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Apr 8, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

I think there is a tendency to think "This won't happen in my lifetime, no need to worry about it" on issues like this, yet here we are being slowly boiled in a pot. Ironically, the only hope I have that we won't fall to one globalist system under tyrannical rule is that there is an extraordinary amount of incompetence and misplaced hubris among those hoping to enact these plans. The most intelligent, decent people, are the ones asking questions and resisting (looking at you, Mathew!).

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Apr 8, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

I’ve heard this several times. Mostly from childless people. I have kids and I see it as my job that I leave them with opportunity, not oppression.

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I knew that idiot scientists were going to collapse civilization one of these days, but even then I did not expect it to happen in my lifetime. Although I always suspected that something would happen that might prevent me from ever finishing college...

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I could see it when I was there. I stopped studying math and joined the debate team when I could see that most all the 18 year olds were already Malthusian Keynesian Marxists without ever having studied most any of it. I started working full time as an actuary my sophomore year and looking for an out, which I took.

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Yeah I got a creepy vibe from them too. Couldn’t explain it. A lot of them seemed to have cheated their way to the top with the help of Dr. Mommy and Daddy. I still think I should study math though, to figure out how to create an artificial intelligence to counter their power or something.

Oh and I tried to join a debate team, or a forensics class I think it was called. The professor... well, she spent an awful large chunk of time telling the students not to use the word “gay” in their speeches to mean anything other than homosexual - I don’t know why she has to tell them not to use such colloquial language; I wouldn’t even use it to mean homosexual, I would just use the word homosexual. That was my first clue. Then she gave me a time out for making a joke offensive to rich people and I dropped the class right afterwards, paranoid that she would call the police on me to take me to the nuthouse or something.

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Debate is off the charts woke, but our team was student run. Tradeoffs.

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What is the point in trying to combat the New Woke Order through debate though? It’s clear that rational arguments don’t get as far as sophistry does. Though it was clear to me using a priori reasoning that the mRNA vaccines would be dangerous, most educated people do not seem to have that capacity.

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Power corrupts. Absolute power (world government) corrupts absolutely. Sovereignty needs to be driven down to the lowest level possible, ideally the county and municipal levels, but federalization is a good start.

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Right. The local should choose and have distributed control over any larger umbrella to prevent tyranny.

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an old anecdote: I grew up in hurricane country. When the press hung the Katrina disaster around the president's neck like an albatros, I thought the whole time: do you guys have any idea how stupid it is to delegate disaster preparedness to that high level in government? I know my county commissioner, and he/she knows which roads can be kept open then the storm surge comes in, etc. The president has no clue. But...blaming the president worked. People are that stupid.

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Covid has helped facilitate what TPP could not.. more reasons Assange has been silenced and slowly tortured to death. WikiLeaks publication of the draft agreements triggered enough public backlash for ruling elites to take another route.

Truthout - May 28, 2015

Julian Assange on the TPP: Secretive Deal Isn’t About Trade, but Corporate Control

As negotiations continue, WikiLeaks has published leaked chapters of the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership – a global trade deal between the United States and 11 other countries. The TPP would cover 40 percent of the global economy, but details have been concealed from the public. A recently disclosed “Investment Chapter” highlights the intent of US-led negotiators to create a tribunal where corporations can sue governments if their laws interfere with a company’s claimed future profits. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange warns the plan could chill the adoption of health and environmental regulations.

Only five of the 29 chapters are about traditional trade. The others are about regulating the Internet and what Internet – Internet service providers have to collect information. They have to hand it over to companies under certain circumstances. It’s about regulating labor, what labor conditions can be applied, regulating, whether you can favor local industry, regulating the hospital healthcare system, privatization of hospitals. So, essentially, every aspect of the modern economy, even banking services, are in the TPP.

https://truthout.org/video/julian-assange-on-the-tpp-secretive-deal-isn-t-about-trade-but-corporate-control/

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Trump lost me when he didn't free Assange. After all, Trump was treated the same way. I now have to wonder if he is compromised.

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My thoughts about Trump have changed little since 1980's when he was Page Six gossip staple. He's the ultimate salesman and totally out of his league in DC where playing to the audience doesn't translate to managing the swamp and it's media networks.

John Kiriakou who went to jail for blowing the whistle on CIA torture petitioned for a pardon and Rudy Giuliani met with John and wanted some huge payment to "advise Trump" which John declined but left me firmly believing Trump follows whatever way the winds blow or close associates think atm.

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I'm not sure anyone is capable of managing the swamp. It's going to take a collective effort by informed people. I'm afraid there are too few of us (presuming I know anything).

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It doesn't exonerate Trump, but go back and read some old Greenwald substack postings. Greenwald posits the second impeachment was about preventing Snowden and Assange pardons. Republican senators threatened trump that a pardon would prompt a vote to convict (even though he was out of office) and Trump didn't have the guts to carry through.

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That's the reason I said he may be compromised. Thing is he would have gained more than he would have lost by pardoning both of them.

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That threat has been confirmed by a pair of my own insider sources and I believe there is public verification too. Memory isn't my longest suit but Cassandra Fairbanks, who's a huge supporter & friend of Julian's, published the audio of a call with Rick Grenell just prior to Julian's kidnapping from the Ecuadorian Embassy & wanna say Grenell said as much in that call but check me on that one. The call for sure happened Cassie was shaking and doing live tweets but if Rick confirmed the threats about pardons.. a coin toss.

with https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_Grenell

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Everything that is not unified organically is very dangerous. And I too believe this has been in the making at least for one century if not more.

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I wonder if you’re confusing the people you can see with the people doing the long term planning?

We cannot even see the 300 or whatever is supposedly the number of the wealthiest, most powerful families.

The bag carriers we see on our TVs, they’re not on the inside track, imo.

No question in my mind that there has been multiple decades planning at least.

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NWO - The last kingdom of man.

Thus he said: “The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all other kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, trample it and break it in pieces. - Daniel 7: 23 ( 620–538 B.C )

Yes, the takeover of the world governments went on for centuries. Long before the WEF permanent representatives of the global satanic elites were open about the true nature of the coming NWO:

“We must move as quickly as possible to a one-world government, one-world religion under a one-world leader.” R.Muller, author of the World Core Educational curriculum

"No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. (David Spangler, Director of Planetary Initiative, United Nations)

The Occult is The Spiritual Foundation of The United Nations. The Stage Is Set For The Coming One World Government Under One World Leader.

https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/the-occult-is-the-spiritual-foundation

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In the following link there is a video of economist Pippa Malmgren, from the World Government Summit, letting us know that Centralized Digital Currencies are just around the corner, so that they can know every last economic exchange that can happen, and of course we need a document of digital human rights to protect us from abuse by governments.

In her opening statements on the panel she says the future is about decentralization. But then everything she advocates for gives ever greater power to centralizers.

https://republicbroadcasting.org/news/bombshell-video-economist-at-world-government-summit-says-new-financial-world-order-about-to-shift-in-dramatic-new-direction/

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Digital currencies are one of the battlegrounds for propaganda. Big time.

All digitalization means is storage of information using electrical signals. Can that be done in more centralized ways? Can that be done in decentralized ways that promote strong and healthy community?

Yes and yes. The "how" it gets done is crucially important. Central bank currencies would keep us enslaved while currencies that we "grow in the garden" (everyone can build and run a node) would have the opposite effect.

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I have heard though not researched that during the 1930's there were hundreds of attempts to start local currencies in America. I have also heard the Federal response was singularly aggressive, better you stay poor than put the centralized fiat at risk. Americans like their guns, alcohol, drugs and red meat so much, it is easy to imagine a centralized digital currency will be puritanically vegetarian, while Americans will circumvent that in a million and one ways. Presumably our warrior class will be retasked to support the centralized digital currency they will be lavishly supported by, allowing the purchase of plenty of what is off limits to the masses, with plenty of incentive to keep whatever plunder. A local currency would have to have it's own security forces, whatever that looks like.

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A currency protected by a worldwide network need not have a local military force, but in a world in which major world powers break down, people will need police and militia among their communities, regardless. Those just won't be as tied to the banking system.

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Bang on, Mathew!!!

Stop stealing my Substack article ideas! (just kidding, but the funny thing is we are reading each others' minds because I want to put a post together soon about how that wonderful book Against the Grain can inform all of this, for both good and for bad...)

"Because if it happens, I don't want for it to happen the wrong way."

Exactly what I've been thinking. If it happens via decentralization and leading to global freedom, it's great. If the other way, it's a nightmare.

What a time to be alive!

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Very good book for present extrapolation.

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Apr 9, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

Maybe since the Neolithic, since settlements and agriculture, according to Karen Armstrong and Agustin Fuentes, create the capacity for storage and the development of classes, that leads to where we are. Or according to the Immortality Key, the Holy Roman Empire repression of entheogens, which segues into the Inquisition. Then maybe there are some kind of facultative sociopathic and dark triad genetics or epigenetics that originate there, and spread through the population. Or maybe it is the sheer amount of people on the earth that provokes a morphogenetic wave that tips people towards these behaviors. Or maybe religion is right and there are metaphysical forces of evil. I only know I keep wishfully praying against the arrow of time (as in fuck the second law of thermodynamics) that these spineless sadists and bloodsucking greed mongers were never conceived. I'm ranting :)

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I hear you

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You’re definitely right about Hitler being a film actor is suppressed, I’ve never heard that and it seems to be something that is almost impossible to find through a search engine, as you only get results of actors playing Hitler. Do you have any more details on that or the names of some of the films (if they even exist anymore)? I know it’s a very minor point of the article but it really captures my curiosity.

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Apr 8, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

I don't recall ever hearing Hitler was previously an actor. There is currently a European leader acting suspiciously like he is being managed, that is also a former actor. (See Ukraine)

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This is the first time I've heard that Hitler was an actor. Sure makes sense. (All the "monarchs" and politicians and various similars must know they're actors more than anything.)

But re Hitler... what do you make of this video...

...at about 13:30…

THE SEQUEL TO THE FALL OF THE CABAL - PART 3, World Wide Wrath

https://www.bitchute.com/video/EFzCg9XW5I8G/

says Hitler’s paternal grandmother was a peasant servant who worked for Anselm Rothschild when, at age 42 and unmarried, she gave birth to her only child? And she never disclosed who the father was?

I think what's argued, or suggested, is something like:

Jewish Rothschilds became the richest people in Europe by financing wars and causing stock market crashes.

A Rothschild's illegitimate son's son, Adolf Hitler, played a leading role in conjuring up and executing a very costly war.

Hitler hated Jews, and in this war, singled them out and killed millions of them.

He was funded by Jewish Rothschilds?

He was funded by Henry Ford, who hated Jews?

Mountains of contradictory claims over the centuries sure can make you tired.

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I honestly don’t know what to make of any of that. I’ve heard most of those speculations before, but it’s a real chore to find the source material for those assertions. If it’s not complete early internet conspiracy garbage (which lots of these Rothschild related speculations are), then there should be some sort of a physical record but then it’s always possible those were destroyed or some form of propaganda in the first place. Which this isn’t to throw out the baby with the bathwater, but once you start going down this rabbit hole, you’re fumbling around in a dark space that may not even being a bathroom at all.

Contradictions are sort of to be expected though. As much as we want to turn history into a narrative (I guess that’s all it literally is), figuring out the motivations behind something like Nazi Germany and WW2 isn’t something I think can be summed up like a Captain America movie. Even figuring out some key agenda shapers isn’t close to the whole dynamic, sure Rothschilds have influence but I still feel like analyses like what you summarized are akin to the “WEF controls the world” that are running around now. It’s a factor but much of the whole picture is simply unknowable to anyone and we probably are doing a disservice to the complexity of civilization and reality to try and boil it down.

Long ramble out of the way, that’s why I personally just like looking at small little things that I can verify, like this Hitler actor thing. I really hope Mathew can provide more detail because I’m still at a bit of a loss. I checked IMDB and it has a fairly thorough listing of his credits, from writing to his appearances as “self” but he’s not listed as an actor playing a character anywhere:

https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0386944/filmotype?ref_=m_nm_flmg

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This is the only thing I could find.

https://freundchen.blogspot.com/2011/12/adolf-hitler-actor-and-screenwriter.html

It's not much, but maybe some breadcrumbs of a clue.

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" Let's make a simple assumption that requires no definitions or ideological acceptance either way:

One day will be the last day in which rival nations exist on Earth."

Wrong. The statement is in itself pure ideology. It was called cosmopolitanism the first time, and is called globalism today. Futurist, modernist, and authoritarian. Also, inherently racist as it denies all less populous cultures the right to exist as such.

Drop Plato, he was wrong. This idea can and will only ever bring misery.

If I have the right to call a plot of land mine because I live there, then my children have that same right and their children too. And my people. And my race. And no other race have any right to the land that is ours by right.

Go tell the native americans that it was a good thing they where exterminated as races and cultures - today, they are all americans! Tomorrow, citizens of the world! Tell it to the jews and palestinians of Israel that the chinaman and the zulu has just as much a right to Bethlehem as they. Tell the boer that the zulu has the right to the land his ancestors turned from desert to farms.

Because your statement is the very essence of imperialist fascism, of communism and of globalism, based in the flawed assumption that you culture and kind will still be on top in such a world. They won't. The african, the arab, the indian and the chinese will.

Because they don't and never will subscribe to any idea which puts their own culture even to or under someone elses.

And they shouldn't. No one should. My people is superior according to me. Yours according to you. And that's fine, because then we can learn about eachother's differences and similarities, and find both mutual respect as well as fear and loathing.

250+ nations, thousands of cultures, tens of thousands of languages means uncountable ways to create and solve problems - a unified world system reduces all variables to 1.

One has to be intelligent in a very special way to think that better. An engineer's intelligence, thinking that there's a single one optimal solution. No such beast can exist in a dynamic and chaotic system - and making the system wholly predictable to make the idea work is always the engineers first go to.

Giving us the rule of the slide rule and calipers. Fascism by numbers. Communism by tables. Capitalism by diktat. No. Never again.

"One day will be the last day in which rival nations exist on Earth."

This is saying: "Your race, culture and creed must be exterminated, and you too if you do not give them up and accept your role as producer/consumer and atomic individual."

(Do note, I'm not saying you endorse the idea of a global state discussed in your article, but that phrase is tantamount to advocating genocide. And it is fascist by necessity: nothing above the state, nothing outside the state, and where could one go if the entire planet was under the same system? An-cap political sci-fi is precisely that: fiction, and it always will be.)

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"Wrong. The statement is in itself pure ideology. It was called cosmopolitanism the first time, and is called globalism today."

You have misunderstood what I wrote, possibly due to being triggered. Please read again. Nothing that you said following this has anything to do with what I wrote, which is to say that after being triggered, you made up the rest in your head. Fight that urge. It's important.

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Perhaps it is possible that the Earth will go on for infinitely many years with rivalrous nations, but I neither believe the rivalrous aspect is necessary for healthy sovereign communities, nor do I think the sun will keep burning infinitely while the Earth spins in a goldilocks zone.

The first part has to do with the ability for people to construct mechanisms for game theoretic trust that result in cooperation while punishing defectors. Economics will sort out the rest as healthier and more productive people will reproduce more, and those who try to turn that progress back through violence will be punished by the healthy network.

The top-down vs. bottom-up dichotomy is one of the several most important ones to think along in order not to get sucked into "nationalism vs. globalism" as if "global community where nations cease to need to police boundaries" is anything like "global corporate control that forces the submission of nations through immense totalitarian terrorism and violence." The right axis leads to game theoretic equilibrium. The wrong axis of thinking leads to cycles of world war.

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Apr 8, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

Maybe consider —although it did seem part of the subtextual reference Mathew makes to the sun burning out— that when all society and human existence ends on earth and we are all, as subspecies of the human race, finally dead, that is certainly a day when there are no rival nations on earth.

One needn't assume that this means all "must be exterminated" (passive voice) but rather one can see how the statement is true when all humans die (active voice). And, one day, the human race will die. We are creatures of this planet. This planet has multiple time limits: for itself as a mass gently falling through the Void and for what kinds of complex forms of life it can sustain with the energy the Sun and its surroundings provides. Humans cannot survive long trips through space and will have to change in their fundamental natural and spiritual being if they want to become voidjumpers or spacefarers, so as this planet continues along its lifespan, the complex forms of life humans generate through their collective social interaction —their superorganisms— will also struggle, evolve, adapt and ultimately perish.

Not because someone reduced all humans to ideological vessels, though people will try (and do you think Mathew disagrees with you that imperialists and fascists do try?). But our higher forms of life perish because all life includes as part of its cycling the necessary and abundant and beautiful stage of death. Without death, nothing ever comes into life.

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Some years ago, I wrote a grant to Echoing Green for a new online portal to support a labor credit system, social media to organize regional efforts and generate anonymous user generated content to plot heat maps for local grassroots projects and data for community assessments, small business plans and more.

On my journey, I visited Ithaca Hours founder, intentional communities and did relief work with an innovative ngo.. a mix of habitat and americorp during Katrina.

At some point I think you need a push for appropriate tech solutions along the lines of the greater reset narrative if you want to survive the planned austerity and technocratic measures. The only prohibition and warning from "them" I received over my years of pushing buttons was to stay out of politics and you're not welcome here.

Great Reset narrative allows for isolated pockets of self-sustaining community that opt out of the plan. Some of you here have the means, the method and the technical know-how to design/build an easily replicable engine for the resistance.

Green stamps, Coops, co-housing and ccc-like rural camps that support those who opt-out are what I am proposing as a solution to those without $$ who may lose everything. 501c3 with autonomous group level governance, trusted servants, admin and trustee structure.. self-supporting through donations, cottage industries and endowment by membership only.

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I keep in touch with a former work colleague who grew up in and still lives in the Czech Republic. I've kept closer in touch with him over the past 2 years just to see what things were like in Europe and share what life was like in Alabama during the scamdemic. Both of us are like-minded engineers, both against lockdowns, masks and not vaxed. One month ago, I asked him what were things like in the Czech Republic relating to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and he had nothing to say about it. His primary concern was this WHO Treaty and potential for vaccine mandate/passport laws issued from the EU parliament. I'm guessing whatever happens regarding the WHO will mostly be implemented by corporations, universities, and other captured institutions. Governments didn't have to ban HCQ or ivermectin - CVS and Walgreens pretty much did most of the work on their own.

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Curious if anyone here has watched the full 6 hours of that day 1. I'm setting out to get through it, because I'd like to hear things from the "horses mouth". Of course, some would argue these aren't the real "horses". But getting a feel what what the popular ideas are in that arena seems useful.

I just watched the first 30 minutes, and was intrigued by Dr. Pippa Malmgren. She's an advocate for nationalized digital currency, but is also concerned with how it could be abused. But it gives the sense that most people engaged in this think they are making the world a better place.

But now we have multiple private banks and financial institutions, and the possibility to make transactions via paper money. Giving over that power completely to a central government will give them complete control....and we've seen lately how much they like control.

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So will they try to use the war and supply disruptions to bring in rationing? Of course. Will they try to use it to justify the "Digital ID" and force everyone to get it to get their rations? Of course.

The big problem is that the Putin, Xi & Biden regimes are ALL in favour of it. All the second rate countries are as well (Europe, 5Eyes).

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Mathew, I hope you'll provide a link to the claim that Hitler was an actor. I'd like to know that for myself, but I have someone who really needs to see it.

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