I'm merely reporting some updated facts (the mayor issued a denial). Whether it's true, believable, plausible, or whatever, I leave as an exercise to the reader.

Denial reported here.:

Update: A spokesperson for Oakland Mayor Jean Quan has emailed to deny that Quan "coordinated" Oakland's response to Occupy protesters with other mayors. "Mayor Quan never said that cities with occupy encampments were coordinating their removal efforts," Susan Piper wrote in an email. "The mayor has talked with other mayors to share experiences." In a subsequent email, I asked Piper if Quan received advice from either the DHS or the FBI on how to respond to protesters, as reported was by Rick Ellis of Examiner.com. Piper's response: "Not true."

Canada has had privatized airport security since... the mid 1990s if memory serves. As you know, the result has been weekly bombings and anal cavity searches. Oh, wait, no, it's the complete opposite. Quick, efficient and effective scanning.

Privatized airport security works just fine in Canada.

Not any of the three wars we are actively participating in (Libya, Iraq (yes, still), and Afghanistan).

You forgot Yemen.

(Read the above in Bush's voice)

What, exactly, do you eat then? All food (save perhaps wild meat) has been genetically manipulated since humans settled down and started farming about 10000 years ago.

One TRILLION dollars is the value, according to this nutcase. Sorry, he's wrong.

As far as I can tell, that figure was pulled out of the author's ass. Equally your rebuttal. A little bit of googling reveals it is at least on the order of hundreds of billions.

One TV station in LA buys all the TV channels, he owns them FOR LIFE. No give-backs. Leave all but one sitting idle/empty. No take-backs.

In order to get into that position, that one station must have out competed the others to attain more money. The people voted with their wallets (well, eyeballs). If you, as a concerned citizen, see someone buying up the spectrum in a way you don't like, then you should pony up your own dough and make a bid. Or you could start broadcasting on the web, or some other hitherto unknown technology, and render all that TV spectrum they purchased worthless, and they'd be bankrupt. Capitalism is a harsh mistress.

Somebody buys channel A in one area, someone else channel A in another area, and they interfere with each other.

That was addressed in the link:

Huber proposes that the government sell off standard units of spectrum-- ... -- using existing geographical contours for each type of frequency.

Hell, there isn't even anyone who can define the STANDARDS that apply

Standards only come about via government dictat? USB, HDMI, 33 1/3 rpm records... ? If a bureaucrat doesn't think of it, it can't exist?

The local cops buy a channel for their use. I start using it, too.

I'd say that is akin to trespassing. The link may say lawsuits only, but I can see a criminal case similar to trespass.

A buys the channels for public safety in an area. B buys the channels for cellular.

Sounds like someone fucked up the auction, then.

The FCC still has a purpose.

Even if that were true, I'd like to see where among the enumerated powers Congress gets the authority for even creating or continuing the FCC.

By the way, who "sells" the bandwidth for frequencies and uses that are worldwide in nature?

Good question! Who regulates it now?

One idea: Why the FCC should die

Abolishing the FCC does not mean airwave anarchy. What it means is returning to bottom-up law rather than the top-down process that has characterized telecommunications for the last 80 years.

More details in the link.

She shouldn't have had that power in the first place.

Simply put, the FCC should not exist.

I predict that many now docile citizens will rise up and wage revolution, both underground and in high court.

Oh wait, you were serious. Let me laugh even harder.