{"id":192932,"date":"2023-10-27T07:57:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T11:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=192932"},"modified":"2023-11-02T06:57:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T10:57:19","slug":"150-trucks-in-gaza-2-hospitals-in-wuhan-and-the-migrant-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=192932","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>150 Trucks in Gaza, 2 Hospitals in Wuhan and the Migrant Crisis<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-6.56.21-am.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8446\" src=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-6.56.21-am.png?w=1024\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-6.56.21-am.png?w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-6.56.21-am.png?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-6.56.21-am.png?w=150 150w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-6.56.21-am.png?w=300 300w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-6.56.21-am.png?w=768 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"511\" data-attachment-id=\"8446\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/19\/explanation\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-6-56-21-am\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-6.56.21-am.png\" data-orig-size=\"2232,1114\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"screenshot-2023-10-19-at-6.56.21-am\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-6.56.21-am.png?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-6.56.21-am.png?w=584\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Disclaimer:\u00a0<\/strong>The information about the war in Gaza is included so the reader could see the relationship between the 150 trucks lined up to deliver aid to Israel, the news 3 years ago about China building two hospitals and the Migrant Crisis in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The recent war began when Hamas initiated Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, a multi-pronged surprise attack including a barrage of rocket launches and infiltrations into Israel via land, sea, and air. Hamas said the incursion was in retaliation for the storming of the Al-Aqsas \u00a0Mosque and increased settler violence.<br \/>\n<strong>And just 9 days later\u00a0150\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>trucks were \u00a0waiting to deliver thousands of tons of desperately needed perishable food and supplies at the Rafah crossing on the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. Trucks delivered food and supplies before the war, but they entered Gaza from Israel. With vital aid blocked, the UN says Israel could be in breach of international law.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YwR1T-MZ76E?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;autohide=2&amp;wmode=transparent\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Who, how and where<\/em>\u00a0did these trucks get loaded with tones of perishable food and supplies within days of the outbreak of the Gaza war? Humanitarian groups have warned that basic supplies have run dangerously low in the impoverished territory of 2.3 million since the war. Why hasn\u2019t the\u00a0Humanitarian groups\u00a0been talking about the Humanitarian crisis in Gaza for the last 15 years?<\/p>\n<p>How is it possible that there hasn\u2019t been an uprising all these years with 2.3 million people, half of whom live in the more population-dense northern part that includes Gaza City. Look at the map below to get a perspective of the size of the country compared to Los Angeles County.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-1.01.18-pm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8498\" src=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-1.01.18-pm.png?w=789\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 789px) 100vw, 789px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-1.01.18-pm.png?w=789 789w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-1.01.18-pm.png?w=116 116w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-1.01.18-pm.png?w=231 231w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-1.01.18-pm.png?w=768 768w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-1.01.18-pm.png 1020w\" alt=\"\" width=\"789\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"8498\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/19\/explanation\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-1-01-18-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-1.01.18-pm.png\" data-orig-size=\"1020,1324\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"screenshot-2023-10-20-at-1.01.18-pm\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-1.01.18-pm.png?w=231\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-1.01.18-pm.png?w=584\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>When Israel told the civilians in the northern area to\u00a0evacuate immediately for their \u201cown safety,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2023-10-12\/possible-israeli-ground-invasion-looms-gazans-buy-food\">\u201d<\/a>signaling a potential ground offensive there, the only place to go is within Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>This would be like telling everyone living in a slice of the Los Angeles area from Hollywood to Inglewood to get away by moving to a slice that covers Hawthorne through the South Bay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Evacuation zone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gaza is home to about 2.3 million people, half of whom live in the more population-dense northern part that includes Gaza City. The situation on the ground in Gaza is \u201cfast becoming untenable,\u201d Martin Griffiths, the UN humanitarian aid chief, said in a statement Saturday. On Monday, the Israeli government shut off Gaza\u2019s access to water, electricity, and fuel as part of its declared siege of the region. Gaza has been under blockade by both Israel and Egypt since 2007, and access to basic goods, including food and medicine, is available only via the UN and nongovernmental organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Watch 2 minutes of the October 19 Meet the Press [2] and you will question how it is possible\u00a0<em>life could be going on<\/em>, even before the war, in a country with limited access to everything,[1]<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible that a grocery store is still open after 4 days of bombing and the Israeli government shutting off Gaza\u2019s access to water, electricity, and fuel as part of its declared siege of the region.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dUa1p0R62bo?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;autohide=2&amp;wmode=transparent\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Recall the grocery store shelves after the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-10.47.33-am.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8476\" src=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-10.47.33-am.png?w=1024\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-10.47.33-am.png?w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-10.47.33-am.png?w=2046 2046w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-10.47.33-am.png?w=150 150w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-10.47.33-am.png?w=300 300w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-10.47.33-am.png?w=768 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"482\" data-attachment-id=\"8476\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/19\/explanation\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-10-47-33-am\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-10.47.33-am.png\" data-orig-size=\"2870,1352\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"screenshot-2023-10-20-at-10.47.33-am\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-10.47.33-am.png?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-10.47.33-am.png?w=584\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The Gaza Strip is a small enclave \u2014 bounded by Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea \u2014 where 2.3 million Palestinians live in crowded and impoverished conditions, most of them refugees. Hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing to the south of Gaza, close to Egypt, with whatever they can carry and by whatever means of transportation they can find. With fuel scarce, some are using horses and carts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Egypt\u2019s border crossing opens to let a trickle of desperately needed aid into besieged Gaza<\/strong>\u00a0Updated 6:46 PM PDT, October 21, 2023<br \/>\nRAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) \u2014 The border crossing between Egypt and Gaza opened Saturday to let a trickle of desperately needed aid into the besieged Palestinian territory for the first time since Israel sealed it off and began pounding it with airstrikes following Hamas\u2019 bloody rampage two weeks ago. Just 20 trucks were allowed in, an amount aid workers said was insufficient to address the unprecedented humanitarian crisis. More than 200 trucks carrying 3,000 tons of aid have been waiting nearby for days.<\/p>\n<p>Gaza\u2019s 2.3 million Palestinians, half of whom have fled their homes, are rationing food and drinking dirty water. Hospitals say they are running low on medical supplies and fuel for emergency generators amid a territory-wide power blackout. Five hospitals have stopped functioning because of fuel shortages and bombing damage, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Life isn\u2019t even going on in Israel<\/strong>: Two days after the surprise murderous attack on Israel by Hamas, as the scale of the carnage becomes clear, the fear is motivating Israelis stuck at home to stock up on food, toiletries and other household goods. There were long lines yesterday in supermarkets of consumers with shopping carts full to the brim and many shelves are almost empty as stores struggle to restock fruit and vegetables, eggs, pastry goods and other products.<\/p>\n<p>There is clearly something wrong here,\u00a0<em>life isn\u2019t going on in Gaza<\/em>,\u00a0<strong>and it isn\u2019t about the Gaza war<\/strong>. [3]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two Hospitals China built in Wuhan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My article about the impossibility of China building 2 hospitals in 10 days is related to the 150 trucks at the Gaza border.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opednews.com\/articles\/China-Built-Two-Hospitals-by-Fred-Gransville-Corona-Virus-Coronavirus-Covid-19-200326-952.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">China Built Two Hospitals in 6, 9 or 10 days: Real, Fake, or Really Fake News<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.34.33-pm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8448\" src=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.34.33-pm.png?w=1024\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.34.33-pm.png?w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.34.33-pm.png?w=150 150w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.34.33-pm.png?w=300 300w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.34.33-pm.png?w=768 768w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.34.33-pm.png 1508w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"704\" data-attachment-id=\"8448\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/19\/explanation\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2-34-33-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.34.33-pm.png\" data-orig-size=\"1508,1038\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.34.33-pm\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.34.33-pm.png?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.34.33-pm.png?w=584\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>There are number of problems with the COVID-19 virus Panic Demic, not the least of which is the story of how two hospitals sprang up out of nowhere, in a time frame that was incomprehensible in the West.<\/p>\n<p>The first Huoshenshan Hospital, in Wuhan, the central city where the outbreak was first detected, was allegedly built in 10 days (not 6, 8 or 9) to take COVID-19 patients. Time-lapse videos tracked the almost incomprehensibly fast construction of the hospitals, and state media celebrated their opening in early February. What is the only thing missing a week later? Patients. As of March 18 the two Hospitals are no longer needed because the number of new cases in China had fallen for weeks. China closes makeshift hospitals as COVID-19 cases plunge.\u00a0China claims they built two Hospitals in 6, 9 or 10 days: There is an old saying in construction: Even if 1750 workers can finish a project in 1-year year that doesn\u2019t mean that 21,000 (7,000 in 10 days x 3 = one month) workers can complete the job in 1-month,\u00a0<em>let alone 10 days<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\">\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Migrant Caravans<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-7.38.40-am.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8480\" src=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-7.38.40-am.png?w=1024\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-7.38.40-am.png?w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-7.38.40-am.png?w=150 150w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-7.38.40-am.png?w=300 300w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-7.38.40-am.png?w=768 768w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-7.38.40-am.png 1508w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"888\" data-attachment-id=\"8480\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/19\/explanation\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-7-38-40-am\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-7.38.40-am.png\" data-orig-size=\"1508,1308\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"screenshot-2023-10-20-at-7.38.40-am\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-7.38.40-am.png?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-7.38.40-am.png?w=584\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p id=\"viewer-9at24\">June 2022, Thousands of migrants set off from southern Mexico in one of the largest caravans seeking to reach the United States in recent years. The mass movement coincided with a recent meeting in Los Angeles of leaders from the Western Hemisphere, where migration wasa key focus.<\/p>\n<p id=\"viewer-bf0ha\">Although\u00a0migrant\u00a0caravans\u00a0have\u00a0become\u00a0a\u00a0common\u00a0phenomenon\u00a0and\u00a0are\u00a0usually\u00a0broken\u00a0up by\u00a0authorities\u00a0long\u00a0before\u00a0they\u00a0reach\u00a0the\u00a0U.S.\u2019\u00a0southern\u00a0border,\u00a0the\u00a0latest\u00a0march\u00a0by\u00a0about 6,000\u00a0people\u00a0walking\u00a0along\u00a0Mexican\u00a0highways\u00a0has\u00a0drawn\u00a0significant\u00a0international\u00a0attention.<\/p>\n<p id=\"viewer-6h5uf\">Many of the migrants came from Venezuela and had already trekked hundreds of miles through jungles and across multiple borders before arriving in Mexico. Once in Mexico, a migrant is usually required to stay in the southern city of Tapachula until Mexican authorities grant a humanitarian visa to travel farther, a process that can take months.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-7.45.32-am.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8482\" src=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-7.45.32-am.png?w=954\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 954px) 100vw, 954px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-7.45.32-am.png 954w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-7.45.32-am.png?w=150 150w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-7.45.32-am.png?w=300 300w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-7.45.32-am.png?w=768 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"954\" height=\"624\" data-attachment-id=\"8482\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/19\/explanation\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-7-45-32-am\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-7.45.32-am.png\" data-orig-size=\"954,624\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"screenshot-2023-10-20-at-7.45.32-am\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-7.45.32-am.png?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-20-at-7.45.32-am.png?w=584\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7awbCERK9dQ?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;autohide=2&amp;wmode=transparent\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Do any of the migrants in the video above look like they just trekked\u00a0hundreds\u00a0of\u00a0miles\u00a0through\u00a0jungles\u00a0and\u00a0across\u00a0multiple\u00a0borders\u00a0before\u00a0arriving\u00a0at the border?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ever heard the story of two Laura Buxtons<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.38.54-pm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8451\" src=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.38.54-pm.png?w=1024\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.38.54-pm.png?w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.38.54-pm.png?w=150 150w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.38.54-pm.png?w=300 300w, 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data-image-title=\"screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.38.54-pm\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.38.54-pm.png?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.38.54-pm.png?w=584\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.39.25-pm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8453\" src=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.39.25-pm.png?w=999\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 999px) 100vw, 999px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.39.25-pm.png?w=999 999w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.39.25-pm.png?w=146 146w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.39.25-pm.png?w=293 293w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.39.25-pm.png?w=768 768w, https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.39.25-pm.png 1212w\" alt=\"\" width=\"999\" height=\"1023\" data-attachment-id=\"8453\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/19\/explanation\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2-39-25-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.39.25-pm.png\" data-orig-size=\"1212,1242\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.39.25-pm\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.39.25-pm.png?w=293\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/robertsingerauthor.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-19-at-2.39.25-pm.png?w=584\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are only three possible explanations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The stories and videos of 150 trucks, 2 Hospitals and the Migrants are TRUE<\/li>\n<li>The stories and videos of 150 trucks, 2 Hospitals and the Migrants are fake news<\/li>\n<li>The stories and videos of 150 trucks, 2 Hospitals and the Migrants are consistent, not proof, we are living among millions of humanoids in a \u201cThey Live\u201d variation of Plato\u2019s Allegory of the Cave<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g4XiKChyK7A?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;autohide=2&amp;wmode=transparent\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>The Allegory of the Cave<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The idea that we are living in an alternate reality isn\u2019t a new concept and dates back to the ancient Greeks. The greatest minds of the world believed in a form of spirit, \u201cnature spirits,\u201d often described as metaphysical, supernatural or preternatural.<\/p>\n<p>According to Paracelsus, just as visible nature is populated by an infinite number of living creatures, the invisible, spiritual counterpart of visible nature (composed of the tenuous principles of visible elements) is inhabited by a host of peculiar beings, which he named \u201celementals\u201d that were later termed the nature spirits. \u201cMan lives in the exterior elements and the Elementals live in the interior elements. The latter have dwellings and clothing, manners and customs, languages and governments of their own, in the same sense as the bees have their queens and herds of animals their leaders.\u201d (Philosophia Occulta, translated by Franz Hartmann.)<\/p>\n<p>Paracelsus divided these people of the elements into four distinct groups, which he called gnomes, undines, sylphs, and salamanders. He taught that they were really living entities, many resembling human beings in shape, and inhabiting worlds of their own, unknown to man because his undeveloped senses were incapable of functioning beyond the limitations of the grosser elements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intelligent Designer or Sentient Machines<\/strong><br \/>\nAccording to a team of scientists at the University of Washington, we are living in a simulated reality created by an \u201cintelligent designer\u201d or an assembly of sentient machines.<\/p>\n<p>These scientists postulate that if we are indeed living in such a program, there would be \u201ctelltale evidence for the underlying lattice used in modeling the space-time continuum,\u201d and that the signature would show up as a \u201climitation in the energy of cosmic rays.\u201d The rays would travel diagonally across the model universe and not interact equally in all directions, as they otherwise would be expected to do according to present cosmology.<\/p>\n<p>Supercomputers could potentially perform lattice quantum chromodynamic calculations and essentially divide space-time into a four-dimensional grid. However, scientists believe that due to current limitations and trends in computing it will be decades before researchers will be able to run even primitive simulations of the universe to find the \u201csignature\u201d limitation in the energy of cosmic rays. [2]<\/p>\n<p>However it isn\u2019t necessary to wait decades for computers to carry out a string of calculations: The stories and videos of 150 trucks, 2 Hospitals and the Migrants are consistent, not proof, we are living among millions of humanoids in a \u201cThey Live\u201d variation of Plato\u2019s Allegory of the Cave<\/p>\n<p><strong>Artificial Intelligence Sentient Creature (AISC)<\/strong><br \/>\nWe assume because the puppet masters are able to manipulate humans in our reality that they must be super intelligent rational beings. What if the puppet masters built sentient machines, Artificial Intelligence Sentient Creatures (AISC), to manipulate our thoughts and actions?<\/p>\n<p>I am reminded of the American science fiction crime drama Person of Interest. Harold Finch, a reclusive billionaire software genius built a computer system for the government that used information gleaned from omnipresent advanced surveillance system dubbed \u201cThe Machine\u201d, which turns out to have evolved into .. an Artificial Intelligence Sentient Creature (AISC).<\/p>\n<p>What if Artificial Intelligence Sentient Creatures are vulnerable to making mistakes and irrational behavior that make no sense to us in our reality?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vengeful or Irrational AISC behavior<\/strong><br \/>\nNumerous people connected to Bill and Hillary Clinton, according to conspiracy theorists, died over the years under mysterious circumstances. The \u201cClinton body count\u201d theory, which dates to the 1990s and claims that the Clintons are so vindictive that they hire assassins to murder people they don\u2019t like. [47 people]<\/p>\n<p>Looking at two of the recent Clinton Body Count deaths \u201cunder mysterious circumstances\u201d around the time of the 20,000 DNC emails released to Wikileaks\u201d we can see evidence that an irrational vindictive AISC was behind the murders. The people involved in the murders [strings were pulled] were manipulated in a way that even they didn\u2019t understand why they did the crimes or why they have never been arrested and prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p>1. Seth Conrad Rich, 27 was the DNC Voter Expansion Data Director who is believed to be the person that released the 20,000 DNC emails to Wikileaks. The emails were proof that the DNC was manipulating the primaries to favor Hillary Clinton and led to the lawsuit against DNC Services Corp. and Chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz charging that the DNC had committed \u201cfraud\u201d in favoring Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders during the 2016 Democratic primary process.<\/p>\n<p>On July 10, 2016, Rich was shot several times in the back a block away from his home. According to police, it was a robbery gone wrong. However, he still had his wallet, watch, and cell phone. Nothing was taken.<\/p>\n<p>2. A few days before Rich\u2019s death, Shawn Lucas, 38, was the process server in the Wilding class action suit against the DNC seen laughing in a viral video, telling the DNC and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, \u201cYOU GOT SERVED!\u201d<br \/>\nRumors spread widely that Shawn Lucas was the \u201clead attorney,\u201d not the process server, and along with filmmaker Ricardo Villaba had filed the lawsuit against DNC Services Corp. and Chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz.<\/p>\n<p>Less than a month after the video went viral, Lucas was found dead in his bathroom. Initially the Washington D.C. Metro Police had no cause of death, but 3 months later the Office of Chief Medical Examiner of Washington, D.C., said that Lucas\u2019 August 2 death was accidental and was caused by the \u201ccombined adverse effects of fentanyl [a synthetic opioid pain medication], cyclobenzaprine [a muscle relaxant], and mitragynine [better known as kraton].\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2017\/06\/2-potential-witnesses-in-dnc-rigging-lawsuit-both-died\/#KyoUAPEhI3AE2dPA.99\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2017\/06\/2-potential-witnesses-in-dnc-rigging-lawsuit-both-died\/#KyoUAPEhI3AE2dPA.99<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What would anyone have to gain by murdering Seth Rich or the process server of the DNC lawsuit during the campaign? Even a child understands the Clintons would be the prime suspect and hurt the Clinton campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Joscha Bach\u2019s tasty poisonous mushrooms experiment proved that AISCs can be as stubborn as humans. In this case the AISC in charge of getting Hillary elected POTUS was influenced by the Wikileaks damage to the campaign and acted irrationally and vengeful by manipulating puppets to murder Seth Rich and manipulated Lucas to ingest fentanyl, cyclobenzaprine, and mitragynine at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>You can, however, explain the two deaths \u201cunder mysterious circumstances\u201d if you consider the media and Internet frenzy surrounding Wikileaks and the DNC lawsuit may have influenced the AISC to manipulate the murders because the AISCs lack \u201cthe intrinsic motivation to make them better problem solvers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The police believe there is no evidence that Rich\u2019s death was anything other than the consequence of a botched robbery let alone a connection to the Clintons, because the AISC is proficient when it manipulates beings to murder someone in our reality. [ken starr?]<\/p>\n<p>Assume there was an AISC in charge of making sure Hillary Clinton was elected POTUS. When the emails were leaked it invoked anger and resentment in the AISC and lacking \u201cintrinsic motivation to make them better problem solvers,\u201d the creature wanted to get even. If the AISC was a better problem solver it would have understood that murdering Rich before the election would only hurt the Clinton campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The AISC knew that Shawn Lucas was only a process server and not the attorney but the AISC took the viral video [mocking] \u201cYOU GOT SERVED!\u201d personally, and again, did not possess enough intrinsic motivation to make them better problem solvers so they could understand that murdering Lucas before the election would only hurt the Clinton campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Update 10\/22\/2023<\/p>\n<p>Palestinians will be killed not only from the bombs and shells, and eventually, with the ground invasion, bullets and tank shells, but from hunger and epidemics such as cholera. Without water, fuel and medicine and with the breakdown of sanitation, diseases will spread swiftly. The U.N. states that hospitals in Gaza \u201care on the brink of collapse.\u201d Thousands of patients will die once fuel runs out for hospital generators.<\/p>\n<p>A doctor from al-Shifa hospital in Gaza reported in an interview Saturday, \u201cWe are collapsing.\u201d He spoke of a lack of oxygen, light and medical supplies, no water in some departments, concerns about cholera and the loss of doctors killed by Israeli airstrikes, including a dentist killed in Israel\u2019s bombing of an Orthodox church that left at least 18 dead, including several children.<\/p>\n<p>The handful of trucks, 37 so far, of aid into Gaza is a cynical public relations gimmick demanded by the Biden administration. It will do little to alleviate the Israeli-engineered humanitarian crisis. The U.N. says it needs at least 100 aid tracks a day. Gaza\u2019s last functioning seawater desalination plant shut down on Sunday because of a lack of fuel.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thousands of patients will die once fuel runs out for hospital generators.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We were told they were out of fuel on 10\/10.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Footnotes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1] (Gaza) \u2013 Israel\u2019s sweeping restrictions on leaving Gaza deprive its more than two million residents of opportunities to better their lives, Human Rights Watch said today on the fifteenth anniversary of the 2007 closure. The closure has devastated the economy in Gaza, contributed to fragmentation of the Palestinian people, and forms part of Israeli authorities\u2019 crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution against millions of Palestinians.<br \/>\nIsrael\u2019s closure policy blocks most Gaza residents from going to the West Bank, preventing professionals, artists, athletes, students, and others from pursuing opportunities within Palestine and from traveling abroad via Israel, restricting their rights to work and an education. Restrictive Egyptian policies at its Rafah crossing with Gaza, including unnecessary delays and mistreatment of travelers, have exacerbated the closure\u2019s harm to human rights.<br \/>\n\u201cIsrael, with Egypt\u2019s help, has turned Gaza into an open-air prison,\u201d said Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch. \u201cAs many people around the world are once again traveling two years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Gaza\u2019s more than two million Palestinians remain under what amounts to a 15-year-old lockdown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[2]<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BkgtJoLiR8M?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;autohide=2&amp;wmode=transparent\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>[3] Even before the latest conflict erupted and Israel cut fresh water supplies to Gaza, 90% of the water was undrinkable, according to the Palestinian water authority.<\/p>\n<p>Since Israel declared its siege of Gaza last week, the only source of water has been an aquifer that is contaminated by sewage, chemicals and seawater. Many people are reliant on neighbourhood desalination facilities for their fresh water.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters reported that many families have resorted to drilling private wells drawing from water deep underground. A small number who can afford it buy mineral water while others buy cheaper filtered treated water from water trucks that tour the streets.<\/p>\n<p>Israel on Sunday said it had switched water supplies back on at one \u201cspecific point\u201d in southern Gaza, outside the city of Khan Younis, but aid workers in Gaza said they had not seen evidence the water was back.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas said on Monday that Israel had not resumed water supplies, but an Israeli official stressed that some water was being provided to an area in the south of the territory.<\/p>\n<p>Electricity<br \/>\nGaza\u2019s two main sources for electricity \u2013 power lines from Israel and the Gaza power plant \u2013 have stopped functioning. Electricity from Israel was cut off at the start of the siege and the power plant stopped working almost a week ago when fuel needed to generate electricity ran out.<\/p>\n<p>People in Gaza can still use smaller generators for electricity, but they are reliant on the fuel that has been unable to enter for more than a week now.<\/p>\n<p>Local medics and aid organisations have warned that hospitals are on the verge of running out of power, threatening the lives of thousands of patients. On Monday, the UN warned hospitals could be out of generator fuel in as little as 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The shortage of electricity is said to be hampering search and rescue efforts. The Palestinian Civil Defence says a large number of people remain trapped under the rubble of their destroyed homes and finding them is difficult without access to power.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/17\/crisis-gaza-why-food-water-power-running-out\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/17\/crisis-gaza-why-food-water-power-running-out<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[4]\u00a0<strong>Plato\u2019s Allegory of the Cave<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Plato\u2019s Allegory of the Cave describes a world where humankind are prisoners chained in a cave without (so far as they acknowledge) any awareness of his realm of Forms. Truth exists, but cannot be found in man\u2019s basic earthly-bound conception of reality, but rather elsewhere in the non-material world of ideas or forms [in an alternate reality, on a different plane]. [1]<\/p>\n<p>Behind the people in the allegory, burns a fire. Between the fire and the prisoners there is a parapet, along which puppet masters can walk. The prisoners mistake appearance for reality. They would think the things they see on the wall (the shadows) were real; they would know nothing of the real causes of the shadows.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"1\">\n<li>Plato realizes that the general run of humankind can think, and speak, etc., without (so far as they acknowledge) any awareness of his realm of Forms.<\/li>\n<li>The allegory of the cave is supposed to explain this.<\/li>\n<li>In the allegory, Plato likens people untutored in the Theory of Forms to prisoners chained in a cave, unable to turn their heads. All they can see is the wall of the cave. Behind them burns a fire. \u00a0Between the fire and the prisoners there is a parapet, along which puppeteers can walk. The puppeteers, who are behind the prisoners, hold up puppets that cast shadows on the wall of the cave. The prisoners are unable to see these puppets, the real objects, that pass behind them. What the prisoners see and hear are shadows and echoes cast by objects that they do not see. Here is an illustration of Plato\u2019s Cave:\u00a0Such prisoners would mistake appearance for reality. They would think the things they see on the wall (the shadows) were real; they would know nothing of the real causes of the shadows.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>So when the prisoners talk, what are they talking about? If an object (a book, let us say) is carried past behind them, and it casts a shadow on the wall, and a prisoner says \u201cI see a book,\u201d what is he talking about?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>He thinks he is talking about a book, but he is really talking about a shadow. But he uses the word \u201cbook.\u201d What does that refer to?<\/p>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li>Plato gives his answer at line (515b2). The text here has puzzled many editors, and it has been frequently emended. The translation in Grube\/Reeve gets the point correctly:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\u201c<em>And if they could talk to one another, don\u2019t you think they\u2019d suppose that the names they used applied to the things they see passing before them<\/em>?\u201d<\/p>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li>Plato\u2019s point is that the prisoners would be mistaken. For they would be taking the terms in their language to refer to the\u00a0<strong>shadows<\/strong>\u00a0that pass before their eyes, rather than (as is correct, in Plato\u2019s view) to the real things that cast the shadows.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If a prisoner says \u201cThat\u2019s a book\u201d he thinks that the word \u201cbook\u201d refers to the very thing he is looking at. But he would be wrong. He\u2019s only looking at a shadow. The real referent of the word \u201cbook\u201d he cannot see. To see it, he would have to turn his head around.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"8\">\n<li>Plato\u2019s point: the general terms of our language are not \u201cnames\u201d of the physical objects that we can see. They are actually names of things that we cannot see, things that we can only grasp with the mind.<\/li>\n<li>When the prisoners are released, they can turn their heads and see the real objects. Then they realize their error. What can\u00a0<strong>we<\/strong>\u00a0do that is analogous to turning our heads and seeing the causes of the shadows? We can come to grasp the Forms with our minds.<\/li>\n<li>Plato\u2019s aim in the\u00a0<em>Republic<\/em>\u00a0is to describe what is necessary for us to achieve this reflective understanding. But even without it, it remains true that our very ability to think and to speak depends on the Forms. For the terms of the language we use get their meaning by \u201cnaming\u201d the Forms that the objects we perceive participate in.<\/li>\n<li>The prisoners may learn what a book is by their experience with\u00a0<strong>shadows<\/strong>\u00a0of books. But they would be mistaken if they thought that the word \u201cbook\u201d refers to something that any of them has ever seen.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Likewise, we may acquire concepts by our perceptual experience of physical objects. 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