Hello out there! So my blog doesn't get updated as often as it should and I  blame you! Bwahahahaha! (taking my cue from the bushies!

Let's begin with Bill Moyer's address to the National Conference for Media Reform: http://freepress.net/conference  It's 40 minutes long but that there's such good people working on changing the dynamics of our media and how we get news it's reassuring.

This was "Tales From Inside the Editorial Boardroon," by Ruth Rosen who recounts her experiences on the editorial Board of the SF Chronicle, a liberal newspaper, that was afraid to appear unpatriotic. http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/06/tales_from_inside_the_editoria/

The US Senate Committee on Intelligence (they found little on Capitol Hill!) All the pre-war claims debunked: http://intelligence.senate.gov/press/record.cfm?id=298775  For wonks! :)

More Criminal behaviour by gwb jr. administration - destroyed evidence and notes of Guantanamo interrogations and torture: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i-zyzl9b2BIadvTXq9nLKc4AePGg 

Europeans view Bush admin as a source of Evil (Welcome to the Club!) http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/06/european-bush/

There will be lots more posting this week as the tower is up and soon soon we go on air, so I'm going to start posting more often. E-mail me and tell me what you want to know. Cheers!

Hello there from in here! Here's the links to the items on my show this morning, Aug. 11, '08.

Crooksandliars.com posted these inside Baghdad videos that vome from the Guardian. It refutes in every way possible the idea that the surge was any kind of success. Any visions you may have had of Baghdad's exoctic flavour will be crushed as the city itself has been by the American invasion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTMp-YNaDdg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Woxu5dwCSX0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRA3QdvY9rQ&feature=related

Here's a backgrounder on the conflict in Georgia from the International Herald Tribune:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/10/europe/10traub.php?page=1

U.S. Places Violent Iraqi Prisoners In Standing Coffins: 

http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/08/9221_us_places_viole.html

And finally the Ron Suskind report that the White House forged a letter to falsely link Saddam and 9/11.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/08/suskind-posts-transcript-of-interview-implicating-white-house-in-forged-letter/

That's all for now.

So, hello again and let's begin with a link to the tom friedman video where he explains why the US had to invade Iraq: (hint: see today's title) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOF6ZeUvgXs

 5 years on and still very sporadic electricity in Iraq: http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20080428/a_electricity28.art.htm

And... oh yeah! McCain's a dick! http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/28/100-years-mccain-wants-to-kick-russia-out-of-the-g8-reboot-the-cold-war/

Hello again! It's spring and, "In just Spring, when the world is mudlucious and EddieandBill come running in from piracies and..." My memory of e.e. cummings poetry is a bit fuzzy but I'mfeeling friskyandpolitical so let's have at it. Somebody write me please! 

So after such a verbose howdy, I'm here to tell you there's limited space for text in each news entry so I'll post the rest of my top ten blog links without too much comment. You can rely on the news links you find posted by the bloggers of these sites. All the horrible stories the Corporate media doesn't want you to see are reported in the MSM, but only briefly. No follow-ups on inconvenient stories. Inconvenient to the narrative they want to put out there. i.e. this link to story about military analysts being on Pentagon payroll http://tinyurl.com/3pvg4h so back to best Blogs:

#7 http://www.balloon-juice.com/

#6 http://firedoglake.com/

#5 http://www.crooksandliars.com/

#4 http://www.juancole.com/

#3 http://www.eschatonblog.com/

#2 http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

#1 http://thinkprogress.org/ 

Hello to whoever is checking up on the links I promised to provide and sorry it took me 'til the end of the week to get here and post them! Last week's show included my top 10 essential blogs for keeping abreast of the news. The best thing about all these links is that if you let them they will take you to "surprising" places on the web. Have fun - avoid getting involved the comments sections, at least at first - don't avoid going there because you'll find more great links dug up by political junkies but skip the arguing. Blogs are about getting the news right. Everything else is peripheral.

#11 http://mediamatters.org/index I tossed this one in on top of my top ten because they chronicle media obfuscations of all kinds - large and small. Also, here's a very instructive article by Jonathan Foser from the same source to get you started: http://mediamatters.org/items/200802220015

#10 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ The huffpo  is a great place to pick up quick links and top news stories - there's way too much entertainment crap for my likings but lots of useful links to newspapers and blogs.

#9 http://www.talkleft.com/ a law blog - brilliant links for those of you studying law and politics.

#8 http://www.dailykos.com/ The largest on-line community that's not myspace or facebook - Tons of issue related links. Also internicine sniping over favourite candidates - avoid flame wars here - bedlam sure to follow.

Hello there listener(s)!

Okay, I'm a few days late to post the promised links that helped make up my 1st show back. The most important story I covered was this one about mountains of plastic trash floating in the Pacific: http://tinyurl.com/2xx234

Here is a link to the blog which alerted me to this news: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/6/191913/9946

And here is a link (for any and all activists) to the Agalita research foundation who are trying to make things better: http://algalita.org/

This is frightening so please pass these links and this story to your friends.

2nd environmental story I covered made the Montreal Gazette 4 days after I spoke of it on CJLO.  It's about pollution in the Great Lakes basin and how the Bush administration has tried to supress the report. Given that it is peer reviewed and affects so many people it is unconscionable that this be kept from those living nearby: http://www.publicintegrity.org/GreatLakes/index.htm

Read the report and write your MP. As we move along and I get feedback I will be sure to post regular links to our parlimentarians. They are not too hard to find if you use teh google.

Here is a catalogued list of Bush admin lies in the lead up to the war on Iraq - as I said on the show, "...not thousands of lies, only 935!": http://tinyurl.com/252nlu Aaaaaand just today Condiliar adds more falsehoods about Iraq and the rush to kick the stuffing out of a 3rd world country that had nothing to do with 9/11, to her legacy http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/14/condi-wexler-lies/

The rest of the program was dedicated to Canada's involvement in the shooting war in Afghanistan and how we got there in the 1st place. This bit of context seems to be missing from the debate that is taking place about our role in Afghanistan: http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/afghanistan/canada.html

And of course I covered the most recent equivocations of the the US secretary of defense Robert Gates who 1st said that the war in Afghanistan was peachy keen and the Taliban controlled no territory in Afghanistan http://tinyurl.com/2cfzgc and then on that same weekend told NATO allies they had better get on board in fighting the Taliban or the consequences will be dire http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/world/europe/11gates.html?ref=asia this link will die in a couple of days so here's another http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=4270852 how these people reconcile these two opposing statements in the very same week is beyond me, and yet for these warmongers it is SOP (standard operating procedure).

There will be lots more this coming Monday - feel free to drop me a line at tin-foil-hat@live.com That's all for number 1. Next week we play some protopunk (punk roots) along with the best of the blogs. Cheers!