Taking a HARD look at the Business of Politics

I just had an interesting juxtaposition of two good articles to read. One tells why the other one is wrong, providing the FCC and Congress get our Telecomm Reform right this time, and the “market forces” telecomm sock puppet Congresspeople who take Telecomm Money get voted out of office.
The first one is “The Internet is […]

An Important film has just been released, called “No End in Sight, the American Occupation of Iraq“, which “dissects the people, issues and facts behind the Bush Administration’s decisions and their consequences on the ground to provide a powerful look into how arrogance and ignorance turned a military victory into a seemingly endless and deepening […]

Lately the news has been full of stories of Hacked Apple IPhones, the chutzpah prize going to the 17 year old NJ kid who has a hacked phone for sale on ebay, which can be used on other networks, such as the T-Mobile Network, as well as internationally, without paying the AT&T Vig. Many of […]

If ever there was an argument for telecomm regulation reform by Congress, this is it.
Both MSNBC and the New York Times have reported that National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell has admitted that AT&T and Verizon, as well as other unnamed communications companies, have helped the Bush Administration spy on people. And during that time was […]

There’s a lot going on right now on the Telecomm/Big Media front.
Murdoch. Ugh. Don’t even wanna go there. I hope the FCC starts to do something about this manure. It stinks.
Harold Feld has a wrap up of the humongous heap of paper out of the FCC that documents the Spectrum Auction Rules. It’s a […]

Funny how certain things can come back to bite you on the butt, huh?

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The Washington Post is reporting that our new Security/Wiretapping Law, which, because of the fiber optic nature of landlines, requires special switches for the taps to be placed, also allows others beside the government to use these special switches to intercept conversations. The article states, “Such threats are not theoretical. For almost a year beginning […]

The Save the Internet blog is reporting that AT&T censored a concert by Pearl Jam over the weekend. This, of course, does not surprise any of us who have been following the Net Neutrality debate, though I think it was a HUGE tactical mistake by AT&T. And since they’re scrambling to apologize and blaming some […]

Senator Arlen Specter visited our area on Thursday morning. He was welcomed by sign wielding Peace Marchers upon his entry into the Community Center in Forks Township, PA outside of Easton. The turnout, for a weekday summer morning when many people were either working or off on vacation, was surprisingly good, with a few hundred […]

For those of you in the Easton, PA area, Senator Arlen Specter will be having a Town Meeting at the Forks Township Community Center, 500 Zucksville Rd, #2 Gym, Easton PA, on Thursday August 9th, at 10:30 AM. Since this isn’t a Federal Government Building, we would think that so-called “subversive” teeshirts and buttons won’t […]