Analyst's note: Absolutely must read and carefully consider what is about to "flood" America. The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 (which was inserted into the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act) now allows the American public to be a target audience of U.S. government-funded (taxpayer) information campaigns. In short, Public Affairs officers will now be working to directly influence the American public opinion when they deem it necessary to "influence a key friendly center of gravity, to impact the US national will." The problem here is that the American people will not be able to discern "news" from "government disinformation and propaganda." Think about this, where has the world seen the use of such in the past .... hmmmmm? Think dictatorships.
This new law enables U.S. government programming from such organizations as Voice of America (VoA) — an outlet created in 1942 to promote a positive understanding of the U.S. abroad — to broadcast directly to U.S. audiences for the first time. VoA and other programs are now produced by the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which shares a "strategic communications budget" with the State Department and has an annual budget of more than $700 million. We can expect the budgets related to what will be government disinformation and indoctrination to grow significantly.
We will see our own government use repetition as a key tenet of their "Information Operations" execution toward the American people. These people know that if they drive home a consistent message from all media outlets (TV, radio, newspaper, magazine, and social media for domestic consumption), the impact on their target audiences (the American people) will be acceptance and belief. Notice, I said nothing here about the American people receiving the truth from such federal government activities.
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An online radio host is sounding the alarm over a brand-new law he claims grants the federal government massive new powers to saturate Americans with domestic propaganda at U.S. taxpayer expense.
“This law allows the federal government to have sweeping power to push television, radio, newspaper and social-media propaganda onto the U.S. public,” warns Michael Evans of America’s Voice Now.
“It removes protection for Americans from the ideological diarrhea that will pour forth from this administration like ejected vomit.”
Evans is referring to the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, sponsored byRep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, and Rep. Adam Smith, D- Wash., which was inserted into the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act.
According to John Hudson of Foreign Police Magazine, “For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government’s mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences. But on July 2, that came silently to an end with the implementation of a new reform passed in January. The result: an unleashing of thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption in a reform initially criticized as a green light for U.S. domestic propaganda efforts.”
The U.S. government has been in the business of broadcasting news and opinions into foreign countries through such famous outlets as the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks.
But now, critics believe millions of dollars will be spent by the government trying to influence citizens within its own borders.
[....] The bill itself states: “The Secretary and the Broadcasting Board of Governors are authorized to use funds appropriated or otherwise made available for public diplomacy information programs to provide for the preparation, dissemination, and use of information intended for foreign audiences abroad about the United States, its people, and its policies, through press, publications, radio, motion pictures, the Internet, and other information media, including social media, and through information centers, instructors, and other direct or indirect means of communication. …
It also notes: “No funds authorized to be appropriated to the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors shall be used to influence public opinion in the United States.”
Yet there’s also a provision indicating produced material can be used inside the U.S., stating: “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. Such material may be made available within the United States and disseminated … .”
[....] “All this nonsense about the Department of Justice organizing, participating and assisting in Trayvon Martin reprisal rallies – that’s exactly what you’re gonna get, and you’re gonna get it by a landslide. You haven’t even begun to smell the danger of this one yet, people. And here’s the worst part. You’ll never know if what you’re hearing is true news or propaganda. So the idea that there can be a news media that can inform the American public is forever gone. You’ll never know going forward if this is propaganda or if this is a news story.”
He continued: “The low-information, vast majority of America, the people who are willing to accept whatever is basically poured into their ears, will be so inundated with disinformation, they will never even be aware that they’re being played, that they are being used, that they are pawns for manipulation to achieve government’s nefarious ends. And I do mean nefarious because only a government who had evil intent would attempt to utilize a tactic like this.”
Evans is even breaking out the “T-word,” calling the measure “treason.” [....]
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