Swiss Banks trying to stay Secret

1. Swiss Gov’t won’t let U.S. get bank records - U.S. Officials have demanded the bank, U.B.S. , hand over the names and records of 59,000 clients who live in the United States.  Uncle Sam wants to see if they’re evading taxes with Swiss bank accounts which, frankly, precisely why Swiss bank accounts are so popular.  U.B.S. has refused and now they’ve got the Swiss Government on their side telling the Feds to take a short walk off a long chalet roof.
(From the New York Times)

2. U.S. and South Korea Computers attacked - Cyber attack went after computers at the White House, Pentagon, New York Stock Exchange, National Security Agency, Homeland Security Department, State Department, the Nasdaq stock market and The Washington Post.  Current theory is that they came from North Korea.  (??)  That nation is running a Commodore-64 type infrastructure that can’t keep the lights on or feed its own people, yet they somehow can throw even a small amount of sand in the gears of the West’s Information Technology?
(From the AP)

3. Race seemed to play a factor if you followed the Michael Jackson Coverage - 80% of African Americans said they followed the coverage.  22% of Whites said they followed the coverage.  I don’t know how you could have escaped it and all of its weirdness.  (From the Detroit Free Press)  And the London Sun, an enabler as well, points out that the entire memorial was a “Macabre Circus”… Full of people who enabled Michael Jackson’s bizarre life and demise, surrounded by spectators/fans/enablers… and why were all of the adults on stage wearing sunglasses indoors?
(From the London Sun)

4. Human Sperm Created from Stem Cells - Kevin Federline, you have been rendered totally useless.  (From the Telegraph)

5. Review of Public Enemies - Here’s what the New Republic has to say: “Public Enemies is a travesty and a terrible indicator of how America has retreated from one of its own greatest inventions–the movies.“  Well… I liked it quite a bit.  (From the New Republic)