It is shameful that Mother Jones publishes bullshit like this-
Is Congress Really Authorizing US Propaganda at Home?
By Adam Weinstein, Mother Jones
Tue May. 22, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
(T)he outcry in this case seems misguided. For starters, the proposed law doesn’t permit the spread of any information that isn’t already available to the American public. Moreover, the amendment could conceivably bring more of the government’s overseas information operations into the sunlight, a good thing.
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The argument against Thornberry’s and Smith’s amendment appears to be pretty straightforward: We only want US propaganda peddled to foreign populations, but not to our own! In reality, though, most “public diplomacy” is mundane boilerplate about America’s purple mountains’ majesties.
Bullshit.
Pentagon Contractor Admits To Perpetrating Online Smear Campaign Against USA Today Reporters
By Adam Peck, Think Progress
May 24, 2012 at 6:21 pm
The former head of a group that contracts with the Pentagon to produce propaganda material used oversees has admitted to launching a similar disinformation campaign against two U.S.-based reporters.
In April, two USA Today journalists claimed they were the victims of a deliberate “reputation attack” after they wrote a series of stories about the Pentagon’s contracts with groups that specialize in the production of propaganda. Days after the journalists began speaking with officials at the Pentagon and other sources for the story, fake websites and social media accounts set up in the names of the two reporters were mysteriously registered and began trying to discredit the stories.
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at my nuclear detonator factory I have to endure undeveloped people who have done the same thing year after year for about twenty six of so of them. It is like being in junior high school all over again. It is much like the profane experience I go through enduring the retarded talking points of Obama vs Romney. Their elevator stops at Dancing with the Stars and or American Idol.
They did not savor the German wine with corporate presidents who called “our” factories “third world”. OK, yes I have had very unique experiences. I didn’t reject my American born Boy Scout life overnight. It took years of research and cognitive rational thinking to figure out America has the definitive potential to cause humanities next extinction level event.
Now if the majority of the world’s people don’t see the value of having a Facebook page or give a rats ass about the social engineering efforts of Council of Fucked Up Relations member Angelia Jolie then perhaps most of us survive barring Japanese nuclear contamination, solar CMEs taking out the power grid or project censored based websites gaining that statistically impossible option of altering the matrix like opionions of bought and paid for sheeple.