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- Category: Big Agribusiness
- Category: Big Energy
- Category: Big Media
- "With a Dish, Broadband Goes Rural"
- An FCC Data Dump available
- AT&T censors Pearl Jam
- Ben Scott explains the importance of the IPhone Hearing
- Big Media doesn't talk about the FCC Spectrum Auction
- BroadBand Policy, the Hidden Issue that can Topple the Empire
- BroadBand, Wifi, Wireless, Cable, Telecomm, VoIP, IPTV etc-- US needs BETTER Policy
- Bullying, is YouTube or MySpace to blame?
- Cable Choice and Competition Issue being fought at States Level
- Chairman Martin, what part of the word 'NO' don't you understand?
- Choice and Competition in Cable and Telecomm, Take Two
- Chris Jordan, Picturing Excess
- Citizen Journalism through the eyes of Jay Rosen
- CNN framing the dialog on FISA
- CNN suppresses story on FCC suppressed Documents?
- Comcast, BitTorrent and Net Neutrality
- FCC and Congress! You gonna listen to Big Telecomm/Media? or US?
- FCC Deluged with Spectrum Auction Comments
- FCC Hearings this Tuesday In LA will get Hollywood Turnout
- FCC hears The People speak out against Media Consolidation in Harrisburg
- Follow the Money. It's going right from the Telecomms to the State Congresspeople
- Google Comments to FCC on Network Neutrality
- Green Awareness and the Media
- Hillary, The Moment, and Big Media
- I HOPE the FCC got the No Media Mergers message last night
- I think Trent Lott needs to hear from his constituents re Media Consolidation
- Internet Censorship just doesn't work if you're a techie
- Issues, not gender or race, says Professor Holley-Walker
- Mainstream Media ignores Torture Memo
- Mainstream Media's Trashing of the Presidential Primary
- Markey is our MAN in Telecommunications!
- Media Consolidation responsible for death and injury
- Media Redlining
- Media, Politics, and Women
- My observations on watching the Dem 'Debate' on YouTube
- My Spectrum Fantasy
- Nashville tells FCC-- NO MORE MEDIA CONSOLIDATION!
- Net Neutrality Debate
- Net Neutrality, Round Three
- Network Measurement Agent tool released by NNSquad
- No End in Sight, the American Occupation of Iraq
- NY Media Merger Meeting in NYC
- Overcoming Telecomm and Media Propaganda
- Perspective on becoming Green
- Picture worth a Thousand Words.
- Rep. Ed Markey at the National Conference for Media Reform
- Republicans are not representing their Constituents
- Results already! AT&T/BellSouth Stalled by Dems
- Spend $16 Billion and Learn how to Share. Mr. Rogers would be proud.
- Sustainability and The Oil Economy
- The AP has just weighed in on the FCC Media Merger rule change
- The Boston FCC hearing and Comcast's Sleeping Audience
- The Impeach Cheney movement and Big Media
- The Incestuous Relationship between the Bush Administration and the Telecomms
- The Internet isn't Dead and Boring in Japan
- The Net Neutrality Debate Resurfaces
- The Power behind the President
- The RIAA vs. Lindor - The Internet as Defense Team
- The STORY Big Media is NOT reporting (with only a few exceptions)
- The Telecomms, Lobbyists, State Government, and Big Media
- The USA is Broken, can we fix it?
- Town Meeting with Senator Arlen Specter this Thursday, August 9
- USA Today pushing Telecomm agenda
- We have seen the future
- We NEED Net Neutrality!
- What's good for the Elephant . . .
- WiMax, Rural Broadband, the Spectrum Auction and the USDA
- Category: Centrism & Centrists
- Category: Department of Homeland (in)Security
- Category: FEMA
- Category: Global Corporations
- Category: King Bush
- "The closer the election, the lower the price of gas"
- 1984 is here. Federal RFID, brought to you by the Dept of Homeland Security
- A 1984 Approach to today's problems-- the Bush Administration
- A Fascist USA
- A Fatal Family Trait? A look at Jeb Bush
- A thoughtful, cogent post on Donklephant
- ACLU Subpoena Squashed
- American Arms kill American Soldiers in Iraq?
- An old friend resurfaced a couple of weeks back
- Are the Bin Laden tapes fake?
- AT&T - War Profiteers? And the DOJ approved the merger, sheesh.
- AT&T and the Gift that Keeps On Giving
- Biofuels CREATE more CO2 than it saves
- BroadBand, Wifi, Wireless, Cable, Telecomm, VoIP, IPTV etc-- US needs BETTER Policy
- Bush and Big Oil
- BUSH AND CHENEY IMPEACHMENT!!!!
- Bush BitchSlapped by the House on FISA/PAA
- Bush gets Bitchslap for EPA Library Closures
- Bush has Gutted OSHA
- Bush Hinders Scientific Research
- Bush is Beating the War Drum Again
- Bush is punishing Congress, and hurting the American People
- Bush Lies. The Economy Sucks.
- Bush Order Expands Network Monitoring by NSA, the people who brought us Illegal Wiretapping
- Bush says this isn't Censorship- Hiding the Polar Bears
- Bush sunk to a new low
- Bushism of the Century
- Censure
- Chairman Martin, what part of the word 'NO' don't you understand?
- Chris Jordan, Picturing Excess
- Coal fired Power Plants being built now?
- Cornfed Gas Tanks a mistake . . .
- Dems on FCC hold out, despite pressure to get Merger done
- Dodd, the Leader we need
- DST (Daylight Savings Time) and the stupidity thereof
- EDL and Supreme Court Bitchslap Duke Energy and Bush
- End of Oversight Auditing on Iraqi Contractors snuck into Bill
- Energy- Why aren't WE doing more to find alternatives?
- Every American Voter needs to read this.
- Federal Forests might have a chance after all-- if it isn't too late.
- Federal RealID, eh?
- FISA and PAA. Again. Who does Congress think they represent?
- FISA Cloture fails, Specter Votes RIGHT for the wrong reason
- FISA, PAA and the Telecom Lobbyists
- Has Bush bought Libby's silence?
- House voted Articles of Impeachment to be sent to Judiciary Committee
- I hope Congress gets off it's stupid Democratic duff
- I pay my HIGHEST compliment to this blogpost . . .
- ICANN and the Department of Homeland (in)Security
- Impeach Bush NOW
- International Emergency Economic Powers Act?
- Internet Censorship just doesn't work if you're a techie
- Iraqi Progress?
- It's B-AA-ACCCKKK! FISA Telecomm Immunity, Round two. Will Obama and/or Clinton Do The Right Thing?
- Karl Rove's November Surprise
- Law to make us 'safer' does the opposite
- Lost Whitehouse Emails, Incompetence or Purposeful Obfuscation?
- Mainstream Media ignores Torture Memo
- McCain, an extension of Bush
- Memorial Day
- National Intelligence Estimate-- Bush full of Hot Air
- Naughty or Nice? Santa Visits White House
- No End in Sight, the American Occupation of Iraq
- Now they're trying to sell us a War in Iran . . .
- PARTY! Dem PARTY that is! And Rumsfeld is OUT? Wow.
- Permission needed to enter or leave US for US CITIZENS???
- President Bush is a Fucking Moron
- Recession and the Law of Unintended Consequences
- Rep. Ed Markey at the National Conference for Media Reform
- Republican Election Losses and Iraq War Funding
- Results already! AT&T/BellSouth Stalled by Dems
- Say NO to Nuclear Power!
- Scary - where is it we LIVE?
- Senator Specter angling to PARDON Bush?
- SLC mayor Rocky Anderson calls for Bush/Cheyney impeachment
- So, Cheney, what changed since 1994???
- So, why was the Libby Sentence Commuted instead of a Pardon Granted?
- Some interesting reading on Iraq
- Something STINKS about this terrorist plot at Fort Dix
- Spitzer is not a Terrorist. Bush and Cheney are.
- Support Dodd's Filibuster against Telecomm Immunity and FOR the Constitution
- Sustainability and The Oil Economy
- Tales of Torture lead to Limits on Lawyer Visits?
- The Billion Dollar Bush Giveaway
- The "Specter" of Corruption Looms . . .
- The Biggest Reason for the Iraq Bush Push
- The Bottomless Dollar Pit of "Homeland Security"
- The Bottomless Money Pit that is Iraq
- The Bush who cried Wolf . . .
- The Department of Homeland (in)Security a black hole for tax money
- The End of Drinking Water?
- The Impeach Cheney movement and Big Media
- The Incestuous Relationship between the Bush Administration and the Telecomms
- The Iraq Vote, the right thing squeaks through
- The Iraq War Bush doesn't want us to see
- The Power behind the President
- The single biggest problem with George Bush....
- The Strange Bedfellows
- War Crimes Indictments imminent?
- Well, Great Britain's got it right-- Global Warming is a critical issue.
- Wiretapping perspective from Studs Terkel
- Category: Mulligan Stew
- Category: Politics As Usual
- "The closer the election, the lower the price of gas"
- A little bit of background on "the boy" Massa Gore
- A thoughtful, cogent post on Donklephant
- American War Dead, The Atomic Bomb, and Politics
- ARE you a "conservative"?
- AT&T - War Profiteers? And the DOJ approved the merger, sheesh.
- Chris Jordan, Picturing Excess
- Citizen Journalism & Blogs recognized as a Media factor by Washington Post
- Citizen Journalism OUTED Foley
- Cornfed Gas Tanks a mistake . . .
- DST (Daylight Savings Time) and the stupidity thereof
- Energy- Why aren't WE doing more to find alternatives?
- FCC and Congress! You gonna listen to Big Telecomm/Media? or US?
- Follow the Money. It's going right from the Telecomms to the State Congresspeople
- How to STEAL an election
- I hope Congress gets off it's stupid Democratic duff
- Lobbyists now required to report bundling of campaign checks
- On a Non-Theist in the House (title borrowed from Allyn Gibson)
- PA yesterday, Michigan today- Telecomms fight to divide and conquer
- Politicians Beware! Google is goggling YOU . . .
- Republican Election Losses and Iraq War Funding
- Scary - where is it we LIVE?
- Small Business Funds to Venture Capitalists?
- So what happens to Foley's $2.7 Million Campaign Chest?
- Specter, glib and agile at meeting, said little of substance
- The Campaign Trail and New Media
- The Incestuous Relationship between the Bush Administration and the Telecomms
- The Iraq Vote, the right thing squeaks through
- The single biggest problem with George Bush....
- The Story of Stuff
- The Sunlight Foundation sheds sunlight on the dark corners of Congress
- Tomorrow is the "big day"
- Why can't we get religion out of politics and government?
- Category: Presidential Candidates
- Category: Terminal Political Stupidity
- Category: The Democratic Party
- Category: The DOJ
- Category: The FCC
- "With a Dish, Broadband Goes Rural"
- An experiment in Democracy. Senator Durbin Blogs Telecom Policy.
- An FCC Data Dump available
- AT&T and the Gift that Keeps On Giving
- AT&T offers $10 aDSL, if you have a secret ring decoder
- Ben Scott explains the importance of the IPhone Hearing
- Big Media doesn't talk about the FCC Spectrum Auction
- BroadBand, Wifi, Wireless, Cable, Telecomm, VoIP, IPTV etc-- US needs BETTER Policy
- Cable Choice and Competition Issue being fought at States Level
- Chairman Martin, what part of the word 'NO' don't you understand?
- Choice and Competition in Cable and Telecomm, Take Two
- CNN suppresses story on FCC suppressed Documents?
- Comcast, BitTorrent and Net Neutrality
- Dems on FCC hold out, despite pressure to get Merger done
- DOJ blasts Net Neutrality in FCC filing and kisses AT&T Butt
- Earthlink, my ISP, violates Net Neutrality
- FCC and Congress! You gonna listen to Big Telecomm/Media? or US?
- FCC Deluged with Spectrum Auction Comments
- FCC Hearings this Tuesday In LA will get Hollywood Turnout
- FCC hears The People speak out against Media Consolidation in Harrisburg
- FCC Open Meeting in DC on Friday re AT&T/BellSouth, Net Neutrality et al
- FCC's Martin spouts Telecomm Rhetoric
- Gamers and VoIP users lose the most with end of Net Neutrality
- Goliath AT&T Caves to Net Neutrality Condition!
- Google Comments to FCC on Network Neutrality
- Green Awareness and the Media
- Hacked IPhones signal Unrest in Telecomm ConsumerLand
- How long before the Big Telecomm 'Vonages' Cubic?
- I HOPE the FCC got the No Media Mergers message last night
- I think Trent Lott needs to hear from his constituents re Media Consolidation
- Ma Bell put back together again
- Mainstream Media's Trashing of the Presidential Primary
- Market Forces and the Internet
- Markey and Dingell, Perfect Together!
- Markey is our MAN in Telecommunications!
- Media Consolidation responsible for death and injury
- Media Merger rule change- Only the FCC and the Corporations want this.
- Media, Politics, and Women
- My Spectrum Fantasy
- Nashville tells FCC-- NO MORE MEDIA CONSOLIDATION!
- NC Dems Investigating FCC Chairman Martin's use of FCC funds
- Net Neutrality, Round Three
- Network Measurement Agent tool released by NNSquad
- New AT&T TOS will shut you off if you badmouth AT&T
- NY Media Merger Meeting in NYC
- Rep. Ed Markey at the National Conference for Media Reform
- Results already! AT&T/BellSouth Stalled by Dems
- Spend $16 Billion and Learn how to Share. Mr. Rogers would be proud.
- State TV Franchising-- The Illinois Municipal League puts it in perspective
- Telecomm Spying Software
- Telecomms Buy State Franchise Legislation, some states fight back
- The Boston FCC hearing and Comcast's Sleeping Audience
- The Incestuous Relationship between the Bush Administration and the Telecomms
- The Internet isn't Dead and Boring in Japan
- The Net Neutrality Debate Resurfaces
- The STORY Big Media is NOT reporting (with only a few exceptions)
- The Telecomms, Lobbyists, State Government, and Big Media
- Time to kick some RIAA butt . . . and some Telecomm butt in the bargain
- USA Today pushing Telecomm agenda
- Verizon PoliBlog, Broadband Deployment and Net Neutrality
- Verizon, Right to Choice and Net Neutrality
- We have seen the future
- We NEED Net Neutrality!
- What we can expect from a Non-Neutral Internet
- Wild Blue satband and changes to the access without notice
- WiMax, Rural Broadband, the Spectrum Auction and the USDA
- Category: The FDA
- Category: The Fed
- Category: The Republican Party
- Category: The Telecomm Goliaths
- "With a Dish, Broadband Goes Rural"
- A Fascist USA
- An experiment in Democracy. Senator Durbin Blogs Telecom Policy.
- Are the Bin Laden tapes fake?
- AT&T - War Profiteers? And the DOJ approved the merger, sheesh.
- AT&T and the Gift that Keeps On Giving
- AT&T censors Pearl Jam
- AT&T offers $10 aDSL, if you have a secret ring decoder
- Bell Canada Throttling Wholesalers' broadband
- Ben Scott explains the importance of the IPhone Hearing
- BroadBand Policy, the Hidden Issue that can Topple the Empire
- BroadBand, Wifi, Wireless, Cable, Telecomm, VoIP, IPTV etc-- US needs BETTER Policy
- Cable Choice and Competition Issue being fought at States Level
- Cable Choice and Competition, but only if you're Rich
- Chairman Martin, what part of the word 'NO' don't you understand?
- Choice and Competition in Cable and Telecomm, Take Two
- Comcast, BitTorrent and Net Neutrality
- Connect Tennessee and the Battle over State Franchising
- Dems on FCC hold out, despite pressure to get Merger done
- Dodd, the Leader we need
- DOJ blasts Net Neutrality in FCC filing and kisses AT&T Butt
- Double Speak about Double Click
- FCC Deluged with Spectrum Auction Comments
- FCC Open Meeting in DC on Friday re AT&T/BellSouth, Net Neutrality et al
- FCC's Martin spouts Telecomm Rhetoric
- FISA and PAA. Again. Who does Congress think they represent?
- FISA Cloture fails, Specter Votes RIGHT for the wrong reason
- FISA, PAA and the Telecom Lobbyists
- Follow the Money. It's going right from the Telecomms to the State Congresspeople
- Gamers and VoIP users lose the most with end of Net Neutrality
- Goliath AT&T Caves to Net Neutrality Condition!
- Google Comments to FCC on Network Neutrality
- Green Awareness and the Media
- Hacked IPhones signal Unrest in Telecomm ConsumerLand
- How long before the Big Telecomm 'Vonages' Cubic?
- It's B-AA-ACCCKKK! FISA Telecomm Immunity, Round two. Will Obama and/or Clinton Do The Right Thing?
- Ma Bell put back together again
- Market Forces and the Internet
- Markey and Dingell, Perfect Together!
- Markey is our MAN in Telecommunications!
- My observations on watching the Dem 'Debate' on YouTube
- My Spectrum Fantasy
- Net Neutrality Debate
- Net Neutrality, Round Three
- Network Measurement Agent tool released by NNSquad
- New AT&T TOS will shut you off if you badmouth AT&T
- Overcoming Telecomm and Media Propaganda
- PA yesterday, Michigan today- Telecomms fight to divide and conquer
- Rep. Ed Markey at the National Conference for Media Reform
- Republicans are not representing their Constituents
- Results already! AT&T/BellSouth Stalled by Dems
- Spend $16 Billion and Learn how to Share. Mr. Rogers would be proud.
- State TV Franchising-- The Illinois Municipal League puts it in perspective
- Support Dodd's Filibuster against Telecomm Immunity and FOR the Constitution
- Telecomm Spying Software
- Telecomms buy immunity. Why does this not surprise me?
- Telecomms Buy State Franchise Legislation, some states fight back
- Thank you, Senators Kerry and Durbin
- The Incestuous Relationship between the Bush Administration and the Telecomms
- The Internet isn't Dead and Boring in Japan
- The Strange Bedfellows
- The Telecomms, Lobbyists, State Government, and Big Media
- The USA is Broken, can we fix it?
- Time to kick some RIAA butt . . . and some Telecomm butt in the bargain
- Town Meeting with Senator Arlen Specter this Thursday, August 9
- USA Today pushing Telecomm agenda
- USDA's Lending Program sure needs an overhaul
- Verizon beating the State Franchise Drum in Massachusetts again
- Verizon PoliBlog, Broadband Deployment and Net Neutrality
- Verizon, Right to Choice and Net Neutrality
- We NEED Net Neutrality!
- What we can expect from a Non-Neutral Internet
- WiMax, Rural Broadband, the Spectrum Auction and the USDA
- Wiretapping perspective from Studs Terkel
- Category: The Top Dogs
- 1984 is here. Federal RFID, brought to you by the Dept of Homeland Security
- A 1984 Approach to today's problems-- the Bush Administration
- ACLU Subpoena Squashed
- American Arms kill American Soldiers in Iraq?
- Are the Bin Laden tapes fake?
- AT&T and the Gift that Keeps On Giving
- BUSH AND CHENEY IMPEACHMENT!!!!
- Bush Hinders Scientific Research
- Bush says this isn't Censorship- Hiding the Polar Bears
- Bush sunk to a new low
- Chris Jordan, Picturing Excess
- Coal fired Power Plants being built now?
- Condi Rice knew about Al Qaeda on July 10, 2001
- Cornfed Gas Tanks a mistake . . .
- Dems on FCC hold out, despite pressure to get Merger done
- End of Oversight Auditing on Iraqi Contractors snuck into Bill
- Energy, the Economy and Ethanol
- Every American Voter needs to read this.
- Federal Forests might have a chance after all-- if it isn't too late.
- Federal RealID, eh?
- Has Bush bought Libby's silence?
- I pay my HIGHEST compliment to this blogpost . . .
- ICANN and the Department of Homeland (in)Security
- Impeach Bush NOW
- Iraqi Progress?
- Karl Rove's November Surprise
- Law to make us 'safer' does the opposite
- Lost Whitehouse Emails, Incompetence or Purposeful Obfuscation?
- National Intelligence Estimate-- Bush full of Hot Air
- No End in Sight, the American Occupation of Iraq
- Now they're trying to sell us a War in Iran . . .
- NY Media Merger Meeting in NYC
- PARTY! Dem PARTY that is! And Rumsfeld is OUT? Wow.
- Permission needed to enter or leave US for US CITIZENS???
- President Bush is a Fucking Moron
- SLC mayor Rocky Anderson calls for Bush/Cheyney impeachment
- So, Cheney, what changed since 1994???
- So, why was the Libby Sentence Commuted instead of a Pardon Granted?
- Some interesting reading on Iraq
- Something STINKS about this terrorist plot at Fort Dix
- Spitzer is not a Terrorist. Bush and Cheney are.
- Tales of Torture lead to Limits on Lawyer Visits?
- Telecomms buy immunity. Why does this not surprise me?
- The Billion Dollar Bush Giveaway
- The "Specter" of Corruption Looms . . .
- The Biggest Reason for the Iraq Bush Push
- The Bush who cried Wolf . . .
- The Department of Homeland (in)Security a black hole for tax money
- The Iraq War Bush doesn't want us to see
- The Power behind the President
- The single biggest problem with George Bush....
- War Crimes Indictments imminent?
- Well, Great Britain's got it right-- Global Warming is a critical issue.
- Wiretapping perspective from Studs Terkel
- Category: USDA
- Category: Various House Reps
- Category: Various Idiots
- A BackSlap to Coldwater Creek for going with Wind-Energy!
- A Convenient Truth?
- A different slant on the whole Foley abortion....
- A little bit of background on "the boy" Massa Gore
- A Poll from the Wall St. Journal
- A Runaway Train- the Business of Food and Health "Care"
- An Open Letter to John McCain
- And now for something completely different . . .
- Big Babies
- Big Media doesn't talk about the FCC Spectrum Auction
- Blogher Women still don't GET it. Broadband and Media Issues off their list
- Bush Hinders Scientific Research
- Bush's Brain is a black hole
- Censure
- DOJ blasts Net Neutrality in FCC filing and kisses AT&T Butt
- DST (Daylight Savings Time) and the stupidity thereof
- Earthlink, my ISP, violates Net Neutrality
- Every American Voter needs to read this.
- FCC Agenda Update with Possible GOOD News on Net Neutrality
- FCC Open Meeting in DC on Friday re AT&T/BellSouth, Net Neutrality et al
- Food for thought regarding the "other white meat"
- Good news! PA Cable Choice Legislation Stalled
- Guns do not kill people....
- Happy Holidays, Everybody!
- How about the DOJ attorneys who WEREN'T fired?
- How to STEAL an election
- I hope Congress gets off it's stupid Democratic duff
- Impeach Bush NOW
- Iraqi Progress?
- It's going to be tough for the Republicans
- McCain, Worse than Bush? D5 Interviews show it could very well be.
- Media Redlining
- Nashville tells FCC-- NO MORE MEDIA CONSOLIDATION!
- National Science Teachers Association takes Big Oil Money
- North Korea has Nukes
- Now, this blog article is extremely interesting
- On a Non-Theist in the House (title borrowed from Allyn Gibson)
- One of those "Ah HA!" moments....
- Religion and (in) politics
- Republicans, conservation, environmentalism, CREA, and Teddy Roosevelt
- Santorum and the Stink of Corruption
