Re: i have hep new

In article <memo.20051209191137.1128C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Alan) wrote:

> In article <khjmf.20$MA2.4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, dciomei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> (don ciomei) wrote:
>
> > hello im new at this
>
> Hey welcome! Anybody from the South is always welcome here. Pull up a
> floating bar stool and have a drink and ignore Spidey. She is so Canadian
> yaknow. She hangs round with Yankees who like to act Southern.
>
> This is Dixie to make you feel right at home.
>
> http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/dixie.htm
>
> I can fit you up with Southern Links too.
>
> http://midsouthpeace.blogspot.com/
>
> http://www.midsouthpeace.org/
>
> http://www.commondreams.org/
>
> http://www.soaw.org/
>
> http://www.alabamadivision.org/
>
> And this is my personal Favourite newspaper, The Daily Dixie News.
>
> http://www.southerncaucus.org/
>
> Hey, and I ain't whistling Dixie; I know all the words.
>
> Oh, I wish I was in the land of cotton,
> Old times there are not forgotten,
> Look away, look away, look away Dixie Land.
>
> In Dixie Land, where I was born in,
> early on one frosty mornin',
> Look away, look away, look away Dixie Land.
>
> I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray!
> In Dixie Land I?ll take my stand
> to live and die in Dixie.
> Away, away, away down south in Dixie.
> Away, away, away down south in Dixie
>
> Now you ignore that Spidey; she is just too damn *neat* and *tidy*
>
> You are welcome here.

But let not pretend that you can see a thing I post, because I already happen to
know that Bellsouth indulges in censorship.

By Wayne Madsen
12-9-5

Internet censorship. It did not happen overnight but slowly came to America's
shores from testing grounds in China and the Middle East.

Progressive and investigative journalist web site administrators are beginning
to talk to each other about it, e-mail users are beginning to understand why
their e-mail is being disrupted by it, major search engines appear to be
complying with it, and the low to equal signal-to-noise ratio of legitimate
e-mail and spam appears to be perpetuated by it.

In this case, "it," is what privacy and computer experts have long warned about:
massive censorship of the web on a nationwide and global scale. For many years,
the web has been heavily censored in countries around the world. That censorship
continues at this very moment. Now it is happening right here in America.

The agreement by the Congress to extend an enhanced Patriot Act for another four
years will permit the political enforcers of the Bush administration, who use
law enforcement as their proxies, to further clamp censorship controls on the
web.

Internet Censorship: The Warning Signs Were Not Hidden

The warning signs for the crackdown on the web have been with us for over a
decade. The Clipper chip controversy of the 90s, John Poindexter's Total
Information Awareness (TIA) system pushed in the aftermath of 9-11, backroom
deals between the Federal government and the Internet service industry, and the
Patriot Act have ushered in a new era of Internet censorship, something just
half a decade ago computer programmers averred was impossible given the nature
of the web. They were wrong, dead wrong.

Take for example of what recently occurred when two journalists were taking on
the phone about a story that appeared on Google News. The story was about a
Christian fundamentalist move in Congress to use U.S. military force in Sudan to
end genocide in Darfur. The story appeared on the English Google News site in
Qatar. But the very same Google News site when accessed simultaneously in
Washington, DC failed to show the article. This censorship is accomplished by
geolocation filtering: the restriction or modifying of web content based on the
geographical region of the user. In addition to countries, such filtering can
now be implemented for states, cities, and even individual IP addresses.

With reports in the Swedish newspaper Svensa Dagbladet today that the United
States has transmitted a Homeland Security Department "no fly" list of 80,000
suspected terrorists to airport authorities around the world, it is not
unreasonable that a "no [or restricted] surfing/emailing" list has been
transmitted to Internet Service Providers around the world. The systematic
disruptions of web sites and email strongly suggests that such a list exists.

News reports on CIA prisoner flights and secret prisons are disappearing from
Google and other search engines like Alltheweb as fast as they appear. Here now,
gone tomorrow is the name of the game.

Google is systematically failing to list and link to articles that contain
explosive information about the Bush administration, the war in Iraq, Al Qaeda,
and U.S. political scandals. But Google is not alone in working closely to
stifle Internet discourse. America On Line, Microsoft, Yahoo and others are
slowly turning the Internet into an information superhighway dominated by
barricades, toll booths, off-ramps that lead to dead ends, choke points, and
security checks.

America On Line is the most egregious is stifling Internet freedom. A former AOL
employee noted how AOL and other Internet Service Providers cooperate with the
Bush administration in censoring email. The Patriot Act gave federal agencies
the power to review information to the packet level and AOL was directed by
agencies like the FBI to do more than sniff the subject line. The AOL term of
service (TOS) has gradually been expanded to grant AOL virtually universal power
regarding information. Many AOL users are likely unaware of the elastic clause,
which says they will be bound by the current TOS and any TOS revisions which AOL
may elect at any time in the future. Essentially, AOL users once agreed to allow
the censorship and non-delivery of their email.

Microsoft has similar requirements for Hotmail as do Yahoo and Google for their
respective e-mail services.

There are also many cases of Google's search engine failing to list and link to
certain information. According to a number of web site administrators who carry
anti-Bush political content, this situation has become more pronounced in the
last month. In addition, many web site administrators are reporting a dramatic
drop-off in hits to their sites, according to their web statistic analyzers.
Adding to their woes is the frequency at which spam viruses are being spoofed as
coming from their web site addresses.

Government disruption of the political side of the web can easily be hidden amid
hyped mainstream news media reports of the latest "boutique" viruses and worms,
reports that have more to do with the sales of anti-virus software and services
than actual long-term disruption of banks, utilities, or airlines.

Internet Censorship in the US: No Longer a Prediction

Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Cisco Systems have honed their skills at Internet
censorship for years in places like China, Jordan, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, the
United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, and other countries. They have learned well. They
will be the last to admit they have imported their censorship skills into the
United States at the behest of the Bush regime. Last year, the Bush-Cheney
campaign blocked international access to its web site -- www.georgewbush.com --
for unspecified "security reasons."

Only those in the Federal bureaucracy and the companies involved are in a
position to know what deals have been made and how extensive Internet censorship
has become. They owe full disclosure to their customers and their fellow
citizens.


http://waynemadsenreport.com/

Yes! This is America!


Lord Cerne Abbas

Humpty Dumpty Bush fell off the Iraq wall.
Humpty Dumpty Bush had a big fall.
All his spin doctors and all the President's men
couldn't put Humpty Dumpty Bush together again.

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http://www.john-lennon.net/

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