Last update and review: April 18, 2020.
Select reliable sources of information on health, recognize and avoid hostile propaganda operations.
When you search for information on health (and on everything else), it is important to select reliable sources. Most of what is still called “Mainstream media” around the world is, in reality, a coordinated hostile propaganda operation. And even media funded by the taxpayer in most of the countries around the world was hijacked decades ago and became a part of the same hostile propaganda operation. “Hostile” here means “coming from an enemy”.
Propaganda determines up to 99% of what people think. In each country, propaganda should be strictly controlled by domestic entities.
It is stunning that bureaucracies, intelligence agencies, law enforcement, “elites”, and “intelligentsia” around the world do not see the obvious. Propaganda determines up to 99% of what people think. And in each country, propaganda should be strictly controlled by domestic entities. Yet, propaganda was hijacked in almost all the countries of the world.
The White House of President Trump finally realizes the obvious: “Voice of America” spreads foreign propaganda.
It is a surprise to see that, finally, the White House of President Trump realizes the obvious: “Voice of America”, a taxpayer-funded news network that should spread “American propaganda”, actually works against the US and spreads foreign anti-American propaganda around the world.
From the website of the White House:
“Voice of America” is a global news network funded by American taxpayers. It spends about $200 million each year on its mission to “tell America’s story” and “present the policies of the United States.
The White House statement on Voice of America from April 10, 2020.
Here is the text of the statement published on the website of the White House on April 10, 2020, where Voice of America is accused of spreading foreign propaganda.
Voice of America is a global news network funded by American taxpayers. It spends about $200 million each year on its mission to “tell America’s story” and “present the policies of the United States clearly and effectively” to people around the globe.
Today, however, VOA too often speaks for America’s adversaries—not its citizens.
The Coronavirus pandemic is no exception. Secrecy from the Communist Party of China allowed the deadly virus to spread across the world.
Journalists should report the facts, but VOA has instead amplified Beijing’s propaganda. This week, VOA called China’s Wuhan lockdown a successful “model” copied by much of the world—and then tweeted out video of the Communist government’s celebratory light show marking the quarantine’s alleged end.
Even worse, while much of the U.S. media takes its lead from China, VOA went one step further: It created graphics with Communist government statistics to compare China’s Coronavirus death toll to America’s. As intelligence experts point out, there is simply no way to verify the accuracy of China’s numbers.
The Coronavirus story is just one example of this pattern. Last year, VOA helped highlight the Twitter feed of Iran Foreign Minister Javad Zarif while he was issuing threats against the U.S. and sharing Russian anti-U.S. propaganda videos.
“VOA will represent America,” its guiding Charter reads. And for years after its founding during World War II, VOA served that mission by promoting freedom and democracy across the world for audiences who longed for both.
Today, VOA is promoting propaganda instead—and your tax dollars are paying for it.
Who runs and supervises Voice of America?
From the website of Voice of America:
VOA is part of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the government agency that oversees all non-military, U.S. international broadcasting. It is funded by the U.S. Congress.
From the website of Agency for Global Media (USAGM):
The U.S. Agency for Global Media is an independent federal agency overseeing public servicemedia networks that provide unbiased news and information in countries where the press is restricted.
USAGM’s Board. The people on the Board of USAGM are responsible for anti-American propaganda on the Voice of America news network.
The “key executives” of Voice of America are directly responsible for the spread of the anti-American foreign propaganda by this news network.
Who hijacked and controls the propaganda?
The individuals on the Board of the USAGM and the “key executives” of Voice of America are opportunistic characters without their own beliefs or convictions. They would spread any propaganda and any agenda to advance their careers and receive perks. The important question is who controls them, who gives orders to them. This is the question that you need to ask yourself and you need to think about.
Another thing that you need to think about is the following statement by the White House.
The White House, in the same statement from April 10, 2020: “much of the U.S. media takes its lead from China”.
Why would “media” in the US be taking a lead from China? What would be their motivation? What is it in the crazy totalitarian regime in China that can be attractive to the executives and “journalists” that work in the American “media”? The obvious answer is NOTHING. These executives and journalists “take their lead” from China because they do not have any beliefs or convictions of their own. Just as we pointed that out for the bureaucrats, executives and “journalists” that work for Voice of America. None of them has the sense of self-preservation either.
The order “to take their lead from China” comes from somewhere, and “media”, both “private” and hijacked public media, execute the order. Moreover, there is a daily, even hourly, distribution of “directives” and “talking points” on how particular subjects needed to be covered by the “media”. This is a hostile foreign propaganda operation.
The situation with private and public “media” is the same in the vast majority of countries around the world: they are hijacked and spread foreign hostile propaganda, identical to what is spread in the US.
You need to realize that, in the domain of health, you can not rely on anything that is published by a hostile foreign propaganda operation.
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