HPR1061: TGTM Newscast for 2012/08/22

TGTM Newscast for 2012/08/22

Here is a news review:

• Britain Vows to Deny Assange Safe Passage
• ‘Top-two’ primary election limits choice, promotes voter apathy
• Romney would pay less than 1% in taxes under Ryan plan
• Worse Than I Thought
• Secret Boy Scout Predator Files Released
• Government Faces New Warrantless Surveillance Battle After Losing Landmark GPS Tracking Case
• Pakistan's Internet Censorship Worsens...Again
• Google Starts Punishing “Pirate” Sites In Search Results
• New Data Exposes BitTorrent Throttling ISPs
• Internet Archive Starts Seeding 1,398,875 Torrents

Other Headlines:

• The Freedom 7 Are Beating Obama in Court
• WikiLeaks: Paraguay's "Quasi-Coup" Has the Smell of Oil
• Facebook And ACLU Argue That 'Liking' Something Is Protected By The First Amendment
• Walmart workers paint graphic picture of working conditions throughout supply chain
• Green Party to Obama: Call off federal crackdowns on medical marijuana, respect state laws

News from "thestand.org," "rawstory.com," "maggiemcneill.wordpress.com," Audio clip "Moc#153 Purging Voter Rolls,"  and "allgov.com" used under arranged permission.

News from "torrentfreak.com," and "eff.org" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution license.

News from "democracynow.org" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution non-commercial no-derivatives license.

News Sources retain their respective copyrights.

Links

• https://www.democracynow.org/2012/8/17/headlines#8170
• https://www.thestand.org/2012/08/top-two-primary-election-limits-choice-promotes-voter-apathy/
• https://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/12/romney-would-pay-less-than-1-in-taxes-under-ryan-plan/
• https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/worse-than-i-thought/
• https://www.allgov.com//ViewNews/Secret_Boy_Scout_Predator_Files_Released_120809
• https://www.eff.org/press/releases/government-faces-new-warrantless-surveillance-battle-after-losing-landmark-gps
• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/pakistans-internet-censorship-worsensagain
• https://torrentfreak.com/google-starts-punishing-pirate-sites-in-search-results-120810/
• https://torrentfreak.com/new-data-exposes-bittorrent-throttling-isps-120809/
• https://torrentfreak.com/internet-archive-starts-seeding-1398635-torrents-120807/
• https://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2012/08/13/the-freedom-7-are-beating-obama-in-court/
• https://wlcentral.org/node/2758
• https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120810/03003419985/facebook-aclu-argue-that-liking-something-is-protected-first-amendment.shtml
• https://ufcw.blogspot.com/2012/08/walmart-workers-paint-graphic-picture.html
• https://www.web.gpnys.com/?p=12103

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