Taking a HARD look at the Business of Politics

If Verizon spies on its own employees using this draconian Verizon software deployed through wireless handsets just imagine what they can do to you if you purchase one of their phones . . . and I have to wonder how much they’ve leveraged that information.
Comcast got caught with its bits hanging out, I gotta wonder […]

The NYTimes this morning has an OpEd piece from Studs Terkel on the whole issue of Wiretapping and Telecomm Immunity. Terkel was one of the people who was persecuted during the McCarthy Era simply because he signed petitions against injust laws, such as the Jim Crow laws and poll taxes. His ability to work in […]

A Republican stands up against further media consolidation, and instead of hearing WOOTs from his constituents, they’ve been silent. According to Broadcasting & Cable, “The FCC’s announcement of the hearing came the same day Sens. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and Trent Lott (R-Miss.) vowed to slow down a timetable that would lead to a mid-December vote […]

I think any of us who have, whether early on or later, realized that we have no business being in Iraq, will realize who feels they do have business being in Iraq, to the tune of billions of dollars of profit, by reading some of the Audit Reports coming out of the Special Inspector General’s […]

According to the NY Times this morning, Senator John D Rockefeller IV, the man who, as “chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, emerged last week as the most important supporter of immunity in devising a compromise plan with Senate Republicans and the Bush administration” received over $42,000 in campaign funding from Verizon and AT&T.
Of course, […]

The NYTimes is reporting that FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is rushing a plan to ease caps on Media Ownership through rulemaking in the next two months. This plan would allow huge media conglomerates to own a newspaper, TV station and radio station in the same city. Right now, as expected, the two Republican Commissioners support […]

BroadCasting & Cable reported today that the courts upheld the FCC’s reclassification of Broadband Access as an “information service” which resulted in the FCC giving the Telecomms the right to discriminate against wholesale purchasers of broadband access. A petition challenging that authority that had been filed by independent ISPs and cable-modem providers including EarthLink, ISP […]

With the alarming reports coming out in Green Niche Media Outlets, it leads me to wonder what in HELL is going on in Mainstream Media with this story. Yeah, Big Media will report that Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, though of course they also have to quote one of the neocons slamming green […]

Through my reading of the news the last few months and the headlines that have jumped out at me, one underlying thread has emerged in my mind. The US of A is Broken. And if we don’t fix it, then the future is bleak indeed.
When did the initial Crack in the structure of US society […]

In a time when We, The People, are feeling very frustrated since it seems our voice is not being heard in Washington by the folks who are supposedly there to represent US and our interests and not just the interests of US MegaCorporations and War Profiteers (some of whom, like AT&T, are both), it’s a […]