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Friday Nite Videos -- April 11, 2014

Snowden: Take Back the Internet. McDonald's Steals From Employees. Joy Behar Roasts Chris Christie. White Rabbit, Live from Woodstock. If Walmart Paid a Living Wage ...

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Edward Snowden: How We Take Back the Internet
 
Appearing by telepresence robot, Edward Snowden speaks at TED2014 (Mar 18) about surveillance and Internet freedom. The right to data privacy, he suggests, requires a fundamental rethink of the role of the internet in our lives — and the laws that protect it. Chris Anderson interviews, with special guest Tim Berners-Lee.
 
 

 


 

McDonald's Managers Ordered to Cheat Employees
 
Wage theft ... it's not clownish, not right, and not legal. Which is why McDonald's is being sued.
 
 

 


 

Joy Behar Roasts Chris Christie
 
Gee, the bully has trouble tolerating a few comic barbs. Who'da thunk it?
 
 

 


 

White Rabbit, Live from Woodstock (1969)
 
Grace Slick's lyrics for White Rabbit employ imagery from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with a hookah smoking caterpiller and lots of other otherworldly effects.
 
 

 

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If Walmart Paid a Living Wage ...
 
In the series "The Secret Life of a Food Stamp," Marketplace reporter Krissy Clark traces how big-box stores make billions from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, aka food stamps. What's more, the wages of many workers at these stores are so low that the workers themselves qualify for food stamps—which the employees then often spend at those big-box stores.