In an increasingly complex world, adopt the contrarian strategy. Simplify! From Visayas Outpost at theburningplatform.com:
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil
to one who is striking at the root.”
-Henry David Thoreau

That is an aerial view of the chemical fire in Palestine, Ohio, looking for all the world like a bruise on the Earth. As the story is still unfolding, and seems to be competing with “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” as the distraction du-jour, let me doff my hat to the man who surely ignited all this media firestorm: Mr. Seymour Hersh. By now you have undoubtedly read his work on the Nordstream pipeline sabotage, a story which itself still has more pages to be turned.
Nordstream should not come as a shock to anyone paying attention. Between Cognitive Warfare and the downright evil machinations of the Borg, we need distraction events to round out the narrative intake. It keeps us from noticing the real stories, like the US attacking its own NATO allies, or Pfizer producing vaccines they knew had a 44% miscarriage rate in women. You know, the actual stories that you mustn’t focus on lest civilization itself be undermined. So balloons, funny clouds, earthquakes, anything will do. Literally just 20 minutes ago Mrs. Outpost sent me a link about a fireball streaking through the Texas sky. Yes, Facebook will be all abuzz, so congratulations to the ever-vigilant netizens who like to poke this giant beehive. Take a lunch break, take a deep breath. Enjoy a smoke.