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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (206792)	10/24/2006 9:38:16 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

That's really interesting. Thanks for posting it.

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (206792)	10/24/2006 9:56:30 AM
From: see clearly now	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

So they are going to Uruguay with thier Special Force contingent to help them reach the US Standard?

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (206792)	10/24/2006 1:29:14 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

First, I see that your link is from Reporters without Borders, and also, everyone should look at your article for more charts that tell more of the story.....Then of course, there is this: "Given that Reporters Without Borders receives 44 percent of its income from the European Commission, you are in no position to criticize any government for using speech" from Al Giordano Publisher The Narco News Bulletin (see link and questions below) On RWB::::::: en.wikipedia.org Reporters Without Borders, or RWB (French: Reporters sans frontières, Spanish: Reporteros Sin Fronteras, or RSF) is a french origin international non-governmental organization that advocates freedom of the press, founded by its current general-secretary, Robert Menard. So....Who is Robert Menard: narconews.com A long letter to Menard, and then more questions: Al Giordano Publisher The Narco News Bulletin narconews.com narconews@hotmail.com 12 Questions for Reporters Without Borders: 1. Will Reporters Without Borders, now having been informed of a different set of facts than your organization has so far admitted, investigate and denounce the illegal detentions of radio journalists Nicolás Rivera of Radio Perola, and Jorge Quintero and Lenín Méndez of Radio Senderos? 2. Will Reporters Without Borders address the root cause of these attacks: the existence of rogue police forces and coup-plotters that enjoy a particular kind of impunity precisely because they are supported by the commercial media corporations of Venezuela? 3. Will Reporters Without Borders finally denounce the illegal raids and threats on April 11th, 12th and 13th 2002 by the Carmona dictatorship against Radio Perola, Radio Catia Libre, TV Catia and Radio Fé y Alegría (broadcaster of the Catholic Church)? 4. Will Reporters Without Borders finally denounce the April coup attempt - and any future coup attempts in Venezuela or against any democratically elected government on earth - as a prima facie threat to press freedom? 5. Will Reporters Without Borders consider a public apology to the Community Media journalists of Venezuela, and to the public at large, for having been "asleep at the wheel" in not having denounced the coup d'etat as it was happening last April, and make the internal organizational corrections to ensure that this kind of negligence by a press-freedom organization will never happen again during a time of crisis? 6. Of particular interest to those of us who are Internet journalists (and of obvious personal interest to Narco News and me): Does Reporters Without Borders embrace the case law established by the New York Supreme Court in December 2001 in the case of Banco v. Menéndez et al, which established, A. a higher standard upon Plaintiffs in libel lawsuits for establishing jurisdiction on foreign journalists in U.S. courts, and; B. the landmark ruling that extended First Amendment protections (under Sullivan v. NY Times) in the United States to Internet journalists if we engage in responsible and basic journalistic practices? 7. Will Reporters Without Borders investigate and denounce the censorship by all of the commercial television stations in Venezuela on April 12th and 13th 2002 against their own journalists, that - nobody today disputes that there was a news blackout - prevented their own journalists from reporting the facts about the counter-coup by Civil Society against the military-installed dictatorship of those days? 8. Will Reporters Without Borders investigate and denounce the threats by Miguel Angel Martínez of the Chamber of Radio Broadcasters to "interfere" with the frequencies of Community radio and TV broadcasters utilizing the technology and equipment of the commercial broadcasters affiliated with his organization? 9. Will Reporters Without Borders investigate and denounce the forced closure of Channel 8 - the public television network in Venezuela - by the Carmona dictatorship in April 2002 and the complete silence by the commercial media about this threat upon a public media outlet? 10. What is Reporters Without Borders' position on the participation by commercial news gathering organizations such as the daily El Nacional and the daily La Hora in Venezuela in censoring their own pages last April 9th in order to join a politically-partisan "national strike" that - it is clear to everyone, in retrospect - had the goal of provoking the April 11th coup d'etat? 11. Should Reporters Without Borders address and denounce the exclusion of non-profit, independent, community and Internet journalists from press credentials by governments and trade organizations as threats upon press freedom? 12. Will Reporters Without Borders, now that this matter has been brought to your attention, assign part of its 20-member staff to monitor and investigate these predictable attacks during future world trade meetings and anti-globalization protests?