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Great podcast! I love the idea ‘if-then-equals-because’. These strange leaps of faith are always proclaimed as conclusive evidence when they are actually a weak hypothesis or a fabrication. I would like to add that people describe their hypothesis with a confidence and offer several hypotheses for an observation. For the string above, the devil hand sign is because it’s commonly used for framing (99% confidence), or it’s because it’s a secret symbol to a nefarious religion (1% confidence). For the latter to be given any consideration, we need much more supporting evidence. There can be multiple hypotheses to describe an observation, and the sum of the confidences should equal 100%. I agree that education on these topics helps pierce the veil of propaganda. Really enjoyed the discussion.

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if/then=because is usually bounded by faith (an unknowable truth) or law (an agreed-on truth).

Bounding is a key concept, and I was using the hand sign of a cinematographer who uses his hand to visualize and communicate the “bounds” (left and right) of a camera’s point-of-view and angle.

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It is a great heuristic to identify logical fallacies. Since you mentioned it on Hrvoje’s podcast, I’ve noticed it pop up everywhere! Thanks for the insights. Cheers!

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once I figured it out, I realized why the army thought it was so powerful. On the Ethical Skeptic's website, he lists 3000 logical and scientific fallacies… A huge percentage of them fit the if/then=because linguistic pattern. You can spend your life, memorizing and learning the 3000 logical fallacies, or you can learn to recognize one pattern and the 14 responses… It doesn't seem like much of a choice in the end...

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In terms of coersion, framing is indeed everything. Thank you for posting this one free.

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all podcasts are always free!

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Phrygian pronunciation: frij + ee + uhn. I used to hear about it as the phrygian musical scale. Mostly for jazz and other world music like flamenco but also metal. Metallica's Wherever I May Roam and Megadeth's Symphony of Destruction are examples I found. White Rabbit -Jefterson Airplane, 46&2- Tool... also apparently used in rap.

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very interesting, I will have to ask my wife and daughter about this (one is a metalhead, and the other is a musician).

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Yeah for Ye! :) Nice to see you and Peter keeping a sense of humor. Nice convo. :)

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Really enjoyed this one, also very much looking forward to more on his Jesus theory.

I’ve personally believed for some time that he was trying to expose the system of control that we are currently experiencing.

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Start here: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dlo%2Fgos

Hint: AI will translate it for you. h/t E. Michael Jones.

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Great interview. EM Burlingame can round out the overall understanding with the eternal war and the Resentfuls versus Responsibles framing. It comports with Christ’s teachings as well.

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Great discussion! Really enjoyed so many of the aspects brought to light, not the least of which was the NLP discussion and the concept of "Complex Equivalences"... so much so that I bought the newer of the books you mentioned... "User's Guide to Slight of Mouth", but I was a bit confused if it was the one you meant to promote... as the author is given as Doug O'Brian, not Robert Dilts... so I said wtf, and bought "Slight of Mouth" as well.

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Thank you!

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On a slightly comical note, but true nonetheless... Words are indeed magic... that's why they call it spelling. ;-)

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You and Hvroje have tickled my fancy, despite my long-held contention that Christianity is yet another ancient PSYOP manufactured by the same people you’re railing about here. Anyway, we’re not far apart, and shouldn’t be antagonists:

https://biffogram.substack.com/p/throwback-to-the-future

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You and Peter have tickled my fancy, despite my long-held contention that Christianity is yet another ancient PSYOP manufactured by the same people you’re railing about here. Anyway, we’re not far apart, and shouldn’t be antagonists:

https://biffogram.substack.com/p/throwback-to-the-future

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Great, great, great Podcast thanks @geopoliticsandempire to make me know Peter Duke!

Among many important points,

finally the issue of the Nukes Hoax is more frequently discussed.

This is very important, the very fact that you were in Kazakhstan in a "nuclear explosion site" shows that there's no intense radiation, just as in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

"Intense and century-lasting radiation" was a narrative they created way AFTER the Hiroshima conventional/fire bombing.

And it was pumped by Hollywood Sci-Fi along with both sides of Cold War Governments.

Radiation you checked in Kazakhstan site you visited could be create by any means, (even a radiotherapy creates radiation in a body), there are also stones and sites with natural radiation.

I've been exposing the nuclear hoax in my YT and social networks about three years ago, since I knew the work of Anders Björkman : My Atomic Bomb Findings.

https://heiwaco.tripod.com/abomb2.htm

It's the reference about the subject.

His webpage has a old-style that can sometimes look a little bit confusing, but Everything is there. It's a treasure.

I met him personally last year, here in the South of France, where we both live. He's a great and very accessible guy. You should do a podcast with him, it would be great. Check it out!

Thanks again for your great work, Geopolitical and Empire.

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This was great stuff! Really makes you think, that is so important.

I want to point out that I also already found supporting evidence about Hiroshima!

I have seen this on a video presentation, but he also wrote a book about it.

https://archive.org/details/Hiroshima_revisited/mode/2up

Again question everything, but still like Peter Duke said in the interview, there are logical reasons for doubt.

He also co authored this book, Catherine Austin Fitts put in a afterword.

https://doctors4covidethics.org/mrna-vaccine-toxicity/

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Absolutely loved this guys. Keep up the great work!

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Is it not just the case of not taking as “gospel” anything people say , pardon the pun ! Ive no super powers but Im always skeptical anyways !

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It's like computers doing compression for memory management

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It's what we all do, it's called generalization…

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if you start by separating the words from the people, that's a good place.

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that really makes sense , also I know it goes deeper than my explanation , I guess when I watched the podcast I simplified things to my own place of ignorance

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Easy tiger - this is the second time that you've maligned me re my comment in response to your Fadi Lama interview. I let the first time (on Cognitive Dissidents) roll but enough is enough. There was more nuance and greater context to my point of view which I tried to explain in my reply to your comment at the time but you seem to lack the grace (and as a Christian I emphasise that word) to let things lie. I am not so facile to think that just because someone has worked for a global institution that they are by default a globalist - I'm proof of that myself. If you'd like to explore further, I'd be happy to discuss one-to-one. Otherwise please give me a break!

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I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation, thank you to both of you. The suggestions as to where to find further information were also much appreciated.

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Great pod , Pete is a good guy and an outside thinker ive followed him for a few years now , his content is top drawer !

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