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- NAB Urges FCC to Scale Back Earth Station Fee Hike
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) is urging the FCC to reduce a proposed 46% increase in regulatory fees for earth station licenses, arguing the hike would place an unfair burden on broadcasters that rely on satellite facilities to distribute programming. In an ex parte filing detailing a [TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago - Cruel Britannia: Why No Prime Minister Can Get Traction
British politics are roiling as Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced his resignation, to be replaced by his fellow Labour politician Andy Burnham, who was elected as a Member of Parliament earlier this week in a by-election. Starmer is extremely unpopular because of how little his government has accomplished despite the party holding over 60 percent of the seats in the House of Commons. Burnham’s supporters hope the problem has been Starmer’s shortcomings, such that replacing him with a more charismatic, talented politician will allow the government to take the bold actions needed to turn around a country facing low productivity, massive debt, historically high taxes, and poor services. But it’s more likely that Burnham will be equally paralyzed by a long-term change in the electorate that is increasingly making bold actions nearly impossible. Consider some political history. In the 24th year of the century, the Labour Party won a third of the vote in the general election, a disastrous performance that cost it 40 seats and led to a further descent into minority status. That was the nature of British politics in 1924, whereas in 2024 a comparable level of popularity with voters allowed Starmer-led Labour to gain 209 seats and achieve a stonking majority in parliament. If you had told politicians of previous generations that a massive majority in parliament could be secured in an election in which two-thirds of voters supported a different party, they would not have believed you. Source: UK Election Statistics, House of Commons Library. In the decades immediately following the war, governments of both major parties enjoyed levels of support that are unimaginable today (see Figure). Clement Atlee’s Labour Party won 48.8 percent of the vote in 1951—15 points higher than Keir Starmer’s Labour in 2024—and still lost. Confident of deep support, governments of this era could attempt bold things, whether that meant establishing the NHS or stymying the Soviet Union. But by the 1970s, British voters began keeping their governments on a tighter leash. Almost incredibly, Ted Health’s Tories, who won election 55 years ago, were the last government to break 45 percent support. Harold Wilson’s governments of the 1970s scraped by with voter support substantially below that of the Conservative Party he defeated twice in the 1960s. Even Margaret Thatcher could not equal the vote share of the Labour Party leaders who ran and lost in the 1950s. This century,… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago - How the ‘Hard Fork’ Hosts Bring Their Tech Podcast to a Live Audience
Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explain why they try to include “a little chaos” when they record their New York Times tech podcast in front of a crowd in San Francisco. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago - Winn-Dixie converts 8 Harveys Supermarkets
And there are more on the way [TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago - Keith Kellogg tells Iranian dissidents the ‘window is open’ to force...
As the Trump administration pushes forward with a new Iran deal, retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg told a Paris gathering of the National Council of Resistance of Iran — an exiled Iranian opposition coalition aligned with the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (MEK) — that Tehran’s rulers are weaker than they have been in decades and urged dissidents to seize what he described as a historic opening."The window is open wider than at any moment in a generation, and windows do not stay open forever," Kellogg said at the two-day event. "The theocratic regime in Tehran will not leave voluntarily. You must force it. The hope is here. Now must come the action."Kellogg, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general and former U.S. special envoy for Ukraine, framed any disarmament agreement not as an endpoint, but as "the first step of something far larger," saying it should become the foundation for Iran’s future without the current regime.POMPEO SAYS IRANIAN REGIME HAS ARRIVED AT 'NATURAL TERMINUS': 'LET'S NOT WASTE THIS HISTORIC OPPORTUNITY'Maryam Rajavi, the NCRI’s president-elect, used her remarks at the conference to argue that neither war nor negotiations had solved the threat posed by Tehran’s rulers. "A peaceful, non-nuclear Iran is possible only through the overthrow of this regime by the Iranian people and their organized Resistance," Rajavi said, adding that any international agreement to end the war should include an end to executions of political prisoners and the killing of protesters.Kellogg also invoked the NCRI’s 2002 disclosure of Iran’s Natanz and Arak nuclear sites, saying the group should play a role in pushing for strict verification of any agreement. "When I say trust, but verify, understand that verification is not an abstraction to this Council. It is your legacy," he said. "You must be the conscience that ensures every barrel of uranium leaves, every centrifuge stops, and every promise on that page becomes a fact on the ground."The remarks came as NCRI organizers had expected tens of thousands of Iranian expatriates from North America and Europe to attend two days of events in Paris. French authorities banned a planned outdoor rally, citing security threats. A French court later upheld the ban, pointing to specific intelligence about alleged bomb threats and risks of violence involving rival Iranian opposition factions, including possible threats from Iranian regime-linked actors or monarchist groups.FRANCE CONDEMNS IRAN PROTEST CRACKDOWN, WEIGHS SATELLITE INTERNET AID AMID BLACKOUTThe NCRI's main… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago - Florida Broadcasters Announce Leadership ChangesThe Florida Association of Broadcasters (FAB) has announced a series of leadership changes, including the appointment of a new Chairman and Chairman-Elect, the addition of an Executive Committee member, and several new members to its Board of Directors. As part of the [TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago
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