The recent, more extensive release of the Epstein Files was the closest the ruling class has come to being exposed in centuries. The war in Iran changed the subject.
The war was planned on the very day that the threat of the Epstein files being released was made (hyperbaly). The attack on Iran was labeled a contingency plan (a-z) as other, less kinetic, plans were attempted first. For instance, files missing, hard redactions, etc.
Ten years ago or longer, I would claim the US government and its elites were the most corrupt in the world. I was heavily criticized and labeled as a Russian agent or other silly names. But now, as the sewage flows throughout the empire, both literally, as John mentioned, and metaphorically, the nation is beginning to wake up.
In 1958, over 73% of Americans believed whatever the government said. Now that number is in the teens.
Mr Leake…thank you for all of your thoughts here. I personally am holding on to a shred of HOPE that DJT IS NOT enjoined with the Epstein cabal and actually believes in AMERICAN FREEDOM. The stench of Washington DC is sadly fed by the taxpayers of this ,once, great country…the expense of our bureaucratic machine is an UNNECESSARY one…this Country should be run by a volunteer body that Actually CARES about our amazing Declaration of Independence. …period. NO MORE SELF CENTERED BUREAUCRATS GETTING RICH ON THE BACKS OF THE SEEMINGLY ‘UNIMPORTANT’ taxpayer.,
The reasons to act now against Iran are clear and very legitimate. Why wait until they use a nuclear weapon and obliterate Israel, or New York? The comparisons used in your piece are not justified. This is NOT courageous discourse but propaganda!
I don't see how they are "clear" I don't know that any intelligence that our agencies has shared over the past few decades has been correct. Iran has been 6 weeks away from a nuke for 25yrs. More importantly i do not see how these claims are legitimate.
If the US is justified in bombing Iran and taking out all of their senior leadership because of something they might do in the future, some threat of harm they might cause in the future, then does that not give every other country in the world the right to take out our senior leadership? Iran sponsoring terror groups in other countries is pretty much the same thing that our government has been doing for decades, we have supported insurgent groups in other countries all over the world as they try to overthrow their governments. Would these insurgent groups be considered terrorist groups by the governments they are trying to overthrow? We can claim that Iran just killed tens of thousands of their own citizens...OK the US government just killed a few million of our citizens by the way they systemically coordinated the response to the covid pandumbic, knowing it would kill millions. Millions of people died because of our tyrannical governments response...so following the logic here...any other country has the right to come in and assassinate our senior leadership?????
"OK the US government just killed a few million of our citizens by the way they systemically coordinated the response to the covid pandumbic, knowing it would kill millions. Millions of people died because of our tyrannical governments response.."
This needs to be hammered home over and over again.
Sorry but you are confused or purposely trying to confuse the reader. The enrichment of uranium by Iran has increased dramatically over time. If they claim that they could produce 6 nuclear bombs using the uranium they have, that is concerning. The parallel with North Korea as to how appeasement resulted in their obtaining a nuclear bomb, is legitimate. Fortunately the North Korean government is evil but not suicidal...unlike the radical Islamic culture. One cannot compare the terrorist groups funded by Iran with anything clandestine that the US may or may not have done. The utter insanity of the manufacture of a deadly virus and the insanity of the response must be blamed on the virology researchers, the medical community, and the pharmaceutical companies. That mRNA vaccines are still being used is beyond insanity. Blaming this on government is like blaming anything that occurred in the last administration on the brain-dead buffoon, Biden. Frankly we are very fortunate that islamic radicals know so little about science because our society is very very vulnerable to anyone with a suicidal ideology who is also very knowledgeable in chemistry and biochemistry. Fortunately these tend to be very exclusive mentalities.
People like Marco are either intentionally delusional because of ideology or very young and do not remember even a short time ago Colin Powell bringing in his little vial of sand to the UN and making claims about how much anthrax Saddam Hussein "could have" and then finishing his sentence with "and Hussein has not allowed inspectors to confirm even one teaspoon of his anthrax." Looking back, all it would have taken was one smart and brave person in the room to say, "Let me get this straight. You have not seen 1 teaspoon of his anthrax but you know 100% how much he has?" (Actually, that probably did happen and it didn't matter.)
And, of course, the end result of the whole thing was that is was a 100% lie. He never had it. Yet, here we are again and Israel and the US are running the same playbook for the umteenth time. Claim those bad Muslims want to blow up the US (not their neighbors, mind you, who are an actual real threat to them) by getting their hands on a couple of missiles worth of uranium and hoping they can launch them before they are discovered to have them, thereby doing what? Killing maybe a million US citizens and guaranteeing their entire country gets wiped off the map?
Anyone who can step back calmly and rationally should be able to realize just how stupid the Israeli and American lies are.
That being said, if Iran doesn't get themselves some nukes quickly, though, and give Israel a very strong deterrent against attacking them into the foreseeable future, they will lose a lot of lives defending themselves. The best thing Iran can do is to level Israel. It is all they are going to respect.
Well said. I believe that President Trump has been totally captured by the deep state. I do not believe he started out being a agent for them, but after 10 years of stress and manipulation it has taken it's toll. Power and Money control our federal government and we are no longer a bottom up society. We the People have been totally compromised.
When you don't know who all of them are it is hard to pull themso you can capture them. You have to let them show themselves and we have already saw a bunch of the swamp. Show me who prior to Trump did anything? JFK tried and it got his shot.
Your entire essay would be entirely justified if it didn't ignore the fact that all the money that Obama and Biden shipped to Iran has been paying for US politicians to destroy the USA from within. Witness the MASSIVE influx of Islam/Sharia Law into every major US city since Obama first took office. The only way to shut off the money supply is to shut down the foreign rulers that participated in the corruption of the deep state, as well as to shut down the deep state. This is about both stopping the demand for foreign cash from the deep state as well as stopping the supply of cash to the deep state. This is money laundering from taxpayers to our own politicians and their NGOs to replace citizens and cement globalist power, across a period of almost 20 years. Trump is shutting it all down.
Divide and rule is an ongoing program by the elites. The timetable for this attack on Iran was pre-established many weeks ago according to retired military officers. They look at a convergence of many factors to establish a date. I don’t think they woke up one day and said we need a distraction right now; let’s launch the attack. FYI : I totally disagree with this war, but now that it started I am hoping beyond hope that some good things come from it.
John, you’re becoming more shrill and deeply pessimistic of late. I read you because of your command of history, writing ability and reasonableness. Please don’t go off the deep end into endless doom and gloom. You leave no room for God who is sovereign over all.
Supposition without facts makes for interesting reading but where are the facts. Truth is beyond clever inductive leaps. I am really sad to see you take this quasi intellectual route. Sounds like a radical democrat party diatribe.
Zero, himself included. If some were to be revealed, who would he blame, Russian disinformation campaign? It seemed to work well with no blowback for his old pal Hillary.
I could not say or reveal it better. But you have to include that the Democrat Party is now a mafia, the DEMONCRAT DEEP STATE CARTEL. They are completely immoral, lie about everything, and steal a trillion a year and elections. Whether or not they are part of the banking military machines, or a separate entity feeling off the vacuum and corruption, they are a criminal cartel.
Good read John, agree with it almost 100%. Yes it is kind of interesting how the subject changed. Probably another reason why they decided to go ahead with this stupidity. Linking today @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
With so many social media outlets these days, especially due to X, I doubt that important subjects can easily be changed. We can walk and chew gum at the same time.
The American people are easily swayed by Neocon propaganda. They fall for the same cheap trick every single time. Just compare the narratives of the Gulf War side by side with the current talking points. For instance, this operation will take mere weeks, Iranians will give US forces a ticker tape parade, and now the Iranian people can make their own government. I can go on and on. It's exactly the same playbook, the same gimmick, and a high percentage of Americans believe every bit of the lies. Within a few more weeks, President Trump will stand on an aircraft carrier with a sign behind him claiming an operational success; the job is over, and now Iran is free.
Excellent and resonant post. This war , planned long ago , is indeed the grotesque “channel changer” from the Epstein revelations.
The war was planned on the very day that the threat of the Epstein files being released was made (hyperbaly). The attack on Iran was labeled a contingency plan (a-z) as other, less kinetic, plans were attempted first. For instance, files missing, hard redactions, etc.
Ten years ago or longer, I would claim the US government and its elites were the most corrupt in the world. I was heavily criticized and labeled as a Russian agent or other silly names. But now, as the sewage flows throughout the empire, both literally, as John mentioned, and metaphorically, the nation is beginning to wake up.
In 1958, over 73% of Americans believed whatever the government said. Now that number is in the teens.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/12/04/public-trust-in-government-1958-2025/
Mr Leake…thank you for all of your thoughts here. I personally am holding on to a shred of HOPE that DJT IS NOT enjoined with the Epstein cabal and actually believes in AMERICAN FREEDOM. The stench of Washington DC is sadly fed by the taxpayers of this ,once, great country…the expense of our bureaucratic machine is an UNNECESSARY one…this Country should be run by a volunteer body that Actually CARES about our amazing Declaration of Independence. …period. NO MORE SELF CENTERED BUREAUCRATS GETTING RICH ON THE BACKS OF THE SEEMINGLY ‘UNIMPORTANT’ taxpayer.,
This is an idea I can get behind. Thank you, Dawn, for the suggestion!
The reasons to act now against Iran are clear and very legitimate. Why wait until they use a nuclear weapon and obliterate Israel, or New York? The comparisons used in your piece are not justified. This is NOT courageous discourse but propaganda!
I don't see how they are "clear" I don't know that any intelligence that our agencies has shared over the past few decades has been correct. Iran has been 6 weeks away from a nuke for 25yrs. More importantly i do not see how these claims are legitimate.
If the US is justified in bombing Iran and taking out all of their senior leadership because of something they might do in the future, some threat of harm they might cause in the future, then does that not give every other country in the world the right to take out our senior leadership? Iran sponsoring terror groups in other countries is pretty much the same thing that our government has been doing for decades, we have supported insurgent groups in other countries all over the world as they try to overthrow their governments. Would these insurgent groups be considered terrorist groups by the governments they are trying to overthrow? We can claim that Iran just killed tens of thousands of their own citizens...OK the US government just killed a few million of our citizens by the way they systemically coordinated the response to the covid pandumbic, knowing it would kill millions. Millions of people died because of our tyrannical governments response...so following the logic here...any other country has the right to come in and assassinate our senior leadership?????
"OK the US government just killed a few million of our citizens by the way they systemically coordinated the response to the covid pandumbic, knowing it would kill millions. Millions of people died because of our tyrannical governments response.."
This needs to be hammered home over and over again.
Sorry but you are confused or purposely trying to confuse the reader. The enrichment of uranium by Iran has increased dramatically over time. If they claim that they could produce 6 nuclear bombs using the uranium they have, that is concerning. The parallel with North Korea as to how appeasement resulted in their obtaining a nuclear bomb, is legitimate. Fortunately the North Korean government is evil but not suicidal...unlike the radical Islamic culture. One cannot compare the terrorist groups funded by Iran with anything clandestine that the US may or may not have done. The utter insanity of the manufacture of a deadly virus and the insanity of the response must be blamed on the virology researchers, the medical community, and the pharmaceutical companies. That mRNA vaccines are still being used is beyond insanity. Blaming this on government is like blaming anything that occurred in the last administration on the brain-dead buffoon, Biden. Frankly we are very fortunate that islamic radicals know so little about science because our society is very very vulnerable to anyone with a suicidal ideology who is also very knowledgeable in chemistry and biochemistry. Fortunately these tend to be very exclusive mentalities.
People like Marco are either intentionally delusional because of ideology or very young and do not remember even a short time ago Colin Powell bringing in his little vial of sand to the UN and making claims about how much anthrax Saddam Hussein "could have" and then finishing his sentence with "and Hussein has not allowed inspectors to confirm even one teaspoon of his anthrax." Looking back, all it would have taken was one smart and brave person in the room to say, "Let me get this straight. You have not seen 1 teaspoon of his anthrax but you know 100% how much he has?" (Actually, that probably did happen and it didn't matter.)
And, of course, the end result of the whole thing was that is was a 100% lie. He never had it. Yet, here we are again and Israel and the US are running the same playbook for the umteenth time. Claim those bad Muslims want to blow up the US (not their neighbors, mind you, who are an actual real threat to them) by getting their hands on a couple of missiles worth of uranium and hoping they can launch them before they are discovered to have them, thereby doing what? Killing maybe a million US citizens and guaranteeing their entire country gets wiped off the map?
Anyone who can step back calmly and rationally should be able to realize just how stupid the Israeli and American lies are.
That being said, if Iran doesn't get themselves some nukes quickly, though, and give Israel a very strong deterrent against attacking them into the foreseeable future, they will lose a lot of lives defending themselves. The best thing Iran can do is to level Israel. It is all they are going to respect.
Well said. I believe that President Trump has been totally captured by the deep state. I do not believe he started out being a agent for them, but after 10 years of stress and manipulation it has taken it's toll. Power and Money control our federal government and we are no longer a bottom up society. We the People have been totally compromised.
Pharma, yes. The deep state, no. He has done quite a bit to weaken the deep state, however.
Snail pace!
When you don't know who all of them are it is hard to pull themso you can capture them. You have to let them show themselves and we have already saw a bunch of the swamp. Show me who prior to Trump did anything? JFK tried and it got his shot.
"do not believe he [Trump] started out being a agent for them" I do. Butler, do you believe all that?
They tried to eject him from his first term!
Your entire essay would be entirely justified if it didn't ignore the fact that all the money that Obama and Biden shipped to Iran has been paying for US politicians to destroy the USA from within. Witness the MASSIVE influx of Islam/Sharia Law into every major US city since Obama first took office. The only way to shut off the money supply is to shut down the foreign rulers that participated in the corruption of the deep state, as well as to shut down the deep state. This is about both stopping the demand for foreign cash from the deep state as well as stopping the supply of cash to the deep state. This is money laundering from taxpayers to our own politicians and their NGOs to replace citizens and cement globalist power, across a period of almost 20 years. Trump is shutting it all down.
Divide and rule is an ongoing program by the elites. The timetable for this attack on Iran was pre-established many weeks ago according to retired military officers. They look at a convergence of many factors to establish a date. I don’t think they woke up one day and said we need a distraction right now; let’s launch the attack. FYI : I totally disagree with this war, but now that it started I am hoping beyond hope that some good things come from it.
John, you’re becoming more shrill and deeply pessimistic of late. I read you because of your command of history, writing ability and reasonableness. Please don’t go off the deep end into endless doom and gloom. You leave no room for God who is sovereign over all.
If this is going off the deep end I am jumping in with him!
Certainly your prerogative.
Satan is alive and well on Planet Earth
Prosecute, Satan, prosecute!
Supposition without facts makes for interesting reading but where are the facts. Truth is beyond clever inductive leaps. I am really sad to see you take this quasi intellectual route. Sounds like a radical democrat party diatribe.
You would do well to sit back, relax, watch and learn.
Can you list the friends of Trump who have been outed by the release of the Epstein files?
Zero, himself included. If some were to be revealed, who would he blame, Russian disinformation campaign? It seemed to work well with no blowback for his old pal Hillary.
I could not say or reveal it better. But you have to include that the Democrat Party is now a mafia, the DEMONCRAT DEEP STATE CARTEL. They are completely immoral, lie about everything, and steal a trillion a year and elections. Whether or not they are part of the banking military machines, or a separate entity feeling off the vacuum and corruption, they are a criminal cartel.
Good read John, agree with it almost 100%. Yes it is kind of interesting how the subject changed. Probably another reason why they decided to go ahead with this stupidity. Linking today @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
With so many social media outlets these days, especially due to X, I doubt that important subjects can easily be changed. We can walk and chew gum at the same time.
You've hit the bull's eye John with this article. You generally do!
The American people are easily swayed by Neocon propaganda. They fall for the same cheap trick every single time. Just compare the narratives of the Gulf War side by side with the current talking points. For instance, this operation will take mere weeks, Iranians will give US forces a ticker tape parade, and now the Iranian people can make their own government. I can go on and on. It's exactly the same playbook, the same gimmick, and a high percentage of Americans believe every bit of the lies. Within a few more weeks, President Trump will stand on an aircraft carrier with a sign behind him claiming an operational success; the job is over, and now Iran is free.