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Marilyn Langlois's avatar

Thank you for raising these questions. Remember how Ariel Sharon, behind the massacres of Sabra and Shatila among other claims to infamy, had a severe stroke in 2006 and allegedly went into a coma-like "existence" for 8 years, until he allegedly died in 2014.

John's avatar

I recall Sharon, my father was delighted at his demise, he assumed that he was dead, I didn't have the heart to tell him that he wasn't. I recall the Robert Fisk description of the camps massacres. My dad was in Israehell as the boats arrived as a British soldier. He couldn't abide Israel, he was well aware of the theft of Palestine, also aware of the treacherous British Balfour Declaration, less than one side of A4, two paragraphs, the first eagerly seized upon, tha second, ignored. R.I.P . Dad.

IAS's avatar

I had forgotten that ....Excellent point...

Krystal's avatar

True Story: I took your course in “Critical Thinking”, Dr. Setty, ….. and I admire your “Critical Thinking” here.🎯

quidestruetmundum's avatar

Crisply reasoned and thoughtful piece. I feel like I am better for having read it. Many thanks for your effort.

Peter Yim's avatar

I take a very skeptical view to international relations. There is a very good case to be made that nuclear weapons are a hoax - significant doubts at the time of Hiroshima/Nagasaki amongst the public due to the similarity in the destruction pattern with the fire bombing of Tokyo - not to mention the gaping hole where the science of nuclear weapons should be. https://peteryim.substack.com/p/the-dubious-theory-of-nuclear-explosion

My suspicion is that the entire "Iran War" may also be a hoax.

IAS's avatar

Completely agree and have thought same regarding nuclear weapons....another hoax to scare the hell out of the masses....and it has worked for a long time. I also have wondered about this current war...We've seen the plume of smoke and a building footage, some odd b roll video or straight up fake video of a city block being disintegrated...They show an image on a screen that cannot be coroborated ...easily...Like planes flying into buildings....or an image of an overrun hospital.....Problem is here we are.....driving around our neighborhoods seeing the yellow and blue flags flying and the yard signs letting us all know their beliefs....They could have saved money on the flags and signs with one simple banner ....In this house we are all brainwashed...

Peter Yim's avatar

Although the militarists are the ones who are most deceived these days - in my view.

IAS's avatar

Throwing a spanner into the conversation.....regarding events and happenings...if we've learned anything over last 61 years it is that deception has been the order of the day...whether how JFK killed, oil, how a long running conflict in SE Asia was actually started, the Moon, fast forward to 911, then covid....and now....why are we going after Iran? Is it oil, which IMO is a renewable resource...not fossil fuel (rockerfeller placed the fossil moniker on oil)...Is it Irans status with regard to central banks? Or is it something heretofore unknown to the public.... ? Do we know the true nature of where we exist? We are told a lot of things but now we know better about so much ....

Josh Mitteldorf's avatar

I agree. It's not possible for us to know for sure what's real. Another possibility you didn't mention is that "important" people have doubles prepared for such occasions. There were Biden appearances a couple of years ago where close-ups of his face looked like you could see the edges of a rubber mask.

I, too, turned to AI to ask if Bibi was alive, and I got "of course". My second question was, "If Netanyahu had died, would the Israeli press be notified promptly?" The answer I got back was, "Depends what you mean by 'promptly'."

Madhava Setty, MD's avatar

I agree that I didn't mention these possibilities explicitly. But that is what I was implying by acknowledging that I there must be more advanced tools that are not at our disposal.

Ringmaster's avatar

And now there’s this other weird video which could also be AI:

“JUST IN: Mike Huckabee And Benjamin Netanyahu Perform Skit Amid Death Rumors About Netanyahu”

https://youtu.be/PbkU5X6yxy8

IAS's avatar

Saw it ...fake too...

Vijay Berry Owens's avatar

“Could be” Definitely is AI

currer's avatar

Stop this disingenuous nonsense Madhava, Israel is utterly dependent on the US for its existence.

Israel is a US military land base for control of oil and the petrodollar.

Any Israeli policy would not fly without the complicity of your own US government.

The US always acts through proxies.

You are reinforcing propaganda and you are intelligent enough to know it - so what are you up to?

https://www.youtube.com/c/TheNewAtlas

Madhava Setty, MD's avatar

Of course Israel is utterly dependent on the US's military and Foreign Aid. However Israel has very powerful influence over our politics and policy. As I clearly stated there is not a single person who garners support from both political parties except for BiBi. It's a bit odd, don't you think? As I said, if I weren't from this planet I would put my money on BB having the most enduring influence over the American military and financial apparatus than anyone else. Certainly not the POTUS who will return to private citizenship in four or eight years. What kind of secrets do you really think the President has access to?

What do you make of ex-CIA John Kariaku and his stories of how Israeli intelligence officers routinely haze their American counterparts to make it clear who is really calling the shots?

You may be right. I don't know. I am only explaining things the way I see them. I would suggest that when you start attacking the intentions and intelligence of someone you disagree with rather than critiquing their observations you are potentially deluded at some level. In this case by deluded, I am referring specifically to an irrational level of certainty in your position. Because we disagree I am the one being disingenuous? Really?

In my observation of human behavior it is much easier to admit that you are wrong than it is to admit that you wrongly attacked someone's character. This leads to confirmation bias.

currer's avatar

The USA has multi decade global ambitions, and we are simply seeing the latter expression of these. Ultimately the goal is to cut off the trade routes to the Middle East for China and Russia. The destruction of Iran is essential for this. This war is not a mistake - that is optics for domestic consumption. It has been planned for 40 years. If the USA does not do it now, China will soon be too powerful and the USA will lose control.

US financial dominance depends on the petrodollar. It is essential to maintain control financially and militarily of the Gulf states for the USA to continue expansionist policies.

The requirement to continually expand and militarily dominate vassal states and repress opposition has bankrupted the USA - hence the drive for a new financial system, technocratic control, ownership of all global natural resources, and totalitarianism. - this is the "Great Reset"

The US Uniparty both democrat and republican adhere to these policies which intend to culminate in global hegemony. Israel is essential to this long-term aim, as a military outpost in the most vital area of interest.

The USA is a deeply deceptive and lying entity, that prefers to work through arms- length organisations - the World Bank, the UN, the BIS, and to install dictators who will comply in all colonised areas Africa and Asia and South America.

US citizens are so propagandised and live in a such solipsistic bubble that they are the only people in the world who do not know this.

The Middle Class Is COLLAPSING. Fascism Could Be Next | Aaron Bastani Meets Clara Mattei

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6HFghr9DGQ

Global Capitalism: An Economic Analysis of the War On Iran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZwXLZRyj80

Yes, the US DOES Have a Plan - Spanning Decades with Implications Far Beyond Iran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFEQCEOZbnI

currer's avatar

The U.S. Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations”

Since World War II

by James A. Lucas

https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-has-killed-more-than-20-million-people-in-37-victim-nations-since-world-war-ii/5492051

Trump Unpunished For Killing 25.6 Million But Threatened By Alleged Rape Of A 13-Year Old Girl.

Careful and systematic analysis reveals Trump’s direct responsibility as US president for the deaths of 25.6 million people, many of them children, and a detailed and documented charge sheet has been drawn up here. However just as Nixon and Clinton evaded justice for huge war crimes but were brought down by victimless lying to Congress, so Trump goes unpunished for killing 25.6 million people in 5.25 years as president but may well be brought down by the Epstein Files and the alleged rape of a 13-year old girl.

https://countercurrents.org/2026/03/trump-unpunished-for-killing-25-6-million-but-threatened-by-alleged-rape-of-a-13-year-old-girl/

currer's avatar

Did you know that the US and allies murdered a third of the entire civilian Korean population in the 1950's? Whole cities and civilian populations were bombed into oblivion - utter destruction- they could not be distinguished from the air.

This kept them safe from communism.

This is why North Korea has a nuclear deterrent and is called a "rogue state." It declines US "protection."

currer's avatar

The plan to attack Iran and blame the action on Israel is recommended in the 2009 paper "Which Path to Persia Brookings Institution."

The USA is ruthless with its proxies and is destroying Israel and any hope for reconciliation in the middle east. I am shocked to see the rise in hatred on twitter/X even though I acknowledge the deep guilt of the Israelis for the horrific Gaza genocide - enabled by the US and its European proxies, remember.

https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/brian-berletic-iran-war-a-gateway

letterwriter's avatar

I commented just above, my observations on the videos. https://madhavasetty.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-our-reappearing/comment/229614822

I think there's something more multilayered going on than a simple cover-up, OR the level of competence in the production team is low. Honestly at this point in the "silicon locality" world of techies, either could be true.

The kids who went to school post 2010 are extremely out of touch with quality standards. They just don't know how or why to do good work or how to self-start improvement. Something changed and I think it was the loss of paper books, not just the full switch to modules and pre-determined nuggets, but the loss of an idea of stable references.

I think the questions you raise about persistence of power and continuity of knowledge in a parliamentary system like Israel's (or like the UK's) are interesting. There are also differences in institutional knowledge between an outsider like Trump and any career politician, or even between an attorney like most politicians and a guy who merely pays attorneys, like Trump. And these differences are not flattering to Trump.

There is also something going on with Israeli culture and I think that should be considered. It can be seen in the 2nd book written by an ex-Mossad, Victor Ostrovsky, 'The Other Side of Deception', in the starting pages, and it is a deep thuggishness. American uniform culture would simply never act like that. Israelis would act like that and think they are demonstrating some sort of power, because they aren't thrown out on their ears--I mean that literally (the ex-Mossad book is a must-read, at least the first bits, find it in a store and stand there with it for 20 minutes, I promise it's worth it).

The difference is in underlying culture. Americans are predominantly a Dignity culture, especially in their formal culture, and Israelis from an Honor culture. The two cultures' displays of power are basically opposites. One is restrained, chill, WASP culture: an English aristocrat or butler's restraint in the face of provocation. The other is heated and given to flexing or actual displays of force and physical power, verbal threats, "punishment". Neither approach constitutes ACTUAL power just because it is used, because Dignity culture doesn't confront people who are misbehaving.

Both are a way of giving an impression of power, just in two different native languages. These cultures can be read about in anthropology texts, there are lots of examples online.

But the American military has pockets of Honor culture, as this is a gang/tribal culture in its origins. And so American servicemen could be sensitive to displays of posturing threat, and feel emasculated on a personal level by not being able to grab a buffoon and throw them out.

Israelis never pay attention to norms and so their behavior is unlike anyone else's; most other groups realize the long term utility in respecting others' social manners. It's not the case for example that if Britain was at the top of the heap their agents would start acting like Israelis. Britain doesn't act like Israelis because Britons don't act that way in formal situations, which all inter-agency meetings are. Israelis may misread the fact that noone else acts like that, as indicating that they are at the top. But geopolitics for all countries is more important than any individual serviceman or agent's perception of their counterpart as a buffoon. Perhaps most other countries would try to manage their agents, yes, the way corporations train their salespeople in basic manners so they never offend. Israelis would never do that; their scholars have the same deficits.

I think something like that could be going on in these ground level interactions with Israelis as K. relates. There may be power dynamics in play but I suggest they are multifaceted and not all as appears. They would probably have to be traced out.

currer's avatar

There is a second aim, courtesy of the CIA.

To bring in technocratic totalitarianism the deep state of the USA is fomenting internal dissention. They must get all factions in the USA fighting each other. This is why they are blaming this unwanted war on the Jews.

They need widespread anti-Semitic feeling (among other planned domestic hatreds) to create disorder.

The are carrying out an internal colour revolution, the sort usually applied to Syria or Lebanon, to provide a reason for martial law , and the removal of civil rights and legal protections - internally, on US citizens.

An interesting leak came out in 2021 which is looking more accurate as time goes on.

20/9/2021 New Zealand. Forum post.

https://archive.org/details/an-elite-confided-in-me-the-covid-end-game

"This plan is ongoing and the most complex global chain of events ever put in motion.

A plan was devised many years ago, and for many years that is all it was, a plan. They had to wait many years for the technologies to make the plan viable, and to recruit the appropriate persons.

This is definitely about a new global government being put in place.

The plan is essentially to turn every citizen of every country violently against their own government.

There must be a global engineered sickness.

There must be mass fear panic, and paranoia.

The tables turn on the vaccine narrative.

I was told that in time the vaccine will increase infection and increase death.

That billions will die and the people will be enraged and burn their governments to the ground. Their leaders, scientists and media will be torched, hunted and hanged in the streets......

Once the masses are free of government and all those who betrayed them and they have suffered enough, this is when a new global government will emerge as a “global saviour.”

It will be an easy sell, I was told"

The purpose is internal destabilisation of USA to get everyone fighting each other. CIA tactic prior to takeover. But on home ground not abroad this time.

J in veritatis inquisitione's avatar

Your original Self appears to be back with the words of this text. The Self that I followed and that inspired me for several years on this platform. Not the one who makes analyses of war and military strategies. The one who dares to speak of the real things, at the limits of our constraining rational thought, buried in our mysterious human mind. Thank you for this "intuitive" stance today.

Madhava Setty, MD's avatar

You are welcome. And there is more than one aspect to my "Self". To be perfectly clear, there are many who speak wisely of the esoteric, the real things. Very few of them, if any, seem to have what I would consider a clear view of the material world and how it is designed to constrain us not only in the way we behave but in how we think about ourselves.

We are at a point where we have to integrate wisdom in both the inner and outer world. I don't claim to be an authority on either. I am just offering a perspective.

Positively Paying It Forward's avatar

Dr. Setty,

Here are some unanswered questions worth posing (for me anyway):

1- We're supposedly in a significant geopolitical war initiated by two allies working together. Why no conversations ongoing and publicly voiced to the public?

2- Netanyahu made 8 trips to the WH over the last year. When was the last one? 2 or 3 weeks before the war broke? And zero travel, zero communication between TelAviv and the WH since then?

3- See pic of coffee cup. Even after drinking from it, foam is still in exactly the same spot, (even after the sips) as before.

4- Who holds a hot latte with 4 fingers on the side? In the video, even the pinky finger has moved to the bottom of the cup to stablize it and allow drinking, which never changes after..............until the taken picture of him holding the cup.

Welcome to A.I. They told us the merging of reality and fantasy was upon us.

DrLatusDextro's avatar

Let's all get in touch with our comfortable embrace of Schrodinger's purring cat. And while we're at it, how about we leave Pandora in her box intact and unopened?

What remains axiomatic and in play is that old adage, by their actions they will be judged. Actions speak, depict, inform and betray; read them closely, as one might, tea leaves.

denise ward's avatar

It is us who have the power. But most give it away to bozos like Trump, Netanyahu and the parade of dolts before them. People are the most intelligent species one earth but they actually are dumber than the animals in practice because they kill their own kind. Trump/Netanyahu and the other stooges don't kill anyone. They never get their suits dirty. It is us folks, us who do it to each other. And don't the adrenochromers just love it!

Pete Lincoln's avatar

I suspect Bibi left Israel on his plane to keep him safe. Hence his silence. For obvious reasons he does not want to admit this. The cafe video might be real but maybe its not in Israel

letterwriter's avatar

The cafe in question is the only one of its name and it is at the top of a national park, at the trailhead or viewing point or whatever the visitors center is there to support.

The female barista's right arm isn't correctly rendered in the AI video. It's the biggest tell I have found and it is classic AI.

I think someone had environmental images of the cafe and they integrated them into the scenery. I'm not sure about that. But the character '6' in the onscreen display all the way to the left looks like it was subbed in, as do the '0.00' figures in the middle display.

But why would one free coffee generate multiple zeroed transactions on multiple monitors? Why that many screens for a two barista cafe? None of that makes sense.

And in the Huckabee video, Huckabee's face develops boils and locations of wildly proliferating wrinkles, and his right hand shrinks in size. Meanwhile N's left ear spawns multiple ear canals; I think it got up to 4 at one point and perhaps a 5th was starting.

The sloppiness of the Huckabee video tells me, someone wants to tip it off that he's "missing". That indicates a much more complicated game than just a cover-up.

denise ward's avatar

Yes for sure. They know all these things like sniffer dogs. They're cowards. It is us who give them power.

Julie Stander's avatar

You seem to have forgotten your Advaita upbringing. Too bad.

Madhava Setty, MD's avatar

Why would you say that? What aspects of Advaita am I dismissing with this piece? I am sincerely curious. Perhaps we have different understandings of Advaita Vedanta. If so, would that really be so bad?

Julie Stander's avatar

Dr. Setty,

My comment was curt, which I regret now. When I first learned (from you) that you were raised in an Advaita family, I expected that would be an illuminating perspective when writing about issues. Maya, identity, desire, will, the false belief in making a better world, and the solitary discovery of true nature are what I associate with Advaita. Nisargadatta Maharaj is the Advaita sage I follow. I may add to this response after I re-read your last piece.

Madhava Setty, MD's avatar

No offense taken, Julie. As I said, I was genuinely curious. While I find deep meaning in Advaita, especially the non-dual aspects of it I find that I am not always in agreement with the sages who take that perspective.

When it comes to ontology, Advaita, non-dual Saiva Tantra among others resonate with me deeply. However there are 8 billion souls incarnate on this planet, each in a different stage in their own evolution. Many are not ready to plumb the depths of identity and their true nature. Others need basic necessities.

There are more than enough great voices who speak of the most subtle and true like Nisargatta Maharaj. I am trying to break the spell on a much more gross level. In my opinion you have to meet the spell of Maya where it resides in our everyday life and how we interpret what we are confronted with.

While I would readily agree that at this moment existence is perfect and this will be true for the next moment, we have some say in what that perfection will look like.

MSB's avatar

Huh? What is that supposed to mean? Did you find something in this piece that was offensive to you?

currer's avatar

It is propaganda and lies. Israel is a US proxy.

IAS's avatar

It isnt as clear cut as that....if you look at the Balfour declaration ...all Brits involved in its creation..Yes I know Wilson endorsed in 1917..but he was already in the grip of the tentacles of the beast....Wilson then created the US Based version of Chatham House otherwise known as the Council on Foreign Relations....

currer's avatar

For God's sake has it missed your notice that we have lived in the US empire since 1945? Eighty bloody years.

The UK is just a miserable vassal state - I should know, I live there.

As is the EU - we have no foreign policy of our own. Have you heard of Olaf Palme? Robin Cooke?

The CIA is good at assassinating any European politician who dares to disagree.

IAS's avatar

Thats interesting...I'm of the mind that UK (City of London) wields a lot of power and works in concert with BIS,Chatham House etc...and that if any one is the vassal state it is USA...I have heard of Cook ..worked under Blair and died a relatively young age...Olaf Palme doesnt come to mind. (will look up)...and yes of course CIA/MI6/Mossad/ISI...kill with ease ....Blair is bloody awful....

currer's avatar

Robin Cooke died whilst on a walk in the country.

The Speech That Tried To Stop The Iraq War | Greatest Speeches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL22VkLob_o

Like weapons inspector David Kelly for the Iraq war.

Dr David Kelly was head of the British biological warfare program and a former UN weapons inspector in Iraq and the Soviet Union.

On 29 May 2003, BBC Radio 4's Today Programme reported that "one of the senior officials" in charge of drawing up the British government's dossier, purporting to show the danger of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, said that what would later be termed the dodgy dossier had been 'sexed up'.

On 10 July 2003, Dr David Kelly was named as the source for Gilligan's report on the government's Iraq dossier and called to appear on 15 July 2003 before the Parliamentary Committee charged with investigating the scandal.

Dr Kelly was found dead several days later.

The subsequent Hutton Inquiry concluded that Dr Kelly had committed suicide, but many believe that a full inquest into his death is required.

In 2019 the Daily Mail published a story entitled Damning new evidence that Dr Kelly DIDN'T commit suicide: The disturbing flaws in the official government story surrounding the death of Blair's chemical weapons expert.

currer's avatar

The US inherited the British Empire after 1945. The "West" is a conglomerate of all these financial interests but the City is massively outflanked by Wall Street and US transnational corporations. Global transnational legal trade agreements facilitate the power of these US businesses, much beyond any other state.

IAS's avatar

Another thing....the pax judaica program ia a reality....and Huckabee said as much...they must never be allowed to absorb the region...

IAS's avatar

Something has happened....the photo of bibi in rubble was similar the the one of the Iranian leader we allegedly killed....my gut thinks we will never see bibi again and that he is likely alive and has been renditioned in some form...by who is a question....what might they ask him ...who has helped him from various organizations....CFR...BIS...City of London....etc....I hear the kid has gone dark too.....or maybe that's what they want me to think....I question everything...would love some answers....lol

Richard Seager's avatar

Doing a search on Yair Netanyahu's twitter for tweets after 9 March still has zero results.

from:yairnetanyahu since:2026-03-09

Change the date to 2026-03-08 and there's several results from 9th March. None after.

Madhava Setty, MD's avatar

His account has been reposting but not posting a lot this week, if that is what you meant. Of course accounts like his are probably run by more folks than just him.

IAS's avatar

Yes...it is similar to the recent bibi vids which are clearly not real...unfortunately we cant cooroberate any of this and have only as you say our intuition....lol...I like to think I have the Range Rover of intuitions....lol...

Richard Seager's avatar

I figure that search brings up reposts. And as you said the account would be used by others. But it is completely quiet.

Richard Seager's avatar

It does not bring up reposts. Yes he is reposting.

AJR's avatar

The “Masters of Propaganda” and “Manipulative-lies” are without any doubt, worked for decades in America!

And then I saw the following statement made by Netanyahu in 1990: It isn’t difficult to understand why, America is spiraling towards systematic destruction. This is what Netanyahu said he or someone else of the same cloth would do. And it’s happening, rapidly I might say, because we have a complicit President who, as Netanyahu said referring to Trump, “”You are the greatest friend that Israel has ever had in the White House.” The remaining pictures explain where I believe America is going. When people claim to be something they are not, this in itself, should concern everyone!

America has been lied to, manipulated by and propagandized by, as I have seen, read and learned, by the “Jewels of the Vile!” Hijacking biblical stories and conforming themselves to such beliefs, while the opposite is true, has to be the biggest fraud ever committed against mankind and as importantly, spirituality. Certainly the biggest fraud ever made against our country ever in history. The world knows, America now knows, Charlie Kirk knew!

Deception seems to run rampant with Netanyahu, with Trump, with the Mossad and of course, with our own MSM.

Think about everything that has happened since lockdowns. Who authorized our very own “DOD-OWS” to attack, worldwide, unsuspecting people, by means of an “mRNA-Bioweapon?

The level of “evil” is palpable. We have watched innocent women and children being slaughtered by IDF soldiers, who are proud of their actions!

These despicable evil-attacks against innocent women and children is beyond deplorable. While the world watched in horror, nobody, not one single country, stepped up to stop such heinously-horrifying attacks!

The list is long, in such a short time. Lockdowns began the “beginning of the end.” But there’s more, lots more.

I haven’t even scratched the surface. Lastly, this war is about “Good vs Evil.” Where have all the good people gone?

God Help Us All!