[Dr. Sivana]

Corporate Socialism in a nutshell: US Internet speeds are only 29th in the world, yet Americans pay more than almost anyone else, due to corporate and government collusion.

The speed issue largely has to do with the vast amount of land the U.S. has to cover compared to densely packed countries like S. Korea and the Netherlands. If you are remote and have to use satellite or tower based wireless, you aren't gonna get the same throughput as you are in Seoul.

[Abiotic]

No, this issue is covered in the interview. Here in Sweden (just like Korea, Finland, Norway, Germany etc), even in very remote areas the internet speeds are vastly superior to even central major US cities. The major telecoms simply have not built out the infrastructure they said they would. Another telling sign is that so many in the US still have to use dial-up modems. This is unheard of here, even with a much smaller scale of economy and even given vast distances of remoteness, especially in Norrbotten.

In addition, as is covered in the mp3, the prices charged for broadband holistic telecom packages are extremely high in the US compared to much, if not all of the industrailized world. I pay roughly 60 US dollars a month for 250mbps speed internet and hundreds of premium cable channels from all over the globe. In the US, this would be hundreds of, if not over a thousand dollars US per month. 250mbps net speeds are pretty much unavalable there unless you go to a fractional T-1, for well over a grand per month. Also, the mobile net speeds are years behind most of the EU and Asia.

The state of the critical national infrastructure overall in America is appalling, be it trains, roads, telecom, power grid, water grid, etc. It will take tens of trillions of dollars to rebuild, and I cannot see this happening with the current sovereign debt system, headed by the private Federal Reserve. The ‘peace dividend’ was long ago mortgaged for the sake of the systemic controllers. This is composed of an alliance of privately controlled global central banks, the multinational private media-military-pharma-agra-prison-industrial-banking complex, a fascist government for population control/enforcement, and multivariate empiric war projections to prop up the petrodollar matrix that funds much of this wealth/resouce/power consolidation.