Even though I loathe almost all forms of technology and would happily disinvent the lot (apart, possibly, from airships which are well overdue a revival), I cannot pretend that YouTube has not been good to me. I am pleased to read that it is now the second most-watched service on British televisions, behind only the BBC.
All of it, amazingly, is still on YouTube
In the antediluvian era that I mainly long for, you couldn’t make your own TV shows unless you were either rich enough to own a TV station or you submitted to the rules, regulations and standards of behaviour commensurate with being employed by that TV station. But now you can. Anyone can. Even someone as technology-illiterate and unemployable and underfunded as me.
This is what I have been doing in the three or four years since I last had regular, paid employment. Spectator readers won’t mostly be aware of this, for reasons I shall explain in a moment. But essentially what I mainly do these days is present my own TV chat show – wittily called The Delingpod – in which I converse digressively with like-minded souls for about 90 minutes, usually on the subject of what you might term batshit crazy conspiracy theories.
Because I am my own boss, I have no one to tell me what to say or how to say it or how far I can push it. Nor am I subject to strictures from the HR department as to how, as a representative of the company, I’m expected to conduct myself outside the workplace. I could be caught in bed smoking crack with an underage giant anteater watching the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop – and still I wouldn’t get fired.
Which, I believe, is exactly what the world should be like for creative free spirits. We produce our best material, for the delectation and delight of you, our audience, when we are completely unconstrained. And for this, if nothing else, I owe an eternal debt of gratitude to YouTube.
Without YouTube I could never have found an audience. Without YouTube I would have had nowhere to put up my material. Nor, now I think about it, would I have had the wherewithal to produce that material. For, without YouTube, I would not have had access to the mindbogglingly vast archive of recondite visual and aural documentation which makes being a professional ‘conspiracy theorist’ possible.
A common misconception among people who all get their information from ‘respectable’, mainstream sources – Normies, as we call them – is that conspiracy theorists are fantasists who make up all their ‘facts’ in their mums’ basements. Au contraire: we are hungry for hard information and supportive evidence, wherever we can find it. That place, more often than not, is in the mostly unsearched backwaters of YouTube.
You start out, as most nascent conspiracy theorists do, in a spirit of truculent scepticism. ‘Of course it’s bloody obvious that 9/11 was planned by a man in a cave in Afghanistan. What are these nutcases on about?’, you mutter. Then you watch a documentary like September 11: The New Pearl Harbor. Or the strange video in which a BBC reporter informs you live that the structure now known as Building Seven has collapsed when it is still visible behind her, as yet intact. ‘OK,’ you concede. ‘Maybe those bonkers Truther theories aren’t totally without foundation. Still, I bet all the other conspiracy theories – from JFK to the faked moon landings – are the purest bollocks.’
It’s not a journey I recommend undertaking because what you’ll find is that a lot of these theories – even the more outlandish ones like Paul Is Dead – have more legs than you might hitherto have imagined. The danger then is that you’ll want to tell all your friends, who’ll naturally back away slowly as if you were covered in buboes and drooling black blood. And pretty soon, the only friends you’ll have left are fellow tinfoil hat loons. Which is more or less the stage I’ve reached now.
Just in case you’re tempted to ignore my advice, though, one of the places I’d begin is the old interview by Alex Jones with Aaron Russo. Russo was a leading film producer (Trading Places, etc) who befriended a member of one of the powerful families that allegedly run the world and decided to spill the beans on what he learned. His informant predicted 9/11 long before it happened. But the main titbit I remember – all the social changes we think are organic and accidental were in fact planned decades in advance by secretive committees of supranational governance – was the one about feminism. Apparently, one of the main reasons feminism was heavily pushed by the ‘elites’ was in order effectively to double the size of the tax base by bringing into the workplace women who would previously have been content being housewives.
Another of my favourites is the testimony of an upstanding Christian woman from an old Virginia family called Kay Griggs. Concerned by her US Marine officer husband’s increasingly errant behaviour, she discovered that he was in fact a mind-controlled assassin from one of the off-books, black ops kill squads the US deep state uses for everything from murdering whistleblowers to fomenting profitable wars for the military industrial complex. What makes this bizarre testimony so persuasive is that it’s delivered calmly, methodically and unhysterically by a woman – now in hiding, of course – of such impeccable rectitude.
Once, with Griggs’s help, you’ve got over the hurdle of ‘But surely western democracies would never engage in anything nefarious or illegal, let alone murder their own citizens’, you are ready for the next stage. This is the one where you find the answer to the question: ‘Yes but who is behind all this stuff?’ Apparently, it is old, unimaginably rich, bloodlines families mostly and which share the same ancient religious belief system, which most definitely ain’t the Christian one.
Without YouTube I could never have found an audience
We learn some of this from the late Dutch banker, Ronald Bernard, one of the very few Illuminati insiders to spill the beans. Bernard, who used to be an Illuminati fixer till he took exception to their more barbaric practices (child sexual abuse and murder), reveals that for these psychopathic oligarchs doing evil is a kind of religious sacrament. Their loyalties are to the fallen angels, led by Lucifer; their holiest missions, as per the Bible, are to affront God and torment and exploit his creation.
Obviously I’m not expecting you to believe any of this crazy-sounding stuff is true. But I do believe that if you are going to write off conspiracy theorists, you ought at least to do your homework, if only to be able to refute their nonsense with some informed rebuttals.
There’s lots more in this vein which I’d recommend, if you have the time. My much missed friend Alexander Waugh proving that Shakespeare was written by the Earl of Oxford; John Hamer on how the Titanic was an insurance job which had nothing to do with icebergs; the FrankenSkies documentary on Chemtrails; the American Moon documentary on the moon landings; anything involving Bill Cooper, John Coleman or Alan Watt (not to be confused with New Age philosopher Alan Watts – who was the exact opposite); Col Fletcher Prouty (formerly of the US Pentagon) revealing that there are no such thing as ‘fossil fuels’. And so on.
Obviously I’m not expecting you to believe any of this crazy-sounding stuff is true
All of it, amazingly, is still on YouTube. I say ‘amazingly’ because one of the things you realise when you’ve been down the rabbit hole a while is that Big Tech plays a key role in its own global conspiracy. Well, obviously, it does because the internet is now the primary conduit through which we get our information. This is why, increasingly, it is so heavily censored – not just by governments but also by self-censorship.
We saw this especially during Covid, when outlets such as YouTube appointed themselves gatekeepers for the World Health Organisation’s official narrative. It seemed that anyone, for example, who questioned the notion that the vaccines were ‘safe and effective’ quickly found it impossible to post on YouTube. Their videos were taken down; they couldn’t post up new material. This is what happened to me, and it was a huge blow to my business: the large YouTube audience I’d built up didn’t go looking for me elsewhere but simply assumed I’d retired.
But if YouTube is really so censorious and controlling, how come it hasn’t taken down some of those edgy ‘conspiracy’ videos I mentioned earlier? Ronald Bernard explains in his interview. There exists among the elites a perverse karmic code of honour whereby so long as they tell you what they are doing (faking moon landings; spraying chemtrails) they are absolved of moral responsibility for the consequences: they warned us – and if we don’t believe them it’s our own stupid fault.
I don’t just use YouTube for esoteric stuff, by the way. I’m not that bonkers. I find it helpful for all sorts of things – looking up to find out how to replace the fuses on my Nissan Micra; looking up excerpts from classic comedy shows so I can get the references right in my TV reviews; and enjoying gems like the one, which I guarantee you’ll enjoy, where Jorge Luis Borges explains with charm and great erudition why English is a much finer language than his native Spanish.
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If you’re interested in seeing my Delingpods, don’t bother going to YouTube, which has taken most of them down. Go instead to my archive, here.
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