Opit's LinkFest !

Music Special : Five Great Auditory Illusions
National Association of Broadcasters spent $64million+ lobbying to convince regulators XM Sirius deal would create a radio monopoly
States barred from protecting consumers from defective medical devices
Bacteria use 'invisibility cloak' to hide from human immune system
Amazon corridors far too narrow
Land Rights and Ownership
Gaza diary : Sewage on our doorstep
Waking up teens
Mountain Runner
Terrorist or Nationalist ?
Food insecurity in Iraq
When riding a dead horse, you should dismount
For the homeless,keys to a home
Afghanistan - Korengal Valley "...since 9/11,the US and NATO have used air power as a substitute for ground troops" ( in a phrase, the guarantee of tactical failure to produce anything but continued Afghan deaths )
Straight talk on Afghanistan
Worldwide Sawdust
( This is a great site with a crummy layout. Do not assume the page has not loaded. You have to scroll down to find the goodies. )
"Thought for the Day" Robert Scheer
How easy it is to claim to champion human rights when you exempt your own country from judgment. When did the US ever care about human rights in Cuba, or anywhere else in Latin America before Castro, if those rights conflicted with the rape of the region's resources ? And what a mockery we have made of the cause of democratic rule when our President, twice elected by the people, has created one of the world's most fearsome symbols of torture on the US "liberated" territory of Guantanamo, Cuba"
( Now that's not fair. Vote suppression, ballot fraud and Supreme Court chicanery were all necessary to violate the electoral process sufficiently to front the fraud that Bush was elected. See Bradblog.)
Olbermann timeline : How the Bush administration exploited terror threats for political gain
Battle company is out there ( that NYT story )
After war, new battle to become citizens ( Wasn't Heinlein right ? )
The myth of the surge ( I recall BlueGirlRedState being scathing about that label before it started )
The Real McCain : Senator gets millions from lobbyist "friends" ( It's good enough for Hillary )
Now the Pentagon tells Bush : climate change will destroy us Guardian
( I was ready to pooh the time line - knowing an ice free Arctic likely by 2013. Then I saw the part about sea level rising starting next year. O.K. Realism )
Waterboarding is focus of Justice Department inquiry
Debunking the right's false notions of energy, the environment and economics
How to stay in Iraq for the next million years
Spain's Abengoa to build 280-Megawatt solar plant in US
( I rebel at calling them that. "Wrong" or "Reich" now,..."Liar's Club" works for me. Too harsh. Ha!
Framing Overton Window Media Control)
'Debunking' links
The devil's advocate
Juno talks back to the King of California
Clusterfuck Nation
Dropping Shoes
"The fall of Britain's Northern Rock bank may be the first dropped shoe in a chorus line of big banks dancing into oblivion."
My Two Cents
Cults, Campaigns, and Candidates
Quislings
The Daily Reckoning
There will be blood
"Gold at $1000/oz" "The next crisis will be over food"
"The only way to lock in triple-digit gains"
Gold : for less than one penny per ounce
Just an Earth-bound misfit
Seen around the Internets
It's called 'history'. Learn some of it.
( Yep. I can see how BGRS can relate to this one. 'Tude. The header makes me smile. Hat Tip for the following link )
Department of Malicious Falsehoods
Girls and technology : What Next
PoliTits
Rollin',rollin',rollin' boy my blogroll's swollen
This worries me a lot more than Nader does