Last week was, in my view, rather remarkable for the release of at least five massive tales of corruption and deception simultaneously. Most have attracted less attention than they deserve. All are profoundly depressing.
The first that I want to mention, though huge in its implications, has been totally ignored by the media, as far as I know. That was the release by Tulsi Gabbard, in tandem with a White House press conference, of a lengthy intelligence report implicating Barak Obama directly in the sabotaging of Donald Trump’s first presidency, through the Russiagate hoax. The press silence is, self-evidently, politically motivated, as a scandal involving the incumbent President perpetrated by his predecessor, undermining the will of the electorate, ought to be big news rather than non-news.
But Obama was the darling not only of the progressives, but of many of us even in Britain (much as Tony Blair was when he replaced the threadbare Conservatives here). He was the articulate, humane, honest and fashionably black antidote to George W. Bush. For those who take account of Gabbard’s report, the sense of betrayal at finding him to be just another scumbag will be huge (which is why the progressive media are in denial).
The second story, which has conveniently swamped the first, is of course the Epstein files. In Britain, it is understandable that this release has mostly become a matter of Andrew Mountbatten’s squalid tarnishing of the monarchy, and Peter Mandelson’s squalid betrayal of the nation, and the consequent fate of Keir Starmer and his squalid government. But the global significance is that it has proved that there is indeed an international ruling élite of politicians, crowned heads of state, magnates, philanthropists, actors, musicians, academics, bankers and intelligence operatives; and that it is thoroughly depraved and venially-minded as well as corrupt.
Names well-known and obscure are slowly being gleaned from the millions of files we have, and there is a similar number withheld from release. It seems that the people who rule us, those who oversee the rulers via the prestigious international organisations, the people who build our computers and own our social media, the bankers who look after our money, our favourite artists, and our most admired scientists, are mostly degenerate scumbags – and our money pays for their debauched, and possibly even Luciferian, exploitation of the weak.
But for those who perhaps believe that Bill Clinton, or even Barak Obama, had it coming, we have to factor in the unwillingness of Trump and his administration to release the files, the weird contortions to obfuscate the (presumed) death of Epstein, and DJT and his wife’s own appearance in the files. Is the cleanser of the Augean stables himself just another scumbag?
It seems to me no coincidence, put providential, that a third major scandal, over Bethel Redding and the entire Charismatic movement, broke at the same time, owing to some extremely long-form, detailed exposés by YouTuber Mike Winger. The fraud and abuse revealed in these, and the back-covering “apologies” from Bethel, are of a lower order than the evils of Epstein Island and Zorro Ranch. But corruption and heresy in the body of Christ have eternal consequences for the victims, especially when that corruption is so notoriously influential on the entire Evangelical Church.
We must also remember that the family tree of the New Apostolic Reformation and Latter Rain (at the heart of the Charismatic movement) includes Jim Jones’s Jonestown massacre, the paedophile “Children of God” family of David Moses Berg, the torture-chambers of Paul Schäfer’s Colonia Dignidad, and the Ku Klux Klan and more, as well as dodgy Bethel songs and the Alpha Course. There is more than just spiritual deception at stake.
So to our disillusioning list of scumbags we have to add our favourite “Christian” prophets, apostles and miracle-workers.
Fifthly, as well as completely censoring the Obama report, our press has been notably silent on the start of Rupert Lowe’s crowd-funded rape gang inquiry, which is presenting harrowing evidence even as the tax-payer funded government is manifestly kicking its own, reluctant, effort into the long grass.
Admittedly Mandelson and Starmer are hogging the front-pages, and Lowe has chosen to focus his press-coverage on the final report, when it comes out. But still, the inquiry is not being held in secret, and the Telegraph could report on it instead of “Bad Bunny’s star-studded set” at the “Super Bowl,” whatever that is; whilst The Mail surely doesn’t have to prioritise “the Bra Whisperer” over the greatest national disgrace of many generations.
But we already know enough about the rape gangs to destroy our trust in most of the public institutions not exposed in the Epstein files: vote-clutching central government, corrupt local government, complicit social services, participating police forces, woke courts, ideologically-captured media and tight-lipped immigrant communities. What an awful lot of scumbags there are!
My last providential synchronicity is the beginning, perhaps, of the final explosion in the monetary system. This has mysteriously also devastated the gold and silver markets which, as I pointed out recently normally peak when currency is at its most unstable. The present situation is unusual. The pundits seem to disagree on how much this situation reflects an imminent system collapse, and how much a Cunning Pan to avert a system collapse in order to ensure the rich get richer, whatever happens to the ordinary working people who generate the wealth. But the bottom line is that we can’t trust our money, nor many of the people to whom we entrust it, or who advise us about it. Because it is clear that they, too, are scumbags (and are quite likely mentioned, or redacted, in the Epstein files).
My conclusion from all this is that, if your faith in the institutions of our society was waning before, this last week should have convinced you that there is nothing, and no-one, you can lean on confidently. I’ve been saying that, more or less, since 2019 – but short of a final collapse into anarchy or civil war, these recent events have brought things to something of a head. I believe we should see this as a divinely providential kicking away of our various crutches.
To see most of the population going about as if the only problem in the world is a bad prime-minister and high electricity bills kind of reminds me of the words of the Lord:
“For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.” (Matthew 24:36-39)
The rain clouds were gathering, but they thought little of it at the time, though I would not be surprised if their spirits were as leaden as the skies were becoming, judging by the mood that is general now.
Although it’s a bit of cliché, my reading last week, digging into the reliable richness of Scripture (via Seth Postell, as it happens), reminds me that:
“All people are like grass,
and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field.
The grass withers and the flowers fall,
because the breath of the Lord blows on them.
Surely the people are grass.
The grass withers and the flowers fall,
but the word of our God endures forever.” (Isaiah 40:6-8)
Where else have we to go? If nothing in this world can be relied on, we really are thrown back on trusting God, and his promises. Somehow I don’t think that the name of Jesus will crop up to disillusion us either in the Epstein files, or in Mike Winger’s false-church revelations.
“Come to me, all you who are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.”
Does that not ease the depression?
