'Faith, Folk and the Far Right' is TRASH literature

 

Faith, folk and the far right

 

Two faculty members of an American International University in London, Dominic Alessio and Robert J. Wallis, have demonstrated the poor quality of their research and their commitment to perpetuating outright falsehoods and scaremongering with the publication of a new book titled ‘Faith, Folk and the Far Right.’ The intention of the book seems to be to generate religious hatred and fear towards Heathens. 

A number of demonstrably false claims are made about me in the book, all of which serve to prove the partisan, dishonest and sensationalist nature of the book as well as the sloppy research it is based on. I shall list some of them here:

 

•  That I am a member of the Odinist Fellowship and that this charity is racist 
  FACT: My group, the Hearth of Devon is no longer affiliated with the Odinist Fellowship since 2023. The Odinist Fellowship is not a racist charity.
• That I attended a “Fascist” event 8 years ago in Stockholm. Repeating an unsubstantiated claim by UK activist pressure group Hope not Hate, the authors describe an Identitarian event as Fascist, which ignores the actual definition of these highly distinct schools of thought. 
  FACT: I have never attended a Fascist event.
• That Dan Capp, a musician who performed at my Pagan Futures Conference is “far right” 
  FACT: Dan Capp’s ideology is not right wing in any conventional sense and his music performance had no political meaning or lyrics at this conference.
• "Rowsell’s videos include Ariosophic-inspired themes such as the ‘Real Hyperboreans".
  FACT: None of my videos, including ‘Real Hyperboreans’ published 8 years ago, have any influence from Ariosophy. I reject Ariosophy entirely. The video references an outdated theory by Indian researcher Bal Gangadhar Tilak and then contrasts this with current genetic findings from four peer reviews scientific papers linked in the description.
• "(Real Hyperboreans) purports to give a more scientific defence for the existence of an ancient and ‘robust’ Northern Eurasian civilisation." 
  FACT: I never described a civilisation among the primitive ANE Hunter-Gatherers of Siberia. 
• "he film suggests that the bloodline of these ‘Aryan’ peoples disappeared due to ‘race mixing”
  FACT: I never said anything about race-mixing or bloodlines. I talked about the autosomal ancestry of ANE inherited by later peoples as was demonstrated in the linked sources eg. Nick Patterson et al,, Ancient Admixture in Human History, Genetics, Volume 192, Issue 3, 1 November 2012, Pages 1065–1093.
• Then the authors mention an even older video, published 10 years ago, and claim that it “ends with a critique of international bankers that includes, alongside the narrative, a Nazi-era image of a Jew. What is more, the emblem of the production company at the end of the film, ‘Lucio Films’,is a crossed L and F, thereby resembling a swastika. 
  FACT: 10 years ago I commissioned a freelance video editor named Lucio to create this video. His logo is simply the letter L and F and any resemblance to a swastika is purely coincidental. The image they claim to be a “Nazi era image of a Jew” is neither, but rather a stock image licensed by Clker-Free-Vector-Images — Pixabay (CC0) and depicts a caricature of Scrooge from Dickens’ a Christmas Carol. It is widely used in modern left wing propaganda as an image of a white Western capitalist and did not exist in Nazi Germany. (very poor research!!)
• They claim that a video, published 7 years ago, entitled ‘Hebrew Anglo-Saxons? Medieval Conversion Tactics’ is “anti-Semitic” and an ‘Ariosophic-inspired narrative’ and that I, Tom Rowsell “makes the ... argument that Jews used ‘propaganda and psychology’ to trick the heathen Anglo-Saxons into converting to Christianity”
  FACT: At no point in the video do I say anything anti-Semitic or anything inspired by Ariosophy. I quote Christian sources by Christian authors who attempted to convert Anglo-Saxon Heathens. At no point do I attribute any of the quoted sources to Jewish authors or claim that Jewish people had any direct role in the conversion of the English people to Christianity. The video only mentions Jews in the context of the Biblical Hebrews that are referenced by early Christian authors in England. There were no Jewish people in Anglo-Saxon England.

 
The truth of my statements can be verified by simply watching the videos which are all still up because none of them breaches the YouTube terms of service. It is worthy of note that the authors ignored all of the dozens of videos I have made in the last 7 years. This should be seen as a tacit admission that nothing I have made is remotely racist in that period. The three older videos from much earlier are also not racist or anti-Semitic, despite what the authors claim, as can clearly be seen when viewing them. 

Alessio has previously contributed to Mainstreaming the Global Radical Right: CARR Yearbook and to The Radical Right During Crisis: CARR Yearbook 2020/2021showing that he is primarily a left-wing activist and not a genuine scholar.

I urge all readers to write to Richmond American University London and to complain about these egregious, slanderous lies. enquiries@richmond.ac.uk

Norman DNA: Viking or Semitic J2a?

 

 Were the Normans French or were they Vikings? DNA may reveal the answers but so far only two studies have looked at Norman DNA and there are problems with both. In this video I look at two Norman Y haplogroup studies to see what we can learn and I debunk the claim that J2a in Europe comes from "ancient Semitic kings"

The ancient Indo-European Cannabis Cult

Who were the first cannabis users in history? Cannabis sativa has been cultivated by humans for thousands of years both as a narcotic and also for making hemp fabrics. Brand new genetic and archaeological evidence places the original domestication event in China, but indicates that the plant was mainly spread by Indo-European peoples such as the Yamnaya and the Scythians. Cannabis was used in the funerary and religious rites in many pagan religions as well as in ancient Jewish rites in Israel.

Art

Waking of sky tree - Stonehenge shaman

A Forest of Shadows Art & Illustration  - Arda Viraf's dream

Sources

I was aided in research for this video by Chris Bennett of cannabisculture.com to whom I am very grateful

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• Bennett, C., ‘Cannabis and the Soma solution’ Trine Day (2010)
• “Cannabis van 4200 jaar oud in graf Hanzelijn”
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• Ruck, Carl, affidavit in Bennett v The Attorney General for Canada and the Minister of Health for Canada, (2009)
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Hebrew Anglo-Saxons? - Medieval Conversion Tactics

What is Cultural Marxism?

The term cultural Marxism has gained momentum recently. It refers to an ideological movement, that began with the Frankfurt school of Marxist thought, which views culture as a central battleground for the advance of global Marxism. The mass media and all Western academic institutions are completely infiltrated by Cultural Marxist perspectives such as Critical Theory. Being a cultural Marxist is not the same as being a traditional Marxist, as the former no longer depend on the revolutionary potential of the proletariat, focusing instead on indoctrination of the Middle Class. Cultural Marxism is cultural destruction; attacking religion, government, the family, gender roles, European ethnic identities and any other traditions or institutions that are deemed obstacles to the foundation of an international Marxist state.

This way of looking at the world and the media is sometimes described as 'political correctness', though the two are not the same thing, the latter may be regarded as a product of the former. Cultural Marxism plays an important role in many university degrees, particularly in the field of media. All media graduates in the UK now have some experience of the theories of Antonio Gramsci, Herbert Marcuse, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno. These theories are highly regarded within the field of media and have influenced the way it has developed over the 20th and 21st centuries. Almost all cultural institutions in the UK are now influenced by the dogma of the cult of cultural Marxism.

Here Horkheimer explains some of their goals.



Marcuse on the elitism of the Frankfurt school - the hypocrisy of this so called working class movement.




The discipline of critical theory = compulsary cultural suicide.








A documentary from an American perspective on the effect of cultural marxism