James Delingpole
Politics • Culture • Writing
How to Murder 100 Million People and Come out Smelling of Roses
September 05, 2025
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Some people call the Covid scam the greatest crime in history. But I beg to differ. I think the two events that steal the crown are the First and Second World Wars, both of them entirely unnecessary, both of them funded and orchestrated by the same kind of people responsible for the fake pandemic and all the deaths and injuries from those safe and effective vaccines.

The First World War claimed an estimated 15 to 22 million lives, with another 23 million wounded. The Second World War claimed an estimated 70 to 85 million deaths, with another 15 to 25 million wounded. I got these figures from Wikipedia, so they may not be accurate. But I think we can agree that the two World Wars were the most devastating events in history, not only in terms of lives lost or bodies maimed, but also in terms of the social upheavals (marriages destroyed, families torn apart, communities dispersed, borders reshaped, livelihoods disrupted, psyches fractured) and the physical damage caused to beloved homes and irreplaceable architectural heritage.

Given that all this carnage was planned, arranged and successfully executed by a small group of identifiable conspirators - and it was - the question that naturally arises is: how did They get away with it?

Or, to put it another way: if you had been part of the elite circle responsible for massacring and dismembering millions and millions of innocent people, what measures would you have taken to persuade the survivors that this bloodbath was in fact a jolly good thing for which we should all be quietly grateful?

The reason I ask is a fascinating book I’m reading called Two World Wars And Hitler: Who Was Responsible? by Jim Macgregor and John O’Dowd. It convincingly demonstrates that the approved narrative on the world wars and their origins is a pack of lies. No, they weren’t started by nasty Germans with silly moustaches. They were orchestrated by a cabal of English and American financiers, aristocrats, businessmen and politicians who weren’t remotely bothered by the millions of lives that would be lost or the lasting damage that would be done. All this elite secret society cared about was destroying Germany (and, to a lesser extent, Russia) which it saw as economic threats - and then reaping the profits and exploiting the geopolitical gains once the carnage was over.

This isn’t exactly news by the way. It follows on from the work of Carol Quigley, Anthony Sutton, Guido Preparata and, before them, of historians such as the American Harry Elmer Barnes. In his 1926 book The Genesis of the War, Barnes became one of the first openly to question the ‘Germany bad’ narrative and poured scorn on the ‘court history’ of the mostly Oxford-based British academics claiming otherwise.

Barnes wrote:

There is no evidence that any responsible element in Germany in 1914 desired a world war, and the Kaiser worked harder than any other European statesman during the crisis to avert a general European conflagration.

But if this is really the case, how come so few of us are aware of it?

Mainly because the people and institutions who might have told us were already bought and paid for.

One of the key reasons for the success of this secret society - known in the early days as the Milner Group, after one of its more assiduous members, Alfred (later Lord) Milner - was that it controlled the financial system, the media and academe.

If it wanted a politician put in his place or needed the public whipped up into a frenzy on a particular issue, it could rely on papers like the Times (whose editor for 30 years, Geoffrey Dawson, was a close friend of Milner’s) to summon up a thundering editorial.

If it needed any figures of influence to be bribed it could rely on the bottomless pockets of the sympathetic Lord Rothschild (“Natty” to his friends) and his various banking fiefdoms in London and New York.

If it required royal support, it could call on first on the dissolute and profligate debauchee Edward VII (aka ‘Bertie’) and later on his son George V, both of them enthusiastic members of the club.

And when it needed tame stenographers to put a favourable gloss on all these shenanigans, it could call on the so-called ‘court historians’. These were the historians who, often in return for an Oxford professorship guaranteed to burnish their prestige and the virtual certainty of handsome book sales, were happy to prostitute themselves by promoting the official line and never asking awkward questions.

Any bestselling historian you’ve heard of, especially if he has ever held an Oxford chair, is almost certainly a ‘court historian.’

As Macgregor and O’Dowd write:

“It is a sad indictment of many academic historians today that they are all too accepting of the mainstream history narrative [….] Dependent for their salaries, research funding and future careers, the vast majority toe the official line. Those few who deviate from the carefully prepared ‘court history’ script are dismissed, deemed unemployable elsewhere in academia, and their careers and livelihoods effectively ruined.”

So this was the state of Britain - and the US: at the higher levels, they were joined at the hip - in the early Twentieth century. Does it sound or look vaguely familiar? It should do for the world we inhabit now is run by the same kind of people, with the same world domination agenda, using the same social programming/brainwashing techniques.

Once you are familiar with these techniques it becomes much easier to spot them retrospectively. For example, one of the classic tricks in the run up to a pre-planned war is to persuade the populace that war is something that they want and need - or that it is, at the very least, inevitable. The last thing you want is the mass of ‘public opinion’ going: “Wait a second. What’s going on here?? We didn’t ask for any of this.”

Luckily, public opinion is easily malleable. We got a taste of this recently during the Ukraine/Russia conflict, when opinion formers started pronouncing Kiev “Kyiv”, when a coke-snorting, playing-the-piano-with-his-penis comedian with only one green t-shirt in his wardrobe was suddenly being feted in Westminster and in all the newspapers as the world’s most heroic and principled leader, when villagers and trendy vicars who couldn’t place Ukraine on a map suddenly took it on themselves to attach blue and yellow flags to their homes and spires.

Here the mind control experts were employing techniques honed in their preparations for the First World War. Their big challenge in the run-up to August 1914 was that the British people had no particular beef with the Germans. Germany was seen as stolid but civilised, sensible and a nice place to go for your spa treatment. It was the French who were our natural enemies.

But little by little from the early 1900s onward, the British were persuaded by their bent politicians and media that Germany was their true enemy. Dire warnings were issued about the expansion of the German navy (which in reality was only enlarging itself because it could see what was coming); trivial incidents such as the 1911 “Morocco Crisis”, when a tiny German gunboat tried making a feeble protest against provocative Allied manoeuvring in supposedly neutral Morocco, were blown up by the newspapers as acts of inexcusable belligerence. [See also: the ‘Gulf of Tonkin incident’, which the Americans faked as their pretext for starting the Vietnam War]. By the time Britain declared war in August 1914, the populace had been worked up into such a pitch of Germanophobia that furious mobs roamed the streets in search of German targets to destroy, be they Bechstein pianos or, even less excusably, dachshund pets, which in a number of recorded incidents were stoned or beaten to death.

Even then, though, killing their Anglo-Saxon brethren did not come naturally to either side. This was most famously illustrated by the Christmas Truce of 1914 when tens of thousands of German and British troops at points along the Front met in No Man’s Land to exchange cigarettes, drink and souvenirs.

The scene is described here. It’s interesting to note that in most of the contemporary accounts quoted, it appears to have been the Germans who initiated the truce.

“It was a beautiful moonlit night, frost on the ground, white everywhere,” reported Private Albert Moren of the Second Queen’s Regiment. “About seven or eight in the evening there was a lot of commotion in the German trenches and there were these lights – I don’t know what they were.

“And then they sang ‘Silent Night’ – ‘Stille Nacht’. I shall never forget it; it was one of the highlights of my life. What a beautiful tune.”

The image of Germans lighting candles in their trenches and the sounds of their gentle singing drifting across the killing fields of No Man’s Land has become iconic.

Along the line, German soldiers held up white flags, or messages asking the Tommies facing them not to shoot. Men that had been engaged in desperate fighting days or even hours before had begun to feel illuminated by the Christmas spirit.

Soon they were singing together, trading jokes and the odd jovial insult or two.

Marmaduke Walkinton of the London Regiment described the scene: “A German said, ‘Tomorrow you no shoot, we no shoot.’ And the morning came, and we didn’t shoot, and they didn’t shoot.

“So then we began to pop our heads over the side and jump down quickly in case they shot but they didn’t. And then we saw a German standing up, waving his arms, and we didn’t shoot, and so it gradually grew.”

In at least one sector, there was also an impromptu game of football.

“Suddenly a Tommy came with a football, kicking already and making fun, and then began a football match,” wrote Lieutenant Johannes Niemann of the 133rd Saxon Infantry Regiment. “We marked the goals with our caps. Teams were quickly established for a match on the frozen mud, and the Fritzes beat the Tommies 3-2.”

Perhaps it won’t at all surprise you to learn that The Powers That Be weren’t remotely happy with this. They wanted slaughter not mutual love and understanding. Though no punishments were handed down for this unsanctioned fraternisation, measures were enforced to ensure it never happened again. First, the troops were moved to different sections of the line, to reduce the likelihood of their feeling residual kinship with the enemy units posted opposite. Secondly, casualty records across the front were regularly scrutinised so that senior officers could spot mini cease fires.

If one was detected, raids and patrols would be organised to foster the correct “fighting spirit” in troops.

It’s probably worth my reiterating the point that under most circumstances, people - even young men of ‘fighting age’ - would rather have a friendly chat than kill one another. To get them to kill requires relentless conditioning. And that conditioning is not an organic thing that arises from natural circumstances. It has to be directed from above.

Which isn’t, of course, the way we’re taught about war at school. Especially not about the First and Second World Wars which are invariably sold to us as examples of ‘just wars’ which ennobled all those who fought on the ‘right’ side in them.

At my fairly typical English public school, Malvern, this celebration of the glorious dead reached its apotheosis in the annual Remembrance Sunday service, which was taken more seriously than any other event in the school calendar. The school Corps lined up in military formation in front of the college war memorial (St George). A two minute’s silence was observed for the school’s fallen (462 in the First War; 249 in the Second). The Last Post was blown by a bugler from the rooftops. It was all very solemn and quite moving. In my day there were still plenty of Old Boys around who had served in the war, and whom you could see standing stiffly in their British Warms blinking back their tears at memories of the friends they had lost in combat.

What I hadn’t realised at the time is that this ceremonial was and is all part of the conditioning process. Sure we were honouring the dead. But we were also being brainwashed with a number of subliminal messages which I now realise were not just false but dangerous.

I think, for example, of how I would find it impossible to sing, without a catch in my voice, those lines from that classic Remembrance Day hymn, I Vow To Thee My Country. It’s sung to one of the most poignant and moving tunes in the English hymnal, taken from the Jupiter movement of Gustav Holst’s Planets Suite.

I vow to thee, my country, all earthly things above,
entire and whole and perfect, the service of my love:
the love that asks no question, the love that stands the test,
that lays upon the altar the dearest and the best;
the love that never falters, the love that pays the price,
the love that makes undaunted the final sacrifice.

But wait. What is really going on here?

Perhaps it’s not a coincidence that the author of those lines was a senior British diplomat named Sir Cecil Spring Rice. Shortly before the war, Rice was posted to Washington as Ambassador to the US, his primary mission being to persuade Woodrow Wilson’s administration to abandon its position of neutrality and take sides against Germany. Rice would never have got the job unless he had been entirely sympathetic to the Milner group’s aims.

So here we have an example of one of the (albeit junior) architects of the First World War later being enlisted - a bit like the capable Mr Wolf in Pulp Fiction - to help with the clean up operation. Operation Turd Polish, as it really ought to have been known.

The commission might have gone like this: “Cecil, old boy. D’ye remember that splendid little poem you wrote just before the war, Urbs Dei, about what a jolly marvellous thing it is when a chap dies for his country? We wondered whether you could spruce it up to make it a kind of national anthem for the Fallen. Maybe if you lost some of the ‘thunder of the guns’ stuff in the first verse - still a bit raw, that - and made it a bit more vague and poetic. What we’re after is a proper tearjerker, which chokes you up every time you hear it. But also something that conveys the important message that your country’s call demands unquestioning obedience and that if you do end up getting the chop, well it’s no bad thing because of love, sacrifice, being tested, and all that.”

No. I know it didn’t really happen quite as I’ve described. But I hope you will forgive my poetic licence in pursuit of my broader point, viz: one of the chaps whose job it was to ensure that thousands and thousands more young men (in this case American volunteers) were fed into the meat grinder also wrote the anthem explaining how totally marvellous and noble it was to die in this way.

I’m similarly sceptical of the oft-quoted lines from Lawrence Binyon’s For The Fallen.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

Yes, of course, it’s comforting to think of the war dead being frozen in a state of eternal youth andbeing perpetually memorialised as a kind of perk for having had their lives cut so brutally short. But though I’ve no doubt Binyon’s sentiments are sincere and heartfelt, they also constitute the most spectacular propaganda win for people who actually caused all those premature deaths.

As Horace well knew when he wrote the sarcastic lines “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” (which he only survived to write because he’d taken the sensible decision to run away at the Battle of Philippi), dying for your country has nothing to recommend it.

What both Rice’s and Binyon’s verses serve to do is gloss over this fact with a layer of slightly mawkish sentiment. Yes, it’s a lovely thought, and perhaps a way of dealing with loss by presenting sacrificial death as a kind of victory. But it’s also a massive ducking of the issue. All these men, in fact, died for nothing. And anything that distracts from that fact is doing them no favours - but is participating in the cover up.

Another example of this collective cover up by the cultural Establishment are those neat graveyards, lovely maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, with their uniform headstones in Portland stone. These were devised by committees of the great and the good, including three of the most eminent architects of the day Sir Herbert Baker, Sir Reginald Blomfield and Sir Edwin Lutyens, with Rudyard Kipling as literary adviser and Gertrude Jekyll as garden designer.

Immaculate, dignified, striking, enduring: yes. But also yet another element in the ongoing, massive and all-encompassing snow job operation to erase from the world any sense that those wars might have been a criminal act planned by the very class of people who dreamed up all those magnificent memorials (the Menin Gate, etc) and picturesque cemeteries.

Why do I know about the Menin Gate, even though I’ve never been there? Because it’s one of the myriad aspects of the First World War which has been thrust relentlessly into our consciousness in the years since. For any half-way educated European certainly, the First World War has been inescapable.

Here are some of the various ways in which the First World War has entrenched itself in my own thoughts over the years: thrilling to the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves; grinding in school English classes through the eloquent misery of the War Poets, few of whom survived; not knowing much about the 60s anti-war musical Oh What A Lovely War! except that it was a Thing and had something to do with Joan Littlewood; blood-bathing in the Götterdämmerung war porn of Ernst Junger’s Storm of Steel; feeling very melancholy after exposure to RC Sheriff’s Journey’s End and again by its Royal Flying Corps movie version Aces High; being frustrated by the very sketchy details of Jay Gatsby’s mysterious war service past; “Lions led by donkeys”; knowing that the survival time of a second lieutenant on the first day of the Somme was shorter than a May fly’s; meeting Harry Patch, the machine gun battalion veteran who outlived them all; never getting round to reading All Quiet On The Western Front for fear of being too depressed, especially in the scene where they bayonet one another; putting on a bad Australian accent to recite the ‘How fast can you run?’ ‘As fast as a leopard’ lines from Gallipoli; exploring the impressive reconstruction of the trench section once captured by a young Lieutenant Rommel in what is now Slovenia; getting cross with Jon Snow, the silly leftist news presenter, for wearing a white poppy instead of a red one; feeling sorry for the brave horses in War Horse; laughing at the slug-balancing act in Blackadder Goes Forth; spotting anachronistic black people about to go over the top in Sam Mendes’s 1917; trying to track down poppies at the last minute for various Remembrance Days; recommending my father in law to go to see Days of Glory - about North African units fighting for the French - and him having accidentally gone to see the comedy Blades of Glory by mistake; relishing the fantastically cynical, horribly realistic Royal Flying Corps quartet of novels (Goshawk Squadron, etc) by Derek Robinson; watching various politicians on the TV news laying wreaths at the Cenotaph memorial in Whitehall; finally getting round to seeing Kirk Douglas in Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory; trying on my military re-enactor brother Dick’s French infantryman’s horizon blue uniform, including the Casque Adrian helmet; feeling rather sad that Alain-Fournier, author of one of my favourite novels, hadn’t survived to write any more because he was killed in the trenches…

For something none of us ever experienced, the First World War has taken up an awful lot of our collective headspace. You could argue that this is no more than the fallen deserve - and that is certainly what we have been trained to think. But I now wonder whether it hasn’t also been a case of what the CIA calls ‘flooding the zone’: overwhelming the target audience with so much disparate information that they are rendered incapable of processing it.

What I notice about all the examples I’ve given above - whether they invite us to focus on the ugly details of trench warfare or the exhilaration of survival or the sense of futility and waste or the incompetence of the commanders or the insufficient reverence of public figures or military tactics, uniforms and equipment - is that not one of them, not a single one of them, vouchsafes the only information that really matters.

The First World War (the Second too) was a blood sacrifice staged by our Satanic elites to kill as many of us possible while increasing their world domination. And the supposed goodies - the ‘Allies’ - were in fact the baddies.

I don’t remember being told that in any of my school history classes. Do you?

What I do remember quite clearly, though, is how puzzled I was when first exposed to the official narrative on “How the First World War started.”

The reason the flower of England’s youth were sent in wave after wave to drown in mud, get mowed down by machine guns or blown to smithereens by shells was that a student from a far-off Central European country that no one gave a toss about had assassinated some Archduke and his wife in a place called Sarajevo.

Sorry? Excuse me? Nearly a million of my countrymen were sent to die because of that?

It made no sense to me when I first heard it, around the age of 13. I suspect I probably wasn’t the only child to have that initial gut-reaction. That would explain why the English school curriculum at the time spent so many hours of history classes on the First and Second World origins narrative: to grind all that scepticism out of you, and wear you down to the point where you’re like: “Yeah, whatever. All right. I surrender. The Germans started it all, for reasons I still don’t quite understand. We were the goodies. These were just wars. Can we move onto another subject, now?”

Anyway, I think there are some useful lessons we can learn from all this. Here are some of them.

The People Who Run The World Are NOT Incompetent

They’d love you to believe otherwise. That’s why They gave you “Hanlon’s Razor”, the apocryphal aphorism that urges “Never attribute to malice that which adequately explained by stupidity.”

But conjuring two World Wars out of nothing is no mean feat. And subsequently persuading the world that they were just, necessary and the other side’s fault must surely earn our grudging respect as an achievement of diabolical genius.

Yes, Everything Really Is A Conspiracy

Usual disclaimers apply - but essentially: Yes. If it’s in ‘the news’ it’s probably a psyop.

The ‘purple-pilled’ get very upset when you tell them this. Consider the recent furore in Awake circles over the vexed question of whether ‘Lucy Connolly’ was a crisis actor/intelligence services operative or just an ordinary mum who happened to have been unfairly banged up in prison for an unfortunate tweet.

“Not everything is a conspiracy,” the “She’s just a lovely, ordinary mum” faction crossly insisted. They accused the “She’s a spook” camp of being divisive and paranoid and over-imaginative.

But there’s a problem with this ‘divisive and paranoid’ slur. In order for it carry weight it would have to be demonstrably the case that conspiracies by malign elites against the people are rare, indeed exceptional. All the evidence shows, however, that such conspiracies are in fact the norm.

What all the evidence also shows is that the elites’ primary control mechanism is collective mind manipulation, so that ordinary people are continually fooled into believing stuff that isn’t true. Stuff like, say, “It was the Germans who started the two World Wars but it’s OK. The good guys won.”

To persuade the public of such untruths, against all evidence, required devilish ingenuity, massive resources and deception on an almost unimaginable scale.

Are we now supposed to believe that once the two wars were over, the people responsible suddenly decided: “Well that’s all our naughtiness worked out of our system. We’re going to behave nicely from now on. No more lies; no more killing; no more psyops…”?

Politicians were never on our side

There’s a widespread delusion - call it the “Where are the titans of yesteryear?” fallacy - that if only we had better politicians, like the selfless, principled grandees from the good old days, we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in.

This delusion is the product of bad historians and short memories. Look at the various MPs in the Conservative and Liberal governments in the run up to World War I, for example, and you discover they fit into two basic categories: stupid and evil.

The majority were the stupid ones had no idea whatsoever that a tiny, elite, Anglo-American secret society was pushing their country into a war no ordinary person wanted or needed. So were useless when it came to preventing it.

The minority were the evil ones (such as Sir Edward Grey, Herbert Asquith and Winston Churchill) who were more or less fully aware that they were doing the bidding of the secret society. But they didn’t mind one bit, either because they shared its aims, or because they were going to be rewarded for it, or both. So they lied, cheated, dissembled, faked, postured and backstabbed till they effected their controllers’ desired outcome.

That was early 1900s. Nothing has changed since.

If You Know Their Name, They Are In The Game

One of the great disappointments when you look into true history, as opposed to fake history, is realising how thoroughly compromised were most of the people you used to admire. Churchill is the obvious example. But there are plenty of others.

Take the author John Buchan. His The Thirty-Nine Steps used to be one of my favourite adventure yarns. But with hindsight that book is the purest Milner group propaganda. The hero, Richard Hannay, a veteran of the ugly South African wars (in which the British invented the concentration camp) uncovers on the eve of the war a dastardly plot by an evil German spy network which has penetrated deep into the British Establishment. Buchan, who had been Milner’s private secretary in South Africa, was employed during the war to produce a propaganda magazine called Nelson’s History of the War dispensing fake history.

I have my doubts too about the author of another classic novel of that period, The Riddle of the Sands. Erskine Childers was an upper class Irishman and fanatical British imperialist who served in the Boer War, but who later turned against the Empire and was shot by firing squad for having supplied guns to the Republican rebels during the Easter Rising. But there’s something deeply suspicious about the plot of The Riddle of the Sands in which two English sailors exploring the shallow waters, mudflats and secret inlets of the Frisian Islands accidentally stumble upon an imminent seaborne invasion of Britain by a concealed fleet of German tugs and barges.

The book was published in 1903: eleven years before the outbreak of war, at a time when almost no one - apart from the Milner Group conspirators - saw Germany as a threat. Childers himself described it as “a story written with a purpose” written from “a patriot’s natural sense of duty.” It clearly did the trick because it was frequently cited by Churchill an excuse to build up British naval power. But who planted the plot idea in Childers’ head?

All ‘Freedom’ Movements Are Co-Opted

There’s a good example in Paul Cudenec’s superb essay Wars, Resets and the Global Criminocracy.

During the First World War, one of the groups wheeled out to support the criminocratic agenda was a wing of the Suffragette movement.

Apparently in return for agreeing to stop their militant activities, Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst were handed a government grant.

Emmeline declared her support for the war effort and began to demand military conscription for British men, while Christabel Pankhurst demanded the “internment of all people of enemy race, men and women, young and old, found on these shores”. [15]

And the suffragettes were among those women who handed white feathers to males not in uniform, including teenage boys as young as 16.

They Are Psychopaths

In May 1915 the British passenger liner RMS Lusitania was sunk without warning in breach of international by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1200 lives, including 128 Americans. The resultant furore at this ‘brutal act of wanton slaughter’ was what turned hitherto reluctant US public opinion in favour of joining the war with Germany.

Which was the plan all along. The ship - in breach of US law - had been secretly loaded with munitions beforehand. And the British Admiralty, which had cracked German naval codes, deliberately sent Lusitania at reduced speed into an area where U-20 had already sunk two ships.

Five days before the sinking of the Lusitania, as Fergus O’Connor Greenwood recounts in 180 degrees: Unlearn the Lies You Have Been Taught to Believe, the US Ambassador to the United Kingdom Walter Heinz Page sent the following note to his son:

“If a British liner full of Americans be blown up what will Uncle Sam do? That’s what is going to happen?”

The US later used the same playbook at Pearl Harbour, allowing eight of their battleships to be sunk or damaged and over 2000 of their service personnel to be killed in the ‘surprise’ Japanese attack which would hasten America’s entry into the Second World War.

See also: 9/11

They Invent The Lies; But We Do Their Dirty Work for Them

During ‘Covid’, lots of Awake people expressed astonishment that our doctors, whose job it supposedly is to care for our health and to ‘first do no harm’ instead chose to push on the unwitting populace an unnecessary experimental drugs procedure that would end up killing them or injuring them.

But it’s not just the doctors who betray us. So too does every other ‘prestigious’ profession. Bankers conceal the corrupt nature of the financial system; politicians routinely lie about everything; scientists promote fantastical bollocks about climate change; accountants cook the books for evil corporations; media types regurgitate Cabal propaganda as ‘news’…

…And the historians. Surely not them as well? What could be more innocuous than a career delving into the mysteries of the past and, through diligent research, explaining to students and other readers what really happened?

Few historians do this, though. Certainly not the ones who get the professorships and sell books in quantity. The price they pay - and are more than happily prepared to pay - for success is to cover up for their dark overloads.

It is thanks to historians, more so perhaps than to any other profession, that the psychopaths responsible for the worst crimes in history continue to get away with murder.

Nihil Sub Sole Novum

But perhaps the most important lesson of the Two World Wars is this: everything you thought was new and shocking They’ve been doing - and getting away with - for years.

Psyops did not begin with “Look him in the eyes and tell him the risk isn’t real.”

Conspiracies did not start with JFK.

False Flags did not begin with 9/11.

Confected atrocity stories about beheaded babies in Gaza or murdered children at ‘Taylor Swift’ ballet classes in Southport? Just consider all the stories circulated in the Allied media in 1914 about evil, spike-helmeted Teutons raping nuns and bayoneting nurses.

Wear a mask? A carbon copy of “Always carry your gas mask” in 1939. As Carol Quigley recounts in Tragedy & Hope, the threat of airborne gas attacks was a chimera. The purpose of ubiquitous and enforced gas masks was to psych the populace into a state of anxiety and obedience.

False flags like 9/11, the Boston Marathon bombings, 7/7, etc? Both World Wars were rife with Allied false flags, including attacks by Allies dressed up as Germans in Poland and, of course, the ‘allow it to happen’ variant as used more recently in Gaza, at Pearl Harbor.

As well as being arguably the worst crime in history, the First and Second World Wars were also perhaps its biggest and most successful brainwashing exercise. They were the testing ground for all the psychological manipulation techniques still fooling us - most of us - today.

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Unfortunately, numbers are strictly limited. So please don’t be one of those people - I’m the procrastinating type myself, so I know whereof I speak - who sends me a pleading message a few days before the event saying: “Can you squeeze me in?” Because tragically I might not be able to help.

Here’s why I think you’ll enjoy it. The main event is me doing a live Delingpod with Bob Moran and the conversation is going to be great. You know it is. Apart from my brother Dick - who’ll also be appearing, obvs. - there’s probably no one with whom I have a greater rapport than Bob. And, gosh, do we have a lot to talk about: chemtrails, death jabs, dinosaurs, Satanists, the New World Order etc. All the stuff, basically, that you can’t discuss with your Normie friends, but which here we’ll cover freely and frankly because, hey, you’ll be ...

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Christianity 1 New Age 0

If you haven’t already - I’m a bit behind the curve here - I urge you to watch this car crash encounter between Christian apologist and scholar Wes Huff and ‘ancient civilisation’ researcher Billy Carson.

It’s an excruciating experience - probably best to watch it on double speed - for a couple of reasons. First, the hapless podcast host/debate moderator Mark Minard is somewhat out of his depth and is also clearly embarrassed at having one of his guests (Carson, sitting right next to him) eviscerated in front of him by his other guest. This causes him to interrupt the debate at intervals and expound well-meaningly but not very interestingly on his own half-baked views on the mysteries of the universe. You feel a bit sorry for him but you do rather wish he’d shut up.

Second, and mainly, it’s painful to watch Carson being outclassed and outgunned by someone who knows and understands his purported field of expertise so much better than he does. Carson was reportedly so upset by the encounter that he ...

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Tyger! Tyger! Load of Bollocks!
But Why Did They Do It?

Gosh, I have so very much been enjoying the story about the man almost eaten alive by the tiger.

This isn’t like me at all. Normally when people get devoured by wild beasts I feel great empathy for them. “There but for the grace of God go I”, I think. It really can’t be fun being chomped to bits by some savage creature with nasty pointy teeth - sharks, crocodiles, polar bears, jaguars, leopard seals… - and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, not even Bill Gates.

But in the case of ‘William Chapman’ I’ll make an exception. I don’t believe he got mauled - or playfully pawed or even affectionately licked - by a Siberian tiger called Altai in Yorkshire Wildlife Park. I don’t believe the police took 33 photos of the incident. I’m not even sure that William Chapman is a real person.

If you’re unfamiliar with the background to the story, here’s a summary from Morgan on Twitter. Morgan is very good at spotting psyops.

Sooooooo, just so we’re clear, this is what we’re suppose to believe.

“William Chapman”, reportedly a former BBC and ITV child actor, went to the zoo alone, started dancing, filmed the tiger, uploaded the footage, then asked a random woman to photograph him, then ended up jumping 12 feet inside an enclosure with a 200kg Siberian tiger.

(Interestingly, that’s the same reported height Lindsay Clancy fell from, and allegedly the same height Tyler Robinson jumped from. Twelve feet again. What a popular measurement.)

A woman “desperately” tried to stop him, while “witnesses” somehow managed to identify him screaming “stop” and signing “bad” in Makaton during the attack. 🤣Incredible. Apparently, even the fucking tiger attack had with autism subtitles.

Then he died.

Meanwhile, the media have treated us to a fabulous collection of mirror selfies, that are exactly the same dramatic travel photos, and a kitchen portrait featuring a Bible, firearms, a crossbow and an arrow in his mouth.

Makes sense.

Authorities are discouraging circulation of the footage, and the media have already moved on to discussing zoo safety regulations.

I guess it makes sense to people that at a crowded wildlife park, with countless cameras, that there would be ONE video.

What a fucking screenplay. Can’t wait for the BBC adaptation.

Morgan@MorganC000
Sooooooo, just so we’re clear, this is what we’re suppose to believe. “William Chapman”, reportedly a former BBC and ITV child actor, went to the zoo alone, started dancing, filmed the tiger, uploaded the footage, then asked a random woman to photograph him, then ended up…
Morgan @MorganC000
The most disturbing part of this video is how blatantly fake it is, yet people are still buying it without a second thought.
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Yes, Morgan. All of this! To those of us who know it seems quite extraordinary that anyone should be taken in by so obvious a scam. Yet the Normies have fallen for it hook line and sinker. And appear to get indignantly defensive when you try to tell them otherwise.

Here are some of the responses I got on Twitter when I called out the fakery.

Is there anything that you don’t think is a conspiracy?

Oh dear. I wondered what became of you. This has become of you. How sad.

You guys are genuinely demented freaks. How do you write this and think "This makes total sense and doesn't make me sound like a complete schizo"

When I say ‘appear’ to get indignantly defensive, that’s because I believe most of these responses aren’t genuine. They are the work of intelligence services operatives and bots whose mission is to poison the wells for truth seekers on social media by implying that they are heartlessly insensitive or deranged - or both.

Here is an example of the ‘you are a heartless bastard’ smear:

READ THE HEARTBREAKING FAMILY STATEMENT FROM YESTERDAY.....he'd been mentally ill for several years, prescribed STRONG medication......he had no idea the danger he was in......do as they ask....STOP posting this video, & vile conspiracy theories....show them respect now🇬🇧

And here is an example of the ‘you are bonkers’ one:

What the fuck are you on. The poor man was obviously suffering from a severe mental breakdown. It's now been confirmed he was suffering from mental illness the last few years by his family. What conspiracy? You people are insane!

Usually, when you click on the account details, you discover that they only joined recently and have a handful of followers, mostly porn accounts. There is no point in engaging with them because it gives them the attention they want and the credibility they don’t deserve. The Mail on Sunday columnist and Twitter warrior Peter Hitchens is forever debating with these fake intelligence services accounts. I used to think that it was because he was a fuddy-duddy Boomer who just doesn’t understand the game. But I, and others, have explained the situation to him so many times - he never answers, which is uncharacteristic because usually he can’t stop himself answering - that I now suspect he knows what he is doing and that he is part of the problem. He’s a dissident - but of the Establishment-licensed variety.

The preponderance of Twitter attacks from dubious sources is, of course, the biggest tell of all that this tiger story is another psyop. If a man really had been eaten by a tiger, the narrative-controllers wouldn’t have bothered to intervene because res ipsa loquitur. The truth doesn’t need propping up, only lies.

By far the most common critical response to those calling out the tiger scam is the ‘But why would they do this?’ question. Here is Morgan again (@MorganC000)

I’m big on asking who benefits. Motive matters. But there’s something deeply inorganic about this response. Dozens of people parroting the same question, “Why would they fake it?” with zero interest in examining the discrepancies. That kind of uniform curiosity about motive, coupled with a complete absence of curiosity about evidence, is peculiar.

Since when did knowing WHY become a prerequisite for questioning WHAT?

Morgan@MorganC000
I’m big on asking who benefits. Motive matters. But there’s something deeply inorganic about this response. Dozens of people parroting the same question, “Why would they fake it?” with zero interest in examining the discrepancies. That kind of uniform curiosity about motive,…
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Once again, I suspect that most of these responses are from the intelligence services rather than from real people. What the Feds have worked out - not that it wasn’t obvious - is that the biggest barrier Normies have when trying to make sense of ‘conspiracy theories’ is the question of motive.

I joke about this in my revised issue of Watermelons, when I conjure a scene in which Shit Sherlock Holmes goes to investigate a body in the library. The dead man has a knife in his back. But Shit Sherlock Holmes rules that it must have been an accident because if it had been murder he would have been able to work out the motive.

Why is the motive question such a deal-breaker for Normies when it comes to accepting the reality of a ‘conspiracy'? Well let’s use the tiger story as a case study. In order to believe that it was a psyop you would have also to accept that all sorts of decent, apparently trustworthy people were in on the scam: the police, the wildlife park, the family of the alleged victim, the ambulance services, the media, the coronor’s office and so on. For most people, that is just too big a pill to swallow because it would involve radically changing their understanding of the world and the role, therein, of authority figures.

We’re all brought up to believe that the world is essentially a benign one. Sure, we are given to understand, there are one or two bad apples and we need to keep our wits about us. But generally, we imagine that can rely on the system to protect our interests. We expect the police, for example, to defend truth and justice rather than, say, to pretend that a man has been killed by a tiger when he hasn’t. We expect journalists, within reason, to tell us what actually happened in the tiger enclosure, as opposed to what totally didn’t happen in a million years in the tiger enclosure.

This is why it’s so much easier to dismiss the notion of conspiracy with what seems to be the killer question: “But why would they do it?” It gives the reassuring feeling of being logical, rational and unanswerable. After all, just how utterly mind-boggling would it be to have to live in a world where your trusted authorities were actually so untrustworthy - and frivolous and malevolent - that they would publicise fake stories about a man being eaten by a tiger in a wildlife park? Why it would mean these people were capable of lying to you about absolutely anything and everything! And no one would do that, surely?

But, as we so-called conspiracy theorists know, they do this all the time. Deception is our dark overlords’ primary control mechanism. They use it to generate fear, confusion, division - all of which reduce the populace to a state where they are both more malleable and more inclined to crave protection. Protection from the very people who throughout history have used this misplaced trust to crush those beneath them.

These are not things that can be explained in a sentence. This is hard-won information which ‘conspiracy theorists’ have only acquired after many months of research and bitter experience and social ostracism and personal trauma. You can’t just hand it to Normies on a plate and expect them to devour it gratefully. Especially not when they have been trained to view the contents of the plate as if they were poison.

Still, if I had to hazard a guess as to the motivation behind this tiger psyop I’d say that they rarely do these things for one reason alone, so there is a multitude of possible options. These include: to mess with our heads; to test how gullible we are when it comes to AI-generated imagery [is it a coincidence that that poor, blameless tiger is called Altai? They do love their puns, these Cabal psychopaths]; to foment division between various factions - those who feel sorry for the tiger; those who feel that all tigers in captivity should be destroyed lest another such incident happens; those who feel that there should be more regulation; those who want to get cross with conspiracy theorists who deny the reality of this terrible and moving tiger story, etc; as a distraction from something else; as part of the process of hypernormalisation whereby we are continually bombarded with confusing information which we are required to process and accept even though our guts tell us it doesn’t make sense; some weird occultic shit to do with tigers understood only by the initiated; and so on.

One of the more obvious ones, for me, emerged when they published on the front pages of the newspapers that dodgy photo of the alleged victim holding a crossbow, with a crossbow bolt between his teeth, and, of all things, a Bible. [There was also a fake Roman helmet with the paedo symbol on it, but let’s not go there, it gets too confusing]. This, clearly, is to seed in the public imagination the notion that anyone who wishes to hunt or to defend themselves with a cross bow, or who reads the Bible is dangerously unhinged.

And isn’t it interesting that Donald Trump decided to jump on the bandwagon by releasing a tasteless AI video of himself wrestling with that supposed man-eating tiger? Was that the action, would you say, of someone who believed that the tiger incident was anything other than a psyop?

Trump likes playing these games because one of his many acting roles is that of Chaos Agent. What Trump is telling the Normies who believe the tiger story is: “You are all gullible idiots. And because you have demonstrated - not for the first time - that you are such gullible idiots, you have given people like me permission to go on and on abusing you.”

This is how crazy the world is. Once you know this stuff, you can’t unknow it. No wonder the Normies would rather look the other way.

Morgan@MorganC000
The symbolism in Trump’s AI tiger video is kind of a trip through the lens of US–Russia relations. So the tiger, Altai, is an endangered Amur tiger, commonly known as the Siberian tiger, a species native to the Russian Far East. The animal has long symbolized Russian strength,…
Benonwine @benonwine
Donald Trump posted this video of himself wrestling a tiger. 🐅 What do you think bit of fun or disrespectful?
 
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Is it ‘Anti-Semitic’ to Say that Lord Rothschild Was a Soviet Spy?

Lord (Victor) Rothschild - father of Jacob Rothschild, grandfather of Nat Rothschild - was a KGB spy. I don’t know about you but I think this is a pretty big deal. A British peer of the realm, supposedly working for the British intelligence services, was in fact a traitor and a double agent - or, indeed, a triple agent because he was also, inevitably, spying for Mossad.

But though reams have been written on the three most infamous double agents in 20th century British intelligence history - Philby, Burgess and Maclean - the treachery of Lord Rothschild remains largely unknown, despite the fact that Rothschild likely did more damage and betrayed more secrets than the other three spies put together. So how come he has been let off the hook?

This was one of the questions I was keen to ask this week’s Delingpod guest Roland Perry. Perry is the Australian professor and author who unmasked Rothschild in his painstakingly-researched book The Fifth Man. It was published thirty years ago and given the explosive nature of his material, you might have thought it would have sold in the millions - as did far less revelatory books like Peter Wright’s Spycatcher, which erroneously fingered MI5 head Roger Hollis as the Fifth Man. Instead, I was surprised to hear from Perry - who said I was just about the only interviewer in the last thirty years to take his research seriously - that the book’s sales scarcely exceeded five figures.

Really, though, I shouldn’t have been surprised at all. You only have to read Christopher Hitchens’s 1995 hatchet job in the impeccably left-liberal Establishment The London Review of Books to see where Perry came unstuck.

Roland Perry – who actually opens one of his chapters with the words ‘A shot rang out’ – would not know the difference between Bukharin and Bakunin, and makes the case that Victor Rothschild was a spy because he was a Jew. ‘He was never so committed to his country of birth and its established order. In fact, more than once when confronted with a conflict between race and country, he chose race.’ Well, why not come right out and say what’s on your mind?

I’m suspicious of any thesis that depends on such rhetorical fallacies as the argumentum ad indignationem and the appeal to ridicule; as I also am of one that the focuses on the style rather than the content. Hitchens deploys all three forms of trickery in this one paragraph, something I probably wouldn’t have noticed as a younger man in thrall to the cult of ‘the Hitch’, but which now strikes me as entirely characteristic of the man’s essential bogusness.

Like many Oxford PPE undergraduates - it’s how they’re trained to be - Christopher Hitchens was very good at appearing cleverer than he actually was. That ‘Bukharin and Bakunin’ swipe is calculated to achieve a number of effects. One is to boast (without any need to prove it) that Hitchens knows just as much as any man in the West ever did about the politics of the Soviet Union; another is to intimidate the reader, by laying Hitchens’s metaphorical socialist firebrand penis on the table with an impressive thwack, and declaring with a nicotine-and-whisky-ravaged drawl “And if YOU don’t know who Bukharin and Bakunin were, then perhaps you’d best quit the field now and leave it to those of us superior beings who do.”

I must confess I was familiar with neither. So I looked them up. Nikolai Bukharin was a Marxist revolutionary and theorist murdered in Stalin’s late Thirties purges. Mikhail Bakunin was an earlier revolutionary and anarchist who died in 1876. But I don’t see their relevance to the subject matter - was Lord (Victor) Rothschild or was he not a Soviet spy? - on which Hitchens purports authoritatively to be passing judgement. Had Hitchens actually read Perry’s book, rather than merely skimming it derisively for cherry-picked infelicities, he would have found more than enough carefully accumulated evidence to support its thesis. But it’s clear that he had made up his mind before he’d got any further than the cover blurb. The clue is in that snide insinuation that Perry is an anti-semite.

Having read the book and spoken to the author, I get the impression that Perry is the very opposite of an anti-semite. Had he been one, I doubt he would have bothered going on to write a celebratory biography of Australia’s greatest First World War general Sir John Monash, the son of Jewish immigrants from what is now Poland. But just suppose, for a moment, that Perry really were to the right of Heydrich, with similar views on the Jewish question, would this bias nullify his research on Rothschild? Hardly. To suggest otherwise is to fall prey to what I call the Hitler/Dogs Fallacy. See this essay - one of my finest - for further details. But if you want the short explanation, basically it’s this: just because Hitler likes dogs doesn’t mean that dogs aren’t likeable. Hitchens had probably pegged it by the time I named this fallacy. But I like to think that if he had heard it he would have used it all the time, probably passing it off as his own to impress all his literary mates (“Hey Mart, don’t you think that paragraph is a bit Hitler/Dogs”, “Salman. Stop being so bloody Hitler/Dogs, will you?”, “Julian. Jools baby. Jools. Listen a sec. I’ve just thought up this hilarious new fallacy…” etc).

And here’s another thing that Hitchens doesn’t seem to understand. If someone has done something wrong it ought not to matter one jot whether the perpetrator is black, Zoroastrian, transgender, gay or, as in this case, a Jewish billionaire from a famous bloodline: their identity doesn’t cancel the crime or entitle them to a more sympathetic hearing or render them immune from scrutiny and criticism. To think otherwise is to reject what is quite properly recognised as one of the most fundamental principles of a free and fair society, that of equality before the law.

As a graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, Hitchens really ought to have appreciated this entry-level point. All right, so he seems to have devoted more of his time there to revolutionary left-wing politics and hopping in and out of bed with at least two male future ministers in Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet than he did reading for his meretricious degree subject. But still, gentleman’s Third or no, Hitchens went on to spend the rest of his working life a) posing as a deep thinker and b) affecting to champion the rights of the ordinary working man. I wonder how the ordinary working man, had Hitchens ever met one, would have responded on being told: “Prison is for the likes of you and possibly, at a push, me. But definitely not for the likes of Lord Rothschild.”

Why not Lord Rothschild, though? There’s an interesting hint to part of the answer to this question buried in Perry’s book, published in its updated version under the title The Rothschilds, The KGB Masterspy & The Gay Royal Traitor. This occurs in his description of a true episode in which a trainee Russian spy, posing as a London embassy diplomat, is taken to various dinner parties so he can learn the nuances of English customs and mores. The spy blows his cover when, after a few drinks, he observes that Britain is in thrall to a Zionist conspiracy. The other guests are appalled at this social solecism - and the trainee agent is roundly rebuked at his subsequent debriefing, where he learns that in England such things are never said in polite society.

This scene rang true to me. Often over the years I’ve heard rumours that the British Establishment is anti-semitic. But in my experience, certainly in the upper-middle-class literary and political circles I tended to frequent when I was journalist, I found the case to be quite the opposite. To be Jewish was a bit like having gone to Eton: it meant, likely, that you were smart, well connected and worth cultivating. It most definitely wasn’t considered any form of social handicap.

Back then, I was still very much a Normie in my way of thinking. But even in my days of innocence that Jewish conundrum did give me pause. It was one of those glitch-in-the-matrix anomalies that niggle at you when you are not yet Awake and which can sometimes act as a stepping stone on your journey to awareness. My confusion went as follows: “Here I am with lots of friends who are either Jews or Jew-ish. I love them very much because they are witty, entertaining, articulate and they love me. They are also mostly prosperous, successful, well-balanced and plugged into an enviable network which not only gives them a special sense of belonging but which also will often give them a helping hand up the ladder just because of their happy accident of birth. So why, given all their manifest advantages, am I culturally required to view them as some kind of oppressed minority deserving of kid glove treatment? And why does something as harmless as even noticing that someone has a Jewish surname open you to the charge of being ‘anti-semitic’?”

It is human nature to notice differences. Say you were introduced to someone called de Lattre de Tassigny or Von Bismarck - or Pappadopoulopoulos, or Umbongowagawagaongugu, or Delingpole, even - at a party, you’d want to know more, wouldn’t you? Likely, you’d try not to put your foot in it by making your curiosity too obvious. But subconsciously you’d definitely be using the information to help form an assessment of the whole person. Sizing people up. It’s what we do. It’s what we have to do for, as much as anything else, self-protection. Do I like this person? Do I trust them? Could they hurt me - or benefit me - in any way? What are we likely to have in common? What should I avoid saying if I don’t want to cause offence? Yet apparently - so one gathers - you can’t do this if the person is called something like Steinowitz or Fischenburger, or if they’ve got a recognisable type of nose, or they speak with a particular type of accent and say things like “Oy vey!” You are supposed to pretend you haven’t noticed.

Who made this rule, you might wonder.

Whenever normal, natural, healthy human behaviour is pathologised and stigmatised or constrained, for whatever reason, that ought to be a massive red flag to anyone who can think straight. By ‘thinking straight’ I suppose what I mean is thinking with the unfiltered curiosity and guilelessness you associate with small children when they ask ‘embarrassing’ questions like: “Why is that man wearing a dress?” It means spotting when something doesn’t make sense - and then calling it out. Most of us are incapable of doing this much beyond the primary school stage of our lives. It’s because, past that stage, the education system has done its job and reduced us to the required state of collective stupidity. We think we’ve been educated. But what has actually happened is that our minds have been closed and we’ve been brainwashed into accepting as unquestionable truths a large number of excedingly dubious shibboleths.

One of them concerns ‘the Jews.’ We’ve been given permission to think that their humour is the funniest in the world, because it’s born of oppression or some such. We are encouraged to believe that there’s cultural cachet to be had in finding Larry David’s pathologically selfish antics ticklesome and charming rather than rebarbative. We’re allowed to be beguiled by certain Jewish social mores and traditions and quirks, as for example in that ubiquitous series of British Telecom ads in the 1980s where Maureen Lipman plays a lovable caricature of a Jewish grandmother, thrilled that her grandson has ‘got an ology’ in his exams. And of course, we’re free to recognise them as a) God’s Chosen People, b) as partial progenitors of all that is wondrous about our so called ‘Judaeo-Christian’ civilisation and c) as the hands-down, all time, summa cum laude winner of the Oppression Olympics. All these things - and more - are things you are allowed to notice.

But the list of things you are not allowed to notice is a deal longer. Yes, you can celebrate that Jews punch well above their weight in terms of Nobel Prizes won. But make a similar point about their similarly overweight dominance in fields like banking, the law, Hollywood, the music industry, chairmanship of the Federal Reserve and pornography, and suddenly you’re noticing stuff that will get you into trouble. Same with the religion itself. Yes, it’s fine that you know enough to recognise what a menorah looks like, that you might need to wear a tiny hat at your orthodox Jewish mate’s funeral, and that you mustn’t, except in clumsy jest, offer them a bacon sandwich. They certainly don’t want you asking any awkward questions, though, about the Satanic symbolism of the Star of David (as sported anachronistically and propagandistically by Charlton Heston in his chariot in Ben Hur) or what the Talmud has to say about Jesus or what the Noahide Laws have planned for you if you’re a Christian.

My beef here is not with the Jews themselves - most of whom bear as little responsibility for the world’s ills as the vast majority of non-Jews - but rather with the prevailing cultural narrative (the invention, of course, of The Cabal) which requires us all to pretend that they are a special case. This means that we are forced to live in a permanent state of cognitive dissonance. On the one hand, we’re repeatedly assured that we are all equal - men and women, gay and straight, black and white, and so on. On the other, we’re supposed simultaneously and unquestioningly to accept that there is one category of people who are exempt, for reasons supposedly so obvious we’re not even allowed to wonder what they might be.

Hmm. I could just about see this making a sort of sense were our daily experience to comprise such sights as: slave gangs of Ben Shapiro lookalikes in their trademark yarmulkes being forced to drag giant blocks of white marble up steep hilltops, the blocks then being connected to form gigantic swastikas; signs in pubs, golf clubs, even top international investment banks saying “No Jews, dogs, or Jews”; Jews in rags, Jews holding out beggars’ cups, Jews not having a single job in the City, the top law firms, BBC production departments, academe, the gold and diamond industries, the rag trade because they are just so heavily discriminated against.

But that’s not quite the case, is it? (Well, it is I suppose, if you believe what you read in the Daily and, even more so, theSunday Telegraph, now that they’ve been taken over by the fanatically zionist German media group Axel Springer.) Indeed, so very observably is it not the case that it’s almost as if They - that is, the shadowy forces which inflict these narratives on us - are deliberately taking the piss.

And indeed, of course, They are taking the piss. They relish the fact that, up to a point, we can tell we are being tortured and mocked with bizarre rules that make no sense but which we are yet compelled to follow. That, after all, was the essence of life in the Soviet Union - for which They, inevitably, were also responsible because They like to use the same playbook repeatedly. It’s a key part of Their control mechanism, messing with our heads, forcing us into a position where we have to believe two things simultaneously: the observable but forbidden reality and the officially endorsed fiction. A populace so confused that it can no longer trust its own senses is much easier to manipulate and contain. We are all, as I often say, under a spell.

So I suppose on one level we can’t really blame Christopher Hitchens for his red hot take that Lord Rothschild can’t have been a Soviet agent because muh anti-semitism. Hitchens was the product of an education system and a social milieu and a brainwashing framework which, over a lifetime, would have rendered any other response than his Pavlovian act of virtue signalling unthinkable. For Christopher Hitchens, see also: every other licensed gatekeeper in the literary trade who reviewed that book. They didn’t need to be told to pour cold water on Perry’s thesis. They did so instinctively because they all moved in the same circles. These circles comprised the kind of people that that trainee Russian spy upset with his remarks about a ‘Zionist conspiracy’ at those dinner parties. There are certain things that you just can’t say even if they are true.

My point, here, is not that everything is a Zionist conspiracy. (I’m much more taken, currently, with Mrs Heritage History’s and Peter Duke’s “It’s the Phoenicians” theory, as you probably know.) What I’m having a go at, rather, is the mindset that refuses to engage with the possibility that anyone Jewish might ever have done something wrong because even to countenance such a thing would render you guilty of the worst crime known to humanity, antisemitism. Eh? Isn’t that a bit like not taking a line on murder because that would be ‘murderist’? Or rape, because that would be ‘rapist’? To put it another way, either Lord Rothschild was a Soviet spy or he wasn’t. If your response to this question is to swerve it into a series of rambling ad homs impugning the author’s style and motives and alleged prejudices, you’re not really engaging with the issue, are you? In fact I’m starting to wonder whether Hitchens deserved even to scrape that Third.

I realise at this point that my “Did you know that Lord Rothschild was a Soviet spy?” piece has, at least temporarily, been hijacked by its sub-theme, viz: “Christopher Hitchens: what a dick!” But I’m afraid I can’t resist. One of the joys of becoming Awake is that iconoclastic frisson you experience on discovering that all those overrated celebrities you were encouraged, nay, almost press-ganged, to admire in your Normie days were in fact a bunch of liars, charlatans, sell-outs, cowards, wormtongues and child rapists in hock to the Forces of Darkness, and ergo deserving of nothing other than your contempt. Christopher Hitchens was definitely somewhere along that spectrum of disgustingness. I can see why his longsuffering brother Peter gets so incredibly pissed off whenever someone makes the unfavourable comparison. Imagine being a principled Christian - as Peter, for all his faults, most certainly is - and being told constantly ‘You’re not half the man your big brother was!” when his big brother was an atheistic poseur lounge-lizard with a Belial tongue, a plausible manner and all the moral fibre of a Phoenician dancing girl.

Sure, if ever I’d had to do a debate with ‘the Hitch’ he would have wiped the floor with me. But as I explain in more detail in No, I Don’t Want To Take Part In Your Stupid Debate this is why I hold ‘debate’ in such low esteem: it’s the domain, not of the truth-speaker but of the charismatic bullshitter. As Exhibit A, I present to you an apparent insight of Hitchens’s which is so famous that it actually has its own Wikipedia page: Hitchens’s razor.

“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”

Sounds clever. If he chucked that one at you during a debate in his characteristic politely-restrained-because-I’m-clearly-speaking-to-an-idiot drawl you wouldn’t know how to respond. But isn’t that because he’s demanding the impossible? In the context of atheism, for example, he’s saying: “You can’t prove God exists so I rest my case.” It’s a victory, of sorts, but only a self-claimed victory: one that depends entirely on one’s acceptance of Hitchens’s narrowly materialist terms. If you look on YouTube, you’ll find compilations of so-called ‘Hitch Slaps’ - moments from The Hitch’s debating career where he is shown ‘owning’ his opponents with pithy put downs. But then, so could you have owned them if you spoke in that languid, de haut en bas, upper class English accent and your opponent was some hapless student in the audience, or a cartoonish blowhard like Sean Hannity, or a rabbi defending something easy to get cross about, like circumcision.

I’m not saying Hitchens didn’t have his moments. Of course it’s entertaining when he goes off on one about, say, the wrongness of female genital mutilation. Yes, I agree Hitch, I don’t think much of FGM either, but it’s a bit of a piss-easy target, no? Doesn’t exactly require much moral courage to sit there on a stage and pontificate about how utterly appalled you are about young girls having their clitoris cut off. But where was Hitchens on the really big stuff: the stuff that could cost you your job as a mainstream media commentator because it’s so far outside the Overton Window?

In case the answer wasn’t obvious: NOWHERE. Well of course he wasn’t because if Christopher Hitchens really had been the fearless revolutionary he pretended to be, he would never have got to be the feted, bestselling author, journalist, commentator, debater and public intellectual Christopher ‘The Hitch’ Hitchens. He would have been just another random nobody. On some level, whether cynically conscious or innocently sub conscious, Hitchens will have understood this, as all people who want to become successful do. This is how you keep your job as one of the Establishment’s licenced jesters: by knowing exactly how far to push it. So, in Hitchens’s case, you’re free to spend your early career criticising American foreign policy just so long as you never identify the figures who are actually behind American foreign policy; you can write a book criticising Mother Teresa - just so long as your criticism is merely that she’s an overzealous Roman Catholic, as opposed to, say, making the rather more significant criticism that she’s an agent of Satan heavily involved in the child trafficking industry… Christopher Hitchens - possibly his little bro, Peter, too; but definitely Christopher - is classic Limited Hangout.

Classic ‘Total Sell-out’ too, when you consider the position he adopted on 9/11, fully buying into Dubya’s utterly confected War On Terror. I suppose in fairness I ought to confess that for a large chunk of my journalistic career, I too believed the official narrative on 9/11 and heartily supported what I considered to be the righteous new crusade against the ‘menace’ of Fundamentalist Islam. The difference is, though, I changed my view and have since recanted. And while it’s true that Hitchens is no longer in a position to recant and hasn’t been since 2011, I’m inclined to think that even had he lived longer - he’d only be 77 if he hadn’t succumbed to cancer - he’d still be pushing the same old disingenuous Normie talking points to this day. I can’t imagine, for example, that he would have stood up to the vaccine tyranny. Still less can I imagine him being critical of the Israeli response to the October 7th ‘invasion’ nor of the obviously mendacious official narrative which, like the good little MSM gatekeeper he was, he would have swallowed and promoted wholesale.

But there’s really no need to have a go at Christopher Hitchens speculatively for things he might have got wrong had he still been alive. There is, after all, more than enough bad stuff he really did do - and for which he ought to be held to account. Foremost among these crimes, I suppose, though it’s so flagrant it’s scarcely worth mentioning, is all that posturing he did later in life gulling the impressionable - impressionable young men, especially, I suspect - into believing that if you wanted to be one of the cool kids atheism was the only option. Personally, I’m not so bothered by that one as I might be, because I suspect that God has already got that particularly issue sorted. No. The thing that bothers me much, much more about Christopher Hitchens - probably because I’m a fellow scribe and from a similar-ish class and education background - are what his naval officer father might have termed ‘Dereliction of Duty’ and ‘Cowardice in the Face of the Enemy.’

Let me explain. If you are a coach driver, driving groups of school kids to dinosaur theme parks and such like, your main job requirement is to deliver the noisome brats safely back to the collection point rather than to drive them over a cliff, tempting though that might be. If you are a fireman (not of that ‘firefighter’ nonsense for me: I’m old school), your job is to put out fires, not stand on the sidelines smoking a fag complaining how hot it is while your mates do all the ladder-climbing and extinguishing. Well, similar rules apply if you are a public intellectual who has earned fame and fortune by fearlessly speaking truth to power. To justify all that acclaim you’re getting, all those invitations to the top table, all those women who want to climb into bed with you, all those young men who want to be you, you do at the very least have to do a bit of actual fearless speaking of truth to power. Otherwise what you are is a cop-out and a fraud - and possibly even more useless than the coach driver who regularly drives schoolkids into ravines or the fireman too lazy to put out fires because your influence is greater and, ergo, so is the cost of your failure.

Among the many checks and balances that keep our civilisation honest - at least so Normies believe, and that’s what matters for this particular argument - are those feted cultural and political commentators who tell it like it is, without fear or favour. That’s why we value their opinions so highly and why they are so well paid: because they inform our opinions and help steer us to what we believe is ‘the truth.’

Christopher Hitchens didn’t do this. (NONE of them do this, actually, but that’s for another - or several other - columns.) And that bloated exercise in self-regarding, pseudo-informed, faux-intellectual, puffed up wankery he tossed off about the Cambridge spies and Lord Rothschild for the London Review of Books is but one of numerous examples of just what a phony the man was.

If I sound a bit bitter here, I suppose it’s because I AM bitter. Unlike Hitchens - who cunningly managed to check out so that he never had to see the consequences of his pusillanimity and moral and intellectual frivolity - I have to wake up daily, as do you, in a world on the brink of apocalyptic ruination. We are run, as I often say, by people who hate us and want either to kill us or enslave us. And They are considerably closer to achieving this Ordo ab Chao New World Order nightmare than they were in Hitchens’s indulged lifetime. They are on the verge of provoking the hot stage of the Third World War, in which millions of mostly Christian men will be ground more thoroughly into mince than even was countenanced in the days of the Somme. They are close to being able to strip away all of the freedoms we once not unreasonably accepted as our birthright: freedom to travel, freedom not to freeze or boil in our homes, freedom to eat food and drink water not adulterated with poison, freedom to benefit from the fruits of our labour…

Yet none of these horrors would be coming our way if enough of us had decided “No hang on, wait a second!” and stood up to do the right thing. What do I mean by doing the right thing? Let me leave you with you one tiny weeny example. Suppose you happen to be reviewing a book and it happens to implicate in a crime a senior member of one the so-called Satanic bloodline families behind all those nefarious schemes I mentioned in the previous paragraph to kill, enslave, torment, crush and control us because to Them we are nothing but ‘useless eaters.’ Well, here is what you don’t do in those circumstances if you don’t want to do the wrong thing. You don’t say to yourself: “It’s quite possibly true but I’m not even going to countenance the possibility that it might be because the Rothschilds have a lovely place in Corfu where I might get invited some day if I play my cards right and my publishers are Jewish and my editors are Jewish and a lot of my leading fellow scribes and friends are Jewish and, actually, my own mother was a Jew (I was most pleased to discover belatedly when I was 38) and anyway I just feel it’s distasteful and not comme il faut to raise such inconvenient questions about the people who run the world because they’re the ones, like it or not, who make the rules and set the tone and allow us our titbits of modest fame and fortune, so I think that on consideration here is what I’m going to do. I’m going to wave my ‘Antisemitism’ wand and just make the problem disappear, just like that.”

Postscript:

Apologies to those of you who read this piece - those few of you who actually made it to the end: well done! - and found it to be incomplete. That’s because my team accidentally published it before I’d finished it.

There’s just one other point I’d like to make. Speaking for myself - and quite a few of you, judging by the comments - I think that the question of whether or not Lord Rothschild was a Soviet spy is something of much more relevance to Normieworld than it is to Rabbithole world.

That is, as Tom Fryer put it pithily on my Telegram channel: “I think we’ve got that whole story the wrong way round. Rothschild didn’t work for MI6, the KGB or Mossad. They all worked for him.”

Yup. I think that’s exactly it. If you read Roland Perry’s book, you’ll read the not-unsympathetic account of a rich outsider compelled by a mix of high-mindedness, social alienation, religious and ethnic loyalties and distant parenting into betraying his own country. But this is because Perry is looking at things from a Normie perspective. He clearly doesn’t know who the bloodline families really are, or how they raise their children. He’s unaware of stuff like Satanism, the twelve year old rituals, the ‘hunts’ staged at their various castles, the ritual sacrifice. He’s unaware - to amplify Mrs Heritage History’s point, made elsewhere - that families like the Rothschilds do not think in terms of national loyalty and, consequently, it is invidious to accuse them of treachery. The Rothschilds et al are not subject to the rules of history that bind us ordinary folk. They create history, in the interests of their Boss. Who, unfortunately, isn’t God.

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How Do You Avoid an Unhappy Afterlife? (Part 1)

What happens when we die? Why are we here? How do you live the sort of life that precludes bad things happening to you in the next one? Just a few of the questions I shall be trying and failing to answer at my next podcast live event when I shall be chatting to Feargus O’Connor Greenwood.

I’m a big fan of Feargus. His first book - 180 Degrees: Unlearn the Lies You’ve Been Taught to Believe - is probably the best Key to All Conspiracies there is. Titanic; Yuri Bezemov; Antarctica; Loosh; vaccines; USS Liberty; 9/11; Isaac Kappy; you name them or it and they’re probably there.

But that was just beginning. In his latest book - Spiritual War: Tales of the Unexpected (Part 1) - Greenwood really goes off the deep end. So much so that Greenwood asked: “You SURE you want to do a podcast with me? Maybe you should read the book first.”

Well, I’ve read it and I’m looking forward to our conversation more than ever.

Greenwood and I don’t agree on everything - he’s not a Christian, at least in any conventional sense - but I wouldn’t expect this of any guest I had on my podcast. Sure, on those very rare occasions where there is a total meeting of minds it’s a bonus. Really all I’m after though is interesting ideas, fluently and entertainingly expressed and - key, this - persuasively argued.

I hate to keep harping on about my disappointing encounter with David Icke. But it illustrates the point I’m trying to make so well that I can’t not. Icke and his followers chose to misrepresent our disagreement as the result of my Christian dogmatism. It wasn’t that though. I couldn’t have cared less whether Icke was a Zoroastrian or a Jedi or a Seventh Day Adventist or, as he probably is, a Luciferian serving up microwaved Madame Blavatsky. Where I do draw the line though, is with guests incapable of explaining coherently and engagingly “Here’s what I believe” and “Here’s why.” That was my problem with Icke: he just wasn’t up to the job.

But I’ve certainly no objection when anyone wants to challenge my Christian belief system. It needs challenging. Humility is an underrated Christian virtue, which keeps you honest because one of the questions that underpins it is: “Am I doing it right?” This is why I sometimes argue that the most important line in the entirety of the Psalter is this one from Psalm 51:

The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit: a broken and contrite heart, O God, shalt thou not despise.

Part of the deal of being a good Christian, it seems to me, is this continual process of self-examination - and self-correction. In order to do that, though, it helps if you know what the deal actually is.

To pluck one of myriad examples from the ether, just how much of your prayer life should be spent venerating the Virgin? If you’re a Roman Catholic or Orthodox (who call the Virgin Mary ‘Theotokos’) the answer will be ‘lots’. But if you’re, say, a Mennonite like my recent podcast guest Terry Wolfe, or you’re a Presbyterian, or an Evangelical, you’ll counter that there is no biblical evidence that Mary is the ‘Queen of Heaven’, let alone that there was ever an Assumption.

So where does that leave you? I’m alive to both arguments, my sympathies often dependent on which person I spoke to last. My Catholic convert friend Gavin Ashenden, for example, makes a moving and beautiful case for the majesty and power of the Virgin, and the floral scent which can betray her presence. The Athonite hermit turned St Paisios was surely closer to God than most of us will ever be - and he was in no doubt of the Virgin’s significance. But suggest this to anyone who takes the Sola Scriptura line and they’ll counter that the elevation of the Virgin to quasi divine status is just rebadged pagan goddess worship. Both camps are devout and sincere. But they can’t both be right surely? And if that’s the case does that mean that one lot are going to burn in hell? Or does God allow a bit of leeway?

Well, not according to the scholarly and biblically infused Terry Wolfe who has read his scriptures closely and come to the conclusion that God is implacable and uncompromising. Which of course sets him at odds with those of the ‘God is love’ school, where Jesus makes everything nice. I know from my psalm reading (111 to be precise; or 110 if you are Catholic or Orthodox) that ‘fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.’ But how much ‘fear’ exactly? And what is meant by ‘fear’, anyway.

Which brings us to another tricky issue: interpreting scripture. Sometimes, it’s pretty obvious what a Bible verse means. At others, you need to apply scholarship and background knowledge to extract the full meaning. Gavin Ashenden provides a good example of this in his superb essay on the episode in Mark 4:39 where Jesus calms the storm on the Sea of Galilee.

Contrary to what most of us might think, Ashenden explains, this is more than just a scene involving ‘an unfortunate accident of the weather.’ The clue is in the Greek.

Mark gives away the metaphysics of the scene in a single word. Describing the disciples’ struggle with the weather in the boat, he uses basanizomenous — βασανιζοµένους. This is not a nautical word. It is the exorcist’s word.

It means tormented. The disciples are being tormented by the storm.

Mark uses the same word elsewhere for the Gerasene demoniac, in Mark 5:7, where the demon cries out to Jesus,

“Do not torment me.”

Mark had perfectly ordinary vocabulary available for hard rowing and bad weather. Instead, he reaches for the word he otherwise reserves for men and spirits under the pressure of hostile power.

In the Greek, Mark is telling us this is a spiritual engagement, not a meteorological one.

When Jesus reaches the disciples, he uses the same register. He does not simply command the wind to drop; he rebukes it.

“He rebuked the wind and said to the sea, ‘Peace, be still’” -Mark 4:39.

Rebuke is the technical term for confronting an unclean spirit. It is the very word Jesus uses when he silences a demon in the Capernaum synagogue (Mark 1:25), and the word used when he casts the spirit out of the boy at the foot of the Mount of Transfiguration (Mark 9:25).

So here’s the rub: if you accept that scripture is subject to interpretation, it follows that you may need ‘experts’ to help you interpret it. But which experts? I’m a huge fan of the late Michael Heiser. (How I wish I’d been able to get him on the pod before his untimely demise!). After reading his The Unseen Realm I was very taken with his theories about the ‘Divine Council’, a kind of heavenly parliament, as hinted at in places like Psalm 82. But there are those, similarly well versed in Greek, Hebrew and scripture, who insist he has got the wrong end of the stick and has read far too much into too little. Again: which side do you choose?

These are just some of the reasons why I am wary of fellow Christians who stridently assert exactly what the deal is. ‘How do you know?’ I want to ask. ‘How can you be so sure?’

I have a lot more to say on this subject - for example, I haven’t yet mentioned my concerns about the Old Testament’s position on circumcision: why would God, having made man in His image, then insist that there was this little bit at the end of the willy chaps are born with which for some reason needed chopping off? - but unfortunately I’m about to go on holiday.

My wife is never very happy when I should be packing and instead I’m in the office tinkering with some article I should have finished days ago on my computer. I’ve just been given a five minute warning. So in the interests of domestic harmony, I’m going to publish an incomplete version and then follow it up with a part two when I get back.

In the meantime, if you’d like to read more of my musings on Christianity, here is a piece I wrote last year.

And if you want to book tickets for my live event with Feargus O’Connor Greenwood on October 8, you can get them here

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