http://www.freetalklive.com/taxonomy/term/2642/0 en http://www.freetalklive.com/content/egypt_attempts_calm_protesters_giving_bureaucrats_raises <p>Acknowledging the riots and protests that have all but shut down Egypt for the past two weeks, the Egyptian government have caved to popular demands and given head bureaucrats 15% pay raises. Wait, what?</p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/egypt_attempts_calm_protesters_giving_bureaucrats_raises#comments corruption Egypt Graft incompetence News Article Police State Taxation theft Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:31:36 +0000 celestrion 9413 at http://www.freetalklive.com http://www.freetalklive.com/content/fcc_kills_companys_bid_offer_free_wireless_broadband <p>M2Z, a California company, had high hopes of offering coast-to-coast wireless Internet access at no cost to the end-user by using a bit of wireless spectrum that has remained unassigned since the Clinton administration. The FCC, however, had a different take on M2Z's advertiser-supported plan. That take was simply "No". The FCC, an unaccountable and unelected organization that claims the responsibility for "regulating interstate and international communications" denied without comment the company's bid to use the dormant spectrum.</p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/fcc_kills_companys_bid_offer_free_wireless_broadband#comments denied FCC Graft incompetence kickbacks News Article Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:26:25 +0000 celestrion 6859 at http://www.freetalklive.com<