narrative creation: Jeffrey Sachs: u.s. biotech cartel behind covid origins and cover-up

By A Colleague

tue, oct 11, 2022 8:07 a.m.

Jeffrey Sachs: u.s. biotech cartel behind covid origins and cover-up

Though he's an economist, lancet made Sachs chair of its covid-19 commission, about which he said he's had great cooperation from scientists explaining what is going on.  

But what I find striking is not what he says on the covid-19 origins debate, but his remarks on government's constant "narrative creation" around sensitive issues. Pulled the quote below:

JEFFREY SACHS [chair of the Lancet COVID-19 commission]: GOVERNMENT "DOESN'T SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH.  IT DOESN'T AIM FOR THE TRUTH.  IT DOESN'T TELL THE TRUTH.  IT CREATES STORIES . . . . MANY PEOPLE, PROBABLY, REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS CONSISTENT NARRATIVE CREATION — LYING, FALSEHOODS — REALLY IS WHEN IT COMES TO ALL OF THESE SENSITIVE ISSUES.  AND THESE ISSUES ARE LIFE AND DEATH ISSUES FOR US": 

22m Video: "JEFFREY SACHS: US BIOTECH CARTEL BEHIND COVID ORIGINS AND COVER-UP," The Grayzone, 10-9-22:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=morj-3rdWwM

PULL QUOTE: 20:00

4:15: JEFFREY SACHS: "People should go to the web site of U. S. Right to Know which has done a terrific job in these lawsuits, and Emily Kopp, a fantastic investigative reporter, has laid out this remarkable week, where inside they say . . . 'lab,' and a few days later they say 'natural.'  Not that they learned anything over those three days, but they decided to tell us a narrative.  This is how government works.  It creates stories.  It doesn't search for the truth.  It doesn't aim for the truth.  It doesn't tell the truth.  It creates stories.

"And for weird, understandable reasons . . . Big Media go along with these stories.  But they're very dangerous, because these are stories.  This is not real investigation — or reality . . ."

17:35 AARON MATE̍ [journalist, grayzone, after playing clip of Victoria Nuland talking about biolabs in the ukraine]: "Do you think there's any merit to the rumors or allegations that the U. S. has been involved in a biological weapons program inside of Ukraine?"

SACHS: "Merit that we need to find out.  We have a system which, in principle — if you're in seventh grade civics, or at least when I was fifty years ago, . . . we learned that there were congressional committees that would oversee the behavior of the executive branch.  That's what we need right now . . . We need oversight, and what I know for sure is that we have not had transparency on these key issues.  

"And, sad to say, really since 1947, with the National Security Act and the creation of the CIA, our government, when it comes to issues like this, operates in secrecy.  We say the word 'democracy,' but the public doesn't know.  We're not told.  When I was young, long time ago, the New York Times actually used to do investigative reporting. . . . They didn't believe what Johnson was saying and Nixon was about Viet Nam.  And they were right.  There was the Pentagon Papers and there was Watergate.  And when I grew up it was normal that a reporter on the New York Times would actually look into something.  Now — it's like a different world.   And so the impunity from the mass media is absolutely stunning.  That's why what we're talking about and what you're doing is so important, because we're not getting from the authoritative sources.  What we're getting is the government line . . .

"I grew up in the Seymour Hersh era . . . And their idea was bust these government officials for lying to us.  And, they don't have that view right now . . . 

"They [colleagues toeing the government line] don't understand.  Many people, probably, really don't understand what this consistent narrative creation — lying, falsehoods — really is when it comes to all of these sensitive issues.  And these issues are life and death issues for us."