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
      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-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