THE TENSION: The Decline and Fall of Western Civ. for 10 Sep

Heads up, this news rolls downhill.

Senator Rockefeller says world would be better off with Saddam and Bush duped public, reports CDS News. "In 2002 and 2003, members of both parties got a good look at the intelligence we had and they came to the very same conclusions about what was going on," White House Spokesman Tony Snow said.

On Tuesday, Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs is widely expected to announce the most ambitious iPod service yet - the sale of feature-length films via the Internet for viewing on the devices, which may receive an expanded 'widescreen' and improved storage capacity, all in an effort some think, to bolster rapidly declining iPod sales, according to the Guardian.

Patients have been implanted with potentially contaminated pieces of bone from a batch stolen from dead Americans, including the veteran broadcaster Alistair Cooke, reports the Times Online. Imported to the U.K., bones were harvested by the firm from corpses in U.S. funeral homes without the deceased’s prior consent and without adequate checks to ensure the bodies were free of disease.

AP reports former Vice President and 2000 presidential race loser Al Gore said Sunday to reporters in Sydney he hadn't rule out making a second bid for the White House.

A videotape posted on the Internet late Sunday, purportedly by al-Qaida, showed previously unseen footage of a smiling Osama bin Laden and other commanders in a mountain camp apparently planning the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington, according to AP.

In an interview with Haaretz, British PM Tony Blair says Western leaders see the danger of Islamic extremism, but our public still does not. No telling how much of this disregard has been parlayed for the terrorists by the mainstream media.

Prior to its airing, here's the latest on ABC's 9-11 show. The NY Post reports former Pres Clinton's lawyers demanded that ABC can the film. "Do the right thing for the country and pull this despicable work of fiction from the air," urged Jay Carson, a Clinton spokesman. However, ABC still plans to air the film despite the pressure. ABC insiders are scratching their heads about the excessive noise levels over the miniseries that have surfaced during the past few days, since copies were first distributed in mid-July during the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Pasadena, and screenings were held in Washington, D.C., and in New York City, for politicians and advertisers and others over the past several weeks, reports MEDIAWEEK. "[D]uring filming of the movie, there were "an army of consultants that were there…from CIA, FBI, Secret Service, White House, many of those funnelling up to Gov. Kean."