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Net neutrality a key battleground in growing fight over encryption, activists say

2014-07-21 13:08:00| InfoWorld: Top News

Plans to favor some Internet packets over others threaten consumers' hard-won right to use encryption, a digital privacy advocate says. Activists and tech companies fended off efforts in the U.S. in the 1990s to ban Internet encryption or give the government ways around it, but an even bigger battle over cryptography is brewing now, according to Sascha Meinrath, director of X-Lab, a digital civil-rights think tank launched earlier this year. One of the most contested issues in that battle will be net neutrality, Meinrath said.

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Atlantic Canada is the next major pipeline battleground

2014-05-08 14:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Financial Post: Western-based oil pipeline projects have for several years generated opposition worthy of Hollywood dramas. This past March, for example, police arrested hundreds of Keystone XL protesters who had tied themselves to a White House fence in opposition to the deeply divisive development. On this side of the border, environmental groups and Aboriginal communities flooded the courts with lawsuits last December-10 when all was said and done-beginning just three hours after the Joint Review Panel gave the...

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Jason Johnson Racing Wins ASCS Gulf South Region Double at Battleground Speedway

2014-04-10 22:09:35| K&N Racing News

Born and raised in Eunice, Louisiana and nicknamed the Ragin Cajun and the Cajun Sensation because of his youthful fascination with fast cars...

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Is Minnesota the Next Battleground in the Tar Sands Fight?

2014-04-07 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Midwest Energy News: Marty Cobenais has been to every state along the proposed Keystone XL pipeline route, organizing resistance to the project from Montana to Texas. Hes been arrested twice for civil disobedience during Keystone XL protests in front of the White House. Now, the Bemidji man believes its time for pipeline activists around the country to turn their attention to his own backyard in northern Minnesota. A trio of major pipeline projects proposed by Canadian fuel transporter Enbridge have been moving...

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