Tweet News Headlines: November 20, 2014

Good Morning, My Cyber Zombies,

The Tweet News Headline for Thursday November 20, 2014.

@CNN (Breaking News)
Mike Nichols, Award-Winning Director Dies at 83. 

@CBS Morning
Michigan expecting another foot of snow.
Deadly Snowstorm could dump another three feet of snow in Buffalo, New York.

@Fox News
Amnesty Report: Syrian refugees struggling to survive in Turkey.

@Gawker
Bill Cosby's lawyer to reporters: "Processed at you peril".

@NBC Los Angeles
Exploding airbags are to blame at least 5 deaths.

@Newsweek
Saudi Arabian Morality Police battle beauty pageant.

@Reuter Business
US Consumer prices unchanged, buy underlying inflation pick up.

@Unreality Primetime
Adam Lambert and Katy Perry confirmed to feature in remake of UNICEF "Imagine".

Fall Book Selection

In New York Times Bestselling author Richard Castle's newest novel, an illegal immigrant falls from the sky and NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat's investigation into his death quickly captures the imagination of her boyfriend the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jameson Rook. When he decides to work the case with Heat as his next big story, Nikki is at first happy to have him ride along. Yes, she must endure Rook's usual wild conspiracy speculations and adolescent wisecracks, but after reuniting following his recent assignment abroad, she's glad for the entertainment, the chance to bounce ideas, and just to be close to him again and feel the old spark rekindle. But when Rook's inquiry concludes that Detective Heat has arrested the wrong man for the murder, everything changes.

Balancing her high stakes job with a complicated romance has been a challenge ever since Nikki fell for the famous reporter. Now, her relationship lurches from mere complexity into sharp conflict over the most high-risk case of her career. Set against the raging force of Hurricane Sandy as it pounds New York, Heat battles an ambitious powerbroker, fights a platoon of urban mercenaries, and clashes with the man she loves. Detective Heat knows her job is to solve murders. She just worries that solving this one will be the death of her relationship. 

http://www.amazon.com/Raging-Heat-Nikki-Richard-Castle/dp/1401324819/ref=la_B001HD1RBU_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1395161015&sr=1-3

Urgent Web Alert: Join the Battle for Net Neutrality!!!

Cable companies want to slow down (and break!) your favorite site, for profit.

 To fight back, let's cover the web with symbolic "loading" icons, to remind everyone what an Internet without net neutrality would look like, and drive record numbers of emails and calls to lawmakers. 

Are you in? Please click on the Battle For The Net image above. 

Tweet News: July 10, 2014

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The Tweet News Headlines for Thursday July 10, 1014.

@NBC News
'Terrorist Groups' seize Uranium compound. Iraq tells United Nations.

@MarketWatch
Republican push for quicker deportation.

@New York Times
Sinosphere Blog: Chinese Journalists warned not to work with foreign media.

@CBS This Morning
Gov. Perry likens Texas borders situation to Katrina.

@USA Today
Obama White House nixes bowling ally project.

*WebAlert* @Newsweek *WebAlert*
Britain moves to pass emergency phone and email monitoring law.

@Chron.Com
Adam Lambert keeps Queen rocking Houston.

@New York Daily News
Katy Perry delights fans at MSG with "Prismatic Tour".

@Los Angeles Times
Why Interest Rates may stay very low for a not longer.

Tweet News: June 25, 2014

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The Tweet News headlines for Wednesday June 25, 2014.

@Edmonton Sun
Queen Fans welcome Adam Lambert.

@Drudge Report
Swine Flu fears sweep Immigration Center in San Antonio.

@NBC Los Angeles
Biologists says serve drought condition may be leading to more snake attack in Southern California.

@The New York Times
Iran is flying drones in Iraq and sending military supplies as US deploys advisers.

Summer Book Selection

These are the kinds of questions Horatio Cotton, aka Bobby, asks in New York Times bestseller Rick Springfield’s debut novel, Magnificent Vibration. 

After stealing a mysterious self-help book called Magnificent Vibration: Discover Your True Purpose from a bookstore, Bobby calls the 1-800 number scrawled inside the front cover, only to discover that he has a direct line to God. This launches Bobby on an unlikely quest, serendipitously accompanied by a breathtakingly sexy and exceedingly sharp travel companion named Alice. Together the pair sets out to find some combination of spiritual and carnal salvation—and possibly save the planet. 

By turns hilarious, poignant, over-the-top, and deeply meaningful, Magnificent Vibration is a highly original novel about the biggest questions one man—or mankind—has ever asked.

http://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Vibration-Novel-Rick-Springfield/dp/1476758905/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395160456&sr=8-1&keywords=Rick+Springfield

Web Alert: Urgent: Save Net Neutrality from Verizon, ATT&T and Comcast.

Verizon struck a mortal blow against Net Neutrality by persuading a federal judge to throw out the Federal Communication Commission’s Open Internet Order.

And now FCC Chair Tom Wheeler faces a choice -- he can stand up for Net Neutrality or help Verizon kill it for good. The fate of the open Internet rests on this choice.

Over a million of us asked him to implement strong new Net Neutrality rules that will both pass legal muster and ensure Americans have access to a free and open Internet.

But instead Wheeler recently proposed a new set of rules that will put the final nail in the coffin for Net Neutrality. This is wrong.

We only have until the May 15 FCC meeting to push back hard enough to get Wheeler to change course.

Tell Chairman Wheeler: Don't help Verizon kill Net Neutrality.

Net Neutrality is a principle that says that Internet users, not Internet service providers (ISPs), should be in control. It ensures that Internet service providers can’t speed up, slow down, or block web content based on its source, ownership, or destination.

Net Neutrality is dead for the time being – but the FCC could stand up to Verizon and AT&T and pass strong rules.

Instead, Wheeler's proposed rules would divide the Internet into fast lanes for wealthy corporations and slow lanes for the rest of us. Internet service providers (ISPs) would be allowed to relegate content to the slow lane unless the content provider paid up.

That means that the speed you could stream a video, for example, would not just depend on the kind of Internet plan you purchase from your ISP. It would also heavily depend upon whether the entity hosting the video paid for the express lane so that it didn’t take forever to download. Not only is this anti-consumer, allowing corporations to decide what kind of content you can access on the Internet is fundamentally anti-democratic.

Sign the petition telling Chairman Wheeler: Don’t help Verizon kill Net Neutrality.

Back in 2010, this latest court decision was utterly predictable. A federal court had already ruled that unless the FCC reversed the Bush-era decision to deregulate broadband, the FCC couldn’t enforce Net Neutrality rules. Then FCC Chair Genachowski tested the waters with a proposal to re-regulate (or in the jargon of the FCC “reclassify”) broadband. Genachowski himself said that, according to the FCC General Counsel, pushing ahead with policies without reregulating broadband would be unwise given the tenuous legal footing the FCC would find itself in.

But the Obama administration's support for Net Neutrality was so weak that his FCC declined to reclassify broadband as a prerequisite to passing Net Neutrality rules. Without providing this legal framework, the Open Internet Order was never anything more than a cynical ploy by Democrats to claim a victory on Net Neutrality while actually caving on real protections for consumers.

New FCC Chair Tom Wheeler has a chance to change this. He recently made a strong statement in support of Net Neutrality and the necessary legal framework to defend it, saying that “it is essential that the FCC continue to maintain an open Internet and maintain the legal ability to intervene promptly and effectively in the event of aggravated circumstances."

Now we need to hold him to it. If he wants to ensure the FCC maintains an open Internet, he needs to do far better than proposals that will allow for the corporate takeover of the Internet.

We need him to muster the political will to take action immediately and save Net Neutrality by reversing the deregulation of broadband and giving teeth to the FCC’s ability to enforce Net Neutrality rules and force Internet service providers to treat all traffic equally.

Tell FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler: Stop the corporate takeover of the Internet and save Net Neutrality.

http://act.credoaction.com/sign/verizon_netneutrality/?sp_ref=40236875.4.2081.t.0.2&referring_akid=.2234400.8sYReT&source=tw_sp