Most important news story of the week (ending March 13, 2009)

[ColbertWatcher]

Most important news story of the week ending March 13, 2009

A: food strike in the French Caribbean may end after five weeks

B: Bernie Madoff avoids a trial by pleading guilty to all 11 counts against him and is allegedly hauled off to jail (there were no photographs)

C: President Obama reverses GOP stem cell crap, signs $410-billion budget; House fails to pass Wilderness Preservation bill

D: three volunteers with Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) are kidnapped in Sudan

E: Forbes includes leader of Mexican drug cartel on their 2009 Richest Persons list

F: NASA launches spacecraft to search for "Earth-like" planets

G: Sy Hersh reveals that Cheney coordinated a covert team of assassins

H: TSA begins testing full-body scanners in Salt Lake

I: One of the last-minute "incidents" that are a part of the Friday document dump (please see which in my reply)

J: Other (please see my pick for most important new story in reply)

[liberal N proud]

1. We may not know for some time how big C was

But it was big.

[billyoc]

2. Other: French Sony workers imprison CEO and force negotiations.

BORDEAUX, France, March 13 (Reuters) - Workers at a Sony (6758.T) plant in southwestern France detained the chief executive of the Japanese group's French arm overnight to demand better layoff terms when their factory closes in April.

Serge Foucher and several other Sony executives were released mid-morning on Friday after workers obtained guarantees that they would take part in a new round of negotiations.

Workers had locked up the managers in the plant at Pontonx-sur-l'Adour late on Thursday and blocked the road to the site with tree trunks, local authorities said.

Union representatives said their action had been the only way to revive negotiations on layoff packages that were not generous enough.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssConsumerGoodsAndRetailNews/idUSLD25478020090313

This is the ONLY way to negotiate with management.

[ColbertWatcher]

3. Gotta love the French! n/t

[fortyfeetunder]

4. Stewart pwning Cramer

Just kidding....:evilgrin:

[ColbertWatcher]

5. LOL! n/t

[hlthe2b]

6. G should be the most explosive story, but MSM has not picked it up

to the extent it should. So, perhaps the most underreported. C. is the story with most impact, but I have to say B is the one that most people will know about.

[ColbertWatcher]

7. Nice assessment.

I'd have to agree with everything you've said.