I’ve been continuing my stackversation with Mathew Crawford on Russell Brand. I consider Mathew a brilliant, complex thinker, who I am proud to call friend. I would say the same for Matt Ehret, with whom he talked yesterday. A meeting of two great minds!
With both Matts, I have disagreements and I’d like to talk about the importance of disagreeing with your friends and why that isn’t a contrarian thing to do. And of not rejecting those on the other side, whether or not you call them enemies. This is how you can thwart the psyops that manipulates us through controlled opposition.
Controlled Opposition only works when what you think depends on who said it.
Mathew has been talking about the importance of vetting people and figuring out whether they are who they say they are. And I totally agree with that. So let’s start with Leigh Dundas.
By a VERY odd coincidence, if that’s how you see the world, I was given the name of Leigh Dundas as someone who might help prosecute the judge who gave custody of my neighbor’s children to the abusive husband without her knowing where they were for 11 years. Child trafficking is Leigh’s specialty, although Campfire Wiki says there’s no evidence of her claims to have spent time in Southeast Asia combatting sex traffickers until March 2020.
And Mathew mentions many potential chaos agents, including Leigh and Russell, in his Grand Unity Theory Psyop. In Cultic Handlers, Mathew writes:
Leigh Dundas, who rose to high levels in the Scientology organization, also worked for CHD California. She also worked with Simone Gold, somehow got away scot free from the Capitol Protests, acted among organizers of the fizzled People's Convoy, got kicked out of a pandemic education tour, and is also a QAnoner (friends with Jim Watkins and the QAnon Shaman, it seems).
In Distinguishing Between Infighting and Controlled Opposition, Mathew writes, “How did Leigh Dundas avoid even basic interrogation and promoting what everyone I’ve talked to agrees sounds like hanging and shooting lawmakers at the Capitol?” In What If You’re Watching a Made for Post-TV Movie? he writes:
Leigh Dundas apparently fiddled with thetans long enough to go deep into Scientology. She seems to have some sort of protected status because despite the arrests of hundreds of people after the January 6 Capitol election protests in 2021, law enforcement did not seem to be bothered by her aggressive "shoot em and hang em" rhetoric. One of the men charged (former California sheriff Alan Hostetter) seems to think Dundas groomed him for the moment, including connecting him with the QAnon Shaman.
At 3:18 in this video linked by Mathew, on Jan 5th, 2021, Leigh says that there was proof of foreign election interference from Iran, Russia and China. She continues, “We would be well within our rights to call it what it flippin’ is, and by the way, we would be well within our rights to take any alleged American who acted in a turncoat fashion and … take him out back and hang him or shoot him.”
In the video below, Leigh can be heard braying “Traitor! Traitor!” on J6 in the middle of the crowd. Although this was on her own social media, she denied that she was there other than ‘helping a disabled woman get across the street.’ How is she not in prison while those who were herded and duped by her are languishing?
The video is made by someone who sees Leigh’s involvement in the Trucker Convoy and J6 as discrediting her. But for those of us who see the Trucker Convoy as legit and J6 as a CIA-set up, she is a CIA agitator, someone who brought weapons to the former and set up patsies for the latter. The Anti-Defamation League writes:
The People’s Convoy appears to have strong ties to the QAnon movement, particularly through organizer Leigh Dundas of California, who is a conspiracy theorist, QAnon influencer, and anti-vaccine legal activist. On February 16, People’s Convoy organizer Maureen Steele, who is reportedly Dundas' paralegal, announced on Bannon’s WarRoom that the protest was “working with” the attorney. Dundas later appeared on conspiracy theorist Stew Peters’ talk show to promote the convoy, where she was introduced as an organizer. On February 23, Dundas delivered the opening remarks to protesters as they gathered at the Adelanto Stadium.
Dundas has a long-established history of associating with extremists and extremist movements, including the January 6th insurrection, QAnon, and the militia movement. Notably, at a “Stop the Steal” rally held outside of the Supreme Court the day before the January 6th insurrection, Dundas gave a speech to the crowd in which she suggested that protestors should “take [‘traitors’] out back and shoot or hang them.” She was photographed at a door of the Capitol building during the insurrection, but has not faced charges.
It would seem that her bank accounts have also not been frozen. Police arrested “11 people involved with massive weapons cache” at the Trucker protest. As Vice writes:
The news of the gun arrests comes just as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is reportedly ready to invoke the never-before-used Emergency Act, which would grant him more power to deal with the “freedom convoy” protesters.
Trudeau held an emergency Cabinet meeting Sunday to discuss invoking the Emergency Act, which authorizes “the taking of special temporary measures to ensure safety and security during national emergencies.” Sources told the CBC there are no plans as yet to call in the military, as the “freedom convoy” continues to occupy a significant portion of Canada’s capital.
The leadership of the freedom convoy is nebulous…
Not at all nebulous on Leigh’s CV. Perhaps Trudeau should look harder, into his own covert operations?
When my mutual acquaintance kept insisting that Leigh was the person I needed to contact, I finally had to spill the beans. She said, “That’s interesting.” But when I mentioned Russell Brand, she said, “Don’t break my heart and tell me him too!” But Mathew Crawford might say that’s just because we’re women. From Russell Brand Part 5:
Women are different from men. They are attracted to the guru types, so long as they are sufficiently beautiful or charming. They generally face either cognitive dissonance or blackmail that binds them emotionally. And typically, they do not change course until they or many others have been hurt very badly. I suspect that this is at least part of the reason we have seen so many women of questionable character thrust into positions of power over the past generation. Where a man might tell in 20 seconds when he walks into a sex cult masked as a yoga studio in a strip mall, Katie Griggs found magic in 20 seconds, which is apparently believable to a lot of other women…
I have a long story about how I exposed a Jesus Group leader when I was in high school, which eventually led to him being charged with statutory rape of underage men on ‘the Farm’ and embezzlement of funds. I really just meant to walk away because something felt manipulative about the psychological tricks he was using. But then another woman agreed with me, and half the group left with us and started another group. The charismatic sidekick to the leader, who looked like Jesus, stayed along with all the men who’d been given the status of inner circle. Not one of them recognized in 20 seconds that they were in a sex cult masked as a Jesus group.
Mathew’s sequence is illogical: Russell is a practitioner of Kundalini yoga, Yogi Bhajan was a Kundalini guru who operated a sex cult, therefore Russell is using Kundalini yoga as a sex cult:
I'm not saying that Russell Brand is a rapist. I repeat: I can't know that with any certainty. But my experience and intuition tells me that there are few variables that better correlate with rapiness than a guy who wants to start a yoga studio.
Really? That’s all it takes, for a decades-long practitioner of yoga to mention that he’d like to teach it and might open his own studio? This was in LA and never seems to have happened. I actually started doing yoga because of Russell’s interview on Yoga with Adriene, a free online community with over 11 million subs. I once joked that you could establish a common bond with half of all women by mentioning Adriene, and Russell for the other half.
Mathew poses this “Hypothesis: You're a guru precisely when your followers accept your silence, deflections, or jokes about your abuse of people.” To prove his point, Mathew links The Deleted Interview in which Russell jokes about rape and child abuse. The 38-second clip is taken out of its context, so I don’t know the whole prelude, but Russell is having a serious and sensitive conversation with another comedian about what his comedy protects. He says:
It’s not my extremism that I need to protect, it’s my mundanity: I’m just a bloke from Essex, from a single-parent family … so if there’s anything being protected, it’s that.
And then, to make fun of using his humor to protect how boring and ordinary he is, he quips, “Oh, also I raped someone once!” He looks around the chair for his water and ad libs, “But I killed her after.” The host adds, “She’ll never tell.”
Humor works by surprise, by slipping the rug out from under your expectations. It’s a juxtaposition that jolts. Russell opens up about his insecurities that he’s too ordinary to be interesting, and then throws out the most outrageous act he can imagine as if that’s just normal. It’s funny. It’s not joking about raping a woman. It’s using rape and murder as the obvious opposite of who he just confessed he was, a common bloke from Essex. No one could take this seriously.
From the same article, Mathew cites Russell ‘joking about raping children’:
Later, he referred in a sort of monologue to how the Greeks had sex with children.
"They didn't mind, they were clever, weren't they?" he began.
"I've done another triangle and I'm f**king a little kid.
"This is great. F**k the kid with the triangle."
Mathew asks ‘who would find this funny?’ and I agree. It’s completely out of context and out of character for Russell because it’s not funny at all. Where’s the rest of the joke? But this gets across the same point I make in my book: the ancient Greeks who developed our form of government were assholes: slaveowners, colonizers, misogynists and kid-fuckers. Why are we emulating and exulting them?
Russell derides the ancient Greeks by associating them with the worst behavior imaginable and making up a conversation where that’s completely normalized. Which it was! We all know that. Russell is bringing out in the open the revolting immoral abusive patriarchs of democracy who excluded 80% of the population and kept the peasants docile with the illusion of choice. Like me, Russell is an anarchist. Don’t blame us for the last 3500 years of rule by kid-fuckers.
In the yoga example, Mathew quotes that Russell walked out of his yoga studio in protest when a teacher couldn’t break her contract. The source says Demi Moore also went to this studio and also walked out. From this, Mathew segues to Demi saying that she wanted power like Madonna. And then he goes back to Katy Perry and Russell’s association with women who pattern themselves after Madonna.
First, these are both over a decade ago. Second, it doesn’t even indicate that Russell and Demi even spoke, or walked out at the same time. Third, Mathew can’t have it both ways—indicting Russell for having married Katy but then blaming him for divorcing her with a text. If she is the monarch replacing Madonna as the Satanic queen of the coven, shouldn’t you congratulate Russell for escaping her clutches?
In the comment thread of one episode, Mathew suggested that I should talk to people who know Russell personally to figure out if he’s violent. I responded that if I had access to people who knew Russell, I would have used it long ago to try to get him to interview me, since we’re both supporters of the decentralized government that I design in my book.
My question for Mathew was why Channel Four waited 15 yrs to solicit these allegations rather than when Russell was at the height of his celebrity? It seems like it would have made a better story. No matter what the truth is, the timing is utterly suspicious. And to have every media outlet and even Parliament involved in canceling him? That's not a sudden desire to stand up for women. Mathew answered:
I want to respond to your question about why the accusers did not previously come forward if they're telling the truth.
Understand that this is a difficult question to even read. Millions of women who have been raped would want to strangle you after reading that question. The question seems belittling and offensive to each of us who grew up tortured in a cult. How could the answer not be obvious?
Fear. …
If you have to ask the question, the revelations of the Matrix are going to spin your head. Your worldview has a gaping hole in it that is too large to patch. Almost everyone you know is likely hiding gruesome secrets as large as what you discovered about your neighbor and her kids. Or larger.
Appreciate that you were lucky enough not to have to know.
I answered:
You misread my question, Mathew. I asked why Ch 4 and the media didn't solicit these stories 15 yrs ago if it was their intention to expose Brand as a sexual predator and protect future women. They're the ones who solicited them now. And I made my meaning clear by saying it made a better story when he was famous as a sex symbol, not as someone exposing political, economic, medical and media collusion in order to control the global population. …
I have no doubt that a pedo-sadism cult rules the world from my other research on Anneke Lucas, Whitney Webb, many revolting videos, and even the adrenachrome horror. I've felt like I'm wading neck-deep in the mire of this. But you're saying unless I dunk my head all the way under and assume the guilt of everyone without evidence, I'm just a naive innocent who you have to set straight about the big bad world. Is that not another example of patriarchy?
What you're contending is that Russell is a sexual predator and psychopath, if I understand that correctly. Fear kept his victims from coming forward and his crimes were covered up. Ch 4, the MSM and the UK Parliament are heroes, really, for exposing this and defending the victims. They're just good people who care about women, that's the only reason they've solicited these stories now.
Isn't that blaming the individual but assuming the innocence of the media, high tech and gov'ts? … For all of this research, what's your overall point for its importance? I really value your analytical abilities and integrity, Mathew, so I mean the question sincerely, not rhetorically. Thanks for the attention you've given to this.
And Mathew ended by editing his reply to say:
I did misread your question, but perhaps at least partially because it doesn't make sense to me. Who cares why Chan 4 didn't come forward 15 years ago? It may be that they chose now because it's a new era and they have people there who care about pushing predators out of entertainment. It may be because in early 2019 Brand was identified as somebody who was antiestablishment (though I very much doubt that, and I doubt he is antiestablishment). Personally, I think that Brand was sent into the alt media as a time bomb of some sort, but I don't need to know that to know that he acts as a hypnotist whose reputation becomes intermingled with everything he touches.
I think asking the question seems like a short-circuiting of a critique of Brand, like, "See, they're out to get him." And they could be, but it's not relevant to any of the most important questions.
In conclusion, I think we should judge people as sincere based on their current words and actions, like Leigh Dundas and Robert Malone, and not on their associations and out-of-context jokes from over a decade ago. If Russell is part of the WEFfie psyop, it makes no sense to me that they’re attacking him. They’re not deriding him as a conspiracy theorist the way they did with Leigh or Malone. That would make sense as reverse psychology to give them street cred. They needed that to set them up.
But this attack on Russell is aimed at discrediting him with both the mainstream and the resistance. Why? What is it they consider so dangerous? That’s the side I want to keep exploring and I’m grateful to have Mathew staying focused on the other side.
For more, here’s Russell Branded: I look at the allegations and impact of the Me3 smear campaign launched against Russell Brand. I've done 40+ videos responding to Russell's Under the Skin interviews. I explain the hypocrisy of the MeToo Psyops and what ‘believing the women’ could look like based on my recent episodes. I give a synopsis of other MeToo takedowns with Julian Assange, Mario Cuomo and Dominique Strauss-Kahn. And I end with my prediction for Russell 4.0 and why it’s a parable for all of us.
I examine three videos: Larry King interviewing Russell, The Downfall of Russell Brand: Selling Out Palestine by Kavernacle and Can We Trust Russell Brand? by Deep Thought. In the first I look at sexuality, in the second at right wing grifters and in the third at the clues that Russell is or was part of the Illuminati.
I appreciate your starting paragraph that sets the tone of respect for Mathew. I think both of you are genuinely curious and intelligent and willing to go into mucky waters that are uncomfortable and confusing and want to bring clarity. Debate is good, questions are good. We won't always find any definitive answers even with them (we don't know what we don't know) but we do our best.
Really tough to pin motives on other humans since we can't know their whole story. But when they take public roles, have clear influence and we grok something is 'off', it's hard to avoid.
We all bring our filters to everything we perceive. Traumas, biases, overarching narratives about the world and others come into it.
I don't know ultimately who Brand is. In the end, it probably doesn't matter, especially if I don't 'need' him to be this or that. Conflicting agendas with public personalities is no doubt part of the control matrix. Blurred lines and ongoing disappointment with where we've placed our faith, is a tactic. I think the Q movement in part was about that. I once had a comment exchange with CAF (early days of Q) and asked her (regarding Q) that if it was a psyop, why would they create an army of folks with greater awareness (because the drops did share good info) only to disappoint them in the end? She said because they will feel shame and humiliation from having been duped and so will do nothing in the end - which was the point. I think that's right.
All of the confusion of these times has the ability to defeat us - what's the point; it's too confusing - and it has the ability to steer us more deeply back into ourselves. Do we need external personalities to assert our own authority? Do I need an external anything to claim my own sovereignty and do what I know is right? I know what I know, and I know what is right - in the moment - in terms of my actions. And if I get something wrong, another moment appears in which I self-correct.
I honestly think that ultimately that turning back into ourselves as our own authorities is the great opportunity, even, necessity of these times.
The whole assumption and its many patterns in the world, of needed authorities to tell us what to think, how to feel, who to trust - that's what ultimately over. Personal sovereignty means nothing if we've not claiming inner authority. I author me. You author you. We don't have to agree.
Thanks.
Wow!
Love this and I'm laughing at the bizarre synchronicities that bounced through it.
The funniest one may be yogic! Last month I looked for video guidance to resuscitate and refine 'pigeon pose' as recommended by Conspiracy Sarah to help with my uncomfortable hip. And randomly(?) of the dozen or so on the first page of YouTube was an Adriene of 12 years ago who showed up. I looked at several and settled on her video and shared it with Yoshiko. I just checked - yup that was the same Adriene you are referring to here.
Synchronicity number two aligns with your careful introduction and even definition to your 'disagreement' as being an important process of expanding clarity, understanding and, one hopes, movement towards seeing what is true. I was just making the same point referring to your comment in my essay part 2 as an 'argument' as defined by wiktionary 1, 2, & 3.
And I confessed to being surprised that MC appears to have been bamboozled in such a simple way as to associate rapists with yogis wanting to set up studios! Totally preposterous in a way that has the strong scratch and sniff smell of shadow projection. Jung points out that often times the shadow of a strong 'thinking-type', which by all appearance MC appears to be, can be accompanied by a shadow that projects really crazy illogical even superstitious stuff. The argument that women are more easily duped is ... well. Silly. My bil fell hook-line-and sinker for sex-cult John De Ruiter in Canada, whereas his wife (my sister) who was there at the same time took some expanded awareness from the cult-leader, who was charming and spoke spiritual truth as well as the malicious manipulations, and wasn't 'culted' at all. (Jasun writes about that exceptionally well in his book Dark Oasis: A Self-Made Messiah Unveiled.) Also, I have at least one male cousin deeply culted into that cult.
I like your *arguments* here: strong, reasoned and passionate. As you have elucidated them, MC's are weak, kind of hysterical in the old and derogatory meaning of irrationally woman-ish and outlandish. Another sign of shadow projection, of course, is that he has accused women of being what he himself has at that moment embodied by his own denigration of them with his facile argument.
An interesting break from my essay writing. Thank you.