sábado, 25 de marzo de 2017

(25) La Marina de EEUU se arma contra Rusia y China




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La Marina de EEUU se arma contra Rusia y China

"La Armada de Estados Unidos y Lockheed Martin tienen una variedad de soluciones para inclinar la balanza a favor de EEUU y pasar a una dura ofensiva", asegura el autor.
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Lockie señala que la Armada de EEUU se ha enfocado durante años en el concepto de la llamada 'letalidad distribuida' que busca armar incluso a los buques más pequeños con armas potentes que puedan destruir blancos a cientos de kilómetros de distancia.
No obstante, los buques rusos y chinos ya tienen misiles de largo alcance que pueden destruir las naves estadounidenses antes de que las fuerzas siquiera estén cerca, observa el periodista.
Además, Rusia y China están trabajando en armas hipersónicas que serán cinco veces más rápidas que la velocidad del sonido, añade.
Chris Mang, vicepresidente de misiles tácticos y sistemas de maniobra de combate de Lockheed Martin, afirmó a los periodistas que "la defensa es buena", pero "la ofensiva es mejor", cita Lockie al militar.
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Según Mang, los nuevos y prometedores misiles, como el misil antibuque de largo alcance —LRASM, por sus siglas en inglés— para buques y aviones, podrían entrar en servicio en 2020, lo que reforzaría la estrategia de la Armada de EEUU de "ver primero, entender primero y disparar primero".
Los funcionarios de Lockheed Martin tienen previsto armar los F-18 de la Armada de Estados Unidos y los bombarderos de largo alcance B-1B con los LRASM.
En cuanto a las armas hipersónicas destinadas a redefinir la guerra naval, Mang reconoció que todavía están atrasados.
Sin embargo, la Armada de EEUU continúa mejorando y extendiendo sus capacidades de defensa del sistema Aegis con el fin de destruir los misiles de largo alcance de Rusia y China y adelantar en el rango los misiles hipersónicos de corto alcance que estos países estén desarrollando.

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(24) McCain: "The New World Order Is Under Enormous Strain" | Zero Hedge




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McCain: "The New World Order Is Under Enormous Strain"

It was a bumper day for John McCain when on Friday Donald Trump's Republican nemesis gloated as Trump's "art of the deal" collapsed in the last minute, after the President and Ryan-led effort to repeal Obamacare suffered what appears to be a terminal setback. In the wake of Trump's misfortune, McCain renewed his calls on Friday for a return to a legacy neocon status quo, when speaking at the Brussels forum, said that the world "cries out for American and European leadership" through the EU and Nato, and said that the EU and the US needed to develop "more cooperation, more connectivity".
In a "new world order under enormous strain" and in "the titanic struggle with forces of radicalism … we can't stand by and lament, we've got to be involved," said McCain who is now chairman of the armed services committee in the US Senate, quoted by the EU Observer. "I trust the EU," he said, defending an opposite view from that of US president Donald Trump, who said in January that the UK "was so smart in getting out" of the EU and that Nato was "obsolete". He said that the EU was "one of the most important alliances" for the US and that the EU and Nato were "the best two sums in history", which have maintained peace for the last 70 years.
Further attacking Trump's global worldview, McCan said that "we need to rely on Nato and have a Nato that adjusts to new challenges." He noted that "the EU has too many bureaucrats, not much bureaucracy," but added that "it's not the only place on earth with that problem." He said that he was "still wondering what the overall effect of Brexit will be" and that he did not know "if this is the beginning of a serious problem for the EU". McCain did not disagree, however, with Trump's demand that European countries increase their defense spending for Nato.
McCain also revealed he hasn't met the President Donald Trump in person since he took office, and he urged Trump to reach out to his opponents—Democratic and otherwise—ala Ronald Reagan if he wants to repeal Obamacare. "Do some outreach. Get to know some of these Democratic leaders," he said. "You can find common ground." McCain said he'd met Trump "some years ago" when he was a businessman, but had not met him since. McCain said he did speak "almost daily" to National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, however.
"He doesn't seem to be that upset that he's not talking to him," said German Marshall Fund's Derek Chollet, a former Obama Pentagon official. "He's trying to run U.S. defense policy through Mattis and effectively ignore Trump."
That said, McCain also said it was "too early" to pass judgment on his presidency, although his series of critical comments in recent weeks have demonstrated his growing skepticism about the Trump administration.
Furthermore, while McCain said he was "very pleased" by Trump's picks for his national security team - despite suggesting that they were being bypassed by more ideological and less competent people - he took the opportunity to attack Trump's decisionmaking, saying "the question is: who does the president listen to, who drives the tweets at 6 in morning?", he said.Asked whether he thought that "Russia owns a significant part of the White House," he said: "I don't worry about that."
The unspoken suggestion: Russia.
What worries McCain, he said, was "the Russian role in our elections", even if he admitted that he has seen "no evidence they succeeded" in affecting the outcome of last year's US vote. Noting that Russia was now trying to influence elections in France and in Germany, he said that if it succeeded it would be "a death warrant for democracy".
"It's an act of destruction that is certainly more lethal than dropping some bombs," he insisted. McCain, a Russia hawk, said that Putin wanted to restore the Russian empire: "He wants the Baltics, he has taken Crimea, he's been in Ukraine."
"These are KBG thugs, my friends," he said, referring to the former Russian spy service for which Putin used to work. He added that the US needed to "respond accordingly". He said however that there was "nothing wrong" if Trump met Putin.
"I'm not against meeting," he said, reminding the Brussels forum that US presidents met Soviet leaders during the Cold War. But he added that "the best way to go to a meeting is with a strong hand" and that was not the case for the US right now.
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viernes, 24 de marzo de 2017

(23) EU faces collapse if other member states follow Britain, warns Juncker - Xinhua | English.news.cn




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EU faces collapse if other member states follow Britain, warns Juncker

LONDON, March 24 (Xinhua) -- European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker warned Friday that the EU could be doomed if other member states followed Brexit in leaving the bloc.
He also said Britain would face a bill of around 63 billion U.S. dollars as part of its departure from the EU, but insisted this was not a punishment.
Juncker was speaking in a media interview just days ahead of British Prime Minister Theresa May's starting of the Brexit process by sending a letter to trigger article 50.
The letter, to be sent next Wednesday, will kick-start two years of talks between London and Brussels to reach a deal on the future relationship between Britain and the EU.
In Friday's interview, Juncker described Brexit as a failure and a tragedy, but insisted he was not hostile towards Britain.
Juncker said that if any of the remaining 27 member states were to follow in Britain's footsteps, it could threaten the trading and economic bloc.
"I don't want others to take the same avenue. Let's suppose that others will leave -- two, three, four or five. That would be the end, the EU would collapse," he said.
There has been talk on both sides of the English Channel as to how much Britain would have to pay to leave the EU, with some sources putting the amount at 75 billion U.S. dollars or even higher.
In the interview, Juncker said the estimated 63 billion U.S. dollar price tag would cover the cost of projects Britain was already committed too, as well as the cost of pensions of EU officials who served during the period of Britain's membership.
The Commission president said the EU would approach withdrawal talks in a friendly and fair way, adding he was strongly committed to protecting the status of the three million EU nationals currently living in Britain and the million British nationals living in other EU states.
The interview came a day before leaders of EU member states are to gather in Rome Saturday to celebrate the signing of the Treaty of Rome 60 years ago, the agreement that saw the birth of what is now the EU. Britain will not join in the celebrations.
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BRUSSELS, March 21 (Xinhua) -- European Council President Donald Tusk on Tuesday announced that he will convene a summit on April 29 to approve the European Union(EU)'s guidelines on Brexit.
"I will call European Council on April 29 to adopt EU27 Brexit Guidelines. Priority must be certainty, clarity for all: citizens, companies and member states," Tusk tweeted.  Full story
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(22) Commentary: Tillerson's Beijing visit was a home run for China-U.S. relations - People's Daily Online




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Commentary: Tillerson's Beijing visit was a home run for China-U.S. relations

On March 18, U.S. Department of State Secretary Rex Tillerson arrived in Beijing for his first face-to-face talks with Chinese leaders and to lay the groundwork for a summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump. After his arrival, the State Department sent out a message on social media, informing the world that the U.S. looks to build a constructive, result-oriented relationship with China.
In his remarks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Secretary Tillerson spoke on the past and future trajectory of the China-U.S. relationship:
Since the historic opening of relations between our two countries more than 40 years ago, the U.S.-China relationship has been guided by an understanding of non-conflict, non-confrontation, mutual respect, and win-win cooperation. It is important that the leaders of our two countries engage in further dialogue to develop a common understanding that will guide our relationship for the next half-century.
As Tillerson stated, the China-U.S. relationship has been guided by an understanding of non-conflict, non-confrontation, mutual respect, and win-win cooperation for more than four decades. Over the years, the China-U.S. relationship has grown beyond all expectations, having stood the test of time. The bilateral relationship has had its share of ups and downs, but the two sides have persisted in expanding cooperation and enhancing mutual trust. As a result, the bilateral relationship has been able to grow steadily and bring benefits to both peoples. The goal now is to advance this win-win cooperative relationship for the years to come.
In China, Tillerson signaled America's readiness to develop China-U.S. relations on a common understanding for the next half-century. The language Tillerson used to describe the bilateral relationship sent a signal that the Trump administration wants a win-win relationship with China. After Tillerson's fruitful meetings with Chinese leaders, Mark Toner, acting spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State, explained the meaning of Tillerson's language to journalists who questioned whether or not Tillerson went too far. Toner said it was the intention of Tillerson to send a message that the U.S. is ready to develop a cooperative, productive, and forward-looking relationship with China.
By adopting China's language, Tillerson has endorsed the new model of major-country relations, which was proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping. President Xi and his U.S. counterpart, Barack Obama, agreed to build a new type of major-country relationship following their historical meeting at Sunnylands, a 200-acre Annenberg Estate in Rancho Mirage, California, in June 2013. The deliberate use of China's language is a positive signal that the Trump administration wants to avoid the traditional path of tragedy between major countries. The new model abandons the outdated grand strategy of maximizing or maintaining one's share of power and influence, and ensures that all major countries are seen as equals on the world stage.
Some Western media outlets reported that Tillerson's Beijing visit was a home run for China. On the contrary, it was victory for the development of the bilateral relationship. Efforts to contain China might sound appealing to those who want to prevent China's peaceful rise in order for the U.S. to regain its global superpower status, but such efforts will only make cooperation less likely and would be fruitless in the end. Fully embracing the new model is the only correct choice for both countries. For lasting peace and prosperity, Tillerson should continue to make an all-out-effort to develop China-U.S. relations on equal footing.
Though Tillerson has set a positive tone for the development of the bilateral relationship, some have expressed disapproval. In an article by The Washington Post, Bonnie Glaser, a senior adviser for Asia and the director of the China Power Project at CSIS, criticized Tillerson's choice of words, especially his use of mutual respect, because it, in effect, says that the U.S. accepts China's core interests at the expense of America's core interests. This conclusion is based on the assumption that China has no intention to live up to its end of the bargain, and that the U.S. is and should remain the world's authority. Mutual respect is a two-way street, and it is in the long-term interests of both sides to develop relations on the basis of respecting each other's core interests. Solid steps toward building a more democratic international order is not a win for China and a loss for America, but a win for both countries.
In their 30-minute meeting, Chinese President Xi and U.S. Secretary Tillerson discussed the progress in China-U.S. relations, and Tillerson conveyed that U.S. President Trump is anticipating the two will soon be able to meet face-to-face for discussions, at which time both sides can jointly chart bilateral ties for the next half-century and plan all-round cooperation.
In his China debut, Tillerson has received criticism for embracing the new model, but it is a win-win for both countries, as well as for the global community, if what many experts describe as the world's most important bilateral relationship is guided by a common understanding and continues to develop in a direction featuring no conflict, no confrontation, mutual respect, and win-win cooperation for many years to come. 
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jueves, 23 de marzo de 2017

(21) ¿Qué dice el presupuesto de Trump acerca de su estrategia militar? - RT




https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/233981-presupuesto-trump-estrategia-militar


¿Qué dice el presupuesto de Trump acerca de su estrategia militar?

Un artículo con ese título fue publicado por la revista estadounidense 'The National Interest' y plantea que la retórica de Trump no se relaciona con sus prioridades respecto a los gastos en defensa.
La cruzada de Donald Trump contra un grupo de "proyectos de mascotas y vacas sagradas", combinada con una propuesta igual de enorme de incrementar otros gastos del Pentágono, avanza a buen ritmo.
Pero "como dice el refrán: la Casa Blanca propone y el Congreso dispone", sostiene un reciente artículo de 'The National Interest' escrito por Christopher Preble, vicepresidente de  Estudios de Defensa y Política Exterior del Instituto Cato, quien sugiere que el presupuesto militar propuesto por Trump no se convertirá en ley.
Sin embargo, la propuesta presupuestaria de Trump revela algunas ideas acerca de la política exterior que piensa llevar a cabo el nuevo inquilino de la Casa Blanca.
Y ese presupuesto, aunque no está aprobado por el Congreso, sugiere que Trump desea utilizar a los militares más a menudo y recurrir con menos frecuencia que sus predecesores a la diplomacia para resolver los problemas, según el autor.
"Trump es un intervencionista comprometido"
En opinión de Preble, el presidente de EE.UU. y su director de presupuesto, Mick Mulvaney, han ofrecido un presupuesto algo 'simétrico'. La propuesta consta de un presupuesto de 54.000 millones de dólares más para gastos de defensa que lo que permite la ley actual, y 54.000 millones de dólares menos para gastos discrecionales [egresos por la adquisición de bienes o servicios que no son indispensables para el funcionamiento de una organización] no militares.
"La Administración Trump también está aprovechando al máximo los fondos de operaciones de contingencia de ultramar, que están excluidos de los límites fiscales: la Administración pretende 70.000 millones de dólares para el resto de 2017 (un aumento en 5.000 millones), más otros 65.000 millones para 2018", señala Preble.
"Este presupuesto confirma en general lo que algunos han sospechado desde el inicio: pese a todas las especulaciones sobre el 'drenaje del pantano' y la reorientación drástica de la política de EE.UU., Trump es un intervencionista comprometido", concluye el autor.
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(20) Exteriores ruso: EEUU genera un "caos controlado" en varias partes del mundo




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Exteriores ruso: EEUU genera un "caos controlado" en varias partes del mundo

"El concepto 'caos controlado' apareció hace mucho tiempo como un medio para reforzar la influencia de EEUU, que se basa en la idea de generar el caos lejos de las costas estadounidenses. Los politólogos y diseñadores de la política exterior de Washington siempre han apuntado contra Oriente Próximo", señaló Lavrov, en declaraciones recogidas por el canal Zvezda.
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Según el titular del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores ruso, en Irak y Siria, el "caos controlado" se creó  deliberadamente y, actualmente, EEUU está tratando de sembrar el caos también en Libia y Yemen.
"La operación contra los talibanes y Al Qaeda comenzó con el apoyo de todos los países del mundo. Pero, al recibir esta autorización, EEUU actuó de manera incoherente. La amenaza terrorista en Afganistán no ha desaparecido, y la amenaza de las drogas ha aumentado considerablemente. Se sabe que hubo alguien de los contingentes militares de la OTAN que hizo la vista gorda ante la existencia de narcotráfico",  sostuvo Lavrov.
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(19) Chinese troops march with Pakistani soldiers for first time




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Chinese troops march with Pakistani soldiers for first time

Islamabad parade underlines deepening military co-operation


Chinese army marches in Islamabad in a special military parade © Getty

Chinese soldiers have marched alongside their Pakistani counterparts in Islamabad for the first time ever, in what is being seen as a "historic" moment that underlines the growing military co-operation between the two Asian countries.
Members of the Chinese army, navy and air force on Thursday took part in a special military parade in Islamabad in celebration of the day when Muslims in British-ruled India began formally advocating for the creation of a separate country.
While Chinese troops have operated in Pakistan before, they have never previously taken part in a ceremonial parade, something diplomats and military experts said showed how keen China is to deepen its military co-operation with Pakistan. Mamnoon Hussain, Pakistan president, termed China's participation as a "historic event". "Both (China and Pakistan) wanted to send a powerful signal [with] troops marching side by side," said one diplomat.
Over the past decade, China has emerged as an increasingly important ally for Pakistan, both economically and militarily, with Pakistan concerned both by its weakening ties with the US and what it sees as the threat from its neighbour India.
The trend began in 2007, when China helped Pakistan build the JF-17 "Thunder" jet. Since then China has built on its position as Pakistan's main supplier of military hardware. Earlier this month the Pakistan army announced it would use a Chinese-built LY-80 surface-to-air missile system. Beijing has also agreed to supply up to eight new submarines to the Pakistan navy by 2028, half of which will be built in Karachi.
Although the exact price of the submarine contract has not been revealed publicly, western officials said it was likely to be in the range of $4bn to $5bn — making it Pakistan's largest defence purchase ever. "China has a special place in Pakistan. China is widely seen as a symbol of reliability, a true friend," said Hasan Askari Rizvi, a commentator on defence and security affairs.
This status has been burnished by the fact that relations with the US have cooled over Pakistan's perceived links with Islamic militants in Afghanistan.
Former US president Barack Obama's administration withdrew financing to subsidise the sale of eight new F-16s to Pakistan, which Pakistani officials said would have played a key role in attacking militant sanctuaries along the country's border with Afghanistan.
"Our defence forces consider China to be trustworthy for the long term," said Farooq Hameed Khan, a former army commander and now commentator on military affairs.
Meanwhile, China sees the military alliance not only as a way to counteract Indian power in the region, but also as a chance to help secure its plans to build up to $55bn worth of infrastructure and energy projects in Pakistan.
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor plans to link western China with the Gwadar port in southern Pakistan through railways, roads and energy supply pipelines.
One senior Pakistani foreign ministry official said after Thursday's parade: "China's massive investment commitment to Pakistan has also strengthened their commitment to our country's stability. China now has a much bigger stake in the security of Pakistan."
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(18) James Bamford | The Multibillion-Dollar US Spy Agency You Haven't Heard Of




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Have you heard of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency? (photo: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District/Getty Images/Foreign Policy)

James Bamford | The Multibillion-Dollar US Spy Agency You Haven't Heard Of

By James Bamford, Foreign Policy
22 March 17
  
How President Trump might turn an all-seeing spy apparatus on innocent American citizens.
n a heavily protected military base some 15 miles south of Washington, D.C., sits the massive headquarters of a spy agency few know exists. Even Barack Obama, five months into his presidency, seemed not to have recognized its name. While shaking hands at a Five Guys hamburger restaurant in Washington in May 2009, he asked a customer seated at a table about his job. "What do you [do]?" the president inquired. "I work at NGA, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency," the man answered. Obama appeared dumbfounded. "So, explain to me exactly what this National Geospatial…" he said, unable to finish the name. Eight years after that videotape aired, the NGA remains by far the most shadowy member of the Big Five spy agencies, which include the CIA and the National Security Agency.
Despite its lack of name recognition, the NGA's headquarters is the third-largest building in the Washington metropolitan area, bigger than the CIA headquarters and the U.S. Capitol.
Completed in 2011 at a cost of $1.4 billion, the main building measures four football fields long and covers as much ground as two aircraft carriers. In 2016, the agency purchased 99 acres in St. Louis to construct additional buildings at a cost of $1.75 billion to accommodate the growing workforce, with 3,000 employees already in the city.
The NGA is to pictures what the NSA is to voices. Its principal function is to analyze the billions of images and miles of video captured by drones in the Middle East and spy satellites circling the globe. But because it has largely kept its ultra-high-resolution cameras pointed away from the United States, according to a variety of studies, the agency has never been involved in domestic spy scandals like its two far more famous siblings, the CIA and the NSA. However, there's reason to believe that this will change under President Donald Trump.
Throughout the long election campaign and into his first months as president, Trump has pushed hard for weakening restraints on the intelligence agencies, spending more money for defense, and getting tough on law and order. Given the new president's overwhelming focus on domestic security, it's reasonable to expect that Trump will use every tool available to maintain it, including overhead vigilance.
In March 2016, the Pentagon released the results of an investigation initiated by the Department of Defense's Office of Inspector General to examine military spy drones in the United States. The report, marked "For Official Use Only" and partially redacted, revealed that the Pentagon used unarmed surveillance drones over American soil on fewer than 20 occasions between 2006 and 2015. (Although the report doesn't identify the nature of the missions, another Pentagon document lists 11 domestic drone operations that principally involved natural disasters, search and rescue, and National Guard training.)
The investigation also quoted from an Air Force law review article pointing out the growing concern that technology designed to spy on enemies abroad may soon be turned around to spy on citizens at home. "As the nation winds down these wars … assets become available to support other combatant command (COCOM) or U.S. agencies, the appetite to use them in the domestic environment to collect airborne imagery continues to grow."
Although the report stated that all missions were conducted within full compliance of the law, it pointedly noted that as of 2015 there were no standardized federal statutes that "specifically address the employment of the capability provided by a DoD UAS (unmanned aircraft system) if requested by domestic civil authorities." Instead, there is a Pentagon policy governing reconnaissance drones that requires the secretary of defense to approve all such domestic operations. Under these regulations, drones "may not conduct surveillance on U.S. persons" unless permitted by law and approved by the secretary. The policy also bans armed drones over the United States for anything other than military training and weapons testing.
In 2016, unbeknownst to many city officials, police in Baltimore began conductingpersistent aerial surveillance using a system developed for military use in Iraq.
Few civilians have any idea how advanced these military eye-in-the-sky drones have become. Among them is ARGUS-IS, the world's highest-resolution camera with 1.8 billion pixels. Invisible from the ground at nearly four miles in the air, it uses a technology known as "persistent stare" — the equivalent of 100 Predator drones peering down at a medium-size city at once — to track everything that moves.
With the capability to watch an area of 10 or even 15 square miles at a time, it would take just two drones hovering over Manhattan to continuously observe and follow all outdoor human activity, night and day. It can zoom in on an object as small as a stick of butter on a plate and store up to 1 million terabytes of data a day. That capacity would allow analysts to look back in time over days, weeks, or months. Technology is in the works to enable drones to remain aloft for years at a time.
The Department of Homeland Security has been at these crossroads before. In 2007, during the presidency of George W. Bush, the department established an agency to direct domestic spy satellite stakeouts and gave it a bland name: the National Applications Office. But Congress, concerned about a "Big Brother in the Sky," cut off funding. In 2009, it was killed by the Obama administration.
Still, unlike domestic electronic surveillance by the NSA, which has been closely scrutinized and subjected to legislation designed to protect civil liberties, domestic overhead spying has escaped the attention of both Congress and the public. The Trump administration may take advantage of that void.
Initiating a new age of "persistent surveillance," Trump could use the spy world's overhead assets to target Muslims or members of Black Lives Matter. The president has spoken in favor of increasing the scrutiny of mosques; aerial assessment would allow him to track worshippers. Drones could aid in the mass roundup of illegal immigrants intended for deportation, and Trump has said he may send federal forces to Chicago to quell the violence. Drones could offer the city the unblinking eye for 24/7 vigilance.
Of course, all that would require a significant expansion of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to analyze the domestic imagery. Before that can happen, Trump, like Obama, has to discover there is such an agency.

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+35# CDMR 2017-03-22 18:30
It is very telling that there are massive government agencies that even a president does now know about. If Obama was ignorant, imagine how ignorant Trump is. The government that exists beneath the knowledge of elected officials is the definition of the "Deep State." This invisible government goes on with its secret agenda no matter what elected officials might know or think. They are powerless to change or effect it.

What the US needs is a president and congress which would shut these agencies down. Just fire everyone and blow the buildings up. Controlled demolition is the way to solve this problem of a secret government.
+3# moreover 2017-03-22 23:46
I'm much more worried about the very visible government at hand and their corporate paymasters as described in "Dark Money" by Jane Meyer. That's the real conspiracy.
+4# John S. Browne 2017-03-22 23:50
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Yes, but you're dreaming. How are we to get a U.S. presidency and Congress that would shut such things down? The deep state shadow government is completely out of control from The People's perspective; but, from the government's perspective, this "'1984'-style" surveillance and control grid is here to stay; and it appears that nothing The People do is going to reverse it, and that it is beyond the point of no return. Look at the FACT that they just keep expanding the shadow government, and that for every step backwards (so-called "checks and balances" putting on nothing but a show of supposedly shutting down and/or ending the funding of segments of it, there are at least two if not more steps forward in its expansion). How are We the People going to shut that down? It doesn't even appear that a violent revolution would do any good, or reverse the deep state, at this point. Don't get me wrong, I DO want to be hopeful; but, when we see the behemoth that is the expansion of a completely despotic, tyrannical and increasingly totalitarian government as it IS being expanded, what hope have We the People of reversing its complete takeover? It looks seriously like there is no turning back.

This is not the U.S. as it was only meant to be anymore. It is a monster that just keeps growing to mammoth, out of control proportions. It doesn't answer to the People anymore, if it ever really did, and we have less and less input into its operation(s) and expansion. What can we do?

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+2# treerapper 2017-03-23 03:06
CDMR - if one really analyzes Kennedy's assassination as well as how 911 occurred, we truly have a "Deep State" operating and in control of many things. The boys in the back room pull a lot of strings, be they attached to elected officials or events.
-1# ericlipps 2017-03-23 04:45
Quoting CDMR:
It is very telling that there are massive government agencies that even a president does now know about. If Obama was ignorant, imagine how ignorant Trump is. The government that exists beneath the knowledge of elected officials is the definition of the "Deep State." This invisible government goes on with its secret agenda no matter what elected officials might know or think. They are powerless to change or effect it.

What the US needs is a president and congress which would shut these agencies down. Just fire everyone and blow the buildings up. Controlled demolition is the way to solve this problem of a secret government.

And as all of us who read the comments section on RSN's articles know, Hillary Clinton was the Deep State's pick for president last year.

Er . . .
+23# DongiC 2017-03-22 18:50
Eyes in the sky may be the ticket to a home bound dictatorship, especially. with a wild man like Trump in the Oval office. Technology marches on while its control over the environment never seems to stop.
+2# chemtex2611 2017-03-22 22:44
Where does everyone think Google's Map and Earth aerial pix come from? They do not come from the Google cars driving down the streets of your home town !
+1# MDSolomon 2017-03-22 23:08
What does this tell us about the actual power structure?

There are at least 20 levels of security clearances above the POTUS.

So who is that controls the US?

http://coloradopublicbanking.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-view-from-top-of-power-pyramid.html
0# lexorcista 2017-03-23 00:04
hm
can't help wondering what else the Prez, the media, and the public aren't aware of.
Alarming.
Orwell wd not be surprised.

On a micro note, the 'd' is missing
in "a medium-size city" wch shd be:
[a medium-sized city]
not a noun, a modifier.....
old-fashioned dress, coloured glass, ....
cf fried rice
+4# RLF 2017-03-23 04:25
This is the kind of future a country gets when it spends the amount we do on military and killing and security. People who tell you "safety first" are idiots sucking up the Breitbart soup.
+1# Bruce Gruber 2017-03-23 05:33
Does this add to taxpayer costs should Mrs. Trump lose her multi-carat ring while playing tennis at Mar A Lago and require Donnie drone assistance to find it?
+2# Charles3000 2017-03-23 07:15
The agency in question is a mixed bag but not as "mixed" as the NSA and CIA. Reconnaissance from space includes many functions. For one it gave us "Google Earth" using near but less quality than spy satellite imagery. Additionally, the early warning satellites in geostationary orbits are a key deterrent of a nuclear missile attack on us. Our adversaries know if they launch an attack we will know it and can empty our silos, subs, etc on them before their missiles reach us. This scenario lead to the term, "mutual assured destruction" or MAD.
0# wrknight 2017-03-23 09:52
"What's the point of having all these weapons (and spy toys) if you don't use them?" -- I forget who said that, but there's any number of people I can think of who might have said it and are more than agreeable with the statement.
0# wrknight 2017-03-23 10:08
It's not just the overhead spy stuff -- what about all the surveillance stuff on the ground. Look around you -- cameras everywhere. Cameras at traffic intersections, along the highways, in shopping malls, in front of stores, inside stores, in the parking lots -- you name it. How difficult would it be to link all these devices to a central processing facility with automated facial recognition capability and use that to track the movements of any individual? Then toy with the idea of hacking into personal computers, taking over the webcams and watching/listen ing to people in their homes. They can already monitor the tv programs you watch and if you subscribe to Sirius radio, it's possible to track what you listen to as well.

Now, add the overhead spy stuff and the potential for domestic surveillance is out of this world. And with the current administration there is almost nothing to stop it. It is George Orwell's worst nightmare come true.
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