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Debbie Lerman's avatar

This is so good Josh!!!!! Can I cross post it on my Substack? (if I figure out how to accomplish that). I want everyone I know to read and understand this. And also everyone else in the country. And the world. Wishful thinking, I know. But a girl can dream.

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Gwyneth's avatar

Teachings from the Pleiadians

"The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through which reality is defined so that those who exist within it do not even realize that they are in prison."

Barbara Marciniak

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Rob (c137)'s avatar

The Iran thing looks to just bring up fear of war and to excuse the rise in prices etc for both sides of the conflict while the parasite class profits on both sides.

https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/the-iranian-government-is-as-toothless

Remember, the East went along with COVID lockdowns and shots. BRICS allowed for Brazil to single handedly block Venezuela's entry.

The east did nothing to stop the west from looting Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and now Syria.

We have had a new world order for decades and have been living in a mashup of 1984 and Idiocracy.

It feels like the end though as they expect us to fight each other but they can't provoke it as well as they did in the past. That's why they use so many undercover agents provocateur in order to discredit protests. January 6 was full of them and the same applies to left protests.

Only a fool would stand up for civil rights only for their side while enabling the authoritarian unconstitutional responses on their enemies. That's fascist hypocrisy.

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yantra's avatar

your last line - key.

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SG_observer's avatar

It's a bit more complicated than that. I currently live in SG... the initial policies were not that of the west, but then I guess some calls were made and the political elites fell inline. However, the control was not absolute, as even though the SG govt paid $$$ for RunDeathIsNear, the local hospitals didn't administer that as standard protocol and doctors quietly advised against it to their patients, hence the death rate were near negligible - until they started enforcing / pushing the shots. The point is that the west controls the situation by having the local politicial elite bend to their will... like how independant-minded politicians in Japan somehow get suicided all the time, or even Aussie/NZ politicians who spoke out lost power or their lives quickly. They do not play around when they recognize that someone is threatening their hold on the vassal states.

Another example in the last couple of years - SG is generally still quite a conservative, but extremely pragmatic society. There was some anti-gay law on the books from colonial times, so over centuries old, but it has NEVER been prosecuted or exercised... yet as the LGBT fervour in the west ramped up, the local elites just overturned the law out of the blue (there was no real local pressure for it). The local religious heads, who are supposedly against such an overturn, just mutter and went along - showing that they were also fully compromised - which is just an extension of how they acted during the scamdemic, when they disallowed worshippers to visit their churches/temples if they were unvexed at the peak of the restrictions.

Does that mean that we give up against a seemingly overwhelming authoritarian system? No.. heck no. But as the main article is arguing - stop letting the official narratives shape your understanding, only then will you see the obvious cracks in the system that you can exploit or zig zag through. Playing by their rules, means misdirected outrage and wasted energies. A dying empire is still dangerous, just like a cornered animal can still do a crazy amount of damage. Kudos to the adults in the room (Russian, China, Iranian leaders) who have been showing restraint, in order not to let the dying hegemon lash out with serious consequences for the whole world. See which of our fellow men are awake (unfortunately not many), and we keep building up the capabilities of our parallel society - we have to assume that it won't be allowed to reach a nuclear conclusion as then nothing we do will have much effect. What's interesting is that during the 2nd major altercation which Israel started against Iran a short while ago, there was a plane which left Israel with supposedly a nuclear present... and somehow the plane was intercepted or shot down. The resistance was quiet about it... Israel pretended it never happened... so for sure there are serious folks tracking what the Israelis are doing with the nuclear bombs.

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Carlen Altman's avatar

Thank you!

WAIT SO ORANGE MAN IS GOOD?! OR BAD?! ISRAEL IS GOOD?! OR BAD?!

You must pick a side so I can put you into a box and know if you are like the “good” ME or the “bad” OTHERS! (Just kidding!) 😂

The past year it feels like I drove off the main highway of division consciousness onto greener pastures and your work has been invaluable in this shift. Thank you!

The separation of left right parties / war sides is the same as the schism within the brain hemispheres and it’s really fascinating to realize a schism in culture reflects a schism in the brain and consciousness itself (which has been the goal).

I notice how they always time PSYOPS (and weather modification) for specific Full Moons as it harnesses the most fear energy.

Once I began to see this over and over I realized that the story lines and timing are regurgitated over and over ; it really is like they lack any originality (Creativity/God Intelligence) - and in a way, this is the equivalent of AI/anti creation energy.

And yet these systems of manufactured chaos exist because they serve a purpose of helping one to dissociate!

Most people tune into the news as a way to avoid feeling deep feelings of pain they are running from.

Endless consumption of outrage info keeps people successfully distracted from dealing with the root of helplessness and rage they may be harboring towards negligent parents etc. Yelling at the TV because it’s safer than yelling at their abusive parents where they felt like victims.

Until people are willing to look at the inner rage, they will take the parasitic worm bait of believing and energizing PSYOPS. It’s another form of distraction and those who wish to keep running from self will run right into outrage, division, disembodiment and the fake digital spiderweb of transhumanism.

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OneDayAtATime's avatar

Ah yes. Compromised relationship with our own rage makes us more susceptible to manipulation in my opinion.

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Carlen Altman's avatar

Totally!

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gpj2736's avatar

Excellent observation.

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Carlen Altman's avatar

Thank you! Josh’s writing always inspires me deeply!

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Reader East of Albuquerque's avatar

Is it civic engagement or is it brand engagement? Always a good question.

Same question: are you navigating your own ship, taking in and processing new information as you go? Or did you let someone else anchor you into their little harbor (and send you below deck)?

Thanks for a thought-provoking essay.

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SG_observer's avatar

Over the years, I've always built up a list of sources that I trust to curate or synthesize the news/data, the whole covid period has been extremely useful in showing who actually has critical independant thinking, and who can be easily cowed inline with fear and propaganda on an industrial scale. Right now, that list is very short... and funny enough, on YT, the sources that I found reliable, would then 2 or 3 years in reveal that they chose not to take the clotshot. That has been the ultimate litmus test.

However, that is not the end all and be all. We are human after all, and we all make mistakes. If someone gave in to the pressure / took the easy way out, and took the shots, that's just 1 failure. What they do after that is another major test... do they start detoxing, and examine how they fell for it... or just ignore that elephant in the room and pretend they are ok until they keel over suddenly? That's all on them. If people keep relying on 'officially approved' sources, they will never wake up. That does mean they're making a conscious choice.

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Mark Hopkins's avatar

As usual, Josh, you are spot on. We are easily unified if we see that we are all 'imago dei'... images of the divine spirit. We are all related. We all share the same needs and pleasures; "If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?" We need to neutralize the 'othering' that is destroying us.

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TBW's avatar

24/7/365 PSYOP against everyone is on the Menu for some time now, unlikely to change, expect increase in the levels of panic making and otherwise distractions. Everything BUT the real problem will be highlighted. The real problem being the bankruptcy of the total economical model and with it also all the academic, think tank and otherwise establishment outlets and sources. Hence, there will be even more smoke and mirrors in the months and years ahead.

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Mark Brody's avatar

Speaking as one Bar Mitzvahed, it seems to me calling someone "a dangerous leftist Jew who hates Israel" and who is "breeding antisemitism" hardly seems to be a coherent argument, unless one posits self-hatred as the motivation for not jumping to conclusions. But what else might one expect in an era of moral degeneracy during an information war? The temptation to find scapegoats is powerful, and has been historically, suggesting that the need for scapegoating lies deep within the human psyche. The challenge we have as flawed humans is not just how to not jump to conclusions, while looking for scraps of evidence that we are being manipulated, but to quell the scapegoating propensity that inhabits our souls. This is something that seems to warrant a deeper dive. I would posit that othering reflects a fundamental dysfunction between the self and the universal, between the self and the spiritual world. When one is more at peace with oneself and one's spiritual path, othering becomes unnecessary. This dovetails well with Mattias Desmet's notion of alienation, loneliness and spiritual vacuousness are the breeding grounds for totalitarianism.

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Occam's avatar

"Manufactured Chaos Feeds Manufactured Control"

First time reader. Good stuff here.

When you stop to think about it, everything most of us have been told for our entire lifetime has been to manufacture consent. JFK, MLK were murdered in the 1960's. So it's been going on for at least that long. Cue the corporate interests pursuing more profits (big food, big pharma, MIC), and the average westerner doesn't have a chance to discern fact from manufactured fiction.

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Quay1's avatar

You MUST go read all of Josh’s stuff. All fantastic writing. Impossible to find such writers nowadays. A treasure for sure.

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Elizabeth Schneider's avatar

Truly an excellent post.

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Elizabeth Schneider's avatar

I’ll just be the one talking about music as it is not so divisive. Thankfully, I have knowledge of a lot of genres to discuss. “Did you hear the news today (oh boy)?” Well, yes, a new Tower of Power song, “What Is Hip”, was dropped by the cover band Leonid and Friends. That’s about as much “news” as I can handle.

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correspondencecommittee's avatar

“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. ...The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.”

(George Orwell)

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John Garn's avatar

Josh, you are so on point about the patterns. They aren't easy to identify because they are continuously obfuscated by the 'news', our 'elected officials' and the endless profusion of 'legislation' defining the size and amenities of our cells. Once our cell is placed within political boundaries and connected to the internet, the patterns are totally concealed as we focus instead on what colors to paint the bars.

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Pamela A Everett Goodman's avatar

One of your best articles Josh !

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Alice Hesselrode's avatar

spot on. the "other" isn't our enemy but fellow prisoner.

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Ellen's avatar

Perfect. So true and so well said. Now this does deserve the description of masterpiece!

This tribal allegiance is frustrating, and feels alienating to those of us in between, or not even in between, just not trusting either narrative ... but looking around, there's some really good company here ... Like you, and Mark Crispin Miller, and Charles Eisenstein, who just wrote this - https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/moving-beyond-two-sides-ism

And CJ Hopkins, who had most subscribers leave because he didn't follow the script of going from sharply criticizing the covid psyop to now loyally praising Trump and Germany's AfD.

And beautiful souls Tessa Lena, and Celia Farber (her readers lean right but her open heart and curiosity are above the partisan fighting).

And Naomi Wolf, willing to criticize her own team because reality and ethics matters more than partisan loyalty.

And Derrick Broze, Whitney Webb, the Last American Vagabond crew (Independent Media Alliance), and James Corbett - all warning for years or decades about the coming control grid, not fooled by narratives of the left nor the right.

The bullshit narrative babbling about Trump being a "convicted felon", colluding with BAD Russia, and Jan 6th being an "insurrection" (hmm, selective outrage?), and then trying to kill him shaped a funnel channeling even more people into a script that he's a freedom fighter, for the people, and will drain the swamp this time. Seems like he's doing a few things that were voted for but is mostly a part of and / or tool of the war-making surveillance state that's making their final steps in building digital prisons.

I didn't trust that he would "drain the swamp" this time, but I gave him the benefit of the doubt as lesser evil, hoping at Least for the border patrol to no longer be a child trafficking delivery service, less children convinced they're born in the wrong body, not forcing people to take the horrific mRNA shots or loose their jobs, and hopefully Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard getting into the administration. I didn't hope for much more than that.

There's a lot of obstacles in the way of Kennedy doing what I still think he wants to do and is making small steps towards. But "could have been worse" isn't a reason to blindly get behind one side and not criticize it.

The digital leash was being built regardless of which side of the same controlling beast is in charge ... but it may have less opposition now when done in the name of border security and stopping violence (and burning cars, etc just plays into that).

I would add, though, that there is a difference between deportations now and deportations under Obama and others ~ sending men to CECOT in El Salvador with no due process, most with no evidence of criminal records, is unprecedented. There are some historical parallels (according to Grok)

"In summary, while Obama and other presidents deported migrants, including some in legal processes due to errors or discretionary policies, the systematic use of extraterritorial prisons like CECOT and Guantanamo without due process under wartime powers is largely unprecedented. Historical parallels exist in the 1990s Guantanamo detentions and rendition programs, but the current approach combines scale, third-country imprisonment, and explicit punitive intent in a way not seen before."

There would be outrage at any deportations by Trump, but it's wrong and heartbreaking that in some cases "deportation", which is thought to mean "being sent back to the country they came from", is conflated with being sent to a brutal confinement center. And some comments around that show lack of concern for their humanity, because of tribal loyalty. "Trump's doing it, open borders were a disaster (true), so either it's not innocent men being locked up or somehow it's OK."

https://anotherbetrayedliberal.substack.com/p/context-catastrophes-and-selective (Context, catastrophes, and selective empathy)

https://anotherbetrayedliberal.substack.com/p/two-narrow-narratives-of-the-anti- "Two Narrow Narratives of the Anti-ICE Riots

1) The protests are peaceful, open borders are compassionate, the only problem is Trump 2) ICE has never destroyed lives for no reason, they only enforce the law. Both are false."

“We need a sense-making narrative neither Right nor Left, nor in-between, grounded in compassion and showing a path toward peace.” - Charles Eisenstein

https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/immigration-the-plutonium-seed-of

While it's tempting to give up on politics altogether, maybe there should be a third viable political party? ... but not the one Elon may be funding ...

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Dollyboy's avatar

Yeah man I think we should all just like you know just like chill and you know not worry about it so much and just like all this stuff that they keep going on about is just like I don't know man it's just so boring and you know who wants to do that we should all just like do fun stuff you know like float in the ocean and eat fruit and you know just like have a good time man you know...

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