2013 NDAA Law Allows Obama to Take Over All Media

Another bad law that the media of disinformation won't provide to the sheeple is the one that allows Obama to take over all media. Never heard about this? I'm not surprised. Those who only get their so-called "news" from the alphabet soup BADministration propaganda machine will not learn of this. It's all by design, people! There are those who are fighting back against this rage of the O machine. Fox News often puts up a fight, but even they won't go so far as to tell the truth about Zero's 100% fake B.C.! Oh I know...the "birther" issue again. However, when fraud is detected, discovered and proven, we have an additional crime at hand!

LAW ENFORCEMENT AGREES

SHERIFF ARPAIO: IT'S FELONY FRAUD
SHERIFF MACK: IT'S A FAKE, A FRAUD, A LIE!
POLICE CHIEF KESSLER: IT'S FORGED AND THERE'S A MEDIA BLACKOUT
COURT-CERTIFIED FRAUD EXAMINER: IT'S ENTIRELY FABRICATED
Hat tip:  Commieblaster.com


But let's get back to the topic at hand, shall we?

If this doesn't get the hair on the back of your neck to stand up, probably nothing will!


WND: New law 'allows Obama to take over all media' 'Your government is acting in open, undeclared, but blatant treason'

Excerpt:

An online radio host is sounding the alarm over a brand-new law he claims grants the federal government massive new powers to saturate Americans with domestic propaganda at U.S. taxpayer expense
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“This law allows the federal government to have sweeping power to push television, radio, newspaper and social-media propaganda onto the U.S. public,” warns Michael Evans of America’s Voice Now.

“It removes protection for Americans from the ideological diarrhea that will pour forth from this administration like ejected vomit.”


Evans is referring to the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, sponsored by Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, and Rep. Adam Smith, D- Wash., which was inserted into the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act.

According to John Hudson of Foreign Policy Magazine, “For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government’s mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences. But on July 2, that came silently to an end with the implementation of a new reform passed in January. The result: an unleashing of thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption in a reform initially criticized as a green light for U.S. domestic propaganda efforts.”

The U.S. government has been in the business of broadcasting news and opinions into foreign countries through such famous outlets as the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks
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But now, critics believe millions of dollars will be spent by the government trying to influence citizens within its own borders.

Evans says America has been protected from this over the years for good reason
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“The types of information that we promulgate overseas to foreigners is disinformation. It is meant to confuse, distract, redirect. It is not meant to be an informative source of news,” he explained.

 

“Don’t misunderstand what I’m saying. There is already, for all intents and purposes, an organization in the United States that does this. It’s called MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News. They are an arm of propaganda. But if you think things were bad before with those groups, wait till you see what’s gonna come out of them now. They’ll be reporting government misinformation as factual news stories, and a gullible American public will swallow it hook, line and sinker.”

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The bill itself states: “The Secretary and the Broadcasting Board of Governors are authorized to use funds appropriated or otherwise made available for public diplomacy information programs to provide for the preparation, dissemination, and use of information intended for foreign audiences abroad about the United States, its people, and its policies, through press, publications, radio, motion pictures, the Internet, and other information media, including social media, and through information centers, instructors, and other direct or indirect means of communication. …
It also notes: “No funds authorized to be appropriated to the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors shall be used to influence public opinion in the United States.”
Yet there’s also a provision indicating produced material can be used inside the U.S., stating: “Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors from engaging in any medium or form of communication, either directly or indirectly, because a United States domestic audience is or may be thereby exposed to program material, or based on a presumption of such exposure. Such material may be made available within the United States and disseminated … .”

Evans took special note about the funds “appropriated or otherwise made available.”
“It doesn’t open a door. It doesn’t open a window,” he explains. “It opens a wall that will allow NGOs, non-governmental organizations, who have a globalist ideology and a globalist agenda, to fund this type of abuse.”

Because the measure is so new, Evans says America hasn’t even begun to see its effects yet.

 

“All this nonsense about the Department of Justice organizing, participating and assisting in Trayvon Martin reprisal rallies – that’s exactly what you’re gonna get, and you’re gonna get it by a landslide. You haven’t even begun to smell the danger of this one yet, people. And here’s the worst part. You’ll never know if what you’re hearing is true news or propaganda. So the idea that there can be a news media that can inform the American public is forever gone. You’ll never know going forward if this is propaganda or if this is a news story.”

He continued: “The low-information, vast majority of America, the people who are willing to accept whatever is basically poured into their ears, will be so inundated with disinformation, they will never even be aware that they’re being played, that they are being used, that they are pawns for manipulation to achieve government’s nefarious ends. And I do mean nefarious because only a government who had evil intent would attempt to utilize a tactic like this.”

Evans is even breaking out the “T-word,” calling the measure “treason.”

“When you violate your oath and you work against the best interests of your nation willfully, knowingly, with malice aforethought, ladies and gentlemen, that qualifies as treason. I’m telling you now that your government is acting in open, undeclared, but blatant treason,” he said.
He also believes Americans will actually be paying for the propaganda used on them.

“The idea that you are willing to pay for your own demise through taxpayer-funded boondoggles like this and many others is an unconscionable use of the taxing authority,” Evans said.

Continue reading HERE.

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Similarly to ObamaCare Hellscare, the effects of this additional terrible "law" will gradually (and horribly) be felt by the people. 

Recall how the TEA Party Patriots protested at hundreds of venues across the United States back in 2009, warning how BAD the Stealthcare law would be?  Now, even some of the union bosses who originally supported it are outraged by "what's in the bill!!"   Recall when Nancy PeLIARsi stupidly stated, "we need to pass the bill to see what's in it."  That kind of liberal/socialist/commie foolish drivel is what gets our nation into BIG trouble!

Need an example of the propaganda machine at work?  How about a brave soul who is now countering the Rolling Stone glorification of the Boston Bomber terrorist, and ended up losing his job because of it?


Legal Insurrection: Mass. State Trooper Releases Tsarnaev Capture Photos in Response to Rolling Stone Cover.

If you think for one minute that the Rolling Stone cover photo wasn't approved by the BHO BADministration, then you have your head in the sand!

Over at College Insurrection, we have dueling professors - some telling the truth and other using propaganda doublespeak:

Journalism Profs examine Rolling Stone’s “Jahar” cover.


Doublespeak example:

“The role of media is to inform and provide context for events. To the extent that this story gives us more information about this horrible tragedy, it is valuable,” he says via e-mail, adding that hopefully stories like these will only improve our understanding of what went wrong here so future incidents like these can be avoided. “Choking off or censoring stories like these is not the solution to the problem, nor does it help us move forward as a society,” Professor Tatge adds.

Truthful example:

But comparisons to magazine covers featuring such historical evil-doers as Osama bin Laden miss the mark, suggests Brian Heffron, a former journalist and now Boston public relations professional.

“This feels very different than, say, a cover story of bin Laden in Time,” he says, adding that whether it is the style of the photo or the simple fact that it’s on Rolling Stone, “it seems to glorify this alleged terrorist. The magazine seems to be romanticizing him as a James Dean rebel and not profiling a mass murderer.”

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God's Word always shines through the darkness of this fallen world.  Being aware of it will save you the trouble of trying to figure out the truth from the lie.



Mark Hillyard:

God uses people to do the things He has in mind. This passage comes to mind: 11 "And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12That they all might be damned (judged) who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."

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truthtalker:

God didn't wring his hands when Obama won the election in 2008 nor in 2012. In fact, he not only allowed it to be so, he even ordained it to be so.

Daniel chapter 4, relates the story of Nebuchadnezzar's pride and arrogance and how GOD dealt with him.to prove who was really in control.

verse 17...Nebuchadnezzar quotes the watcher from heaven who told him God determines who rules the kingdoms of men
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Verse 25... The prophet Daniel tells Nebuchadnezzar the same thing. That God is about to prove who determines the rulers of men.

Verse 32... The watcher of heaven declares the same thing to Nebuchadnezzar.

God purposed that Obama would be in office for the same reason that he had Samuel anoint Saul king of Israel. The people did not want to be under Gods rule. They wanted a king like the nations around them. They rejected God. And God told Samuel the same thing. They have not rejected you Samuel... They have rejected me.

Likewise has America rejected God. Open homosexuality and lesbianism... open murder of innocent unborn children, drunkenness, depravity, adultery, lying for any reason but especially in the name of political expediency, divorce, not to mention an arrogant pride that rejects God and his word.

He gave America a president that reflects the wickedness of the nation.

Hat tips to all links and each commenter shared here.

Would The U.S. Gov. Knowingly Tell Lies To Its People To Promote Their Agenda?

 

I know...sounds like a silly question.  After all that we have seen in the BHO BADministration, the answer to THAT question is YES THEY WOULD!  However, do we know why they could get away with it all?


With the blatant cover-ups of Fast and Furious, and the 9/11/12 Benghazi attack, why shouldn't the public question all of the inconsistencies, strange interviews, secrecy, weird photos, crisis actors and events surrounding the Sandy Hook tragedy?

While reading comments over at Professor Tracy's Memory Hole Blog I ran across a comment that propelled me to do some additional research.

Here is a copy of the comment:

DyingTruth

January 16, 2013 at 7:24 pm

 

I think it’s also important to mention the fact that Government Propaganda/Psychological Warfare against the American People has been legalized via NDAA, has been added to the bigger picture and cannot be disregarded when these issues are discussed and considered.


CSC.ASU.edu: Smith-Mundt Has Been Modernized.

One thing that caught my attention in the Medical Examiner’s press conference video was his acknowledgement that this case would be handled differently than others he’s worked on, and more importantly his assuredness that he wouldn’t have to worry about any pending/future court proceedings.

I thought to myself “20 children died while in the custody of a public institution and out of the presence of their parents. Does Mr. Carver not know that these same parents as well as the rest of the public also have access to the courts? And given the circumstances, one could expect a grieving parent or parents to file a lawsuit demanding some form of accountability, because I wouldn’t expect all the parents to be taking this as good as Robbie Parker has been.
 

The link within the above comment tells us that: Smith-Mundt Has Been Modernized. What is Smith-Mundt? Well that link is supposed to inform us. However, I needed to learn more about Smith-Mundt and the NDAA connection.

At the end of the first article CSC.ASU.edu: Smith-Mundt Has Been Modernized. (which was unsatisfying for me and didn't give enough information) there are additional links:

Related posts:

1. New Law Ends Smith-Mundt Ban On Domestic Dissemination Of Content
2. Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 introduced in the House
3. Public Diplomacy: The most unsettling section of the Smith-Mundt "modernization bill"
4. Critics Fret About Smith-Mundt Modernization Act
5. When do we start the honest debate over the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act?

I clicked on the first one, and then the fourth one.

The following essay gives us a better explanation of what this new law is really all about. It would appear that the author (based on his last sentence) is concerned about this new law.

 Copy of related post # 1:

John Brown Notes and Essays blog: Sunday, January 6, 2013 New Law Ends Smith-Mundt Ban On Domestic Dissemination Of Content

President Barack Obama this week signed into law a provision that lifts a nearly 65-year ban on domestic distribution of BBG content. But for BBG broadcasters, it’s business as usual…

As part of a defense authorization bill signed this week by the President, a World War II era [I would say early Cold-War era - JB] ban on domestic dissemination of BBG content was lifted.

Generally known as the Smith-Mundt Act, after its sponsors, a portion of the 1948 law prevented content intended for global audiences from being broadcast or distributed in the United States. It was intended, in part, to prevent what were then wartime overseas propaganda efforts from being directed toward U.S. citizens.

Worth noting, there is much more to Smith-Mundt than the domestic dissemination ban – much of it beneficial to U.S. international broadcasting.

However, much has changed since the Cold War, making the domestic dissemination ban portion of Smith-Mundt less necessary, and even potentially problematic.

For example, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, originally a CIA-funded entity, left that agency in 1972, found its way into the United States Information Agency, which was ultimately spun into the Broadcasting Board of Governors. That’s a brief history, but one meant to show the evolution toward its current situation — one guarded by a firewall intended to protect its journalistic integrity.

Radio Martí joined VOA and RFE/RL in 1985, along with Radio Free Asia in 1996, and Middle East Broadcasting Networks eight years later.

As content offerings grew, so did requests for that content from a rising number of U.S.-based ethnic broadcasters serving diaspora populations. Under the domestic dissemination ban, those requests, which ranged from Sudanese broadcasters in Minnesota to Cuban community broadcasters in Miami, were officially denied. The truth is, however, that many ethnic broadcasters used them regardless.

As internet distribution became available, keeping a lid on BBG content in the U.S. became even more difficult. The BBG could certainly geocode the content to prevent U.S. audiences from accessing it, but censoring the internet in a country with a founding tenet of freedom of the press was seen as a non-starter.

But even geocoding would not be the end of it. VOA Russian, for example, can be seen almost daily in New York City as local cable channel operators import Russian-language channels from overseas.

Enforcing the Smith-Mundt dissemination ban would become akin to a game of whac-a-mole.

In 2010, the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act was introduced, intended to lift the ban but not repeal the entire act. The Act was reintroduced in 2011, with a similar provision finally passing and signed on January 2, 2013. Lifting the ban was one of the goals set forth in the BBG’s most recent strategic plan.

For broadcasters, the change means little on a day-to-day basis – other than they need to worry less about their content popping up in the U.S.

Still, no money can be used to create content directed at domestic audiences, and there are no plans to measure any domestic audiences that may occur. [given this restriction, is the headline to this announcement quite correct? - JB]

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The #4 related post is entitled Critics Fret About Smith-Mundt Modernization Act. This particular author tells about the concern of the critics, but doesn't seem to be on board with their concerns.

Excerpt:

The House of Representatives has been working to amend the laws that govern the dissemination of “propaganda” materials in the U.S. What seemed like a good idea to me and others–one long overdue–is being spun by some observers as a dark effort by the DoD and State Department who want authorization to brainwash Americans.

Last night Buzzfeed posted an article claiming that the changes were being quietly inserted into a defense authorization bill. However, as Matt Armstrong reported, the changes were also part of a stand-alone bill (H.R. 5736) introduced last week. I confess I am no expert on the arcania of legislative machinery, but the fact that this bill was introduced a week ago and published by the Library of Congress–then later attached to the defense bill–strikes me as more of a procedural move than an effort to sneak something through.

In a further effort to build a sinister narrative, Buzzfeed frets that this is some sort of effort to enable unfettered psychological operations by the military and government on the U.S. population. Assorted quotes from the article:

The bill’s supporters say the informational material used overseas to influence foreign audiences is too good to not use at home, and that new techniques are needed to help fight Al-Qaeda, a borderless enemy whose own propaganda reaches Americans online.
The new law would give sweeping powers to the State Department and Pentagon to push television, radio, newspaper, and social media onto the U.S. public.
“Senior public affairs” officers within the Department of Defense want to “get rid” of Smith-Mundt and other restrictions because it prevents information activities designed to prop up unpopular policies—like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I am not a legal expert, and I suppose changes could have these kinds of consequences if not made carefully. But I doubt these these are the intended outcomes.

The author ends his post by saying:

Unintentional domestic dissemination is one thing, but what about more intentional efforts critics are claiming this legislation would enable? The language in the House bill seems clear enough that it only applies to “materials prepared for dissemination abroad” and does not in any way authorize expenditures for targeted influence of domestic audiences.

Despite the fact that author Steven R. Corman seems to pooh-pooh the concerns, his update is filled with more articles of individual writers being HIGHLY concerned about this!!   There are also "progressive" opinions at some of the links where we are being told that there is nothing to worry about.

My question.

If the Sandy Hook shooting was indeed a false flag operation and/or psy-ops "drill" that went awry, can it be that due to this new law it would actually be considered "legal" for the BHO BADministration to do that???

Scary thought...isn't it?

After all, it has given BHO the ability to surround himself with children while he signs 23 executive orders regarding gun control.  However, the fake "letters" from the children were so obviously coerced by adults.  Using children in your propaganda agenda is absolutely disgusting!!  Well, other Marxists like Stalin and National Socialists (Nazis) like Hitler did it too!

I am continually amazed at the lengths these evil tyrants will go to stomp on our Constitutional rights through pressing their hateful rhetoric, obvious propaganda,  and hated Marxist agenda upon our Constitutional Republic!  More Americans need to wake up and smell the tyranny!

Talk Wisdom Reports - You Decide

~ Christine

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Update May 23
This story continues to generate buzz. Here is a selection of recent opinion:

• NDAA 2013: Congress approves domestic deceptive propaganda (rt.com, Russian “anonymous nonprofit organization.” Hmm.) Reauthorizing the indefinite detention of US citizens without charge might be the scariest provision in next year’s defense spending bill, but it certainly isn’t the only one worth worrying about. An amendment tagged on the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 would allow for the United States government to create and distribute pro-American propaganda within the country’s own borders under the alleged purpose of putting al-Qaeda’s attempts at persuading the world against Western ideals on ice.
• Democrat Defends “Propaganda” Bill (Rebecca Elliot, BuzzFeed) Rep. Adam Smith from Washington championed the defense bill amendment that will “strike the current ban on domestic dissemination” of propaganda in an interview with Salon’s Glenn Greenwald earlier today.Repealing the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 is “not about trying to influence domestic audiences,” Smith emphaized. Rather, he intends the amendment to free up current restrictions placed on foreign information campaigns.
• U.S. declares propaganda war on citizens (David Pruitt, The Alestle). I can appreciate security, and I’m sure some good arguments could be brought forward for a change in the policy. However, the government’s sexy smile and little wink does nothing to reassure me of any noble intentions. I have grown tired of overused phrases like “you can trust me” and “everybody else is doing it.” The government has a major image problem when it comes to being considered trustworthy. It would be just a matter of time before a self-serving politician used the bill to start another war or bail out another bank and tell us — well, whatever.
• Smith-Mundt Modernization: Better Late than Never (Helle Dale, Heritage). Critics have already voiced concerns that this will open the floodgates of propaganda by the U.S. government. This is hardly likely. Indeed, access to programs and materials produced by the State and the BBG will allow Congress and the public a better understanding of what we are funding. Much of it is high-quality journalism, which deserves support, and some programming could have a positive impact on certain immigrant communities in the United States that are vulnerable to radicalization. As for programming and materials that are controversial, questionable, or wasteful, doesn’t the U.S. public deserve to know what is being published or broadcast in its name?
• Are Government’s ‘Strategic Communications’ Coming to American Airwaves? (Rachel Marsden, Townhall). I see. So the Smith-Mundt Act was strictly limited to countering communist propaganda overseas, because the idea of conducting government propaganda operations within a country at a time when Joseph Goebbels was a household name would have triggered post-traumatic stress.
• Our View: Truth The Best Tool In Our Defense Efforts (Yankton Press & Dakotan editorial). Does issuing distorted information to our own public make us any better than those who spew out misinformation for their own ends? Americans are better served by the truth. Whether we’re truly getting that now from our own defense department (let alone our news organizations) is certainly debatable, but that debate is just as important and vital to public morale as any news release or communiqué. Keep the laws as they are — strengthen them, in fact — and maintain an America with eyes wide open. The truth is the best antidote to distortion. It may not set as free, but it will certainly keep us free to think.
• Consider this: American Dollars on American Propaganda to Brainwash American Citizens (Lisa Cerda, City Watch LA). y striking the existing ban on domestic misinformation campaigns, Americans can expect to be programmed on an even greater scale than ever before. Many would argue that the most prolific misinformation campaign comes in the way of our American History books in our schools. Others would say it is the gag order fueled by corporate interests on our mainstream media
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• NDAA Amendment Would Legalize War Propaganda (John Glaser, Antiwar Blog). In other words, people are getting information online that we don’t want people to have – therefore, legalize domestic propaganda. So NDAA is the latest effort by Congress (after SOPA, CISPA and the others) to take control of the best resource the American people have. The Internet is too open, too free, too…subversive. We need information the government wants us to have, not all that other stuff.
• Proposed US law makes domestic propaganda legal (Cory Doctrow, BoingBoing). The amendment, sponsored by Rep. Mac Thornberry from Texas and Rep. Adam Smith from Washington State, would allow the US government to knowingly tell lies to its people in order to promote the government’s own policies.
• Misleading Your Own (“The Reverend,” Akron Beakon Journal Online). So, I guess giving U.S. government and military officials the power to purposely deceive and mislead Americans into accepting policies which are unpopular….like more war….is just the natural flow of events for a rotted, bloated and declining Empire. The Soviets regularly lied to, deceived and misled their citizens about military adventurism, about worker productivity,…about the United States. The Soviets misled their people to help bolster acceptance of their policies, foreign and domestic. In the long run, that didn’t work. And it will not work for the U.S.A. either.

Hat tips to all links.

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Update:

Commieblaster has a round-up of reactions against BHO's gun control executive orders. Here are just a few:

LATEST COMMIE NEWS
Updated: Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 5:59 AM

With Stroke of Pen: Obama Moves to Ban Sale and Manufacture of Semi-Automatic Weapons	01.16.13
Obama's Begging for Impeachment	01.16.13
Rand Paul: Obama Breaking the Law, Has King Complex	01.16.13
Oregon Sheriff Tells Obama: Illegal, We will Not Enforce	01.16.13
NRA AD: MSM Speaks for Elites, America Speaks for Itself	01.16.13
Citizens from 47 States Revolt Against Obama Orders	01.16.13
Flashback: Heston Talks to Al Gore About Gun Rights	01.16.13
Piers Morgan Loses Another Gun Debate	01.16.13