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Utah looks to shut down NSA spying center

Utah Data Center of the NSA in Bluffdale, Utah CREDIT: Tom W. Suicer, SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons (Public Domain).

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Published on Nov 28, 2014

Utah lawmakers are considering a bill that would severely hinder the National Security Agency’s ability to work at its massive data center in the Beehive State. The legislation directs municipalities like Bluffdale, where the NSA’s building is located, to “refuse support to any federal agency which collects electronic data within this state.” RT’s Lindsay France takes a closer look at the bill and how it would affect the secretive spy agency.

Dig a little DEEPER ~ THEI.us Archive “Domestic Spying”

Mystery Underwater Crater Opens Up In Utah After ‘Small Eruption’

Featured Image: Great Blue Sinkhole, Belize. (Public Domain) Rated the #1 sinkhole in the world. From The Ten Most Amazing Sinkholes in The World , “The Great Blue Hole is an underwater sinkhole off the coast of Belize. The circular sinkhole measures 300 meters across and 124 meters deep and is in the center of the Lighthouse Reef.” . . . continue

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Dig a little Deeper ~ THEI Archive Underwater Mysteries

TPP protests hit Utah

Featured Image: TPP political map. dark green – currently in negotiations; light green – announced interest. CREDIT:Japinderum. SOURCE: Wikipedia (This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License.)

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Published on Nov 19, 2013

TPP Leaders_of_TPP_member_states CREDIT Gobierno de Chile SOURCE Wikipedia Commons Public Domain Image: A summit with leaders of the member states of the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPP). CREDIT: Gobierno de Chile SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons (This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.)

The lead negotiators for 12 countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership began meeting today in Salt Lake City, Utah. The TPP is a potential new trade deal that would open up markets among nations along the Pacific Rim. The negotiations have largely been secretive so far, but the agreement is expected to impact jobs, the environment, consumer safety and more. Last week, transparency organization WikiLeaks published leaked chapters of the TPP covering intellectual patents, and the organization’s co-founder, Julian Assange, slammed the deal. Ameera David speaks with RT’s Ramon Galindo, who is in Salt Lake City and attended demonstrations today against the TPP agreement.

Congress Pushes National Park Sale (Video Report)

Featured Image: 1938 poster for Yellowstone National Park. SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons (Public Domain)

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Published on Oct 23, 2013

Congress held discussions to sell the National Parks during the government shutdown through the Disposal of Excess Federal Lands Act, spearheaded by Jason Chaffetz (R-UT).
The sale would cover national parks in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, & Wyoming as a measure to “reduce the federal deficit.” We discuss the proposal on this Buzzsaw news clip with Tyrel Ventura and Tabetha Wallace.

Disturbing News on the Early Opening of NSA’s Utah Datacenter and the FBI

 Featured Image: The Utah Data Center located in Bluffdale, Utah. CREDIT: Swilsonmc SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons (This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license).

From Daily Kos SAT JUL 20, 2013 AT 11:26 AM PDT

It’s amazing what our inverted totalitarian government can accomplish when they focus their collective institutionally paranoid minds upon a project. Take the NSA’s massive surveillance data processing and collections center in Bluffdale, Utah. As James Bamford noted in early 2012, it was scheduled to be up and running by September 2013, two months from now. But, according to NSA whistleblower Russell Tice, it already is.

And, before reading this eye-opening piece, I just want to state the obvious to all those reading these words, because this certainly is worthy of repetition: The simple fact remains that if all this information (and I earn my livelihood, in part, by working with personal-private information on a daily basis) is accessible to domestic law enforcement authorities, IT WILL BE ABUSED, and it most certainly is being abused; and, sooner or later, the odds are that this abuse will egregiously target not just YOU (it already has), but virtually all that struggle via non-violent protest for change in America. . . . Read Complete Report

Utah_Data_Center_of_the_NSA_in_Bluffdale_Utah_CREDIT Tom W. Suicer SOURCE Wikipedia Commons Public DomainImage: The National Security Agency of the United States is building a giant data center in Bluffdale Utah. It will cost $2 billion and collect so-called “yottobytes” of information; a yottobyte is a septillion bytes (10^24). According to one report, “It’s a state-of-the-art facility designed to support the intelligence community in its mission to, in turn, enable and protect the nation’s cybersecurity.” It will collect a wide range of data about people to prevent terrorism. In addition, it will have powerful computers built to decipher encrypted information. Ref: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1 – The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) By James Bamford, Wired, 03.15.12; Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Conceptual Site plan. CREDIT: Tom W. Sulcer. Source: Wikipedia Commons. (This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication).

 

Prosecutors in Utah dismiss first ever ‘Ag-Gag’ case (Video Report)

Featured Image: Caution – Cows. SOURCE: publicdomainpictures.net.

Talk about laws on the books designed to protect corporations from truth seeking citizens and whistle blowers.  . . . . EDITOR 

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Published on May 1, 2013

Amy Meyer was being prosecuted for her alleged involvement in recording video on her cellphone showing the slaughter of cows at a meatpacking company in Utah. Meyer was facing class B misdemeanor charges for her actions, but the nation’s first prosecution by “Ag-Gag” laws was dismissed on Tuesday. RT’s Margaret Howell brings us up to speed on the case.
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