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Given the significance of Trump’s extraction of Maduro, I thought I would gather information we have not yet looked at.I am not going to try and do transcriptions since my back said NO! (An arthritic back and cold do not mix, darn it!)
I am not going to try and put much order in the offering either, although I am going to put the information I think most important first as well as the new material I snatched from the comments at the Badlands Media substack
I am going to start with “Susan Kokinda from Promethean Action” (H/T Scott)
While You Watched Venezuela, Trump Quietly Put Canada On Notice
“While mainstream media focuses on regime change in Venezuela, this video reveals Donald Trump’s covert battle against the British Empire’s financial backbone.
Susan Kokinda from Promethean Action breaks down how Trump’s actions extend beyond traditional geopolitics, targeting the nexus of narcotics trafficking, terrorism, and offshore banking systems.
Discover the deeper implications of this fight, the role of Canada, and why even the British intelligence and John Bolton see this as a significant shift.”
I lied, here is a partial transcript:
3:20 …listen to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He told us exactly what this is…
Is the United States now at war with Venezuela?
…It’s not a war against Venezuela. You cannot continue to have the largest oil reserves, in the world under the control of adversaries of the United States. Not benefiting the people of Venezuela, stolen by a handful of oligarchs around the world, including inside of Venezuela, but not benefiting the people of that country.
Did you catch that? He didn’t blame socialism. He didn’t blame communism. He blamed oligarchs and drug trafficking organizations. [Remember the CIA always used Communism as the excuse for regime change according to Colonel Towner. Changes that benefited the oligarchs and NOT the people.– GC]
Now, that takes us back to Trump and his targeting of Canada, which no one seems to want to talk about. Because when you put the words oligarchs and drug trafficking organizations in the same context, you aren’t just talking about the cartels in Mexico or Colombia. You’re talking about key characteristics of the British Empire, which is the epitome of oligarchy. Or to put it another way, the rule of the few, which is what oligarchy means… [Remember The Network of Global Corporate Control— GC]
The British Empire has been the most notorious entity in the world when it comes to making money off of drug trafficking, going back over 200 years, including the notorious opium wars of the 19th century. This has never stopped. It’s just taken a new form….
4:56
…It is run by the empire’s favorite central banker, Mark Carney, and it is the major political outpost for the crown in North America, used for drug trafficking, as the president mentioned, illegal immigration, and terrorism.
…Carney has actually facilitated the financing arm of the cartels in his former role as the head of the Bank of England…
8:49
If this is a war on drug trafficking organizations and oligarchs, as Rubio says, then it is automatically a war on the global banking system because you can’t separate the two. The target isn’t just jungle labs and drug boats. It’s the city of London.
Let’s remember where Venezuela is. It borders the Caribbean. What else is in the Caribbean? The origin point for the infamous system of offshore banking established directly by the British. Back in 1960, the largest banking houses in London, working in partnership with the government and the ex-checker, established 14 completely separate secret jurisdictions. These are the offshore banking centers that now hold between 50 and 75 trillion dollars with all 50 of the world’s largest banks operating within them. These offshore centers exist outside the control of sovereign governments. They’re secret, they’re unregulated, and they facilitate illegal activity. What we once had, a legitimate regulated banking system, has been transformed into a criminal enterprise.
Interestingly, the Russians have known this for years and have been more vociferous about it than any Western government. In a 2014 speech, Viktor Ivanov, then Russia’s top drug enforcement official, laid it out clearly in a Moscow conference. He said,
“This allows us to confidently assert that narco money is the foundation of the modern financial system. It is not surprising that during the first peak of the financial crisis of 2008 2009, Antonio Costa from the UN announced that the top banks in the world dumped in around $352 billion of narco dollars to use for interbank borrowing to address the critical shortage of liquidity. And he goes on to make clear that the global financial system needs drug money to survive. The very existence of the global financial bubble, he said, is based on precisely this opportunity for banks to attract liquid narco money. In fact,this garbage fertilizes the present economic system…
…Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant recently commented that 50% of his job involves issues of national security. Now, think about it. Since we started targeting drug boats and lighting up the communications channels of the cartels and their financiers, I bet Treasury Secretary Bessant has been just as busy as Pete Hegseth…
END TRANSCRIPT
At 12:40, she mentions CryptoRich and Tom Luongo so let’s see what they have to say.
In that substack Tom posts the full video + transcript .Tom also highlights the most important part and I will reproduce it here.
As Dr Burlingame explains:
“We need to understand is that, just like Russia prior, 20-some odd years ago and China, now over the last 10 years – 10, 11, 12 years – we have now gone to war with the financialists and their Kill Chain…
“But you know, the point is is that the drug- and human trafficking trade and the flooding of South and Central Americans into our country, in the tens of millions is an intelligence operation on behalf of the financialists, headquartered out of Wall Street, London, Amsterdam, Venice, Rome, Switzerland…
“Roughly $2 trillion a year in cash – cash – floods into the banking systems in the United Kingdom and the US and Continental Europe and is what’s been keeping the banks afloat since 1971, increasingly, since we went to fiat…
“How do you keep the whole thing having the appearance that it’s working? You need a ever-larger amount of illicit funding. Human trafficking is taken off in the last 20 years to an unbelievable, unprecedented-in-history rate. Why? Because humans beings – and 19% of that’s for sex – the rest is still labor or organs, right?
“Over 50% of it is still for labor slavery all over the world, including in Europe, including here, in its various forms. Humans, as Illicit commodity have the highest return, the highest margins of any illicit product in the world, even way above drugs, including fentanyl…”
Here is the Youtube: (27 minutes)
So who are CrypoRich’s guests?
General Blaine Holt is a retired one star General with numerous recent appearances on John Michael Chambers’ “Eyes on Gitmo” series:
WHY ISN’T TRUMP ARRESTING THE CLINTONS? Gitmo Panel Breaks Down Bondi, DOJ & Military Tribunals (1 hr 30 min)
First 25 minutes is about the Wiener laptop & then Tina Peters. There is a brief discussion of Venezula since the extraction of Maduro had not yet occurred. They then get into elections.
39 minutes. — Ret. Lt. Col. Matt Mack: “You can make a change locally. Hand count ballots one day election. …I talked to some folks at DOJ yesterday, the CIA is the BANE of all of this. They have been thwarting Tulsi Gabbard, trying to stop all of this. John Ratcliffe what the hell are you doing!” You are not helping the president, you are being controlled by John Brennan’s people…” And he goes off on a rightous rant against the CIA.
41 minutes — Ret. Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt
We have the only President in history that has not been anointed by the RIIA, the Royal Institute of International Affairs — Chatham house? The point is, this is the war. A 5th generation war and it is about to go kinetic. Because what happens is, and you saw this in Tahrir Square when you had Egyptians, who could not feed their kids any more and they watched them die. Then they went and grabbed a gun… they are pushing us to that place. If you do not believe me, that’s fine, Go to Ireland. Go to the UK. Go to France, Go to Spain. Ireland is on the leading edge of complete society break down. Because it wasn’t just election integrity that was the problem.
You have to go to the WHY! Why is there an election integrity problem. Why don’t our politicians want to see one paper ballot one vote. Why do our politicians want to protect illegal invaders that come to our country to destroy our culture…
Our government, the Swamp, all of its tentacles, the Congress, all of the lobbyists, industry, the corporatists, the private equity bankers, everybody who profits off this system. They are ALL in on it They are the Swamp and have no desire to solve any of Americas problems. BUT they will suck the crap out of them with their taxes and resources and in some cases steal their land and their money.
So here are the battle lines. It is We the People vs the Swamp and there is a global edition of this. It is we the people vs the globalists, the city of London kids the ones that make Elon Musk’s wealth look like middle class wealth…. If you want to solve this problem, you had damn well better know who your enemy is.
EM Burlingame – Rich says he was enlisted in the green berets, special forces and stuff like that. https://emburlingame.substack.com
A recent article from EM Burlingame just for Scott:
…She’s our compass from the World of Woman. Our surety. The unseen hand that ensures our wrath isn’t wasted.
And they, women, have left her exposed. One woman. One true matriarch of the old patterns against the massive festering swarm. Where are her peers from the World of Woman? We men can kill till the end of time, and never truly protect her. Only women engaged in the wars of women, that ruthless all or nothing blood feud has waged since the beginning of time, can.
And that swarm… you feel it, don’t you? The estrogenic tide. The inverted, the resentful, the hollow men and their shrieking harlots and harpies. They sense her and they convulse. Because she’s the restoration. The return of the healthy, the whole, the fierce guardian of the hearth. The Matriarch. Her strength’s a mirror, and in it they see their own withered, poisoned, worthless souls.
They can’t bear it.
Their time’s ending. You hear me? Your time of poisoning the well, of sterilizing the spirit, of trading our children’s future for your comfort… it’s over!
We need more of her. A legion of such women. A sisterhood of shadows, rising not to be like men, but to be the unbreakable wall around the creche that men can’t form. The final line….
At the bottom it includes an open letter to Trump & the American People From: Major General Cliver Antonio Alcalá Cordones, retired Major General of the Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela.
…Patrick Byrne is so frustrated about the Color Revolution being waged against America that he made the rounds on three shows yesterday and dropped a lot of bombs and he burned his cover, finally admitting that he’d been a CIA asset since the early 2000s, telling Emerald Robinson that he’d had a non-standard relationship with them until he started working for John Brennan around 2006 to become a “Tier One Intelligence Asset”.
Around 2010 or 2011, Barack Obama elevated him to a “National Intelligence Asset” and in 2016, he was handled by Peter Strzok and James Comey to bribe Hillary Clinton for $18 million, during the early phase of the Russia Hoax….
As one of the guys at Badlands said. “Once CIA ALWAYS CIA…. OR YOU ARE DEAD.” How much of what Byne says is truth, I do not know. A Limited Hangout will put out maybe 80% truth so they can wrap it around the poison pill they are delivering. Given that, I think the crap about Marco Rubio & Ric Grenell is just that CRAP!
I also think ‘they’ are trying to poison the well in regard to election fraud. Because without election fraud they are in DEEP kimchi.
BREAKING: Alex Jones says the Venezuela operation is possibly a set up meant to lead to Maduro making a deal to expose “the election fraud & drug dealing that the Democrats, the Pelosis, the Clinton’s & the Bush’s are involved in” pic.twitter.com/kwoSemD050
Seems that is Bull Schiff according to this from The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers. (I wanted to correct it now since it looks like it may become a talking point.)
The global crude oil market provides refiners and crude oil producers the opportunity to buy and sell the many different qualities of crude oils produced around the world.
Two of the most important crude oil qualities are sulfur content and viscosity. Some crude oils are “heavy” or viscous, while some are “light” or more free-flowing. Some crude oils have high sulfur content, known in the industry as “sour” crude oil, and some contain much less sulfur and are considered “sweet” crudes. Heavy sour crude oil is more complicated to refine into lower-sulfur fuel and requires investment in additional process units. Many refineries in the United States have made the investment needed to process heavy sour crude oil into low-sulfur fuels but also have the flexibility to process light sweet crude oil.
“U.S. refineries can take in pretty much any kind of crude oil in the world and turn it into the cleanest-burning fuel that you can find on the planet,” says Stephen Fisher, a refining strategy advisor for BP….
Tore was also mentioned. Here is her current substack.
Her Name Was INGA: Venezuela and the War You Were Never Shown (that is everywhere)
“She” is everywhere and nowhere. “She” never signs her name, never takes the podium, never runs for office. “She” doesn’t overthrow governments—“She” reorganizes them.
Chaos is not the breakdown of the system. Chaos is the system operating as designed. What you are watching—across governments, economies, wars, elections, and institutions—is not failure, incompetence, or decay. It is coordination masquerading as disorder. At this scale, chaos does not emerge spontaneously; it is engineered, routed, financed, narrated, and maintained. Once you learn to read its patterns instead of its headlines, the illusion collapses, and a single truth becomes unavoidable: none of this is accidental.
I’ve watched this pattern long enough to know it isn’t theory. It’s method. My handle on X is Chaos Coordinator, and I wear it deliberately. I don’t pretend chaos isn’t happening—I map it, track it, and connect its patterns. I pride myself on coordinating chaos in the only way that matters: by observing how it is manufactured, routed, financed, justified, and repeated across borders. That is precisely why I’m qualified to speak about the global disorder we’re living through, because once you follow the money, the narratives, and the timing, it becomes impossible to believe any of this is accidental. Chaos at this scale requires planning, alignment, and maintenance—and I’ve spent enough time watching the machinery turn to know the difference between failure and design…
“She” is patient. “She” doesn’t need you to believe in “her”. “She” only needs you to keep arguing with your neighbor while she rearranges the board.
This is why the chaos feels synchronized. Why crises stack instead of resolve. Why accountability dissolves the moment you reach for it. Because the problem isn’t left versus right, war versus peace, or spending versus saving. The problem is that INGA has learned how to govern without ever appearing to govern at all….
This parallels what I have been thinking for years.
…This is translation from Rybar, “ misinformation” channel.
Here is a faithful English translation, keeping the original structure, tone, and emphasis:
⸻
📝 Who Will Get Venezuela’s Oil? 📝
On the main beneficiaries of the U.S. Armed Forces operation
The U.S. operation in Venezuela immediately sparked debate about the economic objectives of Trump’s team. Many even, for some reason, began calculating Venezuela’s oil reserves.
But the story is somewhat more complex than a simple “they attacked to seize the oil” narrative. It is rather about the redistribution of assets that are already under American control, [Actually City of London control -GC] primarily through JP Morgan, which we have written about in detail before.
🔻 What assets are we talking about?
▪️ The strikes were preceded by a wave of court hearings concerning one of the most important assets — CITGO, which is formally a subsidiary of Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA.
▪️ CITGO is an oil-refining company headquartered in Houston, Texas. 100% of its shares belonged to PDVSA. It owned three refineries, as well as dozens of other facilities and retail outlets.
▪️ For Venezuela, this structure ensured the refining of heavy oil extracted in Venezuela. Through the CITGO network, Venezuela had access to a supply channel and the largest U.S. market, could attract investment into the country, and mitigate the effects of sanctions.
▪️ After Venezuela and PDVSA defaulted, creditors began demanding repayment of debts, using CITGO shares as collateral. In 2018–2019, creditor lawsuits began, and in 2023, a court decision launched hearings on the sale of CITGO to repay debts.
At the same time, the company’s debts and the deal to sell it are fully controlled by JP Morgan.
The process remained stuck, as the acquisition of the assets faced potential legal consequences and overlapped with a personal conflict between JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon and Donald Trump.
Therefore, with the arrival of a new U.S. president, the struggle for the asset intensified. Dalinar Energy, which was supposed to buy CITGO and whose deal was overseen by JP Morgan, began losing ground, while the court supported an alternative bid from Amber Energy — a company linked to one of Trump’s allies.
🔻 How did this happen?
▪️ At the beginning of 2025, new auction rules were established. The court now evaluates the winner not only by price, but also by the probability of closing the deal, including approval from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and settlement of competing claims to the asset.
▪️ By spring–summer, everything seemed nearly decided: Dalinar Energy (created by Gold Reserve to acquire CITGO) was considered the favorite, having offered over $7.3 billion. By August, the process was said to be nearing completion.
▪️ But then, after Trump’s team intensified its activity on the Venezuela track, Amber Energy entered the scene (another company created specifically to acquire CITGO by Elliott Investment).
▪️ What was surprising was that Amber Energy offered only $5.9 billion, and after lengthy hearings the court ultimately approved the deal in favor of Elliott Investment’s subsidiary due to guarantees presented to OFAC that the transaction would be completed without costs or lawsuits.
🖍 Why are these events important?
The beneficiary of Amber Energy, which is claiming the assets, is Paul Singer — a major donor to the U.S. Republican Party and one of Donald Trump’s key sponsors in his presidential campaign. Given their ties, it would be entirely in Trump’s style to secure control over strategic assets and strike at competitors.
🚩 As a result, the White House moved to action: after losing CITGO, Venezuela is left with resources without distribution channels and oil without refining capacity, while the U.S. applies pressure on the “shadow fleet.” In the long run, this will lead Venezuela toward economic degradation and a weakening of its political position.
❗️ Amber Energy still has many legal issues to resolve, but today’s events in Venezuela will at least weaken the negotiating positions of Trump’s opponents at JP Morgan and corporations linked to the bank. Venezuelans, meanwhile, will simply be presented with the fact of revised agreements.
Now isn’t that an interesting Factoid? JP Morgan (well connected to the Rothschilds) was trying to grab CITGO and Trump seems to have snatched the prize out of their hands. 😂
…Or maybe the point was just to show off what the Trump administration might do to others:
In 1992, American conservative writer Michael Ledeen reportedly said: “Every 10 years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.”
Actually, such gratuitous demonstrations of might betray the fear that American world power is slipping. Beating up a weaker opponent to prove your strength is the action of an insecure bully.
Venezuela is likely to welcome U.S. oil companies which are willing to invest in the country. But it will be nothing like the bonanza Trump seems to envision. Venezuelan oil is heavy and costly to retrieve. One needs dilution fluids or steam to bring it to surface and to transport it to markets. With global oil prices expected to stay around $50 per barrel there is little incentive for the necessary multi-billion investment.
I expect that after this weekend’s action nothing will change. The U.S. does not want to govern Venezuela. It doesn’t want to put boots on the ground. The blockade, an act of war, will continue for a while but at some point the ships will have to go back to their harbors. As there is nothing to win from this the Trump administration will move towards its next target.
Meanwhile Israel is getting ready for another strike on Iran. The U.S. is repositioning troops to the Middle East while Iran prepares to hit back with all its might.
In a week from now Venezuela will likely be out of the headlines while business as usual continues.
I think he missed the election theft part of the story not to mention the money laundering and human trafficking.
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CRAP!!! H/T patfrederick
BREAKING: The Maduro case is heading to a Clinton-appointed judge.
Meet Alvin Hellerstein — 92 years old, appointed by Bill Clinton, and a judge who has ruled against Trump in the past.
Now this judge is set to oversee one of the most explosive international criminal cases in… pic.twitter.com/Ta8ARBGzlc
However on second thought, has Maduro already made a deal and that is why he is being let off the hook via NY southern district? How machiavellian, keep your word with Maduro AND smear NY southern District, all in one act.
…Maduro was detained in Caracas along with his wife, Cilia Flores, and flown by helicopter to the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima before being transferred to the United States, according to a statement posted on X by US Attorney General Pam Bondi…
Catching Maduro outside his ‘safe room’ and a trip on the open seas (not a plane) seems to indicate that Maduro was interrogated and records were recovered.
