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Sorry for the long hiatus. Took a much needed trip that was restorative to my health. I am thankful for RTE readers who were patient. Publishing shall continue now.

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Mar 21Liked by Mathew Crawford

This was a banger man.

I was just recently down the US Naval Intelligence rabbit hole for a piece I wrote on sci-fi and Hollywood. Both L. Ron Hubbard and Robert Heinlein were retired naval officers. Both were also associated with the Agape Lodge. Hubbard and Heinlein were working along side Frank Herbert of Dune fame, all three contributing to the Astounding Science-Fiction magazine. Heinlein actually lived by the secret Lookout Mountain Laboratory overlooking Laurel Canyon, where the counter-culture was actually birthed (I'm sure you've already read McGowan's Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon).

As one of the cited articles observed, regarding the purpose of this science "fiction":

“In truth, the hidden thematic concern of “hard science fiction” was always mystical transcendence, of imagining how the promise of religion could be fulfilled by technology in the space age. Time and again, Campbell’s writers, not just Heinlein and Hubbard but also Frank Herbert of Dune fame, conjured up technological paths to transcendence.”

Charles Manson's Science Fiction Roots - The New Republic

It's truly a small world.

Thanks again for the fun ride. Back down the rabbit hole we go.

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I have begun collecting data on the science fictions authors as well, and right along these lines. The ONI is everywhere in creepy ways, yet invisible to most people. That says a lot.

Take a peak at my (unfinished) Manson graph:

https://embed.kumu.io/8f3845e60a9f47060865b87856bea46f

Many ONI ties, including Sharon Tate's father and ex-boyfriend. That's enough to make an informed person stop and pause.

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Fascinating.

I look forward to see what you come up with.

"Tom O'Neil's Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties" remains one of the most fascinating books I've read, in terms of how it brings it all together.

Among many interesting snippets is the fact that one of the clinicians overseeing Manson was experimenting with making rats turn violent using amphetamines. The San Francisco hippie scene started with LSD, but then suddenly there was a change and amphetamines became popular and it changed the entire character of the culture. There is speculation as to whether those who supposedly committed the murder took speed that night or not. Given the Manson family members were involved in more than one assassination attempt, it seems like programmed killing was one among the many things being tested. Creating artificial family systems ie cults was another obvious experiment, which has been reproduced over and over.

Indeed, we could say that much of the West has indeed become "Mansonian."

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I tried to contact Tom when I realized that Jolly West, the topic of his next book, was involved in the Remote Viewing program, and hence the cult I grew up in. I don't know if he or anyone really understands that story, yet.

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I think the rise in Cocaine use is also very co-incidental, as it also disconnects people from 'heart' feelings (love) and heightens a detached mental state.

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I have heard this about stimulants in general. It's a good reason to be as healthy as possible, not to need any drugs. There may be exceptions, but very few outside drugs are needed for a healthy body.

Exception: I took morphine one single time when I had a kidney stone. It was the right decision. Kidney stones are mind wrecking pain.

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Mar 22Liked by Mathew Crawford

Morphine can also give rise to intense psychotic hallucinations in some people. Some people exult the analgesic and pleasantly psychedelic effects after pethidine (e.g. Demerol) is administered, while others react with epileptic seizure-like convulsions.

Psycho-active drugs are definitely not one-size-fits-all solutions. (Frank Zappa, notwithstanding)

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This hypothesis needs fracturing into a family of hypotheses. Abigail Folger was the single heir of an important coffee semi-monopoly. Then low and behold, Starbucks store one...is not in Seattle...but in the CIA headquarters.

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oh man I can't wait for a Crawford-level Philip K Dick analysis..

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"I have begun collecting data on the science fictions authors as well"

I want to mention Orson Scott Card, who is an author from later period. He had some books with very weird stuff. Child sacrifice, for example.

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I haven't read his books outside of the Ender's Game universe, which I greatly enjoyed. I tried to read one of his other books (Seventh Son) and couldn't get into it. I can't even recall what the first chapters were about.

I don't have a read on where he stands in the grand scheme of things.

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Mar 21Liked by Mathew Crawford

I once went to a lecture by A. C. Clarke, but those were the days of innocence. In the Q&A session, no one raised the issue of old men and young boys.

Buggers, pederasts, and sci-fi: http://www.castaliahouse.com/safe-space-as-rape-room-science-fiction-culture-and-childhoods-end-part-1-of-5/

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I read my share of sci-fi between 15-17, and I didn't realize many things I was reading. I think that's how it's supposed to be. But something tells me that if I had sons I wouldn't give them almost none of the sci-fi books I read. I know there are healthier fictions than that.

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It's a shame if the whole genre is littered with the grotesque. Science fiction can be an immensely entertaining way to engage in thought experiments about the future. Futurism need not imply evil, though the occult groups and gnostics may have such a grip on media that little that is healthy gets promoted.

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What an astonishingly gainful comment, thank you for sharing.

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Mar 21Liked by Mathew Crawford

The whole article is here:

https://ageofmuses.substack.com/p/hollywood-predictive-programming

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Thank you, I'll enthusiastically read your article.

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Mar 20Liked by Mathew Crawford

You deserve the break, and all the future breaks you might need.

What you are doing is hard.

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Mar 21Liked by Mathew Crawford

Good to have you back at your desk. Thank you for this detailed look at Martin, etc, etc, etc. Ole Doc Martin was always a little - well, really, a LOT - too pleased w/himself for my taste. The prancing about and giddiness is a "tell" of the chaos agents/controlled operatives. And, they laughingly and smugly and thoroughly enjoy their constantly-repeating 15 minutes of fame.

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It also felt like his presence was too clean and polished too soon, in many ways. And he was thrust into visibility...by whom?

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That is the ultimate ?, isn't it...by whom ?

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Non sequitur. You could ? the same about, say, Dr. Yeadon or Dr. Merritt. Any number of others, in fact.

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I watched Yeadon present recently, and my every instinct is that he is one of the genuine ones. I haven't examined Merritt well enough to have knowledge worth considering.

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I find both of them trustworthy, open-minded, and consistent in their quest for knowledge (science, not "the science"). I do not even know how I came across them initially, but I did. Mike Yeadon was podcasting from his garage, not from (dark) horse stables.

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Merritt seems to stay clear of the bigger part of the freedom medical movement. She trusts Ardis, Tenpenny and a few others. She is trying to figure out the alien thing but I think it is really genuine. She is military however.

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Good point. Nearly every other 'personality' currently out there. Everybody has a boss...

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Mar 20Liked by Mathew Crawford

Welcome back! missed your content

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I'm happy to read your writing here again, and even happier to hear you are all better now.

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Mar 21Liked by Mathew Crawford

You have given us so much, and you owe us nothing. I am simply grateful for all that I have learned from you. You have helped me question my beliefs (VERY important!) and educated me on subjects I would never have considered on my own, furthering my evolution.

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Mar 21Liked by Mathew Crawford

I actually just checked the other day to see if my subscription got cancelled or if your articles were going to spam. Good to have you back.

The cunningness of these enemies is very daunting. And i feel like even if we figure out who and what they are up to--what can we do about it? Whos going to help us? Our congressmen?

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Mar 21·edited Mar 21Author

We must invent new ways to organize and resist tyranny.

Make it expensive. Make it cost too much for anyone to want to govern you, or harm you.

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Or, alternatively, create novel methods of blending in. Experiment and become accomplished at camouflage and mimicry. I consider all of these addictions to master/servant games and asymmetrical warfare, critically very important but also dumb and not very interesting. We need to stop lying to ourselves and sober up.

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@Jerms 9654. Re: "The cunningness of these enemies....", "What can we do about it?". Great questions that many, myself included are thinking through and preparing to act upon. I believe that we are "these enemies". Humanity is clearly caught up in a cyclic pattern fueled by the flux given off from the back and forth between addiction and recovery. One big F'n Ox/Redox reaction? What can we do? Learn how to feed yourself.

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Yeah the plan is to head down south and start homesteading once the kids graduate high school. I hope there is enough time for that though, but i couldnt agree more.

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Good to see you have returned, no worse for wear and perhaps even improved.

After reading many other comments I'll note:

A - Lotta proven pedos in the sci-fi field, and even more with novels that have it even if the authors were never busted for such criminal behavior.

B - I've corresponded with Tom O'Neil regarding CHAOS. My personal opinion is he's done important work but is a limited hangout nonetheless, though probably not by choice. You can only say so much, after all, if you want to get published by a mainstream publisher and have some marketing 'oomph' behind your work. That said, not a peep about the child porn videos that Polanski & crew were allegedly producing up on Cielo Drive, alleged by many, including Manson himself in a jailhouse interview years later: "Don’t you think those people deserved to die? They were involved in kiddie porn.” They've done a good job scrubbing that one.

C- Naval Intelligence oversees the UFO/UAP question, don't they?

D- If anybody could track down a copy of R. Roy Blake's 1995 scholarly book "Objective Evil: Satanic Cults in US Intelligence," it might help us all out a lot. There are no known copies available worldwide. The last print copy in known existence disappeared from a university law library after an interlibrary loan request in November 2016. Mr. Blake commented on a YouTube video discussing the book several years ago that he was looking to get it transcribed into a pdf for greater distribution, but there's been no follow up since then. In fact, Mr. Blake seems to have disappeared completely.

Anyway, glad to have you back and for all your hard work. God bless you.

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Possibly of interest (Dave Emory): M14 - The Ultimate Evil: Mind Control, Satanism and the U.S. National Security Establishment

https://spitfirelist.com/miscellaneous-archives/shows-m1-m30/

Mr. Blake made a comment there in late 2020.

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O wow, great. Well, "great" you found it. Thank you!

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Not wishing to disappoint you, but there are just some derivative podcasts there, not the book itself. Still, at least snippets of information.

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Yes, I understood that, despite my misleading phrasing. Sorry to be unclear, and thank you again for the link

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Happy to read your work again, Mathew. And I’m glad you’ve restored your health.

What you do must be exhausting and even spiritually taxing. I hope you have a regular way of rejuvenating.

I’ve recently had to cut off a lot of information sources simply because I felt like I was circling down a drain that would take my sanity.

I’ve come to a life choice that I don’t have to know, or be able to explain, what’s going on in every important world event, but I can reject the absurd out of hand.

I can’t explain how 2 aluminum aircraft felled 3 steel frame buildings in their own footprints, but I can reject every word of the 911 Commission Report as an example.

I’ll keep reading your Chaos Agents series. It’s important. I’m also praying for you and yours.

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Nice seeing you over at Matt Ehretl's channel your going thru the DMED debacle is so crucial I have been wondering wth happened with all of that, after that 5hrs Senate hearing Ron Johnson set up. Aftet hearing about the glitch I lost track of that so thank you for the info. BTW Matt and his wife have been incredibly prolific and I have been impressed with his ability to express clearly a lot of the insights and a certain way to look at the history of history he learned from the nearly unmentionable fringe US political figure and his main publication the EIR (Executive Intelligence Review) . Matt recently published a post about why his ideas matters still today even more but has often acknowledged it

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Mar 21·edited Mar 21

Hey Mathew, what's up? Good to hear from you. Used 15 Gig of email in SS since I conspired, lol. Not.

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I don't understand the email comment.

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Filled an email quota with SS over the last year or so. Have to start a new email account to keep getting informed. Only have notes and SS suggestions for now.

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Mar 20Liked by Mathew Crawford

It makes me sad that a lot of the people i have been reading, watching, and following since the launch of covid are now looking rather suspect. I am just a normie with a high school education so I rely on my common sense, life experience, and faith to guide my decisions on what is truth and what is b.s. I was also relying on the opinions and research of more educated people that I discovered via alt media but now it looks like you can trust nobody but God.

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To reformulate (with due credit to, and apologies) Mathew's cogent discriminating portrayal of Noam "Everything the Media Tells You is to Manipulate You [Except for These Quasi-Vaccines]" Chomsky, how is this any different?: Everything Else is to Manipulate You [Except for God and My Faith].

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The latter is the oldest con in human existence.

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Also the most opaque and enduring, and the most reluctantly shed, alas.

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Well said.

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Are you certain that God is not a concept embedded in your consciousness for nefarious purposes? Perhaps the same circumspection tended to what is proffered as truth is also warranted to God and faith as well?

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Nah. God IS. 🤷 All the rest is just window dressing. We know, even before speech, language, as babies. Right & Wrong. Fair & Not. The Mechanists can kiss my butt.

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"We know, even before speech, language, as babies. Right & Wrong. Fair & Not."

In humans, arguably less so perhaps than in other species, nonetheless do exhibit some programmed behaviour and values as a result of inborn (innate) imprinting. There are fundamental mechanical reasons and explanations for this, and therefore more parsimonious ones, without appealing to more extravagant causation mechanisms.

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I'm an atheist, but I'm cringing at your attempt to drag people into debates on the philosophy of religion.

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I'm sorry about that, james, I really should have better impulse-control. I don't want to drag anyone into anything, but it really perturbs me that some people think it a badge of honour to publicly declare their faith in a deity, whatever forum they appear at and regardless of anyone else present. This didn't strike me as relevant or even that we were in any way discussing the topic of personal religious faith here, so why mention it?

By the way, I know what you're trying to describe by your use of the term 'atheist', and I admit at least partial concurrence with the sentiment, but I avoid using the term on many grounds, including that it's redundant in a similar manner as describing oneself as a "non-pastry chef" is when one is, in fact, not a pastry chef. Why allow oneself to be categorised in terms of what is a completely irrelevant category to oneself?

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Ahahahaha wow 🤷 word salad 🥗 🙌 Clever words. Do they warm your heart? Mechanically, I mean? Parsimonious indeed. What wound, to deny one's birthright? What great injustice did fate bring? Window dressing. Clever bonobo. Be defenestrated, sirrah! Begone!

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Mar 20·edited Mar 20Liked by Mathew Crawford

Yep, the more you look. Disheartening. But wouldn't we rather know than not?

I haven't looked a lot into Jeffrey Tucker and his "Brownstone Institute" for example; but I did spend some time with him over cocktails and dinner, and I came away with a very distinct feeling that he -- and Naomi Wolf at his side -- was some part of a very complex controlled op. Can I prove it? Not yet.

Welcome back Matthew; keep yourself and your loved ones in health. That come first. Always.

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You mention Naomi Wolf - which reminded me of an article I read recently about a sex cult. Naomi Wolf was a guest speaker at one of their events. The whole thing is pretty messed up.

https://www.culteducation.com/group/1373-onetaste/26847-my-life-with-the-thrill-clit-cult.html

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Well, should we really be surprised given her, uh, religion? It's not like she was raised in a strict Mormon family.

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I know nothing of her background - just her involvement with the Anti-Covid vaccine stuff. Interesting where some of these people show up. Cults seem to attract damaged people and make them more damaged. If she were raised by a "strict Mormon family" that would possibly increase her chances in involvement with the above group. The damage these groups due to one's free will and moral compass is big but difficult to measure.

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Good grief, james! I'm pretty sure you've just diddled the detonator on an even bigger and more likely to detonate cache of explosives than even I did earlier! ;-)

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If anyone is able to point to a good "take" on Naomi Klein's book "Doppelganger" i'd be grateful as I cannot stomach reading the NYT book review let alone the book itself...

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If you're a threat to the system, you will never get popular, but rather taken out. Those you mention know where the line is and won't cross it.

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Tucker's been around a really long time in libertarian circles. I first became aware of him in the Ron Paul days. Read a bunch of his articles for AIER and heard him on tons of podcasts. In late spring 2020 he was on one talking about Laura Glass, the 15 year old kid who won the science fair project that may have been some of the inspiration for the lockdown/social distancing bullshit. Though nothing would surprise me about anyone these days, I'd be pretty disappointed to learn he's a snake as he confirmed many of my early suspicions about covid.

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Mar 21Liked by Mathew Crawford

One of the things I have learned late in life is: the fact that someone is a snake does not mean that everything they say is "wrong". I put no one on a pedestal anymore. I could deplore the snake part, yet agree with their conclusions re: covid. It's possible that even snakes can be right about some things...

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Mar 21Liked by Mathew Crawford

This how the limited hangout works. If we're discriminating, we are still able to learn and benefit from the (limited) information provided. Discrimination requires identifying and understanding the context, and this where scepticism should flush the snake out of the grass.

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Mar 21Liked by Mathew Crawford

Agreed, and I do my best not to throw the proverbial baby out with the bathwater...the fact that I deem him a "snake" does not mean he has nothing of value to offer. I may deplore his stand on most subjects, yet agree with him on one or two--and may even learn something from him. My experience is that life is mostly various shades of gray, few things being black-and-white...which is not at all what I believed for most of my years.

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Discernment takes more work. The effort is worth it. It is everything.

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Completely agree! This is why I follow you--I trust you to do your best to find what is most likely true at a given moment.

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Yes, agreed. Nuance.

As an absolutist, I must wrestle with and overcome a reflexive inclination towards dichotomous, and hence fallacious, characterisations.

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A lot of my path has been letting go of rigid beliefs that were absorbed without due diligence, and learning discernment--as you and our friends here have emphasized.

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Snakes can be handy to keep the rodents minimized. They also make nice shoes if they get out of line. You gotta keep your eyes on them.

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Thanks for the laugh!

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Fair point, this being a bit of an exception for me, I guess. Though I wouldn't necessarily call myself a libertarian today, I would have in early 2020 and before, and likely still agree with Tucker's stated positions on most anything. It's hard to imagine him actively working within a system/for an agenda he's very openly condemned for much of his career.

The MFM or "Not A Movement" as some call it, is quite ideologically diverse. There are few that actually align with my own views as well as someone like Jeffery Tucker.

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There’s significant wisdom in that

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Wolfe wolf

As in dewolfe family? My god

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"The operational history of The Order can only be understood within a framework of the Hegelian dialectic process. Quite simply, this is the notion that conflict creates history. From this axiom, it follows that controlled conflict can create a predetermined history..."

A Sinister Force Behind Historical Conflicts, Global Agendas, Revolutions and World Wars

https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/a-sinister-force-behind-historical

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Mar 20Liked by Mathew Crawford

Between the article on chaos agents, this article, then DPL’s on gatekeepers (https://dpl003.substack.com/p/the-gatekeepers-club), it’s clear that there’s a lot of fakes out there. Now more than ever we need to develop that skill of discernment so we’re not led astray.

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Here’s a hint. If they’re not willing to discuss: virus theory, flat earth, dinosaurs, they may be a gatekeeper: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/lies-not-discussed-within-the-truth

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Throw in climate change and I’m with you!

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Willingness to question the holocaust narrative is also becoming a tell of some kind.

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Unlike dinosaurs and UFOs, that one has some rather obvious practical implications. However, it might get you incarcerated in certain countries.

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Mar 21Liked by Mathew Crawford

Wanna create an even bigger shitstorm of controversy? Include Trump in the mix of chaos agents. Every time I do the natives want to roast me on a spit.

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IDK why this article doesn't have a million likes!! David Martin was just too f*cking much!! And the virus, virus, virus from wuhan, wuhan, wuhan drove me nuts! I'm honestly questioning the whole damn virus narrative. Can a strand of DNA from a "virus" be isolated from millions of others in a sick man or beast? And then a sickness ascribed to that specific strand? pre-fucking-posterous!

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Articles rarely have more than a few likes after just fourteen minutes. :)

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I agree. David Martin was way too slick for me. Reminded me a lot of Malone.

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Mar 21Liked by Mathew Crawford

Fun fact: David Martin constantly reposts Robert Malone on Telegram and they both live in Charlottesville, VA

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🎯💯

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And it’s not even DNA, it is RNA - the non-replicating cousin.

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All so called 'pandemics' were either caused by a combination of environmental pollution, industrial toxins, war and vaccines .... or .... they were completely fabricated pseudo pandemics created out of hot air (and the seasonal flu) just to sell vaccines.

From the Spanish flu to the present day no experiment has been able to demonstrate contagion of the flu from sick people to well people by bodily contact or the sharing of bodily fluids. And plenty of experiments have tried.

Given that 'contagion' and 'disease causing' are two of the key characteristics of 'viruses' we already know enough to conclude that 'viruses' (as defined) cannot possibly exist. This is only further confirmed by people like Dr Stefan Lanka who has performed all the necessary virology control experiments to show that virology is a scam. He can create the cytopathic effect and assemble the genome of SARS CoV2 without even adding a sample from a sick patient. Also the ruling class spent the whole 'pandemic' having parties, affairs, business meetings and world summits, and they showed zero fear of any 'contagious viruses in the air'.

So it's all bollocks. And any self proclaimed expert who does not start each lecture, book or documentary explaining that it's bollocks in such simple terms (it only takes about 1 minute) is by definition part of the cover up.

Anyone who uses words like 'the virus', 'covid' and 'the pandemic' without obvious air quotes is part of the cover up.

The tiny particles which have been labelled 'viruses' are the result of dead or dying cells (they're just cellular debris) - and not the cause of anything.

As long as skeptics and truthers continue to believe 'viruses' exist as 'contagious pathogenic particles of death' the vaccine, lockdown, PPE and 'testing' industries are safe and pandemics can continue to be used over and over again to control the population and rob them blind.

'Lab leaks' is juicy gossip which 'accidentally' got promoted on mainstream media at the start of 2020, during the most heavily censored period in human history. Yeah riiiight.

What the hell kind of bioweapon was this 'GoF virus' anyway? Nobody got sick! They had to use ventilators, Midazolam, Remdesivir and grand pianos dropped from cranes to bump up the numbers - as well as rebranding the seasonal flu as 'covid'... along with cancer, diabetes, heart disease and motorbike accidents.

If you just unleashed a bioweapon onto the world and you need a patent to prove it even existed, then it's obviously not much of a weapon!

TL;DR David Martin is filling everyone's head with whipped cream, just like everyone else on the 'health freedom' gravy train.

Martin conceded that viruses don't real in an interview last year. RFK is also on record saying viruses might indeed be made up and he is really not qualified to say either way. Bigtree has admitted terrain theory is where it's at, but his audience wouldn't get it so he must carry on promoting germ theory. Cummings has admitted that even if he became convinced that viruses don't exist he would 'not speak word of it to anyone' because doing so would be bad for business.

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The people of the world are being subjected to two giant death cult hoaxes — viruses and nuclear bombs. Both fake as can be, but my education is in physics, so I’ll bet my life and the lives of everyone I know that explosive nuclear bombs are totally fake. Dirty nukes are conventional explosives laced with radioactive elements are very real and cause birth defects and cancer.

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I just read a long account by an Australian psychologist who tried to form a group to help child victims of organized abuse and had the board immediately infiltrated by seemingly well intentioned people who were actually out to make sure the organization never accomplished anything.

When I see that group in this article, all I can think of is how a self-appointed organization like that could be used to control and suppress the crimes reported to them and also to gather intelligence on victims that are motivated to report things to law enforcement or to publicize their stories.

Regarding your reading on theosophy and scientology, I am just starting some reading in and gathering materials on that and related 'conspiracy' topics. I wonder if you have any few top books that you would recommend? I've found that some 'conspiracy' books start out with an interesting premise but after a lot of wasted time turn out to by completely derivative except for unsourced speculations. Others are gems with fascinating original research (e.g. Anthony Sutton's Secret Cult of the Order.) I fully understand if you don't have the time or inclination to type up a list though.

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David Livingstone has done a lot of research on Theosophy and 20th century cults: https://ordoabchao.ca/volume-two/theosophy, https://ordoabchao.ca/resources/interviews.

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A lot of flags to take note of.

I heard a presentation of his at a health expo in 2022. I was trying to watch two speakers at once in rooms across the hall from each other, so I would bounce in and out of Martin's presentation. That disclaimer to account for anything I may be recounting with pieces missing or misunderstood. In what I heard he went way off the topic that was billed on the schedule and told us a grand story of his time on a small island in the (South?) Pacific on a spiritual quest where he communed with tribal leaders, sort of shamanic, and attained a higher clarity in universal harmony with the knowledge of the ancients. Or something like that.

A lot of it was unremarkable, not pandemic/virus related or what most of us are familiar with his presentations would remember or would've been looking to hear from him. But one part of his presentation stands out to relate. He offered that during his time on that (South?) Pacific island, that he claims he goes to regularly, in his shamanic-like mind expansion, he became aware that we humans are actually created to have like 9, 12 senses (I forgot exact number he said). But that over time we've been stripped of our memory of them and no longer recognize, sense that which we are unaware of us possessing. Allowing us to consider some of the things we hear about like communicating with loved ones telepathically from a distance, like being startled awake about them only to learn they had a terrible accident or something of that kind. A lost sense that sometimes awakens when triggered by a powerful enough event.

He offered that the rulers of the ages, those in the know, the small number of inner circle type priests possess this knowledge, hidden away. In my words, not his, but conveying the concept he shared is sort of like that of the Dr. Zaius character in Planet of the Apes. Perhaps found deep in the Vatican or other privileged places far from prying eyes.

He went into our currently known senses, sight, sound, taste, touch and smell. And offered that what is happening now is the same rulers of our times are eliminating another sense from us, the sense of touch. Attempting to alter our understanding and sense of the world to exist without touch, without physical presence. The move to AI, VR, transhumanism the planned glide path to no longer recognizing we have the sense of touch within us. As the virtual reality encompasses us, Matrixy like, our ability to sense touch will disappear, be unnecessary. And be lost like all of the other senses that have been removed from the ability to perceive in the uninitiated, captured class of humanity.

I hope I captured what he shared accurately enough for others who may have heard this concept he was communicating before to recognize it and chime in, correct my recollection where my imperfect memory and attention span failed to fully convey. But given the topic at hand I share this choppy, incomplete and maybe slightly off retelling of his presentation. And maybe others can make sense of it and help clarify our understanding of him, his role in all of this, chaos agent or otherwise.

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I mean I was just now reading some citations from masonic literature and they mentioned awakening the ancient dormant pineal gland and yeah it literally mentions the eye of horus in that exact passage. So I laughed pretty hard at this as being not only just as silly but drawn from the same source. If there is one thing that is certain about occultists it is that they are shameless plagiarists.

Here it is:

https://imgur.com/XTGnuMU

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I honestly don't doubt that we've been "dumbed down" intentionally. And that we all do possess a "Third Eye" that perceived much more than our five senses perceive. I know of times I've felt its presence in me, states of being - without psychedelics - that I've sensed the unexplainable by science senses.

I don't know that I'd call it the Eye of Horus, and I certainly wouldn't place my pineal gland in the trust of any occultists. But it exists. And possesses abilities we've been dumbed down from using as we were created to use it. As with all things in life great power can be used for good and evil, dark and light. Which may be why we've been dumbed down from using it. Without discipline and control, without true wisdom and restraint great power is capable of great destruction.

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You cannot make that stuff up. The world is cracked.

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Mar 20Liked by Mathew Crawford

Quite thought-provoking. The plandemonium has sure been a constant reminder to evaluate and re-evaluate what you think you know.

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The pandemonium is only the starting point for the rabbit hole. Those that can see that truth are able to see more. Unfortunately most, 80%? Or more still believe the propaganda that has been fed to them since childhood. Most can't or don't want to accept the truth. What causes one to see? What was everyone's paradigm breaking moment?

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With-holding early treatment was mine, fwiw. (now it seems even that may have been a psy-op to support the "dangerous virus" narrative).

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Mar 20Liked by Mathew Crawford

Thanks, Mathew. What a bizarre world we live in.

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Mar 21Liked by Mathew Crawford

The PDF about David Martin was just mirrored by Martin Vrijland but it was written by Omar Jordan from Darkside Papers: https://t.me/s/DarksidePapers.

You forgot to mention that Martin's Fauci/COVID-19 dossier said: "This work was supported, in part, by a fund-raising effort in which approximately 330 persons contributed funds in support of the New Earth technology team and Urban Global Health Alliance." And many of Martin's earliest appearances on alt media were on Sacha Stone's channel or ITNJ: sars2.net/novirus.html#David_Martin_and_Sacha_Stone.

And if you search for the oldest videos that feature David Martin on BitChute, they include his appearance on ITNJ, an interview he did with Sacha Stone, and a panel he did with Sacha Stone and Anna von Reitz: https://www.bitchute.com/search/?query=%22david%20martin%22&kind=video&sort=old.

In early 2020 Sacha Stone and Anna von Reitz were among the very first big names in alt media who started pushing the no-virus theory. Both of them had earlier also said that COVID was caused by 5G.

In February 2020, the fake judge Anna von Reitz wrote that the Spanish flu was caused by aspirin and COVID was caused by 5G, and she wrote: "Those who have been following along with recent posts have become familiar with research going back more than a century compiled and published by Arther Firstenberg in his book, The Invisible Rainbow, and brought forward by Robert David Steele." [http://annavonreitz.com/torpedoesaway.pdf] When I searched Twitter for the phrase "Invisible Rainbow" in double quotes, the oldest tweets I found which referred to the book in connection to COVID were posted on February 18th 2020 UTC and they linked to a blog post by Robert David Steele. [https://twitter.com/search?q=until%3A2020-2-20%20%22invisible%20rainbow%22&f=live, https://phibetaiota.net/2020/02/arthur-firstenberg-the-invisible-rainbow-a-history-of-electricity-and-life-radiation-sickness-explains-all-past-and-present-flu-outbreaks-including-wuhan-virus-and-radiation-sickness-on-cruise-shi/] In an interview that Robert David Steele did with Anna von Reitz in 2019, he told her that "along with Ben Fulford and Wayne Jett and Martin Armstrong and a few others, I consider you one of the few true seers." [https://www.bitchute.com/video/YnHwh3LJ6fHh/, time 00:40] Anna von Reitz was one of the proto-Q people like Benjamin Fulford who were talking about topics like NESARA and GESARA long before Q. In 2018 she also wrote that there would be an "Operation Clean Sweep" where bad players in the deep state would be arrested and that "about 70,000 indictments have been processed thus far". [http://annavonreitz.com/warningsandarrests.pdf]

In an interview with Robert David Steele that was published on April 1st 2020 UTC, Sacha Stone said that "a virus is an excretion from living cells that happens as a detoxification phenomenon", and he talked about the Invisible Rainbow book and he said that COVID was caused by 5G. [https://www.bitchute.com/video/m4Qx_7FDunE/] In an earlier interview that Sacha Stone did with Robert David Steele in March 2020, Sacha Stone did not yet say that viruses are soap, but he presented a Couey-style theory that the virus was harmless but the deep state may have staged a temporary outbreak of disease by placing canisters of bacteria to strategic locations around cities. [https://www.bitchute.com/video/Bmg1cwxar_M/] And then he said: "So deep state detox, under the smokescreen of an engineered somewhat innocuous virus - which by best accounts is not much worse than a household flu - that to me is a very clever way of these so-called white hats engineering a scenario which forces the world into a slow down at every level, so they can begin the process of getting paramilitary forces and SWAT teams onto the streets of towns, cities, villages all around the world and cherrypicking probably over a half a million operatives - bad actors - who need to be removed from their positions." [time 3:02] In March 2020 RDS also published an interview with Benjamin Fulford, who also said that the virus was no worse than the flu but the lockdowns were engineered as a cover so the white hats could arrest the bad guys. [https://www.bitchute.com/video/t49kxpSA1_w/]

So considering David Martin's connection to Sacha Stone, it should come as no surprise that in an interview he did with Alec Zeck in July 2023, he said that viruses are not real, that nucleotides are not real, that DNA is not real, and that atoms are not real. [https://unite.live/the-way-forward/the-way-forward/19-jul-12-00-clarifying-the-viral-narratives-with-david-martin-phd-alec-zeck?video_id=936, https://expose-news.com/2023/08/10/there-was-no-sars-cov2-disease-just-a-set-of-symptoms-and-a-branding-campaign-dr-david-martin/] Alec Zeck said: "So just to be clear here, so when we're talking about a virus - I'm not talking about the previous definition of poison, I'm talking about a tiny replication-competent obligate intracellular parasite consisting of a genome surrounded by a protein coat that is an infectious particle." [39:50] And Martin told him: "All bullshit, 100% bullshit." Next David Martin said: "DNA does not exist." [42:41] Then Alec Zeck replied: "I don't disagree with that." And Martin said: "It doesn't." David Martin also said: "There are no atoms, there never have been, and there never will be." [44:52] And next he said: "The model of an atom then gives rise to the model of a thing we call a nucleic acid. Now, nucleic acids do not exist."

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No reason I can't update.

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The first time I heard about Martin was in 2021, in the thick of the vaccine apocalypse, because someone I respected mentioned his name.

I went to youtube (Odysee may have not been online yet?) and I found a recent video of Martin on the Stew Peters show. I also didn't know Peters. I disliked both guys from the start.

But I have this problem of questioning my instinct, even denying it, and then I move to the other side too fast. Not a good habit. So I tried to give Martin the benefit of the doubt, because he was saying some rational things, but it didn't work in the end. His discourse has far too many irrationalities.

For example, he claims to fight against the evil of "patent fraud" which is very common according to him. But with this topic he was telling the public that it was all true because there were patents. Why are those patents immune to fraud?

Months later I watched a video of his talk at a WAPF conference. It was an scandal. At one point he seemed to be pitching a financial Ponzi scheme to the public, shamelessly, almost as if he had forgotten there was a camera recording the talk. It was nerve wrecking.

Martin defends all sides of all cases for every topic all the time and still wants to win. It's too much.

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Apr 26Liked by Mathew Crawford

One general connection to the Navy, which might be looked into, was that it historically serves as the premiere power-projection species, or grouping, as in “where geopolitics gets done”. Not to specific, but a background habit.

It was also mentioned by Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, that historically the world was divided between two modes of power building, which he called the Ocean-Based-Culture, and the Land-Based Culture.

The ocean culture was centered on trade across seas, and colonization, empire via ocean vessel and trade leverage. Buy low, sell high, kind of thinking. Bootstrap financial and trade leverage between civilizations, not within so much.

The land culture was more focused on development of the resources and the land, within civilizations, less emphasis on trade leverage, more emphasis on raising self-sufficiency via physical economic improvements and innovation, less “salesman” “merchant” “hustler” mindset.

Right there you can see the split between the oligarchical Empire Builders, (an oxymoron) and City Builders, who depend on objective truth too much to reject it as oligarchs do. Pirates don’t need Truth, they need cunning, but then this too has limits, as empires collapse under the weight of facts not favorable to it.

So this psychological, cultural focus on “tilting the pinball machine in their favor”, like irrational belief in the power of the manipulation of symbols, belief in things like “luck”, like the elderly lady at the Las Vegas slot machine, tapping the screen in certain patterns as of to conjure a win, as the symbols make their random dance.

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I've said most everything you just did in different words at times.

And the fact that the U.S. wound up with 95% of the world's naval power at the end of WW2 strikes me as evidence that the whole event was epically pre-planned to set the U.S. in a hegemonic position.

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Apr 9Liked by Mathew Crawford

I dunno if it's your own personal history but every one of the last several times I pop in you are demolishing another biggie of the MFM, if not demo at least point out some of the either glaring or just off, odd etc. As many are saying the time it takes to someone going from (figuratively) hero to zero has shortened. But yr take that the bug is was the accelerationist element makes tot sense

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I don't claim to know all the motivations for the plandemonium, which may include currency war and financial system transition. But thinking in terms of accelerationism does seem to clarify the chaos.

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I know you don't claim that anyway I very much appreciate your work !!

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Mar 22Liked by Mathew Crawford

The Arlington Institute is in Berkeley Springs, WV! It’s a tie dyed world there. There are some sane locals but they are outnumbered. Shepherdstown has no sane individuals. Harpers Ferry, Halltown, etc. The panhandle is basically lost to the left at this point. The Coast Guard is there.. perfect location. IRS is there. Tons of DC suburb employees commute, or “work” from home. Rte 340 is a highway for tax evaders who left Montgomery County, MD to spread their idiotic ideology.

These two little leftist towns in particular (Berkeley Springs and Shepherdstown) are a cancerous tumor that will eventually ruin the entire state. The bad thing is that now I have to the listen to some Arlington Institute conversations to inform myself, whereas before I was blissfully ignorant.

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