Taking a HARD look at the Business of Politics

Yesterday I wrote about the Gigantic Guaranteed Loan that the USDA had given out to a company named Open Range Communications to string Wimax across Rural America, including my current home state of PA. Turns out that the head of the company, whose name is William S. Beans Jr, was formerly President and COO of […]

A recent story in the Boston Herald says that Verizon is again saying that if they don’t get a state franchise bill passed soon that they won’t be able to wire FiOS into much of the state. Hell, many parts of Mass don’t have dsl or cable now, so how would this be different?
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Om Malik is reporting a MAJOR investment by the USDA in a mystery company called Open Range Communications. The company secured USDA financing to the tune of $267 million for the purpose of rolling out BroadBand to Rural Areas. This announcement comes fast on the heels of two other news events– the wrapup of the […]

How much you wanna bet there are a bunch of former AT&T and Verizon Legal Weenies out there looking for work, since they missed the Devil in the Details that allows Wireless Microphones to operate in that UHF Spectrum Range they just spent Megabucks by the tractor trailer full to purchase? Wet Machine has the […]

Can we say anti-competitive? Seems Canada doesn’t have it any better than the US where Canadian Broadband Issues are concerned. “Users of the Canadian family-run ISP Teksavvy (which we profiled last year) have started noticing that Bell Canada is throttling traffic before it reaches wholesale partners. According to Teksavvy CEO Rocky Gaudrault, Bell has implemented […]

WikiLeaks is surely on a roll. They’ve outed the way JP Morgan takes advantage of a SEC Rule Loophole by walking right up to the knife edge of it. Because of the laxness in the language of the SEC rule 10b5-1, it allows large players to put stock into a specific program to be sold […]

The man sure did make some MAJORLY SWEET Lemonade out of the rotten racial fruit that’s been flung at him this week.

And to think that my Pennsylvania Primary vote might actually count for something this time!

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Well, those sneaky changes to the laws that got through in the Post 9/11 era are what got Spitzer’s “structuring” of withdrawals and deposits into various accounts put under a microscope. But can anyone tell me if, when it was found out that these financial flags were not pointing at a TERRORIST, why the activity […]

The House passed a FISA reform bill today that does NOT include Telecomm Retroactive Immunity. It also lets them tell their story in closed door session in Court. More importantly, it refuses to give permission to warrantless or rectroactive warrant wiretapping and puts some serious limits on blanket wiretaps. Glenn Greenwald has wrapped this Wonderful […]

At the Congressional Hearing on March 11, it was very obvious that outside of the halls of Congress, Net Neutrality and Internet Free Speech is very much a Bipartisan Issue. PCMag covered the Net Neutrality hearing, which resulted in this incredible quote by Michele Combs of the Christian Coalition, “The Christian Coalition and NARAL agree […]