The Narrative Creators (Censorship Team) Under Joe Biden

Mike Benz explains what we were up against when Biden was super-charging the censorship industrial complex.

There's one person, but that person by themselves is not going to have enough pull to do what needs to be done. That person is the wonderful Sarah Rogers. Sarah Rogers is great. She gets it, you get it. She gets it now. Sarah Rogers is the Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs branch. Yes, one person, and she's an undersecretary. Okay, so think about all the agencies that need to be deployed to take this on.

Let's pull up the list. Okay, let's pull up a list of all the different government agencies that the Biden White House coordinated to create the global censorship industrial complex. This was a full scale inter agency. The Biden White House created an interagency task force, and it was called the information integrity research and development interagency working group. Information Integrity, as we've covered many times, became the preferred phrase after the catastrophe of the disinformation governance board. Nobody knows what the fuck information integrity means.

Who doesn't like information with "high integrity?" How bad could it be? It's the worst. This term means that information can be chunked into two categories, high integrity meaning whitelisted, and low integrity, meaning blacklisted, meaning censored. So information integrity is total control over information, what information you can share on social media, what information can be amplified in algorithms, what information we want foreign countries to make illegal if it supports a political party that we don't want to win the election, etc, etc. So this task force set up in 2021 right away in the Biden administration, made it so that every one of the below US government, federal agencies and departments had the same policy goal they were driving towards, censoring Vaccine Information, censoring election information, censoring climate information, censoring gender information, censoring foreign policy opinions about Ukraine, etc.

Okay, you have your Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, controlling the media, the White House, Domestic Policy Council, DARPA DHS, the Justice Department, The State Department, the FBI NIST. Hello, 911. pancake theory. NIH, the National Science Foundation, the National Security Council, the NSA, goddamn Office of Naval Research, the White House, OSTP, Office of Science and Technology Policy, the ODNI, the friggin Surgeon General's office, USAID, all the way down, down to the damn Census Bureau for censoring immigration information, the gender Policy Council, the Food and Drug Administration, they were all coordinated top down by the White House. ... then it tied together a bunch of civil society partners to help create this whole of society on the outside, including our favorites like Stanford, UW Rutgers, the home of Antifa, nonprofits, corporations, individuals, all answering to this task force, like fucking news guard and Bill Burns, the CIA director's Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Aspen Digital, who ran the Hunter Biden censorship pre censorship strategy meeting to pre censor the Hunter Biden laptop story all the way down to the American Association of Retired Persons. This thing hit every demo, black, white, old, young, gay, straight, cis, trans, CIA FDA,

You know what we've got right now, guys, and I'm sorry to say it, I'm not trying to black pill you. I'm trying to white pill you. That you. A tiny little glimpse of a fire is being started. We'll see where it goes. We know we have against all of this, the CIA, the NSA, the ODNI, the State Department, fucking DARPA, Naval Research, every friggin agency, the Justice Department, the FBI, against all this a trade, every intelligence agency, military and statecraft organ of the United States government. For us on the other side, I offer, I offer a fair trade. I offer we but we have a Sarah Rogers. That's where we are right now.

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Epstein, Power, Money, Ubiquitous Corruption

We are being kept in the dark. We elect what is really a pretend government. The majority of the people calling the shots lurk in the shadows. We've always known that big donors and corporations have an outsize influence on our politicians, but it's much worse than we suspected. It's now clear that at least hundreds of rich and powerful people worked with Jeffrey Epstein on behalf of the US security state and the Israeli government. This has been true through many administrations, as evidenced by recently released documents connecting Jeffrey Epstein's power and money to the Clintons and to Obama's WH Attorney Kathryn Ruemmler. It involves many of the DNC's most powerful funders: Reid Hoffman, Glenn Dubin, Tom Pritzker, Leslie Wexner and Bill Gates. as well as some of Trump's highest-placed people, including Howard Lutnck, Steve Bannon, William Barr and Alan Dershowitz. It involves many hundreds of documented incidents where your voice as a citizen has been nullified. You did not vote for this corrupt and degenerate plutocracy. Nor will you ever be given the opportunity to get rid of it by any sort of vote. The people who have really been in charge don't care about you or me. They laugh at our Constitution.

And have you ever noticed how there are so many news media narratives that run counter to common sense? Those narratives are being driven by corrupt power and money.

I never thought I'd say this, but the U.S. government is more than corrupt. Our country has been completely occupied by unelected people (many of them operating through NGOs) who make many of the biggest decisions, including in the areas of domestic policy, public health, finance and foreign policy. In the area of foreign policy, we already knew this from years of US obeisance to the Israeli government's political arm, AIPAC, especially evidenced by our willingness to pour unlimited $ into wars at the direction of Israel. All of this has become distressingly more clear based on the recently released Epstein files. It is equally clear that we haven't yet seen the vast majority of the Epstein documentation. Most of Epstein's data has been meticulously and obediently redacted or withheld from U.S. Citizens by unknown people on behalf of their unknown bosses. See the post/video below (by Shadow of Ezra) for more on that.

An investigation has found that the Department of Justice has released just two percent of the material the FBI seized from Jeffrey Epstein’s properties.

The report says Epstein’s electronic devices, including computers, hard drives, and servers, are largely missing from the files made public.

It concludes that the three million and even six million figures shared with the public represent only a fraction of what authorities actually possess.

You might think that what I have written sounds crazy. I would agree with you that this sounds completely crazy. If you are brave and courageous, however, visit X, search for "Epstein" and start reading the who's who list of all the rich and famous people who have been exercising their political muscle in the shadows. The more you read, the more you will appreciate the courage of a handful of our elected representatives who know that we the citizens have a right to know what has been going on. Thank you to Thomas Massie, Ro Khanna, Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Nancy Mace, who led or supported the bipartisan discharge petition and legislation to compel the Justice Department to disclose the Epstein files.

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Dave Smith: Tax-Free War Mongering

Dave Smith on US war-waging, tax-free:

In 25 years, we've spent close to $10 trillion on wars and they didn't tax the American people for that, as they know. They couldn't tax us enough to pay. We would put an end to it. If they tried to raise everybody's taxes enough to come up with $10 trillion because we want to go fight regime change wars all over the Middle East, the American people would have been like, "No, we're not doing that." But they didn't do that. They kept taxes where they were. I think they even cut some rates during those years, the top rates. And then they borrowed the rest. And they still couldn't borrow enough. So they just print the money.

And then essentially, what happens is that the price of everything just goes up and up and up. And you just put more money into the system. And then people start looking around and going like, "Geez, why is the price of housing and health care and energy and child care totally unaffordable?" And the answer is, because you're paying for the war in Iraq. And nobody thinks about it like that, but that's really what's going on.

For all the young people who are coming out of college now, and they're like, I'm 150 grand in debt. I have a gender studies major degree or whatever, you know, maybe something better than that, but they got an English degree or something. And they're working at Door Dash, and the average house is going for 600 grand, and they're like, "What am I possibly going to do?"

It's like, the reason why these kids are all demanding socialism, at least on the left, is because, what else are you going to do? The reason why that is the case is because your government decided to spend trillions of dollars on blowing up brown countries, and, in some cases, then rebuilding them to blow them up again. This is the actual cost of the thing.

I feel like it's the almost nobody outside of like the Ron Paul libertarians, the Austrian economics guys, almost nobody else ever makes this connection. This is the deal. You can't be a world empire without having a central bank that can print money for you, because otherwise it just doesn't work. Resources are finite, and you'll run out of them. And so you can't do that without having this monetary system.

But the cost of this monetary system is that prices always go up and up and up and up, and that rigs the entire economy against the working class and the middle class in favor of the rich. It's just the way it is. When the value of assets is going up and up and up and up, that's great if you own stuff. That's great if you own stuff and you're selling it. If you got a billion dollars in the bank, inflation is your best friend. But if you're on a fixed income or you're a working class person, it just destroys you.

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Emily Kopp Named Editor of Racket News

Emily Kopp, yet another reject from legacy news, has been named the new Editor of Racket News. This is excellent news. Below she spells out the principles of good journalism. You can make a strong case that the OPPOSITE of each of these principles are the modern foundation for corporate news. Emily opening statement as Editor:

It was once fashionable for corporate media to prescribe what to think and for Big Tech to clamp down on free speech and debate. These days it’s in vogue to embrace a relativist attitude toward truth. No journalist can promise truth, a slippery metaphysical thing that’s especially elusive in the first moments of a crisis. The only thing we can promise is to try for it.

That’s why we’re bringing old school journalistic standards to the new school, wide-open Overton Window. If we do our jobs well, we’ll provide occasional relief from the cacophony.

Racket already had a few internal rules barring advertisers, hidden investors, and silent edits, and general guidelines about a few other things.

We’re hanging on to those, adding a few more, and preserving all of them on our website for accountability. Here they are:

No advertisers, sponsors, or hidden investors. Our content is our own.

No partisan restraints. While we support certain overarching principles, we won’t mold reporting to serve a political party or ideological project.

No predetermined narratives. Complexity should be embraced rather than soothingly papered over. We worry about being wrong, not about being unpopular.

No reflexive dismissal of even outlandish sounding theories prior to examination. However we reserve the right to dismiss (even ridicule) the outlandish theories that do not bear scrutiny.

No recycled content. We will always strive to do original reporting. Every story on Racket will have at least one phone call behind it.

Not politesse about taboos if it gets in the way of facts. But the transgression of taboos is also not something to be gratuitously courted for easy shock value.

No trepidation in the face of personal attacks and intimidation. Neither Matt nor I are stranger to these tactics.

No sacrifices on the altar of access journalism. Access to powerful people in government can facilitate reporting. But ultimately, they are bureaucrats who work for us. We’re not afraid to lose friends for an important story.

No coy sourcing. Anonymous sources may be used, but not as a matter of course. We’ll strive to connect readers to primary sources, archived as much as possible. Procuring original documents is to be a central focus.

No axes to grind. We’ll try to be right and admit when we’re wrong. Corrections are announced and left published.

Finally, the audience should always be the imagined boss. Yes, it’s our job to give you bad news sometimes. But writing with readers in mind is good practice.

Welcome to the new Racket News.

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