{"id":909,"date":"2002-02-27T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-27T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=909"},"modified":"2002-02-27T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2002-02-27T18:41:00","slug":"let-them-eat-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/02\/27\/14\/41\/let-them-eat-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Them Eat Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So contrary to what they said <a href=\"..\/Blogfiles\/2002_01_13_WeekArchive.php#8827933\">earlier<\/a>, now the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/\"><i>WSJ<\/i><\/a> says the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/news\/716834.asp\">Bush Gang is actively <\/a><a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Broadband\/White%20House%20spurns%20tech%20programs.html\">opposing universal broadband access<\/a>. The head of the FCC, which used to regulate the airwaves &#8220;for the common good&#8221;, now sneers that creating an equal playing field is <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberationradio.net\/SFLR_News_2-10-01.html\">sociali<\/a><a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Broadband\/San%20Francisco%20Liberation%20Radio.html\">zation<\/a><\/i>. Ah <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washtech.com\/cgi-bin\/udt\/WTW.PRINT.STORY?client=washtech-test&#038;storyid=10574\">Powell t<\/a><a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Broadband\/Michael%20Powell%20The%20Great%20Deregulator.html\">he Younger<\/a>, such a disagreeable, bureaucratic apparatchik. Is his callousness just a developed, intellectualised form of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.headstartbooks.com\/black.htm\">black-on-<\/a><a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Ethnicity\/BLACK-ON-BLACK%20VIOLENCE.htm\">black violence<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>The fact that his Daddy, the <a href=\"http:\/\/eatthestate.org\/05-11\/BushPolitburoPart.htm\">Uranium Bomber and My <\/a><a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Bush%20Gang\/Bush%20Politburo,%20Part%20II.htm\">Lai Apologist Colin Powell the Elder<\/a>, a director of AOL  who owns many millions of dollars of AOL stock, resigned the AOL board the day before the vote to merge with TimeWarner went through, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/extra\/0110\/powell.html\">didn&#8217;t stop Powell the Younger <\/a><a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Broadband\/Their%20Man%20in%20Washington.html\">from voting to approve the merger<\/a>, claiming there was no conflict of interest, shouldn&#8217;t surprise anybody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So contrary to what they said earlier, now the WSJ says the Bush Gang is actively opposing universal broadband access. The head of the FCC, which used to regulate the airwaves &#8220;for the common&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}