Amy Winehouse was turned away from a jailhouse visit with her husband Blake today. This is big news considering it’s probably the 5th time its happened. After getting turned away she “went for a sandwich.” Oh, she’s also recording with Mark Ronson and doing a track for the Quantum Of Solace which is the 22nd James Bond film.

In other news there’s still major civil unrest in Tibet and um… there’s a crooked war going on too but we’d rather talk about the pregnant dude in Oregon.

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is the new book from Naomi Klein detailing what she claims is a systematic foisting of Free Market Economics and Privatization upon countries, inlcuding our own, during times of shock such as “natural” disasters, war and terrorist attacks. From her web site:

At the most chaotic juncture in Iraq’s civil war, a new law is unveiled that would allow Shell and BP to claim the country’s vast oil reserves. Immediately following September 11, the Bush Administration quietly out-sources the running of the “War on Terror” to Halliburton and Blackwater. After a powerful tsunami devastates the coasts of Southeast Asia, the pristine beaches are auctioned off to tourist resorts. New Orleans’s residents, still scattered from Hurricane Katrina, discover that their public housing, hospitals and schools will never be reopened.

Interesting.