Friday the 13th

Ralph Nader by Stephen C Webster

Greens, independents want Nader to challenge Senator Dodd in Connecticut

Groups mount proactive counterattack to Comcast buying NBC

Blogging booms worldwide, repression at its heels from Newsdesk

Dubya feared successor might revoke telecom spy immunity from Wired

Tony Blair to face British Iraq Inquiry committee in January

Lessons from the land of cheap broadband from CNN Money

Obama picks pesticide lobbyist for agriculture trade post

NPR still hasn’t discovered the housing bubble from American Prospect

Copenhagen: Seattle grows up by Naomi Klein

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Monday night news to read

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 fraud? from Project Censored

Real reason climate bill is going to suck from Grist

Palestinians criticize US u-turn on settlements

Detroit Free Press takes editorial cues from advertisers

Congress should not reject the Goldstone Report from Common Dreams

Where are the anti-war demonstrators? from Common Dreams

What Obama is up against from Truthout

MPAA piracy facts unchecked on 60 Minutes

MPAA press release urges FCC to protect content

Bit Torrent’s new peer-to-peer software throttles itself

Nielsen says DTV switch was successful

Paramount says National Broadband Plan should stop Star Trek pirates

Jerry Brown’s spokesman resigns after taping calls

AP admits Cheney equivocated to the FBI

We need a Son of Sam law for coporations from True/Slant

Comcast close to gaining NBC Universal

Brazil encourages competing hackers to crack e-voting terminals

Sen. Cantwell not sure why Geithner still has a job

Service providers in UK ‘should have legal obligation on rural broadband’

Three’s company by Ross Douthat

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Saturday Afternoon Reading

Secret plan to undermine US dollar by Robert Fisk

Roundup: Kerry-Boxer climate bill reactions from Grist

Roundup: Patriot Act vote reactions from EFF

Obama stalls telecom immunity lobbying records FOIA, “inter-agency” says DOJ

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Friday Morning News

DOJ stalls FOIA request on telecom immunity lobbying efforts from EFF

Obama sides with Republicans against Patriot Act civil liberties reforms

Feingold explains problems with Judiciary Committee from Daily Kos

FTC seeks to restrict gift giving to bloggers from Wall St Journal

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Weekend reading

Student protester who won 14 parcels of oil & gas land at auction goes to court

5 ways Feds used our money to help banks & screw us from The Nation

Pittsburgh is what a police state looks like by Cindy Sheehan

Government must reveal telecom immunity lobbying records from EFF

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