Insight: 'Beheaded Babies' Is A Century-Old Trope

Children and innocents died but it does not excuse manipulation of outrage

• European censors threaten Facebook & Twitter over Hamas and Israel narrative

• Who knows what is true; as governments swat 'illegal content and disinformation'

• Military propaganda and 'MindWar' pushes you, oblivious, to managed outcomes

• Authorities changed their stories on Covid many times over 3 years

• In which moment was it true? Advice was often contradictory, illogical and cruel

• They are still fiddling statistics - changing the vaccine injuries again this week

• ‘News’ that appeals to the heart, not the head, is always suspect

• Modern propaganda does not try to persuade people logically: feel, don’t think

• The attack was allowed to happen. The burden of proof lies on Israel’s leaders

• If wide open borders led Hamas into a trap, what plight faces Western nations?

• Hamas has called for a global uprising on Friday13th

• As progressives cheer on the dispossessed, are they ready for the anger?

See also:
Gaza, An Open And Closed Case (Oct 10, 2023)
Israel-Gaza Clash Is More Than Bad Neighbours (Oct 8, 2023)
The CIA And The Elephant In The Room (Oct 2, 2023)
Churchill’s Wars And Financial Ties (May 18, 2023)
Rule By Mind War And Disinformation (Nov 22, 2022)
Not Enough Minerals For Green Energy (Sep 8, 2022)
Journalists! What is to be Done? (Jun 29, 2021)

"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you."

Rudyard Kipling's words ring true

(2,900 words or about 14 minutes of your company.)

Oct 12, 2023

The straight truth: We present two contrasting perspectives from Israelis, to show that our only loyalty is to the truth. To avoid overload, please read first; watch later.

Gal Shalev: To All My Anti-Establishment Brothers and Sisters
Shai Danon: Truth From Israel With David Icke

Ask yourself why authorities who deceived and altered their tune over Covid, should be trusted to tell the truth over war in Palestine and Israel.

Yet millions are marching to the tune. And still the European Union is not satisfied with the level of compliance. It is using its Digital Services Act to threaten social media companies over "disinformation."

Let's take one example: the "beheaded babies." It was the leading story on many of the world's top news sites for 24 hours. The U.S. president claimed to have even seen photographs… before the story collapsed.

The claim that 40 dead babies, most beheaded, were found in a kibbutz, has been discredited.

There were no images; the story came from a single Israeli television reporter who said she'd been told by a soldier; he turned out to be less than credible — a settler leader who previously called for riots to “wipe out” a Palestinian town. [1]

Those who are older will remember the babies “tossed out” of Iraqi incubators, which turned out to be a yarn. Those of a historical bent will remember the recruitment posters and propaganda of “the hun” bayonetting Belgian babies. Bells ring, or should.

Many viewers won't notice that the “beheaded babies” has been discredited — and even if they do, the harm has been done: it succeeded in altering their emotional state.

Other viewers won't care, because some babies did sadly die, and a lie serves the “greater good.” The slaughter of innocents cannot be tallied or compared, however: each is a tragedy, though big numbers fit Stalin’s disregard for “statistics.”

How do so many people end up sharing the mind set of one of the 20th century’s greatest butchers?

Some podcasters have admitted that they spread incomplete information due to "the fog of war."

They are disguising a lie with a lie.

The problem is one of brain fog versus clear thinking. The truth seeker has a duty to ask: does that sound likely; how can I verify it; and until I do, I'll refuse to jump to conclusions, take a side or jump on a bandwagon.

"News" that appeals to the heart, not the head, is always suspect.

Why exaggerate? The only institutions to gain from embellishment are bureaucratic and military propagandists pushing you in a direction you cannot see, for objectives of which you are unaware, in service of people of whom you have never heard.

That is the aim, admitted by military propagandists, of the doctrine of 5th generation warfare or "MindWar" (of which more, below).

Proving a negative

To restate: the attack was allowed to happen.

I hear people on Twitter Spaces say you can't prove that. This is a classic reversal of the burden of proof.

It is for them to explain how there was no response: the failure of sensors placed under fences around Gaza, the failure of human spotters and robotic guns, the failure of the Iron Dome to intercept missiles, and the six hours that passed before settlers even saw an Israeli soldier.

Did you know that Israel has tight gun control laws? Most Israelis cannot get a weapon. They rely on the Israeli Defence Force to protect them.

This is where logic fails to make its first baby steps. Later we can progress to geopolitical knowledge to ask who benefits.

The Six O'clock Fear...

Modern news does not try to persuade people logically. It tugs at the heart. The aim, in fact, is to stop you thinking — just react to the issue of the day. And many have. From the Left to the influencers of Conservative Inc... all howl for the blood of Gazans, accepting at face value the media claims.

It is scarcely believable, yet disappointingly true, that some of the loudest voices on the Covid deception have forgotten three years of government lies, and fail to question what the state corporate media tells them about Palestine.

Some of those who raised their voices against the danger of untested shots, now urge on the shooting of women and children, trapped in the British-inspired concentration camp that is Gaza.

Dr James Thorp, an obstetrician-gynaecologist who bravely raised his voice about the danger of the shot to mothers and children, and paid dearly for it, now calls for "non-stop, 24-7, carpet-bombing of Gaza & Lebanon for about 3 months."

As the physician and specialist in trauma Gabor Maté says: "You can get all the information you want. So if anybody these days doesn't know, it's not because the information is not available. And none of that excuses not knowing truth."

A bombshell from Israel: Research this week showed Pfizer boosters are much less effective than that claimed (NEJM study presented by Dr. Alroy-Preis to the FDA panel). Yet within 24 hours the relevant data history was re-written by Israel's ministry of health in its online dashboard, writes Dr Yaffa Shir-Raz, PhD.

Conclusion: you cannot trust ANY official data.

Palestine-Israel latest:

• White House spokesman John Kirby confirmed that the United States, Israel and Egypt are discussing the possibility of Palestinian civilians leaving Gaza.

• Egypt's president said Tuesday that his country would not allow Palestinians to flee the bombardment of Gaza and seek refuge in his country.
  “Egypt hopes for a resolution of the Palestinian cause through negotiations leading to a just peace and the establishment of a Palestinian state,” President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt said in comments reported by the state-backed Middle East News Agency. “However, Egypt will not allow the Palestinian cause to be settled at the expense of other parties.”

• Sisi was put in power to keep the Gaza crossing shut. Former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi was killed because as Muslim Brotherhood, he would not have kept the gates shut.

• Nadia El-Nakla, the wife of Scotland’s first minister, Humza Yousaf, has described the fear and desperation experienced by her parents, who are trapped in Gaza with no means of escaping Israeli bombardment.

• At least 11 UN staff and personnel, as well as 30 students at UN schools, have been killed in the Gaza Strip.

• On Wednesday, in two different incidents, ambulances were hit killing four Palestine Red Crescent paramedics who were helping those in need, the Geneva-based IFRC said.

• Hamas Calls For Global Muslim Uprising Against Israel & West on Fri the 13th.

Open borders

Leave the military propaganda aside for a moment and let's consider our personal interest.

Consider for a moment that Israel abandoned its borders, undefended, and that Hamas may have walked into a trap. Hamas launched an assault that in past years would have been intercepted but it provided the government of Benjamin Netanyahu the pretext for massive retaliation.

The Western public is being led into a similar trap. As the loudest voices cheer the pounding of Gaza, Western countries have left their borders undefended. Millions of males of military age have already crossed illegally into the U.S. and Europe.

Consider that many them, being refugees uprooted by conflict in their own land, may identify with the people of Gaza, whose inhabitants include what Israel's defence minister Yoav Gallant called "human animals."

Left, liberals and progressives argue that these young men in Europe and North America are not simply economic migrants but the dispossessed. And the dispossessed tend to harbour resentment. Hamas has called for a global Muslim uprising against the West as well as Israel on Friday13th. Just putting it out there.

Military propaganda

As with Ukraine there are two wars, one online among the inter webs, the other very bloody on the ground.

The public tends to see the former: a mix of unverified allegation and video game footage, often forwarded or reposted even after it has been exposed as fake.

The technique is clear: it aims to stir an emotional response.

MindWar is the doctrine developed in the 1980s and now used by Western military on their own population as part of 5th generation warfare. It works like this:

"Essentially you overwhelm your enemy with argument. You seize control of all of the means by which his government and populace process information to make up their minds, and you adjust it so that those minds are made up as you desire."

The man who codified MindWar, Col Michael A. Aquino, a psychological intelligence officer with the U.S. Army and a founder of the Temple of Set, thought it would replace kinetic war.

"Everyone is happy, no one gets hurt or killed, and nothing is destroyed. Ordinary warfare, on the other hand, is characterized by its lack of reason. The antagonists just maim or kill each other's people, and steal or destroy each other's land, until one side is hurt so badly that it gives up [or both sides are hurt so badly that they agree to stop short of victory]. After such a war there is lasting misery, hate, and suffering.” [2]

The butchery of conventional war continues "over there" - but at home the population is more pliant than ever.

See Rule By Mind War And Disinformation (Nov 22, 2022)

Official disinformation is now backed by the force of law. The European Commission is enforcing the EU Digital Services Act. Globalist and commissioner Thierry Breton sent a letter to Facebook/Meta's Mark Zuckerberg. Here it is with annotations.

"Following the terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas against Israel,"

Partisan: rules out the suspicion that the attack was allowed to happen for ulterior motives.

"we are seeing a surge of illegal content and disinformation being disseminated in the EU via certain platforms.…"

Disinformation is just as likely to come from the "trusted media" and is being wrong now "illegal"?