Homeland Security Admits to Monitoring News For End Times
We’re not right-wing, left-wing or hot wings, we’re independent thinkers and unaffiliated political agents. But discussion of topics like nuclear weapons development and secret black ops programs have landed us on their watch list. How do we know? They admitted it!
The right-wing and Big Brother-wary breaking news giant Drudge Report is going out of its way to let the world know what social networks are being monitored and archived by Homeland Security. All public information posted to Facebook, MySpace and Twitter is being combed through and archived for future searches by the Federal government. This is something we’ve kind of known all along, but bringing this news to light in front of a huge audience is raising public awareness.
Drudge Report and Huffington Post were among those sites cited as being closely watched. Also on the list are various video and photo-sharing sites, including Hulu, Youtube and Flickr. Controversial sites like WikiLeaks and Cryptome were not surprising to see as well. Though News for End Times was not specifically listed in the report, (1) we’re small and we’re new and (2) there’s no way we’re not popping up on Homeland Security’s radar given the constant public sharing of this site’s content. In fact, one of our primary sources — Wired’s Danger Room blog — are right there on the list, so while we might be a small fry in the Fed’s eye compared to Wired, our topical coverage guarantees us a more prominent place in Homeland Security’s database.
My fear is not that the government will think News for End Times itself is some sort of threat. In fact, I think it’s pretty clear we’re trying to help people understand the threats they face so they can be better prepared to deal with them. My fear is that this will become another Red Scare scenario where anyone even talking about terrorism or huminatural threats (like hydrofracking) has pressure put on them to stop, which will chill free speech like it did back in the day. With draconian Internet censorship measures like SOPA and PIPA trying to steamroll the First Amendment, it certainly looks like the Fed is going in that direction.
Third Iranian Nuclear Scientist Assassinated
Though the U.S. denies it, the most recent and third assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist is clearly the work of Western agents to any analyst worth their salt. Witnesses described a scene fit for Hollywood but devastatingly real — two assailants whizzed by on a motorcycle and sped away, though not before attaching a magnetic car bomb to the vehicle that nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was in. The vehicle exploded, killing Roshan and injuring two others.
We are witnessing a new era of warfare where drones and black ops teams wipe enemies off the map outside the boundaries of war zones. Though it has taken some time, the militaries of the world, and in particular the U.S. military-industrial complex (which despite budget cuts will still be the world’s most-funded), are beginning to excel in trumping many of the tactics employed by asynchronous terrorist organizations in the past decade. Yet another recent example is the extension of drones from attack to supply vehicles, as seen target=”_blank”>in the development and eventual deployment of unmanned ‘drone’ helicopters.
It’s almost certain that the Western powers behind these clandestine attacks have taken many precautions to prevent being associated in the slightest. In a world of increasing surveillance and technological savvy, it will be interesting to see if their 21st century war maneuvers can remain untethered to any nationality or will continue to be mysterious and untraceable. For example, if the next assassination is somehow thwarted and the assassins are somehow detained, the foreign relations ramifications would be way worse than a mere drone being captured. Then again, can any intelligent person really doubt Western involvement at this point?