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the Federal Communications Commission won't stand up for Internet freedom
on Wednesday FCC Chairman Tom wheeler announce that he will not
appeal the recent court ruling that struck down net neutrality
instead the Commission's going to attempt to regulate internet providers
on a
he spoke he spits in addition the Obama administration announced Tuesday that
the president cannot
order the FCC to reclassify internet providers
as so-called common carriers overall it appears that president
and the FCC are siding with the giant corporations rather than the millions of
Americans who demand
a free in open internet since that net neutrality was struck down last month a
row
already been numerous reports up Internet traffic been slowed down by
carriers in a blatant attempt to extort more money from
content providers like Nick Netflix make matters worse
comcast also announced a merger with Time Warner which would give that
carrier
even more extreme power to create a a for play
internet said protecting our right to freely exchange ideas and information on
the web
our government appears ready to allow corporate control
the Internet and the creation another monopoly
apparently more than a million people speaking out against the reason that
neutrality rule in
wasn't enough the wake up government officials we must keep this movement
growing
and keep demanding that are internet freedoms are protected
in screwed news almost 200,000 people are about to lose their health care
in arkansas and Tuesday 70 members at States House of Representatives voted to
accept federal money to expand Medicaid but that wasn't enough votes to make it
happen
arkansas's outdated 1934 state constitution
lawmakers must have a three-quarter super-majority
to appropriate or span anything over two and a half million dollars
so even though a strong majority of legislators approved the funding
a hundred thousand people will lose their health care on the 1st to July
is five state lawmakers decided that eighty air president
is more important than people's lives the red state donut hole is already left
five million Americans without health care
Arkansas Republicans must think even more
people should have to suffer stiver people in arkansas to speak out
and demand better their politicians the best address to the news denton texas is
taking on the fracking industry
and Tuesday the debt and rolling awareness group announced that they're
collecting signatures
to put a fracking ban before voters in the next election
group is to collect 571 signatures in 180 days to get this measure on the
ballot
but organizers expect to far exceed that mark churn Wilson earthworks texas has
been working with the group since 2009
you get the city adaption to enact regulations to protect
residents so far their efforts have all been
locked as Wilson said enough is enough
this ban passes the fracking industry will have its own bad behavior
City stonewalling to play big arms which state you live in
it's incredibly difficult to stand up to the oil and gas industry
that task is especially daunting in taxes
if voters approve this ban to get the fractures out set an example that
every city in America could follow according to read gastar radiation
levels are still calm and most
are areas of our nation but a few places are reporting some high spikes
Durham North Carolina supporting 30 counts per minute with spikes 244 sells
for a Massachusetts as ever in sixty
aid average in 68 with highs a hundred and ten counts per minute
Farmington Minnesota sitting at 40 counts per minute with spikes 262
and Rapid City South Dakota sovereign at 39
Heise 55 counts per minute readcasts alert level as a hundred counts per
minute however they remind us
but there is no such thing as a safe level uva radiation
Saint Mary's College is set in example it every business in america should
follow
students and faculty at that Maryland University are trying to tie the
president's
a check to the salaries at their lowest paid workers
currently the president of Saint Mary's University in Newbold
X 320 five thousand dollars a year
all schools janitors earn less than twenty-five thousand
students and teachers say that the president's our should not exceed ten
times with janitors earn
faculty is supposed to vote on the issue today and if it passes
it will then advance to the school's board of trustees president Newbold
salary is not as high as many university presidents who often bring home more
than a million dollars a year
are for students are attempting to highlight the fact that executive pay at
universities has been growing
resources for students have been caught compensation for lower-level staff has
been shrinking
unlike a hard-line a cabaret show cap ups to rein in the cost to be executive
salaries
while lifting pay for low-level staff say mary says an opportunity to do right
questions
faculty show all the universities and businesses the
janitors were is just as important has an executive's
and finally last week Gary James the owner of the rest of the restaurant in
enid Oklahoma made headlines for his eight full
anti-gay and racist comments since then social media users have taken to the
Internet to give the
sure to Caro club some interesting reviews
rather than complain about the restaurant serves food or hateful owner
people posted some fabulous be back on sites like Yelp and Google
when user wrote love this place its so gay the are in gary is silent
now they wrote this place is GOP gay have a by by spreading closet case
stand your ground and check out your car a club it's like mister James can expect
lots a new businesses
business thanks to all those positive feedback over his new clientele
may be a lot more interest in that is hateful regulars
and that's the way it today Thursday February 20th
2014 I'm Thom Hartmann on the news
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