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Truth is the first casualty of war … Worldview, Spin & Narrative Creation During War

Most people have heard the old bromide; “Truth is the first casualty of war.”

This explains why I listen to war reports from Iran in a very jaded manner. I have learned how truth gets so badly mangled during war. In World War I there was the propaganda from the Allies that Germans were throwing Belgian babies in the air and catching them on their bayonets. Also, there were multiple reports of how the Germans would crucify farmers on the farmer’s barn doors. In World War II we all know of the propaganda that advanced the nonsense that the Germans were making fine bone China out of Jewish bones, or how the Germans were turning Jews into soap, or how the Germans used Jewish skin to make lampshades. The Soviets lied about Katyn forest. The Kuwaitis lied about Iraqi soldiers dumping Kuwaiti babies out of their neo-natal units in hospitals. Artist Frederic Remington who had been assigned to cover the building Spanish-American conflict in 1897 once famously cabled Newspaper Magnate Randolph Hearst who had assigned Remington to cover the war; “I can find no war.”

Hearst cabled back; “Please remain [in Cuba]. You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.”

From Abraham Lincoln’s propaganda that pinned the blame of the war on the South when he was the one who had committed a naked act of aggression — all of which vaulted the nation into the War of Northern Aggression, to Hitler’s dressing up German soldiers as Polish soldiers in order to contend that the Poles attacked the Germans to give pretext to German invasion of Poland, to the British bald face lies to their public about the Boers being the aggressors in the Boer War, one has to be a fool to believe anything that they are being told by media outlets during a war, because truth is the first casualty of war.

So, where does that leave us in our (US) tidy little war with Israel against Iran? It means that we have to be very jaded about any and every report from anybody and everybody. The incentive to lie and propagandize during war is massive since the stakes are so high. War, you see, is as much about public perception as it is about the bombs being dropped. He who can create the war narrative will have the odds on their side when it comes to winning the war.

This means, that one can’t not buy into just one information outlet. One should be dipping into (as they can) different outlets for information. Also, one has to keep in mind that when they are dipping into different information outlets that they are learning more about the worldview of people who run those outlets then they are learning about the war. Wars, are events that create the possibility of changing the world but the change comes not so much from bombs dropping as the ability to create and foster a new macro narrative. In War (and other like events – the myth of climate change comes to mind) what is being sought out to accomplish is the ushering in of a new narrative template by which the world will be organized and so during war, all the information outlets are doing their damnedest to have the narrative they’re spinning to be the narrative that attains hegemony. So, because that is true, you’re information outlets giving you “news” about the war, is in point of fact giving you their narrative they want you to accept — a narrative that is based on their worldview. The reporting of information outlets during the time of war tells you more about the worldview of the outlet reporting the news than it tells you about what is happening in the war.

So, for example, if you listen to Iranian outlets, they will give you a completely different accounting of the war than you will get from Jewish information outlets. FOX news on the war will give you a different war than the war you’ll be told about at CNN or MS NOW, will give you a different war than Al Jazeera, will give you a different war than Russia Today. The reason for all these different wars, which are reputedly the same war, is because it is not the war reporting that is really important but the narrative that can be spun out of the war reporting. You can count on the fact, that when it comes to these world changing type of events that information outlets are not trying to tell you about the event itself but are seeking to shape your worldview.

When we get to the nitty gritty that means when you watch Tucker Carlson or Joe Scarborough, or the maniac Sen. Lindsey Graham, or Douglas MacGregor, or Jeffrey Sachs, or John Mearsheimer, etc. you have to try to spend some time digging into their worldview in order to discern what spin they are seeking to put forth.

I am not saying that all that exists is spin and the truth is impossible to arrive at. That would be a post-modern view of truth. What I am saying is that you can’t allow yourself to be spoon-fed by any one information outlet. The truth is, as they say, out there, but in a spin heavy environment, tracking it down is not easy to do.

Also, in this context, I would champion the idea of learning worldview thinking. Worldview thinkers are equipped to smell spin. Christian worldview thinkers are better able to identify the presuppositions that are governing the information outlets. Christian worldview thinkers, having a Christian world and life view can spot when reporting is being driven by an ideology/theology that is discernably false.

We piece together the best we can from various reports what is happening in our war du Jour. We piece it together based on our worldview and not based on the worldview of the talking head who is trying to sway us with misinformation. (And most of them know they are dishing out misinformation.)

It is a complicated world and for the consumer of information one has to remember another old bromide …. “Let the buyer of war information beware.”

“One Nation Under God, Indivisible…”

In the pledge of Allegiance the phrase “Under God,” was inserted by Congress in 1954. It should have required people asking; “Which God… Whose God.” How wise was it then, or is it now, to Pledge Allegiance using the phrase “Under God,” when nobody knows which God we are under? All of this reminds me of the President Eisenhower quote from 1953 (the year before the Pledge was changed by Congress);

“In other words, our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is. Of course, it is the Judeo-Christian concept, but it must be a religion with all men being created equal.”

Given this quote Christian Americans should have never ever said the “Pledge of Allegiance.” Even then Christians should have raised a storm. Pledging Allegiance to a God that straddles that which precludes the possibility of being straddled was a non-Christian pledge. If Jesus was right that we cannot serve two Masters then how is it that the God that allegiance was being pledged to was a God who was both the Jewish God and the Christian God? The fact that little Jewish boys and girls and little Christian boys and girls were together “pledging allegiance to the flag of one nation under God” should have tripped somebody’s wires, given the fact that the God of the Jews and the God of the Christians have absolutely nothing in common with one another. In point of fact, they hate one another with each being committed to the total destruction of the other. Yet, to this day, especially in homeschooling communities Christians will insist on “pledging their allegiance to the flag.”

But that isn’t the only problem, though it is the largest problem. Just before invoking God in the pledge there is the phrase, “One nation.” The whole phrase goes; “One nation, under God.” This is just historically ignorant. These united States were never formed as one nation. That was never the intent of the founders. To the contrary, what the founders envisioned was that America would be nation containing nations. There could be no unity of “one nation” without the attendant diversity of “many nations.” The many nations in one nation was communicated chiefly by the vertical checks and balances. The states were sovereign nations who had delegated very specific enumerated powers to the Federal Government. In all other matters, except for those delegated and enumerated powers the States retained their sovereignty as states (nations). So, when we pledge allegiance to “One nation, under God,” we have not only the problem of not being in agreement as to what God we are under (a major consideration to the end of unity if there ever was a major consideration) but we also have the problem of pledging that we are one nation — something that many of the fathers never intended. None of the Father’s envisioned the unitary pagan Nation State that we currently are expected to “pledge allegiance.” Then when you add the phrase “indivisible” the pledge becomes downright knee slapping humorous. There is nowhere in the US Constitution that states that these united State were ever intended to be indivisible. That whole idea was fobbed on us by the tyrant Lincoln who made the nation “indivisible” at the end of a bayonet.

Americans in the middle of the 20th century were sold a bill of goods regarding these united States. We were even then not “under God,” as the Presidential phrase “Judeo-Christian” revealed. We were even then not one nation as considered in light of our lawful founding document. We were even then not a nation that was indivisible. Yet, the elite used the Pledge to knit together a civic religion that, praise God, is beginning to fall apart given the importation of the third world into America carrying along with them their false gods. It is becoming more and more glaringly obvious that a nation cannot be a nation as it exists under a multitude of different and competing gods. If we can’t rid ourselves of the foreign invasion, then it is my prayer that a secession movement will be successful to the end of eliminating the idolatry of the civic religion that we are all now living under so that perhaps someday we can once again perhaps be one Christian people under God.

American Empire

Tucker Carlson made a point in his monologue preceding his conversation with Meagan Kelly that with the American orchestrated Venezuela coup we are now officially an “Empire.” Tucker complimented Trump for being honest about that given Trump’s statement about seizing the oil.

My only beef here with Carlson is that he’s a little late to the party in announcing that the US is now an Empire. The US has been an Empire since 1865 with Lincoln’s victory over the South. That War changed these united States into THE United States and re-created America as Empire. So, the first turn to Empire in our history was internal. We went from being a Republic to being an Empire. The truth of that was seen in the Empirical Reconstruction brought upon the South and its Institutions. The South were the first people dragged into the Humanist Yankee Empire and forced to conform to the ways of the Empire. What the Constitution created as a “Nation of Nations,” was now transformed, via the work of Lincoln, into a unitarian Nation State.

However, our role as Empire did not stop with the Civil War and Reconstruction. Very shortly thereafter our Empire broke outside the bonds of territorial and continental USA. In 1898 we seized Cuba from the Spaniards. In that settlement we also took the Philippines but they objected and so between 1899-1902 we brought war to those islands before they acquiesced to US Empire.

From there, with the two World Wars the US made was to expand Empire. Now, the kind of Empire that was being built via WW I and WW II was not your typical Empire of land seizure and overt control but we were an Empire every bit as the Brits had been before they lost their Empire in WW II. The Empire we built in the first half of the 20th century was an Economic Empire. This is especially seen for folks who know anything about the Bretton Woods agreement which tied the world’s economy to the US Dollar. Americans like to think of how noble the US was in “freeing Europe,” during those conflicts but lives lost in battle is the cost paid for building Empire and Economically, after part II of the World War finished in 1945 we were the world’s Emperor along with the Soviet Union. And many wonder if the Soviet Union only existed at our behest in order to only give the appearance that we were being challenged so that the citizenry here and abroad in the “Free West,” would be frightened into accepting the US as Empire. There are more than a few who will argue that US and Soviet contretemps was all part of the game to manage the world.

Returning to the theme, Carlson’s observation that we are now explicitly an Empire comes about 160 years too late. Carlson may well argue that the mask has finally come off with Trump’s seizure of Venezuela and with Trump’s intimidating Greenland but for those with eyes to see that the US is Empire is very very old news.

Now, one of the perks of being Empire is that the Empire makes the peace. This is seen in history with the Pax Romana and the Pax Britannica. When both Rome and later Brittain stood astride the world each made the Peace. Sometimes that peace was made by sending troops across their far flung Empire to force peace and sometimes that peace was made by dictating the terms in any regional squabble. Empires become the World’s Sheriff, or as it is said today, “The Global Cop.” And that is what we are seeing with the Trump administration. Trump boasts about how many wars he has settled. That is what Empires do. You can bet the farm that the Empire is giving incentives that only Empires can give in order for these wars to be settled.

Of course Empires always fall. Rome did. Britain did. The Ottoman Empire did. The Austro-Hungarian Empire did. What is interesting is that when Empire’s fall it is often because they become over-extended and can’t meet all their responsibilities. Eventually, some aspiring Patriot who doesn’t want to live under Empire notices the weakness, rallies his people, and attacks the Empire. Before that though is the matter of the weakness that sets in. Often that weakness comes as a crisis of confidence on the part of the Empire. Rome’s unwillingness and inability to repulse a comparative handful of Goths is one example. The USSR’s inability to put down the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan is another. This almost happened to America’s Empire under the Carter administration in the late 1970s as a handful of students in Teheran pushed the US Empire to the brink.

Another thing that happens with the fall of Empires is a complete loss of the faith that built the Empire. Now, plenty of people during the existence of Empire see through the faith charade that keeps the Empire afloat. However, once Empire’s fall, they fall because there are no longer enough true believers in the old gods. We are seeing that happen now in the American Empire. Even as Trump tries to rebuild the American Empire there are plenty of people who see that the faith in the God of Liberalism can’t be sustained by the adopting and tolerating of all the competing faith systems that must be adopted and tolerated if a Liberalism turned multiculturalism is to work in keeping the American Empire stitched together.

Another thing that should be noted in this overview is something that Carlson brought out, and that is Empires die when there is no longer any core people left who built the Empire. Carlson used the example of modern London where one must be diligent in seeking to find a Brit in London. Carlson then pivoted to the next obvious example of the US that has been reduced from 88% white in 1970 to 63% white in 2025. Many of our large cities find the numbers even more drastically skewed. Empires cannot last if those who built the Empire do not last.

So … the mask is off and we are officially Empire. This means more wars, which means more of your sons – and in this egalitarian age; daughters – die in order to keep the Empire being the Empire. It means a increased bureaucratic behemoth. In our age it means an increase of technocratic innovation to keep the Empire functioning as well-oiled as it can. It means a lot of bad things that many of us have been screaming about for a very long time. For Christians, it means an increasing abandonment of our undoubted catholic Christian faith. Empires, are, by definition, polyglot. Polyglot entities require a polyglot faith and Christianity is not a faith that can allow other faiths to co-exist with it. At least Christianity of the purest content can’t.

Benjamin Franklin is reported to have told a woman who asked him, after the Constitutional Convention had done its work in forming a Government, what kind of Government had the Founding Fathers formed and his response to the woman was, “A Republic … if you can keep it.” We lost that Republic long ago and if Tucker is correct we have now moved into the open and unapologetic “Empire phase.”

I’m not going to like it.

FBI Discovered Tyler Robinson Note – It All Makes Sense Now

My Dearest Trannie Paramour – Kitten,

After shooting a larger than life world known celebrity I wanted to sit down and write you a Shakespearean sonnet. All the things pressing on my mind right now evaporate when I think about you. It may be true that everybody’s looking for me but not to worry sweet-pea … I can afford 15 minutes of time to sit here and write you this essay. I mean what is love if you can’t take a few minutes to sit down and write your love interest in the context of a massive manhunt?

I wanted to take the knowledge of my committing this crime to my grave but since it’s just you and I talking here with no threat of anyone ever being able to dredge up this communication I thought I would give you every bit of information that the FEDS might need, if they discovered this, to convict me. I know how understanding you can be, what with your silly sexy pronouns.

With all this manhunt surrounding me the one thing I’m worried about is how mad Dad’s going to be for my losing Grandpa’s rifle. Grandpa loved his Mauser and Dad’s really going to be mad at me about leaving this .30-06 Mauser of Grandpa’s behind. I suppose Dad could be mad at me about this assassination trouble but I know he’s really going to be steamed about losing Grandpa’s rifle. You think Grandpa will ever forgive me?

Oh… did I mention that I left a palm print on the stock. Silly me. You know how forgetful I can be.

But I did remember to bring a couple changes of attire.

Well, I hope I got all this punctuation correct. You know how I hate grammar errors.

Anyway …. I want you to know I did this all for you sweet-pea.

Hugs & Kisses
XXXOOXO

Tyler Robinson

P. S. – Wouldn’t it be crazy if they tried to pin all this on the Bagels?

P. P. S. – I’m super worried about getting caught but it’s OK cause I’m going to turn myself in.

Jeffrey Epstein & The Long Honorable Tradition Of Our Government Not Lying To Us

Currently, it is all the buzz to mock and laugh at those who are trying to tell us that there is no there, there in the Jeffrey Epstein saga. The attempt to tell the American population who know what time it is that Jeffrey Epstein had no “list” of clients. If there is no list of clients then why is Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell in prison? I mean, if there is no clients list then how can it be proven that Ghislaine was procuring underage talent for the high profile perverts like Bill Gates, Kevin Spacey, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and countless others? If there was no client list why did Epstein “kill himself?” If there was nothing smelly about Epstein then why was Alex Acosta, “told to back off [Jeffrey] Epstein” when he was a Department of Justice prosecutor “because he (Epstein) belonged to intelligence.”

Of course what is happening now with Trump, Bondi, Patel and Bongino’s announcement that there is nothing further to pursue in terms of Epstein is just gas-lighting in its most concentrated form.

However, we did not get to this place of immense distrust of our leadership overnight. This has been a very long time coming. This pathological lying by government officials to their constituents has been going on before the citizenry ever came to know it. In the last 40 year or so, those who still remember how to read have feasted on revisionist history books that expose the lies we have been told by our federal government for scores of decades. One of those books, I finished a couple days ago. That books was “Stalin’s War” by Sean McMeekin, and it is just one more book that brings all the receipts on how often we have been lied to by the American government. Lie after lie. One could as easily pick up any number of books on different time periods in US history to discover how much and how often the American citizenry has been lied to. One could read M. Stanton Evan’s, “Stalin’s Agents,” or his “Blacklisted by History,” to see how often the American public was lied to. One could pick up and read Herbert Hoover’s “The Theme is Freedom,” and discover the repeated lies. One could read the work of Jim MacGregor as partnering with either John O’Dowd or Gerry Docherty. One could read Michael Collins Piper’s “Final Judgment,” to see the lies piled upon lies told to us, by the federal government on the JFK assassination. Stinnet and D’Angelo have written books detailing how FDR, Stimson, and Marshall knew the Japs were coming and left the door open for them to come in the Pearl Harbor debacle. You can read Tolstoy about the lies told to us about the forced repatriation of Soviet citizens during WW II. You can read James Bacque chronicle the lies about Allied murder of unarmed German prisoners after WW II in his book “Other Losses.”

For decades our government could get away with these lies (and I’ve only scratched the surface of what I have read) but with the democratization of information that has arrived with the internet more and more people are finding out about these lies and having found out about these past lies they are not having anything to do with the current lies. I guess you could call it a national resolve to no longer be gaslit. To be sure, there are always going to be a large percentage people who think FOX, CNN, MSNBC etc. are “telling us the truth,” but more and more of us have dropped out of that echo chamber and have chosen instead to do our own research.

Now, to be sure, it is not only the federal government that has excelled at this kind of lying. The institutional church likewise have lied like troopers over the decades to its rank and file. Gary North’s “Finger’s Crossed” spends somewhere around a 1000 pages chronicling the lies told by the Presbyterian clergy and their denomination. When read in combination with Machen’s “Christianity & Liberalism,” one sees that not only the FEDS but also the Church has routinely lied to those whom it is supposed to be penultimately serving.

In this context… a context that had building and bubbling for decades and decades arises the Epstein perv saga. Epstein, clearly was serving a high clientele list of pervs. Further, the hints at the existence of these pervs have been around for decades. Retired FBI agent Ted Gunderson in the early 80s was out warning about pervs in high places. During the Reagan administration a huge story broke, that was later killed, about the connection between Boys Town and pervs in the Reagan White House procuring boys. This was known as the Franklin scandal. We were finally all assured that it was a carefully crafted fake story. However, this kind of story keeps popping up. We all remember the perv case of the aptly named Congressman, Anthony Wiener. Wiener was caught sexting minor. Who knows what he wasn’t caught doing. All this sexual perv dynamic came up again in the 2016 election with the whole Ping Pong Pizza episode and the strange accusations against the Podesta brothers. Have you looked at the paintings that decorated their homes? Then there was the creepy Spirit cooker Marina Abramovic who was also a big story during that election cycle.

Folks, our elites are not right in the head.

Now, combine all this with the fact that we know that children are being sex trafficked on a scale that is beyond our ability to comprehend and it is not a stretch to believe that we are being ruled by perverts.

And now we are being told that Jeffrey Epstein was just some poor Jew that was clearly connected to the Mossad and Ehud Barak who while in the sexual blackmail business did not have a client’s list.

Yeah … just like the Lusitania was not carrying military ordinance for the Brits during World War I but was savagely, without cause, sunk by the disgusting German U-boat.

Oh… that was another lie told by the FEDS.