WAYNE MADSEN REPORT - Wayne Madsen Report

WAYNE MADSEN REPORT - Wayne Madsen Report: "French support workers taking bosses hostage. Le Monde, Apr. 14, 09. 'In less than a month five industrial sites have seenworkers detaining their boss or senior company executives. After Sony (Landes), 3M (Loiret), Caterpillar (Isere), and Scapa (Ain), the employees of Faurecia (Essonne) launched, Thursday 9 April, into an action detaining their managers . . . Despite the condemnation by the head of state -- 'I will not allow things like this to happen,' he declared on 7 April -- the French people themselves do seem to understand, even approve of, these actions.' English URL unavailable. Sarkozy is a neocon fascist windbag and a paper tiger."

PANDEMIC NEWS

• A/H1N1 hybrid virus swamps UK. 100,000 new cases in a single week reported.
• WHO: Flu has spread to "almost every country." WMR report on May 13, 2009: "almost all the countries of the world will experience an A/H1N1 outbreak within the next few months."
• Kazakhstan reports first flu cases. Three infected students returned from London.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS:

• Labor Party humiliated in by-election trouncing in England. Tories take Labor seat.

NATIONAL NEWS:

• Member of NJ Gov. Jon Corzine's cabinet resigns in Rabbi-gate scandal. Joseph Doria, commissioner of the Department of Community Affairs, not charged in criminal probe.
• Majority of Americans oppose both Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Republicans favor wars over Democrats.
• New York Post uses term "Kosher Nostra" in article. Term first cited in WMR on January 28, 2008, as one coined by late Nixon and Reagan adviser.