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27, &nbsp;2009</b></font></A></NOBR><BR><font color=yellow><small>Next update: Tuesday</small></font></TD><TD ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="1%" class="fonta">&nbsp;</td></tr></table> <!-- =1111111111= --> <!-- =2222222222= --> <!-- =bailout= --><A NAME=ah-805></A> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's plan to wipe up to US$1 trillion in bad debt off banks' balance sheets, unveiled on Monday, offered "perverse incentives", says Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz. The US government is basically using the taxpayer to guarantee against downside risk on the value of these assets, while giving the upside, or potential profits, to private investors, he said. "Quite frankly, this amounts to robbery of the American people. I don't think it's going to work because I think there'll be a lot of anger about putting the losses so much on the shoulder of the American taxpayer." <table border="0" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="8" style="border-collapse: collapse" width="298" align="right"><tr><td class="fonty" vAlign="top" align="left" width="100%"><TABLE CELLPADDING="8" CELLSPACING="8" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR> <TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="100%" bgcolor="#eeeeee" class="fonty"> <img src="http://unknownnews.org/protest45.jpg" border="1" width="298" height="186"> <p> "As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might." <i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Marion&nbsp;Anderson</i> </td></tr></table></td></tr></table>&nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.cnbc.com//id/29848741">Reuters&nbsp;News&nbsp;Agency</A>&nbsp;] <BR> <!-- =3333333333= --> <!-- =civilliberties= --> <!-- == --><A NAME=fl-755></A><BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A group of lawyers representing prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have filed multiple lawsuits -- including a motion of contempt against Defense Secretary Robert Gates -- accusing the DoJ of violating the Geneva Conventions in its treatment of detainees. &nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/133154/gitmo_lawyers_sue_obama_administratisanctions_against_defense_secretary_gates/">Agence France-Presse, distilled&nbsp;by AlterNet</A>&nbsp;]<BR> <!-- == --><A NAME=sutwr-800></A><BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Senator Jim Webb (D-Virginia) is apparently serious about pursuing stateside prison reform. He's introducing legislation to establish a bipartisan commission to explore fixes to America's awful, inhumane prison system. &nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/03/a_push_for_prison_reform.php">Atlantic&nbsp;Monthly</A>&nbsp;]<BR> <!-- == --><A NAME=ah-829></A><BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A comprehensive report issued by Amnesty International USA Wednesday finds that tens of thousands of immigrants are being held in detention in the United States -- many in violation of international law. &nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://washingtonindependent.com/35526/thousands-of-immigrants-held-in-violation-of-international-law">Washington&nbsp;Independent</A>&nbsp;]<BR> <!-- == --><A NAME=sutwr-715></A><BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says that decades of US anti-narcotics policies have failed miserably and contributed to the explosion of drug violence in Mexico. Brilliant and true, and Clinton even hints at a "new approach", but I don't think she has either the authority or the insight to actually push for legalization -- the only approach that would deflate the drug wars in Mexico, and also, not coincidentally, help rush a recovery of the American economy. &nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/25/AR2009032501034.html">Washington&nbsp;Post</A>&nbsp;]<BR> <!-- == --><A NAME=sutwr-715b></A><BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; They're even getting a clue in New York, where the Governor and state legislature are close to reaching an agreement to dismantle the draconian and generally godawful Rockefeller drug laws that pretty much set the standard for the idiotic drug war of the past several decades. <nobr>&nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=783410&category=OPINION">Albany Times-Union</A>&nbsp;]</nobr><BR> <A NAME=journalism></A><!-- mainstream corporate news, Fox and other liars, but no pundits --> <table border="0" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" width="60%" align="left"><tr><td class="fonty" vAlign="top" align="left" width="100%"><BR><TABLE CELLPADDING="8" CELLSPACING="8" WIDTH="100%" border=1><TR><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="100%" class="fonta"> <center><I><B>Corporations own the news</B></I><BR><img src="http://www.unknownnews.net/newslogo-abc.jpg" border="0" width="71" height="27"><img src="http://www.unknownnews.net/newslogo-ap.jpg" border="0" width="50" height="50"><img src="http://www.unknownnews.net/newslogo-cbs.jpg" border="0" width="54" height="35"><img src="http://www.unknownnews.net/newslogo-cnn.jpg" border="0" width="61" height="33"><img src="http://www.unknownnews.net/newslogo-nbc.jpg" border="0" width="57" height="45"></center> <BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <I>Virtually all American media is controlled by corporations and operated solely for profit, so news that's controversial or expensive to cover often gets minimal coverage that's shallow, inaccurate, or slanted to favor big business.</I><BR> <!-- journalism --> <BR><A HREF="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/mar2009/bonu-m26.shtml"><i>New York Times</i> publishes "persecuted" AIG executive's resignation letter</A><BR> <BR><A HREF="http://mediamatters.org/items/200903250027?f=h_latest"><i>Los Angeles Times</i> erased the word "torture" in describing Obama nominee's criticism of Bush administration </A><BR> <A NAME=fools&liars></A><!-- pundits and politicians--><BR> <center><I><B>Fools and liars, pundits&nbsp;and&nbsp;politicians</B></I></center> <BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <i>America's political discourse and mainstream media are dominated by lies, insults, and general nuttiness from right-wing commentators and politicians. And there's really no left-wing equivalent, since anyone who offers blunt criticism of the right-wing <nobr>--</nobr> even when it's warranted and true <nobr>--</nobr> is "outside the mainstream", by definition</i>.<BR> <!-- =politicians --> <BR><A HREF="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_03/017461.php">Bachmann (R-Minnesota) proposes legislation to "ensure that the US dollar remain the currency of the United States"</A><BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_03/017456.php">Barton (R-Texas) proposes shade as remedy for global climate change</A><BR> <BR><A HREF="http://mediamatters.org/items/200903260012?f=h_latest">Gregg (R-New Hampshire) spreads small-business tax falsehood on CNBC</A><BR> <BR><A HREF="http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/26/gingrich-dictatorship/">Gingrich warns that Obama's financial regulation plan will create a 'dictatorship'</A><BR> <!-- =pundits (mainstream) --> <BR><A HREF="http://www.eandppub.com/2009/03/jim-cramer-calls-andrew-cuomo-a-genuine-communist.html">CNBC's Cramer calls Cuomo a "genuine Communist"</A><BR> <!-- =fake journalism =wingnut pundits =WND =Drudge =Newsbusters, etc.--> <BR><A HREF="http://mediamatters.org/items/200903250039?f=h_latestc">Conservative media run with dubious SkyNews claim of Obama "teleprompt blunder"</A><BR> <BR><A HREF="http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200903250021?show=1">Limbaugh says statistic that 1 of 50 American children are homeless is "bogus"</A><BR> <BR><A HREF="http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200903260006?show=1">Disney's Savage: A "progressive is, basically a pervert covering it up with liberal politics"</A><BR> <BR><A HREF="http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200903250029?show=1">On Disney's Savage, <i>Washington Times</i> columnist Kuhner declares: "The pill and the condom have been the hammer and sickle of cultural Marxism, and in its path, it is now destroying American culture"</A><BR> <!-- =Fox News -- News and punditry --><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" width="95" align="left"><tr><td class="fonty" vAlign="top" align="left" width="100%"> <img src="http://unknownnews.org/FoxLies.jpg" border="0" width="75" height="88"></td></tr></table> <BR><A HREF="http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/25/from-drudge-to-fox/">Non-news with no basis in reality jumps from Drudge to Fox News in less than 24 hours</A><BR> <BR><A HREF="http://mediamatters.org/items/200903260005?f=h_latest"><i>Fox & Friends</i> hosts former mobster to compare Democrats to crime family</A><BR> <BR><A HREF="http://mediamatters.org/items/200903250020">Fox's Cavuto, Baier repeat falsehood that Employee Free Choice Act would eliminate secret ballot</A><BR> <BR><A HREF="http://mediamatters.org/items/200903250016">Fox's Carlson repeated executive pay claim that White House told her was false the day before</A><BR> <BR><A HREF="http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200903250006?show=1">Fox's Carlson asks, "Are we headed toward socialism?"</A><BR> <BR><A HREF="http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200903240037?show=1">Fox's Hannity: Obama administration is pushing "the single biggest power grab and move towards socialism in the history of the country"</A><BR> </td></tr></table></td></tr></table> <!-- == --><A NAME=ah-715c></A><BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; One week after President Barack Obama's top law enforcement official seemed to indicate the feds would no longer raid pot clubs, DEA agents busted a medical marijuana facility in San Francisco Wednesday night. As agents carried large plastic containers of marijuana plants out of Emmalyn's California Cannabis Clinic at 1597 Howard Street, a small crowd of protesters formed a gauntlet outside the door, booing the agents and chanting, "our medicine is marijuana ... listen to Obama!" &nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://cbs5.com/local/medical.marijuana.raid.2.968019.html">CBS News</A>&nbsp;]<BR> <!-- == --><A NAME=sutwr-715d></A><BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lawmakers in at least eight states want recipients of food stamps, unemployment benefits or welfare to submit to random drug testing. A long, loud sigh and a muttered curse. Hey, citizens in at least fifty states want legislators to submit to tar and feathers. &nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090326/ap_on_bi_ge/states_welfare_with_strings">Associated&nbsp;Press</A>&nbsp;]<BR> <!-- == --><A NAME=sutwr-715e></A><BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Asked about legalizing marijuana, President Obama treated the question as a joke or a screwball idea. His response is predictable and politically smart, since it goes without saying that any politician who offers even the merest hint that legalization isn't sheer insanity will be portrayed as an utter fruitcake. If Obama had treated the question seriously and said what he's surely smart enough to know, that marijuana prohibition is one of America's biggest mistakes of the twentieth century, marijuana would become the top issue on the media's agenda, the authoritarian authorities would shoot the idea down, and Obama would never be taken seriously again.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Drug legalization can't come from the White House. It's just politically impossible. It'll have to come from the grassroots, so to speak. &nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/03/26/obama_townhall_marijuana/index.html">Salon</A>&nbsp;]<BR> <A NAME=fl-359></A><BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This guy is facing a year in prison for drunk driving, and he was drunk, but he wasn't driving. He was sitting in his car, engine running, in the parking lot. The logic eludes me. If you've been drinking and you want the buzz to wear off, you sleep in your car in the parking lot. Seems to me that's what you <i>want</i> drunks to do, but if the penalty is the same for sleeping it off in your car or driving drunk, well, what's the motivation for sleeping it off in your car? <nobr>&nbsp; --Angry Annie</nobr> &nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-drunken-driving-court-0324.artmar24,0,4129048.story?track=rss">Associated&nbsp;Press</A>&nbsp;]<BR> <!-- == --><A NAME=fl-923></A><BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Memo to cops everywhere: You can't cite someone for giving you the finger. That's essentially what a federal judge ruled yesterday when he said a city police sergeant was wrong to cite a Regent Square man for flipping him off in traffic three years ago. ... The case will now proceed to trial in US District Court on the underlying claim that the city of Pittsburgh doesn't adequately train its officers to know when they're violating someone's rights. <nobr>&nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09083/957786-85.stm">Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</A>&nbsp;]</nobr><BR> <!-- == --><A NAME=ah-837></A><BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) appeared in a federal appeals court in New York City today to argue that a Swiss professor and leading Muslim scholar was denied entry to the US based on his political views. The ACLU argued that the government's exclusion of Professor Tariq Ramadan is illegal and was motivated not by anything he did but by his vocal criticism of US foreign policy. Jameel Jaffer of the ACLU, the lead lawyer in the case, told us, "It is disappointing to see the lawyers from the Obama Justice Department taking exactly the same positions as their predecessors during the Bush era." &nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.pubrecord.org/law/792-aclu-charges-obamas-doj-with-using-immigratation-law-to-stifle-dissent.html">The&nbsp;Public&nbsp;Record</A>&nbsp;]<BR> <!-- == --><A NAME=ah-854></A><BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Pennsylvania Ethics Commission fined a whistleblower $500 last year, for discussing his complaints with newspaper reporters. Well, that seems more than a little bit preposterous and un-American, and the fined whistleblower, Gene Stilp, is suing. &nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09083/957798-454.stm">Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</A>&nbsp;]<BR> <!-- == --><A NAME=ah-921></A><BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Shortly after 9pm on Tuesday the 24th of March 2009, seven police officers in Dresden and four in Jena searched the homes of Theodor Reppe, who holds the domain registration for "wikileaks.de", the German name for wikileaks.org. According to police documentation, the reason for the search was "distribution of pornographic material" and "discovery of evidence". Police claim the raid was initiated due to Mr. Reppe's position as the Wikileaks.de domain owner. &nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="https://secure.wikileaks.org/wiki/Police_raid_home_of_Wikileaks.de_domain_owner_over_censorship_lists">Wikileaks</A>&nbsp;]<BR> <A NAME=think></A> <table border="0" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" width="60%" align="right"><tr><td class="fonty" vAlign="top" align="left" width="100%"><BR><TABLE CELLPADDING="8" CELLSPACING="8" WIDTH="100%" border=1><TR><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="100%" class="fonta"><TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="40" class="fonty"><img src="http://www.unknownnews.net/thinker.jpg" border="0" width="40" height="40"></TD><TD ALIGN="center" VALIGN="middle" class="fonta"><I><B>It made me stop&nbsp;and&nbsp;think</B></I></TD><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="40" class="fonty"><img src="http://www.unknownnews.net/quesplanation.jpg" border="0" width="40" height="40"></TD></TD></TR></TABLE> <BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; " Like Lynndie England, the brokers at AIG are the small fish. Sure they shouldn't have been doing what they did, and it's insane that they were compensated the way they were. And even worse is the fact that those compensation packages were worked out in September and October of last year by the Bush administration, and that that convenient little fact is almost always ignored by politicians and commentators in their faux populist outrage.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "But the real criminals of the AIG mess - and the entire financial meltdown that was set up between 1999 and 2006 and crashed starting in 2007 - were Grover Norquist, Phil and Wendy Graham, Tom Delay, and, sadly, Bill Clinton." <nobr>&nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/03/23">Thom Hartmann</A>&nbsp;]</nobr><BR> <BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "As I've described before, the so-called "Great Firewall of China" works so well because it's extremely subtle. Rather than outright censoring websites, it simply makes specific pages take too long to load, so users wind up going to different destinations out of impatience. From my own analysis of the Great Firewall performed while in China, I can attest to the fact that most people never even know when a site is being censored. Contrary to American perceptions, Chinese users never receive some ominous warning that the police are coming to get them for visiting a banned site. They just grow impatient with the loading time, and move on with their lives." <nobr>&nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://thenerfherder.blogspot.com/2009/03/china-censors-youtube-again.html">Rob Domanski</A>&nbsp;]</nobr><BR> <BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "We dismantled the most ancient of human laws, the law against usury, which had existed in some form in every civilization from the time of the Babylonian Empire to the end of Jimmy Carter's term." <nobr>&nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/24/thomas_geoghegan_on_infinite_debt_how">Thomas Geoghegan</A>&nbsp;]</nobr><BR> <BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "If this were "Sesame Street," the announcer would be saying, "This program brought to you by the letters G, O and P." None of the crises the president is addressing were of his creation. All of them were created or worsened by the Republicans who ran the House of Representatives, Senate and White House for years." <nobr>&nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/25/begala.gop/index.html">Paul Begala</A>&nbsp;]</nobr><BR> <BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "Joe the plumber is selling out real plumbers. Right now, labor law is stacked against real plumbers. Real plumbers want and need the Employee Free Choice Act as a way to empower themselves to join a union, without fear of intimidation or losing their jobs. Joe the Plumber doesn't speak for real plumbers." <nobr>&nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/labor/pipe-war-plumbers-union-rips-joe-the-plumber-for-campaigning-against-efca/">Rick Terven</A>&nbsp;]</nobr><BR> </td></tr></table></td></tr></table> <!-- == --><A NAME=ah-1101></A><BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Police in a small Indiana town stole $26,000 from a driver who isn't even named in this article. "If it's way, way over and above what a normal person will carry, and if things don't add up (on how it was acquired), we take the money," said Lt. Art Barile, head of the sheriff department's vice and narcotics unit and the Allen County Drug Task Force, a multi-agency unit run out of the sheriff's department. &nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20090322/LOCAL/303229940/-1/LOCAL11">The&nbsp;Journal&nbsp;Gazette</A>&nbsp;]<BR> <!-- == --><A NAME=ah-1152></A><BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Underage kids take pictures of themselves, nude, and get charged with child pornography. The coverage starts by saying this is an "unusual legal case", but is it? I'm seeing <A HREF="http://app.com/article/20090326/NEWS/90326030">headlines about similar stupidity</A> quite often. It takes about a quarter-pound of common sense to realize that such prosecutions do more harm than good, so how come we can't find such small quantities of common sense among legislators, cops, prosecutors, or school administrators? &nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28679588/">MSNBC&nbsp;News</A>&nbsp;]<BR> <!-- =dc= --><A NAME=fl-926></A><BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The right-wing was utterly unwilling to seriously criticize the Bush-Cheney administration for its eight years of trampling the Constitution, civil rights, the Geneva conventions, etc. Quite the opposite, most right-wing leaders praised and embraced Bush and Cheney specifically <i>for</i> their most un-constitutional. Well, now we have a President who's a Democrat (though certainly no liberal or progressive), and as anyone who's honestly observed the American Right and Left could have predicted, left-wingers are willing to criticize the hell out of President Obama when he deserves it -- which is often. &nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/03/24/criticism/">Salon</A>&nbsp;]<BR> <!-- == --><A NAME=sutwr-746></A><BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Republicans have proposed a faux budget that isn't really a budget, and a key element is that they're calling for <I>yet another</i>&nbsp; huge tax cut for millionaires. Under the Republican plan, the top marginal tax rate would be slashed from 35 to 25 percent, facilitating a dramatic transfer of wealth up the economic scale. Anyone making more than a $100,000 would pay the top rate; those under would pay 10 percent. And Grassley (R-Iowa) proposes <A HREF="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/03/24/grassley-freeze/">a spending freeze</A>, and we're supposed to take these ideas seriously?<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Political debate is a good thing, and even within the narrow constraints of debate we're allowed between Left and Right, I'd love to hear serious suggestions from the opposition. But criminy, the Republicans' suggestions are stupid beyond belief. On issue after issue, the Democrats propose little tiny changes in policy that are nowhere near enough to start fixing the ass-backwards stupidity of the Bush-Cheney administration, and the Republicans respond by advocating a full restoration and enhancement of Bush-Cheney era stupidity. It's like you've in the hospital with cancer, and Dr Democrat prescribes a Band-Aid and a blood test, and Dr Republican says you're a malingerer and kicks your ass out the front door. Will Americans <i>ever</i> grow weary of the Republicans' imbecilic ideas? &nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_03/017466.php">Washington&nbsp;Monthly</A>&nbsp;]<BR> <!-- == --><A NAME=ah-754></A><BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; According to two House Judiciary Committee aides, the committee opted for the private testimony from Karl Rove so that they could depose the treasonous bastard for an extended period of time. During a public hearing, each committee member would have only a few minutes to ask questions. "We could question him for 12 hours if we choose to," said one of the aides.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hmmm. That's plausible, but from years of watching the slithery and duplicitous Judiciary chair John Conyers and so many other spineless Democrats, my suspicion is that Rove will be allowed to give his "private testimony" without taking any oath (meaning, perjury charges will be impossible) or that Rove's testimony will never be made public -- or both. <A NAME=mysterylinks></A> <table border="0" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" width="45%" align="left"><tr><td class="fonty" vAlign="top" align="left" width="100%"><BR><TABLE CELLPADDING="8" CELLSPACING="8" WIDTH="100%" border=1><TR><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="100%" class="fonta"><center><A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/mysterylinks.html"><b><i>Our mystery&nbsp;links</i></b></A><BR>(mostly just for fun)</center><BR>Links in <FONT COLOR=red><B>red</B></FONT> are not safe for work, and links in <FONT COLOR=magenta><B>pink</B></FONT> include audio and/or video.<center><iframe src="http://www.unknownnews.org/myslinks.html" width="295" height="225" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></center><DIV align="right"><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/mysterylinks.html">... more mystery links</A>&nbsp;</div> </TD></TR></TABLE></td></tr></table> &nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.atlargely.com/2009/03/why-house-committee-wanted-rove-behind-closed-doors.html">At&nbsp;Largely</A>&nbsp;]<BR> <!-- == --><A NAME=npoh-818></A><BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Is NBC's Chuck Todd the dumbest reporter working in mainstream media? What frickin' <i>planet</i> did Todd's question for Obama come from, when he asked, "Given this new era of responsibility that you're asking for, why haven't you asked for something specific that the public should be sacrificing to participate in this economic recovery?" Is Chuck Todd so stupid or so overpaid or so disconnected from reality that he doesn't understand that as the economy collapses, ordinary people are making enormous sacrifices <nobr>--</nobr> like, sacrificing their homes, their cars, their jobs, their health care? &nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://gawker.com/5183933/chuck-todd-is-choking">Gawker</A>&nbsp;]<BR> <!-- == --><A NAME=npoh-830></A><BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele says he may decide to seek the presidency at some point, but it's God's choice, not his. "God has a way of revealing stuff to you, and making it real for you, through others," says Steele. "And if that's part of the plan, it'll be the plan ... .[If I run] it'll be because that's where God wants me to be at that time."<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pssst, Michael, this is God calling, and I really, really want you to run for President. Thou shalt do it -- run, Michael, Run! &nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/25/steele-open-to-prez-run-if-thats-where-god-wants-me-to-be/">Cable&nbsp;News&nbsp;Network</A>&nbsp;]<BR> <!-- =world= --><A NAME=ah-802></A><BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The most under-reported story of the last year is, simply, the turmoil in Mexico. We've heard about kidnappings and assassinations, usually followed by warnings that the troubles in Mexico may well "spill" across the border, and newspapers in the border states pay the issue more attention, but for the last several years a nominally conservative government in Washington has responded to the pleas of a conservative, pro-American government in Mexico City with a shrug of the shoulders and talk about building a fence on the border. Anyway, talk of "spilling across the border" is stupid. The seat of the Mexican problems is in the United States, not vice-versa. &nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://harpers.org/archive/2009/03/hbc-90004630">Harper's</A>&nbsp;]<BR> <!-- =4444444444= --> <!-- =yoo= --><A NAME=fl-754></A><BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; John Yoo, author of the illegal legal advise that formed the cornerstone of the Bush-Cheney administration's policies of torture, wiretaps, war crimes, and general criminality, says that his reputation has been ruined by "hippies, protesters, and left-wing activists". Take a bow, fellow travelers. I don't consider myself a hippie (there are no flowers in my hair, no tie-dye clothes in my closet) but I'm a protester and I've been an activist all my life and it's treasonous un-American schmucks like Yoo and Bush and Cheney who've made me a <i>left-wing</i> activist.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But of course, ruining their reputations with the truth of their acts is not enough. These men belongs on trial for their crimes. &nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.alternet.org/story/132148/torture_memo_author_john_yoo_blames_ruined_reputation_on_%22hippies%2C_protesters_and_left-wing_activists%22/?page=entire">AlterNet</A>&nbsp;]<BR> <!-- support the troops --><table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4" style="border-collapse: collapse" width="170" align="right"><tr><td class="fonty" vAlign="top" align="left" width="100%"> <img src="http://unknownnews.org/stt.jpg" border="0" width="150" height="173"></td></tr></table> <!-- =stt= --><A NAME=sutwr-719></A><BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Adisa "A.J." Aiyetoro is an Army chief warrant officer with 19 years in the military, and tuberculosis and recurring chronic back pain. He's been convicted of failure to deploy and disobeying orders for refusing an assignment to the battlefield in Iraq. &nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=61620">Stars&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Stripes</A>&nbsp;]<BR> <!-- == --><A NAME=npoh-1013></A><BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, is spending a week working as a grunt at his company's Lexington distribution center. The real surprise is that it doesn't seem to be a publicity stunt. &nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-jeff-bezos-works-in-kentucky-distribution-center-for-a-week-2009-3">Business&nbsp;Insider</A>&nbsp;]<BR> <!-- == --><A NAME=fl-745></A><BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The unmanned bombers that frequently cause unintended civilian casualties in Pakistan are a step toward an even more lethal generation of robotic hunters-killers that operate with limited, if any, human control. The Defense Department is financing studies of autonomous, or self-governing, armed robots that could find and destroy targets on their own. On-board computer programs, not flesh-and-blood people, would decide whether to fire their weapons.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Is the Pentagon stupid enough to pursue such technology? Nothing personal, but you'd have to be pretty dang stupid to ask that question. <i>Of course</i> the Pentagon is pursuing such technology, 'cuz after all, what could possibly go wrong? &nbsp;[&nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/64779.html">McClatchy&nbsp;Newspapers</A>&nbsp;]<BR> <!-- =5555555555= --> <BR><center>Recommended sites for gathering unknown or underreported news:<BR> &nbsp;<A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://mediamatters.org/">Media&nbsp;Matters</A>&nbsp; &nbsp;<A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://www.propublica.org/">Pro&nbsp;Publica</A>&nbsp; &nbsp;<A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://thinkprogress.org">ThinkProgress</A>&nbsp; &nbsp;<A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/">Washington&nbsp;Monthly</A>&nbsp; &nbsp;<A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://www.truthout.org/">TruthOut</A>&nbsp; </center> <BR><TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR> <TD ALIGN="center" VALIGN="middle" WIDTH="23%" class="fonta"> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0903-25.html"><img src="http://www.unknownnews.org/leftarrow.jpg" border="0" width="75" height="11"><BR>Older entries</A> </TD><TD ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="54%" class="fonta"> Compiled by Helen&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Harry&nbsp;Highwater<BR>for&nbsp;<A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/">www.unknownnews.org</a></TD><TD ALIGN="center" VALIGN="middle" WIDTH="23%" class="fonta"> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0903-31.html"><img src="http://www.unknownnews.net/rightarrow.jpg" border="0" height="10" width="75"><BR>Newer entries</A></TD></TR></TABLE> <A NAME=dialogue></A><BR><TABLE CELLPADDING="8" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="100%" bgcolor="dddddd" class="fonty"><TABLE CELLPADDING="4" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="14%" bgcolor="dddddd" class="fonty"> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0903-27.html#dialogue"><img src="http://www.unknownnews.net/dialogue-bubbles.jpg" border="0" width="75" height="75"></A></TD><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="86%" bgcolor="dddddd" class="fonty"> <span class="fontpq"><BIG><B>What do <I>you</i> think?</B></BIG></span><BR> <i>We welcome news tips, comments, questions, or criticisms. Our email is &#60;<A HREF="mailto:unknownnews@inbox.com">unknownnews at inbox.com</A>&#62;, and if that address ever fails you can also reach us at <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/contact.html">these back-up email addresses</A>.</i></TD></TR></TABLE> <iframe src="http://www.unknownnews.org/dailydialogue.html" height="32" width="600" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></TD></TR></TABLE> <A NAME=27GQ717></A> <TABLE CELLPADDING="8" CELLSPACING="8" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR> <TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="100%" bgcolor="#eeeeee" class="fonta"><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0903-27.html#27GQ717"><FONT COLOR=blue>#</FONT></A>&nbsp; Re <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/opinion/17brooks.html">The Commercial Republic</A>, by David Brooks<BR><BR> Ordinarily I pay no attention to David Brooks. He's a pundit of the worst kind, not just right-wing opinions but opinions expressed as boringly and predictably as hell. Classic case of a guy inexplicably well paid to make poorly thought-out arguments poorly. But I found a few pages of the <i>New York Times</i> in a ladies room stall at the train station, and forced myself to read this Brooks column and it is just an enormous pile of stale poo-poo. I actually brought the page home so I could find it on-line and send it to you. There's almost nothing Brooks says here that isn't wrong-headed, but this part really jumped out at me: <TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="25" class="fonty">&nbsp;</TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" class="fonta"><BR> <I>Excerpt:&nbsp;</I> It has been odd, over the past six months, not to have the gospel of success as part of the normal background music of life. You go about your day, taking in the news and the new movies, books and songs, and only gradually do you become aware that there is an absence. There are no aspirational stories of rags-to-riches success floating around. There are no new how-to-get-rich enthusiasms. There are few magazine covers breathlessly telling readers that some new possibility -- biotechnology, nanotechnology -- is about to change everything. That part of American culture that stokes ambition and encourages risk has gone silent.<BR><BR> We are now in an astonishingly noncommercial moment. Risk is out of favor. The financial world is abashed. Enterprise is suspended. The public culture is dominated by one downbeat story after another as members of the educated class explore and enjoy the humiliation of the capitalist vulgarians.<BR><BR> Washington is temporarily at the center of the nation's economic gravity and a noncommercial administration holds sway. This is an administration that has many lawyers and academics but almost no businesspeople in it, let alone self-made entrepreneurs. The president speaks passionately about education and health care reform, but he is strangely aloof from the banking crisis and displays no passion when speaking about commercial drive and success.<BR><BR> But if there is one thing we can be sure of, this pause will not last. The cultural DNA of the past 400 years will not be erased. The pendulum will swing hard. The gospel of success will recapture the imagination.<BR><BR> Somewhere right now there's probably a smart publisher searching for the most unabashed, ambitious, pro-wealth, pro-success manuscript she can find, and in about three months she'll pile it up in the nation's bookstores. Somewhere there's probably a TV producer thinking of hiring Jim Cramer to do a show to tell story after story of unapologetic business success. Somewhere there's a politician finding a way to ride the commercial renaissance that is bound to come, ready to explain how government can sometimes nurture entrepreneurial greatness and sometimes should get out of the way. </TD></TR></TABLE><BR> This peckerwood cracker David Brooks is so f*cking stupid he thinks America just needs a pep talk, an inspirational book or a good rant from a raving lunatic on TV, and good golly our entrepreneurial spirit will kick up and all will be right with the world. It's the first writing by Brooks I've ever read and it's dumber than dumb. <BR><BR><DIV align="right">Gertrude Q. &nbsp; </div></TD></TR></TABLE> <A NAME=27MC706></A> <TABLE CELLPADDING="8" CELLSPACING="8" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR> <TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="100%" bgcolor="#eeeeee" class="fonta"><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0903-27.html#27MC706"><FONT COLOR=blue>#</FONT></A>&nbsp; I just mailed my annual donation to <i>Unknown News</i> along with an extra copy of a sci-fi book which is a favorite of mine from way back: <i>The Man Who Never Missed</i>" -- possibly the most subversive book in existence, aside from the usual suspects, of course (e.g. <i>Turner Diaries</i>.)<BR><BR>It isn't much to offer as I am still worried about going bankrupt after all is said and done. But it is better than a kick in the ass... I had huge expenses last year, including medical insurance, dental and legal fees. Nice tax deductions of course, but still massively negative to the hoard. (On the plus side I can say that I now have my own personal dentist, physician and lawyer...so that it feels like an upgrade even as it pains me to remember writing the checks...)<BR><BR>OK, enjoy Springtime, comrades. <BR><BR><DIV align="right">Mr. Chuckles &nbsp; </div><BR>P.S. I saw Senator Judd Gregg on TV whining about Obama's budget deficits and healthcare plans being improper for the budget reconciliation process (to avoid filibusters.) I am so pissed to see these smug bastards in the Senate trying to stop Obama from giving Americans the healthcare that every politician in D.C. receives. I propose that if healthcare for all is not part of the final agenda then we do the next best thing: strip all Senators and Representatives of their government healthcare benefits and let them enjoy having the insurance corporations battle for their business in the free market...good for the goose, good for the gander...it is really "fun" trying to obtain an individual healthcare policy in the "free market" and I bet a gazillion dollars that half of those mofo's have pre-existing conditions.<BLOCKQUOTE><i> I'm not terribly familiar with Steve Perry but the cover of <A HREF="http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/0441519180"><i>The Man Who Never Missed</i></A> looks utterly cool and I found <A HREF="http://www.physics.emory.edu/~weeks/if/review13.html#perry">a review</A> that makes me eager to read it. I'd love you without any annual donation, but it's appreciated. And Judd Gregg is an enormous stinky fried-onion-fueled fart, a schmuck and a half disguised as a mere schmuck, and he was Barack Obama's idea of a great Secretary of Commerce, a stupidity so colossal that it keeps coming to mind every time I find myself suspecting that maybe Obama knows what he's doing. </i><BR><BR><DIV align="right"><i>Helen & Harry Highwater</i></DIV> </TD></TR></TABLE> <A NAME=27SB538></A> <TABLE CELLPADDING="8" CELLSPACING="8" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR> <TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="100%" bgcolor="#eeeeee" class="fonta"><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0903-27.html#27SB538"><FONT COLOR=blue>#</FONT></A>&nbsp; Re <A HREF="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090326/ap_on_bi_ge/states_welfare_with_strings">States consider drug tests for welfare recipients</A><BR><BR> Anyone that has worked with or in the government knows that the biggest closet alcoholics and drug fiends work throughout government branches. That's why every Saturday night you see your (Fill in the blanks) crying into their beer and wanting to quit but cant, afraid they won't be able to get another job. They drink and do drugs more and you suffer longer at the DMV. Lol. Cutting druggies from welfare endangers their children which will throw them into a cold, sold system. Also if women have found to have made their children into drug babies who will take care of them? This may not work out as hoped. It may create desperation. Desperation creates inventive, criminal ideas. Perhaps it needs to be looked at a bit more closely and the punishments issued more in line with reality. <BR><BR><DIV align="right">Sherri B. &nbsp; </div></TD></TR></TABLE> <A NAME=27CD536></A> <TABLE CELLPADDING="8" CELLSPACING="8" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR> <TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="100%" bgcolor="#eeeeee" class="fonta"><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0903-27.html#27CD536"><FONT COLOR=blue>#</FONT></A>&nbsp; Re <A HREF="http://weeklyworldnews.com/politics/7088/michele-bachmann-armed-and-dangerous/">Bachmann (R-Minnesota) wants Americans "armed and dangerous" over Obama's plan to reduce carbon emissions</A><BR><BR> Uh, guys. As utterly disconnected from reality and offensively moronic as I know Bachmann is this article is from the Weekly World News. Their headlines often feature alien clones and Bigfoot.<BR><BR> I wouldn't doubt that's a real quote from the madwoman but this seriously kills credibility for yourselves. <BR><BR><DIV align="right">Chris D. &nbsp; </div><BLOCKQUOTE><i> We found that news at a mainstream news site that requires a password, so I looked around for a different source. I was dazzled, I think, by the very notion that </i>Weekly World News<i> was covering real news, but you're right, it was perhaps not the best source we could have selected. </i><BR><BR><DIV align="right"><i>Helen & Harry Highwater</i></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></TD></TR></TABLE> <A NAME=26W7742></A> <TABLE CELLPADDING="8" CELLSPACING="8" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR> <TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="100%" bgcolor="#eeeeee" class="fonta"><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0903-27.html#26W7742"><FONT COLOR=blue>#</FONT></A>&nbsp; Re <A HREF="http://www.alternet.org/story/132148/torture_memo_author_john_yoo_blames_ruined_reputation_on_%22hippies%2C_protesters_and_left-wing_activists%22/?page=entire">Torture memo author John Yoo blames ruined reputation on "hippies, protesters and left-wing activists"</A><TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="25" class="fonty">&nbsp;</TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" class="fonta"><BR> <I>Excerpt:&nbsp;</I> "These memos I wrote were not for public consumption," Yoo told the <i>OC Register</i>. "They lack a certain polish, I think -- would have been better to explain government policy rather than try to give unvarnished, straight-talk legal advice. I certainly would have done that differently.<BR><BR>"I think the job of a lawyer is to give a straight answer to a client. One thing I sometimes worry about is that lawyers in the future in the government are going to start worrying about, 'What are people going to think of me?' Your client the president, or your client the justice on the Supreme Court, or your client this senator, needs to know what's legal and not legal. And sometimes, what's legal and not legal is not the same thing as what you can do or what you should do."</TD></TR></TABLE><BR> ".....what's legal and not legal is not the same thing as what you can do or what you should do" WHAT? UNBELIEVABLE!!!! And this joker is a professor of law? It's enough to make a grown man weep! <BR><BR><center>== &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; == &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ==</center><br> Re <A HREF="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/133154/gitmo_lawyers_sue_obama_administratisanctions_against_defense_secretary_gates/">Gitmo lawyers sue Obama administration, call for sanctions against Defense Secretary Gates</A><BR><BR> The next Congressional jerk that sputters "this is a nation of laws" needs to be hauled out to the Mall and placed in stocks with a sign stating SENTENCED BY JOHN YOO. <br><br><center>== &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; == &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ==</center><br> Re <A HREF="http://www.truthout.org/032609R">Despite Obama's vow, combat brigades will stay in Iraq</A><TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="25" class="fonty">&nbsp;</TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" class="fonta"><BR> <I>Excerpt:&nbsp;</I> Gates has hinted that the withdrawal of combat brigades will be accomplished through an administrative sleight of hand rather than by actually withdrawing all the combat brigade teams. Appearing on Meet the Press Mar. 1, Gates said the "transition force" would have "a very different kind of mission", and that the units remaining in Iraq "will be characterized differently." "They will be called advisory and assistance brigades," said Gates. 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