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Monday night news to read

Posted in News, Radio, Video, WWW, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Media Democracy Coalition’s Hannah Miller rallies against blocked political speech
Supreme Court likely to allow more corporate money in politics
Administration uses ‘State Secrets’ clause to block warrantless wiretap cases
Court rules victim of extraordinary rendition can’t sue from Raw Story
Pirate Cat Radio fined $10,000: East-Bay Express and SF Weekly
Is global warming a corporate [...]

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Michael Moore on CNN: ‘We need to leave’ Afghanistan

Posted in News, tagged , , , , , , , on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Filmmaker Michael Moore told CNN’s Larry King that it’s time for President Barack Obama to wind down the war in Afghanistan. “It’s unwinnable. It’s immoral. It’s illegal. It’s wrong,” he said. “We need to leave.”
Moore appeared on the program Thursday along with another war critic, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas).
“It is my sincere hope that he [...]

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Historic hate crimes bill, bloated defense budget

Posted in News, WWW, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

President Barack Obama signed into law a historic and contentious defense spending bill Wednesday that includes a broad expansion of hate-crimes legislation to include crimes committed against people because of their sexual orientation.
After passing out of the Senate 68-29 last week, the defense appropriations bill included hate-crimes language deemed too important for Obama to [...]

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Will coal help Kentucky phenom John Wall play basketball?

Posted in WWW, tagged , , , , on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

TV news host Rachel Maddow invited sports writer Dave Zirin on her show to talk about the funding behind the basketball program. Read more about the political economy of sports by clicking each of these links. Wall’s eligibility is in question, as reported by AP. Meanwhile, donors want to fund a $7M dorm for student-athletes [...]

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Thursday reading

Posted in News, WWW, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Pentagon used psyops on US public from Raw Story
Musicians demand info on their music used for torture
AT&T staff told to complain about net neutrality to FCC
Oops: Sequoia reveals e-voting code from Tech Dirt
Rep. Polis narrowly avoids net neutrality disaster
Broadband stimulus has failed to date from App Rising
Rachel Maddow challenges Liz Cheney: be on my show
New [...]

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Weekend Reading 40+ stories

Posted in News, Video, WWW, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Bush covered up global warming, hid info from Dems from Raw Story
Carbon emissions must peak by 2015 from Common Dreams
At UN, US votes against Gaza war crimes report endorsement
Code Pink delivers Afghani women’s petition to end war to Obama

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Monday night news

Posted in News, Video, WWW, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Columbus Day: The myth of ‘America’ by Dahr Jamail
A Columbus Day meditation by Thom Hartmann
Israel will not allow war crime trials over Gaza from AFP
Honduras: Coup troops raid TV station from Narco News

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Thursday Radio headlines

Posted in News, Radio, WWW, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on October 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

LPFM bill passes House subcommittee 15 to 1 from Prometheus Radio
Boise Community Radio federal grant match fundraising begins
KYRS Spokane going full-power with federal grant
Browser is new iPod, mobile app is new CD from Media Futurist

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Wednesday Reading

Posted in News, WWW, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Dems who voted against public option got $19m from healthcare firms
Banning a book near you from Truthout
End of FCC censorship of the airwaves may come by Marjorie Heins
Inside look at how Goldman Sachs lobbies Senate by Matt Taibbi

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NEW PROJECT Read What I’m Reading

Posted in News, WWW, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I get frustrated reading interesting news stories and then doing nothing with them. So partly to clean up my browsers full of tabs and mainly to try and encourage my friends (and strangers, too, I guess) to read more stories that matter I’m going to start blogging notes about the news I’m reading. These will [...]

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