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Brick TeeVee Mixed Bag Sunday! Following up on last week's Media Watch Update we begin with a new investigation by the news website truth-out.org. But it seems their website has been hacked and several items were missing earlier in the week. The website is completely down at the time of this writing but we found a copy of the story by Andrew Kennis Mainstream Coverage of WikiLeaks Has Fallen Far Short at Wikileaks Australian Citizens Alliance: Four major leaks, which included one harrowing video and a trove of classified military documents released by the online whistleblowing site, WikiLeaks, revealed these troubling instances and much more. Secret internal communications and documents displayed actions that stood in stark contrast to past US public proclamations on important foreign policies. Through interviews with Truthout, experts and members of the public interest community characterized news media coverage of WikiLeaks as being poor, inadequate and more akin to soap opera-ish tabloid coverage rather than serious journalism assessing revelations of US foreign policy abuses. When news coverage was more serious, a friendly frame of reference to successive US administrations was often used, with concerns about the standing of US diplomacy – not its revealed disregard for democratic values – taking front and center. ... Relevant questions should be raised about US news media coverage and its responsibility in delivering information to help the populace – both in the US and beyond – settle these controversial topics. What were the most important revelations published by WikiLeaks and their significance as a whole? How have the news media addressed these questions? A detailed investigation by Truthout into news media coverage was undertaken to assess media coverage. All leading and major US-based press sources were reviewed, as well as coverage appearing on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN and MSNBC. Analyses revealed that reporting generally fell sharply in line with stances taken by government officials, as most accounts deemed that WikiLeaks did not reveal anything new and was only important to the extent that it impacted administration priorities. US-based news media manifested greater interest in the details and intrigues behind sex allegations against Assange, as well as personalized accounts of him. More attention was also given toward what could be learned about non-US countries, as opposed to US policies and the stances of US diplomats. We urge you to read the entire essay for the sordid "Soap Opera Coverage" the U.S. media has used to discredit wikileaks. And maybe drop some sofa change on truth-out.org when their site comes back to help pay for their new server. One example of the right wing media machine rewriting history comes from one of the players involved in a hidden CIA conspiracy. Media Matters caught this whopper: Oliver North(!) Is Angry That Obama Didn't Get Congress' Approval On Libya: Fox News' Oliver North took to the airwaves to complain that President Obama didn't seek congressional authorization before intervening in Libya. "Quite frankly, it's unparalleled in my entire experience in the military going all the way back to the 1960s," North complained. "Every president has gone to the Congress to get a resolution to support whatever it is he wanted to do. And [Obama] doesn't ask the Congress because he doesn't know what he wants to do." People whose memories extend further back than the start of the Obama administration might find North's statement a bit surprising. They might, for instance, remember that back when North was a Marine colonel serving in President Reagan's White House, he helped run a secret -- and illegal -- operation to sell weapons to Iran (in an ill-conceived effort to win the release of American hostages there) while using the proceeds to support the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. Beyond simply not authorizing the scheme, Congress had explicitly prohibited it. Video at link plus "Here's how independent counsel Lawrence Walsh described the Reagan administration's violations of U.S. law and efforts to "deceive Congress" in the Iran-Contra Scandal." Meanwhile in Libya NATO takes over air operations as CIA works the ground in Libya (CNN wire staff via KAJ18.com) The United States does have CIA personnel on the ground. A U.S. intelligence source said the CIA is operating in the country to help increase U.S. "military and political understanding" of the situation. "Yes, we are gathering intel firsthand and we are in contact with some opposition entities," the source told CNN. A former counterterrorism official with knowledge of U.S. Libya policy said there is a presidential finding authorizing the CIA to conduct operations in support of U.S. policy in Libya, including assessing the opposition and determining their needs. Specific activities by CIA officers will be determined by conditions on the ground and would need further approval from the White House, the source said. Presidential findings are a type of secret order authorizing some covert intelligence operations. (Hello? Oliver North? -Ed.) The CIA has had a presence in Libya for some time, a U.S. official told CNN earlier this month. "The intelligence community is aggressively pursuing information on the ground," the official said. The CIA sent additional personnel to Libya to augment officers on the ground after the anti-government protests erupted, the official said, without giving details. What's not mentioned is that the U.S. provides more than a quarter of NATO's funding so how much "control" did the U.S. really give up? But just as in Iraq and Afghanistan the alleged super-duper "precision air strikes" Rummy, Gates, Mullen and other Men of War brag about seem to continue their wayward ways. From UPI NATO kills free-shooting Libyan rebels. Oops. Meanwhile back in Fukushima Japan the situation is grave at the crippled Dai-Ichi nuclear plant but the news from there has dropped to a trickle. We still recommend Japan Earthquake LIVE blog after the Reuters live blog seemed to have been taken over by minders and sock puppets. Also see EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Latest Satellite Imagery From Fukushima Tells Sobering Tale by Chris Martenson from Friday, April 1, 2011 (h/t msgeaux): Noting that the press has largely turned its resources off of the Fukushima complex, and needing up-to-date information on the status of the damage control efforts there, we secured the most up-to-date satellite photo from DigitalGlobe (dated March 31st), which we analyze below. This is the first photo of the damaged reactor site at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear facility made available to the public in over a week. That means you, our readers, are the first public eyes anywhere to see this photo. Drawing upon the expertise of our resident nuclear engineer and Ann Stringer, imaging expert, we conclude that the situation at Fukushima is not stabilized: things are not yet at a place of steady progress in the containment and clean-up efforts. It's still a dance, forwards and backwards, with the workers making gains here and there but the situation forcing them to react defensively all too often. In this report, we will tell you what we know for sure, what we are nearly certain of, and what we remain forced to speculate about. ... We don't yet know enough to conclude how much fission has spontaneously re-occurred, but we have strong suspicions that the number is higher than zero. Here we make our call for the release of more complete and timely radiation readouts and sampling results by TEPCO and Japan so that we can assess what the true risks are. The situation remains fluid and quite a lot depends now on chance and which way the wind blows. Here at the BTV compound we find out Traces Of Radiation From Japan Detected In Cleveland (ideastream.org): Since the calamity at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, Iodine 131 has been detected in rainwater on both US coasts, as well as Colorado and inland Pennsylvania. Case Western Reserve Geology Professor Gerald Mattisoff says the level of radiation poses no health threat. “My estimate is that it’s about 10 percent of the amount of radioactivity that we see normally in the rain anyway,” he says. “So it’s just a slightly elevated above the natural level that we normally measure. But there’s still the concern because this is still an ongoing problem in Japan. They have not solved that problem yet.” Geez Professor! Ya think? We feel safer already (not). David Cay Johnston posts at tax.com Tax Revenues: Awful, Any Way You Look at the Numbers: When society is in the midst of major economic and policy changes, the alligators in the swamp keep us focused on the immediate, so we don't notice as the water slowly rises or drains away. But we now have so much evidence showing the trend in tax revenues, and the incomes on which they rely, that the awful facts should be obvious. ... And why is it that while private sector workers have had their benefits cut, their pay constrained, and their off-books hours increased, public sector workers have not suffered those abuses? Because public sector workers are more likely to be in unions than private sector workers, obviously. ...As compensation falls for workers without unions, the government gets less revenue. Not only do individual workers make less, the government gets less revenue, which means reduced services and cuts in things like public healthcare and education that reinforce the damage. Add in all the costs we used to cover through taxes and now treat partly or entirely as fees, and the picture gets worse. ... Remember how the Republicans, when they took control of the House last fall, said it would be all about jobs? Nearly three months have passed, but no action on jobs except for spending cuts that Goldman Sachs, Moody's, and others known for their love of money and economic growth say will destroy jobs and damage the whole economy. We did, however, get a proposal that would require anyone audited by the IRS to tell if she had an abortion. So much for the Republican promise of less government intrusion into our lives. When will we get to jobs? It is jobs that produce revenue, and well-paying jobs produce more sales and more tax revenue. How hard is it for us to grasp this? ... America does not need another tax cut. What we need are smart politicians who will talk about what we spend our money on, not the false promise that lower taxes will bring widespread prosperity. We tried that. And even when you cherry-pick the data to favor the proponents, the evidence shows their policies failed. Please read the whole essay for full effect. We now turn to lambert @ corrente (h/t jen) The 1% dissolution Great article from Stiglitz, not that any of Vanity Fair's readers will listen. He concludes:

Alexis de Tocqueville once described what he saw as a chief part of the peculiar genius of American society—something he called “self-interest properly understood.” The last two words were the key. Everyone possesses self-interest in a narrow sense: I want what’s good for me right now! Self-interest “properly understood” is different. It means appreciating that paying attention to everyone else’s self-interest—in other words, the common welfare—is in fact a precondition for one’s own ultimate well-being. Tocqueville was not suggesting that there was anything noble or idealistic about this outlook—in fact, he was suggesting the opposite. It was a mark of American pragmatism. Those canny Americans understood a basic fact: looking out for the other guy isn’t just good for the soul—it’s good for business.

The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn’t seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late. Yep. So we have THAT to look forward to as reptillian guvnors eat unions and give taxpayer dollars to their crony capitalists across the country. To top it off Jamie Dimon “I Wouldn’t Panic About What I’m About To Say..." by Tyler Durden @ zerohedge (another h/t msgeaux)Reports Bloomberg: "JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said some municipalities will need to renegotiate their debt and that hundreds of them may “not make it.” “I wouldn’t panic about what I’m about to say,” he said today at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event in Washington. “You’re going to see some municipalities not make it. I don’t think it’s going to shatter America, I just think it’s a part of the credit cycle." Precisely: and it is precisely the part that JP Morgan comes in and offers sale leaseback offers to said munis, and other ingenious financial solutions that see munis selling their assets to the bank which after the Fed, has the biggest balance sheet, and can thus offer to engage in some even more creative asset-liability mismatch. Also explains why unlike Meredith, Jamie will not only not be asked to come in and testify to congress over his abrasive observations of an insolvent American reality, but will be lauded as a hero as he will provide funding to buy insolvent municipalities a year or two of time, which upon expiration will see Jamie end up with even more assets formerly belong to taxpayers, but by then everyone in the current District of Corruption cadre will be long gone with their part of the spoils. And so the "credit cycle" turns. Are you surprised? Dimon and the rest of the Top 1% have no clue. And it will turn out badly for all their Flat-Earther "free market" wunderkind cheer-leaders and co-conspirators. Of course the six-figure Beltway Bubalas will continue to baffle their viewers and the citizenry. Catch PAUL KRUGMAN on This Anampout where he tells GEORGE WILL his "trickle down" theory is getting his pants wet, not "raising all boats". The rest of the crazies are below but look for JEREMY SCAHILL at DN and AntiWar Radio, KUCINICH on DN, RON PAUL on AntiWar Radio, KEVIN DRUM on Ring of Fire Radio discussing his latest essay for Mother Jones Politics of the Rich, By the Rich, For the Rich and Peter B. interviews Our Man in Pipelineistan PEPE ESCOBAR. Click on anything below and be instantly smarter! The Brick TeeVee crew has been STAYING INDOORS all week as the Fukushima radioactive cloud has made it to the Heartland. From our observations most people HAVE NO IDEA of the scope and long-term consequences of the failed Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant. Max has some great links you should check out, too. The young Tribe has taken it on the chin losing 15-10 in the opener and followed by another 8-3 loss on Saturday. ERA's for both clubs are astronomical but remember there's 160 games to go! And we welcomed back long-time Cavs Radio Voice NBA hall-of-famer JOE TAIT back to the booth after his long recovery from triple quadrupal quintuple heart surgery. Joe is not cleared to travel but will broadcast the remaining Cavs home games. Joe Tait has worked Cavs games on the radio for the better part of 30 years and broadcast the games SOLO all these years. When asked about what his first on-air broadcast partner Jim Chones should do Tait quipped, "Just shut up." Joe Tait, the Voice of the Cavaliers, will retire after his broadcast of the Cavs-Wizards game on April 13th. Thank you Joe for all these years of Cavs games broadcasting! Mark our words: there will NEVER be another pro sports radio broadcaster who works SOLO again. Ever. The bar has been set. Thanks Joe! Well done! Enjoy yer Sunday and the coming week!

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JAPAN IN CRISIS JAPAN IN CRISIS Democracy Now! reports on the disaster in Japan following a massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami and the resulting nuclear crisis.
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»»» British journalist George Monbiot and Dr. Helen Caldicott @ Democracy NOW! WATCH NOW "Prescription for Survival": A Debate on the Future of Nuclear Energy Between Anti-Coal Advocate George Monbiot and Anti-Nuclear Activist Dr. Helen Caldicott March 30, 2011
»»» Sharif Abdel Kouddous @ Democracy NOW! WATCH NOW Sharif Abdel Kouddous Transitions from Democracy Now! Senior Producer to Middle East Correspondent Democracy Now! bids a fond farewell to Sharif Abdel Kouddous, our senior news producer for the past eight years. Kouddous joined Democracy Now! in 2003 just as the United States invaded Iraq. He was soon covering Iraq and then returned to produce the daily show, traveling to New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, to the climate change conferences in Copenhagen, Bolivia and Cancún, and together with Amy Goodman to Haiti to cover the return of former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide just weeks ago. During the popular uprising in Egypt, Kouddous became the eyes and ears of Cairo’s Tahrir Square as he reported throughout the uprising. Kouddous is heading home to Egypt and will continue his work reporting as a Democracy Now! correspondent. March 30, 2011
»»» Independent journalist Jeremy Scahill & Ex-DIA analyst Joshua Foust @ Democracy NOW! WATCH NOW Jeremy Scahill and Ex-DIA Analyst Joshua Foust on "The Dangerous U.S. Game in Yemen" & CIA Ops in Libya March 31, 2011
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»»» Rep. Dennis Kucinich @ Democracy NOW! WATCH NOW Rep. Kucinich: Lack of Congressional Approval Could Make Obama’s Libya Attack "Impeachable Offense" April 1, 2011
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  • Matt Taibbi: Raise your hand if you knew that the United States has been extending billions of dollars in aid to Qaddafi and to the Central Bank of Libya by maxkeiser READ Why is the Fed Bailing Out Qaddafi? @ rollingstone.com
  •Another Friday, another revolution by maxkeiser READ Ivory Coast rebels seize state TV, control Ggagbo palace @ bloomberg.com
  • “In other words, recent horrendously planned attempts to cool the reactor by pumping water on it may well scuttle the Plan Z option of entombing the reactor. And if that doesn’t work, then Japan is straight out of plans.” by maxkeiser READ Attempt To Pour Concrete On Fukushima Pit Crack Generating 1 Sievert/Hour Fails; New Unmanned Drone Photos Of Reactors @ zerohedge.com
  • VIDEO! SOS from Mayor of Minami Soma City, next to the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, Japan by maxkeiser
  • VIDEO! Inside Story: UK march for an alternative by maxkeiser
  • KEISER REPORT Keiser Report: Supermassive 30 billion black hole
  • KEISER REPORT Keiser Report: Freedom Fighters vs Corrupt Corps
  • KEISER REPORT Keiser Report: Food Stamp Army We interview Dmitry Orlov
  • THE TRUTH ABOUT MARKETS [1194] The Truth About Markets – 26 March 2011 Download mp3 HERE Donations to ResonanceFM here.
  • ON THE EDGE [OTE103] On the Edge with Rick Ackerman We interview Rick Ackerman.

• ANTIWAR RADIO with Scott Horton
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  • Philip Giraldi March 31, 2011: Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses how (relatively) peaceful and quick Arab uprisings make Al Qaeda’s brand of violent revolution even less appealing; the slippery slope of interventions started with Libya, where there is no logical stopping point (why not Iran, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, etc.); blaming Iran for all the popular uprisings against US-allied dictators; and efforts to reassert US influence in Egypt, especially regarding continued cooperation with Israel on Gaza.
  • Jeremy Scahill March 31, 2011: Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, discusses his article “The Dangerous US Game in Yemen;“ the in-country CIA and JSOC covert agents who might have to relocate for a while; how President Saleh’s alliance with Saudi Arabia against his Shiite minority could prompt Iran to take protective action of their coreligionists; Yemen’s impoverishment and many long-term economic problems; the post-9/11 ultimatum (similar to Musharraf’s) that convinced Saleh to cooperate with the US war on terror; the big bucks given to Saleh by Saudi Arabia and the US, supposedly for fighting Al Qaeda, that instead is used to kill his political rivals; Obama’s continuation of the Bush administration’s worst offenses; Jeremy taking Ed Schultz to task on MSNBC (to skip the sanctimonious monologue, go to the 10:00 mark); and the New Yorker’s account of the Libyan rebels – essentially 1000 trained soldiers fighting against a real army.
  • Karen Greenberg April 2, 2011: Karen Greenberg, executive director of the New York University Center on Law and Security, discusses her TomDispatch article, America’s Growing Intolerance: How ‘Enemy Creep’ Is Guantanamo-izing America; the mainstream American pastime of reviling Muslims and misunderstanding jihad; calling out intolerance to correct misplaced blame, not to scold politically incorrect speech; why “humanitarianism” and “democracy” are just words that give the US a blank check for militarism; and a federal judge’s effective endorsement of torture during the sentencing of Ahmed Ghailani, who was convicted on 1 of 284 counts related to the 1998 Africa embassy bombings.
  • Rep. Ron Paul April 2, 2011: Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), author of Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom, discusses the slow escalation and deepening US commitment in Libya; why Hillary Clinton and the rest of the Obama administration, not Congress, ultimately control the government’s purse-strings; and how a failed impeachment vote (and it would definitely fail) on Obama’s unconstitutional war in Libya would effectively empower him further.
  Many more interviews at Antiwar Radio!

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  • Rep. Paul Ryan, (R) Wisconsin / Chairman, Budget Committee
  • Sen. Marco Rubio, (R) Florida

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