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The Sideshow — ... is a little known foundation in New York that has quietly been at the forefront of human rights and civil liberties since 2000, by underwriting important yet underfunded and sometimes unpopular work for criminal justice, international justice, juvenile justice, and fair elections. "Thanks" to Bernard Madoff, they'll have to shut down. Condi Rice says Blackwater's contract shouldn't be renewed. (And Frank Gaffney has a cockroach for a soul.) Virgo Tex wants it explained - and so do I. Note to Libby: Dana Milbank has been like this for years ...

Thursday Instahoglets
Newshoggers.com — ... By Libby Virgotex wonders how and exactly when it became acceptable to ignore the rule of law. I wonder that myself. [via Avedon, who has many more links worth reading] Spocko offers one answer to that question with an amusing illustration on how to rebrand spitting on people. Keeping to that theme, our own Kenneth Anderson examines how the media redefined the narrative about the conflict in the Congo, reducing the blame to "ethnic tensions" when in fact it has much more to do with mineral exploitation by western ...