Received as email! Think whether you would like this affecting your services. More on this bad economics in Canada in future blogs!
Hello,
We need your help -- we need you to lend us your voice and state your opinion on a recent CRTC decision that could allow the incumbent phone companies (such as Bell and Telus) to discontinue offering services (Internet and phone) to wholesale providers which in effect would eliminate competition in Canada.
With no competition to help fuel the market; Internet innovation could come to stand still and prices for broadband access could skyrocket out of control. The incumbents would also be free to do with the lines as they please. This would open up future privacy invading Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technologies and direct marketing/advertising based on *you* and *your families* internet activities and habits.
They could also use this same technology to turn the Internet into a pay-per-website service the same way that TV is a pay-per-channel service.
Can you imagine a world where you have to pay to use the Google website to search for information? Then, if you find what you are looking for you may be restricted to the content because your ISP doesn't have a "peering"
agreement with said company.
Please help us stop this major potential catastrophe.
All concerned consumers please visit:
http://www.competitivebroadband.com/consumer/
All concerned businesses please visit:
http://www.competitivebroadband.com
Read the information presented and decide for yourself.
Once you've decided what you think is right, you can click the "Make a Difference" link, fill out the form with your details and send a pre-written
message to Minister of Industry Tony Clement, Prime Minister Harper, the Opposition Leader, and your local MP or choose to write your own.
Together we can make a difference.
Thank you,
TekSavvy Solutions, Inc.
Scratches to Sketches
Saturday, 26 September 2009
It could never happen again?
A review of 'Defying Hitler' a memoir by Sebastian Haffner
We live in extraordinary times! Some would say that we could in a few years say 2011 have a repeat of a cycle of confluent political and economic forces similar to what occured after Frances invasion of the German Ruhr in 1923, but with the world convulsing in runaway inflation and social upheaval with some gaining riches beyond all imaginings standing alongside those too poor to buy a loaf of bread.
Could this happen? Yes! Will it happen? Probably! And what will be the end result.
The end result could be roaring prosperity and moral depravity on the scale of the 1920's, which brought about the real depression.
Make no mistake Haffner's book is a must read for those willing to look ahead and view the dangers embedded in our extraordinary times.
The choices that we have now are not so diifferent from then except that conflagration that may result will make WWII look much like a picnic in the park!
Oh! It could never happen you say! But, that is before you read 'Defying Hitler' to envision what can and may happen all over again, different actors and different players, but a repeat of a familiar cycle into worldwide insanity !!!
We live in extraordinary times! Some would say that we could in a few years say 2011 have a repeat of a cycle of confluent political and economic forces similar to what occured after Frances invasion of the German Ruhr in 1923, but with the world convulsing in runaway inflation and social upheaval with some gaining riches beyond all imaginings standing alongside those too poor to buy a loaf of bread.
Could this happen? Yes! Will it happen? Probably! And what will be the end result.
The end result could be roaring prosperity and moral depravity on the scale of the 1920's, which brought about the real depression.
Make no mistake Haffner's book is a must read for those willing to look ahead and view the dangers embedded in our extraordinary times.
The choices that we have now are not so diifferent from then except that conflagration that may result will make WWII look much like a picnic in the park!
Oh! It could never happen you say! But, that is before you read 'Defying Hitler' to envision what can and may happen all over again, different actors and different players, but a repeat of a familiar cycle into worldwide insanity !!!
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