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Companies' Pro-Equality Rhetoric Belied By Their Campaign Donations
2015-04-13 07:20:29| IT Services - Topix.net
Last week, corporate America appeared to take a rare stand on principle. After Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed a law permitting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, various companies expressed outrage and tried to position themselves as bold defenders of social justice.
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Reality check on net neutrality rhetoric
2015-02-25 04:40:49| Telecom - Topix.net
Net neutrality is a government takeover of the Internet and a threat to online freedom. Or it's the best way to stop cable companies from breaking websites and creating an online world of haves and have-nots.
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Rhetoric on EPA, climate show divisions Republican presidential hopefuls
2015-01-28 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: One likely Republican presidential candidate called the Environmental Protection Agency locusts while another compared climate change to a sunburn, exposing a contrast with several other likely contenders within the party who recently acknowledged the role of human activity in climate change. National Republicans almost universally have opposed President Barack Obama's plan for addressing climate change and how he has used the EPA to achieve those goals, but Senate votes the week of Jan. 19...
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Airbnb should trade rhetoric for real progress in hosts' compliance: Editorial Agenda 2015
2015-01-23 00:10:35| PortlandOnline
The Oregonian Editorial Board, January 22, 2015
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Australia still 'constructive' climate talks, despite Julie Bishop's rhetoric
2014-12-11 03:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Australian governments rhetoric to its domestic audience about international climate talks is harder line than the positions it is taking in the actual negotiations, according to long-term observers of the process. In many areas the actual negotiating position of the current government is much the same as the former government, the real difference is in their rhetoric and their posturing, said the deputy director of the Climate Institute, Erwin Jackson. Their rhetoric is definitely tougher...
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