Yes there is a revolutionary spirit that is sweeping not just the United States but the entire world. The fact is, the impetus for revolution is coming from two unique directions. The Global Elites are driving it from above as they maneuver to establish their New World Order. But there is also a tendency among the people to throw off the planned domination of the globalists and return to self-governance as evidenced by Brexit, the Trump victory and a growing populist movement developing among native Europeans. The latest move in the ongoing saga is an attempt to control the debate by defining ‘Truth’. If you can control the information available to the masses you can control their destiny.
PART V: A MINISTRY OF TRUTH
It was the day before Christmas Eve, a day hardly anyone pays all that close attention to the news, when President Obama signed the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). That legislation provides the funding to keep the military running, provide for national security and another essential, the Department of Energy. But tucked into the bowels of that bill was something called the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act of 2016. According to one of its sponsors, the goals of the bill are twofold; to counter “foreign propaganda and disinformation” and secondly to establish “a fund to help train local journalists and provide grants and contracts to NGOs, civil society organizations, think tanks, private sector companies, media organizations, and other experts” to essentially analyze foreign and other non-truth-based propaganda and produce counter-propaganda in response.[i]
Writing back in June, when the legislation was first proposed, Claire Bernish of TheAntiMedia.org gave this spot-on analysis. “Make no mistake — this legislation isn’t proposing some team of noble fact-finders, chiseling away to free the truth from the façades of various foreign governmental narratives for the betterment of American and allied populations. If passed, this legislation will allow cumbrously pro-‘American’ propaganda to infiltrate cable, online, and mainstream news organizations wherever the government deems necessary.”[ii] Now consider that in the light of the Fake News narrative being foisted on us by President Obama and the Mainstream Media. What a perfect way to take on and squash the so-called Fake News. Any story they don’t like, any individual, group or website they find troublesome, they can squash with this new ‘Ministry of Truth’ of theirs.
[Never mind that the majority of the real ‘Fake News’ comes from the Mainstream Media. Just recall the made up story of George W Bush’s National Guard service that effectively ended Dan Rather’s career. Or consider the Rolling Stone false accusations of gang rape against members of a UVA fraternity or the accusation that White Racists were carrying weapons to anti-healthcare rallies. (It turned out one African-American was carrying, was caught on tape and the tape edited to hide the fact.) Remember the demographically falsified presidential polls of 2016 that showed Trump way behind, or news anchor Brian Williams lying about being under fire while on assignment in Iraq,[iii] or Hillary’s lie that she landed under fire in Bosnia – when actually she was greeted by children and presented with flowers.[iv]]According to the recently signed law, the Secretaries of State and Defense along with the Director of National Intelligence, and the Broadcasting Board of Governors are to set up a “Center for Information Analysis and Response.” Along with identifying “propaganda and disinformation” the Center is to arrange for “support for third-party outlets such as think tanks, political parties, and nongovernmental organizations, and the use of covert or clandestine special operators and agents to influence targeted populations and governments in order to coordinate and shape the development of tactics, techniques, and procedures to expose and refute foreign misinformation and disinformation.”[v] The entire government plan was in place all along to operate in this ‘Ministry of Truth’ role. This goes along quite nicely with the recently started campaign by Facebook and other social media sites to institute their own form of liberal-based censorship. This is Big-Brotherism in its truest form; a twisting of truth and falsehood until it is hard to tell which is which. And if you want to know just where this is headed take a look at what’s going on in Germany. Last year the Merkel government hired a former Stasi agent – (that was the secret police) – to run an agency that will “patrol Facebook” to look for posts that criticize the Chancellor’s policy of bringing in 1 million immigrants. The new department will be on the hunt for “Xenophobic” comments and posts “that constitute the criminal offense of incitement to hatred.”[vi] Posters will face criminal charges. If you don’t want your German culture changed or your women sexually molested you could find yourself in jail. So much for the great Western value of freedom of speech!
[i] Buried Inside the 2017 NDAA Is a Little-Known ‘Disinformation’ Provision — and Obama Just Signed It,
Independent Journal Review, December 26, 2016
[ii] Claire Bernish, Propaganda Bill In Congress Could Give America Its Very Own Ministry Of “Truth”, Zero Hedge /
TheAntiMedia.org, June 7, 2016
[iii] 12 Fake News Stories from the Mainstream Media, Breitbart, November 22, 2016
[iv] CBS News, March 25, 2008
[v] Claire Bernish, Propaganda Bill In Congress Could Give America Its Very Own Ministry Of “Truth”, Zero Hedge /
TheAntiMedia.org, June 7, 2016
[vi] German Govt Hires Ex-Stasi Agent To Patrol Facebook, Breitbart, September 17, 2016
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