{"id":38851,"date":"2025-01-17T12:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T20:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=38851"},"modified":"2025-01-17T12:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T20:41:14","slug":"hostage-crisis-the-hostages-are-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/hostage-crisis-the-hostages-are-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostage Crisis: The hostages are us."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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JIM STEWARTSON<\/a> JAN 16, 2025<\/td><\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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When I was eleven years old, I remember quite vividly the split-screen of Reagan\u2019s Inauguration and the freeing of the hostages that were being held by Iran. Even as a child, it did not sit right. As a nation, we counted day-by-day on TV while the hostages were captive. Why did these two things happen at exactly the same time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019ve had the honor of interviewing best-selling author Craig Unger a number of times on my podcast, Radicalized: Truth Survives<\/a>. A month before the election he released a book <\/a>about the 1980 election, and how it was stolen, through treason<\/em>. The hostages were intentionally held by the Ayatollah until after the election, in order to ensure Reagan would be elected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This was a sophisticated operation by Reagan\u2019s campaign manager, and future CIA Director, Knight of Malta William Casey<\/a>, and many co-conspirators. It was a treasonous act to seize the power of the US Government and it\u2019s a national tragedy that it took 44 years for someone to get to the bottom of it.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday, on the same day Biden gave his farewell speech<\/a>, it was announced that there was a deal for the hostages being held by Hamas to be released and a ceasefire of hostilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But wait\u2026 Not so fast<\/a>\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Suddenly there is a hold up. Benjamin Netanyahu says that Hamas is holding up the deal. Hamas denies it. This delay will certainly cause the hostage release to be after<\/em> Trump\u2019s inauguration. What do you think the chances are that Bibi did this at Trump\u2019s request, so Trump could take credit \u2014 and have his Reagan split-screen moment?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As a reminder, Netanyahu knew <\/a>10\/7 would happen. Putin was on both sides of the conflict. Putin and Bibi shared a goal, as did Putin with Iran and its proxy Hamas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You will recall that during<\/em> the presidential election, it seemed the Middle East was on fire. Israel launched a brutal attack on Hezbollah by remote explosion of pagers in September<\/a>. This escalated to exchanges with Iran itself. During the election, it seemed it could explode at any time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As I wrote three weeks after 10\/7, the \u201cblack swan\u201d we are experiencing right now \u2014 a complete takeover of the United States by a rogue conglomerate of plutocrats, dictators, cult leaders, conmen and grifters \u2014 could be seen coming from a mile away<\/a>. They were going to take it \u2014 one way or the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The real hostage crisis is the 350 million people in the United States being held captive by a tiny group of psychopaths who want to play god with the world<\/a>. The hostages are us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday, Joe Biden gave a farewell speech <\/a>which called out, for the first time, five days before he leaves office, the \u201coligarchy,\u201d \u201csocial media,\u201d \u201cdark money,\u201d \u201cdisinformation,\u201d and \u201cthe tech-industrial complex\u201d \u2014 an allusion to Eisenhower\u2019s farewell speech<\/a> that referred to the \u201cmilitary-industrial complex<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Better late than never, I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hard truth is we\u2019re getting psychologically herded into a world that only benefits a few. Fascists, oligarchs and autocrats are using war and war crimes to manipulate our minds. This is nothing new, it\u2019s just that the tools are far more powerful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do not let them herd you. We have enough sheep on the planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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