ACTIVIST POST 09/04/2014

ACTIVIST POST FEATURED ARTICLES

Study Proposes Outrageous Solution In Lieu of Family Dinners
Heather Callaghan

ISIS to the Rescue
The Undoing of US “Interventionism?”
Tony Cartalucci

Newly Revealed NSA Program ICREACH Extends the NSA's Reach Even Further
Militarization, Surveillance, and Profit: How Grassroots Groups are Fighting
Urban Shield
Nadia Kayyali

WISCONSIN COLLEGE STUDENTS STAND UP TO NSA

Submitted by: Nancy Battle

If you are feeling down today and thinking there is no hope for the future….well listen to this.  There is hope.  There are some young people that do get it.  These NSA recruiters got their butts handed to them.  PLEASE SHARE.

http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=IVIHvbYYxJo&list=HL1372 945211

NSA, PRISM, GET INVOLVED

Submitted by: Suzanne

UPDATE: just as we were sending this email, we saw the latest leaked documents that show that PRISM allowed the NSA to use FBI-operated equipment located at tech companies headquarters to eavesdrop on our conversations in real-time. See them for yourself, but read on.

Millions have already taken action, but it’s going to take more than just petition signatures to put a stop to unconstitutional NSA surveillance. The U.S. government wants to forget it’s own Constitution. We’re going to make that completely impossible.

There are national protests happening on July 4th -- online and off. Grassroots Internet users have organized Restore the Fourth protests on the ground all over the U.S. on the 4th of July. Building off the energy of the StopWatching.us coalition (which now has over 550,000 signers), and aiming to amplify the protests on the ground, we’re raising the Internet Defense League’s “Cat Signal” on July 4th, asking websites and organizations to show call out the NSA by displaying the text of the 4th Amendment. We just started outreach and we’ve already got EFF, Wordpress, 4chan, Reddit, Namecheap, Imgur, Mozilla, DuckDuckGo, Fark, and Cheezburger signed up to participate. We need you too!

If you already have the IDL’s “all campaigns” code installed, you’re all set. The Cat Signal will be raised at midnight on July 4th and will turn off at midnight on July 5th. We’ll send out campaign specific code on Tuesday, for those who just want to participate in this action, but what we need you to do right now is help spread the word. We need to ramp this up and get everyone on board. If you have Twitter or Facebook, click the link below, if not, please blog, share, call your friends and tell them. This is going to be epic, so get everyone.

We need you on this one. Click here to join our Thunderclap and help make this protest HUGE.

This is a watershed moment for our basic rights to free speech, freedom of association, and privacy. What the NSA is doing is illegal. We are at the moment where we decide if the government should have the power to track, target, profile, and deem suspicious any one of us based on our small everyday movements. The first in line are probably the journalists we depend on, any of our friends or family who are even slightly political. This is why privacy matters -- it does not allow the government to unreasonably persecute anyone.

Click here to join our Thunderclap to spread the word about the protests!

It’s time to leave behind the politics that have failed us. These government dragnet programs started under Bush, but Obama made them even worse, and his administration has mounted an unprecedented attack on journalists and whistleblowers, using the Espionage Act to stifle free speech more times than all other presidents combined. Republicans and Democrats have both failed to uphold the Constitution -- they’re defending the NSA’s programs, or outright lying about it -- and as a result, the foundation of our democracy is in question.

There’s many ways to fight the NSA. Click here to see all the ways that you can participate on July 4th, online and in the streets.

Can you forward this to 10 people right now and ask them to do the same?

We’re counting on you. Everyone is. Last chance: click here to join the movement.

Sincerely,

Tiffiniy, Holmes, Evan, and the whole FFTF team

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SOURCES:

1) The Guardian, “NSA collected U.S. email records in bulk for more than 2 years under Obama”

2) Washington Post, “Here’s everything we know about how the NSA’s secret programs work”

3) Slate, “Obama Has Charged More Under Espionage Act Than All Other Presidents Combined”

4) Watch Glen Greenwald on Democracy Now as he proves that Dianne Feinstein lied to the camera

5) The Atlantic, “2 Senators Say the NSA is Still Feeding us False Information”

WE HAVE NO, NOT ONE, HONEST LEADER! WONDER WHY AMERICA IS FAILING?

Submitted by: Donald Hank

The Director of National Intelligence Committed Perjury

What drove Edward Snowden to go on-the-record with allegedly-classified information about the scope and breadth of what is quite-clearly illegal spying on US Citizens? Is it really that hard to figure out?  It was his boss, James Clapper, who quite-clearly perjured himself by blatantly lying in an open session of Congress: Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is really struggling to explain why he told Congress in March (see video above) that the National Security Agency does not intentionally collect any kind of data on millions of Americans. His latest take: It’s an unfair question, he said, like “When are you going to stop beating your wife?” And it seems to depend on the meaning of “collect.” “I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful, manner by saying ‘no,’” Clapper told NBC News on Sunday. Clapper lied.  He could have (truthfully) refused to answer, stating that “for national security reasons this question can only be answered in a classified, closed session” or similar — but he did not.

EITHER A HERO OR A TRAITOR - PATRICK HENRY OR BENEDICT ARNOLD - YOU DECIDE

Submitted by: Hi

27 Edward Snowden Quotes About U.S. Government
Spying That Should Send A Chill Up Your Spine

 By Michael, on June 10th, 2013 

Would you be willing to give up what Edward Snowden has given up?  He has given up his high paying job, his home, his girlfriend, his family, his future and his freedom just to expose the monolithic spy machinery that the U.S. government has been secretly building to the world.  He says that he does not want to live in a world where there isn't any privacy.  He says that he does not want to live in a world where everything that he says and does is recorded.

 Thanks to Snowden, we now know that the U.S. government has been spying on us to a degree that most people would have never even dared to imagine.  Up until now, the general public has known very little about the U.S. government spy grid that knows almost everything about us.  But making this information public is going to cost Edward Snowden everything.  Essentially, his previous life is now totally over.  And if the U.S. government gets their hands on him, he will be very fortunate if he only has to spend the next several decades rotting in some horrible prison somewhere.

OBAMA'S MISUSE OF NRA MIRRORS IRS PROBLEMS!

Submitted by: Nancy Battle

NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily

Exclusive: Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama

Under the terms of the order, the numbers of both parties on a call are handed over, as is location data and the time and duration of all calls. Photograph: Matt Rourke/AP

The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April.

The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, requires Verizon on an "ongoing, daily basis" to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the US and between the US and other countries.

The document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk – regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing.