Taking a HARD look at the Business of Politics

http://texpundit.com/mark-foley/foley-scandal-wag-the-dog/
Interesting.

Verizon isn’t the only company trying to divide and conquer on the issues of Net Neutrality, squashing Cable Competitors, and bypassing the local Franchise Process by pushing for state level franchising. Verizon lost the fight so far in PA, let’s hope that AT&T loses a similar fight in Michigan.
Could it be that the grassroots movement […]

According to an article in B&C, the leaders of the House and Senate Commerce Committees were putting pressure on the FCC, in the wake of Friday’s postponement, to get the job done on the AT&T BellSouth Merger. The article states, “In a statement Friday, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and House Energy and […]

It looks like there’s a good possibility that AT&T should be added to the list of Iraq War Profiteers along with Halliburton, Titan, CACI, and Blackwater.
AT&T has close to a monopoly on phone service in and out of Iraq and is gouging our GIs there. According to an article in the Prepaid Press, the American […]

All that corn that Big Agribusiness is growing so they can rape the American Taxpayer via Nixon’s farm subsidies, could actually be put to good use if our current administration wasn’t kissing Big Oil’s ass. Even Africa is getting it right with Pumpkin Power! Several Telecomm network groups in Africa, including Eriksson and MTN, […]

It appears that due to Grassroots Organizing and lots of noise over the issue, the Cable Choice Legislation that would have been a gift to Verizon has been stalled. According to the article in MultiChannel News, “More than 30 communities passed resolutions opposing bills that would wrest localities’ power to regulate cable franchises from them, […]

According to this article in the Seattle Times, there’s a very real possibility Foley will be able to use Campaign Money to pay his legal defense fees and PR bills. The article goes on to state:
Whether Foley will be able to spend his contributors’ donations on defense lawyers and publicists will depend on how the […]

BBC News just reported that North Korea has just completed its first underground test of a nuclear weapon.
One wonders if the North Korean people will ever smarten up and remove their leadership before the whole country is pounded into the ground by everyone else in an attempt to stop the Madman at the Top.
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Liz at Successful-Blog posted this link to the Verizon PoliBlog, a new blog from one of the Telecomms we all have been yelling about for the past few months. I think this is a good thing, especially since so far they’ve not censored the comments, though I expect that will change eventually. And Kamm, I […]

In John Harris’ article, New Media A Weapon in New World Of Politics he analyses the effect that “new media” in the form of blogs, websites, radio talk shows and other fast forms of communication to the masses.
He documents how Clinton talked about New Media in the wake of the recent ruckus on Fox News–
he […]