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11 May - BlogRoaming

I played 'hooky' with the grandkids for the weekend. Now it's down the road again.

Continuity of government planning has ALREADY superseded the Constitution as a higher authority
BlogTalkRadio censoring 911 Truth
The Existentialist Cowboy
Bugliosi : George W. Bush should be tried for mass murder
Biochips for everyone !
Shipbuilding torpedoed by subprime leads to freight cost surge
Ten Percent
Direct relief to grassroots aid in Burma
Sick bastards - Welfare Reform Act
Conservatives, eh ?
Damage - casualties of war
Tasers can cause fatal heart rhythm
Burma : Junta losing friends
Three reason to use Intense Debate
My verdict on Disqus : two thumbs up
( Now if I could figure out how to post Disqus on Opera. CoComment slows surfing in Firefox: that's with multiple tabs,of course. )
Blue Girl Red State
Penagon begins assessing impact of rising food prices
International aid used for bribes in Myanmar
Another lobbyist with ties to McCain forced to quit
BlueBloggin
Racism in the Secret Service
Craig Murray
'Torture team' UCL law professor publishes an indictment of the Bush Administration
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
Turkish creationist gets three-year sentence
Weikart misquotes Darwin
House committee subpoenas
Denying the Nakba is tantamount to denying the Holocaust
West Bank farmers face ruin after olive trees uprooted

10 May - Morning Surfing

Canada and the origins of the Israel-Palestine conflict : Part 1 of 3
The Heathlander
Chomsky on the Israel lobby - video
BlueBloggin
Pakistan rejects Maj.Gen. Jay W. Hood- Bush still clueless
Bush threatens to veto foreclosure bill ( Once upon a time you would have thought he didn't know what a veto was )
Hitting a nuclear roadblock
Politics 'n Poetry
Saskatoon newspaper pulls in a ringer to smooth it over
So much for journalistic integrity...
Nuke reactor at Diefenbaker Lake ? ( Nukes are water hogs: putting one in at the drinking supply for 40% of the province ? )
Sexual Politics
Blackwater packs it up in Potrero
Lebanon descends into chaos
Lebanon : Moment of Truth
Indymedia journalists targeted in Ecuador, five arrested
Want to remember everything you learn ?
Fungus genome : key to clean fuels ?
Maybe Microsoft isn't completely useless on the web, after all
For sea lovers : a final resting reef
The Daily Galaxy
TheEarth's first zero-emissions city...in the Middle East ?
The new space-based technology of intelligence
Where in the world is Osama bin Laden ?...the sequel
A manned mission to asteroid 2000 SG 2344 ?
Bio Art. Life imitates art.
Ancient lakes of aAntarctica...living biological labs millions of years old
Is Mars between ice ages ?
"Human Nature" -how will it affect our species chances of long-term survival ?
Magno-voltron : NASA's new electromagnetic spacecraft
The Andes' vanishing Quelccaya ice cap- largest tropical body of ice in the world
Real-life droid army of robotic spiders to be deployed by end of year
The world's largest and deepest lake, 25 million years old, is in trouble
Google Ocean 3-D visualisations of world's marine ecosystems
The crisis is coming...how peak water could reshape civilization

4 May - Afternoon Browsing

4 May - Newsbreak

4 May - First Look at the Web

3 May - More BlogNews

Secret Bush "Finding" Widens War on Iran
Contractors Gone Wild
U.S. bombs hospital
The Carter Coup
protect_democracy's submissions
Kiko's House
Why Liberation never felt so good and other Glorious News from Bush's Forever War
David Hackworth: An Appreciation
Quotes from around yon blogosphere
Jackboot Feminism : New details emerge on WVWV's voter suppression scandal
Newspapers 1 : On the brink of extinction ?
Newspapers 2 : The decline and fall of MoDo
The few, the proud, the bad
Cuba looks to biotechnology

3 May - First Look at the Web

Yesterday's extensive links list died of misadventure. The featured blog was
The Existentialist Cowboy and Len exceeded himself - if that's possible. Time pressures are encouraging me to skip the precis and just encourage you Hart-ily to go see what's up.

You name it, exercise helps it
New kind of star discovered in Big Dipper
In '88, a lesson in using symbols as bludgeons i.e., truth would be disastrous, focus full-bore on bullshit
The Moderate Voice
Who tried to kill Hamid Karzai ? "Now comes the search for the perpetrators, conducted by the perpetrators themselves."
Court upholds NC's public financing of judicial campaigns
Disgruntled Republicans crossing over in Democratic Primaries aren't just obeyin Rush Limbaugh
Why Liberation never felt so good and other Glorious News from Bush's Forever War
Credit card crackdown
A Lost Story ( worth finding )
Can any candidate take us out of Oceania and back to the U.S.A.? Or is that solely up to us ?
Rumors of conspiratorial undergound movements are usually Bull$*#&

2 May - Morning News Picks

Barracks for Charlie Co. CO 2/508 82n Airborne
HT The Broken Soldier
The inevitable result of lies, graft and neglect: money 'spent' without oversight or accountability causes these results everywhere.
U.S. brings Iraq-like surge to Afghanistan
No one else has a clue what to do, obviously - except the self-styled masters of success and cooperation ( and graft).
The Bomb Squads : how to survive a Gaza refugee camp
Britain's Brown mauled in local elections
Medial Journal calls for review of Taser safety Objects to reliance on company statements. Again: oversight MIA
Thailand floats idea of rice cartel
Australia, the largest producer, has been hit by drought : note the cartel is proposed as a model to increase food prices, a normal effect of scarcity in a 'free market'; not to combat starvation. Price gouging/monopoly of an essential for life thus becomes an economic model due to political opportunism.Basics of Empire : talk Free Trade and act Monopoly.
Global Food Crisis : The Tickling Bomb
GM crops good for streams ?
Charred earth examined as carbon-storing option
Ugly parasitic plant reappears after two decades
Finally, digital poducts flow from Kodak's labs
Using the Wikipedia API
Learning to use Boolean Search Operators in Google
Open your favorite websites directly from Vista Start Menu
Mozilla speaks out against free-but-proprietary web apps
Oosah : a hub for your personal online media
Google offers snapshot of VisualRank efforts
8 dirty secrets of the Security Industry
Woman believed to be D.C. Madam kills self
How convenient - for the embarassed and powerful
Beijing chooses Edmonton for key Confucius Institute
Singapore research breakthrough to usher in low-cost solar cells ?
Race to algae-based biodiesel heats up
Utilities, plug-in cars : near collision ?
Personal, 'green' airplanes propel foward

27 April - BlogViews

BossCritter Catbloggers take note
BlueBloggin
Atheist soldier claims harassment
Planet of cannibals - state of the world op-ed
Needlenose
Dawn of the age of the jellyfish
Disaster Capitalism in action **
Forget 'Earth Day', it's the seas that are in trouble!
The Tortoise(s) and the Snake - Pentagon information apparatus
Blue Girl Red State
Do you know where your food has been ? CAFOs and failures in food safety Lack of genetic diversity courts disaster "Food Aid" destroys agriculture
Monte Asbury
Israel's UN ambssador : former US president 'a bigot'
How U.S. policy intensifies Haitian starvation
The Pope's beautiful 'insult'
Zeroing in on what Zionism is racism
Dad2059's SF Blog
Faust, a post-human tale
Scientific American Showcase
Analog covers I have loved
Wednesday Archaeology
Tuesday space blogging
On the coffee table - 'predictably irrational'Behavioural Economics
a view from the bridge at Clapsotronics
Clapso's video funhouse
Pro-dem liberals/so-called progressives
"What confuses so many progressively inclined people is they do not really understand that our society is controlled by the corporate power of concentrated money....the two party system allows the appearance of differences and adjustments to public sentiment...I personally have had to pay $20,000 not to have a lien put on my home for being Ralph Nader's vice-presidential candidate....the AFL-CIO went in to reform the Democrats with millions upon millons of suppoters only to be reduced from 33% of the workforce to 12% VoteNader.Org"
On the question of SOFTvs.HARD social networking at Care 2
How to Boil Water ( Oh, to have a talent like Red Skelton make this skit! )
A Beautiful Dream interrupted by a Ding Dong ( the Advice Goddess would enthusiastically endorse this scenario. Comedie Verite [ my best franglais ] )
Warning Tag on the Bible: This is a work of fiction. Do not take it literally.
Exposure to contents for extended periods of time or during formative years in children may cause delusions, hallucinations, decreased cognitive and objective reasoning abilities, and, in extreme cases,pathological disorders, hatred, bigotry and violence including, but not limited to fanatacism, murder and genocide.
[ Sounds like he's cribbing from the Catechism. I'd have a clue because dad was a priest in the Church of England, a.k.a. Holy Catholic Church, and I was Confirmed in it. Still - 1960 is a while ago. ]
Why do they call it Customer Service, dagnabit ?
al bore = bush = karry = mcpain = clinton = obama !
Jonestown
Walking home from Nowhere ( Vorhees does insight )
Nothing Left (Unrepresented in the U.S.A. )
Ten Percent
The 1000 richest people in Britain
Relentless "noticing the underclass is reflexively labeled Marxism by people who daily call for slaughter as a solution to any Imperial problem." Ducks in a row for attacking Iran.
"Understanding the power games of our ruling elites neutralizes their use of propaganda to whip up 'righteous' anger against countries on various right and wrong patrio-porn set ups that enable our corporatist elites to achieve greater private profit via our labour and our publically financed wars."
Militarism in the valleys : private training of military in Wales ( slitting the throat of 'representative government' )
When they killed the noise - BBC workshop
Clinton, mov away from that button ( ! )
US backed Ethiopian Army slits civilians throats
Don't panic (laughs at predicted U.S. gas prices : U.K. at those levels already )
Ruling lies - why is U.S. making false nuclear allegations against Syria ?
Truthhugger
United Nations should be accountable for peacekeepers crimes - armed DR Congo rebels
Can federal cutbacks really sustain our country
Product warnings are buried - clueless customers keep buying
Strike in Scotland closes North Sea oil pipeline
Docs fear deadly combo of flu,MRSA
Sex, drugs and third-wheel politics
The Elephant Enclosure - the world according to Monsanto : video clips
Permaculture - doing it right

Catch you on the flip-flop. I'm rolling down the highway again.

27 April -Morning Musings

Reversing the metabolic syndrome
Solidarity : send commissioner Dimas a postcard Greenpeace
The day I got deported from the U.S.
Farley Mowat wrote a hysterically funny novel years ago about the stupid pretext from Immigration disallowing him entrance to the U.S. where he was to fill requested engagements as a speaker. The principle isn't new : just the scale is unprecedented.
Reform-minded Turkish scholars prepare to reinterpret Islam
Blue Girl Red State
Big business agriculture moves against family farmers
( Monsanto : herbicide that kills neighbours' crops)
Nightowl Newswrap : leader NYT article on illegal torture authorized for antiterrorism
( The results of torture are not considered truth nor acceptable in court. Nor is 'waterboarding' a 'simulation' of drowning : it's the real deal. 'Cruel and unusual punishment' has become policy. Thank George for his fulfillment of his oath of office.)
A travesty in the making - shootouts near the Mexican border
"should using dope with a doctor's blessing should be held against a dying
patient in need of a transplant ?"
And you thought certifying the Embassy in Iaq was the last we would hear of that fiasco?
.....State Dept. employees grading assignment to Baghdad a death sentence an informed opinion
Who cares what you believe ? .. the "God" headbangers in the Army
( Gordon R. Dickson wrote classic sci-fi space operas which explored the effects of "belief systems" on societies : including "Morality" as an incitement to immoral behaviour/violence/war by preaching "Brotherhood" as a synonym for clique. the Childe Cycle
Why do I cite such ? Would you prefer to pay attention to those who cloak truth in allegory or those who swear 'Truth' and do nothing but lie ? Yep : that's Biblical. )
When the Generals lied : the briefings are history
Nightowl Newswrap
The Newshour broke the MSM blackout
Food prices could lead to revolution and chaos ( Present tense )
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