Watching the shell game

It's always wise to look around when the world gets fixated to see what's really going on. After hearing about Dick Cheney's marksmanship and Neil Entwistle all morning, I checked.

Patriot Act moves closer to renewal

U.N. report equate Gitmo to torture

China defends right to police Internet

(That one's interesting for the statement by spokesman Qin Gang that in "managing" the Internet, "China has also borrowed and learned from the United States and other countries in the world.")

France says Iran seeks nuke weapons

Israel weighs punitive measures against Hamas

... and that's just from the front page of Yahoo! News.

It's fascinating to see what's really going on, compared with what the managers of the Puppet Theatre think we want to see.