What to believe?

By Nico Cost for GlobalSouth.co

Foreword

The following is a text I wrote on December 28, 2022 for people around me who had not yet realized that the Ukraine story from A to Z is a lie. I had hoped to open up the mindset in a structured way, so that people would become more critical of the government-narrative and, like me, start doing their own research for more truth. This turned out not to be the case, and in the conversations it became clear that what we believe depends on what sources of information we believe. Despite the government’s many lies, for most people the government still remains the source of truth if it confirms their own conditioning.

Let me demonstrate this with two examples. When people have been conditioned for decades with stories that Russia is evil, a new lie from the government can easily be accepted as true despite people knowing that the government constantly lies. When people are conditioned for decades that Islam is a problem, people vote for parties that have no problem with Israel’s genocide in Gaza. People do not see through what is happening or they see through one but not the other depending on their conditioning.

My text was published in January 2023 on a Dutch website, one of the few serious and quality alternative media in the Netherlands. Of course, the people who visited this website immediately recognized my observations. The sad thing is that my text is still very relevant and topical. The masses are still hypnotized. There are few people who puncture many or all of the lies. And you can’t wake up the sleepers because they are not looking for the truth. They believe other sources. They hate the government because it lies, but at the same time they believe the government if it fits into their mindset.

I also offered the text to The Saker at the time, but he wanted to stay away from anything regarding Corona and vaccinations. That is a good right, but also shows how much we all suffer from conditioning and self-censorship. Freedom of speech should be unrestricted, because who has the right to be a filter for others. Of course there is a danger of people believing lies, but you don’t prevent that by remaining silent. By doing so, you deprive the other person of the opportunity to learn. After all, everyone finds out the lies at some point, provided everything can be spoken because the truth is always part of it.

The question may be how “we” can wake up more people by visiting this website, for example. We make others aware of it. But Corona has shown how polarized society is. One half believes the government narrative and the other half doesn’t believe any of it. They don’t talk to each other anymore. The Democrats and the Republicans don’t talk to each other. The coalition and the opposition don’t talk to each other. We are divided. And what I see is that both sides mostly talk in their own bubble. Visitors to this website are already in this bubble, but what you want is for people from that other bubble to come and have a look.

I wrote my text for them because that’s where the profit can be. The challenge for every speaker and writer is to reach the people in the other bubble. This is difficult and also harbors a paradox. For when we persuade someone, have they thought for themselves? I want as little as possible to condition others with my truth, because I could also be wrong. I try to open mindsets and then let it go. But is humanity ready for this? Haven’t so many people already tried this. Remains to do that which I myself need in my personal development. So writing texts. It’s not up to me.

Nico Cost, 23 September 2024

What to believe?

Many people believe in a narrative of their government because the story is repeated over and over and widely reported in the main stream media. People who are critical of such a narrative are labeled as conspiracy theorists and preferably silenced. An old story, for example, is the so-called mass destruction weapons in Iraq that turned out not to be there after a war and 655,000 deaths. The story was made up by the government to invade that country. Another old story is 9/11. Two skyscrapers with a steel construction that neatly descend vertically. A third building nearby that is not hit also collapses in the same way. Fragments of a crashed plane have never been found at the Pentagon, but there is footage of a missile flying into what corresponds to the relatively small hole in the wall. MH17 is slightly less old. Here, one of the main suspects was allowed to take part in the investigation team and had the right to veto what was brought out. The country in question happened to have all the radar systems shut down exactly that day. Eyewitnesses who had seen fighter jets near the plane were not heard. So many question marks, but no real research because the outcome was already determined.

The main stream media are closely linked to the government. These media are no longer independent because they are literally owned by global organizations that determine what is and what is not shown. That it is orchestrated is evident, from the same stories with the same one-liners, the same theme and the same supporting images that are launched on the same day from the Netherlands to Australia and from Belgium to Japan. Everything around Corona, for example, shows this well. Fear was pumped into it by the images of Bergamo, Italy. Mouth caps were introduced everywhere and lockdown was the solution. Although this story is still ongoing, it has actually already been punctured. The government’s narrative has turned out to be one big lie due to various requests to make government documents public. Is it all planned from one big agenda? I don’t think so, but that doesn’t change the fact that there are big agendas and situations are used to serve those agendas. Corona came in handy. People who do not believe in the big agendas are seeing blind because these are often just public. The Georgia Guidestones indicated that humanity should be reduced to 500 million people. Their SDGs can be found on the WEF website. And so on.

The Bilderberg Group was co-founded by the late Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands. New participants in their conferences usually get important positions within a few years. You can dismiss this as a relatively harmless old boys network, but in fact these organizations determine who is in charge of what. Their influence is everywhere and everything is somehow intertwined with everything else. There is nothing transparent and certainly nothing democratic. Ordinary people are increasingly aware of this, but do not yet understand the seriousness of it. A major problem facing these organizations is the collapse of the current financial system, which is basically based on a pyramid structure. It is a debt system that can only exist as long as there is growth. But the stretch is gone and in the here and now we see the cracks appear. Inflation is conveniently assigned to situations, but was inescapable. It could be postponed a few times, for example in the 2008/2009 crisis, but once it ends and that is now. When we look at history, we see that governments (kings, emperors, etc.) often use war to put their financial affairs in order. All debts can then be eliminated and a new, now digital, financial system can see the light.

The strange thing is that many people understand different stories very well and see through the narrative. They no longer believe in it and no longer participate in it. It may take a while, but they’re done. We see this well with Corona. At first, almost everyone was scared and went along with it by wearing face masks and keeping a meter and a half away. Don’t hug, don’t kiss, don’t even shake hands. While it was never transmitted by contact, because it is an airborne virus. The face masks are more likely to be counterproductive and have a negative effect on our well-being. Regular medications that had existed for decades were banned because they stood in the way of lucrative vaccinations. Many people took these vaccinations and boosters, but now that it is becoming increasingly clear that these are also counterproductive, more and more people are staying away from them. The strange thing is that despite the many lies of the government, stories are still believed. The war in Ukraine is such a new story. Ukraine is good and Russia is bad. Russia is the aggressor who has invaded a sovereign country. Russia commits all kinds of war crimes. Putin is a dangerous lunatic. That is the narrative of the government and many people believe it.

After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the various countries, including Ukraine, were hastily formed. Cultural differences such as language and customs were not taken into account. That something like this can cause major problems is something we see in Belgium, for example, where the Flemish and Walloons are diametrically opposed. In 2013, the US wanted more influence in Ukraine, but the democratically elected pro-Russian leader Yanukovych was replaced by a pro-Western leader in a CIA-led coup. The Russian-speaking provinces could not agree with this, you also see huge differences in election results between the language provinces. A referendum in Crimea resulted in direct annexation by Russia, probably also due to the military base in Crimea and its strategic geographic importance. Subsequently, the rebellious provinces of Luhansk and Donetsk were systematically bombed by the Kiev regime. Among other things, butterfly mines and thermite shells were used, fired at the city center and civilian areas. Nowhere in the main stream media was there any attention for this.

In 2015, the Minsk Accords were signed, which were supposed to lead to peace and a solution for all parties. This was also a promise from the current president Zelensky, but those agreements later turned out to be only a gain of time for the interests of Kiev and the West. Even Merkel literally admitted this recently. They were not agreements to keep, but to buy time. The bombing continued and Ukrainian troops gathered around the breakaway provinces. Ukraine was moving closer to NATO, which has always been a red line for Russia. The promise of the West not to expand NATO to the East has also been broken so many times. Just before Russia’s invasion, Zelensky indicated that Ukraine wanted to have nuclear weapons again, either themselves or those of the West, on their territory. Also a red line for Russia. Russia had asked several times in the months before the invasion for guarantees that Ukraine would not join NATO and would not acquire Western nuclear weapons on its territory. Russia had nothing to do with that. The fact that promises had been made no longer mattered. That the Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine were bombed was irrelevant.

Russia didn’t want to start a war, it wanted to negotiate and make sure promises were kept. However, the West has proven not to be trusted. It still does what a colonial ruler does, namely play divide and conquer games, eliminate opponents, secure and promote its own interests, rob resources and so on. In Syria important oil fields are being illegally pumped out by the US. Libya needed a regime change because Gaddafi wanted to trade oil outside the petro-dollar. Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, so many sovereign countries that the US, EU and NATO have invaded with their carpet bombing and destruction of civilian infrastructure that the main stream media has not taken a stand against. Many politicians have butter on their heads and are simply hypocritical. Russia wanted to negotiate. When they invaded, they first stood still for weeks in front of Kiev in the hope that Ukraine and the West would come to their senses. They have rounded up the dozens of bio-laboratories and handed over all evidence of impermissible research to the UN. The West has ordered Zelensky not to negotiate even though extensive negotiations had been done in Turkey. The West needs the war.

It was clear from the beginning that Ukraine is no match for Russia. All those so-called experts from the West are proven wrong time and time again. The point is that the US and NATO have never had a real opponent, they were always small, insolvent countries that they defeated with a blitzkrieg. Russia has felt compelled to move along with the developments and the warlike attitude of the West. No one from the West urges Zelensky to peace negotiations, they send money and weapons. Russia’s tactics are now aimed at defeating the entire army of Ukraine, thereby defeating all Western mercenaries and all NATO equipment at the same time. Slowly but steadily, which is not understood by the West. The planned and strategic withdrawal from regions that were difficult to defend at the time is celebrated by Ukraine and the West as the reconquest of territory, despite huge losses of men and material as a result of this game of chess. The West is thus sacrificing tens of thousands of Ukrainian people in a battle that cannot be won. It’s too sad for words. Do they not understand this or do they not care.

The question is when can you hit back if you are hit yourself. When is war justified? Never or has a limit been reached? Who in the West takes Russia’s interests into account? When you emotionally indicate that you don’t care about Russia, you have an answer as to why things are going so wrong. You can’t expect everyone to dance to the tune of the West, that there won’t even be a time when resistance will become very large and even war. All history is full of this. No one can control everyone, but there are people in the West who have been doing it for a long time. They dream of a world under one dominion, namely theirs. Russia does not agree and therefore Russia must be eliminated. Now through a proxy war in Ukraine. However, they did not foresee what happened. Russia is resisting the sanctions and is increasingly working with China, India and the non-West. The collective West has been able to play the hegemon for a long time, but the more than 80% of the rest of this world no longer goes along with it. The unipolar world view shriveled. All the West can do is try to cause WW3. Everything or nothing.

Yes, but Russia is still bad. They invade a sovereign country and commit war crimes. A war is always dirty and mean. You can’t take another person’s life in a sweet way. What we do see is that the West, which holds itself so democratic and with rightly values, systematically censors what doesn’t fit the narrative and makes no effort whatsoever to explore and share both sides of the story with the common people. Russian websites are blocked and not a single talk show features a pro-Russian expert. However, if you look for the other side of the story yourself, you will see, for example, a video made by Ukrainian fighters in which these Ukrainian fighters shoot Russian prisoners of war while they lie flat on their stomachs on the ground. Then you see eyewitness accounts of the population who open a book. Then you see analysis and evidence showing that various horrific events were staged and filmed as if on a movie set. In Ukraine they still worship Bandera, the Ukrainian leader who actively helped to murder the Russians and the Jews during Nazi Germany.

Zelensky who encouraged ordinary citizens to make and use Molotov cocktails towards the Russian army. What kind of leader is this who wants to sacrifice ordinary civilians, because how should an army respond to civilians who are no match but can be dangerous. An actor who becomes president captures the imagination, he even receives awards for his courage and heroism. He is still an actor, because a true leader thinks of his people and not himself. In any case, he already has a UK passport in his pocket and millions in foreign banks. With the fall of the crypto company FTX, the circle became clear that the Biden administration had sent billions to Ukraine who then invested in crypto in FTX who then sponsored the election campaigns of the Democrats. All proof how much the whole place is corrupt to the bone and that it is about interests high and that Ukraine is simply being used, sacrificed. Zelensky is a pawn in the service of the Neocons in the US, he does as they command. Do not negotiate for peace, but fight to the last Ukrainian. And our politicians and main stream media are no better. Every death is on their credit, not Putin’s.

Time will tell what the truth is. We saw that with Pearl Harbor and Iraq, we’re starting to see that with Corona and 9/11 and we’re going to see that with Ukraine/Russia as well. I think it is very difficult for Western people to see for what it is that we live in a world of lies. The West has become a sick culture, a small child who wants his way and if it doesn’t get it, it either uses violence or makes sure no one gets his way. The West has never shed its colonial roots, but has subsumed it under the heading of democracy. Democracy that has long since ceased to be as intended, because there is nothing essential left to choose and free speech must fit into the government’s narrative. Globalist organizations set the agenda. Nothing was ever done for the environment, but there is a lot to be gained from climate change. Western society is kept stupid and small by means of bread and games. The school system takes all the creativity out of the child. Everything is sexualized. Gender identity. Abortion is no longer an exception, but apparently a normal right. And so on. Welcome to the West, an area in moral decline.

Then what this long piece is really about. What to do? When you already know all of the above and are ‘awake’, should you shout from the rooftops and let others come to an understanding? Or should you do nothing and let everyone discover it for themselves? I think you should do what your heart tells you. For one the barricades are reserved and another prefers to go to a monastery. Both are fine as long as it’s your own path. But my reflection is more spiritual in nature. How important is it that as many people as possible know a little more truth?! For I know that “we are all one” and that changes in species occur when enough of their kind are ready and make a start. Inventions are also made by the collective, an individual merely ensures the materialization of that collective idea. How do more people now get to know the truth, what action is necessary for this and is that possible at all? This is what evolution is all about, if humans as a species really want to take a step towards higher consciousness. Are we ready for that and are we making a start? I can’t do anything else than following my own path. The barricades, praying, doing nothing, joining in, I don’t think we can control it.

Nico Cost, 28 December 2022