Legal Propaganda: A Trumpian Double-Take?

Preliminary Note from The Dark Ages

Today’s Feast Day: Feast of St. Wilfrid, Bishop (died Oct. 12, 709)

“He had to combat the passions of wicked kings, the cowardice of worldly prelates, and the errors of holy men. He was twice exiled and once imprisoned; yet the battle which he fought was won.” (Lives of the Saints, Rev. Alban Butler, p.335 (Benziger Bros., Inc., 1955)

Take Note:

1.      The Establishment (Blue Pill) definition of “Fake News”: if news, opinion, articles, or videos haven’t been scrubbed by PRISM first, they are considered “fake.”

 

2.    The purpose of perception management is to get the other side to believe what one wishes it to believe, whatever the truth may be.

 

Question:  Does the latest National Defense Authorization Act (2019 NDAA) in any way change the authority of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to broadcast propaganda domestically and/or affect the legal status and use of propaganda by private media outlets? I presume the answer can be found somewhere in here as it relates to previous incarnations of the NDAA: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/5515/text  President Trump signed it on August 13, 2018. 

NOTE: This blog entry was extracted from two American Intelligence Media articles and liberally paraphrased. See, https://aim4truth.org/2017/02/19/yellow-journalism-globalist-weapon-of-mass-deception/

and https://aim4truth.org/2017/02/18/false-flags-are-legal-propaganda-2/

 

Background: Where “The News” Comes From

We have all heard the “conspiracy theories” that the entire U. S. media is owned by six companies and those companies are owned by the Rothschild family; however, there is more to it than that. “Fake news” is actually partially correct, which is the way that yellow journalism delivers propaganda—full of half-truths and sensationalism with bloody red headlines that are eye-catching, but not backed by honest investigative research.

It is also said that there are only two news agencies that have a monopoly on U. S. news. This is basically true. The Associated Press and Reuters provide 95% of national and international news to the six major U. S. news agencies, which we call the “Media Cartel.” The Rothschilds used to own Reuters. Now they own major holdings in the news networks that comprise the collective that shares in the ownership of the Associated Press.

We may have also heard that the media cartel (all six major media corporations) are only allowed to “read aloud” the scrubbed-clean news provided by the A. P. and Reuters. This is true, but with one additional truth. All news first goes through the National Security Agency for screening and approval. The NSA wipes clean any news that might “potentially” effect “National Security,” including any policies of the administration. Did you know that Reuters, the AP, and the FCC/NSA New York City offices all share the same fiber optic hub that goes through the NSA’s Personal Record Information System Methodology (PRISM ) screening before Reuters and the AP are “allowed” to see the news?

So before the network talking heads are permitted to read the news or newspapers and website posts or hyperlink their headlines, the information is first scrubbed by the media cartel owners—whether a Rothschild or major shareholders.

Key Point: Authentic citizen journalism isn’t scrubbed by PRISM before dissemination. Translation: if news, opinion, or articles, or videos haven’t been scrubbed by PRISM first, they are considered “fake.”

 

 

Propaganda Gets a New, Improved Name

Legal or not, here it comes: Propaganda is now called "perception management."

The phrase “perception management” has often functioned as a euphemism for “an aspect of information warfare.” Theoretically, a distinction exists between “perception management” and public diplomacy, the latter of which does not, as a rule, involve falsehood and deception. Still, important ingredients of perception management have defiled diplomacy because the purpose of diplomacy is also to get the other side to believe what one wishes it to believe, whatever the truth may be.

 

Although perception management operations are typically carried out within the international arena between governments, and between governments and citizens, perception management techniques are now a part of mainstream information management systems. Of course these quickly spread into the private sector in coordination with the Deep State (viz., corporate media facilitated by the CIA, State Department, British and Israeli intelligence, Senior Executive Service (SES), SERCO, and the British Queen’s Privy Council, etc.)

 

Today, businesses may even contract with other businesses to conduct perception management for them, or they may conduct it in-house with their public relations staff.

 

 

More Background: How This Was Made Possible

The US Congress passed laws, post 9-11, that made state-sponsored propaganda legal. Then, from 2012 onward, President Obama expanded the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to include using propaganda and disinformation on Americans in all forms of broadcasting. 

To repeat: The tenets of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 made it legal to propagate and broadcast propaganda within America. We are all being treated like enemy combatants whose “perception” must be managed to come in line with “national security” policies. The Department of Defense may now broadcast propaganda with the approval and authority of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) both internationally and domestically. There is actually an agency with this name. Search it yourself. 

DARPA, the research and development arm of the military, has created many tools to control the enemy through media that shape public perception.  As already noted, this is called perception management. It has been used legally in advertising since the late seventies and also in electronic warfare throughout the world to “brain-wash” our enemies and to shape their perception and opinion of America.

Any governmental “policy” may be accompanied by broadcasts that use subliminal programming as part of perception management. These mechanisms help to squelch dissent. They have been used since the Reagan administration to shape public opinion in order to support administrative policies. Wars require domestic support. Accordingly, private corporate security and non-military intelligence agencies began to use “black ops” programs originally started up as  “psy-ops” tools by the military. 

The only question left was what might be the goal of the Deep State (e.g., the SES-laden Council on Foreign Relations), besides the obvious one of having few people who disagree with its policies. 

In 2011 Obama signed the United Nations Small Arms Treaty but couldn’t get Congress to ratify it.  In this treaty Obama’s goal was to disarm America, with the help of the United Nations.  But two things had to happen: 1) we had to give up our guns or have them taken from us, and 2) the UN had to have a military presence in our country. Keep in mind that the United Nations cannot have a military presence in our country, unless invited.

During operation Jade Helm in 2015 (besides the San Bernardino exercise) photo images of heavy UN military equipment being distributed throughout America began popping up on the internet, posted by vigilant citizen journalists. Another veil lifted. Obama’s job was to go for a gun grab, either by Congressional action or UN treaty. But because patriots started waking up, our elected officials in Congress could not ratify the United Nations Small Arms Treaty. So Obama and his political minions began to manufacture false flags, hoping that our horror of Sandy Hook and San Bernardino would cause us to lay down our guns and with them, the protection of our liberty.

Keep this in mind: Arguably, false flag incidents and state-sponsored propaganda could not be considered treasonous acts against Americans because Congress (through the NDAA) essentially made such treason legal.

The NDAA added Amendment 114 which negated the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 (SMA) and the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1987.  These laws made propaganda that was used to influence foreigners and US citizens illegal. The Broadcasting Board of Governors is not new. It was created from the SMA; although today it is quite a different agency.  Originally, this agency claimed to “inform, engage, and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy.” Now it acts as a firewall filter that disfigures free speech.

Amendment 114 of the NDAA was approved by the House in May of 2012.

The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act (2012) reads:

Sec. 501. (a) 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.

(b)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Secretary and the Broadcasting Board of Governors may, upon request and reimbursement of the reasonable costs incurred in fulfilling such a request, make available, in the United States, motion pictures, films, video, audio, and other materials prepared for dissemination abroad or disseminated abroad.

At that time, investigative journalist Michael Hastings reported:  “The new law would give sweeping powers to the State Department and Pentagon to push television, radio, newspaper, and social media onto the U.S. public.” (Hastings was killed in a “car crash” on June 18, 2013.)

“It removes the protection for Americans,” said a Pentagon official concerned about the law. “It removes oversight from the people who want to put out this information. There are no checks and balances. No one knows if the information is accurate, partially accurate, or entirely false.”

Also at the time, Representatives Mac Thornberry (R-TX) and Adam Smith (D-WA) in the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act (2012) (H.R. 5736), advocated that it is time to liberate the authority of the US government to broadcast American produced foreign propaganda in the U.S.

The amendment empowered the State Department and Pentagon to utilize all forms of media against the American public for the sake of coercing US citizens to believe whatever version of the truth the US government wants them to believe.  All oversight was removed with Amendment 114. It made no difference whether the information disseminated was truthful, partially truthful, or completely false.

Four billion dollars per year was spent by the Pentagon on propaganda aimed at the American public (source?); as well as $202 million spent by the Department of Defense on misinformation operations in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2011. The Pentagon began using fake handles on social media sites to purvey false information, harass users and enact perception management to influence Americans. Sophisticated software allows military to engage in online conversations with coordinated answers, blog comments and instant messaging remarks that are solely meant to spread pro-American propaganda.

This new perception management was called Information Operations (IO), which is defined as “the integrated employment of electronic warfare (EW), computer network operations (CNO), psychological operations (PSYOP), military deception (MILDEC), and operations security (OPSEC), in concert with specified supporting and related capabilities, to influence, disrupt, corrupt or usurp adversarial human and automated decision making while protecting our own.”

Repealing the Smith-Mundt Act allowed the direct deployment of these tactics on the American public.

Information Operations activities were undertaken to shape the media’s chosen narrative and thus affect the attitudes and behaviors of the targeted audience. It equates descriptions of combat operations with standard marketing strategies. With the 2012 NDAA, the State Department and Pentagon could go beyond manipulating mainstream media outlets and directly disseminate campaigns of misinformation to the U.S. public. Successful wars require domestic acceptance, as does the success of Deep State malfeasant interference.

The 2012 NDAA – specifically Section 1021(b)(2) – already institutionalized the U.S. military’s ability to indefinitely detain, without charge or trial, citizens and non-citizens alike.  Major parts of the legislation are based on the assumption that key legal protections for individuals are incompatible with the requirements of national security.

The purpose of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 is “to authorize the domestic dissemination of information and material about the United States intended primarily for foreign audiences.”  The act was added to the 2013 NDAA bill as section of 1078 to amend certain passages of Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1987. The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 passed Congress as part of the 2013 NDAA on December 28, 2012.  Amendments made to the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1987 allow for materials produced by the State Department and the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to be released within US borders.

A Trumpian Double-Take?

If the above analysis is correct and still holds true (hopefully gleaned from “reliable sources” and not propagandists)—and,

 

Given that President Trump signed the 2019 NDAA on August 13, 2018—yet,

 

President Trump relentlessly rails against fake news—

Then why does President Trump abide fake news?

Why is he allowing this legal propaganda, this treason, to exist and to continue?

My simple answer is this:

He does not wish to stop legalized propaganda, he only wants the media to use its propaganda machine to support him, his administration and his policies. However, don’t be fooled. To the extent Trump’s way stands for constitutional truth and an impartiality of justice that benefits the People and our Republic then the news will no longer be propaganda or treason at all because it won't need to be—an ironic twist, eh?

But what the world needs to understand is this:

Outright lies, spin, and half-baked truths are unlawful, whether they are officially sanctioned by the state or not. On the other hand, using clever strategies to unmask deceivers and set the truth free is pure Trumpian genius. Could this so-called "Trump effect" be perception management in the service of truth? Or might it be a de facto way of rendering perception management null and void? You be the judge.