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Whose Media can now be accessed by visiting http://whosemedia.com!
The various older archives are still being updated on the new format. And in no time you should be able to access all the contents from the front page.
As for the Drums in the Global Village Blog, the address is still the same. Please click on http://whosemedia.com/drums [...]

Steve Jobs says the music monopolists need to rethink. Online music must be DRM-free.
Apple - Thoughts on Music
Thoughts on Music
Steve Jobs
February 6, 2007
With the stunning global success of Apple’s iPod music player and iTunes online music store, some have called for Apple to “open” the digital rights management (DRM) system that Apple uses to protect [...]

BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Zero-sum game
Zero-sum game
Dawn Porter

Next week is London Fashion Week and catwalks again will be full of skinny models. So what does a “size zero” diet do to you? Dawn Porter (right) went on a crash slimming course and found a perverse, and worrying, comfort in her misery.
When I [...]

Playboy has an exclusive on American military-industrial complex that’s worth the read.

by Richard Cummings
In November of 2002, Stephen J. Hadley, deputy national security advisor, asked Bruce Jackson to meet with him in the White House. They met in Hadley’s office on the ground floor of the West Wing, not far from the offices of Vice [...]

By Jack Tuckner, Esq. for Women’s Rights Blog

In NY Times today, the article “For $7.93 an Hour, It’s Worth a Trip Across a State Line” is an empirical study that proves the thesis that affluent, business folk who identity as Republicans (including our fearless leader, his coterie of wealthy, power-hungry, morally vacuous advisors and congressional [...]

Quite heartening to notice that the masses finally get the power they deserve. More power to the Nepalese!

By Charles Haviland
BBC News, Kathmandu
Nepal’s Maoist party has named the people who will serve as its MPs in a interim parliament to be established on Monday, after a 10-year civil conflict.
The rebel group says it will now follow [...]

Warnings to Iran and Syria Cause Concern in Congress
By JOHN HENDREN
President Bush’s sternly worded warning to Iran and Syria that the United States’ new strategy in Iraq could include action against them sent shock waves across Capitol Hill today, prompting pointed questions for top administration policymakers.
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By Brian Beutler
Democrats’ own Rules Commmittee chair criticizes exemption, bill architecture
WASHINGTON — A major loophole in the Democrats’ recently unveiled ethics package will allow non-profit arms of controversial lobbying organizations to fund travel excursions for members of Congress, RAW STORY has discovered.
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Sunanda K Datta-Ray has a brilliant take on modern day racism. She says, the elite Indians were always global anyway. Its the rest of us that still have not been accepted.
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WASHINGTON - Energy giant ExxonMobil borrowed tactics from the tobacco industry to raise doubt about climate change, spending US$16 million on groups that question global warming, a science watchdog group said on Wednesday.
“ExxonMobil has manufactured uncertainty about the human causes of global warming just as tobacco companies denied their product caused lung cancer,” Alden Meyer [...]

By Robert Fisk
12/30/06 “The Independent” — – Saddam to the gallows. It was an easy equation. Who could be more deserving of that last walk to the scaffold - that crack of the neck at the end of a rope - than the Beast of Baghdad, the Hitler of the Tigris, the man who murdered [...]

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: HABEAS CORPUS, THE U.S.BILL OF RIGHTS, THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS
The Military Commissions Act of 2006:
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SUSPENDS THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS, enshrined in law since 1215 A.D., i.e., the rights of any accused to test their arrest or detention in a court of [...]

By KAREN W. ARENSON
The chancellor of the City University of New York
yesterday directed the president of City College to remove
the names of two fugitives linked to violent crimes from
the entrance to a student clubroom.
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Over £30 million of UK aid money spent on funding body for privatisation consultants
Britain’s Department for International Development (DFID) has channelled over £30 million of its aid through an institution designed to pay consultants to push privatisation in poor countries according to a report released today (Sunday 26 November 2006) by the World Development Movement. [...]

An excellent commentary from Lahontan Valley News
It’s hard to fathom what Rupert Murdoch and his employees at News Corp. were thinking when they first decided to broadcast an interview with O.J. Simpson in which the accused murderer reportedly described how he would have killed his ex-wife, Nicole Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman 12 years [...]

A radio station for French youth plans to expand into blogs
By Doreen Carvajal
International Herald Tribune
Pierre Bellanger is a radio titan of rap, but these days the title is feeling a little retro for the founder and creative force behind the popular French youth station Skyrock.
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By Doreen Carvajal / International Herald Tribune
Paris: The rush of job recruiting ads on MonsterIndia.com tells the story of the latest class of workers to watch their trade start migrating to another continent.
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Undertrial: Naxalism: (K) Voices from Bhopalpatnam
Quite an insightful political blog..
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NDTV says it irks the Jewish community in Mumbai. That such sick reporting, because it should agitate even the staff of NDTV, Jews or not!
Hitler’s Cross irks Mumbai’s Jewish community - NDTV.com - News on Hitler’s Cross irks Mumbai’s Jewish community
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 (Mumbai):

A restaurant in Navi Mumbai with the name Hitler’s Cross, has [...]

The Hindu : Front Page : It is like a fatwa, says Taslima
KOLKATA: Controversial Bangladeshi writer-in-exile Taslima Nasreen is yet to receive an official intimation but has learnt “from authentic sources in New Delhi” that her application for the renewal of residential permit in the country that is to expire on Thursday has been rejected [...]