Wednesday, May 14, 2014

RSN: Rocky Road for Canadian Oil, The Federalist Impeachment Party, Secret Cable Reveals Russia Warned US in 2008 Meddling in Ukraine Could Split Country et al



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Elizabeth Warren | Bank on Students
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass). (photo: AP)
Elizabeth Warren, Reader Supported News
Warren writes: "Last year, we fought to lower the interest rates on student loans - and nearly all the Republicans in Washington agreed with us that rates were far too high. So Congress lowered the rates for new borrowers this year - not as much as we would have liked, but some. But Congress did nothing for the millions of people stuck with older high interest rate loans."
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European Court: Google Must Honor Requests to Delete Certain Links
Al Jazeera America
Excerpt: "In a landmark decision, the Court of Justice of the European Union said the search giant and others must listen and sometimes comply when individuals ask for links to newspaper articles or websites containing personal information to be taken down."
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Secret Cable Reveals Russia Warned US in 2008 Meddling in Ukraine Could Split Country
RIA Novosti
Excerpt: "A secret cable released by Wikileaks on Tuesday revealed that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned Washington as far back as 2008 that US-EU-NATO meddling in Ukraine could split the country in two."
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FCC Phone Lines Flooded After Net Neutrality Controversy
Brad Reed, Boy Genius Report
Reed writes: "The Federal Communications Commission would rather read your thoughts about net neutrality than hear about them."
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Jeffrey Toobin | The Federalist Impeachment Party
Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker
Toobin writes: "Want to know what's on the mind of conservative lawyers in Washington? It's the impeachment of Barack Obama. That was the message of the Federalist Society's second annual Executive Branch Review Conference, last week."
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Prepare to Take Action to Defend Net Neutrality
April Glaser, EFF
Glaser writes: "While Chairman Wheeler and his fellow commissioners have been blogging about the FCC's proposal, no text has been released to the pubic. Not yet, anyway. But mark your calendars. This Thursday, May 15th, the FCC will finally unveil its 'Open Internet' proposal."
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Rocky Road for Canadian Oil
Clifford Krauss and Ian Austen, The New York Times
Excerpt: "With TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline snarled in a regulatory and legal struggle south of the border, Canadian oil companies are proposing many new and expanded pipelines that would connect the oil sands fields with new markets in China and across the world."
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