Comcast Will Sue Over Net Neutrality http://www.orrazz.com/2015/02/comcast-we-will-sue-to-slow-web.html

• The company says the FCC overreached by passing rules to stop Internet service providers from blocking sites and slowing traffic. The problem is, Comcast’s admitted to doing just that.
• Despite tens of millions of corporate dollars in last-minute lobbying, the Federal Communications Commission passed new rules Thursday reclassifying the Internet as a public utility and preventing Internet service providers from artificially slowing down the Web.
• Now Comcast is calling “inevitable” lawsuits to nullify the rules a “certainty,” and the company says it will pressure legislators to draft a law that will override the FCC’s decision.

“After today, the only ‘certainty’ in the Open Internet space is that we all face inevitable litigation and years of regulatory uncertainty challenging an Order that puts in place rules that most of us agree with,” David L. Cohen, executive vice president of Comcast, said in a statement. “We believe that the best way to avoid this would be for Congress to act.”

In 17 States, The Top 1% Earned 100%of All Income Growth http://www.epi.org/publication/how-unequal-is-your-state-the-ratio-between-the-average-incomes-of-the-top-1-percent-and-the-bottom-99-percent-in-each-state/

• Between 1979 and 2007, the top 1 percent of taxpayers captured an increasing share of income in every state. Incomes at all levels declined as a result of the Great Recession, and income growth has been lopsided since the recovery began. From 2009 to 2012 top 1 percent incomes grew faster than the incomes of the bottom 99 percent in every state except West Virginia. In 39 states, the majority of income gains after the Great Recession accrued to top 1 percent. And in 17 of these states, the top 1 percent captured 100 percent of income growth. For further state-by-state analysis of inequality, see our latest report, The Increasingly Unequal States of America.
• Since the Great Recession of 2008, the only ones to recover are the ones who received the government bailouts. Wall St. We continue to suffer, as unemployment numbers are distorted to make it look like we are in recovery. Again, no transparency here, because if there was, people would be a lot more upset by the current state of affairs.

Legalizing Prostitutes for Politicians http://www.blacklistednews.com/North_Carolina_Legalizes_Prostitutes_For_Politicians/42261/0/38/38/Y/M.html

• In other terms, lobbying firms can hire people who can offer sexual services for politicians, and they don’t even need to register. now, before it is said that it is being misinterpreted, here is the actual letter from the Ethics Committee, titled “Sexual Favors or Sexual Acts as a Gift or ‘Thing of Value.'” In it, they declared that these relations have no monetary value, so do not need to be reported. In addition, they declared that if the person is not registered as a lobbyist, there was never any point of concern, even if the service was paid for by a third-party. In other words, lobbyists can hire people expressly for a politician to use in a carnal manner, even if the politician asks for or otherwise indicates their desire for such a service.

Google Becoming the Ministry of Truth http://www.blacklistednews.com/Google_modifying_algorithm_in_attempt_to_become_the_Internets_Ministry_of_Truth/42280/0/38/38/Y/M.html

• A Google research team is adapting that model to measure the trustworthiness of a page, rather than its reputation across the web. Instead of counting incoming links, the system – which is not yet live – counts the number of incorrect facts within a page. "A source that has few false facts is considered to be trustworthy," says the team (arxiv.org/abs/1502.03519v1). The score they compute for each page is its Knowledge-Based Trust score.
• The software works by tapping into the Knowledge Vault, the vast store of facts that Google has pulled off the internet. Facts the web unanimously agrees on are considered a reasonable proxy for truth. Web pages that contain contradictory information are bumped down the rankings.
• Is it possible this will shut down "alternative media"? Will this move anything that doesn't line up with the mainstream to the back of the line? Ex: The official story for JFK is that 3 shots fired by Lee Harvey Oswald. Anyone who has done any research will tell you that's wrong, but if an website goes with an alternate theory, will t be buried?