White House Rolls Out Kenya Propaganda Plan

U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor ^ | July 7, 2012 | Steve Peacock

[Steve Peacock]

White House Rolls Out Kenya Propaganda Plan

Aims to 'groom' journalists for favorable coverage from Nairobi to New York

By Steve Peacock

(A similar version of this article originally was published via WND.com on July 3, 2012. Under agreement with WND, rights have reverted back to the author, Steve Peacock.)

Now that the Obama administration is pouring vast amounts of money into Kenya, it’s going to need some help selling its spending to the people.

WND has discovered the U.S. Agency for International Development has devised a sophisticated scheme to sway public opinion on U.S. “investments” in the African nation, including strategies to “groom” targeted journalists for favorable media coverage.

The USAID/Kenya Strategic Communications Plan 2012-2013 emerges at a time when the level of U.S. government projects in Kenya has outpaced agency resources. As this author originally reported via WND, U.S. spending in Kenya has grown ‘exponentially’ under Obama, forcing USAID to hire contractors to oversee it all.

On June 29 USAID attached the Kenya propaganda plan – which itself is dated June 16 – as an addendum to its procurement documents.

The Kenya strategic plan maps out its intentions in the context of the White House’s position that a “stable and prosperous Kenya is central to American foreign policy.”

Indeed, the document’s first line establishes that “USAID/Kenya is playing a lead role implementing President Obama’s vision for global development, which sees development assistance as a pillar of foreign policy and crucial to America’s national security and economic interests.”

[patriot08]

“The deduction from their Social Security Checks is going from 96 dollars a Month to 248 dollars a Month in increments starting this year,and maxing in 2014,It is In Obamacare.”

Can anyone verify this- for sure?

[Steve Peacock]

SO? Just add it to the list While I am also aware of and concerned about the information you provided -- which is widely reported and publicly available -- I hardly think that a sophisticated plan (unreported elsewhere) to further manipulate the media and deceive the public warrants a dismissive "So?"

[patriot08]

I was being facetious, of course.

[Steve Peacock]

My apologies, patriot08.

[patriot08]

No problem, FRiend.