The feds get seriously creepy about climate change{warning big picture}

[xchrom]

http://grist.org/politics/the-feds-get-seriously-creepy-about-climate-change/

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It’s about your friend — you know, the one who has been paranoid about the government spying on her eco-activism for years? She uses Tor and only chats OTR, which is really inconvenient for you! And still she can’t shake the sneaking suspicion that the National Security Agency might be hoovering up all her emails and phone calls, with a special interest in her tree-hugging.

Turns out she’s (probably) not nuts after all.

Unless you’ve been holed up in a tree-sit somewhere, you’re likely intimately familiar with the NSA’s mammoth Prism internet dragnet ops. Well now, The Guardian‘s Earth Insight blogger, Nafeez Ahmed, presents this epic connect-the-dots game detailing how paranoid the feds are about how climate change and its attendant calamities could disrupt the national political equilibrium — paranoia that could easily drive them to use their sweet spy gadgets to keep a watchful eye on green groups.

The Pentagon knows that environmental, economic and other crises could provoke widespread public anger toward government and corporations in coming years. The revelations on the NSA’s global surveillance programmes are just the latest indication that as business as usual creates instability at home and abroad, and as disillusionment with the status quo escalates, Western publics are being increasingly viewed as potential enemies that must be policed by the state.

This is so not what we meant when we said these issues were urgent, people!

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. You might want to put a 'warning - big pic' in the title

That picture is 3.5Meg, because its full size is about 2600x2600 pixels.

[G_j]

2. exactly

anyone notice how companies who produce crowd control innovations are flourishing also?

[nashville_brook]

3. kr