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It All Ends Up Coming To Light

Listen as the Hollywood leftoid Richard Gere tries to shame ignorant voters and persuade them that USAIDs was something good and altruistic. USAIDs was more like a tool used by the CIA to control nations abroad and cripple dissent at home.

Mike Benz, director of the Foundation for Freedom Online , explains the many nuances that Gere glosses over. Here’s more from the Liberal Hivemind.

USAID Gone Horribly Wrong

Mike Benz, executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, does some vibe-checking on former USAID head Samantha Power’s latest Bloomberg interview. Of course, Power raises alarms about how USAID cutbacks have caused health crises in Africa and other corners of the globe.

But, of course, she leaves out the harder facts, like how USAID was misused by the CIA and federal bureaucrats to distort democracy abroad as well as foment censorship across the United States. After the massive waves of banning and censorship that occurred on YouTube and Twitter during the Joe Biden administration, how does this hag get off telling us any of us what to do?

You’re gone from office, and good riddance. You did nothing legitimate to support the United States or to uphold our Constitution. You only feathered the nests of those high up in your leftist party. A pox on you, Samantha Power.

USAIDs: A CIA Love Story

The United States celebrates itself as the land of the free and home of the brave. But the CIA, the intelligence agency run by the U.S. government, has instead pushed censorship and violent color revolutions around the world. Much of this was done through monies supplied via U.S. Agency for International Development or USAIDs– the State Department-affiliated  program that has run into a buzzsaw under the Trump administration.

Here, Mike Benz, executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, tells the story of one of USAID’s most hideous endeavors —  Internews. Founded in California in 1982, Internews claimed to be non-partisan. But the non-profit had a particularly cozy relationship with the Democratic Party.  Not only did it collaborate with the Clinton Global Initiative and have Obama advisor Susan Rice on board, but it also drew money from the likes of Bill Gates  and the Carnegie Corporation.

Its chief — Jeanne Bourgault — carved out an annual salary of $451,000 for herself, so this was, indeed, a choice racket. Information saves lives was the Internews slogan, but again, the Democratic Party wanted  full control and to dictate what constituted legitimate information that should be spread. Censorship, as well as color revolutions, became part of the Internews legacy, as well as quite possibly money laundering out of the Cayman Islands. Benz gives us the bigger picture.

 

 

Mass Censorship, Part II

Mike Lenz, executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, returns with the second part of his series delving into the mass censorship that occurred during the Joe Biden administration. Lenz shows the origins of many of Biden’s policies linked to an academic journal by the name of the Tech Policy Press.

This series will likely involve 10 or more installments, We’re going to try to run each one so you can have a roadmap to understand the Democrats’ oppressive censorship, how it was built and was allowed to flourish.

 

Mass Censorship: It’s A Racket!

The malignant tech censorship policies of the Joe Biden administration closely mirrored the recommendations and guidelines spelled out by Tech Policy Press. This is a Texas non-profit, with both a newsletter and a podcast, under the direction of CEO and Editor Justin Hendrix.

Hendrix had previously been director of the NYC Media Lab and an adjunct professor in the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. Bryan Jones, the champion  swimmer and diving competitor who exceled at the 1998 World Championships in Perth, Australia, serves as chairman of the Tech Policy Press board of directors.

We normally don’t pay too much attention to obscure, academic mouthpieces like Tech Policy Press. But because the censorship during the Biden years was so pervasive, and crippling, and — because we had our own voices silenced by Twitter for more than three years —  we’re going to make an exception in this case. Mike Benz plans an 11-hour rollercoaster to unwind the censorship. He will point out its architects, giving us a step-by-step look at how the leftist creeps and degenerates from Biden’s term attempted to enforce mass censorship.

Here is the first hour of Benz’s coverage, called “The Business Side of the Censorship Industry.” He plans continuing additions once or twice a week until he’s wrapped. We’re going to try to run the full series, but we warn you in advance: We might have to hold some chapters for a day or two, if the press of news intervenes. So follow Benz on YouTube if you want to be assured more immediate access. He is the executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online.

CIA Appointee Linked to Covid

If U.S. Sen. Rand Paul is serious about undercovering the American role in the creation of the Covid-19 pandemic, his Homeland Security Committee needs to secure testimony from Avril Haines,

Haines served as the Director of National Intelligence during the Joe Biden administration. She previously had been deputy director of the CIA during the Barack Obama presidency . It was in that role that she had her greatest proximity to the players involved in the pandemic, among them, Ralph Baric, an epidemiologist from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

He worked directly with scientists from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Communist China, including the so-called Bat Lady of Wuhan, Dr. Shi Zhengli, in creating and mapping out Covid-19.

Will Paul calls Haines to testify? Hard to say, but he did call attention to the CIA meddling and trying to block his committee’s oversight. He tweeted on Catherine Herridge’s reporting of this same issue, saying, “Based on @C__Herridge‘s reporting & our CIA whistleblower’s testimony, the CIA appears to be ILLEGALLY SPYING on @DNIGabbard‘s team, INTERFERING w/ investigations on the COVID coverup, the JFK, MLK, & RFK assassinations, UAPs, etc.”

Here, in a video, posted on X.com, Mike Benz spells out the array of players and institutions involved, and even underscores timelines showing interactions among these players. Some are from China, others from American academic institutions as well as the CIA and arms of the U.S. military. Benz is director of the Foundation for Freedom online.

The CIA’s Attack Dolphins

So long and thanks for all the fish, they say 🐬

Mike Benz, executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, explores how the CIA studied using “attack dolphins” as a lethal weapon to sink ships. This is an extensive five and a half -hour broadcast but do note: The sound is cut out for the first three minutes so you’ll need to first forward until you hear Benz speaking.

These studies occurred as a part of Project Oxygas and involved bottlenose dolphins. Much of the research took place in the 1960s. The project became open knowledge in 2019 when classified Project Oxygas documents were disclosed to fulfill a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request. More recently, Russia used dolphins to help protect some of its Black Sea bases in the Ukraine War.

EU’s New Censorship Handbook

The European Union (EU) has adopted a new handbook on censorship titled “Fractured Reality.”

These Europeans are most certainly fractured. They do not have a firm commitment to free speech or a free press. It’s clearly become a continent ruled over by bureaucrats, and populated by native-born slaves, along with hordes of imported migrants.

Stick with this one. It’s long — about an hour and a half — but it’s quite revealing and informative. Here’s more from Mike Benz, executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online.

FTC Halts Advertising Censors

The Federal Trade Commission has won concessions from three advertising firms — Dentsu, Publicis and WPP — that spearheaded efforts to bloc advertising on conservative sites, like InfoWars or The Daily Caller.

The FTC, chaired by Andrew Ferguson, was joined by eight states in battling the advertising agencies. These agencies were essentially in lock step with  leftist censorship efforts beginning in 2017 — a year after President Donald Trump took office in his first term. These efforts, of course, were designed to strip away all advertising on InfoWars and The Daily Caller, rendering them null and void.

Here, Mike Benz, the executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, outlines how the FTC is working to ensure free and open media, as opposed to the lockstep liberalism and fake news that the Democrats want to impose.

Well I Think You’re Crazy!

Mike Benz, executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, shows off his musical talent, playing a jazzy piano version of the Gnarls Barkley hit “Crazy.”

What many people don’t know? The tune “Crazy,” as written by Gnarls Barkley pianist Danger Mouse, heavily sampled the epiphany “Last Men Standing” from the 1968 Italian spaghetti Western Djano, Prepare A Coffin.

The original music was composed by two brothers, Gianfranco and Gian Piero Reverberi. Terrence Hill — born as Mario Giroti — starred in the picture. Let’s listen to the film’s original trailer.

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