Monday, July 7, 2014

RSN: TransCanada Buys Town's Silence on Tar Sands Pipeline Proposal for $28K, Eighteen Months of Idiots and Deadly Power Working in Tandem



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Charles Pierce | Eighteen Months of Idiots and Deadly Power Working in Tandem
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Charles Pierce, Esquire
Excerpt: "Why do some states still allow pistols in bars? Blind people can own guns? Should women be forbidden to wear low-cut blouses to firing ranges? Thanks to Pierce's research, here's an 18-month look back at irresponsible gun lovers."
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9 of 10 Online Accounts Intercepted by NSA Are Not Intended Surveillance Target
Ms. Smith, NetworkWorld
Smith writes: "Despite a year of NSA officials claiming that Edward Snowden had access to reports about NSA surveillance, but no access to actual surveillance intercepts, that ends up being lie too."
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2014 Could Be the Year We Lose the Internet
Andrew Leonard, Salon
Leonard writes: "Halfway through 2014, and the influence of technology and Silicon Valley on culture, politics and the economy is arguably bigger than ever - and certainly more hotly debated. Here are Salon's choices for the five biggest stories of the year."
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Why Hobby Lobby Could Open a Pandora's Box Of Legal Discrimination
Peter Moskowitz, Al Jazeera America
Moskowitz writes: "Some effects of the Supreme Court's decision on Monday in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores will be relatively immediate: Women who work at companies with owners who decide it's against their religious beliefs to provide birth control will lose free or cheap access to contraceptives such as the Plan B pill, IUDs and, potentially, condoms, as well as the most popular pill form of birth control."
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Privacy Tools: How to Block Online Tracking
Hanqing Chen, ProPublica
Chen writes: "There are a few ways to combat online tracking - although none can block some of the more sophisticated tracking techniques, such as 'fingerprinting' and 'onboarding.' Here are three tools that block the most common trackers."
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Brutal Police Beating of Homeless Women Videotaped in CA
The Daily Caller
Excerpt: "A barefoot woman described as harmless was subdued and pummeled by a California Highway Patrol officer in an incident captured on video."
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TransCanada Buys Town's Silence on Tar Sands Pipeline Proposal for $28K
Emily Atkin, ThinkProgress
Atkin writes: "A small town in Ottawa, Canada will be receiving $28,200 from energy company TransCanada Corp. in exchange for not commenting on the company's proposed Energy East tar sands pipeline project, according to an agreement attached to the town council's meeting agenda on June 23."
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