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John Leake's avatar

Many thanks, David. Much obliged.

David Kukkee's avatar

I have forwarded your offer for the book interview to two men in media I have met previously, John Leake. I hope they contact you. They are on our side it seems, and well liked. I find them to be honest and discreet. Wide distribution of your book would be an asset in the recovery of the West.

Deo Gratias's avatar

The mistake the Founding Fathers made was not putting term limits in the Constitution. They never imagined a permanent political class. They expected congressmen and senators to go home and tend to their businesses and farms and law practices after they had served their country. If two terms were the norm there would be much less opportunity for graft.

Barbara Charis's avatar

I just finished reading a number of books on this subject....about our founding fathers. One was E Pluribus Unum by Forrest McDonald. It wrote about all the difficulties getting the 13 colonies to agree in order to establish the American government. Every colony had its own specific interests. It was a miracle they finally finished the writing of the Constitution in 1787...but not everybody was satisfied until the Bill of Rights with the first ten Amendments to the Constitution was ratified December. 15, 1791.

Morpheus's avatar

“Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.”

--James Madison

Barbara Charis's avatar

America has gone downhill scholastically, mentally, physically and spiritually in the last 75 years. I became aware of the damage that our government has helped create, with its total focus on money to the detriment of every American. The industries it has promoted have aided in the destruction of the mental and physical health of the population; along with the total environment. The industries being promoted have also affected the minds of those who are in positions of leadership. Our leaders have lost their ability to analyze and think clearly. They as well as everyone else eat the same nutrient-poor garbage, take the same drugs and vaccines, drink alcohol and smoke...and have destroyed their brain's. I started studying the various glands in the brain, because of information coming from different doctors, such as , Dr. Peter Briggens, on the Internet and being into nutrition for 65 years I realized the function of the bloodstream is to carry nutrients from specific natural food to the organs and glands....not toxic matter from drugs or vaccines. The matter which most people put into their bodies without thinking is destroying the glands in their brains, which is leading to the degeneration of the human species. There is a most important gland in the brain called the Pineal Gland...It is thought to be our seat of consciousness, which aids in determining right from wrong. The drugs and vaccines particularly have wiped it out. I am old enough to see the radical difference between the character of many people of today and the people who lived 75 years ago.

Rik's avatar

I'm old enough to see it too. How sad, and odd, that human beings now have to be quite old to see straight...

Barbara Charis's avatar

I started waking up 65 years ago...but the information was so bad that i went downhill for a number of years. Our government is the fount of misinformation! The first thing I learned was how bad sugar and flour were in 1961....so I got unhooked from those two items. However, it took finding information coming from Dr. Norman Walker who was the author of 10 books on health, before I was really impacted in 1976. His information helped me get rid of rapidly growing tumor. Life is all about learning.

Rik's avatar

Thanks for that info, Barbara. All the best!

Don M's avatar

Thanks for sharing your info. You are way ahead of the curve. Your last sentence that life is all about learning is what I constantly tell people.

I got the line from someone else— “The day I stop learning is the day I die.” I always strive to learn something new every day.

Barbara Charis's avatar

I took a break from the Internet for 6 months to catch up on my reading. i had a stack of books that were waiting to be read. One should never never stop learning....there are so many interesting things in this world.

PamelaDrew's avatar

Politics is the entertainment division of the Military Industrial Complex ~ Frank Zappa

I DO NOT CONSENT's avatar

Politics and sports - two games, same objectives. Distraction and division, but neither are real or reflect how the future will be run. As in the Wizard Of Oz, “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain”.

And as far as a crisis goes - ‘Never let a good one go to waste’.

Dan Star's avatar

The Republic died the day JFK was murdered.

Phil Davis's avatar

I'm looking forward to reading your new book.

It should be noted, too, that when everyone is fat and happy, no wars are started. It's only when discontent with a fumbling government or other institutions produces hardships among the populace that wars begin to distract everyone's attention.

Susan Schurdak's avatar

What a fantastically intriguing title! Well done, John!! I guess I should read the article now. 😜

Rik's avatar

Thank you! This perspective simply fits in too well with everything I see in our modern environment not to be the real state of affairs. We are in unimaginably serious trouble, and we need some really serious answers.

Texaspeaches's avatar

Agree with your take and look forward to reading…

Lilo Bauer-Freitag's avatar

It's not that we have a lack of actual crises, capable of ending life on earth altogether. Vanishing ozone layer, dead or dying oceans, collapsing AMOC, vanishing polar ice caps, vastly depleted fish, plankton, insects and wildlife are foreboding harbingers of a lifeless planet. THAT'S what we are being distracted from, while preventing chaos and a run on all persons and institutions responsible for getting us to this point.