How Israeli High-Tech Firms Are Turning the U.S.-Mexico Border into a New Kind of Hell
U.S. borderlands are laboratories for nightmarish innovations.By Todd Miller, Gabriel Schivone / TomDispatch January 25, 2015
Elkabetz was speaking at a border technology conference and fair surrounded by a dazzling display of technology -- the components of his boundary-building lab. There were surveillance balloons with high-powered cameras floating over a desert-camouflaged armored vehicle made by Lockheed Martin. There were seismic sensor systems used to detect the movement of people and other wonders of the modern border-policing world. Around Elkabetz, you could see vivid examples of where the future of such policing was heading, as imagined not by a dystopian science fiction writer but by some of the top corporate techno-innovators on the planet.
Swimming in a sea of border security, the brigadier general was, however, not surrounded by the Mediterranean but by a parched West Texas landscape. He was in El Paso, a 10-minute walk from the wall that separates the United States from Mexico.
Just a few more minutes on foot and Elkabetz could have watched green-striped U.S. Border Patrol vehicles inching along the trickling Rio Grande in front of Ciudad Juarez, one of Mexicos largest cities filled with U.S. factories and the dead of that countrys drug wars. The Border Patrol agents whom the general might have spotted were then being up-armored with a lethal combination of surveillance technologies, military hardware, assault rifles, helicopters, and drones. This once-peaceful place was being transformed into what Timothy Dunn, in his book The Militarization of the U.S. Mexico Border, terms a state of low-intensity warfare.
Full article: http://www.alternet.org/world/how-israeli-high-tech-firms-are-turning-us-mexico-border-new-kind-hell?akid=12719.44541.z5AtTh&rd=1&src=newsletter1030855&t=7
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KoKo
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A chilling but important read with info we aren't going to see reported in our MIC/MSM where the average person gets their news.
Also reveals why John McCain retains his power and popularity and is seen wherever trouble can be stirred up in partnership or alliance with Right Wing ruling interests around the world. Although McCain isn't mentioned in the article.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)their sorry media ass.
bemildred
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MisterP
(23,730 posts)Rios Montt was notorious for sweeps where whole villages were burned and residents deliberately shot so that the survivors would be resettled into garrison-hamlets, guarded by more Maya villagers conscripted into "self-defense" units: this was exactly what Israel had been trying in south Lebanon since 1978
7962
(11,841 posts)They have southern borders too. How do THEY handle immigration?