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David Icke
David Vaughan Icke is an English conspiracy theorist, author and a former semi-professional footballer, sports journalist and broadcaster. He has written over 20 books, self-published since the mid-1990s, and spoken in more than 25 countries.
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business · English conspiracy theorist (born 1952) · sports journalist · association football player · writer · ufologist · conspiracy theorist · anti-vaccine activist · television presenter · businessperson · television actor · film actor · also David Icke, David Vaughan Icke, Icke
Born 29 April 1952 · Q333118
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2026· 12 entries
“If 5G continues and reaches where they want to take it, human life as we know it is over... so people have to make a decision.”
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Published video “Am I Insane, or Is the World? I Don’t Think It’s Me”.
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Published video “Conspiracy VS. Coincidence - You Decide. PART 2 | David Icke, Steve Kirsch & Jessica Rose, PhD”.
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Published video “Conspiracy VS. Coincidence - You Decide. PART 1 | David Icke & Steve Kirsch”.
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Published video “The Video EVERYONE Must See! | David Icke”.
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Published video “The West Is Being Dismantled By This War”.
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Published video “No One Is Talking About This Level of AI | David Icke & Adrian D'Amico”.
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Published video “How the Iran War and AI control fundamentally connect”.
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Published video “Whilst 'Digital Humans' Take Our Jobs, We'll Be Leaving The Planet...”.
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Published video “"It’s a Movement of Truth, Unity, and Higher Understanding" | David Icke & Dani Henderson”.
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Published video “Open Source: The Road To Total AI Human Control - David Icke”.
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2022· 1 entry
FACTLY rated the claim “2009 Video of David Icke predicting the present situation of the COVID-19 pandemic” MISLEADING.
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2021· 1 entry
AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Icke makes claims about Covid-19” 1.
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2018· 4 entries
Was part of a revival of medieval antisemitism
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“My philosophy and view of life is that we are all points of attention within the same state of Infinite Awareness and the labels we are given and give ourselves are merely temporary experiences and not who we are... Thus to me all racism is ridiculous and completely missing the point of who we are and where we are.”
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In response to allegations of antisemitism, Icke stated to Vox that: "My philosophy and view of life is that we are all points of attention within the same state of Infinite Awareness and the labels we are given and give
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Researchers looking at the psychological effects of Icke's belief system argued that "problem–reaction–solution" resembles the misinterpretation of the Hegelian thesis, antithesis, synthesis triad popularized by Chalybäu
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2017· 1 entry
With the venue saying it was due to Icke's "objectionable views
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2013· 1 entry
Ponders if Icke's ideas suddenly "pop" into his head
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2008· 2 entries
To ask John Key, then prime minister, whether he was a lizard
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And the same year addressed the University of Oxford's debating society, the Oxford Union
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2006· 1 entry
Wogan interviewed Icke again for a special Wogan Now & Then series where he spoke about his concerns about the think-tank Project for the New American Century
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2003· 2 entries
That he still gets a fright when someone knocks on the door
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Although he considered it the making of him in the end, giving him the courage to develop his ideas without caring what anyone thought
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2001· 4 entries
When he was questioned by Jon Ronson, Icke declared that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is evidence not of a Jewish plot but of a reptilian plot
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But remained friends, and Atherton continued to work as Icke's business manager
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Icke said Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother was "seriously reptilian"
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Icke and Atherton divorced in 2001 but remained friends, and Atherton continued to work as Icke's business manager.
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2000· 1 entry
Icke was briefly detained by immigration officials in Canada, where he was booked for a speaking tour, and his books were removed from Indigo Books, a Canadian chain
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1999· 1 entry
Wrote, "Thus we have the encouragement of wars, human genocide, the mass slaughter of animals, sexual perversions which create highly charged negative energy, and black magic ritual and sacrifice which takes place on
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1997· 1 entry
Met his second wife, Pamela Leigh Richards, in Jamaica
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1996· 1 entry
Icke spoke to a conference in Reno, Nevada, alongside opponents of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, including Kirk Lyons, a lawyer who has represented the Ku Klux Klan
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1994· 1 entry
“Rebellion was antisemitic, and rejecting racism, sexism and prejudice of any kind, while insisting that whoever had written the Protocols”
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1993· 3 entries
"is like saying it is a little chilly at the North Pole
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That at Shaw's request he decided not to visit their daughter and had seen her only once
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Icke wrote in 1993 that at Shaw's request he decided not to visit their daughter and had seen her only once.
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1992· 7 entries
“Hitler's Europe Yes, welcome to Hitler's Europe... Come on, human race - for our children's sake if not our own. This is wakey, wakey time.”
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“Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.”
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– a decision that led one of its principal speakers, Sara Parkin, to resign – but after the publication of The Robots' Rebellion they moved to ban him
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“Because the scientific method tells us what’s true," I say."No, it doesn’t," he says."Does it not?""No," he says. "It’s bollocks.""Right," I say, slightly startled. "It’s bollocks?"I wonder, if science is bollocks, how his TV came to exist."It’s not that all science is bollocks," he decides. "The basis of the way science judges reality is bollocks.”
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“I have positively identified this group as what I call the Black Nobility, which includes the Queen and Prince Phillip. By the time I get to Vancouver, I'll be able to reveal the true role of the Queen of England and the real facts around Lady Diana's death.”
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“Well what a turn-up. From professional footballer to television presenter to green politician. Whatever next?”
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“We/I am a son/daughter of God. In fact, we are all expressions/projections of the Infinite Conciousness, which is love, that is what I mean when I say "I am a son of god "GOD"!”
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1991· 4 entries
The relationship with Shaw led to the birth of a daughter in December 1991, although Shaw and Icke had by then ceased their relationship.
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“s request he decided not to visit their daughter and had seen her only once. Icke”
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“s request he decided not to visit their daughter and had seen her only once. Icke and Atherton divorced in 2001 but remained friends, and Atherton continued to work as Icke”
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To be a "Son of the Godhead" and that the world would soon be devastated by tidal waves and earthquakes
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1990· 1 entry
Icke started visiting Betty Shine, a psychic who told him he was on Earth for a purpose and would receive messages from the spirit world
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1983· 2 entries
Who appeared not to like him, but he continued working for BBC Sport until 1990, often on bowls and snooker programmes, and at the 1988 Summer Olympics
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Co-hosted Grandstand, at the time the BBC's flagship national sports programme
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1982· 1 entry
Icke has lived since 1982 on the Isle of Wight.
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1981· 2 entries
Became a sports broadcaster for the BBC, but his contract was terminated in 1990 over his vocal opposition to the Community Charge
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Icke became a sports presenter for the BBC's national programme Newsnight, which had begun the previous year
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1976· 1 entry
Icke worked for two months in Saudi Arabia, helping with the national football team
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1973· 2 entries
Icke found a job as a reporter with the weekly Leicester Advertiser, through a contact who was a sports editor at the Daily Mail
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At the age of 21, the pain in his joints became so severe that he was forced to retire from football
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1971· 2 entries
Played for Hereford United F.C. (1971–1973) — 37 appearances, 0 goals.
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Icke left home following one of a number of frequent arguments he had started having with his father
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1968· 1 entry
Played in the Coventry City youth team that were runners up to Burnley in the F
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1963· 2 entries
Was sent to the city's Crown Hills Secondary Modern (rather than the local grammar school), where he was given a trial for the Leicester Boys Under-14 team
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“s third-year football team. He writes that this was the first time he had succeeded at anything, and he came to see football as his way out of poverty. He played in goal, which he wrote suited the loner in him and gave him a sense of living on the edge between hero and villain. After failing his 11-plus exam in 1963, he was sent to the city”
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1952· 1 entry
Born 1952-04-29.
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1933· 1 entry
And made the funds available for his rearmament
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1920· 1 entry
By Lucien Wolf and the following year by Philip Graves in The Times
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