THE DEEP STATE IS GOING ALL OUT AND YOU DIDN'T LISTEN
On November 30, the House of Representatives has ratified "H.R. 6393, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017" with 390 votes for, sponsored by "California Republican" Devin Nunes whose third largest donor in 2016 is Google parent Alphabet, Inc
The text of this Patriot Act 2 - Electric Boogaloo is readable here:
govtrack.us
A quick skim of the text reveals "Title V—Matters relating to foreign countries", whose Section 501 calls for the government to "counter active measures by Russia to exert covert influence … carried out in coordination with, or at the behest of, political leaders or the security services of the Russian Federation and the role of the Russian Federation has been hidden or not acknowledged publicly.”
Definitions include "media manipulation, covert broadcasting, disinformation and forgeries, and funding agents of influence".
The bill was introduced on November 22, two days before the Washington Post published its infamous Nov. 24 article citing "experts" who claim Russian propaganda helped Donald Trump get elected.
→ archive.is
This law, if passed by the Senate and signed by the president, could be used to target, threaten, or eliminate so-called “fake news” websites, a list which has been used to arbitrarily define any website, or blog, that does not share the mainstream media's proclivity to serve as the Public Relations arm of a given administration.
zerohedge.com
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