This segment will be appended to our much earlier World [in] War series. That tended to be geographically contiguous. This episode won't be in that vein necessarily but is connecting on the basis of demonstrating how this war is being fought. And mostly because of its breadth of spotlighting the gaslighting that is burning up tons of available winter on the way fuel every day. No wonder the world is in energy, climate, and also psychological crisis mode! Still working on the next in line Palestine-Israel only piece but some parts of that will be landing here.
These stories, in my humble opinion, are all false flag narratives. But then, what these days isn't? Understand that doesn't necessarily make the basic actions taken or occurring themselves (completely) fake, but decidedly planned and executed for narrative building (among other) purposes.
However a few of these are completely, I believe, totally fake. Purely for narrative. Which, again in my humble opinion, is like the inevitable babies sporting swim diapers in the community pool. How much do you trust those diapers? Thus the entire pool has to be looked at with suspicion.
Our first entrant is a story that started back on October 8. The Balticconnector gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia experienced a sudden drop in pressure (barely two weeks past the first anniversary of Nordstream but right in the thick of the Israeli military meltdown) and was cut off. A few days later seismologists in Norway helpfully brought up a 1.0 seismic event in the area at the time. The Lithuanian Minister of Energy called on NATO to protect this critical infrastructure as an Estonian energy company suggested the damage could have been deliberate.
SG Stoltenberg, immediately begins carrying this torch promising a “decisive response”. Even better, if it can be pinned on Russia, of course. A week later they're all looking at a Chinese container ship but desperately trying to bottle up that information. Two days ago NATO announced a blockade of Russian ships in the Baltic Sea noted by Russian Deputy FM Grushko as a violation of international law. Yesterday Finnish investigators noted the presence of a 2M anchor nearby and the absence of one of those on the Chinese vessel from last week. They no longer consider a Russian vessel to be involved.
You think they'll send storm troopers after China for losing an anchor? Either way don't look for Stoltie to change his position. At least not in any hurry. Unless Seymour Hersh wants to take a crack at it, of course. But this is how narrative wars work.
Our next story is actually a who the hell knows? entry. But that is the state of the world and it is included so you remember that “official” narratives are where they typically start building out narratives first. And just because other actors chime in is not genuine confirmation. How many professional and amateur eyes patrol the Middle East daily?
On October 19, a story surfaced from the Pentagon that a US naval vessel in the Red Sea intercepted three missiles and several drones that were launched by Houthi forces in Yemen. The very next day Cradle published a poll on TG (very unscientific but interesting nonetheless).
You can see how I and 179 other like minded Patriots reacted.
This CNN article highlights the early information progression where the story keeps getting bigger with each step up the ladder. The next day it was four missiles (up from 1 or 2, then 3) and 15 drones (up from several) and lasted over a span of 9 hours. (Even Wikipedia reports it this way!) Meanwhile, the Saudi media was reporting that their air defense were intercepting missiles flown from Yemen. Southfront published on the 20th that it was 4 missiles and 15 drones fired from “Iranian-backed” Houthis. A Yemeni source claimed the missiles were Quds-3 cruise missiles. No mention of drones, though. The Navy published these photos:
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The original CNN article published this file photo from 2018. The USS Carney was commissioned in April 1996.
Maybe you guys can help me out, but I am not sure that's the same boat in those pictures above. This was one of four destroyers in the Gerald R. Ford carrier group sent to the eastern Mediterranean on the 8th, along with one cruiser. Seems a little odd to me for it to be hanging out all by itself in the Red Sea. Especially under impending war conditions I would expect it to stick a little closer to its group or be accompanied. And those photos from the Navy look more like recruiting materials than combat operations.
Even if the incident is real, I have a problem with the either the delay, (CNN dropped their article around 5 PM, the Saudi media mention was reported on at 7 PM, and Cradle dropped the Pentagon video at 5:40 PM - all US Eastern), or speed of reporting (and lack of any even approximate time stamps). It appears to be dusk or slightly later in the left photo and some short time later in the right one. That would make it at least four hour old news. If it were within a couple of hours it would of course, be full dark there and pushing being the 20th locally but that is not specified when the nine hours started or ended. Seems awfully coincidental to go right along with our big hospital bombing story, too. And the lack of other maritime traffic in a usually 24/7 rush hour scenario is pretty much off the probability charts.
Yesterday there was one unconfirmed report of a repeat of this narrative coming from “Zionist media”. No confirmation materialized but we've seen them with an intent to use this narrative again already.
This morning the Gerald R. Ford carrier is indicated to be off the southwestern coast of Cyprus. Ersin Tatar, President of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus, in light of NATO and Israeli activity there, has stated that as Guarantor of the Republic of Cyprus President Erdogan has not approved any foreign military to come onto the island. We'll see how that works in a world where Turkey is suspending energy agreements with Israel, Israel is denying visas for UN personnel, and Libya is kicking out diplomats from four NATO countries supporting Israel.
Any way you slice this one though, a potential new front raised its ears above ground. That's gold in an information war. To be used whenever needed for shaking all the Iranian trees to get the leaves to fall. They got their Iranian linkage published which was likely mainly what they were after. That round is fairly small but still a sorely needed win for them.
Our next look is across the globe only 150 km from where I live. Last week there was a train derailment in Pueblo, Colorado, US. I know that doesn't sound like a false flag on the surface. But we have had a constant stream of particularly train incidents in the continguous states going back a few years. But also plane/airline incidents, scattered trucking accidents, port debacles, pretty much the entire spectrum of public transportation. And Colorado is Grand Central Station on your more typical false flags - baby beauty queen killing, school shootings, gay bar shooting, theater shootings, COVID meat packing disaster, BLM riots, an entire county that closed its borders during COVID, you get the idea. We didn't invent them; just enthusiastically produce them.
My theory on this one goes pretty much like this: nationalization of all assets in the country. The confiscation avenues are already in place for private and public retirement assets, personal and corporate bank holdings; but corporate (and perhaps personal) transportation assets are not currently on a readymade seizure schedule. But if a mass bankruptcy event could be arranged across the majority of the transportation sector, it would take Congress less than half an hour to present that bill to the President. And that's if it’s lunchtime with cocktails. The collection of liability in the rail sector is mountainous already. And this has actually been decades in the making. But the escalation has been escaping its usual boundaries recently.
The story on this is also tailor made for that narrative. First the cargo was unattractive climate changing coal. Which wound up cast all over the rail bed and the interstate highway below the bridge that collapsed when 30 cars stacked up on it after a damaged rail caused the derailment. Those had been inspected by the rail line (done annually!) just that morning. All fail safe alarm measures failed to activate. So a train full of coal lands on top of a trucking rig under the bridge and a major highway is shut down for days while the cleanup and bridge replacement happens.
A loud Laura Loomer tried to make the issue a terrorism attack on the bridge which she claimed was based upon local police looking into a sabotage angle of the bridge structure but they wouldn't talk about it on record. Since there was no subsequent report made to the DHS this angle has been dropped if not deep sixed. Also there was an unaccountable lack of clarity on who owns the bridge and was actually liable for its maintenance. This turns out to be the rail line and it doesn't seem this (unlikely and unhelpful) narrative will be refloated. The fact that she considered the event at all is indicative of a narrative shift operation. Which means someone doesn't like the original one. Or it could just be a spotlight. This Infantmilitario post video also is a nearly unimaginable outcome scenario. Cars stacked like beads threaded on a string or knives stacked in a block. Not commonly available from US sources because a no fly zone was placed there after this drone footage was obtained.
Sometimes the narratives land right on your breakfast table if you don't watch out for them. Look up every so often just on principle. But especially if your government at every level is composed of clowns.
I've been been saving this last one until any corroboration turned up. So since it did while I was still writing we will at least start it here. If more comes along we will revisit later. Back on the 19th Strategika51 posted this:
🔸The Israeli death toll since October 7, 2023 is subject to Israeli military censorship. A death toll of 2,000 was published and then deleted. Overall, the Israelis try to make the world believe that it is a majority of civilians but the reality is quite different.
The actual toll of Israeli losses exceeds 4,500 deaths, the majority of them soldiers.🔸
There are other narrative pushes happening against this but those will be included in our atrocities look. It is starting to appear that entire narrative is a cover for this story. Well, late yesterday this article dropped. Intro:
“Evidence is now emerging that up to half the Israelis killed were combatants; that Israeli forces were responsible for some of their own civilian deaths; and that Tel Aviv disseminated false ‘Hamas atrocities’ stories to justify its devastating air assault on Palestinian civilians in Gaza.”
This is a very comprehensive article and needs to be read in its entirety. This is the link (for any copy/paste preferences): https://new.thecradle.co/articles/what-really-happened-on-7th-october
Basically it covers the Israeli response as causing many more Israeli civilian deaths than Palestinian mauraders. The damage at Be’eri Kibbutz was beyond the capacity of Palestinians. The concert grounds are covered as well, including that an Israeli tank and troops were sent there. Also that not all the invasion forces were even Hamas. The new information from an Israeli witness of Israelis killing their own people, and the statement of a released hostage is all included. A truly one stop shop for all the latest Israeli narrative busting stories. They are not overly blended so any you have already read are easy to skip over.
It does not come close to Strategika51’s numerical assessment above. But in narrative it is quite an effective companion. And blows large holes in the “official” Israeli (and American/European) narratives.
The narrative machines will not be stopping. We won't be either.
Back to Part 6.
I appreciate hot knives in the fog of war. Thanks for the Cradle link. Since I deleted bookmarks and substacks in an attempt for space, I've been missing things i.e., thanks for Cradle link.
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