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John Cougar Misanthrope's avatar

Great piece. You are absolutely right: the narratives pushed by media, politicians, and advertisers are today’s version of Plato's Cave Shadows, manipulated images on the wall, designed to be mistaken for truth. Those who question them are dismissed as deniers or heretics. Mattias Desmet described the condition well: mass formation leaves the crowd convinced of its righteousness while rejecting anything that challenges the collective trance.

As you noted, the irony is that Plato's allegory wasn’t just a warning; it was likely descriptive. The "noble lie" is not just a rhetorical device; it's a tool used by governments, weaponized through narrative control. The goal is not enlightenment. Rather, consent through obfuscation.

You captured it well with your references to "puppagencies" and "puppeticians." It's about control, and most of them probably do not even know that they are political theater. They have been cast, coached, and choreographed, yet believe the script from which they have been told to read. What appears to have been lost on them is that the audience has noticed.

John Visher's avatar

It’s a big ugly club and you ain’t in it because you ain’t raping children. There are more good people than bad. This is a 10,000 year-old death cult. It cannot survive on the Internet.

Lori's avatar

I miss him....

Brandon is not your bro's avatar

Me too , my brother and I saw him as teenagers in a small theater in New Brunswick, NJ … great show

Chief Justice of Nuremberg 2.0's avatar

X-Files on Project MK-NAOMI decoded: Germ Theory & Vaccine Bioweapons ft Project Bluebird https://nuremberg2.substack.com/p/x-files-on-mk-naomi-decoded-germ (snip) MK-NAOMI is a mind control program for perpetual war of terror "an enemy that can never be defeated" run by the Rockefeller Foundation, Medicine, GAVI & UN. The program is designed as a cover for the poisonings caused by petro-chemicals, oil, gas, pesticides, poison, smog, bio-specific weapons, vaccine side effects and bio-warfare. The project's main goal is to convince you, using mind control, that the environmental poisons and vaccine side effects are actually from contagious "virus's" ... and to con-you into taking even more vaccines ... for de-population. In the X-Files video he's referring to "Father" as The Pope. The picture on the wall in front of Mulder is of a Catholic Priest. This is all run by the Vatican (the 2nd largest land owner) and the British Crown (the 1st largest land owner), with the help of others of course. This poison is the vaccines... November 14th 2021 TRUST MK-ULTRA TRUST MK-NAOMI ft Germ Theory & Vaccine Bioweapons https://nurembergtrials.net/nuremberg-2-0/f/trust-mk-ultra-trust-mk-naomi-ft-germ-theory-vaccine-biowepons January 18th 2022 The Narrative: Mass Formation Psychosis Doesn't Exist ft MK-NAOMI https://nurembergtrials.net/nuremberg-2-0/f/the-narrative-mass-formation-psychosis-doesnt-exist-ft-mk-naomi December 24th 2022 MK-Trauma Based Mind Control -Satan is Santa ft BAALENCIAGA=DEVIL https://nurembergtrials.net/nuremberg-trials-2-0/f/mk-trauma-based-mind-control--satan-is-santa-ft-baalenciagadevil

Lori's avatar

Food for thought but I am still thankful Trump is in compared to what we could have had in the White House. I am ok never knowing all the so called "truths" in politics as I will not let it ruin a day that I am here on this gorgeous earth to celebrate what the good Lord made for us. Inner peace is too important for the short time we reside here.

Crixcyon's avatar

Clubs are cults. You deviate from the "rules and regs" or act apart from what's expected and they throw you out.

Lori's avatar

I am a natural born deviator and glad to be so!

KP Stoller's avatar

This caused one of the biggest Streisand effect in history

Chief Justice of Nuremberg 2.0's avatar

Here they come with vaccinating animals against other animals with their fake animal-animal contagion theory. Farmers and scientists join forces in Cornwall to vaccinate badgers against TB so that they don't infect the cows https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/31/farmers-scientists-badgers-tuberculosis-tb-vaccination-cornwall

Martin's avatar

The following has been the MO in Central/Eastern Europe this year:

1) Bring in vaccines for cows

2) Weeks later, PCR-test them for disease

3) Based on a single "positive" test, incinerate 3,000 animals

4) While you're at it, close borders and limit human trafficking between counties.

Alzaebo's avatar

Good lord. That's what happened in England when "Mad Cow" escaped the biowarfare labs at Portland Downs. And here, too, repeatedly, with the latest "zoonautic" (animal-based) "outbreak" occurring every two years in time with the election cycle.

Avians infecting herbivores infecting humans. The entire spectacle is becoming ridiculous, yet another humiliation ritual masquerading as an intelligence test.

No, the reason we couldn't get eggs is some diddy bint appointed by Biden had murdered 60 million innocent chickens in 7 states.

Update: re-reading the above, I realized 3000 cows died so they could close the borders to the Migration. They needed an excuse so as not to be fined millions by the EU.

Sanity Jane's avatar

“That disgusting Jeffrey Epstein…!”

Larry Druhall's avatar

I am thankful for this insightful article. Having worked on complex system optimization and AI for years, it appears that the wealthy are deploying AI to deepen surveillance and monitoring. The techniques used by AI are similar to those discussed in this article, but also different. Here I explore this with Grok3. Note the outright contractions, errors, and mistakes in Grok's responses. It appears that, so far, AI cannot lie nearly as well and humans can. From my Google Drive... https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qVMutjKh-56KXRT5ZanPBxM9mf53RKhu/view?usp=sharing

Taming the Wolf Institute's avatar

So much that is on the money, and a very valuable deep dive into the Reality Manipulation in which we live. However, the Trump Attack is off base and not up to your usual insightful analysis. Some Trump Deranged Person did some hand puppet shadowing on your wall.

First, it was clear that AG Bondi screwed it up big time. Not because she wants to help Trump but rather because she is one of the snakes that slipped into his administration. (A problem that occurs over and over and over.) What your analysis FAILED to include was that at the time that Trump was bashing the Epstein snoopers, he knew that Murdoch et al were planned a fake hit piece on him. (And he notified Murdoch and the WSJ that it was a fake piece but they published anyway.) He was pissed that they were doing the same damn thing as "Russia, Russia." And IT WAS THE EXACT SAME PEOPLE. The guy who "leaked" the fake birthday card worked for the wife of Glen Simpson the head of Fusion GPS, the firm that created the Steele Dossier! THE SAME DAMN PEOPLE. So, those nefarious intelligence people on the payroll of Clinton, Comey, Brennan, Clapper, et al fooled you. You got shadowed by the real evil dudes and took it out on Trump. Major error.

Margaret Anna Alice's avatar

I appreciate your perspective, Taming the Wolf Institute, and I am grateful we can discuss any disagreements respectfully.

I agree with you regarding TDS and previously exposed how this cognitive tool is used to manipulate the masses, writing in 2021:

“An unwitting Goldstein, Trump played right into BigPharma’s strategy to discredit hydroxychloroquine by praising it—giving Trump Derangement Syndrome (a psychological disorder manufactured by and spread to tremendous monetary benefit and turnkey mass control by the media) sufferers the best and only reason they needed to dismiss it. They have been trained to plug their ears, cover their eyes, scream at the top of their lungs, and stamp their feet the instant any one of the Deplorables opens his mouth. One of the most effective instruments in the plutocracy’s toolkit, TDS has been brandished to misdirect the public for years, and it continues to work its magic despite Trump’s declining relevance, the embers of which the media will continue to fan as long as it pays dividends—just as Goldstein’s detested image is deployed in culturally unifying activities such as Two Minutes Hate.” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-scientifically-minded) [The part about the declining relevance is obviously obsolete now, but it was pertinent at the time of publication because TDS sufferers were continuing to obsess over him, and he wasn’t even in office or running for office.]

That said, TDS cuts both ways. Just as people can be blinded by their hatred of him, they can also be blinded by their hero worship of him like a victim of narcissistic abuse suffering from Stockholm syndrome. When this occurs, people will bend over backward to excuse the most blatantly atrocious behavior because they desperately want to continue clinging to their beloved leader—whether it is Trump, Biden, Obama, or the Clintons. Ultimately, they are all part of the same Big, Beautiful Club, and trusting anyone in that club is suicidal.

As a politically agnostic neutral observer, I have previously assigned credit for Trump’s praiseworthy actions while holding him accountable for the damnable ones (e.g., those that have resulted in the deaths and injuries of millions).

“(A problem that occurs over and over and over.)”

I agree—Trump’s repeatedly demonstrated poor judgment is a cause for concern. He certainly did better with his appointments the second time around, but clearly, he is easy to maneuver and his puppet strings are well-intact.

“What your analysis FAILED to include was that at the time that Trump was bashing the Epstein snoopers, he knew that Murdoch et al were planned a fake hit piece on him.”

This post examines the cabinet meeting clip and Trump’s TruthSocial posts. No external scenario justifies the explicit gaslighting, ridiculing, namecalling, narcissistic abuse, emotional manipulation tactics, and outright lies on vivid display in those artifacts.

It’s like someone just watched a man rape, torture, and murder a kitten in front of them, and then that person excuses the rape, torture, and murder of the kitten because that same man picked up their garbage can when it got knocked over on the street.

Actions, behaviors, and words reveal a person’s character over time. Sometimes, certain revelations are too horrific to recover from. Whatever you believed about that person previously must be re-evaluated in light of that new evidence.

Some people are too attached to their faith in their leaders to recalibrate their views, though, and it is those who will continue to be fooled over and over and over again until they finally remove the orange-colored glasses from their eyes and see the naked actions, behaviors, and words for what they are—in this case, callous contempt for the plebs and complicity in a global blackmail pedophile infrastructure wielded by intelligence agencies to control the cruelites and everyone under them.

What he said and did in this clip cannot be erased. No amount of excuse-making can cover up what people know in their gut is deceptive, manipulative, and untrustworthy behavior. Continuing to trust that individual after such an exhibit is a sign of what Meredith Miller (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/dissident-dialogues-meredith-miller-1-4) calls a state of captivity:

https://meredithmiller.substack.com/p/its-a-stockholm-syndrome-state-of

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bonus-the-state-of-captivity-with-meredith-miller/id1544492743?i=1000629492133

It’s like the Covidians (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-covidian-a-time-travel) who still have faith in Dr. Mengelfauci (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/dr-mengelfauci-pinocchio-puppeteer) because they like him and think he’s a nice guy who has their best interests at heart.

Until people realize their preferred leader [INSERT NAME HERE] is an actor on the world stage being used to corral his or her followers into one Hegelian dialectic after another and that every politician who participates in that system is of necessity part of the Big, Beautiful Club and committed to protecting it (or else), the cruelites will continue to get away with intelligence-operated pedophiliac black mail rings, tyranny, war, genocide, and democide.

DON’T LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT.

Taming the Wolf Institute's avatar

Maybe I did not clearly state my objection. Trump's response, which you find so objectionable, must be seen in the context of all the facts and the battles in which Trump is engaged. Most people have not bothered to really research the Epstein matter, which goes far beyond the left wing induced hand waving. They also have not researched Trump's previous actions to shut down Epstein. (Trump was one of the main forces that caused the first prosecution, which went nowhere only on account of the same intel agencies trying to remove Trump.) I fear your article falls into the Cass Sunstein trap in which the government, the intelligence agencies, release so many false conspiracies that the public can no longer discern the real from the fake. They have purposely attempted to ensnare Trump in the Epstein matter, and when he expressed his upset with that, you, and others, assumed (based on false intel) that Trump was just like those actually involved. Epstein was through and through an agent of the same intelligence community that tried to remove Trump and even tried to kill him. Lumping Trump in with the truly heinous and evil intel agencies is a major error.

Margaret Anna Alice's avatar

Thank you for clarifying, Taming the Wolf Institute. My analysis is not based on any false conspiracies but purely on Trump’s words, actions, and behavior. If any external acrobatics are required to justify someone shamelessly lying to our faces, gaslighting, and insulting us, that is an indication it is propaganda engineered to overcome our innate defenses against emotional and psychological manipulation, just like COVID propaganda was used to squelch people’s natural survival instincts and intuition that injecting themselves with an experimental product with no long-term clinical trials might not be such a good idea. But the propagandists did all that hand-waving to explain the context of why it was a good idea, and sadly, a lot of people overrode their gut instincts as a result.

I never accused Trump of being involved (as in participating in the pedophiliac crimes himself) as I am not aware of any evidence indicating that. I am only holding him accountable for his visible actions, which are protecting the Big, Beautiful Club of cruelites, themselves controlled by a global blackmailing network involving child sex trafficking and pedophile rings. I’m not singling Trump out for special attention but simply showing his own words reveal him to be part of that infrastructure and an accomplice in defending it from scrutiny and criminal prosecution.

Taming the Wolf Institute's avatar

And I'm simply saying I think you have it wrong. I think you are not taking into account the power and criminal nature of our intelligence services. Trump is involved in a very dangerous and nasty battle. JFK spoke out and they did not miss. Trump has proven to be a master at the battle. Part of what I believe you are missing is the deeper story. This is not about a simple honey pot sex blackmail operation. Much deeper. Reflect on Epstein's relationship with Bill Gates. Think about money and science. And think about what Gates is into re science. Research but publish with GREAT caution. This is a very hot issue. I believe some have begun to leak but they have been quickly discredited, silenced. When Bongino said what he has learned shook him, think about it. He is not someone easily shocked. Maybe just stay away from it... but do not blame Trump. It is not about him.

Margaret Anna Alice's avatar

I sincerely hope I do have it wrong as I would love to be pleasantly surprised and discover Trump is orchestrating a quintillion-D chess move that takes down the globopedobal, after all :-)

As it is, I can only based my assessment on the evidence before me, and that is Trump’s literal words, actions, and behaviors both in the cabinet meeting and ensuing social media posts and interviews over the subsequent weeks.

“I think you are not taking into account the power and criminal nature of our intelligence services.”

This is what my entire article is ultimately about, so somehow you missed the extensive evidence I presented of what I described as “a metastasizing global sex trafficking, money-laundering, and pedophiliac blackmail network weaponized by the conjoined twins of organized crime and intelligence agencies to control the tyrants, philanthropaths, puppeticians, kapos, and other colluders.”

It is Trump’s and Bondi’s overt efforts to shut down investigation of that nefarious infrastructure I am expressing concerns about.

“This is not about a simple honey pot sex blackmail operation. Much deeper. Reflect on Epstein's relationship with Bill Gates. Think about money and science. And think about what Gates is into re science.”

I fully agree with everything you stated here, which I’ve reinforced with supporting evidence in this article, including the books, interviews, and articles I’ve used to inform my views. The following books are but a few examples of those cited in this article:

• “One Nation Under Blackmail: Vols. 1 & 2,” by Whitney Webb

• “Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story,” by Julie Brown

• “Filthy Rich: A Powerful Billionaire, the Sex Scandal that Undid Him, and All the Justice that Money Can Buy: The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein,” by James Patterson

• “Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation,” by Patrick Wood

• “Technocracy: The Hard Road to World Order,” by Patrick Wood

• “The Evil Twins of Technocracy and Transhumanism,” by Patrick Wood

I agree this is not about Trump. That, too, was one of the major points of this article. He is just another puppet being deployed to defend the global organized crime/intelligence mafia being used to control the cruelites, philanthropaths, bankers, politicians, institutions, organizations, and governments of the world. Anyone in a significant position of power is part of the warp and woof of this global tapestry and must play the game of mutually assured destruction to maintain that position.

Taming the Wolf Institute's avatar

You can rest assured that Trump is not part of the monstrous Deep State. He has fought them from Day One. This has not always been clear as, 1) they've worked hard to muddy his image (with Russia Gate, impeachments, etc.) and 2) many infiltrators have sabotaged his agenda.

In my opinion you were thrown off in your analysis by the inept Pam Bondi. She did great harm by misrepresenting the entire issue. Notice that Trump now has other, more competent people on the matter. (Trump cannot get a valid AG through the corrupt Senate.) One must be very cautious in any analysis as a result of the Bondi - Wiles - Adelson - Netanyahu power block.

What you missed in your article was Trump's awareness that the same people who created the Steele Dossier (paid for by Clinton) were creating the false birthday card that was put out by the WSJ. Yes, literally the Fusion GPS people! In addition, James Comey's daughter was at DOJ SDNY on the Epstein and Maxwell cases (and P. Diddy) and she had all the time in the world to doctor "the files." She is now gone.

You missed the fact that it was Trump that tossed Epstein out of Mar a Lago and contacted authorities that brought the initial Epstein prosecution later shut down by the intel agencies.

What you did not know was that it was judges that were and still are blocking the release of the Grand Jury files in all the relevant cases. And you did not know that no one from DOJ had ever interviewed Maxwell.

You did not include the fact that this started with Bill Barr who was the AG put in place to monitor and sabotage Trump. It was Barr's father that first hired Epstein. And Barr, unknown to most, was CIA (as Robert Johnson working on the Mena operation). And you missed that Mike Pence came from a background in Military Intelligence (working together with Dan Coats) and they were both put in place by the Military to control Trump.

And that which you should leave alone and not research is Gates' genetic cloning operation that was the key to Epstein Island. My guess is that there is evil at a level people are not suspecting. Why would Dan Bongino be shocked at what he found... he is not a naive nobody.

Bottom line is that Trump is fighting horrific forces of evil... he is not one of them. And the good people helping him should be supported, and that does not include Bondi and her antics. She caused you to come to a false conclusion.

Alzaebo's avatar

I also see it as primarily a pre-emptive strike by the Deep State in order to derail the Tulsi Gabbard's attempts to crack their information silos. They knew she was up to something, but Trump wasn't telegraphing it. The DS's careers are directly on the line, here, to they pumped up a story in order to get ahead of it.

I didn't say you were wrong, Mdm. Margaret. I love how you slice and dice's Trump's clumsy fluster. If he were a psychopath he would've been prepared. Note too how his sudden about-face came the day after his private dinner with Bibi Netanyahoo.

They found something they could squeeze Trump with as well. They can implicate him not only by association, but by exaggerating his "crimes" as if they were the same magnitude as the human traffickers he's currently shutting down.

Yes, some hanky panky occurred. You could go to almost any high-caste party and find similar. Those minor sins are nothing compared to industrialized, real evil, but they can be hung around someone's neck.

To be frank, Trump was serviced by a 13-year old prostitute at a couple Epstein parties, in a laughably indelicate manner. Two hand jobs (he insisted on gloves!) and once, possibly twice, a bj using a condom.

She also claimed, later, quite probably under severe duress, that he had insistently "taken her cherry." (Please remember how rabid and unhinged prosecutors and DA's can be. Repressed memory because of clowns and peanut butter in a secret dungeon, remember that one?)

The girl had taken a bus to get to her new job in the City, recruited by a "talent agency" for a "modeling job"; all of this is very old hat, typical for street kids since forever. (Every motel manager in the Middle East has to expect some emir grandee to demand 2 or 3 prepubescent children be waiting at his bedside. Nothing in the West comes close to the Third World.)

Note, too, that none of it would be grandly traumatic, kids of the upper classes and their friends have been having orgies at least since I was in high school in the 70s. It all seems excessively mild, innocent almost, to anyone who's been near or in "the scene".

In addition, many of the young things attending Epstein parties were ambitious up-and-comers excited by wicked luxuries, or farmed out by their own families as Nancy Pelosi was. Young sharks enjoy the allure of competitive predation, they are trained to be sharks.

Nothing Trump has done in his world rubbing shoulders with despots, mafiosi, vipers, and dealers can compare to the satanic horrors of the Cartel, the occultists, or of those who would accuse him - yet still, as a decent man, he can shudder at some of the details.

Taming the Wolf Institute's avatar

Exactly. The initial Substack article missed Trump's role in bringing about the first Epstein prosecution as a result of his discovering what Epstein was doing. And it missed his subsequent efforts to battle these guys.

It missed the deep involvement of Epstein in the CIA (as well as other intelligence services). It missed the idea that even if you wanted to battle this evil, you were up against a major rogue's den of bad actors who will create major smokescreens.

It failed to acknowledge the Cass Sunstein tactic that creates all manner of false conspiracies to make it impossible for the public to discern the real evil from the pretend evil. (Sunstein, husband of Samantha Powers, worked with Obama to employ this technique. See his Harvard paper in which he explains the plan.) This is a tactic still used to foment articles, like the Substack one, in which Trump is smeared as if he is part of the evil team.

If you study the faces of those engaged in the battle—Gabbard, Patel, Bongino, Kennedy, Miller, Hegseth, and others—you see they are stunned by the opposition.

JFK did not see it coming. Trump turned his head. It is important to properly identify the players and not become confused.

The Watchman's avatar

Good job, MAA. Can't wit for the next one. Linking today @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/

Ned B.'s avatar

Very effective use of text overlays in the opening video (the Epstein obfuscation) to create the clarity of context. It's as if a brilliant illumination dispelled the paltry shadows on Plato's cave walls.

As for the Epstein "list," here is my own snarky commentary: "Government investigation determines that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide because he was feeling listless."

https://nedb.substack.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-feeling-listless

patrick tobin's avatar

Looking forward to watching this. Thank you MAA! 🙏❤️

Visceral Adventure's avatar

This is pretty brilliant. What a great way to point the to the naked emperor. “He really doesn’t have any clothes in!” 😆

Hrafn King's avatar

Please take a look at my Substack and consider cross-recommending. Keep up the good work.