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"The police had them all surrounded with weapons. Then the people started taking out their boots and held them in their hands as if they were cameras. They made them believe that they were videotaping what was happening. This made the police stop the attack and hide the weapons."
Video: With the 109th Congress now over, the telecom bill HR 5252 has now been defeated. We now have a historic opportunity to take Internet Freedom to the next level in the new Congress. However, the companies are launching a counter attack in the New Year, taking the fight state by state instead. We need to raise the alarm now to protect neutrality nation-wide, and to campaign for a faster, more open and accessible Internet in 2007.
The late political philosopher Isaiah Berlin coined the term ''secular priesthood'' to describe Russian commissars who were apologists for Stalin's crimes. Later, MIT Professor Noam Chomsky adapted the term to characterize their counterpart in contemporary societies, namely the higher level media, commentators and academic types who learn which side of their crusty French bread has the foie gras.
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber -JJ-SS as he was known to headline writers and his numerous friends and enemies in the French media- was a bright star of life in the 1950s, although he only died on 7 November 2006 at the age of 82.
I had an epiphany about ten years ago when I was invited to a White House picnic for the press corps.
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