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Feb 17, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

I have mentally went back to the old one room cabin way of living with my family - depending on each other and finding those close neighbors I can trust - growing our own food - finding our own way - building real assets that are tangible with real value (life giving assets) - living one day at a time. If the plandemic and financial scams showed me anything they just cemented in my mind that there are way too many takers in the world and not enough makers. Way too many charlatans in the plandemic profiting off people on both sides of the jab. Thanks Matthew for letting my borrow your binoculars when needed.

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Feb 17, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Ha, I drive a 2000 Subaru to my organic farm job 3 miles away, but could bicycle in a pinch. The car helps me with keeping the couple hundred pounds of donations I organize weekly to the local food pantry so other poor people can have fresh produce in their diet. I turn 60 this year, have no reitrement plan other than the collapsing social security system, which I won't sign up for the CBDC to get.

Thank you for your reality check to people on what to invest in. If I was younger or wealthier, I'd invest a large chunk in MYCOREMEDIATION, as that is one of the very few realistic possibilities for reckoning with the levels of ecological disaster unfolding in the air and land for a thousand miles to the northeast of Ohio and the water heading southwest down the Ohio River. Fungi can be trained to digest plastics and other toxins and were even found inside Chernobyl. The oil companies did a lot of studies early on, so some of this work is already started. But it is a complex field calling for a fair amount of infrastructure to scale up to the level needed.

Investors might also wish to consider investing in Traditional Ecological Knowledge projects, as Indigenous systems of land and resource management are adapted over thousands of years; permaculture just scratches the surface of what is possible. Check Lyla June Johnston's talks for an overview of the terrain. I could go on but I'll leave it at that, with gratitide for your work, Matthew.

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Good post. For me and I think for all of us it needs to have come down to this: I had certain people set aside from the beginning as manipulators - listening to what they said but always with a question as to why I had these reservations. Now we know. It really is that simple. Time to apply those suspicious minds all around. We are living in a matrix invented and promulgated by expert serially abusive manipulators. A complex multidimensional game of GO.

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Feb 17, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

"You be the leader that you need. Step up. You have your own unique set of strengths and skills."

I need a reminder of this often. I am reminded of a Buddhist story, my precis. The Buddha was visiting a village. The people said, some come and tell us to believe this, others come and tell us to believe that, what should we believe? The Buddha replied - make up your own mind.

There is no escape from putting in the effort yourself.

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I’m investing in fixed assets. I bought a lot more land, I’m building up infrastructure on that land, and I’m adding livestock and expanding my garden. Being able to take care of myself is already priceless, and the market for things like eggs, lamb, and heirloom veggies is great.

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Feb 17, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Elon's belly button lint !. You crack me up.

Its almost like Steve believes that we are going to be returning to some sense of normality after he 'wins' our freedom for us. All hail the new system (untested utopia) of our wise and trusted self appointed freedom leaders. Mmm... on second thought, this new system looks surprisingly like the old one.

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Feb 17, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

LOVE the “Fields worth investing in” list. How about also turnkey home gardening systems for dummies, home water purification systems, etc.

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(Banned)Feb 17, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Valuable information, much appreciated. Kirsch has always rubbed me the wrong way and you have done a great job giving me reasons to back up my general sense of the guy. Didn't realize he was at Rockefeller Foundation. He kind of gives me the same vibes Sean Penn does in a hurricane. Why is he here? Wish Kennedy would decouple from him.

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Feb 17, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

I've had reservations about Kirsh...I nearly joined his substack as paid so I could ask him- Why not fund some autopsies big guy? Seems kind of an obvious move to me...

Excellent post, excellent suggestions...

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Feb 17, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

You had me at : “Pooling the names (and wealth) of wealthy dissidents has a very bad history.”

The old adage is appropriate... ‘For most people it is enough to simply say the stove is hot but there are always some people who love the smell of their burning flesh. ‘

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Feb 17, 2023·edited Feb 17, 2023

A few thoughts here, a couple of quick ones.

To start, I have no idea why anyone would listen to Kirsch to begin with. His beliefs and what he's backed over the years are what heavily contributed to leading the world where it is today. He's one of those types that step into the aftermath of a battle and states boldly, "looks as if something uncivil occurred here." Like so many others, I suppose there's nothing wrong with recognizing that your chest has been crushed AFTER an elephant has sat on it, but it's hardly a cutting edge insight.

Where were all of these people on DAY 1, when anyone that had done ANY homework whatsoever, and still could have within a matter of hours, days tops, declaring it all to have been bullshit, ... PSYOP19 that is. I was castigated by just about everyone for even suggesting it.

"Quick point" 2, rather than referring to the perps as the "Globalist Nazi Party," the Globalist Bolshevik Party is far more accurate of a descriptor. As I tell people, we are in the midst of Holodomor II, which will make the original seem like a picnic in contrast.

As to the piece in general, here's what people are COMPLETELY missing out on ...

The stock markets and all of the "official" investment mechanisms, are nothing but a laundering mechanism for the Central Banking Cabal. I'll leave it at that in the interests of brevity.

If you have money to invest, invest it in a small business of your own. If you are too much of a pansy to start one, then invest it in a friend's small business or that of several friends.

Somewhere in our modern American existence we forsook God and turned to the Almighty Mammon as our object of worship and spiritual apple of our eyes! It became all about getting more, "making that money work 'hard' for you." "Not taking any risks." ... as if the Central Banking Cabal's mechanisms are anything but risk in the grand scheme.

And of course punching keys on a keyboard while wearing a suit and tie is "working harder" than someone that works two blue-collar jobs to make ends meet for their family, ... don'cha know.

The goal should be to put as little as possible into the satanic Centralized Banking Cabal's Systems as possible. But instead, we've been trained like circus animals over the decades to ensure that the word "enough" is no longer in our vocabulary, ... as good Christians in fact. (sarcasm intended)

The banking system was not nearly always what it is today, which is a central control mechanism, which if it isn't obvious, then LOL, well ...

It used to more resemble a place where honest monies would go in and out at equal rates for the benefit of both borrower and lender, and not in a usurious manner. Our good buddies, the Babylonian Talmudists, led by the Rothschild family, first starting in Europe, slowly took over the entire enchilada of the westernized banking system, and then some (which is what wars are ultimately about), and turned it into a usurious predatory subversive and oppressive global control mechanism. Over here it went into turbo mode with the establishment of the privately held Federal Reserve in 1913, then with supporting amendments and legislation in subsequent years and then regularly over the course of the next 110 years to date.

At present, and likely never at this point, do we have any choice as to what we use as currency, but we have had up until now at least. the choice as to where to place that currency which we do control. But again, like well-trained circus animals, we've willfully opted to place it where the ringmaster tells us to. ... "for our benefit" of course, and again, with the notion that the primary basis in life is wealth/mammon

Then a jobs structure involving all of the jobs that prop up this satanic beast pays the best, ... gotta reward those that help it gobble up the world don'cha know. Among those would be the financial sector, banking, insurance, etc. in a centralized globally subversive ploy that could only be orchestrated by the minions of Satan and his synagogue. And just like people gladly accepted monies (aka mammon) to kill their fellow humanity recently, we're too ignorant and naive to realize that we're paving our own road to hell, or in fact have already paved our own road to hell.

Best advice for true liberty, if it's even attainable anymore which is incredibly doubtful given the advances in technology to control us, like the animals that they (literally) regard us as, is to put your money/currency/wealth as far away from any "investment" mechanisms that are offered by the establishment as possible.

Food for thought, what if all of the people claiming to be "awake," that had money/wealth, instead of investing it in the contrived markets and institutions of their moral enemies in most cases, instead placed it where it could work for far more localized economies, and were less concerned with amassing as much of it as possible and more concerned about creating healthy moral Christian communities. THAT'S why "Buy Local" will never ultimately win out. It's a buzz word more than it is anything practical.

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Feb 17, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Your last paragraph was just what i needed this morning. Very uplifting. Ive gotten myself in a bit of a pickle in the market without Steves help. Went short the Nasdaq in October. Looked like a genius for about a week. Now, not so much.

Thanks for all you do Mat. Not many people would give up successful trading to get into this maddening fight.

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Feb 17, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Right now I think having a (relatively) large amount of your wealth on the balance sheet of a 3rd party might not be the wisest choice, irrespective of whose balance sheet it might be.

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Feb 17, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Thank you, Matthew, for your clear-eyed, thoughtful explanation of all of this. While I admire some of Steve's work to bring attention to the jab issues, the bull in a china shop analogy is a good one on this "investment", and it's wise to be very cautious about taking advice from someone who fell for the FTX scam, which should have been pretty obvious to anyone who bothered to scratch the surface of that one. This sentence really sums up your advice: "Sometimes, it's best to avoid mistakes without experiencing them."

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Feb 17, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

The Nasdaq "big picture"...wow. This was a very informative article.

I did enjoy this line, along with the meme:

"I get it: You're anxious. You're scared. You stay up nights wondering what the Nazis have in store. You would love to have some way to grow your capital while passing some of the profits to a worthy cause. You wonder if the world is spinning faster. You wonder why the difference between "The CIA helped murder JFK" and "the Earth is flat" suddenly seem a little blurrier."

As Dr. Trozzi said recently (not verbatim), we have to allow ourselves to laugh, even in the midst of the Apocalypse.

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“I'll wager that Bitcoin out-returns Steve's fund of funds in 2023, too.“

Damn. I wish you’d published this a week ago. Before I front ran the ‘downturn’ in BTC with a short. Haha.

I loved your list of action items that Steve or others could do. More of those musings, please.

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