Reports are coming in (via @ CFHeather ) that a former Obama ’08 staffer – one Zach Edwards, formerly with the 2008 Obama campaign in Iowa and currently up until the arrest working for Link Strategies*, a company affiliated with Sen. Tom Harken (D, IA) – has been arrested for identity theft. The Iowa Department of Public Safety puts it fairly succinctly : “According to the Criminal Complaint, on June 24, 2011, Edwards fraudulently used, or attempted to use, the identity of Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz and/or Secretary Schultz’s brother, Thomas Schultz, with the intent to obtain a benefit, in an alleged scheme to falsely implicate Secretary Schultz in perceived illegal or unethical behavior while in office.” In other words: Edwards is accused of trying to pretend to be Schultz in order to get Schultz in trouble. The crime is listed as an ‘Aggravated Misdemeanor,’ but if convicted Edwards could face jail time.
Gigi Sohn talked to Personal Democracy Forum about the work she does at her organization, Public Knowledge. She took time to call out RedState and Less Government . Here’s my hastily-created transcript of the key passage around the 28:00 mark: [On AT&T/T-Mobile] We often get attacked by the right-wing press, folks like, you know, RedState and Less Government, so I’m constantly dealing with attacks fully funded by AT&T – it’s like not even a secret – calling us, you know, Soros-supported Marxists and Google shills and all these kind… So, I mean I don’t want to respond to those things, but they shape the debate. They’re out in the air. She says RedState, but at RedState I’m the one who posts on these issues, and mostly in my Tech at Night series. In that series I do highlight repeatedly that Public Knowledge takes money from George Soros’s Open Society Institute. This is a documented fact on their own webpage . However I don’t get paid a dime by AT&T. I don’t make a penny off of my tech policy writing. I don’t work for AT&T and never have. I don’t accept money from them and never have, not directly or indirectly. I’m one guy who devotes a few nights a week to studying and writing about these issues, and the fully-funded, paid professional Gigi Sohn feels the need to single me out. I actually am looking for work in the DC or Austin areas to fund my escape from California. So if AT&T did want to hire me, well, serious offers would be listened to. Heck, if Sprint Nextel wanted to hire me, I’d listen. But the fact of the matter is, I’m a lone amateur. I’m not corporate funded and I’m not foundation funded. RedState doesn’t even pay its writers, let alone AT&T. And that’s the whole story.
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Mary Bono Mack, pay attention: Here’s the model for any privacy ventures you should attempt : voluntary action by private individuals, educated by simple government actions. If you really must get government involved, teach the people to fish, so that they can protect their own privacy for a lifetime. Because if we insist on regulating the Internet problems of the moment, not only do we expand a government that’s already to big, we risk looking pretty stupid, too . Ah, Prodigy. I never did get their modem to work. CWA, the union that stands to benefit from the AT&T/T-Mobile deal by gaining jobs in an economy that trends non-union, is talking down the chances of the deal completing . Which doesn’t surprise me, because I’ve noticed the George Soros-funded trolling here at RedState to be down lately; I think y’all are getting cocky. It’s not over yet, though. Because make no mistake: CWA freely sings from the George Soros/Free Press/Public Knowledge songbook , spouting the tired old media reform talking points, for the transparent reason that CWA wants to prevent mergers that – in the short run – cost the union jobs. Because in the long run, people don’t create jobs in non-Right to Work states as much as they do in RtW states. It’s simple math that leads to the long-term death of the union. Competition. Is Martin O’Malley claiming that there is no actual federal law against online Poker ? If not, then why would he care whether the feds get involved? Nonetheless I agree, and I think we need deregulation, not new regulation. Repeal the UIGEA, and just let the market go. Remember that plan the FCC has going, Universal Service Fund Reform, that’s going to turn the USF into a grab bag of subsidies? And how every remotely related industry is rushing in with a hand out? Unsurprisingly, the old/current recipients of this money are complaining that they’re going to lose their free money from the government. Boo hoo. Even as the Occupy Wall Street movement demands free money for nothing themselves, some people are lashing out against the culture of entitlement that exists online , specifically the culture of free downloads of copyrighted works. It really is an obnoxious attitude you see, people who insist they deserve to get things free because they simply don’t want to pay. I’m adamantly opposed to expanding government just to smack these punks in the mouth, as satisfying as it would be, but I’m understanding of the frustration here.
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Tech at Night: It’s better for government to inform than to regulate, CWA dishes out talking points, Backlash against copyright freeloaders
You Will Obey The Central State! (Subsidiary of Wall Street That It Is). The Days of Rage are an Obama election rally, coordinated ahead of time to coincide with Obama’s own descent into class warfare. Which makes them a pro-government rally. – Eurasia Review A bunch of exceedingly wealthy Americans have raised an army. George Soros, The Ruckus Society , The Tides Foundation , and The Ford Foundation have poured their filthy lucre into the arming of deracinated, barbaric thugs. They have marched off to war and occupied Wall Street? This should be a pathetic joke. And not just because it involves Van Jones. The administration and, its lucre-laden lackeys who trust-fund the protesting trustifarians, appear to be another example of a bad Wall Street investment. One that is now exploding in a ball of fire reminiscent of the Hindenburg. But the situation is not that simple. Wall Street is all in for Barack Obama. They toss in the chips like a pimple-faced online poker player detonating Dad’s Visa Platinum Card. The Center for Responsive Politics reports the following regarding Barack Obama’s 2011 re-election fundraising. “Individuals who work in the finance, insurance, and real estate sector are responsible for raising at least $11.3 million for Obama’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee,” the report says. (Moneynews.com) Jon Corzine, Charles Myers, Steven Green and Azita Raji have all gone from the plush, Wall Street corner office to the Obama Administration since 2008. This as Obama presumptuously told “The Banksters” that he and ONLY he stood between them and the pitchforks. The DNC’s Wall Street alliance includes 80 out of the 244 bundlers that the Center For Responsive Politics state work for Barack Obama. And perhaps Lawrence Summers could be the Brooks Brothers clad poster boy for The Obama Administration’s incestuous conjugation with the titans of American Finance. Global Research.ca describes the payola received by Summers since he signed on with Barack Obama. Last year, Summers pocketed $5 million as a managing director of D.E. Shaw, one of the biggest hedge funds in the world, and another $2.7 million for speeches delivered to Wall Street firms that have received government bailout money. This includes $45,000 from Citigroup and $67,500 each from JPMorgan Chase and the now-liquidated Lehman Brothers. For a speech to Goldman Sachs executives, Summers walked away with $135,000. In a sense, what is happening this fall on Wall Street parallels what Malcolm X believed happened to the American Civil Rights Movement. In his infamous “Roosting of Chickens” Speech, Malcolm had the following to say about the white liberals who bankrolled much of the American Civil Rights Movement. The white liberal differs from the white conservative only in one way: the liberal is more deceitful than the conservative. The liberal is more hypocritical than the conservative. Both want power, but the white liberal is the one who has perfected the art of posing as the Negro’s friend and benefactor; and by winning the friendship, allegiance, and support of the Negro, the white liberal is able to use the Negro as a pawn or tool in this political “football game” that is constantly raging between the white liberals and white conservatives. Politically the American Negro is nothing but a football and the white liberals control this mentally dead ball through tricks of tokenism: false promises of integration and civil rights. – Malcolm X.org This is exactly what Barack Obama, George Soros and Warren Buffett are doing in today’s climate. They are channeling and buying outrage and populism. They are managing the threat of potential violence in order to further their own iniquitous ends. Vote for the billionaires or we’ll burn down Wall Street. This is a surprisingly potent threat. I stop and think about how I’m trying to save to retire and put two kids through college. Wall Street pretty much has me by the…, well, my future strategy for success is dependent upon my ability to invest my left over salary in capital businesses. Van Jones and the rest of the freak show getting arrested on The Brooklyn Bridge are not a threat against Jamie Dimon of Morgan Stanley. So just who are these protestors threatening? They threaten the American Middle Class. If your retirement is hurting now, check out the stock market if you piss Barack Obama off! That, more than anything else, is the message I take from The Potemkin Revolution taking place on Wall Street. They are asking us how much personal pain and deprivation we are willing to withstand in order to flense the wealthy, liberal parasite off of our body politic.
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The Potemkin Obama Revolution On Wall Street.
I’d like to start off tonight’s edition by saying that I enjoy some of the pushback I’ve been getting in this Tech at Night series. It’s fun when someone comes here, telling me I’m all wet, then ending up admitting they’re enamored of the whole Obama regulatory apparatus. It feels good to have my pro-liberty, pro-growth, small-government positions validated like that. So to the multifaceted George Soros astroturf machine I say this: keep it coming. And of course, one of their key talking points is that wireless competition is in danger. Consider that Radio Shack says you have nine options , and Cellular South, a carrier you might never have heard of, is suing AT&T now , while budding 4G national competitor LightSquared answers accusations it’s buying favors from Obama . It’s hard to see how the DoJ lawsuit is anything but an attempt to prop up Sprint Nextel, and hard to disagree with T-Mobile thinking its deal with AT&T will proceed on the merits . I can only wonder how many of The 182,000 jobs Facebook has created wouldn’t exist if we had intrusive government regulation of privacy. So I hate to think of how many jobs are put at risk by the coming Net Neutrality regulations , making Greg Walden’s call for FCC reform and accountability all the more urgent. When I saw Eric Schmidt’s silly calls for more spending , I first assumed the Google CEO was still auditioning for a position in the Obama administration. But now, I also wonder if he’s simply trying to butter up the White House to protect Google from its own antitrust troubles . Given this administration’s track record, I wouldn’t blame him for thinking that it’s needed.
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Tech at Night: Wireless competition, Regulation vs Jobs, Greg Walden
