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Beautiful work as always, Tereza

I am honored that you included a reference to one of my comments ;-)

This is an excellent illustration of the Ingratiation, Infiltration and Usurpation the Heka Khasut have been doing for centuries; you unravel the fiction that has been used by them to justify their claim to Palestine. These bands of Shepherds have been fleecing civilization for centuries.

I left this link in the comments on "Logic is your Friend." After a brief exchange with Greg the other day, I wasn't sure if you had seen it.

The origin of Palestinians and their genetic relatedness with other Mediterranean populations from the NIH. direct link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11543891/

The above study says: "Archaeologic and genetic data support that both Jews and Palestinians came from the ancient Canaanites, who extensively mixed with Egyptians, Mesopotamian, and Anatolian peoples in ancient times." It doesn't mention anything about the Ashkenazi

I think I agree with Laurent on “critiquing ideas, not biology” because most of how we identify is based off Culture not Genetics. I am getting a little more skeptical about genetics.

The study of "Semites" or "Shemites" is not really a genetic study, it's a study of a culture of psychopathy that creates masters and slaves; so I suspect this study to based on a false premise. Still, in order to see the movement and relate ability of ancient populations, this could provide some clues, this was a retracted article from the NIH and it lacks the primary data. I am curious to know what you think of this.

I think I am going to buy Kevin Barrett’s prelude to From Yahweh to Zion, it may help me follow all the twist and turns of the stories we are unraveling.

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Thank you, Nef! You put that well with 'ingratiation, infiltration and usurpation.' Excellent process analysis. I think you'd love Guyenot's book--Barrett's prelude is just the short intro. I couldn't even do justice to his first chapter here, and there are 10 more that all have new and startling info on other topics he's written whole books about, like the Kennedy murders and Mossad or Israel as the plotter and enactor of 911. He covers an interesting ploy--make it coincide with another CIA op the gov't has planned, so they can't reveal Israel's without also incriminating themselves. With 911, I think it was an anthrax bioattack planned, although Laurent has other theories.

That's an interesting article, thanks to Greg for referring it and to you for reminding me of it. But I wonder who they mean when they use the word Jews? It seems like it's also a backhanded way of verifying that the influx of colonists are genetically from the same pool as their Middle Eastern neighbors. So I wonder if it, and the retraction, is another psyop.

I'm standing by my statement that the Palestinians are the only people genetically tied to the ancient Judeans. Laurent talks about how the founders of Zionism first played up the Palestinians as their genetic brethren, with whom they wanted to reunite. It was only after infiltrating that they usurped the heritage altogether--much like the Babylonian traitors who presented themselves as the return of the 'profligate son.' Just like your 3-step analysis.

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They use the term "Jews" very loosely, this seems to point to their desire to get people to think of the Jewish populations as one monolithic group, which it's not. With no mention of Ashkenazi, they are avoiding the distinction that it would bring.

"The Palestinians are the only people genetically tied to the ancient Judeans." My thoughts exactly, they are the Indigenous people of the area. The term Šagašu means Trespasser in Ancient Sumerian; I guess now we can see why.

Oh, and the link originally came from Winston, he keeps sending us notes. Ha ha -- sometimes I like to take a peek.

Is Guyenot's book on Amazon? Or is there a better place I can order it? The more a hear about it the more I want it. ;-)

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Ah yes, Winston. And trespasser! Excellent.

I think I got it from Amazon. I don't sweat the small stuff that won't change anything.

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Lol 😆 🤣 I guess I'll take him with a grain of salt.

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‘Magnanimity’ is so damn hard to pronounce. 😆

So… Jews aren’t actually Jews but elites who wear the Jews clothing when it suits them? I’m so lost. I have to go back and start with “What is a Jew?” The historical lesson feels like a black hole that sucks you in and only expands the deeper you go.

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And that was the second try! By then I decided just to leave it. And this one took forever to not trip over: "A diabolos in the etymological sense of divider"

Well, let's try on some definitions of the word Jew. One, someone who believes in the God of the Torah. I would call that a Yahwist and I would say it's an immoral religion--not just amoral--because Yahweh requires believers to do immoral things to others.

Two, someone who traces their ancestry back to Judea. This would make the Palestinians undisputedly Jews / Judeans. A 'secular Jew' is a contradiction in terms if Judaism is a religion. If it's an ethnic origin conveying land rights, the Palestinians have first dibs.

The third meaning is someone who sides with the rebels against the empire. In that sense, we're Judean.

Rather than reading my article again, I'm pushing the one by Abigail that Howard recommended. You would really like her. She's a gutsy woman after your own heart. And reading an insider talk about it as a cult makes so much sense.

Thanks for listening, Tonika!

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The English term Jew is originally derived from the Hebrew term Yehudi ( lit. 'of Judah'), which passed into Greek as Ioudaios and into Latin as Iudaeus, in turn evolving into the Old French term giu after the letter "d" was dropped. I am not sure when the "d" was dropped.

"Giu" = "Gew"= "Yew" = "Ew" = Jew

Yews is just like Use. Ancient Semitic languages like Hebrew and Egyptian didn't have the "J" sound, it was a "Y."

There are many sources that state the name Jew is more recent. The original Judean Culture was probably not anything like we could imagine it today; just like the stories, the culture got hijacked and inverted.

The name "Judean" became a stolen name, this is also what the Infiltrators were well practiced at.

Today the whole Jew construct fits with a Cult, not a Spiritual Method or Practice; it's more like a Political System.

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Fascinating!

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Pleasure watching you! Ok, I’ll check out Abigail. So many threads!

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I'm responding to Mary here, to catch marta and Tonika too. I'm honored that all three of you have the patience to follow me into these murky waters. I had been thinking that I wanted my next one to be from the intuitive-spiritual side of the brain, re-membering what's true and hopeful.

There's a definite pattern you'll notice in the comments. It's primarily men who engage with the detailed, analytical dives into history, religion and economics. When they analyze without love, from a place of superiority, they don't last long. Sometimes it seems like half of my posts and comments are challenging men on their judgments against people (rather than ideas) and them challenging me that people are not morally equal--even though none explained how that can logically be true.

And when I go woo-woo, it's my women who are with me ;-) They are much more attentive to the nuances in the relationships between men and women. They are just as analytical as men when it comes to people, and why they behave the ways they do. The moral equality of people is intuitive to them, so much that it's unstated as just how they see others, always looking for motive and asking why? Your recent piece on 'don't feed the psychopaths', Tonika, really spoke to that.

So I appreciate the men who see me bringing the feminine side of non-judgment into masculine topics, and feel they have something to learn from that. And the women who see me bringing logic, analysis and structure into feminine topics like spirituality and relationships, and go with it. And those from both sides who 'go along for the ride' in the terrain of the other. It's a very strong and engaged core we have here (extra points for anyone who gets the reference to my favorite line from 'The Fall Guy'). Thanks to all of you!

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Honored to be part of the discussion although I’m not sure I contribute all that much. I’m really learning all this stuff anew. But I love all the topics that get weaved in and out of historical lessons. Including the woo woo. All these angles provide such complex context. And you have cultivated a pretty nice intelligent and curious community here- men and women. ❤️

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I love how you approach your topics. The moral equality of people is more vertical than fact. It's a most important focus of my philosophy. It's why I think we make a great team.

I am going to link your post here into my next one on Scythians, or maybe we can work together on it?

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Thanks, Nef. I think you should go for the one on Scythians and I can link to it.

And congratulations to your son on his graduation! Or maybe I should say congratulations to you and your wife on his graduation! Always a family effort. How are you paying attention to anything else today?

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Well, both of the kids are at school right now, end of the year stuff with the classes. I'm home here with my wife doing her stuff, I'm able to take a little time out and try to do a little writing. By about 1PM is when everything will start.

My dad will be meeting us at the school. The graduation ceremony will actually be at 3pm.

So, being the opportunist that I am checking out the threads and brain storming ideas before I forget the details seems alright to do. I've got a few hours anyway. ;-)

Usually morning is a great writing time, ideas seem to come to me quickly.

I'm going to send you some pictures from the graduation later. ;-)

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Same! Lost is the word. But I don't have the dedication to explore the black hole that you do. Something in me just shuts down in the face of Middle Eastern history (and any economics)! I've accepted my limitations, yet applaud those without them. You go, explorers! 👏

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😆 same, Mary! But recently my personal AI assistant has begun tutoring me on economics and I’m finding it mildly provocative. And Tereza is walking into the foray teasing out history from interesting angles… I just wish I had time on my side. Takes dedication to unlearn and learn anew in middle age.

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Wait... Your personal AI assistant?? I'm mildly provoked by THAT 😅. What does that mean?

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I feel the same! Thanks for saying so.

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Thank you Tereza. I'm so glad I attended this postgraduate masterclass. I think I missed some of the undergraduate classes but I am catching up with related reading.

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Ha, I missed those undergrad classes too. Glad that we're cramming together!

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Haven't read this one yet, but have read some of Guyenot's other books and articles. An excellent, I'd even say elegant, thinker and writer. And thanks for the link to Abigail's work. The link actually goes to a more recent Mondoweiss piece of hers ("Exiting Zionism, 2022). The one Guyenot cites is from 2016. Both are invaluable. Like her, I also first really got started down this path with Avi Shlaim's "The Iron Wall."

https://mondoweiss.net/2016/10/why-i-left-the-cult/

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What an excellent article her original is! She is so brave and clear. I really appreciate you sending that.

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It certainly is, and she certainly is. Have you seen this one in recently from Comedy Central?

https://kevinbarrett.substack.com/p/netanyahu-announces-final-solution?publication_id=314817&post_id=145331480&isFreemail=false&r=102on&triedRedirect=true

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Yes I posted this on it: "You are the snark shark, Kevin. I've been enjoying your interview on the 2024 elections although it's possibly the subject I'm least interested in, being with Icke that electing Trump is the plan, not what they're trying to prevent." And then let him know that I'd quoted him and Fadi Lama in this one.

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Same with me on the election. I agreed with Icke also.

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I took one look at Kevin's post and I love it. It's surreal and describes what we are observing. Satirical but True.

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The tone of satirical absurdity is now illegal in the world of new normies.

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Well said that Guyenot is an elegant writer. That's a perfect word to describe him. Yes, he combines a facility with words with solid information, such a joy to read.

And I so appreciate the link to Avigail's original article. I was looking for that but glad to now have both connected here. It's funny, looking at the photo of her as a girl with those dark, serious eyes, I feel like I'm looking in a mirror from my youth. There's an expression on her face that I've seen in my childhood photos--maybe a little bit haunted and weighted.

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Yes, it is a joy to read, there's actually a "poetic" sensibility to it. Glad to provide the other link. Great primary source material.

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That is one intense article. It seems that there is quite bit of victimization within the ranks of the cult. Those who keep defending it, suffer from Stockholm Syndrome. She says: "The survival of the cult is always the most important principle. Cult members are taught from birth that the world outside is dangerous, that they have to huddle together for safety. Every member of every cult is a recruit." -- This is quite true and can be seen easily. Cults are a big part of the manipulation tool; it's the Shepherd's Crook, a mind prison that members don't know they are in.

I subscribed their news letter. Thank you Howard.

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Hey Teresa!

I find myself again afraid to tiptoe into these waters. I’m feeling the pressure ‘out there’ of being called anti semite for questioning anything related to the ‘Jewish narrative’. Gosh that threat is strong, isn’t it? Just like the threat of being called a racist or anti trans. I find the cultural weight of these threats so strong at times. I’m more curious about why those threats affect me so much! I imagine there are quite a few people like me- ooh I think you say good hearted people trying to be nice are the worst?

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Ha marta, good memory! I call them NDGs--naive do-gooders. It's certainly not that they're the worst but they're the most essential part of the scheme. If there were only bad people doing bad things, they'd never get away with it. They need to surround themselves with people of good intent so, to get to them, you have to kick big-eyed puppies with wagging tails. It's a much better defense than Rottweilers.

I was just thinking how hard people are trying to do the right thing, how much they're willing to sacrifice and give, how much work we put into recycling, saving water, helping our neighbors. It's so sinister that they turn that against us.

Something that will give you courage is the Abigail article that Howard linked. Hearing someone speak out from the inside makes you realize it's not fair to them to keep quiet and let them be used the way they are.

And don't worry about my name, my life has become trying to thwart autocorrect on my phone so I don't misspell myself.

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*how hard people are trying to do the right thing, how much they're willing to sacrifice and give, how much work we put into recycling, saving water, helping our neighbors.*

YES.

Here's my take on Naive Do Gooders:

https://martamuses.substack.com/p/the-crucifixion-of-moralism?r=diq9r

After I published this, then my inner concerns poured out - I'm so dramatic! Calling this the Crucifixion of Moralism - I have no business writing on such a BIG title.

But my point of getting caught in this GOOD/BAD binary is such a trick.

I'm on a kick right now of trying to really help that part in me that gets so panicky about getting it wrong, getting in trouble, getting called out for any reason - that's part of this Naive Do Gooders club, because that fear hamstrings me from taking a stand.

I really appreciate the article from Abigail, linked from Howard. What an insight! What bravery to be public in her choice to leave israel. And like you, she clearly calls out the bible and the view of god that says, go right in, take what you want, kill those who get in the way. I would love to read the passages in the OT that say this - do you have them linked in your article, or know them off the top of your head?

Thanks Tereza! (written from my computer, with hopefully maintaining the beautiful Z in your name!)

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Excellent article, I responded there. On the OT, a game I like to play is opening at random and seeing if I can find a page without something revolting. This time I opened to 2 Kings 9 where Jehu tricks the relatives of the king of Judah and slaughters them. Then he tricks the ministers of Baal and slaughters them, tearing down the temple and using it as a latrine. Then Jehu chases the king of Judah shouting, "Kill him too!" He goes back to the castle where the king's daughter Jezebel calls him a murderer, so he has the eunuchs throw her out a window and horses trample her, and dogs eat her flesh.

In 10 in Samaria, there are 70 princes of Ahab being raised by guardians. He has the guardians cut off their heads and send them in baskets, which he puts in two piles at the city gates. Then he kills everyone in Ahab's house, his chief men, his close friends and his priests. When he stumbles onto some unwitting relatives, he has them taken alive to slaughter by the well.

Shall I continue?

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YUCK!!! Amazing how I was steeped in the bible from childhood and it didn’t registered how violent the bible is until I was an adult. I remember explaining the concept of communion to a lady from china, who was singing Panis Angelicus (bread of angels), and realizing how gross it sounded to “eat my body, drink my blood”.

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I have a whole different theory on that. I'll put it into some episode at some point.

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I don’t know how to edit on my phone. I typed your name 3 times with a z and apparently this app still auto corrected me! My apologies for spelling your name wrong!

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Hola, tc.

I'm smiling with the expansion of the apocalypse you are providing us with.

Beyond my appreciation for your work and great effort to share this reveal, my knowledge is too weak to add anything. Your connecting these ostensibly disparate dots is well done and powerful.

All the best with what is changing. Everything changes.

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It's good to hear from you, Guy. I was just wondering how you were. And fitting to be commenting on your alter ego, Guy e not.

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Lol. Oui. C'est vrai

I am well. Very busy with expanded life. My partner joined ma late last month from Japan after 16 months. Great to be together again and wth that the routines have changed. Very interesting.

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https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-the-true-origin-of-the-jews-as-khazars-israelites-or-canaanites/

I suspect you guys are familiar with this link but it seems to do a nice job of studying the subject of jewish origins.

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Thanks Gordon. Yes, I cited that article in something recently but I've scrolled through several without finding it. I've found it very informative but not, I would say, the last word on the subject. What was particularly intriguing in that article was his review of Shlomo Sand's book, which was the same one Librarian had been posting sections of. I'll be going into that in more depth because I have another book on archeology in Palestine called Facts on the Ground that adds more clues.

In the end, the phrase 'the origin of the jews' is misleading because there is no one coherent people who stayed intact throughout millennia and can be traced back to those mentioned in the fictional revenge story of the Torah. It's a people who've been reinvented again and again, with the Ashkenazi as the current 'Yews'. His article really changed my thinking, however, that the ancient Judeans had been expelled en masse after the zealot revolt against the Romans. That seems to be another fiction--why expel an agricultural people when you can colonize them? You want their labor, not their land. So the only genetic Judeans, I believe, are the Palestinians. Thanks for responding!

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Fantastic review!

I had read Laurent's book a few months ago; after going through your review, I realized the need to read it again. It is so rich in information takes more than one reading to assimilate the info in it.

Thank you, and look forward to reading reviews of the remaining chapters

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I completely agree with that, Fadi. I intended to summarize the first four chapters in the first post. But I had underlined a quarter of each page. When I went through again, everything he said sunk in with more meaning.

Please post a link to your book, if you don't mind, for readers and my own convenience ;-)

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Ordered! I'm glad to use amazon for something useful. I argue regularly with people who refuse to buy my book because it's on amazon. As if depriving them of the pittance they get is going to change the world faster than the information in it. I now take it as a sign that that person isn't ready for my book.

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Sure is better if you review each chapter separately; this would allow us to learn more, thank you.

Will post link to my book in separate reply

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Hola Tereza,

Think I saw this article (below) from a like in my feed. You are going back in time and showing that power-tripper's rule by deception. This regular guy says the same in common language, but also aligns with your book's solution: decentralize. it's worth the 10 mins.

https://markusmutscheller.substack.com/p/why-is-everyone-so-fucking-stupid

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Oops, I read it (and will watch something else with my semifreddo). Very thought provoking. I agree with the philosophy but then, every time I lose viewers, I think of it as refining my list. So in that sense, I guess I can already go on with my life in peace.

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He is a newer writer/blogger. You are certified writer, philosopher? at this point.

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Haha, I'll take that ;-) You're as qualified to hand out credentials as anyone else, yes?Still looking to have the world's best coffee should I be in Santa Barbara.

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What does "Certified" mean?

Tereza has more credentials than many well known authors. She has written an excellent book, which I am now reading called "How to Dismantle an Empire," on an alternative to our current economic system, which is in need of overhaul.

Tereza is an independent thinker, the term certified smells like "programed," which she is not.

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I have her book. Yes she has got me to think and re-think about many things. Lazy Friday comment. I meant more like compared to the article I linked to, she is a REAL writer. thank you.

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I read that article too, it's a good one.

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Thanks for sending this, Peter, I'll definitely check it out. I have some vanilla semifreddo with rhubarb compote to make, and I'm sure it will take more than 10 minutes ;-)

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yes, the title is a bit click-baity.

his decentralize example shows the Food Delivery guys sticking to Big Corp by creating their own Comms channel, not delivering for a Big Fast Food, and being OK with getting LOW User ratings.

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I scanned over Guyénot’ see-interpretations of ancient stories, which makes me wish I actually knew more of the “official” stories to weigh them against- will have to revisit this account. I have found his essays to be quite good- saying things no one else dares to tread for fear of offending. Meanwhile I waded slowly through Fadi’s quite long essay and I must say it was an enlightening tour through recent history and the manipulative strategies that the Empire-builders have shaped into our current Shitnest. Thankyou for sharing that one!

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You've done better than me, Glen. I read about half of Fadi's 'essay' (when you need hyperlinks for the sections, I'm not sure that word still applies) and intend to go back and finish. What I read made a lot of sense and he's taking an angle I haven't seen elsewhere, in extending the Zionist aspirations to the Levant. And I agree with his conclusion, which I skipped to--the 'tribe' won't last another decade. But are they meant to? Or are they another sacrifice zone like Ukraine? Are the Israelis being set up as a holocaust to the god of chaos and destruction, with those who believe themselves to be that god standing behind, ready to swoop in after the dust settles? That I don't know.

BTW clever stack name!

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Every Israeli I have ever met has been supremely self-confident- disarmingly so. It’s weird, especially for a Canadian. It’s part of their narrative- they must really believe they are the chosen people; even the ones who reject their Zionist roots have been inculcated with “specialness”.

I believe that there is such a thing as national karma. Europe has experienced its blowback for centuries of colonizing, with immigrant problems and an economic reality check. Unfortunately the ordinary country people also get caught in their overlords’ bad karma. It will balance out. To me, it’s only logical that a nation with such bad karma is going to have severe blowback. The hubris built into the Israeli identity is so thorough that all will suffer. The suffering will be “Biblical”. We’re are in the latter days of the Age of Pisces and it’s a mystery how things will

unfold. I feel that redemption is real and possible, but individuals must earn it. Arch Zionist power brokers are very close to, if not at the top of the global food chain, and they will drag their entourage into the chaos that is inevitable . They have so far been very successful at outsourcing their chaos, conscience, shadow self -whatever you call it, projecting it into the occupied territories, just like my town, glossy Vancouver, projects it’s dark side into a large neighbourhood dominated by poverty and drug addiction, mere blocks from the glass towers . The urge to worship the gods of Chaos and Malevolence, as you say, must be ancient ancestral karma rooted in trauma (it’s because of our traumas that we traumatize others). The bankers will win, as always, but their fall will be harder, to the degree that they take their role seriously.

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I think you would like Guyenot's book, Glen. I'm just at the last chapter called The Great Game. He talks about Machiavelli as the son of a papal banker and likely a crypto-Jew. And the psychology of organizing a whole diaspora into a cult, in which each circle of psyops can be rallied to defending the whole. I don't think there's ever been anything like it in the history of the world--there was never the capability before for this global reach of master propagandists.

I'm certain that you're right that intergenerational trauma is at the root. The Holocaust narrative is a continual reliving of a trauma that never happened. The Exodus, Purim with the killing of 75K people (supposedly) is a trauma inflicted or a trauma they inflicted on others--both fictional, both creating cognitive dissonance and adherence to the whole. Even circumcision, one reader suggested, is the infliction of infant trauma that breaks the bond of trust with the mother, who allows it to happen. That makes sense to me. And at the inner circles, child abuse and child rape may be the way in which that trauma manifests, I've cited some authors on that in other episodes.

That's so funny you're in Vancouver! My daughter wanted to plan a trip there for just the two of us, because she thought I'd really like it when she and her husband went last year. So I'm just waiting for her to confirm before I book the tickets for mid-July. And she had warned me that some of the AirBnBs may not be in great neighborhoods so we're looking at one in the northwest, 20 min away from downtown. Synchronicity and good karma, I think!

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Hi again. I’m away in France after next week. (land is cheap there so I’m looking at moving part time to rural France ), otherwise I’d give you my contacts to . My brother last summer found a reasonably priced air bnb in Richmond in a mansion -big hotel interiors. 30 minutes from downtown via rapid transit. If you like virgin seaside forest, don’t miss Lighthouse Park.

Regarding diasporas, tribes do stick together, and if they haven’t got a land, they find other way$. Being trapped and traumatized by ancient wounds might reinforce the need to be tribal, but also to be stuck in the tribal meme (red meme in Spiral Dynamics), in spite of one’s surface adherence to 18th-19th century Enlightenment values. Transcending that kind of ancestral karma and escaping the clan must be incredibly difficult especially for “lost tribes”. Have you seen the relational diagrams of individuals connected to the IDW? It’s another fascinating layer of intrigue linking many Zionists across media, money, science and celebrity. Here’s a link: not sure who created it but I saw in a Matthew Crawford piece.

https://embed.kumu.io/a69870c27ec57a0e6588d9ce571cc396?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#idwsphere

PS I think people have Machiavelli all wrong. He wrote The Prince (guide for authoritarians) in exile, and the timing and recent scholarship has suggested it is entirely a satire… and that makes sense because it’s exactly how it reads. Hyperbolic and cynical.

To add, I recently read a theory about circumcision as a sublimation for child sacrifice! Might have been Clif High- I know he has interesting theories about its psycho-physical impacts.

Enjoy your trip!

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Thanks for the link above, it actually looks to be very close to my indepenent research on the Criminal Cabal and the Black Nobility. I'll add it to my links.

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You summarize that well, Che. I'm so glad you brought up Crypsis and Mimicry, I wanted to write about those in the future. Mathew Crawford mentioned 'taking on sheep's clothing,' which made me think of it. I've called the strategy 'secrecy within and deception without.' I'm now reading the chapter on The Great Game and it's very enlightening.

Using (Yewsing) 1% of a population to dominate the other 99% is definitely part of the strategy. And that's a very interesting point you make about Jewish neurosis, which Woody Allen showed to be redundant--through his films and sick relationships with women. Through Freud we now accept that people are basically messed up and need professionals to help them cope. I've long talked about the basis for neurosis being the split mind we're all required to have--doing things in order to live that we can't bear looking at too closely. But there are certainly none who demonstrate this more clearly than the Ewes. Cognitive dissonance is second nature, duality in motion. A mental prison indeed!

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