I don't see elation at the news of killing. (Defaming a dead man is twisted, by the way. You would do well as a podcast partner with Candace Owens.) I see a man elated at how well his country's military is doing at destroying a terrorist regime's ability to export killing to other regions of the world. As usual, Mr. Leake, you only see events through the prism of your own skewed worldview.
Unfortunately, you fail to see what the U.S. has been doing round the world to other countries. Mostly smaller countries, and mostly poor third world countries. Who’s the bully? One day, all this is gonna come back on us because of what our military industrial complex has done to piss off the world. Not good.
Oddly, I don't think Iran even denies supplying missiles to Hezbollah and Hamas. It's part of their holy war effort to bring on the end times. Your refusal to see that is downright silly on your part. The Israelis have stopped Iranian missile shipments into Gaza a number of times. Iran may not call it terrorism, but when you supply missiles to terrorists to fire against civilian targets, it certainly is terrorism. The role of Iran in sponsoring terrorism around the world is common knowledge at this point. You literally would have to bury your head in sand not to know about this.
Hamas is not supported by Iran. Hamas, was founded and financially supported by Israel as an alternative to the PLO. They have given it millions over the years and they have now used it as a way to justify their genocidal goals throughout the region. What Iranian terrorist acts in the US or anywhere in Israel or the M/E can you enumerate?
100% Canute. Israel initiated, funds and controls Hamas. Well documented. Bibi Satanyahoo and other israeli leaders has admitted to it, on camera. Unfortunately James, you're one of the great majority that has been gaslit by our media.
What did Hamas do to Gaza when Israelis pulled out and turned it over to them in 2005? What did it look like when Israelis were living there and then after Hamas and the “Palestinians” took over? This isn’t hard - look at the physical evidence. Ask yourself where would you rather live? That’s why Israel has such a diverse populace - Muslims, Christians, Jews, Atheists. The difference in the people groups goes back to their religions. Understand that and you will understand the region. If you don’t, you won’t.
I actually look forward to a nuclear exchange. It is really as deadly as sold to the public? What happens if it ISN'T? If you visited every city in the world, would you be able to identify with ABSOLUTE uncertainty which ones were atomic bombed? Where are the Kaiju? The greater the destruction, the more busine$$ for BUILD BACK BETTER.
Yeah, hardly anybody knows that bin laden had nothing to do with 911, and most of the people the lying USgov said flew the planes to their own deaths were still alive years latter. Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld (BCR) did the whole thing to steal $80B of gold from the building across the street from the tower. The tower was supposed to fall on that building to destroy the evidence of their theft. Think about these facts: 1) only BCR had the key to that building. 2) It was laced with explosives in-case the tower did not cover-up their theft, that is why it blew up days later. 3) The 30 guys that put the explosives in that building ALL mysteriously disappeared within a month after 911. 4) Cheney's job was supposed to take the planes down, but instead he did nothing. 5) Rumsfeld had a PHD in piloting planes using computers, and his Pentagon staff that were onto him were meeting in the same wing of that building that he ran one plane into, murdering most of them. 6) Bush sent all the rubble evidence to China. 7) Fifteen-hundred building demo experts signed affidavits proving with 100's of their own films that the building across the street could only have been exploded from the inside by explosives they used as experts their whole lives. 8) You can prove real pilots were murdered on those planes by watching them doing a maneuver of moving the steering wheels of the planes up and down trying to control the planes before they crashed.
A brief investigation reveals the US has killed thousands of middle easterners for every single westerner Iran has killed over the last 3 or 4 decades. We are the terrorists. You've drunk the kool-aid. By now you should be able to tell when you've been manipulated by propaganda. What, after COVID, Iraq's WMDs, and so many other examples will it take to wake some up?
As usual, you are late for your next Covid Jab. Lindsey loved those too. He was a sick twist and I hope he is in Hell along with Fauci when that bastard's time comes.
"I invented terrorism." - Menchem Begin - and indeed he did, along with Yitzak Shemir, via the Irgun and Stern Gang. No operations conducted by any Muslim organization on the globe have equaled the death and destruction that Zionist terror has introduced to the world.
"I see a man elated at how well his country's military is doing at destroying a terrorist regime's ability to export killing to other regions of the world."
Just as John Leake described! You prove his point. Has Iran been trying to dominate the U.S., or has the U.S. been trying to dominate Iran, at least since 1953, but surely earlier? Does Iran have 800 military bases around the world as the U.S. does?
I asked Brave's AI how many deaths the U.S. has been responsible for in the Middle East. Unfortunately, AI limited it's response to post-2001:
"Estimates of deaths resulting from U.S. military operations in the Middle East since 2001 vary significantly depending on whether counts include only direct violence or also indirect consequences like disease and infrastructure collapse. The Costs of War Project at Brown University estimates that at least 4.5 million people have died as a consequence of post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan, Libya, and Somalia. This total includes approximately 906,000 to 937,000 direct deaths from combat and 3.6 million indirect deaths caused by war-related economic collapse, food insecurity, and destroyed healthcare systems."
James…let’s wait for this war to end and see how things turn out for the American people before you (and Lindsey’s ghost) start taking your victory laps. OK with you?
We waited 20 years for the warmongers to flush a trillion dollars down the toilet in Afghanistan, destroy the infrastructure, kill how many thousands, or 100's of thousands of people, only to replace the Taliban with the Taliban. How long should we wait?
Well said. John seems to get bogged down in knowledge which turns into rabbit trails that circle back to support what he already believed instead of simply looking for the truth and allowing his view to be informed by it.
John Leake has no doubt tapped into a very important variable when it comes to mind viruses.
I believe he is correct in the observation that there are those who delight in mayhem and death, including Lindsey Graham. The virus of psychopathy that infects humanity was captured well in Snakes in Suits, a book about psychopaths in the boardroom.
Leake's comment on Hitchens (someone I did not particularly like) was helpful. Leake wrote, "At one point in the interview, he made the startling statement that the Great Powers waged war not because conflict resolution was so hard, but because the men running the belligerent countries simply wanted war." So true. And Hitchens' analysis of the damage done to Christianity, a faith that seemed cut loose from its moorings, was also good analysis. I sometimes worry that Christians, of which I am one, no longer understand their faith beyond third grade catechism or Sunday School.
The question that remains is what is the nature of the soil, the mind dirt, in which mind viruses thrive. At risk of being self serving and repetitive, I think Leake and others might enjoy a little speculative fiction on that topic that I put into a short story, The Rescue. https://firstimagefilms.com/the-rescue-story/
I never could understand Christianity’s idea that God would punish people who did not believe in Christ. And I was taught the summary of the law from a young age, not that I understood it, but I still knew that God loves us unconditionally, so how could God condemn innocent people – like Anne Frank – who was murdered at the young age of 15 and was a Jew?
It made no sense until I discovered Origen of Alexandria, whom the church canceled in the 6th century. Finally, Origen spoke to me and I understood the summary of the law. But since the church canceled him so long ago, not many people know who he was or what he said : https://lizlasorte.substack.com/p/why-was-origen-of-alexandria-canceled?r=76q58
Wow. How serendipitous. I'm currently writing a book in which Origen figures prominently. You are one of few who have rediscovered his work. The Council that cancelled him, convened by an Emperor, was one of many that sought to reduce man to body only. Origen's exploration of the Platonic idea of a pre-existing soul, which was consistent with everything Jesus taught, but not what the Church later taught, upset those who depended upon one's embodied state to deliver control and punishment. You have hit upon the profound difference between true NT thinking, and the lingering ideas of OT strife. Thank you for the comment. Did not expect a mirror of my current work in this comment section.
Oddly, you dont deal with the psychopaths of the Islamic conquest or of the communist revolutionary movement: both are belief systems which actively cultivate the sociopathic and psychopathic. How extraordinary that you missed that.
BTW, excellent substack article on Origen. Benedict XVI, the foremost theologian of our time, also mentions him (and was a bit of a Platonist himself). In the new book, I am looked at a "First Principle" and how the church has crushed the idea of our being immortal souls, repeatedly promoting flesh over spirit.
It makes sense that the church would kill any notion of living more than one life because then people might not feel the need to pay their "sin" tax. IDK, but it's a very interesting discussion that some people refuse to engage.
Yet they do. About 30% of the population is completely impenetrable by facts and evidence, no matter how unassailable. Only about 10-15% try to weigh evidence impartially and reach rational conclusions. The rest lie on a spectrum between. Nothing can be done to reach some of these commenters. If their thought leaders switch sides, they will too, on a dime, and forget everything they believed before.
From a lot of sources 30 % is accurate. So we know what this says about the human mind. Pretty messed up. A down to earth, elderly, and very bright psychiatrist with the last name of Livingston said that 90 % of his patients keep coming back and that is because the subconscious determines their thoughts.
Dr. Livingston was a caring man and was seen as quite a character in Vietnam. Back then doctors got drafted.
Exact numbers on such things are unknowable. But we can do the best we can with the numbers we have, keeping in mind - who really knows? When I was a kid the number I remember hearing is about 3% really see things pretty damn close to as they are. I've heard the same cited since. Seems about right. These would be a subset of the 10-15% who at least try.
And I am lying awake at night worried that Netanyahu will use Israeli nukes as a way of blackmailing the U.S. "If you don't support us, we will roll out the nukes as our defense." That is scary.
Serious? Just factual. This has already happened. Just dressing it up in "what if" terms to entertain folks like you who cannot comprehend present day reality.
I'm sorry. My apologies, please. My reply was meant for John Leake's statement above about him lying awake for 40 years due to Netanyahu's Iran bomb threat. I don't understand how my reply ended up down here. Not being careful, I suppose. I have indeed, no problem with any of your statements
Given how “sit, beg, and roll over” almost our entire government is toward “our best ally,” I don’t think said ally needs nukes at all, except maybe as window dressing in some kind of way. The spying, surveillance, and blackmail is already working better than absolutely anything else that might be considered.
I.e., it seems to me that nukes is nothing next to computer and phone tapping, blackmail collection, and behind-the-scenes bribes and threats.
You should have started worrying in the 50s when the U.S. did a coup d'etat against Iran's democratically elected government and installed the Shah. The rest was inevitable.
I kinda agree. And kinda not. Problem is 1950. Most in the US weren’t even born yet and most of us have been spoon fed zio propaganda since birth. Now that the scales are falling from some of our eyes, let’s figure out effective ways to spread the real story.
If you had been invaded by Britain and the Soviet Union in 1941, and your democratically elected government had been overthrown by the CIA and MI6 in 1953, and you were attacked by Iraq, armed with American weapons in the 1980s, wouldn't you want a nuclear deterrent? why does the USA maintain an enormous nuclear arsenal? It is useful to occasionally put yourself in the other guy's shoes. At least that is what grown-ups try to do, not that the world contains a whole lot of those
Dean Henderson has written many books and his substack has extractions from them. The Four Horsemen he calls them, from oil. I've read more than ever since the plandemic, found this website with interesting articles from banking, oil, hidden gold. Here's a section on Iran, Brits, oil, coups, etc. behindthenews.ca.za/iran-a-case-study-part-1/
During WW2 the US Army had a unit in Persia- the Persian Gulf Command and they wore that patch on the shoulder of their jackets. They helped get supplies to Russia.
Solid points. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stated that Iran did not want nuclear weapons. He saw them as both a "religious fatwa" and a "rational fatwa" because such weapons are a "source of trouble."
Either build nukes as your deterrent or stop and allow unfettered inspections. If you're never going to build a nuke it can't be the excuse for the US and Israel to attack.
There is a lot of world politics I don't understand. The internal politics of Iran are way beyond me, but I can't postulate why they always seem to teetering on the nuclear weapons front. Perhaps some Iranians have the same mind virus or a regional strain.
John, supporting war is a test of true Christianity. The template of Christianity was the first-century Christians who remained neutral in politics and wars.
Not only are most of the major Christian churches not neutral, but they were recruiting stations in both world wars and openly support zionism, a major reason the US is so closely tied to the Middle East and Israel.
How does a Christian reconcile their Christianity, which means to be Christ-like, and their support for war?
I respectfully add that the neutrality of early Christians did not prevent their persecution. Christianity does entail taking a stand that could cost a person their life
The question is, if they had a nuclear weapon, would they use it? Some of us have answered that in the affirmative. See Raymond Ibrahim “Sword and Scimitar,” Mohamad Faridi “Leaving my father’s religion,” and Douglas Murray “On Democracies and Death Cults.” All of these sources will help you understand the radical nature of their religion but to some extent that is studying the lie.
My Bible study teacher said, “Study the truth and that will reveal the lie.” I was filled with despair at the age of 29, completely overwhelmed by all the evil in the world. I heard about the power of the indwelling Christ, turned control of my life over to Him, prayed for faith since I had so little and all of my questions have been answered.
Yes, reconciling the free will of man with the sovereignty of God was one of the more challenging but even that I can explain to my own satisfaction with the simple statement, “God is love.”
Be blessed, John. I’m glad you came alongside Dr Peter McCullough, MD during Covid. Just when you think you’ve looked into the belly of the beast, you get another opportunity. It’s a comfort to know the earth is the Lord’s and the meek shall inherit the earth.
Apologies Rose Martin, my misdirected comment was intended specifically for John Leake. However I did appreciate your reply and the sensible advice it contained.
Notice how Dr. Paul is an army of one? No one else is piling on for headlines or God forbid, accountability. Sadly, Trump can’t admit he got played.
So, business as usual in the Swamp. What is the Swamp’s business? A Grand Bargain between parties:
Democrats will vote unlimited monies to Republicans to destroy foreign cities with bombs and planes and Republicans will vote unlimited monies for Democrats to destroy American cities with money and Democrats.
Iran was never going to blow us up. Although I couldn't blame them now. If the government propagandists and lying media told me my neighbor was plotting to kill me, should I bust in his door and kill him first? You've been lied to. Wake up.
WE (i.e., the US CIA and UK MI6) overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran in 1953 so that their oil could be seized by British Petroleum and its US partnering firms. WE then installed a puppet tyrant over the population who ruled over the country for the next 24 years until a religious and student revolt overthrew these puppets and seized control of their own government. After settling with the US in 1980 - returning our "diplomats" and getting their assets freed they have screamed and yelled at us, but they have made no direct attacks on the US or its citizens unless they were dumb enough to travel to Iran. For 24 straight years, our intelligence community has repeatedly reported that Iran has no nuclear weapon and is not close to getting one. Only Israel has declared this to be the case, repeatedly emphasizing that they would have a bomb in the next few weeks or months, on more occasions than I can count. In the interim Israel has pressed America to go to war with five of their 7 enemy nations over the last 23 years and our leadership has sent American money, soldier and weapons to do their bidding - providing exactly zero return for the US people. We have now created war #6 for Israel and it is beyond our capability to defeat this foe w/o the use of nuclear weapons. The petrodollar has now been fully compromised and is in open decline as is our economy, not to mention os of the world's economies. Five months ago, Iran allowed oil to flow freely and peaceful commerce to move forward without interruption. At Israel's intense urging and blackmailing, WE have destroyed that. Iran is not capable of blowing us up, they have neither the bomb nor the delivery system to blow us up. Start reading valid sources of information and turn off you TV. There is nothing patriotic about what we have done and our entire nation is substantially more vulnerable because our leadership has listened to Israeli lies. The Iranian monster is not at our door. If they are at Israel's door.....I don't care. They are a forign country that has been a parasite on the American jugular for the 70+ years of their existence.
Indeed. On multiple occasions, Netanyahu has declared that Isreal is a Talmudic nation and it is one of the few honest statements the man has made. The Talmud clearly and consistently tells its people that they are infinitely more valuable than non-Jews. It further directs that all non-Jews are merely servants to the Jews and are not in fact, even human, ut mere wasted living tissue. If Americans started educating themselves to contents of the Talmud and the teachings of "revered" rabbais, 6 months later there would not be a synagogue standing on American soil.
That type of paranoia has been occurring long before any of us were alive. 'We have to destroy other humans because they "could" do us harm.' Maniacal musings.
The reality is that the US government has been conducting coups and fabricating wars long before the IRGC existed. The CIA/MI6 conducting the 1953 coup in Iran lead to the creation of the Savak secret police. The domino effect that led to the 1978 Iranian revolution and the Ayatollah's taking control. Just as the US/UK military/intel helped in supporting Saddam Hussein in the Iran/Iraq War. The creation of the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan that evolved into Al Qaeda. Operation Gladio and the covert operations in Europe by CIA using the Sicilian mafia.
It is important to understand historic events and what has occurred in putting us in the situation we are in today. Looking at the world through rose color glasses is what has allowed this to happen and why some Americans still fall for these propaganda ruses. Just like the lie that Covid just occurred naturally and wasn't part of a gain of function research that 'accidentally' released upon the population, and then was covered up by the very people telling you to trust them about another countries nuclear threats. At some point you have to face reality and realize you are being lied to on a daily basis.
Even if we took the 911 story at face value of what they try to sell to us, the majority of the hijackers were Saudi nationals. And now the US government is signing an agreement with Saudi Arabia to assist them with uranium enrichment. Sort of puts the whole war against terrorism logic up on its head.
No other country attacked us on 9/11. It was part of the same agenda that is taking place right now. Without 9/11 we wouldn’t have the Patriot Act, which was that start of the surveillance state, censorship, indefinite detention, searches without consent etc. It laid the groundwork for things like ICE, Venezuela and crackdowns on citizens who dissent. Every major planned event (false flag) gives them the rationale to take away our civil liberties all under the guise of improving our safety and protection!
It is for people who choose to see but unfortunately there are still so many who have their heads buried in the sand! Fear is a very powerful motivator and as they say, ignorance is bliss!
You don’t have to blow up other countries in order to not have socialism here. Just look around now. More Lefties are okay and advocating for socialism now than ever! Our uniparty government is steering the masses to accept it. And they are! That isn’t because Iran is blowing us off the map ma’am. That is social engineering from within.
The insults are deserved in most cases. And have you made yourself Queen of the Reasonable Responses? Don't you have something to do like cashing a Social Security check?
These comments make me completely confused and idiotic. I would place a 'Comment' here after seeing this utter mess. As for John, he thinks for himself and I have come to appreciated that he says things that do need to be said. What he is saying here is quite clear. Read history and it is a long story of war and death.
Don't forget Hilary Clinton's cackling laugh about the killing of Ghaddafi, "We came, we saw, he died, HAH HAH HAH". Yes, demons are real and walk among us.
I agree with the comments below. As beauty is in the eye of the beholder, seeing elation approaching sexual pleasure in Graham's reaction is the product of a sick mind. Graham served with distinction as a Judge Advocate in combat zones. Nobody, least of all those who have served take pleasure in the killing war brings. Mr. Leake having never served would not know that.
I wasn’t referring to people with combat experience; I was referring to perverts like Graham who was never a combat soldier. Note what I wrote about Cardigan
I beg to differ. My Command Sergeant Major husband has said that there were ALWAYS one or two people in every battalion he commanded who enjoyed killing.
I can confirm this. But for a variety of reasons, I won't elaborate on the mixed feelings I have about it. What I can say is the intelligence agencies are worse, and with a better PR dept.
"....served with distinction as a Judge Advocate in combat zones." Seriously Mike, how many blood 'n guts attorneys did you see taking on the enemy in Iraq or AFG. In Saigon, I never saw one so much as soil a pair a kakis. Hearing the stories about battled hardened Jag Officers reminds me of listening to speeches by Sen. Richard Blumenthal. I have never been able find Lindsay Graham's citation for his Bronze Star awarded for combat lawyering as a Major, but I suspect it included something about changing a font ball on an IBM selectric.
"Graham served with distinction" as a JAG. Would you please provide some specifics as to what "distinction" would mean in such an assignment, or even his if you know -- the # of cases, field assignments or other parameters?
Please at least get a BA in psychology, or better yet, go into therapy, before lay-psychoanalyzing Mr. Graham's supposed feelings of elation. It seems to me you are the one with elation at trashing this man who cannot defend himself. Even if you don't agree with him or his politics, can't you respect the dead for a whole week? I think this is part of our larger problem.
POTUS Trump said about Robert Mueller's death: "Good! I'm glad he's dead. It means he can no longer hurt innocent people." Many people feel the same about Lindsay Graham and are still celebrating at how he can now longer hurt innocent people.
As regards your advice to John Leake, he seems very well informed. I'm sure he can get all the back up he needs by running Lindsey Graham's known behaviors and verbalizations through multiple AI with instructions to rank him on each of the dark tetrad characteristics of narcissism, psychopathy, sadism and Machiavellianism.
Yup. Graham was a sick twist. Probably why he did not get married (although rumor has it he was gay). He did not want anyone that intimate to know how perverted his mind, body and Spirit were. Good riddens Graham.
Eisenhower identified the real threat. We compounded it by allowing politicians to build lifelong careers under the illusion that permanence creates stability, while special interests quietly purchased influence. Over time, entrenched officeholders, concentrated money, and weak accountability transformed our political class into a kind of aristocracy, protected by little more than the appearance of equal treatment under the law.
Personally, I believe any politician who votes to send others to war should be required to serve a combat tour on the front lines, with no more special treatment than I received. The proposal may be impractical in a literal sense, but the principle is not: those who authorize war should bear some personal exposure to its consequences.
No one hates war more than a soldier who has fought in one, even when it is necessary. Politicians can discuss war in abstractions because they have never had to wipe another person’s blood from their face or watch someone to whom they owe their life drink himself to death trying to silence the nightmares.
Distance makes war easier to authorize, especially when its a faceless serviceman making all the sacrifices while they blabber empty praises. Nothing infuriates me more than hearing one of those pompous asses saying "Thank you for your service." They don't mean it, and worse, they think of you as the idiot for having served.
The rest of the article reflects a common psychological impulse: people want a single villain. It focuses anger and creates the comforting illusion that removing one person will solve the problem. Yet the same abuses persist regardless of who occupies the stage.
Mr. Leake might broaden his examination to include people displaying the same tendencies under different party labels. He should look at their donors, institutions, social circles, private gatherings, and guest lists. Those networks reveal far more than a ten-second news clip.
That is the real lesson. When someone presents a single person as the source of a systemic problem, that person is probably a lightning rod rather than the source. The deeper causes usually lie in networks of influence, institutional incentives, and layers of corruption.
We may want international politics to operate according to high moral principles, but power rarely works that way. It operates through interests, alliances, leverage, and consequences. Focusing only on the public villain means watching the actor while ignoring the machinery behind the stage.
Let’s remember too that 4% of humans are primary sociopaths, that is they have ZERO conscience. And according to the Milgram experiments, about 65% of us normies, - under sufficient perceived authority - will exhibit secondary sociopathy.
The bombing was in select areas away from civilians. So, it is OK with you that literally hundreds of servicemen and women were killed by Iran over the years, we found their missiles that could go 4000 miles headed for Europe, they constantly refer to us as "Big Satan" and have clearly stated a plan to wipe us out, they killed 30,000 of their own citizens and hung a 20 year old who was a wrestler for speaking out? Your opinions are your opinions, John. Because we live in a country that has free speech, you can state them. But when you virtue signal, we are here to call you out on it. Just like Mamdani. Just like the twenty somethings who never had a Civics course, a history course, or even know the difference between Socialism, Communism and Nazism. We will throw the mud right back in your face. How about reporting that Lyndsay Graham's net worth was just a little over $1 million,(including his home), unlike these other Congressmen and women who are multimillionaires and then go on to be lobbyists and make more money? Did you know that he just returned from Ukraine to help end that debacle? You are an embarrassment.
You seem to have learned nothing from the covid scam, or the GFC (house prices never go down), or the Iraq wars (Iraq wants to nuke the US). That everything the government tells you is a lie.
To each his own. I don’t believe “everything the government tells me.” But you don’t seem to care about the 30,000 citizens Iran killed. Just getting your insulting post out.
Excellent commentary and spot-on. This absolute profaning of the sanctity of life is pervasive throughout the ruling class and its minions. Sasha Latypova just published a chilling piece on more murder of innocents in the public-private partnership between governments and Big Pharma.
It's so obvious that a population cull of old people is underway as we've seen in Canada, the US & now Scandinavia. All of the governments are in debt so they cut their pension/social security/entitlements way down by killing the people who qualify for them in partnership with Pharma who poisons them to death with "vaccines." Pharma cashes in, doctors & hospitals get paid & the government reduces its debt burden. Win-win except for the people who are murdered. Sasha explains exactly how the "studies" and data are completely manipulated and the real figures regarding severe adverse reactions are not published in the papers - only provided to the policymakers. This is how the system works now post-Covid.
You definitely touched a nerve here, Mr. Leake. Look at the neocons rush to defend Lady Lindsey — whose weirdness far exceeded that of weird progressives like James Talarico, and whose conservative voting record hovered around 43 percent. They defend him precisely because he rejoiced in killing — then deny that he could possibly have rejoiced in killing. Why, Amurricans like Lindsey are the good guys! They never rejoice in killing! Only the bad guys do. And, when Lindsey said that money directed toward killing Russians was the best money Amurrica ever spent, he didn’t mean he rejoiced in killing Russians. He meant something else. Because he was an Amurrican! Finally, Lady Lindsey’s defenders cite his distinguished military record. He was heroic as a warrior for Amurrica! But Lindsey’s service did not involve valor in combat — and, if it had, would it mean that his neocon warmongering was holy and good? I can name a famous 20th-century leader whose military service did involve valor in combat. He won two Iron Crosses, both with notations for valor, in the trenches during WWI. One of these was an Iron Cross First Class. These medals were the equivalent of a Bronze Star and a Silver Star. Who was this noble soldier, who would never take pleasure in killing? Why, it was Adolf Hitler!
Boy, some of these people's comments on here are brutal 😝 I am in a household where I cannot argue my stance because of a sick allegiance with the current WH administration. I say, think independently, base opinions on what you actually see happening versus what you're told by the talking heads. I suspect you have the same philosophy.
Lindsay Graham loved all the perpetual WARS and killings he promoted. Russia ended him but niot the destruction he supported, Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity. " Beware of the Military Industrial Complex" President Col. Dwight Eisenhower. Trump isn't that smart; he is controlled by IT leading the world into massive destruction; depopulation.
I 100% agree, but at the same time, be aware of the POLICE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX as well. Just like the MIC spearheads never ending wars, the POLICE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX does the same THING - example never ending drug war. The "drug war", makes EVERYONE a potential suspect AND it makes the "Pablo Escobars" of the world very happy men by creating incentives for insane profits. I don't understand why more people can't see this {the "war on drugs"} is a GAME - the "cartels" automatically assume whatever percentage of interception be it 10%, 20%, 30% {I don't know the exact % because I'm not in that world - but I think I can make an educated guess} I'm guessing 30% interception - but the "cartels" know the exact %, they aint stupid, so they set their prices accordingly and make insane profits THANKS to dumbass ORDER following POS evil bastard POLICE !! "I don't make the laws DUHHHH - I only enforce them Duhhhh". As you can tell, I DESPISE the police. THEY SUCK !! They are hypocrites. They're NOT "anti drug" because if they were ACTUALLY "anti drug", they would have arrested those nurses that gave people CV19 shots. What's the difference in heroin shot and CV19 shot ?? Both will eventually GIT CHA. And for the record because this happens EVERY time, NO, I do NOT use street drugs. I also do NOT use pharma prescribed drugs and I don't smoke ciggies and I don't drink alcohol. But I DO understand supply and demand and black markets and know a little bit about Al Capone.
I sometimes propose, a little tongue in cheek because I accept that most would be a bit freaked out by my suggestion, that unemployed people who struggle to pay for their over taxed alcohol habit should be offered VOLUNTARY participation in brewing and moonshine camps where they can learn to make their own tipple. I cannot see a justification for outlawing of natural and physical processes.
As it is in Finland you cannot distil privately but you can brew beer, wine, cider, mead and that is popular. I am unimpressed by the price of potable alcohol as it gets taxed sky high. I do not drink alcohol (other than a glass or two of mead a year to celebrate Vappu) or smoke or partake of recreational drugs and also have managed to get by with three prescriptions in the last 30 years. I firmly believe every adult has the natural freedom to partake of anything he likes and to synthesise, collect, extract or purify any thing he can find or grow. Limiting these things is a way of controlling freedom and monopolies.
I also believe that many people who are classed as substance abusers are simply people who cannot secure healthcare services for their trauma or other ailments and are forced to or elect to self medicate with what few substances are socially tolerated/available.
If we pretend the myth of taxing alcohol prevents alcoholism it requires us to believe that all rich people are alcoholics because they are not constrained by the tax burden. Yet we find this not to be the case. We mostly find people who have unresolved issues resort to alcohol and taxing it does not resolve those issues, it simply makes it harder to fill the hole that they find themselves in.
I read a few of your comments and find myself agreeing with most of what you say, I think we could be friends if we lived closer.
I don't see elation at the news of killing. (Defaming a dead man is twisted, by the way. You would do well as a podcast partner with Candace Owens.) I see a man elated at how well his country's military is doing at destroying a terrorist regime's ability to export killing to other regions of the world. As usual, Mr. Leake, you only see events through the prism of your own skewed worldview.
Unfortunately, you fail to see what the U.S. has been doing round the world to other countries. Mostly smaller countries, and mostly poor third world countries. Who’s the bully? One day, all this is gonna come back on us because of what our military industrial complex has done to piss off the world. Not good.
You believe all that terrorist nonsense! The only terrorist is the US Government
Oddly, I don't think Iran even denies supplying missiles to Hezbollah and Hamas. It's part of their holy war effort to bring on the end times. Your refusal to see that is downright silly on your part. The Israelis have stopped Iranian missile shipments into Gaza a number of times. Iran may not call it terrorism, but when you supply missiles to terrorists to fire against civilian targets, it certainly is terrorism. The role of Iran in sponsoring terrorism around the world is common knowledge at this point. You literally would have to bury your head in sand not to know about this.
Hamas is not supported by Iran. Hamas, was founded and financially supported by Israel as an alternative to the PLO. They have given it millions over the years and they have now used it as a way to justify their genocidal goals throughout the region. What Iranian terrorist acts in the US or anywhere in Israel or the M/E can you enumerate?
100% Canute. Israel initiated, funds and controls Hamas. Well documented. Bibi Satanyahoo and other israeli leaders has admitted to it, on camera. Unfortunately James, you're one of the great majority that has been gaslit by our media.
What did Hamas do to Gaza when Israelis pulled out and turned it over to them in 2005? What did it look like when Israelis were living there and then after Hamas and the “Palestinians” took over? This isn’t hard - look at the physical evidence. Ask yourself where would you rather live? That’s why Israel has such a diverse populace - Muslims, Christians, Jews, Atheists. The difference in the people groups goes back to their religions. Understand that and you will understand the region. If you don’t, you won’t.
I actually look forward to a nuclear exchange. It is really as deadly as sold to the public? What happens if it ISN'T? If you visited every city in the world, would you be able to identify with ABSOLUTE uncertainty which ones were atomic bombed? Where are the Kaiju? The greater the destruction, the more busine$$ for BUILD BACK BETTER.
I believe you are referring to the USA suppying missiles to the IDF so that they can fire them against civilian targets.
Yeah, hardly anybody knows that bin laden had nothing to do with 911, and most of the people the lying USgov said flew the planes to their own deaths were still alive years latter. Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld (BCR) did the whole thing to steal $80B of gold from the building across the street from the tower. The tower was supposed to fall on that building to destroy the evidence of their theft. Think about these facts: 1) only BCR had the key to that building. 2) It was laced with explosives in-case the tower did not cover-up their theft, that is why it blew up days later. 3) The 30 guys that put the explosives in that building ALL mysteriously disappeared within a month after 911. 4) Cheney's job was supposed to take the planes down, but instead he did nothing. 5) Rumsfeld had a PHD in piloting planes using computers, and his Pentagon staff that were onto him were meeting in the same wing of that building that he ran one plane into, murdering most of them. 6) Bush sent all the rubble evidence to China. 7) Fifteen-hundred building demo experts signed affidavits proving with 100's of their own films that the building across the street could only have been exploded from the inside by explosives they used as experts their whole lives. 8) You can prove real pilots were murdered on those planes by watching them doing a maneuver of moving the steering wheels of the planes up and down trying to control the planes before they crashed.
A brief investigation reveals the US has killed thousands of middle easterners for every single westerner Iran has killed over the last 3 or 4 decades. We are the terrorists. You've drunk the kool-aid. By now you should be able to tell when you've been manipulated by propaganda. What, after COVID, Iraq's WMDs, and so many other examples will it take to wake some up?
As usual, you are late for your next Covid Jab. Lindsey loved those too. He was a sick twist and I hope he is in Hell along with Fauci when that bastard's time comes.
"I invented terrorism." - Menchem Begin - and indeed he did, along with Yitzak Shemir, via the Irgun and Stern Gang. No operations conducted by any Muslim organization on the globe have equaled the death and destruction that Zionist terror has introduced to the world.
You do not "defame" a POS like Graham by acknowledging how evil he was after he has improved the world by leaving it.
I should have said "by acknowledging" not "by refusing to..." but I think everyone knows what I meant.
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"I see a man elated at how well his country's military is doing at destroying a terrorist regime's ability to export killing to other regions of the world."
Just as John Leake described! You prove his point. Has Iran been trying to dominate the U.S., or has the U.S. been trying to dominate Iran, at least since 1953, but surely earlier? Does Iran have 800 military bases around the world as the U.S. does?
I asked Brave's AI how many deaths the U.S. has been responsible for in the Middle East. Unfortunately, AI limited it's response to post-2001:
"Estimates of deaths resulting from U.S. military operations in the Middle East since 2001 vary significantly depending on whether counts include only direct violence or also indirect consequences like disease and infrastructure collapse. The Costs of War Project at Brown University estimates that at least 4.5 million people have died as a consequence of post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan, Libya, and Somalia. This total includes approximately 906,000 to 937,000 direct deaths from combat and 3.6 million indirect deaths caused by war-related economic collapse, food insecurity, and destroyed healthcare systems."
James…let’s wait for this war to end and see how things turn out for the American people before you (and Lindsey’s ghost) start taking your victory laps. OK with you?
We waited 20 years for the warmongers to flush a trillion dollars down the toilet in Afghanistan, destroy the infrastructure, kill how many thousands, or 100's of thousands of people, only to replace the Taliban with the Taliban. How long should we wait?
Well said. John seems to get bogged down in knowledge which turns into rabbit trails that circle back to support what he already believed instead of simply looking for the truth and allowing his view to be informed by it.
What the hell have you done to Yourself and you probably sit idle in your comfort zone, with the luxury of indifference !!!!!
John Leake has no doubt tapped into a very important variable when it comes to mind viruses.
I believe he is correct in the observation that there are those who delight in mayhem and death, including Lindsey Graham. The virus of psychopathy that infects humanity was captured well in Snakes in Suits, a book about psychopaths in the boardroom.
Leake's comment on Hitchens (someone I did not particularly like) was helpful. Leake wrote, "At one point in the interview, he made the startling statement that the Great Powers waged war not because conflict resolution was so hard, but because the men running the belligerent countries simply wanted war." So true. And Hitchens' analysis of the damage done to Christianity, a faith that seemed cut loose from its moorings, was also good analysis. I sometimes worry that Christians, of which I am one, no longer understand their faith beyond third grade catechism or Sunday School.
The question that remains is what is the nature of the soil, the mind dirt, in which mind viruses thrive. At risk of being self serving and repetitive, I think Leake and others might enjoy a little speculative fiction on that topic that I put into a short story, The Rescue. https://firstimagefilms.com/the-rescue-story/
I never could understand Christianity’s idea that God would punish people who did not believe in Christ. And I was taught the summary of the law from a young age, not that I understood it, but I still knew that God loves us unconditionally, so how could God condemn innocent people – like Anne Frank – who was murdered at the young age of 15 and was a Jew?
It made no sense until I discovered Origen of Alexandria, whom the church canceled in the 6th century. Finally, Origen spoke to me and I understood the summary of the law. But since the church canceled him so long ago, not many people know who he was or what he said : https://lizlasorte.substack.com/p/why-was-origen-of-alexandria-canceled?r=76q58
Wow. How serendipitous. I'm currently writing a book in which Origen figures prominently. You are one of few who have rediscovered his work. The Council that cancelled him, convened by an Emperor, was one of many that sought to reduce man to body only. Origen's exploration of the Platonic idea of a pre-existing soul, which was consistent with everything Jesus taught, but not what the Church later taught, upset those who depended upon one's embodied state to deliver control and punishment. You have hit upon the profound difference between true NT thinking, and the lingering ideas of OT strife. Thank you for the comment. Did not expect a mirror of my current work in this comment section.
Wow! It's all so very facinating.
Oddly, you dont deal with the psychopaths of the Islamic conquest or of the communist revolutionary movement: both are belief systems which actively cultivate the sociopathic and psychopathic. How extraordinary that you missed that.
BTW, excellent substack article on Origen. Benedict XVI, the foremost theologian of our time, also mentions him (and was a bit of a Platonist himself). In the new book, I am looked at a "First Principle" and how the church has crushed the idea of our being immortal souls, repeatedly promoting flesh over spirit.
Thanks and thanks for reading.
It makes sense that the church would kill any notion of living more than one life because then people might not feel the need to pay their "sin" tax. IDK, but it's a very interesting discussion that some people refuse to engage.
Yes, as I shared with a friend, a priest, I see stakes and flames in my future once I roll out the new work.
Would you rather wait for them to blow us off the map?
I've been lying awake at night since 1992 when Netanyahu first stated that Iran would soon have a nuke and use it on us.
40+ years he’s been saying that! People are so brainwashed to believe our lying politicians and media. 🙄
Yet they do. About 30% of the population is completely impenetrable by facts and evidence, no matter how unassailable. Only about 10-15% try to weigh evidence impartially and reach rational conclusions. The rest lie on a spectrum between. Nothing can be done to reach some of these commenters. If their thought leaders switch sides, they will too, on a dime, and forget everything they believed before.
From a lot of sources 30 % is accurate. So we know what this says about the human mind. Pretty messed up. A down to earth, elderly, and very bright psychiatrist with the last name of Livingston said that 90 % of his patients keep coming back and that is because the subconscious determines their thoughts.
Dr. Livingston was a caring man and was seen as quite a character in Vietnam. Back then doctors got drafted.
Exact numbers on such things are unknowable. But we can do the best we can with the numbers we have, keeping in mind - who really knows? When I was a kid the number I remember hearing is about 3% really see things pretty damn close to as they are. I've heard the same cited since. Seems about right. These would be a subset of the 10-15% who at least try.
And I am lying awake at night worried that Netanyahu will use Israeli nukes as a way of blackmailing the U.S. "If you don't support us, we will roll out the nukes as our defense." That is scary.
I will never forget what Israel did (accidentally on purpose) to the USS Liberty.
I did an actual LOL until I realized you were probably serious. :o)
Serious? Just factual. This has already happened. Just dressing it up in "what if" terms to entertain folks like you who cannot comprehend present day reality.
I'm sorry. My apologies, please. My reply was meant for John Leake's statement above about him lying awake for 40 years due to Netanyahu's Iran bomb threat. I don't understand how my reply ended up down here. Not being careful, I suppose. I have indeed, no problem with any of your statements
Got it.
He's got Trump by the scrotum. It's humiliating.
And Trump isn't the 1st!
Given how “sit, beg, and roll over” almost our entire government is toward “our best ally,” I don’t think said ally needs nukes at all, except maybe as window dressing in some kind of way. The spying, surveillance, and blackmail is already working better than absolutely anything else that might be considered.
I.e., it seems to me that nukes is nothing next to computer and phone tapping, blackmail collection, and behind-the-scenes bribes and threats.
You should have started worrying in the 50s when the U.S. did a coup d'etat against Iran's democratically elected government and installed the Shah. The rest was inevitable.
I kinda agree. And kinda not. Problem is 1950. Most in the US weren’t even born yet and most of us have been spoon fed zio propaganda since birth. Now that the scales are falling from some of our eyes, let’s figure out effective ways to spread the real story.
Why do you think they continue to enrich uranium beyond what could be used for commercial nuclear power?
If you had been invaded by Britain and the Soviet Union in 1941, and your democratically elected government had been overthrown by the CIA and MI6 in 1953, and you were attacked by Iraq, armed with American weapons in the 1980s, wouldn't you want a nuclear deterrent? why does the USA maintain an enormous nuclear arsenal? It is useful to occasionally put yourself in the other guy's shoes. At least that is what grown-ups try to do, not that the world contains a whole lot of those
I did not know until recently that neutral Iran had been invaded by the warring powers in the First World War as well
Dean Henderson has written many books and his substack has extractions from them. The Four Horsemen he calls them, from oil. I've read more than ever since the plandemic, found this website with interesting articles from banking, oil, hidden gold. Here's a section on Iran, Brits, oil, coups, etc. behindthenews.ca.za/iran-a-case-study-part-1/
During WW2 the US Army had a unit in Persia- the Persian Gulf Command and they wore that patch on the shoulder of their jackets. They helped get supplies to Russia.
Solid points. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stated that Iran did not want nuclear weapons. He saw them as both a "religious fatwa" and a "rational fatwa" because such weapons are a "source of trouble."
Either build nukes as your deterrent or stop and allow unfettered inspections. If you're never going to build a nuke it can't be the excuse for the US and Israel to attack.
There is a lot of world politics I don't understand. The internal politics of Iran are way beyond me, but I can't postulate why they always seem to teetering on the nuclear weapons front. Perhaps some Iranians have the same mind virus or a regional strain.
Thanks for your reply.
I just wanted to say i'm so encouraged by your reply. Humility like that is so rare. Bless you.
Thank you. I try to be. Even on the web :)
Bibi, there is another who will do well spending eternity in Hell.
John, supporting war is a test of true Christianity. The template of Christianity was the first-century Christians who remained neutral in politics and wars.
Not only are most of the major Christian churches not neutral, but they were recruiting stations in both world wars and openly support zionism, a major reason the US is so closely tied to the Middle East and Israel.
How does a Christian reconcile their Christianity, which means to be Christ-like, and their support for war?
Very rarely have I met an American who professes to be a Christian who understands Christianity.
I respectfully add that the neutrality of early Christians did not prevent their persecution. Christianity does entail taking a stand that could cost a person their life
That is correct. Remaining out of the system is not easy.
Hahahahaha, me too!
The question is, if they had a nuclear weapon, would they use it? Some of us have answered that in the affirmative. See Raymond Ibrahim “Sword and Scimitar,” Mohamad Faridi “Leaving my father’s religion,” and Douglas Murray “On Democracies and Death Cults.” All of these sources will help you understand the radical nature of their religion but to some extent that is studying the lie.
My Bible study teacher said, “Study the truth and that will reveal the lie.” I was filled with despair at the age of 29, completely overwhelmed by all the evil in the world. I heard about the power of the indwelling Christ, turned control of my life over to Him, prayed for faith since I had so little and all of my questions have been answered.
Yes, reconciling the free will of man with the sovereignty of God was one of the more challenging but even that I can explain to my own satisfaction with the simple statement, “God is love.”
Be blessed, John. I’m glad you came alongside Dr Peter McCullough, MD during Covid. Just when you think you’ve looked into the belly of the beast, you get another opportunity. It’s a comfort to know the earth is the Lord’s and the meek shall inherit the earth.
😑1992! Sleep deprivation obviously needs addressing before you pen any more self indulgent waffle about war and killing.
His waffle is spot on. You are obviously more than obtuse; most likely from one too many covid jabs giving you the start of dementia. Next.
Call me dense but I don’t understand your comment. At all. When and how is a respectful examination of loss of life ever self indulgent ?
Why don’t you just delete this post so can focus less on self indulgent waffles and more on meatier matters?
Apologies Rose Martin, my misdirected comment was intended specifically for John Leake. However I did appreciate your reply and the sensible advice it contained.
now that the American and Israelis armies are 'joined forces', maybe that won't happen...?
Turn off the Idiot Box, Ann, and EDUCATE yourself!
Your ENEMY is NOT 'over there'.......your ENEMY resides in the District of Criminals!
Stop PARROTING what a bunch of PEDOPHILES are spewing!
Or do you make excuses for them, too?
Are you part of the Satan-worshiping Death Cult, like those in D.C.??
Do you 'get off' on all of the DEAD CHILDREN in Gaza/West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, ect.....like that Satan-worshiping homo, Lady Lindsey??
Sounds like you DO!
Outstanding article!
Notice how Dr. Paul is an army of one? No one else is piling on for headlines or God forbid, accountability. Sadly, Trump can’t admit he got played.
So, business as usual in the Swamp. What is the Swamp’s business? A Grand Bargain between parties:
Democrats will vote unlimited monies to Republicans to destroy foreign cities with bombs and planes and Republicans will vote unlimited monies for Democrats to destroy American cities with money and Democrats.
Clot shot deaths? Win-win.
Trump got played. So goes the smartest-guy-in-the-room fallacy.
For those who have an attention span longer than a gnat.......
A REAL JOURNALIST (Patrick Henningsen), along with Scott Ritter.......
RETURN OF McCARTHYISM- Scott Ritter & Patrick Henningsen - THE WORLD THIS WEEK
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Trump’s M.O.U. Games Reveal Real US-Israeli Agenda With Iran
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JUL 27, 2026
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Iran was never going to blow us up. Although I couldn't blame them now. If the government propagandists and lying media told me my neighbor was plotting to kill me, should I bust in his door and kill him first? You've been lied to. Wake up.
The simple reason Iran wants nukes is that Israel has them.
WE (i.e., the US CIA and UK MI6) overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran in 1953 so that their oil could be seized by British Petroleum and its US partnering firms. WE then installed a puppet tyrant over the population who ruled over the country for the next 24 years until a religious and student revolt overthrew these puppets and seized control of their own government. After settling with the US in 1980 - returning our "diplomats" and getting their assets freed they have screamed and yelled at us, but they have made no direct attacks on the US or its citizens unless they were dumb enough to travel to Iran. For 24 straight years, our intelligence community has repeatedly reported that Iran has no nuclear weapon and is not close to getting one. Only Israel has declared this to be the case, repeatedly emphasizing that they would have a bomb in the next few weeks or months, on more occasions than I can count. In the interim Israel has pressed America to go to war with five of their 7 enemy nations over the last 23 years and our leadership has sent American money, soldier and weapons to do their bidding - providing exactly zero return for the US people. We have now created war #6 for Israel and it is beyond our capability to defeat this foe w/o the use of nuclear weapons. The petrodollar has now been fully compromised and is in open decline as is our economy, not to mention os of the world's economies. Five months ago, Iran allowed oil to flow freely and peaceful commerce to move forward without interruption. At Israel's intense urging and blackmailing, WE have destroyed that. Iran is not capable of blowing us up, they have neither the bomb nor the delivery system to blow us up. Start reading valid sources of information and turn off you TV. There is nothing patriotic about what we have done and our entire nation is substantially more vulnerable because our leadership has listened to Israeli lies. The Iranian monster is not at our door. If they are at Israel's door.....I don't care. They are a forign country that has been a parasite on the American jugular for the 70+ years of their existence.
To that admin, goyim are irrelevant and are expected to die for them. Smotrich just said it himself recently.
Indeed. On multiple occasions, Netanyahu has declared that Isreal is a Talmudic nation and it is one of the few honest statements the man has made. The Talmud clearly and consistently tells its people that they are infinitely more valuable than non-Jews. It further directs that all non-Jews are merely servants to the Jews and are not in fact, even human, ut mere wasted living tissue. If Americans started educating themselves to contents of the Talmud and the teachings of "revered" rabbais, 6 months later there would not be a synagogue standing on American soil.
I have read the Talmud as well. Add in Maimonides for more interesting reading.
"We have met the enemy and he is us"
That type of paranoia has been occurring long before any of us were alive. 'We have to destroy other humans because they "could" do us harm.' Maniacal musings.
The reality is that the US government has been conducting coups and fabricating wars long before the IRGC existed. The CIA/MI6 conducting the 1953 coup in Iran lead to the creation of the Savak secret police. The domino effect that led to the 1978 Iranian revolution and the Ayatollah's taking control. Just as the US/UK military/intel helped in supporting Saddam Hussein in the Iran/Iraq War. The creation of the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan that evolved into Al Qaeda. Operation Gladio and the covert operations in Europe by CIA using the Sicilian mafia.
It is important to understand historic events and what has occurred in putting us in the situation we are in today. Looking at the world through rose color glasses is what has allowed this to happen and why some Americans still fall for these propaganda ruses. Just like the lie that Covid just occurred naturally and wasn't part of a gain of function research that 'accidentally' released upon the population, and then was covered up by the very people telling you to trust them about another countries nuclear threats. At some point you have to face reality and realize you are being lied to on a daily basis.
Do you know of some instance where some other country attacked us. Leave 911 out of the picture. Many people think it was an inside job
Even if we took the 911 story at face value of what they try to sell to us, the majority of the hijackers were Saudi nationals. And now the US government is signing an agreement with Saudi Arabia to assist them with uranium enrichment. Sort of puts the whole war against terrorism logic up on its head.
No other country attacked us on 9/11. It was part of the same agenda that is taking place right now. Without 9/11 we wouldn’t have the Patriot Act, which was that start of the surveillance state, censorship, indefinite detention, searches without consent etc. It laid the groundwork for things like ICE, Venezuela and crackdowns on citizens who dissent. Every major planned event (false flag) gives them the rationale to take away our civil liberties all under the guise of improving our safety and protection!
I agree
There are thousands of papers and books all over the world proving that 9-11 was an inside job. I thought this would be obvious.
It is for people who choose to see but unfortunately there are still so many who have their heads buried in the sand! Fear is a very powerful motivator and as they say, ignorance is bliss!
To each their own opinion. I am friends with a number who fled socialist & communist countries & I do not want it here. Subject closed.
You don’t have to blow up other countries in order to not have socialism here. Just look around now. More Lefties are okay and advocating for socialism now than ever! Our uniparty government is steering the masses to accept it. And they are! That isn’t because Iran is blowing us off the map ma’am. That is social engineering from within.
But you're gonna get it anyway...
What’s it like to be so brainwashed, you have lost your ability to think clearly???
I have no idea but I’ve often wondered that about many people.
Have you? You best stop taking those covid jabs, they are making you senile.
One other thing. People who don’t use reasonable responses but resort to insults really say a lot about themselves.
The insults are deserved in most cases. And have you made yourself Queen of the Reasonable Responses? Don't you have something to do like cashing a Social Security check?
These comments make me completely confused and idiotic. I would place a 'Comment' here after seeing this utter mess. As for John, he thinks for himself and I have come to appreciated that he says things that do need to be said. What he is saying here is quite clear. Read history and it is a long story of war and death.
Don't forget Hilary Clinton's cackling laugh about the killing of Ghaddafi, "We came, we saw, he died, HAH HAH HAH". Yes, demons are real and walk among us.
Yes they do in skin suits.
I favor the theory of possession by a dark spirit.
I agree with the comments below. As beauty is in the eye of the beholder, seeing elation approaching sexual pleasure in Graham's reaction is the product of a sick mind. Graham served with distinction as a Judge Advocate in combat zones. Nobody, least of all those who have served take pleasure in the killing war brings. Mr. Leake having never served would not know that.
I wasn’t referring to people with combat experience; I was referring to perverts like Graham who was never a combat soldier. Note what I wrote about Cardigan
I beg to differ. My Command Sergeant Major husband has said that there were ALWAYS one or two people in every battalion he commanded who enjoyed killing.
I can confirm this. But for a variety of reasons, I won't elaborate on the mixed feelings I have about it. What I can say is the intelligence agencies are worse, and with a better PR dept.
"....served with distinction as a Judge Advocate in combat zones." Seriously Mike, how many blood 'n guts attorneys did you see taking on the enemy in Iraq or AFG. In Saigon, I never saw one so much as soil a pair a kakis. Hearing the stories about battled hardened Jag Officers reminds me of listening to speeches by Sen. Richard Blumenthal. I have never been able find Lindsay Graham's citation for his Bronze Star awarded for combat lawyering as a Major, but I suspect it included something about changing a font ball on an IBM selectric.
"Graham served with distinction" as a JAG. Would you please provide some specifics as to what "distinction" would mean in such an assignment, or even his if you know -- the # of cases, field assignments or other parameters?
There was no distinction in/for/with Graham, dead or otherwise. He was a sick fuc*.
Please at least get a BA in psychology, or better yet, go into therapy, before lay-psychoanalyzing Mr. Graham's supposed feelings of elation. It seems to me you are the one with elation at trashing this man who cannot defend himself. Even if you don't agree with him or his politics, can't you respect the dead for a whole week? I think this is part of our larger problem.
POTUS Trump said about Robert Mueller's death: "Good! I'm glad he's dead. It means he can no longer hurt innocent people." Many people feel the same about Lindsay Graham and are still celebrating at how he can now longer hurt innocent people.
As regards your advice to John Leake, he seems very well informed. I'm sure he can get all the back up he needs by running Lindsey Graham's known behaviors and verbalizations through multiple AI with instructions to rank him on each of the dark tetrad characteristics of narcissism, psychopathy, sadism and Machiavellianism.
I'm sure you are right.
It might be important to remember what Lindsey Graham said about candidate Trump during the 2016 elections. Memories are short sighted.
"race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot"
"unfit to be President of the United States."
"If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it"
Yup. Graham was a sick twist. Probably why he did not get married (although rumor has it he was gay). He did not want anyone that intimate to know how perverted his mind, body and Spirit were. Good riddens Graham.
He was trash. Now the lid is on his coffin. Fantastic. Stop taking covid jabs as they are causing you to run mad.
HUMANS do not get joy from killing!!!
DEMONS, on the other hand, DO!!!
Individuals need to stop living in a Child's CARTOON, and comprehend that LITERAL DEMONS.......DO......EXIST; and DO take human form!
Not all who walk this planet (NOT including animals), are HUMAN!!
Stop living in your FAKE, cartoon 'reality' and come to the comprehension.......
DEMONS WALK AMONG US!
And, no.....I am NOT some 'religious wing-nut'.
One does NOT have to be 'religious' to SEE the EVIL that is all around us.
Eisenhower identified the real threat. We compounded it by allowing politicians to build lifelong careers under the illusion that permanence creates stability, while special interests quietly purchased influence. Over time, entrenched officeholders, concentrated money, and weak accountability transformed our political class into a kind of aristocracy, protected by little more than the appearance of equal treatment under the law.
Personally, I believe any politician who votes to send others to war should be required to serve a combat tour on the front lines, with no more special treatment than I received. The proposal may be impractical in a literal sense, but the principle is not: those who authorize war should bear some personal exposure to its consequences.
No one hates war more than a soldier who has fought in one, even when it is necessary. Politicians can discuss war in abstractions because they have never had to wipe another person’s blood from their face or watch someone to whom they owe their life drink himself to death trying to silence the nightmares.
Distance makes war easier to authorize, especially when its a faceless serviceman making all the sacrifices while they blabber empty praises. Nothing infuriates me more than hearing one of those pompous asses saying "Thank you for your service." They don't mean it, and worse, they think of you as the idiot for having served.
The rest of the article reflects a common psychological impulse: people want a single villain. It focuses anger and creates the comforting illusion that removing one person will solve the problem. Yet the same abuses persist regardless of who occupies the stage.
Mr. Leake might broaden his examination to include people displaying the same tendencies under different party labels. He should look at their donors, institutions, social circles, private gatherings, and guest lists. Those networks reveal far more than a ten-second news clip.
That is the real lesson. When someone presents a single person as the source of a systemic problem, that person is probably a lightning rod rather than the source. The deeper causes usually lie in networks of influence, institutional incentives, and layers of corruption.
We may want international politics to operate according to high moral principles, but power rarely works that way. It operates through interests, alliances, leverage, and consequences. Focusing only on the public villain means watching the actor while ignoring the machinery behind the stage.
Let’s remember too that 4% of humans are primary sociopaths, that is they have ZERO conscience. And according to the Milgram experiments, about 65% of us normies, - under sufficient perceived authority - will exhibit secondary sociopathy.
The bombing was in select areas away from civilians. So, it is OK with you that literally hundreds of servicemen and women were killed by Iran over the years, we found their missiles that could go 4000 miles headed for Europe, they constantly refer to us as "Big Satan" and have clearly stated a plan to wipe us out, they killed 30,000 of their own citizens and hung a 20 year old who was a wrestler for speaking out? Your opinions are your opinions, John. Because we live in a country that has free speech, you can state them. But when you virtue signal, we are here to call you out on it. Just like Mamdani. Just like the twenty somethings who never had a Civics course, a history course, or even know the difference between Socialism, Communism and Nazism. We will throw the mud right back in your face. How about reporting that Lyndsay Graham's net worth was just a little over $1 million,(including his home), unlike these other Congressmen and women who are multimillionaires and then go on to be lobbyists and make more money? Did you know that he just returned from Ukraine to help end that debacle? You are an embarrassment.
You seem to have learned nothing from the covid scam, or the GFC (house prices never go down), or the Iraq wars (Iraq wants to nuke the US). That everything the government tells you is a lie.
To each his own. I don’t believe “everything the government tells me.” But you don’t seem to care about the 30,000 citizens Iran killed. Just getting your insulting post out.
Projection by ANonnyMouse “Mary”. The U.S. has waged war on Iran, essentially continuously, since 1953.
Don’t know what “U.S.” you are talking about. Have a great day,
Help end that debacle? Apparently you can't read and are full on daft. Next.
Does that describe how you feel about the killing of Nigerian Christians by Boko Haram?
Excellent commentary and spot-on. This absolute profaning of the sanctity of life is pervasive throughout the ruling class and its minions. Sasha Latypova just published a chilling piece on more murder of innocents in the public-private partnership between governments and Big Pharma.
It's so obvious that a population cull of old people is underway as we've seen in Canada, the US & now Scandinavia. All of the governments are in debt so they cut their pension/social security/entitlements way down by killing the people who qualify for them in partnership with Pharma who poisons them to death with "vaccines." Pharma cashes in, doctors & hospitals get paid & the government reduces its debt burden. Win-win except for the people who are murdered. Sasha explains exactly how the "studies" and data are completely manipulated and the real figures regarding severe adverse reactions are not published in the papers - only provided to the policymakers. This is how the system works now post-Covid.
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/a-cull-of-65-yo-is-underway-in-finland?
You definitely touched a nerve here, Mr. Leake. Look at the neocons rush to defend Lady Lindsey — whose weirdness far exceeded that of weird progressives like James Talarico, and whose conservative voting record hovered around 43 percent. They defend him precisely because he rejoiced in killing — then deny that he could possibly have rejoiced in killing. Why, Amurricans like Lindsey are the good guys! They never rejoice in killing! Only the bad guys do. And, when Lindsey said that money directed toward killing Russians was the best money Amurrica ever spent, he didn’t mean he rejoiced in killing Russians. He meant something else. Because he was an Amurrican! Finally, Lady Lindsey’s defenders cite his distinguished military record. He was heroic as a warrior for Amurrica! But Lindsey’s service did not involve valor in combat — and, if it had, would it mean that his neocon warmongering was holy and good? I can name a famous 20th-century leader whose military service did involve valor in combat. He won two Iron Crosses, both with notations for valor, in the trenches during WWI. One of these was an Iron Cross First Class. These medals were the equivalent of a Bronze Star and a Silver Star. Who was this noble soldier, who would never take pleasure in killing? Why, it was Adolf Hitler!
Boy, some of these people's comments on here are brutal 😝 I am in a household where I cannot argue my stance because of a sick allegiance with the current WH administration. I say, think independently, base opinions on what you actually see happening versus what you're told by the talking heads. I suspect you have the same philosophy.
If you cannot argue your stance, you are in the wrong household, weak or being abused. Please seek help if it is the third.
Lindsay Graham loved all the perpetual WARS and killings he promoted. Russia ended him but niot the destruction he supported, Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity. " Beware of the Military Industrial Complex" President Col. Dwight Eisenhower. Trump isn't that smart; he is controlled by IT leading the world into massive destruction; depopulation.
I 100% agree, but at the same time, be aware of the POLICE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX as well. Just like the MIC spearheads never ending wars, the POLICE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX does the same THING - example never ending drug war. The "drug war", makes EVERYONE a potential suspect AND it makes the "Pablo Escobars" of the world very happy men by creating incentives for insane profits. I don't understand why more people can't see this {the "war on drugs"} is a GAME - the "cartels" automatically assume whatever percentage of interception be it 10%, 20%, 30% {I don't know the exact % because I'm not in that world - but I think I can make an educated guess} I'm guessing 30% interception - but the "cartels" know the exact %, they aint stupid, so they set their prices accordingly and make insane profits THANKS to dumbass ORDER following POS evil bastard POLICE !! "I don't make the laws DUHHHH - I only enforce them Duhhhh". As you can tell, I DESPISE the police. THEY SUCK !! They are hypocrites. They're NOT "anti drug" because if they were ACTUALLY "anti drug", they would have arrested those nurses that gave people CV19 shots. What's the difference in heroin shot and CV19 shot ?? Both will eventually GIT CHA. And for the record because this happens EVERY time, NO, I do NOT use street drugs. I also do NOT use pharma prescribed drugs and I don't smoke ciggies and I don't drink alcohol. But I DO understand supply and demand and black markets and know a little bit about Al Capone.
I sometimes propose, a little tongue in cheek because I accept that most would be a bit freaked out by my suggestion, that unemployed people who struggle to pay for their over taxed alcohol habit should be offered VOLUNTARY participation in brewing and moonshine camps where they can learn to make their own tipple. I cannot see a justification for outlawing of natural and physical processes.
As it is in Finland you cannot distil privately but you can brew beer, wine, cider, mead and that is popular. I am unimpressed by the price of potable alcohol as it gets taxed sky high. I do not drink alcohol (other than a glass or two of mead a year to celebrate Vappu) or smoke or partake of recreational drugs and also have managed to get by with three prescriptions in the last 30 years. I firmly believe every adult has the natural freedom to partake of anything he likes and to synthesise, collect, extract or purify any thing he can find or grow. Limiting these things is a way of controlling freedom and monopolies.
I also believe that many people who are classed as substance abusers are simply people who cannot secure healthcare services for their trauma or other ailments and are forced to or elect to self medicate with what few substances are socially tolerated/available.
If we pretend the myth of taxing alcohol prevents alcoholism it requires us to believe that all rich people are alcoholics because they are not constrained by the tax burden. Yet we find this not to be the case. We mostly find people who have unresolved issues resort to alcohol and taxing it does not resolve those issues, it simply makes it harder to fill the hole that they find themselves in.
I read a few of your comments and find myself agreeing with most of what you say, I think we could be friends if we lived closer.