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    Time Warner Cable: Buying Legislators & Selling Legislation


    TIME WARNER CABLE: BUYING LEGISLATORS AND SELLING LEGISLATION
    Global Revolution 1: American Revolution 2: Day 45: Communication 1
    IronBoltBruce's Kleptocracy Chronicles for 31 Oct 2011 (g1a2d0045c1)
    How many examples of greed and corruption must you see before you act?


    Many Americans think that at the state level a bill becomes law only if it is passed by both House and Senate and signed by the Governor. Not so. Across our 50 states we have no less than 63 ways a bill can become "law without signature" by a Governor looking to avoid controversy or accountability that might quash their Presidential hopes or land them in jail:

    http://tinyurl.com/3euvua9

    One such bill was North Carolina House Bill 129 (NC H129), which on 21 May of this year became North Carolina Session Law 2011-84 (SL 2011-84) without the signature of Governor Beverly Eaves "B" Perdue ... whose last name is actually that of her dead ex-husband ... whose middle name is her current husband's last name ... and the "B", well, ask Andy about that.

    http://tinyurl.com/43p4hrf

    Anyway, with Aunt B's inaction the "Level Playing Field/Local Government Competition" bill - like the USA PATRIOT Act of a decade before - was passed into law with covenants that were the exact opposite of its Orwellian cover. Opponents like the Institute for Local Self Reliance referred to NC H129 as the "Time Warner Cable Monopoly Protection Act", and with good reason.

    http://tinyurl.com/3s3knvj

    As Federal Communications Commissioner Mignon Clyburn warned, "Do not let the title fool you. This measure, if enacted, will not only fail to level the playing field; it will discourage municipal governments from addressing deployment in communities where the private sector has failed to meet broadband service needs. In other words, it will be a significant barrier to broadband deployment and may impede local efforts to promote economic development."

    http://tinyurl.com/3bdb4f6

    Another reason the Time Warner Cable logo should have been on the cover of NC H129 is that, according to industry watchdog StopTheCap.com, it was Time Warner's lawyers and lobbyists who actually drafted the legislation and assigned it to State Representative Marilyn Avila to sponsor. And sponsor it she did, despite the fact that it was opposed by many of her own constituents:

    "Raleigh's City Council adopted a resolution opposing Avila's legislation, written on behalf of Time Warner Cable. H129 will destroy North Carolina's community-owned broadband networks and prevent new ones from launching. Council Member Bonner Gaylord, who authored the resolution, says passage of these kinds of anti-competitive bills would stop local governments from providing needed communications services, especially advanced high-speed broadband, and deny local governments the availability of federal grants under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to assist in providing affordable access to high-capacity broadband service in unserved and underserved areas."

    http://tinyurl.com/4y8z3sy

    But despite a thumbs down from industry watchdogs, and over the protests of the cities and people of the state, NC H129 still received the support of enough legislators to become law. And how did Time Warner Cable garner the necessary votes? They bought them, as Joey Mornin explains:

    "If you're like most Americans, you probably buy your Internet service from one of a small handful of corporate providers. The big incumbent broadband providers - like Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, and Time Warner Cable - often enjoy monopoly or duopoly privileges in the areas they serve. Recently, some communities have started to implement their own municipal broadband networks. These community-owned networks are often faster, cheaper, and more reliable than the corporate alternatives. In North Carolina, for instance, community-owned networks like Fibrant and Greenlight consistently outperform the commercial offerings from Time Warner, AT&T, and CenturyLink. Similar municipal broadband projects are taking root across the country. Their expansion, however, threatens the comfortable markets that corporate broadband providers have come to expect. In what could become a typical case, Time Warner is supporting a bill in the North Carolina state legislature that would impose sharp limits on the growth of municipal broadband networks. Despite widespread opposition, the bill recently passed in both chambers of the state legislature. Time Warner, which reported $26 billion in revenue in 2010, has donated over $6.3 million to North Carolina politicians over the last four years."

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    Re: Time Warner Cable: Buying Legislators & Selling Legislation

    If these demand are not addressed promptly.....then Regime Change???

    Uhm, you can't take over a country by yelling at them! :
    History does not long Entrust the care of Freedom, to the Weak or Timid!!!!! Dwight D. Eisenhower ~

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    Re: Time Warner Cable: Buying Legislators & Selling Legislation

    I actually watched parts of the last two videos (since I hate Time Warner) and surprise, they were totally useless

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    Re: Time Warner Cable: Buying Legislators & Selling Legislation

    Spoilers: the internet is not as fast as you would like, and Time Warner overcharges for it.

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    U.N.-sponsored conference next month will propose new regulations and restrictions for the Internet...

    One month until they regulate the Internet
    November 01, 2012 - Better enjoy Facebook while you can.
    A U.N.-sponsored conference next month in Dubai will propose new regulations and restrictions for the Internet, which critics say will censor free speech, levy tariffs on e-commerce, and even force companies to clean up their “e-waste” and make gadgets that are better for the environment. Concerns about the closed-door event have sparked a Wikileaks-style info-leaking site, and led the State Department on Wednesday to file a series of new proposals or tranches seeking to ensure “competition and commercial agreements -- and not regulation” as the meeting's main message.

    Terry Kramer, the chief U.S. envoy to the conference, says the United States is against sanctions and believes management of the Internet by one central organization goes against free speech. “[Doing nothing] would not be a terrible outcome at all,” Kramer said recently. “We need to avoid suffocating the Internet space through well-meaning but overly prescriptive proposals that would seek to control content.” The conference will be run by the International Telecommunications Union (ITC), a U.N. agency that has typically provided a welcome service by making sure that the Internet works across countries. Many of its guidelines were first instituted in 1988. Most haven’t changed since then.

    The World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12) is the first such meeting since those guidelines were created, and businesses are taking it seriously: U.S. delegates will include representatives from AT&T, Cisco, Facebook, GoDaddy, and dozens more. To dispel concerns, the ITU played damage control in early October. “There are no proposals submitted to create new international regulatory agencies, or mechanisms, and hence no proposals to put ITU in control of the Internet!” said Malcolm Johnson, ITU's telecommunication standardization bureau director, in a written statement.

    Despite those reassurances, key experts remain concerned. The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is one of just five groups that assign numbers to Internet names, a key part of making the web tick. Cathy Handley, executive director of government affairs at ARIN and a conference attendee, said the meeting is meant to exert some sort of controls.

    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/11/...#ixzz2B8BRp86s

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    FCC backs Charter purchase of Time Warner Cable...

    FCC backs Charter purchase of Time Warner Cable, Bright House: sources
    Thu May 5, 2016 - WASHINGTON: A majority of the five-member U.S. Federal Communications Commission has voted to approve Charter Communications Inc's acquisitions of Time Warner Cable Inc and Bright House Networks, two sources briefed on the matter said on Thursday.
    The deals, which would create the second-largest U.S. broadband provider and third-largest video provider, won the backing of FCC Commissioners Jessica Rosenworcel and Michael O'Rielly this week, the sources said on condition of anonymity. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler had already voted to approve them. The two other FCC commissioners have yet to vote on the matter. O'Rielly dissented in part, meaning the final conditions of the agency's approval could change before the full vote is completed and made public. The U.S. Justice Department gave antitrust approval to the acquisitions with conditions on April 25. The FCC declined to comment on Thursday.


    A Time Warner Cable sign and logo are seen on the exterior of a Time Warner Cable store in the Manhattan borough of New York City

    Charter and Time Warner Cable shareholders have approved the companies' deal. Privately-held Bright House also is in favor of its acquisition. The only other outstanding approval needed is from California. A state administrative judge last month recommended that California's public utilities commission approve the deal. The decision could come as early as May 12. The Justice Department's approval carried conditions designed to protect competition, coming at a time when the pay television industry faces stagnation due to new competition from over-the-web rivals like Netflix and Hulu. The Justice Department said Charter agreed to refrain from telling its content providers that they cannot also sell shows online as part of the approval process. The FCC's Wheeler said last month that approving the deals "will directly benefit consumers by bringing and protecting competition to the video marketplace and increasing broadband deployment."

    The conditions placed on FCC approval would require Charter to extend high-speed internet access to another two million customers within five years - with one million served by a broadband competitor, Wheeler said. Charter has valued its deal for Time Warner Cable at $56.7 billion, excluding debt, and the acquisition of Bright House at $10.4 billion. Charter, backed by billionaire John Malone's Liberty Media Corp (LMCA.O), had pursued Time Warner Cable as far back as 2013. The two companies had acrimonious exchanges in 2013 and early 2014 that ended with Time Warner Cable rejecting unsolicited approaches by Charter and instead finding a white knight in Comcast Corp (CMCSA.O), the No. 1 U.S. cable services provider.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tw...-idUSKCN0XW1OB

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    AT&T agrees in principle to buy Time Warner for $85 billion...

    AT&T agrees in principle to buy Time Warner for $85 billion: sources
    Fri Oct 21, 2016 | AT&T Inc has reached an agreement in principle to buy Time Warner Inc for about $85 billion, sources said on Friday, paving the way for a blockbuster deal that would give the telecom company control of cable TV channels HBO and CNN, film studio Warner Bros and other coveted media assets.
    The deal, which has been agreed on most terms and could be announced as early as Sunday, would be one of the largest in recent years in the sector as telecommunications companies look to combine content and distribution to capture customers replacing traditional pay-TV packages with more streamlined offerings and online delivery. AT&T, which sells wireless phone and broadband services, has already made moves to turn itself into a media powerhouse, buying satellite TV provider DirecTV last year for $48.5 billion. It also in 2014 entered a joint venture, Otter Media, with the Chernin Group to invest in media businesses, and has rolled out video streaming services.




    Ticker and trading information for media conglomerate Time Warner Inc. is displayed at the post where it is traded on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City




    AT&T will pay $110 per Time Warner share, or about $85 billion overall, sources told Reuters. That would make it the biggest deal in the world this year. Time Warner's shares rose almost 8 percent in regular trading, and a further 4.7 percent after hours, to $93.84, giving it a market value of about $73 billion. AT&T finished down 3 percent at $37.49. Time Warner is a major force in movies, TV and other areas, with HBO, CNN, Cartoon Network, TBS, TNT, TruTV, Turner Classic Movies, the CW network, New Line Cinema, DC Comics, Castle Rock Entertainment and other assets. Time Warner disclosed a 10 percent stake in video streaming site Hulu in August.


    Time Warner Chief Executive Jeff Bewkes rejected an $80 billion offer from Twenty-First Century Fox Inc (FOXA.O) in 2014, but sources said on Friday that the former suitor had no plans to renew its bid. The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Apple Inc (AAPL.O) approached Time Warner a few months ago about a possible merger and has been monitoring its talks with AT&T. The agreement between Dallas-based AT&T and New York-based Time Warner could be announced as early as on Monday, according to the sources, who asked not to be named because the talks are confidential.


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    Thumbs up

    Too much power concentrated in one area of the media...

    AT&T Faces Political Barrage
    Oct. 23, 2016 - $85.4 billion deal to buy Time Warner is questioned by politicians, industry groups, media and telecom rivals
    AT&T Inc. ’s blockbuster $85.4 billion deal to buy Time Warner Inc. promises to reshape the media landscape—if the companies can navigate a series of obstacles, including possible opposition from U.S. antitrust authorities and objections by lawmakers and media and telecom rivals. Even before the deal was announced Saturday night, members of Congress, industry groups and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump began to question it, contending the combination of AT&T’s millions of wireless and pay-television subscribers with Time Warner’s stable of TV networks and programming would limit competition and hurt consumers. Mr. Trump said if elected he wouldn’t approve the deal “because it’s too much concentration of power in the hands of too few.”

    Former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Sunday called on the administration to block the merger. “This deal would mean higher prices and fewer choices for the American people,” Mr. Sanders wrote on Twitter. On NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday, Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Tim Kaine said he shared the “concerns and questions” raised by Democratic Minnesota Sen. Al Franken that the deal could lead to higher costs and fewer choices. “Pro-competition and less concentration, I think, is generally helpful, especially in the media.” Experts compared the deal to the acquisition by Comcast of NBCUniversal, which went through in 2011 after 13 months of review. U.S. regulatory officials and rivals have expressed concerns that some government conditions regarding Comcast’s behavior, such as its requirement to not weigh in on strategic decisions at streaming service Hulu, were tough to monitor and enforce.


    AT&T Chief Executive Randall Stephenson played down the objections from lawmakers, politicians and industry groups, arguing the combination of a content provider and a distributor didn’t increase industry concentration and wasn’t the kind of deal regulators take issue with. “It is going to have to go through a regulatory review process that is dictated by rules, regulations and laws,” Mr. Stephenson said in an interview. “I can’t control what the politicians say and feel about it.” AT&T affirmed Sunday that it would continue to run Time Warner’s media assets autonomously amid ​concerns among current and former staff particularly at CNN that editorial independence might be compromised. “CNN is an American symbol of independent journalism and First Amendment free speech. My board and I are clear—CNN will remain completely independent from an editorial perspective,” Mr. Stephenson said in a statement.

    AT&T is no stranger to Washington politics, including the bitter memory of having its 2011 acquisition of T-Mobile US Inc. blocked. Its political-action committee has been one of the top corporate contributions. Regulators’ questions will likely focus on whether AT&T would favor content acquired from Time Warner, if the merger would lead to higher prices, or if it would widen the playing field by making AT&T a stronger competitor. AT&T will likely have to meet conditions set by antitrust reviewers at the Justice Department as well as face regulators from the Federal Communications Commission, who will also likely conduct a public interest review of the deal. “Avoiding any kind of regulatory review is always a benefit,” Mr. Stephenson said. “But we aren’t naive. We aren’t thinking that that won’t happen.” The Justice Department and FCC both declined to comment.

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    uhh..Dude I think it's past Lithium-time for you.
    Then it will be OK.
    Seriously you did raise some valid points,though.But yeah:Take your Lithium.
    AT & T are crooks.They send out padded bills monthly and whoever pays it pays it and whoever disputes and has proof does not.
    That's a fairly shady way of doing business.
    And that's how they roll.
    When I say padded I mean 6x padded.
    They do that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ironboltbruce View Post
    TIME WARNER CABLE: BUYING LEGISLATORS AND SELLING LEGISLATION
    Global Revolution 1: American Revolution 2: Day 45: Communication 1
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    Many Americans think that at the state level a bill becomes law only if it is passed by both House and Senate and signed by the Governor. Not so. Across our 50 states we have no less than 63 ways a bill can become "law without signature" by a Governor looking to avoid controversy or accountability that might quash their Presidential hopes or land them in jail:

    http://tinyurl.com/3euvua9

    One such bill was North Carolina House Bill 129 (NC H129), which on 21 May of this year became North Carolina Session Law 2011-84 (SL 2011-84) without the signature of Governor Beverly Eaves "B" Perdue ... whose last name is actually that of her dead ex-husband ... whose middle name is her current husband's last name ... and the "B", well, ask Andy about that.

    http://tinyurl.com/43p4hrf

    Anyway, with Aunt B's inaction the "Level Playing Field/Local Government Competition" bill - like the USA PATRIOT Act of a decade before - was passed into law with covenants that were the exact opposite of its Orwellian cover. Opponents like the Institute for Local Self Reliance referred to NC H129 as the "Time Warner Cable Monopoly Protection Act", and with good reason.

    http://tinyurl.com/3s3knvj

    As Federal Communications Commissioner Mignon Clyburn warned, "Do not let the title fool you. This measure, if enacted, will not only fail to level the playing field; it will discourage municipal governments from addressing deployment in communities where the private sector has failed to meet broadband service needs. In other words, it will be a significant barrier to broadband deployment and may impede local efforts to promote economic development."

    http://tinyurl.com/3bdb4f6

    Another reason the Time Warner Cable logo should have been on the cover of NC H129 is that, according to industry watchdog StopTheCap.com, it was Time Warner's lawyers and lobbyists who actually drafted the legislation and assigned it to State Representative Marilyn Avila to sponsor. And sponsor it she did, despite the fact that it was opposed by many of her own constituents:

    "Raleigh's City Council adopted a resolution opposing Avila's legislation, written on behalf of Time Warner Cable. H129 will destroy North Carolina's community-owned broadband networks and prevent new ones from launching. Council Member Bonner Gaylord, who authored the resolution, says passage of these kinds of anti-competitive bills would stop local governments from providing needed communications services, especially advanced high-speed broadband, and deny local governments the availability of federal grants under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to assist in providing affordable access to high-capacity broadband service in unserved and underserved areas."

    http://tinyurl.com/4y8z3sy

    But despite a thumbs down from industry watchdogs, and over the protests of the cities and people of the state, NC H129 still received the support of enough legislators to become law. And how did Time Warner Cable garner the necessary votes? They bought them, as Joey Mornin explains:

    "If you're like most Americans, you probably buy your Internet service from one of a small handful of corporate providers. The big incumbent broadband providers - like Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, and Time Warner Cable - often enjoy monopoly or duopoly privileges in the areas they serve. Recently, some communities have started to implement their own municipal broadband networks. These community-owned networks are often faster, cheaper, and more reliable than the corporate alternatives. In North Carolina, for instance, community-owned networks like Fibrant and Greenlight consistently outperform the commercial offerings from Time Warner, AT&T, and CenturyLink. Similar municipal broadband projects are taking root across the country. Their expansion, however, threatens the comfortable markets that corporate broadband providers have come to expect. In what could become a typical case, Time Warner is supporting a bill in the North Carolina state legislature that would impose sharp limits on the growth of municipal broadband networks. Despite widespread opposition, the bill recently passed in both chambers of the state legislature. Time Warner, which reported $26 billion in revenue in 2010, has donated over $6.3 million to North Carolina politicians over the last four years."

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    IT IS NO COINCIDENCE THAT OF THE LAST 14 U.S. PRESIDENTS, 7 HAVE BEEN DEMOCRATS AND 7 HAVE BEEN REPUBLICANS.

    Our Kleptocracy-controlled media focuses on America's two-year election cycles as if who wins or loses in the swinging of the pendulum was a matter of life or death, when in fact even at the Presidential level it makes no more difference than the outcomes of Monday Night Football, American Idol, Dancing With The Stars, Hillbilly Handfishing or the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor. U.S. elections are staged primarily to give Sheeple the illusion of control so they will (a) vent their frustrations and expend their energy, emotions and resources supporting or attacking the Puppet on the Left hand or the Puppet on the Right, and consequently (b) never recognize and challenge the common omnipotent Puppetmaster.

    There was no real change in 2008. There was no real change in 2010. There WILL be real change in 2012, but it won't be coming from tele-brainwashed couch potatoes, manipulated voter lists, rigged voting machines or predetermined ballot counts. It will be coming from us...

    The 99 Percent

    http://corporatecriminalsexposed.com


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    I AM NOT ANONYMOUS. I AM AN AMERICAN.

    I am not just a Consumer. I am a Citizen.

    I will no longer be labeled Left or Right, Liberal or Conservative, Demopublican or Republocrat.

    I will no longer follow Puppets labeled Left or Right, Liberal or Conservative, Demopublican or Republocrat.

    I am the People. And I am coming for the Puppetmasters.

    I am part of the 99 Percent. And I demand the following:

    1. End the Fed.
    2. Reverse Citizens United.
    3. Repeal PATRIOT Act.
    4. Expose 9/11 Truth.
    5. End Profit Wars.
    6. Refund Taxpayer Trillions.
    7. Imprison the Kleptocrats.
    8. Single Term Limits.

    Or, if these demands are not addressed promptly:

    1. Regime Change.

    http://ironboltbruce.com


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    LABELS (A POEM OF PROTEST)

    "Democrat", "Republican",
    The parties of the system;
    Puppets both, for sale their votes,
    No character or wisdom.

    "Liberal", "Conservative",
    For change or status quo?
    Pick either one, the change is none,
    All charlatans and $#@!s.

    Far "Left" we place the Anarchists,
    Libertarians claim far "Right";
    Yet both decry the government:
    False continuum brought to light.

    For oil, "We" bomb their mud huts,
    Strip them bare, then offer "Aid";
    And fake their retribution as
    Pretext - a false flag raised.

    Unarmed hundred thousands killed
    By weapons of "Defense",
    While rights are lost for "Freedom" sake -
    On profit, all depends.

    With stroke of pen, the "Patriot" Act,
    And patriots' gifts are taken;
    Then "Citizens United" leaves
    Our citizens forsaken.

    We protest loss of liberties,
    Put "World Wide Web" to use;
    Cloudmark Authority censors us
    For "messaging abuse".

    They label us to finger-point,
    With labels, "They" deride us;
    Their labels keep us all at bay,
    For with labels, "They" divide us.

    http://ldrlongdistancerider.com


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    JOIN THE GLOBAL REVOLUTION!

    Occupy Wall Street/OWS:

    http://occupywallst.org/

    Occupy DC/Stop the Machine:

    http://october2011.org/

    Occupy Together:

    http://occupytogether.org/

    Watch these Videos:

    http://tinyurl.com/kleptocracytutorial

    Take this Pledge:

    http://wp.me/p19dS3-9o

    How many examples of greed and corruption must you see before you act?

    http://ironboltbruce.blog.com

    Also "kleptocracy" + "chronicles" + ".com" but Cloudmark blocks that URL!
    For freedom to live the megacorps must die. In the meantime we must keep the government's filthy hands off the internet

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