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Sep 23, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

Nicely put.

At this point I am so far down the rabbit hole that I’ve become the rabbit, never having been one for any conspiracy theory I am not far from accepting that it was Elvis who shot JFK.

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The real problem with conspiracy theory is that the information waters have always been too muddy to make it easy to track them down. Yet, many have been tracked down, historically. It just takes the right amount of energy.

But wow, this one is a doozy. There are so many elements and players that it's a swirling vortex of aligned interests, conspiracy, coercion, bribery, and what I'm going to write about soon called "the mind virus". Oh, and the inevitable death of the dollar. That, too.

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"The real problem with conspiracy theory is that the information waters have always been too muddy to make it easy to track them down."

I meant to add, "So, it's only natural that the majority of them are untrue, or have some truth, but branch into information assumed due to lack of proper information scaffolding."

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Bill Gates is prime evil. I’ve heard that one too. Is that crazy talk?

My most benign interpretation is that countries have fallen to “ celebrity capture” which is what the UK’s former chief advisor admitted to ( sort of).

Britain changed its established pandemic policy after an impressive meeting with Gates’s people. And I am

Aware that this is all

Very much in his field of interest. Might it just be that governments were all like “ hey cool

It’s Bill Gates”. Bill Gates is not bad it’s just that he is wrong. He saw this as his moment to shine and he has messed up catastrophically.

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funny how he never does anything unless it is profitable, especially so when he arranges it so the BMGF spins off profit opportunities to his private pocket. Love of money and all that.

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Sep 23, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

Sigh...I know...did we even go to the moon?

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Well, to be fair, we used to hire ex-Nazi geniuses to build space ships. Now we hire actual Nazi economists to formulate plans to blow dart black people.

Somewhere, something changed. I can't quite put my finger on it because it's ALMOST EVERYTHING.

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In simplistic terms it is the evolution of toxic profiteers & capture of government. From Smedley Butler's list that formed the crux of our intelligence operations to the Reagan years that outsourced & privatized everything including a full spectrum of OpPaperclip Nazi science that was also tied to Wall Street.

Best investigative reporting of covert power empire is Antony Sutton 35yr Chair Stanford Economics & author of 35 textbooks that track funding the "enemies"

https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_skullbones11.htm

Short blueprint for the Reagan era corp capture the brilliant Catherine Austin Fitts

https://dillonreadandco.com/

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somewhere I have tucked away a small fantasy that our national debt exactly equals all the tax cuts for the rich from Reagan's time til now

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I have been following you since the recommendation on the Dark Horse podcast. Your writing is a ray of light among the gibberish propaganda served at every corner. I also like your research meticulousness. But you've made me LOL this time - thank you for that!

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I'm glad you're enjoying it.

I did not know I got a shoutout on the DH podcast (though I've recently been chatting a bit with Bret and Heather and just watched one of their clips). Can you point me to the episode? I was probably too knee deep in analyses...I don't think I saw a single podcast for six or eight weeks around the middle of this year.

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I tried to find the episode but had no luck. I remember it was from a few months ago, I believe in one of their Q&A sessions when an audience member asked for recommendations about "how to do science" reads amidst the covid confusion. They mentioned the name of your substack - Rounding the Earth.

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Pingback update: Rounding the Earth has been mentioned again at around 18:00 of Dark Horse Podcast e. 107

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I believe Heather has mentioned your book Shop Class As Soulcraft more than once.

I bought that book years ago through Lew Rockwell’s Amazon link but am embarrassed to say I haven’t read it yet.

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Oh, haha, that's a different author.

Yeah, I suspect we're likely received a few of each other's emails over the years, however.

The easiest ways to distinguish us are visually, or the number of t's in our first names.

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Sep 23, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

"Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand." that's the only way we can get out of this psychosis.

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good one, thanks, Late in 2019, Pandemos went topsy-turvy when a novel species of two-foot-long monitor lizards showed up on the island. ... Doctor Faucinstein’s laboratory mischief. Mostly, people just knew that large lizards sometimes eat people, and that’s bad news for people who don’t run so fast! early treatments are crucial, too... IVR.. zinkko, quercetinooo, and more...

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I know. This is a story I originally wrote last year (and paid cartoonists to help with) when I saw the "400,000" prediction the day (or day after) the Castillo trial was published. I just couldn't believe the obtuseness of it all.

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love it, thanks again

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Link to Castillo trial? I don't think I've seen that one yet. But I've only been crawling out of the matrix since Rogan's show with Pierre Kory and Bret Weinstein.

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Few people realized the first lizards were actually Geckos, and that the authorities were padding the mortality figures by reclassifying dog bites & bee stings and murdering the vulnerable and infirm with Midazzolam. Despite the lack of effect this had on overall mortality, the media frenzy had, by this time, successfully given the *appearance* of a lizard invasion. Some people even suspect, now that time has passed and people now actually *are* dying of lizard bites, including people who had heretofore been invulnerable to the lizard venom, that the real danger comes exclusively from Doctor Faucinstein’s laboratory.

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"All-cause mortality during COVID-19: No plague and a likely signature of mass homicide by government response" DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.24350.77125

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341832637_All-cause_mortality_during_COVID-19_No_plague_and_a_likely_signature_of_mass_homicide_by_government_response

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Thank you so much for sharing this. Completely wow!

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YW. Bear in mind it's from June 2020.

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And the chiefs of Nacerima have been carving testaments of Pandemos into tablets without having visited

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Yeah, my first test of a new acquaintance is to see what kind of jokes he "gets" and especially does not get. I've learned that customs agents have a very low "getting rate" for instance. I also suspect that the smiling picture we always see of Bill Gates does not indicate that he gets much either.

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This is brilliant.

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Still people say…”I’m within arms reach of Vite’dy, my torch and matches.

I live in Pandemonium.

I’m still afraid of the dark”.

(HaHa! Not me!)

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This is a sadly great examination of what's happened. I noticed this from the beginning and yet people continue to believe otherwise.

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While it was clear to me that it this is satire, it didn't make me laugh, I'm afraid. Perhaps I'm just not QUITE smart or informed enough, or perhaps my sense of humour (yes, that's how I was taught to spell it) is not familiar enough with this particular variety of it. It may not be specifically American, but American humour rarely makes, or rarely has made, me laugh (and neither does, or has, German humour, in case you were interested), but then I may just be odd (or depressed).

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