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~The ultimate question - maybe even more important than "Who's two points up in Iowa?" - is: Why is this happening to us?
On our present course, within the next generation the two most valuable continents on earth plus a third "island-continent" in the South Pacific are about to be surrendered to ...something other.
And all without a shot being fired - save (in America) the occasional psychotranny, (in Australia) Isis associates armed to the hilt by His Majesty's Government, and (in Europe) a demographically catastrophic war Lindsey Graham and Victoria Nuland want to fight till the last Ukrainian under seventy is either dead or redeployed to Keir Starmer's favourite male "modelling" agency.
Granted Arnold Toynbee's famous truism that civilisations die from suicide not murder, the western world's total implosion is too weird to be entirely plausible. In England and Wales, the percentage of births that are "white British" has fallen from 66 per cent in 2010 to 62 per cent in 2015 to 59 per cent in 2020 to 54 per cent in 2024. This is the year, it seems too obvious to say, that it will fall below fifty per cent. America is already there:
A major demographic shift is underway in the United States.
White births in the country have fallen below 50% for the first time ever.
This is an odd thing to happen to any society absent conquest or plague. And yet it is not reported as such, even when it is reported at all. Instead, it is presented as a natural phenomenon, along with other recently discovered natural phenomena such as gang-rape, machete rampages and Somali annexation of the daycare sector.
This is, from the perspective of, say, 1950, such an improbable development that someone must have consciously implemented it. If one were to parachute onto the right private island and kick the door down, there would be the Spectre board meeting with Blofeld stroking his cat as Number Two announces that his scientists have created the lethal catchphrase "Diversity is our strength".
The Jeffrey Epstein documents tend to confirm this thesis: cumulatively, they are one big Spectre board meeting, albeit with more fourteen-year-old girls than one would expect of Blofeld and with the former Prince Andrew crawling around on all fours in lieu of the fluffy Persian. But, to set aside for a moment the sexual depravity, what's left is a giant global network of powerful persons entirely insulated from such irrelevant trifles as democracy. Plucked at random - courtesy of the FBI a decade ago:
Jeffrey Epstein ("Epstein") had a compound in New Mexico where he lured and video recorded underage women. He also had a private island. Epstein was President Vladimir Putin's wealth manager.
Really? That's a lot of wealth to manage. Did Bill Clinton and "Lord" Mandelpants know they were in bed with Putin's personal wealth manager? One might ask the former Prime Minister of Norway, Thorbjørn Jagland, who emailed Epstein in May 2013 as part of his fairly extensive correspondence with a man who at that stage had been convicted of procuring a fourteen-year-old girl for the purposes of prostitution. Nevertheless, Mr Jagland was anxious to be helpful to his child-prostitute-procuring friend:
My job is to get a meeting with him [Putin]. Can I say this [to him]: I know that you want to attract foreign investment to diversify russian economy I have a friend that can help you to take the necessary measures (and then present you) and ask wether it is interesting for him to meet with you.
This seems a curious priority for Mr Jagland, a man then halfway through a decade-long stint as Secretary-General of the Council of Europe - and thus, one would have thought, preoccupied by his own objectives for his summit with Putin. I gather that Americans generally come last in the qualifying round for Know Your Former Norwegian Prime Ministers, but it might be of interest to President Trump to learn that Mr Jagland is the bloke who got the European Union awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Certainly, Jeffrey Epstein's working of both sides of the Norwegian aisle has paid off for him: in 2017 another Oslo chum the Foreign Minister, Børge Brende, became President and CEO of the World Economic Forum - another Spectre board meeting run by another sex fiend, Klaus Schwab, the sinister Teutonic megalomaniac hiding in plain sight as a sinister Teutonic megalomaniac until he got #MeTooed for expensing his happy endings.
The wanker media report that Epstein was "desperate" to connect with Putin. Au contraire, the consistent tone of all his emails is that Epstein is of at least equal stature to (and usually greater than) whichever world leader he's shooting the breeze with. So as he subsequently wrote to former Israeli PM Ehud Barak:
Putin asked that i meet him in st petersburg the same time as his economic conference I told him no. If he wants to meet he will need to set aside real time and privacy.
That's how you talk to Russian strongmen! I wouldn't say I was exactly "desperate" to meet with Putin, but, if he'd said "I'm gonna be flying in for the BRICS summit at the Shanghai Marriott, maybe I can duck out for twenty minutes", I'd probably have taken it. But Epstein tells him he needs to get real.
If civilisational collapse were a conspiracy thriller, some sort of Epstein-Putin-Barak-Jagland-Gates-Fergie-Mandelpants network would be behind it all. Before he had his unhappy ending, Klaus Schwab more or less told us so. Zuh future does not just happen! What kind of rube schlub bumpkin are you?
"The future is built by us, by a powerful community as you here in this room," Klaus Schwab tells Davos attendees – but only if they act as "stakeholders of larger communities" and if they "collaborate." pic.twitter.com/oLFYR14mCT
— Andrew Lawton (@AndrewLawton) May 23, 2022
Despite Herr Schwab playing his part almost too perfectly, reality is not a conspiracy thriller, is it? And yet far from Davos and Paedo Island the future is "just happening". In Hamburg, a South Sudanese man decides to throw himself under a subway train, but, to add to the gaiety of the scene, pulls an eighteen-year-old young lady down with him. In Amsterdam, "Mohamed H" attempts a combined murder-rape, pulling off the knickers of a twenty-year-old woman while strangling her and telling her "You will die tonight", but the Hon Judge Eikel (I hope I got that right) is not persuaded that the chokehold was "strong/long enough" to kill the victim, prompting her to storm out of court in despair. A stone's throw from Windsor Castle, Chaudhry Zaman seizes a twelve-year-old girl to have his way with her, but is spared gaol by a kindly judge, Amjad Nawaz.
On and on and on, day after day after day... Is the future "just happening"? Or is there a "powerful group of people" making it happen?
If there is, they control all the left and most of the right - which may be why democratic politics seem to be entirely irrelevant to the trajectory of the west. One notes that the two Norwegian chums of Jeffrey Epstein cited above - Messrs Jagland and Brende - are, respectively, a member of the Conservative Party and a member of the Labour Party. Gee, it's almost like such distinctions don't matter to the real players, and that electoral politics is just bad dinner-theatre played out by actors (Zelenskyyy), drama teachers (Trudeau), drama teachers' students (Macron), and in extreme circumstances dead husks of moth-eaten sock puppets (Biden).
So on the pseudo-"right" we have David Goodhart purporting to question whether declining demographic majorities have rights, conceding that the cities are lost, but that the still recognisably English bits of England will probably stabilise at around thirty per cent immigrant. Whereas on the "left" they're charging full steam ahead:
Diversity drive to make Britain's countryside 'less white'
Goodhart is supposedly the chap who proposed the "somewhere"-"anywhere" dichotomy, distinguishing the "somewhere" people, rooted in their ancient sod, from the "anywhere" people, jetting hither and yon between Davos and Paedo Island and doubtless a few atolls and Alps we've yet to hear about. But he's talking codswallop here. Unlike, say, the more or less constant and consistent black population of the United States, the less English England gets the less English it will continue to get, yea unto the most miniscule hamlet.
Which leads to the obvious question: is it likely that every developed nation west of the Iron Curtain simultaneously decided that "diversity is our strength"? If not, how exactly does that "just happen"?
And more important, given the likes of Goodhart throwing in the towel, what can be done to reverse it?
~Thank you to all those new members of The Mark Steyn Club in this our ninth year, and thank you to those old members who've signed up a chum for a Gift Certificate or a Gift Membership. Steyn Clubbers span the globe, from London, Ontario to London, England to London, Kiribati. We hope to welcome many more new members in the years ahead.
