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Liberal 'Net Neutrality' Activist Given Vast Subpoena Power

2015-10-29 20:42:10| IT Services - Topix.net

Liberal political activist Tim Wu is wasting no time using his new power as a member of the New York Attorney General's staff to issue subpoenas without prior judicial approval to force major Internet Service Providers to hand over documents and other material. Wu is known chiefly as a vocal advocate of new federal laws or regulations barring ISPs from charging customers variable rates for moving their content on the Internet.

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VIDEO: China's vast credit rating plans

2015-10-27 11:56:34| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

China is planning to bring in a new system of credit rating, which will rank not just your financial reliability but also your social interactions and consumer spending.

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Rapid and startling decline of worlds vast boreal forests

2015-10-13 15:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: The boreal forest wraps around the globe at the top of the Northern Hemisphere in North America and Eurasia. Also known as taiga or snow forest, this landscape is characterized by its long, cold and snowy winters. In North America it extends from the Arctic Circle of northern Canada and Alaska down into the very northern tip of the United States in Idaho, Washington, Montana, and Minnesota. It's the planet's single largest biome and makes up 30 percent of the globe's forest cover. Moose are the...

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Even after dark, vast Spanish solar plant harnesses sun's power

2015-10-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: In December this year the UN Climate Conference takes place in Paris. Ahead of the summit, we will release a series of stories, titled "Earthprints," that show the ability of humans to impact change on the landscape of the planet. From sprawling urban growth to the construction of new islands, each site has profoundly changed in the last 30 years. Each story has accompanying NASA satellite images that show the scale of the change. (here) On a barren, sun-baked plateau in southern Spain, row upon...

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