The Kramer Show with Bishop

STOP ACTA & TPP

Stop ACTA & TPP! - Never use trade agreements to mess with the Internet!

They tried to push internet censorship through Congress and we stopped them with our STOP SOPA/PIPA protests. But the companies behind SOPA & PIPA have a backup plan: secretive trade agreements like ACTA & TPP. If we can't stop these backroom deals, the internet's future belongs to SOPA's backers. DO EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER TO SPREAD THE WORD, CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES, YELL FROM THE STREET CORNERS, ALL OF IT! You can start by using the form below to send a message. Get more detail from KILLACTA.org

I urge you to vote no on ACTA and to communicate its severe problems to your colleagues. ACTA's vague language locks us into obsolete copyright and patent laws, preventing democracies from updating their laws to unlock new economic and social opportunities.It criminalizes harmless remixes by ordinary users if they achieve 'a commercial scale' (art 2.14.1) which many amateur videos do on sites like Youtube. And it criminalizes legitimate websites by making them responsible for user behavior ('aiding and abetting' art 2.14.4).Worse, it permanently bypasses the democratic process by empowering the 'ACTA Committee' to 'propose amendments to [ACTA]' without your approval. (art 6.4) In other words, it's impossible to know what you're voting for.The global movement against the US law SOPA showed that internet freedom is a crucial issue which belongs in the legislative process of each country. You should view ACTA as an attempt by a handful of companies to circumvent the democratic process, and you should vote against it.Thank you. Please reply if you have any questions.

The Kramer Show with Bishop

July 6, 2010

While Kramer is off, Bishop fills in on The Kramer Show. Catch the show live on 970 WMAY, the News and Talk of Springfield, from 3 to 6p CST. The show streams online at WMAY dot com and you can also join the chat room with live streaming video.

Celebrate

After a three-day weekend, it's back to the grind stone. How was your holiday? How did you celebrate your independence? Did you blow up any illegal fireworks? Did you get out to Rock the Dock 2010?

Heat wave

It's hot today, at least in the Northeast part of the country. Could you imagine dealing with triple digit temperatures in New York City? Surely, their utilities can take it because all this country needs is a good blackout story to flood the news. Maybe some of those people in the Northeast could get the federal government to pay their air-conditioning bills.

We have got to talk about Afghanistan

GOP Chairman Steele's comments about this being Obama's War may not be too off. Now, inaudible comments have played on shows across the country ... what are your thought?

We are not the first super power to try and take over Afghanistan. Granted America's memory is short, but we must evaluate past conflicts and look at them in context of today, with our service members and our economy ... is it worth it?

Double complete rainbows, oh my!

Several crazy stories happened over the weekend to include a drug smuggling submarine and this story out of Pennsylvania that is a page from the story "A Rose for Emily". We can't forget about the prospect of getting a loan from Sams Club.

This and your phone calls at 217.629.7970 or email Bishop@wmay.com. It's The Kramer Show with Bishop, today from 3 to 6p CST on 970 WMAY, the News and Talk of Springfield.