Saturday night for thought

Hello, and welcome to a special weekend edition. This is what I like to call news on the run, because I''m not sticking around to explain anything. Its up to you to make a stand, so do so.



I have this problem. Whenever I try to explain what's happening in American politics-I mean, what's really happening-I wind up sounding a bit like an unhinged conspiracy theorist. (nytimes.com)


Former Bush Economic Advisor: "Jon Stewart is a Genius" (gregmankiw.blogspot.com)

Blackwater is being investigated for smuggling weapons and selling them to terrorists (news.yahoo.com)

Iran demanded that United Nations inspectors visit Israel to investigate its nuclear capability (haaretz.com)

Attorneys for at least 40 Guantanamo Bay prisoners have been barred from visiting or writing their clients because of a judge's order dismissing legal challenges to the men's confinement, the Department of Justice said Friday (miamiherald.com)

U.S. government document details on habits of millions of Americans who travel abroad (washingtonpost.com)

Bush tries to grant himself and entire administration immunity for war crimes dating back to 9/11/01 (Prisoner abuse, torture, illegal acts). Hidden in Senate Bill. (youtube.com)

If elected president, Texas congressman Ron Paul said he would change drug laws to free non-violent offenders from prison. (ronpaulfan.com)

Pentagon: $6 billion worth of Iraq contracts are under criminal review (tpmmuckraker.com)

Why Authoritarians Now Control the Republican Party: The Rise of Authoritarian Conservatism (writ.news.findlaw.com)

Biological discovery inside the Chernobyl reactor? (unitedcats.wordpress.com)

The FBI has taped conversations between Republican Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska and an oil company executive who has pleaded guilty to bribery, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation. (cnn.com)

Kissinger Admits Iran Attack Is About Oil (prisonplanet.com)

Columbia University said it canceled a planned speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (news.yahoo.com)

Columbia University won't cancel Ahmadinejad speech despite mounting pressure (news.yahoo.com)

Making a killing: how private armies became a $120bn global industry (news.independent.co.uk)

Canadian Dollar Now Worth More the US Dollar - Now they Can Start Vacationing Here for Cheaper (finance.yahoo.com)

Since 9/11, 100,000 Americans have been murdered – as many as we lost in Vietnam, Korea and Iraq combined. Yet, not one of these murders was the work of an Islamic terrorist, and all of them, terrible as they are, did not imperil the survival of our republic. (antiwar.com)

In a complex set of transactions, Dubai is moving to acquire 19.9 percent of the Nasdaq in New York, placing the Arab government in an ownership position of the key U.S. stock exchange (worldnetdaily.com)

China threatens U.S. Congress with a dollar sell-off if tariffs are imposed. And so it begins (telegraph.co.uk)

Note to America: Iran Didn't Participate in 9/11 Either (jpost.com)

UN passed a resolution calling all Middle-East countries to renounce atomic weapons. Iran and other Arab nations voted in favor of it, US and Israel opposed it; Israel still the nation with the largest nuclear arsenal in the world that is not subject to IAEA inspection (reuters.com)

A 1983 iPod - Mr Disc (soulexpressradio.com)

Pornography and the End of Masculinity (alternet.org)

Japanese Atlantis: 5,000 year old city, submerged beneath the sea. (environmentalgraffiti.com)

Tracing Your Ancestry: Computer Program Accurately Analyzes Anonymous DNA Samples (sciencedaily.com)

See the Harvest Moon Wednesday, September 26, 2007 (itwire.com)

Mattel has admitted that most of the toys recalled in recent safety scares had "design flaws" and that Chinese manufacturers were not to blame. (news.bbc.co.uk)

The most amazingly coordinated show you will ever see, courtesy of S. Korea. (video) (oomsa.com)

Men always ready for sex? No, says study: rather, they're often "guilted" or "coerced" into bed (canada.com)