Truth vs. NEW$ Inc, Part 2 (9 March 2025) with Don Grahn, Joachim Hagopian, and Brian Davidson
Jim Fetzer, Don Grahn, Joachim Hagopian, and Brian Davidson dissect the March 9, 2025 U.S.-Israel attack on Iran, citing Trump's "annihilation" rhetoric and a bomb killing 165 schoolgirls that risks radiological disaster across Asia. They expose alleged Pentagon claims linking the war to biblical Armageddon, sparking troop resistance and moral outrage against what they call Earth's most tyrannical power structure. Ultimately, the hosts warn that religious coercion and unclear objectives could erode morale and escalate the conflict into World War III under Trump's leadership. [Automatically generated summary]
Welcome back to Truth versus News Incorporated here on March 9th, 2026.
Oh, wow, you must have first hour.
And if you haven't seen it, you have to watch it.
There's dreadful material there that you can't get anywhere else that you need to know because the end is here, I think.
And hopefully I'm proving along that this is not a pluff, but it looks like a lot of firepower.
And we have got another hour here on March 9th, so give it to us, Jim.
Well, Phil Giraldi asked maybe attacking Iran wasn't such a good idea after all.
I think he's got it right.
The completely unprovoked attack on Iran, initiated by the U.S. and Israel, has, after a little more than a week of military action, opened a new depth of geopolitical insanity, as suspected.
The attack was all about protecting Israel while also minimizing the damage to U.S. military intelligence and diplomatic facilities in the Persian Gulf.
In that, it has been less than a great success.
There's been reportedly considerable damage done by Iranian missiles and drones in both the Jewish state and American bases.
Iran has also suffered substantially.
And the U.S. bomb that killed 165 schoolgirls continues to fuel huge demonstrations and rage as feeding a willingness to resist the United States among the Shia communities, both inside Iran and adjacent states and regions, expanding the conflict.
The combined Israel-U.S. onslaught was intended to destroy Iranian military capabilities, particularly its fictional nuclear but real missile programs, and to bring about regime change after killing its supreme leader.
As the attack took place, Trump announced by way of his truth social platform, we are going to destroy those missiles and razor missile industry to the ground.
It'll be totally again obliterated.
We're going to annihilate their Navy.
Saturday, March 7th, he elaborated, tweeting today Iran will be hit very hard under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death because of Iran's bad behavior.
Areas and groups of people would not consider targeting up until now, this moment in time, implying he's going to attack civilians because Iran is putting up a fight.
There's talk about sending in special forces to go after Iran's nuclear stockpile.
I don't think that could possibly happen.
And if the U.S. were to attack Iran's nuclear sites, the radiation would extend across Pakistan, India, and affect other nations.
If a nuclear facility in Iran is hit in war, the danger does not stop at Iran's borders.
It travels with the wind.
The recent strikes under Operation Epic Fury, including reports of attacks on the Netan's enrichment complex, have already triggered warnings from the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Director General Rafael Mariano-Grossi called the situation very concerning.
He did not confirm radiation leaks, but he made one thing very clear: a radiological release cannot be ruled out.
And if that happens, consequences could stretch far beyond the battlefield.
We stand by what I said before.
We haven't seen major military activity targeting the nuclear facilities.
We have been looking at different satellite images.
There might be something there, but not significant.
So far, so good.
Meanwhile, what about Daimona?
You know, we're already redrawing the region red line with the death toll from the U.S. Israeli attacks on Iran, reportedly having surpassed 1,000, Tehran, has brought one of the Middle East's most sensitive strategic sites into the escalation equation, Israel's Demona nuclear side.
A senior Iranian military official told the Iranian website, Iran Nuances, later reported by Iran's semi-official AISNA news agency, that if the U.S. and Israel pursue a regime change scenario in practice, Tehran's final effective missile will target the Demona nuclear reactor in all regional energy infrastructure.
This is a scenario we've already prepared for.
Iran has retaliated with wave after wave of drone and missile strikes, more than 30 waves at present, targeting Israel as well as Gulf countries hosting U.S. military assets, raising fears of a wider regional war.
The warning has reignited questions that often remain muted in regional crises.
What is Daimona?
Why is it seen as the backbone of Israel's nuclear capability?
How does its secrecy shape the politics of deterrent in a region already consumed by war?
I think the question becomes: what would happen if it were to be hit?
We know Israel has hundreds of nukes and other chemical and biological weapons.
Joachim, your thoughts.
Yeah, again, very dangerous situation because obviously Iran does have missile power that can do damage to those facilities at Demona.
So, yeah, I mean, we don't know the extent of what could happen, actually.
You know, and I don't want to be an alarmist, but, you know, if you hit nuclear facilities, there could be some major fallout literally from that.
That could then, with some wind, spread beyond just Demona, obviously, to other parts of the Middle East, even.
You know, so yeah, we're talking about an existential question of even, you know, Israel surviving, the parts of the Middle East surviving, Iran surviving.
You know, we haven't been in this situation before where it's this close.
You know, and I have thoughts about, well, what's the morality in Iran?
See, if it looks bad for Iran, then, you know, they're going to have, in their minds, justification of going after Demona, you know, in the same way that, you know, the Israelis will figure, well, if we're going, we're going to take them, you know.
So, you know, it's existential all around now between these two main players, you know, and it goes far beyond that, because if there is some kind of nuclear detonation, we don't know the extreme of what could happen from that.
But it's a very scary thought, actually, to think that, you know, a good part of the size of the Middle East could end up dead.
You know, and, you know, when it comes to nuclear weapons and actually detonation, you know, we don't know.
It's a slippery slope.
You know, one thing can lead to another.
You know, as far as the United States with the madman Trump with his fingers on the button, boy, that's a scary thought in and of itself.
So yeah, we're in a pretty bad place right now.
I pray to God that things work out and cooler heads prevail.
But you know, I'm not all that optimistic that cooler heads will prevail.
I'm not optimistic.
I think Phil Giraldi raised a question.
Was this such a good idea after all?
Brian, your thoughts?
Well, okay, so we're talking about radiological war risk.
And, you know, one, the first article talked about sending in the special forces to seize the stockpiles.
The logic behind sending the special forces in is that airstrikes can destroy facilities, but they can't secure any nuclear material.
And so the current train of thought is that if enrichment sites are destroyed without securing the uranium, then the material could be dispersed or hidden.
And, you know, we don't know.
So the ground mission emerges.
This is probably what Israeli soldiers were built for.
It does explain a lot about the computer virus that Israel launched years ago.
So it's a very, very dangerous situation.
But Iran isn't Iraq in 2003.
In 2003, we went into Iraq to do it.
We got in there quickly.
We got in there easily.
We were very strong, but Iran has incredibly mountainous terrain, some well-prepared and very hardened underground facilities, and some serious missile defenses, not to mention very large conventional forces.
And so, you know, the second YouTube video was talking about radiological contamination.
And, you know, they do process uranium, and you can't blame them with Israel being right next door and having it.
But those nuclear reactors aren't like Chernobyl.
I mean, there's going to be some radioactive dust and contaminated debris that could spread locally, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's going to happen.
Now, remember, fallout doesn't respect borders.
And Pakistan, India, and Central Asia are still capable of being brought into this thing within 48 to 72 hours.
So even a small contamination would trigger public panic, food contamination, and possibly some trade disruptions.
So I would guess that we're just going to avoid the issue and hope we can settle this diplomatically, although I doubt we're going to be capable of doing that.
So it looks like it's going to be soldiers on the ground.
Well, if there are, there's no way they can prevail in Iran.
Iran has a ferocious history of courage under combat.
And the Shia for the Iranians, for the Iranians, this is existential, and they are prepared to die in a jihad and go to heaven.
And I guess 72 virgins await them.
I mean, you go back in the history of Iran, and the Persians have some of the most glorious episodes of warfare, heroic warfare, of tiny groups of Persians facing overwhelming odds and giving their lives heroically.
I mean, stuff that is legend.
So, you know, the United States, our people are going to be running away.
They don't want to be engaged in combat.
And, you know, it's just rather ridiculous to think what could happen here.
We have Larry Johnson.
The U.S. Intel community is covering its ass.
If you want to know what's really happening in Iran, this is a written article.
He talks about several reports coming out about it.
This means the war in Iran is not going well.
And the U.S. Intel community is beginning the washing game of don't blame me.
I warned you not to do it.
I don't know if Tulsi authored this leak or if it came from senior analysts from the four principal agencies involved in running the classified report, the CIDIA, State Department, Bureau of Intelligence Research, or the NSA.
Understand his report was reduced by the National Intelligence Council and is under the direct control of Tulsi Gabbard.
In any event, I see it as a clear signal from people involved in producing the report.
They will not be the scapegoats when the Iran war turns into a debacle for Donald Trump, as I believe is happening now.
Meanwhile, Caitlin Johnson, she is so good.
The U.S. war machine is run by deranged Armageddon cultists.
Get it.
The U.S. war machine is run by deranged Armageddon cultists.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gave one of his signature, I don't have a small penis tirades at the Pentagon on Wednesday, ranting and raving about the big, powerful, masculine war machinery that's currently raining death and destruction upon the people of Iran.
We will fly all day, all night, day and night, finding, fixing, and finishing the missiles and defense industrial base of the Iranian military, finding and fixing their leaders and their military leaders, flying over Tehran,
flying over Iran, flying over their capital, flying over the IRGC, Iranian leaders looking up and seeing only US and Israeli air power every minute of every day until we decide it's over, Hegseth bloviated, saying there will be B two s, B fifty two s, B one's, predator drones, fighters controlling the skies, picking targets, death and destruction from the sky all day long.
Iran War as Armageddon00:09:26
The war secretary spouted, this was never meant to be a fair fight and it is not a fair fight.
We are punching them while they're down, which is exactly how it should be.
This would be the same Pete Hegseth, who was mentioned in a recent article by Jonathan Larson titled US Troops Were Told Iran War is for Armageddon and Return of Jesus, which reports that US military commanders are telling American soldiers that they are on a mission from God to fulfill a biblical prophecy and bring about the end of the world.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has enshrined evangelical Christianity at the uppermost levels of the US military, airing monthly prayer meetings throughout the Pentagon, Larson reports, saying that last year the Pentagon confirmed to me that Hegseth attends a weekly White House Bible study.
It's led by a preacher who says God commands America to support Israel.
Larson reports that the Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been inundated with complaints from every branch of the US military that troops are being told by their leaders that President Trump has been quote anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth, and similar statements.
Then you've got House Speaker Mike Johnson spouting religious war rhetoric, claiming Iranians have been led to evil by a misguided religion.
Johnson said on Wednesday, The largest state sponsor of terrorism, Iran and its proxies, have killed more Americans than any other terrorist regime on Earth.
They are dedicated to it.
They have been, and they say the quiet parts out loud.
They want to wipe Israel off the face of the earth, and they'd like to take us all out as well.
We're the great Satan in their analogy, and in their misguided religion.
So as if we didn't have enough problems to deal with, it turns out the world is ruled by a nuclear armed Armageddon cult.
The U.S. Empire is the most evil, destructive, and dangerous power structure on this planet.
It is operated by psychopaths and guided by demented religious zealotry.
These freaks wouldn't be believable as villains in a children's cartoon show.
These are the people claiming to have the moral authority to decide who should be the leader of a sovereign nation on the other side of the planet.
These are the powerful individuals whose choices are determining the path our species will take into the future.
They are everything they accuse Iran of being.
They are dangerous religious fanatics.
They cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons.
They are the tyrants.
They are the monsters.
This is unsustainable.
These guys got to go.
The U.S. Empire must fall.
Humanity depends on it.
I think it's going to happen in this case.
Brian, your thoughts.
Okay, so Gerald, was it Larry Johnson did the UNS Review article?
No, it was Caitlin Johnson.
No, no, no, no.
There are two Johnsons.
Larry did the one about the reports.
I mean, where I didn't actually read the report, but about it.
And then Caitlin Johnstone did the latter, the moral critique.
Okay, so basically, one of the things that's being said is that our intelligence apparatus appears to have warned us about these fantasy outcomes when it comes to Iran.
And so it was told to the president that a large-scale assault would be unlikely to break Iran's, you know, priestly clerical military continuity.
And that means it's not going to be as easy as just simply killing leaders to collapse the state.
The White House messaging has been very, very inconsistent.
Public objectives that Trump has talked about have been degrading capabilities, forcing surrender, implying that America has a say over Iran's future leadership.
And that is either improvisation, which I suspect, or absolute disagreement between Trump and the intelligence advisors.
Iran's real leverage is endurance and economic disruption, not necessarily a military action.
They're going to be able to conduct this war by driving energy prices up higher, and they're not going to really need total battlefield dominance if they can just impose a lot of economic pain.
Um, so what you're seeing here is Donald Trump having to fundamentally make it up as he goes because he's probably getting so many different messaging structures from the intelligence agencies and the war profiteers and the military-industrial complex that he really doesn't know what to do, but he knows he needs to tell the American people something.
Um, fundamentally, the public reporting suggests that intelligence didn't believe that this quote-unquote decapitation campaign would topple Iran.
If that's right, then Washington's escalating in pursuit of an outcome that its analysts already said were unlikely, and then Trump's legacy is going to be to go down as the guy who started World War III, which I wouldn't put it beyond such a narcissist to drive us into that path.
Well, Keem, your thoughts.
I say it on every show now that Trump has made more than one reference to not being able to go to heaven, and we know why because he's working for the devil.
Yeah, the Zionists, boy, they are behind a lot of this horror.
And these Zionists are all about, you know, the Armageddon.
You know, I mean, I've mentioned this a lot of times too, but it bears the reminder that Albert Pike, the Confederate general, was talking to Mazzini, Giuseppe Mazzini, the head Freemason of Italy back in 1871 in a letter, and it's written out that he basically delineated World War I, two, and three.
And World War III involved Zionists versus Islam.
And here we are: U.S. and Israel, Zionists, because they think Jesus is going to come once the Armageddon occurs.
You know, these are madmen in charge, basically.
We have the exposure now of the generals from basically Hegzeth, including, and Trump as Zionists and generals preaching to their soldiers that, yes, you're doing it for Jesus.
Yeah, and of course, from the interpretation of the Jews, they believe that Armageddon brings their messia, you know, which is probably that Schneerson guy, you know, that Trump went to the funeral and, you know, bowed down.
That's his god, is Schneerson, you know, the rabbi in Israel there.
Well, actually, he was in New York, actually, located in New York, essentially.
But anyway, yeah, I mean, it's all the Armageddon end of the world kind of crisis that they think will bring, you know, the good times.
So, yeah, we got a lot of insanity apparently running the earth and determining the fate of humankind and the life on earth.
Pretty sad state of affairs to have maniacs in charge.
But, you know, they've been in charge a long time, but they're just making their maniac views by their actions known to all of us like never before.
They have more dangerous playthings, alas, with which to kill us.
All very serious stuff.
Troops Scramble to Dodge War Orders00:02:53
Meanwhile, American troops scramble to dodge war orders.
Major blow to Trump's war push.
Nobody wants to die for Israel.
A prominent anti-war activist and filmmaker says a growing number of U.S. troops and their families are reaching out for help to avoid fighting in the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.
Mike Preisner, executive director of the Center on Conscience and War, says his organization has been flooded with calls from American service members seeking ways to avoid participation in the conflict.
Posting on social media, Preisner wrote that the phone at his organization has been ringing off the hook, with many soldiers and their next of kin asking about options to dodge involvement in the offensive.
Preisner shared details of one conversation he says he had with the mother of a service member deployed in the region.
According to him, the soldier was given what was described as a final phone call home before being ordered to turn in his phone.
During that call, the soldier told his mother that his unit was preparing for a boots on the ground deployment later that night.
Preisner also said the soldier relayed what his commander told the troops about the mission.
According to the activist, the commander reportedly said the deployment was meant to bring about what he described as the second coming of Christ.
Freisner further claimed that many of the servicemen had not initially been told they were heading into a combat deployment.
Instead, he said they had been informed that they were traveling for training exercises.
Several decades ago, when immigrants first started arriving to the United States, among them were a group boots on the ground, bringing about the second coming of Christ.
The remarks come as protests have erupted in several major cities across the United States against the military strikes on Iran.
Large crowds have gathered in downtown Seattle, as well as in Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
Demonstrators in those cities have voiced opposition to the joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign targeting Iranian cities.
Protesters have also expressed concerns over civilian casualties and the broader consequences of the conflict.
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As well, they should, as well, they should.
Meanwhile, more about being told the war is God's plan to trigger Armageddon.
Just ghastly.
More than 200 complaints alleged military commanders framed U.S. strikes on Iran as part of a biblical prophecy invoking the book of Revelation, describing Trump as divinely anointed.
According to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, how bad is this?
Meanwhile, Neil Caligula blows the escalation opening.
This is from Russ Winter.
Speaking to several people involved, I believe I got to the bottom of the story about Suzikian video message and how Trump blew up a golden opportunity to de-escalate the war.
Here's what happened: regional efforts at de-escalation in the war had commenced, had convinced Iran to gradually adjust its regional retaliation conduct.
In a first step, the Iranian president, as head of the interim leadership council, announced that attacks on neighboring countries would cease as long as their territories wouldn't be used to attack Iran.
That's why Tajakayan issued the video statement, though he went further.
That's another matter.
Regional states were then expected to respond in kind.
This would understandably take a few hours as they were monitoring whether Iran's attacks were being reduced.
But before they could reciprocate the conciliatory tone and take regional de-escalation to the next level, Trump issued his true social post that declared victory, insulted and humiliated Iran, and even issued further threats of complete destruction and certain death.
To make matters worse, the U.S. also crossed another red line by attacking the water desalinization plan at Kusam Island.
This is, incidentally, a war crime.
According to Article 54 of the first additional protocol to the Geneva Conventions, Trump's actions, deliberately or inadvertently, sabotages sensitive de-escalation talks in the region, which is why there was also an upkick by prominent GCC account blaming Trump for the war.
Had Trump not done this, chances are that at a minimum, the regional wine of the war would have been halted and reversed.
Nice thoughts.
Meanwhile, Trump is destroying the USA, not Iran.
This is very powerful on my blog.
Each statement emanating from Donald Trump convinces ever more world leaders that both he and the USA are no longer worthy of trust, support, or respect.
The decline of U.S. power is certain.
Trump, in attacking Iran, is actively destroying the reputation the USA ever had for being a just and fair nation led by rational leaders.
This reputation has been degraded massively in recent decades due to the numerous regime change wars of choice the U.S. has embarked upon, the unconscious death and destruction they wreak, and the lies used to instigate them.
Trump, with his inanely childish rhetoric, his betrayal of promises regarding seeking peace, and now his attacks on both Venezuela and Iran have reduced the reputation of the U.S. to an all-time low.
The degree of disgust and outright rage against Trump and the U.S. as a nation is at an unparalleled peak.
The soft power of the U.S. and the West in general, once near all pervasive, has been consistently reduced, just as their reputation in general has declined daily.
Trump's ridiculous boasts and spurious assertions bring ever more reputational damage to the U.S. and reduce the very goal he so wants to boost.
Trump is looking to assert U.S. power against the world and raise that level of power to its past peak and beyond.
He is, in essence, seeking to make the U.S. the global warrantor of a planetary prison, nothing less.
But this very goal, which is obvious for those with eye to see, is turning the rest of the world outside the Western orbit against him and against the USA.
And I add his statements of today, the outrageous lives he gave to try to justify going to war with Iran further discredit the United States.
Joachim, your thoughts.
Yeah, he would be bouncing around all the reasons why we have to go against Iran.
You know, and it would change from day to day.
You know, the bottom line, though, is, yeah, they were seeking regime change because that's what the U.S. has always done.
They've gotten rid of, you know, the George Soros, you know, MO and the military MO of the United States is regime change.
I mean, whether they go actually go to a Connecticut war or, you know, undermined and do the Scott Besson, Treasury Secretary method of, you know, causing hyperinflation in the country where the people protest and then they inject all these mercenaries in there and create havoc, which is what happened in January,
where thousands of Iranians were killed by the mercenaries that the United States and Israel put in there, not by the authorities that are trying to maintain control and peace.
You know, so yeah, everything that comes out of this madman's mouth now is always the opposite of true.
There's nothing, and you can say the same thing about the mainstream media.
Aliens as Morale Fix00:10:35
Everything, and I've been saying that for many years.
You can interpret the mainstream media lies by just going the opposite way of saying, well, if they say this, then the reality is this.
Well, that's what it's become now with everything Trump said is a lie, 100%.
And the reality is, is the world now knows it.
There were at one point, a quote, MAGA group that was rather sizable that got him elected twice, but he doesn't have any MAGA group anymore of support.
There's nobody in MAGA.
MAGA's dead, just like he's about to probably die based on his poor health and mental and physical.
And, you know, you can actually kind of like make it metaphoric that, yeah, America's death is occurring too.
So, yeah, there's so much going on and it's all bad.
So it's up to the people to try and raise the bar of using some kind of morality to their actions and not go animal and crazy and, you know, him or me.
And, you know, it goes and gets really ugly if people go off the far end.
We're seeing it in our president, but hopefully.
But my concern is as times get harder and people can't pay bills or their food and end up homeless and families are homeless, it can get really, really ugly out there.
It's already pretty bad.
All the inner cities, the crime is going crazy, but it can get just terrible for a lot of people around the world.
And we have to also consider the ripple effects economically and financially for the whole world.
But the thing is, it's important not to blame Iran in this existential crisis for their actions.
Yes, they have the leverage now of closing our moves and then causing a lot of skyrocketing prices, but it's not on Iran.
it's it's the madman from the u.s that which is based Yep, we got to catch here.
Brian, go right ahead.
Pick up, Brian.
Yeah, I want to bring up the issue of troop morale because it's so important when it comes to military effectiveness.
We are not in post-World War II, 1950, where the mainstream media controlled all of the discussion and guys like Walter Cronkite could tell people to go out there and put on their patriotic hat and go do their duty to America anymore and actually be effective.
We're in the internet age, and we're in an internet age where the mainstream media and propaganda are much less effective than they ever have been.
As a matter of fact, in the internet age, information is so readily available at anybody's fingertips that they can get to the truth pretty, well, too close to the truth pretty easily, just at their fingertips with their phone.
And so you've got to remember that this is a war that's going to begin fundamentally with about 21% support.
And so you're already walking on some extremely thin ice when it comes to legitimacy.
Second thing is, we've got a lot of religious rhetoric that's happening in the chain of command here.
And that's a very serious morale risk.
If even a fraction of the religious complaints are accurate, that it's not a discussion about a culture war.
It's the trust problem.
And this third thing is unclear objectives and loose objectives will corrode morale much faster than the actual danger of war will.
So I think in the end, it's important to remember that morale problems don't start when everyone quits.
They start when the mission is unclear.
The public is completely unconvinced because they can smell the propaganda.
Morale problems continue when families are anxious and the troops hear rhetoric that sounds ideological instead of professional.
And so I think that we are going to have a very serious problem.
And I think that what's under the hood here is that we're going to have to pull out the alien weapons because we're just not going to have enough troop buy-in.
And even if we do, they're not going to be Pete Hegseth in shape.
They're going to be fat, sloppy, phone-rubbing, you know, mindless children that have no idea what direction they're going and probably have not had any discipline at home.
So I would expect, plus, now we've got this trans-military, female military angle that has been eroding away at our culture and at our strength for so long that I'm going to guess that you're going to get a lot of skinny jeans wearing pansy boys and protesters signing up in a situation that's going to absolutely be impossible to maintain proper morale.
So I think we do have a problem.
And I think Iran does not have the same problem.
Neither does Russia.
Maybe China does to some extent, but I don't know that they're going to be deployed very quickly.
But I would suspect that Middle Eastern military machines and might won't have any problem absolutely overwhelming the American military under these circumstances.
Brian, I couldn't agree more with you.
Would you want to elaborate on calling out what did you say?
The alien angle.
Oh, yeah, you can smell it.
I just saw a Netflix movie the other day with, I don't know, it was some sort of Jack Reacher knockoff that had Reacher destroying the aliens.
It was sort of the front page lead movie on Netflix where he, like a patriot, went and joined the Army Rangers and, you know, didn't want to take leadership, but then found himself in a leadership role.
And then his job, they, while they were running their last mission to become a Ranger, they encountered an alien robot that was impossible to destroy, that obviously couldn't aim its weapons very well because they could all run away from it.
And, you know, it had devastating military presence, but it was just a, in the end, a big, stupid robot that one man with a bulldozer could take down.
I hate to be the, I hate to be the guy that's going to pee on the party in terms of the plot line, but I saw so much propaganda in it.
It makes me feel like they're pushing so much harder for this new Operation Blue Beam style alien invasion, which we've been anticipating.
When trust in the institution gets at an all-time low, what they'll do is they'll try to rebuild morale by claiming the aliens are showing up and that the whole world needs to come together under one single global united monarchy with one set of leadership where the oligarchs can run it and in order to defeat the alien invasion.
And so it's been a big chattering point for a long time that this is how the new world order would be would be jammed into place and that they would get cultural acceptance for the new agenda.
So I think it's coming faster rather than earlier based on all the new rhetoric I'm seeing around the aliens.
And these aliens are actually ETs, right?
I mean, we're not just talking about little eagles from Mexican.
Yeah, no, no, no.
Look, there's been all sorts of NASA style propaganda for years that the little green men from Mars are going to show up with their death rays.
And they're going to, you know, they're going to, you know, look at all the movies.
I mean, look at Independence Day.
Look at all the others.
You know, the reality is, I think, you know, as a Bible guy, I'm going to be leaning much more toward darker Influences that have been around that are sort of ageless and longer lived, that are more demonic in structure than I am with, you know, some ridiculous little green man that originated 50 bazillion miles away that figured out how to travel through space,
but now can't you know match the U.S. military's pressure anymore.
Brian suggests Joaquin, the government may go so far as to make the alien appeal, namely, we got to fight the ET side, it's so ridiculous.
Do you think there's any prospect for that?
When all else fails, that's been the plan for a long time.
When all else fails, yeah, Bernard von Braun on his deathbed.
I don't know if you're laughing with me or laughing.
I don't know if you're laughing with me or laughing for me, Jim.
But I'm not saying you're wrong.
It just seems it's such a ludicrous idea, but I'm not saying you're wrong that they aren't going to do it.
Joaquin's actually confirming that's going to be their last resort.
Yeah, Bernard von Braun on his deathbed, you know.
The head of NASA, the first one, basically said, you know, they're going to pull that stunt where it's a fake invasion by aliens, and that's going to be their big defense to go for one world government, you know.
His gravestone is Psalm 19.1.
The heavens declare the glory of God in the firmament therein.
That's your top missile guy from World War II said that.
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Firmament?
Okay.
Here's a wonderful piece.
Caitlin Johnstone again.
She seemed to me to have an ability to nail these things very convincingly.
Here's another one of her summary reports: Iran is morally superior to the United States.
Iran is better than the United States.
The United States is worse than Iran.
This is true not because Iran is especially good, but because the United States is especially evil.
Iran isn't blanketing a major metropolis with military explosives, killing over a thousand people, including hundreds of children.
The United States is doing this with its partner in crime, Israel.
Iran isn't continuously bombing and invading countries around the world, toppling governments, circling the globe with hundreds of military bases, targeting civilian populations with siege warfare and brandishing nuclear weapons at its enemies in the name of securing planetary domination.
Only the United States is.
The U.S. Empire is the single most murderous and tyrannical power structure on Earth by an extremely massive margin.
No one else comes anywhere remotely close.
Not Iran, not anybody.
Every government in the world is morally superior to the most evil government, and the most evil government is the United States.
Whenever I say this, I get U.S. Empire apologists going, We're only the ones fighting the wars and dropping the bombs because we happen to be the ones with the power to do so.
But that's false.
The U.S. isn't the world's most vicious government because it happens to be the most powerful.
It's the most powerful government because it's the most vicious.
It's the power structure which was willing to do whatever it takes to rule the world, no matter how profoundly evil.
Genocides, starvation sanctions, nuclear brinkmanship, imperialist extraction, the deliberate creation of failed states and humanitarian catastrophes, policies designed to keep entire regions in a continuous state of division and strife.
The United States and the globe-spanning empire structured around it have inflicted depravities upon our species which cry out to the heavens for vengeance.
If you could truly comprehend the scale of the suffering it has created over the years, even for a second, you would never stop screaming.
Another objection I'll encounter when I make these observations is, well, I'd rather live in the United States than Iran.
And it says so much about the Western worldview that people think this is an argument.
Sure, it's probably nicer to live in the United States than Iran, especially now, and certainly ever since the U.S. has been deliberately strangling the Iranian economy with the explicitly stated goal of making its citizenry so miserable they wage a civil war against their government.
But it's so revealing that Westerners see someone saying that Iran is better than the United States and think it's a statement about where they personally would prefer to live, because it shows how completely invisible U.S. warmongering is in their worldview.
Washington's acts of mass military slaughter simply do not count as immoral or abusive in their eyes because they are being inflicted on foreigners overseas.
So they automatically assume the comparison is asking which country would make your feelings feel nicer to live in as an individual.
The fact that the US government happens to export the majority of its abusiveness to other countries outside its own borders doesn't make it any less murderous and tyrannical.
It just means the people bearing the brunt of its savagery happen to live in other places.
Their lives don't matter any less than American lives, and only a warped American supremacist worldview would feel otherwise.
The US government is quantifiably morally inferior to the Iranian government.
It is quantifiably more tyrannical, more murderous, more destructive, and more megalomaniacal.
It is the very last power structure on earth that should have any say in who leads Iran and how the Iranians should conduct their affairs.
It is not morally qualified to be making those decisions.
Isn't that just simply sensational?
Joachim, go ahead.
You first.
They were sitting.
She has a way with words like few others have.
I mean, we all have those level of all of us, but she says it straight to the point, you know.
So, yeah, she's a master at really telling the truth.
Because, as I said, Iran has long been the morally superior country for many, many centuries, long, even way before, I mean, thousands of years before America.
So, you know, America is just used.
We got technology and we've been hijacked by the oligarchs that own the infrastructure on this earth in the way of all the biggest corporations and the banks and the rest of them, the military guns.
They own it all.
And so we've been hijacked by an evil force.
And that evil force is no clearer than a U.S. and Israel.
You know, it's more overt there than anywhere else.
And Europe is a vassal behind the, you know, that falls behind that, but with the same evil.
But, you know, those are the worst countries, the Western countries.
And I believe that the ones that are really in control use the Eastern powers, Russia, China, Iran, India, basically as the counter position, you know, like the good cop, bad cop syndrome.
You know, the bad cop is obviously the West, and the good cop has been the East because they show more restraint.
You look at the system of China, they have the model, you know, social credit scores.
You say something they don't like, you're dead.
Well, that's not a good way we want to go, but that's China, you know.
Yeah, in some ways, they are, you know, less overtly evil in some ways than America and Israel.
But I believe that they're probably just could control the opposition, you know, the Eastern leader, you know, and you know, you hear about stuff like, well, you know, Putin has also been a Shabbat member, you know, and all this kind of stuff.
It like makes me wonder: well, they, in comparison, yeah, the Eastern powers are good or better than morally, anyway, by their actions than the United States and Israel and the West.
But I think they're controlled opposition.
I hate to say it.
I don't know, and with the same earth controllers, the infrastructure owners are still in control, even with Russia and China rising up.
I think that's all manipulation on the part of the controllers.
They saw that they wanted to destroy the West and they do it by bringing up the power of the Eastern countries to do it as their divide and rule.
You know, you got to have two opposing each other.
You know, so yeah, I hate to say it, but I don't have a lot of faith in the Eastern powers being our savior.
We Might Save Ourselves00:06:23
I can't really say that.
It's just a lesser of evil, you know, overtly through their actions.
That's all.
But they're, you know, so anyway, it's up to the righteous people of the earth.
I don't think there's any saviors in the way of geopolitical countries on the earth that will save us.
Perhaps God and perhaps the good people of the earth fighting for their lives, they might be able to save us.
We might be able to save ourselves.
But beyond that, I don't have a lot of faith that there's a good force out there of any real powerful strength other than God that's going to save us.
Brian.
Well, I'm not.
Look, we begin talking about moral lines, and you obviously in that discussion, there's a whole lot of gray area.
I mean, I feel like a pretty moral guy in the sense that I have a very well-developed sense of right and wrong and a very good compass that tells me not to do something that would be considered unethical or damaging to another human being.
Other people, not so much.
And I look around the world and I see that the Western mindset that founded America still has some semblance of it, although it's been corrupted over time with an appetite for more money and more resources.
And that happens when people begin to be when they begin to be prosperous.
Look, the old saying is true: hard times make strong men, strong men make good times, good men make Our strong men make good times, good times make weak men, and weak men make hard times.
And the cycle just continues and continues and continues.
I wouldn't want to be measured up against another man in terms of moral unless I was measured up against Christ, because that to me is the only standard that matters.
And, you know, the prophet Amos used to walk around with a plumb line that he would hold down with a plum bob on it and say, That's the standard.
Can you reach it?
Can you reach it?
And nobody obviously could.
So the hearts of men are desperately wicked and deceitful above all things.
And people are put in situations where they become morally stronger.
And people are put in situations where they become morally weaker.
But I don't measure a man by his degradation.
I measure a man by his ability to repent and turn around and straighten himself up when he's done something he ought to not do.
And when you take a look at the government, the simple fact of the matter is that the institutional bureaucracy that's built on so many levels that requires a favor economy in order to work your way through the system and get to the higher points almost requires a certain amount of moral degradation.
And you see that these moral men simply don't have any appetite for serving in a government that's rotten.
Our founding fathers didn't want it to be this way.
Our founding fathers did everything they could to build a structure that would protect us.
And it still has preserved a remnant of men like us over time, but that remnant dies out with the next generation and the next generation and the next generation after that.
The bigger question is, what events will renew our moral structure?
And I would say that very much it's going to have to be hard times that are going to renew the moral structure.
The second thing that's important, which I think I might have just forgotten, I did.
I had something on my mind and I just simply forgot it.
That's okay.
That's still excellent commentary.
Now, the essence of morality is treating other persons with respect, never treating them merely as means, which occurs in cases like murder, robbery, kidnapping, rape, a perfect illustration.
Using other persons merely as means to benefit yourself or your group.
Now, what we have among nations is a similar consideration.
Imperialism and colonialism are treating other nations merely as means to benefit the dominant nation.
And that's what the U.S. and Israel has been doing historically, virtually from the beginning.
My only exception to what Johnstone has to say there is when she observes it's not because Iran isn't morally superior because it's especially good, but because America is especially evil, she's right in the latter, but she's wrong in the former.
Iran is especially good.
Iran has not launched a war of aggression against any other state since 1775.
If only the same could be said of the United States.
Her principle or claim is impeccable.
Iran is, in my judgment, overwhelmingly morally superior to the United States and to Israel as well.
Sadly.
Wait a second.
Now, there's only one clarification I want to throw in there.
Look, I, as an American, have very little to do with the way my government acts.
I protest.
I do not consent.
And I believe that there's probably even a lot of Israelis that have broken free from the brainwashing that don't consent to what their government is doing.
And so you have to really make a division when it comes to measuring a man or measuring a character based on who he is, not based on what group he is aligned with.
And so to call me an American, yeah, I find myself unwillingly aligned with that, with America's foreign policy debacle, but it's an unwilling alignment.
It doesn't classify me as an immoral man just simply because I happen to be American and happen to be under their structure.
I protest.
Excellent, excellent.
For those who want to pursue these issues further, go to my blog, jameshwetzer.org, and check out Evaluating Moral Theories or to oonsunz.com, the nature of immorality.
Truth vs. News Garbage00:00:59
Don, take us out.
Oh, boy.
This is a show.
I mean, we're going to do it today.
This is truth versus all that news and all the garbage, but to destroy the truth.
And we don't want to do that, but we want to get the truth out there and face the facts that they might be, even though it could be final days here.
Well, hopefully, this is not our last show.
But anyway, we've been doing it for 25 years, and I think we've done a great job.
And Jim, we're awesome, as well as Brian and Joaquim.
This is the show of March 9th, 2026.
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