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An amendment to legalize use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into the latest defense authorization bill.

The amendment would “strike the current ban on domestic dissemination” of propaganda material produced by the State Department and the independent Broadcasting Board of Governors.

The tweak to the bill would essentially neutralize two previous acts—the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and Foreign Relations Authorization Act in 1987— that had been passed to protect U.S. audiences from our own government’s misinformation campaigns.

I have a new book coming out-hero veterans versus the veterans administration. the va is going to be looking for me too cut my benefits. no one has really wrote about the dirty way the va stalls veterans, substandard medical care, propaganda, and pissy delays. Even the recent 9th circuit court of appeals decision, the judges couldn't rule in favor of veterans, because OUR STUPID CONGRESS, will order us too combat, then when we get banged up, discard us as trash.Congress has law, NO COURTS CAN CHALLENGE THE VA. HOW STUPID, WHY HIDDING SOMETHING./ Yea they are.

A propaganda film about propaganda. Learn how the powers that be use argumentum ad metum (the appeal to fear) and constant repetition to subtly manipulate your emotions.

Should Congress and the President be in jail? According to the NDAA they should.

Watch as Ben Swann points out how Congress and the President approved funding for Syrian rebels. Problem is: The rebels have direct ties to Al-Qaeda, and the NDAA explicitly states that assisting Al-Qaeda in any way is a criminal offense.

So, how about it? Should the President and most of Congress be in orange jump suits rotting away in Guantanamo Bay for assisting Al-Qaeda?

Congress on Wednesday sent President Obama a bill that bans the mailing of cigarettes, a measure that would bring the full weight of the federal government down on the Seneca Nation's huge tax-free tobacco trade that New York State has been fighting for years.

Whenever possible, when the law is ambiguous or silent on the issue at bar, the courts should let those who want to market new technologies carry the burden of persuasion that a new exception to the broad rights enacted by Congress should be established. That is especially so if that technology poses grave dangers to the exclusive rights that Congress has given copyright owners. Commercial exploiters of new technologies should be required to convince Congress to sanction a new delivery system and/or exempt it from copyright liability. That is what Congress intended.

Francisco Everardo Oliveira Silva, a 45-year old illiterate Brazilian man best known for his portrayal of Tiririca the clown, just won a place in Brazilian Congress with more than 2x the votes as the next closest candidate. JOKES: YES WE CAN.

White House leaks classified information for propaganda film

GSA scandal: Is Congress engaged in hearing overkill?

Analysis

(CBS News) Congress is holding a pair of hearings today on spending by the General Services Administration (GSA), the federal procurement agency that has come under fire for a 2010 fundraiser that cost taxpayers more than $822,000. Those two hearings follow two other hearings earlier this week into the GSA scandal.