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Heartland Institute: What Broadband Problem?
PR junk science firm returns with five year old argument...
According to Computer World, the U.S. isn't falling behind in broadband services -- discredited FCC statistics say so. Or at least that's the opinion of the Heartland Institute, whose opinion Computer World reprints without highlighting the organization's lengthy history as pseudo-scientists paid by multiple industries to distort data and win arguments. Other things the Heartland Institute believes: that smoking health concerns are based on "junk science," (yeah, really, in 2009) and that climate change is a nasty myth perpetrated by the evil "big green energy" industry. Computer World could disclose Heatland's financial ties to the industries they're defending, but the organization hides their funding from public review.

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DaveDude
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DaveDude

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I thought GLOBAL WARMING was a banned topic

Well, Since you brought it up ?

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Temperatures dropping, fewer hurricanes, arctic ice growing, polar bear population up

WASHINGTON
- This may come as bad news for Al Gore.

The modest global warming trend has stopped - maybe even reversed itself.

And it's not just the record low temperatures experienced in much of the world this winter.

For at least the last five years, global temperatures have been falling, according to tracking performed by Roy Spencer, the climatologist formerly of NASA.

"Global warming" was going to bring more and more horrific hurricanes, climate change scientists and the politicians who subscribed to their theories said. But since 2005, only one major hurricane has struck North America.

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SuperWISP
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Hiding funding sources from public review

Funny, Karl: when the proponents of competition-killing, innovation-destroying regulation of the Internet publish their opinions, you never point out the fact that they, too, hide their funding sources. Ever wonder who is funding Free Press, Public Knowledge, or the New America Foundation? Seems like biased reporting on your part.