Apologies for missing yesterday's post, it's been a crazy couple days for me. The astrology of July is very fascinating, this is one of the most astrologically jam packed months we've had in a while, so expect chaos and a flood of potentially overwhelming emotions, particularly around the eclipses on July 7 and 21. Perhaps some of you with more shamanistic tendencies can feel it in your spirit. More on the astrology of this in a future post.

In the mean time, I wanted to share with you all some links that readers have been emailing me.

1. USMediaandIsrael.com. A site that illustrates how AIPAC, a lobbying organization representing Israel's interests, controls much of the American media -- the site focuses on its influence over The New York Times. American taxpayers basically work for Israel, when one considers how much influence the Israeli lobbying groups have, how much foreign aid goes to Israel, and how US military policy is decided. I'll conclude with my standard disclaimer, which is that I don't hate Israeli people, I don't hate Jewish people, I'm not an idiot and don't hate people based on race/nationality/religion. I do, however, think the Israeli government, like most governments, and lobbying organizations like AIPAC, are quite shameful, and we should not be afraid to say this. The American government is also extremely shameful and we should be shouting that out loud as well. You always have to speak truth to power, after all truth is the only real power. Only fools think otherwise.

2. ThisIsDiversity.com is one of those citizen journalism sites. For better or worse there are a bazillion sites like this. Ultimately I think the next evolution in citizen journalism is when bloggers filter the web and point to key news stories. Imagine, for instance, Techmeme -- but with commentary and filtering from your favorite technology blogger and his/her community of readers. I believe something like that is a part of the future of journalism.

As this post is about links people have asked me for, the song for the post is "Link" by Rabbit Joint. Admittedly, I don't really like the song.