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Affiliated Media Inc., the holding company for MediaNews Group, whose newspapers include the Denver Post and several Southern California papers, plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company said Friday that it would file a reorganization plan already approved by lenders in a bid to emerge from bankruptcy more quickly. Among MediaNews' California publications are the Daily News in Los Angeles, the Long Beach Press-Telegram, the Daily Breeze in Torrance and the Pasadena Star-News.

San Francisco Chronicle (Big Spin Division): The once-mighty Voice of the West suffered (again) the steepest decline in circulation among U.S. newspapers — and then announced that this was a good thing. Now that the circulation has dropped 300,000 from the time I started there, it has a “more healthy” audience, the publisher said. If only the same could be said of the newspaper.

While not all of those jobs will be lost overseas, those workers will face wage pressures. -- Hewlett-Packard has asked many of its EDS employees to take 50% pay cuts. Even the most pro-offshoring report, written by McKinsey Global Institute's Diana Farrell, which asserted that the U.S. will be better off with offshoring, concedes that American workers will experience major losses in wages and jobs. Offshoring is a major structural shift in the way the economy works. Alan Blinder has called it a shift equivalent to the industrial revolution. Ponder that! What needs to change so that companies reject outsourcing...

Goldstone, of the "Goldstone Report" to the UN debates with former Israeli Ambassador Dore Gold at Brandeis University. Videos at link.

Watch the House on C-Span now, this is an historic usurpation of the House Rules going on right now! AMAZING stuff, with our nation and our FREEDOM in the balance. I can't believe the stunt the Dems are pulling!!! ;-/

Hillel Neuer of UN Watch exposes the hypocrisy of the UN Human Rights Council, the body that created the Goldstone Report. For the first time ever, the Council president, Ambassador Luis Alfonso de Alba of Mexico, rejects a speech as "inadmissible" and bans it from ever being delivered again.

Video Clicky Here The LAPD has just released a new Orwellian commercial for iWatch, a program that encourages residents to spy on each other and report any “suspicious behavior” (whatever that means) to the authorities, who we’re assured will sort everything out. Unsurprisingly, many people are reacting negatively to the ad. Huffington Post commenters call the ad “scary,” “hysterical,” and one individual muses about how long it’s going to take Apple to sue the LAPD for copyright infringement. NBC Los Angeles declares that the LAPD is “creeping out America.” This isn’t the first time a creepy spying ad has...

LAGHMAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Oct. 19, 2009 – Odin was a warrior god in Greek mythology who ancient warriors beseeched for victory and protection in battle. It was said Odin had ravens that would fly over the Earth each day. The ravens brought tidings of events from all corners of the earth. Army Spc. Mitchell Matney launches a Raven unmanned aerial vehicle at Combat Outpost Nagil in Afghanistan’s Laghman province, Oct. 13, 2009. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Derek L. Kuhn  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Soldiers here today also are using Ravens to gather information. But though their Ravens...