Posted on August 18, 2008 by butnerblogspot
By Michael Janover - The Rocky Mountain News
OK, I’m old. I was around when Channel 2 went on the air in Denver in the early 50’s and brought us Blinky the Clown. It was exciting. Television. In Colorado!
In the mid-60s, cable TV and the dish staked their claims, and folks in the mountains could finally [...]
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Posted on April 22, 2008 by butnerblogspot
Do you remember the old saying, “Corruption finds a dozen alibis for it’s evil deeds” ? Well those words have never been more pertinent. The New York Times in an indepth investigation is reporting the Pentagon has been recruiting and planting war pundits to curb descent and spread a favorable view of the administration’s war policy as well [...]
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Posted on March 15, 2008 by butnerblogspot
NSA shifts to e-mail, Web, data-mining dragnet
(C-NET) The National Security Agency was once known for its skill in eavesdropping on the world’s telephone calls through radio dishes in out-of-the-way places like England’s Menwith Hill, Australia’s Pine Gap, and Washington state’s Yakima Training Center.Today those massive installations, which listened in on phone conversations beamed over microwave [...]
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Posted on March 10, 2008 by butnerblogspot
“The central role the NSA has come to occupy in domestic intelligence gathering has never been publicly disclosed,” The Wall Street Journal reports on Monday page ones. “But an inquiry reveals that its efforts have evolved to reach more broadly into data about people’s communications, travel and finances in the U.S. than the domestic surveillance [...]
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Posted on March 5, 2008 by butnerblogspot
This is one way of getting the truth to America.
More here from The Billboard Liberation Front
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Posted on March 1, 2008 by butnerblogspot
Comcast Corp. was caught stacking an FCC hearing with paid (and apparently sleepy) seat-fillers. the hearing was investigating illegal activities of guess who? Comcast!.
The hearing was set up to investigate Comcast’s recent blocking of the Internet. But Comcast packed the room so that the public couldn’t get in to voice their support for Net Neutrality.
Save the [...]
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