C-Span opened their phones for so many excellent views that to choose just a few would be impossible.  One is heartened that so many Americans have awakened to the corruption in our government as we have meandered down the path of “running government like a business”.  This on a continuum is organized crime.

Politicians bark out at We The People that “we are a nation of laws” without including the caveat that they are purchased into positions of power by big-money interest byway of Citizens United and work within the collaborative umbrella of http://www.alec.org..  This is where big-money interests and lawmakers choose the laws they will inflict upon We The People.

A caller brought up the Smith Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 that is a law that permits media to lie to the public if it upholds a governmental policy.

https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1203&context=nulr  –

CONCLUSION The domestic dissemination ban in the Smith–Mundt Act is rooted in the Cold War. As with other vestiges of that era that have succumbed to technological and social modernity, so, too, has the domestic dissemination ban. The 2013 Amendment now allows the State Department and the BBG to better combat domestic terrorism, and also promotes greater government transparency. However, the 2013 Amendment creates new problems. Now, there is little preventing the State Department and the BBG from widely disseminating unattributed government-produced programming within the United States. The danger of domestic dissemination does not lie in the dissemination itself; rather, it lies in anonymous dissemination. To curb the potential harm of covert government propaganda, there must be either legislation or a judicial doctrine that requires the State Department and the BBG to attribute their materials. The Truth in Broadcasting Act of 2005 provides an excellent template for a future bill that would require attribution on government-produced programming. Similarly, a judicially imposed attribution requirement under the government speech doctrine may also solve the problem. The Sixth and Ninth Circuits’ acceptance of Justice Souter’s reasoning in the Johanns dissent indicate that a judicially imposed attribution of government-produced programming may be forthcoming.

Fortunately, there is little evidence that the State Department and the BBG have any desire to “propagandize” the American people.229 But the best rules are ones that are enacted before they are needed. It is critical to establish safeguards now—before the United States enters into a new conflict or engages in some other highly controversial activity—that will prevent the federal government from covertly influencing public opinion within the United States. The government will continue to speak, and the American people must know to whom they are listening

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Information broadcast to We The People by the government byway of MSM that is owned by corporations that are in place for profit as its primary reason to exist, calls into question a Free Press.

For example, propaganda can be implied by what is not broadcast as much as by what is.  An example that has come to one’s awareness only recently that seems relevant is the number of bureaucrats and politicians in the US government who have dual citizenship with Israel.  One is all for dual citizenship if others wish, but when they are making laws byway of Citizens United and http://www.alec.org, should we have a transparent discussion?

Should We The People be aware of this obvious conflict of interest?  And will we also have dual citizenship lawmakers from, for example, Saudi Arabia (one hand washes the other for Kushner/Trump), China, and Russia?  If not, why not?

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OCTOBER 21, 2023 | PART OF WASHINGTON JOURNAL 10/21/2023

Washington Journal

Open Forum, Part 1

Viewers commented on the battle for House speaker and the Israel-Hamas conflict.

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https://mailchi.mp/democracynow/20180813-746636?e=1aa87a4d5a   —

“Divide and Rule”: How Israel Helped Start Hamas to Weaken Palestinian Hopes for Statehood

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is urging Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, where the death toll from Israel’s two-week bombardment has topped 4,100. 

Israeli Journalist Amira Hass, Daughter of Holocaust Survivors, Calls for Gaza Ceasefire Now

In Part 2 of our interview with legendary Israeli journalist Amira Hass, who has reported from the occupied West Bank and Gaza for over 30 years, she discusses .

Ceasefire Now! Rashida Tlaib, Naomi Klein Join Thousands in Jewish-Led D.C. Protest Against Gaza War

Thousands rallied at the U.S. Capitol this week calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, in what organizers with IfNotNow and Jewish Voice for Peace called the …

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivoE-zSQdnM  —

LIVE: Biden Achieved Nothing / The World Is Waking Up

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A few youthful voices were raised about the FACT that Free Speech is lost for employees at the door of a workplace, typically corporate.  This is the reason some people don’t support fascism, where business runs the show.

An American Revolution was fought precisely to gain individual freedom, as much from big-money dictatorship as from one’s own government.

LIVE: The US Fights To STOP Peace From Breaking Out (& much more)

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Ross Perot in 1992 on NAFTA and the “Giant Sucking Sound”Centralization is the lifeblood of the R&D duopoly.  It’s the way to enforce capitalism onto workers in 2022.———————–We can do better———-That “we are a 2-Party system” is a fabrication of the Republican/Democratic duopoly and spread by MSM.  In FACT the majority of voters aren’t either registered Democratic or Republican.  The censorship about this info must be envied by bureaucrats of the Former USSR and their simplistic style of 1-Party elections.  

Regardless of which character sits in the Oval Office, We The People have work to do to maintain principles of our democratic (small d) Constitutional republic.  Several items to challenge—*We need the integrity of ranked-choice voting so voters won’t feel compelled to “hold your nose and vote”*Censored debates must be stopped.  The Democratic/Republican duopoly pretends to legitimate debates in what is nothing other than another campaign show.  Independent debates run by uninterested sponsors such as The League of Women Voters, must be restored.  (Access www.debates.org to understand the extent of duopoly control).  The so-called Debate Commission is a corporation to promote the Democratic corporation and Republican corporation, not to inform We The People*Challenge and stop gerrymandering that is a trick especially of the Republican branch of the duopoly.*Stop voter suppression by political Parties, and especially confront and stop Party suppression, which is the over-arching approach to voter suppression.  Party suppression seems to have been the responsibility of the Democratic corporation*Promote by law ranked-choice voting, so we won’t be told again, by D&R duopoly, to “hold your nose and vote”
If these issues are handled, our next elections can be honorable. 
*******************************************************************https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx—-Political Party affiliation of voters.
    https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/league-refuses-help-perpetrate-fraud–LEAGUE REFUSES TO “HELP PERPETRATE A FRAUD”