NSA: "Increasingly the environment is becoming an adversary for us."

[mamooth]

An interesting quote, for sure. Needs context, of course.

For the NSA, espionage was a means to strengthen the US position in climate negotiations | Information
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Then US Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, James R. Clapper, who now oversees the NSA as Director of National Intelligence, is quoted from an internal NSA conference:

»Increasingly the environment is becoming an adversary for us. And I believe that the capabilities and assets of the Intelligence Community are going to be brought to bear increasingly in assessing the environment as an adversary.«
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Keep reading, and you find he meant that environmental changes were causing other nations to take positions adversarial to US big money interests, therefore the NSA thought it necessary to spy on those other nations. Essentially, the NSA spied in order to help sabotage the Copenhagen climate talks.

 

[flacaltenn]

This is just truely weird.. NSA does a role to provide comm intel on Foreign countries.. Friend or Foe.
But what's apparently happening here is a bid to gain negotiating strengths for the US at talks. NOT because NSA is taking a stand on CC or AGW.

If you follow the links thru --- the danish report is based on an NSA leaked doc that describes how NSA collected evidence of China and India posturing together to build an "Asian Developing powers" caucus at the talks. SOMEBODY needs to understands the backstory for why these talks consistently result in a foodfight followed by walk-outs..

Info that NSA supplies could be used in many ways towards these conferences. No judgement is being made on the CONTENT of those talks..
Big Shame here is that we get to read about this in DANISH press reports.. We're doomed if our media has Bieber Fever..

 

[Abishai100]

Green Mobilization

Eco-activists are using American pop culture art avatars such as the eco-terrorist character Poison Ivy (DC Comics) in discussions about environment-minded lifestyle.

Dialogue about the environment has become rather colloquialized and is all over the Internet.

This Halloween, kids are pondering wearing eco-themed green-colored costumes. Everyday eco-activists are buying green-colored raincoats. American fast food joints are advertising 'eco-friendly' production procedures and policies. Families are purchasing eco-attention green-colored Christmas lights.

The NSA has a right to ponder such culture mind changes which coincide incidentally with modern geo-politics. Algeria, a prominent member of OPEC is arguably ahead of the USA in eco-friendly wind energy development.


Ask your local politician about 'green media.'




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[Crick]

Yeah... people wearing green rain coats... that's what we ought to be worried about.

 

[Rotagilla]

If the politicians refuse to close the border..a national security issue...then the NSA has no business collecting metadata on american citizens in the name of "national security"

 

[Mr. H.]

Yeah... people wearing green rain coats... that's what we ought to be worried about.

Raincoats made from hydrocarbons.

We have entered into the realm of enviro-paranoia.

This "global-weather-is-different-from-one-day-to-the other"is a goddamn cottage industry unto itself.

 

[flacaltenn]

It's about frickin time that the Green Gangstas had a proper uniform with their Gang colors.. What took so long ? Can't wait for the Crips and Bloods to go holy hell on the Greens roaming their hoods.