the national media, bloggers are bloggers.>> i am a columbia j school graduate, so i would get the blogger seat. there is a johnny-come-latelies logger -- johnny-come-lately blogger. this guy cannot blog from the courtroom. >> so the guy with a well funded blog does not have the track record of someone who has a more streamlined blog? how do you make that decision? >> that is a different situation. if you add those facts, there is weight that goes on the side of longevity. >> chief judge, does it make you uncomfortable to draw lines between traditional media, a longtime media, and bloggers? >> in the district court of the sea, we had high-visibility cases. -- of d.c., we had high- visibility cases. we can accommodate a lot of journalists. most of them would prefer to be in the auxiliary room. we have a much more tightly controlled for room where the jury is sitting. they might be disturbed by people going in and out. most of the media prefers the two auxiliaries settings we have. we have not had to make any judgments about who

who gets the blogger's seat? >> i'm a columbia j-school grad by the way so i would get the blogger's seat [laughing] well, i recognize there are bloggers and there are bloggers and i think the scenario here is, there's a johnny-come-lately blogger, somebody who this is going to be their first crack at it. i think in a situation like this where you have obvious high public interest, there a value having someone who is established. which is not to say in a different case, where somebody, where there is not a competition for space, that this guy can't blog from the courtroom. >> so the person who's blogging on a very well-funded blog but it is their launch blog doesn't have the track record of somebody who has got a more streamlined shirt-tail blog been doing it a long time? is that a fair way to compare them? is it just the duration how long you've been doing it? is it the metric of your audience? how do you make that decision? >> that's obviously a different situation but, in this case, i mean if you add those fac

that is the prediction from radio host an economics blogger dmitri co fetus. we have some aeronautical aspirations a little comparison for you so russia's fighter jet the t. fifty has just made its first public flight at the locks two thousand and eleven air show so in the spirit of that we wanted to compare this to its competitor in the u.s. so the t. fifty is a jet which is said to be equipped with some of the most advanced avionics on the planet it is also part of a joint effort russia and india together on it they went in on it together to develop it and the project totaled about ten billion dollars an estimated price tag of the plane is just under one hundred million dollars now it is expected to rival the american f. twenty two the raptor now remember this is the plane that nobody's allowed to buy congress banned it for export and also congress recently shut it down in crown of the planes are said excuse me shut down the program now it's also one that cost the government nearly eighty billion dollars and as i mentioned it's been grounded indefinitely fir

you want for it was so no one wants to accept a depression that was radio host an economics blogger to me take a famous now from economic failure the internet failure after the arab spring shut out the middle east and parts of north africa we picked haters switching off the internet to control crowds the u.s. move right in with a purported plan to switch it back on but the u.s. government quote liberation technologies also pose some tough questions about just who is watching who and for what purpose really also about the hypocrisy of touting internet freedom abroad or threatening to shut it down when protests break out at home in the u.s. or when riots rocked the streets of the u.k. but are teens kill and board takes a closer look and show what's really going on in the news shadow web. when a wave of revolution crashed over the middle east this spring. many said and it in the streets began with one hundred forty characters or less and social media like twitter and facebook. because harness the power of on line communication the u.s. state department is providing two million dollars in

international outrage at the kidnapping of a self declared lesbian blogger in syria had real policy implications until i mean it turned out to be this american man but i feel really guilty about this. other say there's a contradiction between support for internet freedom abroad and subpoenas alerted wiki leaks collaborators at home including private bradley manning. pozner says the suitcase is just part of a larger internet freedom agenda don't shoot the instant messenger. instead address the underlying grievances but these platforms appear less welcome when activists take to the streets at home video release a surveillance video that in san francisco police cut cell phone services on the metro during protests those who you know work for san francisco city. traders the bars. and you can go whoa oh oh look you don't see the two in following riots in london there is talk of shutting down social media we are working with the police the intelligence services and industry to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services when we know they a

it didn't take long for conservative bloggers to accuse whole foods for supporting terrorism.got a copy of an intertearal e-mail that said in part, that could be considered celebrating or promoting ramadon. the e-mail suggested the company was buckling under pressure, but later the company said whole foods market is not canceling our current promotion. we never sent a communication from our headquarters requesting stores take down signs at all. one region reacted by sending out directions and not specifically ramadon. local muslim leaders applauded whole foods for not backing down. >> i appreciate the fact they stood behind their actions and say they aren't going to give into this campaign. >> whole foods shoppers agreed. >> it makes me feel proud of them. we all need to do that. good for whole foods. >> ramadon is intended to teach muslims. for whole fused, it's about standing firm in its belief. >> the apple revolution reaches new heights. the historic accomplishment iphone maker is flirting with. >> the rely part of pregnancy just got more exciting. what you can know at jus

one of 10 bloggers selected to see what mothers in kenya go through to raise their kids. >> from the start, amy's week in kenya was a learning experience. >> oh, my gosh they harvest corn there. >> we dplof a four wheel drive vehicle for about a half hour. and then hiked to -- for 15 minutes to this mud hut. >> amy and her fellow bloggers were shadowing home health care workers bringing families supplies to prevent disease. >> you put that into the water. >> the supplies come from u.s. foreign aid. a fact many kennans are keenly aware of. these volunteers felt compelled to thank them. >> they welcomed with us song and dance. they just started hugging us. >> all the while, amy was taking notes for the nightly post on her momfor mation blog, she wants to show a tiny slice to the federal budget goes to these programs is well worth it. >> i tried to offer up examples and tell stories of people, lives being saved. >> that includes lives of mothers she met who might have died giving birth at home but got to deliver babies in a clinic. >> then, you have this. >> our lives are so different.

. >>> whole foods doing damage control after being accused of caving to conservative bloggers. it comes after the national chain launched a new marketing campaign for ramadan touting a new line of frozen foods but didn't take long for bloggers to accuse whole foods of supporting terrorism. an email obtained by houston press suggested whole foods was changing its campaign. but the company says it's not canceling the proposing. >> i appreciate the fact that they stood behind their policy of celebrating diversity and promoting the campaign of ramadan and saying they are not going to give in to this campaign of hate. >> the whole foods campaign marks the country's first ramadan promotion by a national supermarket chain. >>> analysts now believe apple is on pace to become the world's first trillion dollar company. the cupertino-based tech giant surpassed exxonmobil as the most valuable company in the world. apple's stock gained 6% yesterday, 6%! it brings the company's total value just under $347 billion. exxon finished on top. but apple will take the top spot for good. they take so

blogger and activist stephen leatherman there speaking to us now you also get all the latest updates videos and blogs of course on our web site r.t. dot com is just a small taste of what we've got lined up for you deny them the better russian activists forcing a revolution through social networks find out what's behind the quiet of silent march is aimed at fighting fear in bringing change you got the story online tonight plus we found a bit of color a bit of fun why not but they believe they could fly there they go thousands took off from the banks of the moscow river not to successfully have tons of the colorful ray of homemade flying machines briefly to the skies some with more to say success and others very nice to see there comes a place from all of those pictures. also the headlines tonight at least five people have been killed eighteen injured in a clash over lawfully seized government land in the afghan capital kabul around two hundred people took part in the gun fight between local residents and guards the armed conflict left several houses destroyed in key roads blocked secu

wolf economist at the new school university graduate program in international affairs and of imposed blogger max welcome to the program. thanks pleasure to join you it's great having you with us everyone keeps blaming europe for american troubles this seems to be the main name in the main stream media is it the other way around as a possibility the way around that european markets are crashing both because they see the u.s. economy in its death throes and because of of the damage done a couple of years ago by american bankers. well i mean certainly there's a feedback loop so weakness in europe and japan always reverberate in the united states and american weakness reverberates elsewhere clearly the financial crisis of zero eight zero nine started inside the united states and is intimately entangled with mortgage financing here the debt load of the u.s. consumer and some rather unfortunate financial practices not exclusively emanating from the u.s. but in many ways disproportionately from the u.s. and the problems in europe today like the problems on the u.s. government's books today are in n

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all right stephen leatherman author and blogger from the thanks for research on global is a sign on the line with us here broadband from chicago thank you very much and happy. business is next here in r t with me they were. welcome to business r.t. emerging markets have plunged to their lowest levels in months the flammable cocktail of a u.s. credit downgrade and the eurozone debt crisis prompted a broad selloff on financial markets russian equities were no exception however they managed to claw back some of their losses during the day let's not get a broader picture from artie's sarah ferguson at the headquarters of the r.t.s. stock exchange hello to you sara so how did the russian markets perform today. listin another extremely nervy angola told day and again today we see the russian markets aping this morning in negative territory other that they were then able to close the gap so more we then saw the nosedive again and the markets if blessing with the possibility of one point of maybe being able to close in the black but it wasn't to be the best place down r.t.s. down t. point eight

archie producer jenny churchill and jim hansen retired special operations master sergeant and military blogger of black five dot net hey guys how's it going. you know. clothing companies are always trying to make to get people to think of their hip and they're cool and this is why you should be wearing your stuff and so levi's made an ad like that about why you should be wearing their jeans but some people think that maybe the timing of the release of this bridge by the way they have now pulled from the web since we found the story this morning you know the timing wasn't quite right you take a look. your life is your life. a little bit close to each of you. there are ways out there is light somewhere it may not be much like the beach that you. were like. which was. ok so there's riot police feel a bit of tear gas there and so everybody automatically says looks really bad time to be advertising riots considering what's going on in london that you know you can just walk in for the right place and say check out my levis in the leave you alone but i don't really think that's a riot footage yes the

journalist and blogger thank you. for the heavy traffic and chaotic parking is a daily headache in just about every major city of the world people unable to find a parking space will often just leave their cars in any available spot you know pavement or even a bus stop but the mayor of lithuania as capital vilnius has decided that a ticket just isn't enough have a look at this here you can see how we employ a very simple yet effective means to solve the problem the owner of this mercedes parked in a bicycle lane and made just three arrest this is called himself a bit of work for where in the scuffle with an armored vehicle. a video was published by the mayor's office as a reminder to those who violate traffic and parking rules that's one misdemeanor charming stuff. but i did just a few minutes we meet the commander of the notorious apollo thirteen mission that never actually reached the moon but first know it's a marina with a business. hello and welcome to business here on r.t. now a new legal specialist is being app

conservatism is the conservatism is the tea party's real goal joining me to discuss this is a sour blogger at the l a i want to thank you so much for joining us. so nine if you could start by telling us about yourself why it is that you were invited tea party rallies for two years is it because you believed because you thought maybe you wanted to be a tea party member or were you trying to infiltrate per se. i would say and as i said in my article i would say that i was originally sympathetic to to the tea party movement as i saw it described. in the kind of meeting the meeting announcements that went out at the time i was in north dakota. and that was you know it's not a it's not a large state it's not a populous state i guess it is a large state so a populous state like that but they are very politically active in north dakota has traditionally been at the forefront of a lot of different movements for the last hundred years so i was interested in going to some of these meetings i went to a couple and originally i was very sympathetic they were basically people who for the last i would sa

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and so we choose the mom bloggers of one.org. more about how to join them, to blog with them, we have a link to their group at abcnews.com/worldnews. way to go moms. thank you for watching tonight. we're always online at abcnews.com. "20/20" and "nightline" later. i'll see you this weekend. oorksz the s and p down graded the united states credit rating. >> how one company is helping to create jobs for some of those hit hardest during the economic down turn. >> a car theft ring police uncovered and how thieves got away witness. >> and the potential controversy over san francisco's water meters and similarities to pg&e smart meters. >> a shocking development tonight just half an hour ago. agencies standard and poor's down graded from credit rating from triple a to double a plus. >> this is the first time in u.s. history. and good evening, everybody. dan ashley is off tonight. >> and the ended up at the end. >> and unemployment dropped from 9.2% to 9.1%. employers added 117,000 jobs last month and. >> keep in mind s and p is one of

now got more analysis on the situation in libya from carl sharu a middle east blogger from carla remarks thanks very much for being with us today now a nato says it will stay in libya as long as it takes to secure the u.n. mandate basically to protect civilians but at the same time they say the gadhafi regime is over wasn't getting rid of the gadhafi main goal so why are they going to say well these are the very interesting kind of conflicting opinions on reports that we keep getting from the ground in libya in tripoli and other places. coming both from nato who i think from our side there are to intervene in a situation they didn't quite understand and they were quite frankly caught by surprise this time around despite all the reports and they can't come up with a coherent narrative of what their mission should be in libya or why there should be should be there at all from the beginning and we're getting that as the same from reports on the ground so while some people are jubilant and around and they're saying it's all over we still have all these open ended questions and there's fighti

preempt a protest that had even happened earlier i spoke to someone who is concerned freelance writer blogger and food freedom advocate karen de coster i asked her if this new n.y.p.d. unit which was formed to look at social media is the right or wrong thing to do. the government is known for its many or its honor behaviors and lifestyles and this is just another government warning this time on social media so this is the police state and this is a police state that is forming social media of us a spy and harassing us citizens and this isn't preparation for the civil unrest that we see going on around the rest of the world so the succulents war is for the purpose if you think about it there are the purposes for create a so-called crisis and when they create this crisis they need to create a massive government bureaucracy to solve their crisis so again it's another tool to enlarge government to oppress individuals to read and hear rights and it's always under someone grella they had a supposed to appeal to us in opposing war way in this case it's the word terrorism isn't goat by the media. and

that will work earlier that is one of the questions that i asked financial radio host an economics blogger i meet your coffee nuts here is part of our conversation. course not that's going to happen and the downgrade of the i stand here because of the united states whether it was worth it or not i think speaks volumes about the shift of risk from the balance sheet of banks the balance sheets of sovereign countries which are effect of the backstops for the welfare state so when i get through to the question of course you're going to have mounting unrest and i think ultimately because the system architecture is is such with the banking system and the the way that the sovereign countries are benefiting backstop for. for the banking system i think that you're going to see you learn vest especially united states because the u.s. is an empire and it's the reserve currency of the world the banks are trying to take advantage of those low deals and that money coming in to the u.s. treasury to prop up the banking system the federal government spending on like the one you guys there are some things t

only born and raised in north london he is there right now watching as this unfolds talal rajab a blogger for the urbanite in north london resident and student is here with us now along i know around the world we're seeing pictures of the protests and the riots of cars beings that are on fire of stores being looted but i want to ask you in your opinion what part of the story isn't being told right now. i think firstly the first thing that isn't really being told is what actually started this in the first place what was the catalyst for this action and that was the the killing last thursday of the young guy with a list area called mark duggan by the police many people within this area still that you know he was unlawfully killed by the police and they initially wanted answers about why this happens the failure of the police to explain why this happened to you so i can spare it to the community i think was the initial catalyst for this event and i missed all the tower cars and the buildings being on fire people that actually took off and that this is all about the wrong guy that was we feel

well still to come tonight anti muslim blogger pamela geller seems to side it with the nora very shooter and bomber anders pray they can her latest post for his plane why in a moment and could there actually be defense cuts in the debt deal but explain why the neo cons are freaking out when we speak with lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer director. for the we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. the house of representatives has approved a bill to increase the u.s. debt limit paving the way for the senate to buzz on the plan to default but i did say even if the build process for congress months of political bickering has severely damaged america's reputation worldwide. also the u.s. and b you step out that push for more sanctions against syria after the latest crackdown on protesters reportedly leaves more than one hundred people dead but most who condemning violence from both sides. troops clashed with protesters in cairo security forces moving to break up a rally by a protest is demanding faster political china demonstrators have been campi

i'm charging bloggers a big picture. says . let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here. i think rather be the funny well. we never got the book says they're going to keep you safe get ready because you get your freedom. for. for. now the time since the tragic norway bombing and shooting details of begun to emerge about why anders breivik have done what if it was manifesto breda quoted anti muslim blogger pamela geller several times a day many people to put two and two together and think that maybe this right wing christian terrorist was strongly influenced by her writing. and nobody wants that kind of connection on their track record so an attempt to save face pamela geller responded to all the news outlets who made the connection between her material and that of the norway bomber but that response isn't exactly what you'd expect the inner most recent post on her blog atlas shrugged geller talked about the summer camp the grave opened fired on and she called the labor party's summer youth camp and indoctrinatio

how can she distinguish herself from a citizen journalist or a blogger? need there be a distinction? that goes into a whole nother question of who is a journalist. nobody wants to tackle that question. >> you should also visit new terms and talk to journalists about what they do. >> i will try to be quick. i think there is a spectrum of journalism and there are professionals. citizen journalists along the spectrum, but they are all valuable. i was going to say, one of the things you should learn how to do is promote yourself and promote your brand. you can get on tomorrow, you can build clips like no other time in history. you can do that on facebook, your web site. learning how to use your network to promote the thing that you care about, what to write about, is a huge scale that the internet will allow you to do. >> my name is claudia. i worked for pat. my question is for everyone on the panel. -- i work for patch. noting the lack of hispanics on the panel, how do newsrooms address in-language content and sourcing? try to get people in the community, th

>> guest: he came as a blogger for a jihadists website. he was a very radicalized young men, a smart young man, a doctor, someone who lived eight fairly normal life. he decided to write this very caustic internet blog under an assumed name and did this for a number of years in which he criticizes own government, jordan, criticize u.s. policy, criticize israel. it was very much pro-al qaeda and would sometimes take al qaeda source and try to trick them a try to bring them down to language that ordinary young people could understand. he was quite good at this. he had a big following. someone who was agitating, educating and encouraging people to sort of be attracted to this course. he was arrested, getting my head of myself, because you become such an important personality to jordanian government said this guy has to be stopped. they arrested him. bring him into custody for several days and then try to flip them, tried to make him an informant. >> host: their concern was he was encouraging and inciting violence becoming a mouthpiece for al q

you think i thought boy that was me take a phone at his radio host and you counted blogger now all this has got you freight doubt about the direction of the economy you're not alone that people are getting ready they're stocking up on food and supplies in case catastrophe and just in case you want to take any notes and as artists are going to have their story. a typical house in a regular suburban town. but here a family's preparing for the end of the world. a german mouser and p. thirty eight from world war two a twelve gauge shotgun. a forty caliber pistol and an eight ar fifteen weapons and ammunition r t if we're carrying this out on the street for some reason and you know and the world type situation you can walk around with these guns here he first cura a certified n.r.a. instructor and all of two businesses store student supplies to help you survive no matter what disaster might hit breakdown of government is one thing a lot of people caring for now were facing possible paid of ladies for social security. i don't believe we're going to be doing this kind of quitting for that but

what you think where you think i thought going that was me take affinities radio host and economics blogger . so if all of this is that you freak out about the direction of the economy you're not alone coming out next see how some americans are getting ready for anything stocking up on food and why it's catastrophe. for you. you want to train lemons into lemonade but what about turning conflict into opportunity well we'll show you how some americans are better preparing themselves come hell or high water government financial collapse and if the segment that we've done earlier in this show make you worried that that's all coming well anastasio charkha has a story that made you want to take notes on. a typical house in a regular suburban town like here atlanta lee's preparing for the end of the world . a german now there and p thirty eight from world war two a twelve gauge shotgun. forty caliber pistol and an a r fifteen weapons and ammunition r t if we're carrying this out on the street for some reason all hell broke out and you know and the world hates insulation you can walk around with gu

we have been in this industry and a lot of you have been involved blogger then we have. the problem is always the same. now the microphone is on. you may change your mind whether you want to hear me. if you raise your hands we will keep the microphone on. the reason for proposal 12 is, as we all know, the single biggest problem in the minds of the public in san francisco regarding taxi service and the single biggest problem regarding taxi service in san francisco is not the quality of our drivers. a special thank you for a driver from luxor who helped solve a crime the other night. it is a situation where folks feel they cannot get a cab when they need them. they cannot rely on the service and this is a cute on fridays and saturdays when our citizens and visitors should be about enjoying the city and spending money. we have the first and probably a series of many steps to address this. we will add some full-time thompson and for the first time, since i have been involved, i and others who have been pushing forward which is aimed more surgical approach to get cabs on the

the delay sparked criticism of a possible coverup among chinese bloggers and other internet users. >>> china is putting the brakes on opening of a new high speed railway. the government hasn't made a formal announcement about the delay. it faced criticism over the safety of its bullet train service since a collision last month killed 40 people and injured more than 190 others. the new service has reportedly been tested since july 26th. it runs about 100 kilometers in the southern province. passengers were expected to start traveling on the line on friday when an international sports event opens but the new north station remains off limits to the public and no tickets were being sold there on friday. the railway ministry has yet to make an announcement about the delay and station officials say the line has not started commercial operations. >> translator: i hope the authority can act on the principle of safety first. there have been too many rail accidents recently. >>> the united states and north korea are making progress on a humanitarian issue. the north says it is considering now a

nobody has done a better job to reach out to conservative bloggers than rick perry. be speaking to the red state gathering. conservative bloggers from across america. they could be a big help to him oning a primary. so yeah, if rick perry announces or has a semi announcement on saturday, it could overshadow some of what comes out of aims iowa straw poll at the same time. >> now, dr. dyson, i heard bob say that he can claim governing or executive experience, unlike others in the race, other than those who are moderate. look at some of his exec tifr executive experience, what he did as governor. he cut $4 billion in school funds. he also mandated sonograms for women planning abortion. so his executive experience also signed a voter id bill requiring photo identification for voters, something those of us in the voter rights movement are very concerned about. his executive experience seems extremely troubling to some of us, wouldn't you say, dr. dyson? >> absolutely, reverend sharpton. it is very, very troubling. his executor or executive experience executing his plans,

a political blogger writes ultimately pelosi is a team player and will not urge her democratic colleagueso rob president obama of the deal he wants and needs into this. it's only a matter of time when we see. >> we know you watch all of that for us. it's 6:09. the verdict for two bay area hikers detained will be delivered within the week. shane bauer and josh fattal were arrested with sarah shourd in 2009 when the three allegedly crossed the unmarked border while hiking of it shourd left iran last september due to $500,000. all three deny the spying charges and they crossed that border. >> it's 6:9. time to check the forecast. usually august brings on the dog days of summer. >> not in this seven-day. we have lots of low clouds. really not at ground level around san jose. 69 degrees not causing issues. where will it impact your commute? this is our san bruno camera. you can see that's where the base or the ceiling of the low clouds aren't. can't even see san francisco. you had to worry about thunder. we have the winds higher up so take tahoe to yos might could see a shower this afternoon.

these volunteers felt compelled to thank the bloggers. >> they welcomed us with song and dance and weugging us. >> all the while amy was taking notes for the nightly posts she wrote on her momformation blog. she wants to show the readers the tiny slice of federal budget that goes to the foreign aid programs is worth it. >> i try to tell stories of people of lives being saved. >> that includes the lives of mothers she met who might have died giving birth at home but got to deliver their babies at a health clinic. >> even though our lives are so different, we are still the same. like we still have the same goal. we want to feed our kids. we want, you know, we want happy, healthy kids. >> it's a theme amy says she will keep writing about now that she's returned. >> it's good to be back because i missed my kids and i missed my husband. but i miss kenya. >> in san francisco, johnathan bloom, abc7 news. >> you can find links to amy's blogs, along with the rest of the moms that went on the trip by visiting abc7news.com. click on "see it on tv." >>> a couple men's i was talking about the warm

. >>> whole foods is doing damage control after being accused of caving to conservative bloggers.mes after the national chain launched a new marking campaign for ramadan. it touted a new line of certified frozen foods but didn't take long for bloggers to accuse whole foods of supporting terrorism. an internal email obtained by the houston press suggested whole foods was changing its campaign. but the company says it is not canceling the promotion. >> i appreciate the fact that they stood behind their policy of celebrating diversity of promoting ramadan and they are not going to give in. >> the whole foods campaign markets the country's first ramadan promotion by a national supermarket chain. >>> boy or girl? parents can find out sooner. there is new research that says a blood test can determine a baby's sex at just 7 weeks inutero. the information is in week's journal of the american medical association. researchers say the test is 59% accurate. the test is based on cell-free fetal dna taken from the mother's blood and was designed to be an alternative to more invasive procedures

. >>> well, whole foods is doing damage control after being accused of caving to conservative bloggers after the national chain launched a new marketing campaign for muslims for ramadan. it touted a new line for certified frozen foods but didn't take long for bloggers to accuse whole foods of supporting terrorism. an internal email obtained by the houston press suggests that whole foods was changing its campaign but the company is not canceling the promotion. >> i appreciate the fact that they stood behind their policy of celebrating and promoting ramadan and saying they are not going to give in to this. >> the whole foods campaign marks the country's first ramadan promotion by a national supermarket chain. >>> they say they want to kill facebook. that's the latest threat from the hacker group known as "anonymous." members of the shadowy collective say they are targeting facebook for its misuse of personal information. the announced dated for the shutdown november 5. in december the group tried and failed to bring down online giant amazon.com. >>> let's check and see what's coming up t