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All the Big 4 audit firms are complicit in the malaise now sickening the global financial services sector. They are partly to blame for the gangrene that threatens capitalism worldwide. It is an insult to taxpayers that firms with numerous examples of poor performance – and failure to identify some of the largest corporate frauds in history – are now are being asked to audit the biggest financial transaction in history.

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The advent of digital-only television immediately struck me as the end of television. Once the signal is digitized it is CONTROLLABLE, and DTV once it is controllable it can be commoditized, and once it is commoditized it can be criminalized.

Privacy and the all the personal information they want to dump into all the connected cars on the internet railroad track to the complete loss of privacy on the net. In order to change the internet you need the attorney generals who are on board. This is an easy sell to Elementry and Middle Schools where these companies are doing business already with no oversight from the feds about what they can do with this information.

In order to preserve free speech and protect children online, the next President and Congress should take specific steps, including the following: