Hello ACTA, SOPA, PIPA and NDAA;Anonymous and Occupy are coming for you

Hello ACTA, SOPA, PIPA and NDAA; Anonymous and Occupy are coming for you 1. FreakOutNation February 28, 2012 In a stunning move Occupy and Anonymous have joined forces in what’s called, “OUR POLLS” A new joint effort to hold politicians accountable to We the People. The blatant disregard of our politicians from both sides of the aisle is mind boggling — so now, they’re being called out for giving into deep-pocketed lobbyists and passing laws to boost corporate profits, all at the expense of our individual liberty.

This is not the first time Anonymous has targeted officials over their support for the NDAA. The ubiquitous group of activists dumped a massive amount of information on each elected official supporting the invasive Act. Their statement reads: Our Senators and Representatives showed how little they cared about personal freedoms when they voted overwhelmingly to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The NDAA allows for the indefinite detention of individuals based merely on a suspicion or allegation of sympathizing with questionable groups or causes. This act is a prominent threat to the inalienable due process rights of every US citizen as laid out in the Constitution. It allows the military to engage in civilian law enforcement, and to suspend due process, habeas corpus or other constitutional guarantees when desired. Our congressmen passed one of the greatest threats to civil liberties in the history of the United States. Will we hold them accountable on election day?

Will we hold our elected officials accountable for supporting rigid Internet censorship laws such as SOPA, PIPA, HR 1981 and the ACTA treaty? The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) aimed to crack down on copyright infringement by restricting user access to websites that hosted or helped facilitate pirated content. SOPA and PIPA’s ambiguous, broad wording would have cast a wide censorship net around most of the Internet, thus creating questions of due process, burden of proof, and privacy violations. The proposed laws were lobbied and paid for by Hollywood, RIAA, MPAA and other massive media companies and would safeguard entertainment industry profits at

the expense of essential freedoms, the Internet and constitutional civil liberties . Even if the goal was to merely regulate pirated content, the ambiguous wording demonstrates that the authors and supporters of SOPA and PIPA have little-tono understanding of the Internet’s architecture or the frightening implications of the legislation.

What can you do? You are one person. You have one vote. Use that vote on November 6 to hold your elected official accountable for supporting bills such as NDAA, SOPA and PIPA. We are calling on voters, activists and keyboard warriors under all banners to unite as a single force to unseat the elected representatives who threaten our essential freedoms and who were so quick to minimize our individual constitutional rights for a quick corporate profit.

Follow @OurPolls and @AnonPAC for updates, news, leaks, and calls to action.

Below we have a couple lists for you to consider: (1) All US Senators up for reelection in 2012 who voted to support the NDAA and who still support PIPA (2) All US Representatives up for reelection in 2012 who voted to support the NDAA and who still support SOPA ** Note: ALL 435 seats in the US House of Representatives are up for reelection in November 2012 (1) US Senators Up For Reelection Who Supported NDAA and/or PIPA Sen. Daniel Akaka [D, HI] ^ Sen. John Barrasso [R, WY] ^ Sen. Jeff Bingaman [D, NM] ^ * Sen. Scott Brown [R, MA] ^ Sen. Sherrod Brown [D, OH] ^ Sen. Maria Cantwell [D, WA] ^ Sen. Thomas Carper [D, DE] ^ Sen. Robert Casey [D, PA] ^ *

Sen. Kent Conrad [D, ND] ^ Sen. Bob Corker [R, TX] ^ * Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D, CA] ^ * Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D, NY] ^ Sen. Orrin Hatch [R, UT] ^ Sen. Dean Heller [R, NV] ^ Sen. Kay Hutchison [R, TX] ^ Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D, MN] ^ * Sen. Herbert Kohl [D, WI] ^ * Sen. Jon Kyl [R, AZ] ^ * Sen. Richard Lugar [R, IN] ^ Sen. John Manchin [D, WV] ^ Sen. Claire McCaskill [D, MO] ^ Sen. Robert Menedez [D, NJ] ^ Sen. Ben Nelson [D, NE] ^ Sen. Bill Nelson [D, FL] * Sen. Olympia Snowe [R, ME] ^ Sen. Debbie Ann Stabenow [D, MI] ^ Sen. John Tester [D, MT] ^ Sen. Jim Webb [D, VA] ^ Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D, RI] ^ * Sen. Roger Wicker [R, MS] ^ ^ = Supported/voted for NDAA * = Still support PIPA and similar law (2) US Representatives Up For Reelection Who Supported NDAA and/or SOPA Rep. Gary Ackerman (NY-5) ^ Rep. Sandy Adams (FL-24) ^

Rep. Robert Aderholt (AL-4) ^ Rep. Todd Akin (MO-2) ^ † Rep. Rodney Alexander (LA-5) ^ Rep. Jason Altmire (PA-4) ^ Rep. Mark Amodei (NV-2) * Rep. Robert E. Andrews (NJ-1) ^ Rep. Steve Austria (OH-7) ^ † Rep. Joe Baca (CA-43) ^ * Rep. Spencer Bachus (AL-6) ^ Rep. Tammy Baldwin (WI-2) ^ † Rep. John Barrow (GA-12) ^ * Rep. Roscoe Bartlett ^ Rep. Joe Barton (TX-6) ^ Rep. Charles Bass (NH-2) ^ * Rep. Dan Benishek (MI-1) ^ Rep. Rick Berg (ND, at-large) ^ † Rep. Shelley Berkley (NV-1) ^ † Rep. Howard Berman (CA-28) ^ * Rep. Judy Biggert (IL-13) ^ Rep. Brian Bilbray (CA-50) ^ Rep. Gus Bilirakis (FL-9) ^ Rep. Sanford Bishop Jr. (GA-2) ^ Rep. Rob Bishop (UT-1) ^ Rep. Timothy Bishop (NY-1) ^ Rep. Diane Black (TN-6) ^ Rep. Marsha Blackburn (TN-7) ^ Rep. Jo Bonner (AL-1) ^

Rep. Mary Bono Mack (CA-45) ^ * Rep. Dan Boren (OK-2) ^ † Rep. Leonard Boswell (IA-3) ^ Special Thanks to the following in coordinating this on-going action: @OccupyKC @Occupy_DC @OccupytheNation @OccupyProv @OccupyPdx @OccupyBaltimore @Ghostpickles @AnonyOps @AnonymousIRC @Anonops @Tw1tt3rart @AnonyOps_ @GardenSlayer @OperationLeakS @YourAnonNews Well done. Vote ‘em out. Did our elected officials believe they would not be held accountable?

Wikileaks Global Intelligence Files: Israel Lakkana Nanayakkara algemeiner.com February 28, 2012 The website WikiLeaks has begun releasing what it says are 5 million emails sent between July 2004 and late December 2011 from the private intelligence company Stratfor. The emails were obtained from a series of hacking attacks against Stratfor in December 2011, carried out by the online activist collective Anonymous.

Stratfor describes itself as a provider of “strategic intelligence on global business, economic, security and geopolitical affairs” and has about 300,000 subscribers. The Texas-based company has issued the following statement: “Some of the e-mails may be forged or altered to include inaccuracies; some may be authentic.

We will not validate either. Nor will we explain the thinking that went into them. Having had our property stolen, we will not be victimized twice by submitting to questioning about them”.

The emails are part of what WikiLeaks calls “The Global Intelligence Files” and one of the first items released is a document titled “The Stratfor Glossary of Useful, Baffling and Strange Intelligence Terms” which was attached to an email sent by Stratfor CEO George Friedman in 2007.

The “glossary” contains some terms and definitions about U.S. government agencies, ranging from humorous to derogatory. The following terms are taken directly from the Stratfor e-mail sent out by Mr. Friedman: Clandestine: Operation that has no open connection to anyone. Israeli maxim: “If you’re captured, we don’t know you. If you’re killed, we won’t bury you. So…don’t get captured and don’t get killed.”

Clandestine is synonymous with suicidal.”

Duplicitous little bastards: Israeli Intelligence Megawatt/Kilowatt:

Megawatt: Israeli term for CIA. Kilowatt: Israeli term for themselves.

They don’t really mean it.

Sigint and ELINT: Signal intelligence and Electronic intelligence: from wiretaps to satellite intercepts. Usually expensive, dangerous and requires physical effort. Good first mission for BYM (bright young man). Suggest that he try planting a bug in the Israeli Embassy in order to get good first hand experience in ELINT. You can find him the next morning at the curb in a plastic garbage bag.

Target—hard: A tough target. A thirty year veteran of Israeli intelligence who has gone totally paranoid.

Approximately 3 months before the Gaza flotilla incident, Turkish prime minister, Erdoðan, was looking to “break with Israel and the United States”, according to an internal email conversation involving Stratfor CEO George Friedman and several Stratfor staff. The same email chain mentions that “Erdogan has made it clear to him that he plans to break with Israel at some point and reorient toward the Islamic world. He intends to be their leader.” This email also mentions that former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, believes that Israel will attack Iran. George Friedman says “I believe the US will preempt. But there is no clear time line”,when replying to a question about a possible Israeli attack on Iran. Another Stratfor staff member states, “All my sources – regardless of factional affiliation – are convinced that Iran is preparing for war and one that will make the regime more stronger.” An email dated November 14, 2011, refers to a deadly munitions blast at an Iranian Revolutionary Guards base. The email lists the following claim from a source: “The Israelis already destroyed all the Iranian nuclear infrastructure on the ground weeks ago. The current ‘let’s bomb Iran’ campaign was ordered by the EU leaders to divert the public attention from their at home financial problems.” This was later clarified as: “Israeli commandos in collaboration with Kurd forces destroyed few underground facilities mainly used for the Iranian defense and nuclear research projects.” A different email dated July 21, 2011, refers to a source described as a former Pakistani intelligence officer. The source refers to “Pakistan bashing” and states “…covert and overt influence Israel enjoys through funding American congressmen and the control Israel has on American policies through coercion and fear of Jewish lobby.”

In another email dated November 17, 2010, a Stratfor staff member refers to former Spanish PM Azner as “…hardcore.. Way more extreme than even the Israeli officials I’ve heard speak.”

George Friedman has not resigned despite some media reports to the contrary.

Mexico Sends Message to the United States: “No More Weapons” Lisa Haugaard Huff Post February 28, 2012 Rep. Gerry Connelly (D-VA) speaks up, citing AG Eric Holder’s ‘Operation Fast and Furious’ as a major part of arms problem Just a few steps south of the U.S.-Mexico border, President Calderón unveiled a towering billboard last week wielding a message written in plain English: “No More Weapons!”

Weighing over 3 tons, the billboard itself is made of seized firearms that have been chopped, melted and welded together.

Visible from the United States, the call is clear: halt the southbound flow of guns that fuel violence in Mexico. Arms trafficking over our southern border has provided deadly firepower to brutal criminal organizations, fueling a tidal wave of violence that has led to some 1. 60,000 dead in five years. Many of the dead include police officers, like the five massacred in Acapulco in 2007 with weapons that were later traced to Carter's Country gun shop in Houston.

During the billboard unveiling ceremony, President Calderón directly appealed to the United States, saying, "Mexico needs your help to stop this terrible violence that we're suffering... the best way to do this is to stop the flow of automatic weapons into Mexico."

Unfortunately, it appears unlikely that Congress will enact meaningful measures to curb the flux of arms into Mexico anytime soon. Rep. Gerry Connelly (D-VA) has highlighted the failure of Congress to seriously address gun violence in Mexico, noting that the House Oversight Committee, which has held a string of hearings on the notoriously botched Operation Fast and Furious, has yet to hold even a single hearing to examine any of the three steps that many experts agree could actually reduce arms trafficking to Mexico: a federal law prohibiting the trafficking of firearms, stronger penalties for straw purchases, and the reinstatement of the assault weapons ban.

Rep. Connelly has a point. Amid the political fervor and pursuit of accountability related to Operation

Fast and Furious, important questions surrounding the larger issue of arms trafficking to Mexico have been largely ignored. Here's what's missing: For starters, it is critical to note that Operation Fast and Furious was a result--not the cause--of the staggering flow of arms into the hands of organized crime in Mexico. It's true that between 2009 and 2011 ATF agents allowed 2,000 weapons to be bought by straw-purchasers, in hopes of tracing those weapons to higher-ups in a cartel gun smuggling ring. Yet experts estimate that upwards of 2,000 guns are smuggled across the U.S. border into Mexico every day, whether the ATF is watching or not. A senior member of the Zetas drug cartel echoed U.S. law-enforcement findings last July, admitting that his cartel buys virtually all of their weapons from the United States. How is this possible? The simple answer is that for Mexican drug cartels, the United States is the easiest and cheapest place to purchase high-powered assault weapons, due to lax U.S. gun laws. According to Mexico's Secretary of the Interior Alejandro PoirĂŠ, assault weapons made up one-third of guns captured in Mexico back in 2005. Today, that number has grown to two-thirds, a dramatic rise that can be linked to the United States' failure to renew the assault weapons ban in 2004. Other commonly cited shortcomings that ease the path for arms traffickers include the ability to purchase firearms at gun shows with no background check or identification, weak penalties for straw purchasers, an absence of specific federal penalties for arms traffickers, and a continually underfunded ATF that has long suffered from the absence of a confirmed director. At a congressional hearing on Fast and Furious earlier this year, one ATF agent noted that "there are stronger regulations on purchasing Sudafed than purchasing guns, and that penalties for gun trafficking are no more severe than those issued for minor traffic violations." Perhaps from a partisan perspective in Congress, it makes sense to focus exclusively on finding out "who knew what" about Fast and Furious and "when they knew it." Indeed, the mismanaged tactics used in the investigation are troubling, and deserve scrutiny. But from across the border, Fast and Furious is not viewed as the lone enabler of the horrific levels of violence. From Mexico's perspective, weak U.S. gun policies are primarily responsible. That's why a diverse civil society movement in Mexico initiated a petition urging President Obama to enact policies that would help stop the illegal flow of guns from the United States into Mexico. Some 35,000 people have signed the petition to the president, including a broad coalition of faith, anti-gun violence, and human rights groups in the United States and Mexico. One of the founders of Mexico's peace and justice movement, Javier Sicilia, the Mexican poet whose 24-yearold son was allegedly murdered by members of organized crime last March, has spearheaded a charge against his country's spiraling violence. Last October, Sicilia came to Washington, DC to meet with policymakers about gun trafficking from the United States to Mexico. During one speaking engagement, he addressed a hushed crowd saying, "I know the U.S. has a culture of arms... but behind each and every one of your weapons are our dead -- and that's a grave responsibility." We couldn't agree more.