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White Grandfather Cuffed For
Walking With Black Granddaughter
Written
by Ruth
Manuel-Logan on February 13, 2012 1:25 pm
Scott Henson (pictured), a self-described White Texas
redneck, was cuffed last Friday by a swarm of policemen, because he was walking
his Black 5-year-old grandchild down the street. The Austin resident spoke to
NewsOne about how he was accosted by police for being in the company
of his grandchild, Ty(pictured).
SEE ALSO: GLAAD Is Not Anti-Black
Ty’s
mother is not Henson and his wife’s biological child; the couple decided to
raise her after her own father died. Still, the woman calls Henson
and his wife “Mom” and “Dad,” and naturally, her daughter refers to the couple
as her grandparents.
Henson’s
grandchild typically spends Friday nights with her grandfather and his wife, so
that the little girl’s parents can get a break. Last Friday,
Henson, who is a journalist and creator of two popular blogs GritsforBreakfast and Huevos
Rancheros, took his grandchild to a skating rink near his home as a
reward for being a high achiever at school. The kindergartener grew
tired of skating, so the pair decided to walk home rather than have his
wife pick them up from the rink.
After
walking a distance from the rink, Henson felt as if he was being
followed. Suddenly, someone called out to them, and it turned out to be a
deputy constable.
“She
told me to take my hand out of my pocket and to step away from Ty, declaring
that someone had seen a White man chasing a Black girl and reported a possible
kidnapping. Then she began asking the 5-year-old about me. The last time this
happened, Ty was barely 2, and I wasn’t about to let police question her. This
time, though, at least initially, I decided to let her answer. “Do you know
this man?” the deputy asked. “Yes, he’s my Grandpa,” Ty said. “What did
you say?” the deputy repeated. “He’s my Grandpa!” Ty yelled, then rushed back
over to me and grabbed hold of my leg. “Okay,” the deputy responded.
The
constable asked for Henson’s name and address, and he chose not
to answer stating that if he was not being held for anything, he would
like to take the child home. The woman complied and allowed Henson to
leave.
Just
as Henson and Ty were approaching their home, a police cruiser that had passed
them by after the constable released them suddenly turned around and threw on
his flashing lights. Four more police cars joined, surrounding Henson and
Ty. Officers jumped out of their vehicles with tasers drawn, demanding
that Henson throw up his hands and step away from the child. The officers
grabbed the child and put her in the backseat of a vehicle. By now there
were a total of nine to ten police cars surrounding Henson and his
granddaughter.
“ I
gave them the phone numbers they needed to confirm who Ty was and that she was
supposed to be with me (and not in the back of their police car), but for quite
a while nobody seemed too interested in verifying my story. One officer wanted
to lecture me endlessly about how they were just doing their job, as if the
innocent person handcuffed on the side of the road cares about such excuses. I
asked why he hadn’t made any calls yet, and he interrupted his lecture to say,
‘We’ve only been here two minutes, give us time” (It had actually been much
longer than that). Maybe so, I replied, sitting on the concrete in handcuffs,
but there are nine of y’all milling about doing nothing by my count so you’ve
had 18 minutes for somebody to get on the damn phone by now so y’all can figure
out you screwed up.”
According
to Henson, the same deputy constable who had questioned him earlier
walked in on the scene and briefly looked his way as she spoke to police
personnel. Soon after, a supervisor arrived and began questioning the
officers. The woman came over to Henson and began explaining how the
police department has to take complaints about possible kidnappings seriously.
By this point, though, Henson felt he was guilty in the eyes of law enforcement
for the “heinous crime of babysitting while white.”
After
Henson was released, there were no apologies issued. After being
interrogated, Ty was given a flashlight as a consolation prize. According
to Henson, the deputy constable who could now barely look him in the eyes, “You
knew better. This is on you.”
Meanwhile
Ty, who was visibly shaken after witnessing how authorities treated her
granddad, is left with a negative perception of law enforcement. “I hate
for a 5-year-old to be subjected to such an experience. I’d like her to view
police as people she can trust instead of threats to her and her family, but
it’s possible I live in the wrong neighborhood for that.”
Attempts
were made by News One to obtain a quote from the Austin police department
regarding the Henson case but our calls were not returned.
Posted: 16 Aug 2011 04:00
PM PDT
NALC President Fredric Rolando
testifies before Congress (beginning at minute 40).
Recently, a
number of proposals have been floated
about cutting back on the offerings of the United States Postal Service. Among
the suggestions are eliminating Saturday service and closing numerous post
offices across the country. These ideas are said to be necessary, according to
Postal Service officials, because the Service is losing large sums of money in
delivering the mail.
Current proposals
include eliminating 220,000 postal jobs through cuts and attrition by 2015.
This is in a climate where the USPS has already eliminated 212,000 jobs in the
last ten years. Also proposed is a plan to withdraw postal employees and
retirees from the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program and the creation of
a new program that would almost certainly have weaker benefits.
United States Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe is on record as
also proposing cuts to postal employees' health and pension benefits. National
Association of Letter Carriers President Fredric Rolando sees clear signs that
Donahoe is intent on attacking the collective bargaining rights of postal
workers and that he wants to "override lay-off protection provisions in
the postal unions’ contracts." In a recent white paper titled
"Workforce Optimization," the Postal Service directly asked Congress
to void lay-off protection provisions. The USPS developed its proposals without
any input from NALC or any other unions.
Rolando lays out the real root of the problem: "The problem
lies elsewhere: the 2006 congressional mandate that the USPS pre-fund future
retiree health benefits for the next 75 years, and do so within a decade, an
obligation no other public agency or private firm faces. The roughly $5.5
billion annual payments since 2007 — $21 billion total — are the difference
between a positive and negative ledger."
Postal Service management recently claimed:
“If we were a private company, we would have already filed for bankruptcy and
gone through restructuring—much like major automakers did two years ago.” NALC
responded by calling this claim the "Big Lie." If the USPS were a
private company, NALC argued, it wouldn't have been subjected to the
pre-funding requirement and it would've been profitable, since the pre-funding
requirement is responsible for 100 percent of the Service's losses in recent
years.
NALC suggests that the problem has an easy fix.
Instead of eliminating the requirement for pre-funding future benefits, Rolando
says that the Postal Service should be allowed to transfer funds from pension
surpluses instead of operating funds. That would continue to fund both pensions
and retiree health benefits funded well into the future while putting the
operations budget back into a surplus without cutting back on services or
laying off workers.
Ending Saturday service would create more problems that it would solve. More than 80,000 jobs would be lost
and millions of Americans would face disruptions to their business and personal
lives, as financial transactions are delayed, prescription drugs don't get to
patients as quick as they otherwise would and other disruptions are created.
The Postal Regulatory Commission found that ending Saturday service would
disproportionately hurt elderly and rural Americans. The Commission also
determined that as much as 25 percent of First Class and Priority mail could be
delayed two days or more.
The Commission found that going to five-day service would not save
as much money as Postal Service leaders project. Saturday delivery, which
amounts to only two percent of postal costs, accounts for 17 percent of
service.
The suggestion that the Postal Service faces a major crisis --
similar to attacks across the country that have proceeded assaults on other unions
-- is an overstatement, of course. The Postal Service hasn't
used any taxpayer funding for more
than twenty-five years. It pays for it's operations through the sale of it's
services and products. In the past four years, operational revenues at the USPS
have exceeded costs by $611 million. Customer satisfaction and delivery of the
mail on time are at record highs.
According to Rolando, fixing the real problem -- the pre-funding
of future benefits at such an exaggerated standard -- isn't even on the table.
Representatives Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Dennis Ross (R-FL) introduced a bill
the reform the postal service, but it doesn't actually address the primary
problem the USPS faces. It would allow for some of the more extreme proposals
to be implemented, including the elimination of Saturday service and the
nullification of collective bargaining agreements already in existence.
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The numbers doesn’t lie
I
just read an article that confirmed what I already know but it’s always nice to
get your information from a very reliable source the Census Bureau. The
information went on to layout that the poverty rate for Americans in 2010 was
15.3 percent that an increase of 0.8 percent from 2009. Just to add more bad
news the uninsured was 49.9 million our highest in more than twenty years. Our
median household income in 2010 was $49,445.00 that a decrease of 2.3 percent
from 2009.
The
Economic Policy Institute focuses on middle-income Americans and their family;
It’s just keep getting worse with no real relief in sight. These numbers are
expected to get worse and remain that way for years to come. The 2009 American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act created a million jobs and another 3.4 million in
2010. According to the information the 2010 number would have been a lot worse
if the ARRA had not been passed. Children are the biggest group that harmed by
any economic downturn. Children under 18 years of age were in poverty in 2010
at a higher twenty two percent and the rate in 2009 was less than twenty one
percent.
All
of this isn’t good with a family of four poverty line is $23,113.00 in yearly
income. Families that fall below the income stated above are really in deep
trouble. Believe it or not there are families that are trying to live on
$11,000.00 these folks are really in trouble. In 2010 6.7 percent of American
families lived below that number. 9.9 percent of children lived below the deep
property line. Our poverty rate grew at a higher rate between 2007-2009 than
any period since 1980. The median household income for working age families
fell about ten percent. Retirees did better during this same time keeping in
mind for the most part most retirees have reduce their household spending by
paying off their credit card bills, auto loans and other things that working
families must spend their hard earned cash on.
Forty
nine percent of American under sixty five are uninsured this number has grown
by thirteen percent since two thousand. The rate for eighteen-twenty five fell
by less than three percentage. The main reason for this is the Affordable Care
Act that took effect last year allowing parents to keep their children until
they are twenty six years of age. Health care reform will not kick in until
2014. I was listening to a national TV talk show today and Governor from
Florida was talking about how Health Care reform was killing jobs. I am not
sure how that being done when it doesn’t take effect until 2014. What he was
doing is repeating the “Big Lie” if you stated it long enough the uninformed
will think it true. Republicans Politicians have become master at the “Big Lie”
getting back to this Governor, who has purchased group health insurance for his
families for some outrageous low rate. At the same time he was talking about
health care insurance was a very bad idea for the American people. I really
love how all Republican Politicians are bad mouthing what they called “Obama
Care” yet they have no ideas on how to fixed the problem for the people they
are supposed to be looking out for. In the mean while, all of these guys and
gals are being treated to the best health care our money can buy. I just love all
of the clowns that come to the microphone and bad mouth anyone who is trying to
help the American people. We have a helluva problem with the world most
expensive health care system. This system is designed to make huge profits for
doctors, lawyers, drug companies and medical equipments makers.
There
are forty seven million living in poverty represents the largest number on
record dating back to 1959. Minorities are hit the hardest Hispanics in poverty
went up from twenty five to twenty six percent. African-American the increase
went from twenty six to almost twenty eight percent. Poverty rose in every race
and ethnic group except Asians. White in poverty rose from nine and half to
almost ten percent. In a surprising reversal about hundred thousand more women
lost their jobs than men in 2010. From
2007 to 2009 the bulk of the newly unemployed were men.
Mystery Disease In Central
America Kills Thousands
By FILADELFO
ALEMAN and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN 02/12/12 12:00
AM ET 
CHICHIGALPA,
Nicaragua -- Jesus Ignacio Flores started working when he was 16, laboring long
hours on construction sites and in the fields of his country's biggest sugar
plantation. Three years ago his kidneys started to fail and flooded his body
with toxins. He became too weak to work, wracked by cramps, headaches and
vomiting.
On
Jan. 19 he died on the porch of his house. He was 51. His withered body was
dressed by his weeping wife, embraced a final time, then carried in the bed of
a pickup truck to a grave on the edge of Chichigalpa, a town in Nicaragua's
sugar-growing heartland, where studies have found more than one in four men
showing symptoms of chronic kidney disease.
A
mysterious epidemic is devastating the Pacific coast of Central America,
killing more than 24,000 people in El Salvador and Nicaragua since 2000 and
striking thousands of others with chronic kidney disease at rates unseen
virtually anywhere else. Scientists say they have received reports of the
phenomenon as far north as southern Mexico and as far south as Panama.
Last
year it reached the point where El Salvador's health minister, Dr. Maria Isabel
Rodriguez, appealed for international help, saying the epidemic was undermining
health systems. Wilfredo Ordonez, who has harvested corn, sesame and rice for
more than 30 years in the Bajo Lempa region of El Salvador, was hit by the
chronic disease when he was 38. Ten years later, he depends on dialysis
treatments he administers to himself four times a day. "This is a disease
that comes with no warning, and when they find it, it's too late," Ordonez
said as he lay on a hammock on his porch.
Many
of the victims were manual laborers or worked in sugar cane fields that cover
much of the coastal lowlands. Patients, local doctors and activists say they
believe the culprit lurks among the agricultural chemicals workers have used
for years with virtually none of the protections required in more developed
countries. But a growing body of evidence supports a more complicated and
counterintuitive hypothesis.
The
roots of the epidemic, scientists say, appear to lie in the grueling nature of
the work performed by its victims, including construction workers, miners and
others who labor hour after hour without enough water in blazing temperatures,
pushing their bodies through repeated bouts of extreme dehydration and heat
stress for years on end. Many start as young as 10. The punishing routine
appears to be a key part of some previously unknown trigger of chronic kidney
disease, which is normally caused by diabetes and high-blood pressure, maladies
absent in most of the patients in Central America.
"The
thing that evidence most strongly points to is this idea of manual labor and
not enough hydration," said Daniel Brooks, a professor of epidemiology at
Boston University's School of Public Health, who has worked on a series of
studies of the kidney disease epidemic. Because hard work and intense heat
alone are hardly a phenomenon unique to Central America, some researchers will
not rule out manmade factors. But no strong evidence has turned up. "I
think that everything points away from pesticides," said Dr. Catharina
Wesseling, an occupational and environmental epidemiologist who also is
regional director of the Program on Work, Health and Environment in Central
America. "It is too multinational; it is too spread out. "I would
place my bet on repeated dehydration, acute attacks everyday. That is my bet,
my guess, but nothing is proved."
Dr.
Richard J. Johnson, a kidney specialist at the University of Colorado, Denver,
is working with other researchers investigating the cause of the disease. They
too suspect chronic dehydration. "This is a new concept, but there's some
evidence supporting it," Johnson said. "There are other ways to
damage the kidney. Heavy metals, chemicals, toxins have all been considered,
but to date there have been no leading candidates to explain what's going on in
Nicaragua. "As these possibilities get exhausted, recurrent dehydration is
moving up on the list." In Nicaragua, the number of annual deaths from
chronic kidney disease more than doubled in a decade, from 466 in 2000 to 1,047
in 2010, according to the Pan American Health Organization, a regional arm of
the World Health Organization. In El Salvador, the agency reported a similar
jump, from 1,282 in 2000 to 2,181 in 2010.
Farther
down the coast, in the cane-growing lowlands of northern Costa Rica, there also
have been sharp increases in kidney disease, Wesseling said, and the Pan
American body's statistics show deaths are on the rise in Panama, although at
less dramatic rates. While some of the rising numbers may be due to better
record-keeping, scientists have no doubt they are facing something deadly and
previously unknown to medicine. In nations with more developed health systems,
the disease that impairs the kidney's ability to cleanse the blood is diagnosed
relatively early and treated with dialysis in medical clinics. In Central America,
many of the victims treat themselves at home with a cheaper but less efficient
form of dialysis, or go without any dialysis at all.
At
a hospital in the Nicaraguan town of Chinandega, Segundo Zapata Palacios sat
motionless in his room, bent over with his head on the bed. "He no longer
wants to talk," said his wife, Enma Vanegas. His levels of creatinine, a
chemical marker of kidney failure, were 25 times the normal amount. His family
told him he was being hospitalized to receive dialysis. In reality, the hope
was to ease his pain before his inevitable death, said Carmen Rios, a leader of
Nicaragua's Association of Chronic Kidney Disease Patients, a support and
advocacy group. "There's already nothing to do," she said. "He
was hospitalized on Jan. 23 just waiting to die." Zapata Palacios passed
away on Jan. 26. He was 49.
Working
with scientists from Costa Rica, El Salvador and Nicaragua, Wesseling tested
groups on the coast and compared them with groups who had similar work habits
and exposure to pesticide but lived and worked more than 500 meters (1,500
feet) above sea level. Some 30 percent of coastal dwellers had elevated levels
of creatinine, strongly suggesting environment rather than agrochemicals was to
blame, Brooks, the epidemiologist, said. The study is expected to be published
in a peer-reviewed journal in coming weeks.
Brooks
and Johnson, the kidney specialist, said they have seen echoes of the Central
American phenomenon in reports from hot farming areas in Sri Lanka, Egypt and
the Indian east coast. "We don't really know how widespread this is,"
Brooks said. "This may be an under-recognized epidemic."
Jason
Glaser, co-founder of a group working to help victims of the epidemic in
Nicaragua, said he and colleagues also have begun receiving reports of
mysterious kidney disease among sugar cane workers in Australia. Despite the
growing consensus among international experts, Elsy Brizuela, a doctor who
works with an El Salvadoran project to treat workers and research the epidemic,
discounts the dehydration theory and insists "the common factor is
exposure to herbicides and poisons." Nicaragua's highest rates of chronic
kidney disease show up around the Ingenio San Antonio, a plant owned by the
Pellas Group conglomerate, whose sugar mill processes nearly half the nation's
sugar. Flores and Zapata Palacios both worked at the plantation.
According
to one of Brooks' studies, about eight years ago the factory started providing
electrolyte solution and protein cookies to workers who previously brought their
own water to work. But the study also found that some workers were cutting
sugar cane for as long as 9 1/2 hours a day with virtually no break and little
shade in average temperatures of 30 C (87 F). In 2006, the plantation, owned by
one of the country's richest families, received $36.5 million in loans from the
International Finance Corp., the private-sector arm of the World Bank Group, to
buy more land, expand its processing plant and produce more sugar for consumers
and ethanol production. In a statement, the IFC said it had examined the social
and environmental impacts of its loans as part of a due diligence process and
did not identify kidney disease as something related to the sugar plantation's
operations.
Nonetheless,
the statement said, "we are concerned about this disease that affects not
only Nicaragua but other countries in the region, and will follow closely any
new findings." Ariel Granera, a spokesman for the Pellas' business
conglomerate, said that starting as early as 1993 the company had begun taking
a wide variety of precautions to avoid heat stress in its workers, from
starting their shifts very early in the morning to providing them with many
gallons of drinking water per day. Associated Press reporters saw workers
bringing water bottles from their homes, which they refilled during the day
from large cylinders of water in the buses that bring them to the fields. Glaser,
the co-founder of the activist group in Nicaragua, La Isla Foundation, said
that nonetheless many worker protections in the region are badly enforced by
the companies and government regulators, particularly measures to stop workers
with failing kidneys from working in the cane fields owned by the Pellas Group
and other companies.
Many
workers disqualified by tests showing high levels of creatinine go back to work
in the fields for subcontractors with less stringent standards, he said. Some
use false IDs, or give their IDs to their healthy sons, who then pass the tests
and go work in the cane fields, damaging their kidneys. "This is the only
job in town," Glaser said. "It's all they're trained to do. It's all
they know." The Ingenio San Antonio mill processes cane from more than
24,000 hectares (60,000 acres) of fields, about half directly owned by the mill
and most of the rest by independent farmers. The trade group for Nicaragua's
sugar companies said the Boston University study had confirmed that "the
agricultural sugar industry in Nicaragua has no responsibility whatsoever for
chronic renal insufficiency in Nicaragua" because the research found that
"in the current body of scientific knowledge there is no way to establish
a direct link between sugar cane cultivation and renal insufficiency."
Brooks,
the epidemiologist at Boston University, told the AP that the study simply said
there was no definitive scientific proof of the cause, but that all possible
connections remained open to future research.
In
comparison with Nicaragua, where thousands of kidney disease sufferers work for
large sugar estates, in El Salvador many of them are independent small farmers.
They blame agricultural chemicals and few appear to have significantly changed
their work habits in response to the latest research, which has not received
significant publicity in El Salvador.
In
Nicaragua, the dangers are better known, but still, workers need jobs. Zapata
Palacios left eight children. Three of them work in the cane fields. Two
already show signs of disease.
Associated
Press writer Filadelfo Aleman reported this story in Chichigalpa, Nicaragua,
and Michael Weissenstein reported from Mexico City. AP writers Marcos Aleman in
Bajo Lempa, El Salvador, and Romina Ruiz-Goiriena in Guatemala City contributed
to this report.
ACLU files suit over Ten Commandments
Civil-Liberties
groups are suing a Southwest Virginia school board for posting the Ten
Commandments, contending that the display violates the Constitution’s guarantee
of church and state. There is no such guarantee written in our constitution
this is a Supreme Court ruling by the “Burger court”. This court was an active court reading this
into constitution. Our founding forefather were all very religious people they
wanted freedom of religion and the government was not to interfere with that
freedom. They also understood the importance of living by the Ten Commandments
knowing that someday we would lose our way if we didn’t have that guiding
force.
The
lawsuit says the display unconstitutionally promotes a specific religious faith
and serves no secular purpose. It seeks to have the Ten Commandments removed
from school walls and to place a ban on further display of the biblical
documents so far, the ACLU said. The child parent feels like it’s the parent’s
responsibility to educate their children about religious matters and the school
should not be playing a part in that. The country’s two high schools and three
elementary, middle schools had posted the Ten Commandments for more than a
decade. School officials replace them with the declaration of independence.
After
a public outcry by Christian ministers and local residents who wanted the
schools to reflect their Christian beliefs, the school board unanimously voted
in January to put the Ten Commandments back up but removed them the following
month after Liberty Counsel attorneys advised them about such displays in the
context of the First Amendment’s establishment Clause, which prohibits the
government from favoring one religion over another.
In
May, residents held a rally in May to demand that the commandments be returned
to the schools. School board members voted three to two in June to rehang the
biblical texts as part of displays that include U.S. historical documents
including the Declaration of Independence. The Star Spangled Banner and the
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.
If
you've ever been to Europe (I haven't, but lots of my friends have), you know
that wireless broadband access is everywhere and often free -- unlike here,
where it's clustered in the cities, with
frequently spotty coverage, and always expensive. The special interests prefer
to keep it that way, and that appears to be behind an all-out assault on a company named LightSquared:
LightSquared
sent the satellite for its wholesale wireless network in 2010, but has had
trouble getting federal approval for the project due to a dustup over GPS and
other political woes. Now the start-up has decided to launch a political
counteroffensive.
Already
mired in a complicated technological debate over how to prevent its network
from interfering with GPS, the wireless start-up LightSquared has faced
withering political criticism over the past few months. Now the company has a
message for its detractors: Two can play that game.
LightSquared
is struggling to launch a nationwide, wholesale wireless network based
partially on satellites and had been focused on the technical aspects of its
argument -- much of it over whether the company’s planned network would
interfere with existing GPS technology. But after a flurry of unflattering
headlines alleging that the company won Federal Communications Commission
approval for its plans through campaign contributions and backroom deals,
LightSquared is now trying to shift the focus to its critics.
LightSquared
has hired dozens of top lobbyists, including at least seven former elected
officials -- including ex-House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri;
former Republican Sen. Tim Hutchinson of Arkansas; and Democratic former Gov.
Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania.
Most
recently, LightSquared has taken aim at Bradford Parkinson, known as one of the
founders of GPS and a member of the National Space-Based Positioning Navigation
& Timing Advisory Board, which advises the government on GPS issues.
Parkinson is also an investor and a member of the board of Trimble, a GPS
manufacturer that has led the fight against LightSquared’s plans.
That,
LightSquared officials contend, is a conflict of interest.
“It seems highly
incongruous and even inappropriate to us that the government's top outside
adviser on GPS matters would be simultaneously helping to oversee the same
company that is leading the public-relations and lobbying campaign against
LightSquared, and that has a financial interest in the outcome of that battle,”
said LightSquared spokesman Terry Neal.
LightSquared
is also pushing back at members of the GPS industry who have argued that
LightSquared is trying to game the political system for financial gain.
On
Wednesday, LightSquared released publicly available information that it had
compiled showing top Trimble executives dumping millions of dollars in
company shares the month after LightSquared received conditional FCC approval
for parts of its plan in January.
Rep.
Tom Petri and Sen. Chuck Grassley, both Republicans, have gone after the FCC
for how it's handled the LightSquared process. (Coincidentally, both of them
got some hefty contributions from groups with GPS ties, but I'm sure it has
nothing to do with their outrage.)
It's
one of those technical stories that's hard for lay people like me to unravel,
involving allegations that LightSquared will ruin GPS signals, and even includes
some dark Solyandra-type smears against Obama from Republicans (because
LightSquared made Democratic contributions).
I'm
not saying LightSquared is the solution. As I say, it's complicated. All I know
is, we desperately need actual competition to drive wireless broadband prices
down, and the big money interests don't want that to happen. So
sign the petition to ask Congress to do something about it.
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