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Rib Steaks's avatar

Speaking of the digital gulag, I had to verify my email with a code before posting this comment. So you know I'm a real person. Or a real bot ??

Anyway, this reminds of the War of the Worlds story back when it was broadcast people were going nuts because they thought it was a real Alien invasion. History doesn't repeat but it sure rhymes.

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Kevin Johnson's avatar

AKA 1984.

The revolution is (conceptually) easy and doesn't require any torches, pitchforks, or violence - simply opt out of the systems that mentally enslave you, stop buying their cheap, toxic crap, and live locally.

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Matt Smith @ Crisis Investing's avatar

Well ahead of you on that one.

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Ontologix's avatar

Another reason this scenario is very likely: A fake war doesn't knock out infrastructure that is absolutely essential for their beast system / control grid like a real war would.

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Michael Sullivan's avatar

Fantastic summary of the collective lies. Watch and laugh. Go out in nature and just laugh. Great overview Matt!

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jack thompson's avatar

That makes a lot of sense! Without going too deep down the rabbit hole, as I was reading your article, I wondered if the Charlie Kirk murder was a preview to the kind of AI magic show we may be experiencing in the years to come.

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Krystal Banaszewski's avatar

Brilliant 👏

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Matt Bracken's avatar

Malevolent actors trying to calibrate the level of panic and chaos to result in their particular desired outcome is fraught with the risk that what begins as their fake AI narrative panic and chaos will take on a real life of its own.

A plan to ride a tiger is not the same as riding the tiger.

This is not to say they won't try.

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Greg Brophy's avatar

They’ve already crossed the Rubicon

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Kevin Beck's avatar

I think all the traps are being set to spring against the people who will be "witnesses" of the telecast that will be implanted with many fake scenes. In other words, the deep fakes. We won't know what's really happening, because the real video feed will not be available. We'll find out that it was a false flag after the fact, of course. But what we see in real time will be crisis actors LARPing it up.

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Martin Maxwell's avatar

A chilling reality check: the next “civil war” won’t be fought with guns—it’ll be fought in our minds, feeds, and algorithms. The bravest act? Logging off and reclaiming your own senses.

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Ilona Boyce's avatar

Thank you for this article. I have shared far and wide.

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Lady5g's avatar

That scenario is frighteningly plausible.

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Linda Binley's avatar

Well, that’s freaking terrifying. Interested to hear what you think is the best approach to assets at this point.

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Matt Smith @ Crisis Investing's avatar

Gold and international diversification.

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An Ol' LSO's avatar

And, silver........

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Linda Binley's avatar

How do you hold international currency? Which ones? What % of each, and of dollars, crypto, and of gold (which, do you hold actual physical gold? Thanks.

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Matt Smith @ Crisis Investing's avatar

For me, I consider gold as the default. Owning gold and other physical assets overseas - a vacation home, for instance could be a good idea, but most of your questions depend on your particular situation. Although, personally, I’d stay away from all fiat currencies

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Dan's avatar

Brilliant synopsis Matt. Too bad it's probably exactly the way it will go down.

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Shelly Dahl's avatar

Brilliant piece. I wish everyone would see it. Reminds me so much of a book by Michael Crichton called “State of Fear”.

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Mike Hardwicke's avatar

Same psyop is being fabricated in the UK I believe with verification by 'academics' though I only view from afar.

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Greene Financial Advisory's avatar

Brilliant analysis, Matt — and chillingly accurate.

This is exactly how totalitarian systems gain traction: not through overt power grabs, but by convincing citizens to fear one another more than they fear control itself. Both extremes are now feeding the same machine — each justifying the other’s excess until freedom becomes the casualty.

The war for reality has already begun, and most people don’t even realize it’s psychological.

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