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narjis of many camels's avatar

After these 15 months, I cannot accept the official media narrative on anything anymore. I think your suspicions are all correct. Islamophobia is the low hanging fruit to distract people from learning the truth about Israel.

About the New Orleans attack - the ISIS flag supposedly used by the attacker was literally pictured hanging upside down. As in the shahada, the islamic declaration of faith, upside down. I don't think whoever planted that flag even realized, because they don't know enough Arabic to even recognize when it's upside down. Also, the killer is dead, so conveniently we can't really know the truth.

Also, it's highly suspicious that he was an ex-military veteran of the US - Muslims almost never serve in the US military, especially in a war in a Muslim country. I am convinced this was a false flag intended to make Muslims look bad again, just when sympathy started to creep up again.

Thank you for helping expose the lies. There are so many. But they won't fool me anymore, and I know I'm not alone.

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Loquor's avatar

They are just warming up for a big event that triggers a war with Iran, The hope is US citizens can see the lies and don’t react as they did in 9/11, Pearl Harbor, Golf of Tonkin, the Lusitania, Etc,etc…

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Cathy K-Pink's avatar

They keep saying Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon. Iran has no intention of launching. Iran fears Israel or USA doing a first launch. They want a deterrent. Tehran is a beautiful city. Yet western numbskulls will turn it to ash in a heartbeat.

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Debbie Beatty's avatar

Iran is sovereign nation, who are we to say what they use to defend themselves? The last country on Earth that should have a say in which others can have nukes is US, we are the only ones who used them to commit horrific war crimes.

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Cathy K-Pink's avatar

Exactly

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Debbie Beatty's avatar

Considering how easily they were convinced that they would die from Covid if they didn't wear a mask, and Russia was interfering in our elections, and the Ukraine War was unprovoked, and 40 beheaded babies, I didn't have much hope.

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𝓙𝓪𝓼𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓦𝓸𝓵𝓯𝓮's avatar

Yes Al Qaeda and ISIS are funded by the US. It's an open secret. At one point a CIA funded gaggle of mercenaries were fighting a Pentagon funded one🤦‍♀️

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letterwriter's avatar

This sort of stuff is why Assange was handled as he was. The early (Bush years) support for wikileaks among the chattering class was memory-holed, and etc.

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CrumpledForeskin's avatar

Anything that is blamed on Muslims in the US, you can bet Mossad and the CIA are behind it. There will be a bigger false flag event in the near future.

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murraytai@gmail.com's avatar

Mossad, CIA, AIPAC, corporations, ISIS - They are all conflated.

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KHGUAN's avatar

Personally, clandestine organisations such as Mossad & its sister organisation the CIA (let's be real, they ARE) are far more dangerous and insidious than any insurgent militias they habitually vilify; doesn't help that extremist groups such as HTS, Azov Battalion, Al Qaeda are funded and armed by said clandestine cabal - not so different from most mercenary outfits to be frank.

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Diana van Eyk's avatar

Thanks for your thoughtful article, and for presenting your suspicions in such a thoughtful way, Eleanor.

Here's something to add to them. https://rachelblevins.substack.com/p/cybertruck-explosion-suspect-was?utm_source=podcast-email&publication_id=397465&post_id=154114413&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_content=watch_now_button&r=aex03&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

I wonder about these things too.

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Eleanor M Owens's avatar

Thanks Diana! I have heard about this and have added it to my list to read, thanks so much!

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Panjandrum's avatar

---> "I’ve been reluctant to publish this kind of essay for a while, and as I write I am not even sure if I should do it or whether I should keep this private as I try to determine what the hell is going on. It’s hard to write about things when you can’t yet prove it. Sometimes thoughts are just theories, and in our culture, you can be condemned or ridiculed for having a theory." <----

==> Kudos for penning this. There are many more of us who feel similarly. I am a conspiracy realist. On a lighter note, as the quip goes "My favorite conspiracy is that everything is going to be okay." [1]

---> "But what they do not understand is that those that incorporate international media, independent voices, and social media to inform their understanding of truth have been utterly disillusioned by the discovery that “reputable” media has manufactured consent that has fuelled the forever wars in Palestine, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Ukraine, leading to the deaths of thousands of people including Westerners themselves. Reputability of legacy media has thus been thrown into question." <---

==> 200%. I swore off legacy media circa 2016 and since then I curate my own epistemic bubble on Social Media.

[1] https://x.com/DesignatedDc/status/1874815210449768937?mx=2

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Leftwing Luke's avatar

Thank you for braving a difficult set of events and subject matters, you have certainly done it careful justice in your presentation of the questions needing asking.

I think that, after a long while of really trying to understand what on earth is going on to make the world such a mess, particularly in regard to the West and our influence on it/role in it over what turns out to be a staggering length of time...you can't help but come to the conclusion that we are actually the 'bad guys', there is a stunning level of propaganda, outright lying, misinformation, misinformation, gaslighting etc, and that the 'truth just keeps proving to be worse and worse than you initially thought was even possible!!

I also tend to think that in the end, you just start getting a feel for the type of playbook the powers that be like to use...I also don't like dealing too much in rumours and theories, but I think you just get to a point where in your gut...you just know! So yes, I think you are hitting lots of nails right on their heads in your piece - I don't disagree with any of it, because it just is exactly the way things keep on being proven to be, over and over and over again!!

So - thank you for another great piece 🙃

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Eleanor M Owens's avatar

Thanks Luke! In some ways I feel we have been discouraged from exploring ideas deliberately because of exactly all the things people have discovered. I’m not going to believe just any rumor or theory — but if there’s compelling evidence, we’ve got to discuss them amongst ourselves!

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Carol Diane Bevis's avatar

Thank you for this article! It has been estimated that millions not thousands have been killed in our wars on terror in the last 20 years, a half million children in Iraq alone. Check out Lee Camp and the Grayzone.

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David Elliott's avatar

The battle for hearts and minds here is largely one between a rather trusting Christian one and a totally duplicitous strand of Talmudic Judaism which has merged with a ruthless Zionism. European whites throughout the West, though no longer religiously aligned like they used to be have nonetheless, in large measure adopted a Christian morality. This along with the rooting of Christianity in Judaism means we have uncritically accepted the ‘Israel as the good guy’ narrative presented to us by Zionist Jews and their allies. Slowly though our eyes are now being opened to the truth about Israel and those who drive and support it both in Israel and in the West.

Slowly our ‘Conspiracy theories’ are revealing that more of us in the West need to wise up to who’s really doing the conspiring out there.

And that anything really is possible.

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Eleanor M Owens's avatar

I appreciate you reading David. I had written an article earlier last year writing about how I felt there was a religious element to the wars in the Middle East even though of course it’s also about Western hegemony and imperialism/amassing of wealth. Thanks for your thoughts. https://open.substack.com/pub/eleanormowens/p/have-we-been-in-a-religious-war-this?r=2dkne5&utm_medium=ios

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Revolutionary Agony Aunt's avatar

All the times over the last 2 years that I have heard something that might have previously been considered 'conspiracy theory' proven true. Seems, we were the 'cookers' along, only it wasnt what we believed but what we chose not to interrogate. Thank you for your willingness to share and test your thoughts and reasoning. Helps us feel less alone ❤️

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Hela Mansour's avatar

Same here.

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Cathy K-Pink's avatar

You are spot on.

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