Fascism operates this way. Americans are fooled by government and media propaganda, claiming compromised freedoms provide greater security, not realizing they’re losing both. On December 8, a bipartisan measure proposed by Senators Rob Portman (R. OH) and Chris Murphy (D. CT) was overwhelmingly passed as part of the FY 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
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The so-called Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act (CDPA) hides its sinister intent – a body blow against vital First Amendment freedoms, an unconstitutional measure. House members overwhelmingly passed it, Obama certain to sign it into law, another disgraceful black mark on his legacy (no pun intended), a record of shame, disgrace and lawlessness.
According to Portman, CDPA “will improve the ability of the United States to counter foreign propaganda and disinformation.” False! It’s intent is suppressing truth-telling, crucial in all free societies, state-friendly sanitized content alone considered acceptable.
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“The passage of this bill in the Senate today takes us one critical step closer to effectively confronting the extensive, and destabilizing, foreign propaganda and disinformation operations being waged against us,” Portman added. “While the propaganda and disinformation threat has grown, the US government has been asleep at the wheel. Today we are finally signaling that enough is enough; the United States will no longer sit on the sidelines.”
The Obamas basking in liberaloid adulation at the Kennedy Center, 2016. The imbecility of centrist liberals, many marching under the Democrat label, is simply unquantifiable. Obama should respond for his crimes against humanity before a Nuremberg-type tribunal.
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“We are going to confront this threat head-on. With the help of this bipartisan bill, the disinformation and propaganda used against our allies and our interests will fail.” According to Murphy, “Congress has taken a big step in fighting back against fake news and propaganda from countries like Russia. When the president signs this bill into law, the United States will finally have a dedicated set of tools and resources to confront our adversaries’ widespread efforts to spread false narratives that undermine democratic institutions and compromise America’s foreign policy goals.”
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The State Department has responsibility for implementing the measure. Russia, China and Iran sympathizers are potentially endangered. At this point, it’s unclear what “developing a whole-of-government strategy” will entail. Should writers like myself fear FBI agents arriving at our homes with an arrest warrant for truth-telling, exposing government war crimes and other wrongdoing?
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Is full-blown tyranny the new law of the land with few people realizing it? Does America more than ever resemble Nazi Germany? Will truth-telling on vital issues henceforth be criminalized, especially geopolitical ones? Obama governs under a police state apparatus. He institutionalized Big Brother spying on everyone. He’s waged greater war on whistleblowers than all his predecessors combined.
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He made America resemble Guatemala. Called “the deporter-in-chief,” he’s waged white supremacist war on immigrants of color throughout his tenure – mocking notions of welcoming tired, poor, wretched masses yearning to breathe free.
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The late Helen Thomas (1920 – 2013) blasted his attempted control of the press, calling it “shocking…They’re supposed to stay out of our business…Press control is worse than ever before…It’s blatant,” she explained. With truth-telling equated with “fake news” and “Russian propaganda,” things appearing heading to become much worse.
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With Russia wrongfully accused of interfering in America’s election process to benefit Trump over Hillary, will he abandon notions of normalizing ties and cooperating with Putin in combating terrorism – fearing otherwise he’ll be called a Kremlin agent, making him vulnerable to impeachment? Is the worst of what Orwell envisioned now reality in America and other Western societies, following in US footsteps?
APPENDIX/ By the author
War Criminal John Kerry Awarded France’s Legion of Honor for Peacemaking
[dropcap]M[/dropcap]aybe next year’s Nobel Peace Prize will follow. Western societies honor war criminals like Henry Kissinger, Obama, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, John Kerry and many others. Peace champions are vilified, persecuted or shunned. On Saturday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault presented Kerry with France’s Legion of Honor – established by Napoleon in 1802, its highest award for notable military and civil service. One war criminal honored another, Ayrault shamefully saying Kerry earned the award for “his indefatigable efforts in favor of peace.”
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KERRY: The best we can say about this man is that he does not represent a single decent or knowledgeable American. Only the indifferent and terminally ignorant.
Supporting all US wars of aggression, Kerry ludicrously said he “understand(s) the cost of war, and the need for all of us to keep fighting for peace, always.” Days earlier, Obama boasted about being the only US wartime president throughout his tenure. He’s indeed the most belligerent by bombing seven countries and waging naked aggression in multiple theaters still raging. All other US presidents since George Washington waged war throughout their tenures at home and/or abroad. Obama’s only “distinction” is the immense body count on his watch – millions perishing from war, related violence, preventable diseases, starvation and overall deprivation.
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Just societies would have prosecuted, convicted, sentenced and imprisoned him long ago – Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and others in his administration along with him. No nation represents greater pure evil than America. None more megalomaniacally seek global conquest, no matter the human cost. None more threatens humanity’s survival.
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Kerry should be arrested and detained the moment he arrives on foreign soil. On Saturday, speaking from Paris with his French, German and Qatari counterparts (partners in aggression on Syria), Kerry lied, saying “(w)e assembled here to talk with urgency about…end(ing) the bloodshed, to stop the carnage, the horrific war that is taking place in Syria.”
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Fact: Syria is Obama’s war, orchestrated by Hillary Clinton as secretary of state – naked aggression against a nonbelligerent country threatening no one, using ISIS, al-Nusra and other terrorist fighters as imperial foot soldiers, groups America created to serve its interests.
Fact: Kerry doesn’t want cessation of hostilities and conflict resolution. He supports continued mass slaughter and destruction for regime change.
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Kerry: “One interest that is universal is…the determination to defeat Daesh/ISIL.
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Fact: America, NATO, Israel and other regional rogue states arm, fund, train and direct ISIS and other terrorist death squad fighters, including on use of chemical and other banned weapons.
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Kerry: “(W)e have made enormous progress (toward defeating ISIS).”
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Fact: Utter rubbish!
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Kerry: “The indiscriminate bombing by (Syria) which violates international rules of law, of war, in many cases crimes against humanity and war crimes, needs to stop.”
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“And those who support it, those in Moscow and elsewhere who have supported it, should do their utmost to bring it to a close. A meaningful ceasefire needs to be reached…”
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Fact: Syria was invaded. Its forces and allies, notably Russia, are courageously combating US-supported terrorists. They deserve universal support. There’s nothing “indiscriminate” about fighting to eliminate a scourge threatening the country’s sovereign independence.
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Kerry and his rogue allies want cessation of hostilities in Aleppo so terrorists fighters they support have breathing time to hold on longer. They’re already defeated, small pockets of diehards alone remaining, Kerry desperate to save Obama and himself from greater shame and embarrassment. Syria and allied ground forces, together with Russian air power, are defeating their imperial ambitions in Syria.
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In January, Obama will leave office on a sour note – mass slaughter, destruction and human misery on an incalculable scale his most “notable” achievement, exceeding the worst of George Bush.
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