On 12/13/2016 09:39 AM, Steve Kinney wrote:
On 12/13/2016 04:05 AM, grarpamp wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ECOTERRA Intl. <office@ecoterra-international.org> Date: Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 12:03 AM Subject: [NATURAL_DEFENCE] SECRET U.S.A. TORTURE NETWORK To: MAILHUB <mailhub@ecoterra.net>
This is regrettable:
RELATED: To publish research findings like the above soon might be banned in the USA see: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-10/senate-quietly-passes-counter ing-disinformation-and-propaganda-act
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recently read the full text of this Act, which is very brief. It creates a new de facto ministry of propaganda in the State Department, tasked to wage political warfare against foreign audiences through propaganda placements and campaigns. The act creates no authorities for domestic censorship. I would call assertions to the contrary "disinformation" as the text of the bill is brief and unambiguous - although its mandates certainly will result in distribution of disinformation to U.S. audiences through private sector propaganda organs, censorship is no part of the mission described. Claims that S.2692, the "Countering Information Warfare Act of 2016" creates authorities for domestic censorship are very damaging to the credibility of anyone making such claims.
Also regrettable: ITHACA does not seem to have a web presence of any kind, which leaves reporting on their activities in the hands of "fringe" press outlets who will, as noted above, poison the narrative by presenting it in a context of prejudicial commentary and disinformation.
I have seen extensive documentation and anecdotal evidence that strongly validates the gross systemic abuses the quoted ITHACA press release describes. I consider /all/ Court ordered custodial relationships components of the Prison Industrial Complex. U.S. Courts turn a blind eye to endemic criminal abuse of the human "cash cow commodities" created by Court order, to protect their own reputations. This behavior makes the Court an accessory to these acts, and establishes a feedback loop of perverse incentives that makes legal remedies effectively impossible. Instances of kickbacks and corruption only exacerbate this already intolerable systemic disorde r.
Also note the law that prohibited US government agencies from propagandizing US citizens in the US (originally meant to control RFE/RL et al content from being distributed in the US) was quietly removed from the books a few years ago.
de facto ministry of propaganda in the State Department,
At the Pentagon Doug Feith ran it... The OSP/I. DO remember what the RumBum said: “And then there was the Office of Strategic Influence. You may recall that. And ‘oh my goodness gracious isn’t that terrible, Henny Penny the sky is going to fall.’ I went down that next day and said fine, if you want to savage this thing fine I’ll give you the corpse. There’s the name. You can have the name, but I’m gonna keep doing every single thing that needs to be done and I have.” Remember what Rumsfeld said every time your government says they’ll stop doing anything in response to public demand, including stopping the NSA from spying on us. They NEVER EVER EVER STOP lying to us and spying on us. With the media as accomplice... From 2002:
A search of the Nexis database indicates that no major U.S. media outlets– no national broadcast television news shows, no major U.S. newspapers, no wire services or major magazines– have reported Rumsfeld’s remarks. http://fair.org/press-release/the-office-of-strategic-influence-is-gone-but-...
Note that the Defense Department page with that Iraq War briefing garners a 404 error today. I checked it last year and it WAS there. My posting on the National Security Archive's "Special Plans and Double Meanings: Controversies over Deception, Intelligence, and Policy Counterterrorism, National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 456" http://auntieimperial.tumblr.com/post/77602215446 Rr