Of fig leaves and "n-words"

There is no doubt money to be made in producing a marketable version of a perennial bestseller that has long topped the “most frequently censored books” lists. But is such an edition good for education, let alone good for literature?

If the Disneyfication… Read full post »

September 11 attacks advance-knowledge debate - Wikipedia, the ...

According to Fox News, In August 2001, Israel warned the US that an al-Qaeda attack is imminent. Reportedly, two high-ranking agents from the Mossad came to ...
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Our Water is Not For Sale!  Say NO to Water Markets

A broad range of organizations and individuals have already signed on to our open letter, showing their concern about the Alberta governmen'ts plan to move to a province-wide de-regulated market system for water allocation.

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I noticed a post on the leaderboard on the way in

I Went To The Hospital Without Insurance On Saturday

 As it happened, I was reviewing a news item I had posted to the newsroom at Care2 How the Performance of the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationally

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I was glancing at the SideBar Search Spiders for Water Related News installed  that I use to source  - usually every second day -  part of the RSS SnapShot! entry at Opit's LinkFest! Blogspot.com.

It is mostly a screenshot of what is showing on various online RSS Aggregations at… Read full post »

Meet the new Prime Minister of Honduras

What, you say? You've been doing all this reading about Honduras and didn't know that Honduras had a Prime Minister? Even worse, you are Honduran and didn't know that you had a prime minister? Who Dat?

Meet the new Prime Minister of Honduras:

US Ambassador/Hondu… Read full post »

US accused of annexing airport as squabbling hinders aid effort in Haiti

Priority landing for Americans forces flights carrying emergency supplies to divert to Dominican Republic

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl...

Noted at Creekside - Haiti 5 days later ( updated )

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kroha said 

I need clarification

How can any American be proud of his or her country knowing how many innocent people their government has killed for natural resources such as oil, natural gas, ect...

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Just a quick note that a really big resource for research on a number of topics - with military intelligence high on the list - has posted a number of articles relating to Copenhagen, business concerns and scams and more.

 http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=newsHighlights&newsId=24

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Say what ? Have I gone nuts ? Perhaps so

 The Origins of the Global Warming Scare

Did you know, that the “Human caused Global Warming” hypothesis didn´t originate in the 1980s, but actually in the 1880s? Although, until the late 1970s, the hypothesis was considered “a cur… Read full post »

I've truncated a post at My Opera : Following the Trail : Organized Destruction ( http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/) 

A scientist friend of mine had held out against 'global warming' and I'd had a look at a few sites with alternative ideas before. Here are some posts consistent with being bu… Read full post »

Some may wonder why I don't settle down with one blog and soapbox and stay put ! Been there, done that...disappeared from the net.

Besides, I make contacts with people with different interests...and get to check newsboards for fresh content that many don't know exists! That includes most mainline toy… Read full post »

Many of the fine-sounding laws and ideas promoted to 'protect' us from disease actually work to support corporate farming by adding bureaucratic processes designed to kill natural options/family farming and sell unproven and dangerous synthetic designs which have as their outstanding virtue the abili… Read full post »

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Collapse: Portrait of a Loner

By: GRITtv Thursday November 12, 2009 10:30 am

Michael Ruppert is a former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter, and he gained some credibility after predicting the financial meltdown that most… Read full post »

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It occurred to me that if Opera was  hard to load a lot of the time I might as well repost resources here : it should be easier to find the post than rummage through all those at Blogger. Except when I tried it wouldn't work. Here's a smaller bite.

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It's a miserable thing to change locations online. I went from posting at WordPress in Dec 2007 with a Technorati popularity /linkback rating of 207 to 1 on current sites. I don't think my posting is that much worse...especially as I learn how to cover more ground by working with less… Read full post »

This is stuff I wrote when the link went down while I was in the middle of a news post at http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/

Friday the 13th - Bad Omens

 I expect catcalls from idiots from all over.

Fair Play is such a crazy idea.

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 I don't expect I get that much traffic that this post won't be new to most of you. It's essentially one that I recycle - and add to - as the years pass. The Kung-Fu Monkey article I've been referring to since the days I was Oldephartteintraining opit.wordpress.com - so you… Read full post »

I should give people here more of a rundown on who I am online.

First of all, I am shameless...but hopefully not garrulous. I'll quip pretty much where and as I happen to roam for the simple reason that I'm 'all over' the web - literally.

 I run a newsboard at… Read full post »