Tuesday for the masses

Hello and welcome. The day of Labor has passed, and we are all back to work. Lots of news has passed since the time we last met, so I'll just get right into it.

The Rip-off in Iraq: You Will Not Believe How Low the War Profiteers Have Gone (alternet.org)

Bush restricting travel rights of over 100,000 U.S. citizens: those who have done no more than criticize the president are being banned from airline flights, harassed at airports’, strip searched, roughed up and even imprisoned (afterdowningstreet.org)

In your face: Bush furious as British troops pull out of Basra, since the operation was launched at a time when the president is begging for more time for his 'surge' strategy to turn the tide of the war (thisislondon.co.uk)

Yahoo says "British troops leave Basra base in Iraq" , what they mean is 'Bristish troops leave Iraq' (news.yahoo.com)

"The enemy would like nothing better than to see me cut short my vacation and get back to the White House," Mr. Bush told reporters. "They hate my freedom." (huffingtonpost.com)

"We Are Going To Hit Iran. Bigtime" (dailykos.com)

The President might just be crazy enough to nuke Iran (telegraph.co.uk)

Cheney/Iran & the 'Mystery Traders' : Prelude to the biggest Stock Market Crash of all time? (honolulu.craigslist.org)

Exempt from treason? “US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other senior administration officials should be exempt from testifying about whether they shared classified national defense information with two American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbyists”, lawyers argued at a closed-door court session Thursday (jurist.law.pitt.edu)

Cheney Orders Media To Sell Attack On Iran (prisonplanet.com)

Success without warmongering: North Korea agrees to dismantle all nuclear programs (news.yahoo.com)

They have “instructions” from the Office of the Vice-President to roll out a campaign for war with Iran in the week after Labor Day (newyorker.com)

Halliburton is Poisoning Our Troops with Contaminated Water (intosanity.com)

President Bush Still Doesn't Know Who Disbanded Iraq's Military (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com)

Bush Administration Favored Baby Formula Companies Over Babies (blog.wired.com)

George Bush insists that Iran must not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons. So why, six years ago, did the CIA give the Iranians blueprints to build a bomb? (guardian.co.uk)

Dangerous Knowledge - Rare British Documentary About Great Mathematicians Who, After Solving Certain Math Problems, All Have Gone Mad And Committed Suicide (bestdocumentaries.blogspot.com)

Ethanol and the Environment (theoildrum.com)

Scientists Given Go-Ahead to Create Human-Animal Hybrid Embryos (guardian.co.uk)

Surveying the Mess Gonzales Left Behind (usnews.com)

About the Arab worldview (maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com)

"[F]reedom is almost never taken away all at once. Instead, it's eroded gradually, little bit by little tiny bit" (interesting Slashdot comment) (yro.slashdot.org)

What would actually happen if America kicked out all the illegal immigrants, by Orson Scott Card (greensboro.rhinotimes.com)

(Arguably, the Nicest Atheist) Daniel Dennett: "I get mail all the time from religious leaders who admit to me in private that they do not believe in God but think that the best way to continue their lives is to swallow hard and get on with their ministries, concentrating on bringing more good than evil into the lives of their parishioners and those for whom their churches provide care." (newsweek.washingtonpost.com)

Highly specific, modified bacteriophages may be the future of antibiotics (scientistlive.com)

Men who ejaculated upwards of 21 times a month had a 33% lower lifetime risk of prostate cancer than the baseline group. (health-sky.com)

Police Given OK to Taser Children (prisonplanet.com)

"we have delayed the next ice age by burning fossil fuels" say scientists. (environmentalgraffiti.com)

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences (pascal.iseg.utl.pt)

First individual genome published online; shows humans less alike than thought (canadianpress.google.com)

Jury Veto Power- We, The People Don't Like That Law... (nowscape.com)

It's against the law to sell a near-zero-emissions (non-polluting) car in 43 states. (autos.msn.com)

Why Are So Many Nerds Libertarians? (ask.slashdot.org)

Top 10 Mad Scientists (listverse.com)

Suck your water clean (pic) (developmentcrossing.co.uk)

Why US morphed into a nation of consumers and investors, rather than citizens (nytimes.com)

The Universe within 14 billion Light Years (atlasoftheuniverse.com)

More than 220 people in the United States have died after being shocked with TASERs (amnestyusa.org)

"The Red Cross Has Basically Stolen Money from Victims in New Orleans" - People's Hurricane Relief Fund Blasts Katrina Aid Program (democracynow.org)

From a Mind-Numbing $2 Billion a Week to a Mind-Blowing $3 Billion a Week: What Will it Take to Get the Congress to Control Contractor Costs? (huffingtonpost.com)

Same-sex marriages halted in Iowa. One couple made it before the halt. (rss.cnn.com)

"The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America" by Charlotte Izerbyt (Free Book Download) (deliberatedumbingdown.com)

Marines Ordered To Execute Civilians In Nazi-Like Slaughter (infowars.net)

I personally find the controversy about Iraq in Washington to be bizarre. Are they really arguing about whether the situation is improving? I mean, you have the Night of the Living Dead over there. People lack potable water, cholera has broken out even in the good areas, a third of people are hungry, a doubling of the internally displaced to at least 1.1 million, and a million pilgrims dispersed just this week by militia infighting in a supposedly safe all-Shiite area. ..... (juancole.com)

Neocon thinktank Project For the New American Century has proposed drafting American citizens. INTO THE ISRAELI ARMY. (takimag.com)

Very few people know, that Irish slaves were the largest slave population in the West Indies/Carribbena between 1600-1699, with 25,000 sold to Cotton plantations in St.Kitts alone in 1650. (giftofireland.com)

People take medications. They excrete them. What happens next? (straightdope.com)