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8:50 AM ET, September 26, 2011

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ABCNEWS:
‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protests Turn Violent; Video Shows Police Macing Women  —  ABC News' Olivia Katrandjian reports:  —  Video posted by the group Occupy Wall St from the eighth day of protests against corporations show police using Tasers and mace to control the crowd …
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Sarah Maslin Nir / City Room:
Video Appears to Show Wall Street Protesters Being Pepper-Sprayed
Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Companies Get Gay-Rights Heat Over Christian Donations  —  The culture war over gay rights has entered the impersonal world of e-commerce.  —  A handful of advocates, armed with nothing more than their keyboards, have put many of the country's largest retailers, including Apple, Microsoft …
Discussion: Joe. My. God.
Brad DeLong / The Huffington Post:
Review: Ron Suskind's Confidence Men  —  When I first learned in 2009 that Ron Suskind's next book was going to be about the making of a economic policy in the Obama administration, I looked forward to it.  Previous books about the making of economic policy had degenerated into unseemly hagiography …
Discussion: Grasping Reality …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Euro Zone Death Trip  —  Is it possible to be both terrified and bored?  That's how I feel about the negotiations now under way over how to respond to Europe's economic crisis, and I suspect other observers share the sentiment.  —  On one side, Europe's situation is really, really scary …
Glen Carey / Bloomberg:
King Abdullah Gives Saudi Women Right to Vote for First Time  —  Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) — Saudi Arabia granted women the right to vote for the first time in its modern history as part of changes King Abdullah said will let them run in future municipal elections.
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
A Campaign Finance Ruling Turned to Labor's Advantage  —  WASHINGTON — Labor unions are seizing on last year's landmark Supreme Court campaign finance ruling to change how they engage in politics, developing ambitious plans to influence nonunion households in the 2012 election …
BBC:
Eurozone rescue plan ‘emerging’ as IMF and Greece talk  —  The plan agreed by leaders reportedly envisages a “haircut”, or writedown, of Greece's sovereign debt  —  The outline of a large and ambitious eurozone rescue plan is taking shape, reports from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington suggest.
Discussion: FT Alphaville
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Rachel Donadio / New York Times:   Worried Greeks Fear Collapse of Middle Class Welfare State
New York Times:
Netflix Secures Streaming Deal With DreamWorks  —  LOS ANGELES — DreamWorks Animation, the company behind successful movie franchises like “Madagascar” and “Shrek,” said it had completed a deal to pump its films and television specials through Netflix, replacing a less lucrative pact with HBO.
Susan Collins / Wall Street Journal:
The Economy Needs a Regulation Time-Out  —  Why send jobs overseas by creating more rules for American business?  —  Last year, the Food and Drug Administration issued a warning to a company that sells packaged walnuts.  Believe it or not, the federal government claimed the walnuts were being marketed as a drug.
Discussion: The Politico
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans Express Historic Negativity Toward U.S. Government  —  Several long-term Gallup trends at or near historical lows  —  PRINCETON, NJ — A record-high 81% of Americans are dissatisfied with the way the country is being governed, adding to negativity that has been building over the past 10 years.
Discussion: The Politico
BBC:
French left captures Senate in setback for Sarkozy  —  The French Socialists are savouring their historic victory over the conservatives  —  French President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative government has lost its majority in the Senate for the first time in recent French history.
The Huffington Post:
Spreading Freedom: Google And The War For The Web … WASHINGTON — You can't swing a dead cat video in Washington lately without hitting a lobbyist, consultant, attorney or adviser on retainer to Google or one of its tech rivals.  Google, whose top executives have long been a bottomless cup …
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Santa Fe Is Not The Future  —  It sort of seems like falling communication costs should reduce the need for people to crowd together, so I can see why people say things like this: … That's not an insane piece of idle speculation, but like David Frum I don't understand how it survives contact …
Discussion: Eschaton
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Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
Tysons Corner: The building of an American city
Discussion: FrumForum
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney wins Michigan straw poll, Rick Perry a distant second  —  MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he isn't competing in any straw polls —not even the one this weekend on the island where he spent summers as a boy and where pictures of his father adorn …
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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
Geithner Plan for Europe is last chance to avoid global catastrophe
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DNC Chair: All GOP candidates are “the same”
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Telegraph:
Christine Lagarde: IMF may need billions in extra funding
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