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Hong Kong's Existing Home Sales Decline on Government Curbs
2013-03-11 04:26:57| Real Estate - Topix.net
Sales at Hong Kong's biggest private residential projects fell to a fewer than 10 for a second straight weekend after the developer controlled by the city's richest man said it would cut prices of new units in response to a doubling of the stamp duty.
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Hickenlooper Not the Only Government Official Trying to Frack Colorado
2013-03-10 21:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Over the past few weeks, Colorado`s Governor John Hickenlooper has gotten a lot of negative attention. First, for telling a U.S. Senate committee that he drank Halliburton`s frack fluid and second, for threatening to sue the City of Fort Collins for its ban on fracking. But Hickenlooper isn`t the only government official trying to frack Colorado. Helen Hankins, who directs the Colorado office of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), has also been in the very-uncomfortable glare of public...
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Canadian government gag order for scientists?
2013-03-10 14:38:13| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Living on Earth: Canada's Harper Administration is allegedly restricting what environmental information government scientists can share with journalists, according to academics and media watchdogs. Host Steve Curwood learns more from Tyler Sommers, coordinator of Democracy Watch. Transcript CURWOOD: Canada's conservative government, which has been pressing the Obama Administration to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, has come under sharp criticism for allegedly muzzling Canadian government scientists who talk...
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Bypassing the telecoms: 'Stingrays' allow direct government phone surveillance with little oversight
2013-03-10 02:50:34| Telecom - Topix.net
The third panel at Yale Law School's Location Tracking and Biometrics conference last weekend focused on so-called "Stingray" devices, which is a trade name for a fake cell-phone tower operated by police that tricks your phone into sending its signal to them instead of your cell-phone carrier.
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Bypassing the telecoms: 'Stingrays' allow direct government phone surveillance with little oversight
2013-03-10 01:41:47| Wireless - Topix.net
The third panel at Yale Law School's Location Tracking and Biometrics conference last weekend focused on so-called "Stingray" devices, which is a trade name for a fake cell-phone tower operated by police that tricks your phone into sending its signal to them instead of your cell-phone carrier.
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