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Glenn Beck and the Boiled Green Frog
American radio and TV guy Glenn Beck apparently thought it’d be kind of interesting to explore the old wives’ tale that if you throw a frog into boiling water, it’ll immediately jump right out. But, the tale goes, if you gently place the frog in warm water and gradually raise the temperature, it’ll sit there happily — until it’s boiled alive. He used it to illustrate an attack on Obama saying he [Obama] has tossed Americans into boiling water, at the same time dropping what appeared to be a tiny, green (Pacific Chorus?) frog into a steaming, bubbling pot.
Continue reading »Competitive Broadband group launches site
“The federal government should ‘correct’ a CRTC decision that’s harmful to competition in broadband Internet, Ethernet and other next generation communications services has been launched,” p2pnet posted recently, quoting the Campaign for Competitive Broadband . Now campaign members have launched an a new advocacy site. What’s at issue?
Continue reading »RIAA boss: Optimism in the Music Industry
The corporate music industry comprising Vivendi Universal (France), Sony (Japan), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US, but only just) is as good as dead, having slowly, deliberately and irretrievably alienated the people who once kept it alive. Mitch Bainwol (right) heads up the RIAA, the Big 4’s American mouthpiece-cum-extortion-unit. Since 2003, he and his team of spinsters and truth reconstruction specialists have been lying about the allegedly deleterious effect file sharing is having on music sales, and how the labels are being devastated by file sharing criminals and thieves, including dead grandmothers and 12-year-old children.
Continue reading »Threatening phone calls – in Mandarin
p2pnet news view | Freedom:- Online marketing calls have taken on an ominous new meaning for some Chinese-American business owners and professionals. An anonymous Mandarin-speaking caller seeking money often threatens them and their families, says the Associated Press . The calls, “apparently originating in China from someone with a Taiwanese or Fujianese accent,” targeted people in Toronto as well as at least seven US seven states from “California to Massachusetts”.
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