

Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. against the Vietnam War. Audio. This speech was released by Black Forum records, a subsidiary of Motown, and went on to win a Grammy in 1970 for the Best Spoken Word Recording. Excerpts of a Sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on April 30, 1967. Text of entire speech: http://husseini.org/2007/01/martin-luther-king-jr-why-i-am.html Real Audio file of entire speech: http://www.africanbynature.com/Resources_2/mlk_vietnam-1967-speech.ram
| O'Reilly reups at Fox News for $10 million a year (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Bill O'Reilly has re-upped with Fox News Channel in a multiyear deal that pays him about $10 million a year to host his top-rated news program, "The O'Reilly Factor." |
| Fox News Is Digging Deep to Field an All-Star Lineup (New York Times) The Fox News has sewn up a full lineup of politically outspoken heavy hitters, and the salaries have been eye-popping. |
| Record traffic for US political blogs, news sites (AFP via Yahoo! News) The US presidential election is driving record numbers of visitors to political blogs and independent news sites, a company which measures online traffic reported Wednesday. |
| Vietnam Farmers Sue Vedan for Damage to Aquaculture, News Says (Bloomberg) Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Vietnamese farmers will sue Vedan Vietnam Co. , a monosodium-glutamate maker, for damaging aquaculture by releasing untreated waste into a river, Vietnam News reported, citing Nguyen Van Phung , vice president of the Ho Chi Minh City Farmers Association. |
| News roundup: Feds eye $40B mortgage rescue; lots of early voting (USA Today) Good morning. It's Thursday. Here's our daily summary of the latest news: Economic crisis: The top story at CNN says 81,312 people lost their homes to foreclosure last month. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Bush administration is considering a $40 billion plan to aid homeowners. Under the proposal being developed by FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, the paper says "the government [would] give ... |
