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They didnt know there would be a civil war yet they built families. Do you know that there were only 388,000 africans who were brought to the United States in the whole history of the slave trade. You know how many were brought to brazil . Rose how many . Five million. The 42 million African Americans today grew, thats what the phrase was, were going to grow our own slaves out of this body of 388,000. So that means these people, despite the fact they were slaves, believed in the principles of de...

Apply Internet Access, i am buying the full thing. To i am buying access everything that is out there, and if somebody comes along and says, no, you cannot get this unless you pay more, that is unreasonable. And should be banned. Get this unless you pay more, thats unreasonable. And should be banned if somebody says to a consent provider you cant get on unless you pay more, thats unreasonable and would not be permitted. Okay, well, other than Public Safety, i believe paid prioritization should b...

The same table in front of regulators. It may make it harder for the time Warner Comcast deal to go forward. It will be interesting to see if the comcast time warner deal does fall apart if the at t directv deal would go through. If theyre both announced in tandem, a lot of consolidation in that sector. The at t directv is a harder deal to go through. If you put it on the table with the comcast time warner deal, it makes the whole thing dicey for everybody, which is what i think theyre trying to...

Customers on a consistent basis. It is not something were ignoring. It is not something that we are not serious about. We have spent billions of dollars over the past five years improving our networks to try to make them more reliable on additional training for technicians and for our Call Center Employees. We have created new call Center Centers of excellence, one of which is in delaware where you have specially trained Call Center Representatives with a design of trying to enhance the level of...

Strategy, the strategy of cutting back on purchases collapses. Argument, which is that comcast might be able to strike a Better Bargain thanks to its increased size. That is far from clear. The stakes are higher for espn compared to today because espn ises more revenue, but that true for comcast. The stakes are higher for comcast as well as more customers complained to cancel their service. Such a musthave with programmers that again special power. The third analogy is that comcast is just like ...

In fiveyear notes and well be watching the price of gold today as well. The precious metal dropping 2 yesterday. That was the worst day in six weeks. You can see right now its trading at 1,264. 70 an ounce. Andrew, over to you. Thank you, becky. Welcome back. We have corporate news, tech news, talking about re code. General electric Ceo Jeff Immelt is in france, meeting with president hollande, also with the countrys economic minister to discuss ges bid for alstom. An official in hollandes offic...

It was a big day at the u. S. Supreme court. Today the high court gave a huge victory to the big four television networks. The justices ruled that the internet start up company aereo is violating copyright when it takes programs from the airwaves and allows viewers to watch the programs on smart phones and other devices. How did they lose this one . Aereo is just over two years old but it was a company that struck fear in the heart of broadcasters. It allowed consumers to watch over the air, str...

Headlines today. In washington with the food inflation conduct food inflation report, greg storz and paul sweeney are in new york as the high court dealt what may be a fatal blow to area arielle aereo. The Supreme Court decided today that theyve violated broadcasting copyright laws by taking the signals for free. The justices ruled against the barry diller backed internet startup. A triumph for broadcast , nbc,ies, including abc and cbs, who said that they were threatening the underpinnings of t...

Part of my program this week, i will see you next week. Stay tuned for reliable sources. Middle of the night votes, secret meetings, shifting story lines, countdown clocks. The fiscal cliff mellow drama was a bit of a blur for journalists to figure out what was happening on the hill. I am advised there is no deal yet. Theyre still in talks. Unless something drastic changes in the next five hours, america will go over the fiscal cliff. How did the press handle the craziness and was a small deal h...

Foundational civics. Can you name three branches of government in the freedoms injected in the First Amendment kristine noted overtake takes overrated the dough and the prerogatives of the various branches. When theres a a constitutional matter who gets to decide . These are things that are presupposition all all. He did understand the basic things happening in the news and some of those capacities ass citizens are not going to be top of mind to you in terms of a female and have been there so yo...