ECHELON

Now here is "secret" government program that will raise hairs on the back of your head in the same way as if your TV set, cell phone, and Ipod all started blinking and repeating "Big Brother is Watching You," "Big Brother is Watching You," "Big Brother is Watching You"!

An international system created between the secret services of America and England to monitor radio and satellite communication, phones, faxes, emails, and other "data streams."

According to Wikipedia:

US intelligence agencies are generally prohibited from spying on people inside the US, and other Western countries' intelligence services generally faced similar restrictions within their own countries. There are allegations, however, that ECHELON and the UKUSA alliance were used to circumvent these restrictions by, for example, having the UK facilities spy on people inside the US and the US facilities spy on people in the UK, with the agencies exchanging data.

The problem is as utterly outlandish as this sounds, given who is in charge, it is completely believeable. Yow! At least they are not monitoring blogs! We are safe!