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| The US Congressional Committee on Foreign Affairs has decided to remove the U.S. Ambassador to the United States | |
| from the United States. | |
| The US Congressional Committee on the Rights of the Deaf and the Deaf-Blind is a joint effort by the US Department | |
| of State and the Department of Health and Human Services to promote the rights of the deaf and the blind. | |
| government created a secret social media platform aimed at taking down Cuba's communist government. | |
| With the recent introduction of cell phone use in Cuba, U.S. | |
| officials saw the perfect opportunity to reach hundreds of thousands on the island. | |
| The plan was to launch a Cuban Twitter, using cell phone text messaging to evade Cuba's | |
| strict control of information and Internet regulation. | |
| Initially, users would receive non-controversial content, like news messages on soccer games | |
| or music and hurricane updates. | |
| Later, when the network reached a critical mass of subscribers, operators would introduce | |
| political content aimed at inspiring Cubans to organize smart mobs, mass gatherings called | |
| at a moment's notice that might trigger a Cuban Spring. | |
| This was incredibly dangerous for the some 40,000 young Cubans who were interacting with the platform. | |
| They had no idea that the messages they thought were uninfluenced by their government were in fact financed by the U.S. | |
| government and influenced by its agenda. | |
| Social media platforms like Twitter have aided uprisings in several countries. | |
| And in 2011, Hillary Clinton admitted the U.S. | |
| helped people in oppressive Internet environments get around filters. | |
| There's no telling how many of these uprisings have been financed and influenced by the U.S. | |
| government. | |
| But while the U.S. | |
| government admits that social media is a powerful tool in taking down regimes overseas, it wouldn't like to see technology having that same effect here in America. | |
| That's why every year we're seeing legislation like SOPA, CISPA and PIPA, as well as the executive order signed by Obama that gives him the authority to shut down the Internet. | |
| Instruments to fight the enemy abroad are now being used as tools of tyranny here in America. | |
| Tanks used for war are now being brought to our streets. | |
| Urban warfare training has increased at home, and we are being openly propagandized to thanks to last year's reform of the Smith Month Act. | |
| The lifting of the propaganda ban will now allow a vast ocean of programming by Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and other media, which is now heard in over a hundred countries, to be heard here at home as well. | |
| Talk radio is and was the original alternative media. | |
| When print was controlled, when the TV was controlled, only three channels, it was talk radio where people could call in and talk about things. | |
| And so many stories would break regionally that would end up becoming very important. | |
| And it was the place that could change what was happening legislatively. | |
| Government, tyrants in government, have always feared talk radio. | |
| And they're doing everything they can to kill it now. |
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