Police make arrests, raid offices of News International - CNN.com

Whoa! Five arrests in London in the Rupert Murdoch's News of the World phone hacking and bribery scandal. Murdoch's people said to be cooperating. 

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Murdoch's News Corp Admits Destroying Evidence, Lying, In Hacking Scandal

Lawyers for victims of the phone hacking scandal at the British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp media empire say the company has acknowledged covering up the scale of illegal activity by destroying evidence and lying to investigators. In a statement that could furthe …

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The Chinese Village Of Wukan Is Under Siege After Open Rebellion Against The Government

Villagers in Wukan, China have chased away local police and government after a mass protest against corruption.

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The Accomplishments of President Barack Obama | A Comprehensive List

The 244 ACCOMPLISHMENTS of PRESIDENT OBAMA by Stephen Pasquini on May 21, 2011  

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CBO: GOP full of it, their bill adds $25.3 billion to deficit - The Hill's On The Money

At the very end of their 369-page bill, Republicans included instructions to CBO on how to score the bill to try to make it abide by the rules. They tried to get CBO to credit flood insurance reforms with $4.9 billion in savings, but CBO refused to do so. They also tried to g …

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Myths, Misinformation And Falsehoods About The Occupy Movement

1. The Occupy Movement blames everything on Wall Street. This is false for many reasons.  2.

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GOP Propaganda Guru Scared to Death of Occupy -- 10 Ways He's Trying to Spin the Movement

Frank Luntz has been helping to distort the language of Republicans for decades.

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GOP governors taught how to describe Occupy Wall Street | The Washington Independent

“I’m so scared of this anti-Wall Street effort. I’m frightened to death,” said Luntz, a Republican strategist and one of the nation’s foremost experts on crafting the perfect political message.

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Rep. Deutch Introduces OCCUPIED Constitutional Amendment To Ban Corporate Money In Politics

In one of the greatest signs yet that the 99 Percenters are having an impact, Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, today introduced an amendment that would ban corporate money in politics and end corporate personhood once and for all.

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Suddenly Congress Is Moving To Ban Insider Trading By Lawmakers

Days after '60 Minutes' blew the lid off congressional insider trading, support for a bill to ban the "honest graft" is picking up steam. The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2011 was introduced by Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) and Rep.

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The Quiet Scandal: Congress Plays The Market While They Make Our Laws

Last night on a CBS 60 Minutes report, Pelosi, along with John Boehner and a Republican representative from Alabama, were accused of “soft” graft — gaining unethically but not illegally from insider knowledge, stemming from research done by Peter Schweizer, a  …

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Phone hacking: James Murdoch may be questioned after 'bombshell' emails found

Police investigating phone-hacking at the News of the World have recovered a series of ‘bombshell’ emails which they believe takes the inquiry to ‘a new level’. The emails were among tens of thousands held by the newspaper at a data storage facility in  …

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Vanity Fair: Murdoch asked son to take leave - SignOnSanDiego.com

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Journalist's Arrest Adds to Woes of Murdoch's British Empire

It seems Rupert Murdoch's problems in the alleged phone-hacking scandal are far from over. Could there be more arrests? Maybe. British police now admit there may be an estimated 6,000 victims of phone-hacking by News of the World.   

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Rupert Murdoch Gave Absurd $2.7 Million Pay-Off to 'News of the World' Hack Editor, Rebekah Brooks

Poor Rebekah Brooks! The disgraced former News of the World editor and News International executive, who oversaw the paper and its parent company while it hacked into the phones of murder victims, resigned in July and was arrested a few days later.

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The Northern lights as you’ve never seen them before | Grist

As the International Space Station orbits Earth, it snaps images from a still camera affixed to its underside. String them together, and you get views of terrestrial phenomena as you've never seen them before. In this case, it’s the Aurora Borealis.

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Sad-Sack Congresscritters Hate Themselves Almost As Much As Everyone Else Hates Them

"...if you are the U.S.

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James, Lachlan Murdoch Re-Election to News Corp. Opposed by Pension Funds

James Murdoch and his brother Lachlan, sons of billionaire Rupert Murdoch, should be replaced on the News Corp. (NWSA) board to improve accountability at the company, an Australian pension fund group said.

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Radio Free Science: NSF's new Web-based stream offers science news

The National Science Foundation has introduced a new Web-based continuous radio programming stream called Science360 Radio.

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The Koch Whisperers » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

The reverse speak of the Koch brand of academic freedom became crystal clear this year with the leak of a contract the Charles G.

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House freshmen push bills that benefit big donors

Five months after taking office, Rep. Stephen Fincher, a cotton farmer from a mostly rural swath of Tennessee, introduced a bill to mandate swift federal approval of genetically modified crops for commercial sale.

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