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• Us and Them

  
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  From Nick P. at Black Sun Gazette The lion’s share of the world’s problems stem from one larger metaproblem. That problem is the profit system, and the control of the world’s resources by a privileged few. In other words, human resources are not allocated for the sum total of human need. Rather, the world’s ...
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• Aetna Forcing 600,000 to Lose Coverage to Raise Profits

  
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  Sam Stein reports on Huffington Post : Health insurance giant Aetna is planning to force up to 650,000 clients to drop their coverage next year as it seeks to raise additional revenue to meet profit expectations. In a third-quarter earnings conference call in late October, officials at Aetna announced that in an ...
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• Yahoo, Verizon: Our Spy Capabilities Would ‘Shock’, ‘Confuse’ Consumers

  
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  Kim Zetter writes on Wired’s Threat Level : Want to know how much phone companies and internet service providers charge to funnel your private communications or records to U.S. law enforcement and spy agencies? That’s the question muckraker and Indiana University graduate student Christopher Soghoian asked ...
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• Time Warner begins campaign to mollify our anger at future price hikes

  
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  Time Warner, a company whose holdings just might boggle your mind, is in programming negotiations with News Corp.  Who is News Corporation ?  News Corporation is the umbrella company that owns such things as, Fox News, Twentieth Century Fox, Starz, The Times of London, The New York Post, Elecktra Records, and ...
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• Google to media: Your problems arent our fault

  
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  Filed under: Internet , Google (GOOG) , News CorpB (NWS) , Media World The newspaper industry continues to blame Google ( GOOG ) for its woes, and Google continues to claim its innocence. The search engine giants CEO, Eric Schmidt, says that his company could actually help the newspaper industry survive the ...
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• Views on the News: Dubai, bankers bonuses and the value of web content

  
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  Bloggers have spent much time this week trying to unravel what represents true value for money and, perhaps unsurprisingly, their views do not always chime in with those in power. The debate began on Monday, when the Dubai government said it would not guarantee the debts of Dubai World and hinschelwood asked: "Is ...
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• Media Talk podcast: Google News, Simon Heffer and Desert Island Discs

  
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  Matt Wells is joined by Maggie Brown and John Plunkett on this weeks Media Talk , and we start by discussing Rupert Murdochs (small) victory in his battle against free online news. Google News has agreed to limit users free access to paid-for sites . Is the News Corp chairman trying to have his cake and ...
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• Another Wal-Mart “Shoplifting” Nightmare

  
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  From HuffPost : On December 3rd, a 15 year old black girl will enter a Juvenile Courtroom in Davenport, Iowa to face charges of shoplifting $39 worth of merchandise from the Wal-Mart superstore on West Kimberly Road. Hundreds of similar incidents take place everyday in the Wal-Mart Empire, and most escape notice by ...
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• Group Promoting Climate Skepticism has Extensive Ties to Exxon-Mobil

  
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  From The Raw Story : A group promoting skepticism over widely-accredited climate change science has a web of connections to influential oil giant Exxon-Mobil, Raw Story has found.The organization is called the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), apparently named after the UN coalition ...
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• Mega-Media Era Begins as Comcast/NBC Merger Nears

  
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  Josh Silver writes on Stop Big Media : On Monday night, French media giant Vivendi and NBC parent company General Electric agreed to terms that will clear the way for US cable giant Comcast to take a controlling stake in NBC Universal. An announcement from Comcast is expected within days. The proposed merger would ...
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• Schmidt vs. Murdoch

  
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  Schmidt : We send news publishers 1 billion clicks a month from Google News , 3 billion from search ; http://j.mp/5gkDCN
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• Were no thieves – despite what Murdoch claims, says Google

  
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  Search engine is like a virtual newsagent, says Googles UK director following accusation that it steals content Google defended its treatment of news organisation today, as its UK head rejected Rupert Murdochs charge that it is guilty of "theft". Matt Brittin, the director of Google UK, insisted that publishers had ...
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• News Corp vs. Google: What is Murdoch’s endgame?

  
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  As News Corporation’s public campaign against Google rolls on , the newspaper executives I’ve encountered find themselves rooting for Murdoch from the sidelines. Like 16 th century ambassadors trying to anticipate the motives of a warrior king, they remain intensely curious about where all of this might lead. ...
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• News Corp vs. Google: Another day, another bombshell

  
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  News Corporation’s offensive against Google keeps growing in scale and intensity. Already, the aggro feels much more significant than anything Murdoch has doled out to the BBC in the past. This week, the sabre-rattling reached new heights, with Murdoch himself, Les Hinton and Robert Thomson all participating in ...
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• Murdochs diverting tiff with Google | Emily Bell

  
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  Newspapers face bigger challenges than aggregation, and even Google can be wrong-footed by changes in consumer behaviour The unresolved, almost sexual, tension between Google and Rupert Murdoch is hugely captivating, and extends the employability of we News Corp Kremlinologists who could fill our time with ...
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• Matt Wells on Googles offer to Murdoch over paywall

  
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  Matt Wells on Googles offer to Murdoch over paywall Matt Wells
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• British gov’t attacks Murdoch over media power

  
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  British Business Secretary Peter Mandelson lashed out at media mogul Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corporation, in a speech in the British parliament Wednesday 2 December. He accused Murdoch of having a stranglehold on TV-for-pay, of trying to weaken media regulatory body Ofcom and also of ruining British media ...
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• Googles Cohen: Publishers still need us

  
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  Josh Cohen of Google News talks to MediaGuardian.co.uk about the options and opportunities he offers media groups Media companies that want to erect paywalls around their online content still need to be visible on search engines. In fact, they have an even greater need for their content to be listed, according to ...
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• From Russia, With Love: Wake Up, America!

  
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  Stephen Byers, Sr Whitefield, NH USA © 2009 Northwdsnh – All Rights Reserved To my Fellow Americans, “I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within” – General Douglas MacArthur. What exactly did ...
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• More pay, less wall: the websites that already successfully charge for content

  
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  Many websites already offer charging options – but few, as Rupert Murdoch seems to suggest, simply lock browsers out From the hands thrown to cheeks at Rupert Murdochs announcement that hes looking to put paywalls up around his newspaper properties online, you might think that theyre the unicorns of the online ...
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