World Cup, Sports Corruption; Europe, Asia; MH370; Religion; Media and Transparency, Political Partisanship, Obamanation; Vote Machinations, Campaign Finance Deform; Grand Ol' Tea Party; Immigration, Race and Racism; Your Government Inaction

World Cup

• Iran arrests 2 over World Cup video—"Iran's official IRNA news agency says police have arrested two people who appeared in an online video of young people singing and dancing in support of the country's World Cup football team."
• Defying ban, Iranian women watch World Cup with men in public
• Neo-Nazi Banners, Blackface, and Homophobic Chants: World Cup Fans Behaving Badly
• Suarez World Cup bite sets off Twitter meme frenzy—"Harkening Mike Tyson's famous gnawing of Evander Holyfield's ear, the soccer star is pictured wearing a dog cone, with fangs, as Hannibal, and more."
• Miguel Herrera Is the Most GIF-Worthy Man at the World Cup, Perhaps on Earth
• Cristiano Ronaldo, James Milner, Mario Balotelli, Olivier Giroud: The hottest soccer players at the World Cup
• Bravery of young security officer prevents massacre in Beirut—"Hunch by security officer prevents potential massacre as scores of people were watching World Cup match, but it also costs his own life."

Sports Corruption

• Football match-fixing: Ghana deal casts cloud over World Cup finals in Brazil—Is this what the $3 million is for?
• Fifa Bosses 'Secretly Doubled Their Salaries'—"Football chiefs are accused of upping their pay to £118,000 to compensate for lucrative bonuses that have now been axed."
• U.S. Senator Calls On FIFA To Relocate 2022 World Cup Out Of Qatar
• Nobody Wants To Host The 2022 Olympics—"The next Olympics to be awarded, a little more than a year from now, will be the 2022 Winter Games. Rather than going to the strongest bid, the games may end up going to the last city standing--a long list of potential hosts have given up on their Olympic dreams because the whole thing is one huge, useless waste of money."
• Banks Wary of Construction Companies After Olympic Debacle

Europe

• Polish foreign minister says country's alliance with US worthless—"According to a transcript of recordings obtained by Wprost, Radislaw Sikorski said 'we gave the US a blow job.'"
• Polish MPs ridicule Cameron's 'stupid propaganda' aimed at Eurosceptics—"Secretly taped expletive-laden conversation reveals EU fallout from prime minister's plans to curb migrants' benefits access."
• Italy arrests 95 in mafia dragnet, solves century-old murder
• Roma boy left unconscious after being savagely beaten and tortured during vigilante attack in Paris suburb
• Tens of thousands march in London against coalition's austerity measures—"An estimated 50,000 people in London addressed by speakers, including Russell Brand, after People's Assembly march."

Asia

• China jails 'New Citizens' Movement' activists—"China has handed down lengthy jail terms to three anti-corruption activists who had called for officials to disclose their personal wealth."
• Chinese police shoot dead 13 attackers in restive Xinjiang
• In Hong Kong, an Unofficial Election Draws Beijing's Ire NYT
• Chinese warships to join US in drills off Hawaii for first time
• Japan failed to report 640 kg of nuclear fuel to IAEA
• North Korea blasts film featuring James Franco and Seth Rogen plotting assassination of Kim Jong Un—This means war.
• Google removes Singapore hate blog against Filipinos

MH370

• 'A bungled inquiry': 100 days after MH370 went missing it is clear Malaysia officials hiding information National Post
• Malaysian Jet Was in Controlled Flight After Contact Was Lost, Officials Suspect NYT
• Australia: Waiting for Malaysians before announcing new MH370 search area

Religion

• Festival of Dangerous Ideas: 'Honour killings are morally justified' talk cancelled
• Christian woman freed after death sentence ruled 'faulty' in Sudan—NISS says, not so fast.
• Malaysian court to Christians: You can't say 'Allah'

Media and Transparency

• The media's moral center: How John Oliver became the sheriff of cable news' wild west—"The 'Last Week Tonight' host digs deeper and pushes his audience harder than either Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert." Salon
• Jon Stewart Is A More Trusted News Source Than MSNBC, Study Says
• Lawmakers unveil major changes to FOIA—"Reform legislation emerges from Senate committee that would overhaul Freedom of Information Act, increase transparency."
• Wal-Mart 'edits' a New York Times op-ed—The fact check fudges facts.
• Hacking trial: Coulson guilty, Brooks cleared of charges

Political Partisanship

• Americans Have Less Confidence In Congress Than Just About Anything, Ever
• Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves: 90 Percent of Congressional Incumbents Will Win Re-election—"All signs tell us that incumbents should be grabbed by their lapels and shoved to the curb—but most won't be."
• Americans have not become more politically polarized—Maybe, maybe not. WaPo

Obamanation

• Jindal: People Ready For 'Hostile Takeover' Of DC
• South Dakota Republican Party Passes Resolution Calling For Obama's Impeachment
• New report destroys Gov. Sam Brownback's bid to blame President Obama for Kansas budget crisis

Vote Machinations

• Want to Suppress the Vote? Stress People Out—"The latest science-of-politics study suggests that GOP voter intimidation tactics may be more effective than liberals have feared—for biological reasons."
• Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand plans to introduce legislation to allow voters to register online—"Under Gillibrand's proposal, states with existing online access would expand their system beyond those with state-issued IDs to let more young people, seniors, minorities and the poor to access and update their own voter records online."
• GOP's voter fraud humiliation: Turns out Wisconsin's worst case is a Republican—"Maybe the real reason Scott Walker and Reince Preibus think their state needs tougher laws is a guilty conscience." Hypocrites. Salon
• Racist tactic emerges in GOP primary fight—"Rachel Maddow reports on how Mississippi Republican candidate Thad Cochran's appeal for African-American votes is being met by conservative supporters of his tea party opponent, Chris McDaniel, with 'poll watchers,' to discourage black voters."
• Wilson precinct official removed—Woman who wasn't able to vote: "I am not rich — just a mom who wanted to vote. And I did ask for a provisional ballot. But I didn't get it."
• Fifty Years After Freedom Summer, the Voting Rights Act Is Needed More Than Ever

Campaign Finance Deform

• Calif. lawmakers seek constitutional convention on Citizens United
• 4 Key Takeaways About Scott Walker's Alleged "Criminal Scheme"—"Here's what you need to know about the probe targeting the Wisconsin governor and two of his aides."
• Senate Democrats Re-up Their Dark-Money Disclosure Bill—and Dare GOPers to Block It
• Mayday PAC: The Super PAC Built to Destroy Super PACs

Grand Ol' Tea Party

• Thad Cochran Defeats the Tea Party -- And So Does Everyone Else
• Losing Tea Party Candidate Refuses to Concede in Mississippi Runoff
• The staggering price of crushing the tea party Politico
• Tea Party's embarrassing irony: How its ideal nation rejects basic American beliefs Salon
• In a Do-Nothing Congress, Blake Farenthold is Enjoying the View—"Blake Farenthold, the tea party congressman from Corpus Christi, has settled into a routine where distraction is just part of the job."
• Tea party, police clash in western Wisconsin town—Also: Wisconsin Police Chief and Tea Party Battle Over Bridge Signs and Gay Dating Websites
• Darrell Issa's flailing search for his white whale
• GOP Rep's Chief Of Staff Resigns After Porn Star Tweets Photo Of His Penis

Immigration

• Obama tells Mexico: Illegal-immigrant children won't get to stay
• Limbaugh Floats Theory That Obama Planned Influx Of Undocumented Minors At Border
• Honduras to ask U.S. not to deport Honduran kids
• Few immediate consequences for child immigrants
• Mass migrant graves unearthed in Texas—"Researchers discover mass graves near US-Mexico border containing bodies of unidentified migrants in body bags."

Race and Racism

• Prominent Republican Lawyer Says Ted Cruz Sounds Like A Racist
• Texas Commissioners Unintentionally Vote In Favor Of Slavery Reparations
• Arizona GOPer: 'We All Need To Stomp Out' Spanish TV Stations, Newspapers—¡Ay caramba!
• If Affirmative Action Is Doomed, What's Next? NYT
• Redditor's discovery leads to white supremacist investigation at Army base
• Joe Dorsey's Big Fight: How An Unknown Boxer Knocked Out Segregation In Louisiana
• Stunning Portraits of Mixed-Race Families

Your Government Inaction

• You paid a fee for 31 years that went nowhere
• Opponents Barred From Speaking As Cobb County Approves Braves Stadium
• Congress Is Weighing Some Bafflingly Bad Ideas for Fixing Our Crumbling Bridges and Roads
• How many people would be 'out of work' if USPS eliminates Saturday delivery? WaPo
• Why Can't We Simplify Our Tax System? It Turns Out, We Can.

War on Terror, Afghanistan; NSA Spying, Surveillance and Privacy, Journalism, Your Rights Online, Private Messaging; Cell Phone, Hacking, World News

War on Terror

• FBI Never Revealed It Had Al Qaeda Mole Who Met Bin Laden—CIA was involved too.
• FBI credibility questioned in fishy shooting—"Rachel Maddow reports on details of the FBI shooting of Ibragim Todashev that strain credulity, keeping questions about the Boston Marathon bombing unresolved."
• Fox News host calls out Darrell Issa for 'highest level of falsehood' on Benghazi

Afghanistan

• Interview: Karzai says 12-year Afghanistan war has left him angry at U.S. government—"After 12 years in office, Afghan president says war was not waged with his country’s interests in mind." WaPo
• Obama Preps for Complete US Withdrawal From Afghanistan
• Leftovers from Afghanistan and Iraq Wars: 1,558 Amputations; 7,224 Severe Brain Injuries; 118,829 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders

NSA Spying

• Due to activist lawsuits, US gov't wants to keep our metadata longer—"A more limited retention of the [business records] metadata is not possible."
• NSA head floats idea: What if we only gathered terrorist communications?—"Gen. Keith Alexander raises possibility of reining in NSA's metadata program."
• US State Dept: "Surveillance should not be arbitrary," except when it is—"State Dept. official reiterates president's January policy on digital snooping."
• Feds Refuse to Release Public Comments on NSA Reform — Citing Privacy
• DOJ Still Ducking Scrutiny After Misleading Supreme Court on Surveillance

Surveillance and Privacy

• Obama knew CIA secretly monitored intelligence committee, senator claims—"White House declines to comment after Mark Udall says agency spied on staffers preparing scathing report into CIA torture [NYT] after 9/11."
• Forget the NSA, the LAPD Spies on Millions of Innocent Folks
• George Brandis refuses to back up claim that Snowden put lives at risk—"Attorney general says he is aware of particular cases on the basis of intelligence briefings but will not reveal the information."
• FBI and Secret Service Phone Calls Intercepted by Google Maps Exploit
• Sprint Accused of Overcharging Feds Millions for Wiretapping
• At the RSA Security Conference, Things Get Testy and Then They Get Awkward NYT
• Stephen Colbert gives controversial security conference talk—Sometimes people forget that he was in character.

Journalism

• NSA chief criticises media and suggests UK was right to detain David Miranda—"Keith Alexander says revelations have caused 'grave damage' and claims officials are making 'headway' on 'media leaks.'"
• Attorneys for Barrett Brown want case on linking to hacked material dismissed—"The US activist-journalist faces 100 years in prison for posting hyperlink to site containing hacked material in chat room." Update: Feds drop all but one of the 12 charges.
• UK shells out over $8mn to monitor Julian Assange

Your Rights Online

• Yahoo webcam images from millions of users intercepted by GCHQ—"1.8m users targeted by UK agency in six-month period alone."
• Government spying tools will worsen Internet security: experts
• Mexican Protest Site Censored by GoDaddy — with the U.S. Embassy's Help

Private Messaging

• Why It's Vital For the Public to Fund Open-Source Encryption Tools
• Tor is building an anonymous instant messenger
• WeChat: The Chinese chat app stealing Weibo's thunder—"WeChat's greater privacy and wider range of applications make it more attractive to use."
• Apple Explains Exactly How Secure iMessage Really Is—"Too long, didnt read? Basically: Unless Apple is omitting something or there's some backdoor tucked into their many-layers-deep encryption (which, while unlikely, isn't inconceivable) they really can't read your iMessages without a fairly insane amount of effort. Sure, they could theoretically brute force their way past your private key. Or they could scrap the entire system and replace it with something with glaring security holes, and hope no one notices."
• Congress Must Update Email Privacy Law

Cell Phone

• Texas appeals court says police can't search your phone after you're jailed—"Looking at your texts is not like searching your pockets, judges say."
• Police Hide Use of Cell Phone Tracker From Courts Because Manufacturer Asked—How did corporate-mandated nondisclosure agreements trump the 4th amendment?
• Second federal 'kill-switch' bill introduced targeting smartphone theft—"The bill in the House of Representatives follows similar proposals in the Senate and the California State Assembly." This will never, ever be abused.

Hacking

• 'Between Us': Tony Blair Offered To Advise Rupert Murdoch On Hacking Scandal
• Rebekah Brooks 'did not know hacking was illegal'
• Brooks testifies about paying public official at phone hacking trial
• Former Murdoch CEO Brooks denies knowledge of murdered girl phone-hack
• Murdoch told me not to quit amid phone-hacking row

World News

• Obama's Critics Should Put Up or Shut Up
• Canada: Election act changes could muzzle report on probe into robocalls, lawyer warns—"A clause muzzling investigators in the Conservatives' new election act could prevent Elections Canada from ever reporting on the outcome of its investigation into fraudulent and deceptive calls in the 2011 campaign, says a former lawyer for Elections Canada."
• 'Concentrate' Roma in 'camps': far-right runner—"A National Front party candidate running in Paris’s municipal elections has caused outrage by suggesting the best way to deal with the country's Roma population was to 'concentrate' them in 'camps.'"
• Scott Ludlam blasts Tony Abbott in final speech before WA byelection—"Greens senator attacks ‘blundering and technically illiterate’ government in seven-minute speech to almost empty Senate."
• Rupert Murdoch's empire receives $882m tax rebate from Australia

Corruption, Elections, Russia, China, Fascist UK; Racism; Online Speech; The Terminal; NSA Spying, Surveillance and Privacy

Corruption

• Uncovering corruption: Charmian Gooch at TEDGlobal 2013—"The reality is that the engine of corruption is driven by our international banking system, the problem of anonymous shell companies, and the secrecy we afford to big oil, gas and mining operations."
• Corruption getting worse, says poll
• Revealed: the Rupert Murdoch tape
• 'Dead' man Lenin Carballido wins Mexico mayoral vote
• Pakistan: What corruption have you experienced in your life?—"I request you, whether you are in the developing world or the developed, to treat corruption at par with war, and terror. The price is never ever money alone, it is more than that, much more: the social fabric , human dignity, and lives are at stake."
• Australia: Immigration Department audits reveal large-scale fraud of visa system by Indian students and workers
• DOTC reviews terms of MRT-3 deal—"The extortion allegations... implicated President Aquino's sister Maria Elena 'Ballsy' Aquino-Cruz...." This smacks of nepotism.

Russia

• Sergei Magnitsky conviction: Moscow thumbs its nose to the West—Whistle-blowing lawyer who died in prison gets post-mortem tax evasion conviction.
• How Putin Uses Money Laundering Charges to Control His Opponents—"The Magnitsky case highlights Russia's multi-faceted corruption problem."
• Putin Critic Gets 5-Year Jail Term, Setting Off Protests—"Aleksei A. Navalny, Russia's most resonant opposition voice and a Moscow mayoral candidate, was sentenced to five years in prison on embezzlement charges." NYT
• Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny released
• Corruption Up 450% in a Year in Russian Military – Prosecutors

China

• Chinese whistleblower blinded in acid attack—"An amateur Chinese whistleblower, who spent his free time embarrassing Communist party officials by posting pictures of their luxury cars on the internet, was rammed by a car, blinded with acid, and deprived of two of his fingers."
• Court Ruling Deals a Blow to China’s Labor-Camp System—A mother of a rape victim was sent off to the labor camps for complaining over the lack of justice. NYT
• 'Anything But Humane': Tibetan Exposes China from the Inside—"A high-ranking Communist Party official has written a book exposing the crimes of the Chinese against Tibetans. His fellow party members still don't suspect that he has defected to the opposition."

Fascist UK

• Cameron cracks down on 'corroding influence' of online pornography—Because Daily Mail readers who are perhaps too lazy and incompetent to parent their own kids, but it's the convenient excuse to monitor citizens all in the name of "protecting the children." Cameron's supposedly backed down, for now.
• Five bods wrongly cuffed thanks to bungled comms snooping in UK
• Britain to use secret evidence in court—"The Justice and Security Act 2013 (JSA) came into force this month. The key provision contained within the legislation creates a new judicial procedure which will permit the use of secret evidence in any civil trial in the UK."

Elections

• Confirmed: Canada 2011 polls fraudulent—As one politician from Montreal claims, it's "the way elections are won."
• Fraud claims taint Mali election, amid concerns over undue haste—"Thousands reported to have been left off electoral register."
• Estonia publishes its e-voting source code on GitHub—"System architect says he welcomes 'development and security of the e-elections.'"

Racism

• Cemetery vandal ordered out of NZ
• Husband and wife jailed for attacking Sikh taxi driver and ripping off his turban—"You are in Australia, mate, this is not your country. If you want to live in Australia, take this sh** off."
• Israeli judge hands jail sentences to Jewish teens who beat Arab youth
• Marketing 'no-blacks' apartment buildings in Tel Aviv—"Amid efforts to deport, imprison and segregate African asylum seekers in Israel, real estate agents are now marketing 'clean' apartment blocs, meaning no foreign workers or asylum seekers will live there."
• Native Filipino denied flight because she was "deemed" unprepared to fly by KLM

Online Speech

• Twitter releases data to French anti-Semitism probe
• Gore site owner charged over video in Magnotta case—"Edmonton website owner faces count of corrupting morals for hosting dismemberment video."
• Dubai arrests man for sharing assault video—"Detainee filmed and posted online scene allegedly showing Emirati man beating expatriate in road rage attack."

The Terminal

• Life in transit: What is it like to live in an airport?—"This weekend, the US whistleblower Edward Snowden, will have spent four weeks in Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. Two thousand miles away, in neighbouring Kazakhstan, a young man has already spent four months in the transit area of an airport - and admits it is driving him round the bend."
• Stateless in the United States—"I have no place in the world to go."
• Saudi but stateless: born on the margins of society

NSA Spying

• Edward Snowden's fear of flying is justified—He's been "allowed to leave airport."
• Senator Wyden: the US could become an irreversible surveillance state
• White House: Amash trying to 'dismantle' counterterrorism tool
• Why the NSA Doesn't Want You to Have a BlackBerry
• NSA says it can't search its own e-mails—Utter crapola.

Surveillance and Privacy

• U.S. high-tech industry feeling the heat from Edward Snowden leaks
• Keep Your Firefox Settings Private By Setting Up Your Own Sync Server
• State Courts Join State Lawmakers in Demanding Warrants for Location Information
• Homeland Security Approves Seizure of Cell Phones and Laptops within 100 Miles of Border; Report Remains Secret
• High-End Stores Use Facial Recognition Tools To Spot VIPs

Debt and Taxes, Rich, CEOs, Pledge, Elections Aftermath, Wingnuttery, Walmart, Fucks News, Murdoch Mysteries

Debt and Taxes

• The Myth of the Obama Cave-In--"With the 'fiscal cliff' looming, the conventional wisdom is that the president capitulated during the last tax cut fight. Here's what really happened."
• Lindsey Graham's reasonableness comes with fine print--"Democrats, after a very successful election cycle, are being asked to accept a deal in which Dems concede on tax rates, concede on entitlements, and accept the reward of Romney's revenue plan? This is what passes for bipartisan compromise in late 2012?"
• Public To GOP: Stop Saying 'No' And Start Compromising--A few people were a bit more graphic in their protest.
• Reid: Debt Limit Must Rise In Budget Deal
• No, Speaker Boehner. Some things have no pricetag--He rejected a call to pass tax cuts for those making less than $250,000.
• Leading House GOP figure's compromise plan gets shot down
• Bernie Sanders Blows the Lid Off the 'Bipartisan' Plan To Cut Taxes for Corporations and the Wealthy

Rich

• White House: Tax Rates On The Rich Will Go Up--Obama is turning to those who voted him back in for support (NYT).
• Ronald Reagan, the original class warrior?--"We're going to close the unproductive tax loopholes that have allowed some of the truly wealthy to avoid paying their fair share." These loopholes "sometimes made it possible for millionaires to pay nothing, while a bus driver was paying 10 percent of his salary, and that's crazy. It's time we stopped."
• Warren Buffett: A Minimum Tax for the Wealthy--They've been avoiding paying their fair share for far too long. NYT
• Kristof: A Failed Experiment--"[T]he top 1 percent of Americans now have greater collective net worth than the entire bottom 90 percent." NYT
• Kristol: "Republicans Are Going Into Contortions" Defending Millionaires
• Joe Scarborough: "There Is Something Immoral" About The Wealthiest Americans Paying A 15 Percent Tax Rate
• 'Romney is Wall Street's worst bet since the bet on subprime'

CEOs

• Morgan Stanley CEO Pushes 'Fiscal Cliff' Bipartisanship As Bank Lobbies For Tax Breaks
• Goldman's multi-billion dollar bailout queen CEO insists on Social Security, Medicare cuts--These guys can't manage their own companies' petirement plans.
• What the CEOs in Washington Today Are Really After--"The sacrifice preached by these CEOs in the fiscal cliff debate is most certainly one-sided."

Pledge

• Grover Norquist's rear-guard action on taxes
• Chambliss fires off on Norquist's anti-tax pledge--And a couple more join the list but some would rather compromise.
• Norquist says he'll go after pledge-breakers--Why does he still matter?

Elections Aftermath

• Cenk Ugyur: Legal Issues, Remedies & Strategies To Get the Money Out of Politics
• Trump Calls On GOP To Be More Appealing To Minorities--
• Former Florida GOP leaders say voter suppression was reason they pushed new election law--"Former GOP chair, governor - both on outs with party - say voter fraud wasn't a concern, but reducing Democratic votes was."
• FiveThirtyEight: In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Campaigns NYT
• Chart of the Day: The GOP's Generation Gap Problem

Wingnuttery

• Revenge of the Reality-Based Community--"My life on the Republican right—and how I saw it all go wrong."
• Gun Sales Surge After Obama’s Re-Election
• RINO Hunters Fire Warning Shots At Republican Senate Candidates
• Republican Congressional candidate who campaigned on 'family values' arrested for slapping wife weeks after losing election
• Kids hate-tweet Obama, echoing what they hear at home
• Teacher reprimanded for writing "You can't be a Democrat & go to heaven"--"A complaint was filed against a Kentucky teacher for writing the message on her class whiteboard." Salon
• Documentary maker Ken Burns: Secession petitions spurred by racism

Walmart

• Wal-Mart's strategy of deniability for workers' safety
• WalMart earns record profits while supporting Republicans who want to slash their employees' food stamps
• The Daily Show: The Employees Strike Back

Fucks News

• Fox and Unfriends--"Roger Ailes has helped kill conservatism in America, by never allowing it to criticize itself. When journalism puts power above truth it isn't, to coin a phrase, 'actual journalism'. It's propaganda."
• Is Fox Even Helping the Republicans Anymore?
• Here Are The Tricks That Fox News Uses To Manipulate Statistics On Its Graphics
• Fox News: Tom Ricks Apologized For Benghazi Criticism; Ricks: No, I Didn't--Calls the apology "horseshit."
• Fox News Host Stuart Verney stunned by millionare who wants his taxes raised.

Murdoch Mysteries

• Leveson report proposes tougher press self-regulation--"A tougher form of self-regulation backed by legislation should be introduced to uphold press standards, the Leveson report has recommended."
• News Corp exposed to growing legal threat following charges for tabloid duo--"Charges for Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson raise prospect that News Corp could be prosecuted under US anti-bribery laws...."
• Hacking victim: Stress led to marriage breakdown

News of the World

News of the World

• News Corp. Under Fire for 'Appalling' Phone-Hack Allegations
• Murdoch Facing Parliament’s Ire in Hacking Case NYT
• News of the World to close amid hacking scandal--Partly due to the number of advertisers who dropped the publication, but likely for more nefarious reasons.
• News of the World Crossword Takes Aim At Rebekah Brooks
• British government lawyers look to block BSkyB bid
• UK hacking scandal: Info kept on families of dead soldiers
• Phone hacking: Twitter campaign calls for News Corp boycott
• New Murdoch furore--"Gordon Brown’s sick son, the Queen and Prince Charles were sensationally identified on Monday night as targets of “institutional criminality” at Rupert Murdoch’s media empire."
• News Corp.’s Lost $7 Billion Shows Investor Concern Over Hacking Fallout

Phone hacking: 9/11 victims 'may have had mobiles tapped by News of the World reporters'--Scummy, if true.

Reactions

• What the papers won’t say: The omertà of Britain's press and politicians on phone-hacking amounts to complicity in crime
• Rupert Murdoch's phone-hacking scandal is unspooling like a film noir
• James Murdoch Could Be Prosecuted In Phone-Hacking Scandal -- News Corp Succession Plan Suddenly In Doubt
• Murdoch’s Watergate?
• Murdoch's malign influence must die with the News of the World