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Show Info 3-16-2015 – News, Guest Chris Kitze

Show Info 3-16-2015 – News, Guest Chris Kitze

Show Info 3-16-2015 – News, Guest Chris Kitze

March 16

News and Guests

2015

Second Hour Guest

Chris KitzeIn the second hour JD is joined by CEO and developer of Unseen.is and publisher of Before It’s News, Chris Kitze, for a discussion about online privacy and safety in the wake of the newly disclosed and broad sweeping proposals for the new internet control regime headed up by the FCC.

Currently the CEO of Unseen, ehf, a provider of secure and private communications. Kitze has founded and led numerous high tech companies.

Starting in digital publishing with CD-ROM’s in the 1980’s, he has focused most of his attention on consumer facing web sites since 1995. His first internet success was the sale of Point Communications, at the time a Top 20 internet web site, to Lycos, Inc, where he was the VP of marketing through their IPO.

Following Lycos, he co-founded Xoom.com and took it public in 1998, merging it with CNET and NBC assets to form NBC Internet in a $6 billion combined deal. He was the CEO of NBCi for just under a year.

Later, he merged eVineyard and assets acquired from the foreclosure of Wine.com to form the new Wine.com. He is also founded and is the publisher of the crowdsourced news site Before It’s News, a leading alternative news web site.
Full Bio: https://redpillreports.com/guests/chris-kitze/

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http://seen.is/
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ckitze


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First Hour News with JD

World News

US shuts down Saudi embassy amid security fears
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31893070

VENEZUELA CONDUCTS MILITARY EXERCISES, CLAIMING US THREAT
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_VENEZUELA_US_

Russia Declares “State Of War” With UK, Nuclear Orders Issued
http://yournewswire.com/russia-declares-state-of-war-with-uk-nuclear-orders-issued/

‘Pirate Party’ set to hijack Icelandic parliament
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/pirate-party-set-to-hijack-icelandic-parliament/

US will ‘have to negotiate’ with Syria’s Assad – Kerry
http://rt.com/news/240929-us-negotiate-syria-assad/

Ancient statues destroyed by ISIS fake, real ones safe – report
http://rt.com/news/240801-isis-destroy-statues-fake/

51 dead as tourist bus plunges into ravine in Brazil
http://rt.com/news/240837-brazil-tourist-bus-accident/

US to delay Afghanistan withdrawal, leave more troops – report
http://rt.com/news/240833-us-afghanistan-withdrawal-delay/

‘Freedom in jeopardy’: Thousands rally across Canada against new anti-terror law
http://rt.com/news/240821-canada-protest-terrorism-bill/

Egypt unveils blueprints for new $45bn capital city
http://rt.com/news/240793-egypt-cairo-new-capital/

Hamas rejects 5-year Israeli truce in exchange for end to Gaza blockade
http://rt.com/news/240209-hamas-rejects-truce-deal/

‘JIHADI JOHN’ STILL HAS ACCESS TO BRITISH BANK ACCOUNT: ‘INCOMPREHENSIBLE’
http://www.infowars.com/jihadi-john-still-has-access-to-british-bank-account-incomprehensible/

US News

As governor, Jeb Bush used e-mail to discuss security, troop deployments
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-governor-jeb-bush-used-e-mail-to-discuss-security-troop-movements/2015/03/14/0d7fae16-ca49-11e4-b2a1-bed1aaea2816_story.html

Source: Senate panel probing ‎possible Obama administration ties to anti-Netanyahu effort
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/03/15/senate-committee-probes-whether-obama-administration-funded-effort-to-oust/

Judge Orders State Dept. To Release Hillary Travel Records To Citizens United
http://libertycrier.com/judge-orders-state-dept-to-release-hillary-travel-records-to-citizens-united

US SPENDS $15 MILLION ON JOURNALISTS FOR ANTI-ASSAD REPORTS
http://www.blacklistednews.com/US_Spends_%2415_Million_on_Journalists_for_Anti-Assad_Reports/42629/0/38/38/Y/M.html

C.I.A. Cash Ends Up With Al Qaeda
http://yournewswire.com/c-i-a-cash-ends-up-with-al-qaeda/

California’s water supply headed for collapse in just one year; state has “no contingency plan” – NASA scientist
http://www.naturalnews.com/049008_California_drought_water_supply_ecological_collapse.html

Huge Floating Solar Project Being Developed In California — To Be Largest In US Once Completed
http://cleantechnica.com/2015/03/14/huge-floating-solar-project-developed-california-largest-us-completed

Police: man suspected in pastor’s murder yelled ‘I Kill Demons’
http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/28466979/police-man-suspected-in-pastors-murder-yelled-i-kill-demons

First direct flight from New Orleans to Cuba since 1958 takes off
http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2015/03/first_direct_flight_from_new_o.html

Economic News

“Cancel All Student Debt” – The Petitions Begin
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-14/cancel-all-student-debt-petitions-begin

“An ‘Old-Fashioned’ Recession Is Spreading Across The World,” Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Warns
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-14/old-fashioned-recession-spreading-across-world-billionaire-hedge-fund-manager-warns

Dollar Momentum Takes a Life on of Its Own
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-15/dollar-momentum-takes-life-its-own

Currency chaos
http://www.mining.com/web/currency-chaos/

The New London Gold Fix and HSBC to Close Gold Vaults
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/alasdair-macleod-the-new-london-gold-fix-hsbc-gold-vaults-rmb-new-choice_032015

American Eagle Coins Sales Picking Up in March
http://www.kitco.com/news/2015-03-12/KitcoNewsMarketNuggets-March-12.html

CURRENCY WARS: IN DESPERATE MOVE, SWIFT ADDS RUSSIA TO ITS BOARD AS A VOTING MEMBER
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Currency_Wars%3A_In_desperate_move%2C_SWIFT_adds_Russia_to_its_board_as_a_voting_member/42611/0/38/38/Y/M.html

LUHANSK PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC SWITCHES TO MULTICURRENCY SYSTEM
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Luhansk_People%E2%80%99s_Republic_Switches_to_Multicurrency_System/42631/0/38/38/Y/M.html

TARGET LAYS OFF 1,700 — NFP is a joke: A historic monetary crisis is certain
https://www.intellihub.com/target-lays-off-1700-nfp-is-a-joke-a-historic-monetary-crisis-is-certain/

More Seattle restaurants close doors as $15 minimum wage approaches
http://libertycrier.com/more-seattle-restaurants-close-doors-as-15-minimum-wage-approaches

Science & Tech News

Urinals Installed At British University Generate Electricity
http://www.trueactivist.com/urinals-installed-at-british-university-generate-electricity

Kill The K-Cup: Non-Recyclable Coffee Pods Are So Bad For The Planet, Even The Inventor Regrets Dreaming Them Up
http://www.trueactivist.com/kill-the-k-cup-non-recyclable-coffee-pods-are-so-bad-for-the-planet-even-the-inventor-regrets-dreaming-them-up

Watch how a cell phone ‘magically’ makes magnetic ore come alive when placed beside it
https://www.intellihub.com/watch-how-cell-phone-magically-makes-magnetic-ore-come-alive-when-placed-beside-it/

Two free smartphone apps that will eliminate Monsanto, aspartame, HFCS and processed foods
https://www.intellihub.com/two-free-smartphone-apps-that-will-eliminate-monsanto-aspartame-hfcs-and-processed-foods/

HERTZ PUTS CAMERAS IN ITS RENTAL CARS, SAYS IT HAS NO PLANS TO USE THEM
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Hertz_puts_cameras_in_its_rental_cars%2C_says_it_has_no_plans_to_use_them/42625/0/38/38/Y/M.html

Wireless electricity: Scientists send energy 55 meters away through air
http://rt.com/news/240193-wireless-electricity-send-energy/

Major car makers sued for allowing vehicles to be hacked
http://rt.com/usa/240201-car-makers-sued-hacking/

How Biohacking, Body Modification, and 3D Printing Will Change the World
http://reason.com/blog/2015/03/14/how-biohacking-body-modification-and-3d

HACKERS INFILTRATE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, VIOLATE PRIVACY OF EX-WIFE’S MEDICAL PATIENTS, AND AID PRIVATE EYES
http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2015/03/hackers-infiltrate-university-chicago-violate-privacy-ex-wifes-medical-patients-and-aid-private-eyes/107532/

Tesla’s Ultra-Speed Hyperloop Transport Construction Starts Next Year in California
http://themindunleashed.org/2015/03/teslas-ultra-speed-hyperloop-transport-construction-starts-next-year-in-california.html

BlackBerry launches $2,300 tablet
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2897012/blackberry-teams-with-samsung-and-ibm-to-offer-governments-a-secure-tablet.html

Health News

Reduce women’s heart disease by staying active just 2-3 times per week
http://www.naturalnews.com/048967_heart_disease_Womens_health_exercise.html

15 reasons to ignore biotech PR and label dangerous GMOs
http://www.naturalnews.com/049004_GMO_labeling_biotech_industry_public_relations.html

U.S. bird experts mystified by Midwest avian flu spread
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-bird-experts-mystified-midwest-202340863.html

5 Easy Changes You Can Make to Promote a Healthier Lifestyle
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Editorial/Blogs/Natural%20Health/5%20Easy%20Changes%20You%20Can%20Make%20To%20Promote%20A%20Healthier%20Lifestyle.aspx

At least 10 Americans exposed to Ebola being flown home for treatment
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/at-least-10-americans-exposed-to-ebola-being-flown-home-for-treatment/

A pill-like ‘sensory capsule’ may one day be used to diagnose stomach problems: researchers
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/a-pill-like-sensory-capsule-may-one-day-be-used-to-diagnose-stomach-problems-researchers/

24,000 Chemicals may be Tainting Your Bottled Water
http://naturalsociety.com/24000-chemicals-may-be-tainting-your-bottled-water/

Energy & Environment

China Introduces 70% Solar Subsidy For The Poor
http://cleantechnica.com/2015/03/14/china-introduces-70-solar-subsidy-poor

Australia Uses the Motion of the Ocean to Generate Zero-Emission Electricity!
http://www.trueactivist.com/australia-uses-the-motion-of-the-ocean-to-generate-zero-emission-electricity

Island nation of Vanuatu appeals for help after ‘Super Cyclone Pam’ leaves trail of destruction
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/island-nation-of-vanatu-appeals-for-help-after-super-cyclone-pam-leaves-trail-of-destruction/

Report: Over 30 million permanently affected by Fukushima radiation; Number of people exposed triples Chernobyl
http://enenews.com/report-30-million-permanently-affected-fukushimas-radioactive-contamination-number-people-exposed-radiation-triple-chernobyl-japan-professor-14000-square-kilometers-heavily-contaminated-fallout-mil

Home, Farm & Garden

How to Improve Your Garden’s Soil
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Editorial/Blogs/Organic%20Gardening/How%20to%20Improve%20Your%20Gardens%20Soil.aspx

Planning a Baby Food Garden
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Editorial/Blogs/Homesteading%20and%20Livestock/Planning%20a%20Baby%20Food%20Garden.aspx

Pallets make great garden planters – Here’s how to make sure they aren’t leaching toxic chemicals
http://www.naturalnews.com/049002_garden_planters_wooden_pallets_methyl_bromide.html

Tour A Tiny Home Made Entirely Of SIP Panels!
http://www.trueactivist.com/tour-a-tiny-home-made-entirely-of-sip-panels

Get started prepping with these simple, easy steps
http://www.naturalnews.com/049005_prepping_food_security_disaster_survival.html

Housing News

Average mortgage loan size outpaces home prices
http://www.housingwire.com/articles/33237-average-mortgage-loan-size-outpaces-home-prices

Nomura is first to fight FHFA toxic mortgage lawsuit in court
http://www.housingwire.com/articles/33240-nomura-is-first-to-fight-fhfa-toxic-mortgage-lawsuit-in-court

Are we headed for another subprime lending crisis in the United States?
http://www.housingwire.com/articles/33246-are-we-headed-for-another-subprime-lending-crisis-in-the-united-states

Weird, Funny & Good News

IT’S A BIRD! IT’S A PLANE! GOOGLE BALLOON CRASH ALARMS TOWN
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_MEXICO_GOOGLE_LOON

Albuquerque man claims he shot ex-girlfriend after neighbor’s dog told him ‘You need to take care of this’
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/albuquerque-man-claims-he-shot-ex-girlfriend-after-neighbors-dog-told-him-you-need-to-take-care-of-this/

Featured Video

Obama admits space aliens control the USA: was he joking?
https://www.intellihub.com/obama-admits-space-aliens-control-the-usa-was-he-joking/

Eagle’s eye view: Cam-equipped bird flies off Dubai skyscraper, sets world record (VIDEO)
http://rt.com/news/240841-eagle-dubai-camera-flight-record/

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The Trouble with the Fake Net Neutrality Bills

The Trouble with the Fake Net Neutrality Bills

The Trouble with the Fake Net Neutrality Bills

By FreePress

The Trouble with the Fake Net Neutrality Bills

Why new legislation before Congress undermines the open Internet it claims to protect

WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, the House and Senate Commerce Committees will discuss companion bills introduced by Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.).

The two members of Congress proposed the legislation in advance of an anticipated Net Neutrality ruling by the Federal Communications Commission, which is expected to reclassify Internet access under Title II of the Communications Act in a vote next month.

Free Press Action Fund Policy Director Matt Wood made the following statement:
“If you want a few unregulated monopolies and duopolies to stifle competition and control the future of communications, these are the bills for you. But if you think that essential communications networks deserve basic protections, then these bills are a wreck.

“Both fail to even mention nondiscrimination, a glaring sign of Thune and Upton’s intent. Despite what they claim, this legislation won’t safeguard Net Neutrality. The bills instead would undermine the FCC’s ability to protect Internet users by removing broadband and wireless companies from nearly all agency oversight.

“The legislation fails at the very thing it claims to accomplish. It prohibits a few open Internet violations but opens the door to new industry abuses. It claims to give the FCC limited adjudication powers but removes the agency’s ability to adopt and adapt rules to fit the changing landscape for high-speed Internet access.

“What Thune and Upton are actually trying to do is declaw the one agency responsible for protecting the public interest in communications. Having lost their fight against Net Neutrality in the court of public opinion, companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon are trying to use fake Net Neutrality bills to end all effective oversight of their anti-competitive, anti-consumer practices.

“The solution is simple: The FCC should return to Title II, the applicable law that a bipartisan Congress wrote for all telecom networks, including broadband Internet access. That would restore the FCC’s critical authority to prevent harmful discrimination, and also to promote competition, universal service and access, interconnection, public safety, and general consumer protections in an increasingly concentrated market that’s drifting dangerously toward monopoly.

“The FCC can adopt rules under Title II and forbear from those that aren’t needed to protect the public interest. Title II with forbearance will protect Net Neutrality while preserving the agency’s flexibility to respond to the ever shifting cat-and-mouse games ISPs play to favor their own content.

“The American people, the president and businesses of all stripes have spoken up for real Open Internet rules. If the bills’ sponsors really wish to honor their constituents’ wishes, they should let the FCC do its job by using the existing law and the vital bipartisan principles in Title II.”
Free Press Breaks Down the Legislation:

  • The Bills Offer Inadequate Net Neutrality Protections
    • The bills legalize numerous harmful discriminatory practices while preventing the FCC from adopting and enforcing rules that respond to changing circumstances. While the legislation appears to prevent a few of the more harmful Net Neutrality violations, it also opens the door to various other ways to discriminate.
    • The legislation offers an extremely narrow approach to preserving Net Neutrality. While the bills may prohibit a few specifically defined harms, they do not allow any safeguards against forms of discrimination the legislation doesn’t describe (i.e., even if such other practices might constitute unreasonable discrimination, unjust or commercially unreasonable practices, harmful behavior, etc.).
    • The removal of the FCC’s rule making authority handcuffs the agency while also limiting the public’s ability to comment on the process. Under the legislation, the FCC can only adjudicate complaints alleging violations of these rigidly defined categories, and there’s no timetable required for such adjudications.
    • Beyond the procedural limitations, the legislation may hamstring the FCC so that similar violations (e.g., different technical variations of throttling or prioritization practiced by different ISPs) may have to be separately adjudicated, an expensive and lengthy process.
    • Reasonable network management is just as loosely defined as it was in the 2010 rules definition, creating a potentially unbounded loophole — especially if the FCC is prevented from implementing rules or providing further guidance about what constitutes a “legitimate network-management purpose” under the legislation. Considering how narrow the prohibited harms listed in the bills are, almost any other network-management practice may need to be deemed reasonable and outside of the FCC’s authority, no matter how discriminatory and harmful that practice may be.
    • Because the FCC can’t even adjudicate beyond the “obligations” listed in the legislative provisions, this legislation could allow by implication all other practices omitted from the legislation, including:
      • ISPs’ unpaid or vertical prioritization, allowing for prioritization of their own or their affiliates’ content, so long as there’s no specific payment for such treatment.
      • ISPs’ throttling based on application used or some other factor may be expressly allowed, because the legislation only prohibits throttling based on the source, destination or content of Internet traffic. This could allow, for instance, throttling of any and all voice or video apps that compete with an ISP’s legacy cable or voice services, or throttling of other applications so long as such throttling did not take the form of prohibited paid prioritization.
      • ISPs’ discriminatory application of data caps, where an ISP could exempt its own content from such caps, or a third party could pay the ISP for such an exemption since no packets would be sped up or slowed down for payment or non-payment.
      • ISPs’ continued argument that they may impose access charges and/or so-called “interconnection fees” simply for delivering traffic that the ISPs’ own customers request, so long as the congestion allowed to occur at interconnection points does not constitute prioritizing or de-prioritizing packets over the last-mile network.
  • The Legislation Will Cause Collateral Damage to Broadband Competition and Service
    • The legislation effectively guts all the consumer protections and public-interest principles Congress adopted in an overwhelmingly bipartisan fashion in 1996 for existing and future two-way communication networks. Americans need competitive, universal, affordable, accessible and fully interconnected nondiscriminatory communications services. This legislation fails on all these fronts by stripping the FCC of authority to deal with such topics under Title II and even under the weaker and less-tested Section 706 framework.
    • The legislation would thus turn the public broadband network into a private one, allowing the Internet to be shaped by Comcast, Verizon and AT&T instead of by consumer and business demand, and the Internet innovation to meet this demand.
    • Classifying broadband Internet access as an information service could hamper the FCC’s ability to promote competition and protect users of any broadband telecom service, and all telecommunications service beyond plain old telephone service. Indeed, the legislation mandates treatment of any service that offers “advanced telecommunications capability” as an information service. This one single amendment to the law could void the entirety of the Communications Act.

Why Title II Is the Correct Path Forward

  • The Internet exists today because of Title II. Researchers were able to use telecommunications services to connect computers together to form the Internet, without asking for the phone company’s or the FCC’s permission. This bill will kill any hope of a future, more open, more secure Internet, as it hands over control completely to the ISPs to determine the future of the Internet and all communications networks.
  • The existing law, written and passed on a bipartisan basis, gives the FCC the power to keep all two-way communications networks open and nondiscriminatory, as well as to ensure that essential services like broadband access are universally available, competitive, and affordable, and to make sure that consumers are protected from all possible harms. This new bill takes away the FCC’s ability to uphold these values and to respond to changing markets and technologies.
  • Our nation’s broadband problems go beyond just concerns about Net Neutrality. The FCC’s restoration of the bipartisan Title II framework will not only preserve nondiscrimination and Net Neutrality, but also several other critical communications principles such as competition, universal service, interconnection and consumer protections.

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