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
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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

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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

24 March 2005

March 23, 2005 WTO orders the murder of 10 million civilians
..India, a source of inexpensive drugs for AIDS patients in many poor countries, passed a patent law today that critics said would eventually choke off that supply.

..a condition of India's admission to the World Trade Organization.
....prices for newly invented drugs would be much higher..exports by Indian companies, especially Cipla and Ranbaxy.. helped drive the annual price of antiretroviral treatment down from $15,000 a decade ago to about $200..
Cipla's chairman, Dr. Yusuf Hamied, called the new law "a very sad day for India."
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2004 USA harvest..a record year
Never before have corn, soybeans, sorghum, and alfalfa hay all achieved record yields in the same year..
Corn 10T/ha
summer 2004 conditions were unlike any experienced during the past 117 years
..these conditions and their crop impacts are not considered indicative of those expected with a change in climate due to global warming..
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flickrgraph
marumushi some interesting graphics, suggestive of force fields .. something like this might teach Tensors and metrics...s
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JoeV
"Federal Government mounts covert 'Proof of Concept' biochem attack on unsuspecting airline staff and passengers. So where and when will the live 'Terrorist' gas attack be launched?"
Never let it be said that JoeV doesnt have a theory. That said its an odd story from Melbourne airport. (nb organophosphates are 'chemical' not 'biochemical')
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Iraq resistance getting bigger and bolder...
fewer attacks on USA troops, but larger groupings.
(USA patrols were 3 hours then 1 hour, maybe they're 10 minutes now, might explain the reduction in deaths)
NYT: March 23 - "Iraqi and American forces killed at least 80 insurgents during a Tuesday" ..raid on.. be the biggest guerrilla training camp ..Lake Tharthar
..tents and small buildings in a marshy lakeside encampment 50 miles northwest of the capital......the bodies of Filipino and Arab men
..a popular tourist spot
................
But, the next day... they're back...
AlJazeera: Thursday 24 March 2005
.."30 to 40 fighters were seen Wednesday at the lakeside training camp attacked by US and Iraqi forces a day before and claimed they had never left"..
..Muhammad Amer..said only 11 of his comrades perished in airstrikes

And this:
.."On Sunday, an American convoy fended off an ambush by a band of 40 to 50 insurgents in Salman Pak".,
..looks like the resistance is preparing for life after USA patrols.
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23/03/2005
Iran nearly completed heavy-water plant, to go ahead with Plutonium reactor.
Condi will be cross. Too bad the USA has resiled from the Vienna convention, The Geneva convention, International law, habeas corpus, and indeed common decency.
Makes it hard for Condi's growls to be considered seriously.

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"You bet we might have." - John Kerry 2004
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Mike Whitney: 'Wolfowitz and the coming wars'
"The World Bank has never operated according to its mandate, (to reduce poverty in the developing countries through financial assistance) so it's better to have someone like Wolfowitz at the top-spot where the activities of the bank draw greater public scrutiny. His appointment will serve the same purpose as a warning label on medicine vial; cautioning needy third world states that overuse could be hazardous."
...the way it works:
Give a big loan to "a country" - actually to corporations, on a project basis
.. may involve booting thousands of people off their land
A Bunch of "consultants" from the rich class skim off huge "fees"
To pay back the loan, when the dam or nuclear generator or whatever has failed, take the money from govt programs for health and education....
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Free Software favourites:
Mozilla Firefox... dont even think about using another browser
Metaproducts Download Express... opens 6 threads, by far the fastest downloader.. plugs into Firefox
on our "1MBit" broadband I often get 120,000 chars/second...
Ad-Aware & Spybot ..you need these (they have grumpy comments about each other, use both..)
Audiograbber .. grab those streams that RealAudio dont want you to.
Picasa.. organise all your Images
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Tech notes
Sadly, I have abandoned "Sun Java Creator" as a tool for web based.
Downloaded a bunch of exIBM stuff Apache-Tomcat, Eclipse,
There is such a plethora of technologies JSP JSF JDO Struts etc etc
I would love something like Creator that actually worked.
- the last straw was the atrocious performance of Sun's AppServer8.
Now its possible that Server8 can be tweaked so as to work, or that Suns 'real' servers may work. But at the moment the pro-Java-anti-microsoft world is looking shaky in the face of .NET Word is that Novell have a multi-platform-native version of .NET.
Sun had better sharpen up their act.