They filed suit. A very, very, very, very, very small victory, indeed.

The suit will be thrown out or a ruling in favor of the merger will be the outcome. Every person in the Federal Government is in their positions for one purpose, and one purpose only: to increase the profits of the Corporate Plutocracy. Period. If this merger is turned down, then the only reason will be that there are players in the Telecom industry, hidden in the shadows, that don't want this merger to happen and are paying the appropriate politicians more $$ than A T & T is paying them. Otherwise, it's a-going through.

“Don’t hate the media: Become the media!”
- Jello Biafra

Alright folks, READ ALL ABOUT IT! -- Low Power FM (LPFM) radio station license applications for non-profit organizations in medium and large-sized cities to commence summer of 2012. This is the first time that’s been done by the FCC in thirty (30) years. Get’em while they’re hot!

This the idea I've been pushing on CD for five years now. This opportunity won't come again. Non-profit progressive groups (including labor interest groups) need to get those licenses while they're hot.

Enough of these stations blanketing a medium-sized or large city with contiguous broadcast ranges could potentially mimic the audience market penetration of large commercial FM stations—ONLY WITHOUT CORPORATE CENSORSHIP.

These stations could become part of a nationwide, populist progressive information cooperative network that airs local programming most of the time but cooperates to concentrate on regional and national issues of importance, averting or responding to crises, and covering independent progressive candidates during election cycles.

The other good idea to get around the Establishment right now is Americanselect.org. Check it out. Via this online idea, anyone can become a citizen delegate and nominate whomever they want and, so the site operators say, get on the ballot in all 50 States. This would circumvent the Dem/GOP/Federal Election Commission lock on the nomination process.

If we had both these ideas, low power FM and citizen delegate nominations in all 50 States—independent of corporate media and the Dem/GOP/FEC nomination Machine, respectively, then we could use the LPFM stations to educate the masses about OUR CANDIDATES and get OUR IDEAS out without having to go through corporate "mainstream" media filters.

CARPE DIEM! Start talking these ideas up in your family, church, community resilience circle, or other progressive group and research what it takes to get these stations up and running. This is a once in a generation-and-a-half opportunity and if we don’t seize it, sooner or later the right-wing will.

So, get off your fat carbo-potato monkey butt and sweat your old agitator mind and body for a change! You progressive retirees who still have your health: There’s no excuse not to. Let me tell you, I’ve worked in radio before and it’s a hell of a lot of fun. It will be even more fun to use radio to help build local community resilience and resistance and stick it to all those creeps who’ve been screwing us locally and nationally since Reagan. And we can use our own media voices that can’t be silenced by corporate media to help locally and nationally organize our own politics to go around theirs!!

"V" for peace and victory over our true oppressors!

Can this be said of healthcare too?

"If you remove a competitor from an already concentrated market, the results are bad for industry, bad for consumers and bad for society. And they're bad for jobs and the economy, too."