The inimitable Alex Krainer writes “What matters is what people believe – not what they know”. And a growing number of people in the USA believe that two official storylines are definitely not passing the smell test. One storyline attempts to account for a dead villain, the other concerns (or covers up) the murder of a leader who knew he was risking a great deal by publicly starting to doubt the Zionist narrative and by flouting Netanyahu.

We may possibly never get to know what crimes Epstein committed, for whom and with whom. We won’t be told who protected him or how and why his life ended in 2019. Personally, I would never have given the matter a second thought if it hadn’t been for a sudden and very unexpected rush of vehement denials on the part of the current US government: Not only is there nothing to investigate, they say; the man is simply not worth our attention. Obviously, then, this is hot stuff!

Nor would I have given Charlie Kirk a second thought – after all, I’m not a Conservative Christian US patriot, and murders are run of the mill in the USA – if it hadn’t been for the link, indirect as it may seem, between the two men: Israel.

I say no more, except that when your government insists on feeding you, in rapid succession, brazen lies about things that matters to you (as substantiated, in the case of Charlie Kirk, by The Greyzone), you start remembering past storylines that you doubted. You remember all sorts of other things, too, the 2008 bailouts, for instance. You ask yourself questions such as “They call this a Democracy?” “Where do all our taxes go?” “Why is Nancy Pelosi so rich?” And “why on earth are we cancelling the first Amendment?”

Above all, I would wonder, if I were a US citizen: Why are we so hooked on Israel?

Speaking of which, see

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