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Gas Leak Disasters Ignored by MSM, Blockchain & Data Privacy, Attack On BDS

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Channel: MintPress News · 2016 · News & Politics

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(01:24) Mnar Muhawesh, editor-in-chief of MintPress News and host of Behind The Headline, begins the episode by revealing U.S. climate disasters that the mainstream media’s largely ignored. As gas disasters destroy the air and health of Californians in addition to tumbling gas prices, here's why investors are singing to the tunes of the sun.

(06:40) Bitcoin is world famous as an innovative digital currency that enables secure transactions without government oversight, but the technology behind it can be used for much more. In our second interview of the week, Muhawesh is joined by Jameson Lopp, a software engineer from BitGo and a computer security expert, who explains how the bitcoin blockchain can be adapted to revolutionize how we share data and build trust online. Because a bitcoin block can contain anything from files to photos, the potentital applications of the blockchain reach far beyond finance.

(19:09) In this episode’s final interview, Rula Rashid of the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at the University of Minnesota tells Muhawesh how her organization successfully passed a student resolution urging their school to divest from companies that violate human rights, despite intense opposition from an unexpected place: the state legislature. It’s all part of a national, coordinated attack on the Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) movement, with investors spending millions to protect Israel’s war crimes from accountability. 

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