Regarding the Iraq war. The lies resulted in the deaths of many service personnel, and Iraquis.
To get into that war, blatant lies were told.
Including the lie of a "true peaceful Islam".
That has fundamentally weakened the West. And prevented a critical examnation of Islam.
George W Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair blatantly lied to the public regarding Islam.
The UK has had a succession of deceiving Prime Ministers: Tony Blair, David Cameron, Theresa May, and Boris Johnson. All of them have lied to the public, in order to shield Islam from its richly deserved criticism, after every jhad terror attack.
Right on! The Koran states it is alright to lie for the advancement of Islam. I've read that Islam's ultimate goal is control of the entire world...and no other religion will exist. It is a very backward religion, which does not encourage education of its followers. Many of its ideas stem from the 6th to 8th centuries. Three hundred years after Mohammad died some wealthy rulers started promoting Islam. Its always the same thing with every religion. The people at the top, being supported by all the little people at the bottom.
Non-Muslims can exist but as subjugated dhimmis. Paying the exhorbitant jizya tax.
But only if Islam is in complete control of that country. Otherwise the choice is stark: convert or die.
The early years of Islam are obscure. The Standard Islamic Narrative is that Mohammed received his first revelations in Mecca. He and his small band f followers migrated to Medina, where it then. grew. But there is zero evidence that this actually happened. There is however several pieces of evidence to idicate it started in Petra, Jordan.
See my article:
"Are Muslims praying in the wrong direction?
Several strands of evidence suggest that Petra in Jordan was the original direction of prayer"
I agree that Islam is a backward religion. So is Judaism. Look how Netanyahu's .gov justifies genocide in Gaza. I need little explicate on the Talmud which forms part of Judaism and incorporates behavior and thinking against non-believers. When anyone reads these prohibitions, they see the effect in Gaza.
The astonishing aspect of this situation is that Islam and Judaism are so remarkably alike. Some have suggested this near identity constitutes the reason they cannot tolerate one another much as Democrats project their own shortcomings onto Republicans. I support neither political party nor Hamas or Israel. I support only the fact that people should be allowed to live. In fact, I'm becoming quite conspicuously non-political since I see fault on both sides whether or not in the ME or USA. Whereas I continue to like some of Trump's policies, I now see him overstepping his boundaries consistently at this point. C'est la vie. I knew it would happen. History teaches us so.
Yes they have similarities. But Islam also has borrowed heavily from other sources. For example, the fear of hell is an extremely powerful means of control over Muslims.
Have you read the Koran? If you have, then this fear is exploited on nearly every page of the later revealed chapters. Mohammed had figured out how to use fear as a means of absolute control.
Hell as a means of eternal punishment is a Christian concept, not a Judaic concept. In fact it was a relatively late addition to Christianity. Spinoza figured that out.
If you do read the Koran, there is a key aspect that everyone needs to know: abrogation. The later verses abrogate, effectively delete the earlier verses wherever contradictions exist. Unfortunately a standard Koran will not tell you which verses are abrogated and which are not. Everyone studying Islam shuld not waste time on a standard Koran, as it is confusing. Only use the "Abrogated Koran". Details are here:
"Understanding abrogation is key to understanding the Koran
And understanding the Koran is key to understanding Islam"
You, yourself, just gave a kind, thoughtful answer, Hellish. Thank you. I have no interest whatsoever in reading any literature from these religions. I'm motivated only by old age: I have few years left, and I don't want to waste them. I mean no offense to anyone.
My own POVs are better expressed within a reply I just wrote in Judge Napolitano's YT comment section. The interview was with Alastair Crooke.
"Wow. Low-brow tastes? I don't think so, Mr. Crooke. I'm not a Trump fan, but I would hardly characterize his interests as "low-brow." Does he entertain and exhibit certain mafioso-style tactics and language? Yup. But, again, does this derive from a myth or a combination of New York persona coupled with immense power through money and prestige? Moreover, Western citizens complicit in the genocide? I specifically began a Substack a year ago and wrote extensively about some aspects of the Israeli genocide in Gaza early on. I did so specifically so that I would not be complicit. I have no desire to write nor become a columnist. In fact, in my old age, I resent the time required to do so, but I had to contribute some thought and action against this genocide. I move from a Buddhist principle of Karma which I know not as a theoretical law but as a living principle in all life. I denounced and called the actions barbaric in those early articles. I also accused the Israeli .gov of bloodlust in their actions...and few people actually were using this term then. In fact, the world itself is barbaric. Some call this phase "The Fourth Turning." Some say Kali Yugo (the disintegration times) ended in 19th or 20th century. I see no evidence of that latter claim. We are ripe in the middle of utter destruction in thought, speech, and toward people. Btw, Mr. Crooke is correct in alluding to Israel waging war to instill meaning in their texts and scriptures. Their religion is dead as is Islam and messianic Christianity. This is a revealed via Karmic manifestation or as the Christians say, "Ye shall know them by their fruits." The reason they speak so often of "The AntiChrist" is that they feel their demise: note that the AntiChrist is supposed to usher a new era upon Earth in many traditions. Resurrection via extermination. Only they don't have the causes (Karma) such as wisdom and compassion to facilitate this remarkable alchemy no matter how many red heifers they slaughter. In fact, if the "age" typifies any one quality, it is stupidity. They confuse material goods and progress as evincing these qualities--which is why they want casinos and multi-billion mansions on the Gaza coast, i.e., "proof" of their exalted state of being."
Religions create an in group and an out group. And a sense that those in the in group are superior to the out group. The Kafir, the Goyim. And this principle applies too to totalitarian ideologies: Untermench.
When will we grow out of this, and recognise our shared humanity?
My own country, the UK, is experiencing a severe and existential threat from Islam. It has encroached into all institutions, and even has a significant influence over the Church of England now. I met a seniour cleric of Wells Cathedral who prays Islamic prayers, and is on record encouraging others to do so too. I have the audio recording of him saying it to a seminar room of about 30 people. He is a professor in Canada now. Lucky Canada!!!
Since we are not winning the demographic battle, the only other option, for the UK to survive, is to utterly destroy Islam. In the UK, the births per woman per year of Muslims is around 6 times higher than of non-Muslims. It does not take a mathematical genius to see where that is heading.
Professor David Betz has studied civil wars in detail. He sees the UK as getting quite close to the start of a civil war. Retired army officers can see it too. See my article:
"UK civil war: no political solution?
Colonel Richard Kemp sees that there is no political solution"
I consider England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland gone...as I do Europe.
Recent reports in Austria mimic what you state: Muslim women are having babies in large numbers and far outstripping the native population. These countries' identities are lost. Nothing uniquely Austrian or English will survive in ten years.
This invasion was deliberately orchestrated at the highest level of players in the world...those who orchestrate wars, invasions, national bankruptcies, etc.
If you ask me specifically, I direct you to Richard Werner's interview with Tucker Carlson. Werner documented Japan's downfall from an economic juggernaut in the 1980s. Japan was subverted and stabbed by their own central bank. Japanese against Japanese. Tell me who was able to accomplish that feat, and I will point them as the real directors of political and social movements.
I don't blame you or anyone else in England who have an enormous antipathy toward Muslims. You've been invaded and conquered.
If, indeed, actual war in the form of a civil war is to take place, enormous obstacles arise.
First and foremost, you need weapons. You will need automatic pistols and guns. You can't fight Muslims with knives, for Muslims come from countries where they've grown up with these skills and readiness to use these weapons. Automatic weapons require huge sums of money.
Secondly, you have two other contingents besides Muslims who will oppose you.
First are the innumerable native citizens who see nothing wrong in such large numbers of Muslims arriving. Among this number, I include police who willingly enforce draconian laws against native English but not newly arrived Muslims.
I watched the video closely of police arresting the man who shouted something about "Bacon is good." The police actually looked to me smug and satisfied that they had someone to arrest.
With this attitude, you have a segment of the native population against you.
Secondly, the people who control your finances and politics initiated this huge influx of illegal immigrants will continue to do so no matter how the English vote.
They've further divided your society by giving and sustaining via government funds the means for these immigrants to subsist and, undoubtedly in many cases, thrive.
I must be honest with you. I think the best solution for most Brits is to leave England and emigrate elsewhere. I see no hope for England.
You would need to run guns like the Irish resistance did decades ago in Ireland. You would need to commit to a mindset of utter and complete destruction very much as the Israelis have done. Physical destruction of human beings must be unilateral as in Gaza. Women and children would be executed along with men.
I wonder, Hellish, what the repercussions would be on those fighting this kind of war?
Certainly explosives could be used and perhaps more easily smuggled into the country. Again, this requires organization and money. I ask...are the English citizens mentally and emotionally ready for this kind of warfare? Once you commit, you will experience either a fierce struggle and/or death.
Thus, I think the most viable and practical solution is for native Brits to begin making plans to emigrate abroad. Of course, Europe is lost, too. You might look at South America carefully surveying each country's political stability. Some people might gravitate toward the Far East such as Thailand. Stay away from the "5 eyes" countries: New Zealand; Australia; Canada; and U.S
I'm in my late 70s. If I were younger, I would be planning to leave the U.S., for no difference occurs with changes in administrations. Certain packages, plans, and agendas are pushed which make each administration "look" different, but they're not. All are leading to the same end game.
I saw a Muslim calling other Muslims to prayer over public loud speakers in England on a video a few days ago. I was appalled. No religion should infringe on others...but YOUR nation's leaders have encouraged and allowed this takeover.
Your real enemy is your fellow citizens who want this kind of nation.
Again, I say...leave England. Save your money. Begin research on South American countries. Get out of the European influence which is heavily controlled by The Oligarchs. Europe is going down and will become bankrupt in the next several years.
Save your money and get out.
The time for philosophy and reading and critiquing religions is long past. You must preserve whatever you can of English ways in other countries now as immigrants.
Many people already have left. Many see no future. The wealthy entrepreneurs are already going, which will collapse the tax take. It is de facto a jizya tax.
I know a young police officer in the London police. He has a hatred of what he describes as the "far right". He seems to have been brainwashed. A few years ago I knew two seniour police officers. One had been in the Manchester police, had retired and was doing a civilian job. He was in utter denial about the rape gangs. And was in utter denial about he reality of Islam. The second I had a long discussion with. I offered to give him a lift, as he locked his keys in his car. I had about 2 hours discussions with him. He had been on some training courses. And had an utterly naive understanding of Islam. I had memorised some KKoran verses, explained Abrogation etch.He was utterly astonished. It was not at all what he had been taught.
I did a calculation, based on the demographich changes. I estimate that we are just 10 - 15 years to the point of no return. I did the calculation, to see whether it was worth resisting still, or whether to give up now. I will persevere for 10 years, and if it cannot be reversed in that time, it never will
Every institution of the UK is pro-Islam. Even the Ministry of Defence, i.e. the Armed Forces. Last year JD Vance would become Islamic with nuclear weapons. I made that point to the Defence Secretary in 2019. Who did not reply directly, but had the MoD reply. The email is in this article.
The more I read (from Australia) about the uncontrolled systemic corruption in the US government, the more I think Donald Trump will fail. He looks sick already, and his ideas are getting wilder and less intelligible. Australia is a basket case because it is run by morons, duly elected by an ignorant and complacent population. American government has been extensively infiltrated by evil actors.
Indeed John Leake, the epitome of your point is BlackRock... having captured a huge number of corporations and forcing them to abide in their doctrine, D.E.I. and E.S.G. or face cancellation culture financially. Comply, they say, or you will not buy or sell. (I quote your letter here for clarity):
"Nowadays, we think of “Fascism” as a doctrine exemplified by the German police and military state during the Third Reich. However, the roots of this doctrine lie in the writings of the Italian philosopher, Giovanni Gentile, who postulated that the optimal political and economic system is akin to a Merger of State and Corporate Power."
It is apparent to me that the "fourth industrial revolution", bragged about by Schwabb, is in fact the 4th Reich, i.e. the fourth kingdom prophesied by Daniel, in the Bible... TODAY, A REALITY, in the very common cozy "public/private" ventures.
BlackRock is to me, the strongarm enforcement for the W.E.F. and their web of world governing fantasies... all enabled by crooked misuse of tax payer's dollars, in so-called "public/private investments", imagined by the "elite", and drafted into law by willing, unwitting politicians and bureaucrats who serve the elite on demand. Truly, an abomination of literally Biblical proportions, leading to desolation and fiscal ruination of the country.
A second point, reinforcing your precept, is that of the adventures of Admiral William Crowe, who manufactured anthrax "vaccine", harming many servicemen and women, who convinced the U.S. MILITARY to buy his products. The story is well documented by Col. Thomas L. Rempfer, in his book of memoirs of the fight, Marathons against Illegal Mandates, entitled "UNYIELDING".
I thought of Crowe immediately upon reading your pure words of wisdom... (I quote):
"All of these clever and ambitious money-grubbers teach us that fastest way to get rich is to persuade the U.S. government that you are selling a strategic asset."
Very well done John Leake... this report is red meat for carnivores on the scent of graft and greed in government/corporate indiscretions.
If this goes forward, will Intel chips be programmed to report issues directly to the US government, just like China requires data sharing with the Chinese Communist Party?
"If this goes forward, will Intel chips be programmed to report issues directly to the US government, just like China requires data sharing with the Chinese Communist Party?"
Call me naive, but I look at Trump's view of the USA as about an attempt to turn away from collectivist marxist/nihlist destruction. I think he wants to build up business and government to be a new kind of powerhouse where there is no room for marxist ideologies to creep back into the conversation. I'll take a form of the military industrial complex (which can be discussed, exposed and resisted by men and women of good conscience and statesmen) over communism and/or Islam (which are extremist based, and death focused authoritarian ideologies) any day of the week.
A timely article, John. As I remark below in a reply, I consistently see Trump overstepping his boundaries now. Today, he signed an executive order ordering that those who burn or desecrate the American flag shall serve jail time. Unfortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court long ago ruled that such behavior is protected free speech. I don't like to see the flag burned or trampled, but a citizen has every right to do so in protest...or fly the flag upside down.
We were taught in history class that, when the pendulum swings too far to either side right or left, the tendency is to swing rabidly to the other. We had God-awful years of Democratic nonsense with DEI; trans-sexual policies instigated; crazy pronouns; web censorship; etc. which was one form of totalitarianism, and now we have the other side's totalitarianism. The ownership and excuses afforded for government-involved investing is, indeed, troubling.
I've not seen SCOTUS step in to overturn convictions of those who burned or trampled BLM flags or GLBTQABCDEDFHI... flags. Prosecuted for destruction of property with "hate speech" enhancements. And convicted, sent to prison, penalized. For speech. Unless and until SCOTUS recognizes that those who burn those symbols sacred to the Marxists/Transtifa radicals were merely exercising their free speech rights and overturns their convictions, allows for those wrongly prosecuted to be made whole I simply don't give two sh!ts about Trump criminalizing the burning of the US flag. No double standards. Either atone for the unconstitutional persecution of those who burn BLM/GLBTQABCDEFGHI... flags (and other symbols sacred to the radical left) or just shut the F up about burning the US flag as protected free speech. Because cries about the later without a peep over the former are complete and utter bullshite, unprincipled, and to be scorned, mocked for their blatant hypocrisy.
No one researching & writing today is a greater exposer of the truth than Sasha Latypova, co-author of "The Covid Dossier." Quite an eye-opener. The evidence is right there. Here it is in a nutshell from Sasha: "What MAHA really stands for is making America’s corporate balance sheet healthier while maintaining the interest of its controllers (Big Pharma, Big Tech, Central Banks). Whether individual political actors know this or not is irrelevant. Most probably don’t know this, as it takes digging and digging and digging through the geological strata of government manure. Nor do they really care to know. RFK Jr serves at the pleasure of Trump who serves at the pleasure of Pharma and Tech bros. We the people have no part in this relationship, other than as useful idiots to cheer for Calley Means’s/Suzie Wiles’s brainchild MAHA policy. Don’t throw organic locally grown tomatoes at me, I am just the messenger. No matter what individual feelings one might have toward RFK Jr (and I honestly like him!) this is the reality.
After examining that balance sheet and financial projections for the next 75 years, it is clear that the “compelling government interest” is to shorten your life expectancy in the “least restrictive manner” - i.e. make you poison yourself and your children, voluntarily more or less. The most effective way to achieve that is vaccination, and not food or other methods, they are not as effective and not fast acting enough! Nothing else comes even close in terms of the impact per unit of space and time. One shot often does it in 15 minutes or less."
Those beach photos from 1970 & 2025 say it all. First Big Ag poisons the population with junk food for massive corporate profits, creating an obesity epidemic & now it has to "solve" the problem it created. Solution: get rid of all the useless eaters.
I don't know the transaction details, but, as a taxpayer, I would rather "own" a part of the company than just gift it billions of dollars without possibility of return on those taxpayer funds. I do think that preserving chip foundry capabilities in this country is important.
A much less but equally if not more important aspect of Eisenhower’s speech was his warning about “big science” and the implicit corruption that results when governments are the primary funders of basic scientific research. Fauci’s annual slush fund of billions of dollars for the researchers who toed the line is the apotheosis of that predicted bad outcome.
There are many emerging parallels between what is happening in the US and Fascist Italy.
Mussolini created the Institute for Industrial Reconstruction in 1933 during the Great Depression to rescue failing enterprises by having the state take over the banks' stakes in them. By 1934 the Fascist state controlled 3/4 of the economy, second only to the Soviet Union.
In 1939, Mussolini abolished the lower chamber of parliament to create the Chamber of Corporations each of which represented major sectors of the economy. In this system worker rights, while represented, were subordinated to the ownership.
There are differences relative to the US: 1. Fascist Italy was industrializing, while the US has deindustrialized.
2. Ideologically Italy was gearing up for an expansionist foreign policy, while the US is struggling to maintain its empire.
3. Fascism had a well defined ideology, unlike MAGA which is currently more an ideology of lamentation than of action.
4. ICE has not yet become the Blackshirts that imposed Fascist rule.
Nevertheless, Fascism can be a symptom of a nation in decline, rather than in the ascendant, as it was in Italy.
Next step if the parallels with Fascist Italy are to continue: keep an eye out for the assassination of a political opponent, which will Trump will exploit to impose a totalitarian turn.
BTW, that essay from Vance Ginn brought up Solyndra, where taxpayer dollars were funneled into loan guarantees and one fuzzy memory I have of that debacle was the return-on-investment from lobbying.
If you spend money lobbying Congress for a sweetheart deal, the payback is higher than you get in the market -- confirming your sub-title to the piece above.
Most entrepreneurs or venture capitalists become willing to put up money in a gamble if the return on their investment over time beats inflation rates. A very-high return could be "2-or-3-to-1" ($2 - $3 returned back to you for each dollar that you had originally invested).
But Solyndra got a "triple-digit" return-on-investment (more than $100 coming back for each dollar originally invested).
Spot on post. We also notice that the World Economic Forum is pushing the same under stakeholder capitalism.
The WEF with its new leader, Larry Fink. Moving on from running US capitalism to world capitalism.
US government owning shares in a company is more honest than using the Regulatory State to control the industry.
"US government owning shares in a company is more honest than using the Regulatory State to control the industry."
It is more obvious, but not more defensible.
It' more defensible than the billions granted to all the bankrupt 'green' companies.
A share is partial ownership, legally, and limits corruption and political payoffs.
Regarding the Iraq war. The lies resulted in the deaths of many service personnel, and Iraquis.
To get into that war, blatant lies were told.
Including the lie of a "true peaceful Islam".
That has fundamentally weakened the West. And prevented a critical examnation of Islam.
George W Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair blatantly lied to the public regarding Islam.
The UK has had a succession of deceiving Prime Ministers: Tony Blair, David Cameron, Theresa May, and Boris Johnson. All of them have lied to the public, in order to shield Islam from its richly deserved criticism, after every jhad terror attack.
Islam itself permits deceit. See this article:
"Without the lies, Islam dies
Deceit is not regarded as immoral in Islam"
https://hellish2050.substack.com/p/without-the-lies-islam-dies
Right on! The Koran states it is alright to lie for the advancement of Islam. I've read that Islam's ultimate goal is control of the entire world...and no other religion will exist. It is a very backward religion, which does not encourage education of its followers. Many of its ideas stem from the 6th to 8th centuries. Three hundred years after Mohammad died some wealthy rulers started promoting Islam. Its always the same thing with every religion. The people at the top, being supported by all the little people at the bottom.
Islam does demand control. World domnation.
Non-Muslims can exist but as subjugated dhimmis. Paying the exhorbitant jizya tax.
But only if Islam is in complete control of that country. Otherwise the choice is stark: convert or die.
The early years of Islam are obscure. The Standard Islamic Narrative is that Mohammed received his first revelations in Mecca. He and his small band f followers migrated to Medina, where it then. grew. But there is zero evidence that this actually happened. There is however several pieces of evidence to idicate it started in Petra, Jordan.
See my article:
"Are Muslims praying in the wrong direction?
Several strands of evidence suggest that Petra in Jordan was the original direction of prayer"
https://hellish2050.substack.com/p/are-muslims-praying-in-the-wrong
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I agree that Islam is a backward religion. So is Judaism. Look how Netanyahu's .gov justifies genocide in Gaza. I need little explicate on the Talmud which forms part of Judaism and incorporates behavior and thinking against non-believers. When anyone reads these prohibitions, they see the effect in Gaza.
https://concisepolitics.com/2015/05/17/rabbi-written-talmud-not-god-says-to-mass-murder-all-non-jews-and-even-to-enjoy-the-process-and-consider-it-a-gift-to-the-jewish-god/
The astonishing aspect of this situation is that Islam and Judaism are so remarkably alike. Some have suggested this near identity constitutes the reason they cannot tolerate one another much as Democrats project their own shortcomings onto Republicans. I support neither political party nor Hamas or Israel. I support only the fact that people should be allowed to live. In fact, I'm becoming quite conspicuously non-political since I see fault on both sides whether or not in the ME or USA. Whereas I continue to like some of Trump's policies, I now see him overstepping his boundaries consistently at this point. C'est la vie. I knew it would happen. History teaches us so.
Thank you for the thoughtful reply.
Yes they have similarities. But Islam also has borrowed heavily from other sources. For example, the fear of hell is an extremely powerful means of control over Muslims.
Have you read the Koran? If you have, then this fear is exploited on nearly every page of the later revealed chapters. Mohammed had figured out how to use fear as a means of absolute control.
Hell as a means of eternal punishment is a Christian concept, not a Judaic concept. In fact it was a relatively late addition to Christianity. Spinoza figured that out.
If you do read the Koran, there is a key aspect that everyone needs to know: abrogation. The later verses abrogate, effectively delete the earlier verses wherever contradictions exist. Unfortunately a standard Koran will not tell you which verses are abrogated and which are not. Everyone studying Islam shuld not waste time on a standard Koran, as it is confusing. Only use the "Abrogated Koran". Details are here:
"Understanding abrogation is key to understanding the Koran
And understanding the Koran is key to understanding Islam"
https://hellish2050.substack.com/p/understanding-abrogation-is-key-to
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You, yourself, just gave a kind, thoughtful answer, Hellish. Thank you. I have no interest whatsoever in reading any literature from these religions. I'm motivated only by old age: I have few years left, and I don't want to waste them. I mean no offense to anyone.
My own POVs are better expressed within a reply I just wrote in Judge Napolitano's YT comment section. The interview was with Alastair Crooke.
"Wow. Low-brow tastes? I don't think so, Mr. Crooke. I'm not a Trump fan, but I would hardly characterize his interests as "low-brow." Does he entertain and exhibit certain mafioso-style tactics and language? Yup. But, again, does this derive from a myth or a combination of New York persona coupled with immense power through money and prestige? Moreover, Western citizens complicit in the genocide? I specifically began a Substack a year ago and wrote extensively about some aspects of the Israeli genocide in Gaza early on. I did so specifically so that I would not be complicit. I have no desire to write nor become a columnist. In fact, in my old age, I resent the time required to do so, but I had to contribute some thought and action against this genocide. I move from a Buddhist principle of Karma which I know not as a theoretical law but as a living principle in all life. I denounced and called the actions barbaric in those early articles. I also accused the Israeli .gov of bloodlust in their actions...and few people actually were using this term then. In fact, the world itself is barbaric. Some call this phase "The Fourth Turning." Some say Kali Yugo (the disintegration times) ended in 19th or 20th century. I see no evidence of that latter claim. We are ripe in the middle of utter destruction in thought, speech, and toward people. Btw, Mr. Crooke is correct in alluding to Israel waging war to instill meaning in their texts and scriptures. Their religion is dead as is Islam and messianic Christianity. This is a revealed via Karmic manifestation or as the Christians say, "Ye shall know them by their fruits." The reason they speak so often of "The AntiChrist" is that they feel their demise: note that the AntiChrist is supposed to usher a new era upon Earth in many traditions. Resurrection via extermination. Only they don't have the causes (Karma) such as wisdom and compassion to facilitate this remarkable alchemy no matter how many red heifers they slaughter. In fact, if the "age" typifies any one quality, it is stupidity. They confuse material goods and progress as evincing these qualities--which is why they want casinos and multi-billion mansions on the Gaza coast, i.e., "proof" of their exalted state of being."
Religions create an in group and an out group. And a sense that those in the in group are superior to the out group. The Kafir, the Goyim. And this principle applies too to totalitarian ideologies: Untermench.
When will we grow out of this, and recognise our shared humanity?
My own country, the UK, is experiencing a severe and existential threat from Islam. It has encroached into all institutions, and even has a significant influence over the Church of England now. I met a seniour cleric of Wells Cathedral who prays Islamic prayers, and is on record encouraging others to do so too. I have the audio recording of him saying it to a seminar room of about 30 people. He is a professor in Canada now. Lucky Canada!!!
Since we are not winning the demographic battle, the only other option, for the UK to survive, is to utterly destroy Islam. In the UK, the births per woman per year of Muslims is around 6 times higher than of non-Muslims. It does not take a mathematical genius to see where that is heading.
Professor David Betz has studied civil wars in detail. He sees the UK as getting quite close to the start of a civil war. Retired army officers can see it too. See my article:
"UK civil war: no political solution?
Colonel Richard Kemp sees that there is no political solution"
https://hellish2050.substack.com/p/uk-civil-war-no-political-solution
Oh, Hellish. I'm so deeply sorry. So sorry.
I consider England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland gone...as I do Europe.
Recent reports in Austria mimic what you state: Muslim women are having babies in large numbers and far outstripping the native population. These countries' identities are lost. Nothing uniquely Austrian or English will survive in ten years.
This invasion was deliberately orchestrated at the highest level of players in the world...those who orchestrate wars, invasions, national bankruptcies, etc.
If you ask me specifically, I direct you to Richard Werner's interview with Tucker Carlson. Werner documented Japan's downfall from an economic juggernaut in the 1980s. Japan was subverted and stabbed by their own central bank. Japanese against Japanese. Tell me who was able to accomplish that feat, and I will point them as the real directors of political and social movements.
I don't blame you or anyone else in England who have an enormous antipathy toward Muslims. You've been invaded and conquered.
If, indeed, actual war in the form of a civil war is to take place, enormous obstacles arise.
First and foremost, you need weapons. You will need automatic pistols and guns. You can't fight Muslims with knives, for Muslims come from countries where they've grown up with these skills and readiness to use these weapons. Automatic weapons require huge sums of money.
Secondly, you have two other contingents besides Muslims who will oppose you.
First are the innumerable native citizens who see nothing wrong in such large numbers of Muslims arriving. Among this number, I include police who willingly enforce draconian laws against native English but not newly arrived Muslims.
I watched the video closely of police arresting the man who shouted something about "Bacon is good." The police actually looked to me smug and satisfied that they had someone to arrest.
With this attitude, you have a segment of the native population against you.
Secondly, the people who control your finances and politics initiated this huge influx of illegal immigrants will continue to do so no matter how the English vote.
They've further divided your society by giving and sustaining via government funds the means for these immigrants to subsist and, undoubtedly in many cases, thrive.
I must be honest with you. I think the best solution for most Brits is to leave England and emigrate elsewhere. I see no hope for England.
You would need to run guns like the Irish resistance did decades ago in Ireland. You would need to commit to a mindset of utter and complete destruction very much as the Israelis have done. Physical destruction of human beings must be unilateral as in Gaza. Women and children would be executed along with men.
I wonder, Hellish, what the repercussions would be on those fighting this kind of war?
Certainly explosives could be used and perhaps more easily smuggled into the country. Again, this requires organization and money. I ask...are the English citizens mentally and emotionally ready for this kind of warfare? Once you commit, you will experience either a fierce struggle and/or death.
Thus, I think the most viable and practical solution is for native Brits to begin making plans to emigrate abroad. Of course, Europe is lost, too. You might look at South America carefully surveying each country's political stability. Some people might gravitate toward the Far East such as Thailand. Stay away from the "5 eyes" countries: New Zealand; Australia; Canada; and U.S
I'm in my late 70s. If I were younger, I would be planning to leave the U.S., for no difference occurs with changes in administrations. Certain packages, plans, and agendas are pushed which make each administration "look" different, but they're not. All are leading to the same end game.
I saw a Muslim calling other Muslims to prayer over public loud speakers in England on a video a few days ago. I was appalled. No religion should infringe on others...but YOUR nation's leaders have encouraged and allowed this takeover.
Your real enemy is your fellow citizens who want this kind of nation.
Again, I say...leave England. Save your money. Begin research on South American countries. Get out of the European influence which is heavily controlled by The Oligarchs. Europe is going down and will become bankrupt in the next several years.
Save your money and get out.
The time for philosophy and reading and critiquing religions is long past. You must preserve whatever you can of English ways in other countries now as immigrants.
Many people already have left. Many see no future. The wealthy entrepreneurs are already going, which will collapse the tax take. It is de facto a jizya tax.
I know a young police officer in the London police. He has a hatred of what he describes as the "far right". He seems to have been brainwashed. A few years ago I knew two seniour police officers. One had been in the Manchester police, had retired and was doing a civilian job. He was in utter denial about the rape gangs. And was in utter denial about he reality of Islam. The second I had a long discussion with. I offered to give him a lift, as he locked his keys in his car. I had about 2 hours discussions with him. He had been on some training courses. And had an utterly naive understanding of Islam. I had memorised some KKoran verses, explained Abrogation etch.He was utterly astonished. It was not at all what he had been taught.
I did a calculation, based on the demographich changes. I estimate that we are just 10 - 15 years to the point of no return. I did the calculation, to see whether it was worth resisting still, or whether to give up now. I will persevere for 10 years, and if it cannot be reversed in that time, it never will
Every institution of the UK is pro-Islam. Even the Ministry of Defence, i.e. the Armed Forces. Last year JD Vance would become Islamic with nuclear weapons. I made that point to the Defence Secretary in 2019. Who did not reply directly, but had the MoD reply. The email is in this article.
I do encourage everyone to subscribe.
"The Ministry of Defence is on the side of Islam
Here is the written evidence"
https://hellish2050.substack.com/p/the-ministry-of-defence-is-on-the
The more I read (from Australia) about the uncontrolled systemic corruption in the US government, the more I think Donald Trump will fail. He looks sick already, and his ideas are getting wilder and less intelligible. Australia is a basket case because it is run by morons, duly elected by an ignorant and complacent population. American government has been extensively infiltrated by evil actors.
Indeed John Leake, the epitome of your point is BlackRock... having captured a huge number of corporations and forcing them to abide in their doctrine, D.E.I. and E.S.G. or face cancellation culture financially. Comply, they say, or you will not buy or sell. (I quote your letter here for clarity):
"Nowadays, we think of “Fascism” as a doctrine exemplified by the German police and military state during the Third Reich. However, the roots of this doctrine lie in the writings of the Italian philosopher, Giovanni Gentile, who postulated that the optimal political and economic system is akin to a Merger of State and Corporate Power."
It is apparent to me that the "fourth industrial revolution", bragged about by Schwabb, is in fact the 4th Reich, i.e. the fourth kingdom prophesied by Daniel, in the Bible... TODAY, A REALITY, in the very common cozy "public/private" ventures.
BlackRock is to me, the strongarm enforcement for the W.E.F. and their web of world governing fantasies... all enabled by crooked misuse of tax payer's dollars, in so-called "public/private investments", imagined by the "elite", and drafted into law by willing, unwitting politicians and bureaucrats who serve the elite on demand. Truly, an abomination of literally Biblical proportions, leading to desolation and fiscal ruination of the country.
A second point, reinforcing your precept, is that of the adventures of Admiral William Crowe, who manufactured anthrax "vaccine", harming many servicemen and women, who convinced the U.S. MILITARY to buy his products. The story is well documented by Col. Thomas L. Rempfer, in his book of memoirs of the fight, Marathons against Illegal Mandates, entitled "UNYIELDING".
I thought of Crowe immediately upon reading your pure words of wisdom... (I quote):
"All of these clever and ambitious money-grubbers teach us that fastest way to get rich is to persuade the U.S. government that you are selling a strategic asset."
Very well done John Leake... this report is red meat for carnivores on the scent of graft and greed in government/corporate indiscretions.
If this goes forward, will Intel chips be programmed to report issues directly to the US government, just like China requires data sharing with the Chinese Communist Party?
"If this goes forward, will Intel chips be programmed to report issues directly to the US government, just like China requires data sharing with the Chinese Communist Party?"
Very likely.
Call me naive, but I look at Trump's view of the USA as about an attempt to turn away from collectivist marxist/nihlist destruction. I think he wants to build up business and government to be a new kind of powerhouse where there is no room for marxist ideologies to creep back into the conversation. I'll take a form of the military industrial complex (which can be discussed, exposed and resisted by men and women of good conscience and statesmen) over communism and/or Islam (which are extremist based, and death focused authoritarian ideologies) any day of the week.
A timely article, John. As I remark below in a reply, I consistently see Trump overstepping his boundaries now. Today, he signed an executive order ordering that those who burn or desecrate the American flag shall serve jail time. Unfortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court long ago ruled that such behavior is protected free speech. I don't like to see the flag burned or trampled, but a citizen has every right to do so in protest...or fly the flag upside down.
We were taught in history class that, when the pendulum swings too far to either side right or left, the tendency is to swing rabidly to the other. We had God-awful years of Democratic nonsense with DEI; trans-sexual policies instigated; crazy pronouns; web censorship; etc. which was one form of totalitarianism, and now we have the other side's totalitarianism. The ownership and excuses afforded for government-involved investing is, indeed, troubling.
I've not seen SCOTUS step in to overturn convictions of those who burned or trampled BLM flags or GLBTQABCDEDFHI... flags. Prosecuted for destruction of property with "hate speech" enhancements. And convicted, sent to prison, penalized. For speech. Unless and until SCOTUS recognizes that those who burn those symbols sacred to the Marxists/Transtifa radicals were merely exercising their free speech rights and overturns their convictions, allows for those wrongly prosecuted to be made whole I simply don't give two sh!ts about Trump criminalizing the burning of the US flag. No double standards. Either atone for the unconstitutional persecution of those who burn BLM/GLBTQABCDEFGHI... flags (and other symbols sacred to the radical left) or just shut the F up about burning the US flag as protected free speech. Because cries about the later without a peep over the former are complete and utter bullshite, unprincipled, and to be scorned, mocked for their blatant hypocrisy.
No one researching & writing today is a greater exposer of the truth than Sasha Latypova, co-author of "The Covid Dossier." Quite an eye-opener. The evidence is right there. Here it is in a nutshell from Sasha: "What MAHA really stands for is making America’s corporate balance sheet healthier while maintaining the interest of its controllers (Big Pharma, Big Tech, Central Banks). Whether individual political actors know this or not is irrelevant. Most probably don’t know this, as it takes digging and digging and digging through the geological strata of government manure. Nor do they really care to know. RFK Jr serves at the pleasure of Trump who serves at the pleasure of Pharma and Tech bros. We the people have no part in this relationship, other than as useful idiots to cheer for Calley Means’s/Suzie Wiles’s brainchild MAHA policy. Don’t throw organic locally grown tomatoes at me, I am just the messenger. No matter what individual feelings one might have toward RFK Jr (and I honestly like him!) this is the reality.
After examining that balance sheet and financial projections for the next 75 years, it is clear that the “compelling government interest” is to shorten your life expectancy in the “least restrictive manner” - i.e. make you poison yourself and your children, voluntarily more or less. The most effective way to achieve that is vaccination, and not food or other methods, they are not as effective and not fast acting enough! Nothing else comes even close in terms of the impact per unit of space and time. One shot often does it in 15 minutes or less."
Those beach photos from 1970 & 2025 say it all. First Big Ag poisons the population with junk food for massive corporate profits, creating an obesity epidemic & now it has to "solve" the problem it created. Solution: get rid of all the useless eaters.
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/the-us-government-has-a-compelling?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=870364&post_id=171809049&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=gccnd&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
I don't know the transaction details, but, as a taxpayer, I would rather "own" a part of the company than just gift it billions of dollars without possibility of return on those taxpayer funds. I do think that preserving chip foundry capabilities in this country is important.
A much less but equally if not more important aspect of Eisenhower’s speech was his warning about “big science” and the implicit corruption that results when governments are the primary funders of basic scientific research. Fauci’s annual slush fund of billions of dollars for the researchers who toed the line is the apotheosis of that predicted bad outcome.
There are many emerging parallels between what is happening in the US and Fascist Italy.
Mussolini created the Institute for Industrial Reconstruction in 1933 during the Great Depression to rescue failing enterprises by having the state take over the banks' stakes in them. By 1934 the Fascist state controlled 3/4 of the economy, second only to the Soviet Union.
In 1939, Mussolini abolished the lower chamber of parliament to create the Chamber of Corporations each of which represented major sectors of the economy. In this system worker rights, while represented, were subordinated to the ownership.
There are differences relative to the US: 1. Fascist Italy was industrializing, while the US has deindustrialized.
2. Ideologically Italy was gearing up for an expansionist foreign policy, while the US is struggling to maintain its empire.
3. Fascism had a well defined ideology, unlike MAGA which is currently more an ideology of lamentation than of action.
4. ICE has not yet become the Blackshirts that imposed Fascist rule.
Nevertheless, Fascism can be a symptom of a nation in decline, rather than in the ascendant, as it was in Italy.
Next step if the parallels with Fascist Italy are to continue: keep an eye out for the assassination of a political opponent, which will Trump will exploit to impose a totalitarian turn.
Obama gave Solindra 500 million and LOST it all
In 2008, under TAARP, the U.S. Government took equity positions in GM, Chrysler, Fannie May, Citi ,AIG, and GMAC.
Good point, John.
BTW, that essay from Vance Ginn brought up Solyndra, where taxpayer dollars were funneled into loan guarantees and one fuzzy memory I have of that debacle was the return-on-investment from lobbying.
If you spend money lobbying Congress for a sweetheart deal, the payback is higher than you get in the market -- confirming your sub-title to the piece above.
Most entrepreneurs or venture capitalists become willing to put up money in a gamble if the return on their investment over time beats inflation rates. A very-high return could be "2-or-3-to-1" ($2 - $3 returned back to you for each dollar that you had originally invested).
But Solyndra got a "triple-digit" return-on-investment (more than $100 coming back for each dollar originally invested).
Bravo John! It will get much worse fast!