Last January, Hillary Clinton hosted a meeting at the State Department with high-tech tycoons to discuss ways they could help advance American diplomacy. Present were Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, and executives from Microsoft. Also present was the president of the CIA-linked Ford Foundation Luis Ubinas. Although Clinton preached "Internet freedom," the targets for aggressive U.S. diplomacy using high-tech innovations like Twitter, were Iran and Cuba.
And four months after Clinton's meeting with the high-tech executives and one month after the issuance of the Feith/Shulsky report, in April 2010 it was announced: "The Department of State has entered in a non-exclusive partnership with The Innovators Fund (IF), a new Silicon-Valley based venture capital fund that will launch in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey, Russia and Malaysia. The Innovators Fund is being launched in part as a result of President Obama's June 2009 Cairo speech and its call to action, and in part as a result of a discussion that Secretary Clinton had with leading U.S. technology entrepreneurs and innovators at the Department of State in January 2010, in which the IFs Founder participated." One of the IF's supporters was Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist. Other collaborators with the State Department's Innovators Fund include, in addition to Craigslist, Polaris Venture Partners and Dogpatch Labs (a leading U.S. venture capital fund and its affiliated incubation and mentoring initiative), TomorrowVentures (a leading seed-stage and venture capital effort), Oasis 500 (a leading Jordan-based venture capital effort) and TechStars (a leading mentor-based start-up accelerator program).
The State Department has appointed actor Ashton Kutcher to lead U.S. high-tech "Innovation" delegations to Russia, an announced target of IF propaganda-oriented activities. Kutcher's only real claim to fame is that he married much older actress Demi Moore. The marriage was conducted in the Kabbalah (from which the word "cabal" is derived) Center of Los Angeles.
The State's Innovators Fund program appeared to be a direct result of their agreement with the paper written by Feith and Shulsky and the conclusions of the September 2009 "private" conference in Washington. The fact that a new and massive U.S. propaganda operation was hatched in a "private" conference in Washington is further proof that the government has divorced itself entirely from the people it claims to serve- which brings us back to Wikileaks and the leaked cables. Having previously identified the State Department's diplomatic reporting through its cables as its primary mission, Feith and Shulsky are now seeing their proposal for the overhauling of U.S. public diplomacy by establishing an aggressive propaganda and information operations capability nearing fruit. While Private Manning languishes in a prison cell in Quantico, those neocons who directly benefited from the leak of the State Department cables are ready to see another step toward fascism in the United States -- the creation of a U.S. government information program that will inundate the world with propaganda through Twitter, Facebook, Craigslist, web sites, television, radio, and newspapers.
During the Cold War, the US Information Agency was strictly forbidden by law from targeting the American people with propaganda. In the world of the neocons, where down is up and wrong is right, there will be no curbs in the new global information order.
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