Agenda Facts

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Thomas Jefferson believed Jesus's teachings were "the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man," but that they had been appropriated by his followers, resulting in a Bible that contained both "diamonds of wisdom" and the "dung" of ancient political agendas. pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl…
There was a 90s pastor who wrote a booklet called "Barney the Purple Messiah" accusing Barney the Purple Dinosaur of being a new age demon who taught the liberal left agenda and had seances on the show mit.edu/people/dryfoo/Inf…
President James K. Polk is nicknamed by some historians "the least known consequential president." He promised to serve just one term, and he achieved ALL of the agenda he set at the beginning of his term. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam…
The Confederate States altered their constitution to prevent bills from having hidden agendas buried in them to try to sneak them through jjmccullough.com/CSA.htm
In 1828, Eastern State Penitentiary opened with a ground breaking agenda to rehabilitate prisoners. Prisoners had a cell each, and were comforted with central heating and flush toilets, something which even the White House didn't have at that time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eas…
Fox News threatened to sue the Simpsons in order to stop them from parodying its famously anti-democratic party agenda. theguardian.com/media/200…
Author Malcolm Gladwell was listed on a secret Phillip Morris internal document as a“third-party advocate”, a term reserved for prominent personalities who promote corporate agendas. In 1990, he wrote an opinion for the Washington Post that anti-tobacco campaigns were bad for pension funds. pando.com/2015/07/07/shil…
George Wallace, Alabama governor in the 60s, originally had a political platform that was against segregation, but due to towering unfavorable polls from the Alabama people who didn't want to hear what he had to say, he changed his entire political agenda and as a result, got elected. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G…
There is a Russian organization called "The Agency" which specializes in sophisticated English language trolling aimed a pushing a pro-Kremlin agenda. nytimes.com/2015/06/07/ma…
The PBS children's show "Jay Jay the Jet Plane" actually has a fundamentalist Christian agenda and there are two versions of every episode, one secular and one preachy. nytimes.com/2003/12/27/bo…
There is a controversy about Disney's Frozen having a gay agenda huffingtonpost.com/2014/0…
The Beastie Boys song Fight for Your Right to Party was originally meant as a satire on party songs. However, the intended meaning of the song was entirely missed. Mike D said "You set out with an agenda of parody, and then a certain amount of time goes by, and you kind of cross that line." npr.org/templates/transcr…
The De Loys' Ape hoax was intended as a way to push a biased agenda that implied Africans evolved from gorillas and Asians from orangutangs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_…
At the U.N. Earth Summit in 1992, 178 countries voted on Agenda 21 to each voluntarily engage in programs using STEM, financial systems and international bodies to improve socio-economics, natural resources management, and bolstering the role of major social groups. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age…
Today I learned about the reptilian agenda which is belief that our lives are being manipulated by reptilian humanoids who use shapeshifting/cloaking devices to walk among us and act as our world leaders.. uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wi…
Although The Nazi racial agenda considered blacks inferior to the Aryan race; there was no official clause persecuting them and many served In the Hitler Youth en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bla…
Ring Lardner Jr., one of the "Hollywood Ten" who was charged with having a communist agenda was sentenced to 12 months in prison, fired from Fox studios, and moved to England only to come back in the 70's to make the movie MASH en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rin…
Lincoln used a military fort in NY to contain confederate POWs and people who didn't support Lincolns agenda en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For…
The Agenda Setting Theory is if a news item is covered frequently and prominently the audience will regard the issue as more important. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The…
Phillip Anschutz, early financial backer of the MLS and owner of AEG which runs Coachella, is "radical faith based political activist, a man who uses his vast fortune in attempts to advance an anti-homosexual and anti-science (specifically evolution) agenda" gingetalksthefooty.com/20…
Aleksandr Dugin, who has been pushing a right-wing agenda to bring Russia back to a more authoritarian rule since the mid-90's. Experts say he has monopoly on political thought in Russia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ale…
Operation Northwoods was a set of proposals that sought to self-inflict attacks on American soil, in order to fit their anti-communist agenda, and blame Cuba for the attacks.

I remembered this after reading this Reddit poast: http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/t6pqc/man_absolutely_floored_by_the_return_of_his/c4k329k And this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks

That there was actually something very similar happening in the 60's,, they called it Operation Northwoods, this actually happened. Sauce: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

Joel Hunter, a pastor from Orlando, declined becoming head of the Christian Coalition because the group resisted his efforts to broaden their their agenda beyond gay marriage and abortion. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe…
Glenn Greenwald depends on readership support, so that “no external agendas or interests can influence what is written, and the only real obligation is to maintain credibility with one's readership” salon.com/news/opinion/gl…
The 1955 Bilderberg agenda included "creating a European common market and a single currency (the Euro)" prisonplanet.com/prominen…

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