Lord Salisbury was Prime Minister at the height of the British Empire. His views on war, jingoism, and nationalist chauvinism have never been more relevant.
I agree with and appreciate your light-handed approach to culling comments. Better to err on the side of open dialogue than censorship. Some substack writers are thin-skinned to the point of not tolerating disagreement. Which tells you something about their lack of open-mindedness and so hurts their credibility.
John Leake did not remove any comment or ban anyone. He warned a commenter (a repeat offender) to stop making threats of physical violence. Do you disagree with this action?
I was not astounded over the price of the piece of military hardware, or that little was made of it. Not when you consider that BILLION and BILLIONS of taxpayer funds have been wasted on fraudsters in social programs all across the country jut in the last couple of years! And apparently we don't have even the minimum of qualification , or verification to be sure that data is correct when we give out these monies. I will NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE THAT MOST OF THE COUPLE OF PEOPLE CHARGED SERVE NO TIME either. We are a nation of stupid citizenry.
It seems like Ukraine is not being given the attention it deserves in terns of the cited, "stupid citizenry".. Could it be by reason that, " Ukranians are white like us?".. (from Johannesburg)
And I Love TRUMP despite a few weird proclivities. I look at a person's actions, and not so much what they say. I think he is doing his very best not to hurt the people of Iran which would devastate them to lose their power sources. I pray he is successful!
Except Trumps proclivities reside in both his actions and his words. His unilateral approach to power serves as a warning that we are a country of constitution and laws and not authoritarianism of consolidated power to one man. It is a cautionary tale throughout history that so many so easily forget when their party is the one who holds the power. They forget how the pendulum swings back the other way.
100% couldn't agree more with your entire position and rationale on the war in Iran. It's nothing short of very stupid, totally belligerent, and completely insane. In plain language.
I agree War and violence should be a last resort. However speaking/writing Truth should not be curtailed as it leads to censorship which many are experiencing - especially if it does not apply to one group.
I’ve visited the usa three times over the last twenty years and have witnessed the economic decline of the evil empire. I’ve yet to experience an unfriendly american! Is this still true? It would appear the average person has been reduced to tent dwellers. Why is the usa still trading with such a massive debt burden? In the U K it would be illegal to trade whilst insolvent! It reminds me of the old song “ buddy can you spare a dime “ war with Iran? “ heaven help you/us because you have upset the world’s economy and it will take years to recover. As they say in Scotland “stop talking the Donald”
Unfortunately the US is showing to the world the version of the Ugly American. Trump hitting every point of the stereotype. Obnoxious, arrogant, narcissist, prideful, greedy, rude, and ignorant. As one can see from many of the comments from his followers, they primarily have these same characteristics.
I've been supporting computer systems for 45 years, since the days your only choice was all caps. It's funny how often I sit at a PC and when I start typing, I have to turn caps lock off! And you have a point, it's usually one of my fellow boomers. Not many out there as old as me still pounding keyboards in offices, so maybe not boomers, but seniors anyway.
Yet another TDS post. Congratulations! Didn't you get your frustration out at the No Kings protest? As usual, you are missing the point. This is not about Iran. This is about who funds them and Israel. The City of London. Iran is just one of their proxies. Why didnt the UK join in? Its about power and they are losing it. Can't or won't see? You will.
Any news on health related topics? I mean, that's what most people who signed up for this substance want or need. Not some more political ideology rant....
Disappointing more than anything. Wish he would turn his obsessive-compulsive disorder towards health. I think more than many would appreciate that effort. But, that truly is what people that suffer from TDS are all about....truly sad!
There is a grave threat from Islam to the entire world. They lost 3 9-11 battles before they won one; 9-11-1565, Malta; 9-11-1683, Vienna; 9-11-1697, the Battle of Zenta. October 7, 2023 was the 452nd anniversary of Lepanto, which they lost. The Ottoman Caliphate collapsed March 3, 2024, and only ignorance and the unproductivity of Islam has allowed people not to know of the 1400 year jihad to take over the world by force. Islam is not a religion; Islam is a totalitarian political ideology; Islam has drenched the world in blood for 1400 years. It was founded by a man who had a terrible childhood and became a psychopath. Muslims ape Mohammad; slavery and lying are approved in their koran. No Muslim is constitutionally eligible to take our oath of citizenship, let alone the oath of office, because under their law, Sharia, all non-Muslims are legally inferior to all Muslims; women are inferior to men, leaving Islam, criticizing their koran or Mohammad are death sentences. Our Constitution guarantees equal treatment under law, and our 1st Amendment freedom of speech and of religion.
Bush did us a grave disservice by saying "Islam means peace." NO. Islam means submission.
As for the British Empire, they took over huge areas of the world for their own enrichment. They invaded Ireland in 1169, dispossessed the Irish of their land, witnessed and allowed 3 million to starve because they had nothing to eat after they were dispossessed except potatoes, and the blight wiped out the potatoes; in 1916 they executed without trial leaders of the Easter Rebellion. Why did Britain have "interests in the Black Sea and Balkans"? Because they shamelessly took other peoples' lands and wealth.
$240MM. Now do you understand why IRGC head shed got wiped on Day 1 and its vaunted military pummeled, to the disbelief of every prognosticating armchair general?
You admire the "...diplomacy backed by naval strength..."
Well, what have we today in Trump? He'd like to iron out a diplomatic solution, but the "backed by naval strength" is the deciding factor for compliance, feigned or otherwise.
Hegseth can be whatever he is, but Trump is calling it, so don't ascribe evangelical zeal to Trump's military engagement.
See this is what keeps getting coddled - the idea that someone tell you that you shouldn't "allow" certain speech on your articles is infantile and aggressive in itself! Who is anyone to tell another what to say? Why doesn't the emailer himself/herself respond to anything they find offensive? Rather than gang up on someone by getting you to agree, simply because of their kiddy sensitivities? Are we all to bend to someone's sensitivities? Does this make sense at all? I understand few have even thought of this but the reason for war is because we can't talk with each other. We have been stripped of our sovereignty, but we can get it back by confronting these infants who think what they want to hear is what others have to speak. I'm sorry John that you played along and babied him/her. If we want peace, we have to create the terrain for peace and you know what that is?
FREE SPEECH. So defend it with all your might. If someone doesn't like what is said, then duke it out in text or words. That way we learn how to be sovereign and shed our baby teeth at last.
Ok - this is the crux - YES to free speech, AND/BUT free speech works best, and to its ultimate usefulness, when people can be reasoned, civil, and substantive - not spewing ad hominems and vomiting emotional reactions.
Remember the 1st Amendment ONLY applies to *freedom from government persecution of speech*. It does NOT apply to the consequences of saying stupid, inappropriate shit in public spaces.
Forget about what's written, that is two-dimensional and we live in the multi-dimensional realm. Even if people use ad hominen and other vomit, the listeners can either ignore them or give them a good public schlapping. That way we learn how to do it better too. But we're learning nothing by preventing free speech. So what it's just talk. And any talk of threats, then we know who to keep out of our circles. And we must make this a big thing, advertise it so that others know who made the threat. Ad hominen in nothing, it just shows they don't have a case. We mustn't prosecute it but respond to it, or not respond and leave them in a social wasteland including their families. WE have the means to do this now with databases so we can know who did what. Constitutions and stuff like that is old school and doesn't work anymore. We need a truly deep, active, principled code to go by and free speech, even with it's flaws, will always result in better outcomes. Free speech makes the terrain unfavorable for those of ill will because we will know who they are. But right now, people are too scared to speak what they know, about celebrities and well known people. Although it's all coming out at last. We need to strenuously condemn anyone who promotes censorship. Free speech is our ticket out of the malaise. So simple I know.
Do you have loans with banks? How about stop paying the interest portion? YOu know that portion is never entered into the economy? And how about you get another person to do it too? But don't keep it all for yourself, share 50% of it with someone you know who needs it. Someone you know, not an organization or charity so you can see how your hard won money is being used. Can you do that? Because that's what it is going to take to ward off these banker terrorists.
Well that is your fear but I would say the banks wouldn't want this to spread and so they will shut up about it. Don't forget who actually takes your possessions away - people like you and me, they do it "because it's mah job". So we've got a lot of work to do to get that idea out of people's brains, this "it's mah job" nonsense. Soon they'll have nothing too because their jobs will be taken over by robots. Nonetheless Jews know that goyim will do anything for money and they exploit us with that no end. We need to get busy telling our friends and family to not go to war or work for bankers and companies that screw their own.
Trump after being against FISA Sec 702 is now absolutely for it. It was used against him in what now must be considered Grand Theatre along with July13.
The biggest contradiction of government rhetoric is that of showing concern that its people will be killed by this or that foreign power, weapon or action. Anyone who stops to think about this for two seconds - "Iran will get a nuke" - should be able to spot the lie immediately. If the government truly gave a damn about its citizens being killed it would act this way in all of its endeavors. It would not inject everyone with all manner of poison, feed it garbage, let fentanyl and other street drugs run wild, attack its female population's ability to reproduce or let in millions of illegals.
There are absolutely zero concerns about Iran having a nuclear weapon. It is an abject lie. Everything is about money. Everything. Even the pedos and child trafficking are about leverage and money.
Once you remove the "Iran can't have nukes" reasoning what are we left with? Control of the Middle East by USIsrael because...oil. Always has been, always will be. Oh, and per Doomberg, no, 20% of the world's energy supply does not pass through the Strait of Hormuz. 5% does. So, they can't even keep their lies...straight.
The noble lie that Iran "might" get nukes has been used for decades to prop up a straw man to push propaganda of irrational fear of a radical enemy who wants to destroy the world. We saw similar rhetoric used with Iraq and the WMD lie being told. They feed on the people's ignorance to conduct wars for ulterior reasons. Control of the Middle East and the resources that it contains. Iran sits on oil and is part of a distribution point for trade access. Iran is a strategic pillar to the belt and road initiative that will create trade routes with Iran and China. This is what this war is about is the control of Iran. Kleptocracy on full view for eyes to see.
Now that we've pretty much won the war, you change issues to argue against its bellicosity and financial cost. It seems to me we've gained our ends on the cheap.
That's a fair position; however, the idea that the world might be freed of this most oppressive authoritarian, terrorist-financing, woman-beating, dog- and music-hating regime could be dethroned, is a most hopeful notion.
I agree with and appreciate your light-handed approach to culling comments. Better to err on the side of open dialogue than censorship. Some substack writers are thin-skinned to the point of not tolerating disagreement. Which tells you something about their lack of open-mindedness and so hurts their credibility.
John Leake did not remove any comment or ban anyone. He warned a commenter (a repeat offender) to stop making threats of physical violence. Do you disagree with this action?
no
I was not astounded over the price of the piece of military hardware, or that little was made of it. Not when you consider that BILLION and BILLIONS of taxpayer funds have been wasted on fraudsters in social programs all across the country jut in the last couple of years! And apparently we don't have even the minimum of qualification , or verification to be sure that data is correct when we give out these monies. I will NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE THAT MOST OF THE COUPLE OF PEOPLE CHARGED SERVE NO TIME either. We are a nation of stupid citizenry.
It seems like Ukraine is not being given the attention it deserves in terns of the cited, "stupid citizenry".. Could it be by reason that, " Ukranians are white like us?".. (from Johannesburg)
And I Love TRUMP despite a few weird proclivities. I look at a person's actions, and not so much what they say. I think he is doing his very best not to hurt the people of Iran which would devastate them to lose their power sources. I pray he is successful!
Except Trumps proclivities reside in both his actions and his words. His unilateral approach to power serves as a warning that we are a country of constitution and laws and not authoritarianism of consolidated power to one man. It is a cautionary tale throughout history that so many so easily forget when their party is the one who holds the power. They forget how the pendulum swings back the other way.
I doubt you mean it.. (from Johannesburg))
Actions…
https://youtu.be/tMiZpH3ncEA?si=P2LU6W2pUDWRKJPM
https://x.com/MAGACult2/status/2044090944572502197?s=20
100% couldn't agree more with your entire position and rationale on the war in Iran. It's nothing short of very stupid, totally belligerent, and completely insane. In plain language.
I agree War and violence should be a last resort. However speaking/writing Truth should not be curtailed as it leads to censorship which many are experiencing - especially if it does not apply to one group.
Albert, John Leake did not remove any comment or ban anyone. He warned a commenter (a repeat offender) to stop making threats of physical violence.
Thank you for the clarification Daniel - that is never acceptable and could be grounds for banishment.
I’ve visited the usa three times over the last twenty years and have witnessed the economic decline of the evil empire. I’ve yet to experience an unfriendly american! Is this still true? It would appear the average person has been reduced to tent dwellers. Why is the usa still trading with such a massive debt burden? In the U K it would be illegal to trade whilst insolvent! It reminds me of the old song “ buddy can you spare a dime “ war with Iran? “ heaven help you/us because you have upset the world’s economy and it will take years to recover. As they say in Scotland “stop talking the Donald”
Unfortunately the US is showing to the world the version of the Ugly American. Trump hitting every point of the stereotype. Obnoxious, arrogant, narcissist, prideful, greedy, rude, and ignorant. As one can see from many of the comments from his followers, they primarily have these same characteristics.
I couldn’t agree more ! Ohh… my poor American friends, my heart bleeds for you!❤️
THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE HERE IN THE U.S. WITH TRAITOR TRUMP OWNED BY AN ILLEGAL FOREIGN NATION.
Caps locked. Another Boomer yelling on media. Lol
YABUT IT'S 100% TRUE! THAT LOUD ENOUGH FOR YA?🤣🥳
Opinions are like ass***es. Everyone's got one.
YOU TOO? 🤔🤣
Me? No way!! I never poo!
Lol, its getting late so you better run along now. The local buffets AARP discount is about to end. Don't forget to tip!
I've been supporting computer systems for 45 years, since the days your only choice was all caps. It's funny how often I sit at a PC and when I start typing, I have to turn caps lock off! And you have a point, it's usually one of my fellow boomers. Not many out there as old as me still pounding keyboards in offices, so maybe not boomers, but seniors anyway.
Yet another TDS post. Congratulations! Didn't you get your frustration out at the No Kings protest? As usual, you are missing the point. This is not about Iran. This is about who funds them and Israel. The City of London. Iran is just one of their proxies. Why didnt the UK join in? Its about power and they are losing it. Can't or won't see? You will.
Any news on health related topics? I mean, that's what most people who signed up for this substance want or need. Not some more political ideology rant....
True that. Leake is leaking.
Disappointing more than anything. Wish he would turn his obsessive-compulsive disorder towards health. I think more than many would appreciate that effort. But, that truly is what people that suffer from TDS are all about....truly sad!
Aren't you a little overdue for your 16th covid booster and 15th flu shot...or are they what caused the damage? 🤣
There is a grave threat from Islam to the entire world. They lost 3 9-11 battles before they won one; 9-11-1565, Malta; 9-11-1683, Vienna; 9-11-1697, the Battle of Zenta. October 7, 2023 was the 452nd anniversary of Lepanto, which they lost. The Ottoman Caliphate collapsed March 3, 2024, and only ignorance and the unproductivity of Islam has allowed people not to know of the 1400 year jihad to take over the world by force. Islam is not a religion; Islam is a totalitarian political ideology; Islam has drenched the world in blood for 1400 years. It was founded by a man who had a terrible childhood and became a psychopath. Muslims ape Mohammad; slavery and lying are approved in their koran. No Muslim is constitutionally eligible to take our oath of citizenship, let alone the oath of office, because under their law, Sharia, all non-Muslims are legally inferior to all Muslims; women are inferior to men, leaving Islam, criticizing their koran or Mohammad are death sentences. Our Constitution guarantees equal treatment under law, and our 1st Amendment freedom of speech and of religion.
Bush did us a grave disservice by saying "Islam means peace." NO. Islam means submission.
As for the British Empire, they took over huge areas of the world for their own enrichment. They invaded Ireland in 1169, dispossessed the Irish of their land, witnessed and allowed 3 million to starve because they had nothing to eat after they were dispossessed except potatoes, and the blight wiped out the potatoes; in 1916 they executed without trial leaders of the Easter Rebellion. Why did Britain have "interests in the Black Sea and Balkans"? Because they shamelessly took other peoples' lands and wealth.
$240MM. Now do you understand why IRGC head shed got wiped on Day 1 and its vaunted military pummeled, to the disbelief of every prognosticating armchair general?
You admire the "...diplomacy backed by naval strength..."
Well, what have we today in Trump? He'd like to iron out a diplomatic solution, but the "backed by naval strength" is the deciding factor for compliance, feigned or otherwise.
Hegseth can be whatever he is, but Trump is calling it, so don't ascribe evangelical zeal to Trump's military engagement.
Rump can't wipe his ass without permission from Tel aviv. Looks like he hasn't gotten permission to do even that in a long time!💩
“…don’t ascribe evangelical zeal to Trump’s military engagement”…
https://youtu.be/tMiZpH3ncEA?si=P2LU6W2pUDWRKJPM
https://x.com/MAGACult2/status/2044090944572502197?s=20
See this is what keeps getting coddled - the idea that someone tell you that you shouldn't "allow" certain speech on your articles is infantile and aggressive in itself! Who is anyone to tell another what to say? Why doesn't the emailer himself/herself respond to anything they find offensive? Rather than gang up on someone by getting you to agree, simply because of their kiddy sensitivities? Are we all to bend to someone's sensitivities? Does this make sense at all? I understand few have even thought of this but the reason for war is because we can't talk with each other. We have been stripped of our sovereignty, but we can get it back by confronting these infants who think what they want to hear is what others have to speak. I'm sorry John that you played along and babied him/her. If we want peace, we have to create the terrain for peace and you know what that is?
FREE SPEECH. So defend it with all your might. If someone doesn't like what is said, then duke it out in text or words. That way we learn how to be sovereign and shed our baby teeth at last.
Ok - this is the crux - YES to free speech, AND/BUT free speech works best, and to its ultimate usefulness, when people can be reasoned, civil, and substantive - not spewing ad hominems and vomiting emotional reactions.
Remember the 1st Amendment ONLY applies to *freedom from government persecution of speech*. It does NOT apply to the consequences of saying stupid, inappropriate shit in public spaces.
Forget about what's written, that is two-dimensional and we live in the multi-dimensional realm. Even if people use ad hominen and other vomit, the listeners can either ignore them or give them a good public schlapping. That way we learn how to do it better too. But we're learning nothing by preventing free speech. So what it's just talk. And any talk of threats, then we know who to keep out of our circles. And we must make this a big thing, advertise it so that others know who made the threat. Ad hominen in nothing, it just shows they don't have a case. We mustn't prosecute it but respond to it, or not respond and leave them in a social wasteland including their families. WE have the means to do this now with databases so we can know who did what. Constitutions and stuff like that is old school and doesn't work anymore. We need a truly deep, active, principled code to go by and free speech, even with it's flaws, will always result in better outcomes. Free speech makes the terrain unfavorable for those of ill will because we will know who they are. But right now, people are too scared to speak what they know, about celebrities and well known people. Although it's all coming out at last. We need to strenuously condemn anyone who promotes censorship. Free speech is our ticket out of the malaise. So simple I know.
Recommend reading on Trump & Iran: https://coffeeandcovid.substack.com/p/inexpertly-thursday-april-16-2026?r=nl3ud&utm_medium=ios
Jeff Childers is brilliant.
Blind optimism. I stopped reading it.
All wars are bankers wars for they’re the only ones that benefit, along with their investors. So losing a 240million via tax fraud is nothing!
Do you have loans with banks? How about stop paying the interest portion? YOu know that portion is never entered into the economy? And how about you get another person to do it too? But don't keep it all for yourself, share 50% of it with someone you know who needs it. Someone you know, not an organization or charity so you can see how your hard won money is being used. Can you do that? Because that's what it is going to take to ward off these banker terrorists.
We need a complete change of currency that excludes these parasites.
Unfortunately, most loans involve some kind of asset, which would be confiscated should the borrower not pay as agreed.
All loans are corrupt contracts. For the identity used does not belong to the one who pays.
Well that is your fear but I would say the banks wouldn't want this to spread and so they will shut up about it. Don't forget who actually takes your possessions away - people like you and me, they do it "because it's mah job". So we've got a lot of work to do to get that idea out of people's brains, this "it's mah job" nonsense. Soon they'll have nothing too because their jobs will be taken over by robots. Nonetheless Jews know that goyim will do anything for money and they exploit us with that no end. We need to get busy telling our friends and family to not go to war or work for bankers and companies that screw their own.
No fear, just fact. Any property registered is with an identity that is the property of the author / publisher. In the Uk that means the Crown.
We represent a very small minority, that means most folks fear change and loss of their life style that dependant on fraudulent financial services.
Trump after being against FISA Sec 702 is now absolutely for it. It was used against him in what now must be considered Grand Theatre along with July13.
The biggest contradiction of government rhetoric is that of showing concern that its people will be killed by this or that foreign power, weapon or action. Anyone who stops to think about this for two seconds - "Iran will get a nuke" - should be able to spot the lie immediately. If the government truly gave a damn about its citizens being killed it would act this way in all of its endeavors. It would not inject everyone with all manner of poison, feed it garbage, let fentanyl and other street drugs run wild, attack its female population's ability to reproduce or let in millions of illegals.
There are absolutely zero concerns about Iran having a nuclear weapon. It is an abject lie. Everything is about money. Everything. Even the pedos and child trafficking are about leverage and money.
Once you remove the "Iran can't have nukes" reasoning what are we left with? Control of the Middle East by USIsrael because...oil. Always has been, always will be. Oh, and per Doomberg, no, 20% of the world's energy supply does not pass through the Strait of Hormuz. 5% does. So, they can't even keep their lies...straight.
The noble lie that Iran "might" get nukes has been used for decades to prop up a straw man to push propaganda of irrational fear of a radical enemy who wants to destroy the world. We saw similar rhetoric used with Iraq and the WMD lie being told. They feed on the people's ignorance to conduct wars for ulterior reasons. Control of the Middle East and the resources that it contains. Iran sits on oil and is part of a distribution point for trade access. Iran is a strategic pillar to the belt and road initiative that will create trade routes with Iran and China. This is what this war is about is the control of Iran. Kleptocracy on full view for eyes to see.
Now that we've pretty much won the war, you change issues to argue against its bellicosity and financial cost. It seems to me we've gained our ends on the cheap.
"we have pretty much won the war." Lots of folks knowledgeable about the matter disagree. Let's check back in a few months and see where things stand.
That's a fair position; however, the idea that the world might be freed of this most oppressive authoritarian, terrorist-financing, woman-beating, dog- and music-hating regime could be dethroned, is a most hopeful notion.
Okay. I'm betting things will be pretty much back to normal, except without the Iranian headache.