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C'mon everybody, sing along: "We don't need no information..."

Thanks to a post by phantom_wolfboy, I've learned something...

By announcing, last week, that it will simply ignore the unanimous ruling by the North American Free Trade Agreement's court of last resort (the Extraordinary Challenge Committee), which instructs it to drop its unfair and illegal tariffs on imports of Canadian softwood lumber, the U.S. government has taken a page out of Tony Soprano's playbook: "So, you Canucks want your five billion bucks back. Well, Fuggetaboutit! Waddaya gonna do, anyhow? Cry to your mother?" - from U.S. to Canada: Who's your daddy now? on canadaeast.com

I've also learned that, as of the time I checked it, a Google on "softwood" and "nafta" leads only to sources north o' the border (EDIT: first page only, later pages had a handful of links - 1 or 2 per page maximum - from local border city papers).

This would be why I don't peruse the accepted regular news outlets - I learn more from posts from friends in the UK and Canada and from mentions on message boards with an international participation than I ever could if I sat down and watched your standard fare news and read your standard fare paper. There's definitely been a trend lately that things I judge as critical are the things the US media decides should get a one-line mention - if at all - during their more entertaining three-ring media circus.