There’s another AT&T sponsored Cable Franchising Bill in Tennessee, this one being pushed by the Telecom Astroturf group “Connected Tennessee“. It’s not the only Tennessee Cable Franchise bill, but it is the one getting the most press and attention, probably because of the dough that’s being slung around, and now that telecom money is being […]
This morning CNN ran a story about President Bush’s comments about the Economy and the FISA bill. Needless to say the dialog after the story, the one in the comments, was just as interesting as the story. And there were some gently dissenting viewpoints.
However, and here’s where it gets interesting– I have commented numerous times […]
Apparently Comcast PAID a bunch of people to show up 90 minutes early and fill the seats at the FCC hearing at Harvard on Comcast’s blocking of Legitimate BitTorrent traffic by Spoofing packets. And after the folks at SaveTheInternet.com caught a bunch of the seat fillers on Video admitting they were paid to be there, […]
Nwitimes.com is reporting that in Indiana, after passage of one of the ubiquitous ‘Cable Choice and Competition‘ state level bills written by the phone companies, and pushed into passage by the phone companies deploying a swarm of lobbyists and handing out lots of chunky campaign contributions at the local level, the only neighborhoods that have […]
Take the case of Wikileaks.org, the Premier WhistleBlower Website, which just had its domain name shut down by court order at the behest of a Cayman Islands Bank working through the American Court System so that people in the US wouldn’t be able to see the docs on their site that a whistleblower posted, and […]
Right now the FCC is looking into Comcast’s packet spoofing to shut off BitTorrent traffic, which Comcast says is for the purpose of “managing the network”. Never mind that there are other ways to accomplish the same thing. Oh, and might I mention that LEGAL uses of BitTorrent are in direct competition with one of […]
Hmm, wonder if we’ll get someone EVEN WORSE than Martin if he’s found to be crooked . . .
North Carolina Democratic Party Investigates FCC Chairman Kevin Martin
Technorati Tags: FCC Chairman Martin, Misuse of Government Funds, North Carolina Democratic Party
Geez, the Peak Oil groups have been pointing this out for a long time. It’s about time that the NYT got with the program, and reported this study about Biofuels being a Greenhouse Threat.
Too bad they didn’t catch this already reported story when it was originally reported, and in time to stop all the harebrained […]
The New York Times reports today on a very disturbing story. This story was first broken on the Common Dreams website on an in depth Campaign Finance article last April, which points up how Obama has repeatedly stated that he doesn’t take money from Federal Lobbyists. The Common Dreams article points to instances where Obama […]
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
-Plato
You are currently browsing the Taking a HARD look at the Business of Politics weblog archives for February, 2008 .
I know something about being a government. And you've got a good one.
There's a new Kvetch in town. Bipartisan Bull Bashing at its Best.
Brought to you by Vicki, Simone, and BJ.
C in C quotes Courtesy of:
