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France moves to the left: Sarkozy out. Hollande in.

Seems like a rebuke to austerity measures sanctioned by Sarkozy: BBC News – Nicolas Sarkozy’s turbulent time as French president.

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Reporting Private chatter from live mics: good for mass media, bad for wikileaks?

The Netanyahu fan club didn’t know that they were being recorded… Picking up chatter from live mics and then recounting to the public is no different than what WikiLeaks does: A staff member reportedly explained that the headphones to go with the translation sets were not yet being handed out because this would have allowed [...]

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Ain’t nuttin but a gangsta Party, Pt 3

Shorter Jamie Dimon: “Don’t hate the playa! Hate the game!” Jamie Dimon, credited with having steered JP Morgan through financial turmoil in 2007-08, had earlier in the day lashed out at persistent bank bashing nearly three years after the global credit crisis began, saying it was “unproductive and unfair”. But when he rose at a [...]