Living On the Diagonal

Comcast  IS a Monopoly & Holds America Hostage - from my blog June 6 JUNE 29, 2016  ELIZABETH WARREN Blasts Comcast, Calls For Stronger Anti-Trust Enforcement June 6, 2016, I posted a blog detailing the facts as to how Comcast is a monopoly and should meet the same fate of the "banks too big to fail." In a piece posted on Daily Kos, my view is shared by many and on June 29, Senator Elizabeth Warren pointed to the same monopoly.  Senator Warren as quoted by Daily Kos. "Last year was Comcast's best year in nearly a decade," the Massachusetts Democrat said in prepared remarks for a speech. "But while big telecom giants have been consuming each other, consumers have been left out in the cold—facing little or no choice in service providers and paying through the nose for cable and internet service." Warren's speech at a forum on monopolies came as part of her advocacy for greater enforcement of antitrust laws as American consumer...

"Something is happening here, What it is...is not exactly clear. There's a Man with a Gun over there, Saying You Got to Beware..." They Sell the Catch Phrase                    "Everything Is Fluid"  I received an email forwarded by a cohort espousing this date in history as one when the Women’s Right to Vote won approval as the  19th amendment to our Constitution. It  is more of a timeline and summary of the events leading up to final vote.    However, I do not believe many of us know of just how emotional and physical impact for the activists. The movement or fight was prolonged and bitter over decades! W omen were abused, incarcerated and force-fed because of their Activism.  The fight for Women's Rights began July of 1848 with the formation of a Women’s Rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. The battle persisted first in our Nation’s Congress where it barely passed both House and Senate...