Link: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/tased-house-california-man-sues-police-disturbing-visit/story?id=11531608

A 911 call for help after a fall ended with a 64-year-old cancer survivor getting Tased three times by police in his California home, an action his attorney said could have killed him. Marin County sheriff's deputies turned a Taser on Peter McFarland when he refused to go to the hospital. "These are deadly weapons, and he had a heart condition," McFarland's attorney, John Scott, told "Good Morning America." " He could have easily been killed here." McFarland can be seen screaming in agony on a police video, lying on the floor as the officers pumped high-powered volts of electricity into his back.

Link: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/196784/Lost-gold-of-Tsars-found-in-the-world-s-deepest-lake-

A RUSSIAN mini-submarine may have found billions of pounds worth of lost gold in a Siberian lake, it was revealed yesterday. Explorers have long searched for lost Tsarist treasures dating from the Bolshevik Revolution, when forces loyal to the deposed royal family fled the advancing Red Army.

Link: http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts09012010.html

Have economists made themselves irrelevant? If you have any doubts, have a look at the current issue of themagazine, International Economy, a slick publication endorsed by former Federal Reserve chairmen Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan, by Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, by former Secretary of State George Shultz, and by the New York Times and Washington Post, both of which declare the magazine to be “ahead of the curve.”

Link: http://realwarhero.livejournal.com/617.html

Above everything else, the first thing that must be said is that anyone who thinks the author of this reality-check is the problem, and that he is the one who has gone nuts, is lining up for an early death, and those people are wished a good riddance. You will not be missed.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/video/europe/2010/09/201091113016719732.html

One of the biggest seed banks in the world could soon be replaced by a housing development. One of the biggest and most important seed banks in the world is at risk of being replaced by a private housing development. The facility near the Russian city of St Petersburg houses thousands of varieties of plants, not found anywhere else in the world.

Link: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/54633

Lies aren't used just to start wars, but also to escalate them, continue them, and even reduce or end them. And we got a pile of war lies from the president Tuesday evening. Obama claimed the war on Iraq was initially a war to disarm a state. Really? And then "terrorist" Iraqis attacked our troops in their country. Yet if they had done that in our country, I suspect they would still be the terrorists. And then it became a civil war which we were innocently caught up in. Uh huh.

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/01/AR2010090106148.html

It wasn't the food; it was the entertainment. Christina Romer, chairman of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, was giving what was billed as her "valedictory" before she returns to teach at Berkeley, and she used the swan song to establish four points, each more unnerving than the last: She had no idea how bad the economic collapse would be. She still doesn't understand exactly why it was so bad. The response to the collapse was inadequate. And she doesn't have much of an idea about how to fix things. What she did have was a binder full of scary descriptions and warnings, offered with a perma-smile and singsong delivery: "Terrible recession. . . . Incredibly searing. . . . Dramatically below trend. . . . Suffering terribly. . . . Risk of making high unemployment permanent. . . . Economic nightmare." Anybody want dessert?

Link: http://www.henrymakow.com/family_court_judge_posed_naked.html

Winnipeg's elite was doing damage control Wednesday after a formal complaint against Lori Douglas, Associate Chief Justice of Manitoba in charge of Family Law. Alex Chapman, a Trinidadian immigrant, complained that in 2002, Douglas' husband Jack King pressured him to engage in depraved sexual acts with his wife. King was acting as Chapman's family lawyer at the time. Both King and Douglas were partners in an elite Winnipeg law firm. King introduced Chapman to a web site devoted to Black men torturing and raping white women. The site featured about 30 naked photos of Lori Douglas in various forms of bondage, in chains, with sex toys, and performing oral sex. "I wanted to puke," Chapman said. "The pictures were disgusting. I couldn't believe my lawyer was doing this to me." "It made me sick to my stomach, like I'm living in a country with no integrity," said Chapman.

Link: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-09-01/construction-spending-in-u-s-fell-twice-as-much-as-forecast.html

Construction spending in July fell twice as much as forecast, led by a slump in homebuilding that will depress U.S. economic growth.

Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6803EY20100901

Prakken was speaking to a teleconference of journalists after the ADP Employer Services report on private sector employment, which his firm jointly developed. The report showed private employers unexpectedly cut 10,000 jobs last month.

Link: http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1402.htm

In a move Vladimir Kozin, deputy director of Russia's Foreign Ministry said “may inevitably affect Russian-US relations to the detriment of the US effort to 'reset' them” both the United States and Russia have entered into a massive ‘bidding war’ for the man known as the “Merchant of Death” and who is called by many intelligence services as “the most dangerous man in the World.”