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Revealed: Alberta's Ploy to Break First Nations' Pipeline Opposition
2015-04-30 15:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Alberta government escalated its campaign to build tar sands pipelines under Premier Jim Prentice by seeking to have First Nations become full-blown proponents of the projects in return for oil revenues. Documents obtained by the Guardian show that under a proposed agreement the province would have funded a task force of Alberta First Nations and government officials to work jointly on removing bottlenecks and enabling the construction of pipelines to tide-water in the east and west coasts....
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Verizons latest privacy wrecking ploy: An unblockable supercookie that lets anyone track you on the internet
2014-11-05 19:30:29| Extremetech
Over the last week, it has emerged that Verizon Wireless has been silently tracking around 100 million mobile customers using a supercookie that can't be opted out of. The tracking cookie, as you can probably guess, allows Verizon to track almost everything that you do on the internet, and then sell that behavioral data to advertisers. Even worse, get this: Verizon's implementation of the supercookie is so sloppy that any third party can also use the cookie to track your behavior.
Sugar industry housing ploy?
2014-10-06 08:55:57| Sugar Industry News
Many of you may not know of how the sugar industry plans to build housing all along the south of Lake Okeechobee. Housing which will no doubt provide shelter for workers of the sugar industry. Most would say what's the big deal?
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Australia Institute director says Gore-Palmer ploy reset climate debate
2014-07-01 10:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Australia Institute has defended its role in negotiating the Clive Palmer-Al Gore climate announcement because the concessions made by the Palmer United party had avoided a big step backwards and reset the climate debate in Australia. In an email to supporters, the thinktanks strategic director and former Greens staffer, Ben Oquist, one of a number of people involved in bringing Gore and Palmer together, defended the move as a step forward, despite PUPs unchanged resolve to repeal Australias...
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Glass jammer cuts wearable's WiFi in misguided privacy ploy
2014-06-05 11:00:07| Wireless - Topix.net
An anti- Google Glass artist is threatening to cut off the wearable's WiFi over privacy concerns, though the connection cutting project seems to be based more on knee-jerk fear than an understanding of how Glass actually works.