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Lately, I see almost every partisan issue in American politics as a ruse. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to see how the status quo for each issue generally benefits core goals that we might infer for the elite like depop, centralization of power and property, impoverishment and disenfranchisement of the middle class, etc.

I was convinced that there would be a new flavor of street riots for this presidential election season and indeed there are; however, I was surprised that they chose Israel-Palestine as the fault line to fracture US society. Admittedly, it has been extremely effective. Look at how we went from right wing disdain for the war in Ukraine to right wing support for Israel! With the right levers they can play people's attitudes like a fiddle.

At any rate, all I can do to navigate the treacherous seas of conflicting information is to stick to my core values and try to identify which information actually matters for my decision making. Although I still read a lot about covid era issues, at this point I am just penciling in details such as precise degree of malice, what is the wrap up strategy or who will be the scapegoats.

I believe that the damage to trust in institutions is advanced enough that mindwars misdirection and exhaustion of reform efforts won't be enough for them to get back their previous authority. They will only be able to deflect or blunt the backlash. Trust building is a whole different process and they squandered the trust that people had in medicine, regulatory agencies and public health that had built up over decades. That puts us all in a dangerous situation where the powerful may believe that the only way to maintain authority of an increasingly distrustful population is open coercion and violence rather than nudges and propaganda. The current war footing may amount to them saying "unify against an outside enemy or else... ."

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I do think we are experiencing the things you describe. The QAnon thing actually made some of my friends in the Anonymous movement a bit unhappy because QAnon seemed to absorb all the attention. It was as though Anonymous had ceased to exist. It's also clearly built of the kinds of elements you mention, with lots of esoteric razz-ma-tazz and in-group jokes to keep certain people interested.

There's another aspect to things that I wanted to get your thoughts on. At the beginning of 2020, roughly February or so, I was very ill with an upper respiratory infection and spending a lot of time with various news sites. I could not tell you where I saw the story, but it said that about 1,100 chief executive officers had resigned during 2019, and that was something of a record. Later, I saw a similar story for 2020 that indicated about two thousand, I'm not sure of the exact number. And this later story indicated not only chief executives, but also chief technology officers and other c-suite officers and across a wide variety of industries. I'm pretty sure that was an article I saw in ZeroHedge, and I think it was roughly March or so of 2021. It occurs to me that a lot of people who were "movers and shakers" were briefed on what to expect and told what they would be expected to do, and were given the option of retiring early or resigning. And that quite a few chose to do so.

This comports with a feeling I've had for the last three years that there is a lot of sloppiness involved in what's going on. Things are being done without much care. At first I thought this was an indication that not much attention was needed because so many people were going to die. But that turned out not to be happening as fast as we were told to expect, either. We were told, as I recall, that "event 201" had forecast 63 million would die from a coronavirus outbreak. But there were not that many deaths.

I could be wrong, but the statistic I've seen is all of 6 million, as of end of 2022, worldwide, from covid 19 itself (rather than from vaxxajab poisons, etc.), and that's from "official statistics" that looked cooked af when we read the list in the NY Times of the first 1,000 dead "from Covid 19" which turned out to include lots of deaths that were other things (motorcycle accident in Indiana was one that got my attention) and maybe were "dead with Covid 19" but not from it. I believe very devoutly that the one who chooses who lives and who dies is God, and not the people in the CDC and certainly not the people in whatever lab cooked up this bioweapon (as it seems to be). Then again, quite a lot of people who died from remdesivir or ventilators or other protocols were deliberately killed, maybe to boost the official death count idk. So I am a bit puzzled by the nature of the deaths we see reported and their causes. Were the people who went through the "desktop simulation" of event 201 given reasons to expect tens of millions of deaths? Or was it all guess work from the start?

Getting back to the "third string" topic, I really see a lot of goofy choices being taken and a lot of policies that don't make much sense being pushed, as though by children who aren't any good at their work. I wonder if you've noticed this effect, or saw some of the news stories I mentioned?

One does wonder what the intentions are. It's one thing to have a crazy plan like "everyone will live in pods, obey orders, and eat bugs" and another to have no idea what the plan is. The Bond villain-esque nature of the WEF "plans" and their glorious leader, Klaus Schwab, seems a bit like a ploy in a game of "Operation Trust." But then, why make them so obviously evil and their intentions so ridiculous?

I have this Chinese finger puzzle feeling. It's frustrating not knowing more, and it seems difficult to get any clarity or sense of what's really going on, and maybe the point is that while you are trying to figure out how to get the finger puzzle off the confederate has lifted your wallet. But, in this metaphor, wtf is the wallet? How does anyone "win" anything worth having?

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