Below is a photo of Menwith Hill station, purchased by the NSA. In fact the NSA was a major player, including the purchase of a patent they developed for ECHELON, which in its most base can be related to fuzzy logic. The system could analyze data and sort it not by just key words, but could actually "define" its content with words not even found in the data itself.
The large white spheres are known as 'radomes' and are essentially casing for satellite dishes to make it impossible to see in which direction they point.
Remember that this had been going on for *years* and it wasn't until some companies complained about suspiciously losing bids that it was investigated. I believe the first official confrontation that brought it to the public's eye was through an Australian news station.
You can find all kinds of information by just googling the key words.
More general info on World Info.org and the NSA's involvement.
How does this make you feel? How does this very real example fit into our discussion this week of *topias? Those who believe that legislation can help, who is realistically capable of holding some of the most powerful nations in the world accountable when we don't even know what they're doing as was the case for several years with this example?
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