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zaterdag 8 september 2018

Nikki Haley (VS ambassadeur bij VN) dreigt Nicaragua met oorlog: "De VS zal niet lijdzaam toezien......"

Hare giftige kwaadaardigheid, VS ambassadeur bij de Verenigde Naties, Nikki 'bloody' Haley heeft afgelopen woensdag de VN Veiligheidsraad voorgehouden dat Nicaragua hetzelfde pad volgt als dat tot de oorlog in Syrië leidde en de economische ineenstorting veroorzaakte in Venezuela...... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! De oorlog in Syrië is tot in de puntjes voorbereid in Washington..... Al in 2006 werden de eerste plannen gemaakt die tot deze oorlog hebben geleid.....

Het VS scenario was in deze het organiseren van een opstand, waar dit land samen met Saoedi-Arabië  buitenlandse (extreme) jihadisten aanvoerden (o.a. vanuit Libië, dat toen al volledig was vernietigd door de VS en de NAVO), jihadisten die tijdens de demonstraties op het volk schoten, waarvoor de schuld bij het regime Assad werd gelegd. Tot op bepaalde hoogte lukte die door de VS georganiseerde 'opstand.....' 

Jammer voor de VS, maar 'de opstand' leidde niet tot een staatsgreep in Syrië, daar het overgrote deel van het Syrische volk achter de regering Assad bleef staan, e.e.a bleek nog eens tijdens de verkiezingen in 2014, waar het overgrote deel van het volk dat kon stemmen. Van de 15 miljoen stemgerechtigden brachten 11 miljoen Syriërs een stem uit (kom daar maar 's voor in Nederland...), en daaruit bleek dat meer dan 80% achter Assad stond.....* Wel is er sindsdien sprake van oorlog in dat land, een zoveelste illegale oorlog van de VS tegen een haar onwelgevallig regime, dat van Assad.....

Wat betreft de economische 'ineenstorting' van Venezuela, ook dat is een product van grootschalige VS terreur, door de grote winkelketens in het land (in handen van VS ondernemers) niet meer te bevoorraden, na sterke druk vanuit Washington, ontstonden er grote tekorten aan voedsel in het land...... De medicijnen die in Latijns Amerika worden gebruikt, komen voor een groot deel uit de VS, na enige druk vanuit Washington, zijn er bijna geen medicijnen meer te krijgen in Venezuela....... De VS overheid en oorlogshoer Haley hebben hier een grote bek over, terwijl ze het gvd zelf hebben gefikst!!

Haley liet in de VN weten dat de VS wat betreft Nicaragua niet lijdzaam zal toezien..... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Alsof de VS dat nu wel doet, ook in Nicaragua is de VS bezig met de demonstraties om te zetten in een opstand, die moet uitmonden in een staatsgreep..... Het welbekende recept.....

De VN zou eindelijk in moeten grijpen en de VS tot terreurstaat verklaren, het aantal moorden dat in naam van dit land en door dit land worden gepleegd is na WOII tot nu gestegen tot ver boven de 22 miljoen, de hoogste tijd dat de wereld de VS gaat boycotten en de top van dit land tot ongewenste vreemdelingen verklaart! De VS is door het Internationaal Gerechtshof (VN) overigens al eens veroordeeld wegens terrorisme, dit tegen het land... Nicaragua!!! De VN verordende op deze uitspraak dat de VS schadevergoedingen diende te betalen, dat heeft de VS tot op de dag van vandaag niet gedaan....... De VS was indertijd verantwoordelijk voor het aanvallen van olie-installaties en havens, plus het leggen van mijnen voor die havens....... Dus ook toen keek de VS niet lijdzaam toe.......

Lees het volgende artikel van Tyler Durden over het gevaar waar Nicaragua  aan blootstaat, een inval van de VS, zoals gepubliceerd op Zero Hedge. Daarna een video over 'een staatsgreep' in Nicaragua die al heeft plaatsgevonden!

Nikki Haley: "US Will Not Remain A Passive Observer As Nicaragua Becomes Another Venezuela Or Syria"

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor Nikki Haley
Vond een passende foto voor de fascistische helleveeg Haley (jammer dat het geen swastika van nazi-Duitsland is)

Thu, 09/06/2018 - 23:40

The US Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley warned the UN Security Council on Wednesday that Nicaragua is heading down the path that led to conflict in Syria and an economic collapse in Venezuela


With each passing day, Nicaragua travels further down a familiar path,” Haley told a meeting of the UN Security Council on the deteriorating environment in the Central American country. “It is a path that Syria has taken. It is a path that Venezuela has taken.”


The warning took place during the first Security Council meeting called by Ambassador Haley, the current council president, to address what the UN says Nicaragua’s government has participated in violent acts of repression toward students and opposition groups that have led to over 300 deaths since mid-April.

(boven het volgende Twitterbericht zit een video die ik niet kan overnemen, zie daarvoor het origineel, voorts een uitgebreide video met Haley in de VN aan het eind van dit bericht, dus nog voor de Brasscheck TV video)

RT @USUN: The spread of tyranny follows a predictable pattern.

Haley said the Security Council could not remain a “passive observer” as Nicaragua descended into chaos “because we know where this path leads.”

She said Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega and Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro “are cut from the same corrupt cloth … And they are both dictators who live in fear of their own people.”

The Syrian exodus has produced millions of refugees, sowing instability throughout the Middle East and Europe,” Haley said. “The Venezuelan exodus has become the largest displacement of people in the history of Latin America. A Nicaraguan exodus would overwhelm its neighbors and create a surge of migrants and asylum-seekers in Central America.”

Costa Rican Ambassador Rodrigo Carazo told the council that his government received 400 asylum applications from Nicaraguan citizens in the first quarter, that was before the crisis started. Last month, Ambassador Carazo said that number inflated to over 4,000. Year to date, the Costa Rican government has received nearly 13,000 asylum applications from Nicaraguans, he added.


The deepening of the political, social and economic crisis, the repression, and the failure to respect fundamental freedoms and human rights shown by the authorities has the potential of an unbridled worsening of the crisis,” Carazo warned. “And this can have a direct impact on the stability and the future of development in Central America.”

According to Voice of America (VOA), human rights groups have reported abuses by law enforcement and military groups, including temporary detentions, torture, sexual violence, harassment, and intimidation. Nicaraguan civil society leader Felix Maradiaga told council members, “Nicaragua has become a huge prison which seems to be without any controls…every day, we see a climate of terror and indiscriminate persecution.”

Maradiaga warned the political crisis was at risk of developing into a collapse. "Today, there is a time bomb in Nicaragua," he said. “Crimes against humanity are creating an atmosphere conducive to internal conflict that can only grow in size.”

A special report published last week by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNCHR) documented the four months of social unrest in the country.

RT @USUN: The spread of tyranny follows a predictable pattern.

The human rights office called on the government to stop the arrest of protesters and disarm the masked groups that have been responsible for many killings. Then, late last week, the government expelled the human rights group from the country.

The Organization of American States (OAS) has also condemned the violence and urged protestors and government to particpate in a peaceful dialogue. The OAS has called for 2021 elections to be brought foward as soon as possible to usher in a new government.

When tensions like this are so high, and violence takes place in such a way in a society that leaves more than 300 people dead, you need to give the power back to the people to decide,” OAS Chief of Staff Gonzalo Koncke told reporters.

Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Denis Moncada spoke at the Security Council Wednesday, explaining to officials his country is “a model” in the fight against terrorism, organized crime and drug trafficking in the region, and has a booming economy.

Moncada criticized the US for its past interventions in Nicaragua in the 1980s and urged Washington to “cease any type of aggression or intervention,” which leaves us with thought that the Trump administration could soon be nation-building in Central America.

Meanwhile, the official Twitter feed of the Russian Mission to the UN “urges Washington to abandon the colonial-style attempts to influence the situation in Nicaragua such as the NICAAct, visa and other restrictions against Nicaraguan officials, and the abolition of the “temporary protection status” for migrants from this country.”
It seems that Central America is about to become a hot... again.

: We urge to abandon the colonial-style attempts to influence the situation in such as the , visa and other restrictions against Nicaraguan officials, and the abolition of the "temporary protection status" for from this country.


Hier nog een langere video met Haley in de VN over Nicaragua, vergelijk die video met de video van Brasscheck TV, die daaronder volgt:


Hier de video van Redacted Tonight met Lee Camp die mensenrechten en arbeidsrecht advocaat Daniel Kovalik interviewt (kijken mensen!):

 Yet Another US-Backed Coup Outed (w/ Dan Kovalik)
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* Zie: 'Israëlische leger geeft toe wapens en grote sommen geld te hebben geleverd aan terreurgroepen in Syrië, om later het bericht te censureren......'

PS: ik heb de CIA niet genoemd, hoewel je begrijpt dat deze geheime dienst de opstanden en staatsgrepen in het buitenland regisseert.

vrijdag 27 januari 2017

VS propaganda (en agressie) legt het af tegen feiten?

Agressieve VS propaganda en de wil te komen tot totale controle over de media >> er ligt een wetsvoorstel in het congres, waarmee blogs en websites kunnen worden aangevallen, dan wel van het internet worden gehaald, als die de 'pr' van de VS schaden...... M.a.w. als deze alternatieve media, niet zoals de reguliere media, blind het gevoerde neoliberale beleid en de illegale oorlogvoering in het buitenland steunen, kunnen ze 'het vergeten.....'

Daar is alleen de stelling voor nodig dat e.e.a. wordt gemanipuleerd door de Russen, ook al is dat niet te bewijzen, de schijn wekken dat e.e.a. zo is en de leugens daarover van geheime diensten als de CIA, zijn voldoende.........

Zoals totaal-idioot Bush in 2001 durfde te zeggen, na de door o.a. de CIA geregisseerde 911 aanvallen: " Wie niet voor de VS is, is tegen ons (en daarmee een vijand). Een stelling die als ik me niet vergis uit de bijbel komt (dacht het oude testament van dit kwaadaardige sprookjesboek). Opvallend trouwens die uitspraak in de bijbel, jihadstrijders gebruiken dezelfde drogreden

Volgens Ronald Thomas West, hoeft Rusland niet keihard het volk voor te liegen, ze behoeven zich alleen aan de feiten te houden, en die liegen er wat betreft VS terreur niet om!! Alleen deze eeuw al 4 illegale oorlogen, waar je de oorlog in Oekraïne bij op kan tellen, immers die is ontstaan door de bemoeienissen van de VS met dat land.

Met 4 miljard dollar kocht de VS de opstand in Oekraïne, die van meet af aan bedoeld was om een coup tegen de democratisch gekozen president Janoekovytsj voor te bereiden. Alleen omdat Janoekovytsj zich niet schikte naar de wil van Washington en daarmee de wil van de NAVO en de EU.......

De wil van het volk op De Krim werd door het westen vertaald, als een inval door de Russen en wordt tot op de dag van vandaag verkocht als 'annexatie...'

Terwijl internationale waarnemers het referendum in De Krim, tot aansluiting bij Rusland, beoordeelden als eerlijk en conform de internationale eisen...... (niet voor niets durft men nu in het westen voor te stellen, de rol van waarnemers bij verkiezingen en referenda fiks terug te schalen, zodat men nog makkelijker kan liegen, als het zo uitkomt....)....

Hetzelfde probeerde de VS in Syrië, de eerste besprekingen tot afzetting van Assad vonden al in 2006 plaats, onder de 'bezielende leiding' van..... de VS!! Deze actie mislukte, maar alsnog ontketende de VS een illegale oorlog, door o.a. bombardementen (ook op stellingen van het reguliere Syrische leger), het transporteren van jihadstrijders uit Libië en Tunesië richting Syrië, uiteraard aangevuld met wapenleveranties en militaire training voor diezelfde jihadstrijders ('gematigde rebellen', ofwel psychopathische moordenaars en verkrachters).......

Waar de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, de VS, heeft huisgehouden, blijft een kapotgebombardeerd land achter met een enorm aantal doden en een land dat in totale chaos is gedompeld, zoals: Afghanistan, Irak, Libië en als laatste Syrië. Deze eeuw heeft dit al aan meer dan 2 miljoen mensen het leven gekost (bijvoorbeeld in Irak 1,5 miljoen!!)

Lees het volgende artikel van West, gepubliceerd op Information Clearing House (onder het artikel kan u voor een 'Dutch' vertaling klikken, dat kost wel wat tijd):

When It Comes to U.S. Foreign Policy, the Truth Hurts

A bill before Congress could be used to target “any website, or blog, that does not share the mainstream media’s proclivity to serve as the Public Relations arm of a given administration.“ All they have to do is claim it is being “manipulated” by the Russians. But, Moscow doesn’t have to lie to counter a lawless U.S. foreign policy. “The Russians only need to stick to the facts (omitting the pipeline) to ultimately win the propaganda war.”

By Ronald Thomas West
The USA governing elite is sowing ever deepening dissent in the psyche of those Americans actually inclined to think, understand and know for themselves what is actually going on.”
January 24, 2017 "Information Clearing House" - "BAR" -  Why is the USA media, intelligence agencies and Congress in hysteria over “Russian propaganda”? Because the Russians have, for quite some time, had the absolute upper hand in the growing field of alternative media. How is that?

What the Russians appear to have clearly recognized is how to take advantage of the corrupt nature of the western “mainstream” press, an institution which has been co-opted by western intelligence agencies for a very long time.

The Russian method? It could not be more simple; report the actual facts in the geopolitical contest and when this is inconvenient, practice lies by omission. Here is an example: Both NATO (an extension of the USA) and Russia are contesting Syria over competing energy pipelines, primarily. One from Iran transiting Syria, favored by Russia; the other from Qatar transiting Syria, favored by NATO.
The disadvantage NATO has faced in this competition is Syria controlled by a Russian ally, that is, the government of Basher al-Assad.

Because NATO sponsored Salafist militants to effect “regime change” (the preferred NATO model since 1980s Afghanistan), a large number had, not surprisingly, gone out of control (e.g. Islamic State is a direct result.) Paradoxically, NATO-aligned states have pitched the anti-Assad endeavor in terms of a “war on terror,” and there are so many NATO lies (and lies to cover lies) in the co-opted western media, the Russians only need to stick to the facts (omitting the pipeline) to ultimately win the propaganda war. What’s more is, Russia further only need stand back and allow western dissident journalists to dig up the real facts on the ground:

1. NATO’s “moderate” rebels are aligned with al-Qaida…………….. ✓
2. NATO policy created the conditions for the rise of IS…………… ✓
3. Western ally Saudi Arabia bankrolls the Salafist extremists……. ✓
4. NATO member Turkey has protected & supplied IS…………….. ✓

Depending on the geopolitical reality of the day, for instance whether the paranoid ego-maniac Sultan Erdogan of Turkey is behaving well or not, the stories by western dissident journalists that will withstand close scrutiny are run in Russian or Russia friendly media outlets. The result? Odds are 100:1 you’ll get more reliable information from Russian state TV or Russian sponsored websites than from ABC, CBS, CNN or NBC.

Shoot the messenger

 At the end of the day, the only solution NATO’s main sponsor, the USA, can come up with to protect it’s colossal efforts to deceive and manipulate the western public is to silence dissident journalists by cutting off access to alternative media. Zerohedge on the present proposal:

On November 30, one week after the Washington Post launched its witch hunt against “Russian propaganda fake news”, with 390 votes for, the House quietly passed “H.R. 6393, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017“, sponsored by California Republican Devin Nunes (whose thirdlargest donor in 2016 is Google parent Alphabet, Inc), a bill which deals with a number of intelligence-related issues, including Russian propaganda, or what the government calls propaganda, and hints at a potential crackdown on “offenders.”

A quick skim of the bill reveals “Title V—Matters relating to foreign countries,” whose Section 501 calls for the government to “counter active measures by Russia to exert covert influence … carried out in coordination with, or at the behest of, political leaders or the security services of the Russian Federation and the role of the Russian Federation has been hidden or not acknowledged publicly.”

The section lists the following definitions of media manipulation:
* Establishment or funding of a front group.
* Covert broadcasting.
* Media manipulation.
* Disinformation and forgeries.
* Funding agents of influence.
* Incitement and offensive counterintelligence.
* Assassinations.
* Terrorist acts.

As ActivistPost correctly notes, it is easy to see how this law, if passed by the Senate and signed by the president, could be used to target, threaten, or eliminate so-called “fake news” websites, a list which has been used to arbitrarily define any website, or blog, that does not share the mainstream media’s proclivity to serve as the Public Relations arm of a given administration“

Russian victory enhanced

The reactionary moves by the NATO/USA propagandists to having been bested in the game by Russia only sweetens the Russian victory. Similar to Erdogan’s over-reaction in cracking down on anyone who doesn’t follow the ruling party line in Turkey, the USA governing elite is sowing ever deepening dissent in the psyche of those Americans actually inclined to think, understand and know for themselves what is actually going on. The sort of reactionary behavior embodied in the color of law [anti-constitutional order represented in the “national security state”] governing the United States and its allies destabilizes any society.

Propaganda budget

The USA media mouthpieces are not going to broadcast the American propaganda budget, so let’s turn to Russia’s Sputnik to get the facts:

Last year, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the US federal agency responsible for Voice of America and Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe, among others, requested a substantial budget increase. Seeking a boost of $30 million, the BBG’s budget soared to $751.5 million.

That was, evidently, not enough money. President Obama’s newly proposed budget for fiscal year 2017 proposes another massive increase in spending for the BBG. If granted, the agency will receive nearly $778 million, a roughly $27 million increase” [over the $30 million boost]

The Russians are willing to broadcast the factual news the USA’s intelligence agency co-opted media mouth-pieces will not. Point made?

Western press propagandizing Americans

How much of the USA’s propaganda budget is actually aimed at Americans?

The newest version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes an amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on the American public, reports Michael Hastings of BuzzFeed.

The amendment — proposed by Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) and Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and passed in the House last Friday afternoon — would effectively nullify the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which explicitly forbids information and psychological operations aimed at influencing U.S. public opinion

Huh. And yeah, that was made into law.

Odd bedfellows

Glenn Greenwald’s related, and otherwise excellent piece ‘Washington Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group‘ throws a bone to one of the very worst propaganda prostitutes extant on the world-wide-web: Elliot Higgins of Bellingcat. WTF.
Ronald Thomas West can be contacted through his web site, RonaldThomasWest.com.
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Lullig genoeg kan Rusland de feiten voor zich laten spreken, maar jammer genoeg komen die niet over bij de diverse westerse bevolkingen. M.a.w.: de VS kan alsnog een enorme berg ellende aanrichten over de wereld, met steun van andere westerse landen, zonder dat Rusland daar iets aan kan doen (hoe de feiten ook voor zich spreken....)......... Al moet ik toegeven, dat de hulp van Rusland aan Assad, hoop geeft voor de toekomst.

Bij het aanrichten van ellende kan de VS ook rekenen op de steun van het grootste deel van het westerse publiek, daar de reguliere (massa-) media, braaf het VS (en daarmee het NAVO) standpunt uitventen en verdedigen. E.e.a. met gebruikmaking van: -nepnieuws en onzinnieuws, -het niet vermelden van gebeurtenissen, of -correcties op eerder nepnieuws weglaten en -angst- en haatzaaien voor/tegen landen die de VS als vijandig ziet (en daar is niet veel voor nodig.....)......

Zie ook: 'Obama maakt ministerie van Waarheid mogelijk en geeft ministerie van Oorlog $ 611 miljard........'

Voor meer berichten n.a.v. het voorgaande, klik op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden, dat geldt niet voor de labels: BBG en Nunes.

vrijdag 30 december 2016

Obama maakt ministerie van Waarheid mogelijk en geeft ministerie van Oorlog $ 611 miljard........

Nobelprijs voor de Vrede winnaar Obama (ha! ha! ha!) heeft een wet getekend, waarmee een Ministerie van Waarheid (ministry of Truth) zoals door Orwell beschreven in het boek 1984) is gecreëerd......... Niet alleen dat, maar deze wet geeft het Ministerie van Oorlog in 2017 een slordige $ 611 miljard te verbrassen, zodat de onwettige, zwaar terroristische VS houdgreep op de wereld, kan worden versterkt..........

'Uiteraard' zal e.e.a. gepaard gaan met het tegenwerken, of uit de lucht halen, dan wel van het internet verwijderen, van VS onwelgevallige media (lees: media die kritiek durven te leveren op terreurentiteit VS....).........

Laat ook uw haren te berge rijzen en lees het volgen de artikel van Tyler Durden, zoals eerder geplaatst op ZeroHedge:

Obama Quietly Signs The "Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act" Into Law

Dec 26, 2016

Late on Friday, with the US population embracing the upcoming holidays and oblivious of most news emerging from the administration, Obama quietly signed into law the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which authorizes $611 billion for the military in 2017.
In a statement, Obama said that:
Today, I have signed into law S. 2943, the “National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2017.” This Act authorizes fiscal year 2017 appropriations principally for the Department of Defense and for Department of Energy national security programs, provides vital benefits for military personnel and their families, and includes authorities to facilitate ongoing operations around the globe. It continues many critical authorizations necessary to ensure that we are able to sustain our momentum in countering the threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and to reassure our European allies, as well as many new authorizations that, among other things, provide the Departments of Defense and Energy more flexibility in countering cyber-attacks and our adversaries’ use of unmanned aerial vehicles."

Much of the balance of Obama's statement blamed the GOP for Guantanamo's continued operation and warned that "unless the Congress changes course, it will be judged harshly by history," Obama said. Obama also said Congress failed to use the bill to reduce wasteful overhead (like perhaps massive F-35 cost overruns?) or modernize military health care, which he said would exacerbate budget pressures facing the military in the years ahead.

But while the passage of the NDAA - and the funding of the US military - was hardly a surprise, the biggest news is what was buried deep inside the provisions of the Defense Authortization Act.


Recall that as we reported in early June"a bill to implement the U.S.’ very own de facto Ministry of Truth had been quietly introduced in Congress. As with any legislation attempting to dodge the public spotlight the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act of 2016 marks a further curtailment of press freedom and another avenue to stultify avenues of accurate information. Introduced by Congressmen Adam Kinzinger and Ted Lieu, H.R. 5181 seeks a “whole-government approach without the bureaucratic restrictions” to counter “foreign disinformation and manipulation,” which they believe threaten the world’s “security and stability.”

Also called the Countering Information Warfare Act of 2016 (S. 2692), when introduced in March by Sen. Rob Portman, the legislation represents a dramatic return to Cold War-era government propaganda battles. “These countries spend vast sums of money on advanced broadcast and digital media capabilities, targeted campaigns, funding of foreign political movements, and other efforts to influence key audiences and populations,” Portman explained, adding that while the U.S. spends a relatively small amount on its Voice of America (VOA), the Kremlin provides enormous funding for its news organization, RT.

Surprisingly,” Portman continued, “there is currently no single U.S. governmental agency or department charged with the national level development, integration and synchronization of whole-of-government strategies to counter foreign propaganda and disinformation.”  

Long before the "fake news" meme became a daily topic of extensive conversation on such discredited mainstream portals as CNN and WaPo (Washington Post), H.R. 5181 would task the Secretary of State with coordinating the Secretary of Defense, the Director of National Intelligence, and the Broadcasting Board of Governors to “establish a Center for Information Analysis and Response,” which will pinpoint sources of disinformation, analyze data, and — in true dystopic manner — ‘develop and disseminate’ “fact-based narratives” to counter effrontery propaganda.

In short, long before "fake news" became a major media topic, the US government was already planning its legally-backed crackdown on anything it would eventually label "fake news."
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Fast forward to December 8, when the "Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act" passed in the Senate, quietly inserted inside the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Conference Report.

And now, following Friday's Obama signing of the NDAA on Friday evening, the Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act is now law.
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Here is the full statement issued by the generously funded Senator Rob Portman (R- Ohio) on the singing into law of a bill that further chips away at press liberties in the US, and which sets the stage for future which hunts and website shutdowns, purely as a result of an accusation that any one media outlet or site is considered as a source of "disinformation and propaganda" and is shut down by the government.


Portman-Murphy Bill Promotes Coordinated Strategy to Defend America, Allies Against Propaganda and Disinformation from Russia, China & Others

U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) today announced that their Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act – legislation designed to help American allies counter foreign government propaganda from Russia, China, and other nations – has been signed into law as part of the FY 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Conference Report. The bipartisan bill, which was introduced by Senators Portman and Murphy in March, will improve the ability of the United States to counter foreign propaganda and disinformation from our enemies by establishing an interagency center housed at the State Department to coordinate and synchronize counter-propaganda efforts throughout the U.S. government. To support these efforts, the bill also creates a grant program for NGOs, think tanks, civil society and other experts outside government who are engaged in counter-propaganda related work. This will better leverage existing expertise and empower our allies overseas to defend themselves from foreign manipulation. It will also help foster a free and vibrant press and civil society overseas, which is critical to ensuring our allies have access to truthful information and inoculating people against foreign propaganda campaigns.

Our enemies are using foreign propaganda and disinformation against us and our allies, and so far the U.S. government has been asleep at the wheel,” Portman said. “But today, the United States has taken a critical step towards confronting the extensive, and destabilizing, foreign propaganda and disinformation operations being waged against us by our enemies overseas. With this bill now law, we are finally signaling that enough is enough; the United States will no longer sit on the sidelines. We are going to confront this threat head-on. I am confident that, with the help of this bipartisan bill, the disinformation and propaganda used against us, our allies, and our interests will fail.”

The use of propaganda to undermine democracy has hit a new low. But now we are finally in a position to confront this threat head on and get out the truth. By building up independent, objective journalism in places like eastern Europe, we can start to fight back by exposing these fake narratives and empowering local communities to protect themselves,” said Murphy. “I’m proud that our bill was signed into law, and I look forward to working with Senator Portman to make sure these tools and new resources are effectively used to get out the truth.”

NOTE: The bipartisan Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act is organized around two main priorities to help achieve the goal of combatting the constantly evolving threat of foreign disinformation from our enemies:

  • The first priority is developing a whole-of-government strategy for countering THE foreign propaganda and disinformation being wages against us and our allies by our enemies. The bill would increase the authority, resources, and mandate of the Global Engagement Center to include state actors like Russia and China as well as non-state actors. The Center will be led by the State Department, but with the active senior level participation of the Department of Defense, USAID, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the Intelligence Community, and other relevant agencies. The Center will develop, integrate, and synchronize whole-of-government initiatives to expose and counter foreign disinformation operations by our enemies and proactively advance fact-based narratives that support U.S. allies and interests.
  • Second, the legislation seeks to leverage expertise from outside government to create more adaptive and responsive U.S. strategy options. The legislation establishes a fund to help train local journalists and provide grants and contracts to NGOs, civil society organizations, think tanks, private sector companies, media organizations, and other experts outside the U.S. government with experience in identifying and analyzing the latest trends in foreign government disinformation techniques. This fund will complement and support the Center’s role by integrating capabilities and expertise available outside the U.S. government into the strategy-making process. It will also empower a decentralized network of private sector experts and integrate their expertise into the strategy-making process.
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And so, with the likes of WaPo having already primed the general public to equate "Russian Propaganda" with "fake news" (despite admitting after the fact their own report was essentially "fake"), while the US media has indoctrinated the public to assume that any information which is not in compliance with the official government narrative, or dares to criticize the establishment, is also "fake news" and thus falls under the "Russian propaganda" umbrella, the scene is now set for the US government to legally crack down on every media outlet that the government deems to be "foreign propaganda."

Just like that, the US Ministry of Truth is officially born.
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