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CNN MSNBC ABC FOX CBS --- In 2013 Obama repealed the "Propaganda Law" (Smith–Mundt Act)

Posted on 08/15/2016 4:58:08 AM PDT by Enlightened1

CNN MSNBC ABC FOX CBS --- In 2013 Obama repealed the "Propaganda Law" (Smith–Mundt Act)

'Anti-Propaganda' Ban Repealed, Freeing State Dept. To Direct Its Broadcasting Arm At American Citizens
[link to www.techdirt.com (secure)]

The NDAA Legalizes The Use Of Propaganda On The US Public
[link to www.businessinsider.com]

U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans
[link to foreignpolicy.com]

US ends ban on 'domestic propaganda'
[link to www.rt.com (secure)]

US Government-Funded Domestic Propaganda Has Officially Hit The Airwaves
[link to www.sfgate.com]

 


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: hillary; media; ndaa; obama; propaganda; smithmundt; trump; uspropaganda
This explains the all out attack on Trump.
1 posted on 08/15/2016 4:58:08 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

Only the government shall have free speech in Obama/Hillary’s Amerika.


2 posted on 08/15/2016 5:00:31 AM PDT by txrefugee (..)
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To: Enlightened1

Links all go to godlikeproductions.com. why?


3 posted on 08/15/2016 5:00:33 AM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: Enlightened1

believe NOTHING that the government says
AND
you will be closer to the TRUTH
a cancer that is eating freedom bite by bite like pacman...


4 posted on 08/15/2016 5:01:05 AM PDT by zzwhale (no way)
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To: Enlightened1

Heard about this several months back on the “No Agenda” podcast. The government is now basically free to lie to the public thru domestic propaganda; for the public’s own good of course.

http://www.businessinsider.com/us-domestic-propaganda-officially-aired-2013-7


5 posted on 08/15/2016 5:11:32 AM PDT by Flick Lives (TRIGGER WARNING - Posts may require application of sarcasm filter)
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To: King Moonracer
I just clicked on each link, and it went to each site.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130715/11210223804/anti-propaganda-ban-repealed-freeing-state-dept-to-direct-its-broadcasting-arm-american-citizens.shtml

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/ndaa-legalizes-propaganda-2012-5

 

http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-ban-spreads-government-made-news-to-americans/

 

https://www.rt.com/usa/smith-mundt-domestic-propaganda-121/

 

http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/US-Government-Funded-Domestic-Propaganda-Has-4668001.php

 

6 posted on 08/15/2016 5:15:46 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

O..repeals laws???


7 posted on 08/15/2016 5:29:22 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Alinsky.....it's what's for dinner: with Cloward Piven for Dessert)
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To: Enlightened1

Oh no, the media were biased before. They just are their OWN WORST prejudiced critics now. If they (internally) even begin to stray off of the plantation now, they are re-assigned and re-corrected BY THEIR OWN WITHIN the MEDIA.

Now, the propaganda from the government is requested, used, and repeated - that is true. And, of course, it is what Obola-Hillery want. But it is minor compared to the media’s internal pressures of approval, and conformity, and self-doubt. .


8 posted on 08/15/2016 5:34:20 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Enlightened1; King Moonracer

US Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3043041/posts

Now Legalized, US Propaganda Swears It’s ‘Fair and Accurate’

http://antiwar.com/blog/2013/07/15/now-legalized-us-propaganda-swears-its-fair-and-accurate/

Smith Mundt Act Revoked

https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/5736
Shown Here:
Introduced in House (05/10/2012)
Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 - Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to authorize the Secretary of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors to provide for the preparation and dissemination of information intended for foreign audiences abroad about the United States, including about its people, its history, and the federal government’s policies, through press, publications, radio, motion pictures, the Internet, and other information media, including social media, and through information centers and instructors. (Under current law such authority is restricted to information disseminated abroad, with a limited domestic exception.)


9 posted on 08/15/2016 5:37:38 AM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: goodnesswins
goodnesswins :" O..repeals laws??? "

Why yes ,.. he only repeals laws that he finds inconvenient ,
especially if the feckless Congress won't do it's job, and help him.
He's our first Black Pres__ent doncha know ?
..and yet, he complains about white entitlement
Do I need a .. /s ??

10 posted on 08/15/2016 5:38:18 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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To: Enlightened1

How can zippy repeal any law??? Only by signing a bill passed by Congress. Where the GOPe has a majority.


11 posted on 08/15/2016 5:39:36 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("You can't fake good kids.")
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To: Enlightened1

There must have been a good reason why the original law was passed.


12 posted on 08/15/2016 5:55:05 AM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: Enlightened1

The Ministry of Propaganda has been propagandizing the US public for decades.


13 posted on 08/15/2016 5:55:09 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin; All

14 posted on 08/15/2016 5:57:23 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

thanks for fixing the links. Much obliged.


15 posted on 08/15/2016 6:29:16 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: Flick Lives

Thanks for correct link


16 posted on 08/15/2016 7:22:44 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Enlightened1

Trump is 100% correct to bring this issue of media bias front and centre, in this campaign it has be come as much an issue as free trade, the economy, crooked Hillary etc.

When the media pundits say he is getting off message they just do not want to become the focus of the corruption that is endemic in the media this is just a misdirect.

The internet and the MSM are Astroturfing/propagandising the public at every point on contact that has your eyes and ears.

The trolling on this forum during the primaries was unbelievable (ought to get that software that filters Astroturfing trolls supposed to be 95% effective) and is just a small % of what goes on.

Another article about the Smith-mund act
https://edstechreport2.wordpress.com/2016/07/10/astroturfing-and-politics-dangerous-bedfellows/

What I like about this series on Astroturfing he covers not only Political aspects but Corporate Astroturfing propaganda.

For instance he focuses on one company’s niche product Arctic Silver 5 and shows how the company posts 100’s of thousands of fake reviews on all the forums as well as Amazon, generates 10’s of millions Spam pages using celebrities names for Page Google positioning as well as hacking the google search engine and inserting their own code!!!

Point is the Internet is a pigsty across the board. I have heard audio presentations to Tea Party groups on how to Astroturf fake negative reviews on liberal books on Amazon.

Look at this video where it shos 800 fake amazon reviews done in one day.

Amazon New Anti Astroturfing Algorithm An Epic Fail Consumers Are Being Bamboozled Here’s How

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4f78-jBx3k

MSM, hiring protesters, Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, comments on any news article or any book review, blog Astroturfing/propaganda can be bought anywhere and is the new media.

This is a POX on our culture, politics and business where every agenda saturates our optical view because it is a fake and a fraud - 50-90% of what we view on the internet I believe is just Made up lies.

This was interesting note is how much sophisticated effort goes into generating this BS

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2011/feb/23/need-to-protect-internet-from-astroturfing

:quote:

#####After I wrote about online astroturfing in December, I was contacted by a whistleblower. He was part of a commercial team employed to infest internet forums and comment threads on behalf of corporate clients, promoting their causes and arguing with anyone who opposed them.
Sign up to the new-look Media Briefing: bigger, better, brighter
Read more

Like the other members of the team, he posed as a disinterested member of the public. Or, to be more accurate, as a crowd of disinterested members of the public: he used 70 personas, both to avoid detection and to create the impression there was widespread support for his pro-corporate arguments. I’ll reveal more about what he told me when I’ve finished the investigation I’m working on.

It now seems that these operations are more widespread, more sophisticated and more automated than most of us had guessed. Emails obtained by political hackers from a US cyber-security firm called HBGary Federal suggest that a remarkable technological armoury is being deployed to drown out the voices of real people.#####

My preference for Trumps first item to deal with when he gets into office is to put a cap on this Astroturfing BS as simple things like building a wall will be nearly impossible
with 24/7 media manipulation as well as anything on his agenda.


17 posted on 08/15/2016 8:47:27 AM PDT by underbyte (TEOTEWAWKI)
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HAHAHAHA. The media had been slobbering on Obama’s crotch since his speech at the 2004 convention. They have done nothing but spread propaganda for him since. Prior to that they have always been the propaganda arm of the DNC


18 posted on 08/15/2016 9:01:24 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Hillary Clinton, the elderly white woman's version of "I dindu nuffins.")
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To: Enlightened1
In 2013 Obama repealed the "Propaganda Law" (Smith–Mundt Act)

The president can't "repeal" a lawfully passed, Constitutional law unilaterally. Only Congress can.

What gives?
Did the eunuch GOPe enable him while nobody was looking?

Ever wonder what created "Trump?"

19 posted on 08/15/2016 8:53:29 PM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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