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The National Security Agency (NSA) Top secret documents revealed by the Guardian have shocked the world with the revelations of a global surveillance system established in the United States with direct access to Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft and other tech giants. New Zealand Court records suggest that data collected through the prism of the NSA system introduced in the alliance's intelligence five eyes whose members include also the UK, the Canada, the Australia and the New Zealand.
But why Western security agencies have developed such an unprecedented ability to spy on their own domestic populations? Since the economic crash of 2008, security services have increasingly touted by political activists, especially from the environmental groups, on behalf of the interests companies. This activity is related to the last decade of planning by the defense, which has been increasingly preoccupied by the risk of civil unrest at home triggered by catastrophic events related to climate change, energy shocks or economic crisis - or all three.
Last month, unilateral changes to military law U.S. officially granted the extraordinary powers of the Pentagon to intervene in an Interior "emergency" or "public disorder":
"Federal military commanders have the power, in exceptional circumstances of emergency where a prior permission of the President is impossible and duly constituted local authorities are unable to control the situation, to temporarily carry out activities needed to suppress civil large-scale, unexpected problems."
Other documents that comprise 'extraordinary emergencies', that the Pentagon is concerned about a range of environmental and related disasters.
In 2006, the American national security strategy warned that:
Destruction of the environment, whether caused by human behavior or cataclysmic mega-disasters such as floods, hurricanes, earthquakes or tsunamis. Problems of such magnitude can overwhelm the ability of local authorities to react and can even overtax national military, which requires a greater international response. »
Two years later, the Department of the army modernization strategy defense (DoD) describes the arrival of a new "era of persistent conflict" because of the competition for "depleting natural resources and overseas markets" refuelling "resources future wars on water, food and energy." The report predicted a resurgence of:
'anti-Government and radical ideologies that potentially threaten the stability of the Government.'
The same year, a report by the Institute of strategic studies of the U.S. Army warned that a series of national crises could cause problems on a large scale of civilians. The path to the 'disruptive domestic shock' could include traditional threats such as the deployment of weapons of mass destruction, alongside "natural and human disasters" or "ubiquitous health emergency" which coincides with "unforeseen economic collapse." These crises may lead to "loss of functioning political and legal order" leading to "purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency...".
"DoD might be forced by circumstances to put its vast resources at the disposal of the civil authorities to contain and reverse violent threats to inner peace. Under the most extreme circumstances, this may include the use of military force against hostile groups inside the United States. "In addition, DoD would, by necessity, a hub enabling essential for the continuity of political authority in a civil conflict in several U.S. States or disruption or across the country."
This year, the Pentagon had begun to develop a 20,000 strong troop force that would be on-site to meet "household disasters" and civil unrest - program would have rested on a 2005 homeland security strategy that emphasized "preparing multiple incidents, simultaneous injured."
The following year, a study funded by the U.S. Army RAND Corp. called for a US force presence specifically to face civil unrest.
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