How did we come to inhabit a society in which the government itself continually carries out psyops against the populace?
As you read this, keep in mind that Biden has already tried to form his It's common knowledge that governments, including ours use propaganda on foreign soil. It helps win wars. This largely came about in 1948 with the Smith-Mundt act which prohibited our government from ever using such biased, misleading, if not downright untruthful messages on the American public.
This is what formed the Voice of America and other venues.
This movement toward propaganda is explained in the article, The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act: From Propaganda to Censorship to Tyranny
George Bush and Dick Cheney were the first to practice this deception on all of us, then in 2013 Obama codified the practice with this new Smith-Mundt 'Modernization Act'. It was Bi- Partisan!!! One sponsor was democrat Adam Smith and republicans Mac Thornberry of Texas and Dana Rohrabacher of California, Bush sycophants.
"All of this mayhem got underway in the early twenty-first century with the government “apprising” citizens that Saddam Hussein had WMD (weapons of mass destruction) and was in cahoots with Osama bin Laden. Through such “intelligence community findings,” citizens were deceived by “the experts” into believing that Iraq had something to do with 9/11 and therefore was fair game for attack in 2003"
Dick Cheney should be in jail for breaking this LAW about Iraq instead of telling lies about Donald Trump on behalf of his traitor daughter Liz!! THIS is as deep as the swamp gets!
Understand why Bush, Obama, Clinton, Cheney, Biden all get along so well!! They have been messing with us for decades playing 'good cop, bad cop'. They are all bad 'cops' playing a dangerous dishonest game of screw the American citizen!!
THIS is why Donald Trump must GO!! He upset their lucrative, powerful propaganda apple cart that they are so willing to push on all of us.
NO one is more victim of their practice than Donald J. Trump!! They are likely still spying on him! They are certainly using lies and propaganda against him and all of us EVERY DAY!
The article continues:
In 2013 President Barack Obama signed into law the
Smith-Mundt Modernization Act (H.R. 5736), making it legal for government-produced media—such as was broadcast overseas by Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and other outlets throughout the Cold War—to be directed toward U.S. citizens themselves. Needless to say, such government-penned narratives spin the news so as to reflect favorably upon the United States. To understand the sheer power of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act, it suffices to do a quick Google of the name of this piece of legislation to see how it has generated a logical quandary befitting of Orwell’s Nineteen Eigthy-Four. For if it is true that the American people are being propagandized by the U.S. government through its control of the major media outlets and tech giants, then any assertion to that effect will be countered—and ultimately defeated—by yet more government propaganda.
The fact that the complete negation of the original Smith-Mundt Act was deceptively labeled the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act marked the first stage in what might be termed the Orwellian turn. Unsurprisingly, a lengthy list of articles calling out the alleged piece of “disinformation” that “Barack Obama legalized government propaganda against citizens” appears at the top of the Google search results. Among the critics who warned about the new Act was now-deceased investigative journalist Michael Hastings, who also, it is worth mentioning, expressed concern about the dangerous influence of the Pentagon’s “public relations” wing, which already by 2009 employed 27,000 persons full-time as war marketeers. A number of other notable figures who sounded alarms about the dangers of government propaganda and overreach are now dead, imprisoned, or living in exile.
The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 (signed into law as a part of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013) arguably set the United States on the path toward the erection of a full-fledged Ministry of Truth and the consequent shrinking of citizens’ liberty. Only time will tell whether this piece of legislation alone will suffice, as deployed by the new Disinformation Governance Board, to strip citizens of their First Amendment right to free speech when they attempt to reject the first premises of the DGB itself. If so, then Barack Obama will bear primary responsibility for the totalitarian system to ensue, whatever his intentions may have been.
For with the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act already in place, there are only two short steps to the complete squelching of dissent. First, the government controls the media through injecting many pro-government texts into the marketplace of ideas. This is obviously already being done, and has been unabashedly pursued since the ratification of the Act. (To dispel any doubts that this is happening, it suffices to turn on the mainstream network news.) Second, among the government-promoted ideas will now be the claim that the newly established Disinformation Governance Board does not violate the Constitution of the United States. Once lawmakers have been persuaded to believe this, then the DGB will have the power to eliminate what they themselves have identified as disinformation, including the very claim that the DGB is illegitimate. After that will follow the censorship of the texts of anyone who disagrees with the government and, ultimately, the criminalization of those who “persist” in promulgating ideas deemed “threatening” by the powers that be. The danger of all of this to free people is very real, as the plight of whistleblowers in recent years has already revealed
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MUST see!
Eric Boling on NEWSMAX discusses a 2012 NEW law and an executive order that Obama implemented without notice that repealed the 1948 Smith-Mundt law that prohibited propaganda by the government being used on its citizens. THIS is how Biden is getting away with lying about everything. They spend millions on slick produced propaganda instead of public information! Everything they present is tainted. And where are the republicans??? Waiting their turn.
Donald Trump took on both parties. BOTH are corrupt!! Wake up America!!
Discussion starts at 4 minutes ends about at 11!
An Interesting item from a source trying to cover this up:
The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act, contained within the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013, eased some restrictions so that media produced by the U.S. Agency for Global Media and intended for foreign audiences could be distributed domestically upon request, according to its text. Prior to its passage, the content was banned from being disseminated in America.
People (not the main stream media!!!) tried to warn us when this happened:
June 14, 2019
The Horrible Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 (SMMA)
I keep forgetting to focus on this un-American act perpetrated on the American people by the US Congress, which is now largely controlled by political Zionists. Basically, the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 (SMMA) allows the US Government to treat the American people as enemies of the state – just as they would treat a foreign enemy. Does that help explain why we are having so many problems with government these days? Let me explain from a layman’s legal perspective what I am referring to here.
The SMMA started out as H. R. 5736 on May 10, 2012 for the declared purpose “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
Interestingly enough, section 208 part (b), relating to “Domestic Distribution of Program Material” says:
“Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors from engaging in any medium or form of communication, either directly or indirectly, because a United States domestic audience is or may be thereby exposed to program material or based on a presumption of such exposure.”
The almost un-American ACLU views this as a positive step in supporting the First Amendment ‘freedom of speech.’ Really??? That’s a tough spin on the subject. I won’t go into details here, but I’ll post a link to their website article dated May 25, 2012. It may be worthwhile to note, however, that one commenter on the ACLU website has written “Taking the position that I pay for the government to lie me legally is suicide and wrong. This position of support for this by the ACLU is vile.”
https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/new-government-propaganda-bill-positive-step-first-amendment
The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, was eventually buried within the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 (section 1078 (a)), passed into public law, effective on January 2, 2013, and the SMMA portion 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. [Emphasis mine] snip
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