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Netflix under attack

11/30/2010 Nativegrl77

Tell the FCC: Protect the open Internet!

BREAKING: The New York Times just reported that Comcast is blocking Netflix unless a new fee is paid to Comcast — so Netflix’s price goes up and people use Comcast’s video service instead.

This outrageous abuse of power by Comcast comes on the very week that President Obama’s FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will announce whether he’ll fulfill Obama’s promise to protect the open Internet and Net Neutrality — which would prevent this type of corporate abuse.

The FCC needs to hear from us now, before the chairman’s big announcement this week.

Sign our message to the FCC: “Don’t let Comcast block Netflix or other online innovators for their own profit! Support the strongest Net Neutrality protections possible — and keep Obama’s promise.” Click here.

Then, please tell your friends. We’ll deliver thousands of messages to the FCC this week. Sign here.

What else could Comcast do if the FCC doesn’t protect Net Neutrality?

Internet providers like Comcast can drive their financial competitors (or political opponents) out of business by charging them more, for no good reason — exactly what’s happening right now.

For instance, Comcast could block or degrade iTunes, which competes with Comcast’s own online music store.

Worse, the FCC will soon decide whether to allow Comcast to buy NBC! Can you imagine what Comcast will do to block customers from getting video from ABC, CBS, and other media outlets? This is way more serious than just movies — the FCC’s decision impacts pretty much everything.

Tell the FCC to stop Comcast’s abuse of power and protect the open Internet. Click here — then pass it on.

Thanks for being a bold progressive,

Jason Rosenbaum, Adam Green, Stephanie Taylor, Forrest Brown, and the PCCC team

P.S. You can read excerpts from the New York Times story on the petition page.

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On Friday, you bought your iPad. Today, feed the poor

11/29/2010 Nativegrl77

CARE -- It's Cyber Monday -- give the gift that gives back.

Your son wants an iPad. Your daughter wants new Uggs.

Anisa wants to be able to go to school and learn to earn her way out of poverty.

You can do something for all of them when you make a gift to CARE this holiday season.

Make a gift in honor of your son or daughter, mom or dad, aunt or uncle. They’ll get a cool e-card — and students like Anisa will get the help they need to pay school fees in Afghanistan and around the world. You’ll get the satisfaction of doing good, plus a tax deduction. (And you also can get your kids the iPad and the Uggs!)

Get started now.

Sincerely,

Helene D. Gayle, MD, MPH
President and CEO, CARE

$49 can send a girl like Hadia to school for a year so she can learn and chart her way out of poverty... $62 can train a community health worker like Elida to provide lifesaving care to pregnant mothers... $125 can help 10 families like Scherlande's receive emergency kits following a natural disaster.

~ my 2cents ...

mashup Monday &some News …

11/29/2010 Nativegrl77

As the lame duck session begins today the things that stand out most for me is the hypocrisy the overt nonsense and the lies offered up by the Republican Tea Party for the last twenty months. Unfortunately, the lies continue even after the Midterm elections with the sole goal to ruin President Obama by using Americans as their pawns and throwing us all under the bus.

The Party of No will keep stalling, blocking and saying No to the START treaty, the Disclose Act, unemployment, the Dream Act, Food Safety and other legislation but want and have been threatening progress unless and until the Republican Tea Party is given the Bush giveaways for the rich. The lies that the Republicans were able to sell and get some left of center to buy is about to unravel and the truth finally know by hopefully all Americans.

The notion that the top 2% is the group that creates and or hires the middle class let alone the idea that should be the reason to make sure the Bush giveaways are permanent is just a joke. If this is true, we should all ask where are the jobs that should have saved us all before the first 750 thousand suddenly lost their jobs even before President Obama was really in office. I do not understand how anyone believes that lie.

Other News …

**Feds open criminal investigation into WikiLeaks disclosures

**Former neighbor shocked over arrest of teen bomber

**Seoul warns that N.Korea will face severe consequences if another military attack on southern border

**Rep.Maxine Waters demands conclusion to ethics case

**Steele gets another challenger for RNC chair

**High court to review AZ election finance law

**JohnBolton is considering a run for office in 2012 against President Obama

CSPAN …

Former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) , American Action Network, CEO
Sunday

Interviews on Increasing Government Transparency
Saturday

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Proof that we’ll do just about anything for you… a Video from -Rainforest Action Network

11/27/2010 Nativegrl77

The Wall Street Journal calls us “some of the savviest environmental agitators in the business.” For the debut of this video, we call ourselves “shamelessly grateful to all the people who make our work possible.” Please enjoy this RAN-tastic dancefest as a priceless little thank you gift from us to you.