Sunday Linkblast - July 8

• Animal Farm movie financed by CIA
  A book that warns about the danger of propaganda used as propaganda.
  
  
• The weekly US editorial cartoons
  From Bob Geiger.
  
  
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind becomes reality
  Good movie, terrifying possibility. My buddy Matthew has been riffing on this idea for days.
  
  
• Perpetual motion on hold on account of hot lights
  It's always something isn't it?
  
  
• The Economist looks into how Northern Alberta is sitting on top of an ocean of oil
  And finds out that Fort McMurray is swimming in an ocean of cocaine.
  
  
• Tories back away from Afghanistan rhetoric
  2009 end date looking more and more firm.
  
  
• The New York Times calls for Iraq pullout
  After being one of the biggest cheer-leaders The Grey Lady accepts the inevitable.
  
  
• Military missions against insurgencies have a high failure rate
  Were the missions in Iraq and Afghanistan doomed to fail?