There’s only been one living person that didn’t carry sin in their heart. Everyone is capable of atrocities. Our dna is corrupt but with effort perhaps programmable. It is tricky business to defend against evil while not becoming evil oneself. The reluctant revolutionary is the one you can trust, at least to the extent human foibles allow.
Females, healthy ones, need to balance male aggression. In many peaceful societies of the past it was the femine principle, not the masculine one that was regarded as divine.
Women give birth. Nurture new life.
Men compete for access to that capacity.
When the white guys showed up to the Native Americans without their women being with them, the wise Cherokee Chiefs said, "where are your women? When men arrive without them they come for war, not peace!"
Hmmm.
Should tell you something!
Our modern societies all come from the war societies that obliterated the more peaceful ones on Earth.
Now they have High Tech!
Yikes!
Boys, it's time to stop your killing! Girls- stop imitating the damn boys!!
Grow up already. Destruction, war, death, disease, debt- these are not what we want so let's all stop producing them, working for those who do, or paying taxes to The Enablers/Creators of the whole War System.
And learn to hear & listen to the Divine Feminine. Sophia. Quan Yin. Tara. Mary. Hathor. Demeter. Magdalena. The Minoan Goddess of Life. The Queen of Heaven. etc.
That voice sounds very different than the male Gods of War, lol!
Jesus came through a Woman. As did the miracles at Lourdes & in Portugal.
We need to rebalance male/female here on Mother Earth before the boys destroy Her altogether......
As a (largely clueless but analytical) male, I really appreciate these insights. Now trying to think more through female/male implications on good vs evil.
Ponerology- the use of Evil for Political Purposes.
There is a good book about it, with that title, if I remember correctly.
Also "Saharasia" by James DeMeo dropped the last pice of the puzzle for me.
We, humanity, are struggling with the behavioral patterns and stunning psychological harms from approximately 6000 years of the "war culture" and most everyone today descends from societies ruled by it.
The damage to men and women, and children of course as well, is stunning.
However, it's men, mostly, who carry it out.
And are abused severely by it also.
But women are stripped of their basic rights and roles by it also.
We have normalized competition when cooperation is both more normal in Nature, and more successful too!
Not that competition isn't also important and needed.
But running amuck with it in a time of technology able to destroy the whole planet, that's a really bad idea!
Also when you study Caucasian males, somewhere 1 on every 24 is in the Dark Triad of Sociopathy, Psychopathy & Narcissism.
That means that most of the guys who scramble, or kill, their way to the tops of the power pyramids we are foolish enough to create fall into that category- YIKES!
Of course there are full blown Sociopaths in the women's department as well as plenty of Borderline personalities who when gone wrong, seem even worse than the typical "bad" male.
We, men and women, in the current age have a lot to wake up to, and course correct, that's for certain.
In some cases we have read that like a man part of gene, in women, and in other cases the opposite.
But I in the brain try to recall about the story of women who parallel to Vikings, but not Vikings, who lived as Vikings, and who were the army.
Between the Vikings there also were some women fighting with them. And now a day it has been discovered that it turned out that a historical known Viking turned out to be women.
After a brain accident I am exceptional bad to remember names, before I was exceptional god i names, the best of everybody in schools. Awful.
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Hi Mathew.
Can't go down the mirror-lined-rabbit hole of the Middle East very deep yet, if ever. My hands are still busy collecting evidence and keeping alive a memory of the torching of Lahaina.
Just wanted to weigh in on Ben Shapiro ... indeed the poster boy for what's known as "the Gish Gallop" ... overwhelming an opponent with quantity rather than quality of argument. What is scary is that he is both intelligent and corrupt enough to obtain an even higher position of authority.
Oops ... another distraction.
I could not help but to notice a few months ago, the Japanese Corporate Nation-State's new-found concern for our dental health.
I read Gabor Mate's "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts" ... about addiction among the homeless in Vancouver, and admire his research since then. But on scanning Matthew's article, I could not find a link or sentence mentioning him. Just wondering if you could help me out.
It was contained in a quote Mathew included from an unnamed friend
“ Unfortunately I believe a faction in the Israeli government must have allowed with foreknowledge and collusion the Hamas terrorists to invade and attack.
It’s possible they couldn’t have imagined how bad the attack would be.
I’ve been fighting against this conclusion the last few days. I don’t want to believe it.
I’m with Gabor Mate and I’m with Ben Shapiro on this issue. I am trusting Israel to be Israel and I will be disappointed if their response is not as effective as their responses in 1967 and 1973 (papers I wrote 33, 34 and 35 years ago, before and after I lived in Israel.)
Israel has always had blood on their hands and has been governed by ruthless, militaristic leaders. It could not survive otherwise. This is the most rational way of being for their situation.
But Israeli someones allowed this attack to take place, precisely so that it would be Israel’s 9-11 or Pearl Harbor.
This future is going to be hard to witness and hard for Israelis to live with.
We cannot expect decency or competence from any of Israel’s neighboring states. That’s why there are 2-3 million Gazans. (What’s the exact number, anyway?)
I hate taking such an unpopular position. But the truth needs to be said.
Also I don’t seem to be objective because my position is violating my own principles. I may swing back to believing that Israel should take only a defensive posture. Though this should include turning off electricity and water to Gaza, and as they have always done in the past, begging the other Arab states to rescue and welcome the Palestinians as refugees.
I want to learn that I’m wrong. But lying well is hard, and they’re going to be telling a whopper of a lie, about how the most effective military and intelligence forces in the modern world were so conveniently caught with their eyes and ears covered and sat on their hands for so long and then lied about the timing of their response.”
Much thanks for the clarification Etienne. From what little I've read, that makes complete sense.
Whoa! On going back to the original post, I did not know that Gabor served in the Israeli Special Forces. Big fan of his son's journalistic integrity too.
Though not directly connected, my dad was American Special Forces ... Master Sergeant, Green Beret. He never talked much about his work, but back in the 60's, he mentioned teaching generals the tactical use of back-packable nuclear weapons. Thanks to DARPA and their 'toy box', just imagine how much we've "progressed" since then. 😫
What a lovely description of Gabor, with which I completely agree. I did a YT (pre-Substack) of his four interviews with Russell Brand called The Epiphany Jumpstart: https://youtu.be/erwJwvid4o4. It's one of my favorites because of the affection they have for each other, and my affection for both. And I'm also a fan, of course, of Gabor's son Aaron.
"City of London banking and corporate elite/oligarchs gained so much power that by the 1800s they were seeding the world with their own societal projects, almost like sleeper cells of controlled opposition for the purpose of divide & conquer on an almost invisible level. In particular, I believe that Zionism and the Muslim Brotherhood bear the hallmarks of such influence."
Yes. Zooming out is the only way to even begin to glimpse the 'almost invisible' arms that went around and shaped our world. There's something more, beyond the banking cabal, that infiltrated, maybe first, IDK, but no matter - we can zoom out even more.
Nice speaking with you Mathew. I have been thinking about the remarks from your unnamed friend on FB who seemed reasonably certain that factions within the IDF or government likely expected or allowed/made this event to happen. Despite these deceptions, the person still hoped for a shock and awe response. It is, in their opinion, the only reasonable course of action.
As you concluded, the only way this person arrived at their opinion was through the dehumanization of Israel's adversaries in the region. It's disturbing.
There was a Jewish man that lived in those parts a couple of thousand years ago. Whether or not he walked upon the Earth is unimportant. It is the story that is salient right now. Despite being tormented unbearably, he still begged for the forgiveness of his tormentors. Isn't that the only way out of this? Without forgiveness, each side will continue to feel justified in dehumanizing the other.
We should be able to predict that this will never end unless both sides wipe the slate clean. In my interpretation of the story, there are no limits to what can or should be forgiven.
Forgiveness might follow realization, and be based on it. If the world comes to grips with the nature of the Matrix, it may be easier for everyone to forgive everyone.
Another thought: It may be easier for Muslims outside of Palestine or nations immediately affected to reach an understanding of the history leading up to the situation. It may be easier for forgiveness to radiate inward from outer regions.
This is a brilliant article, Mathew. You are on many fronts, I just read Arkmedic's article citing you in the virus/ no virus distraction (as he puts it). And I'm happy to see the citation to Matt Ehret. I have a compilation of sources coming out soon and I will certainly add this before I post it.
This war with Israel is 100% Biblical and all those before it. When Joshua went into the Promised Land, he had strict orders from God to destroy every man, woman and child in every city that God told them to take over. He did that to start with and then a tribe of Gibeonites ( I think that is the name) came before Joshua and begged him not to wipe them out and they were a far distance away and he dressed up like he had been traveling for a long time. The leaders believed him and did not ask for God's advice. Then they found out that they were deceived. Then over the next few years the Jews made other concessions to other groups who agreed to be their servants if they let them live. Finally God told Israel that since they did not wipe these people out that they would forever be a thorn in their side. That promise has been kept for over 3,500 years.
Now, why would God command them to do this. It sounds terrible but God knows that if a young child sees a loved one killed by an enemy that child will grow up with hatred and will seek revenge. It will never stop the cycle unless everyone is wiped out. However Joshua pointed out something very important. Each generation has to have wars so that they keep their ability and their reason to defend themselves sharp. Multiple generations without war makes the people weak and vulnerable and easy to have someone from outside to come in and subjugate them and so these small wars are what has kept Israel ready. Also, remember a few months ago Israel had a hard time forming a government. Nothing solidifies a government like coming under attack from a vile enemy. So both sides get stronger and the hatred grows deeper and both sides lose and they lose a lot.
You might wonder how is it that the Hamas murdering terrorists keep doing this instead of accepting the billions that have been given to them to provide for their people but Hamas steals it from their people and instead they keep using it for war. These wars bring unimaginable hardship on their own people but they do not care. They are running on pure hatred.
To ignore these Biblical facts is to completely not understand any of what is going on.
What if powerful people are sculpting the status quo to match in appearance with Abrahamic end times teachings? Now *that* would be the ultimate Luciferian trick. So, how can we tell the difference?
Everywhere I dig as I walk backward into history to find the roots, I see control by the same circles going back to the inception of the monolithic corporations that sifted Kunlangeta to the top.
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I hope that word "kulangeta" goes mainstream in English conversation, but fear it will be constantly under threat of being edited out by the powers-that-be. Though referencing behavior and temperaments equally twisted and evil, that word is so much more elegant than "dark-triads" or "Cluster B types".
Maybe a great name for a death-metal band / rock band? 😂
At the very least, it deserves some poems or short stories to bring it closer to the surface of cultural discourse.
Can you give me a link or article to learn about kunlangeta? I’d never heard of this. Trying to absorb as much historical knowledge regarding these age old issues lately.
Unfortunately for your theory, the restoration of Israel is happening at the *exact* point, historically-speaking, that the Bible said God would bring it about; and there is not even the slightest hint in God's Word that a *counterfeit* restoration would occur.
What if the powers-that-be place racial Jews into many of the more high-profile positions within society, and do other things to (superficially) make it seem like Zionists are the key people behind the cabal - in order (a) to obscure the .true. agenda of the cabal, and (b) to cause conspiracists like us to join them in opposing Israel?
These 3 articles prove that, when one looks a little more closely at the history of modern Israel, one finds that the Western media, and the Establishment in both the UK *and* the US is actually ANTI-Zionist:
The Bible is accurate. As such it’s been clearly stated only God, not us or even the angels, know the time of Jesus return.
There will be signs, yes, certainly with the advent of our digital age and recent covid shenanigans it’s easy to see the table being set over control of our minds, bodies, and buying/selling.
Anti-religious fervor is growing, replaced by the false god of technology. Weather anomalies while questionable in scope and meaning are being shoved into the collective consciousness.
All of this is remarkable but, we must remind ourselves it could take hours or decades or millennia before the Bible bears ultimate fruit. We are to wait attentively and politely like guests at a wedding awaiting the bride.
Controversy arises over the rapture. Will it be before the tribulation or after? Fierce debate ensues. I don’t think we should live our lives thinking oh, well, if things get really bad I’ll be taken up so pass the popcorn. It would be the devil’s greatest trick if the pre-tribulation rapture was a lie.
To Mathew’s point whether or not bad actors are staging a show to entice believers doesn’t change the foreshadowing or the outcome. I’ve no doubt they’ll play their games to whatever level they can exploit. It will all lead to the same outcome.
In the meantime I do not believe we should sit by and make it easy for them. The overarching historical theme in the Bible is about the search for, pitfalls of, and necessity to achieve freedom.
I do not believe turn the other cheek means total passivity. I don’t believe we should sit idle while wives are raped and children are eaten.
I believe it means to be careful while in the quest for justice we do not become the very evil we are trying to suppress.
I'm in full agreement with your first statement, George, but I would substitute "This war against the Caananites is 100% Biblical and all those before it." You're describing Joshua as not following 'God's' order to commit 100% genocide and that's what led to 3500 yrs of war for them. That's the God you believe in?
I'm going to do an episode soon going back to the Biblical roots of the Shemite right to rule and God's curse on the Caananites to be their slaves. But this one lays out the foundation of that belief system with Noah: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/the-devil-and-naomi-wolf
It goes back even a bit farther in time. Abraham’s son Issac had two sons, Esau and Jacob. Esau was the older of the two sons. Issac preferred Esau. His wife Rebekah favored Jacob. Esau as the older son was entitled to his father’s blessing before the father passed away. Rebekah used a bit if treachery to deceive Issac so that Jacob would receive the blessing intended for Esau. Jacob went on to father twelve sons, the fathers of the twelve tribes of Israel. Esau went on to father nations who would forever be in conflict with the descendants of Jacob. History has proven this to be true. One of the most difficult verses for any Bible believer is the verses from Malachi 1:2 and Romans 9:13: “As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.” A person needs to understand the will of the Creator. The apostle Paul explained it in the book of Romans. (BTW the first two chapters of Romans clearly explains the mentality of people today).
That is only part of it - remember Hagar's prayer and the God answered her prayer and made Ishmael the father of many kings. In the Bible there is no evidence of animosity between Isaac and Ishmael. Jacob thought Esau would try to kill him when they met and he sent all kinds of gifts ahead of him to Esau but Esau had no hard feelings toward Isaac. The info in the Bible does not portray either of these as being a source for jealousy or animosity.
You either run on hate or on love. This entire saga runs on ancient hatreds. It's all too easy to embrace one kind over the other, but it's still hate. I fear that love is almost becoming impossible in the world we now find ourselves in.
I only know him through the book I mentioned and a few YouTube interviews, but I admire his brutal honesty and willingness to use his own faults and weaknesses as guiding lights through dark and stormy seas ... a more prosaic, soft-science way of expressing some of the better songs of mid 70's Joni Mitchell.
As long as the interview is, I thought it was well worth the time, especially listening at 1.5 speed.
The only things I would have looked at through a different lens is:
1 — at about 14:00 when he explains his anger at 'not being seen' as a regression to childhood trauma, I winced a bit. When I was the token foreigner at a Japanese college, I was obliged to attend weekly departmental meetings (ironically, an English Communication Department) and monthly academic assembly meetings. The meetings were always held in Japanese, and though not fluent, I was more than functionally communicative. For reasons other than language, I was excluded from the conversation, even if it was about me.
Not only in Japan, but in many cultures throughout history, short of torture and execution, the worst fate for a social primate has been to be outcast from the tribe, literally the death sentence for many social animals ... "mura hachibu" in Japanese, and the preceding "mukanshin" (dehumanizing by placing beneath one's notice).
I love my solitude, but being invisible at Japanese meetings is by far the most lonely I've ever felt. And as Japanese children typically sleep with their mothers well past the age of most Western counterparts, so we would expect the dynamics of childhood trauma to play out very differently here.
2 — Later in the video, when pressed to explain the difference between "gut instinct" and behavior based on rationality, he gives a kind of semi-scientific explanation of the gut as having sentience. And he does back up his explanation with good examples from other animals.
But I would have phrased it more bluntly. Most of the information impinging on our senses is picked up at the subconscious level, and filtered through our reasoning skills thus necessarily excluding more subtle but possibly salient information with which other animals can react on more quickly.
I realize that sounds somewhat reductionist, but I am trying to be consistent with my belief that language and logic are provisional social constructs (Wittgenstein's Ladder, Sapir-Whorf, that "god" as metaphor for nature-in-its entirety thingy).
But Maté is brilliant otherwise, so he may have been somewhat oversimplified that part of the interview ... possibly underestimating the show's host and / or his audience.
JC Smuts was the second South African Prime minister and had his finger in many pies, was educated in the UK managed to advance a London compatible/friendly constitution in the new independent SA. Later was involved in the implementation of Apartheid that was a handy tool for managing the mineral wealth extraction from the subcontinent. He was present at the table during the end of the First and second world war.
I suggest speed reading the Wikpedia page for him as it seems to cover a lot of ground. His early UK education may have been when he was YGL:led and left to push for various goals.
He was also at the start of the League of Nations.
Apartheid remained in SA while it was profitable after which is was removed and now the place is a economic mess and mineral extraction continues as before and the profits go overseas.
The Alusaf smelter is a massive user of electricity and gets it at below production cost at times (perhaps for a long time) yet the rest of South Africa has scheduled power outages that totally disrupt the lives of all but the rich (who have generators, solar panels and batteries). Gated suburbs are common with armed security patrols to keep the peace.
I have come to believe that apartheid was externally designed, and propped up with nudges and whatever and whoever was needed, not just tolerated and profited from byt foreign interests. Yet the brutality from all sides at times is much worse than people would do if they we not trained to hate.
In the podcast you mentioned Falun gong. I attended a Shen Yun performance and one of the visuals were almost identical to the South Park Scientology episode.
Thank you for writing this. You are another voice of reason in a time when a lot of people have obviously lost their minds. The most concerning kneejerk reaction from conservatives that I saw was that WE need to be lobbying our Mayors and Governors to set up local militias to defend ourselves from the inevitable swarm of head-chopping muslims secretly plotting to flood across our southern border. Yeah, Crazytown stuff. I'm sure you've written a post about this question I have - Why are we so cynical, and is it a bad thing?
When these things happen, I've found it's a good opportunity the throw away some covid follows (like Justin Hart and Dave Rubin). They've apparently never heard of the USS Liberty, or they do know about it and don't care (which is worse). The only thing worse than leftwing fear porn is rightwing fear porn.
Once it became obvious that there were likely intentional failures in IDF response (like stand-down orders), I begin to ask what were the motives? Was it just coincidence these attacks come a few months after Netanyahu was resurrected and elected Prime Minister (again). I think not. Whatever his motives were, it appears he might not have the popularity to do much with 'never let a good crisis go to waste'. I'm reading ~80% of Israelis blame him and/or his government. My friends are still mostly talking about US politics on social media. It's an election year, so I can't see this story having the same traction as even Ukraine unless there is escalation and contagion with neighboring countries getting involved. Otherwise, it will be just another hot year in the ongoing hot/cold war between Israel and Palestinian territories since 1948. I have to wonder how it affects younger people when we go from #BanTheADL to #antisemite in 3 weeks and glad I don't have kids.
As I recall, the Ottomans didn't have a system of surveyed land titles, as California didn't during the Spanish and Mexican periods, which led to enormous problems when we stole it from them, but for the early Zionists after Balfour, it made it easier for them to acquire land and dispossess the inhabitants.
I fear you are correct. And every man who falls for violance as a path towards peace, or a better world, or Valhalla, is their patsy.
And the rest of us the victims of both...
In every pool of revolutionaries are wannabe aristocrats. Choose your methods and your associates wisely.
While I love nobility of Spirit, the other form, as an honestly Revolutionary American, I'm highly allergic to!
; ))
There’s only been one living person that didn’t carry sin in their heart. Everyone is capable of atrocities. Our dna is corrupt but with effort perhaps programmable. It is tricky business to defend against evil while not becoming evil oneself. The reluctant revolutionary is the one you can trust, at least to the extent human foibles allow.
Females, healthy ones, need to balance male aggression. In many peaceful societies of the past it was the femine principle, not the masculine one that was regarded as divine.
Women give birth. Nurture new life.
Men compete for access to that capacity.
When the white guys showed up to the Native Americans without their women being with them, the wise Cherokee Chiefs said, "where are your women? When men arrive without them they come for war, not peace!"
Hmmm.
Should tell you something!
Our modern societies all come from the war societies that obliterated the more peaceful ones on Earth.
Now they have High Tech!
Yikes!
Boys, it's time to stop your killing! Girls- stop imitating the damn boys!!
Grow up already. Destruction, war, death, disease, debt- these are not what we want so let's all stop producing them, working for those who do, or paying taxes to The Enablers/Creators of the whole War System.
And learn to hear & listen to the Divine Feminine. Sophia. Quan Yin. Tara. Mary. Hathor. Demeter. Magdalena. The Minoan Goddess of Life. The Queen of Heaven. etc.
That voice sounds very different than the male Gods of War, lol!
Jesus came through a Woman. As did the miracles at Lourdes & in Portugal.
We need to rebalance male/female here on Mother Earth before the boys destroy Her altogether......
And us with her too.
; ))
As a (largely clueless but analytical) male, I really appreciate these insights. Now trying to think more through female/male implications on good vs evil.
Ponerology- the use of Evil for Political Purposes.
There is a good book about it, with that title, if I remember correctly.
Also "Saharasia" by James DeMeo dropped the last pice of the puzzle for me.
We, humanity, are struggling with the behavioral patterns and stunning psychological harms from approximately 6000 years of the "war culture" and most everyone today descends from societies ruled by it.
The damage to men and women, and children of course as well, is stunning.
However, it's men, mostly, who carry it out.
And are abused severely by it also.
But women are stripped of their basic rights and roles by it also.
We have normalized competition when cooperation is both more normal in Nature, and more successful too!
Not that competition isn't also important and needed.
But running amuck with it in a time of technology able to destroy the whole planet, that's a really bad idea!
Also when you study Caucasian males, somewhere 1 on every 24 is in the Dark Triad of Sociopathy, Psychopathy & Narcissism.
That means that most of the guys who scramble, or kill, their way to the tops of the power pyramids we are foolish enough to create fall into that category- YIKES!
Of course there are full blown Sociopaths in the women's department as well as plenty of Borderline personalities who when gone wrong, seem even worse than the typical "bad" male.
We, men and women, in the current age have a lot to wake up to, and course correct, that's for certain.
As women I recall judge Dee and the Women who got to power in China, around year 500 after Christ. Not all women are quit and peaceful.
Right, women go wrong, and worse than men, at times!
But if you study the Matriarchal or male/female balanced societies they are very different than ours.
Or most we are familiar with.
Read "Saharasia" by James DeMeo or study the Minoans.
Potnia is a very different "God" than Thor, lol, and all our movies are about him, not her!
; ))
In some cases we have read that like a man part of gene, in women, and in other cases the opposite.
But I in the brain try to recall about the story of women who parallel to Vikings, but not Vikings, who lived as Vikings, and who were the army.
Between the Vikings there also were some women fighting with them. And now a day it has been discovered that it turned out that a historical known Viking turned out to be women.
After a brain accident I am exceptional bad to remember names, before I was exceptional god i names, the best of everybody in schools. Awful.
Hi Mathew.
Can't go down the mirror-lined-rabbit hole of the Middle East very deep yet, if ever. My hands are still busy collecting evidence and keeping alive a memory of the torching of Lahaina.
Just wanted to weigh in on Ben Shapiro ... indeed the poster boy for what's known as "the Gish Gallop" ... overwhelming an opponent with quantity rather than quality of argument. What is scary is that he is both intelligent and corrupt enough to obtain an even higher position of authority.
Oops ... another distraction.
I could not help but to notice a few months ago, the Japanese Corporate Nation-State's new-found concern for our dental health.
https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/japanese-gov%27t-plans-to-introduce-mandatory-dental-checks-good-idea-or-not?
As of today, I am closer to knowing why.
https://anamihalceamdphd.substack.com/p/septocaine-dental-anesthetic-mixed
Hoping you the best of health Mathew.
steve
Thx for the links. Minor: Spelling is "Mathew" with one "t"
Thanks Russ!
Corrected!
More in the first line and another of your posts below :)
LOL. Much thanks again!
Gabor Mate is perhaps the kindest person in the known universe.
I especially appreciate some of these links in your piece. I’m diving in now.
I read Gabor Mate's "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts" ... about addiction among the homeless in Vancouver, and admire his research since then. But on scanning Matthew's article, I could not find a link or sentence mentioning him. Just wondering if you could help me out.
Cheers from Japan
Yeah I read that too, makes one realise how daft the war on drugs was.
Nice to meet you Katarina.
Looking forward to reading you as well.
Thank you, likewise.
It was contained in a quote Mathew included from an unnamed friend
“ Unfortunately I believe a faction in the Israeli government must have allowed with foreknowledge and collusion the Hamas terrorists to invade and attack.
It’s possible they couldn’t have imagined how bad the attack would be.
I’ve been fighting against this conclusion the last few days. I don’t want to believe it.
I’m with Gabor Mate and I’m with Ben Shapiro on this issue. I am trusting Israel to be Israel and I will be disappointed if their response is not as effective as their responses in 1967 and 1973 (papers I wrote 33, 34 and 35 years ago, before and after I lived in Israel.)
Israel has always had blood on their hands and has been governed by ruthless, militaristic leaders. It could not survive otherwise. This is the most rational way of being for their situation.
But Israeli someones allowed this attack to take place, precisely so that it would be Israel’s 9-11 or Pearl Harbor.
This future is going to be hard to witness and hard for Israelis to live with.
We cannot expect decency or competence from any of Israel’s neighboring states. That’s why there are 2-3 million Gazans. (What’s the exact number, anyway?)
I hate taking such an unpopular position. But the truth needs to be said.
Also I don’t seem to be objective because my position is violating my own principles. I may swing back to believing that Israel should take only a defensive posture. Though this should include turning off electricity and water to Gaza, and as they have always done in the past, begging the other Arab states to rescue and welcome the Palestinians as refugees.
I want to learn that I’m wrong. But lying well is hard, and they’re going to be telling a whopper of a lie, about how the most effective military and intelligence forces in the modern world were so conveniently caught with their eyes and ears covered and sat on their hands for so long and then lied about the timing of their response.”
Much thanks for the clarification Etienne. From what little I've read, that makes complete sense.
Whoa! On going back to the original post, I did not know that Gabor served in the Israeli Special Forces. Big fan of his son's journalistic integrity too.
Though not directly connected, my dad was American Special Forces ... Master Sergeant, Green Beret. He never talked much about his work, but back in the 60's, he mentioned teaching generals the tactical use of back-packable nuclear weapons. Thanks to DARPA and their 'toy box', just imagine how much we've "progressed" since then. 😫
Despite it all, Cheers.
What a lovely description of Gabor, with which I completely agree. I did a YT (pre-Substack) of his four interviews with Russell Brand called The Epiphany Jumpstart: https://youtu.be/erwJwvid4o4. It's one of my favorites because of the affection they have for each other, and my affection for both. And I'm also a fan, of course, of Gabor's son Aaron.
Thank you.
"City of London banking and corporate elite/oligarchs gained so much power that by the 1800s they were seeding the world with their own societal projects, almost like sleeper cells of controlled opposition for the purpose of divide & conquer on an almost invisible level. In particular, I believe that Zionism and the Muslim Brotherhood bear the hallmarks of such influence."
Yes. Zooming out is the only way to even begin to glimpse the 'almost invisible' arms that went around and shaped our world. There's something more, beyond the banking cabal, that infiltrated, maybe first, IDK, but no matter - we can zoom out even more.
Nice speaking with you Mathew. I have been thinking about the remarks from your unnamed friend on FB who seemed reasonably certain that factions within the IDF or government likely expected or allowed/made this event to happen. Despite these deceptions, the person still hoped for a shock and awe response. It is, in their opinion, the only reasonable course of action.
As you concluded, the only way this person arrived at their opinion was through the dehumanization of Israel's adversaries in the region. It's disturbing.
There was a Jewish man that lived in those parts a couple of thousand years ago. Whether or not he walked upon the Earth is unimportant. It is the story that is salient right now. Despite being tormented unbearably, he still begged for the forgiveness of his tormentors. Isn't that the only way out of this? Without forgiveness, each side will continue to feel justified in dehumanizing the other.
We should be able to predict that this will never end unless both sides wipe the slate clean. In my interpretation of the story, there are no limits to what can or should be forgiven.
It could end if both sides come to realize that they've been manipulated, or the rest of the world does.
Perhaps. Somehow I sense realization may require forgiveness first. People are too blinded by their rage.
Forgiveness might follow realization, and be based on it. If the world comes to grips with the nature of the Matrix, it may be easier for everyone to forgive everyone.
Another thought: It may be easier for Muslims outside of Palestine or nations immediately affected to reach an understanding of the history leading up to the situation. It may be easier for forgiveness to radiate inward from outer regions.
I would certainly agree.
This is a brilliant article, Mathew. You are on many fronts, I just read Arkmedic's article citing you in the virus/ no virus distraction (as he puts it). And I'm happy to see the citation to Matt Ehret. I have a compilation of sources coming out soon and I will certainly add this before I post it.
Matt is my next podcast guest. Friday afternoon. I'm excited.
Oh that's going to be a fabulous conversation! I can't imagine a better match.
This war with Israel is 100% Biblical and all those before it. When Joshua went into the Promised Land, he had strict orders from God to destroy every man, woman and child in every city that God told them to take over. He did that to start with and then a tribe of Gibeonites ( I think that is the name) came before Joshua and begged him not to wipe them out and they were a far distance away and he dressed up like he had been traveling for a long time. The leaders believed him and did not ask for God's advice. Then they found out that they were deceived. Then over the next few years the Jews made other concessions to other groups who agreed to be their servants if they let them live. Finally God told Israel that since they did not wipe these people out that they would forever be a thorn in their side. That promise has been kept for over 3,500 years.
Now, why would God command them to do this. It sounds terrible but God knows that if a young child sees a loved one killed by an enemy that child will grow up with hatred and will seek revenge. It will never stop the cycle unless everyone is wiped out. However Joshua pointed out something very important. Each generation has to have wars so that they keep their ability and their reason to defend themselves sharp. Multiple generations without war makes the people weak and vulnerable and easy to have someone from outside to come in and subjugate them and so these small wars are what has kept Israel ready. Also, remember a few months ago Israel had a hard time forming a government. Nothing solidifies a government like coming under attack from a vile enemy. So both sides get stronger and the hatred grows deeper and both sides lose and they lose a lot.
You might wonder how is it that the Hamas murdering terrorists keep doing this instead of accepting the billions that have been given to them to provide for their people but Hamas steals it from their people and instead they keep using it for war. These wars bring unimaginable hardship on their own people but they do not care. They are running on pure hatred.
To ignore these Biblical facts is to completely not understand any of what is going on.
What if powerful people are sculpting the status quo to match in appearance with Abrahamic end times teachings? Now *that* would be the ultimate Luciferian trick. So, how can we tell the difference?
Everywhere I dig as I walk backward into history to find the roots, I see control by the same circles going back to the inception of the monolithic corporations that sifted Kunlangeta to the top.
I hope that word "kulangeta" goes mainstream in English conversation, but fear it will be constantly under threat of being edited out by the powers-that-be. Though referencing behavior and temperaments equally twisted and evil, that word is so much more elegant than "dark-triads" or "Cluster B types".
Maybe a great name for a death-metal band / rock band? 😂
At the very least, it deserves some poems or short stories to bring it closer to the surface of cultural discourse.
Can you give me a link or article to learn about kunlangeta? I’d never heard of this. Trying to absorb as much historical knowledge regarding these age old issues lately.
https://www.campfire.wiki/doku.php?id=rounding_the_earth:the_kunlangeta
Just read your piece on it from 2021. Thank you, Mathew! I hope your health improves soon. Your big, beautiful brain is much-needed.
Health is improving. Thank you.
Unfortunately for your theory, the restoration of Israel is happening at the *exact* point, historically-speaking, that the Bible said God would bring it about; and there is not even the slightest hint in God's Word that a *counterfeit* restoration would occur.
What if the powers-that-be place racial Jews into many of the more high-profile positions within society, and do other things to (superficially) make it seem like Zionists are the key people behind the cabal - in order (a) to obscure the .true. agenda of the cabal, and (b) to cause conspiracists like us to join them in opposing Israel?
These 3 articles prove that, when one looks a little more closely at the history of modern Israel, one finds that the Western media, and the Establishment in both the UK *and* the US is actually ANTI-Zionist:
https://bayith.org/BetterThanRubies.htm#Israel
The Bible is accurate. As such it’s been clearly stated only God, not us or even the angels, know the time of Jesus return.
There will be signs, yes, certainly with the advent of our digital age and recent covid shenanigans it’s easy to see the table being set over control of our minds, bodies, and buying/selling.
Anti-religious fervor is growing, replaced by the false god of technology. Weather anomalies while questionable in scope and meaning are being shoved into the collective consciousness.
All of this is remarkable but, we must remind ourselves it could take hours or decades or millennia before the Bible bears ultimate fruit. We are to wait attentively and politely like guests at a wedding awaiting the bride.
Controversy arises over the rapture. Will it be before the tribulation or after? Fierce debate ensues. I don’t think we should live our lives thinking oh, well, if things get really bad I’ll be taken up so pass the popcorn. It would be the devil’s greatest trick if the pre-tribulation rapture was a lie.
To Mathew’s point whether or not bad actors are staging a show to entice believers doesn’t change the foreshadowing or the outcome. I’ve no doubt they’ll play their games to whatever level they can exploit. It will all lead to the same outcome.
In the meantime I do not believe we should sit by and make it easy for them. The overarching historical theme in the Bible is about the search for, pitfalls of, and necessity to achieve freedom.
I do not believe turn the other cheek means total passivity. I don’t believe we should sit idle while wives are raped and children are eaten.
I believe it means to be careful while in the quest for justice we do not become the very evil we are trying to suppress.
We live in interesting times.
I'm in full agreement with your first statement, George, but I would substitute "This war against the Caananites is 100% Biblical and all those before it." You're describing Joshua as not following 'God's' order to commit 100% genocide and that's what led to 3500 yrs of war for them. That's the God you believe in?
I'm going to do an episode soon going back to the Biblical roots of the Shemite right to rule and God's curse on the Caananites to be their slaves. But this one lays out the foundation of that belief system with Noah: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/the-devil-and-naomi-wolf
It goes back even a bit farther in time. Abraham’s son Issac had two sons, Esau and Jacob. Esau was the older of the two sons. Issac preferred Esau. His wife Rebekah favored Jacob. Esau as the older son was entitled to his father’s blessing before the father passed away. Rebekah used a bit if treachery to deceive Issac so that Jacob would receive the blessing intended for Esau. Jacob went on to father twelve sons, the fathers of the twelve tribes of Israel. Esau went on to father nations who would forever be in conflict with the descendants of Jacob. History has proven this to be true. One of the most difficult verses for any Bible believer is the verses from Malachi 1:2 and Romans 9:13: “As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.” A person needs to understand the will of the Creator. The apostle Paul explained it in the book of Romans. (BTW the first two chapters of Romans clearly explains the mentality of people today).
That is only part of it - remember Hagar's prayer and the God answered her prayer and made Ishmael the father of many kings. In the Bible there is no evidence of animosity between Isaac and Ishmael. Jacob thought Esau would try to kill him when they met and he sent all kinds of gifts ahead of him to Esau but Esau had no hard feelings toward Isaac. The info in the Bible does not portray either of these as being a source for jealousy or animosity.
Great conversation.
When everyone was repeating like hypnosis victims the word "unprovoked" I said, "OK, they are lying again."
🎶We look pretty sharp in these clothes (yes, we do)
Unless we get sprayed with a hose
It ain't bad in the day
If they squirt it your way
'Cept in the winter, when it's froze
An' it's hard if it hits
On yer nose
...
🎶I'll take a drive to Beverly Hills
Just before dawn
An' knock the little jockeys
Off the rich people's lawn
An' before they get up
I'll be gone, I'll be gone
Your mention of the firehose reminded me of Frank Zappa's ode to Uncle Remus
You either run on hate or on love. This entire saga runs on ancient hatreds. It's all too easy to embrace one kind over the other, but it's still hate. I fear that love is almost becoming impossible in the world we now find ourselves in.
The firehouse will continue until full slavery has been achieved.
Oh wow ... look at who just popped up in my YouTube feed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7zWT3l3DV0
I don't know much about him, yet
I only know him through the book I mentioned and a few YouTube interviews, but I admire his brutal honesty and willingness to use his own faults and weaknesses as guiding lights through dark and stormy seas ... a more prosaic, soft-science way of expressing some of the better songs of mid 70's Joni Mitchell.
As long as the interview is, I thought it was well worth the time, especially listening at 1.5 speed.
The only things I would have looked at through a different lens is:
1 — at about 14:00 when he explains his anger at 'not being seen' as a regression to childhood trauma, I winced a bit. When I was the token foreigner at a Japanese college, I was obliged to attend weekly departmental meetings (ironically, an English Communication Department) and monthly academic assembly meetings. The meetings were always held in Japanese, and though not fluent, I was more than functionally communicative. For reasons other than language, I was excluded from the conversation, even if it was about me.
Not only in Japan, but in many cultures throughout history, short of torture and execution, the worst fate for a social primate has been to be outcast from the tribe, literally the death sentence for many social animals ... "mura hachibu" in Japanese, and the preceding "mukanshin" (dehumanizing by placing beneath one's notice).
I love my solitude, but being invisible at Japanese meetings is by far the most lonely I've ever felt. And as Japanese children typically sleep with their mothers well past the age of most Western counterparts, so we would expect the dynamics of childhood trauma to play out very differently here.
2 — Later in the video, when pressed to explain the difference between "gut instinct" and behavior based on rationality, he gives a kind of semi-scientific explanation of the gut as having sentience. And he does back up his explanation with good examples from other animals.
But I would have phrased it more bluntly. Most of the information impinging on our senses is picked up at the subconscious level, and filtered through our reasoning skills thus necessarily excluding more subtle but possibly salient information with which other animals can react on more quickly.
I realize that sounds somewhat reductionist, but I am trying to be consistent with my belief that language and logic are provisional social constructs (Wittgenstein's Ladder, Sapir-Whorf, that "god" as metaphor for nature-in-its entirety thingy).
But Maté is brilliant otherwise, so he may have been somewhat oversimplified that part of the interview ... possibly underestimating the show's host and / or his audience.
Here is a data point for you.
JC Smuts was the second South African Prime minister and had his finger in many pies, was educated in the UK managed to advance a London compatible/friendly constitution in the new independent SA. Later was involved in the implementation of Apartheid that was a handy tool for managing the mineral wealth extraction from the subcontinent. He was present at the table during the end of the First and second world war.
I suggest speed reading the Wikpedia page for him as it seems to cover a lot of ground. His early UK education may have been when he was YGL:led and left to push for various goals.
He was also at the start of the League of Nations.
Apartheid remained in SA while it was profitable after which is was removed and now the place is a economic mess and mineral extraction continues as before and the profits go overseas.
The Alusaf smelter is a massive user of electricity and gets it at below production cost at times (perhaps for a long time) yet the rest of South Africa has scheduled power outages that totally disrupt the lives of all but the rich (who have generators, solar panels and batteries). Gated suburbs are common with armed security patrols to keep the peace.
I have come to believe that apartheid was externally designed, and propped up with nudges and whatever and whoever was needed, not just tolerated and profited from byt foreign interests. Yet the brutality from all sides at times is much worse than people would do if they we not trained to hate.
In the podcast you mentioned Falun gong. I attended a Shen Yun performance and one of the visuals were almost identical to the South Park Scientology episode.
Thank you for writing this. You are another voice of reason in a time when a lot of people have obviously lost their minds. The most concerning kneejerk reaction from conservatives that I saw was that WE need to be lobbying our Mayors and Governors to set up local militias to defend ourselves from the inevitable swarm of head-chopping muslims secretly plotting to flood across our southern border. Yeah, Crazytown stuff. I'm sure you've written a post about this question I have - Why are we so cynical, and is it a bad thing?
When these things happen, I've found it's a good opportunity the throw away some covid follows (like Justin Hart and Dave Rubin). They've apparently never heard of the USS Liberty, or they do know about it and don't care (which is worse). The only thing worse than leftwing fear porn is rightwing fear porn.
Once it became obvious that there were likely intentional failures in IDF response (like stand-down orders), I begin to ask what were the motives? Was it just coincidence these attacks come a few months after Netanyahu was resurrected and elected Prime Minister (again). I think not. Whatever his motives were, it appears he might not have the popularity to do much with 'never let a good crisis go to waste'. I'm reading ~80% of Israelis blame him and/or his government. My friends are still mostly talking about US politics on social media. It's an election year, so I can't see this story having the same traction as even Ukraine unless there is escalation and contagion with neighboring countries getting involved. Otherwise, it will be just another hot year in the ongoing hot/cold war between Israel and Palestinian territories since 1948. I have to wonder how it affects younger people when we go from #BanTheADL to #antisemite in 3 weeks and glad I don't have kids.
As I recall, the Ottomans didn't have a system of surveyed land titles, as California didn't during the Spanish and Mexican periods, which led to enormous problems when we stole it from them, but for the early Zionists after Balfour, it made it easier for them to acquire land and dispossess the inhabitants.