Ever wonder how they can send so many paid shills here? Look no further than the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012. It makes it legal for the U.S. Government to engage in domestic propaganda. But I think we can all call a spade a spade and call it: lying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apbvqPHKkR0
"The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, which was contained within the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 (section 1078 (a)) amended the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 and the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1987, allowing for materials produced by the State Department and the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to be available within the United States."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Mundt_Act
I literally just learned this today. Obviously this was quite a shocker. This is Pizzagate related because it explains how the U.S. Government can get away with lying. Before Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 the government had legal liability if it paid a shill to come here and knowingly lie. Not anymore!
Obviously Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 isn't going to make it to the Fall. When Trump brings the hammer down something tells me this farce of a law is going to get curb stomped.
Now you know!
And to the shills dust off that resume baby. You'll be out of work soon.
:-(
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blackguard19 ago
HR 5736 was not passed until January 2013, sneakily, as part of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act.
So a law that legalized strategically contrived domestic media stories to dupe the population was hastily passed weeks after Sandy Hook.
DarkMath ago
It's scary they got away with that. I consider myself pretty well informed and I had NO IDEA that's what HR 5736 was.
No one knows about HR 5736 and how it justifies things like Sandy Hook. To prove Sandy Hook was a hoax all people need to see is the text in HR 5736.
I am totally blown away right now, absolutely flabbergasted.
Silverlining ago
A BILL
To amend the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to authorize the domestic dissemination of information and material about the United States intended primarily for foreign audiences, and for other purposes.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/5736/text
Seems fairly harmless on the face of it.
RweSure ago
DarkMath is completely wrong in his interpretation of this. Notice that it says it applies only the State Department and the work of the Broadcasting Board of Governors which do public diplomacy broadcasting mainly through news services. You can go here and see what it says
https://www.bbg.gov/who-we-are/mission/
It does not apply to postings on message boards.
The 1948 bill never prevented Americans from gettting and using this material. If I had a radio station, I still could have asked for this material and licensed it to us on my radio station. if the broadcast used material from the AP or Reuters or other news services, I would need a license from them as well. In fact, the law says they should use public news sources wherever possible. The distinction is that you would have to make the request.
One of the arguments for updating this bill came about from fighting terrorism. If you look at the BBG website. The broadcasts are fairly niche, like VOA Somalia. This is because the law basically has a non compete clause. If private media is adequately covering a topic, the BBG is not allowed to create programming in that sphere. Recently people wanted to broadcast VOA Somalia to the Somali community in the US. The idea was this was the best news source on Somalia and would provide counterweight to the broadcasting/messaging done by the Al Shabab terrorist group which is one of the only news sources regularly available to Somalis. And the US is hugely influential to Somalia. Do you know what the President of Somalia's previous job was ? He worked in the Buffalo office of the New York Department of Transportation
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/how-an-american-bureaucrat-became-president-of-somalia-214798