WSLR sponsors Book Talk on the CIA this Friday, May 30th

Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA: A Book Talk with Melvin Goodman

Friday, May 30^th at 7pm

Sanier Auditorium, New College of Florida

FREE EVENT!

This is the first book on the CIA by a CIA insider who was with the directorate of intelligence analysis. It examines and explains three key intelligence failures: the failure to predict the decline of the Soviet Union, the absence of strategic intelligence on the 9/11 attacks, and finally the falsification of intelligence to permit the Bush administration to go to war against Iraq . The book explores the need for reform and accountability, and suggests specific steps to be taken. This is must reading for anyone interested in national security and American foreign policy.

Jon Thaxton guest on Surreal News This Friday

WSLR 96.5 FM welcomes Jon Thaxton (Sarasota County Commissioner) & Homeland Insecurity: Bush Admin Misuse of Intellegence Since 911 (Mel Goodman)

as our guests.

When: Friday, May 23 from 9 am to 10 am EST

Where: The Surreal News on WSLR 96.5 LP FM Sarasota, Florida. If you cannot get it then hear the show live via INTERNET STREAMING (on WSLR.org "Live Broadcasting"), or hear us podcast on demand on iTunes, on Pacifica Broadcast Network, or at the web site thesurrealnews.com.

If you have any questions for the guests e-mail them to steve52n@aol.com.

Jon Thaxton:

Jon defies conventional labels by crossing traditional political, business and ideological boundaries. He is an acknowledged leader in growth management, environmental preservation, water conservation and transportation planning. Jon is known as a commissioner who is prepared, fair and articulate, and as one who listens to all side of an issue before making a decision.

Jon's commission appointments include the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council, Regional Water Planning Alliance and the National Association of Counties Growth and Land Use Committee. Jon has been awarded the 1,000 Friends of Florida State Growth Management Award and was twice awarded the Nature Conservancy?s Grassroots Activist of the Year. In 1996, Jon was featured in National Geographic for his work in preserving endangered species.

Under provisions of the county charter, each commissioner represents a district and must live in that district. Although commissioners represent districts, they are elected county-wide to four-year terms.

LIVE studio appearance by Gandalf Murphy Friday

Special Live Studio Appearance by Gandalf Murphy

Members of Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams will be appearing live on WSLR 96.5 LPFM’s “Complex Waveforms” tomorrow at 1:30pm (Friday, May 16^th). Josiah Longo, Sharkey McEwen, and Tink Lloyd will perform unplugged in the WSLR studios. This special hour of programming will be brought to you by the Ringling Museum of Art’s “Museum of the American Circus”, the first museum of its kind to document the rich history of the circus.

Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams will performing at the 2008 Heatwave Warm-Up Party on Friday, May 16^th at Skipper’s Smokehouse (Tickets: $15) and at Tropical Heatwave on Saturday, May 17^th (Tickets: $30). Tickets are available for purchase at the WSLR studios. Call 894-6469 for more information.

Formed in Sleepy Hollow, New York in the late 90's, Gandalf Murphy & the Slambovian Circus of Dreams is one of the best known and loved bands in their home state, singled out as Hudson Valley Magazine's "Band of the Year" for the past 3 years. On stage they create an enchanting atmosphere, using traditional folk instruments, tasty electric guitar and the distinctive singing and songwriting of Joziah Longo. Citing influences as diverse as Hank Williams, Dylan, Bowie, Incredible String Band and early Pink Floyd, Longo describes the band's music as "punk-classical-hillbilly-Floyd", a mental rollercoaster of whimsical, thought-provoking songs. The Circus' live shows are where the real magic comes down, earning them critical acclaim as well as a fiercely loyal following. Their last studio release, "Flapjacks From The Sky" has been hailed as a masterpiece by many and continues to make a buzz internationally as a great americana work of art. Their new cd, "The Great Unravel" is coming summer '08!

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Free Show featuring Local Bands at The Flying Dog Cafe this Friday

FREE SHOW!

WSLR Sponsors Local Bands at The Flying Dog Café

WSLR and ART will be sponsoring a Free Jam Night at The Flying Dog Café on Friday, May 16^th starting at 8pm. Three local bands will be featured: Furniture, The Done For and The Tuff Sons. The Flying Dog is located on 500 Tallevast Road, just north of the airport. Wear your dancing shoes and come out for an end-of-the-school year party!

Furniture is a group of six current, former, and future New College students with a unique collection of talents. With songs drawing inspiration from rock-and-roll, folk, drum circles, musical theatre, as well as some non-genres, the resulting sound is alternately melodic, discordant or atonal, complex and simple. Instrumentation includes various acoustic and electric stringed instruments, sporadic brass, drums, and keyboards, and many voices. Simultaneously triumphant and devastating (in the tiniest of ways) Furniture is one of a kind and not to be missed.

With members hailing from all parts of the country (Arkansas, Maryland,
Florida, Kentucky, & Missouri), THE DONE FOR combines the virtuosity of classical composition with the intensity of punk rock and post-rock. THE DONE FOR have been called “Like Arcade Fire meets the B-52s” and “Van Halenin the Desert”. But to them, it's all just Panic City Rock & Roll. Band members include Adele Fournet (Keyboard), Benjy Praff (Bass Guitar), Sam Greenspan (Guitar), Sara Stovall (Violin) and Taylor Kennedy (drums).

tuff sons (formerly Fiasco),a local roots reggae/R & B band featuring Marion Butler, Jeff Kerber, and Paul Jessen, will close out the night.
The Sarasota band, tuff sons, intentionally spell their name in all lower case letters in much the same way that the music they choose to play and write is an exercise in control and dynamics. Each of the players in tuff sons have been playing music for many years and in many different incarnations always with the unifying theme that there has to be a consciousness to what they are playing as well as personally inspired innovation. As music fanatics, tuff sons quite often pay homage to past and present music that excites them as well as fusing all of their influences together to contribute to the ever expanding pool of ideas in the musical community.

Bike to the show with ART members, Alliance for Responsible Transportation, from the WSLR studio. Meet up at 6:30pm at the corner of Royal Palm and Myrtle and learn the Airport Bypass route.

Learn More About The Food Crisis and Hurricane Preparedness on WSLR 96.5 Friday morning

WSLR 96.5 FM welcomes Ronnie Cummings (Organic Consumers Association) & Paul Flaherty (NOAA) as our guests.

When: Friday, May 16 from 9 am to 10 am EST

Where: The Surreal News on WSLR 96.5 LP FM Sarasota, Florida. If you cannot get it then hear the show live via INTERNET STREAMING (on WSLR.org "Live Broadcasting"), or hear us podcast on demand on iTunes, on Pacifica Broadcast Network, or at the web site thesurrealnews.com.

If you have any questions for the guests e-mail them to steve52n@aol.com.

Background: Ronnie Cummins is National Director of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), a nationwide non-profit, public interest organization dedicated to building a healthy, safe, and sustainable system of food production and consumption in the U.S. and the world. The OCA's primary strategy is to work on national and global campaigns that integrate public education, litigation, marketplace pressure, direct action, media work, and grassroots lobbying. Please see http://www.organicconsumers.org/. He lives in Minnesota, spending a fair amount of time in Mexico. He is the former director of Jeremy Rifkin's Beyond Beef Campaign & Pure Food Campaign, and co-authored Genetically Engineered Food: A Self-Defense Guide for Consumers (2000). He can discuss Sustainable Agriculture, Organic Standards, Organic Farming, and the hazards of Corporate Farming and eating GMOs, the Fast Food Industry, how fast food chains could include healthier, organic food products, the growing “Slow Food” movement, why we must embrace organic and sustainable agriculture over corporate agriculture which destroys the land through mono-cropping and sucks nutrients out of the food. He can speak to the causes of soaring food prices, the international impact, and viable solutions.

Food Price Crisis – What's going on with the global price of food?:

• According to the World Bank, food prices have climbed 83% in the last 3 years
• Real price of rice rose to a 19-year high in March of 2008– an increase of 50% in 2 weeks alone
• Real price of wheat hit a 28-year high in March 2008
• Staples that many of the world's poor rely on are the food items that are rising in cost: cereal grains, cooking oil, dairy
• In Bangladesh, rice prices have gone up 70%, hitting a population where the majority live on less than $1 a day
• In Haiti, where ¾ of the population earns less than $2 a day and 1 in 5 children is chronically malnourished, the most destitute are consuming mud patties mixed with oil and sugar