Left Side of the Aisle #194

Left Side of the Aisle
for the week of March 5-11, 2015

This week:

Good News: FCC acts on net neutrality
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2889656/fcc-passes-net-neutrality-rules-reclassifies-broadband-as-utility.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2890097/the-fccs-net-neutrality-ruling-5-things-you-need-to-know.html
http://publicpolicy.verizon.com/blog/entry/fccs-throwback-thursday-move-imposes-1930s-rules-on-the-internet
http://www.cnet.com/news/why-the-fcc-is-right-to-act-on-net-neutrality/
http://www.newamerica.org/oti/
http://www.newamerica.org/oti/the-cost-of-connectivity-2014/
http://www.cnet.com/news/i-support-net-neutrality-that-is-not-what-the-fcc-just-did/

Outrage of the Week: Cleveland's response to the Tamir Rice suit
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/02/1348833/-Tamir-Rice-The-story-behind-the-execution-character-assassination-coverup-of-a-senseless-murder
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tamir-rices-mother-yet-recieve-apology-city-police-sons-death-n316561
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/04/1349386/-New-lie-in-the-shooting-death-of-Tamir-Rice-discovered-Police-never-saw-the-tip-of-the-gun-at-all
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2854617/Cops-shot-12-year-old-Tamir-Rice-dead-holding-BB-gun-did-not-aid-watched-lie-agony-died-just-hours-later.html
http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/04/us/cleveland-justice-department-police-excessive-force/index.html
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/02/tamir-rice-cleveland-police-115401_Page2.html#.VPYZDfnF-m6
http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2015/02/city_of_cleveland_responds_to.html
http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2015/03/citys_disrespectful_response_t.html

Footnote: Cleveland's bogus "apology"
http://www.cleveland.com/cityhall/index.ssf/2015/03/cleveland_mayor_frank_jackson_50.html
http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2015/03/citys_disrespectful_response_t.html

Netanyahu shrieks to Congress
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/netanyahus-dangerous-zero-sum-game/2015/03/03/50a35580-c1de-11e4-9271-610273846239_story.html
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2015/02/goody-goody.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/netanyahu-tries-to-drag-the-us-to-war-with-iran/2015/03/03/8b424ffe-c1e1-11e4-9271-610273846239_story.html

RIP: Leonard Nimoy
http://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/leonard-nimoy-famous-for-his-role-as-mr-spock-dies#.bcjq1E2wq
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jaimieetkin/celebrities-scientists-and-more-remember-leonard-nimoy#.ndn593mq5
http://hyperallergic.com/186688/the-many-lives-of-leonard-nimoy-artist-collector-vulcan/

Clown Award: James Inhofe
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/26/jim-inhofe-climate-snow_n_6763868.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/02/24/bitter-cold-morning-breaks-long-standing-records-across-northeast/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/19/cold-weather-winter_n_6713104.html
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3koOUFp4crU
http://theweek.com/speedreads/542109/study-says-global-warming-caused-by-humans-behind-california-drought
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/03/02/study_climate_change_helped_spark_syrian_civil_war.html

How to fight Daesh without war
http://www.vox.com/2015/2/23/8085197/is-isis-losing
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/02/20/the-cracks-in-islamic-states-business-plan-are-starting-to-show/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/20/us-mideast-crisis-planting-specialreport-idUSKBN0KT0W420150120
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2014/06/1645-iraq-some-comments.html
http://www.ajmuste.org/