Medical Marijuana Denvers Million Dollar Baby

The city of Denver Colorado brought in over a Million dollars of tax in just five months. Numbers like this are what it is going to take to bring an end to marijuana prohibition. What City would say no to over two million dollars a year of extra tax monies! Now this is only the taxes from medical marijuana, there is still a huge amount of black market marijuana going untaxed in Denver!

In Denver it has resulted in an extra million dollars of sales tax revenue!

According to reports from December to April in those five months the city collected $ 1.023.308.67 from various medical marijuana businesses scattered around the city!

In March the city collected $ 226.492.5 the highest reported collection to date.

Smoking medical marijuana has become quite popular with the residents of Colorado.....And the stiff opponents of the herb. Are now seeing the benefits of legalizing the plant!

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While Colorado is starting to profit from the common sense approach to medical marijuana, California voters are taking the next step, legalizing recreational use of marijuana. In California one Gubernatorial Candidate Meg Whitman has said she would not sign any bill to legalize marijuana. It would seem Meg has other plans on how to rescue California from its budget blues, does she plan to unload all the states assets on Ebay? The sale of state owned utilities and other assets to private industry allowing the elite's to profit, it is a common practice.

Taxation not Prohibition!

5,500lbs Marijuana to Go Up In Smoke

Authorities found 5,500 pounds of marijuana last week in Cook County Illinois, the Sheriff stated that he planned today, Monday June 21, to get a court order to have the marijuana incinerated. Marijuana activist say that would be a waste of the medicinal herb and are asking that if the marijuana tested to be safe that it be donated for medical marijuana use.

Not everyone is high on the idea of burning 5,500 pounds of seized pot.

"Incinerating it is a waste," said Lisa Lange, who smokes marijuana to ease her degenerative osteoarthritis symptoms the Sun-Times reports.
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There is little chance of the 5,500 pounds of marijuana being donated for medicinal marijuana, Illinois has not passed a MMJ law as of yet.

I have always thought, that police should donate seized marijuana to local dispensaries or compassion clubs. I decided to do a Google search, to see if police have ever donated confiscated marijuana. From my Google search results the answer is no. I found these three donations of marijuana;

On Friday, employees at a Goodwill store in Marietta opened a donated water jug and found about found four bags of marijuana that together equal about a pound. Police say it has a street value of around $1,500 but because this was an anonymous donation, there's really no way of telling who or where the pot came from

"If anybody would like to come in and claim this "cooler," which is probably an antique, we would love to have them come in and we'll be more than happy to try and get that cooler returned to them," Marietta Police Capt. Jeff Waite said.

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Boulder Police are trying to determine who made an odd donation: two pounds of marijuana.

The bag of pot was found inside a clothing donation bin outside a Barnes & Noble bookstore in the 2900 block of Pearl Street Thursday.Volunteers collecting the donations came across a bag with a green, leafy sabstance [sic] and called police, according to Sarah Huntley, spokeswoman for the Boulder Police Dept.
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Police Donate 25 Pounds of Weed to Prisoners in Fruit Crate

Prisoners at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Segovia Unit were in for a treat when they received a donated fruit crate from the Edinburg Police Department. Among a variety of fruits prisoners came across 25 pounds of weed, marijuana, cannabis, or whatever the kids call it these days, when they unpacked the crate in the facility's kitchen on last week.
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It is not surprising that police have never donated marijuana that they have confiscated for any charitable use. They are acting on orders to stamp this viscous plant out of existence. Corporate law makers have given the OK to use deadly force in family homes, if marijuana is suspected to be there. The same corporate law makers have enacted law that makes marijuana grow busts so profitable to departments, it has been said that US law enforcement is addicted to marijuana arrests.

The elites have worked hard to make war on cannabis consumers and to protect all their holy profits from health care and pharmaceutical drugs. They do not want to chance loosing any money to MMJ or see our culture turn back to the herbal gardens for many medicinal needs. We should have a choice as to how we are medicated, whether to take pharmaceutical drugs or to use medicinal herbs. There is no excuse for the people to suffer so the elite can make record profits each year.

Taxation not Prohibition!

Just Say No to Meg Whitman

Meg Whitman asks the voters to elect her to office, she states once elected she will not sign the marijuana Bill into law. This is very frustrating that she could so boldly defy the will the very voters she is asking to elect her to office.

She is protecting the vast fortunes that the elites have invested in health care, pharmaceutical drugs, prisons and drug rehabs while ignoring the general population and the consensus of the voters. In a capitalist society the protection of their Holy Profits is the first duty of all the Elites. Government has been a means for corporations to achieve even higher profit for many years, not a government for the people.

The answer was shocking. I already knew that Meg Whitman opposed the marijuana legalization initiative. What I didn’t know is that she plans to NOT SIGN the initiative if it passes. That’s right – if she wins the election in November, and voters approve the initiative, she plans on defying the will of the voters and not signing the initiative into law. Her campaign staff told me that they don’t care how much the voters want marijuana legalization, and it doesn’t matter how large of a margin of victory it obtains in the election; she will act as if it never happened.

I can already see it now; the initiative passes and Meg Whitman says, “It’s illegal under federal law, so my hands are tied.” I would like to remind Meg Whitman well ahead of time THAT HER JOB IS TO BE GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, not the Governor of the federal government. If she was a true conservative, she would cling to state sovereignty and state’s rights, and not cling to false propaganda she heard growing up.

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It is very frightening that politician are telling the people we no longer work for you but instead work for the Holy Profits of all the Elites. The fact that another millionaire denies marijuana a chance to legality should be no surprise to Americans, just another elite putting profit above all else.

Just say no to Meg Whitman

and Vote for;

Taxation not Prohibition!

High Cost of Seizing 1.500 Marijuana Plants

In an attempt to secure the Holy Profits of the Elites who have interests in Pharmaceuticals. Officers are once again spending tens of thousands of American tax dollars harvesting the cancer curing herb marijuana.

This investigation took two months of police work, plus the time and cost to remove the 1,500 cancer curing marijuana plants. Add to this the cost of vehicles cars, trucks, atv's and a helicopter used to removed the plants.

But wait there is more now the cost of reports and storing evidence needs to be added to the total cost of the investigation.

Then to top it all off:
No arrests have been made, but authorities say it appears people had camped at the sites.

Thats a lot of man hrs and a awful high cost to the taxpayers to seize some medicinal herbs that could have been used to cure or prevent cancer.

The drug bust has been in the works for about two months. Detectives say a citizen spotted some of the plants and called police.

The largest site was found just north of Socorro. The brush was so thick, a National Guard helicopter was used Saturday to carry most of the plants and equipment out of the area.
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Taxing marijuana would help eliminate huge costs that are an everyday part of prohibition and would allow the people a safer and healthier life.

Taxation not Prohibition!

1,100 Herbal Plants Known to Cure Cancer Seized

Once again the world is made into a much safer place as officers seize 1,100 marijuana plants. Marijuana is a dangerous medicinal herb known to cure and prevent cancers. The elites who own pharmaceutical companies will rest better tonight knowing that officers took these medicinal herbs off the street so they will not endanger their Holy Profits.
Taxation not Prohibition!


Xiao Xia Ting, 31, who was determined to be an illegal alien, was charged with theft of services and unlawful growing of marijuana. Authorities seized more than 1,100 pot plants with an estimated street value of $2 million. They were being grown in several rooms of a Cold Spring house using what police described as “$10,000 worth of high-tech equipment.”
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While the FDA has allowed the drugs, Marinol, Dronabinal, Naboline, and the Brits have have sanctioned the use of Sativex, marijuana in its less potent natural state is illegal. The FDA, ONDCP and our Drug Czar say marijuana has no medicinal value, in reality it is very valuable to the population of the Earth as a safe cancer cure preventative, pain reducer, and to many other uses to list. But as a herb that can be easily grown it would cost big pharma $billions. If we were grow our own medicinal herbs it would be so much healthier than eating pills. So what the FDA, ONDCP and our Drug Czar means by no medicinal value is no Holy Profits for the elites.
Taxation not Prohibition!

FDA Approves Carcinogens and Denies USA MMJ part 6

Every day more of our foods are being contaminated in a manic push for profits for some of the richest families on earth. We have seen that these elites show no compassion for other humans as their motivation is greed, greed for money and the power it buys.

Another threat to our food system right now comes from chemicals that are routinely being used in food production. Now the President's cancer report panel came out with an amazing report recently that was issued that talked about the threat of the roughly 80,000 chemicals that are being let loose - the man made chemicals let loose into our environment - and of those 80,000 only a few hundred have ever been tested for their safety.

In China there are over 200 million farmers so it's very hard to regulate what's going on on their farms. There's very little regulation on how they can use pesticides or antibiotics. The farms tend to be near industrial areas so there's high levels of heavy metal contamination of the fields. This is a problem. And it's a problem because this food is coming into the United States largely untested.

The reform of the Food and Drug Administration is absolutely essential because it is responsible for the food safety of 80% of the food that we eat. And right now, that agency does not have the power to recall contaminated food, does not have the power to test for it, and is essentially toothless. More than half of US food processing facilities have gone more than five years without ever being visited by the FDA. And during the last Bush administration, the number of FDA inspections declined. A 2009 study by the FDA's own Inspector General found that of 40 food products, the FDA had no ability to trace back the ingredients of 35 - 35 out of 40, they have no idea where the stuff came from. And 60%, roughly, of the facilities processing food were not in compliance with any kind of FDA record keeping that might help trace where their ingredients came from. Again, this is a disaster waiting to happen. The FDA Modernization bill that is stuck in the Senate will increase inspections, require processors to identify potential risks, and require imported food to meet the same standards as that produced in the United States. It will enable testing of the food for dangerous pathogens and it will give the FDA the power to order the recall - mandatory recall of contaminated products.
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The all powerful FDA has no power to recall foods, only the power to allow pharmaceutical drugs to be sold.

The Obama administration organized a food safety working group last year that made recommendations for reducing foodborne illnesses, which sicken an estimated 76 million people in the United States each year and kill 5,000 according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The legislation needs to help beef up the FDA, the report recommends -- but the FDA also must develop a better system for overseeing food safety.

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With all his talk of safety Obama has recently made a statement that I find mind boggling.

The Obama administration is attempting to reassure Americans that seafood from the Gulf of Mexico is safe to eat amid the BP-Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. President Obama discussed food safety yesterday during a trip to the Gulf. "Let me be clear: Seafood from the Gulf today is safe to eat," Obama said.

FDA also says:

The sample collection will target primarily seafood processors who buy seafood directly from the harvester. Monitoring this first step in the distribution chain will help to keep any potentially contaminated seafood from consumers.

That prompts a question: Given the FDA’s struggles in recent years, will the agency have the necessary resources and adequate regulatory muscle to keep contaminated seafood away from consumers?
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The FDA, the agency that has kept Marijuana a Schedule 1 Controlled Substance does not have the power to recall contaminated food! This is what happens when we allow industry to regulate its self, regulations are for profit not for the care and safety of the public.

Big pharmaceutical companies fear the cancer fighting and other medicinal qualities of marijuana. They fear it, as we could be going to our own herb patch rather than the medicine cabinet, they fear loses of their Holy profits.

Taxation not Prohibition!

$20 M of cancer curing herb taken off the streets

Chicago is much safer after law enforcement took 224 bales of the cancer curing herb marijuana off the streets. Once again we see an attack on a important medicinal herb which cures and prevents cancer. Marijuana is a Schedule 1 Controlled Substance, yet Marinol 100% pure THC the psychoactive component of marijuana is sold by Pharmacies everyday! In the natural plant form or dried marijuana is extremely dangerous and has no medicinal value.


The Cook County sheriff announced Friday one of the department's biggest marijuana busts ever -- a seizure of 5,525 pounds, worth about $20 million and very soon to go up in smoke.

"It was 224 bales of taped packages stacked in the residence," Dart told reporters. Moreno was "someone who was involved at a level higher than just dealing.

"Whether he was at the top is hard to say at this time."

More certain are plans for the cache itself.

"We will retain about 10,000 grams of it for trial," said Kevin Ruel, the department's deputy chief of special investigations. "We will solicit a court order today to have the rest incinerated safely."

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The Law is making it hard for the people to treat their ailments with medicinal herbs by calling plants drugs. The law is being manipulated to force the world to turn to prescription drugs for the profits for a few big pharmaceutical companies who own the FDA, rather than allowing us to use plants that have known healing or medicinal qualities. Its time for Taxation Not Prohibition for a healthier world.

FDA Approves Carcinogens and Denies USA MMJ part 5

I read an article that deals with the FDA & USDA, since it is on food safety I thought I'd share it. The whole article is well worth reading, here are a few excerpts;

In 1981 we had President Reagan take office and bring a new philosophy to government, which is that things are best when industry regulates itself. And the Reagan administration deliberately began cutting staffing levels at the FDA, which is responsible for most of our food, cutting staff at the USDA, which is responsible for the safety of meat and poultry products, and the Bush administration - the first Bush administration - continued this trend and the USDA and the FDA essentially became "captured" regulatory agencies: agencies staffed by industry representatives and agencies very much serving private interests and NOT the public interest.

USDA did an investigation last year that found that USDA and our own Agricultural Marketing Service had bought more than 70 million pounds of spent hen meat. Now, spent hen meat are from egg-laying hens that are so old and so decrepit, something has to be done with them, and traditionally, what's been done with spent hens is they've been rendered into pet food or they've been rendered into compost. Well, the USDA came up with a brilliant idea. They would buy all this meat from the egg-producers and what would they do with it? They would serve it to the nation's school children. Now this is meat that Campbell's Soup and McDonalds and KFC refuses to buy. This is meat that is more likely than any other poultry to be riddled with different pathogens because these hens are in terrible shape and quite sick by the time that they are dead, and in 2006, our own government agency purchased one-third of the spent hen meat in the United States to serve to school children.
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To tell the truth I was rather surprised when Google-ing, I did not find much information on spent chickens. A few web stories on battered chickens describing the inhumane treatment of chickens by commercial egg producers.

I did run into one our favorite people playing games with the worlds food supply, in this case the farming of chicken is being heavily restricted away from the family farms to increase commercial sales.

Clouds can have ‘silver linings’ the adage goes, and Bird Flu seems to be no exception. While much of the world trembles in panic and fear over an as-yet-non-existent human-to-human mutation of the Avian Flu or H5N1 virus, and while most worry what to do to protect themselves and their families, certain people are doing quite nicely in the situation.

Donald Rumsfeld and other major stock holders of Gilead Sciences or Roche Inc., the marketers of the much-hyped Tamiflu (see previous articles, ‘Is Tamiflu another Pentagon Hoax? ;‘Bird Flu: A Corporate Bonanza for the Biotech Industry’) are reaping nice gains, as sales of the medication are booming thanks to promotion by the Bush and Blair governments.

Agribusiness companies stand to reap huge gains in the event that scientists at Cambridge University and elsewhere are able to replace the entire world chicken population with genetically-engineered chicks allegedly resistant to H5N1 virus.

Little-noticed beneficiaries of the current Avian Flu scare, however, are the giant agribusiness chicken producers based in the United States, who claim ‘their’ chickens are safe. Their sales are booming and all indications are that Avian Flu, paradoxically, has come like a Godsend to their corporate balance sheets. Are they also responsible for breeding unsanitary conditions and exporting the product worldwide causing disease, illness and even deaths?

The industrialization of chicken-raising and slaughtering in the USA, which is known as ‘factory farming’ is a process whose inner workings are unknown to most people. Better it remained so some say. Were we to know, we likely would never again eat a Chicken McNugget or a KFC chicken dinner, both of which are supplied, by the way, by Tyson.

Increasing Asian demand for imported chicken products from the United States today, however, has a special significance. It means three to four giant factory farm operations are opening a potentially huge new market for chicken products in Asia.

Asia today is home to seven billion chickens, fully 40% of the world total. US chicken giants like Tyson Foods, ConAgra and Perdue Farms have literally been drooling at the prospect of breaking into the vast market in Asia, Japan and China for several years. Bird Flu is giving them that chance and more.

Japan imports some 70% of all chicken its population consumes. The Bird Flu scare resulted in a Japanese ban on chicken imports from Thailand and China. The benefactors have been USA and Brazil chicken exporters according to the FAO. And that means, above all, Tyson Foods, Perdue, ConAgra.

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The Truth About Tamiflu The Atlantic (December 10, 2009)

Two months ago, we pointed out in our story on flu in The Atlantic that the antiviral drug Tamiflu might not be as effective or safe as many patients, doctors, and governments think. The drug has been widely prescribed since the first cases of H1N1 flu surfaced last spring, and the U.S. government has spent more than $1.5 billion stockpiling it since 2005 as part of the nation’s pandemic preparedness plan.


Tamiflu was never proven as a cure for flu; so why did governments around the world invest so much—on the order of $3 billion since the emergence of H1N1 last spring, according to investment bank, JP Morgan—in a drug that appears to do so little.

Nor was its safety truly analyzed; According to an FDA spokesperson, side effects may include potentially fatal heart problems.

The answer may lie in the politics of disease. Far from a commercial success when it was initially approved by the FDA in 1999, Tamiflu’s fortunes began to look up in 2003, after the SARS outbreak and the emergence of bird flu. Then Hurricane Katrina hit. In the wake of criticism over its handling of the disaster in New Orleans, the Bush Administration announced a multi-billion-dollar pandemic and bioterrorism preparedness strategy, which included stockpiling millions of doses of Tamiflu.

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Once again Donald Rumsfeld is making his fortunes off the FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) of disease by pedaling snake oil to cure the plague. One of the big difference of our modern medicine frauds have is mainstream media support, and a medical system that believe a pill or a shot for any and everything! Everyone runs to purchase the shot because they don't want to chance getting sick or dying.

If we could grow a garden of medicinal herbs to replace a cabinet full of pills it would really change medicine and health. With the high unemployment rate it is time to grow herbs and healthy foods to prevent costly medical trap being laid apon us.

I was recently told not to call marijuana a medicinal herb, that it is a drug.

Well it is not a drug it is a plant, it contains compounds that could be refined or synthesized to make drugs. There are many plants that contain such compounds opium poppy is another such plant, in its natural form it is a very helpful herb in its refined state it become the highly addictive drug heroin, and it has many synthetic forms which is oxy-contin.

So drugs are legal and many medicinal herbs are being labeled as drugs and people are arrested for growing and possessing these medicinal herbs, poppies, peyote, coca, marijuana and the next one that might become illegal is salvia.

FDA Approves Carcinogens and Denies USA MMJ part 4

Today we will look at another carcinogen the FDA has allowed to be used on the United States food supply glyphosate aka Round Up . Since it was discovered to be detrimental to plants in 1970 glyphosate has become one of the most used agricultural products.


Although the Roundup trademark is registered with the US Patent Office and still extant, the patent has expired. Glyphosate is marketed in the US and worldwide in different solution strengths under many tradenames: Roundup, Buccaneer, Razor Pro, Genesis Extra II, Roundup Pro Concentrate, Rodeo, Aquaneat , and Aquamaster. These products may contain other ingredients, causing them to have different effects.

Glyphosate is the most used herbicide in the USA. In the US, 5-8 million pounds are used every year on lawns and yards and 85-90 million pounds are used annually in US agriculture.

Scientific fraud

On two occasions the United States Environmental Protection Agency has caught scientists deliberately falsifying test results at research laboratories hired by Monsanto to study glyphosate. In the first incident involving Industrial Biotest Laboratories (IBT), an EPA reviewer stated after finding "routine falsification of data" that it was "hard to believe the scientific integrity of the studies when they said they took specimens of the uterus from male rabbits". In the second incident of falsifying test results in 1991, the owner of the lab (Craven Labs), and three employees were indicted on 20 felony counts, the owner was sentenced to 5 years in prison and fined 50,000 dollars, the lab was fined 15.5 million dollars and ordered to pay 3.7 million in restitution.
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It is interesting the EPA caught the fraudulent reports and not the FDA. I will not say the FDA is fully at fault here, as research companies manipulate test results all the time to get the desired results. Companies also hire writers to make negative test results appear positive. I do think the FDA knows this is being done but turns a blind eye on the use of dangerous carcinogens to keep the status quo.


A recent study by eminent oncologists Dr. Lennart Hardell and Dr. Mikael
Eriksson of Sweden, has revealed clear links between one of the
world's biggest selling herbicide, glyphosate, to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form
of cancer.

In the study published in the 15 March 1999 Journal of American Cancer
Society, the researchers also maintain that exposure to glyphosate
'yielded increased risks for NHL.' They stress that with the rapidly increasing use
of glyphosate since the time the study was carried out, 'glyphosate
deserves further epidemiologic studies.'

Monsanto have already received permits for a
threefold increase in herbicide residues on genetically engineered
soybeans in Europe and the U.S., up from 6 parts per million (PPM) to 20 PPM.
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Now we see that not only is the FDA allowing carcinogens into our food chain, they as well are allowing the increase in the amounts of carcinogens used on our foods.

Our food chain is riddled with poisonous GMO products, quit consuming dairy products and boycott corn.Recent reports say that 60% to 80% of the corn in the US is GMO. I encourage everyone to boycott corn products while buying your groceries.

Lets send a message to Wall Street "No GMO's for dinner" Boycott Corn!


All these sanctioned carcinogens and yet, the FDA will not remove the safe non-toxic medicinal herb marijuana from its position as a Schedule One Controlled Substance. By not doing so our scientists may not investigate its astounding medicinal properties. There is BIG money made by keeping marijuana illegal and it has nothing to do with pot being dangerous to personal health, nor does marijuana cause violence as has been claimed.

Legalizing marijuana would give everyone the ability to make and use herbal remedies for thousands of common ailments, from mental illness to preventing and curing cancers. Marijuana would cost our health care system untold billions of dollars as people learn to use this healing herb to cure and prevent disease!

Linux and Tethering a BlackBerry

My adventures in using a BlackBerry phone as a modem for my laptop;

The adventure began when my dial up provider decided to force a upgrade to their not so fast, very over priced broad band internet. I have been wanting high speed internet for years. I looked into satellite but download restrictions and throttling turned me away from that.

My town even tried their hand at being a ISP and had wireless broadband for a while. It was discontinued when APT offered their Broadband here, something smells fishy there!

This was what APT offered us when Broadband first came to town.

• 64K with 1GB of transfer per month for $29.95 a month
• 128K with 2GB of data transfer per month for $49.95 a month
• 256K with 3GB of data transfer per month for $69.95 a month
• 384K with 4GB of data transfer per month for $89.95 a month
• 512K with 5GB of data transfer per month for $109.95 a month
• 512K with 10GB of data transfer per month for $199.95 a month
• with a $10 per gig overage
  

Some towns are still paying those rates!
They have upgraded their plans, but the service is not very good at this time.

• 64K with 2GB of data transfer per month for $29.95 a month
• 256K with 10GB of data transfer per month for $49.95 a month
• 512K with 20GB of data transfer per month for $59.95 a month
• 1Mb with 30GB of data transfer per month for $79.95 a month
• 4Mb with 40GB of data transfer per month for $99.95 a month

The 1Mb service tier is currently available in select areas dependent upon local infrastructure.
The 4Mb service tier is currently available in Petersburg and Wrangell.

+ $5 a gig for overage charges

Talking with my neighbors it seems APT still have lots of bugs to work out, and the caps scared me as we use 10 gigs on dial up! So I decided to use a cell phone as a modem, it ends up costing us just under $100 a month with unlimited long distance & unlimited data plans!

It was slightly difficult to get the BlackBerry 8830 to work with Linux on my laptop.

Thibaut Colar makes a handy app that makes it fairly easy to tether your BB with a USB data cable (came with the BB) to your Linux laptop. If you need to tether a BB to a Linux box I suggest you give Berry4all - Easy Tethering for Blackberry on Linux a try!

Now I can have internet any where I have bars. lol

Edit: Windows and Mac are supported on BlackBerry, I would assume that it would be simple as popping in the CD that came with the BB 8830 world edition. Be warned not all BB's are advertised as being tetherable!