IAHF LIST:
IAHF, all activist websites and all small web based businesses could be forced out of business by what the Telecommunications Giants are doing in Congress RIGHT NOW. Read the article below my comments titled NO TOLLS ON THE INTERNET if you fail to grasp whats happening.
The ruling elite want to SHUT OFF THE FLOW of all alternative news sources- they want to SHUT DOWN the BLOGS and websites like IAHF's which make it POSSIBLE to fight back against the New World Order's CONTROL AGENDA.
THIS AFTERNOON, WEDNESDAY JUNE 28th- THE SENATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE WILL HOLD A CRUCIAL VOTE ON THE
SNOWE-DORGAN NET NEUTRALITY AMENDMENT
Make the calls to the following list of Senators who have not taken strong positions on this issue and GET MORE PEOPLE to JOIN YOU!!!
WHAT TO SAY TO THESE KEY SENATORS:
"I TOTALLY OPPOSE the Telecommunications Giants corrupt efforts to turn the Internet into a TOLL ROAD, and if the Senator FAILS TO VOTE for the SNOWE DORGIN NETWORK NEUTRALITY AMENDMENT, I will work TIRELESSLY to OPPOSE HIM (or HER) and will urge EVERYONE I KNOW not to ever VOTE for him (or her) again. I own a web based business, and the Telecommunications Giants are threatening to drive ME and Millions of people running home based businesses under. I value the opportunity to engage in web based activism and will not tolerate my sources of alternative news to be SHUT OFF by Verizon and these other CORRUPT phone companies. I am very ANGRY about this.
I am asking all theaters in my area to book Aaron Russo's new documentary film "From Freedom To Fascism" and urge the Senator to view the Trailer at http://www.fromfreedomtofascism.com and to grasp the fact that when this film opens at the end of July it is going to trigger off a full scale REVOLT against all current opporession and MINDLESSNESS emanating from the US Government. Support the Telecommunications Giants Over We the PEOPLE at your POLITICAL PERIL."
(If You're not from their state, either don't tell them your address and hang up or make up one PRETENDING to be from their state, if you ARE from their state, give them your address.)
Don't Yell, but be VERY EMPHATIC and FIRM in your TONE:
HERE IS WHO TO CALL WITH THEIR PHONE #s:
(SEE THE ARTICLE NO TOLLS ON THE INTERNET BELOW THE NUMBERS) & PASS THIS ON URGENTLY!
Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska)
Phone: 202-224-3004
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)
Phone: 202-224-2235
Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.)
Phone: 202-224-2353
Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.)
Phone: 202-224-5274
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.)
Phone: 202 224 3224
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.)
Phone: 202 224-4623
Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.)
Phone: 202-224-6253
Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.)
Phone: 202-224-2644
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.)
Phone: 202-224-6551
Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.)
Phone: 202-224-6244
Sen. John E. Sununu (R-N.H.)
Phone: 202-224-2841
Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.)
Phone: 202-224-3753
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.)
Phone: 202 224-6121
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas)
Phone: 202-224-5922
Sen. George Allen (R-Va.)
Phone: 202-224-4024
Sen. John D. Rockefeller (D-W.Va.)
Phone: 202-224-6472
These phone calls actually make a difference.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/07/AR2006060702108.html
No Tolls on The Internet
By Lawrence Lessig and Robert W. McChesney
Thursday, June 8, 2006; Page A23
Congress is about to cast a historic vote on the future of the Internet. It will decide whether the Internet remains a free and open technology fostering innovation, economic growth and democratic communication, or instead becomes the property of cable and phone companies that can put toll booths at every on-ramp and exit on the information superhighway.
At the center of the debate is the most important public policy you've probably never heard of: "network neutrality." Net neutrality means simply that all like Internet content must be treated alike and move at the same speed over the network. The owners of the Internet's wires cannot discriminate. This is the simple but brilliant "end-to-end" design of the Internet that has made it such a powerful force for economic and social good: All of the intelligence and control is held by producers and users, not the networks that connect them.
The protections that guaranteed network neutrality have been law since the birth of the Internet -- right up until last year, when the Federal Communications Commission eliminated the rules that kept cable and phone companies from discriminating against content providers. This triggered a wave of announcements from phone company chief executives that they plan to do exactly that.
Now Congress faces a legislative decision. Will we reinstate net neutrality and keep the Internet free? Or will we let it die at the hands of network owners itching to become content gatekeepers? The implications of permanently losing network neutrality could not be more serious. The current legislation, backed by companies such as AT&T, Verizon and Comcast, would allow the firms to create different tiers of online service. They would be able to sell access to the express lane to deep-pocketed corporations and relegate everyone else to the digital equivalent of a winding dirt road. Worse still, these gatekeepers would determine who gets premium treatment and who doesn't.
Their idea is to stand between the content provider and the consumer, demanding a toll to guarantee quality delivery. It's what Timothy Wu, an Internet policy expert at Columbia University, calls "the Tony Soprano business model": By extorting protection money from every Web site -- from the smallest blogger to Google -- network owners would earn huge profits. Meanwhile, they could slow or even block the Web sites and services of their competitors or those who refuse to pay up. They'd like Congress to "trust them" to behave.
Without net neutrality, the Internet would start to look like cable TV. A handful of massive companies would control access and distribution of content, deciding what you get to see and how much it costs. Major industries such as health care, finance, retailing and gambling would face huge tariffs for fast, secure Internet use -- all subject to discriminatory and exclusive dealmaking with telephone and cable giants.
We would lose the opportunity to vastly expand access and distribution of independent news and community information through broadband television. More than 60 percent of Web content is created by regular people, not corporations. How will this innovation and production thrive if creators must seek permission from a cartel of network owners?
The smell of windfall profits is in the air in Washington. The phone companies are pulling out all the stops to legislate themselves monopoly power. They're spending tens of millions of dollars on inside-the-Beltway print, radio and TV ads; high-priced lobbyists; coin-operated think tanks; and sham "Astroturf" groups -- fake grass-roots operations with such Orwellian names as Hands Off the Internet and NetCompetition.org.
They're opposed by a real grass-roots coalition of more than 700 groups, 5,000 bloggers and 750,000 individual Americans who have rallied in support of net neutrality at http://www.savetheinternet.com/ . The coalition is left and right, commercial and noncommercial, public and private. Supporters include the Christian Coalition of America, MoveOn.org, National Religious Broadcasters, the Service Employees International Union, the American Library Association, AARP and nearly every consumer group. It includes the founders of the Internet, the brand names of Silicon Valley, and a bloc of retailers, innovators and entrepreneurs. Coalitions of such breadth, depth and purpose are rare in contemporary politics.
Most of the great innovators in the history of the Internet started out in their garages with great ideas and little capital. This is no accident. Network neutrality protections minimized control by the network owners, maximized competition and invited outsiders in to innovate. Net neutrality guaranteed a free and competitive market for Internet content. The benefits are extraordinary and undeniable.
Congress is deciding on the fate of the Internet. The question before it is simple: Should the Internet be handed over to the handful of cable and telephone companies that control online access for 98 percent of the broadband market? Only a Congress besieged by high-priced telecom lobbyists and stuffed with campaign contributions could possibly even consider such an absurd act.
People are waking up to what's at stake, and their voices are growing louder by the day. As millions of citizens learn the facts, the message to Congress is clear: Save the Internet.
Lawrence Lessig is a law professor at Stanford University and founder of the Center for Internet and Society. Robert W. McChesney is a communications professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and co-founder of the media reform group Free Press.
