23 April - Morning News +
Wednesday, 23. April 2008, 11:45:57
Microsoft to close DRM licensed servers
Big losses at Delta and Northeast
Israel braces for fallout from U.S. spy case ( The story will be controlled )
Controversial Hitler ad ordered off TV A case where what's sauce for the goose is not sauce for the gander ( that damned 'left-wing media' can't be allowed to present its case )
Feds scrap $20-million 'virtual fence'
Scalia : Who is more incorruptible than the millionaire ?
( There's a specious allegation if I ever heard one. )
Crytogon
Global food price increase forces World Vision to cut 1.5 million people from food aid program
Americans hoard food as industry seeks regulations
China down to 12 days worth of coal
Wall Street Journal : "Maybe it's time for Americans to start hoarding food"
Head of CDC admits on CNN that vaccines can trigger autism
California : Foreclosures up 327% from 2007 levels, 517 a day
Dollar over the cliff
Japan's hunger becomes a dire warning for other nations
Wal Mart's Sam's Club limits rice purchases
Rural struggle without mains gas
Measures to target fuel poverty
Kokoda Track to be protectedOz
The Clean Energy Scam
( Where did 'greens' push biofuels ? The first I recall was an announcement from Bu$hCo : Environmental destruction personified. )
Getting your teen a job - think Internet, not just pizza delivery
Privacy disaster at Twitter : Direct messages exposed
Next-generation CAPTCHA exploits the semantic gap
OnMyCity
Community Communications Platform
Over 100 staffers leave Newsweek
Ma.gnolia as a del.ico.us alternative
( Too much a work in progress for me )
Songza
A Feather Adrift
( Eclectic, personal,awake and totally relaxed blogging. )
Is it Microsoft or Ubuntu that scared Red Hat away from the desktop ?
( Tech Republic solution series includes a Linux on the Desktop teaser PDF for members - free )
Dull tasks numb the brain - literally
Hearty-eating moms more likely to have boys
Weather modification comes of age
Ailing rivers need urgent care
Organized crime penetrates energy sector : U.S.
OCCRP reports on East European/Eurasian organized crime
Okinawa lobbies Tokyo, U.S. in fight against soldiers' crimes
Europification of the automobile
Big losses at Delta and Northeast
Israel braces for fallout from U.S. spy case ( The story will be controlled )
Controversial Hitler ad ordered off TV A case where what's sauce for the goose is not sauce for the gander ( that damned 'left-wing media' can't be allowed to present its case )
Feds scrap $20-million 'virtual fence'
Scalia : Who is more incorruptible than the millionaire ?
( There's a specious allegation if I ever heard one. )
Crytogon
Global food price increase forces World Vision to cut 1.5 million people from food aid program
Americans hoard food as industry seeks regulations
China down to 12 days worth of coal
Wall Street Journal : "Maybe it's time for Americans to start hoarding food"
Head of CDC admits on CNN that vaccines can trigger autism
California : Foreclosures up 327% from 2007 levels, 517 a day
Dollar over the cliff
Japan's hunger becomes a dire warning for other nations
Wal Mart's Sam's Club limits rice purchases
Rural struggle without mains gas
Measures to target fuel poverty
Kokoda Track to be protectedOz
The Clean Energy Scam
( Where did 'greens' push biofuels ? The first I recall was an announcement from Bu$hCo : Environmental destruction personified. )
Getting your teen a job - think Internet, not just pizza delivery
Privacy disaster at Twitter : Direct messages exposed
Next-generation CAPTCHA exploits the semantic gap
OnMyCity
Community Communications Platform
Over 100 staffers leave Newsweek
Ma.gnolia as a del.ico.us alternative
( Too much a work in progress for me )
Songza
A Feather Adrift
( Eclectic, personal,awake and totally relaxed blogging. )
Is it Microsoft or Ubuntu that scared Red Hat away from the desktop ?
( Tech Republic solution series includes a Linux on the Desktop teaser PDF for members - free )
Dull tasks numb the brain - literally
Hearty-eating moms more likely to have boys
Weather modification comes of age
Ailing rivers need urgent care
Organized crime penetrates energy sector : U.S.
OCCRP reports on East European/Eurasian organized crime
Okinawa lobbies Tokyo, U.S. in fight against soldiers' crimes
Europification of the automobile
23 April - Freedom of Information
Wednesday, 23. April 2008, 19:54:06
Clueless in America
WE can solve it
Del.icio.us Blog
Networking with Del.icio.us
del.icio.us libraries
Tag - You're del.icio.us !
how del.icio.us is changing academic research
Tags help make libraries del.icio.us
Top tools for learning Spring 2008
melange ( Ha. I could have used that name too ! )
Taxing the Poor
inscape
How to Read Walks
The dark new world of social search
2 commanders picked to lead war efforts beyond 2008
The low road to victory
Inmate count in U.S. dwarfs other nations'
Europe turns back to coal, raising climate fears Options ?
Calpers investment chief to leave for green job
THE EXISTENTIALIST COWBOY
Imminent arrest of Americans for war crimes ?
The Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 2001
"authorized use of all means ( including the provision of legal assistance ) necessary to bring about the release of covered US persons and covered allied persons held captive by or on behalf of the Court
[ International Criminal Court in the Hague ] passed May 8......before 9/11 !"
FEMA 3 : Executive Orders
Draft all citizens into work forces under government supervision
Empower the Postmaster to register all men women and children
Seize all airports and aircraft
Seize all housing and establish forced relocation of citizens
Government violence is 'legitimate' ?
The dictionary definition of terrorism corresponds precisely with the government's stated policy of "the use of legitimate violence."
Martial Law
Marketing of youth Boot Camps under investigation
Canadian Spectator
This guy is another blogger of similar style to what has evolved here. He isn't shy either.Enjoy !
Negotiable or not, the American way of life must be extinguished
All dictatorial societies produce bitter people
Involuntary drugging of US detainees : a crisis for the heath profession
Brown's Gas : cheap, clean and suppressed energy
( Common Dreams has had similar sites for years. )
Scholars & Rogues
Jet stream drift may confirm global heating models
Obama drama part 1 : shooting the messenger
Don't let the future be compressed - fight for a free Internet
From hog slop to White House ?
Courting the white male vote
The women of FLDS : teary-eyed defenders of the church of child rape
Retiring pol + unused campaign cash = power, access, influence
Screw the hints : Here's why really bright kids steer clear of most state universities
Want to know why so many kids forgo a state U education ?
If the Democrats lose another Presidential election, this time it won't be their fault
Real Liberal Christian Church
Carter : Israel starving Gaza ( They have heat and water ? )
Internet hackers vs Scientology
Jesus is a Populist : anti-capitalist
Why does the Bush regime want to rule Iraq ?
Where's Israel's gratitude to Jimmy carter for the Egypt/Israeli peace deal ?
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 truth
You are supposed to hate violence
Is probing the Nigerian oil sector a gamble ?
WWF warns Arctic melting faster than expected
Hidden U.S. militarism exposed
Hoovervilles are here again
In times past the Fourth Estate was adversarial to abuse of people and blatant misrepresentation of historical fact. The Overton Window section here was the result of realizing people are subjected to mental conditioning ( Propaganda being too restrictive a description ! ).
Oldephartteintraining ( opit ) commented at Alicia Morgan's lastleftturnb4hooterville : our back-and-forth became a casualty of blog revision. A blast from the past : We Need An Independent MSM
Alicia's Music Site
And Smirking Chimp
GasHole : Dirty Oil and the Biofuel Myth
Pelosi HEARTS Bush !
News by Fortune Cookie
Daunting report on Greenland's melting surface
How the Pentagon invades your life
Shattering the war consensus : Cindy Sheehan stands up to the crack house crowd
"we have a seriously dysfunctional situation on our hands,more pervasive,I fear, than most of us realize....The institutional checks and balances that Americans are so proud of have been so compromised...they have almost no objectivity left...the national war addiction permeates every facet of governance, and the media coverage therof."
The United States of Stupidity : We, the People, didn't used to be this dumb..."
Michelle Malkin and the warbloggers get everything wrong - again
Lies and Subterfuge : Media military commentators betray public trust
War funding, Impeachment and Health Care
We paid what? And it doesn't work !?
Bait and switch : freely trading lies for votes
The wrong questions
Heading toward the Danger Zone
Self-inflicted confusion
Mutant Poodle
Mark your calendars -Jon Cusack film-War Inc.
Right Wing Ju Jitsu
"genius of the right-wing attack machine. When confronted with an opponent's strength, either destroy the strength or turn it into a weakness. "
Soldier sues Army, says his athehism led to threats
God Bless Home Depot
Lydia Cornell
How to get rich ? Give to the poor
"LIBERAL : generous, bounteous, freedom loving, protector of civil liberties"
( A fine article on Charity )
Greenhouse gas emissions on wrong track
Humans had brush with extinction
Black hole jets dance to magnetic music
Narwhal threatened by polar melt
The News according to Monsanto : the horror of genetically modified crops
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
WE can solve it
Del.icio.us Blog
Networking with Del.icio.us
del.icio.us libraries
Tag - You're del.icio.us !
how del.icio.us is changing academic research
Tags help make libraries del.icio.us
Top tools for learning Spring 2008
melange ( Ha. I could have used that name too ! )
Taxing the Poor
inscape
How to Read Walks
The dark new world of social search
2 commanders picked to lead war efforts beyond 2008
The low road to victory
Inmate count in U.S. dwarfs other nations'
Europe turns back to coal, raising climate fears Options ?
Calpers investment chief to leave for green job
23 April - Executive Orders
Wednesday, 23. April 2008, 22:25:10
THE EXISTENTIALIST COWBOY
Imminent arrest of Americans for war crimes ?
The Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 2001
"authorized use of all means ( including the provision of legal assistance ) necessary to bring about the release of covered US persons and covered allied persons held captive by or on behalf of the Court
[ International Criminal Court in the Hague ] passed May 8......before 9/11 !"
FEMA 3 : Executive Orders
Draft all citizens into work forces under government supervision
Empower the Postmaster to register all men women and children
Seize all airports and aircraft
Seize all housing and establish forced relocation of citizens
Government violence is 'legitimate' ?
The dictionary definition of terrorism corresponds precisely with the government's stated policy of "the use of legitimate violence."
Martial Law
Marketing of youth Boot Camps under investigation
Canadian Spectator
This guy is another blogger of similar style to what has evolved here. He isn't shy either.Enjoy !
Negotiable or not, the American way of life must be extinguished
All dictatorial societies produce bitter people
Involuntary drugging of US detainees : a crisis for the heath profession
Brown's Gas : cheap, clean and suppressed energy
( Common Dreams has had similar sites for years. )
Scholars & Rogues
Jet stream drift may confirm global heating models
Obama drama part 1 : shooting the messenger
Don't let the future be compressed - fight for a free Internet
From hog slop to White House ?
Courting the white male vote
The women of FLDS : teary-eyed defenders of the church of child rape
Retiring pol + unused campaign cash = power, access, influence
Screw the hints : Here's why really bright kids steer clear of most state universities
Want to know why so many kids forgo a state U education ?
If the Democrats lose another Presidential election, this time it won't be their fault
Real Liberal Christian Church
Carter : Israel starving Gaza ( They have heat and water ? )
Internet hackers vs Scientology
Jesus is a Populist : anti-capitalist
Why does the Bush regime want to rule Iraq ?
Where's Israel's gratitude to Jimmy carter for the Egypt/Israeli peace deal ?
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 truth
You are supposed to hate violence
Is probing the Nigerian oil sector a gamble ?
WWF warns Arctic melting faster than expected
26 April - Truth an Elusive Commodity
Saturday, 26. April 2008, 22:32:09
Tom Usher - Real Liberal Christian Church - has been noting that the MSM deserves less respect due to its being a mockery of a news service.Hidden U.S. militarism exposed
Hoovervilles are here again
In times past the Fourth Estate was adversarial to abuse of people and blatant misrepresentation of historical fact. The Overton Window section here was the result of realizing people are subjected to mental conditioning ( Propaganda being too restrictive a description ! ).
Oldephartteintraining ( opit ) commented at Alicia Morgan's lastleftturnb4hooterville : our back-and-forth became a casualty of blog revision. A blast from the past : We Need An Independent MSM
Alicia's Music Site
And Smirking Chimp
GasHole : Dirty Oil and the Biofuel Myth
Pelosi HEARTS Bush !
News by Fortune Cookie
Daunting report on Greenland's melting surface
How the Pentagon invades your life
Shattering the war consensus : Cindy Sheehan stands up to the crack house crowd
"we have a seriously dysfunctional situation on our hands,more pervasive,I fear, than most of us realize....The institutional checks and balances that Americans are so proud of have been so compromised...they have almost no objectivity left...the national war addiction permeates every facet of governance, and the media coverage therof."
The United States of Stupidity : We, the People, didn't used to be this dumb..."
Michelle Malkin and the warbloggers get everything wrong - again
Lies and Subterfuge : Media military commentators betray public trust
War funding, Impeachment and Health Care
We paid what? And it doesn't work !?
Bait and switch : freely trading lies for votes
The wrong questions
Heading toward the Danger Zone
Self-inflicted confusion
Mutant Poodle
Mark your calendars -Jon Cusack film-War Inc.
Right Wing Ju Jitsu
"genius of the right-wing attack machine. When confronted with an opponent's strength, either destroy the strength or turn it into a weakness. "
Soldier sues Army, says his athehism led to threats
God Bless Home Depot
Lydia Cornell
How to get rich ? Give to the poor
"LIBERAL : generous, bounteous, freedom loving, protector of civil liberties"
( A fine article on Charity )
Greenhouse gas emissions on wrong track
Humans had brush with extinction
Black hole jets dance to magnetic music
Narwhal threatened by polar melt
The News according to Monsanto : the horror of genetically modified crops
27 April -Morning Musings
Sunday, 27. April 2008, 11:31:03
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 )
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 )
27 April - BlogViews
Sunday, 27. April 2008, 22:02:21
BossCritter Catbloggers take noteBlueBloggin
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

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