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“stumbling over the trigger for a great war almost as if nobody was preparing for anything” A common war gambit is to get the other side to “start it.” Just like five year olds, everyone chants “Putin started it!” Perhaps this is why the vaunted intelligence service of the Israelis let this happen. See also the US civil war. Lincoln was able to use the fact that the south went first. See also 911. What a great excuse to hunt an enemy all over the world and dump our principles in the process, because, well, some men in caves started a new kind of forever war that they forced us to fight.

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You hit this one over the center field wall Mathew. Your list of Alt Media at the end speaks volumes. Just let that list marinate for a bit. The end result should cause so many light bulbs to come on it should produce a nice tan.

I have a friend - a multi decade radio broadcaster who was taken out by Bannon - told me a while back that the Epoch Times is a click bait operation. Ever since then I see that clearly.

Thanks for the early Sunday morning wake up.

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The roller coaster doesn’t end. There are big loops and drops (pandemics, wars, etc) and small ones (scandals, elections, etc) but the tracks behind are falling apart and the passengers can’t turn around to see or even realise they’re never pulling up to the platform.

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Great read.

Although there is this:

“Could the U.S. be convinced to get involved?”

Rhetorical question?

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I think it is difficult for people to accept this concept, but it is not unusual for entire groups of animals and life to lay down and die. Our own cells have mechanisms in place to destroy themselves for the greater good of the larger systems of collective action, and nature works in fractal patterns up and down the line. Collective consciousness is not immune to these naturally occurring patterns —and because these mechanisms exist as material relations, it's also entirely possible to discover, study, affect, and initiate them. We do this in medicine; those of us you taking your supplements and antioxidants and antivirals to fight Spike do this, too. We do this in warfare, when we demoralize and humiliate our enemies into submission and suicide. That this works is evident throughout the histories of the human races, and our own contemporary world from recess playgrounds and public school hallways to online Internet sites to vast wastelands of active combat zones.

Many people are ready to die, not for a cause they willingly support, but for a nebulous future where so many are "better off for never having been." The logic behind certain pro-choice positions ("Because the physical and social welfare of this future person is one of great suffering, they are better off being aborted before it comes to pass.") supports the same reasoning in light of the future for our species being one of great suffering. Because the physical and social welfare of so many people and their children and grandchildren alive today will be a future of Great Suffering (in light of climate change, toxic pollution, mass cancers, resource scarcity, &c), they are better off being euthanized before it comes to pass. The logic insinuates itself into the collective awareness at the symbolic level, and people already primed for self-loathing and self-hatred as a lifestyle choose from among all manner of self-destructive opportunities suddenly promoted for them and anyone wishing to join.

Part of the practical difficulty in solving whether one is a bound machine or a free subject often comes from not knowing what's worth living for. Love, for this reason, has often been the most hated thing by those who wish to rule through Power, because even if the greatest love is dying for one's friends, you will first have lived a whole life making worthy friends and supporting them throughout theirs.

People who seek out Power have no friends.

People who have worthy friends have all the power they need through Love.

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It strains credulity that the IDF had been caught flat-footed. No explanation so far passes the smell test. True, Israelis are among the most highly vaccine-injured in the world, but this cannot explain the utter failure to detect and respond. Something very dark is afoot, perhaps in our own backyard?

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Thus, the Great War begins---and the larger goals of depopulation, land grab asset accumulation, and income production in the process all becomes reality. We have been successfully disunified through decades of programming, sickened and weakened by poisonous food chain, air, water, and established/trusted institutions. It is a huge system, and we are in it.

No Ninja Turtles in sight.

No leaders except those we are guided to look to.

And the Internet and Sports Machine to keep our malleable brains engaged in false fluff.

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Oct 8, 2023·edited Oct 8, 2023

Just a coincidence that as Americans, and even US congress, have lost interest in supporting the "war" in Ukraine, this happens. Also, purely coincidental that as potential new leadership with a backbone heads congress, the demands for unanimity will be demanded loudly "for our Israeli allies."

This morning Fox is reading the same script from February 2022, saying this will be a long battle, as aircraft carriers move closer to the area. Next week there might even be miniature Israeli flags at my daughter's high school academic advisory offices secretary's desk as there were Ukrainian flags a few days after Bad Putin initiated the "not war" almost two years ago.

What will the meme for this new latest thing look like?

The border disaster is intentional as money, chaos, and control are results the powers that shouldn't be get from it.

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I haven’t read the comments yet but just had to say that in a confusing and dangerous situation Mathew is asking all the right questions that we need to try to answer in order to better defend ourselves!

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Loved this piece, Mathew. The entire incident stinks to high heaven and it could indeed be 'the trigger for a Great War'. The Middle East has a way of spawning them and the map was especially helpful in showing just who is who and what is what...

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Great read cheers! Cui bono? Rubber dinghy manufacturers? I can make no sense over what has happened.

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I agree that curiosity about how so many Hamas entered Israeli territory with such apparent ease and in such numbers is, at the very least, justified.

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