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Sabbah's Blog | December 31st 2009

Illustration By Carlos Latuff By Franklin Lamb* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Part II: Israel and H.R. 2278 vs. Lebanon's Al Manar TV et al. (Part I here!) "Al Manar is being singled out by the US Israel lobby precisely because it excels read more

johncab

Fox Channels ‘May Very Well’ Disappear from Time Warner Cable…

Epicenter |wired.com | December 31st 2009 by John C Abell

News Corp told its employees negotiations between Fox Network and Time Warner Cable over a proposed rate increase are not going well, and that as a result, Fox expects its network and cable channels to disappear from Time Warner’s cable network read more

LateNightSnooze

Happy New Year, Washington Times [Print Is Dead]

Gawker | December 31st 2009 by Mark Watson

The dying Washington Times laid off something like 40% of its staff yesterday, including almost all Sports and Metro staffers, most photo staffers, the managing editor, and Wonkette pal Liz Glover. Lean and mean for another decade of domination! [WP] read more

Anorak

Sarah Palin Introduces The Best Fake Twitter Accounts Of 2009

Anorak | December 31st 2009

Sarah Palin, Rahm Emanuel, Anderson Cooper, Cheryl Cole, Mrs Stephen Fry, Michael Bay and Chuck Norris introduce the Top Fake Twitter accounts of 2009… TWITTER is now a news source for hacks on the web beat. But there are forces out there who a read more

AllisonKilkenny

Resolution for 2010: Call Dick Cheney a lying liar

Allison Kilkenny: Unreported | December 31st 2009 by Allison Kilkenny

Image by AFP/Getty Images via Daylife Let’s all take a moment to give thanks for Eugene Robinson, who decided to end 2009 by being one of the only mainstream media players to point out Dick Cheney has been lying his face off about the Christm read more

NYConvergence

Boxee IPhone App to Control Boxee Box

NY Convergence | December 31st 2009

TechCrunch is reporting that Boxee, which allows users to organize and view video content from the Web on their computers or televisions, will release an iPhone application that will control its soon-to-be released Boxee set-top box.  TechCrunchPrev read more

newstrend

Portable Dvd Media Player

Portable Media Player News and Reviews | December 31st 2009

http://www. max. tv/Electroni. . . Support for DVD, MP4, DivX and Xvid, MP3 and even live TV. Unlike most portable DVD media players on the market that only allow you to play standard format DVDs, or m. . . Related posts:eMotion 3.5-Inch Porta read more

LateNightSnooze

First Canadian Reporter Killed in Afghanistan [Reporters In Peril…

Gawker | December 31st 2009 by Mark Watson

Michelle Lang, a Calgary Herald reporter, was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan yesterday. The blast also killed four soldiers. Earlier this year, the National Newspaper Awards named her best beat writer in Canada. She was 34. [Calgary Herald] read more

ladybee

72-Hour Social Media Blitz To Hunt For Susan Powell

Snakes Are Not Funny & Other Pet Revelations | December 31st 2009 by Lady Bee

The mystery of a missing mom's disappearance on December 6 could have been ripped from a screenplay out of a Law & Order TV episode. Strange disappearance of a 28-year Susan Powell while husband Josh Powell takes toddlers camping in a wintery Uta read more

edkohler

If It’s Bad News, It Was a Northwest Flight

The Deets - Ed Kohler's Blog | December 31st 2009 by Ed Kohler

Delta acquired Northwest Airlines near the end of October, 2008. Since then, Delta has been working on merging Northwest into the Delta brand. Planes are being repainted, gate signs updated, frequent flier plans merged, etc. But one area that seems read more

LateNightSnooze

New York Post : the Police Didn't Notice a Van for a While [Front…

Gawker | December 31st 2009 by Mark Watson

The New York Post has a late contender for dumbest story of the year — they really squeaked it under the wire, but it really is bad. And the middle-east dominates the rest. There are also these stories, to read while you think about how dreadfu read more

Anorak

Irshad Manji On Jews And Muslims Uniting Against Swiss Racism

Anorak | December 31st 2009

THE mainstream news media loves litle more than leading with news of Israel and inviting nodding heads from vested interest groups to talk about Israel, Jews, Muslims, Arabs and terrible things and hate. Extreme Islam realises that in targeting Jews read more

earthandeconomy

Environmental Construction and Design

Earth & Economy | December 31st 2009 by Earth & Economy

Environmental Design + Construction provides the progressive commercial and residential architect, designer, specifying engineer and building developer with essential information on the rapidly growing green building industry.... read more

distwalker

The Burlington Liars Club tells yet another Lie

The Real Revo | December 31st 2009 by RD Walker

Seriously, what should we expect from Liars? Granted, when the Burlington Liars Club crowned their champion, a man from Wisconsin (a State comprised of some notorious Liars) it was because he was humorous in his Lie. “I just realized how bad t read more

Malcolm in the muddle

The Mex Files | December 31st 2009

Bloggers, understand this: journalists are just people. Foreign correspondents, who most of you like to hate, are people who have covered many parts of the world; they are not experts in the local like some of you. Their talent lies in their ability read more

justrecently

2010: More Martyrs, more Permanent Residents

Little Press Reviews and Hermit's Scientific History | December 31st 2009 by Tai De

China’s laws and regulations can often be confusing, writes China Daily. There are several small changes to laws regulating security guards. If one dies on duty, they will be honored with the official title of martyr, usually reserved for those read more

247wallst

No “American Idol” For Cable Subscribers: A Blow To US Illite…

24/7 wall St. - Insightful Analysis and Commentary for U.S.… | December 31st 2009 by TimThompson

The fight between Time Warner Cable (NYSE:TWC) and Fox over what the cable company will pay the network for programming is not about to end soon. On New Year’s Eve, most of the content Fox produces will not be available to the subscribers of read more

albinoemo

A Fuzzy Milestone for Turkish Media

The Istanbulian | December 31st 2009 by Emre Kizilkaya

Ertugrul Ozkok, the editor-in-chief of Hurriyet, has resigned yesterday. While he was making his emotional fairwell speech at Hurriyet's newsroom meeting, I was a feet away from him, observing his mixed feelings of sadness and joy. He was obviousl read more

KipZ

Jay Chou – I’m not worthy – Wo bu pei (Translated)

Chinese Music Videos | December 31st 2009 by Keefe

Singer and composer: Jay Chou (周杰倫) Lyricist: Vincent Fang (方文山) Song: Wo bu pei (I’m not worthy) Please note: You’ll notice that I’ve cutted some few scenes, so it will be shorter and more joyable to the music. Oh, rem read more

KipZ

Jay Chou – I’m not worthy – Wo bu pei (Translated)

Chinese Music Videos | December 31st 2009 by Keefe

Singer and composer: Jay Chou (周杰倫) Lyricist: Vincent Fang (方文山) Song: Wo bu pei (I’m not worthy) Please note: You’ll notice that I’ve cutted some few scenes, so it will be shorter and more joyable to the music. Oh, rem read more

ajaxmin

Media Plugin jQuery

Ajaxmint | December 31st 2009 by Raja

It can be used to embed virtually any media type, including Flash, Quicktime, Windows Media Player, Real Player, MP3, Silverlight, PDF and more, into a web page. read more

remusdan

DEMAND TO OUTWEIGH SUPPLY OF RENTAL CARS IN 2010

Rentals Cars | December 31st 2009 by Dan Remus

This summer saw most visitors to Spain as well as Portugal influenced by a necessity of rental cars accessible due to a retrogression as well as subsequent summer looks set to follow. read more

robinev

Video: Rachel Maddow Show’s manifesto

seaQwa's Qnews | December 31st 2009 by Robin Evans

On her last show for the show’s first full year on the air, Rachel Maddow offered a manifesto. She recalled the many “TRMS Investigates” episodes that the show has covered this year, something she calls “this mini-mission we’ve taken on of read more

ingenesist

Is a Social Contract Legally Binding?

Conversational Currency | December 31st 2009 by Dan

Trillions of dollars in play: Trillions upon trillions of dollars worth of value that is being transferred to social media from a legacy economy stifled by insurmountable debt.  These numbers are indeed spectacular because they account for the value read more

PJS will carry Ebert reviews, but manages to fail

The Peoria Pundit | December 31st 2009

Unbelievable: That’s why we’re happy to announce that starting Jan. 7 we will replace our Associated Press movie critics with Roger Ebert. Unfortunately, though, Ebert’s film reviews each week are embargoed until Friday. Cue is publ read more

I primi 10 anni di storia dopo il 2000 in una tabella

Vittorio Pasteris Blog | December 31st 2009

La meravigliosa capacità sintetica dell’immagine e dell’infografica: Phillip Niemeyer racconta 10 anni di storia sul NYT read more

justrecently

JR´s Little (German) Press Review

Little Press Reviews and Hermit's Scientific History | December 31st 2009 by Tai De

The European Union and the United States must do more to support those countries which suffer most from climate change and added least to it, writes Dorothea Steiner in the Green Party´s gazette Schrägstrich of December 2009. Globally, the need for read more

mastifunda

T20 Will ‘Finish’ Pakistan Cricket: Mohammed Yousuf

MastiFunda.com - Fashion And News Magazine | December 31st 2009 by Rana Ahsan

MELBOURNE: Mohammad Yousuf has issued a stark warning to Pakistan cricket of the impending dangers of too much Twenty20 cricket, insisting that it is “necessary” that Pakistan plays as little of the format as possible. Watch Live Crick read more

sourtaferta

Ο Τύπος σήμερα

sourta-ferta chalkida | December 31st 2009 by vagelis

Τα πρωτοσέλιδα των εφημερίδων την ΠέμπτηΗ κρίση στην οικονομία και την αγορά και οι κινήσεις του εμπορικού κόσμου για τη βελτίωση της κα read more

Canadian journalist journalist, 4 soldiers die in Afghan blast

The Peoria Pundit | December 31st 2009

Calgary Herald reporter Michelle Lang was killed Wednesday in Afghanistan while reporting on the Canadian mission there. Four Canadian soldiers also died in the blast, while a Canadian civilian was injured, the Department of National Defence said la read more