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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 7th of October 2024 and I am
	joined today by Dan.
	Hello everybody! And today we're going to be talking about how the sun has set, or will soon set, on the British Empire.
	How James Lindsay has done the piece of journalistic work of the decade and discovered a dark plot to enslave humanity.
	I think that's really worth digging into because there was something at the root of all of that that needs to be uncovered.
	Mm-hmm. And Japan's problem with its newfound multiculturalism.
	So this is a newfound. Oh, right.
	You might not have even known that Japan has multiculturalism now, but I've covered it once before.
	They're about to be enriched, are they?
	Oh, they're already enriched.
	Oh, lucky them. But the consequences are already coming in.
	Because I covered that it started, and now it's coming home to roost.
	Well, I look forward to hearing about all that good cuisine and whatever else it is, the other benefits that they're getting.
	Yes, because everyone knows Japan, you know, their food.
	Yes. Sushi, not good.
	No, it is. I love sushi.
	But we have some announcements.
	It is the last week for Islander number two.
	If you haven't bought it already, cry in a corner somewhere.
	And also, there is a quiz for Lads Hour this Friday, and so if you would like to ask us some quiz questions, you can send them to quiz at lotusseaters.com, which is the same as the last one apparently, which I wasn't involved in, I think as a way. But yes, we would appreciate you sending your questions in, and it'll be a good bit of fun.
	And if you want to see how stupid we are...
	Oh, are they video comment ones as well, are they?
	Oh, video comments as well.
	Okay, okay. Samson says there are also video comments.
	You must have heard. You can hear it.
	Anyway, let's get on to the news, shall we?
	So, here is Diego Garcia.
	No, it is not a Mexican man, but an island.
	An island in the Indian Ocean.
	And this is, of course, British.
	And it should remain so, in my opinion.
	And... One thing that is certainly British is Islander Magazine.
	It's in its last week of being sold, so get it while you still can.
	What are you doing if you haven't bought it already?
	Only a week left and you'll never ever be able to buy it again.
	So there is that. There you go.
	There's the merch store on screen right now.
	You can see the address.
	You can also find it via our website.
	And as well as the magazine, there are also t-shirts, which are cool, and a mug.
	So check it out.
	If you want to support us, we make no money from our news segment, so please do.
	With that out of the way...
	Let's go to where Diego Garcia is.
	So here it is. That same island.
	And we zoom out.
	There is nothing.
	Nothing. Nothing.
	Oh wait, hang on. There we go.
	So you can see that this is a pretty good location for, say, a military base.
	Because look at all of this stuff surrounding it.
	And all of that nothing.
	It wouldn't be of a large military base, would it?
	No. I suppose if you want a bit of land...
	If you want a little bit of land, that's pretty useful, isn't it?
	I mean, it's about the same size as...
	I don't know. Is it the same size as an aircraft carrier or something?
	Well, we can cut to a better picture of it here.
	So here's... Oh, right. There we go.
	Military base. I think this was when it was being constructed.
	I don't know how old this picture is.
	It looks old. Because it's an active military base, I couldn't find any contemporary pictures of it, obviously.
	I could go on Google Earth and zoom right in, but I'm not going to do that because I don't want to get in trouble.
	But this is home to a very secretive joint UK-US military base, and it's both a port and an airfield.
	And obviously it's useful for military operations such as refueling and storage.
	And it's one of the, and this is a direct quote here from the people discussing it, extremely limited number of places worldwide available to reload submarines.
	Obviously quite important.
	It's also off-limits to civilians.
	You need permission from the military to even go to the island.
	There are no commercial flights, and boats are not permitted to go there either.
	Okay, well, I didn't know we had this, but it seems very handy.
	It is. And I think the fact you don't know about it is probably by design.
	There were a small population of civilians on the island, about a thousand people, that were removed in the 60s, I think 1967 off the top of my head.
	And actually many of them have come to live in the UK, which is interesting.
	But... It's worth mentioning that this island will soon be gone.
	It will soon no longer be a possession of the British Empire.
	Because, as a Frenchman points out, which is adding salt to the wound...
	It was in that little patch there of daylight that would have meant that no matter where you are, you know, no matter what time of day it is on planet Earth, there'll be a part of British territory that is daylight.
	As in, the sun never sets on the British Empire.
	Yes, because it's always sunny somewhere on the British Empire, but...
	Well, we can't have it without the Chagos?
	No, because you see that patch on the right-hand side there.
	Well, all of that will be gone.
	Because, of course, with the island gone, we don't have that right-hand patch anymore.
	Well, who did that then? The closest one would be Pitcairn.
	Well, who you have to blame...
	It's Keir Starmer, of course.
	So he's saying...
	This headline, by the way, is misleading.
	Starmer hands Chagos Islands back to Mauritius.
	First and foremost, I don't think it's actually happened yet.
	He hasn't actually formally handed it over as of yet, as far as I'm aware.
	I could be mistaken in that.
	And also, it never belonged to Mauritius in the first place, and in fact, Mauritius belonged to us.
	It was ours. Yeah, I mean, Mauritius is famous for the dodo, which they killed.
	But when you were scrolling out on that Google Maps thing with Mauritius a few moments ago, I mean, Mauritius popped up briefly for a second.
	I mean, it is close in sort of geographic terms, but it's thousands of miles away, isn't it?
	Yes, it's very far away from anything.
	And also, it's worth mentioning...
	So how can you hand it back to Mauritius if they've never owned it and it's thousands of miles away and they have no claim on it?
	Interesting question. It's kind of BS, in my opinion.
	So we actually got the island, Diego Garcia, in the Treaty of Paris in 1814 in the Napoleonic period.
	I would presume, I didn't have the time this morning to look into the Treaty of Paris, but I presume that we probably got it from the French who owned it before us.
	Well, if it's called Diego Garcia...
	And it could have been Spanish. Yes.
	I suspect there's a Spanish connection in there somewhere.
	I would say so. But either way, it's never belonged to Mauritius.
	And Mauritius won its independence from the UK in 1968.
	Also, hasn't Mauritius kind of come into the orbit of the Chinese as well?
	I was going to touch on that.
	They're pretty China-aligned on stuff, and so the notion of a very secretive base all of a sudden becoming the property of the country that is aligned to the Chinese...
	If I've got this right, we're taking what is actually a very valuable, very strategically located military base that supports submarines and handing it over to the Chinese at a time of rising geopolitical tensions...
	Yes. And the excuses that we're giving it back to Mauritius who have never owned it, I think there's part of this story that we're not being told.
	I'll be getting into it, don't you worry.
	Oh, okay. So, a United Nations High Court, the highest court in the UN, as an advisory opinion that doesn't have to be followed, by the way, that the UK's administration of the territory is unlawful and must end in order to complete the UK's decolonisation of I didn't realise that that was something that had to be done, but okay. We've just got to decolonise things that never really belonged to a country in the first place.
	What decolonisation effort?
	Well, it's justified as, well, you've decolonised Mauritius, why have you not given back this island that never belonged to them?
	Right, now that sounds like the sort of excuse you would give to a child because you don't want to explain what's really going on.
	You know, the dog has gone to live on auntie's farm or something like that.
	Clearly, the UK military is not handing this over because they're worried about decolonisation.
	No, no, as in that's the reason the UN is trying to get us to hand it over to the island.
	Yeah, but that's a fig leaf for whatever is really going on.
	Of course. So, it's also interesting to me that the deal was rather rapidly done.
	It was agreed to within weeks, and to the terms of Mauritius, who...
	Seemingly, because they've got an upcoming election, wanted to go into their election with, look what we just did.
	Isn't this wonderful? So there's a strong incentive there for Mauritius, of course, China-aligned country.
	And also, one thing that I did find interesting is, before this was announced, the BBC ran an article, only a few days, about five days before, six days, what I found on the secretive tropical island they don't want you to see.
	So this seems to have been dropped recently.
	Perfectly timed to make people aware of its existence.
	It does actually look quite lovely, doesn't it?
	Oh, it's beautiful, yeah.
	You've got that kind of land thing going around the outside and you've got this beautiful laguna in the middle that presumably is excellent swimming.
	The only thing that puts me off slightly is it looks like Africa.
	Yes, and also there are lots of sharks in the water.
	Well, even in the middle bit? I don't know, but I've read that it's quite shark-infested around there.
	Yeah, but I think you could put up some nets or something, and then that would make a lovely...
	It would, yeah. If I was an eccentric billionaire and I wanted a place to hang out at the end of the world, I'd want this place.
	It does look nice, doesn't it? I can see why they want it.
	So, this BBC journalist was only allowed to visit under permanent escort.
	Even while they were sleeping, they had someone stood outside their door, an armed guard.
	Interesting that they approved of it just before it was handed over.
	It could be that the people in the military disagree with the political decision going on.
	And they're just like, well, come on, journalist, maybe we'll finally allow you here because otherwise this undermines what's going on.
	This is a possible explanation.
	So, one thing that I did find interesting, but bearing in mind this is 1,000 miles or 1,600 kilometers away from the nearest landmass, that some refugees have turned up and claimed asylum on this island.
	Some Sri Lankan Tamils have turned up to this island, a top-secret military base, and they're saying we need to claim asylum.
	And apparently, according to the BBC, they've been stranded there for nearly three years, which...
	Surely the British military cannot be that shit, right?
	This is apparently such a top-secret base that if you go there, you have to have a soldier standing there watching, staring at you the entire time, even when you're asleep, even when you're on the loo.
	You've got to have this soldier just making death eyes at you the entire time to make sure you don't go in the wrong place.
	And yet they let a whole bunch of dinghies turn up and they were powerless to stop it.
	Yes. That's what happened.
	I know. I can actually believe that the British military is that bad somehow, worryingly.
	So one of the reasons that the hesitation to keep hold of the island is the territory has been costing the UK tens of millions of pounds with the bulk of this categorised under migrant costs.
	And, yeah, apparently...
	Let's hear what David Lammy has to say about it, shall we?
	Presumably we had to build them a four-star hotel on the island for the refugees to stay in.
	Oh, yeah, they're probably living in... And then supply them benefits as well.
	I don't know what on earth the world's come to, but of course Foreign Secretary and known genius David Lammy has said, This government inherited a situation where the long-term secure operation of the Diego Garcia military base was under threat, with contested sovereignty and ongoing legal challenges.
	Today's agreement has secured this vital military base for the future, so it's worth mentioning here, as Lammy has pointed out, that the military infrastructure is allowed to remain as part of the deal, but the island itself will now belong to...
	potentially belong to...
	Mauritius, China aligned.
	However... That doesn't sound as secure as it could be to me.
	If you want to run a top secret base, you don't want a country aligned with one of your major enemies to be allowed to just turn up and potter about next to your military base.
	So what's the answer then?
	If they're going to keep this top secret military base that requires somebody staring at you the entire time if you do happen to find yourself there...
	Don't hand it over is the answer.
	Well, yes, but what is their answer to when a Mauritian delegation takes a Chinese general for a walk around their new territory?
	What are they going to say? No. And they're going to say, well, yeah, but we own it now.
	You gave it to us. Presumably that would be allowed.
	I've seen nothing anywhere to suggest that that wouldn't be possible.
	You know, if the Chinese started flying drones over, maybe we would get a little bit upset about that and shoot them down.
	But other than that, there's not a lot that can be done.
	So it basically undermines the entire facility that's on the place.
	Are we going to be paying Mauritius rent?
	Yes. We're going to be paying them to take the island as well.
	We're paying them to take the island?
	Yes. Something makes me think that Keir Starmer and David Lammy are not A1 negotiators.
	This is not how you give something away, for a start.
	I know, and the fact that we just agreed to all of Mauritius' things as well.
	But what Lammy says is that it will strengthen our role in safeguarding global security, shut down any possibility of the Indian Ocean being used as a dangerous illegal migrant route to the UK. Really.
	Really. As well as guaranteeing our long-term relationship with Mauritius, a close Commonwealth part.
	That's just adding salt to the wound, isn't it?
	I'm sorry, I'm derailing your segment here because I can't get over it.
	Why is it so important to maintain good relations with Mauritius?
	They have a museum about the dodo and some nice beaches and a couple of hotels.
	I don't know. I could only guess, if I were being charitable, that perhaps you want to be pally with them because they're strategically placed in the Indian Ocean, and if there is to be some sort of...
	Well, until a day ago, so were we.
	Yeah, I know. It's ridiculous, isn't it?
	I don't quite understand what's going on.
	So I have seen it asserted around about the place that the deal requires scrutiny and ratification by Parliament itself.
	So if that is the case, there is a way of getting out of this, which would be good.
	Yeah, but Starmer rules his party with an iron fist and he's got a majority.
	I don't know whether it's going to be one of those ones where he's going to necessarily crack the whip.
	It could be that he's going to say, well, you know, vote with your conscience.
	Perhaps he's running this along and then saying, actually, well, we tried, but, you know, Parliament voted against it.
	But he technically controls Parliament.
	It could happen.
	And it's also worth mentioning as well that we're guaranteed to keep the lease for the airbase for 99 years and then we can renegotiate again.
	I don't know what we'd have to negotiate.
	Alternatively, we could just not do this and keep it forever.
	Yes. The US has also picked up on this.
	Here is CNN talking about how the United States is about to lose control of its secretive base.
	I mean, technically it's ours, but you know what.
	Well, the US owns us, so I mean, why not?
	Yeah, we're basically a vassal anyway, so, you know, potato, potato.
	And they also published a picture of the base here.
	Someone clearly spent a lot of time on this, so obviously it's very well built up here.
	There's a lot of infrastructure here that we're potentially risking in the future at some point, which is a shame.
	So, even economist journalists have been saying, this seems silly.
	So, they're saying that Mauritius' claim is quite flimsy.
	Well, yeah, of course, they've got none.
	Uh... They haven't included the 1,000 people who once lived there, which I don't care about personally.
	Chinese spying gets easier, obviously.
	It's foolish to trade hard power for soft power.
	Again, I agree. If I'm just in most...
	I like this guy because he's made all of the points that I made.
	Yeah. Which are correct.
	Well, it's because a lot of these points are very common sense, aren't they?
	yes and the Tories have demanded answers about this but it is worth mentioning
	mentioning that it was James Cleverley in 2022 that said he was open to
	negotiations in the first place so they can Yeah. Asking for a debate about the surrender of the islands.
	I would be surprised if anyone's going to listen to him.
	And... The worst thing of all, I think, is this.
	So, after there was a sort of effort with Mauritius to give over these islands, Argentina has now vowed to gain full sovereignty over the Falklands with concrete action, apparently.
	And as I pointed out, this is why you don't give away territory.
	Because if you give away one bit of territory, then everyone will think...
	It's like giving out chewing gum in school.
	You give out one, you've got to give out all of them.
	Well, and also, we see now how it's done.
	Basically, you just keep sending dinghies with refugees until you've got a claim.
	So, one thing that I found interesting is how on earth did these Tamil Sri Lankans end up in an island, what, thousands of miles away?
	That's a hell of a dinghy ride, that is.
	That, to my mind, sounds like someone's put them up to it and then used the UN to try and wedge a crowbar between ourselves and Mauritius to try and force us to give them over.
	were somebody a bit more astute on geopolitical matters, not naming any
	names David Lammy, they would have been able to spot that.
	But because we have a knuckle-dragging moron as, you know, the head of the
	Foreign Office, these sorts of things are going to continue to happen. We're
	going to continue to have our influence around the world.
	It's Walter as well, presumably. Yep, that's probably on the cards as well.
	It's as if it's not humiliating enough to Britain that we had the largest empire by landmass ever seen on planet Earth, and within, what, a couple of hundred years, it's basically evaporated.
	That indignity of losing so much so quickly is bad enough.
	Let alone the potential of our already, you know, crippled empire falling apart in the space of what seems to be a few months of Labour rule.
	Well, and the thing that occurs to me is if this is how it works now, people can turn up and then you have to give away bits of the British Empire.
	I mean, can't we be giving away Birmingham to the Pakistanis instead?
	Well, I don't think we should surrender any of our territory to anyone.
	Well, maybe Birmingham. It can be saved.
	Right. We can say, hey, Pakistan, how about you take your Pakistanis instead rather than our English city?
	And I think that this is a real betrayal.
	I've tried to keep calm here, but when I actually read the news, I was furious about this.
	I've just had the whole weekend to see about it.
	But yes, this is one of those things that is very, very frustrating and is an obvious mistake.
	Right. There we go.
	Okay. So, the question I want to ask is, are we woke right?
	Because a plot has been discovered, a nefarious force is controlling the world, and only James Lindsay seems switched on to this.
	There is a sort of shadowy figure...
	Operating behind the scenes, which is, well, I mean, it's quite diabolical when we get into it.
	But the question I wanted to ask is, you know, who are the woke right?
	I mean, is that us?
	I mean, it seems to be.
	We're hearing a lot about it lately, and I'm a bit confused because...
	As far as I can tell, there's really only sort of two people pushing this woke right idea, at least at the moment.
	We've got a chap here in the UK called, well, what's his name, Kissin' something, and works for trigonometry, and he's been pushing the whole woke right.
	That's the one. He's been pushing the woke right idea, and in the US they've got this James Lindsay character who's sort of pushing it.
	And I think what it is, is it's people who were formerly lefties, who have become right-wingers, but still have left-wing tendencies, and are trying to explain away why they are now the wets of the movement that they find themselves in.
	So, as far as I can tell, their conception is...
	That if you're woke right, it's because you're a right-winger and you agree with them on the social stuff.
	However, you don't agree with Hillary Clinton on the geopolitical stuff.
	You're not up for bombing everywhere.
	You're not up for endless war.
	You know, the people who go on about the woke right, they tend to care about things like, you know, last week it was Russia, Ukraine, and then it's Israel, Iran.
	Well... As I understand it, it's simply a gatekeeping term, at least as they're using it, to try and keep out anyone to the right of centre, basically.
	Yeah, but the guys who are doing this are so close to the centre that they're just on the periphery of the left as it is.
	Exactly. So they're trying to gatekeep basically the entire right.
	If you remember Constantine Kissin, he threw a bit of a tantrum about...
	I forgot his name now.
	The historian that went and spoke to Tucker Carlson.
	Oh yeah, Marty Maid. That's it, yeah.
	That's the one. Thank you for remembering it.
	Him criticising Churchill, and then we had that roundtable about Churchill.
	Yes. Well, I was very critical of Churchill as well.
	Yeah, so was I. So presumably that makes me woke right now.
	Yeah, but there are lots of legitimate criticisms of Churchill, and the bitter irony is that they're deifying a figure and overlooking lots of their flaws in order to push a narrative.
	Sure, he did do some good things, but also there are lots of things that you can look at that you can legitimately criticise.
	And so to just blanketly say, you've got to support this person, otherwise you're a woke right, or...
	I don't know whether Kissin's actually saying that, but he's been...
	Well, Kissin, I think, is more on the geopolitical side, but Lindsay's an interesting character.
	I actually quite like Lindsay at first, because he's one of these rejects from the left that found that they had gone mad.
	He kind of came to our attention I think in about 2018.
	Let me play you this short clip of where Lindsay came from.
	So basically he was part of this group that put up all these fake studies and it was all sorts of nonsense.
	I mean I remember one was called the conceptual penis that basically suggested that the penis was not an actual physical thing, it was a concept that was invented by the patriarchy.
	Another one was they basically took Mein Kampf and rewrote it subtly to make it sound like a woke left.
	Well, and you only need to rewrite it subtly to make it sound like a woke left thing actually by changing a few key terms.
	And they managed to get Mein Kampf peer-reviewed and endorsed and published.
	It was funny, wasn't it?
	Yes. Yeah, so it's quite funny, the first thing he did.
	And let me play you this clip to give you a flavour of where it started, because I think the first one was about dog parks.
	Dear Dr.
	Helen Wilson, I have now closely considered the revisions of your manuscript, Dog Park, and will recommend its publication in gender, play, and culture.
	You have done very good work to address the issues Thank you for your contribution to Gender, Place, and Culture, and I hope to be seeing your manuscript in print.
	Yours truly, PhD Managing Editor.
	We have an accepted paper in the number one fabulous geography journal.
	Since approximately June of 2017, I, along with two other concerned academics, Peter Boghossian and Helen Pluckrose, have been writing intentionally broken academic papers and submitting them to highly respected journals in fields that study gender, race, sexuality, and similar topics. We did this to expose a political corruption that's taken hold of the university.
	By this point, several of these papers have been accepted in highly respected journals, and one that claims that dog-humping incidents can be taken as evidence of rape culture has been officially honored as excellent scholarship.
	I'm not going to lie to you.
	We had a lot of fun with this project.
	So, funny stuff, good troll, lots of fun.
	So he appeared on the scene, obviously a leftist that got pushed out of the left because they had gone so completely mad that he couldn't kind of deal with it anymore.
	So, yeah, fair enough.
	Having done this, He can't go back to academia, can he?
	Because, you know, they're a bit closed-minded at the best of times.
	Yeah, well, I think that the people who would approve of what he's done would keep their head down, and the people who are most vocal are the ones that push this stuff.
	So he's done in academia at this point, but this gets a lot of attention.
	You know, he goes on lots of shows, Rogan, stuff like that.
	Peterson had him on, I think.
	So he pivots into being a right-wing pundit.
	Fair enough. I mean, there's lots of them.
	So off he goes. And he's clearly a competitive guy.
	So he describes himself as pro-American, anti-communist, based AF, and then he has three US flags.
	I mean, I only have one British flag in my Twitter profile.
	He has three. Same as me, yeah.
	Yeah, and based AF. So, right, okay, so he's as based as it gets.
	And I can understand why somebody who has spent their entire life surrounded by lefties with his set of opinions would swiftly come to the conclusion that they're based AF. And then he started mixing with people like us.
	And he rapidly discovered that actually he is not.
	Based AF. He is still basically a lefty on most issues.
	So if you don't know what that term means, it means correct.
	Yes. Basically.
	Yes. So he has to sort of justify to himself how he can be this ultra-competitive, I'm more based than anyone, while slowly coming to realise that everyone around him is actually more based than he is.
	So he's going to need some sort of something to hang this on.
	Also, possibly some daddy issues in there.
	Yes. So I get the impression that he got dragged to church quite a lot as a kid, and he genuinely hated it.
	And whatever else went on.
	That story a lot, to be fair. Yes.
	So I think he's written three books on why God doesn't exist.
	Yeah, I think that that topic's been addressed enough.
	I mean, I'm an atheist.
	I don't necessarily feel the need to shout about it.
	Or write three books on it.
	No, I've never written a single book on it, in fact.
	Yes. He's part of the New Atheist Movement.
	You know, as I said, he was a Democrat for a long time.
	I mean, he voted for...
	I think he helped campaign for Obama and stuff.
	It was only latterly that he realised that the left had gone so mad that he couldn't stay on it.
	But now that he's on the right, of course, lots of his friends, his new friends, are Christians.
	And you can tolerate that to an extent, but every so often something will trigger him and push him over the edge.
	And one of those incidents happened, because Sunday before last, because it's Monday now, 29th of September, was the Feast of St.
	Michael. And Trump put out This, where he basically acknowledges the feast of Saint Michael and, you know, puts up an image of the archangel Saint Michael.
	The kind of thing you do on religious holidays, you sort of acknowledge them, move on.
	Yep. Lindsay did not like this.
	And what it triggered was basically, and we're into the second week now, of epic Spurging.
	I mean... I don't know if it's even still hundreds of tweets at this point.
	It can't be thousands, surely.
	I'm not sure, because I started to scroll back, and I thought, oh, it must be back to last Sunday by now.
	And it turned out I wasn't even yesterday yet.
	There are hundreds of these things that he's been going out.
	But let's see if we can get to the root of what it is that he's uncovered, this dark, shadowy plot.
	So... The Archangel Michael is apparently in league with Lucifer and a Zoroastrian demon.
	I don't remember learning about that aspect.
	Well, he's brought the goods here.
	The Mission of Archangel Michael by Rudolf Steiner.
	And let's see if we can just click into...
	Is it this bit here?
	Here we go. Members of the blah blah blah who accompanied humans evolution, how we can help us transcend ideas, blah blah blah, and...
	There's a lot of waffle here.
	As the countenance of Christ, Michael helps us find balance between Luciferians and Aramaic tendencies.
	Aramaic. Aramaic?
	I thought it was Aramaic.
	The old dualism, such as good versus evil, says Steiner, needs to be replaced by the Holy Trinity of Lucifer, Christ, and Araman.
	Araman is that Zoroastrian demon that I referred to a few moments ago.
	In fact, I think we have a...
	Here we go. There's an image of Aroman.
	Is that him upside down?
	What's going on? Or is he the guy throwing the African?
	I'm not... No, I thought that Aroman was the one on top.
	The one being thrown?
	I mean, he could just be a McDonald's worker.
	I don't know. He's got very big eyes.
	Look at him. He looks shocked.
	Well, whichever one of them is the demon.
	The point is that at least one of them is the demon, and this is obviously a dark trinity between Michael, Araman, the Zoroastrian demon, and Lucifer.
	So, you know, James has hit upon some pretty substantial themes here.
	And, well, obviously, he says, Michael is literally identical to Satan and Hermes.
	So I think we're bringing in the Greek gods now as well.
	Blimey, he's very inclusive.
	Now, I'm not that good on my whole Catholic dogma, but I actually think the Archangels are one of the lower choirs.
	So I think you get Angels and then Archangels, and they're fairly low down the ranking.
	So Gabriel and Michael are Archangels.
	And then Lucifer, he's at the very, well, he was at the very top anyway, one of the most senior choirs.
	But I don't know exactly how it works.
	But anyway. I wasn't brought up religious in any way, so I don't know.
	But I think the idea is, you know, Lucifer and Michael are angels and therefore they're equivalent.
	And, you know, therefore if people are tweeting about Michael, well, you might as well be tweeting about the devil or something like that.
	I mean, his logic is...
	That doesn't seem to be right to me, though, with what little I do know.
	But you never know.
	It could be right.
	Yes, but he's hitting upon dark, supernatural powers here, masters of the universe that work in the background, conspiring to bring Trump low through complicated mechanisms.
	Well, is he basically saying that via this Michael figure, they're trying to get Trump to do some sort of deal with the devil and turn him evil?
	Quite possibly.
	I think that's... Well, he does explain.
	Let's get into his explanation.
	So it's actually Operation Michael.
	And it's designed to undermine the anti-woke right.
	So he's calling us, people like us and our friends, woke right.
	And so the anti-woke right, which is him and kissing.
	Maybe he means the genuine anti-woke right, as in just all of...
	Anyone who is anti-woke on the right, but...
	But, I mean, this is an epically long sort of tweet that we're getting into now, so I just want to put out the key bits.
	So, Operation Michael is designed to undermine the anti-woke right.
	It's a damn shame Trump has been pulled into this, probably on deliberately bad advice.
	So this is a cabal that is sort of sending him aside.
	Most Americans, even Catholics, don't know anything about Archangel Michael except in the very vaguest sense.
	Such as Lindsay himself, as it would seem.
	Theophists have a very particular and very evil interpretation of Michael as the bringer of the New Age and
	the driver of human evolution in which they seek to explicitly control him.
	He is the bridge and mediator for them, between the figures of Christ Lucifer and the Zoroastrian
	demon of chaos and division, Araman, who they regard as equally sacred.
	Right, and parts of the Tribune whole.
	Triune. Through emotional learning.
	Social emotional learning, which is more of a developmental psychology theory, and I don't understand...
	Where he's got that from.
	You are mistaken, Josh. It is a dark Luciferian plot to subvert your children.
	I'm sorry, I was mistaken.
	Yes. Elements of this view will be sprinkled in various subtle ways, but never openly invoking Lucifer or Ahriman, but only their positive-ceening attributes to ensnare good-believing Christians and new Christians who lack the discernment to avoid being taken astray.
	That's very concerning.
	Well, I mean, it is concerning, but not everybody understands the gravity of this situation.
	So, let me see.
	Oh, here we go. The response I liked was from General Mike Flynn.
	He responds,"'You're nuts.
	Yesterday was the Feast of St.
	Michael. Can't you simply appreciate a prayer instead of spewing your philosophical bullshit?' He's not taking this conspiracy nearly seriously.
	Well, the good general thinks that it's merely a feast, a Catholic tradition.
	But Lindsay puts him in his place.
	With all due respect, general, I think you're nuts.
	I hope you are.
	Evil would be worse.
	So it's possible that General Flynn is also part of this evil trinity to subvert children and Trump.
	Uh-oh. Very worrying indeed.
	Yes. Um... We've got another thread from Lindsay, which he tries to explain what the Roke Right is, and it's epically long.
	Like I say, there have been hundreds, if not thousands, of tweets from him in the last week or so, so I'm just going to pick out a couple of bits.
	What is the Roke Right? There is a growing movement that is reaching breakout velocity on the right.
	That is ostentately, ostentatiously, the ultra-conservative far-right, but that shares much more in common with the woke-left conservatives.
	The theory of knowledge the woke-left is therefore critical, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	Okay, it's all about uncovering what prevalent power dynamics hide from us.
	I think what he's getting at there is that some of our chaps have read James Burnham, and they understand that power flows from an organised minority, not just from making better arguments and going off to the voting station every four years.
	Well, you don't really need to read James Burnham to know that...
	I mean, have you seen the film Zulu?
	An organised minority beats a disorganised majority.
	I mean, that's true of all human history, whereby if you have fewer people of singular purpose, you can achieve good things.
	Yes, the organised minority always beats the disorganised masses.
	The Spartans at Thermopylae.
	There are loads of examples throughout history.
	Yes. I mean, unfortunately, both of those examples lost in the end.
	But, I mean, they held out for a very long time.
	So we're given that...
	Anyway, so this thread goes on and on, and I can't cover all of this Lindsay breakdown because it is an epic mess.
	But I did want to get into one of his many long threads, because he gives us the actual structure as to what's going on here.
	Because there is a deep, dark cabal, and it does lead somewhere.
	So... He explains to us the basic structure of cults is like three rings.
	Each ring might be divided up into levels.
	In the centre there's the inner circle, who knows what's going on and uses the cult.
	Beyond that is an inner school and an outer school of members.
	Outer school initiates build social networks and safe spaces in which they can exploit their distant ideas and
	vent their emotional frustration, usually bent towards their growing belief in their own
	systematic oppression and the relevance of their Völkisch identity."
	So Völkisch is just German for people, really, isn't it?
	Yeah. So I think basically he's describing people like me in this, because I do actually care about my people, and I do think that we're under attack, and I am putting out stuff on social media.
	So there's lots of characters like me who fall in, and probably a lot of the people in the audience as well, he's talking about them.
	We are in the outer school of this vast conspiracy, which is worrying.
	Um, apparently we believe that America is fundamentally flawed, or already failed, or the root of all evil.
	Um, I think that's a misconception.
	I think that America, and I'm sure most of our audience does as well, thinks America is fundamentally good, and it started from a good place, but it's become rotten and corrupted.
	I think that's a closer interpretation of it.
	Um, He goes on to say that about two years ago, there was this takeover.
	The woke right, and he calls out Aaron McIntyre, was fast-tracked to become the inner school adept.
	So, Aaron McIntyre, who I know...
	Is the inner adept of this Zoroastrian, Luciferian, Archangel Michael plot.
	Now, the interesting thing for me, right, is that, I mean, I've sat there with Alan until late into the evening smoking cigars.
	Well, I didn't smoke cigars. I don't like them.
	And, you know, drinking.
	And he never brought this up to me.
	In fact, I know a lot of the people that he's called out in this, and none of them have actually ever meant...
	I've never heard any of them mention this plot.
	Well, that's why it's so insidious, Dan, because...
	Yes. But, I mean, at what stage do you get brought in on it?
	I don't know. Well, we're only outer circle folks, I'm afraid.
	Well, apparently.
	But you have to understand quite how sophisticated this is.
	Right, okay. So, beyond the Aaron McIntyre layer, there's a well-developed, well-funded network of activists in woke inner right school that are doing a variety of activities, building a parallel economy.
	The reason we're building a parallel economy is because we get banned from everything all the time.
	We get debanked or chucked off YouTube, so we have to build...
	I mean, Lotus Eaters is a parallel economy.
	It's our own video platform because we have to do this.
	Right, but it gets deeper, right?
	These people are organised and funded and are strategically targeting geographical areas to begin to consolidate power and initiate a plan called regionalism, which is ultimately a WEF globalist plan.
	But I like, you know, localism or regionalism, whatever you want to call it.
	I kind of prefer it to nationalism in some ways, actually.
	So it's true, we do like localism.
	We do like supporting our local community.
	But what we're discovering now is that is actually a globalist plan.
	Like all cults, the woke right have an inner circle.
	So we're at the top level now, the inner circle level.
	Unfortunately, James doesn't know who is leading this, and he does point a finger.
	He says, Well, as it happens, Charles Hayward writes for Islander magazine.
	And issue two of Islander magazine.
	So if you want to read the words of the probabilistic master of the cabal which is controlling the world, you can check out Islander 2, which is only going to be a save for about another week.
	So if you want to get that, then do so.
	If you want to save Trump from the devil, you need to read our magazine.
	Go to our merch store on our website and you can read people like Alan Mackenzie and Charles Hayward who kindly write for us.
	And myself as well, I'm in there.
	Oh yes, and you, yes.
	Right. He explains that the inner circle knows the real purpose of the rise of the woke right.
	So, you know, and he even has some guesses as to what this woke right thing is all about.
	So apparently it's to throw conservatism into a losing ditch...
	Right. Create a wedge faction that splits conservatism.
	And I think what he's getting at there is the people who are actually based split off from the rhinos.
	Something like that. Well, I think that what's going on at the minute is people are trying to figure out who fundamentally agrees with their vision of how to save Western civilization or not.
	Yes. Do you side with the globalist leftist interpretation or another one?
	Well, that's why my original understanding of what these people are doing is that they want to be on the right but have the foreign policy of Hillary Clinton.
	And many of us don't, and that marks us out on the woke right, apparently.
	But apparently it's all designed to fracture and balkanise the US for this, you know, WEF globalist plan, and encouraging a big sort of...
	So fracturing the US. So this is people moving from California to Texas or Florida if they're right-wing.
	They're all part of this as well.
	And it's a fatal wedge operation against the conservative movement.
	So whoever's controlling this, along with the Archangel Michael and the Zoroastrian demon and Lucifer...
	He's up to some pretty insidious things.
	And James doesn't want to make sure we forget quite how serious it is.
	As he says here, you know, it's not a random cult.
	It's the one running the world.
	Yeah, well...
	It seems like whoever's running this cult is very, very clever, whoever they are.
	Well, exactly.
	I think it is incumbent on us...
	To find this sort of great pope of woke rightism that is perpetrating this vast conspiracy and controlling the world, the dark forces, because, you know, you can't let something like this.
	Now that James Lindsay has uncovered this, you cannot let this stand, clearly.
	And it turns out you actually can.
	Because what you can do is you can basically just...
	We're in the digital age these days, so you can trace back the origin of the term woke right and find out where it comes from.
	Who actually coined this term?
	So this, ladies and gentlemen, is my big Scooby-Doo reveal.
	Who is at the head of this vast globalist unholy alliance?
	It's Josh!
	It was me all along!
	So yes, if you look, we did a video on the 30th of September 2023.
	So over a year ago, you coined the term Woke Right?
	Yes. That's me.
	It was me all along. It was me telling Oron McIntyre what to do, and then Charles Haywood, you know.
	It's unlike the Emperor.
	When did you deal the deal with St.
	Michael, Lucifer, and Ahriman then?
	Oh, we go way back.
	Right, okay. Maybe you went to school together or something.
	Yeah. But no, what I was actually talking about here, for the sake of actual transparency now, is that we had a phrase where we just used to refer to people who were sort of stupid, for want of a better word.
	That's what we kind of meant.
	People who... Didn't presume that it's possible that they might make mistakes, that they're dogmatic and they're unable to discuss their ideas.
	They use psychological manipulation to dodge criticism.
	They reduce the point to the point of not seeing nuance.
	They're willing to force their opinions on others.
	They treat their ideas and the individuals who hold them as inseparable.
	They define their values based on the values of their political opponents, so they're just a reaction to the woke.
	And a sort of mirror image, and they go down in these purity spirals reminiscent of the left.
	And basically the TLDR, if you will, is doing these things prevents you from seeing the world as it truly is, and you need to be a political realist to assume power and to keep it.
	If you do these things, even if you do assume power, you won't be able to keep it, and you'll have wound up so many people that they will...
	you will meet a very quick end.
	So you coined this term, and this was kind of the first time it was being used?
	Well, it was one of the things that we discussed in the office.
	Rory, I, and even Hugo back in the day, sort of early days Lotus Eater stuff,
	just to refer to people who were incapable of talking about things at any sort of high level
	and were just mud-slinging and you could even call them grifters if you wanted to.
	People who sort of attach themselves to our sort of cause but don't really understand it.
	Rabid dogs that will sort of go after anything they can find that resembles something they can chase.
	So you did a couple of contemplations on this, because I see this is part one, presumably there's two parts.
	So you did a couple of videos on this to describe a phenomena that you could see, and then you basically kind of left it alone and just didn't really use it again.
	Yes. But characters like Lindsay and Kissin must have seen this term and thought, right, I'm going to take that.
	Well, I mean, it's not the hardest term to come up with.
	I can believe that they just came up with it on their own.
	Right. Either that or they're devoted to watching my series on the website, which everyone should be.
	Yes. Yes, quite possibly.
	But yeah, it had its time.
	I did it for a couple of weeks just to sort of try and instruct people how to approach politics in a way that is a bit more in keeping with political realism.
	Really. That was what I was trying to go for is see the world as it is and address it correctly because there are all of these sorts of almost psychological and philosophical errors that people make commonly and I'm just trying to say be reasonable and approach things with a level head rather than being stupid and pig-headed.
	So that leaves us with two distinct possibilities then doesn't it?
	The first possibility is that You are the grand pope of this conspiracy, sitting above Charles Haywood and Aaron McIntyre, contemplating the destruction of the US and handing it over to the WEF on behalf of Lucifer, Ahriman and St.
	Michael. Alternatively, James Lindsay could just be full of shit and be a lefty who doesn't quite fit in with the right and is trying to turn us into a left-wing party that just hasn't rejected him like the left did.
	I like the first one better.
	Yes. It is a bit more exciting.
	So, finally, we should give mention to...
	Stelios, who tried to explain this, poor old Stelios, he keeps on putting out these really thoughtful tweets and then getting dogpiled by everyone on the right.
	Because, of course, Stelios and I had these conversations about the nature of thought, and we basically approached it as a sort of partnership of psychologist and philosopher, just saying, here's how you should think about politics in a more politically realistic way.
	And Stelios tried to say, well, we shouldn't allow Lindsay and Kissin to define these terms and explained why.
	Yeah, and I think everybody on our side dogpiled Stelios because they thought that he was trying to redefine the term.
	And what he was actually saying was, no, it's Lindsay who's redefined the term.
	And actually he goes on to say, this isn't that useful.
	Which is why you and Stelios talked about this like a year ago and then never returned to it again because you didn't find it useful.
	Yeah. Well, also, both Stelios and I don't necessarily want to speak for him, but I imagine that he's not that attached to the term, and I agree with some of the criticism that it has been tainted by Lindsay, and therefore you shouldn't use it anymore.
	I agree with that. Which is basically what he's saying there, but everybody misunderstood him and piled on poor Stelios.
	He's He's a proper thinker.
	I don't think you should really read Stelios' tweets unless you're up there in terms of, you know, right side of the bell curve.
	But anyway, yes, decide for yourself.
	Either James, is it James Lindsay?
	Yes. Either James Lindsay has gone completely stark raving mad, or Josh and Stelios are in league with the devil.
	You know, it's one of the two.
	Right. Are we supposed to do these comment things that pop up?
	Oh yes, of course. Right.
	So, the bald eagle says, this idiot doesn't realise the US is 50 different countries that choose to...
	He keeps moving. That's because people keep on sending them in because we're reading them.
	Oh, I see. I see.
	Okay, some states have the ability to survive more than their own, like Texas, others will implode like California.
	I don't know which of us is the idiot, me or James Lindsay.
	No, he's all about James Lindsay, not you.
	This typical atheist rant is saying that organised religion is bad if not worse than the woke cult.
	They're just communists cloaking their ideas.
	Hey, I'm an atheist as well.
	I disagree with him. The Last Russian says conceptual penis, conceptual rape.
	And I think that's about it.
	Right, excellent. Hang on a minute.
	There are some others here.
	Yeah, they're cheap.
	Yes, one dollar is a little bit mean, but they're just asking how we can join.
	And also, Lindsey does a terrible job of explaining his concern.
	There are concerns that the establishment Republicans usurp another populist movement to maintain control.
	Yeah, well, I think we're all concerned about the establishment Republicans,
	because they could scupper a lot of things, couldn't they?
	Right, I'll try and get through my segment quite quickly so we've got plenty of time for comments, which shouldn't take long.
	Okay, the voice of Samson says we can overrun today, so we can take our time a little bit.
	Japan, known for being culturally homogenous.
	That's what most people know Japan as, other than, you know, having nice food, very orderly and tidy cities, very polite, fast trains.
	Panties and dispensing machines.
	That was only one machine, to be fair.
	Oh, was it? I just assumed they were everywhere.
	It was just journalists blowing things out of proportion, as they do.
	Yes, okay. I mean, I think as a country you're allowed one panty dispensing machine without getting a bad reputation.
	I feel like that's the one panty quota.
	Yes. I can agree to that.
	And yes, they have recently had a little batch of multiculturalism, and I'm going to look at how it's...
	Going. Because I covered it once and I'm going to cover it again because it's already gotten worse quite quickly.
	But before I do, it's worth mentioning, Island Magazine is in its last week now of being for sale.
	So make sure to pick it up before the end of the week.
	Otherwise it has gone forever and you'll never be able to buy it.
	It's a great magazine. There's some really great articles in here from lots of famous people.
	You know, you've got your Carl Benjamins, you've got your Dr.
	Nima Parvinis, you've got Dave Green, you've got Stefan Molyneux, you've got Roar Egg Nationalist, a few other people that I don't recognise, and you've even got a few Lotuses as well.
	We say, oh, it's only going to be available for a certain amount of time, and then we stop it, and then we get literally hundreds of people emailing us saying, oh, I missed it, can I buy it?
	No, you can buy it this week.
	Don't email us, don't send us hundreds of emails after it's done.
	Yes, you will regret it.
	Also, there are mugs and t-shirts as well, limited time as well.
	So get more you can.
	But anyway... Japan's debt to GDP. Oh, that's quite high, that one.
	Yes, and supposedly I'm just going to read the first part here, really.
	The government debt accounted for 218.7% of the country's nominal GDP as of June 2024, which is obviously quite high, isn't it?
	Well, it's a bit of a problem because your GDP growth rate needs to be double whatever coupon you're paying on the debt, which considering it's like 4% on the debt means you need to achieve a growth rate of 8%, which even China couldn't do in the 90s.
	So they're kind of screwed.
	It's bad news for Japan.
	Yes. I mean, their problem is they've got poor demographics.
	And basically, their boomer generation, their large generation came a generation early.
	They're where we are going to be in 20, 30 years.
	Could you say that Japan needs to be on the good side of people who lend them money?
	Say, the IMF. These sorts of people, they want to help Japan, but with some additional clauses.
	I have never seen the IMF actually help somewhere.
	No, of course they don't.
	So here's an article from the INF. Empowering women could boost fertility, economic growth in Japan and Korea.
	So this is a pretty feminist argument.
	I mean, in Japan, I believe men and women are regarded as equal before the law.
	So what is left?
	Oh wait, it's disenfranchising men.
	Which is... The thing that got many of us where we are today.
	And by empowering women, they presumably mean by getting them into office jobs and out of the home.
	Yeah, it's discriminating in favour of women above men despite merit.
	Yes. Which then results in women having to earn a salary to justify the place they live and therefore can't afford to have children.
	So because they're in a lot of debt and these NGOs and organisations like this are using this to leverage their political agenda on Japan, you're starting to see articles like this.
	Is Japan, this is January of this year, finally embracing immigration?
	and it's not that the people in Japan wanted it, it's that the international elite have pushed it
	upon them because they had a problem which was they've got a lot of debt to GDP and they've
	leveraged this problem to impose this upon them lest potentially even worse consequences.
	I mean there always has been a little bit of immigration to Japan.
	I mean, normally it's temporary. I mean, I know people have gone out there and lived and taught for, you know, 10 years or so.
	And apparently it's a bloody wonderful place.
	I mean, you can just leave your bicycle unlocked outside a major train station and come back days later and it will still be there.
	That's called foreshadowing.
	Oh, is it? Oh, you've presaged something.
	That's a good setup. Thank you for that.
	So, it's also worth mentioning, in Japan's countryside, century-old firms learn to embrace foreign workers.
	So, they're even trying to get foreign workers in the countryside.
	This is the New York Times covering this, which should bring alarm bells.
	They're doing the same thing that's happening in, say, the UK, US, all the other European countries.
	Where they're sort of just circulating third-worldists throughout the entirety of...
	Ah, third-worldists, is it? Oh, yeah, of course.
	Who else would it be?
	Because, I mean, I was kind of hoping it was going to be people from other high...
	Because Japan is clearly a prime example of a high-trust society.
	So if you bring in other people from another high-trust society, if you want to bring in Danes and Swedes or something, I can see that working.
	British people, perhaps? Yeah.
	But if they go down the Infinity African routes...
	They're going to get a different outcome.
	Somewhat prophetic, yes.
	That is exactly what's going to happen.
	And in fact, they're also getting Chinese as well.
	For many leaving China, it's Japan, not the US, that's the bigger draw.
	So, obviously, you don't need to be a student of history to know that the Chinese and the Japanese tend not to get along very well.
	Well, the Chinese have very bad manners.
	And you should see the meat. They're very messy.
	What? And you should see the meat as well.
	A lot of them don't even close their mouth when they eat.
	Not the Hong Kongers. I like the Hong Kongers.
	They're great. But mainland Chinese...
	Well, I remember I was looking at...
	I got offered a university position in China and I humoured it for a little while.
	And then I read that it's common to find children allowed by their parents to go to the toilet inside simply because they don't know that it's wrong.
	And I was just like, right, no, no, gone.
	Nowhere near. But it's to the point where here are skilled visa holders, so obviously they're not the ones causing lots of problems...
	But it surpasses 250,000, which is up by 20.8% compared to six months ago, which is a massive increase.
	So 250,000 skilled Westerners?
	I mean, that doesn't seem so bad.
	Yeah, well, it doesn't necessarily divulge who they are, but what we can see is here are the number of foreign nationals living in Japan from 2014 to 2023, and you can see a clear trend here that is slowly ramping up to more and more foreigners, and that is the number of residents in millions.
	Again, it's not wildly out of control yet.
	It's not. A population of whatever it is is like 90, 100 million.
	I think it was 125 off the top of my head.
	Yeah, I mean we get their total allowance of foreigners in two years and that's their total.
	So, so far it's not so bad.
	Yes, but that's only because it's just got started.
	I'd be very curious to see what 2024 is and whether it's going to be a massive line shooting straight up.
	So let's see what this has brought them, shall we?
	So... Here is a story.
	Two African migrants were arrested at a hotel in Tokyo for stealing 34 million yen in cash.
	And they say, here's a nice despite statistic for you.
	Despite only being 0.02% of the population, this is the third time a black person has made national news for crime in Japan this year.
	Because these sorts of things do not usually happen.
	Is it possible that no matter what the first percentage, the second percentage, they're always 50% of crime?
	I don't know. I think those 0.02% would have to be even more industrious than their Western counterparts, to be honest.
	Yeah, but the Japanese just don't commit any crimes, so...
	That is true. I've...
	The Asians, when it comes to crime, it's all sort of gambling-related and drink-related.
	It's like financial. They're not really the kind of crimes that people take exception to as much.
	So let's have a look at, say, some of the nightlife here.
	And you can notice that...
	That's in Japan. That's Japan.
	A distinctly American-looking scene here.
	It looks like Philadelphia or something.
	I know, there's even people twerking.
	Oh no. Look at what has happened.
	Here we go. Loud black women have found Japan.
	Oh no. Look what you have done, world, to the poor Japanese.
	When I think of Japan, I think of those beautiful temples and the cherry blossoms and the tea-making ceremonies and now it's fat women twerking on the streets.
	It's worth mentioning as well that the Japanese almost killed my grandfather and even considering that, I still feel sorry for them.
	Obviously it wasn't all of them and the people alike.
	Was that the same grandfather who was almost killed by Churchill?
	It was the same incident, yeah.
	Oh, right. Okay. The Japanese that...
	Oh, it was a pincer movement between Churchill and the Japanese.
	Well, Churchill wasn't explicitly on their side, but he may as well have been, if you're on the HMS Repulse, yes.
	But anyway, here is another statistic here.
	Here... Are crimes versus how overrepresented they are.
	And apparently Africans are 2.57 times overrepresented.
	And the next best overrepresented are the Chinese and Vietnamese.
	And then it's South America, North America, Europe, and then finally Oceania.
	At the end, who are underrepresented.
	I don't believe those numbers will start, because...
	It should be higher, shouldn't it?
	I did a segment a couple of weeks ago on the FBI crime stats with Carl, and...
	In the US, they are 11 times overrepresented.
	No, it's similar to London as well.
	I can't believe they are only 2.5 times overrepresented, but maybe that's true.
	Maybe you need a critical mass, because the funny thing is, in the US, they're about 12-14% of the population.
	It's the same for London. That's their cross-section of the population.
	In London, 63% of gun crime, at least over 50% of knife crime, and the same thing for murders in the US. So there is an obvious pattern here.
	And yes, there's also Kurds as well.
	Here they are just fighting in the street, surrounded also by other minorities as well.
	They're just having a wrestle.
	And there's a big crowd of people watching it.
	They're all non-Japanese.
	And this is just going on a nice, orderly Japanese street.
	Which, to my mind, seems sacrilegious.
	And they've had their share of Muslims.
	Here we are... A bunch of Muslims doing some sort of Muslim ritual through the streets of Japan in the rain doing some sort of self-flagellation thing.
	I don't know. I mean, it could be just a bad dance.
	No, I think this is one of their religious rituals.
	I don't know. But there is more.
	Here they are. Parading through the streets.
	Not really respecting Japanese culture.
	They're not really integrating, are they?
	They're not seamlessly fitting into their environment.
	They're kind of belligerently taking over.
	Almost like they have it everywhere else.
	They're not willing to integrate because they're culturally dogmatic.
	They want to impose their culture on other people.
	That much is entirely obvious.
	Here is a curd just releasing fireworks, or, I don't know, a firecracker, a flare, something like that, just on the street for no reason.
	When I go to a foreign country, I try and make an effort to...
	Be respectful? Yes, be respectful and fit in.
	These folks aren't doing that.
	Yes, and on the darker side, so this guy, Pakistani, yes there are Pakistanis in Japan now, 25,000 of them in Japan now, he was convicted of sexually assaulting a Japanese schoolgirl on a train, because of course the Pakistanis have earned their worldwide reputation for being some of the most prolific people How do I put it?
	Scumbags. Joys of young girls.
	Yeah. And it's the same wherever they go.
	And, uh, yeah. Here's another one as well.
	A Chinese man stabs a Japanese woman to death at night in Shibuya in Tokyo.
	This sort of thing hardly ever happens in Japan.
	Again, another preventable disaster.
	And, uh... Here is another one as well.
	These are Cambodians and they were arrested for stealing copper cable from solar power generation facilities in Koshu.
	And apparently their resident cards had expired, but instead of going back to Cambodia, they stayed and decided to steal copper wire, like our very own homegrown drug addicts in, say, Britain.
	And they don't need to put up with this.
	If you have your culturally homogenous country, everything works.
	If you invite in foreigners, they do stuff like this.
	They take liberties, they steal, they assault you.
	They do all of the things that have just happened.
	And also, whilst all of this is going on, the Japanese abroad as well are falling afoul.
	So in Belarus, it has detained a Japanese intelligence agent.
	And he was basically milling about around...
	I think it was a train station or something like that.
	Some form of transport infrastructure.
	And they simply just didn't realise if I translate this for you.
	They're talking about this guy getting detained in Belarus.
	The man detained in Belarus is clearly a traffic nerd.
	I can believe that actually.
	Yes. Samson is also nodding his head.
	And here we go.
	Here's another one saying about the man arrested for espionage in Belarus.
	The act he is accused of, such as taking huge number of photos of infrastructure and collecting rail tickets, sounds like he's a transport otaku, not a spy.
	So I didn't realise the Japanese had that as well, because we have train spotters in this country, and I remember a story a few years back of one of them went to Russia and just stood there staring at trains all day, and the Russians arrested him, and when he explained, I just like looking at trains, they thought it was such a palpably absurd explanation that he was therefore obviously a spy.
	But no, we actually do have people who just like staring at trains all day long.
	And it seems the Japanese mind has that sort of thing in it as well.
	It's almost like the Belarusians and the Russians just can't conceive of being a nerd.
	Yes. And I think that that might be what this is.
	They're just like riding bears and drinking vodka.
	But yeah, I think that that's the most likely thing.
	And to someone in Japan, they would think, why are the Westerners doing this to us?
	Right. Like, it's obvious this is what is going on here.
	Why are they being so mean to us?
	And this is not helping, you know, the foreign reputation either.
	So what is actually being done?
	Well, they're having to take measures to change the visa system, which, yeah, these are new rules to target people overstaying their visas, which is now a problem.
	Which never used to be.
	They've also automated airport immigration for foreign arrivals to make it easier for larger numbers of people.
	And it's worth reminding people that Japan is a high-trust society.
	They don't lock up their bikes.
	And now they've had to create promotional material to encourage people to lock up their bikes.
	Because it's not enculturated in Japan to do this.
	And I mean, I never used to lock up my bike where I grew up either.
	It used to seem ridiculous that someone in my neighbourhood would steal it.
	And yeah, now they're having to do this because their nice functional society is becoming dysfunctional.
	Well, I mean, Connor told us his story of how he went to Japan and he left his phone in a cafe in a train station and then went off for the day, realised he'd left his phone but he was on the train by then, so he just assumed that it was a write-off, got back to the train station he originally departed from and it was still there in the cafe, a major train station, just been left there all day and nobody touched it.
	Do you want me to try doing that in King's Cross?
	Yeah, well, that's London for you, isn't it?
	You know, where I grew up, that would be relatively normal.
	People hand stuff in. I remember being in school and handing in a £10 note.
	That's just what you do.
	You be a good person.
	It's not hard. That's how things work and how, you know, things are better for everyone that way.
	But alas. Oops.
	So there's also this.
	So this is a Japanese politician known for dressing up as the Joker.
	And he called his online supporters to join him on a patrol to protect a station from its foreigner problem.
	And then a bunch of left-wing anti-racists turned up and tried to block him and stop him from doing it.
	And he was upset because it was just like, they're using violence to intimidate me and this is bullying.
	I wish I'd been there because I'd been like, no, no, I'm a foreigner and he's right.
	Let the Joker man carry on.
	But it's interesting that this sort of thing is going on in Japan now, because this sort of thing happened in the West as well, initially.
	A bit beyond it now, and they've introduced laws to stop us doing anything to stick up for ourselves.
	And, of course, Western problems require Western solutions, and...
	There's an increasing veneration for a certain American politician by the name of Donald Trump.
	For those listening, a statue of the God Emperor is being willed through Japan.
	And I'm not exactly sure of the context of this, but from what I have heard...
	Who needs context? Just enjoy it.
	Yeah, let's just enjoy it.
	But it is worth mentioning the Japanese still do send people back, unlike America and Europe.
	Here's an African saying, I don't want to go back, you can't make me, and they're just ignoring him and making him go anyway.
	They've got like four people got him in a hold there.
	And they're just like, yeah, we're going to send you back.
	There's no debate about it.
	You're going. You're not staying here.
	And he's just like, no. But this is what you've got to do.
	If they're let into your country, you've got to send them back.
	It's as simple as that, Japan, and that's what you need to do.
	If they force their way in, you force them out.
	Exactly. So, international capital has forced this upon Japan, and I think it's evil.
	They should resist it. And now the Japanese are joining the fight for the survival of their civilization along with Europe and North America.
	Okay, we've got some comments here.
	Bald Eagle says, hear a bit of common sense knowledge, don't take pictures of public transit systems in a country that could possibly be invaded due to a nearby war.
	Belarus is on edge for a reason.
	Yes, it is a bit silly. The Last Russian says, name one thing Africans invented, bike locks indirectly.
	That's quite good. Yes.
	Okay. I can't read those out, I'm afraid.
	And they're only for a dollar, so I'm not going to do that.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	Speaking of the Joker...
	I'm gonna shove these fking games off your a!
	Batman Revenge of the Joker!
	Batman Return of the Joker!
	Batman Forever!
	Batman Return of the Joker on Game Boy!
	And last but not least, Batman on Congress 64!
	This is a comment on the fact that the latest Joker film has some questionable decision-making in its creation.
	What did we just watch, Josh?
	A depiction of that.
	A depiction of one of the scenes.
	I've heard that the Joker gets raped in the film and then kills himself.
	Sorry if I've spoiled it, but you don't want to see it.
	I don't know. Or he dies.
	Who cares? It's actually a bad film.
	You know, one of the silver linings to doing without electricity is that it really gives
	you an opportunity to hone the craft of rhythm.
	Well done. I'm very impressed.
	You can barbecue in safety while everyone doesn't have their power.
	And now for another in our series of lamentations of the African diaspora.
	Yes, it's always fun to watch the videos of those people who have quote unquote returned to Africa,
	thinking that they would be welcomed as cousins, and instead find that they're constantly being
	overcharged, mistreated, have money demanded of them, etc.
	Then get a surprised Pikachu face over it. Yes, this is the world outside the West.
	Yes, this is the world of the people who sold your ancestors into slavery.
	Thank you, Michael. And it's worth mentioning as well that Liberia is a country founded by descendants of American slaves and they enslaved the natives as soon as they moved there.
	So any moral claims about, you know, oh, you've got to feel guilty about it.
	No, you don't. You really don't.
	America would have been better off if they picked their own cotton.
	That's my honest heartfelt opinion.
	Right, what's this?
	Right, chap, before I play this next one, I need you to calm down.
	Alright? Just because she's a woman doesn't mean you can go all nuts, alright?
	Ack!
	You're turning off chat.
	Keeping the white vein and large, you're always thinking as a quick way to lower your compression.
	A simple wall set.
	We're going to try to keep all the joints at right angles.
	We're going to hold it for two minutes, and if we feel it needs to, maybe release the lower back.
	We'll take an angle, bring it to the other side, and relax again.
	And by relaxing, we'll wait.
	Two minutes. Both sides.
	Do you know much about yoga, Josh?
	I don't. I understand that it is really good for you because I once saw a man who started practicing yoga and after two years he could tuck his head in between his knees, which for a man is quite impressive.
	He's quite a muscular man as well.
	Why that might come in handy.
	Yeah, that did occur to me as well.
	But thank you, Roo, for...
	Thank you for the zen.
	The reverb was so present that it was very difficult to hear what you were actually saying.
	But I got the gist based on the actions, and I'll give it a go, I suppose.
	Right. Very good. I believe we have some written comments now, don't we?
	Oh, yes. So...
	Name I'm not going to say.
	I'm really glad I bought Islander magazine number two so I can hear directly from the leader of our cult.
	I mean, definitely not a cult.
	All of you at home should do the same and buy your own copy.
	Why, thank you very much.
	And, you know, if you're trying to get into the inner circle, you're going the right way about it.
	So Theodil Pinnock says one could make the argument that the sun will not set on the British Empire because the opinions of Canada, Australia and New Zealand are still under the British crown.
	That is true, but they're not directly British though, are they?
	Andrew Narog says, I think the greatest indignity of losing the empire is that Britain didn't even lose a war.
	Britain has lost tremendous swathes of territory despite being on the winning side in both world wars.
	Well, we lost to America both times.
	Well, the American government, you know, all of Europe lost World War I and II, right?
	It was the biggest transfer of power from Europe to another continent in human history.
	But we had to do it to stop Poland being subjugated by Germany.
	Allowing it to be subjugated by Russia, that was perfectly fine.
	But we had to destroy the empire in order to stop Germany doing the same thing.
	Yes. And you're not justifying any actions in the 20th century, by the way, by saying that.
	Well, let's not go down that route because...
	Of course. Charles Burgess says that the US will never allow Diego to be returned because it can host B-52 bombers.
	I did read about that and I'm hoping that the Americans are going to intervene...
	And stop Starmer being a lunatic.
	That's part of the reason I included their intervention, is that the Americans tend not to be nearly as good or as well trained at giving up their power.
	As in, I mean the American state, of course.
	Is it possible Starmer wanted to bomb Russia, didn't he?
	That he's undermining the US. So he wanted to let the Ukrainians use British missiles to bomb Russian territory, pre-2014 Russian territory, and Biden said, no, don't be stupid, that's how you start World War III, which is, you know, impressively, Joe Biden actually did something sensible.
	Is it possible Starmer's doing this as a way to say, screw you America, look, you wouldn't let us bomb Russia, therefore we're going to do this?
	I think because the negotiations were already opened by Cleverley in 2022, I'd be quite surprised.
	Possible. So, Lars says Mauritius was Dutch first and they killed the Dodos.
	Okay, it's the Dutch.
	Sneaky Dutch. Who can blame you for killing the Dodos?
	I mean, fair enough.
	They're just so tasty, aren't they?
	I don't know. Were they tasty?
	I think they were just incredibly easy to catch.
	I imagine they'd be tasty.
	They're very plump, aren't they? I don't know.
	Never tried one. Or have I? I wish I could.
	Yes. That's the problem. That's why they went extinct.
	But, um, would you like to read some of your comments?
	Oh, yes. Right. Where am I? Let's have a look.
	Um... The Alpha of Beta says, there's no such thing as the woke right.
	There is only James Lindsay's policing of the Overton window from moving outside of his comfortable, safe space of milquetoast conservatism.
	Yes. Well, that's what you would say if you're part of the woke right, wouldn't you?
	Woke right, or Mitrid Monkton says, woke right, as I understood it, is just homo commies that are confused beyond distraction and remedy.
	Could well be that. George Happ says, Lindsay posted a leftist meme of an explanation because he
	got triggered by Christian imagery, while Stelius was trying to analyse the segment of right-wing
	people who fall for leftist behaviour, of purity spiralling and power politics. Lindsay is doing
	the cringe, meh both sides, centrist position because he's an over-sensitive atheist.
	Yes, that's right.
	TexasGal says James is either engagement The latter, probably.
	Or both, possibly. Schizo-engagement farming.
	That's a new method.
	Yeah, I quite like that.
	Theodore Pinnock.
	In my experience, woke right is an accusation levied by right-wing liberals against conservatives who want to enforce moral standards, as as far as they're concerned, they're no different to the woke left, who want to force everyone to accept their insane politics, hence woke right.
	Yeah, it's very good. What else have I got?
	Did I do the Sean one?
	Sean Gaffney.
	I wonder if Lindsay is trying to do what he did in academia, i.e.
	get people to buy into bullshit to show the left and right are not so different.
	He tore the left down and now wants to show the right is just the same, but he's wrong.
	He ends up looking like an idiot, that, or he just lost his marbles.
	Or he's correctly called you out, Josh.
	One of the two. You'll never take me alive.
	Yes. Derek Power says, if the penis didn't exist, it would be necessary for the feminists to invent it.
	Or invert it.
	Oh, that's a horrible thought, isn't it?
	Let's change the topic quickly.
	So, on the Japan stuff...
	As a Brit who has been living in Japan for over seven years in total, I have to say that mass immigration here is my worst nightmare.
	Even now where I work in the countryside, it's plain to see that the immigrant population is already forming its own little bubble in which nobody speaks Japanese or integrates into the culture.
	I don't want to tar everyone with the same brush, but so many of them are so rude, loud, and don't seem to understand the culture of keeping yourself to yourself and not imposing yourself on others.
	Knowing what's happening to the UK, it's scary.
	Well, I'm sorry to hear that, and I think we've obviously got very similar views on how to construct a society, Britain and Japan, because those are the sorts of things that we used to do.
	And we've since become more basal and animalistic in our culture, which I despise.
	I think it's the lowest thing a human being can do, is to behave in those ways.
	George Happ says, Japan is at most five years behind the West if they open their doors.
	Despite the protestations from some of the weebs in Japan, he's not immune to wokeness.
	They had feminism for decades, and their big corporations like Sony, Capcom, and Square Enix are very much global homo DEI companies.
	Completely correct. The proletariat says, I hope they bring back the old Japanese saying, from the Boshin War period, glory to the emperor, expel the barbarians.
	I like that last part.
	I mean, actually, if we could make King Charles into an emperor again...
	It'd be worth it, wouldn't it? I like the word barbarians as well.
	In fact, I don't want to be woke, right?
	I don't want to be barbarian, right?
	I can agree with that. Barbarian is like a judgmental term.
	It's saying you aren't civilised.
	You can refer to Londoners as barbarians, for example.
	That's fine. No, because what the barbarians do is they come along and they find a power structure which is crumbling under its own contradictions and tear it down.
	That's what I want to do. Fair enough.
	Yeah, that's a fair point.
	So, Ross Diggle says, we used to call foreign people who entered a different civilisation with the idea of not showing respect to something.
	Barbarians! Oh, there we are again!
	The word just keeps on coming up.
	Japan is not completely homogenous.
	The Ainu are a native inhabitants of Hokkaido, and there have been Chinese and Korean ethnic minorities there for centuries because of trade links, but even then, they're pretty similar peoples, and the numbers are such that it might as well be homogenous.
	Also, the, you know, Hokkaido right in the very north, it's not, say, the nation's capital or places whereby the means of reinforcing the dominant culture emanates from.
	We've also got another superchat here.
	Cranky Texan says, Why does it seem only a matter of time before people who read the writings of people with global hegemonic ambitions and tell us about them are declared insane?
	I can see it happening, yeah.
	I mean, look at the people saying the concerns about globalism or being replaced, that already sort of exists, and that's all sort of in that same sphere of hegemonic global power, isn't it?
	What Japan does have going for them is they are one of the few ethnostates in the world.
	It's kind of written into their constitution that they are ethnically Japan and that is a constitutional right.
	I think it's Japan, Mexico and Israel that are ethnostates.
	Pretty much, yeah. So anyway, one to end on.
	34 million yen stolen.
	Good God, that's like $4.
	Anyway, have a good week, Josh and Dan.
	Well, thank you very much. I think it's about 180,000 quid.
	That's a lot of money, yeah.
	Yeah, that's worth stealing. Do not take that as moral advice.
	Anyway, hope you enjoyed the show.
	Bye, Islander 2. Same time again tomorrow.
	Bye! Oh, and send Samson quiz questions or something.
	Oh yeah, quiz questions. He keeps on going on about that.
	Yep, that. Also bye.

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