Believe Half of What You See

And None of What You Hear

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“Believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear.”

This should probably be something we whisper to ourselves every time we see or hear anything in the media. Every time we turn on the news, or see the headline of a news article, or go on social media, any social media for that matter.

From the GOP debates to the situation in Israel and Gaza, to seemingly random video clips we watch, be careful who you trust or even trusting your own eyes. Look for patterns in the narratives people push. Don’t accept anything at face value—not only are lies being pushed, but some things have dual meanings, and while narratives are being pushed from both sides, from the good guys and the bad guys, some of the players are willing participants and some are participating unwillingly.

It’s easy to look at the GOP debates as being a clown show. You have Chris Christy appearing to believe he has a shot at being POTUS. He’s less popular than cancer and yet he is still showing up to publicly humiliate himself at the debates. While standing on stage looking stupid, he likely has an IV filled with gravy waiting for him backstage. The man can’t fill the shoes of Trump because he couldn’t fit in them—his feet are too swollen from water retention.

Then you have Nikki Haley. One might as well call her (MIC)y Haley, as in military industrial complex—she is perpetually pushing for war. While Trump was POTUS, Haley pretended to support him, likely hoping she could convince him to get into a war. But that ship has sailed, and now she’s trying to replace him, even though it makes her look like a complete backstabbing traitor. Haley continues to say things Conservatives don’t want to hear. It’s as though she’s being forced to expose the Neocons. It’s as though she has cut a deal, and her penance is to expose the Neocon arm of the Deep State and their plan. It doesn’t appear she is actually trying to win the nomination, just as you don’t make friends by constantly insulting them.

What about Ron DeSanctimonious? Another person who appears to be a traitor, biting the hand that fed him a two-term governorship of Florida. I would argue Ron DeSantis is purposely acting the fool. The day he announced he was running for POTUS, it seems he immediately turned into a complete doofus. He’s gone from being a “MAGA mercenary” to wearing stripper cowboy boots in less than a year. I may be wrong about Ron, or Rob or whatever name the media might call him, but it seems a bit contrived and hard to believe his popularity could take such a Kamikaze-like nosedive, and remember, Kamikazes purposely crashed their planes.

And finally, there is Vivek Ramaswamy, who is burning every bridge in the GOP, all while Trump is off having a rally. I view him as Don Rickles showing up at a celebrity roast, except none of the “roast-ies” are laughing. He is doing Trump’s job for him, while avoiding the appearance that Trump is dividing the GOP. Quite the smart move by Trump. If Trump was at the debates destroying the other candidates, some Republican voters would view him as a “big ol’ meany” and might choose not to support him, even though everything he says is true. For some, it’s all about appearance and not substance.

Is it too far of a stretch to think these candidates running to be the Republican nominee are doing so to intentionally or unintentionally make Trump look good? To convince the Republican voters that they have no other option but Trump. If voters are thoroughly convinced of this, there will be no buyer’s remorse. Are these clown shows being put on to persuade anyone still on the fence? To get everyone reconciled well before the big push against Biden?

Are there still more Uniparty members to be exposed, like Mitt Romney’s niece Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee who was re-elected around the same time Kevin McCarthy took over as Speaker of the House, who has since been replaced? Was the recent election supposed to go badly? Are there still more RINOs to be “primaried” out? Does anyone think it’s a coincidence that the latest GOP debate was scheduled for the day after the election day disappointment … On a day that all of MAGA was demanding McDaniel be removed, after the cash rich GOP was outspent by the Democrats?

I can’t help but think about how much Ronna McDaniel sounds like Ronald McDonald, another famous clown.

It’s like the Jeff Foxworthy joke, “you might be a redneck”, but instead put in “mind-controlled” if you fully support Israel or fully support Hamas. It doesn’t matter what side you fully support, as long as you support one side or the other, as long as you are pushing for the total destruction of one side or the other. The Deep State mind controllers can’t allow people to be somewhere in the middle. They can’t have cooler heads. They can’t have anyone asking both sides to pause. They can’t have people saying they don’t support either side, they support America First, and fixing America needs to be our focus. They need to strike while the iron’s hot on the Middle East debate, while people are worked up in a frenzy.

I have to be honest, I kind of think they missed their window. I think the general public has calmed down a little faster than the Deep State had hoped. The Deep State didn’t have time to implement everything they wanted to while the public were in a stupor of rage.

When you see a crowd of people protesting for Hamas and Palestine, demanding an Israeli cease fire, do you believe everything you see is real, organic?

I’m not saying there aren’t plenty of people actually protesting and, in some cases, rioting in support of Hamas and Palestine, but is all of it real? Is it possible some of the protesters have ulterior motives? Maybe someone from the other side paid a few people to hold up signs saying, “death to Israel” or “all Jews must die.” When the general public sees these signs, they assume no one there protesting in support of Hamas and Palestine are really protesting for a cease fire, they are really calling for the genocide of Jews.

This last scenario may sound a bit unbelievable, but what happened at J6? On January 6th, 2021, a million or so people showed up in Washington DC to show their support for President Trump. They were also there to peacefully protest what they rightfully believed to be a stolen election.

We quickly discovered that there were anti-Trumpers there disguised as Trump supporters, actual Antifa and BLM members in MAGA hats and T-shirts fresh out of their plastic bags, creases and all. They were causing and encouraging violence and vandalism and the entering of the Capital Building. We later discovered it wasn’t just them, as the FBI had agents and assets doing the same thing. The Capital Police were opening doors to the Capital Building and encouraging the protestors to come inside. The situation couldn’t be any less believable, yet the general public fell for it—they believed a bunch of Trump supporters were trying to overthrow the government.

The majority of the US now believes J6 isn’t what they believed it to be at the time of the event. They now realize it was a political stunt by Trump’s enemies, coordinated by the FBI and CIA. But J6 has already done its job—it got the general public to stop focusing on the stolen election, and like any big lie, the J6 lie eventually unraveled. Ironically, the majority of Americans now believe there was election interference in 2020 as well, but again, the damage has already been done.

How about this excerpt from a November 9th, 2023, New York Post article:

“Israeli actress Gal Gadot’s controversial screening of footage from the Oct. 7 slaughter by Hamas terrorists sparked multiple wild fights in Los Angeles late Wednesday.

Police officers were already out in force around the ironically named Museum of Tolerance for the “Wonder Woman” actress’s screening of “Bearing Witness to the October 7th Massacre,” which uses Israel Defense Forces footage.

Even so, wild videos posted online showed people waving Israeli flags and brawling in the streets with pro-Palestinian protesters — kicking and punching one another.

Police formed a skirmish line in an effort to control the unruly crowd — and ultimately used pepper spray, according to ABC 7.

Several people were seen being detained late Wednesday, though it remains unclear whether anybody was arrested or faces charges.

About 200 people, including Israeli officials and Hollywood executives, attended the screening of “Bearing Witness to the October 7th Massacre” — comprising bodycam footage taken by Hamas terrorists in their surprise attack — about 50 protesters gathered outside, the Los Angeles Times reports.”

Right after the event occurred, I saw a video clip of the protestors brawling with the people there to support the screening, and I immediately thought, ‘this is all fake and contrived.’ But how many people who saw the video clips or read the news article thought it is real, organic?

This situation was designed to end in a brawl. The event was announced a week in advance and LA Police, and the FBI were there to keep the peace, anticipating there could be unrest. How did a brawl break out when there was so much police presence on hand?

This is about as believable as a fight on the Jerry Springer Show between two obese women fighting over the same jobless, toothless boyfriend. All while Steve and the other security team is standing right behind them waiting to break up the fight after a few slaps, scratches, hair pulls and torn shirts.

Whether it was the Hamas terrorist footage being screened in LA or a Jerry Springer episode, both are and were designed to start a fight or fights. In the case of Jerry Springer, it was designed to create entertainment—bad entertainment. In the case of the LA screening, in my opinion, it was designed to justify Israel continuing to bomb Gaza. While I believe a brawl was the desired outcome of the screening, I don’t know if the brawlers were manipulated into fighting or were directly paid to fight.

I’m sure many people reading this saw the video that came out on November 8th, 2023, of the alleged 77-year-old retired American lawyer Kenneth Darlington irritated by a group of climate change activists who were blocking the road in Panama. He pulled out a gun and killed two of them, straight out of the movie “Falling Down”. We are to believe this guy was having a bad day and just wanted to get home and have a cold beer, he was so frustrated at the climate activists that he pulled out a gun that he conveniently had in his pocket and killed two people.

What we aren’t told, unless we do a deep dive, is that the protesters were actually protesting a contract the Panamanian Government recently signed with the Canadian mining company First Quantum. The contract gives the Canadian mining company the rights to basically strip mine Panama; it even gives them the right to take over privately owned land that they feel might hold the copper they are looking to mine.

Here is a Twitter (X) post from Matt Wallace that delves into the matter:

More on Kenneth Darlington from a November 9th, 2023 article in the US Sun.

Kenneth Darlington is the gunman who fatally shot two anti-mining protesters on a highway in Panama on Wednesday, November 8, 2023, after opening fire in broad daylight.

The 77-year-old, who holds dual citizenship in the US and Panama, has been taken into custody following the chilling incident.

According to Newsroom Panama, Darlington has a criminal history dating back 18 years.

In 2005, he was arrested after a raid on an apartment in Paitilla - a neighborhood in Panama City - for possession of various assault weapons.

Two M-1 rifles and an AK-47 were found at the property, yet Darlington was released on bail after claiming the weapons were part of a war collection.

NewsRoom Panama also reported that Darlington was previously linked to financier Marc Harris, who was convicted of money laundering in the United States.

So why did Darlington kill two protesters in broad daylight, with cameras capturing the murder, knowing he would be arrested for the act of violence? Was it to send a message to anyone who stands up against the contract between the Panamanian government officials and the Canadian mining company? Has he been given assurances that he won’t be prosecuted or do any time in prison?

According to the October 30th, 2023, AP news article:

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Protests extended into a second week Monday over a long-term copper mining concession for a Canadian company, as Panama’s government sought to calm anger by promising to let Panamanians decide in a referendum whether to scrap the deal.

A broad cross-section of society has joined in demonstrations across the country for more than a week demanding the government rescind the contract with a local subsidiary of Canada’s First Quantum Minerals. Critics say the concession puts Panama’s environment and water supply at risk.

President Laurentino Cortizo’s administration proposed Monday to send congress a bill that would schedule a referendum in December. But the country’s top electoral authority said such a vote couldn’t be held before next May’s presidential election.

By the way, the referendum vote is scheduled for December 17th. There’s that number again.

Why did Kenneth Darlington kill these two protesters, and why did we see it? Why was it made available to us?

I would speculate the two protesters were killed to send a message to the voters of Panama: don’t kill the Canadian mining contract, or bad things might happen to you. I’m sure more will come out as independent journalists and researchers look into the story.

But why was the video presented to us? I’m not sure if it was so we would look into the situation a bit deeper, leading us to the mining corruption, or even more corruption being exposed, or if the video was made available to the public to make climate deniers look like thugs, to make climate deniers out as murderous beasts, and climate change advocates as victims, and it backfired on the Deep State because we ended up looking a little deeper.

As I mentioned, I’m sure there will be much more uncovered involving the situation. We will likely learn more about the killer and who and what he is involved with. But what we do know is there is the story we are presented, and then there is the truth. Rarely is the story we are presented by the media or social media the end-all truth.

When mainstream media presents a story to us, it is one of three things: A total lie, a half-truth, or a manipulation of the truth.

In the case of a manipulation, an actual event or events may have occurred, but they are presented to us, or information is withheld from us to put forth a narrative. An example, remember a couple years ago when the narrative of violence against Asians came out of nowhere? The media was constantly running stories of violence against Asians. We would see the video clips, and 99% of the time it was a Black person assaulting the Asian person. Notice this narrative is no longer being pushed? For some strange reason people aren’t as violent against Asians. What changed?

Did incidences of violence against Asians vastly increase during the narrative? I don’t think so. I believe the media simply started showing more incidences of violence against Asians. I believe it was a psyop designed to create division and hate between races. It was designed to create division between Asians and Blacks. The media said, “violence against Asians” and almost exclusively showed videos of Blacks assaulting Asians. I’m not saying the violence shown didn’t actually occur, but rather the images were selectively chosen to create division.

We are constantly being shown mug shots and videos of Blacks committing crimes. This is to make Americans view Blacks as criminals and for Blacks to view themselves as criminals. It’s all about racial division. When we are divided, we are weak. The Black community is like an abused stepchild of the Deep State, used and manipulated to push forth their agendas.

If I wanted to push forward the narrative that more and more people are dying in car accidents, all I need to do is show more incidents of car crash deaths on the evening news. Just one car crash after another. I don’t even need to say more people are dying in car accidents—the numbers could even show that less people are dying from car accidents—but the constant airing of car crash deaths leads people to believe that the numbers must be going up.

In conclusion, question everything you see, question everything that is presented to you through the media and social media. Why am I seeing this, or in some cases, why am I allowed to see this? Why did this go viral? Why is everyone talking about this? Assume everything presented to you is fake and manipulated until you have the chance to look further into it.

All the Deep State media wants is our initial reaction, so don’t give them one. The Deep State is looking to create a knee-jerk, emotional response from us in everything it presents us. They understand that most of their lies will eventually be exposed. But the emotional residue these lies create will stick with us. We are controlled by feelings, even when the facts don’t exist to support those feelings.

We are emotional beings; it is both our strength and our Achilles heel. Emotions cause us to act, but through manipulation, often times we act out against the wrong things. Our emotions can cause our energy to be focused in the wrong direction. If we can understand our vulnerabilities, we can protect ourselves from the manipulation.

Our insecurities are preyed upon by bots and paid shills who leave negative comments on our social media. Our need for justice is preyed upon through video clips or news of injustice. On a more spiritual level, I feel for the past month or so, there has been a darkness that has been hanging over the truth-seeker community.

I have felt it myself—anxiety, a depression that causes one to believe they are inadequate and overwhelmed. I also feel that that dark cloud has very recently been lifted. I feel less anxious again, more at peace with where we are at this stage of this spiritual war.

My advice to everyone, myself included, when you are beginning to feel anxious or overwhelmed, take a step back. Take a break from the new cycle. Share your feelings with another truth seeker. They might motivate you, and at a later time, you might motivate them. We are in it for the long-haul, and sometimes that means pulling over to a rest stop and taking a nap.

We must pace ourselves to finish the race.

God bless and protect everyone and give us the strength, endurance and motivation to push on. There really is no other option. The Great Awakening requires us to hang on to our hope. There is a reason God woke us up before the others. We are needed, and we need to be in fighting shape.

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