(Patrick Baz/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images)
CELEBRATION IN BENGHAZI, PERHAPS A BIT PRE-MATURE.
(New York Times)
UN Security Council, with 5 abstentions but no vetoes, agrees to “all necessary measures” (including military ones like the No Fly Zone) to protect Libyan civilians and stop the government’s assault on areas like Benghazi in northeastern Libya now held by rebels, While people there celebrate, Colonel Muammar Qadifi issues his own “necessary measures” statement, saying an assault on Benghazi could begin at any moment and that rebels would be sought out “in their closets” if necessary, Beyond voting for the UN measure and indicating unspecified “support” of the action, the role of the U.S. in the matter remains “unclear” as National Security officials huddle,.
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AUSTERITY AND PROTEST GO TOGETHER LIKE A HORSE AND CARRIAGE.
(Counterpunch)
A wave of public protests sweeps across Europe as one EU government after another, as among the states of the United States, blames out-of-control spending for economic recession and imposes retrenchments of the public services to which residents are accustomed. From refusing to pay increased bus fares in Greece to the closing of public toilets in Britain (use your imagination on the protests), people in the street are defying the intentions of the politicians in the neo-liberal capitols of the continent.
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THOSE OUT OF CONTROL NUCLEAR REACTORS IN JAPAN? U.S. NUCLEAR EXPERTS SAY WE WARNED YOU (35 YEARS AGO).
(McClatchy)
In 1976 the leading U.S. nuclear safety expert warned that General Electric’s design for the reactors was defective and 3 engineers at GE resigned when the company proceeded with the design whose defects are now being realized as the nuclear crisis in Japan deepens
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MR. FITZGERALD GOES TO WASHINGTON; AND GOES BACK TO WISCONSIN LOADED WITH CORPORATE CAMPAIGN CASH.
(The Nation)
The majority leader of the Wisconsin Senate, Scott (!) Fitzgerald, attends, with other GOP supporters of Governor Scott Walker’s anti-union measures, a “fund-raising” event in their honor sponsored by a corporate lobbying firm associated with GOP Mississippi Governor and presidential candidate Haley Barbour. As John Nichols says, if these legislators thought they were going to escape public protest in D.C. they were mistaken, as union and other protesters crowded the corridors outside the firm’s offices.
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SOME MIAMI COLLEGES STUDENTS ON SPRING BREAK LEAVE BONGS AND THONGS AT HOME AND MAKE LIKE A MEXICAN IN TOMATO FIELDS.
(Miami New Times)
A group of Rollins College students eschew the party-hardy atmosphere for an Alternative Spring Break that has them experiencing first hand the hard work of an immigrant laborer. Not quite ready to be canonized as a saint, one student says the beach will “always be there” and that, like many other Florida resident students, he went there last week.
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Quote of the day...
Today, Wednesday March 16th, Republican state senators from Wisconsin are in Washington, DC, attending a big fundraiser at the headquarters of a corporate lobbying firm. That’s less than one week after Republicans rammed through an anti-worker bill that polls showed was heavily opposed by Wisconsinites—but was heavily favored by corporate lobbyists,” said Feingold. “If your senator is Scott Fitzgerald of Juneau, Glenn Grothman of West Bend or Alberta Darling of River Hills, your senator is at the fundraiser. But no matter where you are in Wisconsin, your interests just got sold out to big corporate interests.
Former Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, commenting on presence of GOP legislators from Wisconsin at a fund-raisers of corporate lobbying firm.
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