Spy Agency Engaged In Internet “False Flag” Attacks Washington’s Blog February 6, 2014
We’ve warned since 2009 (and see this) that the government could be launching cyber “false flag attacks” in order to justify a crackdown on the Internet and discredit web activists. A new report from NBC News – based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden – appear to confirm our fears, documenting that Britain’s GCHQ spy agency has carried out cyber false flag attacks: In another document taken from the NSA by Snowden and obtained by NBC News, a JTRIG official said the unit’s mission included computer network attacks, disruption, “Active Covert Internet Operations,” and “Covert Technical Operations.” Among the methods listed in the document were jamming phones, computers and email accounts and masquerading as an enemy in a “false flag” operation. The same document said GCHQ was increasing its emphasis on using cyber tools to attack adversaries. Postscript: We await further revelations of “false flag” attacks by spy agencies.
More Than 4,000 Groups Sign Up To Protest The NSA Grant Gross PC World February 6, 2014
More than 4,000 groups and websites have signed on to support a day of protest against U.S. National Security Agency surveillance programs, scheduled for Tuesday. In addition, tens of thousands of people have pledged to make calls and post messages on the Web in support of surveillance reform, said organizers of The Day We Fight Back. Among the groups supporting the day of Web protest are the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, BoingBoing, Demand Progress, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Fight for the Future, Free Press, Mozilla, Reddit and Tumblr. "Together we will push back against powers that seek to observe, collect, and analyze our every digital action,” organizers wrote on TheDayWeFightBack.org. “Together, we will make it clear that such behavior is not compatible with democratic governance. Together, if we persist, we will win this fight.” Supporters of the NSA surveillance program say they help keep the U.S. safe from terrorist attacks. Organizers of the protest are encouraging websites to display banners calling for a scaling back of NSA
surveillance program. The groups will encourage people to call or email members of the U.S. Congress and to post Twitter messages, write Facebook posts and engage in other online activity. Many organizers hope the protest will spur Congress to pass the USA Freedom Act, a bill that would scale back the NSA’s bulk collection of U.S. telephone records. The bill, introduced in October following leaks about NSA surveillance from former contractor Edward Snowden, has more than 140 co-sponsors between its versions in the Senate and House of Representatives. Organizers are modeling the protest after one two years ago that helped defeat two online copyright bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act. Ironically, Senator Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, was the lead sponsor of the Protect IP Act and is now the lead sponsor of the USA Freedom Act, the NSA reform bill supported by the protest groups. "We will not stand idly by while the freedom of the Internet is threatened by abusive government surveillance,” David Segal, executive director of Demand Progress, said in a statement. “We will unite as a community, and we will defend this vital resource. And we are strong.”
Rand Paul: Obama Turning US Into ‘Socialist Nightmare’ newsmax.com February 6, 2014 President Barack Obama is turning the United States into a "socialist nightmare" by doing "blithely whatever he thinks he can get away with," Sen. Rand Paul says. "It's hard to imagine exactly what his goal is because when you talk to him one on one, he sounds reasonable and like he's not trying to transform America into some socialist nightmare," Paul, a Kentucky Republican, told "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV. "However, when you look at his policies, one after another they are sort of transformative — changing us from a country that has a marketplace and freedom of choice to a country that is stifled by coercion and mandates." Paul said he is most disturbed by Obama's flaunting of the Constitution, particularly bending laws to fit his agenda without getting congressional approval, such as his tweaking of the Affordable Care Act. "There doesn't seem to be any acknowledgement of restraint that the Constitution and the rule of law restrains him in any way," he said. "Basically he pushes the limit to whatever he thinks he can get and won't be rebuked." But that may change as the Supreme Court weighs Obama's unprecedented changes to the law, Paul says.
"We're hoping that there will be more cases brought to bear where his idea that he can amend Obamacare without legislation, without congressional approval . . . [is] rebuked," he said. "It takes a while to work through the courts, and in the meantime, he just continues to do blithely whatever he thinks he can get away with." "He's acting as if he's both the executive and the legislator . . . That's a recipe for tyranny, and it is my fear that we're allowing the president to have so much power gravitate to him that we're getting rid of the checks and balances that really held government [in check] and limited government's power." Paul said the implementation of the ACA, and the cancellation of insurance policies it has caused, are producing "stories that pull at the heartstrings," Paul said. "This is about whether you allow Americans to have freedom of choice or whether you tell Americans, as the president's doing, that you're too stupid, you can't make these choices, you can't decide what's good health insurance, I'm going to tell you what's good. "It's that arrogance from Washington that, really, the whole country ought to rise up — Republican, Democrat, independent — and say, look, this is a free country and we want our freedom back, basically." Rand Paul: Obama Is Transforming US into A “Socialist Nightmare” VIDEO BELOW http://www.infowars.com/rand-paul-obama-is-transforming-us-into-a-socialist-nightmare/
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