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NDAA and SOPA Bills Aim to Quash Dissent

The real purpose of the SOPA and NDAA bills is to target Occupy Wall Street, Anonymous and other web-based movements that have fueled revolutionaries both here and abroad.

House Republicans Oppose Senate Payroll Tax Bill

House Speaker Boehner Endorses Mitt Romney
The fate of an expiring tax break for 160 million American workers was in doubt on Sunday after the top Republican lawmaker declared his opposition to a two-month extension passed overwhelmingly by the Senate.
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An empty mail box is seen at the front door of a foreclosed house in Miami Gardens, Florida in this September 15, 2009 file photo.

Loan-Modification Blunders Bedevil U.S. Housing Recovery

The federal government's Home Affordable Modification Program is far from perfect, said Josh Zinner, an advocate with the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project in New York, "but the biggest problem is servicers not doing their job."
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Time Warner NYC, MSG Network Battle Heats Up as Deadline Looms

MSG Network, which airs games of the NBA's Knicks, and hockey games of three New York teams including the Rangers, Islanders and Devils, has a contract with Time Warner NYC that expires on December 31. The parties have been negotiating a new deal for a couple of years but haven't reached a new agreement, and MSG Network which airs games of the New York teams could be off Time Warner cable Jan. 1.
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Time Warner Cable NYC May Drop Knicks Games, MSG

Madison Square Garden Networks, or MSG TV, televises New York Knicks games and games of four NHL teams, including the local New York Rangers, Islanders, and New Jersey Devils. But after Dec. 31, NYC residents may not be able to see the Knicks or local hockey teams on TV any more since Time Warner Cable NYC may drop MSG.
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Barefoot Bandit to Spend 7 Years in Prison

Colton Harris Moore, better known perhaps as the Barefoot Bandit (so named after a famous crime spree that he committed barefoot), has been sentenced to 7-and-a-half years in prison, after he pleaded guilty on Friday in a Washington state court, on all 33 charges against him.
A months-long delay in Research in Motion's new BlackBerrys and a dreary quarterly report sent RIM shares tumbling again on Friday and pushed some analysts to sound the death knell for the mobile device that once defined the industry.

Americans Getting over Their Addiction to RIM's 'CrackBerries'

To understand what ails BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. in the U.S. market, just ask eBay Inc. CEO John Donahoe. Recently, his company had a hundred engineers working on apps for Apple's iPhone, another hundred on apps for Google's Android, and only one or two on apps for RIM's BlackBerry.
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Court Rejects California's New Lethal Injection Protocol

A northern California judge has rejected the state's new protocol for lethal injections affecting death penalties. Judge Fay D'Opal, a Marin County Superior Court official, said correction officials had failed to explain why the single injection method, used in some other states, was not considered in the new rules; the current standard is a three drug injection method.
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Microsoft, Silver Lake Working on New Yahoo Stake Offer: Source

A consortium of software giant Microsoft Corp., private-equity group Silver Lake, and venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz are reworking their bid for a minority stake in Internet company Yahoo Inc., a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.

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