Lefty Blogs
williampfaff ++ ++
Russian News ++
seaton-newslinks. USA expat in Europe ++
bilegrip Asu spleen ++
us-rockstroh a rant, not a blog ++
aboutmyplanet eco ++
sfgate ++
crookedtimber ++
onthecommons ++
sjlendman ++
....
abutamam freeiraq ++
airamericaradio +
amygdalagf +
angryarab ++
annezook +
antiwar ++
norwegianity
terrorism-news
blogspot
ourtomorrow
politickybitch
welcome-to-pottersville
aviraqi
billmon ++ whiskeyB
consortiumnews ++
dahrjamailiraq
dailywarnews ++
drforbush +
english +
fallujahinpictures
freespeechradio
halcyondays ++
healingiraq
hereticalideas ++
icasualties
maru
om
boxspinning boxes

jamaicaobserver newspaper
jameswolcott +
lefarkins +
liberalgirlnextdoor ++
lonehighlander Libya, not lefty
mahablog +++ solid
maruthecrankpot +
indymedia melbourne
messopotamian +7Apr06
monkey ++
motherjones ++
fisk
nocapital +
norightturn +NZ
peakoil ++
pilger +
politicalhumor +
raedinthemiddle
rafahtoday Feb05?
rense w= wacko conspiracies
rigorousintuition x
hegemon ++
ruckus ++
rudepundit ++
satiricalpolitical +
scaramoucheblog ++
secretsinbaghdad ++15Ap06
Energring
aliveinbaghdad ++
riverbendblog ++
sideshow +++
signs-of-the-times +++
slashdot ++techy
talkleft ++
thinkprogress ++
thismodernworld +++
uncapitalist ++
velorution ++ bicycles
org ++Brazil peasants
warandpiece +
warfare.ru +russia military
greenpeace
allhatnocattle
alternet ++
americanpolitics
antiwar
gbruno ++YT
axisoflogic ++
blackcommentator
bobharris +
bradblog +
buckfush +funnies
buggery +
buzzflash ++
changeforamerica
countercurrents
counterpunch +++
crisispapers
crooksandliars ++?
csmonitor
dahrjamailiraqhref="http://www.dailykos.com/
davidcorn
democracynow
democracyuprising
dissidentvoice
earthfirstjournal
earthstation5
empirenotes
foodfirst
fpif
fromthewilderness
geocities
granta
grist ??
gristmagazine
guerrillanews
gulf
hizbollah
huffingtonpost ++
informationclearinghouse
infoshop +
inthesetimes x
iranmania x
ivaw
jihadunspun
juancole ++
kuro5hin ++ notlefty
kurtnimmo ++
lrb ++ Iraqi?
mahablog
lewrockwell ++
marklynas climate change
mnftiu get your war on comics
motherjones
nilemedia
nybooks
occupationwatch
oriononline
palestine
prisonplanet
rall ++ Ted Rall cartonist
ratical
redpepper
rense
robert
rollingstone
scoop
selvesandothers ++
smirkingchimp
snappingturtle
socialistworker
spiked
tblog
theiraqiroulette
theleftcoaster +
thepoorman +
tnr ++ magazine
tompaine ++ mag
traprockpeace ++
truthout +
boondocks ++
crowning3
. . . helix
Base
rain radar
Weather
worldtribunal +
worldwatch ++ $ required
zaman + Turkish news
youcantmakeitup + ?
youngfox ????????????
bareknucklepolitics videos?
popdrain videos??
discovery videos??
cs videos??
aegisIraq video??
mariyaguchi video??
iwilltryit video..
baghdadtreasure
ahram cairo newspaper
felbers
thepartyline
jfaughnan 28/04/2006 10:25AM
shrillblog +
thinkprogress +
marchforjustice + pictures
messopotamian + Iraqi not so radical, but scared (also see IraqTheModel which was a USA front, but is now also scared)
scaramoucheblog +
counterpunch
.............
blogads liberal blogs by CPM $ per view
malakandsky ++ stolid?
republicoft + black gay parent??
dailykos ++
rawstory ++
democraticunderground ++
atrios ++
workingforchange +
leftinthewest +
dembloggers +
talkingpointsmemo +
firedoglake ++
vastleft ++
pamspaulding +
americablog +
washingtonmonthly ++
mydd +
politics1 +
bartcop ++
politicalwire +
sisterstalk black lesbian?
culturekitchen ++
alternet
wonkette +++
billstclair +
freefreedomtoldhere ++ pipe bomb

......
almuajaha defunct
whynot defunct
winstonsmith defunct
samadams dormant
mquinn02 defunct
iraqblogcount ++14Apr06 suspended
iraqicomments most recent: jan2005
iraqidoctor most recent: Aug2005
georgemustgo + moved?
vialls ++Dormant (joe is dead)
warblogging Defunct
hammeroftruth quiescant?
mediastorm quiescant? +
bushwhackedusa defunct
hamasonline defunct
4Jul06

05 March 2004

Last Chance Texaco cont...
"The mukhabarat (secret intelligence) of all the surrounding countries
are active here: Mossad, the Iranians, Turks, Kuwaitis, Jordanians, Syrians,"
says one academic who asked not be named. "They are settling scores with
each other, with the Americans and the Americans with them."

Last month the Cuban guitarist Ibrahim Ferrer was supposed to have received
a Grammy award and intended to attend the ceremony, but he couldn't get
into the country. The 76-year-old was deemed a security risk
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desertsome gratuitous San

04 March 2004

I think this is the first anniversary of Mother's death.
Somehow Ive forgotten the exact date.

I spent the night by her bed, she breathed quite easily,
a couple of times I thought If I had any moral courage
I would smother her with a pillow to ease her way,
but that would be arrogance beyond measure
to claim to understand the mysteries.

After dawn she struggled for a few breaths then stopped at 6:34
I said "Take it easy Mother", would like to have read
from the Tibetan book of the dead, except that
Mother might have opened her eyes and said
whats that nonsense.

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the SMS TXT Tapes

                  Murder plots ,thefts,pregnancy,family loyalty & betrayal,
                  building the house, dentists,
                  and a theory that I never left the Island
                  that last theory is not uncommon... as I queued up for the scanner at Ninoy Aquino airport
                  I said into the phone "I'm in LA Cafe, lots of girls here" - the lots of girls actually
                  a bunch of blonde Scandinavian backpack types, who seemed to get the cafe joke.
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Weird Science:

Drew Berry's DNA movies says DNAi.org has "downloadable versions of the animations, a 3D guided tour of the genomic landscape" but I cant find any downloads, only a DVD for sale.

Chernobyl Belarus

Attack of Stalin's monster crabs

Orange II a very big catamaran

03 March 2004

Channel 4 - gotta love them
Looking into polio vaccines & HIV, they did the obvious & difficult,
they went to Zaire/Congo Belge, found a couple of lab technicians
who said yes, we used chimp kidneys to produce polio vaccine
Marvelous shots of the huge abandoned laboratory building
with dust covered reagent bottles and 50's style lab equipment.

Hilary Koprowski may be responsible for more deaths
than Hitler Stalin & Ghengis Khan combined
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Jeffrey Sachs on Aristide
Jeffrey appears to have a complete change of heart
since the days when as a 27year old he supervised the privatisation of Poland
"to cut the tail off a cat, its best to do it suddenly and completely"
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Curmudgeon Archives

I can feel that spike coming,
post-peak oil scarcity,
suburbs dont work without oil
add in global climate extremes
agribusiness dont work without oil
plus white collar jobs vanishing,
life down by the old wooden ship wharfs
wont be the same without oil
Cant do that Environmentalist hike to town in the Pajero
without oil
Tanks dont roll withoit oil
Dont know if I'll make it to the Mayan cycle 2012
(Hubbert peak around 2008-2012)
Certainly wont make it to the Spike 2030
I'd love to see those huge changes
when tiny robots shrug us off
More likely the slump will close the factories
rendering tiny robots redundant.
Would need to be smarter than a lobster
before I put one on my carpet with my baby.
Smarter than a dog, even, because dogs occasionally
rip the face off a child.

02 March 2004

SBS TV "the origin of AIDS" tonight (2Mar04)
Shows Hooper investigating Central African polio vaccine recipients.
This potential scandal has already claimed some big victims:
....Bill Hamilton, the greatest theoretical biologist since Darwin,
died from malaria caught in Central Africa.
Bill was looking at chimpanzee blood, in search for the HIV origin.
His series of rejected letters to Science are famously on the internet.
....Rolling Stone magazine has ceased to be a serious journal,
they have reverted to lightweight pop star worship, devoid of journalism,
since they were forced to apologise to one of the vaccine doctors,
for suggesting that vaccines spread HIV

SBS whats on
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Iraqi orphans picture

01 March 2004

Langour with car mirror

wildlife photography, AusMuseumSydney, (meanminded 330 pixel pics)
nearly all use tripod or beanbagged
600mm lens, and luck after weeks of waiting

I prefer people portraits,preferably known personally
In Luzon & Mindoro & Samar...

Not blurred faux naive narratives
a la Moffatt and Henson, those feted Aussies.
Not anonymous people trapped in impersonal space.

Images without Irony,
not industrial alienated contrast
not detached ennui
merely people in place.

MaryAnn Snr & Jnr

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Had a 1950s weekend
say "FarAway" kodachrome images from 1954
Images so familiar,
Hats and long dresses at the beach,
Roman Church festival events
[reminders of the panoply of ceremony
flower petals scattered from baskets by
backward walking convent girls, while I held a pole
of the canopy over the monstrance with its gold rays]

Robert at CP Galleries still has the ex-catholic anger
Myself, I'm older, enough to remember the 50's
anger evaporated,

I did notice that I was wearing my 50's little boy outfit:
tee with horizontal green stripes,
Khaki shorts, sandals and bicycle
[actually the shorts a speedo nylon ersatz khaki]
but the only things unfamiliar in the 50s:
.velcro on my sandals, centre-pivot brakes on the bicycle,
and my time ravaged face.
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At St Patricks we were lectured at length
on the suffering of the Christ
as uniquely painful..
When I objected that sometimes
2000 crucifixions were done at once
the black-robed priest told us that the Christ
had a unique sensitivity,
thereby had a uniquely painful experience.
..all told with a somewhat disturbing relish.
similarities to the present day
Mel Gibson reactionary catholic fundamentalist
poring over the gore on Golgotha
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For those who cant get enough wild life:
humpback breaching

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Our Keisha (as I post this, dont know if she won the Oscar
(pic updated 5/05)