YouTube has the President’s address. I presume the White house will eventually put up an edited version, but at the moment, this is the one I have.

Skip ahead to 31 minutes at which time the President walks in.

There is a web site www.battleforthenet.com that gives you the opportunity to send a message to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and to call your legislators to tell them what you want them to do about this issue.

Big ISPs want the power to slow (and break!) sites like ours. Tell lawmakers: “Protect Internet freedom. Defend net neutrality.”

Don’t let the profits and the power of the few overrule the voices of the many.

On the other hand, if you want to see revolution in the streets, let them cut off the only peaceful and powerful means of protest and dissemination of information that is available to the 99% of us.

The Empire News has the story Meteorologists Predict Record-Shattering Snowfall Coming Soon.

Chances are you will hear a lot about El Niño in the next month or two. Meteorologists and weather science experts at the National Weather Service (NWS) say that there is a 99% chance that the we will start to see a massive cold-front sooner in the year than has ever happened, which will produce not just record-breaking snowfall, but according to Dr. Boris Scvediok, a doctor of global weather sciences, record shattering snow storms across the board, affecting the entire United States.

I must admit that this story really had me worried about my plans for this winter, at least for as long as it took me to read the article. Of course, the first hint was right in the first paragraph.

The UK Guardian has the article Tech firms begin ‘go-slow’ protest in battle for the web.

Kickstarter on Wednesday morning made its point on how new rules would ‘destroy net neutrality’.

Much of the internet went on a “go-slow” protest Wednesday as some of the world’s largest tech companies began a protest over proposals that could create fast web lanes for some companies.

When asked what it’s going to take to change the way the country (and world) is headed toward complete oligarchy, recent gubernatorial candidate Don Berwick pinned his hopes on muckraking independent journalists.

Since the main stream media have pretty much given up on muckraking, we are increasingly depending on independent journalists. In today’s world, these independent journalists use the internet to carry their voice to the people.

For the oligarchy to sustain itself, they need to get control of this last avenue of communication. Let us not kid ourselves that this is about creating fast lanes for people willing to pay. The fastest lanes will always be as fast as technology allows. What we are talking about is putting most communicators in a special slow lane for the unwashed masses. The regular (fast) lane will be only for the information that the oligarchs want the rest of us to hear.