News gathered during my SXSW trip

Video proves Kanye West was right about George W. Bush OBAMA President signs health care bill, with a flourish by NY Times Obama Inc. triumphs: Kucinich folds his hands on health care Obama advances nuclear resurgence with US loan guarantees from CS Monitor Obama: Inside man for the greatest heist in history from Black Agenda [...]

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Kill more civilians – Fracking – Jobs bill

Republicans help US Senate pass jobs bill from The Hill TOP STORIES Docs show Congress knew more about CIA rendition, secret detention & torture Will someone please arrest Bush, Cheney as they meet for 1st time on Friday? The flailing falsehoods of America’s war criminals by Glenn Greenwald Why so little attention to Vernon Hunter, [...]

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The future of media, Colbert, The latest Watergate

TOP STORIES Jerk or genius, TV’s Stephen Colbert boosts US Remembering ‘Kvetcher in the Rye’ JD Salinger by Greg Palast ACORN mounts campaign to ‘sting the stinger’ by Daniel Tencer Rahm Emanuel will really, really not like hosting this mental disabilities panel CORPORATE POWER How corporations secretly move millions to fund political ads by Brad [...]

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Kucinich jobs plan, Failures in Haiti coverage, ACTA

TOP STORIES After 34 years, plainspoken Justice Stevens gets louder from NY Times Kucinich: Retirement program would create 1 million jobs from Raw Story K Street rushing to get its slice of jobs bill before Obama’s spending freeze ProPublica Super Bowl Blitz: Which Congressmen are getting perks? HAITI LATEST Must-see TV makes bad journalism: Failures [...]

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Coakley concedes in record time; Haiti violence hype

Arab-Americans feel targeted, call airport profiling ‘unconstitutional’ SPECIAL ELECTION Coakley conceded before ballots ‘counted or examined by any human being’ Pre-emptively ‘calling the race’ is not the media’s job by Bev Harris ’5 reports’ of voting irregularities in ‘at least 3′ jurisdictions from Brad Blog ‘Sidecar’ reconciliation, the public option lives again by Jane Hamsher [...]

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Innocence Project, Immigrant jail deaths cover-up

Chicago prosecutor’s office trying to smear Innocence Project TOP 4 Officials hid truth about immigrant deaths in jail from NY Times Court rulings erode spending restrictions for elections FCC Chairman: We need airwaves from govt & broadcasters Nader: One more term, Senator Dorgan, please? from Common Dreams THE ‘T’ WORD Answering Helen Thomas on why they want [...]

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Surprise! My latest article is all over other people’s sites

Late last year I was proud to discover my recent Boise Weekly article, Far from the tree, found its way to the Berman Exposed website. Rick Berman is the PR flack whose astroturfing gained notoriety in ’09. So I’ve been looking forward to hunting around the web for my latest piece, ‘Experts’ justify profiling, body scanners with familiar paranoid rhetoric, since it was [...]

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Magazines online, Hunger, Hope for 2010

5 reasons to feel hopeful in 2010 from Change.org Foreclosures still swamping federal efforts to help from McClatchy Living on nothing but food stamps from NY Times Backlash in UK over extension of TV product placement from Guardian PolitiFact challenges Cheney’s latest lie Iraq to support Blackwater lawsuit in US courts from Reuters Ex-Blackwater employees [...]

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Youth activism, Unemployment, Press freedom

Top youth activism victories of 2009 from WireTap Good riddance to decade begun by theft of the presidency by John Nichols Over 20m people collected unemployment checks in 2009 137 media workers killed during 2009 An extraordinary year in politics from The Hill 10 things that didn’t suck about media in 2009 from Huffington Post [...]

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Yemen, Fix the Sunday AM talk shows, Nukes

US quietly widens terror war in Yemen: From AFP & From NY Times Huff Po loves Jay Rosen’s idea for fixing the Sunday morning talk shows Professor behind nonviolent Iran protests from CS Monitor Obama’s unheralded nuke progress from Consortium News LISTEN- Senator blocks TSA nominee over unionization from FSRN Majority of Tea Party’s spending [...]

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TARP, Copenhagen, Iraq, Afghanistan, LPFM

TOP 4 Leaked UN report: Copenhagen cuts would lead to 3C temperature rise Chilcot Iraq Inquiry: The establishment goes to work from Media Lens Army specialist jailed for stop-loss hip hop song from Courage to Resist Add 56,000 new contractors to 30,000 new troops for Afghanistan NEWS ABOUT THE MEDIA LPFM passes the House by [...]

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Wed Dec 2 news round-up

Feinstein and Durbin removing bloggers from shield law bill from Daily Kos We must not let Big Telecom segregate the Internet from Afro-Netizen If Congress can kill outlandish Wall St bonuses, why don’t they? from Alternet Blackwater’s Erik Prince stepping down, revealed as CIA asset from Vanity Fair Yahoo spying policy would ‘shock’ customers, according [...]

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Cobra subsidies expiring, Dubya ‘Let Bin Laden get away’

Cobra subsidies begin expiring for the unemployed from LA Times GE pact with Vivendi clears way for sale of NBC to Comcast TV in 10 years will know what shows we like, what music to offer from RAIN Ron Paul gains mainstream steam from Politico FBI viewed intel from ultra-right radio host as ‘irreplaceable’ Google [...]

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Obama attorneys push to weaken computer privacy

Even though a Bush-era request to conduct blanket searches of computer files was rebuked by judges, the Obama administration is now pushing to have the decision reversed, according to court documents filed the week of Thanksgiving. U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan, an Obama appointee, and twenty other government attorneys submitted a brief to the Ninth [...]

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Climategate, Lobbyists lobby for right to lobby

Lobbyists lobby White House for right to lobby from ABC News Journalist learns about union-busting the hard way from Alternet Argentine Dirty War victims cautiously embrace trials from Truthout ACORN can be paid for existing contracts, DOJ says from NY Times Op-ed: Colbert conservatism by David Sirota Pub fined $13K for WiFi copyright infringement from [...]

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Rupert Murdoch considers leaving Google, marrying Bing

Gates & Murdoch: The unlikeliest freedom fighters by Douglas Rushkoff News Corp weighs exclusive alliance with Bing from NY Times Murdoch, Microsoft and Google from CJR Murdoch madness by Jeff Jarvis Will Murdoch’s Bing gamble pay off? from The Guardian Why News Corp can afford to leave Google for Bing from Advertising Age

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Malkia Cyril on Precious, CNN paid Lou Dobbs $8m to quit

Malkia Cyril: Push changed my life, but Hollywood ‘invisibilized patriarchy’ CNN paid Lou Dobbs $8m to quit Are nuclear weapons safe in Pakistan? by Seymour Hersh Cecilia Kang explains Google Books settlement on CSPAN Taking aim at student muckrakers from NY Times PBS can market its kids show without selling out The price of free [...]

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Conservative columnist: Sarah Palin is a ‘joke’

Conservative columnist David Brooks just went public again with his criticisms of Sarah Palin. “She’s a joke. I can’t take her seriously,” he told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. The question other members of the press are asking is whether he will codify his statements in print at The New York Times this time around. A month [...]

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Monday night round-up

Peace activist confronts Israeli PM Gaza explored from The New Yorker Berlin Wall 20 years later from NY Times EFF: Government finally turning over some telecom lobbying docs 6 progressive complaints about House health bill from The Nation Net neutrality red herrings and how to combat them Editorial: Who’s afraid of the big, bad Fairness [...]

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Tuesday night news wrap-up

John Dean: Why Cheney pushed so hard to get a pardon for Libby TOP 4 House passes resolution 344-36 calling Gaza war crimes report ‘unworthy’ EDITORIAL: Some sense on defense spending by NY Times Elizabeth Warren wields plan in fight over credit rules YIKES: Project Censored round-up of the British police state POLICY Pro-net neutrality [...]

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