In Orwell’s brilliant dystopian novel “1984,” the all-encompassing government has a “Ministry of Truth” designed to decide what is “truth” and thereby keep “the people confused about who is at war with whom” and “what is their genuine reality.” Doing so causes the masses to become “involved in nothing and, therefore, no threat to the power structure.”
Late on Friday – in order to hide it underneath the Christmas tree when most people were ignoring news – Obama signed (after Congress passed) the National Defense Authorization Act. Buried deep inside the bill was the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act of 2016, which further cuts down on press freedoms – you know, that thing you read about in THE CONSTITUTION – and “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.’ ” …Yes, I assume the irony of the fact that they’re creating disinformation in order to counter “disinformation” is lost on them.
To quote one article about it – “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 a true dystopic manner — ‘develop and disseminate’ ‘fact-based narratives’ to counter effrontery propaganda.”
What does this mean to you and me? Well, one can assume that if this Ministry of Truth had existed this past year, you would’ve heard almost nothing about Edward Snowden, the election fraud, the DNC leaks, the Podesta leaks, the truth about Syria and so much more. …All of which were covered this year on my show “Redacted Tonight” and many other alternative outlets.
And in fact the mainstream press that covered this very hush-hush signing made no mention of the new Ministry of Truth. …Because the first rule of creating a Ministry of Truth is “You do not talk about the Ministry of Truth.”
You can read more about this HERE, HERE, and HERE.
Luckily Obama won’t be in office much longer. So he’s going to hand over this insane governmental-overreach-dystopian-future to Donald Trump… What a relief!
(Oh shit.)
Keep Fighting,
Lee Camp
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I have been searching for a post similar to this for a very long moment.
Pity they couldn’t name it HR 5150
Tried to sign up for News Little But It didn’t Work.
Obama and Congress agreed on and passed something ?!?
yes this is why we quit watching msm
Now that “Hope and Change” has signed it what can we do?
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/5181/text
There is no secret this is all public information
I got back “we cannot find a matching keyword”
No, but you can sign up in the sidebar to the right. (That sign up was not functional this weekend, but should be soon.)
We know that there are people out there already creating fake news for one of three reasons. One, to confuse the American people and push a specific agenda/narrative. Two, to generate revenue through ad traffic because people are more likely to click on something with an outlandish headline. And three, for the lols. What bothers me most isn’t that our elected officials think they need something to counter all of the stupid bullshit that is constantly bombarding and influencing the non-critical thinking among us, it’s that we have people who can’t or won’t think critically. I’d love to blame the American educational system, but it seems to be working as designed. Face it, were boned. And the people will applaud as this will be spun as a victory for truth in a world of lies and deception.
Oh, and the mainstream media did cover this to an extent. NPR talked about it Saturday morning (before all the Christmas music and specials).
Will the 444999 sign up work in countries other than the US???
The final nail in Democracy”s coffin…
Thank you for informing people, i truly appreciate you’re journalism even if I don’t always agree with you’re views.
I thought that’s why we have alternative media? The US propaganda disinformation complex is why people voted for Trump. It is the reason people are so ignorant. This is not new, it is par for the course.
DOA(Disenfranchised Oligarchy of America) formerly USA is on the fast track to becoming a third world nation and already is a terrorist regime ! Wake up DOA ! The metric system is used by EVERY country in the world except USA ,Liberia and Burma ! All those CHILDREN being blown to bits in Alesso are being murdered by the USA !! The USA is funding the killers and supplying all the weapons as well as the ammunition. We are the number one terrorists of this planet ! We also cause a huge carbon footprint effectively murdering planet Earth . All of this is done for money that does not exist and has no intrinsic value and for a false sense of power ! This planet is done for if the humans do not get their heads out of their ,,,,,
Just when I rhought we had tobramp things up they fit us with a rat facecage
True. We’re working on fixing it.
i assume Russia hacked Congress.
Did did this pass?
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Redacted Tonight alluded to this in its name and theme.
SO RIGHT NAOMINOUZ, WE NEED TO TAKE TO THE STREETS IN NUMBERS, WE MUST STOP THIS INSANITY NOW.
I appreciate what you do.
Thank you
of all the horrible things that have happened and come to light this past year; this one, snuck in at the 11th hour before xmas, is the most horrifying.