OVERVIEW:
Wheen (deputy editor of Private Eye since the late 1980s) appears to be just another 'award winning' Jewish liar. Award-winning in the sense of being awarded by other supposed 'Jews'.Here's my long review of Private Eye.
Francis Wheen: How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the WorldVery likely another Jewish liar ... 6th Feb 2013
I wrote a dismissive review of Wheen's book How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World in 2010, unaware at the time he was deputy editor of Private Eye magazine. In fact, he seems to have worked there something like a quarter of a century by now. A bit of burrowing reveals he wrote a book on Karl Marx; and also 'won an Isaac Deutscher prize', Deutscher being a pro-Stalin Jew, whose wife, amusingly, thought Trotsky would have been a better catch. His surname may be cognate with e.g. Vaughan, Whine. All this of course puts him right on the jadar screen. Tantalisingly, I found he'd had a fire: his extremely valuable collection of books and papers, stored in what looked like a garden shed, had gone up in flames, sufficiently intense to completely destroy the structure and evidence. I remember being told by a printer that books are rather difficult to burn; water is the enemy of books.
Anyway ... How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World is not about a legendary African monster. And it's not about 'how' absurdities are spread. Rather it's an account of topics in the same style as American skeptics groups, covering anything except what's important. Wheen starts his book with a preamble on the 'Enlightenment', I'd guess relying on university memories of official history, emphasising the USA (not Germany, apart from bits on Kant and Hegel!), then another starting-point: he dates the modern world of 'Mumbo-Jumbo' from 1979, with Ayatollah Khomeini and Iran, and Margaret Thatcher. It's difficult to know if any of this is intended seriously; journalists like to be thought clever, without having to think (Bertrand Russell's words). The endnotes reveal the way the book was constructed: about half the material taken from ordinary newspapers, about 1/4 taken from think-tanks—generally the Jewish race or money ones—and the remaining quarter quotes books. As a result the book is almost unendurable to plough through—it's one press-cutting after another, with little discernible thread of logic.
The entire book follows the Jewish agenda. One has to assume this is conscious and deliberate. For example (page 85) '... many post-modernists seemed to accept the demise of socialism and the success of capitalism as immutable facts of life. ...' In fact of course the Jewish-run USSR and its unfortunate satellites was never 'socialist'. And for that matter the successor regimes, also controlled by Jewish paper money, weren't capitalist either. As regards the USA, around page 30 is a discussion on junk bonds etc: '... Boesky ... bought stock in companies which ... were targeted for takeover shortly afterwards. ... Dennis Levine was tipping him off... Michael Milken['s] ... high-risk, high-yield 'junk bonds' [converted] ... equity into debt to finance the merger mania. ... T Boone Pickens and Sir James Goldsmith ... would acquire a menacingly large stake in a company and then terrify the firm's owners into buying it back... economic tsunami of 19 October 1987 ... What saved it was... the new chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan, who flooded the market with cheap credit..' No doubt this is romanticised to hide the obviously fraudulence, but the point here is that the Jewish connections go unremarked, notably the two-tier system with Jews controlling the issue of paper money. Wheen says nothing about the more decorous, but perhaps just as disastrous, link between Thatcher and Keith Joseph, and getting British public assets into private (i.e. read Jewish) hands. There's more similar stuff on the dot com pseudo-boom. The Islamic material condemns Muslims from several viewpoints, including the fake attribution of 9/11, and their bases for anti-Americanism such as Palestine and numerous coups and wars are omitted; but Judaism is just as backward and in fact historically the two cults are inter-related. But there is no discussion of Jews as superstitious and vicious. There are accounts of anti-evolution American citizens and other absurdly simple people—Reagan and Diana Spencer as just two examples—but there's nothing on Jews promoting anti-white immigration, anti-white laws and what have you. Wheen discusses military budgets of the USA, but the beneficiaries, presumably Jews, are, I suppose I need hardly say, never discussed.
The only thing that struck me as interesting was the material in the chapter with the typically rather vague title 'The demolition merchants of reality'. (Vague titles permit material to be inserted or moved around later). This deals with 'deconstruction' and such people as the Jew Derrida. Eagleton, Barthes and others figure, but the introduction describes Colin MacCabe, in an English department, in 1981, in a tussle faintly resembling A J P Taylor vs Hugh Trevor-Roper a couple of decades earlier. In that previous case, Taylor, pro-Jewish and probably actually Jewish, lost—and Private Eye always used 'Hugh Very-Ropey' as their selected pseudonym for the winner. (I'm not suggesting he was anything other than very ropy, by the way). MacCabe lost his academic battle, in the short term, making up for it by accepting positions based on his new renown. But, again, there was a Jewish link. One of the ideas of 'deconstruction' is the idea that reality (or language, or texts, or something) is a 'construct' or 'social construct'. In the same way Boas pretended race didn't exist, many Jews like a fluctuating model of the world. Pragmatism had the same purpose: if Jews control propaganda, what they say is 'truth'. Anyway—before reading Wheen I'd missed this rather obvious fact. I suppose I should be grateful.
RW