About the Sneaky Repeal of the Smith-Mundt Act

Mike Benz explains (credit to Wall Street Apes):

“It was tucked into an NDAA. It was really only discovered by the public after the damage had been done”

“‘US Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans.’ This Anti-propaganda law prevented the US government's mammoth broadcasting arm!from delivering programming to American audiences.”

“In 1948 when the founding fathers of the intelligence state were setting this all up, they were intensely aware of the monster they were making. In 1948, they Congress passed the Smith-Munt Act.

Because again, in 1948 is when all of this was getting established. The CIA was brand new. NSE 10-2 had just come out and Congress said, okay, okay, listen, you guys are creating a monster here. We wanna make sure that we don't build this empire of lies, and that Americans are not being inundated with this sprawl of information control that you are conducting around the world in order to conduct organized political warfare on all countries on planet Earth.

And I think many folks in this room are probably familiar with what happened during the Obama administration, which was this essential safeguard, which had been with us since the moment this all was created in 1948, was repealed with quite little fanfare. ‌

It was tucked into an NDAA. It was really, I think, only only discovered by the public after the damage had been done that the Smith-Munt was modernized. To get rid of that restriction, it was effectively amended.

So the headline here is ‘US Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans’

This Anti-propaganda law prevented the US government's mammoth broadcasting arm, I should say, arms from delivering program programming to American audiences. And mammoth is not a big enough word

— So with hard power ruled out as the dominant means to have an empire, the US transitioned to a soft power empire, which would be dominated by agencies like the Central Intelligence Agency, Democracy Promotion programs at the State Department. Later USAID and the whole Swarm Army we're about to meet.

But even right out the gate, the Central Intelligence Agency immediately moved into the media space to control the messaging that people around the world experienced.”

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Waiting for the Dust to Settle After the New Release of JFK Documents

It is all something to behold this morning on  X (Twitter). Numerous people, many assisted by AI are trying to make sense of the JFK assassination documents released at the direction of Donald Trump. I'd already seen credible accounts that suggest many CIA connections to JFK's assassination. An excellent place to start is The Devil's Chessboard, by David Talbot. Glenn Greenwald comments: Reading Talbot's book is like getting a kick in the stomach. I'm partway through the book and I am convinced more and more that JFK's assassination was a CIA coup. And I am more and more convinced that most of our presidential elections have been orchestrated by the CIA through the use of powerful tools of propaganda and censorship that heavily influence (if not outright control) legacy "news" outlets. [More . . . .]

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The Self-Appointed Smart People Should be in Charge of Everything, They Say

This is one of the major divides in modern world: Some people think the People should really run their own governments. Then there is an elite handful of people who believe that because they are so super-smart, the public-facing government should be a facade for unwashed masses, a Potemkin village, and the self-appointed rich fucks should call all the shots.

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DataRepublican is Exposing “The Big Club”

Who are the powerful shy people who tell so many politicians what to do and say? What am I talking about? Dozens of members of Congress (I'm focusing on the political Left these days) walk in lockstep. For example:

Modern Democrats apparently have conjured up a political purity test that they require of each other.

In his American Dream bit, George Carlin spoke of "The Big Club" and you and I are not in "The Big Club."

They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want: They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. Thats against their interests. Thats right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that!

You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shitty jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this fucking place! It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it! You, and I, are not in the big club.

The amazing Data Republican has dug into the politicians who are all mouthing the same words in unison, abdicating their duties to think for themselves in congress. What has she found? Lots of financial ties binding these politicians to their "Big Club." For instance,

Carlin thought that there was no need for formal meetings to coordinate the activity of "The Big Club."

Thanks to DataRepublican, we are now learning, however, that sophisticated logistics and money-flow coordinate the activities of The Big Club.

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