The Delingpod: The James Delingpole Podcast Peter Duke
Feb 6, 2026
Peter Duke, photographer, technologist and independent publisher, shares wild personal and cultural stories. He discusses losing his home in the Palisades fires, theories about engineered social change and elite influence in Hollywood and academia. Linguistic patterns, persuasion techniques and how media and institutions shape belief systems come up in lively, wide-ranging conversation.
02:05:20
Sharon Stone's Party Technique
- Sharon Stone told Peter she "works parties": approach the most important man and deliberately ignore him to make him follow.
- Peter interprets her behavior as scripted MKUltra-style programming.
Photography As Hypnosis Tool
- Peter realised portrait photography relies on building rapport, much like conversational hypnosis techniques.
- He connects this to neurolinguistic programming and micro-expressions used for persuasion.
Spot Persuasion By Mirror Agreement
- Listen for mirror-agreement openings to detect persuasion: speakers state things you already agree with to build rapport.
- Use that cue to stay critical before accepting subsequent claims.
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Intro
00:00 • 2min
Palisades fires and loss of home
02:27 • 2min
Investigating deliberate destruction theories
04:52 • 6min
The Berggruen Institute and California oligarchy
10:26 • 5min
Phoenician bloodline theory and historic influence
15:53 • 5min
Epistemological warfare and academia
20:48 • 6min
Peter's background in photography and tech
27:15 • 5min
Sharon Stone's 'party technique' and MKUltra observations
32:14 • 5min
Hypnosis, NLP and media persuasion
37:01 • 5min
Jesus, NLP and linguistic persuasion
42:12 • 6min
Logos, language and biblical interpretation
48:21 • 5min
From photography to political portraits
53:22 • 4min
Intelligence assets and media infiltration
57:00 • 4min
Andrew Breitbart and media culture warfare
01:00:44 • 2min
Consciousness, Wolfgang Smith and vertical causation
01:02:40 • 3min
Faith, Matthew 18:20 and conversational Christianity
01:05:29 • 10min
Hollywood power structure and psyops in film
01:15:10 • 4min
Who controls Hollywood: assets versus handlers
01:18:43 • 6min
January 6th photography and staged operations
01:24:33 • 13min
Refusing harmful projects and moral tests
01:37:20 • 2min
Military gaming, recruitment and America's Army
01:38:53 • 8min
Education, Prussian model and deliberate dumbing down
01:46:36 • 4min
Linguistic tools to spot manipulation
01:50:29 • 9min
Where to follow Peter and his work
01:59:52 • 2min
Outro
02:02:20 • 3min
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Jones argues that a deliberate distortion of meaning has been employed to obscure certain truths and maintain power structures.
The work connects linguistic manipulation to broader political and social phenomena, offering a critical perspective on the power of language.
It challenges readers to examine the ways in which language is used to shape our perceptions and beliefs.
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Iserbyt criticizes the education system for suppressing creative thinking and encouraging conformity.
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It challenges readers to differentiate scientifically accepted theories from 'creative baloney' and to question their beliefs on topics such as the nature of God, quantum physics, evolution, and human consciousness.
The book is designed to make readers think deeply and reflect on their own perspectives, presenting complex ideas in a simple and engaging manner.
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These reframes, such as 'Manage your energy' instead of 'Manage your time', are designed to help you feel better and succeed without the usual pain or pitfalls.
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The book unveils how political activists, green campaigners, and others fabricated the 'global warming' crisis.
Delingpole meticulously details their sinister plan to control resources and reshape society.
The updated edition includes new chapters that further illuminate the climate alarmists' manipulative strategies.
This insightful work challenges the prevailing narrative and encourages critical thinking about environmental issues.
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Stealth Power and the Illusion of Democracy
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Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
Published in 1992, 'Snow Crash' is a science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson that delves into a future where the United States has fragmented into corporate city-states and the internet has evolved into a virtual reality called the Metaverse.
The story follows Hiro Protagonist, a pizza delivery driver and part-time hacker, and Y.T.
, a teenage skateboard courier, as they navigate a complex world threatened by a mysterious computer virus and a powerful drug known as Snow Crash.
The novel explores themes of history, linguistics, anthropology, and computer science, and is noted for its prescient vision of the metaverse and its influence on Silicon Valley innovators.
Peter Duke is a photographer, technologist, and independent media publisher. James and Peter chat about the Pacific Palisades fires (in which Peter lost his home), Rupert Murdoch, Stephen Spielberg, Richard Branson, Sharon Stone’s party technique, who decides which Hollywood scripts get made, the linguistic codes embedded within Jesus’s teaching and loads of other really, really interesting stuff. SubStack: https://thedukereport.substack.com
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Photo Website: http://peterdukephoto.com
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How environmentalists are killing the planet, destroying the economy and stealing your children’s future.
In Watermelons, an updated edition of his ground-breaking 2011 book, JD tells the shocking true story of how a handful of political activists, green campaigners, voodoo scientists and psychopathic billionaires teamed up to invent a fake crisis called ‘global warming’.
This updated edition includes two new chapters which, like a geo-engineered flood, pour cold water on some of the original’s sunny optimism and provide new insights into the diabolical nature of the climate alarmists’ sinister master plan.
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