All names from the past. The new WEF boss, Larry Ellison, maybe worse than the old boss, seems to have Trump's approval to take over any media (TikTok, CBS, etc.) not sufficiently friendly to Trump and the slaughter in Gaza.
Actually, it's Larry Fink (Blackrock), not Ellison, coupled with André Hoffmann, with family and exec. ties to Roche and Genentech. This pair alone clarify the grand plan to rule the world: LEGAL drugs. Bill Gates is small potatoes compared to that terrifying pair.
Trump cannot take down the country's real rulers -- the billionnaire class. The best weapons are the cash economy, barter, family farms and gardens, independent doctors, printed copies of books, and similar methods of independence.
You bet. I enjoyed, er, recoiled in horror, when I checked the WEF web site and found the bios of their top people. I was already horrified when Ellison announced out loud his hope for mass-producing mRNA shots via AI. The Horsemen of the Apocalypse will no doubt have syringes in their saddle packs.
Larry Ellison is the main funder of the "Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces." The IDF is the primary force that's genociding the Palestinians, who are living on land that the Israelis want. Also, the IDF trains American police officers. The "knee on the neck" strategy, sometimes applied by U.S. police officers, appears to be something they learned from their IDF training.
I very much agree with your assessment of things. But, when it comes to the CIA, the idea that Trump has control over their international intrigues and meddling strikes me as a bit off. No President since the CIA was created has been able to control it. Both Presidents Truman and Eisenhower stated years later that their greatest mistake was in not destroying the CIA. President Kennedy famously stated that it needed to be shattered into 1,000 pieces, and he was soon thereafter killed. No President since Kennedy has openly opposed the CIA, even though it has been the source of many embarrassing and problematic situations for all Presidents. Trump does need to do something about the CIA. He needs to demolish it. But, because no one really knows all the many things it does and is involved in, and it's impossible to kill it just with a law or from being defunded by Congress, it's an entity that is nearly impossible to destroy - and attempts to do so are fraught with extreme danger. I agree that it needs to be reined in, but to do that is extraordinarily problematic. They're watching us all - always. They're reading this note to you right now. Yes, they have that much capability. Controlling them is almost a pipe dream. It MAY happen, but I personally don't know how.
Yes, Jack, you are correct. It's common knowledge that the Columbians and Panamanians were partnered with the CIA during the '80s and flooding the inner cities with cocaine and later crack. Their ability to self-fund through illicit enterprises means the CIA always has the capacity to survive any attempt to kill it outright. It may shape-shift and go totally underground, but it's a monster that may never die.
Not a bad way of thinking of it. But, there's no rational basis for thinking of any aspect of government in the same context as God. There's a great potential for evil in ever corner.
The first step in defunding the CIA, would be to stop or at least curb the illegal drug trade that's funding the CIA. This probably is all over the world – – – so it is going to take some time, but Venezuela is a great beginning! A lot of the drugs that have been killing US citizens have come from Venezuela and their gangster government. Truman did say that he regretted ever establishing the CIA--he was a good man. It is really a battle between GOOD & EVIL. Between GOD & SATAN for the world. I have read the book of Revelation, and I know who wins. (Jesus Christ).
How are you going to curb the illegal drug trade when it's the C_A (and the cartels THEY set up, run and control) that run these drugs (and other) ops against WeThePeople, not just here, but globally? The bigger question that needs to be addressed is, why does this (and many other) agency exist at all, since it's neither constitutional nor in keeping with the framework of (or branches within) the functions of a Constitutional Republic. AND worse, they don't serve the country or the people as they function as an agent of and for the cartel-babylon globalist DS's nefarious activities across the planet. This (and pretty much all the other) agency needs to be disbanded and relegated to the trash, where it belongs... not funded AT ALL by the g0vt they don't serve. Their only function is to do every nefarious, heinous, evil, illegal activity that is prohibited from being done within the framework of the Republic and the legitimate, constitutional branches of g0vt. Same goes for pretty much all the other "agencies", none of which have any constitutional bearing, authority, or purpose to even exist.
I said earlier, start the year small, read Leake...all should read and re read this Leake!!!
Insufferably shamelessly abusing drugs, and then guiltlessly we bomb venezualen boats, and overthrow a government. Is this merely another Israeli support war, hamas theoretcially getting therir oil, so we must stop it, as Tucker has so wisely elaborated.
Regime change hear we go again; in Ukraine, look where that led.
Wait till the US is weak, and a stronger Nation decides to kidnap our president, which is all this is, the stronger snuffing out the weak. Who is next. Iran? N. Korea? I am all for Trump, but not this monster he appears to have become. His boot licking syncophants had better wise up soon before this all ends badly for all.
"Anyone who doesn't support this is a liberal" No. your just low iq. no way around it. Still living in the illusion of a two party system. IgnorAnce is bliss. continue on with your enslavement. Just stay in your comfortable bubble
Yep. I think Maduro’s court case will get a lot of attention, and perhaps a lot of discovery. Will be interesting to see how it plays about before mid-terms.
Seriously? You need to get some facts straight. First of all, about 4% of the cocaine that comes into the U S (most of it run by the C_A) makes its way to the US from Venezuela. Secondly, the nasty drugs like Fentanyl are run by, and make their way into the US, by the C_A ... and the MEXICAN CARTELS the C_A sets up for the purpose of destroying this country... and that includes the human and child trafficking as well (which Venezuela also has nothing to do with). If you're not capable of practicing intellectual honesty and providing factual data, you should sit this one out, umKay? Venezuela doesn't even rank as negligible, by the US's OWN statistics for "drugs coming into the US". So the "narco-terrorism" narrative is a ruse, parrotted by low-IQ NPC matrix-dwellers, because they're too uninformed to know what's going on, nor could they intellectually grasp it if they did.
This is outright bullshit. The drugs are coming in through Mexico, Peru, Ecuador. NOT Venezuela. You have bought into another "weapons of mass destruction" smokescreen. After all these years, with all the lies put forth to "justify" US destruction, coups, sanctions, blockades in Iran, Guatemala, Vietnam, Libya, Iraq, and many more, you have to be willfully obtuse to still believe this crap. Wake up!
I bet there is not and will not be a reduction of drug use in America, as a consequence. Most likely, we will forget all about this having been the stated goal at one time, and no one will compile related statistics.
You mean like doing an Operation Warp Speed, with lockdowns (for the purpose of installing deadly 5G/6G and whatever "G" throughout the country in the dead of night) for the benefit of the tech broligarchy and UN total surveillance state; and for unleashing a gen0cidal biotechnological weapon "injection" (pretending to be a quackcine) to k!ll and maim (and transhumanize) humanity? Instead the [once again fake] narrative is "street drugs" (while the numbers "legally sanctioned" PHARMA has killed rack up in the millions upon millions) like "Fentanyl", which doesn't come from Venezuela; but comes from MX, brought to you by the C_A and the cartels THEY run. Or perhaps, the [fake] narrative will be "election fraud", which a self-professed "advanced" nation, like the US, could have easily stopped "election fraud" decades ago, but that would require admitting the U S is "in on it". Or, more likely, the deranged narrative will be "Venezuela stole U S oil", which actually means Venezuela threw out the parasitic U S cartel babylon "oil companies and billionaires" so Venezuelan "leaders" could loot the coffers of the vast riches for themselves instead of letting the U S billionaires line their own pockets at Venezuela's expense. Seems the U S is upset with Maduro, et al, because Maduro et al did a better, more efficient job of stealing from Venezuelans than the U S has done, though that's debatable as the U S theft/usury of its people defies human comprehension(and Venezuelan "leaders" accomplished the theft of their people without having to give a cut of the theft to the central bankers). And then there's the "Monroe Doctrine" theory, which try as the mockingbirds may, is as far-fetched as saying they had to go after Maduro, a person in a sovereign country with no legal or other affiliation or responsibility to U S law, "because he had machine guns".
John, I agree with you on both issues. I was very disappointed to listen to the interview with Trump this morning as he lied and exaggerated several times. Instead of targeting cocaine he should ban all mNRA “vaccines “ if he really wants to save lives.
An apple with a worm (ex. DJT) is still better than an completely rotten but worm-free apple (Biden/Harris). I wish he had better editors, but he still is a vast improvement on every other president this century (IMO).
Is the action against Venezuela an effort to end the flow of illegal drugs or actually an effort to gain control of the flow? Let’s not forget our government pays for the research to develop drugs, pays for the advertising of their use whether with ads and/or pushing recommendations from the CDC, and in the case of vaccines grants the manufacturers of the drugs immunity from liability. The pharmaceutical industry is by far the largest lobby in D.C. How much of the revenue from the illegal drug trade makes it into the coffers of election campaigns?
Great question. Trump should be looking at Mexico if he wants to stem the flow of illegal drugs. The CIA is probably a player in the drug trade in one form or another.
It's about trade routes, oil, resources, silver mines and central banks... and that Maduro isn't a fan of B00mB00mBibi's. The U S needs to steal resources from wherever they can to try to keep their trillions and trillions of dollars of debt afloat. This act of invading Venezuela was not just illegal, but a violation of international law. The people who are supporting anything that just happened are the very same people who would be screaming about the injustice, clutching their pearls with their hair on fire, if another country had done the same thing HERE and kidnapped Trump and his wife. What just took place far exceeds any level of sanity or dignified international conduct. It's a gross violation.
We can protect our neighborhood and let Russia protect its neighborhood. I agree that aid to Ukraine should stop immediately. And let some other nation take care of Zelensky who is a worse criminal and degenerate than the bus driver in Venezuela. If Trump let Venezuela continue on its current trajectory without intervening China would have taken over. Let them play in their own neighborhood with Taiwan, South China Sea, etc.
Excuse me, but why can't Venezuela decide, on its own, with whom it would like to trade? Cut the US exceptionalism. Like most of South America now, China is the largest trading partner. For good reason: the trade brings them more benefits, without the war- and coup-mongering of the US.
1. Socialism. "You can vote it in, but you have to shoot your way out."
2. Utter economic incompetence since Chavez, but I'm repeating number one.
3. Totalitarian control, fake elections, political terror, and support for a huge illicit drug manufacturing infrastucture, but I'm repeating number 1 again.
You have no evidence of "support for a huge illicit drug manufacturing infrastructure."
Here's an good overview of Venezuela's economic performance under Chavez. This is "the threat of a good example" that the US stomps into dust whenever such a threat begins to appear. Hence the coup attempts, the sanctions, the "make the economy scream" order Kissinger gave regarding Chile under Allende.
The US has no problem with drug-running regimes (Honduras, Ecuador, for just two examples), nor with gross buffoonery and incompetence (Javier Milei), so long as those regimes sell out their countries to the banksters.
The indictments against Maduro are bogus nonsense, an exercise in extraterritoriality. If this administration gave a damn about drug running, it wouldn't have pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former President of Honduras, convicted (with real evidence, not stories sucked out of somebody's ass) of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine into the US. And yes, Milei is a buffoon, saddling Argentina with yet more debts to the IMF and foreign banks. Real life for workers and the poor has gotten harder, despite the rosy statistics.
None of that is valid. Just like it's nobody's business what form of govt this country uses, it's not this country's business OR AUTHORITY to dictate what goes on in other countries. So, you think PedoJoe and his illigitimate, stolen-election regime was economically (or in any other way) competent, right? So you are saying that it would've been perfectly fine for another government to come in here, dismantle our form of government, and take over running THIS country when an illegitimately elected pedophile was sitting in the White House, correct? Good to know that you'd be OK with that, now that the precedent for this to happen has been set. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. And now the door is open for this to happen HERE, now that people like yourself find it acceptable. Disgusting.
You are babbling incoherently. You apparently aren't capable of knowing what I'm saying. Perhaps you and the Leftist below should simply read the National Security Strategy.
The "door for this to happen here" was quite open under the Obama/Biden administration since 2016. Luckily, and sad for traitors, it failed--multiple times--and now we have a President that takes threats seriously, and apparently acts in ways you can't understand. So be it. Go live with Carney if they'll let you in.
Try again, low-IQer with the insults, since you have nothing to substantiate your nonsensical garble. The babbling and incoherent drivel you spew proves your limited cognition and even lower comprehension, too intellectually bereft to even be able to discern who (or what) a "leftist" is. 😂
Agree- John Leake, your Liberalism, Elitism and most glaringly, your TDS is really showing. Been a faithful subscriber to Focal points from the beginning; not for you, of course, but for the brilliant, brave and humble Dr. Peter McCullough, whom I respect immensely as a fellow physician.
I’ve never said anything about your posts, just tolerated them and have observed as you have incrementally and shrewdly changed the tone of this Substack. I just renewed my subscription before I read this post and I’m now filled with regret. Your pretentious, arrogant, opinionated leftist comments are enough. We readers can get that blather anywhere, and most everywhere else! Although I can tell from the comments, the readership has changed.
I may be in the minority now. But can you not (all) understand that the #1 cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18-45 over the past 5-6 years has been fentanyl Poisoning?
I suspect a lot of the comments here are from trolls and bots. Pretty typical responses. Some truth, lots of misdirection. Obviously, none of us knows exactly what is going on, but I think this does have more to do with the stolen election than anything else. That take makes the most sense to me. Without real elections we have no country.
We are in a war...have been for a long time. Trump is going to have to do some things that he'll take a lot of flack for, probably break some rules (like the libs do all the time)...but how else are we going to keep America, America? It's not going to be easy or pretty. It's going to be messy. It's going to be necessary.
Only read a few paragraphs…skimmed the rest John. Your views and comments are far removed from reality…..but they are your views to which you are entitled. Anything or anyone supportive to the world’s greatest leader, President Donald J. Trump really sets you off! Come on up to Canada and join in with the corrupt Marxist Carney whose goal is making our country a satellite of communist China!!
A thousand likes, esp. for this witty simile: "This is the moral and spiritual equivalent of a morbidly obese sugar addict railing about the depravity of Archer Daniels Midland and Cargill and demanding that their high fructose corn syrup refineries be bombed."
Seriously, while no doubt Maduro is a crook, there are long-range concerns. 1. Bringing to trial in NY is a waste of time, as the Dems will send him home free and potentially a fake-hero. 2. Trump opens a Pandora's box of ascendant empires deciding to take himself out, since he has given lip service to this potentially war-creating action. 3. If one is looking for the worst narco-terrorists, they are next door and as Trump noted (and was misquoted) in 2016, Mexico is 'SENDING' criminals, rapists, drug-dealers to our borders because Mexico is only a pretend democracy, actually run by cartels.
Who is we? Are YOU consuming their drugs? Thanks to Leftist decriminalization, the drug problem is worse than ever, so that means reduce supply, or just let a subset of the nation become zombified and tacitly approve the degradation of the nation to levels further than Obama and "Biden" achieved.
I'm sorry to see so many nay-sayers here. Trump's success here in Venezuela is God-ordained in order to free the people of Venezuela and restore their sovereignty, just as much as it is to take out a regime that was hell-bent on destroying America. The people saying we should work on our own problems with drug addiction are naive - which came first, the chicken or the egg. If drugs weren't accessible everywhere, would our children have gotten addicted in the first place? Big Pharma and the drug cartels all have a big part to play in the destruction of American people getting hooked on drugs and increasing mental health issues leading to suicide. Don't forget the mantra of the globalists - to reduce the population of the world! Whatever that looks like is fair game to them.
The other significant role Venezuala played for decades was to compromise elections worldwide. Maduro is a major player that needed to be removed. He was not legit in any way. The people of his own country are rejoicing that he is gone. That alone should tell you what this man was all about. Listen to this impassioned plea https://x.com/barrontnews_/status/2007451336745332812?s=12
Yes, oil is involved, a beautiful resource given by God as a blessing to the nation., I pray it will be stewarded wisely and the regime change will yield a Godly result. But whether it be in Nigeria (same type of story) or the many other countries the Lord is using Trump to liberate, know this is God's battle born out of a love of His people who are crying out to be free all over the world. It is time for corrupt governments to topple. And as they do, I am one who is rejoicing!
Mr. Leake - I'm curious about your thoughts on these:
I'm waiting to hear Bondi's justification for grabbing the couple on their sovereign turf. I'm sure Noriega will be cited but the underlying theory will be of interest.
Also I'm wondering how this will affect midterms, as the optics of invading another country and starting another foreign entanglement will imho far outweigh any case that might be made on national security grounds.
I also don't think this action will be without consequences. Seems to me Trump executed a quintessential Art of the Deal tactic. He now has leverage of part of the world's oil supply that goes to China and others, who undoubtedly will take a dim view of the action and consider it a threat. How that plays out in a future negotiation is unknown to me, and it remains to be seen whether we even get to the table or whether the impacted countries (and allies) take actions.
". . . Noriega will be cited . . . " As with vaccine "trial," turtles all the way down. One illegal kidnapping (of someone once on our payroll, and maybe a G.H.W. Bush partner) doesn't justify another.
“I'm waiting to hear Bondi's justification for grabbing the couple on their sovereign turf.”
She won’t have to justify it, and her prosecutors won’t have to say anything about it in court. The legal doctrine in the U.S. is that the court can exercise jurisdiction over a defendant regardless of the legality of how that person was brought before it.
That may be regarding carrying forward a prosecution. However she is Attorney General of the nation and therefore she is the one to put forward the legal justification for the apprehension.
See my previous comment. She doesn’t have to and she won’t. She’ll voice the requisite flattery about Trump’s masterful leadership and obloquy about Maduro’s perfidiousness, and leave the rest to the White House, State Department, etc.
Fentanyl poisoning- not OD- due to the fentanyl put into other pills that Americans are taking which are ADHD meds or Xanax pills or other Rx meds bought on instagram or other social media it that they get from colleagues or roommates at parties?? These aren’t addicted people! These are calculated murders by the cartels ( and China who sends precursors to cartels.)
This is a real threat to the US and has been for Years. This only one of the security threats to us and reasons to bring Maduro and his criminal wife to justice. But they aren’t a sovereign or immune statesman. They were not duly elected but criminal dictators who took over by force!
I just can’t believe Americans anymore either- the lack of information or blindness to it caused by the immense hatred of Trump. If the legacy media/ mainstream media ( of which you are a part now Leake) were not so biased- he would absolutely be the most celebrated and beloved and influential president.
So only fawning praise will do? My primary criticism in the piece is the Trump administration's ongoing proxy war against Russia. For crying out loud, even Roman emperors were reminded that they are mortal during a triumph. Shall we make Trump into a deity invested with infallibility?
More bullshit. Fentanyl was not coming into the US from Venezuela. Stop swallowing this nonsense. It's on the same level as "weapons of mass destruction."
You're absolutely correct to point out the hypocrisy of the US actions in Venezuela vs those in Ukraine. But the rationale for action in Ukraine is more complicated than your simplistic analysis of it.
Anyway, you can't have it both ways in your argument. If Russia has the right, in principle, to secure its interests in Ukraine, then the US has the right, in principle, to secure its interests in Venezuela. And those putative interests are far more than what you address in your post.
Nah. Easy-peasy. Don't overthink it. That's what pointy egghead academic so-called supersmert experts do. "It's soooo complicated!"
Not.
Trump just showed Putin how to end that nasty business in his backyard (instigated by the US/EU). Precedent: Set.
I hope Putin seizes the moment and snatches that little shit criminal out of Ukraine. Neither Maduro nor Zelynskyy are legitimate leaders of their nations, holding power against their constitutional requirements. Both conducting criminal acts of violence against superpowers in their respective backyards.
Go for it Putin! Trump just green-lighted it, showed you the way! End the war, now!! Take that little cross-dressing troll just like Trump took Maduro!
My recollection is that Z repeatedly called for NATO and EU membership, even though that was Putin's declared red line. Yes, theoretically Ukraine can ask for those western alliances, but in so doing, Z did not get into NATO. He merely decimated his country, destroyed fields and buildings, all while repeatedly demanding more and more money and weapons. Meanwhile, his behavior is that of a dictator, too, so hardly on a moral high ground. Perhaps I'm missing something, but if we allow a full-on commie to take over NYC via non-citizen voting, why would we object to allowing the pro-Russian eastern provinces of Ukraine to make peace with Russia? A peace deal with Putin and Zelenskyy is hopeless -- both want war.
When Lindsey Graham and Chuck Schumer are openly saying that war in Ukraine is great for US business it's easy to see that outside of PDJT most in DC and Wall Street want war. Given that, what Putin and Zelenskyy want is immaterial.
Most of the US's, world's problems start and end in Washington, DC. Trying to 'fix' other nations before fixing our own is all theater, distracts Americans from fixing our own nation first. Sadly, even PDJT is falling for this. Nothing systemic is being fixed in the US that the next Autopen can't undo.
I don't disagree with your take on Ukraine. But it was Venezuela that I said was complex. Not complicated, complex. In contrast to the simplistic analysis in John's post.
Ah, my mistake. I meant to say Venezuela, not Ukraine. John seems to treat it as just being about drugs and oil. There are at least allegations of Venezuela being at the center of some bad things are very significant for US interests. To say that it's all about drugs and oil seems to me to be either naive or narrow. I don't think John is naive, so I think he was just too focused on the hypocrisy angle to give sufficient attention to the Venezuela particulars.
At any rate, we agree on Ukraine, and I think your observation about Trump showing Putin the way has merit. It could actually make things easier for Trump anyway. But if China gets the same idea to solve their Taiwan problem with kinetic action, that may be more blowback than we bargained for.
And I see Venezuela's election rigging machines as one of the complications. Because it wasn't developed by Venezuela for export to the world. I think it was developed by the CIA/MI6 Globalist cabal *in* Venezuela to steal elections across the globe, silence the dissenting voices of the world's people who still trust they are being heard, represented. Many, many hands inside this nation, names we don't names we do know. Including many we may think are on our "team" fighting with us. Yes, much more than drugs and oil. The legitimacy of every "representative" government in the world is probably at stake. Yes, more complex than Ukraine. Which is simple money laundering, corruption, largesse and graft.
When will Collins, Bourla, Bancel, Schwab, and Fauci be captured and brought to trial?????
All names from the past. The new WEF boss, Larry Ellison, maybe worse than the old boss, seems to have Trump's approval to take over any media (TikTok, CBS, etc.) not sufficiently friendly to Trump and the slaughter in Gaza.
Actually, it's Larry Fink (Blackrock), not Ellison, coupled with André Hoffmann, with family and exec. ties to Roche and Genentech. This pair alone clarify the grand plan to rule the world: LEGAL drugs. Bill Gates is small potatoes compared to that terrifying pair.
Trump cannot take down the country's real rulers -- the billionnaire class. The best weapons are the cash economy, barter, family farms and gardens, independent doctors, printed copies of books, and similar methods of independence.
And physical Gold & Silver...Just saying
Got my billionaire Larrys confused--thanks for the correction. They do seem to be riding a tandem bike.
You bet. I enjoyed, er, recoiled in horror, when I checked the WEF web site and found the bios of their top people. I was already horrified when Ellison announced out loud his hope for mass-producing mRNA shots via AI. The Horsemen of the Apocalypse will no doubt have syringes in their saddle packs.
Larry Ellison is the main funder of the "Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces." The IDF is the primary force that's genociding the Palestinians, who are living on land that the Israelis want. Also, the IDF trains American police officers. The "knee on the neck" strategy, sometimes applied by U.S. police officers, appears to be something they learned from their IDF training.
Not relevant to this post.
Hear ya, in your wildest dream, there appears no way to hold those responsible to "account" People are afraid and sadly colluding, ....Got it
I very much agree with your assessment of things. But, when it comes to the CIA, the idea that Trump has control over their international intrigues and meddling strikes me as a bit off. No President since the CIA was created has been able to control it. Both Presidents Truman and Eisenhower stated years later that their greatest mistake was in not destroying the CIA. President Kennedy famously stated that it needed to be shattered into 1,000 pieces, and he was soon thereafter killed. No President since Kennedy has openly opposed the CIA, even though it has been the source of many embarrassing and problematic situations for all Presidents. Trump does need to do something about the CIA. He needs to demolish it. But, because no one really knows all the many things it does and is involved in, and it's impossible to kill it just with a law or from being defunded by Congress, it's an entity that is nearly impossible to destroy - and attempts to do so are fraught with extreme danger. I agree that it needs to be reined in, but to do that is extraordinarily problematic. They're watching us all - always. They're reading this note to you right now. Yes, they have that much capability. Controlling them is almost a pipe dream. It MAY happen, but I personally don't know how.
IMHO the illegal drug trade funds the CIA’s clandestine operations, thus Congress defunding the CIA would not end their existence.
Yes, Jack, you are correct. It's common knowledge that the Columbians and Panamanians were partnered with the CIA during the '80s and flooding the inner cities with cocaine and later crack. Their ability to self-fund through illicit enterprises means the CIA always has the capacity to survive any attempt to kill it outright. It may shape-shift and go totally underground, but it's a monster that may never die.
Satan is next to God!😎
Not a bad way of thinking of it. But, there's no rational basis for thinking of any aspect of government in the same context as God. There's a great potential for evil in ever corner.
What I meant was Satan is OF God...or FROM God... as is everything else...it's unavoidable in this realm. That's all.
The first step in defunding the CIA, would be to stop or at least curb the illegal drug trade that's funding the CIA. This probably is all over the world – – – so it is going to take some time, but Venezuela is a great beginning! A lot of the drugs that have been killing US citizens have come from Venezuela and their gangster government. Truman did say that he regretted ever establishing the CIA--he was a good man. It is really a battle between GOOD & EVIL. Between GOD & SATAN for the world. I have read the book of Revelation, and I know who wins. (Jesus Christ).
How are you going to curb the illegal drug trade when it's the C_A (and the cartels THEY set up, run and control) that run these drugs (and other) ops against WeThePeople, not just here, but globally? The bigger question that needs to be addressed is, why does this (and many other) agency exist at all, since it's neither constitutional nor in keeping with the framework of (or branches within) the functions of a Constitutional Republic. AND worse, they don't serve the country or the people as they function as an agent of and for the cartel-babylon globalist DS's nefarious activities across the planet. This (and pretty much all the other) agency needs to be disbanded and relegated to the trash, where it belongs... not funded AT ALL by the g0vt they don't serve. Their only function is to do every nefarious, heinous, evil, illegal activity that is prohibited from being done within the framework of the Republic and the legitimate, constitutional branches of g0vt. Same goes for pretty much all the other "agencies", none of which have any constitutional bearing, authority, or purpose to even exist.
I said earlier, start the year small, read Leake...all should read and re read this Leake!!!
Insufferably shamelessly abusing drugs, and then guiltlessly we bomb venezualen boats, and overthrow a government. Is this merely another Israeli support war, hamas theoretcially getting therir oil, so we must stop it, as Tucker has so wisely elaborated.
Regime change hear we go again; in Ukraine, look where that led.
Wait till the US is weak, and a stronger Nation decides to kidnap our president, which is all this is, the stronger snuffing out the weak. Who is next. Iran? N. Korea? I am all for Trump, but not this monster he appears to have become. His boot licking syncophants had better wise up soon before this all ends badly for all.
Thanks for the kudos, Peter! please share the post with your friends!
Can Rubio talk to Trump and have him come to Canada and take away Carney?
Careful, d k, this crowd probably supports Carney 100%, and you know how they will hunt you down for speech in Canada now.
Rubio?🤣
If Maduro wanted to hurt the US with drugs he would have cut a deal with Pfizer, Moderna et al and exported their inventions.
Utter nonsense.
Maduro was pouring in enough drugs to kill everyone in the country.
And I need to give credit to China for helping Maduro with the drugs.
I fully support our POTUS efforts btw.
And anyone who does not support this op is a far left liberal.
Sorry to say John, but, this post appears to be click bait worthy.
"Anyone who doesn't support this is a liberal" No. your just low iq. no way around it. Still living in the illusion of a two party system. IgnorAnce is bliss. continue on with your enslavement. Just stay in your comfortable bubble
You sound vax injured.
F off with your low iq rhetoric.
The irony. Never took the jab. Just effing wake up. Don’t go full retard. Both parties serve the same masters.
Maduro was not the president of Venezuela. He is a narco terrorist.
The Venezuela people are celebrating today. This op is about the voting machines, starting with smart matic.
That's one view!🤓
Yep. I think Maduro’s court case will get a lot of attention, and perhaps a lot of discovery. Will be interesting to see how it plays about before mid-terms.
Right, I mean how would Maduro mandate Pfizer, easier to just ship the fentanyl and let volunteers off themselves.
Fentanyl isn't coming from Venezuela. Wake the F up!
Yeah I know, but that’s the accusation.
Pfizer doesn't like anyone who isn't on payroll!🤓
Agree! See my post below!
Seriously? You need to get some facts straight. First of all, about 4% of the cocaine that comes into the U S (most of it run by the C_A) makes its way to the US from Venezuela. Secondly, the nasty drugs like Fentanyl are run by, and make their way into the US, by the C_A ... and the MEXICAN CARTELS the C_A sets up for the purpose of destroying this country... and that includes the human and child trafficking as well (which Venezuela also has nothing to do with). If you're not capable of practicing intellectual honesty and providing factual data, you should sit this one out, umKay? Venezuela doesn't even rank as negligible, by the US's OWN statistics for "drugs coming into the US". So the "narco-terrorism" narrative is a ruse, parrotted by low-IQ NPC matrix-dwellers, because they're too uninformed to know what's going on, nor could they intellectually grasp it if they did.
This is outright bullshit. The drugs are coming in through Mexico, Peru, Ecuador. NOT Venezuela. You have bought into another "weapons of mass destruction" smokescreen. After all these years, with all the lies put forth to "justify" US destruction, coups, sanctions, blockades in Iran, Guatemala, Vietnam, Libya, Iraq, and many more, you have to be willfully obtuse to still believe this crap. Wake up!
Exactly. Man there are a lot of low-IQ NPCs opining here with information that's so deranged and not based in reality, it's kind of frightening.
I bet there is not and will not be a reduction of drug use in America, as a consequence. Most likely, we will forget all about this having been the stated goal at one time, and no one will compile related statistics.
Many sides to any story!😎
Good one
You mean like doing an Operation Warp Speed, with lockdowns (for the purpose of installing deadly 5G/6G and whatever "G" throughout the country in the dead of night) for the benefit of the tech broligarchy and UN total surveillance state; and for unleashing a gen0cidal biotechnological weapon "injection" (pretending to be a quackcine) to k!ll and maim (and transhumanize) humanity? Instead the [once again fake] narrative is "street drugs" (while the numbers "legally sanctioned" PHARMA has killed rack up in the millions upon millions) like "Fentanyl", which doesn't come from Venezuela; but comes from MX, brought to you by the C_A and the cartels THEY run. Or perhaps, the [fake] narrative will be "election fraud", which a self-professed "advanced" nation, like the US, could have easily stopped "election fraud" decades ago, but that would require admitting the U S is "in on it". Or, more likely, the deranged narrative will be "Venezuela stole U S oil", which actually means Venezuela threw out the parasitic U S cartel babylon "oil companies and billionaires" so Venezuelan "leaders" could loot the coffers of the vast riches for themselves instead of letting the U S billionaires line their own pockets at Venezuela's expense. Seems the U S is upset with Maduro, et al, because Maduro et al did a better, more efficient job of stealing from Venezuelans than the U S has done, though that's debatable as the U S theft/usury of its people defies human comprehension(and Venezuelan "leaders" accomplished the theft of their people without having to give a cut of the theft to the central bankers). And then there's the "Monroe Doctrine" theory, which try as the mockingbirds may, is as far-fetched as saying they had to go after Maduro, a person in a sovereign country with no legal or other affiliation or responsibility to U S law, "because he had machine guns".
He didn't pay his 'cut' to CIA! That's all!😱
John, I agree with you on both issues. I was very disappointed to listen to the interview with Trump this morning as he lied and exaggerated several times. Instead of targeting cocaine he should ban all mNRA “vaccines “ if he really wants to save lives.
They're his beautiful vaccine!
Everything Trump does is beautiful according to him. I used to give him a pass but I have been done with that for several months.
An apple with a worm (ex. DJT) is still better than an completely rotten but worm-free apple (Biden/Harris). I wish he had better editors, but he still is a vast improvement on every other president this century (IMO).
All Anunnaki blood lines!😱
Trumpstein Files did it for me!😎
Is the action against Venezuela an effort to end the flow of illegal drugs or actually an effort to gain control of the flow? Let’s not forget our government pays for the research to develop drugs, pays for the advertising of their use whether with ads and/or pushing recommendations from the CDC, and in the case of vaccines grants the manufacturers of the drugs immunity from liability. The pharmaceutical industry is by far the largest lobby in D.C. How much of the revenue from the illegal drug trade makes it into the coffers of election campaigns?
Great question. Trump should be looking at Mexico if he wants to stem the flow of illegal drugs. The CIA is probably a player in the drug trade in one form or another.
It's about trade routes, oil, resources, silver mines and central banks... and that Maduro isn't a fan of B00mB00mBibi's. The U S needs to steal resources from wherever they can to try to keep their trillions and trillions of dollars of debt afloat. This act of invading Venezuela was not just illegal, but a violation of international law. The people who are supporting anything that just happened are the very same people who would be screaming about the injustice, clutching their pearls with their hair on fire, if another country had done the same thing HERE and kidnapped Trump and his wife. What just took place far exceeds any level of sanity or dignified international conduct. It's a gross violation.
It's about oil, not drugs.
The issues of oil, drugs (illicit and legal), voting, the deep state and high finance are all intertwined.
CONTROL the flow...That's all it's ever about!🤓
He recommended Moderna and benefits from RNA therapy...the same tech used for omnicide can prolong life!😱
I think we can walk and chew gum.
We can protect our neighborhood and let Russia protect its neighborhood. I agree that aid to Ukraine should stop immediately. And let some other nation take care of Zelensky who is a worse criminal and degenerate than the bus driver in Venezuela. If Trump let Venezuela continue on its current trajectory without intervening China would have taken over. Let them play in their own neighborhood with Taiwan, South China Sea, etc.
Excuse me, but why can't Venezuela decide, on its own, with whom it would like to trade? Cut the US exceptionalism. Like most of South America now, China is the largest trading partner. For good reason: the trade brings them more benefits, without the war- and coup-mongering of the US.
Why can't Venezuela decide on its own?
1. Socialism. "You can vote it in, but you have to shoot your way out."
2. Utter economic incompetence since Chavez, but I'm repeating number one.
3. Totalitarian control, fake elections, political terror, and support for a huge illicit drug manufacturing infrastucture, but I'm repeating number 1 again.
You have no evidence of "support for a huge illicit drug manufacturing infrastructure."
Here's an good overview of Venezuela's economic performance under Chavez. This is "the threat of a good example" that the US stomps into dust whenever such a threat begins to appear. Hence the coup attempts, the sanctions, the "make the economy scream" order Kissinger gave regarding Chile under Allende.
https://cepr.net/publications/venezuelan-economic-and-social-performance-under-hugo-chavez-in-graphs/#.UTzTeF8UNl4.facebook
The US has no problem with drug-running regimes (Honduras, Ecuador, for just two examples), nor with gross buffoonery and incompetence (Javier Milei), so long as those regimes sell out their countries to the banksters.
I don't need evidence. The indictments against Maduro do. Read them.
In the meantime your calling Milei incompetent suggests where you sit politically.
The indictments against Maduro are bogus nonsense, an exercise in extraterritoriality. If this administration gave a damn about drug running, it wouldn't have pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former President of Honduras, convicted (with real evidence, not stories sucked out of somebody's ass) of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine into the US. And yes, Milei is a buffoon, saddling Argentina with yet more debts to the IMF and foreign banks. Real life for workers and the poor has gotten harder, despite the rosy statistics.
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-economy-poverty-milei-austerity-inflation-061bbba174706475a255c6b871953009
You quote an AP article? Talk about "sucking things from someone's ass..." Like I said above, read the NSS.
None of that is valid. Just like it's nobody's business what form of govt this country uses, it's not this country's business OR AUTHORITY to dictate what goes on in other countries. So, you think PedoJoe and his illigitimate, stolen-election regime was economically (or in any other way) competent, right? So you are saying that it would've been perfectly fine for another government to come in here, dismantle our form of government, and take over running THIS country when an illegitimately elected pedophile was sitting in the White House, correct? Good to know that you'd be OK with that, now that the precedent for this to happen has been set. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. And now the door is open for this to happen HERE, now that people like yourself find it acceptable. Disgusting.
You are babbling incoherently. You apparently aren't capable of knowing what I'm saying. Perhaps you and the Leftist below should simply read the National Security Strategy.
The "door for this to happen here" was quite open under the Obama/Biden administration since 2016. Luckily, and sad for traitors, it failed--multiple times--and now we have a President that takes threats seriously, and apparently acts in ways you can't understand. So be it. Go live with Carney if they'll let you in.
Try again, low-IQer with the insults, since you have nothing to substantiate your nonsensical garble. The babbling and incoherent drivel you spew proves your limited cognition and even lower comprehension, too intellectually bereft to even be able to discern who (or what) a "leftist" is. 😂
Thank you.
So simple...So sane...too bad!🤓
Agree- John Leake, your Liberalism, Elitism and most glaringly, your TDS is really showing. Been a faithful subscriber to Focal points from the beginning; not for you, of course, but for the brilliant, brave and humble Dr. Peter McCullough, whom I respect immensely as a fellow physician.
I’ve never said anything about your posts, just tolerated them and have observed as you have incrementally and shrewdly changed the tone of this Substack. I just renewed my subscription before I read this post and I’m now filled with regret. Your pretentious, arrogant, opinionated leftist comments are enough. We readers can get that blather anywhere, and most everywhere else! Although I can tell from the comments, the readership has changed.
I may be in the minority now. But can you not (all) understand that the #1 cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18-45 over the past 5-6 years has been fentanyl Poisoning?
Yep Murdo opening folks mouths in the USA and forcing down the fentanyl and the cocaine nose candy for longer lasting joy.
2000 miles away vs Mexico on our boarder? And John is the confused one? Wow.
Regime changes never work out in long run.
Well said and I share your sentiments.
I suspect a lot of the comments here are from trolls and bots. Pretty typical responses. Some truth, lots of misdirection. Obviously, none of us knows exactly what is going on, but I think this does have more to do with the stolen election than anything else. That take makes the most sense to me. Without real elections we have no country.
We are in a war...have been for a long time. Trump is going to have to do some things that he'll take a lot of flack for, probably break some rules (like the libs do all the time)...but how else are we going to keep America, America? It's not going to be easy or pretty. It's going to be messy. It's going to be necessary.
The entire earth and everything on it is dying, and Fentanyl is not causing this. I wish Fentanyl were our biggest problem.
Only read a few paragraphs…skimmed the rest John. Your views and comments are far removed from reality…..but they are your views to which you are entitled. Anything or anyone supportive to the world’s greatest leader, President Donald J. Trump really sets you off! Come on up to Canada and join in with the corrupt Marxist Carney whose goal is making our country a satellite of communist China!!
A thousand likes, esp. for this witty simile: "This is the moral and spiritual equivalent of a morbidly obese sugar addict railing about the depravity of Archer Daniels Midland and Cargill and demanding that their high fructose corn syrup refineries be bombed."
Seriously, while no doubt Maduro is a crook, there are long-range concerns. 1. Bringing to trial in NY is a waste of time, as the Dems will send him home free and potentially a fake-hero. 2. Trump opens a Pandora's box of ascendant empires deciding to take himself out, since he has given lip service to this potentially war-creating action. 3. If one is looking for the worst narco-terrorists, they are next door and as Trump noted (and was misquoted) in 2016, Mexico is 'SENDING' criminals, rapists, drug-dealers to our borders because Mexico is only a pretend democracy, actually run by cartels.
A brilliant and thoughtful essay. Thanks.
Amazing that we maintain the pretension of having the moral high ground as we move on Venezuelan oil while consuming their drugs.
One more time: Venezuela is NOT anywhere near a leading source of drugs coming into the US. Wake the hell up, stop buying the propaganda.
Who is we? Are YOU consuming their drugs? Thanks to Leftist decriminalization, the drug problem is worse than ever, so that means reduce supply, or just let a subset of the nation become zombified and tacitly approve the degradation of the nation to levels further than Obama and "Biden" achieved.
Exactimo!😎
I'm sorry to see so many nay-sayers here. Trump's success here in Venezuela is God-ordained in order to free the people of Venezuela and restore their sovereignty, just as much as it is to take out a regime that was hell-bent on destroying America. The people saying we should work on our own problems with drug addiction are naive - which came first, the chicken or the egg. If drugs weren't accessible everywhere, would our children have gotten addicted in the first place? Big Pharma and the drug cartels all have a big part to play in the destruction of American people getting hooked on drugs and increasing mental health issues leading to suicide. Don't forget the mantra of the globalists - to reduce the population of the world! Whatever that looks like is fair game to them.
The other significant role Venezuala played for decades was to compromise elections worldwide. Maduro is a major player that needed to be removed. He was not legit in any way. The people of his own country are rejoicing that he is gone. That alone should tell you what this man was all about. Listen to this impassioned plea https://x.com/barrontnews_/status/2007451336745332812?s=12
Yes, oil is involved, a beautiful resource given by God as a blessing to the nation., I pray it will be stewarded wisely and the regime change will yield a Godly result. But whether it be in Nigeria (same type of story) or the many other countries the Lord is using Trump to liberate, know this is God's battle born out of a love of His people who are crying out to be free all over the world. It is time for corrupt governments to topple. And as they do, I am one who is rejoicing!
WHICH GOD?🤣 OBVIOUSLY OT!😱
Same God, or are you behind on your reading?
Then somebody is lying!🤥
Mr. Leake - I'm curious about your thoughts on these:
I'm waiting to hear Bondi's justification for grabbing the couple on their sovereign turf. I'm sure Noriega will be cited but the underlying theory will be of interest.
Also I'm wondering how this will affect midterms, as the optics of invading another country and starting another foreign entanglement will imho far outweigh any case that might be made on national security grounds.
I also don't think this action will be without consequences. Seems to me Trump executed a quintessential Art of the Deal tactic. He now has leverage of part of the world's oil supply that goes to China and others, who undoubtedly will take a dim view of the action and consider it a threat. How that plays out in a future negotiation is unknown to me, and it remains to be seen whether we even get to the table or whether the impacted countries (and allies) take actions.
". . . Noriega will be cited . . . " As with vaccine "trial," turtles all the way down. One illegal kidnapping (of someone once on our payroll, and maybe a G.H.W. Bush partner) doesn't justify another.
It's ALL justified by the god(s) of this world!😎
exactly why i added "but the underlying theory will be of interest"
“I'm waiting to hear Bondi's justification for grabbing the couple on their sovereign turf.”
She won’t have to justify it, and her prosecutors won’t have to say anything about it in court. The legal doctrine in the U.S. is that the court can exercise jurisdiction over a defendant regardless of the legality of how that person was brought before it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ker%E2%80%93Frisbie_doctrine
That may be regarding carrying forward a prosecution. However she is Attorney General of the nation and therefore she is the one to put forward the legal justification for the apprehension.
See my previous comment. She doesn’t have to and she won’t. She’ll voice the requisite flattery about Trump’s masterful leadership and obloquy about Maduro’s perfidiousness, and leave the rest to the White House, State Department, etc.
The “so what are you gonna do about it” justification.
NO SHE'S NOT! SHE'S A GLOBALIST FRAUD, LIKE MOST OF THEM!😎
YEP! 250 years of corruption has its effects!😎
Maduro was indicted and charged. He could have avoided the dark night grab and the destruction of Venezuelan air defenses by turning himself in.
Yes that’s what Rubio said.
You wait on 'Bondi'?🤣
Surely you don't believe a word out of Trump.
We believe way more than anything that came out of Clinton’s; Obama’s or Biden’s mouth.
NOPE!👎🏼
You must be proud.
No I just knew that they were massive liars and Biden added the extra layer of stupidity and dementia in his lies.
DISTRACTION!😎
You might like this:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/c09ncVHyvLpp
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OR ANY OF THEM!👿
Sent early-
Fentanyl poisoning- not OD- due to the fentanyl put into other pills that Americans are taking which are ADHD meds or Xanax pills or other Rx meds bought on instagram or other social media it that they get from colleagues or roommates at parties?? These aren’t addicted people! These are calculated murders by the cartels ( and China who sends precursors to cartels.)
This is a real threat to the US and has been for Years. This only one of the security threats to us and reasons to bring Maduro and his criminal wife to justice. But they aren’t a sovereign or immune statesman. They were not duly elected but criminal dictators who took over by force!
I just can’t believe Americans anymore either- the lack of information or blindness to it caused by the immense hatred of Trump. If the legacy media/ mainstream media ( of which you are a part now Leake) were not so biased- he would absolutely be the most celebrated and beloved and influential president.
So only fawning praise will do? My primary criticism in the piece is the Trump administration's ongoing proxy war against Russia. For crying out loud, even Roman emperors were reminded that they are mortal during a triumph. Shall we make Trump into a deity invested with infallibility?
The elephant in the room is the voting machines. That is the main reason for this op.
CFR, W.E.F., AGENDA 21???? WTF?😳
You mean voting machines sold in Venezuela?
😊
See my comment below!
More bullshit. Fentanyl was not coming into the US from Venezuela. Stop swallowing this nonsense. It's on the same level as "weapons of mass destruction."
The real threat to the U.S. is satan!😎
You're absolutely correct to point out the hypocrisy of the US actions in Venezuela vs those in Ukraine. But the rationale for action in Ukraine is more complicated than your simplistic analysis of it.
Anyway, you can't have it both ways in your argument. If Russia has the right, in principle, to secure its interests in Ukraine, then the US has the right, in principle, to secure its interests in Venezuela. And those putative interests are far more than what you address in your post.
Nah. Easy-peasy. Don't overthink it. That's what pointy egghead academic so-called supersmert experts do. "It's soooo complicated!"
Not.
Trump just showed Putin how to end that nasty business in his backyard (instigated by the US/EU). Precedent: Set.
I hope Putin seizes the moment and snatches that little shit criminal out of Ukraine. Neither Maduro nor Zelynskyy are legitimate leaders of their nations, holding power against their constitutional requirements. Both conducting criminal acts of violence against superpowers in their respective backyards.
Go for it Putin! Trump just green-lighted it, showed you the way! End the war, now!! Take that little cross-dressing troll just like Trump took Maduro!
My recollection is that Z repeatedly called for NATO and EU membership, even though that was Putin's declared red line. Yes, theoretically Ukraine can ask for those western alliances, but in so doing, Z did not get into NATO. He merely decimated his country, destroyed fields and buildings, all while repeatedly demanding more and more money and weapons. Meanwhile, his behavior is that of a dictator, too, so hardly on a moral high ground. Perhaps I'm missing something, but if we allow a full-on commie to take over NYC via non-citizen voting, why would we object to allowing the pro-Russian eastern provinces of Ukraine to make peace with Russia? A peace deal with Putin and Zelenskyy is hopeless -- both want war.
When Lindsey Graham and Chuck Schumer are openly saying that war in Ukraine is great for US business it's easy to see that outside of PDJT most in DC and Wall Street want war. Given that, what Putin and Zelenskyy want is immaterial.
Most of the US's, world's problems start and end in Washington, DC. Trying to 'fix' other nations before fixing our own is all theater, distracts Americans from fixing our own nation first. Sadly, even PDJT is falling for this. Nothing systemic is being fixed in the US that the next Autopen can't undo.
I don't disagree with your take on Ukraine. But it was Venezuela that I said was complex. Not complicated, complex. In contrast to the simplistic analysis in John's post.
I just responded to this:
"But the rationale for action in Ukraine is more complicated than your simplistic analysis of it."
Ah, my mistake. I meant to say Venezuela, not Ukraine. John seems to treat it as just being about drugs and oil. There are at least allegations of Venezuela being at the center of some bad things are very significant for US interests. To say that it's all about drugs and oil seems to me to be either naive or narrow. I don't think John is naive, so I think he was just too focused on the hypocrisy angle to give sufficient attention to the Venezuela particulars.
At any rate, we agree on Ukraine, and I think your observation about Trump showing Putin the way has merit. It could actually make things easier for Trump anyway. But if China gets the same idea to solve their Taiwan problem with kinetic action, that may be more blowback than we bargained for.
Good point, re China.
And I see Venezuela's election rigging machines as one of the complications. Because it wasn't developed by Venezuela for export to the world. I think it was developed by the CIA/MI6 Globalist cabal *in* Venezuela to steal elections across the globe, silence the dissenting voices of the world's people who still trust they are being heard, represented. Many, many hands inside this nation, names we don't names we do know. Including many we may think are on our "team" fighting with us. Yes, much more than drugs and oil. The legitimacy of every "representative" government in the world is probably at stake. Yes, more complex than Ukraine. Which is simple money laundering, corruption, largesse and graft.