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while surfing the web-

I found these sites to be most excellent !

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Take Back the Media
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Follow up-

DID goss really just say that?- yes he did.

`New CIA Director Porter Goss said the Iraq war was giving terrorists experience and contacts.

Offering few specifics on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld warned that the government could reasonably predict attacks would come from terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and other means.
STORY HERE

BUT WAIT! the US has done so well just look at what the US government shows the world- White House Iraqi freedom
a look at that beauty made me wanna barf!

TRUTH- One of the best web-sites outting the liars I've seen- Top 40 Lies about the war and terrorism

"we can bomb the world to pieces but we can't bomb it into peace"~Michael Franti

DID goss really say this? - YEs, he did.

follow up--

New CIA Director Porter Goss said the Iraq war was giving terrorists experience and contacts.
STORY HERE

BUT WAIT! the US has done so well just look at what the US government shows the world- White House Iraqi freedom
Check that beauty out- makes me wanna barf.

TRUTH- One of the best web-sites outting the liars I've seen- Top 40 Lies about the war and terrorism

"we can bomb the world to piecesbut we can't bomb it into peace"~Michael Franti

hummm

-Perhaps- the "war on terror" isn't going so well

-OR! could this be a scare tactic by the greedy, oil hungry liars inthe US government to prime the US people for another war--spin Iran

-OR---parts of the Patriot Act are coming up for ---renewal, let the fear begin.

SO I wonder if what we have done in Iraq worth, 1464 US soldiers dead, 10,000+ injured 80+thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens deadone billion dollars a week spent. if it is for our security... whyare we told to be insecure now more than ever? why are we being threatened again? or are we?

excuse me if I sound jaded- AGAIN!


CHUCK wrote this in a comment on this blog- I really liked it:

"" At this point in time many of us are jaded. It is a way of coping with a sense of powerlessness amidst the absurdity around us.It is a test of our COMPASSION when we have to deal with those who seem indifferent to the extent of the suffering our consumption policies and war policies produce.Waging PEACE is both difficult and problematic. "" Chuck


Power to the Peaceful!
Jess
"we can bomb the world to pieces but we can't bomb it into peace"~Michael Franti

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CIA, FBI Warn Panel of Top Threats to U.S.White House - AP Cabinet & StateBy KATHERINE SHRADER,
Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON

- Al-Qaida and associated groups top the list of threatsto the United States, leading government intelligence officials toldCongress on Wednesday in a grim assessment that also highlighted Iran's emergence as a major threat to American interests in the Middle East. Despite gains made against al-Qaida and other affiliates, CIA (news -web sites) Director Porter Goss, in an unusually blunt statementbefore the mostly secretive Senate Intelligence Committee, said theterror group is intent on finding ways to circumvent U.S. securityenhancements to attack the homeland.

Dean--DNC

I've been a registered Democrat since I was 18- it's a family thing. Before I knew anything about politics Chris told me I was a democrat as did Jane (mother and grandmother). In the past 4 yrs of life I have re-examined my true beliefs and found I may not be a democrat- or at least of the breed I see now.

Dean- I got the letter from him Tuesday, Feb. 15th, 05-- It started with:

SUBJECT: Your new job

Dear Jessica,
You run this party

PLAN

Ended with:
This isn't my chairmanship -- it is ours. So let's get to work together.
Governor Howard Dean, M.D.Chairman, Democratic National Committee


I liked it and think Dean is just what this party needs.

Peace,
Jess
"we can bomb the world to pieces but we can't bomb it into peace"~Michael Franti

~Power to the Peaceful~

a couple of thoughts

reading and reading some more. About Marxism , it was eye opening.

I think it's good that Dean is the new Democratic Party head. DNC

more in the next day or two.
power to the peaceful,
Jess
Bu$h worries me more each day.

What I heard about Iraq

sample of reading- it's long but worth the click!
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What I Heard about Iraq
Eliot Weinberger

In 1992, a year after the first Gulf War, I heard Dick Cheney, then secretary of defense, say that the US had been wise not to invade Baghdad and get ‘bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq’. I heard him say: ‘The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is: not that damned many.’

In February 2001, I heard Colin Powell say that Saddam Hussein ‘has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours.’

That same month, I heard that a CIA report stated: ‘We do not have any direct evidence that Iraq has used the period since Desert Fox to reconstitute its weapons of mass destruction programmes.’

In July 2001, I heard Condoleezza Rice say: ‘We are able to keep his arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt.’

On 11 September 2001, six hours after the attacks, I heard that Donald Rumsfeld said that it might be an opportunity to ‘hit’ Iraq. I heard that he said: ‘Go massive. Sweep it all up. Things related and not.’
I heard that Condoleezza Rice asked: ‘How do you capitalise on these opportunities?’

I heard that on 17 September the president signed a document marked top secret that directed the Pentagon to begin planning for the invasion and that, some months later, he secretly and illegally diverted $700 million approved by Congress for operations in Afghanistan into preparing for the new battle front.

Why do I do this?

Dear Diary,
Why the hell do I want Bu$h to do press conference's, and then I watch the State of the Union Adress tonight and can't stand looking at his face?OHHHH! so he'll slip up and tell the truth in a press conferencethat's right! I just don't believe him, nothing that came out of hismouth sems truthful.OKay- Breathe jessica jane! I swear I predicted that an Iraqi would sit next to Mrs. Bu$h- also that fingers with ink would be raised. Nice show!

Whew!back to your regularly scheduled program. that's antother thing he'srunning into LAw and Order!

so my son said to me the other day -'mom you're such a radicalliberal that you aren't open minded'. I'm looking intothis "accusation". Or perhaps it was just an observation. Damn I'm jaded.

your resident liberal, hippie, peace lovin', tree huggin' chick.
Peace,Jess

and now a word from Todd Snider~~Conservative Christian, right-wing republican, straight whiteAmerican male. Gay bashing, black fearing, war fightin' tree killin', regionalleaders of self.Frat-housin', keg-tappin', shirt-tuckin', back-slappin' haters ofhippies like me.Tree-huggin', love-makin', pro-choicin', gay-weddin' widespreaddigging hippies like me.Skin-color-blinded, conspiracy-minded protesters of corporate greed.We who have nothing and most likely will till we all end up locked upin jails.Byyyyyyyyyy conservative christian, right-wing republican, straightwhite american males.

Big Brother?

I am from a hippie family. That's right we grew up eating right- looking different , i even lived on a bus and traveled with my parent for 2 years. We come from CA- lived up in the redwoods in Humboldt County- peacefully. Chris (mom) was consipiracy minded, so am I.
I found this today--- am I just going nuts?
Power to the Peaceful,
Jess
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Surfing the Web With Big Brother
by William Fisher
NEW YORK - Is the U.S. government spying on its citizens' e-mail and Web surfing habits?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a group that defends civil liberties on the Internet, believes the answer is probably "yes." Earlier this month, the San Francisco-based watchdog filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other U.S. Department of Justice offices.

It is seeking documents that would shed light on whether the government has been using the USA PATRIOT Act, which curtails some civil liberties as part of the "war on terror," to spy on Internet users and collect secret information about their online activity without a search warrant.

"Although Internet users reasonably expect that their online reading habits are private, the [Justice Department] will not confirm whether it collects or believes itself authorized to collect URLs using pen-trap devices," said Kevin Bankston, an EFF attorney.

Pen-traps collect information about the numbers dialed on a telephone but do not record the actual content of phone conversations. Because of this limitation, court orders authorizing pen-trap surveillance are easy to get; instead of having to show probable cause, the government need only show relevance to its investigation. The government is not required to inform people that they are or were the subjects of pen-trap surveillance.
The USA PATRIOT Act was hastily passed by Congress shortly after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Parts of it are due to expire this year and require re-authorization by Congress.

Under the act, the government can monitor an individual's Web-surfing records, use roving wiretaps to monitor phone calls made by individuals "proximate" to the primary person being tapped, access Internet Service Provider (ISP) records, and monitor the private records of people involved in legitimate protests.

Section 216 of the act gives the government permission to conduct surveillance in criminal investigations using pen registers or trap and trace devices ("pen-traps").

The Justice Department says the new definitions allow pen-traps to collect e-mail and Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. However, the agency has been less forthcoming about Web surveillance. It will not reveal whether it believes URLs (Uniform Resource Locator, the global address of documents and other resources on the Web) can be collected using pen-traps, despite the fact that URLs clearly reveal content by identifying the Web pages being read.

"Much of the [PATRIOT] Act is coming up for review this year, but we can never have a full and informed debate of the issues when the DOJ [Justice Department] won't explain how it has been using these new surveillance powers," Bankston told IPS.

The Justice Department's implementation of the PATRIOT Act has been widely criticized, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has launched a $3.5 million campaign to "promote a public debate about proposals and measures that violate civil liberties without increasing our security."

The group filed the first lawsuit against the PATRIOT Act and has since filed other challenges. In Sept. 2004, it received the first-ever ruling in its challenge to National Security Letters, which were expanded under the PATRIOT Act.

Last October, the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee sent 50 questions to the Justice Department about how it was implementing the Act.

Committee Chair James Sensenbrenner, a conservative Republican from Wisconsin, ultimately declared himself "satisfied that the DOJ has produced answers that are sufficient for the committee's oversight and legislative efforts at this time."

But Lee Tien, EFF senior counsel, said at the time, "We need to have a systematic knowledge of how surveillance powers are used."
Tien was concerned about the Justice Department's failure to maintain records of how it uses its new powers, and the fact that the department gave the congressional committee only anecdotal answers, rather than complete numbers.

While the law was passed as an anti-terrorism measure, is not limited to terrorism. For example, government spying on suspected computer trespassers – not just terrorist suspects – requires no court order. Wiretaps are now allowed for any suspected violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, potentially opening the way to government spying on any computer user.

The PATRIOT Act also gave Internet Service Providers (ISPs) authority to release certain private data if a person's life is in danger. The Justice Department does not have statistics on the number of times it has accessed such information, according to its report to the congressional committee.

However, it does describe how this tool enabled investigators to track down a student who posted threats to bomb his high school on an electronic bulletin board.

"The general problem with this provision is that it puts the ISP in a very difficult position," lawyer Tien says. "If you have an FBI agent on you, and there is a serious threat ... that is pretty hard to contest."

Last April, the ACLU challenged this section of the law on behalf of an unnamed Internet company as an "undue restriction on free speech and privacy rights." A federal judge ruled the section unconstitutional and barred the FBI from invoking that part of the law in the future.
The PATRIOT Act requires ISPs and any other type of communications provider – including telephone companies – to comply with secret "national security letters" (NSLs) from the FBI.

Those letters can ask for information about subscribers, including home addresses, what telephone calls were made, e-mail subject lines and logs of what Web sites were visited.

In the ACLU case, U.S. District Court Judge Victor Marrero ruled that "the recipient of an [NSL] is forever gagged against disclosing its existence to any person," and that this gag order amounts to an "unconstitutional prior restraint of speech in violation of the First Amendment."

The U.S.' "big three" ISPs – Microsoft Network (MSN), America Online (AOL), and Earthlink – all provide their customers with privacy agreements. But the MSN and Earthlink agreements give these ISPs authority to intercept their customers' e-mails; the AOL agreement limits its monitoring to AOL content, not Web-browsing.
Civil libertarians have found some unlikely allies in Congress. Conservative Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas is emerging as a new congressional leader on freedom of information policy and openness in government.

Two years ago, Sen. Cornyn, who was previously Texas' attorney-general, helped broker an amendment to limit the scope of an exemption from the Freedom of Information Act sought by the National Security Agency.