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Homeland Security Now Spying on Americans
August 23rd, 2010 | 
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BY MICHAEL WEBSTER: investigative reporter. 10th November 2008 at 9:00 pm PDT
use of unmanned aircraft (UAV) and Space-Based Spying surveillance technology of the U.S. government is now U.S. citizens under the guise of disaster management and control of the US-Mexican border. The Reaper / Predator B UAV’s Robot killing machines are currently in service with the USAF, U.S. Navy and Royal Air Force. Also includes non-military users of the Predator B: NASA and Homeland Security, although the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency.
The Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) space-based domestic spying program from its agency National Applications Office (NAO) is now in full operation.
In fact, during Hurricane Ike, U.S. Customs and Border Protection for the first time flew the Predator B unmanned aircraft in “support of the Federal Emergency Management Agency made efforts,” reported The Insider Tech Publication .
Tom Burghardt in a recent article wrote that the Predator B carries out “targeted killings” of “terror suspects” in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. The use of robotic killing machines in the United States for “disaster management” is disturbing to say the least, and a harbinger of things to come.
Despite objections from Congress and civil rights groups, DHS, in close cooperation with the ultra-spooky National Reconnaissance Office develops, the Agency and maintains America’s fleet of military spy satellites and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency that military imagery analysis and mapping tools generate, with the first phase of the controversial domestic spying program continue.
NAO will coordinate how domestic law enforcement and “disaster relief” agencies such as FEMA use satellite imagery is intelligence (IMINT), by military spy satellites. Burghardt wrote user this year, as opposed to commercial satellites, their military cousins are far more flexible, higher resolution and therefore have more power to human activity monitored.
Barry Steinhardt, director of the ACLU’s Technology and Liberty Project, a moratorium called for domestic use of military spy satellites, were answered to important questions. Steinhardt said the domestic use of spy satellites and drones’s is a big brother monster and we have introduced some restrictions before it grows into something that will replace the Americans’ right to privacy violated.
The program now consists of federal, state and local officials “with extensive access to spy-satellite pictures.” Said Steinhardt
As we have seen, however, the use of satellite images during the “national security events” such as last summer’s political conventions in Denver and St. Paul may FBI and local law enforcement agencies have contributed their preventive attacks on protest organizers and subsequent squelching of dissent. One wonders whether this is what DGI, when they say that the company “a work in national interest, promote public safety and national security through innovative research, analysis and applied technology”.
are real questions asked, these spies in the sky surveillance systems applicable data protection regulations have to comply with and not against the Posse Comitatus Act?
The 1878 law prohibits the military, a role in domestic law enforcement authorities. Since the 1990s, however, Posse Comitatus significantly eroded by both Democratic and Republican administrations, particularly in the areas of “drug”, “border security” and “Continuity of Government “planning of U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM).
Within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) is the lead agency charged with securing our nation’s borders.
United States Border Patrol ( USBP) is charged with detecting and preventing the entry of terrorists, weapons of mass destruction, and unauthorized aliens into the country, and eliminate drug smugglers and other criminals.
USBP is using advanced technology, expand its agents the ability to patrol the border. include the technologies used, but are not limited to, sensors, light towers, portable night vision equipment, remote video surveillance systems, directional listeningdevices, various database systems and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV’s). These so-called “force multipliers” allow the USBP to fewer agents in a given area to send, and also the ability to detect and combat intrusions and are increasingly becoming a part of the day-to-day of the USBP’s. It are two different types of UAV’s: drones and remotely piloted vehicles (RPV). Both drones are are unmanned and RPVs, but drones programmed for autonomous flight. RPVs flown actively distance – from a ground control operator. UAV’s are Vehicle as powered aerial that is neither a human operator is defined, uses aerodynamic forces provide lift, can fly autonomously or remotely piloted will can unnecessary usable or not, and can carry lethal or nonlethal payloads. UAV’s have played a key role in recent conflicts.
Historically, UAV’s used in various military settings outside of U.S. borders.
UAV’s are provided reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquisition, search and rescue, and battle damage assessments have. In the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq UAV’s were used for monitoring purposes, and to attack the enemies. The Predator UAV, for example, was equipped with anti-tank weapons to Taliban and Al Qaeda members to attack.
UAV’s are used in the home environment. The NASA-sponsored Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (Erastus) program produces civilian UAV’s on air pollution and to measure to monitor ozone levels. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in developing Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and part video instruction on the use of UAV’s for the detection and identification of toxic substances. Finally, the Department of Energy recently announced that they test UAV’s. you can also be equipped with sensors, radiation, to detect possible nuclear boom, suite case nuke, dirty boom and reactor accidents. Thousands of National Guard troops are to be protected along with the U.S. Border Patrol of the U.S. border and are flying unmanned aircraft system (UAS ) are used, from bases in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
/> As reported earlier this year in the Laguna Journal that a special U.S. Military Task Force was created to our to protect southern border with Mexico. The members of this Task Force are preparing to secure the border by reaction with specially trained fast response U.S. Army task force military units. These forces are already connected to the heart of power in El Paso and southern New Mexico with a far reaching responsibility from East Texas, Southern California focus.
USAF General Victor E. Renuart Jr. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
be staged and immediately available as emergency “on call” units for use against terrorist threats to the national border and local disasters, said General Victor E. Renuart Jr., commander of the United States Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Commander.
The Ft. Bliss 1st Armored Division soldiers, and a new missile defense unit, are being created at Fort Bliss. America’s first air defense and believed by Jane’s Intel Web Report available to the owners of the sky, fly wherever they are. The F-22 Raptor, which are the Holloman Air Force Base Station, will be available to defend homeland security, Renuart said.
; Renuart, the Joint Task Force-North, which went under his command, declined to discuss details of threats discovered along the border with Mexico, but he said many agencies have made, including JTF-North, “there is a very difficult border for someone to take advantage. “That would explain why the recent reports of the U.S. military have been seen at the border.
As the Journal reported, given the Federal Government that the United States-Mexican border region has seen an alarming increase in the level of criminal cartel activity, including drug and human smuggling, which has placed significant additional burdens on Federal, State and local law enforcement authorities.
been, dozens of U.S. citizens kidnapped, held hostage and killed by their captors in Mexico and in many cases unresolved. In addition, further new cases of disappearances and abductions for ransom are reported.
“It is for us to believe that any prudent these established trafficking routes, whether it is trafficking or drugs or weapons or money, each of these could be used, and we want our eyes and keep your ears to all these, to ensure that they are not used in this context, “said Renuart.
Both the F-22 and the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, missile – designed to destroy short-and medium-range ballistic missile missiles, as they returned to the Earth’s atmosphere – are the latest additions to the nation’s arsenal. A THAAD unit is created at Fort Bliss.
“Our ensure job at NORTHCOM is that if there is a seam or a gap that we think could fill as we are, with few from the skill of the Defence Ministry said he. “What has forced us to do that is to think, “How do you solve that time / distance problem, even on a short-term event. And so I have access to capabilities now that I am not one or two years old that I can move very quickly to this need. < / p>
The MQ-9 Reaper will employ robust sensors to automatically find, fix, track and target critical emerging time-critical targets to fill. In the MQ-9 SAR was with the A / Therapy, instead of TESAR replaced with more advanced high-resolution radar imaging system. The Ground Control Segment of the Predator B is common with all previous Predator systems. The U.S. government is developing the ability to operate multiple aircraft from a ground station, in fact, the multiplication of the total combat power on the battlefield.
Sources:
Tom Burghardt < br /> U.S. Army Joint Task Force-North
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection CBP ()
Holloman Air Force Base
General Victor E. Renuart Jr., commander of the United States Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Commander.
U.S. soldiers on the ground.
Barry Steinhardt
MQ-9 Reaper, Predator B UAV On the Border: Recon
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Are Americans legally allowed to play online internet bingo and win cash money prizes or can US citizens only play online bingo for fun?
The only question is that it is legal to play for the citizens of the United States of America to online bingo?
Well, the short answer is probably yes. Bingo is a game, it’s as if you ask “Can Americans play Monopoly, Scrabble or Bridge?” It is legal to play bingo online, but here’s the rub. Technically, a United player is not allowed to receive cash prizes of bingo. In 2006, the UIGEA passed law to try to stop U.S. players from gambling. Many people see this as an infringement of civil liberties and in fact one-stop shop, I read suggested that it was impossible for human rights!
I do not know about human rights, but this seems to be impossible to enforce a law, there are just too many gray areas, especially in dealing with the Internet. Because the number of Americans play bingo is obviously increasing. Most bingo sites are outside the United States is not under U.S. law to come and can not be “controlled” by the U.S. government. Therefore, the government has to try on the U.S. banking system, U.S. residents play bingo for money focus stop. But of course the Internet is a wonderful facility and many banks do not come under U.S. law.
Why do you think the U.S. government would restrict such a law institute for gambling? Social impact, maybe. Protection of U.S. citizens from the evils of gambling, are possible. But why then a state lottery company in 43 U.S. states is legal? Is not that a bingo lottery so similar that they are effectively the same game? A series of numbers, the prices at the end with one or more players to win the jackpot, or smaller?
So in my opinion, experience from the many blogs that I have read on the subject, is the old issue of taxation. Where is the U.S. tax dollar is up. Not from the offshore bingo sites, of course, not the players winnings. The view is that the lack of ability to raise taxes to keep this decision. For many players feel that the legislature should have the opportunity to play for money, as long as the U.S. IRS, their income is up to date!
So, in brief, are citizens of the United States allowed to play bingo online cash money, but banks are not authorized to pay your winnings process or your deposits. Fortunately, if you really want to have the same privileges as are much of the rest of the western world there are many law-abiding bingo sites that allow U.S. players. Using different methods of payment and offshore companies with legal Americans can one of the most popular online games to enjoy.
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