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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Polls Continue to Show Majority of Americans Against NSA Spying

By Mark M. Jaycox

Shortly after the June leaks, numerous polls asked the American people if they approved or disapproved of the NSA spying, which includes collecting telephone records using Section 215 of the Patriot Act and collecting phone calls and emails using Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The answer then was a resounding no, and new polls released in August and September clearly show Americans' increasing concern about privacy has continued.

Since July, many of the polls not only confirm the American people think the NSA's actions violates their privacy, but think the surveillance should be stopped. For instance in an AP poll, nearly 60 percent of Americans said they oppose the NSA collecting data about their telephone and Internet usage. In another national poll by the Washington Post and ABC News, 74 percent of respondents said the NSA's spying intrudes on their privacy rights. This majority should come as no surprise, as we've seen a sea change in opinion polls on privacy since the Edward Snowden revelations started in June.

What's also important is that it crosses political party lines. The Washington Post/ABC News poll found 70 percent of Democrats and 77 percent of Republicans believe the NSA's spying programs intrude on their privacy rights. This change is significant, showing that privacy is a bipartisan issue. In 2006, a similar question found only 50 percent of Republicans thought the government intruded on their privacy rights.

Americans also continue their skepticism of the federal government and its inability to conduct proper oversight. In a recent poll, Rasmusson--though sometimes known for push polling--revealed that there's been a 30 percent increase in people who believe it is now more likely that the government will monitor their phone calls. Maybe even more significant is that this skepticism carries over into whether or not Americans believe the government's claim that it "robustly oversees" the NSA's programs. In a Huffpost/You Gov poll, 53 percent of respondents said they think "the federal courts and rules put in place by Congress" do not provide "adequate oversight." Only 18 percent of people agreed with the statement.

Americans seem to be waking up from its surveillance state slumber as the leaks around the illegal and unconstitutional NSA spying continue. The anger Americans--especially younger Americans--have around the NSA spying is starting to show. President Obama has seen a 14-point swing in his approval and disapproval rating among voters aged 18-29 after the NSA spying.?

These recent round of polls confirm that Americans are not only concerned with the fact that the spying infringes their privacy, but also that they want the spying to stop. And this is even more so for younger Americans. Now is the time for Congress to act: click here now to join the StopWatching.Us coalition.

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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

NSA Spying Threatens Law-Abiding Americans

By Randall Holcombe

I was talking with an older German citizen about the NSA?s data collection program that has recently been the subject of much debate. He worked for the East German government during the Cold War and viewed the NSA?s activities as similar to the Stasi?s under communist rule, but potentially more threatening.

The argument often given for the NSA?s activities is to stop terrorist activities before they occur. Rather than waiting for someone to break the law, our government hopes to stop them before they act. President Obama has told us that many potential terrorist attacks have been thwarted thanks to the NSA?s analysis of their huge database containing all our phone calls, emails, internet searches, and so forth.

The Stasi ? the East German secret police ? undertook significant data collection themselves, but in the pre-computer era were necessarily less effective and less comprehensive than the NSA. My German acquaintance told me that in East Germany they viewed a good Stasi agent as someone who could identify traitors before even the traitors themselves realized they would act against the government. Traitors had certain characteristics in common, and by analyzing individuals, the Stasi was able to spot individuals with those characteristics that could indicate they would act against the state.

The NSA does the same thing, but with much more data. I have heard people say that if you don?t have anything to hide, you shouldn?t be concerned about all the information the government is collecting about you. But that?s not necessarily true when the government is collecting information in an attempt to identify potential law breakers before they actually break the law. Your innocent activities might have some of the characteristics that place you with others who the government views as threats. Then it comes to view you as a threat, even though you are completely innocent of any wrongdoing.

Is this excessive paranoia? I don?t think so. Unless you believe the government can identify future terrorists without error, innocent people are sure to find themselves under suspicion. Government must cast a wide net to identify future terrorists. You may recall former Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy found himself on a terrorist watch list because of information about someone with a similar name. Do you think this could happen to a U.S. Senator but not to you?

Once under suspicion, you could have trouble boarding aircraft, like Senator Kennedy, you could have trouble getting credit, and as someone under surveillance you could expect to be followed, harassed for minor traffic infractions, have your income taxes audited, and more. You become a suspect.

So, the NSA surveillance program gives people reason to be careful not to engage in activities that might rouse suspicion, even if they are completely innocent. The problem is, what activities the NSA views as suspicious are secret, so people can?t really avoid them. Are your internet searches completely benign? Are you making sure not to put NSA keywords in your emails? Are you emailing or phoning suspicious people? Maybe you should use those programs that anonymize searches and emails. But, I?d guess those would be one of the first indicators the NSA would look at to ferret out potential terrorists.

Over time, expect the definition of a terrorist to grow to eventually encompass anyone who would work against the government, much as the definition of organized crime has grown well beyond the Mafia the definition originally target

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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

House Approves Rep. Lamar Smith's Bill To Keep Spying On Americans

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by Mike Masnick

As was expected, despite not knowing the details of how the feds interpret the FISA Amendmens Act, which grants massive spying and surveillance power to the feds -- in fact, while proactively stopping any efforts to find out more about the interpretation, the House of Representatives today approved Lamar Smith's FISA Amendment's Act by a vote of 301-118. You can see which representatives voted which way at that link. The bill would extend the current rules (and the secret interpretation) for another five years. Republicans, who are supposedly against bigger government, only had 7 members vote no, while the remaining 111 no votes came from Democrats.

There had been an attempt to introduce amendments, but that was shot down procedurally. And an hour debate did little to get to the heart of the matter. Rep. Zoe Lofgren fought the good fight, pointing out that "I think the government needs to comply with the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution all the time... We can be safe while still complying with the Constitution of the United States." However, Rep. Dan Lungren -- who previously had insisted that there was no evidence that the NSA was abusing its powers, while refusing to even ask the NSA for basic info on how it was using the powers -- insisted based on absolutely nothing that "this is critical to the protection of the American people."

Even worse, Rep. Terry Gowdy made a ridiculously ignorant statement in response to Lofgren's highlighting of the 4th Amendment:

?Intelligence is the lifeblood of our ability to defend ourselves,? he said. Moments later, he added: ?Are we to believe that the Fourth Amendment applies to the entire world??

But, uh, the concern isn't with the rest of the world. Even without the FISA Amendments Act, the NSA already had the right to seek info on foreign communications. They have no 4th Amendment rights, so that's not even an issue. The issue is that the FISA Amendments Act appears to include some weasel words that have been twisted by the government to suggest that it can spy on Americans too. But Gowdy misleads the public by pretending, falsely, that this is about foreigners? It's not. Has he asked the NSA how many Americans it's spied on? Even the NSA has admitted that it's violated the 4th Amendment under the act in spying on Americans... but Gowdy pretends this is just about foreigners? How do you stand up and call yourself a "Representative" when you can't even get the very basics right?

Of course, House approval is just one step. The Senate version remains on hold thanks to Senator Wyden, who is one of the only elected officials who is actually asking the NSA and the Obama administration to (a) reveal the secret interpretation and (b) disclose how many Americans are being spied on under the rule.

As Julian Sanchez explained recently a former DOJ official has basically revealed part of the secret interpretation, which more or less says that if the target is al Qaeda, then anything goes:

For example, an authorization targeting ?al Qaeda??which is a non-U.S. person located abroad?could allow the government to wiretap any telephone that it believes will yield information from or about al Qaeda, either because the telephone is registered to a person whom the government believes is affiliated with al Qaeda, or because the government believes that the person communicates with others who are affiliated with al Qaeda, regardless of the location of the telephone.

Take that and expand it, and you've basically given the feds and the NSA a blank slate to spy on Americans by claiming that if it believes the spying will yield information about a threat, then it's fine. And our "Representatives" are standing up and -- either through ignorance or straight-up dishonesty -- are pretending that this is about spying on foreigners only. Shameful.

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Saturday, September 3, 2011

Big Brother 2.0: 10 New Ways That The Government Will Be Spying On You And Controlling Your Behavior

by Michael Snyder

Are you ready for Big Brother 2.0?? If you think that the hundreds of ways that the government watches, monitors, tracks and controls us now are bad, just wait until you see what is coming.? We live in an age when paranoia is running wild.? As technology continues to develop at an exponential pace, governments all over the globe are going to discover a multitude of new ways to spy on us and control our behavior.? In a world where everyone is a "potential terrorist", we are told that things like liberty, freedom and privacy are "luxuries" that we can no longer afford.? We are assured that if we just allow the government to watch all of us and investigate all of us that somehow that will keep us all safe.? But it isn't just the government that is watching us.? Now we are being taught to spy on one another and to report any trace of "suspicious activity" to the government immediately.? The entire civilized world is being transformed into one giant prison grid, and many of the new technologies that are now being introduced are going to make things even worse.

The following are 10 new ways that the government will be spying on you and controlling your behavior....

#1 Are you ready for "electronic skin tattoos"?? One team of researchers has created an extremely thin, extremely flexible "smart skin" that will open up a whole new world of possibilities.? Wearing "skin-mounted electronics" might seem like a great idea to tech geeks, but it also could create a whole lot of new problems.? The following is how an article in one UK newspaper described this new breakthrough....

The "epidermal electronic system" relies on a highly flexible electrical circuit composed of snake-like conducting channels that can bend and stretch without affecting performance. The circuit is about the size of a postage stamp, is thinner than a human hair and sticks to the skin by natural electrostatic forces rather than glue.

Yes, this kind of technology would be a great way to connect wirelessly to the Internet and it would be helpful for doctors that need to monitor their patients, but the potential for abuse is also there.

Once this type of technology becomes widespread, governments will be able to monitor the location and activities of their citizens like never before.

In addition, this type of technology could one day become mandated by governments.? For example, someday you may be required to have an "electronic skin tatoo" in order to prove your identity or to participate in commerce.

Also, it is not too far of a stretch to imagine that "skin-mounted electronics" could be used to control large populations.? Just remember, if you connect yourself physically to the Internet, that also means that the Internet is connected to you.

#2 According to a shocking document obtained by Oath Keepers, the FBI is now instructing store owners to report many new forms of "suspicious activity" to them.? According to the document, "suspicious activity" now includes....

-paying with cash

-missing a hand or fingers

-"strange odors"

-making "extreme religious statements"

-"radical theology"

-purchasing weatherproofed ammunition or match containers

-purchasing meals ready to eat

-purchasing night vision devices, night flashlights or gas masks

According to WorldNetDaily, this document is part of a "series of brochures" that will be distributed "to farm supply stores, gun shops, military surplus stores and even hotels and motels."

#3 The U.S. military has developed an invisible "pain ray" that is remarkably effective.? The following is how a recent article posted on Alternet described this weapon....

It sounds like a weapon out of Star Wars. The?Active Denial System, or ADS, works like an open-air microwave oven, projecting a focused beam of?electromagnetic radiation to heat the skin of its targets to 130 degrees. This creates an intolerable burning sensation forcing those in its path to instinctively flee (a response the Air Force dubs the "goodbye effect").

Sadly, this weapon is already being used in American prisons.? How long will it be before it is used on the general population?

#4 Be careful about what you put up on Facebook or Twitter.? Law enforcement agencies all over the globe are now focusing on social media as never before.? For example, the NYPD has just created a special "social media" unit dedicated to looking for criminals on Facebook and Twitter.

#5 Facial recognition technology has now come of age.? With the millions of security cameras that are going up all over the world, such technology is proving to be very useful for law enforcement authorities.? In fact, police in London are using it to track down people that were involved in the London riots.? The following is an excerpt from a recent CBC report that described these efforts....

Facial recognition technology being considered for London's 2012 Games is getting a workout in the wake of Britain's riots, with officers feeding photographs of suspects through Scotland Yard's newly updated face-matching program.

Facial recognition technology is rapidly going to become part of our everyday lives.? In fact, now even Facebook is using it.? Eventually it is going to become very difficult to avoid the reach of this technology.

#6 "Smart meters" are going into homes all over North America and Europe.? These smart meters monitor your home every single minute of every single day and they transmit very sophisticated data about your personal behavior back to the utility company.

They are already being used by police all over the United States in drug cases.? If a smart meter catches you using an "unusual" amount of energy there is a good chance that your home will be raided.

The European Parliament has set a goal of having smart meters in the homes of 80 percent of all electricity consumers by the year 2020, and Barack Obama is working very hard to get them into as many American homes as he can.

#7 Our children are being trained to accept being under surveillance almost constantly.? For example, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is spending huge amounts of money to install surveillance cameras in the cafeterias of U.S. public schools so that government control freaks can closely monitor what our children are eating.

#8 Perhaps you thought that only Tom Cruise had to worry about "pre-crime".? Well, now "pre-crime" is popping up in the real world too.? The Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice has announced that it will?begin using analysis software to predict crime by young delinquents and will place "potential offenders"?in specific prevention and education programs.

#9 According to the ACLU, state police in Michigan are now using "extraction devices" to download data from the cellphones of motorists that they pull over.? This is taking place even if those pulled over are not accused of doing anything wrong.

The following is how an article on CNET News described the capabilities of these "extraction devices"....

The devices, sold by a company called Cellebrite, can download text messages, photos, video, and even GPS data from most brands of cell phones. The handheld machines have various interfaces to work with different models and can even bypass security passwords and access some information.

#10 LRAD sound cannons are already been used by law enforcement authorities to disperse large crowds inside the United States.? So how much "damage" can sound do?? Well, it turns out that sound can actually do a whole lot of damage.? The following is how Alternet describes these cruel weapons....

The?Long Range Acoustic Device, or LRAD, built by American Technology Corporation, focuses and broadcasts sound over ranges of up to hundreds of yards. LRAD has been around for years, but Americans first took notice when police used it in Pittsburgh to ward off protesters at the?2009 G-20 summit. It is generally used in?two ways:?as a megaphone to order protesters to disperse; or, if they disobey, as an "ear-splitting siren" to drive them away. While LRAD may not be deadly, it?can permanently damage hearing, depending on how it's used.

LRAD sound cannons do not discriminate.? When they are being used to disperse protesters, any innocent bystanders in the area will be affected as well.? If anyone gets too close to an LRAD sound cannon while it is in use, permanent damage can result.? Small children and the elderly are particularly vulnerable.? Sadly, the use of LRAD sound cannons is becoming more common.? In fact, they have even been used to break up college block parties.

So is this the kind of world that you want to live in?

Do you want your children and grandchildren to live in a world where liberty and freedom are all but forgotten?

This world is headed toward a very dark place.? These "Big Brother" technologies are going to become even more pervasive and even more oppressive.? If this trend is not stopped now, someday these technologies will get into some very evil hands, and then all hell will be unleashed.

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Hi, I replaced your link, please do not link to NSFW sites. I find it interesting they say it could be used to fight "copyright infringement." i kind of view it literally as experiencing the death throes of a monster, in britland this includes a massive cointelpro operation and trying to punish people for what has been done against them where they cannot even do the punishment. e.g. fining poor people when they cannot pay.

people are waking up to consciously realise what they have been living in, seeing what the problems are. that changes everything.

of all the dangerous drugs, addiction to power is one that affects humankind as a whole.

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"...someday these technologies will get into some very evil hands, and then all hell will be unleashed."
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It's already in evil hands. They just haven't gotten to the phase in their operations for all hell to be unleashed. Make no mistake, if we don't reach a critical mass of Awakened & motiviated individuals SOON, we will be living that hell in the near future...
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state ends when and wherever humanity is expressed

ibm and tavistock was one of the ugliest marriages i have seen, ibm recently publicly announcing their freudian chips. (my words).

humankind is living in an assault matrix, that is what the state is and for. there is a battle of technology (which includes constructed human archetypes) to destroy humanity.

chris (il) covered wilhelm reich, a man who developed his skills outside of the box he was supposed to operate in, from treating the psyche on to treating cancer. it was then textbook FBI eugenices, reich was terminated.

i was just told in a homeless centre 'we can't feed you because we are a charity'. a charity for the homeless feeds off the poor via the state economic prison. human beings make decisions in their perceived subjective context and typically with pre-existing psychological injury.

it is easier to go along with the state until you get killed off. i don't subscribe to that view, though the state is physically trying to kill me off and am all too conscious of what is going on. if you have seen reality to a revealing extent, how can you change your view?

Jung is often quoted, a lot of social engineering leaned on his work. to quote him:

- Jung

life on a meter

freedom, i think we know what that is as it is born in us. there are many distractions, illusions, threats and even imitations but i soon notice the folly.

we live in a giant holistic assault matrix, hiding truths from people, truths they already know. there is a flood of information, irritations trying to overload the senses that people do not come to their senses. the conditioned mind may not notice the scale and nature of what all official operations are.

Jung

designs are being laid on this earth as i write this. governments cannot run out of money but they play big games with big lies. in their alice in wonderland prison, there are economies, total state economy. centrepiece in the 'new age economy' in britland are universities, training armies of compartmentallised engineers (whether they know it or not) all over the world. they are being armed with the means and ignorance for the destruction of human life, presented quite differently and in a battery of social engineering boxes.

people have authentic knowledge within them. the more people recover their authentic self, the more they will ee through the smoke screen of public opinion, news and much human dialogue. the real matrix is in plain view. people have been told huges lies, given a massive array of injuries. those who cause these injuries consciously or not are not there to heal, likely as with life, that is a personal task.

meantime millions of people are remotely controlled by computer systems to destroy each other. if you see enough of life you can see the synchronisation real time.

quote dave: "people have authentic knowledge within them."

yes they do. but they don't know anyone else knows, and they feel so terribly alone. and if they weren't so terribly lonely, they would have no reason to be in the group. having real freedom of speech would solve that problem and people wouldn't feel so alone and wouldn't need the support (and security and protection) from the group. but instead we are ruled by our own denial of what is true and to be found only within. all of us. we aren't alone. never were. the group just wants to make you think you are.

i am not the only one to say these things. it's in every article about mkultra i ever read. they just use different words to talk about it, see it from a different perspective.

as for the article, the second sentence gives up the game: "If you think that the hundreds of ways that the government watches, monitors, tracks and controls us now are bad, just wait until you see what is coming." threats. this is what i might call the manufacture of fear. at least with this particular article, they aren't telling you what solution they want you to buy.

quote: "This world is headed toward a very dark place."

that would be denial. we are already there, been there for a couple thousand years now. where we are headed is somewhere completely different. and people fear the unknown, they fight against it tooth and nail. but the unknown doesn't have to hurt us. we don't have to be afraid of the future.

the outward impression of more and more controls is a reflection of the fact that those controls aren't working so well. though it tends to the man with the stick, the endurance of the dictatorship relies on the disguise of the brutality.

i was earlier (at a feed centre induction) sitting talking with psychopaths presenting self evident contradictions at me and life threatening ones (4th reich programming). there was a doctor (dr group) in training present in her 6th year. she said nothing, didn't have the integrity to live up to the hypocratic oath she would later swear to. her crowning glory likely will be an outright lie, the glory really being in the group to the loss of us all. i looked at her and she gave a pretty smile, too early to be a professional smile, too late to be human.

shiny and twinkly police cars, ambulances and fire engines were flooding the public theatre of the high street in exeter (brand uk) as they were in atlanta (brand us) in a parade of prosperity. attempting to present war it is now seen as the war.

on a trip to america, having passed through a battery of tsa assaults i was then confronted by another irritant, this time badged up as 'global security'. the badge symbolised the time that had come, it was another strike 13 in the empire, consumed by its own addiction to power it had nothing left to steal except for consuming its own.

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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Polls Continue to Show Majority of Americans Against NSA Spying

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

NSA Spying Threatens Law-Abiding Americans

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

House Approves Rep. Lamar Smith's Bill To Keep Spying On Americans

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Big Brother 2.0: 10 New Ways That The Government Will Be Spying On You And Controlling Your Behavior