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“Dr. Elias Jarade is an Orthodox Christian member of Parliament from south Lebanon, Jarade defeated a Hezbollah politician in 2022 as part of a list of candidates seeking to break down sectarian divides….that changed after Israel used booby-trapped pagers to attack Hezbollah leaders two years ago. Jarade, an eye surgeon, was horrified by the gruesome injuries he saw in civilian patients and disgusted by Israel’s celebratory response to the attack, which injured thousands.

“They congratulate Netanyahu for what he has done…Let them come see the children, the elderly, that were blinded by these pagers. How come you are congratulating them? You know what the impact will be. There are two crimes that happened at the same time, the pager attack and the silent attitude of the whole world.” (Cf. Lydia Polgreen, “Lebanon Is Fed Up,” New York Times, June 3).

The celebrated pager attack of 2024, considered by the US media as a masterstroke of retribution against terrorists, reminds me of the equally applauded assassination of Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of the Islamic regime along with nine other Iranian leaders on February 28. What was not reported in any detail was the fact that this bombardment also killed several members of Khamenei’s family, including Zahra Haddad-Adel, wife of Mojtaba Khamenei; Mesbah Bagheri Kani (the husband of Hoda Khamenei); as well as Ayatollah Khamenei’s 14-month-old granddaughter, Zahra Mohammadi Golpayegani. Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh, wife of Ali Khamenei was severely wounded.

Imagine the colossal fury that would have erupted in the American media had the Iranians bombed Netanyahu’s house and in addition to killing him and his military commanders and security and nuclear officials, also caused the deaths of their wives and his grandchildren. Persian life however, is cheap and the family members killed by Netanyahu and Trump are not mourned in America, nor are the 175 school girls we killed in Minab at the start of our mass bombardment.

The ferocity of the daily Israeli holocaust proceeds apace with only the faintest sidelong glance from the American media. There are many reasons for this racist myopia. Among the most telling is the Babylonian Talmud’s low view of gentiles as nefesh-deficient — less than human.

Shortly after lunchtime on April 8, Israeli fighter jets pummeled the Lebanese capital Beirut and other parts of the country. They struck densely populated areas without warning. Residents had no time to flee as missiles rained down on crowded neighborhoods that were once considered safe. At least 182 people were killed and around 900 wounded in the attacks.

If, instead of indiscriminately killing Lebanese civilians, the victims were Americans or Israelis, the daily kill totals would be a cause for a five-alarm fire in the editorial rooms and government offices of the West. Everything would stop, nothing would matter, nothing would be comparable to the fury the routine slaughter of Americans and Israelis would elicit. Every time we drove to the grocery store, watched television, tuned to the radio and Internet — photographs, videos, headlines and editorials would be emblazoned with images and texts presenting in horrific detail the atrocities.

At fever pitch and with relentless urgency we would be morally challenged by a question that would confront us in a hundred venues every hour of every day, ‘What are you doing to stop this 21st century Holocaust?’

Because it is Arabs who are being holocausted and because the perpetrators are Churchianity’s manufactured Holy People, human responses to the American-funded and supplied mass murder in Lebanon and Gaza are almost totally absent from the media of mass communication.

This is a Talmudic state of affairs. The “proper authorities” have seen to it that the bigotry of the Talmud of Babylon is not only etched into the press and our educational institutions but ingrained in our collective psyche without any of us having so much as sneaked a peak at a single page of the Talmud. Our rapacious elites have done so for us. The result of their study is the curtain of silence that envelops the shedding of oceans of Arab blood.

The Israelis will not only bomb an entire Lebanese apartment building filled with dozens or hundreds of people with the justification that there were two Hezbollah fighters sheltering there, they kill the ambulance workers who arrive to treat the victims of the Zionist terror attack:

“I headed inland toward Nabatieh, a city nestled among rocky hillsides that Israeli strikes had pummeled for weeks despite the cease-fire. Suddenly, I was in the only car on the road, speeding past shuttered storefronts and ghostly piles of rubble. Almost everyone had left, heeding Israeli evacuation orders.

“I drove to a hilltop hospital to speak with the skeleton crew of medical workers that remained behind, tending to those who were unable to flee or who chose not to. Among them was a paramedic named Hussein Dakdouk. A few days before, he told me, in the aftermath of an (Israeli) airstrike, a man pulled up to the paramedics’ headquarters, his leg badly injured by the blast. Two paramedics rushed toward the man with their emergency gear, and Dakdouk ran to the ambulance to prepare it to transport the man to the hospital. As he turned the key in the ignition, he saw a rocket tear into his colleagues.

“I saw them being blown into pieces,’ he said.

“Two medics and a member of the administrative staff were killed in the strike, he said, three of more than 116 people killed by Israeli strikes on health-care facilities since March, according to the World Health Organization. Rescue workers and journalists across southern Lebanon have been killed in so-called ‘double tap’ strikes, in which an Israeli rocket hits a target, and then another rocket is fired once people arrive to provide medical aid and document the scene. Such strikes were a hallmark of the Gaza war. “Whenever separate previous incidents follow the same pattern, this makes us believe that this is not something random that is happening,” Dakdouk told me.

(Lydia Polgreen, “Lebanon Is Fed Up,” New York Times, June 3. Read her entire article at this link).

In terms of its coverage of Talmudism, Zionism and Israeli warfare, the vast majority of the articles in the Times are supportive and appear in its news pages. Rare essays like the preceding one by Polgreen and last month’s exposé of Israeli prison rape by Nicholas Kristof which are unfavorable to the Israeli narrative, are published largely with the intent of salvaging the humanitarian image of the newspaper and serve as a token propitiation of the concerns of its social justice readership. These sparse essays usually appear on the paper’s less authoritative opinion page, which is the case with the writing by Polgreen and Kristof.

In almost every other respect the New York Times upholds Zionism and fails abysmally to adequately report the genocide in Gaza and the mass murder in Lebanon, while stoking contrived hysteria over “The rising tide of anti-Semitism sweeping America.”

Call to Execute Writers

On May 11, Emory University Prof. Deborah Lipstadt, a World War II researcher who served as Joe Biden’s U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism (she swore her oath of office on a copy of the Talmud), appeared to endorse Adam Louis-Klein’s apparent veiled threat against New York Times personnel for having published Kristof’s report.

On “X” Mr. Louis-Klein wrote, “Julius Streicher, the editor of the Nazi propaganda rag Der Stürmer was convicted of crimes against humanity at Nuremberg for inciting hatred and violence against Jews. He was hanged in 1946…One day soon, history will render the same verdict on antizionism…the contemporary form of Jew-hatred. And when that day comes the New York Times will face a long over-due reckoning. Because we are documenting it all.”

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Nine days after Prof. Lipstadt’s seeming endorsement of an alleged call to see New York Times personnel hanged for “Jew-hate,” the Times mentioned nothing about it and quoted her positively as part of its anti-Semitism delirium, overlooking her approbation for Louis-Klein’s outburst. The paper’s reporters, Lisa Lerer and Jennifer Medina wrote:

Moments after he learned his nearly 14 years in Congress were coming to an end, Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky offered an explanation for his defeat rooted not in his state but thousands of miles east.

“I would have come out sooner, but I had to call my opponent and concede, and it took a while to find Ed Gallrein in Tel Aviv,” he told cheering supporters at his election-night party, referring to the Republican who beat him.

The comment was a clear reference to the millions of dollars spent against Mr. Massie, a longtime critic of Israel and more recently of the war with Iran, by prominent pro-Israel donors and advocacy groups, including a super PAC tied to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

…Mr. Massie’s remark was the latest to strike a nerve among some Jewish leaders, who argue that politicians and their supporters have repeatedly blurred the lines between opposition to Israel and antisemitic tropes about Jewish money and power.

The prominence of such comments in politics — particularly after a series of antisemitic attacks— is alarming and potentially dangerous, they say.

“This is at warp speed, unlike anything I have ever seen,” said Deborah Lipstadt, a Holocaust scholar at Emory University who served as the Biden administration’s special envoy to fight antisemitism. “This is the mainstreaming and normalizing of antisemitism.”

(Cf. Massie’s “Tel Aviv” Remark Is the Latest Midterm Flare-Up Over Israel, NY Times, May 20).

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The Economics of the “Sons of the Most High”

Permit me to define my term: the sovereign power of money in America on the part of those who wield it was revealed for all to see in the successful campaign to defeat Rep. Thomas Massie’s reelection in Kentucky. Three plutocrats and two lobbying groups were mainly responsible for spending an estimated $35 million to help a non-entity, President Trump’s lackey Ed Gallrein, win the Republican primary in a district where Democrats typically are not elected.

Mr. Massie is as close to Jefferson and Madison as one will find in the 2026 House of Representatives, yet it was capital in the hands of despots — not the virtue and excellence of the challenger — that decided the race.

Since more distracting nonsense and worthless remedies have been written about economics than almost any other subject, I will focus on incontrovertible fundamentals which are seldom if ever mentioned.

The Renting of Money (“Usury”) is at the Root of the Rule of this Sovereign Power

Both Catholic and Protestant popular treatments of the issue are often hopelessly muddled. Catholics typically blame Protestants for first relaxing the prohibitions when it was Papalist Romanists who have the dishonor.

We observe the muddle in the manner in which a late start is assigned to the history of the “cash nexus.” It is typically dated, as Ezra Pound did, to the Protestant Bank of England (17th century), or the rise of the banking house of Rothschild in the 19th.

Make no mistake: we will not gain victory in this struggle until the name Fugger is at least as notorious as Rothschild.

A better alpha point would be the first century A.D. followed by the emergence, centuries later, of the relaxation of the Catholic ban on usury, the prime engine of Mammonism, beginning in the late 1400s.

In earlier ages, the spirit of the Gospel as channeled by the Church suppressed usury.

Permission for usury first arose in the Catholic “Nominalist” school of theology, heavily subsidized by the Catholic Fugger banking dynasty (1480-1550). Its mouthpiece was Rev. Fr. Johann Eck, Dean of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Ingolstadt, who lobbied for a “moderate” rate of interest (5%).

The Serpent of Situation Ethics Enters Western Civilization

When I denounce even a rate that low I am accused of being unreasonable by those who are blind to the sinister implications of even a 1% interest rate given that they overlook the toxicity behind so much of the subversion of the Word of God—situation ethics.

A textbook illustration of situation ethics is available to us in the first century A.D. with Rabbi Hillel’s nullification of the Bible’s debt-remission plan forbidding any contractual renting of money (“loan”) beyond seven years. This had been God’s way of preventing the onerous burden of perpetual debt peonage among His people, an ungodly burden which Christians suffer in our time.

Deuteronomy 15: 1-2: “At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release of debts. And this is the manner of the release: every creditor who has lent anything to his neighbor shall release it; he shall not require it of his neighbor or his brother, because it is called Yahweh’s release.”

The fact that the Judean and Israelite peasants (am ha’aretz עם הארץ), possessed this divinely endowed liberty severely discomfited the loansharks of the first century.

To accommodate these avaricious creditors, Hillel the halachist (law giver) issued his פרוזבול (“prozbul”)—an escape clause proclaimed in the name of the “betterment of the world.”

How did Hillel “better” it? His situation ethics corrected God’s “mistake,” in this case the Sabbatical, every-seventh-year loan expiration, by permitting to lenders an extension of the enforcement of their loans beyond seven years. Hillel concocted his prozbul to circumvent a direct Torah command.

The Pharisee Hillel (the most admired of all Pharisees in the eyes of the liberal non-Christian and pretend-Christian establishments), founded a situation ethics system long before it influenced avant-garde Nominalist theologians in the Renaissance papal Church — and later among Protestants.

When in the late 15th century Catholic Nominalists were promoting a “moderate” rate of usury they were opening a Pandora’s box of situation ethics.

If it is permissible to charge a low rate for the mortal sin of usury then by the same casuistry it would be permissible to frequent a prostitute who charges a moderate fee for the mortal sin she offers.

There is no end to this lackadaisical chain of situations for everyone’s “betterment.” Under this umbrella, a couple may cohabitate without benefit of marriage because God’s law in the matter of fornication is an ideal, not a command. The situation ethicist is adept at fabricating a multitude of rationales and loopholes.

Reformation luminaries were influenced by Nominalist arguments. Among the latter, the most significant was the Catholic-born French Protestant convert and lawyer turned theologian, Jean Cauvin (“John Calvin,” 1509-1564), who drew inspiration from the French Catholic jurist Charles du Moulin (1500-1556) and Moulin’s popularizer, Francois Hottman.

Moulin was influenced in turn by Conrad Summenhart, a professor at the papal Tübingen University in Germany . He derived from Summenhart the belief that all loans at interest were not wrong; rather they were to be judged by the situation of the borrower.

The argument proceeded as follows: as long as the interest charged was “reasonable” there was nothing immoral about lending for the purpose of “increasing productivity.” Moulin and his successors went so far as to reverse Lateran Councils II (1139) and III (1179) and the Council of Vienne (1311–1312), stating that the borrower who does not pay usury on productive capital is stealing from the lender (cf. Tractatus contractum et usurarum, 1547). This great betrayal, as it spread through the hierarchy of the Church, contributed markedly to the gradual ascendance of the sovereign power of money.

It was from this Roman milieu that Calvin formulated his doctrine. This supposed premier scripturalist, who relentlessly attacked and mocked Catholics for holding tradition on par with the Bible, based his economic teaching on the traditions of lawyer’s equity, which nullified the Old Testament ban on usury. Calvin, a latter-day Hillel in this particular instance, declared that Old Testament laws were not binding on Christians in terms of an absolute prohibition on interest charged to fellow believers:

“I now conclude that one must not judge usuries according to some certain and particular pronouncement of God but only according to the rule of equity”
(De Usuris, 1545).

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“I am unwilling to condemn [usury], so long as it is practiced with equity and charity.”("Letter to Claude de Sachin, 1545).

“This law [Deuteronomy 23:19] is political and has no more bearing upon us now than equity and human reason carry. Of course it would be good to desire that usurers were expelled from the entire world and that the name became unknown. But since that is impossible we must submit to a common utility.” (De Usuris, op. cit.).

The paradox of Calvin consisted in the fact that personally he was repelled by riches, could not be bribed, and in the early years of the Calvinist citadel of Geneva, Switzerland all usury was forbidden. Even the pope conceded this: “The strength of that heretic consisted in this, that money never had the slightest charm for him. If I had such servants my dominion would extend from sea to sea” (Pope Pius IV, 1564).

Calvin could not derogate Christ’s teaching as he had that of Moses. Consequently, concerning Christ’s teaching in the Gospel of Luke, he seized on the Catholic Nominalist distinction between interest and “biting” interest.

While Calvin had formulated an acceptance of usury hedged by strict qualifications, it was observed by R.H. Tawney that mission drift was bound to occur: “Mankind finds in the arguments of theorists what it looks for. Calvin’s indulgence to moderate interest...was remembered when the qualifications surrounding it were forgotten…”

“Biting” Interest on Loans

A teacher of Calvin, the Protestant theologian Martin Bucer (1491-1551), in his Tractatus de Usuris enlarged on the nominalists’ argument by proclaiming that the Hebrew word neshek, translated as usury, signified that only interest on loans that were so extortionate they “bit” the borrower, were the type of interest that was forbidden. This casuist falsification has framed the debate ever since.

Following Bucer, Protestant theologian Henry (Heinrich) Bullinger (1504-1575) stated, “Usury is forbidden in the word of God (only) so far as it bites his neighbor.”

Bucer and Bullinger were parroting the evasions of the Talmudists in this matter, as John Edwards exposed in his analysis of this fallacy:

“The rabbis distinguish between neshek and tarbith; the one, they tell us, is derived from a word that signifies to bite...and therefore they understand neshek concerning immoderate usury, such as is truly biting and devouring, and this they acknowledge is forbidden by the Law...But the other word, say they, which barely denotes increase, i.e. some overplus besides the principal, expresses the moderate and tolerable sort of usury…

“But this is a mere fancy, and has no foundation in the Holy Scriptures, for these condemn not only neshek, but tarbith...As for that word neshek, it is apparent that it is a general term for all usury; it is a common name whereby that practice is expressed in Hebrew: and it imports the greatness (severity) of the sin, not any distinction of the kinds of usury.” (John Edwards, D.D., Theologia Reformata (London, 1713), volume 2, pp. 547-548).

Bucer and Bullinger’s escape clause permitted evasion of God’s Law. Overlooked in their rationalizations was the traditional Christian belief that all interest, in and of itself, took a “bite” out of the borrower.

Anglican Bishop Lancelot Andrewes rightly observed that “All usury is biting...There is no form of usury that is toothless.”

Andrewes believed that the etymological neshek distinction “...contravenes the principle of the Law itself: ‘Thou shalt love they neighbor as thyself.’ For it is an evil rule that decrees, ‘let it be done provided it does not bite.’ Evil I say, and Pharasaic. This is Christian: let it be done provided it benefits. For whether it bites or not, does not matter, if we are looking for true justice; what matters is whether it benefits or not.” (Cf. Michael Hoffman, Usury in Christendom: The Mortal Sin that Was and Now is Not [2013], p. 189).

Andrewes was articulating a fundamental truth of authentic Christian economics — creating outcomes where everyone wins. Loans free of interest as well as the fair price and the just wage were bedrock early Church principles.

The Emergence of Buccaneer Capitalism

Some folks don’t want to work. The Right wing associates this sloth typically with the poor and exempts the class of idle people who get rich off bank credit, insider trading, and Capitalist cronyism.

An early 19th century example of buccaneer capitalism is found in the career of the bank-credit beneficiary David Ricardo. He was a bond trader in 1815, and as a creature of the Rothschilds he was a beneficiary of their insider trading in the Napoleonic period. The Rothschilds were money creators and major purchasers and underwriters of British and French government debt. As a result they could sometimes dictate to those governments and their royal houses policies they sought to implement or enforce.

The power of money creation is the essence of Money-ism which is sold to the public under the cosmetic euphemism, “Capitalism,” what Thomas Carlyle more accurately termed the Cash Nexus of free market Capitalism — “the shabbiest gospel ever preached…Cash payment has become the sole nexus of man to men…Money is miraculous… but also (see) what never-imagined confusions and obscurations has it brought in; down almost to a total extinction of the moral sense in large masses of mankind.”

Ricardo was what was known as a “political economist," an unabashed mouthpiece for the Money Power and an enemy of British poor people and what we today term “welfare” aid (“poor laws”).

In his 1817 Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, in the chapter “On Wages,” Ricardo delivered a Scrooge-like assault: “The clear and direct tendency of the poor laws is…not as the legislature benevolently intended, to amend the condition of the poor, but to deteriorate the condition of both poor and rich; instead of making the poor rich, they are calculated to make the rich poor.” Ricardo’s ideology enshrined plutocratic corruption while casting poor people as shirkers and loafers.

His views were an enlargement of the Malthusian Principle which had been developed by a clergyman, the Rev. Thomas Robert Malthus in his infamous 1798 book, An Essay on the Principle of Population, as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society. Malthus argued that unchecked population growth, driven by white couples having too many children, inevitably produced competition for scarce resources.

He regarded welfare (poor relief) as counterproductive and “morally hazardous” because it weakened what he saw as the “natural checks” upon population growth (famine, disease, and poverty itself). In Malthus’s view, welfare policies encouraged early and “improvident” marriages by removing some of the natural disincentives for having large families.

He sought to reduce the population of impoverished British people through limitation of births. Because he was an ordained minister writing in an evangelical age he could only recommend periodic chastity in marriage as a means of birth prevention. And like Ricardo, he advocated the gradual abolition of Britain’s existing Poor Laws — rejecting any guaranteed right to food or housing for indigent families — in order to strengthen the incentives for what he termed “moral restraint”: later marriage and fewer children.

Ricardo and Malthus triumphed with Parliament’s enactment of the Poor Amendment Act of 1834 which, in the words of John Cassidy, “applied the harsh precepts of political economy to the labor market, presenting many impecunious members of the lower orders with a choice between starving and entering the loathed workhouses that Dickens would immortalize in Oliver Twist.”

In the face of this moral wasteland arose the protests of Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens and John Ruskin. In their writings they offered an indignant remonstrance to the buccaneer capitalism of the political economists. Carlyle denounced laissez-faire political economy in works such as Chartism (1839) and Past and Present (1843).

Dickens, a former child laborer, exposed the cruelty and spiritual desolation of Capitalism in his novels Oliver Twist (1838), Bleak House (1853) and Hard Times (1854), portraying the evils of debtor prisons, child exploitation, bureaucratic indifference, and the reduction of human beings to economic units. Dickens mocked the money ethos through the character of Thomas Gradgrind, who demanded “Facts alone are wanted in life.” In Oliver Twist the eponymous child protagonist barely escapes indenture in the clutches of the chimney sweep Gamfield.

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Ruskin was a man who swam in the depths of the high art of our civilization with a mystical intensity. Its spiritual riches were his intoxication. In The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849) and The Stones of Venice (1851–1853), he celebrated Gothic architecture for its organic vitality, craftsmanship, and expression of joyful labor — contrasting it with the soulless uniformity of industrial architecture, what is aptly named in our time, the “Brutalist” wing of architecture where our schools, condominium towers and shops resemble prisons and mental hospitals, shorn of all adornment — reductionist husks as empty as modern humanity degraded into the category of “consumers.”

In his seminal text, Unto This Last (1860), Ruskin opined, “There is no wealth but life” — arguing that true riches lie in “human flourishing, joy, beauty, and meaningful work, not the pursuit of money.”

You may reply, “Capitalism’s worst excesses have all been reformed now.” To which I rejoin, the principle behind it remains with us — the nobility of wealth and the relative worthlessness of the working and poor classes — human cattle.

The ridiculous assumption that the British ruling class was sympathetic with its “lower orders” of human cattle (impecunious English and Scottish whites) is disproved by the historical record which repeatedly records their upper class solidarity with highly esteemed “colored” aristocracies and royalty in nations such as India who they privileged over their own yeomanry.

Biblical Free Enterprise

Carlyle warned that a civilization governed solely by profit and mechanistic economics would destroy what it means to be human. A Biblical free enterprise system is very different. Children are treasured. Value is created by labor and invention. Loans are made freely and a debtor who profits from them voluntarily expresses gratitude by paying the lender a share in his new prosperity.

Marxism and other forms of coercive socialism can’t operate because under Christian free enterprise onerous bureaucracies are suspect along with the power of coercion implicit in their potential role in governing. The Homeless Industrial Complex saw California dump billions of dollars on remedying the situation of the unhoused which resulted in more vagrants on the streets and bureaucratic coffers swollen. Homelessness has continued rising in many California cities despite these large expenditures.

New York City spends $44,000 per student in its public schools. “Administrative overhead” in this case is criminally excessive. The percentage that actually reaches the pupils is minuscule compared with what is absorbed by the education caste, even as literacy rates and math scores plummet. The opposite of Capitalism is not Socialism, it is Biblical free enterprise wherein wealth is created by inventors, workers and farmers.

Campaigns to reform banking are filled with nostrums, gimmicks and fraud. I am reminded of Hitler’s phony crusade against usury banks in the 1920s and early ‘30s, before he came to power. The J.P.Morgan bank to which the government of Britain was indebted as a result of waging war on Germany 1914-1918, began to extract funds from the German Reichsbank to pay Britain’s debt to Morgan.

The “Aryan” usurer Hjalmar Schacht, the “wizard of bank credit creation,” led the Reichsbank in the Weimar period and mark this, was placed in power again under Hitler, who had campaigned on the abolition of the very type of usury which was Schacht’s specialty!

This was one among many of Hitler’s most signal betrayals. He forbade Jewish usury and empowered the “Aryan” version. His admirers have fallen for the swindle ever since, falsely considering Hitler a money reformer.

The despotic sovereign power of money dies when denied its “oxygen” — the renting of money. This is where victory is found; accept no substitute for the abolition of usury.

“Sons of the Most High”

Jesus gave us the solution. Christendom has spent the past few centuries fleeing from His divine way and concocting every conceivable replacement or modification. In this we are no better than Hillel. We lose the battle for a just economy every time we defy divine economics and prefer one of our own contrivance.

Two Irrefutable Facts that Need to be Faced

I. Jesus said, “If you love me keep my commandments” (John 14:15). Many times a month I hear people profess their love for Him even as they defy His commandments.

II. His Commandment:

“But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive back, what credit is that to you? For even sinners lend to sinners to receive as much back. But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High.” (Luke 632-35).

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Genesis 19: 4-5 “…all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. They called to Lot, ‘Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”

Jude 1:7: “Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.”

Revelation of the Method: “America’s Greatest Ally” and “God’s Holy Nation on Earth” has institutionalized rape and sodomy in Israeli concentration camps such as Sde Teiman, which is located in the Negev Desert in the vicinity of the city of Beersheba.

In America decades ago this terrible fact would have been a source of conscience-stricken consternation, nausea and outrage, leading to a nearly complete break with taxpayer financing and “evangelical” church support for so-called “Israel.”

Your Bell is Cracked, the Chime is Gone

But after sixty years in the alchemical cauldron Americans are dumbed-down and distracted to the point where some of our humanity, some portion of the alarms to our conscience and neurological system that would normally lead us to take decisive action—mass marches, protests, boycotts and disengagement—have been deadened by the Videodrome’s screens and the open air civic magic whose theurgic symbols flowing from the occult parallelogram that is Jerusalem, London, Washington and Rome, have become our unremarkable lingua franca.

Today the news of savage crimes committed in Israeli torture camps is little more than grist for the Society of the Spectacle’s mill. Grab a pizza and a beer and take a front row seat.

Among wretched conspiracy theorists this takes the form of a temporary adrenaline thrill, le choc du mois (the shock of the month), to be discarded in June in search of the next titillating crime, preferably one freighted with supernatural baggage. By this process what should be the realm of serious, sustained investigation gets buried under the sawdust of a sordid circus tent.

Under these degenerate conditions attempting to convey to the habitués of a carnival funhouse the gravity of crimes crying to heaven for justice is a rancid futility.

While I aspire to write for the masses, the reality of our situation dictates that my audience is necessarily to some extent an elite one — possessed of at least some scintilla of awareness of what the Revelation of the Method entails in our time and desiring a restoration of what has been lost.

This restoration begins with an austere announcement to the American people like the one the Capuchin friar Francesco da Montepulciano declared to Florence in 1513: “Your bell is cracked, the chime is gone.”

In this putative Age of Aquarius the dam broke on May 11. The deluge was in the form of a 3,700-word report by Nicholas Kristof.

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George Orwell forever nailed the semantics of thought control when he wrote in 1984:

Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.…It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought…should be literally unthinkable…

From the autumn of 2023 up to the present the genocide perpetrated by the Israelis in Gaza has largely not been termed a holocaust. With remarkable unanimity witnesses, journalists and activists entirely shocked and horrified by the daily slaughter avoided employing the word, presumably because they believe that to do so would invite a storm of invective which would have vitiated the moral force of their protest.

The Newspeak process has trademarked Holocaust™ as the exclusive domain of one historical epoch, all other memories need not apply, including the memory of crimes against humanity which most accurately fit the main dictionary definition:

Ah, but that was Oldspeak which expanded the range of thought, something which 21st-century people are no longer permitted. Hence, this writer risks contumely and cancellation for bringing to your attention the fact that the fiery immolation by US bombers of 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo in March, 1945 and approximately 200,000 human beings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of that year exactly fulfill what the dictionary primarily defines as a holocaust. The employment of the term expands our knowledge, yet it is forbidden for us to do so.

Forbidden by what mechanism? By an osmosis propelled by ethnocentrism and sustained by the timidity of those who know better but will not defy it.

A candid study of history demonstrates there have been many holocausts, not only the terrible one visited upon the Jewish people by Hitler’s savage occultism.

2017 was the one-hundredth anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Benjamin Nathans writes, “The Russian Revolution, to borrow a phrase from Gershom Scholem, the historian of Jewish messianism, was one of history’s ‘plastic hours,’ when inherited institutions melt away, clearing a path for possibility.”

In fact, Russia’s institutions didn’t “melt,” they were burned and shot and exploded away by “messianism” and what remained in the rubble was a path to a future of mass deportation, slave labor gulags and police state terror amounting to a minimum death toll of tens of millions of people, aided by western banks and agents in the British and American governments.

The Russian-Judaic historian Yuri Slezkine took note of the messianic dimension in his brilliant book The House of Government: The Saga of the Russian Revolution (Princeton University, 2017), wherein he acknowledges “the extraordinary presence of Jews in the early Soviet political, cultural and administrative elite.” He also demonstrates how many of them ended as victims of Stalin.

The Russian people were reconfigured as “class enemies, kulaks” or “landlords” and either worked to death in the Gulag or shot outright. All points of view hostile to the Communists were suppressed and quotas were established for the mass arrests of those who espoused them.

In China Mao Zedong viewed the colossal mass murder in the Soviet Union as intrinsic to its success. The legacy of the unspeakable bloodshed Mao perpetrated in upwards of 100 million deaths is the legacy of the death-dealing despots in Beijing with whom American capitalists have done a brisk business, all talk of Mao’s holocaust having been thoroughly repressed. Who cares? Let’s make money.

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Of all the scare stories about Artificial Intelligence (AI), this one by Jasmine Sun in the April 30 New York Times (“Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass”), is the most judicious, though it suffers from other defects including neglecting to include Elon Musk’s mandate for engineering benevolent AI. Here is my synopsis of the author’s key points:

Jobs Apocalypse Sun writes, “Whether one talks with engineers, venture capitalists, founders or managers, or with doomers, accelerationists, lefties or libertarians, the so-called San Francisco consensus on the impact of A.I. for workers is bleak: many ordinary people will lose their economic leverage as their jobs are automated away, displacing millions.” A concentration of wealth and power will accumulate monopolistically to the A.I. corporations and CEOs and the existing owners of capital. “The rich will be able to deploy super-intelligent machines to do their bidding, and everyone else will be rendered useless and unemployable, left to live off welfare scraps.”

Deus ex Machina AI and robotics will soon surpass human capabilities. “Unstoppable” AI systems will be able to do almost any job a human can and at a superior level.

Lobbyists The pro-artificial intelligence super PAC “Leading the Future,” which has received partial funding from OpenAI President Greg Brockman, has expended more than $2 million on advertisements opposing Alex Bores, a populist congressional candidate in New York who has put forth a plan to finance direct payments to American citizens via taxation on artificial intelligence.

Money Talks Artificial intelligence-related investments—such as those in software and data centers—accounted for 39 percent of U.S. economic growth during the first three quarters of 2025, according to an analysis conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. This substantial contribution endows the federal government with a vested interest in perpetuating the artificial intelligence boom. An economic concentration of this magnitude risks inclining policymakers to resist the regulation of artificial intelligence.

When the Automaters Become the Automated No one is immune to super-intelligence, not even those who work —or own—the leading corporations behind these innovations. “It may be feasible to pay human employees even long after they are no longer providing economic value in the traditional sense. Anthropic is currently considering a range of possible pathways for our own employees,” said Dario Amodei co-founder and CEO of Anthropic (maker of “Claude” AI), in contemplating the eventual obsolescence of his own employees as their roles are cannibalized by AI. Which leads us to ask, what firewall will Mr. Amodei and other Masters of the Tech Universe implement to keep AI from sending them to a retirement home, or worse?

Dumbing Us Down: Sun observes: “Recent studies demonstrate that young engineers who relied on AI coding agents not only didn’t complete tasks much faster; they also understood their work less when quizzed about it afterward. The labor market implications are grim. At the same time that early-career workers are competing with AI for jobs, they may be stunting their own skill development by overusing AI tools.”

Revolutionary Violence Absent a robust social safety net and a coherent transition strategy, overt protectionism represents a rational response by workers confronting automation. The prospect that artificial intelligence will entrench a permanent underclass can impel individuals to undertake extreme measures to forestall such an outcome. Populist discontent in turn harbors the potential to escalate into violence. In April, an assailant attempted to firebomb the residence of Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. In a separate incident, another individual has been accused of targeting an Indianapolis city council member who had approved a local data center project. The Luigi Mangione paradigm no longer lurks in the shadows.

As noted, the author omits all mention of Elon Musk’s unique AI (named Grok) from her New York Times study. Read more at NYTimes.com

Jasmine Sun writes about AI and Silicon Valley culture on Substack

Elon’s mission for Grok differs from all other AI makers. According to him:

AI “could make us more prosperous, but it could also kill us all. We want to be in a Gene Roddenberry movie, like Star Trek, not so much a James Cameron movie, like Terminator.”

He elaborated by comparing AI training to like raising a child: “It’s like if you had a very smart child — at the end of the day when the child grows up, you can’t really control that child, but you can try to instill the right values. Honesty, integrity, caring about humanity —being good, essentially.”

One might laugh at the gullibility of taking anything Elon says at face value. However, the proof is in the pudding. I have found that Grok is close to ten times more committed to censorship-free responses compared with other AI systems such as ChatGPT.

The reign of machines —“dead matter” in Elizabethan magus Dr. John Dee’s words —has been a sustained occult project whose antecedents extend back through millennia of Western esoteric tradition. Historian Frances Yates was among the first to point out that far from emerging as a Cartesian-materialist phenomenon, the mechanization of existence and the elevation of machines over organic life was a fulfillment of mystical Hermetic and Kabbalistic initiatives: the animation of inert substance. The design finds its prophetic anticipation in the visionary fiction of H.P. Lovecraft, whose Cthulhu Mythos depicts the invasion of demonic entities—so-called “Dark Gods.”

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“You know what the name of the military operation was? ‘Eternal Darkness.’ Israel named this operation killing hundreds of civilians in Lebanon, mostly in Beirut, ‘Eternal Darkness.’ … Cause like, why even pretend anymore?”

— Tucker Carlson, The Tucker Carlson Show, April 9, 2026

The Israeli military and top officials, including Defense Minister Israel Katz, explicitly employed “Operation Eternal Darkness” as the codenamed operational order for the bombardment of civilian targets in Lebanon on April 8.

The Israelis perpetrated at least one hundred attacks in 10 minutes across Beirut suburbs and the Bekaa Valley. The Lebanese government and the Red Cross reported more than 300 people killed and over 1,000 wounded in this single spasm of massive violence.

Modern Theurgy: Pulsa d’Nura

Tucker and others have searched for parallels in Biblical texts for the ominous Operation Eternal Darkness code name.

Cognizant as I am of the extent to which recent Israeli homicidal violence has been propelled by Kabbalistic thaumaturgy, it is not out of the question that the Israeli military’s “Operation Eternal Darkness” has just such a provenance.

Before I proceed further however, some background is necessary. A surfeit of distraction and misdirection surrounds Kabbalah and its formation. Three branches of this disinformation are most influential in sowing confusion: (1) the Renaissance “Catholic Kabbalah” presented by Pico della Mirandola and Johannes Reuchlin and their New Age epigones down to the present, (2) Modern Orthodoxy which treats Kabbalah as a culturally significant but non-essential later development which is subordinate to Talmudic halakhah, and (3) the legend concocted by 20th century academics, that Kabbalah is mainly the product of the Middle Ages rather than antiquity.

Concerning (1): To infiltrate the precincts of the Catholic hierarchy, Kabbalah had to be publicly cleansed of its pantheistic Zoroastrian elements and falsified as an ethical monotheism which “proved” Trinitarian Christian theology, while simultaneously supporting that unquestionable Renaissance virtue, Humanism, (e.g. the suzerainty of man’s brain power and the necessity of employing it to perfect God’s allegedly flawed creation).

Concerning (2): Kabbalah and Talmud are the two indispensable pillars which support the Temple. Kabbalah is the yin path of spirit and mysticism. The Talmud is the yang path of bureaucracy and legalistic micromanagement. The practitioners of each path are united within the temple. Neither can be jettisoned without the Temple falling. Modern Orthodoxy was in part a reaction to Enlightenment criticism of Kabbalah which had become something of an embarrassment in the 19th century. As a public relations strategy emphasis was placed on rationality. Kabbalah was marginalized. In the 21st century the trend is beginning to reverse as rabbinic mysticism has gained new cachet as a repository of the “wisdom of antiquity.”

Concerning (3): The positing of a Kabbalah origin story that is mainly medieval privileges the written corpora of that era and overlooks the oral transmission of esoteric lore from antiquity, thus conveniently divorcing Kabbalah from its roots in the perennial pagan psychodrama of Pharaonic Egypt, Orphic Greece, Zoroastrian Persia and Coptic Gnosticism. [Cf. Adolphe Franck, La Kabbale ou la philosophie religieuse des Hebreux (Paris, 1843); Shaul Shaked, “Iranian Influence on Judaism, First Century B.C.E. to Second Century C.E.” in The Cambridge History of Judaism vol. 1 (1984), pp. 308-325; and M. Hoffman, “The Serpent in the Quattrocento,” in The Occult Renaissance Church of Rome (2017), pp. 138-151].

Kabbalah is more than the synthesis of the darkness of all of these traditions. As we shall see, it surpasses them in its conceptualization of a nightmare cosmos inherently evil at a depth undreamed of by any other diabolism.

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Margherita Furlan’s study of Peter Thiel (below) is edifying from a number of perspectives and worthy of your attention. Much of the current furor around Thiel and speculation concerning his motives and objectives is being generated by the Cryptocracy in order to make it appear as though most any negative verdict is a lurid, crazed Satan-witch hunt.

Furlan is on more solid ground, taking into account the Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity (remember THRUSH from the MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. television series?) — to be led by Thiel’s “sovereigns” [Plato’s philosopher kings].

Furlan demonstrates that Thiel uses the New Testament as a screen for destroying one of the most fundamental insights of the Word of God and tenets of the Founding Fathers — that no man or group of men (or women) however supposedly good, can ever be trusted with unlimited power. There must forever be checks on the fallen human nature of us all.

Furlan writes: “He (Thiel) argues that the Antichrist could manifest as a global system of government that seizes power by exploiting citizens’ fears regarding...nuclear war...

“The Vatican, through Avvenire – the daily newspaper of the Italian Episcopal Conference” writes that “for Thiel, the Antichrist is anyone who places limits on unlimited progress.”

Here we confront a crossroads for the Vatican, due to the fact that western civilization’s most potent and influential advocate of unlimited intellectual and scientific “progress” was the Renaissance Catholic Kabbalist Count Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the subject of a hagiography by Pope John Paul II’s Cardinal Henri de Lubac. Pico stood for the Kabbalah’s concept of the sovereignty of human brain power against all restraints. In The Occult Renaissance Church of Rome I document that notwithstanding disinformation to the contrary, Pico enjoyed papal protection.

Now, at our 21st century crossroads, does the Catholic Church embrace the pre-Renaissance Church founded in Christ-ism or the post-Renaissance Church founded in human-ism? Thus far it appears that Leo XIV has chosen Jesus, at least within the narrow aperture of questions of war, peace and the imperatives of Zionism.

Furlan stumbles on one point, when she fails to substantiate her claim that Thiel’s alleged advocacy of the views of René Girard is somehow another piece in his sinister puzzle. Yet, she correctly illustrates one of Girard’s key points: “In archaic societies, violence was channeled through the mechanism of the scapegoat: a sacrificial victim upon whom the community vented its collective aggression…”

In this century our “archaic society” vented its wrath on a scapegoat by the name of Theodore Kaczynski, who was the target of LSD experiments in his youth and who was guilty of some though not all of the so-called “Unabomber” attacks on technological targets. His highest profile role in the Unabomber psychodrama was as a scapegoat. He was apprehended in the Scapegoat Wilderness of western Montana where he had resided for several years.

If you wish to confirm for yourself the paradoxical fact that Unabomber was not only Kaczynski, consider the datum, as I reported in Twilight Language, that the FBI made no serious attempt to locate and interrogate any possible accomplices. He was treated as a lone nut from the time of his arrest — precisely the point when a criminal investigation is supposed to begin in earnest (something similar occurred in 1977 with the arrest of David Berkowitz as the “lone nut” Son of Sam killer). If the authorities know in advance there are no other suspects, then it is a strong indication that they are in on the crime. They rule out accomplices because they are the accomplices.

Thiel’s Iranian Nukes Farce

The hoopla and manufactured hysteria over Iranian nuclear weapons by Thiel and others is a charade sold on the basis of human imbecility. North Korean intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads have an estimated range of from 6,200 to 8,000 miles and can reach any target in the U.S.

Iranian missiles do not have sufficient range to strike an location in the U.S., nor do the Iranians possess nuclear weapons. Everything that Trump declaims about Iranian alleged nuclear-armed missiles actually applies to North Korea, against which he would not dare raise a hand.

Palantir

Furlan: “Palantir’s strategic partnership with the Israeli Ministry of Defense dates back to introductions facilitated by Jeffrey Epstein….Thiel “is the co-founder of Palantir Technologies, the data analytics and artificial intelligence company whose name – taken from Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, where the palantír is the seeing-stone used by the evil wizard Saruman to watch over his enemies – is perhaps the most transparent and unwittingly revealing metaphor in the history of the tech industry...Palantir’s MOSAIC platform is integrated into the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) verification system. When, between 6th and 12th June 2025, MOSAIC flagged an alleged increase in enriched uranium at Iranian facilities – assessing that Iran was potentially just weeks away from producing multiple nuclear warheads – that assessment formed the basis of Israeli intelligence against Iran.”

“...Palantir provides the technological platform for Project Maven, the Pentagon’s AI targeting system. The Maven Smart System – which integrated Anthropic’s Claude AI model through a partnership with Palantir…In the early days of the war, Palantir’s share price rose by 15% in a week – its best performance since August [2025] – whilst the Nasdaq fell by 1.2%.”

Eternal Darkness

“You know what the name of the military operation was? ‘Eternal Darkness.’ Israel named this operation killing hundreds of civilians in Lebanon, mostly in Beirut, ‘Eternal Darkness.’

— Tucker Carlson, The Tucker Carlson Show, April 9.

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Pope Leo XIV seems to have anticipated this Israeli naming when he stated on March 15, 2026, during a homily at Mass in the church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Ponte Mammolo outside Rome, “Some presume to invoke God’s name in these deadly decisions…But God cannot be enlisted by darkness.”

There is a darkness written of in the Kabbalah which is truly of an extraordinary intensity, a black hole of evil so deep it is unfathomable.

Throughout recent Israeli history, Kabbalistic ritual has been employed in a superstitious attempt to bring about the deaths of Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin (1995) and Ariel Sharon (2005). Hence, there is nothing novel about the resort to these methods.

On May Day this Friday, I will publish a study of the Kabbalistic invocation of eternal darkness as a thaumaturgic operation in the war in Lebanon.

Peter Thiel and other A.I.-powered, would-be masters-of-the universe skirt the involvement of Kabbalah in the highest considerations of the Israeli government. For all their big brain-power conceit they infantilize their audience by the information they reserve solely for their fellow Kings of the Deal.

—Michael Hoffman. For the Advancement of Knowledge Contra Cancel Culture

The Prophet of the Profitable Apocalypse

Peter Thiel and the Antichrist

By Margherita Furlan • GeoPolitiQ

Today I am providing my English translation of an article by Margherita Furlan, originally in Italian and published on AntiMafiaDuemila.com on Saturday 28nd March 2026.

Peter Thiel did not come to Rome to pray. He came to preach. And the gulf between the two – between the humility of the pilgrim and the arrogance of the prophet – is precisely what the Vatican sensed, and from which it distanced itself, the very moment the co-founder of PayPal and Palantir stepped through the doors of the Renaissance Palazzo Orsini Taverna to launch, on 16th March [2026], a series of four closed-door lectures on the Antichrist.

Four days of private, invitation-only lectures, bound by confidentiality clauses, held a stone’s throw from St Peter’s Basilica whilst in Iran – according to estimates by the Iranian Red Crescent and various human rights organisations – between 1,230 and 1,300 civilians were being killed by US and Israeli airstrikes. Among them were over 165 girls from a girls’ primary school in Minab, in Hormozgan province, struck on 28th February [2026] by an American Tomahawk missile [see here and my article on the first day of the Ramadan War between USrael and Iran].

The timing is no coincidence. It never is, when it comes to Peter Thiel. And to understand what he really came to Rome to do, it is necessary to bring together three planes that remain separate in the conventional media narrative: theology, technology and war. Because in Thiel, these three planes are one.

The Architect of the Apocalypse

Peter Andreas Thiel, 58, born in Frankfurt [Germany], a naturalised American, with a net worth estimated by the New York Times at $27.5 billion, is not simply a tech billionaire with religious curiosities. He is a political theologian in action. Father Paolo Benanti, advisor to Pope Leo XIV on Artificial Intelligence [AI], put it with surgical precision in an essay published on the eve of the Roman lectures: Thiel is “above all a political theologian operating at the very heart of the Silicon Valley ecosystem”, and his theories represent a “radicalisation” of Western values – individualism, technological progress, the spirit of competition – taken to their ultimate consequences.

To understand Thiel, one must start with René Girard, the French philosopher who taught at Stanford in the 1980s and whose mimetic theory constitutes, by Thiel’s own admission, the backbone of his worldview. Girard – a heterodox Catholic and pacifist who died in 2015 – had developed a theory of imitation according to which all human desires are desires imitated by others. This mimesis generates rivalry, which in turn generates violence. In archaic societies, violence was channeled through the mechanism of the scapegoat: a sacrificial victim upon whom the community vented its collective aggression, temporarily restoring peace.

Christianity, according to Girard, had exposed this mechanism: Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross was the definitive revelation of the victim’s innocence and the injustice of the sacrificial mechanism. An act that opened up the possibility – not the certainty – of renouncing violence.

But Girard was also an apocalyptic thinker. In his final essay, “Achever Clausewitz” (Taking Clausewitz to the Extreme), he argued that contemporary humanity found itself in an apocalyptic phase, not in the fundamentalist sense – it was not looking for the number 666 – but in the sense that mimetic violence, in the age of nuclear weapons and globalisation, had reached a potential for total destruction. Either humanity embraced Christian non-violence, or it was heading towards self-destruction. The Apocalypse, for Girard, was not the punishment of a vengeful God, but the consequence of human violence left unchecked.

Thiel took this framework and radically transformed it. He retained the structure – mimesis, violence, the Apocalypse – but reversed its moral direction. Whereas Girard was a pacifist who saw the renunciation of violence as the only path to salvation, Thiel has constructed a system in which violence can be a necessary tool, and in which unlimited technological progress – not renunciation – is the path to salvation.

The Antichrist according to Thiel: when peace becomes suspect

The Rome lectures, according to accounts by the Washington Post and UCA News, followed the pattern of his previous conferences in San Francisco (September 2025) and Paris. Thiel’s vocabulary is built around two Greek theological concepts: the katechon and the eschaton.

The katechon, in the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, is “that which restrains” – the force that delays the manifestation of the supreme evil. The eschaton is the final fulfilment of history. In the Christian tradition, these categories have been handled with caution, often with a sort of intellectual modesty. In Thiel, they become operational, almost strategic, categories.

On the one hand, Thiel places the katechon: Constantine, the Tridentine liturgy, the political order, stabilised wealth. On the other, the eschaton: Mother Teresa, non-violence, liberation theology, a Church beyond the economy. A binary construct that compresses the millennia-old complexity of Christianity into a clear-cut opposition, serving a pre-determined thesis.

The heart of the argument emerges when Thiel speaks of the Antichrist. He does not mean this as a revelation in the biblical sense – an unveiling of God – but as a lens through which to interpret the present. He argues that the Antichrist could manifest as a global system of government that seizes power by exploiting citizens’ fears regarding artificial intelligence, climate change or nuclear war.

The Vatican, through Avvenire – the daily newspaper of the Italian Episcopal Conference – has translated this thesis into its logical consequence: for Thiel, the Antichrist is “anyone who places limits on unlimited progress”. Peace itself becomes suspect. Thiel insists on a passage from the First Letter to the Thessalonians: “when they say, ‘Peace and safety’, then sudden destruction will come upon them”. The quotation is accurate, but its use is revealing: peace, in Thiel’s contemporary discourse, becomes the sign of an imposed order, of stability acquired at the price of freedom.

Who, in concrete terms, are the servants of the Antichrist in Thiel’s system? Regulators. Multilateralists. Climate activists. Those who propose global governance of artificial intelligence. Those who wish to limit the power of tech platforms. Those who invoke international law. In a formulation circulating among those who attended the San Francisco lectures, critics of AI are potential “legionaries of the Antichrist” because they slow down the progress that could counter real threats – such as, in Thiel’s view, China’s military technological advance.

The Antichrist, therefore, is not the horned beast of popular imagination. In Thiel’s cosmology, the Second Coming will not descend from the heavens; it will emerge from the laboratory. And the bureaucrat, the activist, the regulator are those who stand in its way.

The “political miracle” and the delegitimization of democracy

One of the most revealing passages in the Rome lectures concerns the concept of the “political miracle”. Thiel distinguishes between the supernatural miracle and the political miracle: the latter is the ability to promise the impossible, to hold irreconcilable opposites together, to offer a synthesis that neutralises conflict. This is no trivial insight: contemporary politics is full of such promises. But when this category is applied to democracy itself, the next step is an implicit delegitimization: democracy becomes a rhetorical device, a word whose meaning depends on who uses it.

This is where Thiel converges with Carl Schmitt, the German jurist whose thought – the friend/enemy distinction as the foundation of the political – Thiel is a close reader of. In the essay ‘The Straussian Moment’ [link], written in 2004 for a conference at Stanford significantly titled “Politics and Apocalypse”, Thiel attempted to weave together Schmitt’s political theology and Leo Strauss’s vision of hidden hierarchies and esoteric wisdom. There he wrote that the Enlightenment ideals of rationalism, tolerance and individual rights offered insufficient protection against existential threats.

The operative conclusion is clear: if liberal democracy is a “political miracle” – that is, an illusion that holds together the irreconcilable – and if the Antichrist is the one who proposes global order and regulation, then true leadership must be exercised by those who see beyond the illusion. By those whom Thiel calls “sovereign individuals” or “founders” – figures capable of escaping the cycle of imitation and creating new realities. A technological and financial elite that is not subject to the rules of the democratic game but which determines its conditions.

Avvenire has perfectly grasped this implication, defining Thiel’s vision as the project of a “superplutocracy” that “monitors and protects humanity from the arrival of the Antichrist”. Protection as surveillance. Salvation as domination.

The weapon of prophecy: Palantir and the war on Iran

And this is where theology becomes technology, and technology becomes war. Because Peter Thiel is not merely a political theologian.

He is the co-founder of Palantir Technologies, the data analytics and artificial intelligence company whose name – taken from Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings”, where the palantír is the seeing-stone used by the evil wizard Saruman to watch over his enemies – is perhaps the most transparent and unwittingly revealing metaphor in the history of the tech industry.

Palantir is at the heart of the war in Iran. It is so in a way that constitutes what an investigation by Byline Times has termed an unprecedented “double conflict of interest” in the history of nuclear non-proliferation.

First level: intelligence. Palantir’s MOSAIC platform is integrated into the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) verification system. When, between 6th and 12th June 2025, MOSAIC flagged an alleged increase in enriched uranium at Iranian facilities – assessing that Iran was potentially just weeks away from producing multiple nuclear warheads – that assessment formed the basis of Israeli intelligence against Iran. The IAEA Board of Governors approved a non-compliance resolution on 12th June. Israel struck the following day. Trump then authorised the attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities. [See my coverage of the 12-day war and the events that lead to it here]

But three months earlier, Tulsi Gabbard – Trump’s Director of National Intelligence – had confirmed to Congress that the consensus of the US intelligence community was that Iran was not pursuing a military nuclear program. Congressman Seth Magaziner, who had attended the briefing, stated that there was “no intelligence indicating that Iran was planning an attack on the United States”. Senator Elizabeth Warren said that the war “had been launched without any imminent threat to our nation.”

Second level: targeting. Palantir provides the technological platform for Project Maven, the Pentagon’s AI targeting system. The Maven Smart System – which integrated Anthropic’s Claude AI model through a partnership with Palantir – generated over a thousand strike options for the US armed forces in the early stages of Operation Epic Fury. This technology accelerates the “kill chain” – the process of identifying, approving and striking targets – reducing “a human workload of tens of thousands of hours to seconds and minutes”, by automating “targeting decisions made by humans in ways that raise all sorts of problematic legal, ethical and political questions”.

Third tier: profit. In the early days of the war, Palantir’s share price rose by 15% in a week – its best performance since August [2025] – whilst the Nasdaq fell by 1.2%. Analysts at Rosenblatt raised their target price from $150 to $200, writing that “the conflict in the Middle East is positive for Palantir’s government pipeline”. The share price has gained 17% in a month. US government revenue in the fourth quarter of 2025 had already grown by 66% year-on-year, reaching $570 million, and the company forecasts 61% growth in 2026, with a target of $7.19 billion. CEO Alex Karp, speaking at the AIPCon conference in Maryland, explicitly stated that Palantir’s software is assisting US allies in the Middle East.

The circle is complete: Palantir provides the intelligence that justifies the war, the technology that wages it, and profits from the outcome. The company whose co-founder preaches the Apocalypse in Rome is the very same one selling the tools to bring it about in Iran.

The three co-founders: war as a foretold destiny

The Byline Times investigation revealed a fact that should be at the heart of any discussion on the legitimacy of this war: Palantir’s three most prominent figures had all publicly argued that the conflict with Iran was inevitable, before the conflict itself began.

Peter Thiel, in a 2024 interview with Bari Weiss, had argued for the need to cooperate with Israel to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, drawing a historical parallel with the Soviet Union’s acquisition of the bomb (1949, followed by the Korean War) and that of Communist China (1964, followed by the escalation in Vietnam). “Every time a country has acquired a nuclear weapon, we have had a regional war,” he had said. The conclusion was clear: preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon was a strategic necessity that justified military action. In 2024, Thiel and Karp traveled together to Israel, where Palantir became a strategic partner of the Israeli Ministry of Defence.

Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir, was the most outspoken. In an interview with CNBC in June 2025, during the twelve-day war between Israel, the United States and Iran, he called for pre-emptive strikes against Iran’s nuclear infrastructure and stated that he hoped to “invest in Iran” following a regime change.

Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, had warned in 2024 that the United States would “most likely” end up fighting a multi-front war against Russia, China and Iran, and that war with Iran would demonstrate the value of the company’s autonomous weapon systems. Those who provided the evidence, those who called for war, those who profit from it: they are the same people.

The shadow of Epstein

A further thread links Palantir’s military partnership with Israel to one of the darkest chapters in the history of the American establishment. US Department of Justice documents, published by the House Oversight Committee in 2026, reveal that Palantir’s strategic partnership with the Israeli Ministry of Defence dates back to introductions facilitated by Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein spent years putting Thiel in touch with former Israeli Prime Minister and former Defence Minister Ehud Barak, arranging at least six separate meetings. A dinner in June 2014 at Epstein’s Manhattan flat brought all three together to discuss Israeli security. According to Epstein’s emails, the conversation touched on “Assassination squad. Ice cream”. Thiel replied: “Agreed – very Israeli and very stimulating. Thanks for including me!” They met again in Israel in June 2017.

The relationship yielded concrete business deals: Epstein directed Thiel towards two Israeli cybersecurity start-ups with roots in Unit 8200, the Israeli military’s cyber-intelligence arm. Barak also urged Epstein to organise a seminar on AI and warfare with Thiel and others. The documents further show that Valar Ventures, Thiel’s fund, accepted $40 million from Epstein, and that Thiel exchanged extensive correspondence with him for five years prior to his death.

Today, Palantir supplies AI targeting tools to the Israeli military. When asked about ethical concerns, Thiel stated:

“My inclination is to defer to Israel.”

Eschatological convergence: Thiel and evangelical Christian Zionism

The Roman lectures on the Antichrist are not an isolated academic exercise. They form part of a broader phenomenon of convergence between various eschatological currents that find prophetic confirmation in the war in Iran.

Evangelical Christian Zionism – dominant among Trump’s electoral base – interprets Middle Eastern events through the lens of dispensational premillennialism: Israel must control the entire Holy Land, the Temple must be rebuilt, Israel’s enemy nations must be defeated, and only then will Christ return. War is the theological prerequisite for redemption. In this view, Iran – identified by many evangelical preachers with biblical Persia – is an eschatological actor whose defeat is foretold in the Scriptures.

Thiel does not share the crude premillennialism of the Texas preachers. His Girardian background provides him with a far more sophisticated intellectual framework. Yet he arrives at convergent practical conclusions. For evangelicals, war is God’s plan. For Thiel, war is the consequence of technological stagnation and the inability to overcome mimetic violence – yet it is nonetheless inevitable, and must be fought with the most advanced tools possible. In both cases, negotiated peace is a temptation of the Antichrist.

This convergence is no accident. Thiel was the intellectual mentor and principal financier of J.D. Vance, the current Vice-President of the United States. He invested millions in his Senate campaign, introduced him to the thought of René Girard — an influence that led to Vance’s conversion to Catholicism — and acted as a bridge between the libertarian tech world and conservative American Catholicism. Vance even quoted St Augustine — the spiritual founder of Pope Leo XIV’s religious order, the Augustinians — to defend the Trump administration’s crackdown on migrants.

The Thiel-Vance axis is the point of convergence between apocalyptic theology and American executive power. The mentor preaches in Rome while the protégé sits in the White House.

Why the Vatican is concerned

The Vatican’s reaction to Thiel’s lectures was calibrated with the diplomatic precision that distinguishes the Holy See, but was no less significant for that.

Two Catholic institutions initially associated with the event – the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) and the Catholic University of America [CUA] – have publicly distanced themselves. The Angelicum stated: “We wish to clarify that this event is not organised by the University, will not be held at the Angelicum, and is not part of any of our institutional initiatives”. CUA specified that “The Cluny Project is an independent initiative incubated at the University.”

Avvenire, the CEI’s daily newspaper and an authoritative voice in the Italian Catholic world, did not mince its words: it described Thiel as “an agent of chaos” and wrote that his vision favors the replacement of democracy and the rule of law with an elite “super-plutocracy”. The Vatican’s official newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, published a strongly worded article describing Thiel as “the dark side of technology.”

Father Benanti offered the most articulate critique: Thiel is a “political theologian” whose vision should be understood as a radicalisation – not an expression – of Western values.

He added, in a detail worthy of reflection: “Peter Thiel does not believe that humanity can be redeemed.” If this is true, then we are faced with a Christianity without redemption – an eschatological framework that retains the Apocalypse but eliminates hope, which preserves judgement but removes mercy. A Christianity that serves power, not salvation.

Pope Leo XIV did not meet Thiel and, according to official schedules, no meetings were planned. The Pope kept his distance, but the context of his statements speaks for itself. On the very day of Thiel’s lectures, 15th March [2026], Leo XIV issued his strongest appeal since the start of the war: “In the name of the Christians of the Middle East and of all women and men of good will, I appeal to those responsible for this conflict: cease fire! Let the channels of dialogue be reopened! Violence can never lead to the justice, stability and peace that the peoples await”.

And on 17th March [2026], speaking to journalists while Thiel was giving his final lecture at Palazzo Orsini Taverna, Leo XIV said that the media must not “become a megaphone for power” in times of war. The day before, addressing priests attending a course on confession, he had asked: “Do those Christians who bear grave responsibilities in armed conflicts have the humility and courage to make a serious examination of conscience and go to confession?”

“Some presume to invoke God’s name in these deadly decisions,” said the Pope. “But God cannot be enlisted by darkness.”

The remark was addressed to everyone, but in the context of Thiel’s visit, the message took on a particular resonance.

The paradox of Palazzo Orsini Taverna

Francesco Sisci, director of the Appia Institute, put the visit into perspective with clarity: “The godfather of the new tech billionaires coming to Rome is proof of the Pope’s importance and of the fact that Catholicism has, in some ways, come back into fashion. The Pope is no longer a distant figure but is more involved in American politics”.

But he added: ‘As an American Pope, he is likely to keep his distance from Thiel. The Vatican will be careful not to be manipulated”.

This observation captures an essential point. Thiel’s visit is not an intellectual whim. It is a positioning manoeuvre within a cultural and theological war for the soul of Catholicism – and, by extension, for the spiritual legitimisation of a certain model of power. Conservative American Catholic circles, such as the Cluny Institute and the Vincenzo Gioberti Association, are testing the limits of what they can achieve in Rome, attempting to construct a Catholicism compatible with Thiel’s vision: a Christianity that places no limits on progress, that does not interfere with war, that does not hold shareholders to account.

Professor Massimo Faggioli, of the School of Religion at Trinity College Dublin, offered an illuminating perspective: “This is part of a series of moves by American conservative Catholic circles to test Rome and see what they can get away with.”

The perfect circle

Let us tie up the loose ends.

Peter Thiel is a political theologian who preaches the inevitability of the Apocalypse.

He is the co-founder of the company that provided the intelligence to justify the war on Iran. He is the mentor of the Vice-President of the United States. He is a shareholder who profits directly from the war. He is the intellectual who provides the sophisticated framework – Girardian, Schmittian, Catholic – within which evangelical Christian Zionism and the military-industrial complex find philosophical legitimisation.

In his view, the Antichrist is not the algorithmic system that decides who lives and who dies without human sentiment – he builds that himself; it is called Palantir. The Antichrist is whoever seeks to regulate it. The Antichrist is negotiated peace, international law, multilateral governance, ethical AI. The Antichrist is, ultimately, anyone who stands between Silicon Valley and its manifest destiny.

The Maven Smart System generates attack options. The Ayatollah is killed. The (school)girls of Minab die. Palantir’s share price rises by 17%. And in Rome, in the hall of a Renaissance palace, the prophet of the Apocalypse explains to a select audience that all this is necessary, that history has a meaning, that progress does not stop, and that those who call for peace are – perhaps – servants of Evil.

Outside, in front of the Italian Ministry of Defense, a group of protesters holds a bilingual banner: “Peter Thiel out of Rome. The techno-oligarchs of war out of Rome”.

And from the window of his study overlooking St Peter’s Square, the first American Pope in history says: “Cease fire”.

War is the product. Chaos is the raw material. And the Apocalypse, for those who know how to monetise it, is the most profitable of business plans.

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Henry Ford famously quipped, “History is more or less bunk” (Chicago Tribune, May 25, 1916). I think he meant that sweeping claims by didactic authorities who proclaim alleged facts are often engaged in cover-ups and omissions.

One neglected lacuna constitutes a searing indictment of the Republic of Letters in America. It involves the falsification of the life of one of the most famous “alternative” writers of the 20th century, Jack Kerouac, whose last year on earth contains enough material for books and plays yet is elided into a skimpy recitation of what his chroniclers deem a sordid period unworthy of any significant narrative development.

The hacks have blacked out the identity of the On the Road author’s final friend Charles Saunders (1943-2025), and his family, who had considerable influence on Kerouac’s mother and his wife, Stella. Biographies by Ann Charters, Gerald Nicosia, Barry Miles, Paul Maher, Jr. and others overlook the Saunders.

Alexander Saunders had been a university professor in Texas before he relocated his family to St. Petersburg, Florida. He was an authority on the Hicksite Quakers and the novels of G.A. Henty. His wife Mildred was a friend of Kerouac’s mother Gabrielle who was residing with her son and Stella Sampas Kerouac. The Sampas family and the Saunders were old friends.

Alexander and Mildred had three sons. One of them, Richard, was a character out of a Florida gothic —an impoverished marine biologist who moonlighted as a security guard and led a right-wing extremist group in Florida.

His erudite brother Charles, an army veteran with a near-photographic memory and fluency in French, ancient Greek and Latin, lived at home, read voraciously and when Kerouac came calling in the last weeks of his life, bottles in hand (Jack drank boilermakers, Charles confined himself to beer), the friendship was sealed.

To this writer Charles related Kerouac’s bitterness at his “Beat” pals — Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Alan Ginsberg, William Burroughs and others who in 1969 were embarrassed by him and had largely deserted their quondam boon companion. Charles was infuriated when immediately after his death they came out of the woodwork to mug for the national media and claim the mantle of “Jack’s best friend.”

A few years later Charles became a colleague of my mentor, James Shelby Downard who, in the mid-1970s pulled into a St. Petersburg trailer park in an Airstream motorhome. These are among my first impressions of Mr. Downard:

“His conversation that day ranged from the occult significance of the Theremin musical instrument to the sorcerous implications of elevators; the relationship he had with an evanescent rabbit named Petey; the sinister connotations of the circus and the mystical topography of the American Southwest, which Mr. Downard knew the way you and I know our backyard. As he fried our hamburgers, he regaled us in his prospector’s drawl with the hidden wonders of a tapestry of coincidences which he wove from the seemingly mundane details of everyday living into a magic carpet of incomparable strangeness and peerless utility.”

Bill, another member of the brain trust, suggested I join the colloquy. I subsequently made the first of my trips to St. Pete to commune with these savants. Their conversation sparkled like pearls before wine. Later I was a guest in the Saunders family home.

Like Mr. Downard, Charles was a dutiful correspondent and I saved his many delightfully discursive missives mailed over a period of more than 20 years. (I enclose a sample below, photographically reproduced).

I have thought of publishing them with the title, “Letters from Jack Kerouac’s Final Friend.” Then I thought better of it. Since this datum is denied by every establishment biographical source, who would review or credit my recollection?

Memory-holing Charles and Mildred is an act of vandalism against the record of the life of Kerouac, whose last weeks on earth were spent as Charles’s virtual student.

In 1983 I wintered in St. Petersburg with my family after having been fired by a New York radio station for broadcasting a 40-minute documentary, “Zionism, Racism and the Beirut Massacre,” on the terror bombing of Beirut from June through August, 1982 by the Israeli Air Force. (Not much has changed—44 years later and we’ve witnessed yet another horrendous massacre from the air in Beirut).

Almost every gentile employee of the station demurred when asked to support this writer. My main defenders were two Jews, attorney Alfred Lilienthal and Noam Chomsky. While he had pressing duties as Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Noam nevertheless spent two days lobbying my employers, attempting to persuade them to reinstate me, to no avail.

That winter Stella gifted Charles a privately printed pamphlet Jack had written imagining St. Joseph hanging with camel herders and discussing the best trails into Egypt, prior to the Flight of the Holy Family from Herod. It was the literary version of a Caravaggio painting — Joseph as a regular guy with dusty feet and a threadbare cloak, preferring the company of working stiffs.

For writers with the requisite curiosity and scholarly energy a rich vein awaits those willing to mine the Kerouac’s familial and friendship ties in 1969. However domestic, they illuminate an unknown corner of the life of the founder of an entire movement. Specialists in the lives of Jane Austen, JD Salinger or almost any other illustrious member of the canon would be ecstatic to encounter a fount of revelation concerning their subject’s final months.

Not so with Kerouac’s dullard biographers. Political correctness and woke dogma are the killers of curiosity and the advancement of knowledge. In the future, this will change. Jack is too beloved, too much read and discussed for the blackout to hold fast for much longer.

The pity of it is that I contacted many of his big-shot biographers while Stella and Charles were alive and available to confirm the truth with details and names. One of them was enthusiastic when I informed him I had information about Kerouac’s last comrade. He became frosty however, when he learned of the “extremist right wing” connection.

Whatever one may think of his radical politics and historical views, Charles was a gentleman of spotless character, one of the most upstanding and non-mercenary persons it has been my privilege to know. He never sought to profit from his friendship with the world-famous author. He was so protective of Kerouac’s legacy he wouldn’t acknowledge that alcoholism was his cause of death and was scandalized when that fact was published in the local paper.

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As studies of the work of James Shelby Downard continue to grow, attention on the contribution of Charles Saunders to Shelby’s corpus also grows. Were it not for Charles, Mr. Downard’s Summa Fortologica, Stalking the Great Whore, would probably have not seen print.

Moreover, Charles was schooling Jack in the esoteric history of the West. Statements overheard by patrons at one of Kerouac’s watering holes, the Wild Boar in Tampa reflected the Saunders influence. The following was related by Lawrence R. Broer in Kerouac at the Wild Boar (John Montgomery, ed., 1986, p. 12):

Kerouac, I was to learn, looked with horror and abomination on literary poseurs and literary notoriety, and fled both like the plague. One reason he hid out at the Boar, he informed us, was to escape the “hundreds of petitioners for my time,” which he said was also responsible for the “bathtubs of booze that have passed through my gullet.”

And academic conversations, such as the one I had tried to steer him into, were anathema to him. They seemed to bore and sadden him. One night for instance, he found himself being cross-examined by a university professor who had entered into the conversation uninvited, and I never saw Kerouac looking more vulnerable or forlorn.

“Kerouac, you’re a joke, you don’t think,” the professor said insolently. “You have no head.”

Wearily, Kerouac answered, “Man that’s all I do—write and think.”

“Then why are all your characters brainless bums?” the professor put in. “Why don’t you write about people who can use their minds?” He was sneering as he said this.

Kerouac…looked around for the nearest route of escape. Moving out of the booth, he suddenly peered at his antagonist and asked, “Say, what do you teach, Math?”

The man answered that it was “Humanities,” and Kerouac cried down at him, grinning triumphantly. “Ha! I create what you profess.”

Then Kerouac said something truly bizarre, as if he and the Professor shared a secret unknown to the rest of us at the table. “Look, don’t worry, we want you, see. The Aryans are wise to the Jews.”

The Saunders tutelage was also on display in Kerouac’s controversial statements to Florida-area newspapers and in his posthumously published interview in the March, 1970 edition of Esquire magazine — however distorted by Establishment writers keen to portray the Beat founder as a crackpot.

One of the central people in the last chapter of Jack Kerouac’s life is nowhere to be found —via col vento — amid the mountain of books, symposia and articles that have poured forth since the Beat author’s death.

Henry Ford spoke truly.

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I am as weary as many of you are of the cheap polemical trick wherein someone losing a debate resorts to the tired, shopworn tactic of accusing their opponent of being “just like Hitler.” In most cases the comparison is a flimsy one put forth by a historical illiterate. Yet, weak debaters often take the bait and spend the rest of the time remaining in the exchange strenuously trying to show they’re not an avatar of the Fourth Reich.

When do we ever hear of someone accused of being “another Lenin”? The Communist tyrant Vladimir Lenin was responsible for the mass murder of at least five million mostly Christian Russians in the early days of the Bolshevik dictatorship (1918-1922). This fact is seldom taught anywhere in the West with anything like the intensity with which Hitler’s iniquity is conveyed.

In the college I attended, which was affiliated with the Episcopal Church, one of my history professors, a popular pedagogue who was a graduate of the London School of Economics, proudly displayed a poster-sized photograph of Lenin in his office. This was not considered controversial.

In Seattle, Washington a statue of Lenin stands on a prominent corner in the commercial heart of the Fremont district. When queried by critics, Seattle grandees explain the presence of the monument to a mass murderer as being due to the fact that Fremont “embraces quirky public art.”

Trump/Hitler Parallels

The Trump/Hitler parallels I am bringing to your attention are from the dark corners of revisionist history, neglected by the vast majority, especially by those who have either a grudging admiration for the Nazi dictator or are his outright defenders.

Background: Hitler’s first defeat occurred in the summer of 1941. This revisionist verity demonstrates the suicidal nature of his invasion of Russia, which had no chance of ultimate success.

As early as the autumn of 1941, less than four months after the June invasion, Nazi Germany’s Quarter Master General Eduard Wagner informed the führer that the war was lost. Supplies of every vital material necessary to sustain the war effort were too catastrophically low to sustain a military victory over the resource-rich Soviet Union.

This was at a time when Hitler in his Reichstag Speech of October 3, 1941 declared to the German people that the collapse of the Soviet Union was near at hand, “In the East, the enemy has already been broken and will not recover from the blows he has received. The Soviet regime has lost its main military forces; what remains can no longer alter the outcome. The campaign has shown that this opponent was far weaker than we had assumed, and I can therefore say today that the struggle in the East has already been decided.”

In the early days of Trump’s Iran war he made similar cocky, pre-mature claims about the defeat of the Islamic Republic. In early March Trump stated: “We already won the war in many ways…” On March 28 he claimed that Iran’s forces and government were effectively “neutralized.”

In his indispensable history, Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany’s Winter Campaign, 1941-1942, David Stahel writes:

For those not familiar with my former studies of German operations in the east, the fighting at Moscow will not be portrayed in this book as Hitler’s “first defeat,” nor even the turning point of the war, because I argue that both already took place in the summer of 1941. Such a proposition may strike some as counterintuitive given that, at the most basic level, the story of Germany’s summer campaign is typically characterized by fast-moving panzer groups, calamitous cauldron battles, and staggering sums of Red Army losses. Perhaps even more conclusive is the fact that, at the end of it all, Hitler’s armies stood deep inside the Soviet Union, ultimately threatening Leningrad, Moscow, and Sevastopol. The logic here appears simple: Germany’s first defeat, whenever that might have been, certainly could not have come before the first winter of the war.

The problem with this logic is that it separates German operations from their strategic context. Battles do not exist in a vacuum, and they should not be seen as ends in themselves. The sheer accumulation of battlefield “victories” in 1941 clearly did not suffice to knock the Soviet Union out of the war, and it was this failure that ultimately proved so ruinous to Germany’s prospects. Heavily restricted access to raw materials, critical production bottlenecks, and bitter policy debates governing the allocation of resources to the armed forces were fundamental to the outcome of a large-scale industrialized war.

Indeed, it was Germany’s grim long-term economic prospects that first directed Hitler’s attention toward an eastern campaign, but embarking on it came with huge risks. Either Hitler would secure his long-prophesied Lebensraum (living space) in the east and ensure limitless access to almost any resource Germany might require in its war against Great Britain, or the Wehrmacht’s air and sea war in the west would be disastrously undercut by a parallel, high-intensity land war in the east. Thus, it was absolutely essential for Germany to end any prospective war against the Soviet Union as quickly and as decisively as possible—there was simply no economic or military contingency for anything else.

Under these circumstances, some authors have attempted to argue Germany’s dominance by pointing to the far greater problems in the Red Army during the summer campaign. Yet the contexts for the two forces were entirely different; the Wehrmacht had to win outright at all costs, while the Red Army had only to survive as a force in being.

Allow me to mirror the preceding statement about Russia in 1941, in Iran in 2026: thus, it was absolutely essential for the U.S. to end any war against Iran as quickly and as decisively as possible. The American military had to win outright at all costs, while the Iranian missile and drone forces, as well as its Revolutionary Guard Corps, had only to survive as a force in being.

Like Trump’s war in Iran, Hitler’s war in the East was launched on the basis of his gut instinct and over-confidence in those instincts, which were further propelled after Germany’s stunning victories in France, Belgium and the Netherlands in 1940.

Trump’s successful attack on Venezuela gave him a blind faith in his intuition. In the forthcoming book, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, authors Haberman and Swan reveal how the deliberations inside the administration that led to the decision to go to war on Iran were based on the president’s instincts.

Returning to the 1940s and the Eastern front, Stahel notes, “As the chief of the Army General Staff, Colonel-General Franz Halder, acknowledged in his diary on November 23: “An army, like that of June 1941, will henceforth no longer be available to us.”

Accordingly, the summer and fall of 1941 saw the Wehrmacht achieve stunning successes, but from a strategic point of view it failed to do the one thing that really mattered—defeat the Soviet Union before its (Germany’s) vital panzer groups were blunted. Once Operation Barbarossa (the code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union) passed from being a blitzkrieg to a slogging war of matériel, which was already the case by the end of the summer, large-scale economic deficiencies spelled eventual doom for the Nazi state.

As Albert Speer observed, “The manner in which Hitler and his entourage governed and commanded was bound to stifle gradually every free opinion. Nobody in his surroundings had the courage to put forward his opinions, let alone stand up for them.”

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Re: French masonic lodge at heart of murky murder trial

The provided text (available at the link above) is a highly accurate summary of an ongoing criminal trial in Paris, France. It matches reporting from multiple reputable sources (including The Guardian, Euronews, RFI, Le Monde, Courthouse News, and others) with only minor, insignificant variations in phrasing, spelling, or minor details.

Trial details: 22 defendants went on trial starting Monday, March 30, 2026, at the Paris Assize Court. The trial is expected to last at least three months. Charges center on murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault, and criminal conspiracy linked to an alleged “mafia” network operating within (or using the cover of) the former Athanor Masonic Lodge in Puteaux (a Paris suburb).

Defendants and backgrounds: Includes four military personnel from France’s foreign intelligence service (DGSE), police officers, a retired domestic intelligence officer (from DGSI), a security guard, business executives, and others. Most accused are aged 30–73 with no prior criminal records. Several (at least four) are Freemasons from the roughly 20-member Athanor lodge.

Ringleaders: Jean-Luc Bagur (69, “venerable master” of the lodge, business coach), Frédéric Vaglio (53, entrepreneur), and Daniel Beaulieu (72 or around that age, retired DGSI agent).

They, along with Sébastien Leroy (Beaulieu’s right-hand man, not a lodge member, former security guard), face life imprisonment if convicted. Bagur, Vaglio, and Beaulieu are described as Athanor Freemasons.

Triggering incident:

A botched July 2020 contract killing attempt on business coach Marie-Hélène Dini. Two DGSE-linked military/parachute regiment members were arrested near her home with weapons. They claimed they believed they were acting on behalf of the French state because she supposedly worked for Israeli intelligence (Mossad). Investigators linked it to Bagur (a business rival of Dini’s) allegedly paying €70,000 via Vaglio to have her eliminated.

Other crimes: Murder of racing driver Laurent Pasquali (body found in a forest in 2018/2019, allegedly over an unpaid debt linked to Vaglio’s circle).

Attempted murders (including of Dini and a trade unionist).

Escalating acts: assaults, robberies, arson (e.g., a car set on fire in 2019), and industrial espionage (e.g., snatching a computer from a businesswoman).

Leroy allegedly admitted carrying out or organizing most of the violence, sometimes believing it was government/intelligence work. He claimed manipulation by Beaulieu (including hints of becoming a DGSI informant).

Other details: Beaulieu reportedly attempted suicide in custody, leaving him disabled with impaired concentration. Dini’s lawyer (Jean-William Vezinet) commented on the “terrifying” aspect of the accused (intelligence/police/freemasons) being people meant to serve society. Crimes allegedly escalated from petty revenge to homicide.

Minor Inaccuracies or Variations

Number of police officers: The news report says “two police officers.” Some reports mention “two” or “three” (or “three police officers” in broader defendant lists). This is a negligible discrepancy, as exact counts vary slightly across outlets depending on how they categorize roles.

Specifics:

Beaulieu is often cited as around 72 (or slightly younger in one outlier report). Vaglio as 53 (or 49 in one source). These are minor and consistent with the overall timeline.

“Former” Athanor lodge: Reports confirm it as the Athanor lodge (sometimes called Athanor Lodge 759); the text’s “former” aligns with descriptions of the network operating inside/through it.

“Hit squads” and “mafia network”: These are the terms used in headlines and reporting (e.g., “Freemason mafia,” “hit squads,” “rogue Freemasons”). The text frames them as allegations, which is correct—the defendants face charges, and many deny wrongdoing or claim manipulation.

No major factual errors, fabrications, or distortions appear. The text closely mirrors AFP-sourced reporting that was widely republished around March 30–April 5, 2026. All core claims are corroborated as prosecutorial allegations under investigation in court (not proven facts). The case involves sensitive elements like intelligence ties and Freemasonry secrecy, but the summary remains neutral and factual.

For readers familiar with my research into “Black Jack 21” (as presented in Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare, and Twilight Language), note that Athanor Lodge 759 can be transmuted as Athanor Lodge 21 in that 7 + 5 + 9 = 21.

Masonic murder is common. Consider that the masonic third degree promises execution to anyone who reveals the secrets of the order.

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In Scottish Rite masonry the Ninth degree is dedicated to “revenge for the murder of Hiram,” meaning anyone who thwarts masonry’s purposes.

In 19th-century America with the killing of writer William Morgan and Mormon leader Joseph Smith, for several decades masonic assassination became the talk of the nation. Many in the circle around Abraham Lincoln (for instance William Seward and Thurlow Weed) were dedicated anti-Masons.

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“Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.”

— G.K. Chesterton

Tracking the Revelation of the Method has been part of my life’s work for the past fifty years, ever since as a young man I learned about this occult technology from James Shelby Downard, the extraordinary intuitive who discovered the principle and considered it the most lethal form of warfare on the mind and spirit of humanity in the recorded history of occult psychodrama.

Donald Trump’s part in this alchemical theater is to lie extravagantly with little regard for the public’s disapproval. His outrageous falsehoods are sufficiently disconnected from reality as to constitute the revelation that the president of the United States is a habitual, pathological liar.

For example, in the past month Mr. Trump has stated that his reason for bombarding Iran in unison with the Israeli war machine was to stop Iran from pursuing an atomic bomb.

Yet, in the wake of his televised address immediately after the June 21, 2025 U.S. bombing of Iran he stated, “Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.”

On June 25 the White House published the following statement, “Monumental damage was done to all nuclear sites in Iran, as shown by satellite images. Obliteration is an accurate term!”

Last February 24 Trump declared, as his casus belli for the attack on Iran, “They can’t have nuclear weapons. It’s very simple. You can’t have peace in the Middle East if they have a nuclear weapon. We don’t want any enrichment.”

How can anyone enrich what has been “obliterated”? That which has been wiped out no longer exists. To engage in a war to eliminate an annihilated material is an atrocious imposture so transparent it represents a sinister Revelation of the Method laugh in the face of the American people.

On March 1 the White House issued a press release quoting another alibi for Trump’s war:

“The Iranian regime has been terrorizing and murdering Americans for 47 years. From the seizure of our embassy in Tehran in 1979, to the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, to the killing of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, to its continued support for terrorist proxies across the Middle East, Iran’s leaders have shown nothing but contempt for human life and the rule of law.”

Trump and his administration refer to Iran’s alleged “contempt for human life and the rule of law” when the most notorious recent example of that contempt has been the genocidal conduct of the Israeli military in Gaza, and the ongoing anti-Palestinian pogrom by Talmudic-Zionist settlers in the West Bank. Once again we observe a falsehood so transparent it represents a Revelation of the Method joke on the American people.

The 1979 embassy seizure in Tehran was due to the ongoing alliance of the US government with the crimes of the Pahlavi regime and its savage SAVAK secret police. After the 1953 CIA-sponsored coup which put him in power, the United States continued to support the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The Shah’s regime relied on SAVAK, which was trained with U.S. and Israeli assistance and became notorious for repression, imprisonment, and torture of dissidents. The seizure of the US Embassy was retaliation by revolutionary students to US government support for the state terrorism of the Shah and his thugs. To term their struggle against US support for terrorism as constituting itself terrorism is a transparent falsehood, a Revelation of the Method mockery.

With regard to the bombing of the Marine Barracks, the Revisionist history suppressed by media and academia reveals that from September 19-25, 1983, the U.S. Navy, including the battleship USS New Jersey, opened fire on Lebanese villages in the Shouf Mountains of Lebanon. These bombardments caused hundreds of civilian casualties and were considered state-sponsored terrorism by many elements of Lebanese society. A month later, on October 23, 1983, the Lebanese retaliated and the Marine Barracks was bombed.

The next excuse put forth for the attack on Iran is“The killing of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.” Since when is the killing of combatants during a war an act of terrorism?

On March 25, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth stated, “Let every round find its mark against the enemies of righteousness and our great nation,” Hegseth prayed during a live-streamed service. “Give them wisdom in every decision, endurance for the trial ahead, unbreakable unity, and overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy.”

In 2003 the US invaded the sovereign nation of Iraq which had engaged in no belligerence against America. The US attack was viewed by the majority Shiite nation as the crime of waging aggressive war. American troops were considered to be undeserving of mercy. The Iraqis proceeded to attempt to expel the invaders. Their act of self-defense is classified as terrorism by the Trump administration.

Any armed resistance to Israeli or American attacks is treated as terrorism. This is the “God of the Old Testament is on our side” megalomania promoted by Israeli hasbara (propaganda). All resistance to the empire’s invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan is classed as ungodly and illegitimate.

Obviously, we do not wish to see our men and women in uniform killed; which is why we work for peace and an end to foreign wars. Support Our Troops: keep them home.

Exceptions to Trump’s terrorism classification are made when they advance the destruction of Christianity in the Middle East; for instance, in its cradle, Syria. Ahmed al‑Sharaa is the current dictator (“interim president”) of Syria after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, the Alawite protector of the Christian community.

Al‑Sharaa was formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani. He joined Jabhat al-Nusra (the “Nusra Front”) led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an al-Qaeda–affiliated branch in Iraq. From 2004-2007, he orchestrated attacks which killed American soldiers:

• IED (improvised explosive device) attacks on U.S. patrols and convoys.

• Suicide bombings targeting U.S. bases and Iraqi government sites.

•Urban guerrilla war against U.S. troops in Fallujah, Ramadi, and Mosul.

These operations resulted in hundreds of U.S. casualties. Yet, no US missiles are headed Al‑Sharaa’s way. On the contrary, in the White House on November 10, President Trump rolled out the red carpet for the al Qaeda fighter, just days after ordering the lifting of the $10 million reward the US had for years offered for his capture.

Sunni Wahhabism, the state religion of Saudi Arabia, is also the creed of al Qaeda. It differs markedly from the uprising against US forces in Iraq by Shia militia. George W. Bush pinned the 9/11 terror attacks on al Qaeda. Al‑Sharaa’s commander, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was one of the most notorious butchers of civilians in the annals of early 21st century Middle East terrorism.

To understand why Mr. Trump heaped honor and laurels on Al‑Sharaa and betrayed American servicemen and women killed or wounded by his Nusra Front, we direct your attention to the datum that Al‑Sharaa’s anti-Christian rule in Syria is pleasing to the Netanyahu regime.

Trump’s other stated objective for attacking Iran starting February 28 near the festival of Purim (George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq commenced near Purim in 2003), was the overthrow of the regime. Mossad, the infamous Israeli espionage agency, sold Trump on the idea that the riots against the Iranian government were a spontaneous and peaceful protest on the part of a significant portion of the population, subsequently slaughtered in the thousands by government forces. This mass of “protestors” it was said, would rise up as soon as the leaders of the Islamic Republic were assassinated.

Max Blumental deconstructs the hoax: “On January 8 and 9, Mossad-backed rioters murdered hundreds of police officers, guards and civilians across Iran, while burning down government buildings and mosques. The extensively documented regime change riots provided a bridge between (Trump’s) 12-day-war and the current assault on Iran, and form the blueprint for Israel’s stalled plan to destabilize the country from within…

“Israeli intel merely needed to convince the feeble-minded president that a wave of decapitation strikes would unleash a massive upheaval to immediately topple the Islamic Republic. The January riots were presented to Trump as a preview of what was to come.

Western media, including the NY Times and The Guardian, played a central role in legitimizing Israel’s deception by falsely characterizing the violent regime change riots as mere protests, massively inflating the death toll and covering up the fact that many were murdered by the Israeli-backed rioters. The whole of Western media and the Western human rights industrial complex deliberately misrepresented the real character of those riots. But now that the war they helped to instigate is going badly for the US and Israel, that same media is now free to reveal a few kernels of truth.”

The January 8-9 riots in Iran, initially framed by Western media as pro-democracy protests with inflated death tolls exceeding 30,000, were later revealed through Iranian reports and smuggled footage as violent clashes killing around 3,000 people, many by armed agitators backed by Israel.

The New York Times article of March 22 details Mossad chief David Barnea’s shift toward planning regime-toppling operations in Iran, including igniting riots and assassinations, aligning with Blumenthal’s assertion of Israeli orchestration of the January unrest intended to sucker Trump into intervening.

As a result of the faulty intelligence “The Donald” naively believed that once his bombing and assassination campaign was underway, the populace would rise up, overthrow the Islamic Republic and turn the reins of power over to the Israelis and Americans who were murdering their women and children with missiles and bombs, destroying ancient Persian cultural treasures and edifices and demolishing their infrastructure. Feeble-minded does not begin to describe Mr. Trump’s mental state.

Trump’s Lies Are The Revelation. They lead us to the glaring truth that as in 2003 in Iraq, we have gone to war in 2026 in Iran for the sake of the fulfillment of Israeli demands and requirements. The whole enterprise is a vast waste of billions of taxpayers dollars, smashed military equipment and inflationary prices at the gas pump and the grocery store. If the next chapter in Trump’s sneak attack policy turns out to be an invasion by American “boots on the ground,” there will be a butcher’s bill to pay in terms of dead and wounded US soldiers and Marines.

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Why aren’t the American people rising in revolt? There was a national “No Kings” protest attended by millions this past weekend. It’s a start. Unfortunately, it is captive to the abortion-on-demand-at-any-stage-of-pregnancy movement which denies human rights to unborn human beings — i.e. infanticide, the hallmark of paganism. Our struggle must comprise a seamless unity which recognizes and cherishes the humanity of Iranian, Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian and Israeli people as well as precious babies in the womb. The one without the other is a diabolical farce.

I do not gauge pushback against the infliction of psychological warfare on the people of the West mainly in terms of protests and marches. 1. Activism must be internalized. 2. Recognition must materialize in terms of public discussion.

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My colleague Matthew Bell has written an astute analysis of two heavily compromised Cryptocrats with undeserved reputations as faithful Catholics. The out-sized influence of both men, now deceased, remains largely undimmed. Fr. Martin was the Jesuit Kim Philby inside the Church, while Buckley was a Skull and Bones member, key Zionist agent and all-around CIA Trojan Horse within the Conservative movement.

Their treason was so outrageous it represented a form of mockery. As I wrote in The File on Jesuit Martin, the test of Rev. Dr. Martin’s sincerity turned on the question of whether he would ever reveal the inside story of Abraham Joshua Heschel, Cardinal Bea and their successful conspiracy to promulgate Vatican Council II’s document Nostra Aetate. Malachi was a co-conspirator: he had served as Bea (and Heschel’s) left hand man. Yet, he never did, despite his second career as a teller of tales of Vatican skullduggery to goggle-eyed Conservatives.

Martin, like Buckley, has been enshrined in the conservative pantheon, thereby continuing to sow serious misdirection. Mr. Bell’s debunking helps to dispel the enchantment their sanctified reputations evoke.

William F. Buckley Jr. and Malachi Martin

“Catholics” Profiled by Matthew J. Bell

(excerpted from his study, “Crypto-Protestants in Rome”)

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Crypto-Protestants in Rome

In this — Part 2 of our “deep-dive” into Roman Catholicism — we will outline a constellation of crypto-Reformers. But, first, we have two additions for our Part 1 exploration of “Curious Traditionalists…

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Buckley, William Frank, Jr. [1] (1925-2008)

…in 1949, William F. Buckley Jr. joined the occult-connected (and, frankly, sinister) fraternity of Skull and Bones while he was attending Yale University after the Second World War.^[23] For reasons such as this, some critics suggest that, while Buckley may have had traditional beliefs and tastes, he was more of a “cultural Catholic” than anything else. This is to allege that Buckley likely identified with Catholicism for sentimental reasons (through ancestry, his mom’s tradition, or his overall upbringing) rather than because he strictly adhered to church authority or doctrine.

After graduating from Yale, Buckley joined the Central Intelligence Agency, where he reportedly worked out of Mexico City, Mexico under then-station-chief Everette “E.” Howard Hunt.

“Hunt,” of course, “later became notorious as one of the Watergate burglars. …After Hunt was arrested for Watergate, …Buckley, who placed a high premium on friendship and loyalty, helped pay for Hunt’s lawyers.”^[24] Hunt is also a perennial candidate for having been one of the three “tramps” — either Tramp A or B, depending on the image orientation — photographed in Dallas, Texas the day of JFK’s assassination.

Incidentally, Hunt once sued the Liberty Lobby’s weekly paper, The Spotlight, for libel following its publication of an article titled “CIA to Nail Hunt in Kennedy Killing” that had been written by a former CIA agent named Victor Marchetti.^[25] The article alleged that a CIA memo from 1966 identified Hunt “as one of three ‘bums’ who were arrested in Dallas the day Kennedy died”.^[26]

Marchetti evidently took the line that Hunt was either being framed or was part of the conspiracy. The real “kicker” is that Hunt, who won the initial lawsuit — only to have the verdict overturned on appeal — ultimately lost the second time around.^[27] Filmmaker John Hankey made a lot of hay out of the episode and concluded that, in finding Spotlight innocent of libel, the jury had essentially (and simultaneously) found Hunt guilty of being part of the JFK-assassination plot.^[28]

But, back to Buckley, Jr.. Around about 1951 — when his God and Man at Yale,^[29] a scathing critique of “liberalism” and “secularism” that (coincidentally and also nearly instantly) catapulted the then-25-year-old to national celebrity and public prominence — his CIA position had him situated in Mexico City. This was the same place where, around 1908, his father, William Frank Buckley, Sr., had (also coincidentally, no doubt) set up a law practice from which he (the elder Buckley) promptly got into the business of oil‑land speculation.

Within a few years, Buckley, Sr. became a major player in the so-called “Tampico oil boom,” and made a fortune acquiring leasing rights and advising U.S. and European petroleum interests.

Buckley, Sr. then founded his own oil company, called Pantepec, and gained political influence supporting the dictatorship of Victoriano Huerta — which latter, the Mexican revolutionary known as Francisco “Pancho” Villa was partially rebelling against when he was on the scene.

We got into Villa — whose real name was José Doroteo Arango Arámbula — in “10 Occultists Who Were Accused of Being Spies.” (And we have touched on Villa’s American adversary, and later World-War-I General of the Armies, John Joseph “Black Jack” Pershing, in such places as our “Haunted Washington, D.C.”)

Villa was assassinated (July 20, 1923) in Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico — killed in an ambush while driving his Dodge touring car, when gunmen hidden in a house opened fire, hitting him nine times. The attack was likely orchestrated by political rivals. Three years later, on or around February 6, 1926, Pancho Villa’s head was stolen from his grave — also in Parral. Among the prime suspects was an American soldier of fortune and spy named Emil Ludwig Holmdahl.

One story has it that Holmdahl stole the head for a $25,000 bounty. Supposedly, some time later, “…Holmdahl confessed …that he had indeed stolen the skull and later sold it to a Skull and Bones member.”^[30]

The skull “became an issue in the presidential election year of 1988 when Vice-President [sic] George [H. W.] Bush, running for president of the United States, was accused of knowing its whereabouts. Bush, a Yale alumnus, was a member of that university’s Skull and Bones club which, it was said, had a collection of skulls of both the famous and infamous on display in their clubhouse.

“Also, Bush was not the first member of his family to be involved with purloined skulls. His father, Prescott Bush, a former senator from Connecticut, reputedly was involved in digging up the body of the murderous Apache raider, Geronimo, cutting off his head, and ensconcing it in the Skull and Bones club. In between pronouncements on the economy and American foreign policy, Bush denied any knowledge of …the whereabouts of Villa’s skull.”^[31]

A main source for these stories was one Benjamin Franklin “Ben F.” Williams, who reported in his own autobiographical, Let the Tail Go With the Hide (privately publ., 1984), a supposed admission of the bare facts from one “Frank Brophy” — described as another Bonesman Yalie. According to Williams, Brophy confessed to him that five members of Skull and Bones raised $25,000, to be paid to Holmdahl, for the head of Pancho Villa.

A banker named Frank Cullen Brophy did, in fact, attend Yale College; the trouble with the story is that Brophy was evidently not in Skull and Bones.^[32] Brophy did go on to become “one of the founders of the John Birch Society…”, and he ended up supporting the political ambitions of “…Wendell Wilkie and …Barry Goldwater…”.^[33]

So, Brophy does seem to have been cut out of the same ideological cloth as the Buckleys and Bushes. Indeed, when one considers the intelligence angle, we could say something similar for Emil Holmdahl. Though, in Holmdahl’s case, we would of course have to adjust for his “lesser” socioeconomic status; he was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, as opposed to New England (Buckley was born in New York City and Bush in a suburb of Boston).

But, for a time, Holmdahl worked under Felix A. Sommerfeld, the German head of the Mexican Secret Service. For more on Sommerfeld — and his own ties to Pancho Villa — see, again, “10 Occultist Spies.” So, given Buckley’s stint in the CIA, and the fact that “Poppy” Bush had been the DCI, post-Watergate, after the previous director William Egan Colby had seemingly allowed many (and many even “too many”) unflattering disclosures during 1975’s “Year of Intelligence.”^[34]

Colby, by the way, died mysteriously in 1996. An experienced boatman, he supposedly drowned “accidentally” during a solo “canoe trip.”^[35]

For our summary of George H. W. Bush’s CIA entanglements, including the possibility that none other than long-time Federal Bureau of Investigation Director — and “Commie-fighter” — John “J.” Edgar Hoover had named Bush as a CIA contact in a memo dated just a day or so after the assassination of America’s first Catholic president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, (see our “Occultist Spies” and “CIA-JFK Connexions” videos).

Moreover: “In later years Holmdahl worked for American Petroleum companies exploring for oil in Sonora, Mexico”,^[36] which again places him into the same broad network as Buckley, Sr., who owned Pantepec Oil Company, and with Bush (“Sr.”), who co-founded (in 1951), with John Overbey, the Bush-Overbey Oil Development Company, which became (in 1953) Zapata Petroleum Corporation (when Hugh Liedtke came into the picture). And, of course, Bush was supposedly operating Zapata Off-Shore Company when “Operation Zapata” — the CIA’s codename for the Bay of Pigs invasion (April 1961) — failed to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba.

Viva Zapata! is a 1952 film by 20th Century-Fox, featuring actors Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, and Anthony Quinn. It is about the life of eventual Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, and it focuses on his fight against then-President Porfirio Díaz over stolen peasant lands. Declared an “outlaw,” Zapata, based in the country’s south, joins up with Francisco Madero’s resistance movement to overthrow Díaz — with Pancho Villa working for similar aims in the north. Zapata remains dissatisfied even after Madero’s victory, since the latter declines or fails to deliver any of the hoped-for reform. So, Zapata continued the struggle until his assassination in 1919. For Madura’s part, he was assassination earlier, in 1913, when a U.S.-backed coup d’état (although not a major plot point) essentially put rival Victoriano Huerta into power.

And that brings us, back to Buckley, Sr. who, after the rise of Huerta’s adversary, the “socialist”-leaning strongman Álvaro Obregón, was expelled from Mexico due to his prior alignment with Huerta.^[37]

So, possibly, Buckley, Jr. was an “easy sell” on the idea of taking revenge against the country that had been “disloyal” to his pops.

Going further, Buckleyite meddling may even have been more widespread. According to an article in the Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), once put out by Lyndon H. Larouche, Jr.: “The Cristero Rebellion^[38] [had been] launched in Mexico to back the feudal privileges of the Jesuit-controlled, ultramontane Mexican Catholic Church in alliance with foreign oil interests. The rebellion was backed by [the senior William F.] Buckley… [and J.P.] Morgan banking interests.”^[39] (On the Jesuits, see Ignatius of Loyola.)

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“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”

— Joe Kent, former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center

Top Intelligence Official Reveals why the US is at War with Iran

Mr. Kent is a veteran of the US Army’s Green Berets. He was a combat veteran of war in the Middle East and Western Asia, including 11 deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq for which he was awarded the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart and the Army Commendation Medal. In 2025 he was appointed to a top position in US intelligence as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, with access to the secret intel of the CIA, NSA and other US government surveillance and spy operations. Mr. Kent was one of the officials in charge of preparing the president’s top secret daily brief. He was in a position to know.

On St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, Kent resigned his high office. In an interview he informed Tucker Carlson that “We had no intelligence” to indicate Iran was building a nuclear weapon. He also stated there was no evidence of a coming“sneak attack” by Iran. He explicitly connected the decision for war to Israeli pressure:

“The Israelis drove the decision to take this action.” This directly contradicts the White House disinformation that the U.S. acted independently in response to the threat of an Iranian attack. He said policymakers were influenced by an “echo chamber” that deceived leaders; that intelligence was filtered and selectively presented to justify the invasion, similar to how the invasion of Iraq was presented to the American people 23 years ago.

Mr. Kent’s revelation came a mere 18 days after Trump ordered the bombardment of Iran on February 28, two days prior to the onset of the festival of Purim.

In the case of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, revelations of their futility and the “bodyguard of lies” by which they were justified and advanced did not come from American officials until years later.

The earliest was divulged by Richard Clarke, a former Senior adviser on terrorism at the National Security Council in the George W. Bush administration. His book, Against All Enemies, was published one year after the invasion of Iraq. In it he confessed that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq had nothing to do with the 9/11 terror attacks in New York. Major revelations about Skull and Bonesman Bush’s war from key figures such as Colin Powell, did not emerge into public consciousness for 12 years or more.

Clearly, the engine of revelation is at warp speed. Joe Kent has made manifest the lies behind the administration’s justification for the latest US foreign war — only a few weeks after it began.

The Assassination of Jeffrey Epstein is becoming ever more transparent

On MSNow cable news (formerly MSNBC) Julie K. Brown of the Miami Herald was given a platform for her evidentiary doubts about the official account of Epstein’s death. This coincided with a newly-surfaced document published in the Department of Justice’s Epstein database revealing that an inmate had told the FBI that he overheard prison guards talking about covering up Epstein's murder on the morning he was killed.

Julie K. Brown: “There’s all these pieces that don’t make sense and have never made sense, going back to July 23 (2019) when they found him (Epstein) lying on the floor of his cell and his first words when he regained consciousness were, 'My cellmate tried to kill me.’ He never said he tried to commit suicide. In fact all the psychological reports stated that he felt that he had a good (legal) case, that he was hiring lawyers…There’s no indication at all that he was suicidal.

“His cellmate was a quadruple killer by the way, and they (prison officials) believed him when he said Epstein tried to commit suicide, even though Epstein said that wasn’t the case.”

Brown reports that one of the correctional officers on Epstein’s cell block made a $5,000 cash deposit into her bank account on July 30, which was a week after Epstein’s alleged suicide attempt and just days before his actual death on August 10, 2019.

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Protestant Churchianity Prosecutes its War with the Followers of Christ in the Name of Jesus

At the start of the US war with Iran, as China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Guo Jiakan reported, “The US military committed a heinous massacre of nearly 180 students at a girls' school in Minab. The Pentagon's own investigations have established beyond doubt that US Tomahawk missiles murdered schoolgirls and first responders alike in a 'double-tap' strike.”

A double-tap strike is the diabolic Israeli tactic of blowing up a building, vehicle or other target and then waiting for humanitarian first responders to arrive and attack a second time, killing or wounding medics, firemen and other would-be civilian rescuers. This occurred numerous times during the genocide in Gaza. More recently, on March 9 an Israeli tank fired on a house in the southern Lebanese village of Qlayaa, wounding Catholic parishioners (including an elderly couple — the homeowner and his wife).

One of the first responders was a beloved Catholic parish priest of the majority Catholic village, Father Pierre al-Rahi. As he aided the wounded, the Israelis “double-tapped” the site of the devastation, firing another tank shell which killed the priest. Pope Leo XIV mourned him publicly, praising him as “a true shepherd” who embodied the love and sacrifice of Jesus the Good Shepherd, and prayed that his blood would be a seed of peace for Lebanon.

I cite Communist China’s report to demonstrate how US war crimes are destroying America’s credibility and reputation abroa while the image of China as a fair arbiter of peace and ensign of reason advances in the Middle East.

Moreover, students of the occult have remarked on the timing of the attack on the girls’ school — an opening salvo in the ceremony of America’s bombardment which has subsequently killed over a thousand civilians in Iran thus far.

I say “ceremony” due to the fact that I suspect that the Zionist Occupation Government (ZOG) in Washington D.C. is fundamentally Satanic. Occult rituals often begin with an immolation of the innocent which is then offered to demonic spirits.

Attacking a sovereign nation based on demonstrably false claims which are in fact lies is ipso facto a hallmark of the demonic. Jesus identifies Satan as a liar and the father of lies in John 8.

However, Mr. Hegseth’s Pentagon doesn’t view these matters from that perspective. On March 2–3 reports emerged of complaints to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) by a non-commissioned officer who described a command briefing in which he and other troops were told that the Iran war was “all part of God’s divine plan,” citing Revelation and Armageddon, with Trump “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran.” Over 200 similar complaints were received from US personnel stationed at more than 50 installations.

March 19, at a Pentagon press briefing, Hegseth stated, “May almighty God continue to bless our troops in this fight.” He urged Americans to pray daily “on bended knee... in the name of Jesus Christ.”

It seems there is supernatural backing for the slaughter of the school girls in Minab and for what “our noble allies” did to the residents of the Catholic village of Qlayaain in Lebanon. This support is alleged to come not from Satan, but Jesus. Who can believe this? Only those confined to the fever swamp of the farthest out Protestant “evangelical” tares (Matthew 13:37-39). “For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light” (2 Corinthians 11:13–14).

In February Hegseth invited the Rev. Douglas Wilson of Christ Church, Moscow, Idaho to preach to Pentagon officials. Hegseth is himself a member of a congregation in Wilson’s Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC) network. Calvinist minister Wilson is the author of American Milk and Honey, a book in which he offers “Two Cheers for the Talmud,” making the case that while flawed, the Talmud of Babylon can supposedly be a worthy source of reliable Biblical knowledge despite its blasphemies and nullification (Mark 7: 7-9). This is Mr. Hegseth’s pastor.

President Trump is requesting of a US treasury which is $38 trillion in debt to fork over at least $200 billion to prosecute America’s latest needless overseas military adventure. On March 19 Hegseth addressed the spending in a Pentagon briefing, defending it by stating, “It takes money to kill bad guys.”

One need not possess the mental acuity of Sherlock Holmes to perceive that under cover of appeals to Jesus and MAGA’s America First patriot platitudes, the demonic is in the driver’s seat of our government.

• Millions of Americans are increasingly cognizant that Israel First is ZOG’s actual policy mandate. Together with their Zionist partners, militant American “evangelical” Protestants are waging war on the Muslims, Catholics and Greek Orthodox of Lebanon, Palestine and Iran.

• The truth of the execution of Jeffrey Epstein in a “high security” prison is being unveiled before our eyes.

• One of the highest officials in the American intelligence bureaucracy has testified that the rationale for the death of US servicemen and women and the squandering of hundreds of billions of dollars that must be borrowed from usurers to proceed with the war orders issued by Netanyahu to Uncle Sap — has been a tissue of fabrication.

Now I ask, as I do with every installment of our monitoring of the psychological warfare operation known as the Revelation of the Method, what are you doing about these truths which I have presented?

Those of us who report these matters are under a sentence of death. We are Hegseth’s and Netanyahu’s “bad guys.”

On May 11, 2022, Shireen Abu Akleh, a brave Catholic Palestinian-American reporter, was shot in the head in daylight, in the city of Jenin by an Israeli sniper while she was wearing a vest clearly marked “Press.”

On St. Joseph’s Day, March 19, the Israelis attempted the assassination of the courageous British journalist Steve Sweeney as he was filing a report for the RT television network. The missile intended for him is shown detonating in this brief footage. Mr. Sweeney describes his attempted murder at this link.

Judaic scholar Aaron Maté of The Greyzone estimates that the Israelis have murdered more than 220 journalists, mostly Arab, since the start of their massacres in Gaza in 2023. Mum’s the word in the newsrooms of America’s legacy media.

The Revelation of the Method puts us all under obligation to do something about the emergence of these truths.

What form your activism takes is up to you. Doing little or nothing with these revelations seals our spiritual and psychological bondage; that is the internal dynamic of the Revelation of the Method.

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“Tirez le rideau la farce est jouée.” — Francois Rabelais (“Drop the curtain; the farce is over”)

Trump Advisers Urge Him to Find Iran Exit Ramp, Fearing Political Backlash. The president told reporters that he thought the war in Iran would be over “very soon.”

—Wall Street Journal headline, March 9

In his 1995 book Jihad vs. McWorld Benjamin R. Barber posited the clash of American huckster capitalism’s global markets, techno-utopianism, venal consumerism and soulless entertainment media with Islamic forces of tradition and family.

It was supposed in the Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq wars that U.S. technological supremacy would initiate regime change and win hearts and minds first by massive bombing and by importing the values of usurious western banking and conspicuous consumption. In all three cases Third World ideologues and theocrats who held their beliefs superior to the allurement of mammon, drove the US military out of their lands.

Trump, the billionaire’s club president in hock to Miriam Adelson for her $100 million donation to his campaign, and the demands of the butcher of Gaza, Bibi Netanyahu, has marched the American military into an invasion of the Islamic Republic of Iran for reasons that shift as often as the blowing sands of the Middle East.

With each changing alibi for his bombing of Iran, a little bit of Trump’s persona and credibility crumble. He has spent billions of taxpayer dollars fighting Israel’s war with the Shiite theocracy at a time when inflation and affordability are major issues domestically. Following meshugganah Netanyahu is a road to nowhere and Trump is traveling it to its terminus.

He has been fed the disinformation that the Iranian people were keen to overthrow Shiite theocracy and welcome the Israeli terrorists bombing their infrastructure and cultural treasures and assassinating their people. “Welcome Mossad!” was the banner Mr. Trump expected to see in the streets of Tehran. This ignoramus thought that by following cues from big brains like Netanyahu, Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro he couldn’t go wrong.

He has misread Americans, mistaking them for the madmen of the Protestant evangelical churches for whom Zionism is an idol and the spilling of Arab and Persian blood a prerequisite for the Second Coming.

As gas and food prices rise and the Iranian street has not yet rolled out the much anticipated red carpet for the Israeli war criminals who massacred Gaza, Trump is getting ready to depart Iran and confirm Mao Tse Tung’s description of the U.S. as a “paper tiger.” Trump appears daily ever more Netanyahu’s clown and prize fool.

Having betrayed his campaign promises to avoid war and regime change, Trump is ready to leave the job of massacring Iranians to the Israelis. His other Hobson’s choice is to commit US troops to a ground war in Iran with a million heavily armed Shiite militants. Trump projects an Il Duce persona though he is clearly adrift and clueless.

He caricatures Iran with a cartoon depiction of the Shiite nation’s alleged ambition to rule the Middle East. Yet, it is Israel under Netanyahu which has emerged as the power that aspires to regional domination through unlimited state terrorism: unleashing unprecedented levels of violence in Gaza; ethnically cleansing the West Bank and bombing the populations of Yemen, Lebanon and Iran in acts of murderous collective punishment.

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The war-weary American people who voted into office the 47th president of the United States on the supposition that he was a non-interventionist (I boycott the System’s pejorative “isolationist” nomenclature) — didn’t know they were getting an orange-haired stand-in for George W. Bush. We are witnessing the complete reversal of the voters’ wishes as Donald Trump plunges America into a multi-billion dollar quagmire in Iran, which a debtor nation like the U.S. can ill afford.

•The war with Iran began less than 72 hours before the start of the festival of revenge known as Purim, which commenced March 2.

•In 2003 President Bush invaded Iraq on March 19, a day after Purim concluded.

Coincidence?

•The Russian Revolution began two days after Purim (on the Julian calendar), in February, 1917. The Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies convened for the first time six days after Purim. Cf. Eli Rubin, “Purim in Petrograd 1917: Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch and the Russian Revolution.”

•The US holocaust in Tokyo which burned alive 100,000 Japanese civilians began on the night of March 9, 1945, nine days after Purim had concluded. It was authorized by Commander in Chief Franklin D. Roosevelt and implemented by Major General Curtis LeMay, who initiated the ghoulish strategy of low-altitude night-time incendiary bombing, which intentionally caused the massive firestorm in Tokyo.

•In 1994 Purim fell on Feb. 25, the day Baruch Goldstein, a native New Yorker turned Israeli “settler,” slaughtered forty Palestinian Muslims while they were at prayer in Hebron (the media have since erroneously reduced the casualty figure to twenty-nine).

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“The poor man is called a socialist if he believes that the wealth of the rich should be divided among the poor, but the rich man is called a financier if he devises a plan by which the pittance of the poor can be converted to his use.”

— William Jennings Bryan, House of Representatives, August 16, 1893

Silver in Roman and British History

Jeff Thomas writing in Doug Casey’s column: “The denarius was the coin of the realm during the centuries when Rome was a republic. Although the gold that was sold was used as a storage of wealth, the silver denarius was equal in value to a day’s wages for a common laborer and, as such, was more useful as the primary unit of exchange. During this time, it was a stable currency.

“However, as Rome turned into an empire, all that conquest in foreign lands became extremely costly and it was decided that one way to offset such costs was to devalue the denarius. Each successive emperor added a bit more base metal than the previous one and, by the time of Diocletian, there was no silver in the coin at all, only bronze.”

Studies such as those by economic historian Peter Spufford in his Money and Its Use in Medieval Europe detail silver’s key role in medieval economies. Manorial records, like those from England’s Winchester estates, demonstrate price stability. Pennies from the 12th–15th centuries, analyzed by institutions like the British Museum, confirm consistent silver content.

Marc Morris in The Anglo-Saxons: “In 1066 King ‘Harold was the ruler of a single kingdom, which contemporaries called England, with boundaries very close to where they are today. It was peaceful and prosperous, with an expanding economy, an abundant silver coinage, and dozens of towns, cities and ports. It was also a Christian country, with sixteen cathedrals, around sixty monasteries, and thousands of local churches.”

The stability of the penny’s value in medieval England (circa 1130–1530) was tied to its silver content. The English penny, known as a ‘sterling’ penny, was made of high-purity silver. Its value was directly linked to the weight and purity of the silver, which was widely accepted as a store of value across Europe.

From the 12th century, English kings maintained strict control over minting. The penny’s weight (around 1.4 grams initially) and silver content were standardized (typically 92.5% silver, or “sterling” standard, hence the term), ensuring consistency. The penny’s value was intrinsic—its worth came from the metal itself. The penny’s silver content remained largely unchanged from the reign of Henry II (1154–1189) to Edward III (1327–1377).

Major re-coinages, like those under Henry II in 1158 and 1180, reinforced quality rather than debasing it. Chronicles and manorial accounts show that basic goods such as a loaf of bread, or a day’s labor cost roughly the same in pennies for centuries. For example, in the thirteenth century, a laborer’s daily wage was about 1–2 pence, a figure that held steady into the early 14th century.

Stability waned however, particularly from the 16th century. For example, Henry VIII’s “Great Debasement” (1544–1551) slashed the penny’s silver content, debasing it to fund wars and royal expenses, causing inflation, eroding trust and inflating prices.

Silver in America: Now and Then

In the U.S. in the past six months silver has risen from $37.00/oz to $122.88/oz. There was a correction in early February and as of this writing silver is selling for approximately $75.00/oz. — double what it was last August.

Silver isn’t only a hard asset precious metal. It is widely used in solar panels, electric vehicles, electronics, semiconductors, and emerging technologies. Strong, consistent demand tied to clean energy and AI (artificial intelligence), has tightened supply. Production and recycling haven’t kept pace with orders.

Silver’s surge has been driven by a mix of industrial and investment purchasing pressure, perceived geopolitical risks, supply constraints, and monetary worries — the weakness of the dollar and its vulnerability to the whims of the bandits at the privately owned, never audited Federal Reserve Bank. They are likely at any time to engage in “quantitative easing,” an Orwellian euphemism for recklessly printing money, a prime driver of inflation. Today’s dollars (“Federal Reserve Notes”) are only backed by the so-called “full faith and credit of the US government.”

One cannot redeem Federal Reserve Notes in gold or silver as was the practice in American history. From 1878 to 1968 paper currency was legally redeemable in specie (gold or silver), though the rules changed repeatedly, during which time silver was usually the loser in favor of an exclusive gold standard.

President Franklin Roosevelt ended the gold standard by executive order on April 5, 1933, requiring the American people to surrender gold coins, bullion, and gold certificates to the Federal Reserve Bank in exchange for paper currency. January 30, 1934 Congress passed the Gold Reserve Act which transferred all gold to the U.S. Treasury, devalued the dollar and ended the domestic redemption of gold. The ownership of gold by the American people was henceforth prohibited.

Exceptions included industrial, professional or artistic use (dentists, jewelers, sculptors, tailors, etc.) in “legitimate and customary” quantities. Up to $100 of face value in gold coins could be owned per person. A loophole was created in the form of a provision permitting ownership of rare coins having “recognized historical value to collectors.” Dictator Roosevelt’s draconian measures lasted forty years. They were ended by Congress in 1974 (Public Law 93-374).

President Lyndon Johnson ended redemption of paper currency in silver coin on March 25, 1964. He ceased redemption of paper currency in silver bullion four years later, on June 24, 1968.

Johnson signed the Coinage Act of 1965 which eliminated silver from dimes and quarters and reduced half dollars from 90% silver to 40%. Nixon and Congress eliminated the 40% silver which had been in circulating half dollars beginning December 31, 1970. From 1971 onward, all circulating US coins had the intrinsic value of glorified slugs.

The Fed’s quantitative easing occurred under President Trump beginning March 23, 2020. The Federal Reserve’s dollars expanded from $4.2 trillion in February 2020 to $7 trillion by December 2020, the largest and most rapid liquidity expansion in U.S. history. President Biden continued this policy through February 2022. Inflation followed on the back of this money printing. The dollar became less valuable. It took more dollars to purchase food, commodities and services than before.

William Jennings Bryan and Free Silver

The Most Incendiary Monetary Issue in 19th-century America

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As this writer has attempted to substantiate in two previous studies (here and here), the movement to rehabilitate the reputation of Adolf Hitler has emerged from the periphery of the online social media world and gained a larger and in some respects mainstream audience. One of the agents in this development is the Palo Alto, California-based revisionist journalist Ron Unz. In a recent column he wrote:

“More than a dozen years ago, a fully mainstream former German major general named Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof published 1939 – The War That Had Many Fathers, a revelatory 700 page volume on the circumstances leading to that European conflict. The author had been very surprised to discover that Hitler’s public speeches had regularly emphasized his desire for peace with the West along with his proposals for mutual arms control agreements and other confidence-building measures.”

Yes, that was the führer’s public pose, belied by his actions and the requirements of his clandestine occult ideology. To accept Hitler’s oratorical statements (or those of the West’s other leading war criminals of the time, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin) at face value is a joke. Mr. Unz continues:

“During the 1939 crisis that ultimately led to the outbreak of World War II, the German leader had actually offered neighboring Poland numerous concessions that none of his democratic Weimar predecessors had ever been willing to consider. But the irresponsible military dictatorship running that country had refused any negotiations and instead escalated the violent provocations against their sizeable German ethnic minority, ultimately leading to the declaration of war.”

Mr. Unz’s last sentence is an almost verbatim repetition of the Nazi propaganda employed to justify Hitler’s invasion of Poland. It is consonant with the risible revisionist myth of Hitler as a reasonable statesman and man of peace who sought to rescue Europe from totalitarianism — risible that is to those who are cognizant of Hitler’s esoteric beliefs and agenda, which he imbibed early in his career and held to the end of his life: Darwinian, might-is-right mass murder employed for the purpose of enabling the coming of occult Theosophy’s prophesied Sixth and Seventh “Aryan Root Races.”

Parenthetically, it is certainly true that Winston Churchill’s network actively conspired against peace. Do these facts absolve or even mitigate what Hitler did to Poland in September and October 1939, and what his alliance with the Soviets cost Lithuania? Let’s examine the evidence.

It is August, 1939. Hitler’s high command was not showing sufficient enthusiasm for the planned invasion of Poland and were surprised at Hitler’s focus on the economic necessity of going to war:

“We have nothing to lose and everything to gain,” he proclaimed. ‘Because of the restrictions our economic situation imposes on us we can only hold out for a few years…We have no choice. We must act.”

Hitler was alluding to his enormous military expenditures which had brought Germany to the verge of insolvency, as the former president of the usury Reichsbank, Hjalmar Schacht, who had been dismissed in January 1939, had predicted. It was already transparent that Hitler intended that the war would transfer the costs of this financial crisis to the Poles Nazi Germany intended to conquer.

Stalin meanwhile, was eager to form an alliance with Hitler and the Führer was willing to oblige. In Moscow, August 23, 1939, with Stalin present, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, officially known as the “German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact” between their respective nations. According to the treaty, which was to be valid for ten years, the Nazis and the Communists agreed to forgo “every act of violence, every aggressive action and every attack against one another” and to abstain from any national alliances that were “directly or indirectly against the other side.” In the obscure diplomatic jargon of Article 2 of the pact, Stalin gave Hitler, de facto, a free hand for his forthcoming invasion of Poland.

There was a quid pro quo: the Nazi handover to Soviet conquest of half of the Christian nation of Poland (which was 70% Catholic at the time), and all of Lithuania (over 80% Catholic), to the atheist ghouls of the USSR. Furthermore, the “German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty” of September 28, 1939, included a secret supplementary protocol explicitly stating, “Lithuania falls to the sphere of the U.S.S.R.”

With Hitler’s cooperation the Soviets subsequently conducted mass deportations, forcibly transferring hundreds of thousands of Lithuanian Christians to Siberian gulags, including women, children, the elderly, teachers, priests and farmers, with many dying from starvation and disease during transport in cattle cars.

Janus grinned as the “anti-Communist” Hitler sold the people of Poland and Lithuania to a Communist subjugation which would not be lifted until the 1980s. These facts are documented in Adolf Hitler: Enemy of the German People.

Most of my fellow World War II revisionists have missed the hidden factor which made peace between Nazi Germany and Poland impossible. Hitler was a Thule Society initiate. It was from occult doctrine that he gained the conviction that the Slavic race consisted of untermenschen (subhumans). In Mein Kampf he wrote:

“Daß die Organisation eines russischen Staatsgebildes nicht etwa eine politische Leistung der Slawen in Rußland war, sondern einzig das wunderbare Ergebnis der staatsbildenden Tätigkeit eines deutschen Elementes in einer minderwertigen Rasse.”

(“The organization of a Russian State was not the result of political achievement of the Slavs in Russia, but rather a wonderful example of the state-forming efficacy of the Germanic element in an inferior race.” [Vol. 2, chapter 14]).

Hitler expressed his contempt in conversations with Goebbels in early October. “The Führer’s verdict on the Poles is devastating,” the propaganda minister wrote. “More animal than human, completely coarse and undistinguished…” (Goebbels, Tagebücher, part I, vol. 7, p. 147, Oct. 10, 1939); see ibid., p. 141, Oct. 7, 1939).

At a meeting on October 17 in the Chancellery which was attended by Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann, Hans Lammers, Hans Frank, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Reich Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick and Frick’s state secretary Wilhelm Stuckart, the führer laid out the methods by which his administrators in Poland were to operate. A “bitter ethnic struggle” would have to be waged that would “know no legal bounds.”

Hitler’s Own “Morgenthau” Plan for Poland

It would not be his administration’s task to economically develop or make a “model province” of occupied Slavic territory. On the contrary, the standard of living in Poland was to be kept low: “All we want to harvest there is labor,” Hitler declared.

He sought to ensure that every effort would be made to prevent a Polish intelligentsia from emerging as a leadership elite. He summarized his core message as: “Any traces of a consolidation of conditions in Poland must be swept aside. A worthless ‘Polish economy’ should be allowed to blossom. Governing the territory must enable us also to cleanse the Reich of Jews and Polacks.”(Cf. Schenk, Hans Frank, p. 148; Michael Wildt, Generation des Unbedingten: Das Führungskorps des Reichssicherheitshauptamtes, Hamburg, 2002, p. 474).

General Franz Halder, Chief of the General Staff of the Army (OKH), learned from Quartermaster General Eduard Wagner of the meeting and summarized Hitler’s intentions: “Prevent Polish intelligentsia from rising into a new leadership class. Low standard of living should be preserved. Cheap slaves. The rabble must entirely disappear from German territory.” (Halder, Kriegstagebuch, vol. 1, p. 107 [entry for Oct. 18, 1939]).

In early October 1939, even before he was officially appointed Governor-General of occupied Poland, Hans Frank described the task he had been given by Hitler: “Exploitation of the land by ruthless asset-stripping…Reduction of Poland’s entire economy to the minimum necessary to maintain a most basic standard of living for the population. Closure of all educational institutions, especially technical schools and universities to prevent the development of a Polish intellectual class…Poland is to be treated like a colony, the Poles will become the slaves of a Greater German world empire.” (Cf. Dieter Schenk, Hans Frank: Hitler’s Jurist und Generalgouverneur [2006], p. 144).

Speaking with Hans Frank almost a year later, on October 2, 1940, Hitler reiterated the principles of the occupation policy he had set in 1939, calling his General Government region in central Poland “our reservoir of labor for low forms of work.” The minutes of the meeting, taken by Bormann, continue: “Once again the Führer underlined that Poles could only have one master, and that was the German. There cannot and should not be two masters. For that reason, all members of the Polish intelligentsia were to be killed. That sounded harsh, but it was a law of life.” (Bormann, Oct. 2, 1940; Bundesarchiv Berlin-Lichterfelde NS 6/ 772. Also cf. Goebbels, Tagebücher, part I, vol. 8, p. 406; Nov. 5, 1940).

Hitler’s Occult Initiation

From the Thule Gesellschaft magus Dietrich Eckart, Hitler imbibed the racist Nazi precepts of the syncretic Theosophy of magical imperative. Eckart provided Hitler with an intellectual grounding in Theosophy, specifically its “Root Races” dogma. Eckart’s enormous influence on Hitler is undeniable.

A good deal of nonsense has been written about Hitler and the occult, much of it predicated on disinformation sown by his Hitler enthusiasts who point to negative statements he made about German pagans dressed in bear skins and Viking-style horned helmets, and the fact that he persecuted his occult rivals among the Freemasons, and closed masonic lodges in Germany. Magic was to be a Nazi monopoly led by the supreme sorcerer.

The Hitler arcana we will examine is part of a chain of Kabbalistic-Rosicrucian-alchemical process subsequently propelled by the “Root Race” fixations of Darwinism and the 19th century Theosophical Aryanism whose staggering detestation of the Slavic race was not subject to the demands of what contemporary Hitler defenders and admirers imagine to be Hitler’s realpolitik and prudent preparations for the harsh reality of war in the East.

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By Michael Hoffman | Author of Twilight Language

“…the dead carcasses of unburied men…that do corrupt my air…”

— Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act 1, Scene 4

The carcasses, in the form of “The Epstein Files,” are all over the news this week after their late release in response to the Epstein Files Transparency Act which required their public disclosure by December 19.

Among the millions of pages, 2,000 videos and 180,000 images are victim identifications and even naked photos of some victims — divulged by “mistake.” The government published dozens of the nude pictures from the Epstein data. They show young women or possibly teenagers with their faces visible. They have mostly been removed, allegedly after The New York Times notified the Justice Department. The Times claims it discovered nearly 40 uncensored nude images. Some of them appear to have been photographed on Mr. Epstein’s private island.

“It’s hard to imagine a more egregious way of not protecting victims than having full nude images of them available for the world to download,” said Annie Farmer, who has testified in court about how she was groomed and abused as a teenager by Epstein and his partner in crime Ghislaine Maxwell, who is now imprisoned in a minimum security facility thanks to Trump.

America is Given the Thirty-Third Degree

The idiomatic expression “giving someone the third degree,” denoting subjecting a captive or apprehended individual to prolonged, harsh police interrogation entered common parlance in the United States circa 1900, derived from Freemasonry’s third-degree ritual which entails hoodwinking (blindfolding) a recruit and binding him with a cable tow (a noose formed into a three-part knot). One would be tempted to say that this is the psychological condition of the American people today were it not for the fact that the blindfold is off and the Epstein Files are here for all to see.

At this juncture we are on the precipice of the Truth or Consequences dare.

In 1950 the nationally televised Truth or Consequences game show dared any community in America to rename itself after the show. The town of Hot Springs, New Mexico, situated on the 33rd degree of north parallel latitude, (a line it shared with the Trinity Site where the first atomic bomb was detonated in 1945), took the dare.

The Truth or Consequences (1940–1988) television program enacted a truth dare game. Contestants had a very brief window (usually seconds) in which to answer an odd question (the “truth”). Failing to do so led straight to the consequences; for example, having to perform an embarrassing stunt.

James Shelby Downard believed that the truth or consequences principle was integral to the Revelation of the Method wherein the people are shown the truth about their rotten leaders and dared to do something about the revelation. Failure to act led to the consequences—a deeper induction into a collective trance state.

This process has occurred many times in the late 20th and 21st centuries. The conspiracy theory movement, when reduced to thrill-seeking voyeurism, has exacerbated the psychic wounding of the Group Mind. They have failed the truth. We the People have not forced the prosecution in a court of law of the perpetrators whose identities have been intentionally manifested over the course of the recent past.

When will Maxwell and Epstein’s co-conspirators be arrested? Students of psychological warfare predict that the failure to apprehend them will result in further “authenticity collapse,” by means of which our souls rot.

The Major Arcana

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This is the second installment in our two part series on esoteric Protestantism as manifested within the Crown and Aristocracy of England. Part One is here.

Introduction

When one writes of magic and witchcraft one naturally opens one’s self to charges of superstitious credulity and a persecuting spirit of violence such as was turned on Christian men and women in seventeenth century Salem, Massachusetts, on innocent Jews in medieval times, and upon homosexuals (cf. Arthur Evans, Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture).

Furthermore, Protestants and Catholics in their Christ-dishonoring fratricidal wars equated each other with demonic abominations and the Antichrist, and slaughtered the women, children and non-combatant men on the other side of the denominational divide in the name of the God of love; a mockery indicative of a diabolical spirit.

“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God….the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him…Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another…” (I John 4: 7-12).

The chief damage to the reputation of the Word of God is not mainly from atheists, agnostics or pagans, it is from false Christians.

In studying the history of propaganda it seems evident that the agents of Protestant public relations have been more effective in advancing their myths and disinformation than Catholic propagators. Most of us have heard of the Catholic inquisition, the Roman Antichrist, Catholic Queen Bloody Mary and the papal ban on lay Bible reading.

Concerning the Protestant inquisition, the Protestant Antichrist occult imperium, a Protestant Queen Bloody Elizabeth, and the Protestant suppression of the Bible, we know comparatively little.

The Church of Rome’s propaganda has been more successful in convincing its own followers of its claims — to authority, opposition to Mammon and resistance to the occult. It has seldom however, rivaled the Protestant machinery of mass communication which in the fullness of time has managed to persuade much of Christendom and the world at large that Rome before the Second Vatican Council was a sinkhole of inquisitorial fanaticism, monkish delusion and papal tyranny.

Those at the top of the pyramid grin at the sight of this reanimated mocking jest made perpetually at our expense, which is one signpost of the diabolical. The contemptuous joke on us raises its head in the rites and lore of the Cryptocracy. (In 1843 Edgar Allan Poe, a foe of the occult, was one of the few western savants to turn the tables on the phenomenon in his “Diddling Considered as one of the Exact Sciences”).

The joke intended as an insulting allusion to the rank ignorance of the “Commons” turns on the fact that Renaissance Rome’s own “Catholic” personnel — Fr. Marsilio Ficino, Nicholas of Cusa, Count Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Johannes Reuchlin, Cardinal Basilios Bessarion, Cardinal Giles of Viterbo, Cornelius Agrippa, Bishop Agostino Steuco, Ludovico Lazzarelli, Abbot Johannes Trithemius, Francesco Patrizi and dozens more, along with several popes —laid the occult groundwork for the “Christian” Kabbalah which would be adopted by esoteric Protestantism. From it arose the “Rosicrucian Enlightenment,” out of which Freemasonry derived its cardinal points. Many people flee from this sobering truth. For those made of sterner stuff, let’s dive deeper.

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PART ONE

(In Part Two we will elucidate Renaissance England’s esoteric vision of Queen Elizabeth I as Witch and Patroness of a Conspiracy which rules Britain to this day).

Prolegomenon

We are undertaking an excursus into the chaos sorcery which originated in 15th century Renaissance sodomite “Catholic” Florence and was subsequently transmitted to Rome and Elizabethan “Protestant” London in the 16th century.

The very act of associating these two seeming opposites will provoke indignation from Protestants schooled to believe that Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa’s coincidentia oppositorum could not apply to strait-laced Reformation England.

In Part II we hope to demonstrate that the monumental unifying factor was the mutual lust to acquire the wonder-working sorcery of ancient Egypt from which the circles of theurgy both in Florence and Rome — as well as London — drew for guidance, direction, and power over Creation.

Renaissance humanism, about which centuries of university lectures have been expended, and mountains of books have been penned, have nearly all concealed the truth that humanism is ultimately centered on acquiring the secrets of Pharaonic sorcery in order to become like God by increasing human brain power to omnipotent levels through unnatural means.

The Bible does not deny, it affirms that “When Aaron’s staff turned into a serpent, Pharaoh’s sorcerers did the same: each one threw down his staff and it became a snake” (Exodus 7:11).

The Bible does not contest that when “Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt, the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt. (Exodus 8:6-7). Concerning Satanic wonders cf. Matthew 24:24, 2 Thess. 2:9 and Rev. 13:13-15.

In fulfillment of the Kabbalistic mandate to “repair” God’s “imperfect” cosmos, Christendom’s Renaissance érudits talmudiques on both sides of the denominational aisle were inspired by the teaching in the Babylonian Talmud (Kiddushin 49b), as follows: “Ten measures of witchcraft were given to the world; Egypt received nine while the rest of the world received one.”

In Cusa’s restatement of the alchemical coincidentia oppositorum doctrine, the adept was taught to discern how apparent opposites are reconciled and how they can coincide without contradiction.

Under Pope Nicholas V, Cusa (1400-1464) was promoted to cardinal and served as a papal legate. “In the earliest of his works—a Christmas sermon preached at Coblenz in 1430—Nicholas (of Cusa) brought together the most diverse types of material...sources which presage the beginning of a new epoch: the Bible and the Talmud…

“The change was the consequence both of Nicholas’ ever-deepening commitment to the...idea of man’s dignity…Nicholas’…synthesis represents a high-water mark in the evolution of the new understanding of reality which appeared in Western Europe...With respect to the creator, man is a ‘human god’ or a ‘second god’…

“During the period of his engagement at the Council of Basle (1432-1437), he had broadened immensely his knowledge of the philosophical traditions of late antiquity…Whereas in his earliest sermons he had drawn on Macrobius for Platonic opinions, he now began to make use of Plato himself—especially the Timaeus of Philo, Proclus, Pseudo Dionysius…” (Charles H. Lohr, “Metaphysics,” in The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy (1992), pp. 548, 550, 553 & 556).

The remains of Cardinal Cusa rest in his own titular church in Rome. He was honored just a year after his death with an effigy sculpted in relief by the renowned Italian artist Andrea Bregno (1418-1506). The inscription over his tomb reads, “Quae latent et vas, Nicolaus peregrinans hoc opus erexit; cetera marmor habent” (“The hidden things and the vessel the pilgrim Nicholas erected; the rest is marble”).'

The Peregrination of Secret Societies through British History

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