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
I
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
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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-are-its-programs-in-place/
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