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Cable industry lobbyists write Republican talking points on net neutrality

Following the vote last week by the Federal Communication Commission to unwind the net neutrality rules enacted during the Obama administration, House Republican lawmakers received an email from GOP leadership on how to defend the decision. The email was shared with The Intercept and the Center for Media and Democracy. Net neutrality is the principle that internet service providers must treat all web traffic in the same way. If the FCC eventually undoes the Obama-era regulations in their entirety, an ISP like Comcast could demand that websites pay it fees in order not to slow or block them. Large companies like Facebook would easily be able to afford such charges, but smaller companies might not, creating an uneven playing field. “ Want more information on the net neutrality discussion? ” wrote Washington state Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, chair of the House Republican Conference. “ Here is a nifty toolkit with news resources, myth vs reality information, what

Syria: 225 civilians killed by US coalition airstrikes in one month

The number of civilians killed in air strikes by the US-led coalition in Syria over the past month was the highest monthly toll since it began its campaign against the Islamic State (IS) group in 2014, a monitoring organization said on Tuesday. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that at least 225 civilians including 44 children and 36 women had been killed in the month between 23 April and 23 May. At least 122 IS militants and fighters loyal to the Syrian government were also killed, the Observatory said. “ The past month of operations is the highest civilian toll since the coalition began bombing Syria, ” Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman told the AFP news agency. “ There has been a very big escalation. ” The figure appears to suggest that coalition air strikes in Syria are now causing more casualties than air attacks on rebel-held territory by Syrian government forces. The Observatory said on Saturday that 146 civilians had

Η "σούπερ γιαγιά" αριστερή δήμαρχος Μαδρίτης τρομοκρατεί το κατεστημένο υιοθετώντας την Κοινωνική Οικονομία

του Ανδρέα Ρουμελιώτη Μέρος 3ο - Η νίκη της Συλλογικής Βαρκελώνης και το παράλληλο Τοπικό Εναλλακτικό Νόμισμα Την κυκλοφορία τοπικού νομίσματος, παράλληλα με το ευρώ, για την ανάπτυξη του τοπικού εναλλακτικού εμπορίου και της κοινωνικής οικονομίας, ανακοίνωσε η δήμαρχος της Βαρκελώνης η 42 χρονη ακτιβίστρια Άντα Κολάου (εκπρόσωπος της PAH - ένα κίνημα σε όλη τη χώρα που βοηθά τα θύματα των εξώσεων από τις τράπεζες). Αρχικά το project, που ήταν μια από τις προεκλογικές υποσχέσεις της νέας δημάρχου, θα αφορά στις συνοικίες του ποταμού Besos που έχουν υποβαθμιστεί αρκετά, και ενδεχομένως μετά το 2018 να επεκταθεί και στην υπόλοιπη πόλη. Την ίδια ώρα η Κεντρική Τράπεζα της Ισπανίας προειδοποιεί την δήμαρχο και ακτιβίστρια να μην προχωρήσει το συγκεκριμένο πρόγραμμα, χαρακτηρίζοντάς το "ανεπιθύμητο" και "αδύνατο" . Ωστόσο, αξίζει να θυμίσουμε πως ανάλογες ενέργειες έχουν πραγματοποιηθεί με επιτυχία στη Χιρόνα, στο Μπιλμπάο,

The strategy behind Washington’s destabilization of Venezuela

Venezuela represents everything that the U.S. opposes in the region: socialism, anti-imperialism, economic independence via energy exports and a viable ally for China, Russia, Iran and other countries that oppose the hegemonic designs of Washington. by Eric Draitser Part 4 - The Sino-Venezuelan partnership For decades, corporations in the U.S. saw Venezuela as little more than an American possession, an oil colony whose dependence on U.S. exports made it little different from a true colony in the traditional sense of the word. However, with the ascendance of Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution, Venezuela ceased to be a dependent client of the U.S., and instead became a political adversary. One key aspect of Venezuelan economic relations with other countries that has undoubtedly rubbed strategic planners the wrong way has been its ongoing partnership with China. Under Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela has signed countless deals with Beijing, many of

Take the red pill, escape the Matrix!

globinfo freexchange As we grow up and learn more things, we understand that reality in various issues is different of what we thought. The more we explore, gain experience, the more we understand that we live in a type of Matrix. Many facts considered random eventually turn out to be there because of specific actions by certain people, groups, governments, etc. G. Edward Griffin, editor of NeedToKnow.news and author of the seminal book on the Federal Reserve, The Creature From Jekyll Island , had a quite interesting idea called RED PILL Expo. Griffin borrowed the idea from the famous sci-fi movie The Matrix , in which the central hero is choosing to take the red pill in order to discover the reality rather than take the blue pill and continue to live in a false world. As he told to James Corbett: Wouldn't be a great idea if we could just bring all of these red pill takers together and we could swap stories and say 'well, let me tell you about what