Opit's LinkFest !

Big Sticks and Small Carrots
Established Corpulence ( Not to put too fine a face on it, this article eviserates a U.K. defence 'analysis'. It's anal, alright. )
Secret lobbying by BAE may be disclosed at judicial review
"More or Less Spending" would be funny if not so true ( Corporate 'Welfare' i.e. Graft )
An Informed Electorate
( In which an atheist defends a religious 'representative's' propriety in making public statements in a [ so-called] secular society. As time goes on I'm reminded 'class warfare' is a scholastic concept ; hmmm. Just defensible analysis ? )
"We're all for tolerance but..." ( An especially biting note on hypocrisy )
Economic Objectorvism
Microfinance loans ... for Americans
Corporate bonds, LIBOR and the Fed target rate
Trade deficits, multiplier effects and where Keynesian maths break down
Does preventative care save money ?
( "A stitch in time saves nine." Next. )
Retail surprise ?
Microfinance : the smart money
London to penalize gas-guzzling cars

Web based translation service Lingtastic launches in closed Beta
The spineless menace : jellyfish overwhelm the sea
The world's rubbish dump : a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan
Insect explosion 'a threat to food crops'
Avoiding bottled water if possible
It's a solar system, but not as we know it
Engineers set 'grand challenges' to enhance life
'Conspiracy of silence' on tarsands
The amazing paperclip helicopter
World's largest PV solar farm opens, powering 20,000 homes
The FBI deputizes business Feb 12
iraq update
pulling soldiers out of mental ward to send to iraq
car bomb, gas link blast cut power to northern iraq
mccain stays with w on iraq
Iraqi insurgents attack during NBC interview
al-qaeda expands its reach
Destruction of the Fourth Estate ?
The Bush family's slaveholding past

Neo-Resistance
29 years after the revolution : cinema stars
: dissent of Kholmeini's children
What if Israel gives up its WMD's
"The Middle East cannot be freed from weapons of mass destruction unless the US turns the spotlight on Israel "
Western Hypocrisy : Episode #N
What's behind the US ambassador's dissent ?

Doug's Darkworld
Book Ideas ?
My cats are plotting against me
( Note his points on 'The Surge' as a domestic propaganda exercise )
When volcanoes attack
Countdown to war with Iran begins ?
( Don't ask me. I thought it was happening a year ago. )
Senator Inhofe's report, the last word in the global warming debate ?
( Actually, they've won their bogus 'talking point'. The European scientists responsible for the 'watered-down' report - the perceived truth being too extreme - mentioned no debate but a scientific concensus.
Doug has his own take on 'Code Pink'. Unusually - for me - I think his 'take' on the protest as counterproductive likely correct. No way the people of the U.S. are going to see past their love affair with all things military and appreciate the underlying point. )
"Staying in Iraq will eventually lead to victory the same way that increased spending, increased borrowing and lowering taxes will eventually lead to prosperity."
( Yep. Put baldly like that he certainly does understand that 'plan' ain't goin' to work, nohow. )

me no big chief
you think you will live forever ( little indian looks at protest lyrics )

Can't See the Forest
The Drum Major Instinct
A Lot of Organics
Earthpal I'm looking at because Clapso attracts interesting people. I've waxed enthusiastic over Jerry only to have him go quiet.
Industrial Workers of the World

Where your income tax money really goes

Muslims under attack
Official Secrets Act and Censorship
U K Watch
Rethinking Political Parties
Welcome to Shaylorgate
Reform the Official Secrets Act
Complex System of Pipes
Just Like Who ? ( Raids take children : no charges laid )
Hey Joe - Asian babes, Honour Killings and Liberal Racism
Carnal Sovereignty - Real life and real choices
The real trial of Tony Blair Hat Tip Ten Percent
Tracking the progress of the planned World War Three

That was different. Firefox would spin the CPU up to max doing nothing and didn't want to quit. I uninstalled and reinstalled fresh ; nada. Then I rolled back a week on programming ; still nothing. A night's sleep and Secunia Personal Software Inspector comes up with a note to update an insecure app : Firefox. Now all seems right with the world again.
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This guy is scary.
Mountain RunnerIntercultural Communication Training
Departure Assessment of Embassy Baghdad
Another example of why we need to get our house in order
Database of researchers on international private security
Pentagon wants sim Iraq to test Propaganda
Propaganda by UNICEF
Conflict Wiki: it's not dead, just in coma...it's time to revive it
Briefing : Militarization of Aid
They are throwing the slow pitch...UPDATED with Al Q and kidnapping children
Who are the UN Peacekeepers ?

Balneus
Schoolkids feedback to government: We hate Middle Eastern food
Put pathology photos on fat food like cigarettes
Rudd gabfest - wrong view by IPA fellow
Don't bother with foreign language teaching, yet
Thumbs up for RBA, a little for Rudd and Swan
The Age publishes Old News on security threat
"...US activities against 'friendlies' went unreported"
My Economics aggregation now up
Don't feed em if they're fat Mississippi House Bill 282
Founding father of femmo-bolshevism
CPAC vs ACLU : Clash of US values **

Congress moves to control all U.S. water ****
( The Hydraulic Empire seizes the homeland )
Hat Tip Les Enrages ( The Outraged - in comments )



Angry Bear
China,Trade,IT, Economists and the Trade Deficit
"Some economists refuse to look directy at the trade deficit"
"Other economists are very uncomfortable acknowledging where the U.S. companies are manufacturing the goods they sell to U.S. customers"
Growth under high tax v. low tax regimes
OldVet - Harvesting Organs
China - Preferred location for research and development Article

George's visit brings hugs and promises Beat the FEMA failboat
Candorville
Emissions decision critics target EPA blog
Grist
Friday Music Blogging - Once

Blue Girl Red State
Playing military families like pawns ... it's what aWol does best
Obama runs the table; Huckabee snookers McCain
A day in the life of Pakistan
( Doesn't anyone else think Pakistan is a unique epic drama ? Where else do lawyers man the barricades of Resistance ? )
Why do Peggy Noonan, George Will and David Brooks favor Obama ?
The lies we tell ourselves
Ice Station Tango
Obama's Big Day
John Stewart weighs and assesses Romney's "I'm aiding terror by running for President" speech
What should the next President read ?
( Presumably not the script for the Truman Show : BlueGirlRedState nailed that one )
Fucking A, Blue Gal ! ( Our 'panties' gal has another fan )
Why weed's still not legal ( ! )
Exxon Mobil practicing economic terrorism
uTest now open for business
Just say hi Hat Tip pole hill sanitarium
Microsoft's $80 billion ( and growing ) Yahoo headache
The new Safari is amazingly quick, Firefox look out
free online touch typing speed test
Bridge to Reading
The best ways for students ( and anyone else ! ) to create online content quickly, easily and painlessly

The Quest for Comedic Stardom
Lucy Dee said "Hi !" a while back : I think she has some interesting views. Anyway, I had been commenting at The Angry Black Woman, who has more to her than mere anger. She's a sci-fi fan - as I've been for ages - and there are more at Obsidian Wings where Hilzoy has to one of the most astute observers anywhere ( Feb 4 Obama : Actually, I think we can ) and Gary Farber Amygdala livens up her comment thread.
David Brin Contrary Brin is a futurist, sci-fi writer political commentator...and obviously a blogger as well as successful author.
Politics 'n Poetry is hot with real news on nuclear power ( Activist killed as Nazis attack anti-nuclear camp ) and is worth some serious back tracking through past weeks.
Economic Objectorvism
The professor is doing his thing.
The effects of cigarette costs on BMI and obesity
Obesity,nanny state and closing the barn buffet after the fat horses have bolted
Coping with health-care costs : implications for the measurement of catastrophic expenditures and poverty
Brian Wood's Public Domain book can be downloaded
Foreclosure Pulse
( I find myself wondering if the professor ever - in his wildest flights of outrage - came to consider the American economy a gimmicked invention to maintain the superior wealth and power of the extremely rich, operating on a world scale - and that the U.S. is now being leveraged out of the way as a 'have' nation )
Our food system and the candidates
Botanical medicines are competition for inflammation drug options