Friday, September 10, 2010

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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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

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

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 -

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

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

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

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

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

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. )
I see I have an Adobe updater to run, so here's post One.
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27-29 June 2008 Opit's LinkFest! at My Opera

The Gay Pride Parade through the Amsterdam Can...Image via Wikipedia

29 June NewsBlogging + AlterNet selections

A terrible bust is born
No let-up in global stocks slide
A supercomputer takes on a killer
Strengthening student resilience to handling online risks
Zapatero firm on phasing out Spain's nuclear power
Russian firm buys McLean's International Launch
House mandates a bill for asteroid warning and deflection
Delek US Holdings in talks to buy US oil refinery
Iran threat to close oil strait
Oil attack sparks security overdrive
Fuel subsidy takes toll on Nepal economy
Don't debug alone with Five Runs Tune UpRuby on Rails
Windows XP begins its long goodbye
Forget Jeeves, use Powerset
Powerset
Microsoft's grand plan to eliminate phone numbers
The world wide web turns 15 ( again )
Free medical tool tackles disease
10 audacious ideas to save the planet
Unknown molecule opens the door to quantum computing
Discovery by UC Riverside physicists could lead to development of faster computers
Accidental fungus leads to promising new cancer drug
Canadian Armed Forces personnel march in the Gay Pride Parade for the first time
The truth about Roe vs. Wade( The view from the trenches)
Anti-abortion groups shut down 'Habitat for Humanity' project
The seeds of the culture war start here
The violent language of right-wing pundits poisons our democracy ( No respect for media whores ! )
Endless war : is the U.S. trying to set the whole world on fire ?
Apocalypse in the oceans
Contaminated veggies are meat industry's fault"Cow shit is in your tomatoes"
Is fructose fueling the obesity epidemic ( How about corn starch ? )
Nanotech : why something so small can be so dangerous
McMafia : the new face of organized crime
Defending the President as Tyrant
Whistleblower Mark Klein, Telecomm Immunity : " It's a Congressional Coup against the Constitution"
Lewis Black rants against corporate greed
It's the obscene profits, stupid! Exxon's enormous gains from the U.S. keep growing
A nuclear energy renaissance wouldn't solve our problems, but it would rip us off
Small town overthrows corporate giant for control of water
Bottled water debate hits a boiling point
The roots of 'necklacing' : why white farmers in Zimbabwe are responsible for the killings in South Africa
McCain linked to terrorist Libyan regime
Waxman closing in on Dick Cheney for outing Valerie Wilson
Wrongfully convicted
America's disdain for science
Setting priorities and solutions to address the mental health crisisCanada
Few student-athletes survive sudden cardiac arrest
Raytheon's pain ray : coming to a protest near you ?
U.S. economy : the worst is yet to come
Republicans obstructing relief in housing crisis
Blue Girl Red State
How Republicans have failed to protect the American people
Holy Joe would love to see the US attacked, wouldn't he ?
Democrat with military background assails McCain's credentials
Oil up again, stagflation fears simmer
Inflation begetting a culture of fear
I've been downloading again Avant Browser
I've had this IE-based build in previous issues and found it interesting.

 

29 June - Early News

Military eying capabilities of micro-satellites
Java is free at last

28-9 June Late Links RoundUp

Lifestraw is world-changing idea
What's really up with North Pole sea ice ?
Blood, sweat and fear : Workers' rights in US meat and poultry plants Hat Tip Warren Street at Blue Girl Red State who started the ball rolling with Comment 11
Back to Blue Girl's news wrap where a relative of the Iraqi PM is whacked in 'combat ops'
( Doesn't that sound more like a capo-syle warning to behave and kowtow to de massah ? )
Christian Commons / Tom Usher at Real Liberal Christian Church review of State-sponsored terror : British and American Black Ops in Iraq
Craig Murray
Amnesty International accuses European governments of complicity in 'torture flights'
How homophobia harms us all
G8 may invest $8 bln/year to cut CO2
Israel says to reopen Gaza border crossings( not West Bank )
Who's planning our next war ?
America - an Iraqi's first impressions
4.1 million Canadians without family doctor
Calgary taking a break in experiment in recruiting UK bobbies
Bulgarian extremists attack gay parade in capital
Future of Guantanamo Bay prison unclear
Canadian military silent on Afghan civilian deaths"some Afghans believe the attacks are really execution missions"
( They'd be in a fair position to judge, too )
Syria Comment
Stratfor Analysis Syrian scoops are almost invariably wrong
Washington's policy of isolating Syria hurting US
A new law for foreign ownership in Syria
Desperately seeking sanctuary Iraqi refugees
Syria requests Indian Institute of Technology
Can Lebanon douse political fires ? ( Shiite-Sunni confrontations - some sub sects )
US official hails Syria refugee aid
The US and Siniora seek to push back against Hizbullah and the opposition
Resumption of peace talks between Israel and Syria
Syria should forge Arab unity ( huh ? )
U.S. Network falters in MidEast mission
In Israel, a truce with Hamas is greeted with fear and anger
One third of people shot with Taser require medical attention
Canada amending bumper standards ( Harmonizes with both U.S. and E.U. )
Abu Aardvark commends the Task force for responsible withdrawal (PDF) for serious thought
Mapping the American Blogosphere
Guest Post "Powers that Be" Back from Baghdad
The Daily Galaxy
Scientists discover why extreme sports give us a high
Mars soil sample reveals presence of nutrients for plants to grow
The planet's most massively awesome computer - the large Hadron
The largest crater in the solar System sparks immense scientific interest ( Mars )
Space experts call for 'fewer astronauts, more robots'
MIT scientists discover living Amazon language without numbers
The world's biggest camera to survey 300 million galaxies
NASA's new $200 million space suit
How a man-made tornado could power the future

 

28 June - Evening BlogRoaming

Amused Cynicism
China obsoletes aircraft carriers
Raped girl wants abortion : religious nutters say no
New Disney tax will annoy prospective visitors to the USA
Joss Stone favours piracy
Jacqui Smith is a vile homophobic bigot
Iran exiles back armed opposition
Iran's gulf of misunderstanding with the U.S.
Iran's proud but discreet Jews
Just World News
Crunch time coming in Afghanistan ?
The 'necessary steps' report, annotated ( withdrawal from Iraq )
Comment on the New Report - Commonwealth Institute
Disarray in Israel's ruling group
Searching for a brother's body in Iraq
Are foreign wars winnable ? and other big questions
78 years later - the Anglo Iraq treaty of 1930 **
Levy and Bronner on Israelis' distaste for peace
Iran and nuclear consequences
FBI ready to demand detailed logs of Britons' travel and internet habits
The towns taking control of their future
Though part of TTC 69 stalled, the rest steamrollers on to connect with John Cornyn's Mexican Superhighway
Israel renews food shipments to Gaza
Tobacco giant breaks youth code
Chemicals stop Phillippine ferry recovery
Aldermen ask province to initiate pesticide banCalgary, Alberta
How ph level and acidity relate to heartburn
Beyond lycopene : Scientists study benefits of Phytoene and Phytofluene from tomatoes
Can you be sabotaging your health by not knowing the truth about sugar ?
Diabetics experience memory loss after high fat meal
Back pain may be caused by low vitamin D levels
9 extraordinary human abilities
Required reading in social media
What you need to know about Bill C61 "The Canadian DCMA"
Murphy's Laws
Taser use raises real public safety concerns
Anti-psychotic drugs destroy the lives of dementia patients
Device blocking stomach nerve signals shows promise in obesity
Human genomes change with age
Growth hormone's link to starvation may be clue to increasing lifespan
Ancient oak trees help reduce global warming
Mountain Runner
From the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy : no one in PD conducts PD overseas
"State does not recruit for public diplomacy
State does not test for public diplomacy
State does not train for public diplomacy
State has a glass ceiling for public diplomats"
( I heard a similar observation from a Canadian military PR flack about a decade ago,regarding Canadian forces. )
CSIS policy unconstitutional
U.S. Army history slams post Iraq invasion plan
McCain supports efforts to ban gay marriage
Simpy - Social bookmarks manager
Week's top downloads
( I've run KeyScrambler for months. Easy to turn off if you suspect problems : status on toolbar )
4 quick ways to download YouTube videos
Alexander quits as Labour leaderDonations violations
Posterous beats Tumblr in simplicity
Bored
Newspaper clipping generator
War without endSri Lanka
No doubt about it
Impeachment - on or off the table ?
Death of the 4th Amendment
Corporate Contributors 2008 Campaign
Medical researchers develop silicon chip for detecting cancer
Bacteria make major evolutionary shift right in the lab
Researchers show how the brain can protect against cancer
Scientists close to reconstructing first living cell ( + more items ! )
Iran history
CIA explains its Wikipedia-like national security project
3D viewing without goofy glasses
Blood for oil

 

28 June - BlogRoaming

28 June - Morning BlogRoaming

Pissed on Politics
Where's the Stimulus ?
Shotgun sticky wall dripping ( What is thrown out as news )
Social Commentary
"Imagine if the Viagra commercials featured gay lovers instead of aging baby boomers..."
Sad and pathetic - Hardball pushing "Let Them Drill"
There is no oil supply problem - closing Enron loophole would drop oil prices 25-50% overnight
Ghosts of the Revolution - no need for offshore drilling
"Yes government exists for the purpose of establishing Justice, insuring domestic tranquillity and promoting the general welfare."
Flip to the flop and don't stop
"McCain's the flip-flopper and George's problem is he won't change his mind when he's wrong"
Radical extremist Michael Reagan
"Obama : reassurance America has learned the right lessons from the internments of World War II."
( No taker here if that's a bet we have. I don't think so. )
Their hand is tipped ( there are ways to make oil for far less than $100 barrel )
Where's the benefit ? ( Growth in tax base by keeping taxes on corporations low )
I will never get over it - voodoo economics have fiscally obliterated the United States
Taliban fighters take over several Afghan villages
It's setting up to get very bad - al Sadr calls off ceasefire, premier rejects pacts
John Conyers and Nancy Pelosi
BushCONomics
Peoples Geography
Who's to blame for the price of oil ? Speculators, not Saudis
The newsworthiness of Iraq
"major networks in U.S. news media spend an average of two minutes a week on Iraq coverage "
Dr. Mustapha Barghouti presentation
overview of the Israel-Palestine 'conflict' ; maps and slides showing illegal settlement and expansion
BS and Mike Wallace patted on head for President Ahmadinejad interview
Oybama : the most promising candidate disappoints with pandering to hardliners
Congratulations, Raytheon 9!
19 families; poverty, inequality and who rules the roost in Israel
Franklin Lamb : Franklin of America-Arabia
Representative Press
Radical Mormon
The last car bomb in a busy Iraq market...set off by U.S. Black Ops forces ?
Background
Nader takes away more votes from McCain than Obama
Restrict speculators and cut the price of gasoline to $2/gallon ? Expert testimony before Congress
No justification for a military strike against Iran at all : al Baradei
Possible results of a U.S. strike on Iran : 2.6 million people killed
US Congress seeks to declare war on Iran with HR 362 and SR 580. Naval blockade is an act of war
( Please note Iran has specialized supersonic missiles which could make a good simulation of taking the fleet apart. )
Israeli ministers. Attacking Iran. The question is when, not if.
Great article on how Bush plans to commit a war crime against Iran with the recent incentives offer as a launching point
Winter soldier testimony in Iraq Part 2
Fadel Shana; victim of Israeli secret combinations : the facts from Reuters
Heathlander
Who violated the Gaza truce first ?
PCATI : IDF abuse of Palestinian detainees is 'routine'
Hamad indicates it's acceptance of a two-state settlement : again
Israeli settlers assault Palestinian family
So much for Iraqi 'sovereignty'
What's good for the goose... term limits
Iraq facing permanent occupation
Hamas : "we accept a state on the borders of 1967"
The Royal Marines : They come from the sea
Ahad Ha'am on the roots of the conflict
Mask of Anarchy
Two arrested for attacks on settlers on the Susiya settlement
Waterboarding was 'actively sought' by U.S. officials
Bush to cement his environmental legacy
Traitors pass 42 Day Detention Bill in Commons
Boris Johnson determined to screw Londoners and the Daily Mail provide 'proof' of the nuclear intentions of terrorists
Interrogators at Guantanamo told to destroy 'handwritten notes'
Chavez out-manoeuvers critics
Knife crime - a media feeding frenzy
( Violent crime has fallen by 41% since 1995 )
Death penalty for knife crime Part II
we move to canada
july 2 national day of action in support of corey glass
port au choice ( rubbernecking in Newfoundland )
st anthony to port au choice
st anthony/l'anse aux meadows ( quite the travelogue with historical backgrounder : all these )
grand falls to st anthonytwillingate to grand falls
support for iraq war resisters grows in tory ridings
war resisters speak out in diane finley's riding
twillingate
bonavista to twillingate
Rolfe Scmidt
I can't blog on the road
Christmas in June ( the Santa Claus question has some humorous spin-off )
Why you won't build a scale model of the Solar System
If I didn't have kids...
People are good
WhatYouWouldBeDoingRightNowIfYouHadNoKids
The E-News Journal
Hawaii ramps up $3 million campaign for travellers
Are Democrats at risk ?
California's new gay marriage plan sends state business booming
Globalization and the small business
I can't believe it's not a democracy !
Global warming is a hoax, my ass
They aren't just whores : they're cheap whores
The FISA fight is over : we lost
Judge : why litigate when you can arrest ?
George Bush's latest powers, coutesy of the Democratic Congress
EU Constitution kingpin : we will ignore referendums
Blue Girl Red State
GAO on Homeland Security ( They haven't a plan or a clue. Remember the BlueBlogginstory about outsourcing the job ? Pass the buck. Avoid accountability. Privatize and give corporations the government tit and security power to keep off criticism. )

 

27 June - Evening News

BlueBloggin
Department of Homeland Security outsources national security
Your brain lies to you
Half say schools aren't preparing kids
Repeating the meme June 21 item
The Gap
Driftglass
Why Yes, Mr. President! June 20
Shut up, Friedman June 18
Tropical storm slams southern China weeks after floods, earthquakes
Corruption threatens water supply for billions
Arctic could see its first ice-free summer this year
First the floods, now the mosquitoes
Amanpour : stunned silence follows nuke plant implosion
Ten Percent
Good Riddance - U.S. nukes withdrawn from RAF Lakenheath air base
Mosaic-tastic ( Fun with photos )
500 wildfires hit California
B.C. waterbomber heading to California wildfires
Magnetic pulses may 'zap' migraine pain
Torturing children Guess who ?
How to practice nonviolent communication
Congress stunned by Bush officials disdain on torture
Toyota gets attacked for worker rights abuses
Auto Nation CEO says gas prices will benefit Detroit
Man sets car alight to protest high fuel prices
Scientists create bacteria that eats junk, produce oil
GM, Ford exporting $2 billion in vehicles, parts to China
Who merits loyalty ?
Biblical text-writing may have poisoned monks
Justice Department settles Anthrax case
The time is now Climate Change
Inside the solar hydrogen house
Solar power to set sail in space
( My trash bin mind seems to recall a novelette using solar sailers for a space regatta )
World of web names now wide open
The dimmest bulbs on the Internet
Hackers hijack sites of Internet organizations
Creationists win in Louisiana. What's the prize ?
Suzuki : 50 years of science makes a difference

27 June - BlogRoaming the Resistance

Bush is trying to establish a classic colonial status on Iraq
Kucinich : we went to war for the oil companies
EU immorally freezes assets of largest Iranian bank
Iran warns of 'painful' response if Israel attacks
Oil rises to $142 for the first time as investors spurn stocks
U.S. halts applications for solar energy projects
( 'Environmental Impacts' : not a problem with nukes or dams ? )
The fallacy of biofuel and GM crops
Seizing laptops and cameras without cause
Ironic Times Keeping your sense of the ridiculous
Hacker launches botnet attacks via P2P
Folo All you wanted to know about Scruggs and more
Japan inflation at 10-year high
Attorney Scruggs faces sentencing
Facebook's 'gender policy' has grammer in mind
Incoherent Thoughts Somali Hospitality
( Not at all your usual coverage of Somalia )
Invictus
Canadian Judge : U.S. violated international law in Khadr case
Nuts & Bolts : how U.S. organized torture program
"The United States armed forces as a matter of policy have at various times utilized so-called counter-resistance techniques to be used by U.S. soldiers as a template for torture to be used on American enemy prisoners or political opponents. The situation with SERE is not new, but is part of a military or national security culture that has lost its moral bearings and committed crimes for which they have never been held accountable."
( This actually has relevance to crazy things going on right now. Notice the "Enforcing Trivial Demands" : and think of goverment programs of late, especially "Homeland Insecurity". This is a method of treating a country to ensure compliance. )
Media & Gov't torture cover-up : Sen. Levin, release the 12/01 SERE Docs
Russell Copenhagen Trial Testimony
FISA and the Dream of Total Omnipotence
Broken Laws, Broken Lives : PHR's new must read report
Unminds Must Fear
Mind Detox XIX : Cyrano's Journal Online
"I will not tire of declaring that if we want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence : structural violence, social injustice, exclusion of citizens from the management of the country,repression. All of this is what constitutes the primal cause, from which the rest flows naturally." Archbishop Oscar Romero, September 23, 1979
Crocodile Tears by John Steppling and Guy Zimmerman
The Dalai Lama - what Richard Gere won't tell you
Hope, Change, and Pissing in the Wind by Patrice Greaneville and Jason Miller
the moment of truth ! money, honey
A 98 year old teaches me about 'The Great Work'
Chilling by Guy Zimmerman
Obama's Denial : the fear of a Black Messiah : Part Two of Barack Obama and the "End" of Racism by Juan Santos
( There are more, with introductory comments for each )
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