Chuck Ross is a reporter at The Daily Caller.
New internet regulations finally released by the Federal Communications Commission make 46 references to a group funded by billionaire George Soros and co-founded by a neo-Marxist.

The FCC released the 400-page document on Thursday, two weeks after it passed new regulations, which many fear will turn the internet into a public commodity and thereby stifle innovation.

“Leveling the playing field” in that way has been a clear goal of Free Press, a group dedicated to net neutrality which was founded in 2003.

As Phil Kerpen, president of the free-market group American Commitment, first noted, Free Press is mentioned repeatedly in the FCC document. Most of the references are found in footnotes which cite comments by Free Press activists supporting more internet regulation.

The term “Free Press” is mentioned 62 times in the regulations. Some are redundant mentions referring to the same Free Press activists’ comments in favor of more oversight. In total, the FCC cited Free Press’ pro-net neutrality arguments 46 times.

The FCC received more than 4 million public comments as it was weighing the net neutrality initiative, but Free Press and other activist groups have received the most attention by pressuring the FCC and the White House on behalf of their cause.

One argument made against the FCC’s regulatory push is that the general public is largely happy with its internet service. Support for net neutrality was seen as the domain of special interest groups like Free Press.

The activist group has big money behinds its effort. It has received $2.2 million in donations from progressive billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations and $3.9 million from the Ford Foundation.

And one of Free Press’ co-founders, Robert McChesney, a communications professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has not been shy about his desire to see the internet regulated heavily. (RELATED: A Leading Net Neutrality Activist’s Neo-Marxist Views)

But internet regulation appears to be only part of McChesney’s more radical agenda of completely revamping how the media operate in the U.S.

“In the end, there is no real answer but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles,” McChesney wrote in a 2009 essay.

“Only government can implement policies and subsidies to provide an institutional framework for quality journalism,” he said.

“The news is not a commercial product. It is a public good, necessary for a self-governing society. Once we accept this, we can talk about the kind of media policies and subsidies we want,” McChesney once argued.

Sentiments such as these have raised questions about whether the FCC’s new regulations will eventually lead to oversight of internet content.

“The unthinkable has become thinkable, and the free-market Internet – one of freedom’s greatest triumphs – is set to be reduced to a public utility, subject to pervasive economic regulation and, in turn, to content control,” American Commitment’s Kerpen wrote in an open letter to McChesney after the FCC voted 3-2 in favor of the regulations.

McChesney, who is currently on Free Press’ board of directors, made a series of progressive proposals in a 2010 book, “The Life and Death of American Journalism.” He suggested spending $35 billion on federal subsidies for public media outlets. He also proposed creating a journalism branch of AmeriCorps and said it would be a good idea to give each American a $200 news voucher which could be given only to publicly-owned media outlets.

“Advertising is the voice of capital,” McChesney said in a 2009 interview with the Socialist Project. “We need to do whatever we can to limit capitalist propaganda, regulate it, minimize it, and perhaps even eliminate it. The fight against hyper-commercialism becomes especially pronounced in the era of digital communications.”

FCC commissioner Ajit Pai blew the whistle on the agency’s attempt to sneak the new regulations in under the radar. He pressed FCC chairman Tom Wheeler to release the proposed regulations so that the public could view them before the commission voted on the measure. Wheeler refused.

In his dissent, Pai, a Republican, slammed the commission’s secrecy and also mentioned Free Press as one of the activist groups which received special attention on the matter.

“What the press has called the “parallel FCC” at the White House opened its doors to a plethora of special-interest activists: Daily Kos, Demand Progress, Fight for the Future, Free Press, and Public Knowledge, just to name a few,” Pai wrote.

“Indeed, even before activists were blocking Chairman Wheeler’s driveway late last year, some of them had met with White House officials. But what about the rest of the American people? They certainly couldn’t get White House meetings. They were shut out of the process. They were being played for fools.”

As typical as the T&Peers are, they even screwed up referring to the letter 47' of them wrote to the Khomeini to aid and abet their negotiations with the US and 5 Allies.its called treason and Plutocratic bought and sold Repuglicanrs have done the Koch's bidding. Of course each probably got a big check from their MIC sponsors as well. The war mongers actually sent a letter to what they call our enemy. I wonder did Netan-yahoo sign it too? Did Bucheney's?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/09/tom-cotton-iran_n_6831328.html?ncid=newsltushpmg00000003

Cotton is a verifiable war monger

“Republicans are undermining our commander in chief while empowering the ayatollahs.”

Homeboy gets more space to serve
The once-struggling nonprofit hopes its new building will allow staff to better help gang community.
BY BRITTNY MEJIA
Homeboy Industries was in trouble. The famed Los Angeles institution founded by Father Gregory Boyle in 1988 to help steer people away from the gang life through job training and counseling was going broke.
The Jesuit priest had started Homeboy Industries during the peak of L.A.’s gang wars, when as many as 2,000 people could be killed in a given year. But in 2010, it was the gang members who were consoling Boyle as his organization struggled to survive, laying off some of its staff.
Now Homeboy, located in a two-story office building in Chinatown, is in the midst of a remarkable turnaround. The nonprofit recently purchased a 6,000-square-foot building next door so it can better serve the community.
The offices that had gone dark during the recession are once again crammed with employees and volunteers, some of whom work in stairwells, break rooms or wherever else they can find space. Homeboy employs about 300 people.
“There isn’t a gang member in this county that doesn’t know about this place. And my guess is that there isn’t a gang in the county that hasn’t seen a member walk through those doors,” Boyle said. “We work with the population that nobody desires to work with, and it’s a principle of this place that we stand with them.”
About 250 people are enrolled in Homeboy’s 18-month job training program. Each week, an additional 500 to 600 come in to access counseling and other services, adding to the tens of thousands who have sought help through Homeboy over the years.
The desperately needed new space will provide welcome relief and allow Homeboy to provide better services to existing clients, said Thomas Vozzo, Homeboy’s chief executive. In addition to job training and counseling, Homeboy provides mental health services as well as job placement, tattoo removal and educational services.
“With that steady financial footing we’ve been on over the last couple of years, it’s time to take on a little bit of an expansion,” Vozzo said.
For all the praise Homeboy has received for its work, it has struggled to raise revenue. The recession saw private donations drop, and the number of jobs available for graduates of Homeboy’s various programs declined.
Boyle conceded that he had to think more like a businessman.
Homeboy’s board of directors has raised $10 million in each of the last two years through individual donors and foundations and has even managed to build up a reserve. Homeboy also has received a $600,000 line of credit and a $700,000 loan for the new building acquisition through Wells Fargo.
But the expansion doesn’t reduce the need for funds — the program receives less than 2% in government funding, Vozzo said. More space, for example, doesn’t necessarily translate into being able to serve more trainees.
“By getting that one building there, it’s not going to allow us to have more people in our program, it’s just going to allow us to do a better job of providing them services in a better environment,” Vozzo said.
Homeboy Industries is planning a grand opening for the new building in April, with the full facility occupied in May. The goal is to eventually take over a whole city block in Chinatown, where the organization can construct a larger building and provide more services to more people, Vozzo added.
For now, employees and volunteers are forced to get creative with space. Maria Flores, director of case management, said that when a client has a crisis, a case manager will either have to ask other workers to leave the shared offices or take the client for a walk outside.
“It has been a challenge,” Flores said. “With the expansion of the building, it’s going to allow for more of a confidential space, and it’s going to allow for relationships to flourish more easily and help the relationship to grow and for the client to trust.... Space does matter.”
Inez Salcido, a former gang member, is participating in a training program at Homeboy and is working on getting her GED. When seeking help from one of the dozens of tutors at Homeboy, the 39-year-old has had to receive lessons in the cafe, in the breakroom and even on the sidewalk outside.
Frustrated by the lack of space, she said she’s even had to call off some of her tutoring sessions.
“I think once there’s more space there’s not going to be an excuse. We’ll have the room now,” Salcido said. “I think it’ll give myself and others the opportunity to get the most out of what they offer here. Everyone can get the help that they need.” brittny.mejia@latimes.com  

Let's go down the list, you haven't responded to my original thesis, so let me breakdown, AGAIN:

1. You accused someone of having a poor education.
2. I then asked you to indulge the thread with your education.
3. You failed to comply because you have concerns about your privacy.
4. And then you claimed that I was being a jerk.

No sir, we are waiting for YOU to INDULGE us about your vast experience and education. I didn't ask for your name, I asked what schooling you obtained to be SO HIGH AND MIGHTY as to claim that you can call someone else's education into question.

If you wish to include redacted documents to show your repertoire of published works that would be fine....

...but the only person I understand is a BITTER OLD JACKASS THAT IS an idiot, hypocrite, nonsense spewing crank that has no more knowledge than a person who completed an education in the myths of America and not the facts.

But let me add, continuous improvement is what people ask for, do schools do a poor job, sure they do. Shit, in Wayne County, kids graduate barely knowing how to read, let alone appreciating their constitutional rights. Why is that, because their parents are not hooked in to their kids, because they work 6 days a week in a plant, it's their second marriage and they are trying to make that work, so they want to make sure their spouse is happy and sometimes school takes a back seat. None of these issues are schools fault. These incompetent parents are to blame. The teachers need to be called on the carpet, but at the end of the day, if kids don't do their homework, and challenge themselves they fail to be educated. My kids go to a great school filled with good teachers and bad teachers. I work for a company that is filled with hard workers but bad thinkers and the other way around. You can't legislate that, CAN YOU?

NOW, PROVIDE THE DETAILS THAT MAKE YOU AN EXPERT ABOUT EDUCATION-

1 HAVE YOU VISITED THE LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT?
2 DO YOU ATTEND SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS (I DO)
3 DO YOU COMPLAIN AT SCHOOL MEETINGS ONCE YOU GET THE FACTS?

OH PLEASE INDULGE US WITH YOUR VAST WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE...PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE.....ENOUGH ABOUT ME, ITS TIME TO TALK ABOUT YOU....or are you a coward? ... because in fact you don't actually know what you're talking about. You read something at WND and you're pissed. You assume the whole world is falling apart based some sketchy fact gathering from journalistic hacks that are just trying to sell a story.