Opit's LinkFest !

Mississippi is rising again, renewing worries in some Missouri towns
YouTube adds Indie film screening
Pesticide dangers to human health carry through multiple generations
( Who'd think that of relatives of Agent Orange ? )
Ocean water spray halts children's cough cold symptoms ; cold medicine doesn't
South American Union will also have common currency
Major new rail lines considered U.K.
U.S. motorists brave Mexico border violence for fuel
( A subsidy for Mexican truckers, too )
BCE buyout gets go-ahead from Canada's High Court
( Telecom sale O.K. overturns Quebec's Court of Appeals decision )
Balneus
China's strong decades-long environmental action
Anatomy for Actors
The brain shrinkage they DIDN'T mention ( cannabis )
( Or; the dangers of people who refuse to react to false alarms ? )
A policy sketch to take petrol prices from the headlines
Unjustifiable detention : Oz is one of the worst
New Vic auditor reports ( not happy )
Derivative dealers as prodigal teenagers
Howard Lite ? Not by much ! ( Continuing policies previously decried to ensure election. Standard Operating Procedure. Bait and Switch. )
Exit Suburbia
Dealing with conflicts of Rights ( from Dave's - Balneus - Google Reader links )
Human rights during armed conflicts
ECHR Blog
On the Record ( Big Brother is Watching You )
U.K. to begin microchipping prisoners
( RFID's are carcinogenic, no ? )
Afghanistan foreign troop deaths in June exceed those in Iraq
Iowa faces potential $3 billion crop loss
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It's a web,web,web 2.0 world !
Hat Tip Bannaga
21st Century interactive treasure map
The world's first commercial air-powered vehicle
and prefabs and notes on electric scooters
Intelligence Daily
Medical evidence supports detainees' accounts of torture in U.S. custody
Democratic Congress approves war funding, legalizes domestic spying
Russia third worst polluter in world
Russia, EU work on civilian nuclear power deal
Big Oil cashes in on Iraq slaughter
Dutch government acknowledges peak gas
Phillipines : farmers go low-tech as fuel prices soar
The Nepal Army's Humor
A Fine ImbalanceCheck out the Rickshaw Run coverage !
Here are your 'choices' for change, American voters
Amygdala
Cutting down Constitutional freedoms
McCain campaign "has a swing set and entertainment center"
Obama at AIPAC
Thisis OUR war - the killing project
CIA 'preparing American public for Iran war'
Iraq Veterans for Peace call for Impeachment
Bastard Logic
Obligatory FISA compromise post
White people don't have to 'prove' their citizenship
John McCain women's clinic
McSame sez drill, drill, drill !
( Rather like 'Joe' American. Odd, that. Excellent command of 'talking points' . )
Craig Murray
"If the detainee dies, you're doing it wrong"
If you can't buy them ban them ( MPs waking up to seriousness of attacks on civil liberties by ruling Nazis )
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
Louisiana creationists gear up campaign to deceive students
Handbook of Texas on-line
Louisiana lashes out at science