David Icke

David Icke (pronounced "Ike," born April 29, 1952) is a former professional football player, reporter, BBC television sports presenter, and British Green Party national spokesperson. Since 1990, he has been what he calls a "full-time investigator into who and what is really controlling the world." http://www.icke-media.com/biography.html

Life and career

Icke was born in the city of Leicester in the English Midlands, into a working class family and raised on a council estate, or public housing, according to the biography on his website. http://www.icke-media.com/biography.html He left school to play football for Coventry City and Hereford United in the English league, playing as a goalkeeper until forced to retire at the age of 21 because of arthritis.

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Leicester - English - Council estate - Coventry City - Hereford United - Goalkeeper - Arthritis

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He found a job with a local newspaper in Leicester and became a reporter, moving on to local radio, regional television, and eventually national television with the BBC, where he became a sports presenter. He left the BBC to become an activist for the Green Party, rising swiftly to the position of national media spokesperson. During a speech at a Green Party conference in 1989, Icke said, "Green politics is not about being far left or far right, but being far-sighted." He has since changed his mind, ands says that the greens are no better than the others.

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Leicester - BBC - Green Party - 1989

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In his online autobiography, he writes that, in March 1990, he received a message from the spirit world through a medium. She told him that he was a healer who had been chosen for his courage and sent to heal the earth, and had been directed into football to learn discipline. He was going to leave politics and would become famous, writing five books in three years, and one day there will be a great earthquake, and the "sea will reclaim land", because human beings are abusing the earth. http://www.icke-media.com/biography.html

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Medium - Earthquake

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When Icke told the Green Party leadership what he had experienced, he was immediately banned from speaking at party public meetings. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,6903,1294841,00.html He began to wear only turquoise and in different interviews claimed that he was God or the son of God. In an interview on the Terry Wogan show in 1991, his announcement that he was "a son of the Godhead," and that Britain would be devastated by tidal waves and earthquakes, was met with laughter from the studio audience, derision in the press, and suggestions that he was mentally ill. His supporters say that he was in fact describing all humans as children of God, or of some sort of deity, and that the confusion resulted from his scrambling to explain his spiritual apotheosis.

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Turquoise - God - Terry Wogan - Tidal wave - Mentally ill - Apotheosis

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After being widely ridiculed, he disappeared from public view. He has written that, for several years, he was unable to walk down the street without people pointing and laughing, and that this experience helped him find the courage to develop his reptilian ideas, because he was no longer afraid of what people thought of him.

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One of my very greatest fears as a child was being ridiculed in public. And there it was coming true. As a television presenter, I'd been respected. People come up to you in the street and shake your hand and talk to you in a respectful way. And suddenly, overnight, this was transformed into 'Icke's a nutter'. I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule. http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts/story/0,6761,458001,00.html

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He lives in Ryde on the Isle of Wight, where he makes occasional public appearances. Some newspapers stated in 2004 that he might appear on the UK Big Brother television programme in 2005, but Icke later said that he was interested in "the REAL Big Brother, not adding to the diversions that allow him to operate unchallenged".

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Ryde - Isle of Wight - Big Brother

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