NEWS DELAY – War on WikiLeaks – NPR misleads

No mail on Saturday? Americans say OK from True/Slant TOP STORIES Van Jones: ‘I feel like I’m just getting started’ from Grist Civil rights & media justice from Prometheus Radio Ian Tomlinson family waits for answers one year after G20 protests Indebted UC students: Put down the soy lattes by Allison Kilkenny FREE PRESS The [...]

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A week’s worth of news on climate, food, energy, animals

The Day After Tomorrow might have been yesterday by Matthew Berger Coal miners join historic rallies to end mountaintop removal from Alternet Aspartame renamed ‘AminoSweet’ and now marketed as ‘natural sweetener’ No way, Bill Gates totally wants to nuke climate change EPA hearts clean coal, capitulates on ethanol from Grist Invasive species, global warming taking [...]

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Howard Zinn tribute, Obama promises to end Iraq War

Howard Zinn, dissident historian, dead at 87 TOP STORIES Iraq War ending, all troops coming home: Obama Did Justice Alito ‘mouth off’ to Obama during speech? Idaho Public Television faces loss of entire state funding The ‘Ellie Light’ letter-to-the-editor mystery gets weirder BACK & FORTH RIAA offers to settle Jammie Thomas case for $25K Settlement [...]

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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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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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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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Friday the 13th

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 [...]

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News from November 11

Your decade in 7 minutes from Newsweek Lou Dobbs: Explains decision to leave CNN; Most scandalous moments BastaDobbs.com announces victory Jon Stewart: Hannity faked protest footage; Breaks stories ‘real’ media can’t Obama helping lobbyists weaken offshore tax crackdown by David Sirota John Yoo’s lawyers warn of flood of political suits Current TV cuts 80 workers, [...]

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Friday highlights

EPA demands attorneys remove video critical of Cap and Trade from Grist MySpace traffic drop costs News Corp $100M from Wired Charter’s unfair treatment of community TV Legalize It from CounterPunch I am an America hating terror-enabler from At Largely Sen. Bernie Sanders tackels ‘too big to fail’ in 2 pages

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Friday morning reading

Twitter serves up ideas from users from NY Times ACLU: Obama signs bill allowing defense dept. to block FOIA requests Pentagon won’t confirm domestic propaganda program ended from Raw Story Israel targeting grassroots nonviolent Palestine activists from Antiwar.com Illustrated view of world without net neutrality rules from WA Post Climate change effect on North Sea [...]

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Wednesday updates

US spies buy stake in firm that monitors blogs, Twitter from Wired Secret Service overwhelmed with unprecedented death threats ‘Blue Bell’ Dems must fix net neutrality mistake from Daily Kos Obama issues new medical marijuana guidelines from NORML

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Weekend Reading 40+ stories

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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Tuesday reading

UN: Millions will starve as rich nations cut food aid Senate apology to native people a good first step by Sarah Van Gelder Court denies government attempt to delay records, again from EFF Geography of job loss

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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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Wednesday Night Reading

Full hour Special Comment on health reform by Keith Olbermann Book review: Untold history of the NSA Hyperlocal news catching on from Paid Content Hawaiians oppose covert media consolidation from Stop Big Media

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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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World Premier: Digital Crossroads in Boise

LISTEN RIGHT NOW to the first Digital Crossroads recorded in the downtown Boise studio at Boise Community Radio. The show is now 29 minutes, and available here and on Pacifica’s Audioport every Friday after airing at 11 AM in the mountain time zone. Digital Crossroads is a radio program all about media literacy and media [...]

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