NSA Spy Center compound in Salt Lake City

[NVRBDR]

I found this interesting...The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) | Threat Level | Wired.com

 

[Little Wing]

who's paying for all this?

 

[Zaphod]

You. Me. Everybody. Just so the government can make sure we aren't planning to rise up and take our country back from them.

 

[LAM]

Should go well with Windows 8 which is going to track every program the user installs


What would we do w/o the US gov protecting us from those broke ass terrorists

 

[NVRBDR]

Should go well with Windows 8 which is going to track every program the user installs


What would we do w/o the US gov protecting us from those broke ass terrorists

we may as well assume we have no privacy any longer whether we use MAC or PC

 

[Little Wing]

if Mitt Romney had any intentions of making real cuts he would attack this shit.

 

[NVRBDR]

lol! neither repubs or dems would dare cut this, imo.

 

[secdrl]

 

[Swiper]

DHS To Test Spy Drones For ?Public Safety? Applications

RAPS system will keep tabs on Americans
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
October 8, 2012

The Department of Homeland Security has announced in a solicitation to drone manufacturers that it will begin testing ?Robotic Aircraft For Public Safety? at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, indicating that small spy drones will be used to keep tabs on Americans in the near future.​

As Infowars reported back in July, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano told a House Committee on Homeland Security that the federal agency was ?looking at drones that could be utilized to give us situational awareness in a large public safety [matter] or disaster.?This represented an about-face of sorts for the agency, which had previously been reticent about the idea of using surveillance drones to spy on the public.However, a recent solicitation posted on the FedBizOpps website confirms that the DHS is launching its Robotic Aircraft for Public Safety (RAPS) project and is asking small unmanned aerial systems (SUAS) vendors to take part.The drones are set to be used for applications such as ?law enforcement operations, search and rescue, and fire and hazardous material spill response? and will fly for 30 minutes to two hours at a time, weighing around 25 pounds so they can be launched by hand.?DHS? second thoughts on drones may not be so surprising,? reports Wired News. ?In recent years, DHS has gotten interested in vastly expanding its surveillance capabilities, exploring cameras reminiscent of military ones that can spy on four square miles at once.?

As we reported earlier this year, the DHS is already using another type of airborne drone surveillance, also utilized to track insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq, for the purposes of ?emergency and non-emergency incidents? within the United States.A bill passed by Congress in February paves the way for the use of surveillance drones in US skies on a widespread basis. The FAA predicts that by 2020 there could be up to 30,000 drones in operation nationwide.US law enforcement bodies are already using drone technology to spy on Americans. In December last year, aPredator B drone was called in to conduct surveillance over a family farm in North Dakota as part of a SWAT raid on the Brossart family, who were suspects in the egregious crime of stealing six missing cows. Local police in this one area have already used the drone on two dozen occasions since June last year.Police departments are also attempting to get approval to use surveillance blimps that sit over cities and watch for ?suspicious activity.?The U.S. Army recently tested a football field-sized blimp over the city of New Jersey. The blimp can fly for a period of 21 hours and ?is equipped with high-tech sensors that can monitor insurgents from above.?
? DHS To Test Spy Drones For ?Public Safety? Applications Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!


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[maniclion]

They already use helicopters for surveillance, drones seem like a more economical way to have eyes that are already in the sky. Blimps on the other hand fuck that X-Men Sentinel type shit,buzzing over cities like fat vultures making everyone feel violated.

 

[LAM]

we may as well assume we have no privacy any longer whether we use MAC or PC

For sure, they started recording ALL voice comms in/outbound of the US before the Patriot Act was passed. They keep track of how many are awake and how many are still buying into their manufactured war on terror.

Remember the protocols used by packet switched networks were invented by DOD/DARPA

 

[oufinny]

Old news, it's been public now for a while. Biggest super computer bank in the world. Great article in wired magazine about it.

 

[Big Pimpin]

They already use helicopters for surveillance, drones seem like a more economical way to have eyes that are already in the sky. Blimps on the other hand fuck that X-Men Sentinel type shit,buzzing over cities like fat vultures making everyone feel violated.

True but what technology does the typical police ghetto bird have? A Daylighter and a FLIR? While these little drones might not pack too much technology at the moment, its these big military drones, which are scheduled for FAA approval in 2015 for use in the US, which really bother the shit out of me.

Typical Big Brother BS....start with something small, let the little people get used to it then execute the primary plan when they become complacent.

 

[Little Wing]

someone needs to be chopping up some real credit cards. the ones they use for the big shit not the penny ante gesture of saving money but the real deals.

 

[Swiper]

True but what technology does the typical police ghetto bird have? A Daylighter and a FLIR? While these little drones might not pack too much technology at the moment, its these big military drones, which are scheduled for FAA approval in 2015 for use in the US, which really bother the shit out of me.

Typical Big Brother BS....start with something small, let the little people get used to it then execute the primary plan when they become complacent.

yep the drones can spot a pot plant in ur backyard from 30,000 feet. not cool.

 

[Big Pimpin]

yep the drones can spot a pot plant in ur backyard from 30,000 feet. not cool.

And listen to any cell phone call within 4 counties.

 

[Swiper]

Big Sis Spy Drone At Vikings-Packers Game

TSA VIPR team keeps tabs on fans
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
December 31, 2012

TSA agents were out in force during yesterday?s Vikings-Packers game at the Metrodome in Minnesota, in addition to a surveillance drone that was spotted keeping tabs on fans ? another illustration of how the federal agency is expanding its remit well outside the realm of transportation.Attorney Nathan M. Hansen took photographs of the spy drone and the TSA VIPR agents and posted them to his twitter feed following the game yesterday afternoon.

The images show TSA VIPR agents standing around the Metrodome fan plaza on the west side, as well as a small drone hovering high above.

It?s likely that the drone was under the operation of Homeland Security given its close proximity to the VIPR agents, although an alternative explanation is that the drone was being used for sports photography.

?You can see the four rotors pretty well on these pics. It is comparable to the sports photography drone linked below as well ? I figured it might just be a civilian hobbyist drone or some weird sports media project drone until the VIPR team was found by Hansen,? reports Hong Pong.?I am just delighted that the national government had to borrow more money at interest from the Federal Reserve System in order to send out these guys and their fancy flying spy robot to the Vikings/Packers game. We get the twin benefits of national debt slavery AND a surveillance state with nothing useful to do!?Whether the drone was being operated under the auspices of the DHS or not, the presence of TSA agents at the game serves as another reminder that this widely loathed federal agency continues to metastasize into an occupational security force.Last year, the NFL announced that it would phase in TSA-style pat downs of fans entering stadiums. The Department of Homeland Security has also worked closely with the NFL on numerous occasions to promote its ?See Something, Say Something? snitch campaign.As we have exhaustively documented, the TSA has long since expanded outside of airports, and is now in the process of transforming itself into a security force that will have a presence at virtually every major public venue, from sports events, to political functions, to music concerts.Before the February 2012 Super Bowl, the TSA attracted derision for a program which trained thousands of fast food sellers and other vendors to spot terrorists under the ?First Observer? program. VIPR teams were also out in force at the stadium and nearby transportation hubs.Earlier this month, we reported on how the TSA was seeking permission from the Office of Management and Budget to conduct ?security assessments? on highways as well as at 140 other public transportation hubs, including bus depots and train stations.Last year, the TSA was responsible for over 9,000 checkpoints across the United States, a number set to increase thanks to the agency?s bloated budget and its expansion beyond anything vaguely related to transportation. Since its inception in the US after 9/11, the TSA has grown in size exponentially. The agency was slammed in a recent congressional report for wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on security theater.One such checkpoint involving TSA agents took place last year in Tennessee, where Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) teams checked trucks at five weigh stations and two bus stations in the state, as well as making trucks pass through x-ray scanners. TSA officials also used the checkpoint to try and recruit truck drivers to become citizen snitches under the First Observer Highway Security Program.​

?? Big Sis Spy Drone At Vikings-Packers Game? Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!





someone should start a facebook page for donations for any one who shoots down a drone. the first person who shoots down a drone will be a folk hero.

 

[Zaphod]

the first person who shoots down a drone will be a folk hero.

Indeed! And I hope it happens soon!

 

[heckler7]

And listen to any cell phone call within 4 counties.

I was gonna say that, they will pick up roaming phones like a mobile cell tower, its only a matter of time before people figure out a way around this