ƒç During the process of trying to merge AT&T back with BellSouth there were several critical defining sections.   The biggest is actually defining Net Neutrality.   By their doing so it lets the cat out of the bag where people are saying that it can't be defined.

The bad news is they only agree with the stipulations laid out in the agreement for 24 months.   That is not much time to clairfy and legislate the issue of Net Neteurality.   We must stay on top of this and keep up pressure thru netroots activism like Save The Internet and contacts to your local lawmakers to let them know we are watching.

This is just a single major battle in a continuing war against the megacorps and maintaining our rights on the internet...

DAILY KOS AT&T Buckles on Net Neutrality

By by mcjoan
December 29, 2006

While we didn't get everything we wanted in the last Congress with Net Neutrality, we managed to hold off some very bad legislation, and to have a major impact in the negotiation process of AT&T's buyout of BellSouth, which was approved by the FCC today.   While the larger buyout raises many valid concerns about media consolidation and conglomeration, the provisions on net neutrality agreed to by AT&T signal a significant win for the good guys. From Columbia law professor, Tim Wu:

Strikingly, AT&T commits to a basic set of Network Neutrality principles that establish a baseline of great importance. They do not create a pure "bit-discrimination rule," but this language is crafted as a practical implementation of neutrality. As the first working rule, it may serve as a model and an experiment for what follows, which is why it merits attention.

The letter of commitment from AT&T to the FCC did a pretty good job of doing just that, defining net neutrality:

AT&T/BellSouth also commits that it will maintain a neutral network and neutral routing in its wireline broadband Internet access service. This commitment shall be satisfied by AT&T/BellSouth's agreement not to provide or to sell to Internet content, application, or service providers, including those affiliated with AT&T/BellSouth, any service that privileges, degrades or prioritizes any packet transmitted over AT&T/BellSouth's wireline broadband Internet access service based on its source, ownership or destination.

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Tags ::  Politics • Save The Internet • Net Neutrality • FCC • 110th Congress

č A desperate little cowboy in the White House jumpin' up and down hollerin' and screamin' about them crazy libruls that want to hang him.

Should have thought about all that Mr. Bush when you started boning up on the executive orders, signing statements, secret prisons, legalizing torture, spying on Americans, tracking airline flight records of people without telling them, etc... etc... etc...

I thought the most scathing comment came at the last about the 'drive-by-victims'...   More like 'Victim Makers of the Middle Class'...

baltimoresun.com Bush is bracing for new scrutiny

White House hiring lawyers in expectation of Democratic probes
By Julie Hirschfeld Davis
Originally published December 26, 2006

WASHINGTON // President Bush is bracing for what could be an onslaught of investigations by the new Democratic-led Congress by hiring lawyers to fill key White House posts and preparing to play defense on countless document requests and possible subpoenas.

"Like any White House that has to deal with a Congress run by the other party, this White House has to bulk up its staff to deal with the inevitable flood of subpoenas. They're also going to have to coordinate with lots of friends and supporters," said Mark Corallo, a former top Republican aide to the House committee that issued more than 1,000 subpoenas to the Clinton camp.

Corallo and Barbara Comstock, another Republican public-relations executive with broad experience in Hill investigations, are launching a crisis-communications firm to serve officials and corporations who, Corallo said, could end up as "drive-by victims" in a new round of probes.

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ƒçAll we have to fear is fear itself.   Well...   I think the little cowboy has pretty well sewn up the competition when it comes to marketing fear.   As the caption at itsez where this graphic comes from says, "When the poll numbers are down, just stir up some more fear."

Well, the snake-oil salesmen in D.C. are giving it one more 'surge'.   They want to stir up the 'fear' that if we don't send several thousand more troops to Iraq, then we will lose the war.   Hello...   The war was lost several years ago.   The voters mandated change and we get none until it is forced on Bush and Cheney.   They will not give up their NeoCon Dreams so easily.   They will do nothing but stall and spin.

They still want to push the button on Iran and if we are not careful and very timely with our forcing issues in January, we will have an even bigger mess than we do now.   Full tilt Bozo, all ahead full...   Desperate criminals will do crazy shit.   Let's not forget that over the next few weeks.

The last throes of this pitiful little man's attempt to save his legacy may not be a pretty thing to see..

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Orwell would be proud of Big Brother Bush.   The WaPo article is just the tip of the iceberg.   Memeorandum linked thru to Discourse.net who puts us in touch with The Practical Nomad (Ed Hasbrouck) who has extensive research and links to this very important issue...   Must reading...   - fc

washingtonpost.com Report Says TSA Violated Privacy Law

The finding marks the first time that the Homeland Security Department has acknowledged that the problem-plagued Secure Flight program has violated the law. It comes at a time when a separate program to screen international passengers is under attack for officials' failure to disclose until recently that they were creating passenger profiles that would be stored for 40 years.

Discourse.net TSA Violated Privacy Law

Ed Hasbrouck has been talking about this issue for a long time.

And, the Post makes no mention of what appear to be the follow-on illegalities.

Dubya has not only been losing the War in Iraq, he has been losing the War of Words for just about as long.   Along with his own brand of ineptitude for governance, his mauling of the English Language is legendary.   And they just keep rolling right off that slick-tounged devil...   like...   A New Way Forward --- off the same old cliff...

Documenting the history of who and where the NeoCons were and how they all played their role in the near destruction of our country.   This primary list is from the signatory of the PNAC Letter to Bill Clinton that begged him to go to war with Saddam.   Many of these players are or have been working from within the Bush Administration and the rest are powerful figures in the D.C. BeltWay.