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)

Thursday can't forget about O.J.

Hello and welcome. I do not want to hear any more garbage about O.J. Simpson. He should be in jail already, and he will be headed there now. End of story, fucking mainstream media can't get enough of this dog fed bullshit. Also, we need to break the fascist spell that is overpowering us with police brutality. There is no need for tasers and 'pain guns'. And just to make your day peachy, the American dollar has sunk down to the equivalent of a Canadian dollar. The exchange rate with the Euro is now at 1.4. Gah, our money is being flushed down the drain.


The mainstream media has covered O.J. Simpson 10 times more than the protests in Jena, the failure of the habeus corpus bill, and other stories that are actually important. (ablogistan.com)

It's happened: 1.00 USD = 1.00 CAD (finance.yahoo.com)

Dollar plunges through $1.40 against euro, “The key $1.40 level has been breached and dollar weakness is evident" (ft.com)

Saudi's abandon the US dollar -- "The dollar's going to collapse, the bond market's going to collapse. " (telegraph.co.uk)

China's Ultimatum: Let Us Invade Taiwan Or We'll Dump The Dollar (prisonplanet.com)

Blackwater operated under State Department authority that exempted the company from U.S. military regulations governing other security firms (washingtonpost.com)

The Mercenary Factor (thenation.com)

Raytheon develops the 'pain gun,' a microwave emitter precisely tuned to cause excruciating pain with no visible damage (dailymail.co.uk)

The lies of Alan Greenspan (sfgate.com)

Senate KILLS Habeas Corpus AGAIN! Keeping thousands of prisoners with any basic human rights - these are cold-blooded mofos in our govt! (afp.google.com)

List of 42 Senate Republicans (and Lieberman) who obstructed the restoration of Habeas Corpus (senate.gov)

Where Did The Bush "Money Tree" Come From? - The Hilter Connection (polidics.com)

"We had some animals that were in our colony for as long as 18 years and they had assorted weekly doses of microwaves and we never saw any cancer in any animal. We never saw anything but happy, healthy, thriving monkeys." (query.nytimes.com)

Neocons Tie N. Korea to Israeli Strike on Syria (antiwar.com)

The choice is clear: either we fight fascism right now with all our power, or we will be the next ones on the ground with a policeman's knee on our throats and 50,000 volts of electricity coursing through our bodies (smirkingchimp.com)

racism + militarization + brutality + war on drugs = American police culture (agonist.org)

Meteorite Crash Causes "Mystery Illness" in Peru (abc.net.au)

Peruvian Meteor was actually US spy satellite, brought down by splinter faction of the US military. This report brought to you by Pravda so it must be true. (english.pravda.ru)

More proof "the surge is working": Right-wingers claim even the CIA is afraid to go outside without trigger-happy Blackwater (attytood.com)

You have 13 pesticides inside you (smartfoodshealthykids.com)

What the Founding Fathers said on the Constitution: "This system will not hurry us into war; it is calculated to guard against it. It will not be in the power of a single man, or a single body of men, to involve us in such distress; for the important part in declaring war is vested in the legislature at large" (groups.google.com)

Synthetic Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals Found in "All Natural" Air Fresheners (thedailygreen.com)

NASA - (vidio) sunspot 10926 an object as big as a planet materializes breaking through the turbulent surface of the sun (science.nasa.gov)

"Kucinich Calls for Congressional Investigation Into Iraqi Oil Deal Involving a Texas Tycoon Closely Allied to Bush and Cheney" (newsandpolicy.com)

War, meet profit: Bush's military buildup and the conflict in Iraq have meant soaring profits for defense contractors and big paychecks for CEOs (articles.moneycentral.msn.com)

Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning? Public schools are teaching kids to be drones. (greensburg.k12.in.us)

Engineers learn from the beetles (biomimicrynews.com)

American civic literacy quiz--can you pass it? (americancivicliteracy.org)

Wednesday's Greenspan?

Hello all. So, yeah- Greenspan? What do you think, is he just another fleeing rat? I would lean that way, but the decision is up to you. Honestly, I don't trust anyone from the administration. Call me a liberal if you will, but I smell fish. Rotten, stinking, rat-like fish. Also, have you ever been tasered? With all the tasering hype lately, I wouldn't be surprised. Hope your day is as peachy as mine!


The Alan Greenspan Timeline (noblesoul.com)

UF Student Tasering: What Voltaire, Niemöller , And Obnoxious Kids Share With Our Founding Fathers (functionalisminaction.com)

America Is No More (lewrockwell.com)

Blackwater: We can put 1,000 men anywhere on the planet in 24 hours... (mytime-dyno.blogspot.com)

Blackwater's Not the Problem, the *War's* the Problem (thisisby.us)

Public Not Buying Bush/Petraeus Spin (thinkprogress.org)

"Comparing people to cockroaches happened during the Nazi era and before the Holocaust in Germany - a similar pattern happened in Rwanda before the genocide in 1994" (ipsnews.net)

The 22 Most Corrupt Members of Congress (beyonddelay.org)

Can you guess which organization this is? (thefleecingofamerica.com)

All fifteen subpoenaed congressmembers refuse to provide documents, testimony in bribery case (rawstory.com)

They already control and record most of what we buy, eat, wear, watch, and listen to. This would just make it official: the corporation as doting parent. (smirkingchimp.com)

Iraq to review legal status of ALL private security companies - Is this the beginning of the Iraqi government's rejection of US forces? (news.independent.co.uk)

U.S. Government's Plan to Protect You From Terrorist Livestock (alternet.org)

Debit or Credit? Here's the answer (redtape.msnbc.com)

The High Costs of Ethanol - “The overall environmental impacts of ethanol and biodiesel can very easily exceed those of petrol and mineral diesel” (nytimes.com)

Global Dimming (BBC Documentary) (video.google.com)

7,000 languages in the world, 2 go extinct every month, half are in danger of extinction (nytimes.com)

Pentagon Sued Over Mandatory Christianity (truthout.org)


Fed bails out Wall Street with rate cuts sending U.S. dollar to all time lows (bernankepanky.com)

Ocean Acidification: The Sleeper Environmental Issue of Our Time (thedailygreen.com)

Sen. Barack Obama proposed overhauling the tax code to lower taxes for the poor and middle class, increase them for the rich and make it so most Americans can file their taxes in five minutes. (cnn.com)

Sexual practices in the animal kingdom strike imagination (english.pravda.ru)

The Truth about Endless Toll Road Taxation (texasmonthly.com)

Mobile phones have "slight hint" of a cancer risk for long-term users (guardian.co.uk)

6 Involved in Nuke "Mistake" Dead in "Accidents" (legitgov.org)

When Cheney said on Monday that " no one in politics, regardless of party, should hesitate to object when an American soldier at war is mocked and insulted", he forgot how GOP derided Kerry's Vietnam service record (dailykos.com)

Report: State Dept. 'Watchdog' Censored Reports That Could Have Embarrassed Bush (washingtonpost.com)

Euro could replace U.S. Dollar as favored foreign exchange currency, says Greenspan (unknownnews.org)

Democratic senators warned Monday that they might delay confirming President Bush's choice to be the next attorney general unless the White House turns over documents relating to several investigations - might?? (sfgate.com)

Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person-and Lose Weight (sharpbrains.com)

Ancient writings from the Dead Sea scrolls are to be read for the first time by British scientists using powerful x-rays (guardian.co.uk)

Meet a "guilty liberal who finally snaps, swears off plastic... turns off his power... and while living in NYC turns into a tree-hugging lunatic who tries to save the polar bears". (news.bbc.co.uk)