DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: We are all going to die, and only you can decide if it will be with dignity or disgrace

Where is your head right now regarding Iran, the middle east, Israel, and the United States?

My mistrust for anything news related has led me down a path of either hearing it from the people on the ground where the “war” is taking place or not believing any news report as being accurate.

It appears there’s too much at stake for accuracy, and I’m not convinced anyone knows 100% of the truth except for the people who are living it.

And that leaves me unqualified to make statements about anything I’ve not seen firsthand and that applies to every talking head spewing information.

People are aware of the fake news in the United States, but it surprises me when people are parroting global news networks as if they’re not fake news too.

I heard someone in a frenzy stating the United States is reporting only six Americans dead due to this WAR.

I don’t believe that number, however I’m not convinced the other number being spewed as to thousands of U.S. casualties is accurate either.

This is how rumors get started and how you get people freaked out in large numbers in the quickest way possible.

And that freak out is exactly how you win or lose a war.

Some people are saying if many Americans are dead why would at least the families not be notified? Good point – and that answer can go either way.

I think this falls in line with the fact that many from both sides of the aisle don’t trust the U.S. government anymore.

I look around and see several types of people as this current planet Earth movie script unfolds.

People who are outraged about just about everything from Trump, to the war, to cost of living, to you name it – that anger is unhealthy. It isn’t doing anything for anyone other than keeping the vibration low.

Then there are the people who are watching the movie unfold and trying to get an accurate account of the truth.

Finally, there are the people who are still going about life with blinders and have no idea the script has even changed.

I read somewhere that no action is a form of consent, it was talking about the Epstein files, but it applies in all current situations.

I don’t believe what many people are saying that this war is a diversion from the Epstein files. However, if people don’t demand answers quickly, then that will imply consent. And, as long as the majority consent to the horrors on many fronts, then those in charge will continue to laugh, turn up the volume, and keep pushing the manure down the hill into your face.

While I’ve never been a fan of the United Nations, I must say President Trump did not really start off on a good foot with his newfangled Board of Peace.

Is this another case of the “weapons of mass destruction” mess in Iraq years ago that turned out to be a vastly different story in hindsight.

And what about Sept. 11 – do your research on that since I dare not take you down that rabbit hole.

Did the United States jump into bed with Israel to start this war?

It could be, since most of the current politicians are bought and paid for – and that means there was really no choice.

And, at least in Texas the voters opted to keep AIPAC in the recent primaries – so remember, you get what you pay for.

Either way, people had better start getting through the anger, fear and bogus blind belief and start believing the only thing that is real – the still small voice called THE SOUL.

Because whether you see it or not, most of everything is a lie coming down to gullible people and false narrative.

For example, most “aware” people know that many (not all) protesters in the past few years have been paid to protest. Protesters have admitted that fact. Others have admitted to being paid to vomit inaccurate information on social media, so what makes you think that everything you are hearing now, from any side of any aisle, from anywhere is true?

I’m traveling for the next month, and I was to fly through Qatar next week.

There have been rumors flights to Qatar have been canceled – and then rumors flights were not canceled.

Even as we see bombs hitting airports in the middle east and there was an apparent false rumor that Israel’s Ben Gurion airport was hit by a bomb, no one knows anything because it depends on which narrative you are being fed.

When I contacted the hotels in Singapore where I was scheduled to visit (flying on Qatar) my contact seemed surprised that my flights were canceled and did not know it was “dangerous” to currently fly through the middle east.

Go read Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War.”

Sun Tzu explains “All warfare is based on deception” and that means misleading your opponent. For example, appear weak when you are strong, appear strong when you are weak and hide your real intention to confuse the enemy and gain advantage.

So no, this administration isn’t going to tell the American people what is really going on, nor is the Iranian administration going to blurt out their next move either.

Sun Tzu also suggested winning without fighting. Apparently, he did not have a military industrial complex and black budget to feed. After all, his advice was the best victory is one that requires no battle but instead uses diplomacy, strategy, and deception to break the enemy’s plans before they fight you.

Ask yourself: how did this country and this world get to this place where we are now?

How did religions get so bastardized (and that includes every religion and not just the one you oppose)?

How did certain people decide they knew better than anyone else what was best for the world – and how did they get away with it?

Why did people even decide making weapons to destroy the world was a clever idea?

Why do people hate each other because of politics just because they don’t agree?

Why do people with different viewpoints think no one else is right?

Why do people think color, culture and belief makes them better than another person?

Why do leaders have to be arrogant to lead and for example think they have the right to tell women to cover their heads, or what they can do with their body, or tell other races they can’t share space with each other?

It comes down to a low vibration of fear and disrespect.

Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal said after a recent war briefing, “I’m no more clear on what the priorities are going to be from this administration going forward.”

Democratic Senator Christopher Murphy said, “They have contempt for the American people because they think they can carry out the biggest war in the middle east without a single vote, without a single discussion.”

On the Republican side, senators are mostly defending the military action against Iran.

My favorite Senator John Kennedy said intelligence showed Iran was taking “baby steps” to restart its nuclear program and increasing missile production. Maybe we should have taken baby steps to stop it, or did we?

We put politicians in office to represent the people, not to represent greed allowing for blind arrogance to override compassion for the people.

We are at a critical time in the global landscape.

And yes, the system has gotten so upside down now we kill people because they need to be stopped, because somewhere along the way killing became a money maker and peace was forgotten.

Spoiler alert to my friends anywhere in the world with any belief: you are going to die someday. And you are going to die alone. You are going to die without your money, your family, your possessions, your titles, or anything else and you are going to die exactly like the person you look down on and hate.

Our bodies are all eventually going to go “poof” – it is the only thing humans have in common, yet it seems this most righteous truth is the one thing the fear-based warmongers have forgotten.

Rita Cook is a freelance writer for The Ellis County Press. She can be reached at rcook13@earthlink.net.