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Stephen Pickering's avatar

I personally am suspicious of the “elite” group of the podcast sphere that emerged who seemed to spend inordinate amounts of energy promoting RFK Jr and Elon Musk as the new champions of everything. It’s almost as if RFK throwing in his lot with Trump was a big surprise! The “sensible “ democrats have overthrown the Marxists and aligned with ex Democrat Trump. Everything will be fine in the new era of Muskism where the champions of free speech can talk about anything except the topics that they will lock you up for. The old broom has a new handle.

Another common motif in Weinstein’s podcasts was the “evolutionary biologist” and how everything needs to be framed in that lens. He made constant references to the phoenix saying that society went through cycles of peaks and troughs and in order to get to the next peak sometimes we have to burn everything down. A touch of social Darwinism always seems to hover.

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RigbyRigbyson's avatar

There are areas in which Cynthia and Matt provide really good info but then in other areas they seem to obfuscate. Their positions on Russia and China as well as some suggestions by other researchers that they are on the payroll of foreign governments. At any rate I appreciate the information they put out that exposes people specifically to the Templar/Jesuit/Vatican role in the world even if their understanding of Christianity is incredibly misinformed.

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The Duke Report's avatar

IDK. For me, the paradox is that to evaluate the good and the evil deeds and ideas in the world accurately, one needs to eschew the Leo Strauss frame of "good guys" and "bad guys." There are plenty of good and bad things to say about Russia, China, Great Britain, and the USA. Understanding that virtual credit cards are a thing; it is possible to astroturf any person on the Internet by flooding their account with new (fake) subscribers and controlling those voices to a certain extent by varying the tap of money. I believe that people like Matt, Cynthia, Courtney, Mathew Crawford, Whitney Webb, James Corbett, and Richard Grove, who all advocate CRITICAL THINKING as the best defense against tyranny, are close to the only authentic voices out there. None of us want you to believe anything we say at face value. If you want to swallow the information we provide without going and checking it, then there isn't much difference between us and TikTok. Casting aspersions like "suggestions by other researchers that they are on the payroll of foreign governments" smell like signature reduction. https://thedukereport.substack.com/p/the-pentagons-cyber-troll-army

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Jessica's avatar

This was an amazing piece of work connecting such a vast scope of epic tragedies. We truly walk on in darkness, applauding the very things that we should be rebuking. Thank you for shedding light on a dark history

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Marc's avatar

Thanks for finding and exposing these reviews to us. There is so much in here that connects our lived history and exposes the invisible hands driving us to their preferred destiny.

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The Duke Report's avatar

Thanks Marc. I'm just trying to find things that help people figure out what is real. A couple thousand years of epistemological warfare takes its toll on critical thinking. Everyone has it, we've just been told we don't! Happy Thanksgiving!

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ArtemisForestFairy's avatar

the abrahamic faiths also have a touch of this longing for "the end times" and ww3. people do not want to admit these religion are in fact, contrived for use exclusively by power.

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ArtemisForestFairy's avatar

I always suspected, weinstein, as his podcast seems to be unduly promoted, and he was at first very pro covid measures. I still suspect, chung, ehret and others. still that was a good video. accurate.

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Frank Miscione's avatar

I remember George Webb saying something about their father being a patent attorney for pharma companies?

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Frank Miscione's avatar

I don't remember any of this in high school history??????

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ArtemisForestFairy's avatar

they don't teach it. what yu do learn is weaponized boredom, so you will never want to read real history books on your own. never will, there are some good books about it. "the phoenix program" by valentine, being one. horrific tho. read all you can about tavistock. the frankfurt school ( i call it frankenstin school).

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