Ok, I’ve been podcasting speeches and talks by others for a while. Here’s my first podcast - some thoughts on the upcoming Sept. 24 nationwide antiwar demonstrations, how the mood in the country has shifted, and some nuts and bolts about building a mass march and rally.

(This was recorded using CastBlaster, Adam Curry’s new product, which is still in beta. Using CastBlaster, you can record a podcast, adding sound effects and music if you want, then upload it. I like it. Sound effects coming next podcast!) 

Link (10:19 min. 3.54 mb)

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ChoicePoint - who after an identify theft ring scammed records on 150,000 people from their files, offered to sell those same people information on whether they’d been compromised.

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A leading Republican senator and prospective presidential candidate said Sunday that the war in Iraq has destabilized the Middle East and is looking more like the Vietnam conflict from a generation ago.

Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, who received two Purple Hearts and other military honors for his service in Vietnam, reiterated his position that the United States needs to develop a strategy to leave Iraq.

Where are the Democrats on this? Still too timid to oppose the war for fear of offending someone, that’s where. Pathetic.

Meanwhile, Cindy Sheehan is front page everywhere and Bush’s job approval ratings have dropped to a new low, all of which should give Dems a clue that opposing the war could be a politically savvy thing to do, however this would require a vertebrae or two.

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Scientists say global warming is melting one of Canada’s last remaining ice shelves.

The edges of the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, located about 2,175 miles north of Edmonton, are melting.

Ward Hunt is the largest of five separate shelves that once comprised the 3,000-year-old Ellesmere Island Ice Shelf, which has lost 90 percent of its mass in less than a century.

The Bush Administration has responded to increased calls, including by ranking Republicans, to take serious action against global warming, with the sound of more crickets.

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Two senior Brazilian officials are due to arrive in Britain to question the commission investigating the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes.

Wagner Goncalves, from Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office, and Marcio Pereira Pinto Garcia, of the Ministry of Justice, hoped to get “a number of matters” clarified.

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