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IP Slowdown for Cash; Snipers at Houston Occupy; GOP Rejects Climate Report
Five US Internet Providers Are Slowing Down Access Until They Get More Cash. So why hasn’t interconnection been a bigger part of the network neutrality debate? Until recently, it was unheard of for a residential broadband provider like Comcast to demand payment to deliver traffic to its own customers. Traditionally, residential broadband companies would accept traffic from the largest global “backbone” networks such as Level 3 for free.
Did Government And Corporations Plan Sniper Fire On Houston Occupy? The federal government, in collusion with state and local police, and possibly with private bank and oil company security firms, planned to use “suppressed sniper fire” to assassinate the leaders of Occupy Houston, and perhaps also the leaders of other Occupy Movement actions around the country, according to classified FBI and Homeland Security documents obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice through the Freedom of Information Act.
GOP rejects grim White House climate change report. Republicans vowed Tuesday to fight back against the Obama administration’s regulatory agenda, dismissing the White House’s massive new climate change report as nothing more than a “political document intended to frighten Americans.”
Sources: Daily Climate, Popular Resistance.
Paul Brown is a retired neuroscience professor whose primary interests are human rights, overpopulation, mass extinction, global warming, and the military-industrial complex. Links to all his Before It’s News articles are at /contributor/pages/189/210/stories.html.
