It’s been called a once in a lifetime super storm, we’ll reflect on the media’s coverage of this major event, and we bust the October Surprise rumors that are spreading like wildfire online.

When you think of the fight for control of the Internet, you probably think of SOPA, CISPA, and Net Neutrality. But an International effort is underway and laying on thick rhetoric in an attempt to undermine the open nature of the web, we’ll share the details with you.

Then in ACT3: Your feedback challenges are assumptions, and we respond.

All that and a heck of a lot more, on this week’s Unfilter!

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Show Notes:

ACT ONE:

• Disney buys LucasFilm, new \’Star Wars\’ planned
• Disney buys Lucasfilm: Will the parks see more ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Indiana Jones’?
• George Lucas To Donate Most Of His $4 Billion To Education Charity

• Disney Deal: George Lucas Will Use $4 Billion to Fund Education – Hollywood Reporter

• Wozniak: Web crackdown coming, freedom failing

• UN: The Problem With The Internet Today Is It\’s Just Too Open & Terrorists Might Use It

• PDF: Use of Internet for Terrorist Purposes.pdf

• US Offers New Plans 1 Month Before UN Meeting To Regulate Web

• Russia internet blacklist law takes effect

• Police need new internet surveillance tools, say chiefs – British Columbia – CBC News

ACT TWO: THE SUPER STORM

• Full scope of Sandy\’s destruction becoming clear

• In Garrett County, snow is normal but Sandy was not

• President Obama, Gov. Chris Christie touring storm damage together in New Jersey

• Bloomberg Endorses Obama, Citing Climate Change

• Dead air: Sandy takes out 1 in 4 cell towers, FCC says, and more could fail

• AT&T, T-Mobile to share networks in New York and New Jersey in wake of Hurricane Sandy

• Concerns what the H.A.A.R.P project in Alaska is up to

• Who thinks HAARP is responsible for Hurricane Sandy???

• High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program – Wikipedia

• Weather as a Force Multiplier:
  Owning the Weather in 2025
  

ACT THREE: FEEDBACK

• Officer in the USMC writes in, he works with UAVs and has a few thoughts on our coverage.
• Thoughts on Drones
• A bunch of Feedback
• Regarding the question sent in by a viewer in the episode \”Third Party Hope\” about monarchies

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