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The More Things Change....

...the More They Stay the Same.

Charlie Kirk, Turning Point or Tipping Point?

 Will his assassination initiate an Anti-Deep State Preference Cascade?

The End of Weaponized US Deep State Domestic Propaganda?

Jim Hoft, "Sen. Mike Lee to File Bombshell Legislation to Crush Deep State Propaganda Machine – Restores Smith-Mundt as the ‘Charlie Kirk Act’"

Utah Senator Mike Lee announced he will soon introduce groundbreaking legislation to restore the original protections of the Smith-Mundt Act—and he’s renaming it the “Charlie Kirk Act” in honor of the conservative leader assassinated just days ago.

“In the coming days, I’ll be filing my previously drafted legislation to restore Smith-Mundt, and renaming it the Charlie Kirk Act. Domestic, political, government-funded propaganda must end now,” Lee wrote on X.

In the coming days, I’ll be filing my previously drafted legislation to restore Smith-Mundt, and renaming it the Charlie Kirk Act

Domestic, political, government-funded propaganda must end now https://t.co/lm49zS24tX

— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) September 15, 2025

This marks one of the most aggressive steps yet to dismantle the Deep State’s stranglehold on information flow in America.

Passed in 1948, the Smith–Mundt Act (officially the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act) allowed the U.S. government to conduct foreign propaganda campaigns, radio, film, exchanges, cultural outreach, aimed at influencing foreign populations during the Cold War.

But the law contained one critical safeguard: propaganda made for foreign audiences was forbidden from being used inside the United States. Washington could not psy-op its own people. This firewall stood for more than six decades.

In 2012, tucked into the National Defense Authorization Act for FY2013, Congress passed the Smith–Mundt Modernization Act, introduced by Representative Mac Thornberry (R-TX) and signed by Barack Obama on January 2, 2013.

It shredded the firewall and legalized domestic distribution of State Department and U.S. Agency for Global Media (formerly Broadcasting Board of Governors) materials.

By July 2, 2013, it was official: U.S. citizens could now be subjected to the same government-crafted propaganda once reserved for foreigners.

Seven months ago, investigative watchdog Mike Benz revealed to Joe Rogan in an interview what really happened with the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012.

Obama’s “modernization” wasn’t modernization at all; it was the effective repeal of Smith–Mundt, a deliberate move to unleash the State Department, CIA, and USAID’s propaganda weapons on the American people.

According to Benz, it allowed the permanent “Department of Dirty Tricks” to:

-Infiltrate and co-opt universities, unions, media, politicians, and judges.

-Fund groups abroad that also operate here, laundering foreign “grants” into domestic propaganda.

-Push censorship by coercing foreign governments to pass laws that attack U.S. free speech and social media.

Mike Benz: Are you familiar with the Smith–Mundt Act?

Joe Rogan:  Is that the 2011, 2012 thing where Obama allowed people to use propaganda against United States citizens?

Mike Benz:  Yeah. What was done then under Obama was the effective repeal of it. It was called the Smith–Mundt Modernization Act. But the modernization got rid of the whole purpose of it—the firewall—because at the time, the media and media control was seen as the linchpin, the crux of winning the Cold War: piping in pro-U.S. media influence.

Because everything moved after World War II from kinetic warfare and military occupation—we used to militarily occupy the Philippines, for example, after we won the Spanish–American War—but that was banned under international law. Territorial acquisition by military force in 1948 was outlawed. So, we had to win elections, and we had to influence the passage of laws in foreign countries by having an apparatus inside those countries that influenced the hearts and minds of people, which determined who they voted for, which then determined the government. You had to move towards political vassalage rather than military occupation.

What the Smith–Mundt Act did—simultaneous with its creation in 1948—was recognize the Frankensteinian monster Congress was authorizing by creating a covert permanent Department of Dirty Tricks (their phrase, not mine). Its job was to cloak, infiltrate, and co-opt the universities, the unions, the media, the politicians, the judges—the whole sworn army—what I’ve been calling for a long time the “USAID Truman Show.” Because people in foreign countries had no idea how many of the things they interacted with were effectively a movie set being constructed by the U.S. State Department and its sister influence organizations.

But the point I’m getting at here is the Smith–Mundt Act in 1948 said, “Okay, you guys can do this. State Department can do this. CIA can do this. USAID, when it came along 13 years later, could do this.”

There was a guy named Frank Wisner, one of the godfathers of the CIA. He created what was called “Wisner’s Wurlitzer,” like a church organ. He bragged that he could play the international media like a symphony, making any narrative go viral anywhere in the world because of the CIA’s proprietary media functions and its distribution network—especially when the U.S. first moved for advantage in radio and print. It was basically the U.S. and U.K., the only real games in town, in having robust radio, film, TV, and print media.

The Smith–Mundt said, “Okay, you can do that abroad. You can plant fake news stories in France. You can pump propaganda into Africa, Western Europe, Central Asia. But it can’t come home. You can’t psy-op our own people with your propaganda organ abroad. Because the point of authorizing this is that we get cheaper gas, import–export markets, and a higher standard of living.”

If a foreign government doesn’t want to give up its resources, allow a U.S. military base, or allow joint partnerships or multinational corporations to operate there, then the American people suffer economically. It was always designed to say, “Listen, you can do this dirty stuff abroad, but it can’t come home.”

Even that protection—which lasted for 70 years and we only lost a decade ago—is gone. And now we’re up against a much deeper, darker problem with this USAID scandal, and soon with scandals breaking open at the Pentagon and State Department.

Because the issue isn’t just a Smith–Mundt problem of propaganda—it’s about funding and operations. The Blob, our foreign policy establishment, can fund groups that effectively work with prosecutors domestically, or with media, under “dual use.” We give them foreign grants to do propaganda abroad, but they operate here. Or they enforce social media censorship abroad that ends up being applied here, coercing countries to pass censorship laws explicitly designed to hit U.S. peer-to-peer speech.

We need that protection. If we’re going to keep this function at all, we need a hard firewall and absolute, grotesque penalties for any violation.

The Smith-Mundt Act is trending on X, don’t let this momentum die

We must Restore the Smith Mundt Act and call it The Charlie Kirk Act to end legalized mainstream media propaganda

Mike Benz talks with Joe Rogan about what Barack Obama really did by repealing the Smith–Mundt Act… pic.twitter.com/atptn5OCj3

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) September 14, 2025

Technofeudalists Capture Nepal

Pete Pattisson, ‘This is our revolution. It’s our turn now’: Nepal’s ‘gen Z protesters’ speak out against corruption

Young Nepalis led a mass protest in Kathmandu on Monday and have paid for it with bullet wounds or their lives

The whiteboard listing the names of patients at a hospital in central Kathmandu tells the story of a protest gone badly wrong. Beside each name is written their age: 18, 22, 20, 18, 23. The list goes on.

By Wednesday morning there were still scores of Nepal’s young being treated for gunshot wounds and injuries sustained when police opened fire on protesters in Kathmandu on Monday.

These are the so-called gen Z protesters, a generation of young Nepalis who led a mass protest against government corruption, nepotism and a ban on social media sites, and paid for it with bullet wounds and in some cases their lives. Hundreds were injured and at least 22 are believed to have died.

From his hospital bed, Saurav*, an 18-year-old college student, said he had been excited to join the protest. “When it comes to the nation, there is no need for motivation. The politicians are just selling our country for their own greed. That’s not supposed to happen,” he said.

The violence that broke out before the police opened fire on the huge crowds that had gathered outside the parliament building in Kathmandu on Monday was, insists Saurav, instigated by groups outside their anti-corruption movement.

As the shooting started, a protester standing in front of Saurav was shot in the chest and died on the spot, he said. Pellets from the shot hit his hand. “I was screaming in pain and my friends carried me to this hospital … It was totally unnecessary. Killing people, I don’t think that’s humanity. That’s just disgusting,” he said.

By Tuesday afternoon the prime minister, KP Sharma Oli, had resigned and thousands of Nepalis had taken to the streets to spontaneously celebrate his downfall and express their anger.

The mood initially was one of jubilation at what many saw as the end of widespread government corruption, and bitter resentment at the killing of the protesters the day before.

For the past 10 years, Nepal has been ruled by the same three elderly leaders – Oli, Sher Bahadur Deuba and Pushpa Kamal Dahal – who have effectively taken up the post of prime minister on a rotating basis. Between them, they have led the country on 12 separate occasions. While yesterday’s protests may have been triggered by the government’s ban on dozens of social media sites last week, it was built on years of frustration and anger at politicians who are widely viewed as corrupt and self-serving.

By 4pm the main roads into the heart of the city were packed with protesters, many on motorbikes, chanting, shouting and waving the Nepali flag, in defiance of a government curfew. Many more lined the streets, filming the moment and taking selfies, sensing that history was being made.

Much of the anger was directed at Oli, with handwritten signs scrawled on walls and T-shirts calling for him to be killed. “He killed our youth. He should be dead,” said one.

The focus of the crowds was Singha Durbar, the complex of government ministries, which was then breached and much of it set on fire. One group drove a police van out of the main gate, carrying dozens of triumphant protesters on its roof. Three young men scaled the ornate entrance gate to wave the national flag. On the ground below, a group belted out the national anthem. A small number of soldiers stood by but did little to intervene. There was no sign of the police.

As thick, acrid smoke belched out across the streets and over the city, some protesters emerged from the burning buildings carrying reams of paper, office chairs and computer monitors.

“This is a revolution. This is the end of the corruption. It’s our turn now,” said Sujan Dahal, a young Nepali celebrating the downfall of the prime minister in Kathmandu on Tuesday. “The government was so corrupt. They used that money to improve their own lives, but there has been no change in the lives of normal people.”

By the end of the day, the scale of destruction had shocked many Nepalis, amid a sense that the movement has been sabotaged by groups seemingly bent on retribution and violence.

“I’m feeling bad. This is not good for us,” said a young man, who did not want to give his name. Along with government ministries and residences, dozens of other properties have been set on fire across the city, including a luxury hotel and a prestigious private school.

Throughout the day, groups of protesters had formed human chains around some sites to protect them, including the entrance to an army camp. “We are protecting the army. We are not against the army. We are against the government. The corruption. They are trying to shut our voices by stopping social media. Today we won. It is our victory. Oli has resigned,” said Sajad Ansari, 20.

By Wednesday morning, the administrative heart of Kathmandu looked like the aftermath of a missile attack. Burnt-out buildings stood smouldering in the light rain. The charred shells of cars and motorbikes lay strewn across the streets. Plumes of dark smoke still rose over the city.

The city is now in a state of almost complete lockdown, with soldiers stationed at major junctions enforcing a strict curfew. It is unclear what shape a future government might take.

It is a sentiment shared by Saurav even as he recovers from his injuries but, like many, he remains optimistic. “If the power is in the right hands, of course Nepal will develop,” he said. “Our young generation are very capable. We don’t seek for our own greed. We think about the good of the nation.”

*Name has been changed

On the Trans-Furry Community...

12.2% of the Furry Community Identifies as Transgender (Furry Fandom Community is globally estimated to be between 1.5 and 3 million individuals)

 

Where Affirmation of One's Curated Self-Identity Profile Reigns Supreme!

Eureka!  Performative Gender Euphoria!

from Google AI:

In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the ego is the self that experiences reality, while the superego is a cruel, imperative voice commanding enjoyment, or jouissance—a painful pleasure beyond simple joy. Unlike Freudian ethics, Lacan's superego doesn't just forbid but actively compels the subject to enjoy, creating a twisted sense of guilt from which no enjoyment is ultimately derived, as any attempted fulfillment of the command leads to more pain and an impossible pursuit of unattainable pleasure...

...unattainable before the furry costume, attainable after donning the furry suit. The ego retires, and the furry persona can be unleashed.  The personae's now ego-suspended disbelief achieved.

Gender Identity Disorder (GID: aka - Gender Dysphoria) is related to Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).

The difference from Google AI:  Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formerly multiple personality disorder, involves distinct identities that take control of a person's behavior, accompanied by amnesia, while Gender Dysphoria (GD) is the distress a person experiences from the incongruence between their internal sense of gender and their sex assigned at birth. A key difference is that DID is a global identity disturbance with involuntary shifts and amnesia, whereas GD is a specific distress related to gender identity and often leads to a desire for medical transition. It's important to note that GD is not a personality disorder, though some people with DID may also experience or present with symptoms of GD.

GD can be the pleasure (surplus jouissance) of an actor playing a role as opposed to a schizophrenic fracturing of the Ego   It's a function of how deep the rabbit hole one goes:

From Google AI: 

Schizophrenia

• Characterized by positive (e.g., hallucinations, delusions), negative (e.g., flat affect, withdrawal), and cognitive (e.g., disorganized thinking) symptoms.
• Typically develops in late adolescence or early adulthood.
• Delusions are often bizarre and persecutory, while hallucinations can be auditory, visual, or other sensory experiences.
• Treatment involves antipsychotic medications, therapy, and psychosocial interventions.

Dissociative Identity Disorder

• Characterized by the presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states that alternate and take control of the individual's behavior.
• Often arises from severe childhood trauma or abuse.
• Individuals may experience amnesia, depersonalization, and a sense of detachment from their own body and emotions.
• Treatment involves therapy, such as trauma-focused therapy, to integrate the different identities and develop coping mechanisms

Co-occurrence

It's important to note that schizophrenia and DID can sometimes co-occur in the same individual. This is known as "schizoaffective disorder."

Conclusion

Schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder are distinct mental health conditions with different symptoms, origins, and treatments. It's crucial to seek professional help if you or someone you know is experiencing symptoms of either condition.

Don't Fall for it Again, America!

"In God We Trust"

...Government?  Not so much...