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Surveillance powers icreases everywhere!
This is already happening here in The USA with Secret Courts,Data mining,military face scanners,license plate readers,Surveillance cameras,e-mails,phone registers on all calls and Internet data on all searches with your internet providers!
Beware your profile is always being up dated by big brother! Have no fear it's all for your safety and protection from terrorist and other rogue governments!
serf
http://www.dw.com/en/uk-lawmakers-approve-most-sweeping-surveillance-powers/a-36449704?maca=en-newsletter_en_Newsline-2356-html-newsletter
The UK has granted unprecedented powers to police and spy agencies that critics warn is the most far-reaching of any democracy. The Investigatory Powers Bill, dubbed the Snoopers' Charter, had little opposition.
In Germany, recent legislation, and a controversial court decision, has expanded the state's intelligence agency's surveillance powers for counterterrorism operations. That law empowers state security agents to spy on allies and even EU institutions in the event of a perceived security threat.
Beware your profile is always being up dated by big brother! Have no fear it's all for your safety and protection from terrorist and other rogue governments!
serf
http://www.dw.com/en/uk-lawmakers-approve-most-sweeping-surveillance-powers/a-36449704?maca=en-newsletter_en_Newsline-2356-html-newsletter
The UK has granted unprecedented powers to police and spy agencies that critics warn is the most far-reaching of any democracy. The Investigatory Powers Bill, dubbed the Snoopers' Charter, had little opposition.
In Germany, recent legislation, and a controversial court decision, has expanded the state's intelligence agency's surveillance powers for counterterrorism operations. That law empowers state security agents to spy on allies and even EU institutions in the event of a perceived security threat.
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The FSA may/will USE aerial photos but they won't/can't "do crop measurements and estimated yields" on the ground w/o permission to enter.
I work for a government agency (not FSA).
It is fairly easy to determine acreages and crops planted from current overhead photos-I can tell the acres planted, crop, growth stage, row width, and often how many times it was sprayed AND have multiple sources of overhead pics that are public information.
"years ago i tried that with the county FSA office..said i wanted to be out of all govt farm programs and wanted my date expunged....was told NO CAN DO...you don't have to be involved but we will gather all the data on your farms, take all the aerial and sat photos and do crop measurements estimated yields, conservation changes, etc,etc anyway .."
The FSA may/will USE aerial photos but they won't/can't "do crop measurements and estimated yields" on the ground w/o permission to enter.
I work for a government agency (not FSA).
It is fairly easy to determine acreages and crops planted from current overhead photos-I can tell the acres planted, crop, growth stage, row width, and often how many times it was sprayed AND have multiple sources of overhead pics that are public information.
So if food became scarce and your crops was considered food they could demand your crops as theirs and control all your output? Seems it's all about control and The government is becoming the biggest collector for all data but it's all for your health and safety of course.
Remember what they did to The South by General Sherman.
http://www.civilwar.org/hallowed-ground-magazine/fall-2014/scorched-earth.html#
Georgia, stretching before Sherman's army with its red clay hills and sandy terrain, was the largest of the Confederate states. It had some large plantations, but many more small farms growing a variety of products: vegetables, cotton, sweet potatoes and, in marshy areas, rice and sugar cane. Well known to Sherman from his study of the 1860 census, Georgia's fertile soil still held potential to feed the ravenous Confederacy. Although beef cattle trudged along with his army, and he had his men fill their haversacks with food before they left, he knew that they could live off the Georgia land.