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Dollyboy's avatar

I haven't watched all of "Died Suddenly". I find Peters style of presentation too childish for my taste. From the bit I have seen his latest doco is in keeping with his flair for the dramatic. If he is controlled opposition the net effect will be minimal. Just like his snake venom expose, it will gain a little bit of attention, mostly by the people who enjoy that hyperbolic style - the provaxxers will ridicule it as will the serious antivaxxers. Compared to the billion dollar propaganda campaign waged by the pharmaceutical industry this is small fry and will have little influence on the overall narrative.

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“Right off the bat they talk about Covid-19 and viruses...." Is that humor or a Freudian slip ?

Sorry I just wanted to get that out of the way first, but what I actually want to speak on is

"In the fog of war it can be difficult to discern who is friend and who is foe".

You sent out a call for assistance and I'd like to help if I can.

Viruses (and bats) mRNA, blood clots I can't help you with. The death of JFK and the Moon landings are definitely topics for another time. However, The Fog of (The Culture) War and mental self defense against disinformation or PSYOP manipulation is an on-going project of mine. Perhaps some of my personal observations and conclusions will be of assistance.

Are we being lied to ? Are we fish hooked on the wrong end of a line ? To a certain extent we all are, live a few years and everyone will have lost a few pounds of flesh to predators, but the fight isn't over and we're not dead yet.

After examining my own thinking I came to see how much I relied on argument by analogy, so the following is perhaps not very scientific but it's what I have and so I use it.

It has occurred to me how similar the arts of informational warfare are, not only to the methods of the predatory psychopath but also to the professional techniques of the illusionist or stage magician. Perhaps the tricks used to detect one could, with suitable modification, also be used to detect the others ?

The illusionist can only perform their psychological manipulations at certain times and under specific conditions. The magician might be able to saw a woman in half and put her back together again but won't be able to perform emergency surgery on an accident victim in a hospital. I once saw David Copperfield pass through the Great Wall of China. Nice trick. He's not building traffic tunnels through the Himalayas.

Now I know we are still working in the realm of words and ideas, so you can't easily perform physical tests, but the point here is about directing your focus to a certain specific spot. An intelligent, well meaning person can, and will, speak clearly about many different subjects. The illusionist, like the psy-operator has a specific trick or mission they have to perform so their focus will remain on that. If anyone attempts to shift the focus (to flesh out surrounding details or to get some back ground information for example) they must resist.

The next counter illusion trick is Time.

We allow Magicians a long term residence in Las Vegas because we like them and we've all agreed that although they're liars they're entertaining and harmless liars. But liars like propagandists, psy-operators and psychopaths burn the ground they walk on and so can't remain in any one space, physical or meta-physical for very long.

If a story still holds up over time or the narrative still works after centuries then it can hardly be called propaganda. Of course you don't have centuries to wait, but you can attempt to track them backwards through time.

Who is this person and what is their history ? Everyone has a past and a reasonable person has a reasonable history. Do they conceal their family or origins ? Have they ever changed their name ? Do they often change location or job ? Did they just seem to drop in recently from outer space ? Do they claim to have access to secret or forbidden knowledge ?

There COULD be legitimate reasons for anyone of those points, but if many of them appear, again and again then they all become major red flags.

That is all I have for now, I hope it's useful. My project, like yours is on going and I shall keep an open eye and an open mind on yours.

Courage brother ! And stay in the fight.

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