Open Letter to the Actor's Equity Association regarding whether Newscasters are "Live Actors" and Whether AEA gets funding from the US Exectuive Agency the NEA National Endowment for the Arts if I die mysterioulsy in the next couple of days, this is probably why Hello, I'm an independent journalist investigating Sean Hannity.  Could you tell me if he's ever been a member of actor's equity guild?    It's ok if you don't disclose that information, I'm asking if you can and if you will, since he's a prominent public figure.  I'm trying to determine if he's still considered to be a "live performance artist" in addition to a "news" television show host.  I am researching this connection directly, not just Hannity but others in the mainstream media as well.  The inquiry falls in line with a similar inquiry that Congresspersons made in the 1970s Church committee on operation mockingbird.  It's well past time for candidness as to whether our "news" is actually the news. My second question is: is there a way for me to obtain a list of the total amounts of grants that Actors' Equity Association has received from the National Endowment for the Arts over the years?  I could FOIA the NEA, but I figured I'd ask AEA first, as it would be much faster.  The US Gov has been overwhelmed with FOIA requests, and I've successfullly gotten the FDA to tell me the basis upon which the FDA considered marijuana to be 'without medical merit' at the time when the US Gov itself--through NIH--had already demonstrated with over 200 studies the medical merits of marijuana.  This FOIA took me substantial, aggressive and dare I say almost legal action to wrench this from the FDA, and the conclusion was that they did not base this determination on ANY science but rather an arbitrary 8 criteria they made up and were decided upon by non-scientists.  In other words, they based it on nothing and Marijuana was then placed as a schedule 1 narcotic for no reason. I published this on link sharing sites and it was picked up by growing alternative media news sites. I will tell you what I am trying to accomplish here as an investigative journalist, and I'm not trying to doxx (will not) anyone, reveal anyone's private information, or try to get 'anyone in trouble'.  I DO want to out the CIA as an agency that hires "live actors" as newscasters, and that some of the NEA funding goes towards doing this in a kind of covert operation to funnel money from the CIA to the US media.  I already have evidence of this from old documents that made this connection But that was then and this is now and I want to make a stronger connection. I want to establish the connection between the CIA, journalism, and I want to prove beyond down that the US taxpayers are being extorted by the CIA through various surrogates--very likely even without their knowledge (NEA, AEA)--as a continuity of the operation mockingbird and the MKULTRA program exposed by the church committee. The most repugnant discovery in my lifetime is the idea that our own government feels entitled to manipulate the public with falsities through the media, which they call 'sensemaking' and 'steering'; and the very word government means mind control in that govern means 'steer' from greek kyvernesis and ment is from latin mentes or mind--"to steer the mind".  I imagine that none of us signed up for being mind controlled by the government, but instead thought government meant a civic framework for serving a society administratively, in order to foster peace, security and prosperity... you know, everything we thought it was. Sorry this is a long email.  I want to enroll your organization in helping me dig some more.  To recap 1) is Sean Hannity a member or you can't disclose that? 2) how much money does AEA get from the NEA each year?   Totals from every year since AEA's inception?  Or should I ask NEA? Thank you!