Pattern Recognition

I face an important decision each morning when I get downstairs and lift the blind on the window behind my desk: do I awaken my computer and check in with the world or live in blissful ignorance for a little while? Lately, I’ve been checking in, and for days now, I have been greeted with a headline/image of another “accident,” usually one that brings with it a significant amount of environmental damage.

You’ve likely already seen the posts about my journey to awareness that began (sort of) with the tweet from the survivor of Satanic Ritual Abuse and went on to include books about viruses, vaccines, HIV, and Charles Manson, but I’ve shared very little of what I’ve dived into (sometimes shallow; sometimes deep) and been keeping track of in haphazard ways before, during, and since; things like: who may really be responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing (household names), 1980s drug running through the airport in Mena, AR (quite a shallow dive, but something about Oklahoma City brought Arkansas to mind), who visited Epstein’s island and what went on there, the incongruencies in the official story on 9/11, DARPA, World War I and II, the Vietnam War, Korean POWs, medical kidnappings, questionable deaths (ever heard of Barry and Honey Sherman in Toronto?), Satanic rituals in abortion clinics, sketchy practices among Child Protective Services employees, autism/vaccine induced brain injuries, mind control players and practices. You get the picture.

As I said, my record keeping has been erratic, but within the last week, I started compiling relevant snippets about the spate of recent “accidents” in a highlights file on Instagram. Here’s what I’ve got, so far:

• Train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, that leads to the “controlled burn” of vinyl chloride (and other chemicals) causing evacuations, contaminated land, air, and water, and the deaths of dogs, fish, chickens, birds, and who knows what all else.
• A train derailment in Houston—“hazardous materials” onboard
• A tanker truck crash in Arizona, driver is killed and nitric acid gets released into the air. Those nearby are told to shelter in place.
• A derailed train in Oregon spills about 2,000 gallons of diesel into the Yaquina River.
• A National Guard Blackhawk helicopter falls from the sky above a highway in Huntsville, Alabama. No survivors.
• A massive five-acre fire breaks out in a plastic pot warehouse in Kissimmee, Florida; air quality is “being monitored.”
• A train derails outside Detroit
• A massive fire breaks out at a landfill/energy plant in Doral, Florida.
• A power outage closes Terminal 1 at JFK Airport in New York City.
• And just today, a fire at a construction site in Groningen, Netherlands, is sending toxic smoke from Styrofoam blocks into the air.

Not found in my list are all the food factory fires, water main breaks, and strange occurrences at water plants and other infrastructure sites around the world, to say nothing of casualties at concerts, bridge collapses, stampedes, and everything related to COVID. Oh, and I remember that back in the summer of 2020, massive explosions were suddenly happening all over the world. You may have heard about the one at a port in Beirut, but I have my doubts. In fact, when I just checked on the date of that (August 4, 2020), I learned that grain silos near the ruined port collapsed on the second anniversary of the blast. Strange, no?

That reminds me: why do certain stories gain traction and others don’t? Who are the gatekeepers? Remember George Floyd? His “death” sparked riots around the world, but were the circumstances really that newsworthy, or did the story serve another purpose? While we’re at it, is he really dead? I have doubts fueled by the possibility (among other things) that he and Derek Chauvin, the police officer who kneeled on his neck, had previously worked together at a bar.

Now, I understand that the term “conspiracy theorist”—a favorite of the CIA—is tumbling around in your head, but have I made any unproveable claims, or am I just talking about disparate events in one place? Might we come up with a better term than conspiracy theorist? How about: “pattern recognizer,” “questioner,” “dot connector,” “observer,” or “information collector”—yes! I really like that one.