veterans' families feel the strain on finances,health
Telecom Amnesty foes lobby Obama using Obama tech
Ontario boosts rights protection
Today's suburbs, tomorrow's slums ?
Trans-Canada buzzes after millions of bees spilled
Spain to give apes rightsThe UnPatriot Act : the law that gutted the U.S. Constitution
Silence like a cancer grows
13 FriendFeed tools for Twitter refugees
eBay has to pay $63m because a French court doesn't know a platform from a user
Tech companies team up to buy patents to keep them away from others
'Good' cholesterol dementia risk
Revealed : the infighting that has hobbled the hunt for bin Ladin
Canada, U.S. to team up on Arctic seabed mapping project
Rhapsody charges headlong into iTunes territory
WALL-E

30 June - Update

Monday, 30. June 2008, 23:44:50
New GI Bill passed into law
Senate passes no-strings funding bill
( I'm sure the 'Stop Loss'-ed can figure out the real 'benefit' of this bill )
Preparing the battlefield
"The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran"
"some Pentagon officials believe that bombing Iran is not a valid response to the nuclear proliferation issue"
"Gates warned of the consequences if Washington called for a 'pre-emptive' strike against Iran'
( 'pre-emptive' meaning unwarranted and illegal - again )
"June - Admiral Fallon on Iraq ...'Did I bitch about some of the things that were being proposed about Iraq ? You bet. Some of them were very stupid.' "
Search Results came from a comment made on a Blue Girl Red State thread
MyBlogLog adds more stuff
( I'm constrained on what I can put in my sidebar. I have an account, however. May 9. So slooow. )

 

30 June - Morning News

Monday, 30. June 2008, 19:28:02
CBS finishes acquisition of CNet ; Quincy Smith addresses the troops
Australian crocs hit by cane toad 'wave of death'
Weak solar cycle may keep more space junk in orbit
Omega-3s are twice as important for girls as boys
Sample of Edutagger search
If the leaders don't get it - it's not going to happen
( That's got to be true in politics as well as education. Mostly we vote for lawyers - not educators ! One politician quipped to me : "Politicians have to be popular, not smart." He was referring to getting votes, of course. Oddity : Fidel Castro and Pierre E. Trudeau were history professors. You know the saying : "Those who don't know the mistakes of the past are bound to repeat them." So when a government pushes secrecy, it destroys competence from lack of intelligent direction, and from lack of competent oversight via peer review. Crime doesn't care about anything except 'profit' : though if you destroy everything - "Where's the Profit ?" )
First Edublogger session
G.M. foods : The U.S. fights mandatory labeling in an untested human experiment
Dissecting a study disproving Vitamin B's role in preventing heart disease
Being physically active more important than being lean
Changing your thoughts can change your life
Fortified cassava could provide a day's nutrition in a single meal
Climate change causing significant change in composition of coastal fish communities
( Primitive lifestyles historically flourished best near the source of easy protein and transport. This could be hugely important. )
Limit sucrose as painkiller for newborns
Drought tolerance in potatoes
Zinc finger proteins put personalized HIV therapy within reach
Student credit cards : useful or a trap ?
( Is this a 'trick' question ? Financial marketing caused the mortgage crisis. Stupid policies can be very destructive. )
$162 billion bill : Legacy for war or education ?
( Who controls the purse strings ? The most corrupt administration in history. Answering that question didn't take long. It will be the rare [ undamaged ] vet who gains any real benefit. )
Mississippi flooding closes St. Louis to barges
Pentagon : Gay equals crazy
EPA didn't know anyone was still drinking water
( Any takers on the proposition FEMA utterly and completely fails to provide access to potable water for the flooded MidWest : in fact disrupts efforts to provide same ? )
Iraq in one minute
Further cut in U.S. interest rates

 

30 June - First Look at the Web

Monday, 30. June 2008, 16:51:53
Leaked screen shots of mythical Digg recommendation engine
Oil rises on concern Iran supplies may be disrupted
Goldman says demand, not speculators, behind oil gain
$200 a barrel oil : how it would change our lives
Questioning the Unquestionable
"John McCain presidency...has at best a strange understanding of the President to military relationship, and that he would cede his responsibilities of making the most important decisions to those people who are not, by their very function, supposed to make them."
Blue Girl Red State
Wes Clark didn't get it completely wrong
"Military experience and executive experience aren't the same thing"
"From day one in the Navy, McCain screwed up again and again" ( sounds familiar. Bush, too )
Chaos in Afghanistan
"What is the aim...of the 60,000 soldiers there ?"
( They go around getting in firefights, being bombed, retaliating with attacking settlements...and endure increasing amounts of, and intensity also, resistance which springs up because of, not despite, their presence. They provide a Target and irritant which destroys local control and initiates chaos. My take, anyway.
Destroying local graft doesn't justify changing things over to feed a fresh bunch of scoundrels - unless of course they are a 'cat's paw' to feed their sponsors 'at home'.
The 'sacrifice' of the troops, literally, doesn't make it a good idea nor a workable plan : something they say themselves. Nor is there an objective or end to it : the destruction is self-perpetuating indefinitely. Well, until or unless the outnumbered pains-in-the-ass are consumed in the fire they create, as Britain's expeditionary force of 12,000 was in the Khyber Pass in 1835. Yeah : almost two centuries ago.
This is not 'Peacekeeping', people. Of course, it is under NATO - not the UN. Funny about that. )
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