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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 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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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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"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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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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Mar 20Liked by Mathew Crawford

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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