Show Notes: War, floods, folk and ukeleles
The archive of this week's segment is here. These show notes cover two weeks as I was in too much of a rush last week to write up proper notes.This week we featured
- Presidential speeches as a tag cloud
- Laura with iraq veterans and bloggers Jeff and Thomas talking about middle east policy in the UK and US
- David Axe talking about the fatal dangers of the Shatt Al-Arab waterway in Iraq
- Big Brother in the virtual world Second Life
- The latest podcast from NOMRF features folk musician Joe Topping who walked to New Orleans from Chicago
- Ben Goldacre on distributed Freedom of Information Requests
- Anita of Ukes for Troops. on sending soldiers ukeleles
The week before was solidly midterm election material in the main:
- Kentucky based podcaster Chaz Rough and a friend argued about Iraq on a tape made in the world's loudest Starbucks (thanks Chaz it rocked!)
- Raed in The Middle, Treasure of Baghdad and Blackfive debated how Iraq was being debated in the midterms
- Erick of Redstate and Peach Pundit told us about blogs and politics
- Adam Ereli of the US State Department explained their new media strategy
- Irina Slutsky spoke about the vloggies
- Brian and Omar of Alive in Baghdad told us about their award winning site.
Thoughts comments, suggestions for next week welcome, email podsandblogs@bbc.co.uk or leave a note in comments. We do read them, honest.
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I'm trying to look up Spanish National Radio because of a news segment concerning the Cuban Embassy in Spain. According to a reporter, the Cuban Embassy in Spain disposed in the garbage [without shredding] confidential information about the succession issue in Cuba. According to these papers, "Chavez was rejected by Raul Castro" and talked about other internal struggles. I will find out about this and notify Pods and Blogs.
I wanted BBC Five Live Up All Night to be the first to receive this news. America Teve Host Oscar Haza interviewed an Ex Castro Functionary who goes by the last name of Marzo-Fernandez.
According to Marzo-Fernandez, the flow of capital from Cuba to Swiss Banks have increased in the 100 days of Temporary Leader Raul Castro. UBS has closed ALL of their doors to Cuba. HSBC and Bank of Scotland has done the same thing. More to come.
In the Nightly Programme hosted by Oscar Haza on America Teve, there were revelations about soem of the money used by certain Cuban Exile Communities linked to the Republicans, Democrats, and Communists for Personal Use.
At the same time, more charges of corruption have been levelled against Republicans and Democrats. If only the people had voted Independent or if the US Media gave more publicity to Alternative Political Parties.