Saturday, March 15, 2014

RSN: Emails Show Collusion Between Regulators and Duke Energy, ...Deny Poor People Health Care, Neocons Have Weathered the Storm, et al



FOCUS: Ralph Nader | What a Destructive Wall Street Owes Young Americans
The Wall Street sign is seen outside the New York Stock Exchange, March 26, 2009. (photo: Chip East/Reuters)
Ralph Nader, The Nader Page
Nader writes: "Wall Street's big banks and their financial networks that collapsed the U.S. economy in 2008-2009, were saved with huge bailouts by the taxpayers, but these Wall Street Gamblers are still paid huge money and are again creeping toward reckless misbehavior."
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Robert Parry | Neocons Have Weathered the Storm
Former US Defense Secretary Robert Gates. (photo: EPA)
Robert Parry, Consortium News
Parry writes: "You might have expected that the neocons would have been banished to the farthest reaches of U.S. policymaking, so far away that they would never be heard from again."
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Malaysian Official: Diversion of Missing Airliner Was a 'Deliberate Act'
Kate Hodal, Guardian UK
Hodal writes: "A newly extended, multinational search stretching all the way from Kazakhstan to the southern Indian Ocean was under way on Saturday after satellite data indicated missing flight MH370 last made contact six hours after previously believed."
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UN Rights Watchdog Urges Release of Senate Report on CIA Torture
Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters
Nebehay writes: "A United Nations human rights watchdog called on the United States on Thursday to release a report on a Bush-era interrogation program at the heart of a dispute between the CIA and a Senate panel."
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Outside Political Groups Are Spending Record Amounts of Money to Deny Poor People Health Care
Sy Mukherjee, ThinkProgress
Mukherjee writes: "Obamacare opponents have already run more than 30,000 television ads attacking the health law and Democratic candidates who support it, according to the media tracking group CMAG - a staggering 12-fold increase from four years ago."
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US to Relinquish Remaining Control Over the Internet
Craig Timberg, The Washington Post
Timberg writes: "U.S. officials announced plans Friday to relinquish federal government control over the administration of the Internet, a move that pleased international critics but alarmed some business leaders and others who rely on the smooth functioning of the Web."
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Emails Show Collusion Between Regulators and Duke Energy
John Deike, EcoWatch
Deike writes: "Duke Energy, North Carolina's largest electric and gas supplier, announced Friday it would take the company more than two years to clean up February's massive coal ash spill that coated 70 miles of the Dan River with 60,000 tons of toxic sludge."
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