Saturday, September 11, 2010

28 - 31 July 2008 Opit's LinkFest! on My Opera

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31 July - Early Picks

Photography is not a crime
LAPD chief opposes tougher laws against paparazzi
NYPD proving to be out of control
Yale students' lawsuit unmasks trolls, opens Pandora's box
Suzie-Q
Absolute Power, No Responsibility : White House reaction to DOJ hiring scandal
Greedy BP makes L555 a second as it 'picks the pockets of the poor'
Judge says White House Aides can be subpoenaed
Congress should rescind the State of Emergency declared by Bush
George Washington's Blog
Be scared as you could be ( ongoing recruiting scams, threats and intimidation. Will there be 'Press gangs' next ? )
Exxon profits breaks records of any U.S. corporation
Military censorship of the war in Iraq ( When safe civilian cowards ( AWOL etc ) hide what they do so go on about ... )
Bush's legacy of torture
America! Home of the Peeping Tom Society
Regime change coming to Israel
What's in the future for the US Presidency
Forget the Surge ...violence is down in Iraq because ethnic cleansing was brutally effective
Air Force looks to laser-proof its weapons
SEC to recognize corporate blogs as public disclosure
Ho9llywood has finally figured out how to make web video pay

30-31 July - some BritBlogging in the mix

To destroy al Qaeda, we must end the war on terror : Rand Corporation
Canadian Arctic sheds ice chunk
Pickled Politics
'Obama has angered millions of blacks' ( from disinformation central )
So, who wants nuclear power, then ? ( Pointing out there were good and sufficient reasons to abandon the practice )
Council ban on atheist websites ( Hardly promoting goodwill between men )
Miliband and Harmon to challenge Brown ?
Politics is war by any other means
Disabled married off for entry into the U.K.
A cat amongst the pigeons ( exercising whimsy )
and back on June 24 'A great piece on asylum' : which has ideas applicable to the immigration squabble
rather than 'This is how anti-terror laws are used' style screw-ups.
Craig Murray
New Labour and Reality
Law Lords back corruption ( Do you get this impression ? The Brits expect government to jack them around as a matter of course and raise holy hell about it. The U.S. acts too busy with distractions to react with a call to arms : though the incidence of miserable excuses for management is reasonably common in both cases. )
Chiseling the blindfold ( away from the eyes of 'Justice' )
We are all Aztecs now Sunday Herald
( CACI doing Scot census : thought likely to pass private data to CIA )
Jack Straw, Impresario of Torture, lurks towards No. 10
Civility in Politics, and other thoughts ( Brilliant )
Hurray for Glasgow East
Barack Obama on Tim Spicer
Shameless - Brown at the Knesset
More neo-colonial war for oil ( Niger )
Making a killing : Marketing the new dogs of war ( Sri Lanka, PMC, Executive Outcomes : extensive recollections )
Bannaga
Prefabs and more prefabs, gadgets and
Two new drugs promise longer, healthier living
10 ways to get the internet on HDTV
Gartner's top 10 disruptive technologies to 2012
Blue Girl Red State
Now they want the challenges kept secret ( DOJ wants dirty laundry unseen )
Wingnuts and things that actually work
Beware of the true believers around you
Hate to have to tell you this, but Joe Klein is right again
Ten Percent
Police win appeal to not pursue criminals
George Orwell starts a blog ( Diary entries will each be published on the 70th anniversary of their writing)
Apply here for an MA in blog reading
A wingnut doco and no one can mention the CIA
BlueBloggin
Hat tip to citizen activism against sleazy Texas politics
Texas Alliance weekly roundup

Rabbi unveils a secret of God

Until last night, I used XP Home with Firefox + Thunderbird ( I started with Seamonkey and whatever Mozilla release preceded it ), Avant, Flock, Opera... I had fun.Despite a mechanical trap on email and a thorough antivirus scan .... I ended up with an 'invisible' Trojan.
My email account ( with 100's of spam messages a day ) was permanently blocked because of outgoing...not incoming...spam !
Reformat database. Windows obliterated. Ubuntu is my OS now. So far I've been distracted with DNS viruses interrupting our local system to figure out if it's really quicker ( no antivirus ).
Now why would the morning be the best time to post ? I have to wonder if that's when a disruptive account logs onto our network.
Despite having tried a KDE Desktop on Mandriva ( formerly Lindows ) before I wonder about finding my way around a new OS. Already I am impressed by a built-in 'splitscreen' that allows me to switch views on one viewer to give a spreadsheet effect.Firefox and toys work. Hurray !

 

30 July - Late BlogRoaming

Bush : "No regime should ignore the will of its own people"
( The Fuhrer is a funny guy. He must crack himself up. )
Chaotic Good
Banning the Messiah
Chomsky on "Protest Voting"
Tricks to deal with dementia
Broken Soldier
'Support the Troops' is an American Lie
You must be the change you wish to see in the world
( Bob Costa reminds me of the Way of the Wizard )
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness
( He's tired. Got that right. Still deep when he can't think straight. And watching Strong Bad videos ? O.K. Homestarrunner)
Oil Israel Logistics
Perspectv : an election mashup that proves nothing but looks good doing it
US Governors launch West Coast Ocean Action plan
Deep Sea News
Health Care Reform - Corporate style
New uranium plan keeps New Brunswickers in the dark
( Lepreau nuclear plant is built on a fault line. Trusting government to use sense is obviously not a prudent plan. )
Tech Cominco coals up
Mistrust risks violence, interfaith meet told
Chinese authorities order Olympic hotels to install spy gear
Internet sites still blocked for Olympic reporters
Uncensor - activism against China's net censorship
Status of Chinese People
China's Olympics best-case scenario
US Congress acts to suspend bid to upgrade Pakistan fighter fleet 'W'
Blue Girl Red State
IG for Interior : Abandoned mines pose an 'ominous' threat to public health and safety
Wikipedia gets it right - locks Edward's page against tripe
Tom Tomorrow
Ted Stevens indicted !
You should go read this
An update from the front lines in the housing market
( Windhorse isn't heard from all that often. He tends to make an impression. Recommended )
Thanks for nothing ( ouch )
Crazy neocon tries to get in awl business ( Likely to get killed )
Out of Iraq Bloggers Caucus
Lost unto this world
Real News - Is Iraq ready to explode ?
SBA questions Blackwater contracts
Conference to lay plans to prosecute high level war criminals
A message about AFN from Walt Flanagan
Real News : Iraq events moving out of US control
Sham impeachment hearing update
Watching Those We Chose
Nightowl Newswrap
Keeping the crimes straight clickable diagram
Lotus - Surviving a Dark Time
Some questions answer themselves
..."why don't we read about some lefty nutso going into some church or meeting and shooting the place up because they hate conservatives ?"
Footnote to the preceding, lest we forget Dept. ( Turkey and the PKK )
Reality Check ( what was the purpose of the Surge ? )
Humpty-Dumpty visits the Middlle East ( Brown in Israel )
The Geekinator ( First piece I've come across on the potential importance of water on the moon )

29 July - News

Fatal drugs, uneducated patients
( Meds are poisons. Seriously. They are 'concentrates' of natural substances, altered by the procedure. Use with respect. Anybody who thinks you can take them without allowing for caution and an eye for side effects is living in la-la land.
Synergy is when drugs and/or diet interact to pervert the effect. I can't eat grapefruit when taking my blood pressure tabs and expect they are 'antagonistic' to each other. )
Cloned beef has already entered the U.S. food supply
( The Koreans were already rioting over BSE. This should really help things along. )
Overfeeding your child may be considered a crime
( Timing is everything. With the price of food skyrocketing, this may well become another example of useless intervention : or not if people stuff themselves with junk because of costs. Besides, it would be impolitic to demand corn starch be removed from foods ! Ditto aspartame. )
Obesity linked to gum disease
A small supplement company's fight for health freedom
Biodiversity in the Amazon may be the result of Ice Age climate change and ancient flooding, not river barriers
Food chemists use 'edible antifreeze' to make smoother ice cream
( 'Safe' - just like milk from cows taking hormones to increase production )
Secret life cycles of atmospheric aerosols can be illuminated with new technology
WTO talks collapse after Ch

29 July - Morning News and Views

Ukraine declares state of emergency
Russia and U.S. close to nuclear deal
( The U.S. is sabotaging this itself as a result of all the kool-aid put out on Iran : which is a lot closer to Russia should a bad case of stupids be possible. What's this nonsense about Russia providing the noose for its own hanging again ?
Tell me which is the greater threat : a nation buying a reactor system for domestic power - or one with MIRVs on ICBMs ? )
Ahmadjinejad condemns world powers for atomic arsenals
Russian ambassador : UN chief exceeding his authority
Russia starved of top professionals
Mental health survey stuns British Parliament
Bridge worries persis a year after the I-35 disaster
Coral reef 'glue' may not stick under climate change
Lensless on-chip microscope inspired by 'floaters' in the eye
Pardon my Paradox
War with Iran thought to be unlikely at Doug's Darkworld
Isolating Iran backfires ( again )
Dancing Tree
Boycott of Jewish poets
Prisoner swap
Worse than Apartheid
Ten Percent
Just so we're clear about this Occupation thingy
( Israel and Palestine / U.S. and Iraq : doesn't it seem too much for coincidence ? )
Ultra violence and addiction
Illusion of Democracy
SNP hires Abu Ghraib's CACI for Scottish census ( ! )Amar Anwar accuses Scottish government of selling its soul ( Its what ? )
Laughing as I go
The suing of the torturers of Abu Ghraib begins...also news on the Uighurs of Guantanamo *
Surveillance changes behaviour * ( BTW Canucks : didn't a secret trilateral agreement between the US-Britain-Canada designate us electronic snoop HQ ? )
Hrrrm... Israeli citizens to receive new gas masks
Army recruiters threaten high school students

29-30 July Late Links - News

How air pollution affects nature
"substantially harming every ecosystem type in the northeastern and midAtlantic United States...pollutants ranging from mercury to ground-level ozone are impacting the services nature provides us too. Significant environmental problems in Air, Soil and Water."
Saving the High Seas
Biofuels major driver of world food price rise
( Corn was hit by flooding in the MidWest and hail in Alberta )
Do chickens raised in the U.S. taste funny because we chlorinate them ?
Brzezinski,Obama,AIPAC & Iraq War
TomGram : Mercenaries at Work
( Tom writes for Buzzflash : this is a link to a TomDispatch piece which will fly around the net full tilt. These are taken so seriously there's even a list of releases catalogued independently. )
Bush O.K.s soldier's execution
Crooks
Industry money gushed to McCain after reversal on drilling
India signs agreement with US to carry out lunar exploration
Incertus
Stay classy, y'all
Okay, this is funny but ...
Um, Bill ? ( Kristol stretches credidiblity and sense...still )
What about that 'paying Caesar's things to Caesar' thing ?
( A church is supposed to be non profit : if it isn't...well then, nail it ! )
Oh ouch ( McCain raising faux pas to a high art : that's 'putting his foot in it' to the hoi polloi )
Horror Journalism - NYT assesses 'modern literacy'
"No one's ever said you should read more books to get into college"
( educators : no head-banging please )
Learning lessons - power of media narratives
Talk about missing the point
( Talk about misconstruing the point. Given my opinion of the 'media' -- lower than a snake's belly -- I'm not even sure who's the one doing it. )
Books replaced by their movies ( Oddly, losing a lot of detail and colour in the change of medium )
Some publication news and the Random Ten ( Songs )
Annette Tadeo at Netroots Nation
Snubbing atheists on the campaign trail ( The New Jews on the Reich Wing Hate Parade ? )
Modern Day Slavery
Some Schadenfreude
Liberal media, my ass
Young Republicans, desperate to be relevant ( that's kind )
Desperate for attention ? ( McCain VP schtick )
Where the women at ? ( Tossed off the workforce )
Working remotely : it sounds good but how do you actually do it ?
techdirt
Why does the recording industry get to decide who gets threatening letters from ISPs ?
Textbook publishers continue to freak out over file sharing ( better put it online )
Is privacy that Cuil ? ( search startup collects no personally identifying information )
WiFi worries still going strong in the UK
MPAA still clueless : claims anti-piracy is why Dark Knight had a huge opening
Microsoft plays practical joke on people to convince them they like Vista
Senator introduces unConstitutional bill to ban sale of certain video games to minors
( will that curtail the Army doing it ? )
Another quasi-government agency lending money to troubled banks (Corporate Welfare : opening the spigot of public funds )
What is the Arab World's problem ?
( This a trick question ? Wherever it is, you can bet the problem is the U.S. : not least of all because they couldn't identify the Arab World if it bit them in the ass . )
Google Lively - even lamer than Second Life
Cable cos get 5 years to switch to digital mode India
Aussie schools go high-tech Voice recognition software
Site guesses your sex via age-old web flaw
How to do business with a Blacklisted Russian weapons company
The Shield Law : Truth or Fear Mongering ?
Virgin Galactic unveils "White Knight Two"Launch Vehicle
NYC will get its first new subway line in 70 years ( Just in time for sea level to rise 20 feet )
How to Unclog traffic
Blogger Gorshkov will dish dirt on Russian politicians - for a price
China will install deep-mooring system in Arctic Ocean
Expedition to deepest lake bottom set for plunge

28 July - Further BlogRoaming

Truthdig
The Military-Industrial Complex : It's much later than you think
"government secrecy protects it and it degrades our system of checks and balances"
First look at 'W'
Plodding down the information highway ( McCain online initiative : humor )
An unlikely pair fight the death penalty
Second Wind for WTO talks ? ( this IS the organization that has been the target of repeated bombings )

300 They were the only ones willing to defend the Bush Administration
Don't Panic !
Mother Mae I borrow $25 billion ?
:" bAdmin does its part to support the free market"
Oh The AGony ! "Jesus Christ on a bed of linguine. There's nothing to say except that 182 days is 182 days too long."
Activist judges - Part 911
"the long process of scraping the Chimperator's shit off the Constitution continues"
If I were covering McCane's campaign McCain gets Social security but criticizes system

Truthout
DOJ illegally discriminated against non-Republicans
McCaskill takes on Military-Industrial Complex
Iraq : poised to explode
Terrifying ally against Terror
Bush hails Pakistan as ally against extremists

Goodling's actions violated DOJ policy and Federal Law ( violated Gonzales' policy ? )

Voters rolls in several states purged !

Farm animals rights law would require room to roam

Online speed reader

How Skype & Co. get around firewalls

I knew "Welcome to Pottersville" and Jurassic Pork's vitriol were gonzo, but seeing the old Blogspot listed at '300' I searched again.
Look who's at Buzzflash !
Welcome to Oceania : Your friends from Ingsoc

Finally. Welcome Back to Pottersville
Great moments in Republican journalism part 341 ( JP knows that's an oxymoron. The "Great White North" was a time-filler Canadian skit that 'took-off, Eh !' )
John McCain's Facebook page
... and the Persian Gulf will tell ( odd header for the Bugliosi video )
Mission Accomplished...Again
( Well...he's no 'Surrendercrat' ! That is satire BTW. You don't 'surrender' anything when you walk away from genocide reported [ ? ] as a sporting event yielding lovely graft while promoting it as a humanitarian act. )
What good is experience if you can't remember it ?
( In getting shot down or killing fellow crew ? Fine qualifications for Executive .... dummy. )
If a Democracy falls in the middle of a wilderness...
The scorpion and the frog... a Republican retelling
The whiteboarding of history, starring John McCain and the CBS

Worldwide Sawdust
( Layout revised ! Loads so you can see the posts right away . I even had a bitch typed in before the site resolved. )
Like the little Satans we are
Murdering God : of shotguns, Capitalism and Moral Expediency
Renegade Justice : an interview with former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias

28 July - More BlogRoaming

The Existentialist Cowboy
Treason and Conspiracy : How Bush and his 'Material Supporters' betrayed the nation

Prohibited conduct
Torture
Cruel or inhuman treatment
Performing biological experiments ( on people )
Murder
Mutilation or maiming
Intentionally causing serious bodily injury
Rape
Sexual assault or abuse
Taking hostages

Bush's presence mocks the principles of U.S. independence

The Enemy is Us !

( Sidebar : Breaking News plus Updates on OpEd News and Buzzflash stories )

OpEd News
Secret biowarfare agenda
Propaganda and the South African AIDS crisis
Impeachment blockading excuse : Fear ye the terrorists. Who ARE they ? Read and see
The fight to hold on to our HAVA-compliant lever voting system
The vast and dangerous transfer of American spying to mercenary companies
US warns Israel 'There will be no USS Liberty Part II'
Note to MSM : Stop saying 'The Surge (TM) Worked' and the Occupation is a 'War'
Egypt seizes Israeli radioactive cargo
Top Secret government database used in Bush spy program : USA - Police State
Conyers tries to kill Impeachment Hearing before it starts
Can 'War on Corruption' replace 'War on Terror' ?
Drugs in Afghanistan
... "nobody ever tried to explain how to win over the farmers while destroying their crops"
Women suicide bombers seeking revenge in Iraq

The Heathlander

Shimon Peres on the Wall
Sly Fox ( as in Faux )
How Israel deals with unarmed demonstrators
Four years on, the annexation wall remains ( 723 kilometres or 449 miles )
Norman Finkelstein vs. Dov Weisglass
Hossam on the struggle in Egypt militant labour activity
Israel's abuse of journalists

Dad 2059's Blog
The Octopus and the Edgar Mitchell controversy

What makes us sick

A ,microscope measuring picometers

28 July, - First Picks - BlogRoaming

Firefox tip : save multiple pages as MHT files in one go !
'Dinosaur eel' inspires body armor of future
The Slime of the Ancient Mariner McCain : Hat Tip >
Blue Girl Red State
Premature, presumptuous and wrong about damned near everything
Vet suicide numbers
Money, not ideology or nationalism, drives the Iraqi insurgency
Parsons fails in Iraq but keeps luctrative government contracts
How is Agricprocessers still in business ?
Purity trolls and broadband access
So who is giving money to McCain ?
Beat Cancer
U.S. military says soldiers fired on civilians
No Doubt About It
Collateral damage - America's war against Iraqi civilians
Energy ! Obama McCain the same
Impeach ! Highlights
Desert Peace
Death penalty, a punishment for civilians, is not sufficient in Israel
The ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem
Tools of Occupation as weapons
Settler attacks are treated like rape
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Friday, September 10, 2010

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

Naomi Klein (b. May 5, 1970), Canadian journal...Image via Wikipedia

 

17 July - Quick choice of topical articles

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

13 July - Postus Interruptus

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

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

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

The Colonial Revival headquarters of Fannie Ma...Image via Wikipedia

 

10 July Surfing

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

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

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

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

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

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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