The next time you read something that comes across the internet or on your phone through Twitter or Facebook, think about this article from Zero Hedge.
In this case we have the following: "Their mission: to launch a messaging network that could reach hundreds of thousands of Cubans. To
hide the network from the Cuban government, they would set up a
byzantine system of front companies using a Cayman Islands bank account,
and recruit unsuspecting executives who would not be told of the
company’s ties to the U.S. government.
McSpedon didn’t work for the CIA. This
was a program paid for and run by the U.S. Agency for International
Development, best known for overseeing billions of dollars in U.S.
humanitarian aid."
So we have a federal government agency, tasked with providing humanitarian aid, helping to develop a social networking arena where our government could foment anti-government discussion and actions in a foreign country. Read the rest of the article to see how in depth the planning and efforts went to make this network look like a disinterested platform "of the people" yet in reality was nothing more than a tool to be used at an opportune time.
While I'm sure there are people in government who would emphatically declare that this would never happen on our soil, a government prepared to do this around the globe is not going to be stopped by something like borders if it means consolidating and holding its power. Sitting back and thinking a little, it kind of makes you wonder how that whole "Egyptian Spring" and Ukrainian "popular" uprising got started..and next time you read something on Twitter, you might want to think about the motivation behind the message.
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