Written during his imprisonment in the Tower of London,the cynical nature of the work, and the contempt to which Raleigh holds monarchs throughout history brought the book to the attention of James I who immediately demanded copies to be seized and publication banned.
If you find a million words daunting in the age of Twitter, some selections from his work can be read here:
Selections from his Historie of the world, his Letters,
Dr. John Dee was the ‘conjuror’ associated with the fictional, atheistical ‘School of Night’ associated with Walter Raleigh (by his enemies), who allegedly cursed the Spanish Armada in 1588.
His appetite for knowledge meant he slept only four hours a night, spending his waking hours studying Greek, Latin, geometry, mathematics, astronomy, navigation, scripture, law, medicine and cryptography – the art of writing codes.
He accumulated the largest library in England at his house in Mortlake – boasting some 2,670 manuscripts, as opposed to Cambridge’s 451 and Oxford’s 379
The private diary of Dr. John Dee : and the catalogue of his library of manuscripts,
As well as being a renowned occultist, he was a gifted cartographer, mathematician, geographer and astronomer.
He used that wealth of knowledge to prepare Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh as they traveled the globe, and advised Queen Elizabeth on her imperial designs.
“Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.”
This was an obsidian Aztec cult object in the shape of a hand-mirror, brought to Europe in the late 1520s, which was subsequently owned by Horace Walpole
3 Magical Discs, made from wax & engraved with detailed inscriptions and symbols, the disks would have been used in conjunction with Dee’s magic mirror for communication and decoding purposes.
Did ye sing, John Ball,
as they pulled you apart?
A poet speaking for us all
from England’s tattered heart.
What a price, John Ball,
for singing to us all.
When hope came as a crime
in simple rhythm and rhyme.
2. He who sings a blackbird’s song
to a starved & battered throng
with a message to stand strong
would never last long.
So we’ll sing to John Ball
for the helpless & hopeless,
the voiceless, forgotten,
buried beneath the mansions
of Lords; misbegotten
mortar, stones & chandeliers
3. the scarlet grave goods
of England’s preening peers.
We’ll sing in simple rhymes
and hope for better times,
when those barons’ grandchildren,
so viscous, reptilian,
are thrown from their seat
in ignominious defeat.
Here is my attempt at a simple summary of what @JasperFarlake & @dr_louwen claim (July 2026)
1. In early 2020, Chinese scientists published the first big paper on the COVID virus using fluid samples taken from patients’ lungs in Wuhan in December 2019.
1. An Indecent Proposal for Protecting our Pensioners
and preventing their Further Decay!
It is a melancholy object to those who walk through our parks or scroll through our family chat groups to behold the wretched condition of our retirees.
2. These once-vigorous souls, now bent over glowing rectangles at all hours, doom scrolling through tales of grandchildren’s exotic holidays, political apocalypses, and filtered neighbours’ perfect kitchens.
3. Their posture collapses, their sleep evaporates, their blood pressure soars, and their remaining years dissolve into envious bitterness.
1. Federal agencies like the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) as well as the NIAID were funding a remarkable array of research projects around the world..
2. "through a small cabal of civilian actors that in aggregate constituted a de facto bioweapons development program. In my job as data analyst for University of California, I had access to enough data to strongly suspect the existence of such a program"
He has a MA in Biophysics from the University of California, Berkeley. He worked as an analyst for thirty years in the University of California’s Office of the President.
2. The whistleblower just testified that following pressure & interference from mid-level & senior CIA leadership, the team's lab-leak findings were suppressed.
3. On August 17, 2021, the team was forced to reverse its stance and officially submit a conclusion stating they were unable to determine the origin, which formed the basis of the declassified ODNI report released later that month.