\ 'The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.' \Edward Snowden\



















DEAR USERS OF THE INTERNET, In January 2012 we defeated the SOPA and PIPA censorship legislation with the largest Internet protest in history. Today we face another critical threat, one that again undermines the Internet and the notion that any of us live in a genuinely free society: mass surveillance.



In celebration of the win against SOPA and PIPA two years ago, and in memory of one of its leaders, Aaron Swartz , we are planning a day of protest against mass surveillance, to take place this February 11th.



Together we will push back against powers that seek to observe, collect, and analyze our every digital action. Together, we will make it clear that such behavior is not compatible with democratic governance. Together, if we persist, we will win this fight.





"The National Security Agency's monitoring of Americans includes customer records from the three major phone networks as well as emails and Web searches, and the agency also has cataloged credit-card transactions." - Wall Street Journal, June 7, 2013











"If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards." - Edward Snowden

Stop Watching Us: The Video





What we can do

Congress is considering two major bills.

The USA Freedom Act curtails NSA surveillance abuses.

The FISA Improvements Act legalises bulk data protection of phone records. We need to tell Congress to pass the USA Freedom Act and amend it to make it even stronger.





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(Reuters) - Iran's military has successfully test-fired two new domestically made missiles, the defense minister said on Monday according to state television, ahead of talks with world powers to try to reach an agreement on curbing Tehran's nuclear program.Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan said one of them was a long-range ballistic missile with radar-evading capabilities."The new generation of long-range ground-to-ground ballistic missile with a fragmentation warhead and the laser-guided air-to-surface and surface-to-surface missile dubbed Bina (Insightful) have been successfully test-fired," state television quoted him as saying."The Bina missile is capable of striking important targets such as bridges, tanks and enemy command centers with great precision."Iran already has long-range surface-to-surface Shahab missiles with a range of about 2,000 km (1,250 miles) that are capable of reaching Israel and U.S. military bases in the Middle East. However, analysts have challenged some of Iran's military assertions, saying it often exaggerates its capabilities.President Hassan Rouhani issued a congratulatory message saying: "Iran's children successfully test-fired a new generation of missiles," the television reported. read ............................................Debtors' prisons sound like ancient history, right? Unfortunately, they're all too common across the United States. In spite of the Constitution, case law, and common sense, low-income people are routinely jailed in places as far-flung as Georgia and Washington State simply because they cannot afford to pay their court fines.Let's define court fines, because it's kind of shocking. "Court fines" could bebecause someone was pulled over while driving with an expired license. If you've just been laid off and have kids to feed, it might be hard to find a couple hundred extra bucks in your budget. Well, that can send you to lock up.Not only does it cost the community quite a bit to jail someone (usually way in excess of the fine), but locking people up can trap them in the vicious cycle of poverty, debt, and incarceration that typifies the modern day debtors' prison. Individuals incarcerated because they can't pay minor court fines have.........................................................................Plan, organize and advocate over at /r/thedaywefightback by Zen GardnerThe latest announcement of recording capabilities being installed in American buses via their already invasive CCTV cameras has me hopping mad. It’s just sick. Yet the most astounding thing is the vast majority will swallow it as a needed feature to help fight terrorism.After all, they have nothing to hide. They’re not doing diddly squat to stand up to anything, and have no intention to. “Obey..Obey” is what they hear.Every possible 1984ish scenario immediately jumps into your mind as theis laid on a naive and unsuspecting, weakened public.Let’s look at some of the current methods being employed to track and document our behavior,: Every transaction, ID and passport use is monitored and tracked. Your buying habits are sold to corporations and your personal information given to the US Department of Justice in some form. Rely on it. Your privacy rights have vanished. RFIDs are soon to be in all forms of ID, used for medical records, are in your food and products for “tracking” and soon to be under everyone’s skin. Beware. That one’s a biggie.Forget it, they know everything. The NSA is in bed with the servers and providers so kiss internet and cellular privacy goodbye, subjects. Don’t believe that? Go googling before it disappears.. “Thanks for the self-bought tracking device, Philbert.” They can pinpoint anyone. GPS, phone, lowjack, OnStar…those just help. Watch for the policing drones and other technologies to follow soon. You are not alone…anywhere!. By now we’ve all inhaled, eaten and drunk enough metalic salts such a s barium, aluminum, and fluoride to be tracked from space. EMFs from cell and GWEN towers and the electrosmog stew we live in screw with your nervous system more than ever and influence your thoughts , as does your TV. Happy yet?. They’re now in America’s buses, as they are in the UK. In the UK they’re on the outside of the buses as well…never mind in trees in the countryside.Yes, it’s gone that far, and will continue to proliferate in the US in the same manner. Smile. There’s 8 to 12 in every intersection…don’t you wonder the hell why?. Old news. Airport, transport, mobile and soon to be everywhere: Metal detectors, feel-downs and ups, and the latest: backscatter machines that unzip your DNA. Getting the picture? Highway checks have also started. Realize who they really fear yet?Notice how many want fingerprints now? And iris scanners are already in place in many airports. In fact this was the first thing the NYPD did to anyone arrested in the Occupy demonstrations. Beware.“Yay! We’ll catch all those buggers now! But why am I suspect?” Coming “officially” soon (which means they’ve been experimenting and using it for some time already…..) and..Yes, movies DO come to life! They’re working fervently on detecting your MOOD and will summarily assume at will you have BAD INTENTIONS with this one! Beware being pissed or on a bummer in public…YOU could be a terrorist!! Besides, they’re looking for DNA traits that indicate the same. You are mincemeat.Yup. Here’s a brand new doozey . “You gonna circumvent your domesticating home country’s laws on substance regulation, you wild and crazy thing? Damn you…you get back in the house right now!”New street lights that include “Homeland Security” applications including speaker systems, microphones, motion sensors and video surveillance are now being rolled out with the aid of government funding. Orwell would be proud. This one is over the top and being put into place as fast as they can. (Go Here Nazi propaganda poster, 1944. Look familiar to anyone? Any fascist, aggressive, maniacal country machine you might know?Some call this fascist clamp down the fourth Reich, but it might as well be the third Reich since it never really stopped–it just changed faces and moved to the US where they could take it to new levels. And we’re still only seeing the tip of the iceberg.Can that really happen here? Please wake the heck up. It already has. The common American psyche has been rendered obsolete, while the laws are all in place just waiting for the next excuse to keep ratcheting it up.“Oh yes we can!” Wash, rinse, repeat.–By thinking our votes make any kind of a difference and submitting to a system that tells us we can only go through those channels.–By taking instructions from a compromised state controlled media.–By waiting for responsible leaders to come to the fore in a completely corrupt system.–By not believing it could happen here, as was the case in every country that was ever taken over by despotic powers.–By hiding in religious beliefs and believing we’ll only get out of this when the “cavalry” appears.Lots of ways, just touching the surface.All while people still put money in their abusive banks, pay tribute to them with every deposit and purchase, buy their polluted products, and drink in their sewage in the media.And most pitifully, while sacrificing their kids to adulterated and mutated food, an abusive medical system, and subjecting them to further indoctrination and drugging in a diabolical school system designed to further degrade their entire upcoming generation.It’s pitiful.As the line goes,When the lights of the world dim and seem to go out, the true lights of awakened humanity shine brighter and brighter. Realizing what is really going on and detaching from this tyrannical empire in every way possible and helping others to do the same is the living solution.They’re nothing to fear. They swim in fear itself and are living in its grip with an insecure need to dominate others. Don’t be fooled.Make conscious decisions in the days to come and take control of your life.If everybody snapped out of this control grid, our world would change in a moment.Keep at it.Love always, Zen Organizing Revolt from the stimulator on Vimeo