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And we're back after the long weekend with stories I talked about on-air today and the stories I didn't have time for so you can stay informed. Tell your friends!

Starting with Lawrence Cannon's trip to the Arctic in an attempt to assert Canadian soveriegnty http://bit.ly/9RSyFO        

Ticking time bomb sitting atop the Great Barrier reef put there by the Chinese gov't company COSCO http://bit.ly/bb5E8u And since there's a liklihood that an oil spill will happen in the Arctic with increased exploration and production the Cdn. gov't has sent oil spill kits to the Arctic http://bit.ly/b7A5mB That makes it all better!

Afghanistan continues to be FUBAR as Karzai wants to join insurgency http://bit.ly/ayqAdw It works for him politically - Canadians, fighting and dying for corrupt assholes. And the rhetoric is heating up between Karzai and the US http://bit.ly/a8pRym Germans marched for peace Easter weekend http://bit.ly/cPK71b  While the CIA tries to steer public opinion in NATO countries http://bit.ly/bG623q and British pretty weary of war too http://bit.ly/9UyJXi In Canada, over at rabble.ca Derrick O'keefe believes Canadians are fighting and dying for Kandahar's version of the Corleones http://bit.ly/9xWQyG

Operation "Freedom Iraq" never did pan out http://bit.ly/d2Sh5T It's gwb's legacy, so what could you expect?

Repudiation of bush era doctrine of using nukes against non-nuclear states doesn't apply to Iran http://bit.ly/cJVkkz

Obama's appeasement of the right by allowing off-shore drilling pays no dividends, not politically, not for energy policy or the future or the environment http://bit.ly/aycCUO Speaking of the environment Utah Senator talks out of his ass, and not in the good way http://bit.ly/bHihCi The worst people in the world paid no federal income tax in '09 (exxon-mobil) http://bit.ly/aLIIAV You?

Never did get around to playing that last MLK speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1L8y-MX3pg 

Really great piece from McClatchy on the know-nothings re-writing history (non-Texas edition) http://bit.ly/dr2YPR

Talk tomorrow!