TASS Is Here
So what is TASS? Or rather what was TASS? TASS was the old Soviet
Union news agency of government disinformation. And it is here, no not just the bias media
like we have had for years but an Obama Regime controlled government news
agency, misused and abused, working surreptitiously within the present media
organizations.
By de Andréa
July 22, 2013
When I was just a kid back in…well…lets
just say - a long time ago, my father made a statement I will never
forget. At the time I was not fully
aware of its impact, but now its meaning has become all too real. The statement was this… “Isn’t too bad that the Russian people have
to go to news agencies outside their country to get the truth about what is
going on within their own boarders.” As
I said I was still too young to understand what that really meant. Today that same statement can be made about the
U.S.A. ,
the land of the free, where freedom of speech and of the press shall not be
prohibited.
Today an online radio host is sounding
the alarm over a brand-new law or a modification of an old law that 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,” Evens says.
Evans is referring to the Smith-Mundt
Modernization Act of 2012, sponsored by Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, and Rep. Adam Smith, D- Wash., which was surreptitiously inserted
into the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act, check it out.
According to John
Hudson of Foreign Policy 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, 2013 that came silently to an
end with the implementation of a new reform passed in January of this year. 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 communist 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 governments’ ability now to indoctrinate and
brainwash citizens within its own borders.
Evans says America has been protected from
this over the years for good reason.
“The types of information that we promulgate
overseas to foreigners is disinformation.
It is meant to confuse, distract, redirect. It is not meant to be an informative source
of news,” he explained.
“Don’t misunderstand what I’m saying. There is already, for all intents and
purposes, an organization in the United States that does this. It’s called MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox
News. They are’ an arm of propaganda. But if you think things were bad before with
those groups, wait till you see what’s gonna come out of them now. They’ll be reporting
government misinformation as factual news stories, and a gullible American
public will swallow it hook, line and sinker.”
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. 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 …
.”
Evans took special note about the funds
“appropriated
or otherwise made available. It
doesn’t open a door. It doesn’t open a
window,” he explains. “It opens a wall that will allow NGOs, non-governmental
organizations, who have a globalist ideology and a globalist agenda, to fund
this type of abuse.”
Because the measure is so new, Evans
says America
hasn’t even begun to see its effects yet.
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, my friend. 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.
Evens 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.”
“When you
violate your oath and you work against the best interests of your nation
willfully, knowingly, with malice aforethought, ladies and gentlemen, that
qualifies as treason. I’m telling you
now that your government is acting in open, undeclared, but blatant treason,” he said.
Evens also said, Americans will
actually be paying for the propaganda used on them. “The idea that you are willing to pay for
your own demise through taxpayer-funded boondoggles like this and many others
is an unconscionable use of the taxing authority,” Evans said.
Is the following truth or lies
Lynne Weil, a spokeswoman for the Broadcasting Board of Governors, denies her agency is a propaganda outlet, and maintains current BBG
services such as the Voice of America “present fair and accurate news.”
“They don’t shy away from stories that don’t shed
the best light on the United
States ,” she told Foreign
Policy. “Our journalists provide what
many people cannot get locally: uncensored news, responsible discussion, and
open debate.”
Congressman
Smith has vehemently denied the claim
of domestic propaganda, saying the measure “does not authorize any U.S. government agency to develop
propaganda for a domestic audience nor is that our intent.”
He says it’s “intended to provide ‘greater
transparency’ and to ensure the U.S.
government can get factual information out to foreign audiences in a timely
manner for many reasons including countering extremist misinformation and
propaganda. It does not and is not in any way intended to ‘legalize the use of
propaganda on American audiences,’ it does not neutralize or repeal Smith-Mundt
and, in fact, it specifically ensures that the content to be rebroadcast or republished
domestically by the Department of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors
shall not influence public opinion in the U.S.”
You have just been propagandized my friend…
Pointing to the dangers of domestic
propaganda efforts, I will cite just two examples from the past 12 months.
Last year, two USA Today journalists
were ensnared in a propaganda campaign after reporting about millions of
dollars in back taxes owed by the Pentagon’s top propaganda contractor in Afghanistan . Eventually, one of the co-owners of the firm
confessed to creating phony websites and Twitter accounts to smear the
journalists anonymously.
Additionally, just this month,
the Washington Post exposed a counter-propaganda program by the Pentagon that
recommended posting comments on a U.S. website run by a Somali expat with
readers opposing al-Shabab (an Islamist militia in Somalia). “Today, the military is more focused on
manipulating news and commentary on the Internet, especially social media, by
posting material and images without necessarily claiming ownership,”
reported the Post.
THE BOTTOM LINE:
The point here is, because of this bastardization of a law that was
designed to protect the American people from what the people of the old USSR had to
endure; you will now not know whether what you’re hearing, reading, or seeing,
in anyway resembles even a little part of the truth. Moreover, if this new
power ‘can be abused’…it will! Complete
fabrication could be the norm. And the
worst part it will be completely legal.
Immoral maybe, but legal…
Thanks for listening – de Andréa
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