October 2011
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The Black Angels - Entrance...
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Who's Left in al Qaeda? →
thepoliticalnotebook:
cheatsheet:
Also, a primer on al Qaeda Chief Anwar Al Awlaki.
Also killed along with Awlaki: Samir Kahn (also American), who was the editor of Al Qaeda’s English-language magazine, Inspire.
American-Born Qaeda Leader Is Killed by U.S.... →
A missile fired from an American drone aircraft in Yemen on Friday killed Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical American-born cleric who was a leading figure in Al Qaeda’s affiliate in this country, according to an official in Washington.
Many details of the strike were unclear, but the official said that the drone fired a Hellfire missile and killed Mr. Awlaki, whom the United States had been hunting...
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Pointing to Congress, the city warns... →
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goldman:
Their complaints range from corruption to lack of affordable housing and joblessness, common grievances the world over. But from South Asia to the heartland of Europe and now even to Wall Street, these protesters share something else: wariness, even contempt, toward traditional politicians and the democratic political process they preside over.
They are taking to the streets, in...
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“Mr. LaChance was union president from 1976 to 1980, when he resigned to go to...”
– Douglas LaChance, Who Led Newspaper Deliverers’ Union, Dies at 69 - NYTimes.com (via felixsalmon)
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2011 is the thirtieth year of the American Library... →
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Bud Selig Threatens to Kick Los Angeles Dodgers... →
Major League Baseball is willing to boot the Los Angeles Dodgers from its ranks if the league can’t come to terms with the team’s embattled owner Frank McCourt in bankruptcy court.
Attorneys for MLB Commissioner Bud Selig said the league would consider revoking the Dodgers’ membership before it would allow the team to sell off its future broadcast rights without league approval in a deal...
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Motorola Solutions Investigated for Foreign... →
By Joe Palazzolo; I contributed to the story and got a tagline.
U.S. authorities are investigating whether Motorola Solutions Inc. paid bribes to win business in Europe, people familiar with the matter said.
Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission officials have asked the company for information over the past two years about transactions in seven European countries,...
“Because the protest was continuously documenting itself, it was hard to tell who...”
– Occupy Wall Street’s Media Problems | The New York Observer
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“Four underground stations in Manhattan will come alive on Tuesday with an...”
– Cellphone Service on Subway Platforms, but No More Excuses - NYTimes.com
French left seizes Senate majority, hurts Sarkozy... →
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(Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s conservative government lost its majority in the Senate to the left on Sunday, officials said, in a historic defeat that deals him a blow just seven months before a presidential election.
For the first time since 1958, the right-dominated upper house swung to a left-wing majority as the body’s membership underwent a major...
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Putin set to run for Russian presidency →
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Former Army Reserve Captain Sentenced To 10 Years... →
A former captain in the U.S. Army Reserve stationed in Afghanistan was sentenced to 10 years in prison for soliciting $1.3 million in bribes from contractors involved in U.S.-funded reconstruction efforts, as well as participating in a conspiracy to traffic heroin.
Sidharth Handa was sentenced Friday by U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga in Virgina, and he was ordered to pay $315,000 in...
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Sri Lanka Amends Money Laundering, Terrorism... →
Sri Lanka’s Financial Intelligence Unit said Friday the country’s parliament amended the country’s laws governing money laundering and preventing the financing of terrorism.
The objective in passing the bills, the unit said in a statement (pdf), was to bring the country’s laws in line with the recommendations promulgated by the Financial Action Task Force, an international body that...
New Libyan Sovereign Wealth Fund Chief Seeks... →
One of the first orders of business in post-Moammar Gadhafi Libya is to clean out the rotten wood.
Tops on that list is investigating corruption at the Libyan Investment Authority, the country’s sovereign wealth fund. Rafik Nayed, the fund’s acting chief executive, said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that its investment operations are on hold while it looks through $65 billion in...
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“They do what they do, and I do what I do. You put me around talented writers...”
– Michael Kenneth Williams, aka “Omar,” talked about The Wire, ear hustling, and his scar for our September/October issue. Read the full interview, plus bonus audio of Omar whistling, here. (via motherjones)
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Kenya’s Answer To Corruption In Government:... →
Laws and good intentions may only go so far in eliminating corruption from government, while digitization packs a more potent punch, according to a Kenyan government official.
Though there was some resistance to the idea of opening up official records because it might “give a bad name for government,” Kenya has made strides, said Bitange Ndemo, permanent secretary of Kenya’s information...
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A first-hand account of the execution of Troy... →
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"Manhattan continued to have the biggest income... →
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AP IMPACT: NYPD eyed US citizens in intel effort →
The New York Police Department put American citizens under surveillance and scrutinized where they ate, prayed and worked, not because of charges of wrongdoing but because of their ethnicity, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Associated Press.
The documents describe in extraordinary detail a secret program intended to catalog life inside Muslim neighborhoods as people...
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"There was no DNA evidence implicating Davis. No... →
“I told you that I didn’t see Troy shoot at them, or shoot that night, and I didn’t see him with a gun that night,” Collins testified.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-18) →
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New track: The Twilight Sad -- Kill It In The... →