statism watch

Chris Sorenson, Toronto Star
November 20, 2008

Bell Canada Inc. will not have to suspend its practice of “shaping” traffic on the Internet after a group of companies that resell access to Bell’s network complained their customers were also being negatively affected.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission today released a decision that denied the Canadian Association of Internet Providers’ request that Bell be ordered to cease its application of the practice to its wholesale customers.

But the CRTC did rule that Bell will now have to give the resellers at least 30 days notice before it makes future changes that affect the performance of that part of the network.

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Paul Joseph Watson, Prisonplanet.com
November 20, 2008

Senator James Inhofe has revealed that Henry Paulson was behind the threats of martial law and a new great depression prior to the passage of the bailout bill, having made such warnings during a conference call on September 19th, around two weeks before the legislation was eventually approved by both the Senate and Congress.

As we reported at the time, on October 2, Democratic Congressman Brad Sherman gave a stunning speech on the House floor during which he decried the fact that, “Many of us were told in private conversations that if we voted against this bill on Monday that the sky would fall, the market would drop two or three thousand points the first day, another couple of thousand the second day, and a few members were even told that there would be martial law in America if we voted no.”

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