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Lurking Lawyer here. Follow up to a late subcomment on a previous thread, with more clarity. If the supposed presser is timed to IG report release, then based on Sessions comments, McCabe firing, and Nunes memo, here is what is going on. Sessions explicitly said had brought in an experienced non-DC DoJ prosecutor. That means somewhere in flyover country. Inference is to work alongside IG, who can only refer crimes for prosecution. We know there were crimes, because McCabes firing was for ‘lacking candor—including under oath’. That is codespeak for criminal federal perjury 18USC1621. McCabes Saturday statement shows Comey also committed perjury—same statute. Trumped tweeted this weekend, just left out the legal part (but he surely knows). We know from the Nunes memo on FISA court abuse plus Comey’s sworn testimony about the dossier being unverified plus McCabes sworn testimony that without it there would have been no FISA warrant or renewals that Loretta Lynch, Sally Yates, Comey, and probably McCabe made false attestations about the Steele dossier to FISA. Those are all felonies under 18USC1018 (and diGenova says there are a total of six felonies—one suffices for this comment). We know from Comey’s mid 2016 announcement about Hillary and her email server that Hillary is guilty under 18USC798, which does not require intent and is the same statute used to send the navy submariner to prison for year (who Trump just pardons, which means he and Sessions know a lot more about what I am saying than they are letting on… And just to round up, it is highly likely that Strzok, Page, both Ohrs, and others gave false statements to the IG early in his investigations, in violation of 18USC1001 — the same felony to which Mueller forced Flynn to plead guilty. Now, where does this lead? The flyover country prosecutor has impaneled a secret grand jury. He is presenting them with this evidence. There is no need for the grand jury to hear witnesses on any of this. They are returning sealed indictments on all of the above named. Remember, Trump rally chants of ‘lock her up’ were more of a campaign promise to be kept. The DNC and Hillary’s campaign paid Fusion GPS to pay Steele for the dossier, when OHR met Steele in London and reported back to FBI in writing that Steele was rabidly antiTrump (per Nunes memo). More than enough reason formTrump to direct his white hat team to proceed on HRC. Only thing I don’t know is whether they can also get Obama. The Susan Rice CYA email about the Jan 5 WH meeting (especially if there were priors) written as Trump was being inaugurated suggests maybe yes.
So my quite educated guess is that the rumored presser will be Trump and Sessions unsealing all these prebaked indictments (the Big Ugly unveiled), with diGenova then to unpack it all to stunned Dems and MSM. And that will nicely set the midterms table for Crumbs Pelosi, Shutdown Shumer, the Dem stiffed DACA deal (a brilliant Trump gambit), and a lot more.
2. Durham ‘take-over’ Huber [select parts re: CF-i]? What if there’s another prosecutor (outside of DC) assigned by SESSIONS w/ the same mandate/authority?
Sometimes you need to ‘take one for the team publicly’ before you are vindicated as a hero.
Q
Hopefully we will soon see if Q is correct about Huber, Durham and Sessions.
The Debriefing 17
In 2017, Trump began laying the legal minefield. In 2019, he pulled the trigger — reissuing Executive Order 13224 under EO 13886 and quietly upgrading it into a global financial kill switch.
🤔Imagine the U.S. government has four big legal "kill switches" sitting on a shelf. Each one was built at a different time, by a different president, for a different reason. But they all work the same way: the president flips the switch by declaring a national emergency, and… https://t.co/tTKA8AZyHs
🤔 Imagine the U.S. government has four big legal “kill switches” sitting on a shelf. Each one was built at a different time, by a different president, for a different reason. But they all work the same way: the president flips the switch by declaring a national emergency, and once it’s flipped, the Treasury Department gets superpowers.
What the superpowers actually are:
👉 Freeze anyone’s money. Any foreign person, anywhere in the world, who fits the category. No trial. No warning. No Congress vote needed for each one.
👉 Block their property. Houses, bank accounts, crypto wallets, yachts, businesses frozen.
👉 The “you helped them, you’re next” rule. If you did business with someone on the list your bank, your lawyer, your shipping company, your crypto exchange you can get added to the list too. This is the cascade. One name becomes ten. Ten becomes a hundred.
👉 The secret list. There’s a public list everyone sees, and a classified list nobody sees. We don’t know how many names are on the secret one.
The four switches:
Switch #1 Terrorists (built 2001 after 9/11, upgraded 2019). Originally for al-Qaeda. The 2019 upgrade made it cover way more people anyone who “trains,” “leads,” or “supports” a terror group, defined broadly.
Switch #2 Corrupt people and human rights abusers (built 2017). Cartels, kleptocrats, traffickers, dirty officials anywhere on Earth.
Switch #3 Hackers and election meddlers (built 2015, upgraded 2016 and 2018). Russian troll farms, ransomware gangs, foreign election interference.
Switch #4 Sketchy foreign tech (built 2019). The one used to ban Huawei.
Here’s the part that matters:
Every single one of these switches was flipped on and never flipped off. Not by the president who came after. Not by the next one. Every year, each president has to sign a piece of paper saying “yep, still an emergency, keep it running.” Every president has signed. Every year. For up to 25 years on the oldest one.
That means the legal machinery to freeze assets, blacklist networks, and unravel criminal organizations worldwide has been quietly running in the background the entire time through Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump again. It doesn’t matter who’s in the White House. The machine keeps running.
Why this matters for the framework:
When you see a giant crypto seizure ($15 billion from Chen Zhi), or a cartel boss arrested, or a Russian oligarch’s yacht impounded, or a crypto mixer shut down that’s not random. That’s one of these four switches being used. The switches were built years before the enforcement wave started. The enforcement wave is just the switches being used the way they were designed to be used.
The simple bottom line:
The legal weapons were loaded over 20 years, by presidents from both parties. Now they’re being fired. The fact that they keep getting renewed no matter who’s president is the strongest evidence that this isn’t one administration’s project. It’s an institutional one that survives elections. That’s what the four-pillar table will show on one page: the weapons, who built them, when they were built, and the fact that nobody has put them back on the shelf.
I think, like the Patriot Act, they were NOT intended for good but as weapons to be used against Patriots. Now they are being used in the service of the USA.
2/2 And for everyone complaining, "oh, another letter," @GrassleyPress is spoon feeding the DOJ & FBI evidence of obstruction. https://t.co/fxpBIZTuCt
Wow. This new release from Chuck Grassley on the Clinton Foundation is a staggering 91 page treasure trove. I just skimmed it, and it is all there, Uranium One, Russia, Boeing, Haiti, Hillary’s brother, and all the other stuff. And the FBI did not even open a full investigation,… https://t.co/S6q3YEoTn5pic.twitter.com/mSR3HsIuBg
Wow. This new release from Chuck Grassley on the Clinton Foundation is a staggering 91 page treasure trove. I just skimmed it, and it is all there, Uranium One, Russia, Boeing, Haiti, Hillary’s brother, and all the other stuff. And the FBI did not even open a full investigation, whereas with Trump they had one false tip about barroom gossip from three months earlier and they immediately launched a full enterprise investigation. Absolute travesty that Comey, Strzok, Atkinson (who shows up here as well), and others have not been held to account.
VIA ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION Mr. Todd Blanche Acting Attorney General Department of Justice The Honorable Kash Patel Director Federal Bureau of Investigation
Dear Acting Attorney General Blanche and Director Patel: For over a decade, I’ve raised concerns regarding alleged actions taken by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, including her use of non-government email for official business, mishandling of highly classified information, potential campaign finance violations, and dubious Clinton Foundation financial dealings.1 For instance, on May 17, 2016, I wrote a letter to then-Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey raising concerns that many of the emails found on her non-government server blurred lines between the actions taken on behalf of the State Department, Clinton Foundation, and Teneo, a private firm founded by a former counselor to President Clinton.2 Then, on July 6, 2016, I requested information from then-Director Comey regarding public corruption issues and the Clinton Foundation and questioned the Director on whether the FBI investigated the Clinton Foundation regarding former President Clinton’s speaking fees from foreign governments while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State.3 Further, on August 8, 2016, I wrote to the Department of Justice (DOJ) asking the Department to explain its reported decision to drop reported inquiries into Clinton Foundation and State Department interactions; specifically, allegations that the State Department, during Secretary Clinton’s tenure, took favorable actions for Clinton Foundation donors….
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Joe Lange had more information to add. These are the most recent of a long series.
Iran will give up the uranium “dust” that will be tested, to PROVE the uranium that Iran was using to develop nuclear weapons, was provided by the “Uranium One Deal.”
The U1 deal is one of the biggest coverups in American history.
It was a KEY part of Alwaleed’s 16 year plan to destroy the U.S.
The U1 deal connects a lot of dots.
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Pakistan is playing a KEY role.
Iran will give up the uranium “dust” that will be tested, to PROVE the uranium that Iran was using to develop nuclear weapons, was provided by the “Uranium One Deal.”
The U1 deal is one of the biggest coverups in American history.
It was a KEY part of Alwaleed’s 16 year plan to destroy the U.S.
The U1 deal connects a lot of dots. [Worth a read]
…Bill and Hillary Clinton were the ones, who “organized and planned” the U1 deal.
This goes back much further than most people realize.
How is it connected to Pakistan?
The CIA?
The Clintons have been working hand in hand, with the CIA, to not only fund our enemies, but to help arm them with weapons.
Including nuclear weapons.
U1 was planned years in advance.
Peace doesn’t sell.
War sells.
Taxpayers dollars are easily stolen based on perceived “threats.”
Anybody remember OPERATION MERLIN?
“Deep in the bowels of the CIA, someone must be nervously, but very privately, wondering: “Whatever happened to those nuclear blueprints we gave to the Iranians?”
“The story dates back to the Clinton administration and February 2000, when one frightened Russian scientist walked Vienna’s winter streets. The Russian had good reason to be afraid. He was walking around Vienna with blueprints for a nuclear bomb...
“The Russian, who had defected to the US years earlier, still couldn’t believe the orders he had received from CIA headquarters. The CIA had given him the nuclear blueprints and then sent him to Vienna to sell them – or simply give them – to the Iranian representatives to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). With the Russian doing its bidding, the CIA appeared to be about to help Iran “leapfrog” one of the last remaining engineering hurdles blocking its path to a nuclear weapon.”
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MORE – Department of Energy and Department of War will coordinate with the FBI. National Nuclear Security Administration officials called the pattern at high-security labs "eyebrow raising," adding that staff do risk becoming targets of foreign espionage.https://t.co/yIaKWZZ0rb
SPLC is a domestic terrorist organization that issued a fatwa against Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA earlier this year. They put a target on Charlie’s back and all but called for his assassination.
Who remembers this? SPLC lawyer charged over Antifa terrorist attack in 2023.
Guess what happened, by the way? He faced no consequences.
I contacted SPLC spokesman @MichaelEHayden at the time to inquire if the nonprofit denounces political violence. They refused to. Now it… pic.twitter.com/jyg4YSq9T3
In early 2025, the law firm, Covington & Burling out of Washington DC, raised legal concerns that ActBlue’s CEO lied to GOP investigators in a 2023 letter explaining how the organization vetted donations to ensure that they were not illegally coming from foreign citizens.
This shocking development was published in The New York Times this week….
The ActBlue fundraising scandal is heating up in the Lone Star State.
In October 2024, the Gateway Pundit reported that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton called for the Department of Justice to investigate the Democrat fundraising powerhouse for “circumstances surrounding highly suspicious campaign contributions made through political committee online contribution platforms.”
The state’s own investigation confirmed evidence showing that donations were being made in people’s names without their knowledge or consent. This was in line with discoveries made by Peter Bernegger and reported by James O’Keefe regarding smurfing activities involving ActBlue.
Today, AG Paxton announced on X that he has filed a lawsuit against ActBlue “for deceiving Americans by lying about its donation processes that allow fraudulent and foreign donations.”…
On Monday, The Gateway Pundit reported that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued ActBlue, the Democrat fundraising platform, for “deceiving Americans by lying about its donation processes that allow fraudulent and foreign donations.” This was following an internal investigation that “prove[d] that ActBlue continues to process gift card donations” without proving identification of the donor.
The same day, the House Judiciary Committee deposed five employees after subpoenas were issued to two employees in June 2025 by Reps. Jim Jordan, Bryan Steil, and James Comer. The recent depositions included “top staff responsible for fraud prevention” and sought to “learn more about the platform’s acceptance of illegal donations – and the subsequent cover-up,” according to a post on X by the House Judiciary GOP….
The Committees deposed five ActBlue employees, including top staff responsible for fraud prevention, to learn more about the platform’s acceptance of illegal donations—and the subsequent cover-up.
The U.S. Justice Department said Friday it is expanding federal execution procedures to include firing squads as part of a broader effort to strengthen and accelerate use of the federal death penalty. The department said it acted to restore its duty to carry out lawful capital sentences once condemned inmates have exhausted appeals.
The department said it directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to broaden execution protocols to allow additional methods, including the firing squad, and to readopt the lethal injection protocol used during President Donald Trump’s first administration.
It also said internal processes would be streamlined to expedite capital cases.
Reuters reported the administration also intends to add electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative federal execution methods.
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Various groups are suggesting “the Storm is upon us.” I certainly think I see it approaching. I am going to try and put things into some semblance of order. It least that was my original intent until I went looking for a piece of information and got yanked sideway. Oh well.
It has been my thesis that the Brits never really conceded defeat after the US Revolution and have been trying to get control of the USA ever since. I think for all intents they actually got some control in 1913 and have been working slowly, Fabian Society style, to consolidate their grip and impose a world government. The UK has been the home of the Globalists since William and Mary brought the Dutch banking system to England and the City of London was set up.
8:00 Brady: But the cool thing is William… [He] brings all these great ideas with him. Things like a stock exchange. A central Bank. In fact the Bank of England would be founded 6 years later. And we know where that lead us to.
Col Towner: So he is just transferring the Dutch Empire to the English Empire.
Brady: Yeah, We talked about how the Dutch securitized their entire industry. They stopped producing goods and services, and they just basically speculated all over the world. It is exactly what Wall Street became. They [the Dutch] have already been investing in the British pounds because it pays bigger interest… So they are subsidizing their own enemies.
THAT IS WHY THE DUTCH FELL. THEY HAD STRETCHED TOO THIN AND THEY WERE FINANCIALLY SPECULATING ALL OVER THE WORLD.
Col Towner: Which is what you see happening today.
Brady: Well that is why we are telling the story so we do not repeat it too.
Iran wasn’t the target. The British imperial system was. And on April 16th, Scott Bessent walked into a room with the British Chancellor of the Exchequer and said it out loud. Here’s the Treasury readout… During their discussion, Secretary Besson underscored the US Treasury’s commitment to Economic Fury, leveraging all tools and authorities against those who continue to support Iran’s terrorist activities. He’s underscoring the mission of Economic Fury to Britain’s top financial officer. In essence warning of a new reality… The Trump administration has the empire’s number and is systematically dismantling its power. Which is why the Hudson Institute is now pinning its hopes on a royal visit. They want King Charles to save ‘the special relationship’… Here’s what they’re all missing. Iran wasn’t the target. The British imperial system was and is the target.
The strait was never just Iran’s weapon.
It was London’s leverage. And Trump’s target was never the strait itself. It was the system that monetized it. That system is what is being dismantled. And that holds regardless of what happens in the next 48 hours. In fact, if you look at Trump’s post about no longer being used as a weapon against the world, you can read it in two ways. The Strait won’t be used as a weapon by Iran and Iran won’t be used as a weapon by the British. And because the president understood that, he is bringing an end to the 47 year-old extortion racket.
06:31
The president himself named it back on April 11th in a truth social in all caps, WORLD EXTORTION. That’s not rhetoric. That’s a precise description of how the City of London has run the global financial system for over a century and Bessent is now systematically dismantling it. Here’s how the architecture works.
Think about what London actually prices:
* The global gold fix and other metals through the London Metal Exchange and the IC, the Intercontinental Exchange.
* The price of oil through the Brent crude benchmark since 1988.
* Shipping rates on every barrel of oil that moved through the strait determined by Lloyd’s war risk premiums.
And every regional crisis sent traders to London and allowed them to manipulate prices.
Managed conflict wasn’t just a geopolitical tool. It was a revenue stream. Trump called it world extortion. He’s right….
07:41
But before that, even bigger moves were going on that most people didn’t notice. Vivify Mariposa pulls the curtain back in an important post entitled The System That Owns You, How It Was Built, and Why It’s Breaking. She describes how Trump’s tariff offensive has caused a dramatic shift in the economic balance of power. Because of Trump’s moves, physical gold has been moving from London vaults to New York. Copper pricing is migrating from the London Metal Exchange to American markets and London’s own exchange has publicly conceded that the shift is permanent. Now, Mariposa concludes by saying the pricing authority is moving gold to American vaults, copper to comics, LNG contracts referencing American benchmarks. London is not being replaced by Qatar. London is being bypassed by New York…
[Makes you wonder if the election of Mandani as NYC mayor was because the Cabal saw this coming. -GC]
However Susan and the rest of the crew at Promethean Action are ‘Keeping it Simple Stupid’ Oil is indeed a factor, just not the only one. They are:
TRADE ROUTES OIL and DRUGS
At this point I went looking for the info (on the Chinese) that I wanted to document. I remembered it was in Conspirators’ Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of Three Hundred — CIA library by Dr John Coleman who is still alive BTW. The CIA document is 169 pages so I am going to quote it as well as asking readers to read PAGE 103 – 107 where Dr Coleman quotes H. G. Wells, co-founder of the British Fabian Society.
What I find interesting is the fact Colonel Towner’s Gladio Series information dovetails with this information about the CIA, NATO,‘The Criminal Syndicate’ and drugs.
I am going to start with Dr Coleman’s H. G. Wells quotes and then go back and look at the Iran & China information.
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PAGE 103
What then are we looking at? A loosely-knit gathering of people with weird ideas?
Certainly not. In the Committee of 300, which has a 150-year history, we have some of the most brilliant intellects assembled to form a completely totalitarian, absolutely controlled “new” society only it isn’t new, having drawn most of its ideas from the Clubs of Cultus Diabolicus. [or formal religion of the devil, the existence of which, in the middle ages, is registered by the known facts of the Black Sabbath – GC] It strives toward a One World Government rather well described by one of its late members, H. G. Wells, in his work commissioned by the Committee which Wells boldly called: “THE OPEN CONSPIRACY– PLANS FOR A WORLD REVOLUTION.” [written in 1928 — GC]
…There will be no middle class, only rulers and servants. All laws will be uniform under a legal system of world courts practicing the same unified code of laws, backed up by a One World Government police force and a One World unified military…
Only one religion will be allowed and that will be in the form of a One World Government Church, which has been in existence since 1920 as we shall see. Satanism, Luciferianism and Witchcraft shall he recognized as legitimate One World Government curricula with no private or church schools. All Christian churches have already been subverted and Christianity will be a thing of the past in the One World Government…
Each person shall be fully indoctrinated that he or she is a creature of the One World Government with an identification number clearly marked on their person so as to be readily accessible, which identifying number shall be in the master file of the NATO computer in Brussels, Belgium, subject to instant retrieval by any agency of the One World Government at any time. The master Files of the CIA, FBI, state and local police agencies, IRS, FEMA, Social Security shall be vastly expanded and form the basis of personal records of all individuals in the United States.
Marriage shall be outlawed and there shall be no family life as we know it. Children will be removed from their parents at an early-age and brought up by wards as state property…
At least 4 billion “useless eaters” shall be eliminated by the year 2050 by means of limited wars, organized epidemics of fatal rapid-acting diseases and starvation. Energy, food and water shall be kept at subsistence levels for the non-elite, starting with the White populations of Western Europe and North America and then spreading to other races. The population of Canada, Western Europe and the United States will be decimated more rapidly than on other continents, until the world’s population reaches a manageable level of 1 billion, of which 500 million will consist of Chinese and Japanese races, selected because they are people who have been regimented for centuries and who are accustomed to obeying authority without question…
[I want to insert here, that I think the original plan was Orientals would be the high functioning intelligent workers and the black/brown would be the lower intelligent grunt workers, that is if they are not replaced by robots. The only whites will be the rulers, thus color coding people so they are easily IDed by sight. –GC]
The United States will be flooded by peoples of alien cultures who will eventually overwhelm White America, people with no concept of what the United States Constitution stands for and who will, in consequence, do nothing to defend it, and in whose minds the concept of liberty and justice is so weak as to matter little. FOOD and shelter shall be the main concern.
Rival factions and groups such as Arabs and Jews and African tribes shall have differences magnified and allowed to wage wars of extermination against each other under the eyes of NATO and U.N. observers. The same tactics will be used in Central and South America. These wars of attrition shall take place BEFORE the take-over by the One World Government…
It is obvious from the foregoing that much work remains to be done before the dawning of the New World Order can occur. The Committee of 300 has long ago perfected plans to destabilize civilization as we know it, some of which plans were made known by Zbignew Brzezinski in his classic work “THE TECHNOTRONIC ERA” and the works of Aurellio Peccei who founded the Club of Rome, especially in his book, “THE CHASM AHEAD.” [pg 107]
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I am going to stop here and take a quick look at a couple of Russian articles on Brzezinski.
…Brzezinski in an article published in Foreign Affaire (1970), explains his vision of the “New World Order” stating that “it is necessary a new and bolder vision (the creation of a community of developed countries can deal effectively with the broad problems of humanity”, outlines a theory fleshed out in his book “BetweenTwo Ages: America’s role in the era technetronic” 1971), explaining that the era has come to rebalance world power, power that must be passed on to a new global political order based on a trilateral economic linkage between Japan, Europe and the United States.
In the book “Between Two Ages,” (1971), he also calls for control of population by an elite through “cyber manipulation”, by stating: “The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and dominated society by an elite without the restrictions of traditional values, so it will soon be possible to ensure the monitoring almost continuous over every citizen and maintain complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen, files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities, “what would herald the subsequent implementation of the PRISM program. Also, in a recent speech at a meeting of Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the former Carter adviser warned that “U.S. domination was no longer possible due to an acceleration of social change driven by instant communication that caused the awakening of a universal political consciousness of the masses (Global Political Awakening) and which is proving detrimental to foreign domination as prevailed in the era of colonialism and imperialism”, so after the failed attempt to control the cloud (PRISM Program), in the coming years will see the end of the democratization of information, with the impossibility of direct access to the network using the steps of restrictive policies implemented by countries like China, Russia or Iran.
According to the Financial Times, Brzezinski in a hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate in 2007, said:
“One possible scenario for a military confrontation with Iran means a terrorist act in American soil of which would Iran be responsible. This could culminate in a U.S. military action “defense” against Iran in which would be included Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan,”
What follows is the possibility of a new attack in the U.S. that would be falsely attributed to Iran to bring its invasion and a subsequent totalitarian derived USA, similar to that recorded with George W. Bush after 11- S, 2001. So, a month after the attack of 11-S, George W. Bush secretly decided to cancel a major constitutional protection in this country (habeas corpus) by-law known as the USA Patriot Act under the justification of its “fight against” terrorism “according to official documents revealed in late 2005 in a series of reports in the New York Times…
Especially given the date is just before Trump’s first election: 28.10.2016
Recently, the US has begun to lose its strategic positions in the Middle East. When some say that the US Empire is collapsing, this no longer sounds like an exaggeration. It definitely looks like this is what is going to happen in front of our very eyes. Failed regime-change attempts in Syria revealed to the whole world the true nature of the so called Arab Spring, and only those who still want to remain stooped in illusions take the Western MSM as a source of reliable information. The Arab Spring served a much bigger purpose of maintaining and expanding US world domination by imposing the Western way of life and, in fact, Western ideology on the Arab World. Western values and way of life have been exposed as the devil in disguise when the US imposes soft power on smaller countries.
Western values are far from being good. They are essentially nothing but Milton Friedman’s utopian neoliberal economic ideas (Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is one of the best written documentations of this topic). Free-market or liberal, capitalism is a doctrine that demands that everything must be sacrificed on the unholy altar of commerce, including traditional and religious values. This is why nation-states and religious values are seen as a threat in Western corridors of power – a threat that must be destroyed by supranational and secular powers. The US has been the front man and a driving force in this “progress.” So, if US will lose its positions, will this progress stop? Or,if Trump will be elected, can he change this course and stop its progress? Will the world find a new way of life? Together? Or will the world go back to nation-states and religious values? I have no answers to these questions, but what is sure is that there must be a new value system or ideology to fill this vacuum if the Western system is going to collapse. Ideally, this would be a loose context for different religions and political ideologies to integrate – a spiritual multipolarity that combines nations rather than dividing them…
Back to Dr Coleman’s book.
CHINA and IRAN [QUOTE]
…it is hardly likely that the U.S. would make any real effort to stop the production of opium in the Golden Triangle which is under the control of the Chinese military, a serious war would erupt if any country tried to interdict the trade. A serious attack on the opium trade would bring Chinese military intervention.
The British know this; they have no quarrel with China, except for an occasional squabble over who gets the larger share of the pie. Britain has been involved in the China opium trade for over two centuries. No one is going to be so foolish as to rock the boat when millions upon millions of dollars flow into the bank accounts of the British oligarchists and more gold is traded on the Hong Kong gold market than the combined total traded in London and New York… Every British monarch since 1729 has benefited immensely from the drug trade and this holds good for the present occupant of the throne…
In later years the Chinese appealed to Britain for help with their immense problem and received it. Thereafter respective Chinese governments realized the value in cooperating instead of fighting with Britain–and this held good during the bloody rule of Mao Tse Tung–so that today, as I have already mentioned, any quarrels that come about are only over the share of the opium trade each is entitled to.
To advance to more modern history, the Chinese-British partnership was solidified by the Hong Kong agreement which established an equal partnership in the opium trade…
Rowntree’s book, “The Imperial Drug Trade”[1903] gives a fascinating account of how Prime Minister Gladstone and his fellow plutocrats lied, cheated, twisted and turned to keep the astonishing truth of the involvement of the British monarchy in the opium trade from being exposed…
The Eastern Liberal Establishment families of the United States were just as deeply involved in the China opium trade as were the British, indeed they still are. Witness recent history when [President] James Earl Carter toppled the Shah of Iran. Why was the Shah deposed and then murdered by the United States government? fn a word, because of DRUGS. The Shah had clamped down and virtually put an end to the immensely lucrative opium trade being conducted out of Iran by the British. At the time that the Shah took over in Iran, there were already one million opium/heroin addicts.
This the British would not tolerate, so they sent the United States to do their dirty work for them in terms of the “special relationship” between the two countries. When Khomeini took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, arms sales by the United States, which had begun with the Shah, were not discontinued. Why not? Had the United States done so, Khomeini would have canceled the British monopoly of the opium trade in his country. To prove the point, after 1984, Khomeini’s liberal attitude toward opium had increased the number of addicts to 2 million, according to United Nations and World Health Organization statistics. [That certainly puts a different light on the Khomeini – Carter communications. GC]
Both President Carter and his successor, Ronald Reagan, willingly and with full knowledge of what was at stake, went on supplying arms to Iran even while American hostages languished in captivity. In 1980 I wrote a monograph under the title, “What Really Happened in Iran,” which set out the facts. The arms trade with Iran was sealed at a meeting between Cyrus Vance, a servant of the Committee of 300, and Dr. Hashemi, which resulted in the U.S. Air Force beginning an immediate airlift of arms to Iran, carried on even at the height of the hostage crisis the arms came from U.S. Army stockpiles in Germany ….
The demise of the Shah of Iran was run to a plan devised by Bernard Levin and Richard Falk, and supervised by Robert Anderson’s Aspen Institute. Levin was the author of a work entitled “Time Perspective and Morale” which is a Club of Rome publication concerning how to break down the morale of nations and individual leaders. Here is an extract of the document:
“One of the main techniques for breaking morale through a strategy of terror consists in exactly this tactic: keep the person hazy as to where he stands and just what he may expect. In addition, if frequent vacillations between severe disciplinary measures and promise of good treatment together with the spreading of contradictory news make the structure of the situation unclear, then the individual may cease to know whether a particular plan would lead toward or away from his goal. Under these conditions, even those individuals who have definite goals and are ready to take risks are paralyzed by the severe inner conflict in regard to what to do.”
This Club of Rome blueprint applies to COUNTRIES as well as to individuals, particularly the government leaders of those countries. We in the U.S. need not think that “Oh well, this is America, and those kinds of things just do not happen here.” Let me assure you that they ARE happening in the U.S., and perhaps more so than in any other country. Remember that Khomeini was groomed for years by British intelligence, especially during his time in Paris, before he suddenly appeared as the savior of Iran. Boris Yeltsin is from the same M16-SIS stable...
The route taken by the raw opium carriers of the Golden Crescent goes through Iran, Turkey and Lebanon. When the Shah of Iran was in control of the country, he refused to allow the heroin trade to continue and it was forcibly discontinued-up until the time that he was “dealt with” by the Committee of 300. Raw opium from Turkey and Lebanon finds it way to Corsica, from where it is shipped to Monte Carlo with the connivance of the Grimaldi family. Pakistani laboratories, under the guise of “military defense laboratories” are doing a bigger share of refining than they were two years ago, but the best refining is still done along the French Mediterranean coastline and in Turkey. Here again, banks play a vital role in financing these operations.
Let us stop here for a moment. Are we to believe that with all the modern and vastly improved surveillance techniques, including satellite reconnaissance, available to law enforcement agencies in these countries, that this vile trade cannot be pin-pointed and stopped? How is it that law enforcement agencies cannot go in and destroy these laboratories once they are discovered? If this IS the case, and we still cannot interdict the heroin trade, then our anti-narcotics services ought to be known as “The Geriatrics” and not drug enforcement agencies.
Even a child could tell our alleged “drug watchers” what to do. Simply keep a check on all factories making acetic anhydride, THE most essential chemical component needed by laboratories to refine heroin from raw opium. THEN FOLLOW THE TRAIL!…
For some strange reason the Cali cartel, which is equal in size to the Medellin cartel, has been–at least up until now–largely ignored by the DEA. Cali differs from the Medellin cartel in that it is run by BUSINESSMEN, who eschew all forms of violence and never break agreements. Even more significant is that Cali does virtually no business in Florida. My source told me that the Cali cartel is run by shrewd businessmen unlike any seen in the cocaine business. He believes that they were “specially appointed,” but does not know by whom. “They never call attention to themselves,” he said. “They do not go around importing red Ferraris like Jorge Ochoa did, attracting immediate attention, because it is forbidden to import such cars into Colombia.”
Cali cartel markets are in Los Angeles, New York and Houston, which closely parallel the heroin markets. Cali has not shown any signs of moving into Florida. A former DEA operative who is a colleague of mine said recently, “These Cali people are sure smart. They are a different breed to the Ochoa brothers. They act like professional businessmen. They are now larger than the Medellin cartel and I think we are going to see a lot more cocaine get into the United States than ever before. The kidnapping of Manuel Noriega will facilitate an easier flow through Panama of cocaine and money, what with so many banks there. So much for President George Bush’s Operation Just Cause. All it did was make life a great deal easier for Nicolas Ardito Barletta who used to be run by the Ochoa brothers and who is fixing to front for the Cali cartel.”
Based on my experience with the heroin trade I believe that the Committee of 300 has stepped in and taken over full control of the South American cocaine trade. There is no other explanation For the rise of the Cali cartel which is coupled with the kidnapping of Noriega. Did Bush take his orders from London regarding Noriega? There is every indication that he was literally PUSHED into invading Panama and kidnapping Noriega, who had become a serious impediment to “trade” in Panama, especially in the banking business.
Several former intelligence agents have given me their opinions which coincide with my own. Like the Gulf War that followed in the wake of Panama, it was only after several calls from the British Ambassador in Washington that Bush finally plucked up enough courage to make his totally illegal move on General Noriega. That he was supported by the British press and the New York Times, a British intelligence run newspaper, speaks volumes…
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So President Trump is attacking trade routes, drug running AND oil. I certainly do not envy Trump’s job in unraveling this mess! It makes you wonder just how many ‘American Politicians’ are actually agents of the City of London.
I DIDN’T WRITE THIS BUT A VERY SMART PERSON DID!!! This should be read by every news station and every single person that is against what president Trump has done, not just for America, but for the world!!!
Paul White Gold Eagle @PaulGoldEagle I DIDN’T WRITE THIS BUT A VERY SMART PERSON DID!!! This should be read by every news station and every single person that is against what president Trump has done, not just for America, but for the world!!!
WRITTEN BY MICHAEL HUNTSMAN
I keep hearing “Trump doesn’t have a plan”.
First off, it doesn’t seem like the greatest idea to tell everyone what your plan is. (Especially when so many from within want you destroyed.)
However, for those of you who are unable to see it. Let me remind you. One of Trump‘s biggest campaign promises was not only to make America energy Independent, but also to be the energy leader worldwide.
Take a look at the moves he’s already made. If you can’t see his plan, it’s because you refused to.
He told us from the start exactly what he would do when he said “America Will Lead the World in Energy”
He started almost immediately. On February 9, 2025, he began his energy dominance plan by changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. He did this to circumvent policies designed to stop American oil drilling, refining, and shipping in the Gulf. (The crazy half of the country lost their mind and called it racism)
Then with no delay at all, he went after the Panama Canal and regained its passage rights. (Again, the lunatics lost their mind and claimed it was about stopping innocent refugees, and therefore, ‘Racist’.)
Next came Venezuela. In a matter of minutes he captured a dictator, freed millions of people, and secured the absolute largest oil reserves in the world. (Suddenly the crazies poured into the streets, waving Venezuelan flags and demanding the dictator be returned)
Greenland came and went before their tears over the Venezuelan dictator even hit the floor.
With Greenland, he secured not only northern shipping lanes but strategic defensive positioning and mineral rights to one of the largest deposits of rare earth minerals in the world. (Think batteries, electrical components, semiconductors, etc..)
After gaining control of North and South American shipping lanes, oil, and rare earth minerals. He sets his sites on the Middle East.
Which brings us to Iran. So far he has decimated their highest leaders and military, while protecting their infrastructure of oil distribution (And the people of Iran are ecstatic).
At this very moment the U.S. is blockading the Gulf of Oman.(Arguably, more strategic than the Strait of Hormuz itself.)
In the meantime (while waiting out Iran in the Gulf of Oman) He has secured the strait of Malacca, and guaranteed control of shipping rights to the Eastern Seaborg. (Who knows how the Looney Tunes will spin that one when they find out.)
If you haven’t figured it out yet, this was the plan all along. Just like he said, “America Will Lead the World in Energy”
Keep your eyes open, because it ain’t over yet. Next on his list will be to secure the shipping lanes around Cuba then the straits of Bosporus and Gallipoli. Completing his plan and making America the world‘s leader in energy. Just like he said he would.
If you still fail to see the plan? Forget I mentioned any of this. Wait for the newest outrage, or stick with your most recent “Orange man bad, he has no plan”.
Whether you march in the streets waving some other countries flag, or protest a King that doesn’t exist. His plan is being executed and is working beautifully.
America will be the Leader in World Energy.
The truth is: You, Me, and the rest of the free world will benefit greatly from his plan for generations to come.
God bless the President and God bless the United States of America. 🇺🇸
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That was my reaction to the information in this video.
Remember MKUltra? Well it was one of many such programs.
Remember Kanye West’s physical trainer threatening him? Well he is one of many esp. if you want to shut up a whistleblower.
Wonder why Candice Owen & Tucker Carlson went off the deep end? This maybe the answer.
But the one that made me cry is what those filthy nasty sadists do to our military and veterans!
“...Substance abuse and homelessness are two major issues that can often be intertwined, especially in the case of veterans….”LINK
Yeah, right. ESPECIALLY WHEN HELPED ALONG BY THE VA AND CIA! Alpha & the Colonel explain how it’s done towards the bottom of the transcript. I marked it with a smaller version of the above picture. So if nothing else read what these sadists are doing to our best and strongest.
I think this explains why POTUS Trump went after the VA in his first term. That mess was not incompetence, it was getting rid of the ‘Useless eaters’ and inconvenient witnesses.
Psychological Strategy Board1951 – 1953 ==> Operations Coordinating Board 1953 – 1961 ==> “much of OCB’s work was continued by other bodies, such as the Planning Coordination Group (PCG), pursuant to presidential directive Covert Operations NSC 5412/12 in 1955, and by the Special Group” —
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins, Jacobsen, Annie (2019) (New York: Little Brown and Company), p. 115
Do not miss The Strategy Board’s first director Gordon Gray. He later was National Security Advisor during the Eisenhower administration, President of UNC (think Ralph Baric) Owner of NC newspapers & radios, and chairman of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. His father, uncle & brother were all heads of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. In 1942, he was described as “one of the nation’s wealthiest young men.”
We CAN’T hate these Deep State Evil Satanic Sadists enough.
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TRANSCRIPT I have cleaned it up and added references.
Alpha Warrior:
We’re doing part three of PSYOPS past and present.
I’m trying to figure out what the heck these tech issues are…. So hopefully this is an issue that will remedy itself. But with that, chapter 91, of Operation Gladio. Some interesting things happening. I will turn it over to you, Colonel, and let you decide what you want to share or not share. I don’t know what’s public yet.
Colonel Towner:
Well, apparently we are being watched. I don’t want to say any more than that, but the work that we do in exposing the CIA is coming to the attention of quite a few people. Both the work that we’ve done over on Badlands like the book club episodes and my own work. So, it’s getting very interesting. It appears that they really don’t like people telling the truth.
Alpha Warrior:
No, they don’t.
Colonel Towner:
Yeah. but at least there’s some agreement that the CIA is at the root of it. It’s just a matter of who they’re working through.
[I want to add, that I had a devil of a time finding the Youtube version of this video (and it’s transcript.) Brave would not pull it up no matter what I tried and even Yandex didn’t find it. I had to go to Alpha’s page to find it. –GC]
Alpha Warrior:
If you were hesitating to decide, well, it’s for sure now.
Colonel Towner:
If you didn’t think that all of what we’ve uncovered didn’t point directly at the CIA, especially on election interference, you’ve been asleep. So, obviously, the CIA PSYOPS program is monstrous. We’ve covered parts of it. I have two parts that has to be covered before we move on. And one of them is one that I don’t speak a lot of about because I’m not an expert in it. But it cannot be left out of the conversation and that has to do withMK Ultraand Project Artichoke. So, I don’t know if we’ll get through all of it tonight, but we’re going to talk about that tonight.
Colonel Towner:
I want to preface the rest of the shows on this psychological operation topic with something for people to ponder. I know we’ve got a lot of really good researchers out there, but I’m going to make the case over the rest of this, whether it’s this show and next week’s show or the next three shows, depending on how much we get done tonight. I have a hypothesis that most of the cult followings that we just kind of brush off as a weird lone wolf cult leader is not that at all. [Candice Owens??? – GC] Now, obviously when we did our Jim Jones deep dive into his quote unquote cult, we proved unequivocally that he was a CIA agent. He was involved in the coup in Brazil. He was involved in child trafficking and had lots of nefarious ties in San Francisco. And obviously his Jonestown camp was initially a CIA terrorist training camp that then served the purposes of an MK Ultra experiment.
A lot of people don’t put all of those together because they don’t understand Operation Gladio and how these people move seamlessly through this entire environment. He’s always set aside as this odd duck, a Kool-Aid drinking duck, which as we proved had literally nothing to do with it. So, I think that’s on purpose. And we’re going to go into a couple of the other cults that are associated with it. I say that to bring it home to today.
Many of the movements that you’re seeing today, whether it’s Antifa or whatever. These people, [such as] the764cult, they are all going to be tied back to some type of experimental drugs. Or take the whole trans-assassination thing. All are being given drugs. Who came up with that? Well, again, if you go back in history, this was talked about in the early 1900s. None of this, the whole gender dysphoria thing, none of this is new. It all ties back to the same root of this tree that we’re talking about.
So, I was digging around over the last week into theNational Security Archivesand there was some additional information that came out about MK Ultra in 2017. So, I’m going to set the stage for that and kind of go through that. It’s going to illustrate to you how coveted this information is to the intelligence agencies. They really don’t want anybody to know the full extent of it because once you do, you start connecting a whole bunch of dots that they don’t want you to connect.
So obviously the most notorious was the CIA experimentation with LSD and other drugs. And all of this came to light in October 1975 in US Senate testimony of the CIA‘s former top chemistSidneyGottlieb. He was the notorious chemist behind creating a lot of the drugs, the truth serums that they tried to experiment with, the brainwashing, all of that stuff. The results according to Sydney Gottlieb [testimony] was the results of everything told us, the money expended, the effort expended, the security risk involved, when you add everything up was not a high payoff program and that’s devastating. So they spent hundreds of millions of dollars, experimented on all types of people, which we’re going to get into in a minute. And according to them, there was not a high payoff at the end. I guess that depends on who’s keeping the scorecard. So what was interesting to me, is most of Gottlieb’s testimony was given behind closed doors. …To the Senate.
Now, again, we live in supposedly a representative republic. Those people in Congress are supposed to be the truth tellers that expose the executive branch’s nefarious doings. And they cannot do that behind closed doors. There should never, ever, ever, ever be testimony behind closed doors. Not in a representative republic.
So, a group at the National Security Archives went through the transcripts of Gottlieb’s testimony to the staff of the US Senate Committee to study government operations with respect to intelligence activities, more commonly known as theChurch CommitteeThey were published in the National Security Archives and it contained 50 years of history of intelligence oversight hearings along with the selection of declassified CIA memorandums and other records concerning MK Ultra and related projects that Gottlieb was asked about during his Senate deposition. The search committee transcripts highlighted what was referred to as CIA and behavioral sciences mind control drug experiments [such as] MK Ultra, that was eventually published in 2024. Other documents that were found recently declassified in the CIA FOIA reading room, [Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room] some as recently as 2017. Among other things, the recently declassified transcript of the closed door hearings held in October of 1975 shed new light on a bizarre and abusive research project that was associated with the CIA’s technical services staff. That’s abbreviated TSS. It also included the mind-altering drugs that according to Sydney Gottlieb ‘s words, quote, “The unwitting and total lack of awareness on the part of somebody who was being interrogated that way might have been the key thing.”
So in other words, they drugged people unknowingly and then interrogated them. At one point, a Senate staffer asked Gottlieb about a document indicating that one interrogatee had been secretly given a large dose of LSD that induced a severe classic paranoid reaction so extreme that he was declared mentally ill by an equally unwitting psychiatrist and thus discredited in the eyes of the group in which he was working.
Now, just stop right there and take a deep breath and think about that. How many people in Hollywood have suddenly flipped out?
Correct. There have been people that are very well known that have for all intents and purposes, even if they’re not technically & legally a whistleblower, have exposed earth shattering things and then basically are classified as going off the deep end.
So, did they actually go off the deep end or were they part of one of these experiments?
Apha Warrior:
I think the one that supports what you’re saying the most right now is Kanye. [r/Kanye on Reddit: This textKanye got is wild. ] What did he say? What was it three or four years ago when his physical trainer? Yeah. His trainer. And we’re like, that’s handler conversation right there. I mean, it’s exactly what I think you’re going with right now.
Colonel Towner:
I am. And that’s why I think it’s so important for people to understand what has already been proven to be true. So in looking around you today, you understand a lot of these people have been slipped drugs and then they will be taken to a psychiatrist displaying total mental illness indications, when in fact they are actually under some type of psychological operation to discredit them. And of course in Britney Spears case she was on the verge of telling people about how Hollywood operated and what had happened to her when she was little. So immediately discrediting her in the eyes of the public was critically important.
So, moving on,Gottlieb said during the hearing that it had been recognized that this kind of thing might happen to make somebody behave erratically for the purpose of his colleagues losing faith in his ability to act responsibly. It’s happened with scientists. Other parts of the hearing focused on Gottlieb’s involvement in the CIA assassination plots, especially those targeted at Fidel Castro and its support to the activities of federal agencies through MHCHAOS, the subject of an earlier Rockefeller Commission report. The committee also asked Gottlieb about his own experiences taking LSD, which he characterized as disorienting and otherworldly.
Gottlieb said that LSD “gave you propioceptions,” which he said meant “perceiving feeling in yourself as opposed to feelings of things outside yourself, like seeing a door as opposed to feeling something inside your own body.” Details about MK Ultra and the related programs first emerged in the 1970s alongside the revelations that the CIA had been involved in multiple assassination plots and other misdeeds that were exposed in leaks to the media. Most notably by the Church and Pike committees and the Rockefeller Commission in the mid 1970s.
And of course, keep in mind in the mid 1970s, what is going on? You have the whole commotion with Nixon that just happened. You have the presidency of Ford. Rockefeller becomes the vice president who runs one of these commissions. And while things were exposed, it was basically a cover-up operation. And who’s the CIA director at the time? George H.W. Bush.
And it is in January 1977 when Carter takes over that he tells George H.W. Bush that he’s not goingto be continued as the CIA director. So that’s when all of these things are happening. So you’ve got George H.W. Bush as the CIA director. And as we all know, Gottlieb and those guys in the CIA shred most of MK Ultra documents under the tutelage of George H.W. Bush. In the late 70s, the CIA victim task force reached out to the presumed victims of the CIA experiments, some of whom later filed lawsuits after learning that the agency had secretly drugged them or the members of their family. And of course, Olsen, who was one of the guys that was actually working in this area for the CIA as a scientist.
Frank Olsen, supposedly was ruled as committing suicide when in fact he was given, without his knowledge, LSD and just went totally crazy. And once the family realized what had happened and that the CIA was actually doing this to people, it was later determined that he was actually murdered and thrown out of a window. I mean, that’s the hypothesis at the end of the deal. That they were doing this.
So, as a result of all of the these revelations, Gottlieb had up to that point been anonymous. No one knew who he was because everything that was done with him was behind closed doors. So, the shroud of anonymity for the first time was broken after stories linked him [ Gottlieb] to the death of Frank Olsen, drug tests on unwitting US citizens and the destruction of records related to these programs.
This letter signed by Frank Olson states that in the event he becomes ill that he must report only to U.S. Army doctors and facilities and forbids his use of public sector medical facilities or doctors. The contract also states that in the event of his death Fort Detrick in Maryland will “make arrangements for and conduct the processing of my remains and to place them in a sealed casket which will not thereafter be opened.”
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Gottlieb was an obvious target according to author Steven Kenser. I’ve read several of his books. The one where he talks about this is his book, called Poisoner in Chief It was published in 2019. It’s basically a biography of Sydney Gottlieb. So, in this book, he kind of puts all of the pieces together. He says that his chief ally in the CIA was Richard Helms, who had been director of the CIA in 1966, and he was fired two years later. MK Ultra was no longer well regarded. Perhaps worst of all, he was tainted by the fact that his technical service division had collaborated with the Watergate burglars. So, it all ties together.
Declassified records and other evidence show that the US research into human behavior control and efforts to operationalize these methods extended across multiple US agencies, not just the CIA. It involved numerous officials. Few, if any, were more central to these programs, though, than Gottlieb, who was involved in nearly every aspect of the program, including research, field test, and the use of these methods in intelligence operations. He would actually fly to places and administer this program. The declassified evidence also shows that Gottlieb was a key bureaucratic player who signed off on hundreds of MK Ultra sub projects and who developed clandestine relationships, …wait for it,… with universities, prisons, hospitals, private laboratories, and private foundations. Prisons is an interesting one, isn’t it?
The church committee faced considerable obstacles when they were trying to reconstruct this story because Gottlieb and Richard Helms had destroyed most of the original records in 1973. On top of that, Gottlieb’s attorney, Terry Lenznerconvinced the Senate, and I don’t think it took too much convincing, that Gottlieb would be granted immunity, in exchange for his testimony. So, the Senate protected this monster who experimented on American citizens and was responsible for at least one death that we’ve talked about so far.
Gottlieb and Lenzner: Sidney Gottlieb (left), former head of the CIA’s Technical Services Division, talks with his attorney Terry Lenzner on the day of his testimony before the Senate health subcommittee, September 21, 1977. (AP)
But even with those protections, Gottlieb had a really fuzzy memory behind closed doors. He seemed to have forgotten quite a bit. Gottlieb remembered. so little that one wonders whether or not he had taken some of his own medicine. Gottlieb and Lenzner said as much during his deposition during discussions of the Olsen case. Lenzner asked quote “who has access to this transcript” unquote talking about the transcript of the secret Senate meeting. Okay. before Gottlieb says anymore, he wants to know who will ever get to see this transcript so they know how much to reveal. Even though the man has immunity, he wanted to know specifically, quote, “a private party in a lawsuit, could they obtain Gotlib’s deposition through a subpoena? Committee staffer Elliot Maxwell said that while the rules did not address a specific issue like that, he did not think it was possible to obtain executive session testimony in a lawsuit.” You know why? Because the Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to the Senate nor the House. You know, that only applies to everybody else. However, they were wrong on both counts. The transcript was first declassified and given to the estate of MK Ultra victim Stanley Glickman in 1995 during the course of a lawsuit against the CIA, Helms and Gottlieb. Though it was not made available to the general public, just to that court. The declassified transcripts were finally made public only recently due to a 2017 FOIA request.
In their questioning of Gottlieb, the Church Committee staffers relied heavily on CIA records obtained by the committee, but again, most of them had been shredded. Two key reports by the CIA Inspector General that took a critical look at these programs linked to Gottlieb. One did in 1963 and related activities to MK Ultra and another one in 1967 an investigation of the CIA‘s involvement in assassination plots of foreign leaders. The transcripts of Gottlieb‘s testimony before the members of the church committee in [static] but are referenced throughout the committee’s interim report that was published in November of 1975.
Gottlieb appeared at this first series of secret hearings using a pseudonym. They didn’t even list his real name on the docket at the Senate. His name was Joseph Snyder. That’s the name he used. The questions during the hearing were about the assassination plot against Fidel Castro and Patrice Lumumbain the Congo among others because they were going to try to poison Patrice Lumumba too. They ended up just killing him and then boil him in acid. The conversation on the first day of his testimony focused on the early years of the drug testing, his participation in interrogations where the drugs were administered, and his own experiences. Gottlieb said for the first 6 months to a year he was working at the CIA, there were a lot of things going on. He specifically recalled Project Artichokeinitially which is the precursor to MK Ultra. It involved barbiturates being administered as a truth serum. He said, this is a quote, “barbiturates administered in the truth serum mode.”
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in a sort of medical setting planned for and I think finally carried out in Europe.”Although he claims to never have been present for any of the artichoke interrogations, Gottlieb said they involved a substance that was a powerful barbiturate along with a series of what he called hypnotic or sleep induced materials to catch a person on his way to sleep. He hoped that it would then make the victim be more open and vulnerable to interrogation. The use of a medical setting was not necessarily done to protect the subject according to Gottlieb, but was more like an elaborate ruse to make it so the man was aware in some way for some reason that for his safety he was in a quote unquote medical setting with physicians aroundwhile they’re injecting him with the barbiturates.
Alpha Warrior:
Yeah. Yeah. using a person’s own thought process of security, that’s twisted.
Colonel Towner:
Yes. And I think it’s so important that we understand that just cuz our brains don’t think this way. They’re just so evil. It’s hard to contemplate how evil these people are. And the other interesting thought of that whole situation is that how well thought out this is, right? The drug, the setting, the person that you’re going to be doing this to and when are they the most vulnerable? And I want to make this point. These most recent CIA guys running around trying to pretend like waterboarding is the worst thing that the CIA has ever done to anybody and that’s the limit of their torture? I mean they’re lying to your face.
That is such limited hangout it’s not even funny. Water boarding isn’t even in the bottom 10 of the crazy shit or in the top 10 of the crazy shit that they do to people while they’re interrogating them.
Alpha Warrior:
You know? Here’s one that doesn’t require any tools and it is torture. Sleep deprivation.
Imagine having a sandbag over your head and you’re told to stand. You lose your concept of day and time. And as you start to get tired and you go to sit down and then they let you sit down cuz they know your leg muscles can only hold you up so long. And as they see you starting to nod off, they make youstand again and they just repeat that process over and you will go crazy if you can’t sleep and don’t know what time it is.
Colonel Towner:
Yeah. The medical setting, even if it’s artificial, was what differentiated Artichoke interrogations from those Gottlieb admitted to witnessing himself, mainly during the 1950s. These are referred to throughout the transcripts as interrogations and are sometimes called MKDELTAinterrogations. Gottlieb told the committee that the technical services branch (TSS) wanted something that was more covert than Artichoke techniques. Something that did not require the subject to believe they were under medical care. That was the general idea. Or to get as close to that kind of capability as we could.
Investigators also asked Gottlieb for information about how the drugs were tested and the distinction between testing and their operational use as an approved operation of the CIA, which was the focus of MKDelta. Gottlieb said that there was also such a thing as operational testing, a combining of the two. Where they could get, on one hand it was potentially useful to have an approved operation from the CIA to then use to experiment on the people. So they’re operationally testing these drugs. The committee staff asked Gottlieb about the extent of the CIA sponsored drug testing in prisons, in psychiatric facilities in the US. They asked on the first day of the testimony, he recalled Artichoke operations either in prisons or mental hospitals or other facilities that might hold either criminals or the criminally insane. Gottlieb replied, quote, “I don’t remember anything like that.”unquote However, the very next day, Gottlieb said that he did remember that the TSS conducted quote unquote “general research at hospitals with psycho-chemicals.” Although he took issue with the word prison to describe what he said were treatment facilities ran by the public health services for people with criminal backgrounds.
So, for those of you who don’t know, the US government has an entire medical core of people called public health services. They actually have military rank. They go out to indigenous poor populations. It’s like a medical scholarship. They’ll send you to medical school and in return you do so many years in a poor area that doesn’t have adequate access to medical facilities. These are the people that are administering these things.
Gottlieb was similarly evasive in a response to a question about whether experiments were done at universities. Finally settling on this statement. quote, “There was some of the work involving such testing that went on at hospitals that were affiliated with universities and might have used university students as volunteers.” Asked again about these kinds of projects. On the final day of testimony, Gottlieb admitted that CIA had an extensive research program in regard to human experimentation on psycho chemicals under MK Ultra, adding that a lot of these things were done in hospitals and mental institutions. And when you say hospitalization, the people were already in the hospital.
Senate staffers referred Gottlieb to memos of Artichoke committee meetings in 1953 in which the CIA officials discussed the need for a ” large number of bodies” A large number of bodies, that was written in a CIA cable to be quote “used for research and experimentation in regard to psycho-chemicals” unquote.
What was going on in 1953? That was the end of the Korean War. I think they were… quote “problem of returning POWs from Korea”unquote and the interrogation of “particular POWs at Valley Forge and proposals to interrogate them.” In most cases, Gottlieb failed to remember any details about any of this. — They brought Korean POWs into the United States and the CIA experimented on them.
Gottlieb did recall working with the army on certain MK Delta interrogations. While the precise location of the operation was still redacted because they’re not allowed to operate in the United States. The time frame coincides with the reported trip of Gottlieb to East Asia in 1953 to assist with prisoner interrogations in Korea. He told the committee that he participated in at least 6 to 12 interrogations.
Now, keep in mind he’s being asked these questions 20 years after the fact. I don’t know, but if I ever had to sit in on an interrogation like that, it would be emblazoned in my memory forever. Not like kind of a ballpark figure. So, this is a quote. “To the best of my recollection, I was approached by an individual from the headquarters desk involved that the approval of such a trip and such a series of technical assisted interrogations. And by technically assisted I mean using LSD consisted of approval from the branch chief, the division chief and the deputy director. I discussed with redacted the nature of the assistance that LSD could provide in the interrogation and there was some cables exchanged I believe although I can’t remember in detail now and I can’t recall the specific arrangements whether I was looking through it through a mirror or anything like that. I know I saw the interrogations.” So again, he’s trying to evade actually saying he witnessed the interrogations. Does it matter if he was behind a glass mirror? No.
Committee staffers directed Gottlieb to another memo about an interrogation indicating quote “the officer to give the drug was familiar with its use and had worked with the technique in Europe.”unquote . So what were we doing in Europe administering drugs? While claiming not to remember the specific case, Gottlieb admitted that he himself fit this description. So he was there ,in Europe, drugging people. On the third day of testimony, Gottlieb was asked about a little known project called QKHILLTOP about which he offers few details. Although it has since been learned that this was a program through which the CIA sought to study what they believed highly advanced brainwashing techniques in use by communist China. [ Think of the J-6ers when you watch this 3 minute video -GC]
One of the church committee staffers described a record they had seen about Hilltop interrogation in which an unwitting subject had been given a large dose of LSD in a scheme to have them declared mentally ill by a physician who was unaware that they had been administered the drug. Here’s a quote.
The cable I referred to indicated that 200 units of this drug was given to subject number one and that this precipitated severe classic paranoid reaction. The subject believed that light bulbs were emitting hot and cold rays to produce scientific death and told the guard that someone was trying to read his mind and went into a schizophrenic reaction.
Colonel Towner:
Now again, there’s been so many people that have talked about things like this, there are these mass killers. And so you have to now go back and look at everything that we’ve ever had reported on, like the uni-bomber, cuz he was tied to everything. He was part of MK Ultra at MIT if I’m not mistaken.
Alfa Warrior:
Yeah, Kathy Eminence [in the chat] says this makes me think of Fauci and the Beagles. That’s Fauci.
Colonel Towner:
I definitely think Fouchi is connected to the QKHilltop. As I was searching the documents, this is one of the declassified ones. It’s short, but it’s March 1st, 1955. Memorandum for the record.
Subject Project QKHilltop [They show the memo]
Number one. I was informally told today by redacted that this project has been discontinued since the basic objective had been assumed by another agency of the government redacted office of general counsel.
Colonel Towner:
And who’s that from?
Alfa Warrior:
They don’t provide any other information. That’s the only information. It just says office of general counsel but it’s redacted.
Colonel Towner:
you can’t see who’s the CC to down at the bottom?
Alfa Warrior:
That’s redacted too the person that they were told by is redacted the person that signed it is redacted and the person that was CC to is redacted.
Colonel Towner:
So they just basically moved it operationally probably out of the CIA. And probably over to NIH [National Institutes of Health] since they run all the studies.
So talking about how they get the doctor to classify these people as crazy. Now again, this is what happens to whistleblowers, right? They get slipped these drugs and they go crazy and then they have an independent doctor say they’re crazy and then they’ve just negated everything they’ve ever said because the person’s now crazy. The doctor diagnosed the subject as mentally ill according to the document and it was apparently done in order to have the subject labeled as mentally ill which would allow him to be discredited in the eyes of the group in which he was working.
Gottlieb did not remember that particular case, but said, quote, “It had been recognized that this kind of thing might be a need that the CIA might help with to make somebody behave erratically for the purpose of his colleagues losing faith in his ability to act responsibly.” unquote. Senate investigators later asked Gottlieb about a separate MKDelta interrogation that was reported as a success because it induced a paranoid reaction in the presence of an unwitting psychiatrist such that it was possible to have the subject committed to an institution at will, thereby denying the redacted forever a loyal follower. Gottlieb said that using LSD guaranteed that you almost always were sure to get some particular behavior on the part of the individual and to the extent that it was useful to the agency’s operations. It was effective. So lock him up in a mental institution. That’s the gauge of effectiveness.
But Gottlieb said that his opinion about the usefulness of LSD had changed with time. Well, too bad because you’ve already got dead bodies laying around. Gottlieb also was asked about drug tests on unwittingquote unquote volunteersin the early 1960s, including US military operations designated as THIRD CHANCE and DERBY HAT.
Between 1955 and 1958 the Army also tested LSD on 1,000 volunteer US servicemen at Fort Bragg and the Army’s Chemical Warfare Laboratories at Edgewood.
While not recalling those specific operations, Gottlieb said that during Vietnam, the military was considering the use of LSD on a fairly large scale.
Alfa Warrior:
This makes me so uneasy when I hear this part, Colonel. Cuz we still don’t know what that pill that they made us take while we’re in Iraq for the first third of our deployment. It’s not in our SRBs. They told us that it was for malaria, but then they made us stop taking it. I’m telling you. And the reason it just gives me angstis cuz I know some of the guys that committed suicide are not suicidal people. And and I get it. People are say, “Well, you never know what someone’s going through.” And I get it. These dudes are dudes that when you I mean, you know what it’s like in service. You you know each other’s stories. These were guys that had not encountered rough patches in their life before? And were able just to push through like champs. And then all of a sudden years later, you find out some of these guys committed suicide. And then if you really want to go into it, some of them pursued lives as contractors.
Colonel Towner:
And we’re subject to what? Because the contractors are working for the CIA. And if you want to get rid of somebody that you’ve sent on an assignment, getting them committing suicide is one of the easiest ways to get rid of them.
Colonel Towner:
Okay. This is another quote [from Gottlieb] “and the fairly large scale I am talking about in an interrogation sense. Interrogating a number of prisoners and that we were asked to come in on that and I forget what the occasion was and I forget who was there.” Sure you do. “But I do remember being there at at least once with Mr. Desmond Fitzgerald when he was the deputy director of plans.”For those of you who don’t know we’ve come across Desmond FitzGerald on so many of the things as a matter of fact in “Safe for Democracy” we were just talking about the overthrow of Indonesia and of course Desmond Fitzgerald is one of the leading figures in running that operation. He was also involved in the Bay of Pigs and so many other things.”
Gottlieb said that the agency had as many failures as successes with LSD. Asked why the committee did not see the evidence of the interrogation cases that had been judged to be failures. Gotlib suggested that the records of those operations in many cases reflected what the reporting officers wanted their bosses to hear. The reports of success have to be seen with a grain of salt. Not that people falsified anything, but that they were very close to the situation in their evaluation of how much national interest was served by the information that they got from their interrogations.The results of everything told us that the money expended, the efforts expended did not necessarily have a high payoff.
Alpha Warrior:
Let me interrupt you real quick. I’d like to get your thoughts on this comment coming over from YouTube. This is Medi. This is actually an old time friend Colonel. I really like this guy. And he says,
“Alpha, I would say Alpha and the Colonel, may have stumbled upon why the US government does not want to acknowledge the veteran suicide rate.”
I’d really like to get your comment on that.
Colonel Towner:
Yeah, I thought that immediately when I was going through this material, have been in the military and especially for myself as a commander. My ex-husband’s son was a Marine and he committed suicide while he was on active duty. This is a subject that is very, very close to me. I had in my last command an individual that was working for me that basically committed suicide. She did it in a horrific way. She jumped out of a car. Basically, according to the people in the car with her, she faked a medical emergency on the side of I-85. Got out of the car like she was going to be sick and ran into traffic. I get a phone call at two o’clock in the morning and my first sergeant & I have to identify who she was. We had to go to the office because it was up near Atlanta. We were south of Macon, Georgia. And you know, you’re seeing the photographs of her that was emailed to us so that we could make a positive identification of her. She was an airman. And so I know that there are circumstances that don’t involve the CIA at all, but I also know that there are circumstances that 100% are. My biggest concern is the VA’s role in all of it.The VA is part and parcel of this entire operation because they follow the military service members out of the military and basically for the rest of their lives. And so there’s plenty of opportunities when someone gets a little rogue or off the sheet of music to have government people put in their lives under whatever the circumstances are and assist them in a suicide by medical means or you know these types of narcotics. And so absolutely I don’t think there’s near the amount. Alpha, I’m the the classic example of that.
I was vaccine injured with the anthrax vaccine. I was medically retired and their only answer for me was to give me 13 different narcotics so that I was able to walk. There was no actual the only surgical option I was given while I was still on active duty when I was at Randolph Air Force Base in San Antonio. The VA is not interested in fixing you. They are interested in medicating you. That opens up the possibility for anybody who is a special operator under their care who is viewed as a security risk to be taken out. It would be the simplest, easiest thing to do. [lots of static] Give them a certain type of narcotics, call it something else, and have it be something that just makes them wig out.
Alpha Warrior:
And that’s why, and the gentleman that’s in there, is it Collins? [Douglas A. Collins] I might have the name wrong, but some of the VA guys or some of the vets that I’m talking to are now having these conversations with the VA, they’re giving me hope of some changes that are coming in there. I’ve avoided it like the plague never gone once. There’s every time I heard my buddies go and share the same stories that you just did, Colonel, you know, this is what they want to give them for the painkillers before they can move on to another opinion or another remedy. It’s this addictive stuff.
So, it’s just like why do you want to go and seek help [from the VA], when you already know from everybody else that goes, they turn [you] into addicts. Then some of those addicts, because they’re not going to give you the amount that you need when you become an addict, so then these guys start to go and look for it on the street, because they need more. Which leads them to an even darker path. And then again, we hear some of the conclusions that you’re talking about. And there’s something there, I don’t disagree.
Colonel Towner:
The problem though, Alpha, is for many of the people that are actually injured, you don’t have a choice because of the VA rating system. You have to go to the VA for those exams. You have to go to the VA doctors during that rating process while it’s ongoing. If you don’t go you do not get your disability and that’s kind of the catch 22. There are a lot of people, my cousin being one of them [who do not go and do not get their disability.] He was a cop in the air force and exposed to nuclear weapons. I mean he was a cop guarding nuclear weapons. That’s what he did for 22 years and he developed cancer. He never went to the VA. He never got his VA disability. Nothing. I made him go to get his VA disability because it pissed me off that he should have had it for a lot longer than he was able to get it. But more and that’s the point I made to him. He’s like, you know, I’m fine. I do have cancer and it’s been tied to the exposure and all that other stuff. And I just looked at him one day and I said, this isn’t about you, this is about your wife. She needs to have those benefits as well. And that was the one thing that broke the camel’s back and he finally did go and get it. So yeah, it’s awful.
Alpha Warrior:
It is. I’m gonna put a Rumble ad right here just to create a break and then bring us back on task because this one really is one that upsets me. Because they did it to us. You did it to the people that were willing to sacrifice their lives for the country. Like you did it to the best part of America and it just like with the covid. It’s upsetting. it is.
Alpha Warrior:
All right, Colonel, bring us back to these other programs. You talked about a lot of programs here with Project Artichoke, MKUltra, you are looking through these things. It opens all these other ones that are related to it. Ones I didn’t even hear about. We all know that, allegedly, they stopped MK Ultra, but then I learned that there’s, another one that came after that and I’m like, what? Why isn’t everybody talking about that? So, please continue.
Colonel Towner:
Yeah.Nothing has ever stopped that the CIA has ever done because they’ve never been held accountable, EVER. Why would you stop doing something when even when they’re caught, they never get held accountable? Which is why Mockingbird never stopped. MK Ultra never stopped. I would say COVID was MK Ultra as well. And I do believe those vaccines altered people both physically and mentally.
Alpha Warrior:
What’s one of the best ways to target somebody? It is isolation and that’s exactly what COVID was.
Colonel Towner:
Yes. Yeah. I believe firmly that they go on today. All right.
They further probe the subject of drug tests on unwitting subjects. During the committee, they asked Gottlieb about CIA supplied safe houses in New York City and San Francisco. They were staffed by federal narcotics agent George White[He was a Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) investigator and undercover Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative. –GC] Yes, this would be the current day DEA that was involved in this. There was an arrangement with Richard Helms and it was described as using the Bureau of Narcotics as a cutout. Gottlieb said that the cutout [was] meant to remove the CIA by one or two steps from its activity. In other words, they just put a CIA agent in the DEA to administer this program in the United States because technically they’re not allowed to do it. Just like they put CIA people in the FBI to do exactly the same thing. And in local police departments and in local sheriff’s departments and everywhere they want to do something with a cutout.
..He was also a federal observer for the controversial narcotics experiments by the Central Intelligence Agency as part of MK-ULTRA and Midnight Climax.[5] During the “scientific experiment” known as Midnight Climax, White was responsible for dosing gangsters, pimps, prostitutes, and other American citizens with a variety of narcotics and drugs without their knowledge, and reporting their behaviors to Dr. Sidney Gottlieb.[6]…
Gottlieb said, in a December 1963 memo, that was cited by the committee staffers on day four of the testimony, that Helms had called the project with White 8 years of close collaboration. Gottlieb described how they used the safe houses to conduct an array of experiments using drugs, hypnotic and other techniques. quote, “We developed a liaison with the Bureau of Narcotics whereby we would share information on LSD and other drugs. The mechanism for this was our funding –our funding, the CIA funding— of two safe houses at different times for the Bureau of Narcotics which the bureau would use for meeting informants and pursuing their own business and which premises we would occasionally use for our own meetings.
Gottlieb suggested that he himself had taken LSD at one of the safe houses. Quote, “As I remember it, some of the experiments we did on self-administration of drugs took place in one of those apartments.” He later said again that he believed that some of these meetings where we self-administered LSD early on were held at the safe houses. Gottlieb and White had a very friendly relationship. According to various [bad static] White diary accounts. Diary entries, some of which were published in one of the other NSA collections, record many instances of Gottlieb visiting the safe houses. Gottlieb told the committee he met with him three or four times a year. White had some prior experience – OH, you know in the OSS during World War II — and he would use all kinds of drugs to include marijuana in interrogations. And that was during a period when I was looking for this kind of knowledge and specialty in an operational sense. Gottlieb said that he worked out an arrangement with White. quote, “He would get supplies of LSD from us and use them in circumstances that he felt were of relevancy to his work of dealing with informants and working in the general field of narcotic enforcement, and that we would be made privy, at least in a general way, to the results and effectiveness of these activities, in return for which we would financially support the maintenance of these safe houses, which the Bureau of Narcotics, as I remember, badly needed for these operations. because they didn’t have the finances.”
So, in summary, the CIA is using their money to rent houses for the DEA to drug [BAD Static]And of course, this guy [White] is basically a CIA guy posing as a DEA guy. And they’re using the safe houses to experiment on Americans using CIA money.
Alpha Warrior:
Which is our money. The safe house is being funded by us. The CIA money is being funded by us. Like, it’s all our money.
Colonel Towner:
The LSD is being funded by us.
Alpha Warrior:
You know, I don’t know if he said it publicly, so I’ll be careful.
So, I was told by someone who worked… I’m going to be very vague on this because people isolate. I was told by someone who worked in the military with stuff that has to do with boats in the military and where they go and they confiscate some of the narcotics and this traffic. We’re talking, a very long time ago. I never really asked that question, as a cop. Cuz again, you don’t think you’re working for people that are bad. But, like with, interdiction, you find it in a, semi or during a bust. You get these kilos of heroin or coke or whatever. Well, some of it is filtered back into the task force because it’s used to to do these operations. I get that. I just kind of assumed that the rest went into an evidence locker and then when the case came to a resolution, it’s destroyed. But it’s not.
A large portion of these narcotics are sold right back into the cartels. And I was like, wait, what? Weird.
Colonel Towner:
Yeah, we actually found that in Gary Webb’s book when we were looking at the Dark Alliance where this evidence would just mysteriously disappear, especially in LA.
Alpha Warrior:
That one dislocated my jaw colonel. I was like, “So, you’re telling me that every single one of us that risked our lives to get this off the streets because ultimately we don’t want it to get into the hands of our kids or to continue feeding the cycle of these people that become addicted to it. We just sell it right back to where it came from? And people get paid off and then it just comes right back into the cycle. So, we’re chasing our tails in a circle. This is serious.” He’s “I’m being serious, Yeah. I was, you know what? Thank goodness I didn’t learn that as a cop because I would have got myself in trouble. I would have… I mean, I know the way I am. There’s, you know, God’s plan is perfect and no matter how much it may hurt us sometimes, but I would confront my chief on something like that.
Hey, chief, this is what I heard. Is this what’s happening? And if you don’t have the answer, that’s fine. Just don’t lie to me.
Colonel Towner:
I want to see, because in the military, when you have narcotics to train the dogs with. I had that as an additional duty when I was stationed in Italy. I was the security officer for the cops. And I
know what it takes. We just had little vials of it. I know what it takes as far as security goes, as far as signing it out, signing it back in, having the chain of custody the entire time it’s in use. I was part of that process. And to know what we go through for security of that type of thing and then to run across that in Gary Webb’s book, I was like, are you FUCKING kidding me?
Alpha Warrior:
I am not going to say what the law enforcement process is, but I’ll tell you guys what Disneyland’s process is, because I didn’t sign an NDA for them.
I was part of the K9 unit they have. They call it the Pluto unit. And in this unit, you have explosives and narcotics. And here’s something we do with both of them. Remember folks, this is Disneyland, okay? So you can imagine the bar for law enforcement or the military?
You go in, and it’s in this big old safe that’s meant, [to contain] explosives if something happened and it went off. To minimize the the damage to property or life. One — two people got to be present. Ain’t no one person, Two people got to be present. But on top of that, two signatures. But it’s not just two people that are present. And it’s not just two signatures. You got to weigh it.
Colonel Tower:
Yes.
Alpha Warrior:
What did it weigh when you took it out?
Colonel Tower:
Yes. That’s exactly the process they use in the military. And when you return it, you got to weigh it again. Yes.
Alpha Warrior:
And if that number don’t add up, a whole lot of people are going to come asking questions on what’s going on.
Alpha Warrior:
Yep. So, how in the world can anyone say you lost kilos, metric tons?
Colonel Tower:
Yeah. Baloney.
[Same procedure is outlined for handling narcotics by the FDA. I had to write the protocol for a pilot plant. -GC]
Colonel Tower:
So, the committee showed Gottlieb the memo that was dated December 1953 on the status of the agency’s LSD supply, noting that White, the DEA guy, of the Bureau of Narcotics, had been provided with LSD by the CIA by then at the latest. The memo came as the agency was looking to account for its LSD research and testing program after Frank Olsen’s death. They were scrambling. Other records included White’s diary entries show that he was experimenting with CIA supplied LSD for nearly a year. At that point, White first spoke to Gotlib about the project in May of 1952. And while he did not get final clearance until the next year, [formalized in the summer of 1953.] his experiments dosing unwitting people with Gottlieb’s LSD was already underway in January of 53.
So, he doesn’t have formal approval, but he’s doing it anyway. and that’s the way the CIA operates. Gottlieb claimed to not remember much about how White reported back to him on the results of his drug experiments, but said that White “was trying to use this material as close to the manner in which we at that time thought we might find some use of operationally, namely to see whether we could elicit more information from informants and other people he was dealing with.” He later added that White’s experiments quote were very useful operationally. It was practically the only information we had that was relevant to an operational situation or something near it.”. Asked again to reflect on the project with White, Gottlieb said: “I don’t think this corner of the MK-ULTRA project was looked upon as a scientific experiment, it was more of an operational, simulated operational test. And I don’t think, as I remember it, that we were hoping to get what I would call scientific information from it.”
We were just doing it. It had no scientific value. We were just drugging people for the hell of it to see if we could get them to talk more. So, I don’t know how much farther you want to go on. We’re going to talk in depth about MK Delta, and the death of Frank Olsen and so we could save that for next week if you want.
Alpha Warrior:
Oh, that’s fine. Let me bring this up right here. This is a gentleman we talked about a lot tonight. The CIA had Richard Helms.
Yeah. And that’s him. It says that. There’s a couple of things here that that got my interest on this photo.
But it’s at a Georgetown party, but not just any regular party. It’s a book party. And for those of you that have been following a certain board out there that has to do with the 17th letter. They’ve told us to follow these book deals. They weren’t just talking about the time we live in. I would imagine that this stuff goes all the way back to this time. Think about it. I mean book deals being made to launder the money so these people all get paid. And they document it! It’s documented. It’s just, it’s out there like oh it’s a Georgetown book party with two guys.
Colonel Towner:
Richard Helms and Henry Kissinger were part of what’s called the Georgetown set. Allan Dulles was part of it. All of the media, the Grahams from the Washington Post, they regularly met on a weekly basis. And it was basically like an informal intelligence sharing. It’s where Alan Dulles would go and make suggestions to the Olsens. There was two guys that were journalists and I use that in air quotes that he would basically tell what they could write about and what they couldn’t write about. And they did it at these dinner parties.
Alpha Warrior:
It’s just, it’s one of those things that — I know we all want to focus on the other parties that go into some of the more extreme conversations — but this is something I think we could all easily research. Research the names, that we’ve talked about on Gladio and then start looking into what kind of book parties they went to. Who sponsored it. Who’s behind it. Where was it hosted at. That’s going to expand on this network. And the people go, Well, that was so long ago. Why? Because what if they’re still the same people hosting the parties today? What if it’s still the same publishing companies?
Colonel Towner:
It’s definitely the same publishing companies. And what you find, I think, is the most interesting aspect of this is their children are now doing it.
Alpha Warrior:
Now, here’s the other one [photo below of Reagan et al] that I was “Yeah, she’ll be & the audience will at least be interested in this one because this shows a lot of people.”
It’s not showing. Hold on. Let me fix this real quick. It’s not wanting to show on this. You know, that’s okay. I’ll switch windows. Crazy when we have this conversation, it’s just like technical issues follow Gladio. That’s for dang sure.
Colonel Towner: [laughs]
They do. Now, they definitely do.
Alpha Warrior:
This is the long way round. Okay, this this works.
Portrait of US President Ronald Reagan (1911 – 2004) poses with the members of the President’s Commission on Strategic Forces and their Special Counselors in in the White House’s Cabinet Room, Washington DC, February 9, 1983. Pictured are, seated from left, James Woolsey, Dr James Schlesinger, chairman Brent Scowcroft, President Reagan, Dr John Deutsch, Thomas Reed, and Dr William Perry; and standing, from left, John Lyons, Vice Admiral Levering Smith, US Navy (Retired), Lloyd Cutler, Richard Helms, Dr Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld, Melvin Laird, Nicholas Brady, Executive Secretary of the Commission Dr Marvin Atkins, and Consultant to the Commission for Public Affairs Herbert Hetu. (Photo by Michael Evans/White House via CNP/Getty Images)
So, in this photo and and I’ll read the names. This is President Reagan with the President’s Commission on Strategic Forces. [Alpha reads the names listed above . -GC]
Colonel Towner:
I know about half of those people there. Deutsch was the deputy secretary of defense to William Perry. William Perry was the Secretary of Defense when my ex-husband worked for — he was actually in the Deutsch – Perry SEC def suite. As a the a senior enlisted adviser. Woolsley’s a former CIA director, obviously Helm’s CIA, so you’ve got the whole cadre there.
Alpha Warrior:
And the reason I wanted to bring this one up is because prior to going down rabbit holes, Most of us loved Reagan. Like his approval ratings were just amazing. And this guy was surrounded by Operation Gladio.
Colonel Towner:
Yes. And used it extensively.
Alpha Warrior:
And the reason I share that is because if we really loved Reagan, that tells you how good they are at propaganda and MK Ultra through radio and television and and everything else. Like they have mastered that.
I look forward to the next part. Colonel.
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GOOD GRIEF! I knew I disliked what Reagan allowed to happen to US owned American corporations via Leveraged buyouts, but I did not realize he was such a tool of the International Cartel!
I sure hope War Clandestine is correct!
I think we are witnessing the US MIL destroy everything that the CIA built.
-Iran and their terrorist proxies -Venezuela -The cartels -Cuba up next
I think the CIA has been cleansed, and their global terror network is being destroyed.
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And if you think the Cape of Good Hope was bad, Drake Passage, around the tip of South America is worse!
Between South America and Antarctica lies this infamous stretch—800 ships lost, over 10,000 lives claimed. But what makes it so deadly? And why do explorers, scientists, and adventurers still risk everything to face it? In this video, we explore the geological origins, harrowing shipwrecks, historic crossings, and the legendary Antarctic expeditions that battled its wrath—from the fate of the San Telmo and HMS Wager, to the desperate escape of Shackleton’s crew aboard the Endurance. You’ll also discover the chilling story of the Belgica, the first vessel to overwinter in Antarctica, trapped for nearly a year in the ice beyond the Drake.
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As you can see, digging a canal thru Panama and thru the Suez was very attractive to merchants.
The idea of a canal across the Isthmus of Panama dates back to the 1500s, when Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the narrow land-bridge in 1513 , realizing it could connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. — BRAVE AI
Panama Canal, lock-type canal, owned and administered by the Republic of Panama, that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the narrow Isthmus of Panama. The length of the Panama Canal from shoreline to shoreline is about 40 miles (65 km) and from deep water in the Atlantic (more specifically, the Caribbean Sea) to deep water in the Pacific about 50 miles (82 km). The canal, which was completed in August 1914, is one of the two most strategic artificial waterways in the world, the other being the Suez Canal.
Ships sailing between the east and west coasts of the United States, which otherwise would be obliged to round Cape Horn in South America, shorten their voyage by about 8,000 nautical miles (15,000 km) by using the canal. Savings of up to 3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km) are also made on voyages between one coast of North America and ports on the other side of South America. Ships sailing between Europe and East Asia or Australia can save as much as 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km) by using the canal…
Readers Digest version of Trump taking charge, Globally.
THE DONROE DOCTRINE JUST WENT LIVE AND IT’S A FUCKING MASTERCLASS IN LETHAL AMERICAN SUPREMACY.
While the world was hypnotized by bombs and headlines, President Trump dropped the hammer:
Effective IMMEDIATELY, the U.S. Development Finance Corporation is underwriting cheap political risk insurance for EVERY maritime trade route through the Persian Gulf…energy first, no exceptions.
Navy escorts through the Strait of Hormuz on standby. Free flow of oil secured by American guns, American capital, American will.
This isn’t “diplomacy”. This is the Donroe Doctrine…Trump’s iron-fisted evolution of the Monroe Doctrine, but projected across the planet’s most critical chokepoint. No more foreign powers…Chinese proxies, Iranian fanatics, or London parasites…dictating terms in America’s economic sphere…
THE DONROE DOCTRINE JUST WENT LIVE AND IT’S A FUCKING MASTERCLASS IN LETHAL AMERICAN SUPREMACY.
While the world was hypnotized by bombs and headlines, President Trump dropped the hammer:
Effective IMMEDIATELY, the U.S. Development Finance Corporation is underwriting cheap… https://t.co/qD4GrNi8uM
I am going to get into a video that looks at the financial aspects. This is a fan made synopsis of episode 1,984 with Col Watkins, Luongo, EMB 1 minute You may want to slow it down.
(The colonel says very little as the financial guys get into the nitty gritty.)
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This is the actual 2 hr video. It is pretty deep into the financial octopus and how it works. Much of it is an interesting conversation between E. M. Burlingameand Tom Luongo. My biggest take away was at 50 minutes.
At 50 minutes:“The most powerful law in the English world is TRUST LAW…TRUST COURTS…. going back to William the Conqueror. THAT IS WHY THEY WENT TO EPSTEIN FOR TAX ADVICE. He was a master as was Paul Helliwell and Maxwell. At 57 minutes they get into WHY the Commonwealth freaked when Trump said he wanted Canada as 51st state. Ontario has a lot of accessible GOLD in the ground. The financial system is ultimately built on contracts & trusts based on the assets IN THE GROUND. If they are in the ground, how do you steal them?”
Helliwell was a lawyer, a banker and CIA.
Tradebait should really find this video interesting.
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Alpha Warrior pointed to this Podcast with two of my favorite ladies. Tommy (Thomas Patrick Carrigan) is either a doctor or a dropout from Medical school given some of his comments. He certainly knows his chemistry.
Counterchaos | Col. Watkins, Susan Kokinda (Tommy’sPodCast#1,986) (1 hour)
I want to place this snippet near the top since it is of major interest.
TRANSCRIPT
53:32 – Colonel Watkins
I’ve noticed in my research and I mentioned it earlier, the whole strategy of tension and creating the chaos [False Flags –GC] so that you can make order out of that chaos. It’s almost like we’ve turned the tables on the people that did that for nefarious reasons. There’s a certain amount of chaos that gets generated in each of these different departments. [For example] homeland security but you can see the order forming out of it that is much more positive. So it [the targeting] looks like this scattergram of these pockets of picking up all of these illegals, you know the rapists and terrorists and stuff like that. But if you overlay that [scattergram] with the research that I’ve done into the terror networks. The cells in the United States and the drug networking, the narco pieces, that’s a perfect overlay of where these operations are going on. And if you’re going to change the interior of the United States and transition us out of living in fear. [Out of] having easy access to narcotics and stuff like that, you would not be doing anything any differently. It looks chaotic, but it is in a very controlled way. I mean, when you’re breaking an old system, it’s going to look messy. Yes? But if the intention is to do something better, which clearly it is the case with this administration… And you look at it kind of like the Phoenix Program where you burn it down to rebuild it in to the global order. that’s not what’s happening here. We are destroying their Phoenix Program.
Obviously the whole world is looking at the president’s actions in Iran, and I I just think it’s really important for people to first of all take this administration at face value. They’re saying what they’re doing. They are saying, “This is not regime change.” Pete Hegth said, “I’ve lived in perpetual wars. This is not a perpetual war. This is a strategic strike against what has been for decades a fulcrum of intelligence operations that have been used by the globalists to keep the Middle East in flames and to have a larger trigger point in general. Now, you know what precipitated the immediate timing of this? Again, I choose to take people like Marco Rubio and Steve Whit face value. They said, “We tried to negotiate. We offered them free enriched uranium if they want to have a civilian nuclear program. They rejected it and at a certain point you just pull the trigger. Um you know the the other thing I would contrast taking the administration at face value in terms of why they’re doing what they’re doing and what they did is let’s look at the regime changers. Look at people like John Bolton. Look at Britain’s Chattam House. Look at, you know, one of the people who probably has one of the most severe cases of TDS and Apple Balm of the Atlantic. You know, all of them are hysterical that this is not their playbook. This is something else. Now, how is it going to play out? It’s a war. I don’t know. Um, can it go sideways? Sure, it could go sideways. Could it end up having a bad effect on the midterm elections if it goes sideways? Of course, it will. But the key thing about President Trump is he’s a risktaker. I think he takes the risks for the right reasons and we’re just going to have to see where this goes.
5:36 — Colonel Watkins.
I agree with everything Susan just said. What I do is look at things historically and how these entities has manifested themselves over time. The understanding that where we’ve been. I was kind of shocked when I started digging into the post 1980 financial ties of the EU to Iran. [Big grin on Susan’s Face.] , They continued. I’m talking about what we’re sold in the United States as this evil empire in Iran ran by the mulluhs. If that is true, (and they’re definitely evil,) why did the EU continue through cutouts to massively trade with them? And they did. [Susan nods] And during this entire time, if you go back and you look at the 1980 Reagan-Bush administration selling missiles to them through cutouts. You just see this perpetual engagement basically on a military/intelligence use of Iran. Iran became very convenient because basically through sanctions, you’re not allowed to affiliate with them. But on the underneath side of that, that perpetuated the CIA’s [use.]
I just posted about this this morning, Crypto AG, the encrypted communication [device] that was fielded all
over the world and was still being used by Iran with a back door for the CIA to monitor everything that they were doing.
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A quick look at Crypto AG. UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK -UK
Operation Rubicon was a covert intelligence operation conducted by the CIA and BND (West German intelligence), widely regarded as the most successful intelligence heist of the 20th century. It began in the 1950s with a secret “Gentlemen’s Agreement” between CIA cryptologist William Friedman and Crypto AG founder Boris Hagelin, and culminated in the 1970 secret purchase of the Swiss encryption company by the CIA and BND. This allowed them to manipulate Crypto AG’s cipher machines—sold to over 120 countries—to include hidden backdoors, enabling the U.S. and Germany to intercept and decrypt diplomatic, military, and intelligence communications worldwide.
The operation, code-named Thesaurus initially and later Rubicon, provided unprecedented access to global secrets for over 50 years, influencing major Cold War events such as the Camp David Accords (1978), the Iran Hostage Crisis (1979), the Berlin Discotheque bombing (1986), and the 1973 Chilean coup. The CIA described it as the “intelligence coup of the century”, with foreign governments unknowingly paying for the privilege of having their most sensitive communications read by at least two, and possibly up to six, foreign powers.
The operation ended in 2018, though revelations only emerged in 2020 through investigative reporting by ZDF, SRF, and The Washington Post, based on a 280-page intelligence dossier. Despite ethical concerns—such as the imprisonment of Crypto AG employee Hans Bühler in Iran and the compromise of allies—the operation is considered a landmark in signals intelligence (SIGINT), reshaping perceptions of Cold War espionage and highlighting the central role of Germany in global intelligence. —
William Binney, who was a code-breaking expert for the U.S. military before he joined the National Security Agency,…
WB: “So you know, this is just a mess we’re in. I mean, we have created—these intelligence agencies fundamentally are not controllable by any government in the world. Their own agencies they can’t control.”
BACK TO TRANSCRIPT
7:20 Colonel Towner:
So again, and these are my words, but it almost seems like Iran, much like the former Soviet Union, becomes this boogeyman in which all of this funding — well, if you’re not trading with them, they would have a whole lot less funds — perpetuated this radical Islamic terror. [And] after the 1990s,[it became] the new boogeyman because the Soviet Union was gone. [Thus] perpetuating the strategy of tension and perpetual chaos. Decapitating that, which is basically what we’re doing right now. I agree with Susan. You have to take President Trump at face value. He is telling you exactly what we’re doing. And he is piece by piece eliminating the chessboard of this behind-the-scenes manipulation of all of us across the world, not just the United States, not just Europe, and not just Asia, all of us collectively.
8:40 Susan Kokinda
If you go back to President Trump’s first administration and his first foreign trip which you know was kind of surprising because it was to Saudi Arabia. You know you expect our European allies or Japan or whatever. And what did he do? He went to Saudi Arabia and he laid down the law because the Saudi support for Islamic fundamentalism was real. They had much more to do with 9/11 than poor Saddam Hussein. Uh, and he went to Saudi Arabia and he said, “That’s it. It’s over. You are no longer going to support Islamic terrorism.” So, even going back that far, he was starting to take these chess pieces off the chessboard.[Colonel Towner nodding] And go back even further, of course, you know, the mother of Islamic terrorism is the Brits.The British created the Muslim Brotherhood going all the way back to 1922. [The Colonel grins,nods and says right] So these are big moves. It’s also very entrenched.
But I think the important thing, as the colonel said, is don’t look at it inside the immediate news cycle. Look at it from the standpoint that, the British Great Game always creates pawns. Whether it’s Muslim fundamentalism or something [like] Adolf Hitler who turned into a Frankenstein monster. [The Colonel grins and nods] And that doesn’t mean you don’t have Frankenstein monster situations. Out of control operations that then turn around and bite you on the butt like Hitler did.
But if you pull back the curtain on all of this and you look at what President Trump was doing deliberately, to the extent he could in his first administration. He didn’t have that much of an ability because he was under attack immediately. And he had a bunch of idiots in his administration like John Bolton. [Colonel giggles] This administration is very different. This is his team. They are executing.
I’m sure the colonel appreciates the fact that you never hear any leaks when it comes to negotiating [Colonel laughs and says NEVER] NOTHING, this is locked down tight because they are executing. They are deliberately moving step by step by step. Including working with people — you know we’ve discussed this and I’m sure you’ve discussed it, if you’ve been on shows with Tom Luongo and Alex Krainer. You look at Syria, and you sit there and say, “What is he doing working with this guy?” But then you say, “Okay, he knows these –or Erdogan,– people who have been, or [are] capabilities for the British Great Game. He’s taking those pieces away from them. Doesn’t mean they’ve reformed, but he’s taking those pieces away from them.”
11:20 Colonel Towner
And I think that’s a critical point. My assessment of Trump’s first term was basically exposing what people like to refer to as the deep state. I call it the international syndicate. Putting the people that represent them, like John Bolton and Mike Pompeo and those people, front and center. And I think that in many ways the leaks, which was a kind of a colander during his first administration. [It] was [used for] tracing those networks and where they all ended up so that he has a complete view of the playing field for this second term. I think that’s critically important.
I don’t think most people, [know our real history.] Our history is basically a total lie in the United States. As far as what our government –and by government I’m primarily focusing on the CIA, which I argue doesn’t even actually work for the president in the past. [The CIA] in the past has perpetuated all over the world these regime change operations and stuff like that. [And our ‘official’ history does not cover that -GC.]
So, I see that Trump did that in Venezuela and John Bolton and Mike Pompeo set that up in Venezuela. I think he was highlighting for the American people this exposure operation of how these people operate. And I think for the first time during Trump’s first administration, many Americans, I know certainly in my family was like, “What the heck is going on?” Because most presidents, who in the past have been part of this operation, work with the mockingbird media and they hide all of this. It was literally what has been going on since post World Warii. [Trump put it] front and center on every news cycle. And I think that was very revealing to prepare the battlefield for Trump’s second term. And to your point about him going to the Middle East, because it wasn’t just Saudi Arabia. I mean, it’s Qatar. And he signed the executive order saying that if anybody attacks Qatar, it’s like they’re [attacking us] And you see all of the neocons come out of the woodwork. Oh my gosh. Qatar’s training pilots.
At first it came out that they established a Qatari air force base in Idaho. I’m like no, no no we train pilots. I enlisted in 1979. I was in aircraft maintenance. We were training Jordanians and everybody else in my tech school so we’ve done that obviously for a very long time. So you can see it’s again an exposure operation. The neocons that are out there pretending to be MAGA are the ones that leap out with the most audacious, ridiculous assessments of everything that’s going on.
This most recent with Iran and the Atlantic [Mag] coming out saying he doesn’t know anything that he’s doing. Well, just look at the board of the Atlantic Council. It has just about every retired CIA director that is still breathing. They’re going to tell you what the talking points are from their perspective, which literally has nothing to do with reality.
14:50 Tommy:
It’s that very beautiful game being played, but it’s also a complex game. It’s not as simple as there’s the evil guy headquarters, a big castle on a hill and we just have to, you know, find our balls and go fight it. It’s by design. It’s much more intelligent. It’s an illusion of control. It’s the idea that there is no mockingbird media. What are you talking about? We don’t have state-run media. We have blah blah blah. That’s also much harder to fight against. Because openly, if you just start attacking these things, you’re going to look like the guy going against freedom.
But, you know, there is police brutality, but in the funniest way. Like a lot of body cam [footage] you see is when you know some dude that looks like me getting drunk outside of a bar and then he gets punched in the face. You’re like, he was kind of asking for it, man. I’ve been pulled over. Even if you’ve done nothing, you understand. It’s, here’s a cop with a gun on the side of a highway. You’re not exactly at a peaceful area. Go along, talk about it. And then at the end, they’re like, “Oh, yeah. You’re good to go.” in a funny way. It’s actually illuminated more than any amount of anecdotal evidence ever could.
It’s much harder to do that, but it’s how you unwind it. That’s what a lot of this was. Nothing as we just said, Colonel, is like a lot of this stuff [that] was theorized by crazy people like me that didn’t go to prom and was reading Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner instead. I actually did that. It’s a lot harder to show because you have to go through this very slow. But then you look at where we are now everything from Russian collusion to COVID to the stolen election to more and more and more it’s just one by one you’re seeing these things. It’s a very long and slow process but that’s what’s needed.
16:40 Susan Kokindra
And one of the probably most critical factor in the whole thing is none of this would have come out if it weren’t for the courage of Donald Trump. You force it into the open because you actually fight. Every other previous president either capitulated to it or got shot. You know, Ronald Reagan, it was a little bit of both. He got shot and then, increasingly he capitulated to it or really wasn’t in control, especially in his second term. But that the unique characteristic. Because I think as you said people are experiencing it. I’ve talked about it for 50 years. It was a little teeny tiny part of the population that was ready for it. Then a large part of the population goes in there, supports Donald Trump sees all the things that happened to him, sees more happen to him, see him stand up and fight, forcing more and more of this out into the open.
[I am going to add, I think the 2008 mortgage crisis was the wake-up for a lot of people. We had the Tea Party, that the Elite tried to shut down by calling them racist and by starting up the AstroTurf group called ‘Occupy Wall Street’ It did not matter the Bank Bailouts using OUR MONEY was the shock that woke a lot of people up. — GC]
I think Trump is very conscious of that. I think he recognizes the role of populations as a strategic factor. He can do more when he’s got a population backing him. And that’s why all this disinformation crap, inside the MAGA movement is frankly one of the most dangerous things. It’s not the batshit crazy Democrats. They’re a given factor, right? But you know it’s the Tucker Carlsons and the MTGs [and] whatever is motivating them. The effect that it has is, if he can rely less on his base, that is an actual strategic factor.
But you look at it globally, a lot of people say, well Marco Rubio was much more conciliatory toward the Europeans. I frankly I don’t think he was conciliatory. But compared to JD Vance the tone was much less [harsh.] I think what Marco Rubio was doing, and this is I think the way the president functions, he wasn’t talking to the European leaders. He wasn’t talking to Kier Starmer or Macron. He was talking to the people. He was basically saying we need Europe to return to its traditions. You are a factor. Maybe you could change the direction of your country. I think Trump, the president and his administration are always, you know, thinking in those terms. I mean, even in terms of Israel, you know, at one point Trump said, “I’m more popular in Israel than Bibi Netanyahu.” And I’m sure that’s true. And he needs to become even more popular to be able to deal with that situation. But, you know, he I think he takes that into account.
19:20 Colonel Towner
So, I think the the first sign that everything had changed. That we weren’t any longer rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic was Trump’s fake news campaign.[laughter] Because that started instantly. It was my signal that everything had changed. He took on the mocking bird media.
19:45 Tommy:
That’s the most important control mechanism.
19:55 Colonel Towner:
It is. I was shocked and I knew everything had changed the day I heard him call out fake news. If you go back in time back to post World War II with the psychological strategy board, this has always been an operation to control our minds. And as soon as he pulled up that battle flag with the fake news, I was just enthralled that finally we have someone that’s going to take on this entire institution and dismantle it. I think that was critical.. because everything is downstream from that. It’s almost impossible prior to President Trump and the fake news campaign to find real news. Obviously Elon buying X has kicked that into high gear. But that was just like a fundamental shift of the axis for all of us to operate under. It allows people like Susan to have much more exposure in talking about reality as opposed to what is being shoved down our throats through the mockingbird media.
21:25 Susan Kokinda
It’s absolutely the case. I’ll just reflect on my own experience.
For 40 years, you feel like a voice in the wilderness, right? Donald Trump comes along and basically breaks the matrix, and then what you see, and we all see this in terms of the kinds of responses that we get, in the various venues and forums that we’re on, people are so hungry to put the pieces together. It’s like they knew it. They knew something. One of the most visceral responses I got was the show I did in response to Marco Rubio’s Munich speech where I picked up on the fact that he said de-industrialization was a conscious policy. It wasn’t a mistake. My mind went back. [To the] Council on Foreign Relations 1977, [who said] the control disintegration of the world economy is a legitimate objective so we can destroy sovereign nations. And when I did that show, the comments that I got were where you could just see people were saying, you know, that’s what I thought. I knew it, but you’ve now given voice to the fact that the horror that I’ve lived through, this process of disintegration of the United States and other countries was not random. And and that’s one of the key, tools of the elites. They want people to feel helpless. It’s a random world. Shit happens.
It certainly was for my generation. That’s what they tried to do with us with the two Kennedy assassinations. You’re sitting there, 14 years old, the president gets killed [by a] crazy lone assassin. The world is supposed to go on. I was campaigning for Bobby Kennedy senior in ’68 in California when he was shot. And again they try and shove it down your throat and you have no place to validate the fact that YOU KNOW these were conspiracies.
I had a friend who was eight at the time JFK was shot. He said to me, the minute I saw Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald I knew it was a conspiracy. I was 8 years old, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist but you couldn’t do anything about it. Nobody would validate it. You got the you’re crazy treatment like Mark Lane who tried to expose the Kennedy assassination. So you just sort of spiral into this hopelessness.
This is what they certainly did to my generation. Because what comes in on the heels of that? [Vietnam –GC] the rock-drug-sex counterculture. Forget about being a productive person. Thinking about the future. Thinking about raising a family. Just turn on, drop out, get stoned and get screwed. I mean that’s basically what they told us. And unless you have some some way to begin to put the picture together, and it’s very hard to do as an individual. I’d say maybe 5% of the American population kind of hung on through those years. And then Donald Trump comes along and the lid blows off and people are saying, “Thank God, I wasn’t crazy. This was this was deliberate.” And now that it’s knowable, we can do something about it.
25:00 Tommy:
The courage point is the most important point. Like I’ve seen just through this podcast, the podcast’s a little over six years old. Right into the immediate baptism by fire. I was interviewing Dr. Malone and Dr. Mercola. I was banned from YouTube for them before they ever even went on Joe Rogan. And it was just, I knew it was wrong and getting on these doctors and I was going up the chain of command like maybe this doctor thinks. The higher and higher I went the worse and worse the red alarms were getting and I was like wait I thought eventually one of them was going to be like it’s not that. The higher and higher until I got the guy with the patent and he was this is evil and I was well shit and like doing that and I knew it was wrong and again it’s the courage. They had a lot more to lose than me. It’s the courage and as it comes out more now we look at it as just fact.
You do have to look back at. The guys that they were at the beginning, it’s like in chemistry lab. It’s called the point of nucleation it’s where you put in a little piece of metal or plastic. It’s like putting a piece of ice in a cold cup of water and then it all forms off of that. In the same way now you have to put yourself back in 2020 and be thinking of how insane the PSYOPs were. But if you know what you know now and you’re like hey the sooner everyone starts to talk about it, all the people just under the surface, they’re going to nucleate to that, and then it becomes self-evident.
You have to understand that’s where we are now with whatever the next thing is. So if you feel it’s wrong, understand that most people around you probably also feel it’s wrong, but they all think they’re alone, just as you think you’re alone. So you have to be courageous and say something. The quicker [you do, the quicker] I believe the veil will come off. And Back to the whole media, what you were saying Colonel Watkins is how do you make people feel lonely? Well, if you control the messaging of everything and the media goes 99% of people think Donald Trump’s retarded. If you’re going, I kind of like him. You’re like, I guess I’ll shut up. I don’t want to be, you know, I don’t want to be that guy. I don’t want to be uninvited to the party.
27:00 Colonel Towner
Definitely on purpose. So, back to Susan’s point about the 60s again. The psychological operations, all of it was planned. Just like what she was saying about the deindustrialization, all of it is planned. And my light bulb moment in all of this was going back and reading the Fabian Society’s agenda. And you find out as early as the late 1800s, they’re talking about one world government. I was shocked by that. I’d never even heard of the Fabian Society, but they talked about eugenics. they talked about, basically controlling the population and controlling people’s reproduction. And then you go back and you realize that there were test cases, if you will. They were being done throughout the early 1900s in the United States. Like with the indigenous population in America, where we were taking women and children off of Indian reservations and educating them basically in boarding schools to make them not indigenous, to make them more mainstream. So the was a conscious decision to break down cultural heritages across the globe. This has been done throughout the entire century of the 1900s where we’ve divided, by the drawing of the boundaries after World War I and World War II. You cross sectionalized and grouped cultures that were basically century old enemies of each other because then you can create chaos. All you have to do is throw a match on the kindling anytime you want a war. Anytime you want to create a false flag to get more money into the military-industrial complex.
Once you understand that so much of all of this was planned in order to bring about this one world control mechanism, it’s shocking especially for someone like me who grew up in that system um and didn’t know any of this existed. And that’s kind of one of the things we’re talking about, people’s input. I have been met when we go country by country and dissect CIA operations during a regime change operation. [Alpha’s Gladio Series -GC] I have had so many people that lived in that country either during it or in the immediate aftermath of it or whatever that will go that’s not how that happened. I had some one lady on a Zoom call tell me that, you know, she knew all of these people in Iran during the Mosaddegh overthrow and that there was no such thing as stay-behinds in the southern part of Iran.
It’s documented. It’s declassified in CIA documents. They did do that.
There were military people in there training those people. They created the foot soldiers in order to get them out on the streets later on. I said, “Look, I understand that you didn’t know about this aspect of this operation. I spent 30 years in the military and had no idea most of any of this went on. I lived in Italy for three years during the exposure of Operation Gladio. I didn’t know it was even called Operation Gladio because they called it “Years of Lead.” And where I lived in the southern part, that’s what it was referred to. But when I found Paul Williams book about Operation Gladio, I’m like, “Oh my god, I’ve lived through the exposure of that and I didn’t know.” So you can live in a country, you can be in an institution and not know what is going on around you. People need to understand that.
31:00 Susan Kokinda
I think one of one of the things that people don’t actually realize is the kind of control. It what really goes to the point that you’re making. You’re living through it and you don’t see it. Why? Because you think what they’re doing is normal. That is, you’ve accepted their set of axioms. You want to go back to the Fabian society. Go back to the assault on our culture at the beginning of the 20th century which has obviously continued and accelerated. What you see is that they want to get inside people’s minds in the sense that, rather than looking at the world as human beings naturally do, as creative human beings. You can see it with a child. You can see it with a child playing with blocks. What is that child actually doing when he plays with blocks? He’s actually figuring out how the world works. You stack them up one way and they stay and you stack them up another way, they’re going to fall over. This is the child actually experimenting with the way the world works. And that’s how the human mind should work. It is natural. We’re in a world that God created. It’s a creative world. He gave us creativity so that we could understand it and live in it and prove it and make it better and so on.
What is it that the imperialists do? What is it that the empire does? And this goes back thousands of years. You can start with Aristotle, my least favorite philosopher. Who basically says, “No, no, you’re not a creative mind. You’re just your senses. You’re no different than your pet dog. We’re going to bombard your senses. We’re going to manipulate your senses. We’re going to immerse your senses. And if they can reduce people to just responding from the standpoint of their senses, then they don’t have to put you in chains, because they’ve got you. So you can be in the middle of something like Operation Gladio or the overthrow [of your government] or frankly all those poor deranged people still in the United States who don’t see that there was a coup carried out against the president of the United States. Why? Because they’re in the mindset which has been created by these people and this looks normal and natural to them. They don’t even understand how much they are controlled. That’s why they’re always afraid of somebody like Donald Trump. [who is] outside the box, right? Completely creative, completely a risktaker, they could not profile this man, no matter what. It’s sort of the little boy who stands up and says the emperor has no clothes. You know all of a sudden everybody says oh yeah I knew that.
34:00 Tommy
What’s more outside of the system than anything? A higher power. God the creator. That knows there is good and evil. That’s far above the president, that’s far above the CIA. And when you do, that also gives you the courage to go “Maybe they’re wrong. Maybe the people telling me that we’re just these stupid humans. We’re inefficient and we got to get in the pot and eat ze bug.” and you got to euthanize them. And you start to believe it if your higher power is the state.
But if you look beyond that it’s a form of wonder. And wonder really means is you’ve a potential for more ways to put the blocks together. That you can step outside of it. What you’re saying is they can not create. That’s why all the sequels. You know what is making Helen of Helen of Troy a black woman? It’s like this is all just you’re taking something, you’re putting something on it. You’re a DJ doing a remix, but you’re not making the original music. I truly believe that evil cannot create. It can control and pervert and it can shave stuff off, but it can never just make something. I think that’s the endowment of the creator. It really is. It’s you spoiler. It all comes down to good versus evil. But I think that’s what this is. You can control, you can label, you can this, you can label that. You don’t need a trillion dollars in algorithms. What you can do is just make I don’t know a platform and go, “Yeah, maybe the best thing would just rise to the top.” And it does.
That is the Transcript to 35 minutes.
Some important points from the rest of the video.
1. If you had to do a 100 year or 200 year march through the institutions, then by definition you’re doing something that you know the vast majority of people hate.
2. As you rise higher in military or business, you are developed to be risk-adverse conformists.
3. If you have someone at the top of an organization or department within an organization who is an outside the box thinker, you can see rapidly changes. This time around POTUS has pick those sorts of outside the box thinkers and we can already see the changes in the military. The Colonel said “I still have several friends that are on active duty. They’re feeling that real change in their lives.”
4. Susan Kokindra points out you have the outside insiders, like Scott Scott Bessant.
41:45 Susan Kokinda
Here’s somebody who comes from the inside, worked with George Soros, helped bring down the British pound. These are fairly sophisticated, insider operations, but that’s not where his identity is. He grew up as a middle class kid from South Carolina. The mission of the US Treasury is now completely different than it was a year ago. The previous mission was to bail out the too big to fail banks. That is no longer the mission of the Treasury. It is the real economy and household incomes.
44:10 — Colonel Towner
This is one of the things that I think people in general fail to grasp. If I’m on a battlefield, one of the key things that you try to do is co-opt one of the insiders on the other side for intelligence purposes. So, if you look at President Trump’s career, one of the things that made him the most lethal to the opposing party was his insider information. He grew up in that system. He grew up in the Hollywood system which is totally corrupt to include intelligence ties. He grew up in the New York mafia infested construction business. He was in the South Florida totally mafia driven real estate. His purchase of the resort international which was a CIA front. um his um exposure to the casino industry, again, intelligence, CIA ties… That’s what he brings to the table. He knows how they operate. He can be 10 steps down the road with that intelligence background that no one else has. I look at Scott Bessent the same way.
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And another tidbit.
The rating agency that feeds the info to the actuary used by LLoyds of London is just across the Thames from MI6.
from 1 hr 15 min at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfSYtgkQh4E
What is even more interesting is, since 9-11 my ponies have been insured thru Lloyds since we could get no other insurance. Over 30 years and no claim. HOWEVER last spring they REFUSED TO INSURE!!!
Sure makes you wonder what advanced info the SOBs had. Terrorist attacks maybe?
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This IS VERY MESSY! I was going to include Colombian President Gustavo Petro because he shares the drug trafficking problem with Maduro However this article got way too long. So I will save him until next week. I am starting with a video by Gordon aka Ghost (GhostofBasedPatrickHenry) since it gives a look at the background. It is long 1 ½ hours but the 15 minutes from 19:45 to around 32 minutes gives a decent summary.
The Book of Trump Chapter 42: Hugo Chavez Pt. 2
THE HIGH POINTS:
19:45 — Ghost mentions Fake news Bloomberg, can’t keep its lies straight and later shows what he means.
21:30 — Sec of State Rex Tillerson as CEO of Exon starts the anti Chavez & Madero lies (2006), Exon Mobil Current president gets tossed by Trump.
23:00 — Ghost says he fell out of the chair. He found a Business Insider article describing how Exon went into arbitration and LOST getting a much lower award, in line with what Venezuela originally offered.
24:30 — Chavez negotiates successful buyouts with 22 oil companies. They get paid for assets nationalized when they refused to renegotiate the contracts. Chevron stays & gets new deal.
Exon then pulls the dirty using English Guyana by drilling off shore in waters considered to belong to Venezuela but claimed by Guyana too. on Nov 23, 2023 Paramilitary move into Venezuela from Guyana possible connected to Israel – Gaza mess. The whole goes back to Tillerson and when he was CEO of Exon.
Prior to that in June there was a court ruling against Exon dealing with Chevron buying out Hess. Exon had an option to buy rights to oil in Orinoco Belt but the entire company is sold not just that contract.
Trump gives Chevron special exemption from sanctions.
32:31 – Ghost starts picking apart a recent Bloomberg’s video & explains what actually happened.
PDVSA was formed in 1976 when Venezuela nationalized it’s oil. It negotiated concession agreements like those used for renting out farmland. Most of the contracts were written for 1% the largest was a 16% royalty. Also included is an additional amount based on net profit. However the companies cheated by creating subsidiaries which were paid mucho $$$ for services so the ending net profits were very low.
34:45 — Ghost goes into the differences between the Saudi model & the Venezuelan model.
1:28:00 — The law firm Sullivan & Cromwell (more about them later) devised the Holding Company. It allows monopolies and vertical integration to become a legal form of corporation. He then goes into the following information:
Nicolás Maduro and Juan Guaidó became rival claimants to the Venezuelan presidency following the 2018 presidential election, which the opposition and many international observers deemed illegitimate.Trump had originally supported Guaidó. “U.S. law firm Sullivan & Cromwell LLP will be the lead counsel for Venezuela’s opposition as it seeks to restructure the country’s foreign debt,opposition leader Juan Guaido’s overseas legal representative said on Tuesday”REUTERS LINK
Please note Guaidó was not the actually president and therefore had no authority.
With that as a background, let’s start with this tweet & video from Mike Benz. It agrees with Colonel Towner’s information about color revolutions in Latin America. They are fomented by the CIA on behalf of the big corporations.
Allen Dulles and his older brother John Foster Dulles both worked for the Wall Street law firm Sullivan & Cromwell. In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson appointed John Foster Dulles, a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell, as legal counsel to the United States delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference where he served under his uncle, Secretary of State Robert Lansing (WIKI) This would be WWI and the treaty whose terms were so harsh it set Europe up for WWII and Hitler.
Domestic and international finance has been at the core of the Firm’s work since its inception. Before World War I, S&C represented European bankers and bond syndicates in financing the development of America’s railroads and industrial infrastructure. William Cromwell himself proved instrumental in paving the way toward the construction of the Panama Canal.
Heading into the 20th century, as international capital flows diversified and increased, the Firm responded by opening branch offices in Berlin and Buenos Aires…
And finally fromBRAVE AISullivan & Cromwell’s current business.
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP has been involved in multiple high-profile legal matters related to ExxonMobil’s claims against Venezuela, particularly in the context of sovereign litigation and arbitration enforcement.
The firm has represented ExxonMobil affiliates in a long-running ICSID arbitration case concerning the nationalization of oil assets by Venezuela under Hugo Chávez and later Nicolás Maduro.
In October 2025, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled in favor of ExxonMobil affiliates, awarding $985.5 million plus interest and legal fees, after Venezuela failed to appear in enforcement proceedings.
Sullivan & Cromwell is also working with ExxonMobil on Supreme Court proceedings related to the enforcement of the ICSID award, including a petition filed in December 2024 (No. 24-699).
The firm previously served as lead counsel for Venezuela’s opposition (under Juan Guaidó) in 2019 in efforts to restructure the country’s foreign debt, highlighting its deep involvement in Venezuela’s political and financial legal landscape.
These engagements underscore Sullivan & Cromwell’s central role in resolving complex international disputes involving Venezuela’s oil sector and foreign investment claims.
Followed by a couple interesting moves by POTUS Trump.
…The funds were sent to Qatar, rather than being held in US banks or sent directly to Venezuela… Venezuelan banks have started advertising cash, suggesting the oil proceeds have arrived in the country… Venezuela has been sanctioned by Western governments across the globe, essentially cut off from the global banking system for years. Its authoritarian government seized oil assets over the past decades for which foreign energy companies have demanded compensation…
“…Its authoritarian government seized oil assets over the past decades for which foreign energy companies have demanded compensation…”
Fear all ye men who sail the Caribbean!
So why do I bring all this up? Because we know we will not get the true story from the Mockingbird Media. So how true is that highlighted sentence? Is it ALL energy companies or just ExonMobil. Are those two moves by POTUS Trump AGAINST Exon for a reason?
And most important, is Maduro a prisoner or is he a protected witness?
Ghost and others dig up information NOT covered in Mainstream Media reports. Ghost is the first to acknowledge he has no way of determining if his conclusions are correct, however the information is certainly interesting. That is why I am bringing it here.
Oil facilities at Venezuela’s western Maracaibo lake November 5, 2007.
I am going to use Badlands News Briefs and Some of Ghost’s videos as well as MSM clips. The briefs have the advantage of having clips of the actual documents Ghost uses. Click on his name to go to each different article.
Let me start by saying that I have long believed that we would see the extraction and “arrest” of President Maduro by the US military. Here I am on October 7th predicting as much, right down to Maduro willfully surrendering.
So nothing about this development is a total surprise, nor does it contradict any of my speculation that Nicolas Maduro is working in cooperation with President Trump. In fact, when I read that Maduro’s wife was also “arrested” (extracted) by US Special Forces and indicted as a narco-terrorist, it all but affirmed the theory that we are witnessing a cooperating witness/informant being brought into protective custody — not the toppling of a foreign ruthless dictator…
First off, the CIA apparently leaked the details of the operation to the New York Times and Washington Post so they could have the articles written and ready for publication.
WTF???
There was then widespread speculation about who would be taking over as leader, until President Trump clarified that President Maduro had appointed Vice President Delcy Rodriguez as Acting President, and Trump said he would be honoring the appointment. (Because that’s what one does when arresting a ruthless narco-terrorist dictator.)…
I do think that this was a negotiated surrender between Maduro and Trump, not because Maduro is some ruthless dictator, but because Maduro is actually a cooperating witness who needs to be protected. I also think that Trump’s claims of the oil companies paying to rebuild the infrastructure of Venezuela could be reparations that are legitimately owed related to the lawsuits that were filed back in 2018 against dozens of the world’s most powerful oil executives, accusing them all of corruption and stealing Venezuela’s wealth. The lawsuit was filed by the Venezuelan oil company, PDVSA.
Obviously, this story still has plenty of plot lines to develop.
For those that may be new here, or otherwise unfamiliar with my research on both Nicolas Maduro and Colombian President Gustavo Petro, here is a 10 minute clip that provides a decent summary.
[It is a clip of Colonel Douglas Macgregor on Tucker talking about the idiocy of regime change, how unsuitable Maria Corina Machado would be given the 8,000 columbian drug criminals in the hills around Caracus.]
…Then there is this little factoid: Eric Prince of Blackwater went to Venezuela and met with Delcy Rodriguez six years ago. Many analysts are [wrongly] pointing to this as the moment that Rodriguez betrayed Maduro…
What if the Maduro “arrest” subverted the civil war plot?[To install regime darling Maria Corina Machado.Note that she visited Trump and got the side door treatment. 😂 -GC]
A SIDE TRIP INTO MARIA CORINA MACHADO
Maria Corina Machadowas a 2009 Yale World Fellow, a prestigious program at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs that brings emerging global leaders to Yale for a four-month residency. During her time at Yale, she studied at the School of Management and engaged in cross-cultural dialogue with other international leaders, including Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny. — Brave AI
I even joked that Trump’s reaction was basically, “Yeah, we’ll probably leave the side door open for her, or something… And then the Mad Man actually did it. He forced Maria Corina Machado to enter the White House grounds through the guard gate like all the other tourists. Nobody came outside to meet her…. Even when Maria Corina Machado was departing, nobody could be bothered to see her out to her vehicle. They just ushered her out of the door and slammed it behind her.
Following Maduro’s removal, a group of U.S. lawmakers reportedly expressed support for Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado as a potential future leader of the country. Members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee are said to have unanimously endorsed Machado after a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill, praising her long opposition to Maduro’s government and calling for free and fair elections. The lawmakers’ backing comes despite Trump previously dismissing her prospects as Venezuela’s leader and reflects a degree of congressional support for the opposition figure’s role in shaping the country’s post-Maduro political landscape. (rt.com) —
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Now Trump is promising to turn his crosshairs on Colombian President Gustavo Petro— whom I have demonstrated in the video above is at the tip of the spear of the war against the cartels. Yet Trump insists that Petro is a cartel drug lord, just like he accused Maduro of being.
…It is also worth noting that Petro held a rally after Maduro’s arrest, where he said that “a clan of pedophiles”— specifically, “friends of Epstein”— were attempting to take over Colombia and Venezuela and must be stopped. — Ghost
…The plan had been negotiated through the Qataris, with Special Presidential Envoy for Special Missions Ric Grenell acting as intermediary, and approved by President Trump.
The Miami Herald reported on this rumor back in October.
Nicolás Maduro Guerra, spoke at a rally over the weekend and affirmed… they were following the directions left by his father.
…I have since stumbled onto new information that I think further validates the move, and it has to do with Scott Bessent’s announcement to imminently lift the sanctions President Trump imposed on Venezuela during his first term, so that oil sales could begin resume, as normal.
As I have detailed in this news brief and on stream countless times, President Maduro was given a laptop in March 2017. Maduro lawyer, David Boies, said: “In terms of the quality of the evidence, the extent of the misconduct, the amount of money, this was right at the top of anything I’ve seen in my career. It really demonstrated a long-running, massive and very sophisticated conspiracy.”
One year after Maduro was given the laptop (by the scorned wife of one of his corrupt officials), Boies filed civil lawsuits in the District of Southern Florida against 42 oil industry executives. He also filed those lawsuits in Geneva, Switzerland, where the companies involved all had offices. The Swiss authorities immediately raided the office of Helsinge, seizing computer servers that would launch a number of additional investigations, leading to countless arrests of industry officials in subsequent years.
Three months after the raid on the Helsinge office in Geneva, the Helsinge office in Miami was raided, and German-national Matthias Krull was arrested and charged with laundering $1.2 billion that had been stolen from PDVSA. A month later (August 2018) Krull pled guilty, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, though the judge advised that if Krull fully cooperated with authorities, he could have his sentence reduced.
Krull complied, and thus began “Operation Money Flight,” spearheaded by the Southern District of Florida’s International Narcotics and Money Laundering Section in cooperation with law enforcement in London, Rome, Madrid, and Malta, with the mission “to identify, investigate and prosecute high-level members of drug trafficking enterprises, bringing together the combined expertise and unique abilities of federal, state and local law enforcement.”
Simply put, this was the operation that would connect the white collar cartel (oil/energy/minerals) to the traditional cartel that trafficked drugs, guns, and humans, and Matthias Krull was the key to unlocking the case.
Krull, who was responsible for laundering the money that was being stolen from the Venezuelan government by the cartel, mapped out the financial network for authorities, demonstrating how the embezzled funds moved from Venezuela to the US and Europe. He helped secure plea deals from two other defendants, and the information led to Swiss regulators sanctioning the Swiss bank Julius Baer. For his cooperation, Matthias had his ten year sentence reduced to three and a half years, which is the largest sentence reduction ever granted by a US federal judge.
Krull’s information provided the road map for sanctions imposed on Venezuela by President Trump, which were strategically crafted and issued in a layered sequence that allowed for asset forfeiture and to ultimately crush the corruption ecosystem.
But the sanctions did something else that I had not fully appreciated before now.
I have previously relayed that because of Executive Order 13850 that President Trump issued in November 2018, which targeted entities doing busy with PDVSA by freezing bank wires and Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), the defense attorneys for the 42 oil officials were able to convince the judge that proceeding with discovery would violate national security. The judge agreed, and dismissed the lawsuits filed in Southern Florida.
What I didn’t realize was that what this meant wasn’t that the case was over. What it meant was that the case was paused, due to the sanctions, and would resume as soon as the sanctions were lifted. Meaning that discovery to pursue that evidence will still be viable.
Not only that, but as soon as Scott Bessent lifts those sanctions, and the [now lawful] bank wire transfers proceed from PDVSA operations, the regulators who monitor those transfers will quickly begin to notice discrepancies between how the money is flowing now versus how it was flowing prior to the sanctions, triggering new SARs that will likely lead to new investigations.
When the information from the discovery from PDVSA’s 2018 lawsuit is coupled with the information that was seized in the Helsinge raids, not to mention any new intel that is generated from newly filed SARs, that is going to create a massive web of conspiracy that will surely implicate a number of individuals and corporations.
I plugged the lawsuit filings into ChatGPT (which provides a list of alleged embezzlers) and asked it to run scenarios of how this could play out. It speculated that a single banker cooperating could lead to multiple companies being exposed. It speculated that, given the information already publicly available, that the private banks involved (Julius Baer Group, EFG International, Credit Suisse) were almost certain to cooperate first, along with the compliance officers and internal auditors. It then ran through the whole list of defendants, gauging their likelihood to cooperate in exchange for reduced time.
While many of the senior executives will likely avoid prison time (though plenty have already been prosecuted), given the countless loopholes and insulation from the criminality, in these situations the real goal is the asset seizure. However, what makes this case unique is the fact that certain PDVSA officials do have ties to the traditional cartels, and those entities have been designated terrorist organizations by the Trump administration. So things could get very interesting very quickly, if this plays out the way that it should.
So to answer Jon Herold’s question, “Why did Maduro have to initiate COG and remove himself from power?”
So that the optics would allow Scott Bessent to lift the sanctions against PDVSA, and open up the floodgates for discovery via lawfare, which should ultimately link banks and oil companies to the cartel.
…the renowned Swiss private bank with origins dating back to 1890…
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If we are talking CIA and Drug trafficking you can not leave out the BANKS needed to launder the money.
Last week we had a story break about the Swiss bank, Credit Suisse, about old Nazi bank accounts and may others related to human trafficking and drug trafficking.
Now we have a story about UBS, which was forced to purchase Credit Suisse in 2023 by the Swiss government, when it became clear that Credit Suisse was facing insolvency.
Nothing about any of this feels organic.
We also had Colombian President Gustavo Petro, in his press conference (entirely in Spanish) following his meeting with President Trump, where Petro said that he had talked to Trump specifically about joining forces to go after all of the bankers who were the “bosses of bosses” in charge of the cartels.
An excerpt from his remarks: PS – I managed to get the transcript of his statements and translate them into English, and read through the remarks during my show on Friday.
U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced that an independent investigation uncovered 890 previously undisclosed accounts at Credit Suisse with potential links to the Nazi regime during World War II….
The probe, conducted by U.S. lawyer Neil Barofsky, also found that Credit Suisse expropriated funds from accounts belonging to Jewish individuals during the Nazi era and transferred them to Nazi clients.
Additional details emerged regarding the bank’s involvement in schemes to assist Nazis in fleeing to Argentina after the war… Barofsky had initially investigated Credit Suisse as an independent entity, but was fired after the bank allegedly obstructed his efforts.
Following UBS’s government-brokered acquisition of Credit Suisse in 2023, UBS rehired Barofsky to continue the voluntary review.
This is where things get very spicy, and very interesting. It’s also where the narrative “cloud of war” seems to benefit a White Hat plan.
Allow me to explain.
This Congressional investigation into Credit Suisse was initiated by Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse.
You may recall that Whitehouse was the insufferable prick who viciously excoriated all of President Trump’s Cabinet nominations last year.
The reason Whitehouse opened the investigation was to determine whether Credit Suisse had helped Nazi SS officers flee Germany and escape to Argentina by providing them banking services with extreme discretion. Whitehouse was first put up to this task in March 2020 by the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC), a Jewish human rights organization named for a famous Nazi hunter.
In 2021, Credit Suisse hired former US prosecutor Neil Barofsky to act as an independent ombudsman to conduct an internal investigation into the bank’s Nazi-era accounts. A year into his investigation, the bank pressured Barofsky into limiting the scope of his inquiry, ultimately firing him in December 2022— just months before Credit Suisse would face insolvency and be forced by the Swiss government to be acquired by their competitor, UBS Bank.
By this time, Whitehouse and the co-chair on this committee, Chuck Grassely had heard that Credit Suisse had likely fired Barofsky in an attempt to conceal the depth of the scandal, they intervened, demanding that Barofsky be reinstated— which he was, by UBS Bank, after the acquisition was completed in 2023.
I will remind you that Credit Suisse’s insolvency was most likely triggered by massive asset forfeiture that was conducted by the DOJ’s Operation Money Flight, which had arrested investment banker Mathias Krull in July 2018, after determining that Krull had laundered $1.2 billion worth of funds embezzled from Venezuela’s oil company PDVSA. While investigations into PDVSA’s stolen funds had been underway for years prior to Nicolas Maduro filing his infamous [though relatively unknown] RICO lawsuit against the oil industry in March 2018, the trove of evidence provided by Maduro created a map that led to multiple raids in both the US and Europe— including Mathias Krull.
If the name Neil Barofsky sounds familiar, that’s because he was the Special Inspector Generalat the heart of the 2008 financial crisis, appointed to investigate the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP,) but also the [$55 trillion credit default swap] Mortgage Fraud investigation in the Southern District of New York.
It was Barofsky who testified in a Senate hearing that, “It is extremely unlikely that the taxpayer will see a full return on its TARP investment,” referring to the $3 trillion bank bailout.
Prior to these gigs, Barofsky worked as an assistant US district attorney in New York, where he “prosecuted 50 leaders of the Colombian militia group FARC on narcotics charges and successfully argued one of the largest accounting fraud cases in history.”
Simply put, Barofsky understands the corruption of the banking and financial systems as well as anybody, and also has the unique experience of prosecuting Colombian cartel members on narcotics charges.
I share all of this to demonstrate that in this fog of war, we see multiple lines of inquiry coinciding in strange and wonderful ways, with Nicolas Maduro’s 2018 RICO civil action lawsuit running right into a congressional inquiry that was started by a Jewish human rights organization, with both investigations ultimately setting their sights on the Swiss banking system—specifically, Credit Suisse—the irony being that Maduro is the most staunch and vocal anti-Israel world leader of the Trump era, which is why the Zionists have been so eager to see him overthrown.
Digging into articles from the past few years, I found one from Argentina that specifically cites Credit Suisse and PDVSA, while alluding to Credit Suisse’s history with the Nazis going back to the 1940s.
It even discloses that Credit Suisse has over 18,000 accounts owned by both white collar criminals and hardened cartel bosses that total over $100 billion in assets.
Citing criminal investigations— not the Maduro lawsuit—the article states that the PDVSA-related accounts at Credit Suisse, which were used to hide the money that was embezzled and laundered from PDVSA, were all opened between 2004 and 2015. That’s interesting because that is theexactcorruption timeline that is cited in the Maduro lawsuit— though the lawsuit did not mention Credit Suisse or any other banking institution.
So would this explain why the Venezuelan economy was completely gutted an collapsing by the time Nicolas Maduro comes into office in 2013, compounded by the artificially crashing of oil prices by the Deep State in 2014, which brought Venezuela’s economy to a grinding halt?
The articlenames former PDVSA official Nervis Villalobos, who was arrested in Spain in 2018.
In a separate articlethat I found that was published around the same time (2022) by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, look who shows up and gives insight on Villalobos:
That’s our guy, Mathias Krull, who became a cooperating witness for the DOJ in exchange for clemency on his 10 year prison sentence.
The point is that the global banking system is being exposed—through multiple different tracks—for the fact that it is the actual cartel.
I recently learned that the Venezuelan opposition, operating out of the United States and led by Juan Guaido, among others, retained the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell back in 2019 to prepare to restructure the $60 billion in debt that Venezuela had
For those who aren’t familiar with this firm, I would implore you to look into them—listen to any of the many podcasts we have done on the subject here at Badlands—but the short version is that they were the CIA before there was a CIA. (Both of the Dulles brothers maintained employment there throughout most of their lives.)
It’s clear that when President Trump signed his recent Executive Order that intends to protect Venezuela’s oil profits from creditors and other vultures, Sullivan and Cromwell was at least one of the “targets” of the EO.
I would also recommend that you take a listen to last night’s episode of The Book of Trump—Hugo Chavez, Part Two—where I explain that it was ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson who started the Deep State’s crusade against Venezuela in 2007, ten years before he would become President Trump’s first Secretary of State.
Tillerson flexed on Maduro during Trump’s first year, leaning on Steve Mnuchin to issue sanctions against him. President Trump then fired Tillerson in March 2018—the exact same month that Maduro’s famous lawyer, David Boies, filed those infamous lawsuits against 42 entities related to a RICO-styled corruption case.
Boies filed in both the District of Southern Florida and in Geneva, Switzerland. Within days of this filing, the Swiss authorities raided the office of the lawsuit’s primary defendant, Helsinge. Four months later, Trump’s DOJ raided the Helsinge office in Miami, arresting banker Mathias Krull and charging him with laundering over $1.2 billion for not just the oil companies and banks, but also for the cartel. Meaning Krull is the keystone, along with Executive Order 13850.
So in spite of Delcy Rodríguez’s theatrics, all of the evidence suggests that she and Maduro are working with Trump against the Deep State/CIA, MI6, and Israel/Mossad.
Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, publicly said she has had “enough orders from Washington” and called for Venezuela’s internal conflicts to be resolved by Venezuelan politics without foreign interference in her first public address since Maduro was removed from power.
“Enough orders from Washington on politicians in Venezuela. Let Venezuelan politics resolve our differences and internal conflicts. Enough of foreign powers,” Rodríguez said, according to AFP…
The CIA Is Moving Back to Venezuela (If They Ever Left)
said the Trump administration is prepared to use force to secure cooperation from Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, while signaling that the United States expects compliance through political and economic leverage before taking further action.
As part of the agreement, India committed to halting purchases of Russian crude oil and shifting imports toward US suppliers and Venezuelan crude. Trump also stated that India agreed to reduce tariffs and non-tariff barriers on US products, describing the goal as moving toward zero, resolving the 2025 US–India trade dispute tied to Russian energy imports.
In parallel, Trump said the United States welcomes Chinese and Indian investment in Venezuela’s oil sector, making the remarks to reporters aboard Air Force One around January 31–February 1. He stated that China “is welcome” to make deals in Venezuela, and that India is “coming in” to buy Venezuelan oil. Venezuela holds the world’s largest proven oil reserves, but production has been constrained for years by sanctions and political instability; Trump characterized the current approach as allowing third-country investment and purchases as part of broader energy realignment.
Trump administration officials held months-long discussions with Venezuela’s hardline interior minister Diosdado Cabello before the U.S. operation that led to the seizure of President Nicolás Maduro, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.
The communications, which continued after the 3 January U.S. raid, were aimed at preventing instability inside Venezuela, the sources said. U.S. officials warned Cabello against using the security forces and ruling-party militants under his control to target opposition figures…
There is a clear continuity of the Maduro plotline between the first and second Trump administrations, with Ric Grennel meeting Jorge Rodriguez— the brother to now acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez— in Mexico City in late 2020. That story was even reported at the time as Grennel trying to secretly negotiate an exit for Maduro, though I am unconvinced that was the real intent.
Ric Grennel then reunited with Jorge Rodriguez in January of last year, after President Trump was sworn in, when Grennel went to Caracas to meet Maduro and bring home six Americans who had been imprisoned. We now have this story about Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello being warned about using private security forces against political opposition. What’s interesting is that Erik Prince appeared on Steve Bannon’s show last week to explain why it was important that the US not repeat the same mistakes we made in Iraq, and allow Delcy Rodriguez to contract directly with any private military contractor that may be needed to shore up security.
What’s interesting is that Erik Prince secretly traveledto Caracas in November 2019 to meet with Delcy Rodriguez, and it was even speculated at the time by the MSM that this was President Trump’s attempt to establish a backchannel with the Maduro regime, despite the fact that the Trump administration officially supported the opposition leader, Juan Guiado, in their public rhetoric.
About an hour or two after Prince appeared on Bannon’s show, President Trump took a few questions from the media while leaving the White House. When asked why he was supporting Delcy Rodriguez over Maria Corina Machado, he responded, “‘If you ever remember a place called Iraq where every single person was fired—the police, the generals, everybody was fired and they ended up being ISIS… I remember that.”
So Trump is simultaneously disclosing that the US State Department created ISIS when it hired all those private military contractors to run Iraq, while asserting that installing Maria Corina Machado as Venezuelan President would effectively yield the same result?
Based.
We are also learning that Machado brought with her to the White House an advisor who once publicly called President Trump, “an idiot,” for accusing former US President Barack Obama of spying on him.
As Energy Secretary Chris Wright toured infrastructure in Venezuela Thursday, President Trump took to Truth Social totalk progressin the embattled nation:
“Relations between Venezuela and the United States have been, to put it mildly, extraordinary! We are dealing very well with President Delcy Rodriguez, and her Representatives. Oil is starting to flow, and large amounts of money, unseen for many years, will soon be greatly helping the people of Venezuela. Marco Rubio, and all of our Representatives, are doing a fantastic job, but we speak only for ourselves, and don’t want there to be any confusion or misrepresentation. There is a story about a man named Harry Sargeant III in The Wall Street Journal….
WIKI
Harry Sargeant III (born December 30, 1957) is an American energy and shipping magnate from Florida. A former officer and fighter pilot in the United States Marine Corps, Sargeant operates an expansive, multibillion-dollar conglomerate of private global enterprises consisting of aviation companies, oil refineries, oil trading operations, alternative fuels development, and oil and asphalt shipping, his father’s company, Sargeant Trading, being the largest fleet of asphalt tankers and barges in the world. He is also the owner of International Oil Trading Company (IOTC), a company that supplies aviation fuel to the U.S. Military in Iraq…
A Pentagon audit has found that the federal government overpaid Harry Sargeant III by as much as $204 millionon several military contracts worth nearly $2.7 billion. The audit by the Defense Department’s inspector general estimated that the department paid the oilman “$160 [million] to $204 million more for fuel than could be supported by price or cost analysis.” The study also reported that the three contracts were awarded under conditions that effectively eliminated the other bidders. Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), who led the probe, asserted in a letter to Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates that Sargeant had won the three jet fuel contracts, despite having among the highest bids, because he had an effective monopoly over the routes. Waxman accused Sargeant and his company of price gouging and “engaging in the worst form of war profiteering.”
Makes you wonder if Sargeant is another one of the oil Execs who ripped off the Venezuelan people.
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I want to remind everyone that POTUS Trump calls mainstream media FAKE NEWS for a reason. We have been fed lies and distortions for over a century in order to keep the public from revolting. To keep the public willing to fork over wealth and bodies for the Cabals wars of conquest.
That brings us to Election Fraud, hackable machines and Venezuela. I get the feeling that Venezuela is not what we think it is AND that it is a key.
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday shared a post from the X platform on his personal social network “Truth Social”, which states that Elon Musk prevented the manipulation of the results of the 2024 US presidential election by blocking the computers of the company “Dominion Voting Systems” in Serbia.
He lost the 2020 presidential election for a second term to Democratic candidate Joe Biden. He claimed that Democrats had stolen the election, and these claims culminated in his supporters attacking the US Congress on January 6, 2021, writes N1.
Now he has shared the message of one of his loyalists with a verified account, Johnny St. Pete, who on X published information from the American conservative commentator and columnist, Benny Johnson, who, according to him, X’s owner, Elon Musk, saved the 2024 presidential election by monitoring IP addresses in foreign countries through which votes were counted and blocking their computers.
“Musk knew he would win the election and it seems that this happened because they identified the systems and machines in foreign countries that would do what we saw in 2020,” St. Pete wrote in the post that Trump also shared, the Telegraph reports.
He adds that Musk tracked the IP addresses of the company “Dominion Voting Systems” in Serbia and blocked the computers a few days before the 2024 elections. In his post, which Trump also seems to agree with, St. Pete refers to Emerald Robinson, a former White House correspondent who worked for several media outlets, including Newsmax, and is now one of the most well-known conspiracy theorists in the US….
SERBIA???
TheseTruths brought
PROOF 🚨 National Security Director Tulsi Gabbard CONFIRMS they have evidence Electronic Voting Machines are rigging elections
The voting machines are Dominion Voting Machines
“Voting machines contain evidence of voter fraud and manipulation according to several national… pic.twitter.com/ZXojxtpmKW
PROOF: National Security Director Tulsi Gabbard CONFIRMS they have evidence Electronic Voting Machines are rigging elections
The voting machines are Dominion Voting Machines
“Voting machines contain evidence of voter fraud and manipulation according to several national security sources who briefed me on the issue. I’ve had some conversations with Tulsi Gabbard’s office themselves.
“We can now reveal that a secret team led by the United States attorney in Puerto Rico, seized rigged voting machines some time ago that was used in recent elections on the island and had turned them over to Tulsi Gabbard in a joint investigation at the ODNI, the office of the director of national intelligence”
“These machines were not allowed to be wiped, according to my sources, and reprogrammed by the vendor Dominion Voting Machines after being used in elections where widespread issues were reported”
“How bad were those problems? Of the 4,490 polling stations used in the last elections, 3,119, that’s equivalent to roughly 70%, were unable to transmit results from their respective voting centers according to the State Elections Commission in response to a lawsuit filed”
The Clintons had full control over the contracts for anyone getting involved in the Haitian recovery efforts. These efforts also included Hatian elections. The Clintons implemented Smartmatic into Hatian politics after the 2010 earthquake.
The Clintons had full control over the contracts for anyone getting involved in the Haitian recovery efforts. These efforts also included Hatian elections. The Clintons implemented Smartmatic into Hatian politics after the 2010 earthquake. This is the beginning of the global operation to install these manipulative, backdoor implemented electronic voting machines worldwide to steal elections and install the candidate of their choice. This is the election fraud cartel and its inception.
It is interesting that the Venezuelan engineers headed for Florida and incorporated in Delaware.
Ownership, Acquisitions, Reorganizations, and Technology Transfers
by Dynamojo — ABCU|8
“Founded in Venezuela in 1997 by a team of three engineers – Antonio Mugica, Alfredo José Anzola, and Roger Piñate, Smartmatic specializes in the design and end-to-end deployment of technology solutions for specific applications. The company’s niches are: electronic voting systems, smart city solutions (including public safety and public transportation), identity management systems for civil registration, and authentication products for government applications.” [1]
On April 11, 2000, the same three Venezuelan engineers founded the company Smartmatic in Delaware, United States and opened its headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida with seven employees in November of that year.
“Delaware, US: The world’s top secrecy jurisdiction. Register a company here and no one will ever know. If you have overseas income, it will be tax exempt.” [2]
There is a lot more in that article. The references are interesting.
…In April 2003 in Caracas, Venezuela, Smartmatic officially unveiled its prototype for election automation. The testing of the prototype covered all the details of the process necessary for any type of election. During the tests, emphasis was placed on the system’s encryption capabilities, which are essential for the confidential storage and transmission of data, as well as the robustness of the software and hardware system’s components. The system passed all tests with no shortcomings, said a company spokesperson.
The voting system was developed entirely in-house by Smartmatic. That includes the integration of hardware and software systems from design stage to end-to-end deployment. Such a complex, purpose-built technical solution would require a strong, system-wide R&D capability that would not have been possible in Venezuela without massive technical and financial support. Although Smartmatric established a U.S. presence in 2000, almost all of its products were developed in Venezuela, a country where capital is scarce and scientific research and manufacturing are not sophisticated.
Key conclusion/question #1: where did the financing and R&D knowledge come from?
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Now let’s take a quick look at the book Stolen Elections
CannCon (Brian Lupo) and Ashe in America of the Badlands weekly podcast “Why We Vote” are dissecting this book chapter by chapter. Ashe and Brian probably have the best overview of the 2020 election fraud since they have spend years interviewing the main players. Of interest, they were supposed to interview Patrick Byrnes and at the last minute, literally as they were going on air, he backed out. Bynes now says he has no idea who Brian is despite the back and forths while setting up the interview.🙄 This was at the time he finally confessed he had been working for the CIA for 25 years.
This is an Article by CannCon that shows his more in-depth look compared to what he writes for The Gateway Pundit.
Badlands Book Club – Book 5: Stolen Elections – Chapter 5
CannCon and Ashe in America are joined by Colonel Towner for a deep dive into Chapter 5 of Stolen Elections, continuing a detailed critique of the book’s central claims surrounding Venezuelan election interference. The discussion systematically breaks down assertions about Smartmatic, Sequoia, and Dominion, questioning timelines, source code claims, and the credibility of so-called whistleblowers repeatedly cited throughout the chapter. The panel examines alleged DOJ investigations, the role of intelligence agencies, and inconsistencies tied to money laundering cases, coup attempts, and U.S. political figures used to bolster the book’s narrative. Particular attention is given to how language like “fundamentally the same” is used to imply proof without evidence, along with scrutiny of charts, slides, and unnamed sources presented as authoritative. Throughout the episode, the hosts emphasize logical gaps, historical context, and technical misunderstandings, challenging listeners to separate documented fact from insinuation as the chapter’s argument increasingly unravels.
In every book written by a CIA agent, in the front with the copyright and such, it will have a statement that it has been reviewed by the CIA. If it is not written by a CIA agent it will be reviewed and have redactions and there will be a statement that it has been thru that review.
9:30 — The Colonel explains how the true whistle blowers get around this CIA meddling.
In this book, the author, Pazulo, makes it obvious he is writing in collaboration with a CIA officer, Gary Bernstein who he quotes excessively thru the entire book. They talk about all sorts of classified info like the Lebanese Venezuelan Drug dealer that was running drugs for the CIA, about Frank Holder being a triple agent. Was Holder a CIA asset too? The Colonel searched and there is no defamation case based on the Holder chapter which totally slanders the guy.
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Back to the featured video.
9 min: Examples of the CIA building back doors into software by Colonel Towner.
I add some articles.
Crypto AG was a project in the aftermath of WWII. The Crypto AG company was a CIA front in Switzerland. It made equipment sold to embassies around the world. Trump got rid of it.
Another example is the Promis Software. The CIA in collusion with the DOJ stole the software from the inventor and created a backdoor, MOSSAD also ends up with a copy. The backdoor allowed monitoring of other money laundering operations and covered up the intel agencies’ own. This allowed the intel agencies to gather evidence and use it against their competitors. There is a discussion on how to make the evidence usable in court.
So when these guys ( who are CIA assets) say voter fraud can not be proved, well the CIA is expert at that.
Colonel Towner: “They have 16,000 emails from Smartmatic and 20,000 emails from Dominion gathered during discovery in the legal case against Fox News. They were involved in briefing Fox News. So why then did Fox settle if these dudes had all the smoking gun evidence from that case? The evidence they are using to write this book? These Emails include admission of fraud by Dominion (15 minutes)
At this point things get fun.😂
In 10/8/2024 there were four criminal indictments in FL for 2 officials working for Smartmatic. The Federal Asst Attorney is Michael Nadler, [they checked it is Jerry’s son although Brave AI at first says it is not and then says it is. A photo shows the poor guy looks just like Jerry Nadler.] you heard [read] that correctly but it gets better. Way back in 2018 Nadler secured the largest judgment to date against a Venezualian insider. The former treasurer who is now serving 10 years in prison.
Ivan Freites, who lives in Miami, filed the lawsuit in January 2025, accusing Horacio Medina, who is the president of the ad hoc board of directors of PDVSA that controls the company’s U.S. assets, and others, including a former Venezuelan ambassador, a professor and a film director, of orchestrating a campaign to defame them as a result of their lawsuit in Delaware alleging PDVSA workers were denied compensation. Rodriguez and Otero, both of whom live in Switzerland, joined the lawsuit.
They accused the defendants of orchestrating a “coordinated and malicious campaign [of] defamation, intimidation, obstruction of justice, witness tampering and racketeering” as a result of the plaintiffs’ lawsuit against PDVSA and its U.S. subsidiary, Citgo, in Delaware claiming they were wrongfully terminated from their jobs at PDVSA in 2002 and 2003. Citgo’s motion to dismiss that lawsuit is pending.
Specifically, the plaintiffs accuse the defendants of portraying them as “traitors, frauds, and corrupt opportunists” who, among other allegations, received illicit funds from former Venezuelan officials.
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Back to video:
Colonel: So this is the Attorney and DOJ that used a back dated Interpol arrest warrant to prosecute a guy who wanted to feed the people in Venezuela. And the USA nabbed him on the Tarmac under false pretenses. An Interpol arrest warrant Mike Pompeo personally orchestrated along with John Bolton.
The reason they want to make Alejandro the bad guy is to give Nadler a trophy. Nadler with his ‘Venezuela’ experience [2 cases, years apart] is one of the attorneys for the authors. Martin keeps writing he has 15 yrs experience working in the DOJ as a consultant for criminal investigations and Gary has worked 25 years for the CIA.
They also say “On our own and with outside resources, we decided to launch our own investigation.” Except they had Patrick Byrne, another long time CIA asset, funding them and Jerry Nadler’s son as their attorney so not exactly detached from ‘Authority’ [or at least the Deep State. — GC]
And on page 38 they say “They have no political agenda” [… Jerry Nadler… Bush & Obama’s DOJ… CIA??? — GC]
Martin also says “We conducted this as a criminal investigation. We have focused on collecting evidence and witnesses which is the opposite of what Trump’s Lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Guiliani did after the 2020 election when they made claims without conducting an investigation.”
The Colonel points out there were investigations. Rudy flew to Ukraine and got statements. Sidney had a pile of affidavits. However there were people inserted into their investigations to destroy them [This is a very important point. It would explain Sidney’s guilty plea in the Fulton case, would it not? — GC]
Remember what happened on a highway in GA to a wonderful young man who was connected to Kemp, Loeffler and Perdue after all three called for a signature audit?? Run the timeline on Kemp’s change of heart—and add in the bogus dismissal of our 4 federal fraud cases‼️🤬… https://t.co/eY29EsO6aN
👉 Ashe: I — 100% agree. Sidney talked about Venezuelan whistle blowers but they never materialized. 👈 That was the key dispute between Tucker Carlson [while on Fox] and Sidney. Carlson humiliated Sydney on air saying she keeps coming to me and saying this stuff and there just isn’t anything. Tucker said “ We tried to vet every single aspect and there is nothing.”
Ashe goes on to say, “You will not convince me that Sydney Powell was operating in bad faith or going off 1/2 cocked. She was told stuff and even shown stuff and then her investigation was sabotaged. So now the authors are throwing her and Rudy under the bus implying that this [their investigation] could have happened if not for Sidney and Rudy.”
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The Colonel has been saying the Cartel de los Soles does not exist. It was CIA.
The US justice department classified the Cartel De Los Soles (Cartel of the Suns) alongside ISIS and Al-Qaeda in November. 43 days later, the US has effectively admitted the organisation does not exist – at least not as a cartel in any conventional sense.
The fact is, Cartel De Los Soles was always shorthand for high-level government corruption in Venezuela. It’s use goes backto the 1990s. The ‘suns’ refer to a rank insignia worn by grifting senior military officials. Which means the US classified a slang term in the same category as actual terror groups…
The Colonel then says these people, the senior military officials, were trained in the School of Americas.
Founded by the United States in 1946, the SOA was initially located in Panama, but in 1984 it was kicked out under the terms of the Panama Canal Treaty and moved to the army base at Fort Benning, Georgia. Then-President of Panama Jorge Illueca called it “the biggest base for de-stabilization in Latin America,” and a major Panamanian newspaper dubbed it ” The School of Assassins.”
Today, SOA instructors and students are recruited from the cream of the Latin American military establishment. The School trains 700-2,000 soldiers a year, and since its inception in 1946, more than 60,000 military personnel have graduated from the SOA.
There is a list of countries and number of graduates.
The colonel decided to visit this school in Ft Benning GA and who should she see walking out? A Columbian colonel.
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So were the stories of Venezuelan Software engineers who developed hackable voting machines and turned whistle-blowers nothing more than CIA BAIT used to ensnare Sidney Powell and MAGA?
According to intelligence sources US Military raided voting machine company Scytl servers in Germany for evidence of manipulation in 2020 US Elections after it was exposed in vote switching scandal by GreatGameIndia. Scytl has a long history of election fraud in various nations including injecting backdoors in its election software. The issue has prompted experts to question why the sensitive job of counting votes was outsourced to a foreign company? How could a bankrupted Spanish company Scytl count American votes in Spain?
According to Congressman Louie Gohmert, Texas there is “compelling evidence” of vote switching in the 2020 presidential election compiled by the Spanish electronic voting machine company Scytl.
The Texas lawmaker said in an interview with Newsmax TV that US military forces seized the company’s server in Frankfurt, Germany. Gohmert said there are some who believe it’s U.S. intelligence “that manipulated all this” to cover themselves…
More intelligence and reports are coming out to help Americans connect the dots of the election fraud carried out by Deep State operatives.
This information could also explain why Defense Secretary Mark Esper was terminated by President Donald Trump last week…. Now enters WikiLeaks. On Tuesday, WikiLeaks released 8,761 documents showing specific details of secret CIA hacking.
This included “malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized ‘zero day’ exploits, malware remote control systems and associated documentation.”
These leaks may have revealed “that a top secret CIA unit used the German city of Frankfurt am Main as the starting point for numerous hacking attacks on Europe, China and the Middle East.“…
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I wanted to give a smattering of information to show what Trump’s DOJ is up against. Remember this is all connected. It is a giant spiderweb going back centuries.
This move by POTUS Trump shows we are getting a lot closer to the indictments.
FIGHTING CRIMINAL FRAUD NATIONWIDE: Today, the Trump Administration is announcing the upcoming creation of the Department of Justice’s new division for national fraud enforcement. White House
“Complicated business folks” is an understatement. I have tried to capture a bit of the mess.
Brave and Free put up this tweet last Friday.
🚨🧵EXCLUSIVE: OBAMA AND BIDEN WHITE HOUSES, ARABELLA ADVISORS, LETITIA JAMES, AND MARC ELIAS LINKED TO ANTI-ICE RIOTS.
Last night my team infiltrated a Zoom call held by the group ICE Watch whose sole purpose is to obstruct ICE agents from arresting illegal aliens.
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NED = National Endowment for Democracy. “The National Endowment for Democracy is a private, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions.” So WHY is it taking MY TAX MONEY?
How many Americans could identify the National Endowment for Democracy? An organization which often does exactly the opposite of what its name implies. The NED was set up in the early 1980s under President Reagan in the wake of all the negative revelations about the CIA in the second half of the 1970s… Seemingly every other day there was a new headline about the discovery of some awful thing, even criminal conduct, the CIA had been mixed up in for years. The Agency was getting an exceedingly bad name, and it was causing the powers-that-be much embarrassment.
Something had to be done. What was done was not to stop doing these awful things. Of course not. What was done was to shift many of these awful things to a new organization, with a nice sounding name – The National Endowment for Democracy. The idea was that the NED would do somewhat overtly what the CIA had been doing covertly for decades, and thus, hopefully, eliminate the stigma associated with CIA covert activities…
Thus it was that in 1983, the National Endowment for Democracy was set up to “support democratic institutions throughout the world through private, nongovernmental efforts”. Notice the “nongovernmental” – part of the image, part of the myth. In actuality, virtually every penny of its funding comes from the federal government, as is clearly indicated in the financial statement in each issue of its annual report… [Well that answers why Tax Money for funding NED was just approved again. — GC]
In effect, the CIA has been laundering money through NED.
The Endowment has four principal initial recipients of funds: the International Republican Institute; the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs; an affiliate of the AFL-CIO (such as the American Center for International Labor Solidarity); and an affiliate of the Chamber of Commerce (such as the Center for International Private Enterprise). These institutions then disburse funds to other institutions in the US and all over the world, which then often disburse funds to yet other organizations.
In a multitude of ways, NED meddles in the internal affairs of numerous foreign countries by supplying funds, technical know-how, training, educational materials, computers, faxes, copiers, automobiles, and so on, to selected political groups, civic organizations, labor unions, dissident movements, student groups, book publishers, newspapers, other media, etc. NED typically refers to the media it supports as “independent” despite the fact that these media are on the US payroll…
The NED, like the CIA before it, calls what it does supporting democracy. The governments and movements whom the NED targets call it destabilization.
…In 2006, Kremlin denounced the proliferation of foreign associations in Russia, some of which would have participated in a secret plan, orchestrated by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), to destabilise the country. To prevent a “colour revolution”, Vladislav Surkov drew up strict regulation over these non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In the West, this administrative framework was described as a “fresh assault on freedom of association by Putin the “Dictator” and his adviser”.
This policy has been followed by other States who in their turn, have been labelled by the international press as “dictators”.
The US government guarantees that it is working towards “promoting democracy all over the world”. It claims that the US Congress can subsidize NED and that NED can, in turn and wholly independently, help directly or indirectly, associations, political parties or trade unions, working in this sense anywhere in the world. The NGOs being, as their name suggests, “non-governmental” can take political initiatives that ambassadors could not assume without violating the sovereignty of the States that receive them. The crux of the matter lies here: NED and the network of NGOs that it finances: are they initiatives of civil society unjustly repressed by the Kremlin or covers of the US Secret Services caught red-handed in interference?
In order to respond to this question, we are going to return to the origins and function of NED…
Looks like Andy Biggs agrees with Russia. I wonder how much of the funding of the Anti-Ice protests can be traced back to NED?
81 Republicans just voted to fund NED. So did every single Democrat. If Republicans voted in block like Democrats, NED would be defunded now. But the blocker, as I've said so many times, is not Democrats. If it was, all these things could be fixed. It's the Blob side of the GOP. https://t.co/QWnAbRon2fpic.twitter.com/udxf0cNYKd
One thing I learned living in Uruguay in the 1980s — after the fall of the CIA-backed military dictatorship — is that the agency likes small countries where it can operate through a local tight-knit familial network. Torture and clandestine activities, in the right trusted hands, are “as American as apple pie”...
The CIA carries out clandestine activities overseas to cause regime changes — this is well known. What’s also apparent is that USAID is effectively a front for the CIA — a channel through which to fund various “non-profits” at home as well as overseas and to use those to steer policy and affect change. USAID stands for United States of America International Development. It is not “aid”.
Trawling through Datarepublican.com , you can look up names of New Hampshire non-profits and their directors and find out exactly how they link to USAID. Thus I looked up the NHCADSV, Granite Children’s Alliance (Children’s advocacy Centers) and New Hampshire Charitable Foundation — all funded in part by USAID and all tied to other non-profits funded in part by USAID.
These are also tied to news control organizations such as Internews which is also a recipient of USAID money as is Politico which promoted Amanda Grady Sexton of NHCADSV in 2016….
So, not only is USAID a slush fund for the CIA & dems, so is NED. This gives you an idea of what POTUS Trump is up against. However POTUS has help, what Q and Flynn call the ‘Digital Army.’
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Lets start here from last year with DataRepublican (small r)
DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican
11 Feb 2025
After thinking it over last night, here’s how I would summarize it: These seven NGOs (eight if you count the off-the-chart Solidarity Center) together function as an “off-the-books” shadow U.S. government.
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) was created to unify the U.S. against communism. [Colonel Towner suggests that the ‘communism’ label is used to make the overthrow of a government, that will not cooperate with the transnational corporations rape of their country, palatable to the American public. — GC] Its four core organizations reflect a neat ideological symmetry of America’s two-party system:
➜CIPE pushes free-market policies, Solidarity Center represents labor and unions. [Centre for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), managed by the US Chamber of Commerce; –GC]
➜IRI serves Republican interests,[International Republican Institute (IRI), run by the Republican Party; — GC] and NDI aligns with the Democrats. [National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), run by the Democratic Party. — GC]
CEPPS [Center for International Media Assistance — GC] is another umbrella group that includes IRI and NDI but also brings in IFES [International Foundation for Election Systems — GC] under the guise of fortifying election integrity.
And to make sure the narrative sticks, Internews Network spreads these viewpoints through global media.
Most of these NGOs were born during the Reagan years. While not all USAID and State Department funding flows through them, they control the purse strings for much of America’s global financial influence.
DEI initiatives created a system of unaccountability and dependency, which ended up injecting more money into them and further entrenches their power.
They see any challenge to their authority as a threat to democracy itself. But their greatest enemy is still the same one they’ve had since the Cold War—Russia. They’ve never lost the “Cold War” boomer mindset.
In their minds, they’re the superheroes keeping America from crumbling. And that entitles them to their travel perks, cushy post-election gigs, and all the other benefits that come with running an unacknowledged empire.
@AsheinAmerica and I have been going deep on searches & charts through the lens of elections.
Every search of the numerous election related NGOs all traced back to what we called “the motherships.”
Originally I thought the mothership orgs were the orgs controlling the “vertical” of elections.
That led me to posit there must be other mothership clusters that controlled different verticals like food, or energy.
We tested the verticals theory and afawct no. There aren’t other mothership clusters for other verticals.
All the stolen taxpayer money pumps through the same mothership cluster, and there is a splintering toward the end of the funding chains / loops as the orgs get smaller & more specialized.
It makes sense from a management pov. It would get very difficult to manage if there were too many mothership clusters.
Where this gets interesting from the election pov is in the smaller orgs that are indirectly funded. Orgs on both sides of US elections are funded.
It’s counterintuitive. Why would funding go toward adversaries?
My theory is to guarantee full control of US elections, the smart move is to own both sides.
It’s like big businesses hedging their bets in politics. Often times they contribute to both parties.
I believe there’s more to this election control / NGO issue. My next step is to start overlaying “the people” factor. That will likely give us a clear picture of who’s driving this bus.
Thank you DR for your work!
This is very important if you are trying to build a RICO case. If you follow the threads of various problems to the top you keep hitting the same organizations. It is like the same Mafia organization controls gambling, prostitution, extortion and bribery. Colonel Towner calls it the Criminal Syndicate. I call it the Cabal.
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Niz Parvez @NizParvez 28 Feb 2025
B. Federal Grants and the Anti-Lobbying Laws
•31 U.S.C. § 1352 prohibits federal grant recipients from using taxpayer money to influence legislation or elections.
•Legal issue: If these NGOs receive hundreds of millions in taxpayer funds, are they improperly engaging in political lobbying, narrative control, or election influence—either domestically or abroad
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While researching the numerous far left wing NGOs that are working to destroy America, it's clear that it's not only taxpayer money funding them but it's also the big global financial institutions' multi-billion dollar "charitable" foundations.
Gee, don’t you know the source of their [NGOs] contributions is “restricted” information. They don’t want to be exposed. This is from their tax return:
Us sucker taxpayers aren’t supposed to know
Here are other comments that are interesting.
Note in this LinkedIn post, NEO Philanthropy is credited for starting States at the Core as well.
NEO Philanthropy is Ford Foundation. Ford Foundation is also a major grantor of Hopewell Fund.
Groups like States at the Core (STAC) run ICE Watch trainings nationwide, including in MN, prepping activists to disrupt ops like in Minneapolis. Ties to Chicago's Protect RP and Portland's Western States Center show… https://t.co/bba7aDJLn9
Hopewell Fund Courtney Cuff, Project Director $359,880 Sharona Roth, Project Director $340,974 Sarah Pray, Project Director $263,204 Meagan Cavanaugh, Project Director $254,949 Melanie Gelling Zurek, Project Director $250,207 Source: IRS Form 990 (page 7), filing year 2023
These from DataRepublican are especially interesting.
🧵THE UNIPARTY UNMASKED – They Believe They Are “Democracy”
The seven NGOs in the chart below, in my view, represent the Uniparty. Each of these organizations receives substantial financial support from USAID or the Department of State.
THE UNIPARTY UNMASKED – They Believe They Are “Democracy”
The seven NGOs in the chart below, in my view, represent the Uniparty. Each of these organizations receives substantial financial support from USAID or the Department of State.
Around 2019, the phrase “democracy in danger” began to dominate public discourse, amplified by the media. This was odd—after all, the U.S. is a democracy (or more precisely, a constitutional republic). But as I traced the influence of these NGOs, a pattern emerged: they are controlled by establishment politicians, they play a major role in shaping political narratives worldwide, and their core mission is always framed as “protecting democracy.”
Originally, these NGOs were created to support U.S. democratic efforts abroad—many of them emerging during the Cold War to combat the spread of communism. But with the fall of the Soviet Union, their original purpose faded. Instead of dissolving, they redefined their mission. Now, they have positioned themselves as the guardians of democracy itself.
This shift explains why Trump’s re-election was framed as a “threat to democracy.” To these NGOs, “democracy” means themselves. Their survival depends on maintaining that role, and any challenge to their authority is perceived as a direct attack on democracy itself.
Check out this interactive visualization and analysis tool I’m developing to explore USAID data more systematically—with some AI muscle under the hood! It’s still a work in progress, but I’m excited about how it’s shaping up.
The "Democracy" Censorship Predicate: A Quick Primer
– After 2016, the national security state, the foreign policy establishment, & the gov't-funded NGO-plex orgs redefined the word "democracy": it no longer meant a consensus of individuals, it meant a consensus of institutions pic.twitter.com/5gdxBqKZOR
$700MM moved in two years, a burn rate of rough $1MM, every day, for around 730 days. We’re talking about an industrial pipeline of cash. There are more than a problems here, but let’s go through a couple:
1. Physical cash is not infinite at the branch level. It’s ordered, tracked, and replenished through a Federal Reserve district system that is designed to notice abnormal demand.
Now put that into Minnesota. Not New York. Not California. Not Texas.
Minnesota has a finite banking footprint, finite vault cash, finite armored-car routing, finite Fed cash-office capacity relative to the national hubs. So if MN alone was sourcing anything close to $1MM a day in high denominations for two straight years, you’d see strain. You’d see persistent, repeat demand, unusual denomination ordering, recurring cash logistics. You’d see it because the system has to move the paper from somewhere. And the Fed doesn’t “guess” about that. They account for it. That kind of sustained pull would stick out to the people whose entire job is watching demand, ordering patterns, and abnormal flows.
2nd Problem:
Two states wouldn’t fix his issue. OH + MN still leaves the same daily requirement. You still need a million dollars a day, still need continuity, still need reliability. You still need enough branches, enough institutions, enough cash order capacity, enough distance between the transactions so the pattern isn’t screaming from the dashboard. If you try to push that volume through only OH & MN, you’d concentrate the signal, compress the footprint, and create repetition.
Repetition is how you’d get caught, not on day one, but at some point within that 2 year period, you are getting nailed. When a pattern forms, multiple layers of oversight can see it. Bank compliance teams see it, BSA/AML monitoring systems see it, Federal cash distribution oversight sees it.
Airports… Inter state agencies.
You get the point.
And that leads us to our 3rd problem:
If the story is “they declared it at the airport,” that does not make it invisible.
Declarations create paper trails. So if the cash is being sourced, consolidated, and exported on a drumbeat for two years, the only way it stays operational is by spreading the sourcing footprint wide enough that no single district, no single metro, no single cluster of branches is carrying an abnormal share of the load. That means our “two-state” theory is implausible if not impossible. And it doesn’t hold on how many different tripwires would start chirping once that demand becomes consistent.
So where does that place us in SomaliFraud right now?
It places us in a multi-state network—AT LEAST—5 states. More plausibly 5-8.
Why?
Because 5-8 states lets you dilute the daily pull into smaller, more “normal-looking” slices. It lets you rotate institutions and geographies, avoid hammering one Federal Reserve district with a sustained, abnormal appetite for high-denomination currency, and avoid creating a single obvious hotspot. It also fits the only thing that matters in a long-running operation. Continuity.
A scheme that runs two years can’t depend on one state’s vault cash and one district’s tolerance.
It needs redundancy.
It needs alternate routes.
It needs multiple hubs.
Essentially, is mandatory for a large enough footprint that the volume becomes background noise instead of a siren. A five-to-eight-state network is the only mathematically feasible option. And that’s exactly why our lens is widening.
More soon. 🇺🇸
Exclusive: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on The Somali Fraud Investigation
And Finally More Datarepublican
🧵🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: Inside The New Pluralists: how billionaires weaponized the Biden Administration, targeted Charlie Kirk, and are quietly financing America’s color revolution 🚨🚨
In 2017, a quiet meeting brought representatives of Soros, Koch, Rockefeller, and Ford… pic.twitter.com/sC49WqzNHT
The list of partner organizations for "ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA: DAY OF TRUTH" on January 23 includes Minnesota Nursing Association (MNA) along with about 95 others.
Sponsors/hosts for the event (and related actions) include Faith in Minnesota (the advocacy arm of ISAIAH), along… pic.twitter.com/WjG6Nhibwb
Bad news. Looks like insurrection act will be necessary. Sorry.
Democrats take absolute power in Virginia and the first thing they do is introduce the “Legalize Crime”, “Steal All Future Elections”, and “Duplicate Somali Daycare Fraud” Acts. pic.twitter.com/qwLglzinfU
CIA and Spamburger are forcing insurrection to be multi-state. [It always was — GC]
𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐂𝐇𝐔𝐑𝐂𝐇 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐌𝐄𝐃 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐀 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄 — 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐄𝐅𝐓 𝐃𝐎𝐄𝐒𝐍’𝐓 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐓𝐎 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 Let’s strip this lunatics message down to its piece-parts and make this 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐞.
𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓: You can’t — 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭. This was a 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧. There is 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐧 named 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐰𝐨𝐨𝐝 who serves as an 𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫. 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞. 𝐃𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞. 𝐙𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.
Protestor: 𝘍𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮.
𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓: That rage wasn’t aimed at ICE. It was screamed at 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 inside a church.
Protestor: 𝘍𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘕𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘴.
𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓: Slapping labels on innocent people doesn’t make them true. It just proves you 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬.
Protestor: 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘦.
𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓: When you invade a 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩, intimidate congregants, and brag about it on camera, that’s not bravado — that’s 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞. Here’s the entire story in one sentence:
𝐀 𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 — 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐲. That’s why the 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 launched an investigation. Churches are 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬. Intimidation is 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭. And cameras are 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲. Facts matter. Names matter. And 𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐬.
He is also one of the agitators at the Whipple building every single night Most of them that storm the church is at the Whipple building every single night
He goes all of the country. He’s one of the main guys who fires up the crowd and incites more violence.
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I do not envy POTUS Trump in his quest to unravel this mess!
On a side note, we all know that the judiciary, esp in Democrat run states has been corrupted thanks to Blue Slips in the Senate. This makes prosecuting in a state like Florida much more attractive. If this whole mess; Russia,Russia,Russia, the stolen 2020 election, the judicial travesty of Jan 6th, the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, and now the Anit-Ice protests against deportation of illegal aliens, can all be connected, then the court case could possibly be moved to a better venue.
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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:
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📝 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.
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I want to archive these videos from Mike Benz, Promethean Action & the Transition Integrity Project interviews, since it documents the switch from the Fabian model (gradual) to a Color Revolution after the Cabal lost complete control of the USA under D.J. Trump.
Why I Think The Seeds Of The J6 Fedsurrection Plot Were Planted At This Secret Meeting In June 2020 (And What This Means For The J6 Pipe Bomber Investigation) pic.twitter.com/DO8LGmqHQz
PublishedSeptember 25, 2020 (17 minutes) Have a barf bag ready…
The White House is pushing back against its own FBI director who disputed President Trump’s claims about widespread voter fraud. This as Trump refuses to commit to a peaceful transition of power should he lose the election. Fmr. KY Secretary Of State Trey Grayson (R) is a member of the Transition Integrity Project, and he discusses what the Trump administration might pull come November.
Nils Gilman of the Berggruen Institute Discusses the Transition Integrity Project on Al Jazeera (5 minutes)
This is a good compilation of information, including a 33 minute audio interview of Nils Gilman by KGNU’s Liz Lane. It also includes a pointer to the 22 page PDF: Transition Integrity Project Report
The progressive coalition Fight Back Table has been meeting to game out what happens if Joe Biden doesn’t win by a landslide. It’s not pretty.
Last week, a coalition of leading progressive groups gathered on Zoom to begin organizing for what they envision as the post-Election Day political apocalypse scenario.
Put together by the Fight Back Table—an initiative launched after the 2016 election to get a constellation of lefty organizations to work more closely together—the meeting dealt with the operational demands expected if the November election ends without a clear outcome or with a Joe Biden win that Donald Trump refuses to recognize.
Sources familiar with the discussions described them as serious with a modestly panicked undertone. A smaller FBT session last fall had talked about post-election planning, but those discussions were tabled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This was the first time they were bringing the matter to the 50-plus organizations that make up the coalition. To formalize the effort, they gave it a name: the “Democracy Defense Nerve Center.”
Over the course of two hours, participants broached the question of what the progressive political ecosystem can functionally do in a series of election scenarios. They began charting out what it would take to stand up a multi-state communications arm to fight disinformation, a training program for nonviolent civil disobedience, and the underpinnings of what one official described as “mass public unrest.” And they pored over a report from the Transition Integrity Project, a bipartisan group formed in 2019, that analyzed various election-season scenarios and made clear the type of ratfuckery, corruption, and chaos that potentially was ahead.
“The potential for violent conflict is high,” the report noted….
The co-founder of the Transition Integrity Project, Brooks hasconducted war games [Washington Post Article] to play out the range of Election Day and post-Election Day scenarios. And virtually all the outcomes, save one—a Biden landslide—have ended up facilitating a nightmarish fallout…
In real life, former (now aggrieved) associates of the president have warned [The Atlantic] that he will use extraordinary means to hold on to power. And Biden himself has openly worried that Trump might move to contest the election results if they don’t go his way. Beyond that, there has been very little said about what plans the Democratic nominee or his team have in store. Under law, Biden is restricted from coordinating with outside groups like those involved with the Democracy Defense Nerve Center….
The progressive leaders helping spearhead the Democracy Defense Nerve Center harbor no such illusions. Though conversations have just now begun dealing with the operational details of how to navigate life after Election Day, few if any anticipate a scenario in which Trump bends to elite opinion. Instead, the larger game plan is to apply pressure through mass mobilization….
While the sheer number of groups and volunteers involved in the effort has given organizers hope, there is some fear that they may not all be operating from the same playbook. Two sources involved with the FBT discussions said they worry Biden would concede a contested election too early, with an eye toward ensuring a peaceful transition of power. Inside the coalition, there is dispute over whether Biden should even concede if he wins the popular vote but loses the Electoral College, à la Clinton in 2016 and Gore in 2000.
Under that scenario, Eldridge said, his organization would not support mass mobilization. “I support the national popular vote,” he explained. “Our organization does advocacy for the popular vote… Unfortunately, the Electoral College is the system that we have.”
But the Transition Integrity Project noted that there would be immense pressure on Biden to fight it out if, for the third time in 20 years, the Democratic candidate won the popular vote but didn’t take office. In a simulation they ran, Team Biden “encouraged Western states, particularly California but also Oregon and Washington, and collectively known as ‘Cascadia,’ to secede from the Union” unless structural reforms were made. In exchange for Trump getting the presidency, for instance, Republicans would need to agree to abolish the Electoral College, give Puerto Rico and D.C. statehood, and divide California into five states for better Senate representation….
I included the Daily Beast article to show the type of Fear Mongering that was going on in the progressive sphere. Is there any doubt that some of those spooked by such reports might help set up peaceful MAGA on Jan 6th?
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As I have theorized for years, the Brits never gave up their attempts at taking over the USA. In 1913 they managed a ‘soft coup’ by installing the Federal Reserve Central Bank and passing the 16th Amendment to transfer American wealth to that central bank. Once the central bank was in place they moved to gain control of the media in 1915 (LINK), and shortly thereafter they started their very profitable endless wars.
One core feature of the Cabal is their contempt and hatred of the middle class. A class that challenges their absolute rule of the world.
KARL MARX & COMMUNISM
Notice that the target of Karl Marx is the bourgeoisie–the middle class, and NOT the aristocracy or Ruling Elite.
“The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his ‘natural superiors,’ and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, callous ‘cash payment.’ It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom—Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.
The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage laborers.
The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.” ― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
A second point that a lot of people miss is that the goals of the Fabian Socialists and the Marxist Communists are the same. Just the methods are different. The Fabians favor a gradual take over, like we have experienced here in the USA, while the Communists favor bloody revolution. Both are inventions of the Brits.
“You must understand. The leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. The October Revolution was not what you call in America the “Russian Revolution.” It was an invasion and conquest over the Russian people. More of my countrymen suffered horrific crimes at their bloodstained hands than any people or nation ever suffered in the entirety of human history. It cannot be understated. Bolshevism was the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant of this reality is proof that the global media itself is in the hands of the perpetrators.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Funny how we have the Nazis’ treatment of the Jews pounded into our heads as kids but you very seldom hear about the slaughter of Russians, the worst Democide of the 20th Century. After all sympathy for the Russian people would not fit the Cabal’s twin goals, Communism as the reason for the CIA to over throw governments and Communism taught to US students as the best form of government. (Logic? We don’t need no stinkin’ logic!)
4. 61,911,000 Murdered: The Soviet Gulag State 5. 35,236,000 Murdered: The Communist Chinese Ant Hill 6. 20,946,000 Murdered: The Nazi Genocide State 7. 10,214,000 Murdered: The Depraved Nationalist Regime
III 19,178,000 VICTIMS: THE LESSER MEGA-MURDERERS
8. 5,964,000 Murdered: Japan’s Savage Military 9. 2,035,000 Murdered: The Khmer Rouge Hell State 10. 1,883,000 Murdered: Turkey’s Genocidal Purges 11. 1,670,000 Murdered: The Vietnamese War State 12. 1,585,000 Murdered: Poland’s Ethnic Cleansing 13. 1,503,000 Murdered: The Pakistani Cutthroat State 14. 1,072,000 Murdered: Tito’s Slaughterhouse
I wonder what the total is for the CIA’s murder of Americans via the forever wars and drugs?
The Cabal has had a plan in place for well over a century. A plan to re-establish a feudal society. That is what Agenda 21 is. A modern version of feudalism with the transnational corporations taking the place of the Aristocracy. LINK As an example of implementation: November 29, 2012 The Demise of Christchurch City New Zealand Since then we have seen similar activity here in the USA.
I wrote a lot about this back in 2014 at Tony Heller’s old website because Global Warming was the ‘Fear’ the Cabal was using to push their agenda.
Rothschild/Aristocracy connection to Agenda 21:
World Bank Carbon Finance Report for 2007
The carbon economy is the fastest growing industry globally with US$84 billion of carbon trading conducted in 2007, doubling to $116 billion in 2008, and expected to reach over $200 billion by 2012 and over $2,000 billion by 2020 http://www.carbonplanet.com/navigating_the_carbon_economy(Now dead)
3. New Carbon Finance, “UK in Pole Position as Carbon Funds Surge – but More Funds required”. Press release 4 April 2007, www.newcarbonfinance.com.
38. Analysis from new Carbon Finance estimates that in the last six months, nearly US$4.7 billion of new capital had entered the market at the end of March 2007 (Source: New Carbon Finance, “UK in Pole Position as Carbon Funds Surge – but More Funds required”. Press release 4 April 2007, www.newcarbonfinance.com). Most of the newly raised money was of private origin and was targeted to the sell-side (project development and carbon asset creation). The remainder (about 15%) sits on the buy-side for direct purchases by public and private compliance buyers, compliance funds and investor funds targeted at the compliance segment. The same source estimated in addition that even more funds are required to bring to the market enough emission reductions to satisfy the appetite of compliance buyers.
…The draft hands effective control of climate change finance to the World Bank; would abandon the Kyoto protocol – the only legally binding treaty that the world has on emissions reductions; and would make any money to help poor countries adapt to climate change dependent on them taking a range of actions.
The document was described last night by one senior diplomat as “a very dangerous document for developing countries. It is a fundamental reworking of the UN balance of obligations. It is to be superimposed without discussion on the talks”….
If you bother to look you find Shell Oil’s finger prints all over CAGW. Shell is also very much entangled with the Banksters. The Rothschilds and Rockefellers are major shareholders
Shell Oil wanted to push natural gas. Ged Davis, the Shell Oil VP who wrote the Sustainability Scenarios for the IPCC, shows this in the “Sustainable Development (B1)” part of the February, 1998 Climategate e-mail which asks for comments on the attachment: “Draft Paper for the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios by Ged Davis.
Another Shell Oil exec Doug McKay was at the IPCC scenario meetings. McKay was also Senior Financial Analyst with the World Bank. Robert Watson worked for the World Bank while Chair of the IPCC.
Then you have Shell Oil, BP and a Rockefeller Foundation funding the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia. Marlan Downey, “Former President of the international subsidiary of Shell Oil, founder of Roxanna Oil; former President of Arco International” on the Advisory Board of Richard The Liar* Muller’s consulting firm, Muller & Assoc. (Muller is known for the so-called BEST temperature Data set.)
Who owns Shell? The Dutch royal family (The House of Orange) is still reportedly the biggest shareholder in Royal Dutch Shell, although the size of its stake has long been a source of debate. Another major stockholder is the Rothschilds. The Rothschild Investment Trust was formed in 1988 and united the Rockefellers and Rothschilds as did the merger of their two banks. The Queen of England was also a major stockholder.
SHELL and WWF:
Prince Bernhard of the Dutch Royal Family, a Nazi, is the Founding President of the World Wildlife Fund. (WWF) HRH The Duke of Edinburgh served as International President of WWF for 16 years until his retirement at the end of 1996. John H. Loudon, Better known as “the Grand Old Man of Shell”, headed Royal Dutch Shell from 1951 to 1965. He was President of WWF from 1976 to 1981.
Ruud Lubbers served three terms as Prime Minister of the Netherlands between 1982 and 1994, thus becoming the longest serving Dutch Prime Minister…. He continued in Parliament as Senior Deputy Leader, and later Parliamentary Leader of the Christian Democratic Alliance. He became President of WWF International on 1 January 2000.
Peter Voser Chief Executive Officer … a member of the Swiss Federal Auditor Oversight Authority from 2006 to December 2010. In 2011…
Josef Ackermann Non-executive Director … He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Zurich Insurance Group Limited and of Zurich Insurance Company Limited, positions he has held since March 2012.
…he held a variety of positions in corporate banking, foreign exchange/money markets, treasury and investment banking. In 1990, he was appointed to SKA’s Executive Board, on which he served as President between 1993 and 1996. He joined Deutsche Bank’s Management Board in 1996 with responsibility for the investment banking division and, from 2006 and 2002 respectively until May 2012, he was Chairman of the Management Board and of the Group Executive Committee of Deutsche Bank AG. He is a member of the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG, the Board of Directors of Investor AB and a number of advisory boards. He also has various roles in several foundations and academic institutions….
Charles O. Holliday Non-executive Director … He served as Chief Executive Officer of DuPont from 1998 to January 2009, and as Chairman from 1999 to December 2009…. He previously served as Chairman of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Chairman of The Business Council, Chairman of Catalyst, Chairman of the Society of Chemical Industry – American Section, and is a founding member of the International Business Council. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bank of America Corporation and a Director of Deere & Company.
Gerard Kleisterlee Non-executive Director …He is Chairman of Vodafone Group plc, a member of the Supervisory Board of Daimler AG, and a Director of Dell Inc.
Christine Morin-Postel Non-executive Director …. she was Chief Executive of Société Générale de Belgique, Executive Vice-President and a member of the Executive Committee of Suez S.A., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Crédisuez S.A. and a Non-executive Director of Pilkington plc, Alcan Inc. and EXOR S.p.A. She is a Non-executive Director of British American Tobacco plc.
Sir Nigel Sheinwald GCMG Non-executive Director …He was a senior British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to the USA from 2007 to 2012. He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1976 and served in Brussels (twice), Washington and Moscow and in a wide range of policy roles in London. He served as British Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the European Union in Brussels from 2000 to 2003. Prior to his appointment as British Ambassador to the USA, he served as Foreign Policy and Defence Adviser to the Prime Minister and Head of the Cabinet Office Defence and Overseas Secretariat. He retired from the Diplomatic Service in March 2012….
Linda G. Stuntz Non-executive Director She is a founding partner of the law firm of Stuntz, Davis & Staffier, P.C., based in Washington, D.C. Her law practice includes energy and environmental regulation as well as matters relating to government support of technology development and transfer. From 1989 to 1993, she held senior policy positions at the U.S. Department of Energy, including Deputy Secretary. She played a principal role in the development and enactment of the Energy Policy Act of 1992.
From 1981 to 1987, she was an Associate Minority Counsel and Minority Counsel to the Energy and Commerce Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. She chaired the Electricity Advisory Committee to the U.S. Department of Energy from 2008 to 2009, and was a member of the Board of Directors of Schlumberger Limited from 1993 to 2010. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Raytheon Company. [Raytheon does mostly government contracts G.C.]
Jeroen van der Veer Non-executive Director ….He was Vice-Chairman and Senior Independent Director of Unilever (which includes Unilever N.V. and Unilever plc) until May 2011 and is Chairman of the Supervisory Boards of Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. and of ING Group. He also has various roles in several foundations and charities.
Gerrit Zalm Non-executive Director …He is Chairman of the Board of Management of ABN AMRO Bank N.V., a position he has held since February 2009. Before joining ABN AMRO, he was the Minister of Finance of the Netherlands from 1994 until 2002, Chairman of the VVD Liberal Party in the Lower House (2002) and Minister of Finance from 2003 until 2007. During 2007 until 2009 he was an adviser to PricewaterhouseCoopers (2007), Chairman of the trustees of the International Accounting Standards Board (2007-2010), an adviser to Permira (private equity fund) (2007-2008) and Chief Financial Officer of DSB Bank (2008). Prior to 1994, he was head of the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, a professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and held various positions at the Ministry of Finance and at the Ministry of Economic Affairs. ….
Rather well connected to governments, NGOs and various banks, were they not? The present lot exhibit more ‘Woke’ credentials.
The Bankers/Cabal have already captured the corporations.
…we find that only 737 top holders accumulate 80% of the control over the value of all TNCs [Trans National Corporations] …This means that network control is much more unequally distributed than wealth. In particular, the top ranked actors hold a control ten times bigger than what could be expected based on their wealth…
…In detail, nearly 4/10 of the control over the economic value of TNCs in the world is held, via a complicated web of ownership relations, by a group of 147 TNCs in the core, which has almost full control over itself. The top holders within the core can thus be thought of as an economic “super-entity” in the global network of corporations. A relevant additional fact at this point is that 3/4 of the core are financial intermediaries….
The Leveraged Buyouts/Hostile Takeovers during Reagan’s Admin. dismembered and killed wealthy, no-debt mid-level American corporations and transferred the accumulated wealth to the Banksters/Cabal. Worse, this meant ‘American’ corporations were no longer actually American. Thus this was a very important move by the Cabal.
Under Reagan
…A leveraged buyout (or LBO, or highly-leveraged transaction (HLT), or “bootstrap” transaction) occurs whenan investor, typically [a] financial sponsor, acquires a controlling interest in a company’s equity and where a significant percentage of the purchase price is financed through leverage (borrowing).👉The assets of the acquired company are used as collateral for the borrowed capital,👈[BEFORE it was acquired]sometimes with assets of the acquiring company. Typically, leveraged buyout uses a combination of various debt instruments from bank and debt capital markets…
The leveraged buyout boom of the 1980s was conceived by a number of corporate financiers, most notably Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. and later his protégé Henry Kravis. Working forBear Stearns at the time, Kohlberg and Kravis, along with Kravis’ cousin George Roberts, began a series of what they described as “bootstrap” investments…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveraged_buyout
What they did was take corporations WHICH HAD NO DEBT, like the one I worked for, 👉 borrowed against the assets — THAT THEY DID NOT OWN!!👈 — and used that money to buy stock in the corporation so they could take control. (I do not know why this was not ILLEGAL!)
…Both economic and regulatory factors combined to spur the explosion in large takeovers and, in turn, large LBOs.The three regulatory factors werethe Reagan administration’s relatively laissez-faire policies on antitrust and securities laws, which allowed mergers the government would have challenged in earlier years; the 1982 Supreme Court decision striking down state antitakeover laws (which were resurrected with great effectiveness in the late eighties); and deregulation of many industries, which prompted restructurings and mergers.The main economic factor was the development of the original-issue high-yield debt instrument.
The so-called “junk bond” innovation, pioneered by Michael Milken of Drexel Burnham, provided many hostile bidders and LBO firms with the enormous amounts of capital needed to finance multi-billion-dollar deals…. http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc1/TakeoversandLeveragedBuyouts.html
This led to a feeding frenzy that was started…
…In January 1982, [by]former US Secretary of the Treasury William Simon and a group of investors[who] acquired Gibson Greetings, a producer of greeting cards, for $80 million, of which only $1 million was rumored to have been contributed by the investors. By mid-1983, just sixteen months after the original deal, Gibson completed a $290 million IPO and Simon made approximately $66 million.The success of the Gibson Greetings investment attracted the attention of the wider media to the nascent boom in leveraged buyouts. Between 1979 and 1989, it was estimated that there were over 2,000 leveraged buyouts valued in excess of $250 billion…..—WIKI
NOTE THIS WAS IN JANUARY 1982. What happen before then???
Did that shooting influence the Reagan administration’s failure to prosecute the buyouts under Anti-Trust? The possibility certainly sheds a different light on that shooting…
The 1980’s leveraged buyout feeding frenzy allowed the Transnational Financiers to GUT American industry. But even more important it got a transnational foot into the door of US Politics. I will address that below.
….Of mergers and acquisitions each costing $1 million or more, there were just 10 in 1970; in 1980, there were 94; in 1986, there were 346. A third of such deals in the 1980’s were hostile. The 1980’s also saw a wave of giant leveraged buyouts.
Mergers, acquisitions and L.B.O.’s, which had accounted for less than 5 percent of the profits of Wall Street brokerage houses in 1978, ballooned into an estimated 50 percent of profits by 1988...
THROUGH ALL THIS, THE HISTORIC RELATIONSHIP between product and paper has been turned upside down.
Investment bankers no longer think of themselves as working for the corporationswith which they do business. These days, corporations seem to exist for the investment bankers…. In fact, investment banks are replacing the publicly held industrial corporations as the largest and most powerful economic institutions in America.…
THERE ARE SIGNS THAT A VICIOUS spiral has begun, as each corporate player seeks to improve its standard of living at the expense of another’s.Corporate raiders transfer to themselves, and other shareholders, part of the income of employees by forcing the latter to agree to lower wages.
The 1980’s leveraged buyout feeding frenzy was followed by the establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO), on 1 January 1995. The take-over of US corporations by the transnationals, helped set up the transfer of US manufacturing to third world sweat shops. These transnationals and financiers, (see The Network of Global Corporate Control above) would have zero loyalty to the USA since the actual control of corporations was transferred FROM stockholders/corporate boards TO the financiers/cabal. Thus we see that corporations can now be used as a WEAPON.
…New convergence and strengthened interdependence coincide with a third trend, relating to income distribution. In many countries the distribution of income has become more unequal, and the top earners’ share of income in particular has risen dramatically. In the United States the share of the top 1 percent has close to tripled over the past three decades, now accounting for about 20 percent of total U.S. income (Alvaredo and others, 2012). At the same time, while the new convergence mentioned above has reduced the distance between advanced and developing economies when they are taken as two aggregates…
Remember those terms Convergence, Interdependence and Divergence.
Convergence of the poor with the middle class ultimately leading to a new serf class.
Interdependence of nations ultimately leading to ‘Global Governance’ aka a world government.
Divergence of the elite from the middle class leading to a new Ruling Class.
Holding: Political spending is a form of protected speech under the First Amendment, and 👉the government may not keep corporations or unions from spending money to support or denounce individual candidates in elections.👈 While corporations or unions may not give money directly to campaigns, they may seek to persuade the voting public through other means, including ads, especially where these ads were not broadcast.
Judgment:
Reversed, 5-4, in an opinion by Justice Anthony Kennedy on January 21, 2010. in a 5-4 decision with an opinion written by Justice Kennedy. Justice Stevens dissented, joined by Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, and Sotomayor.
Building on Buckley v. Valeo, which held that spending money can be critical to exercising the freedom of speech, the majority also ruled that corporations have First Amendment rights and can spend money to exercise them. The Court overruled precedents that restricted political spending by unions and corporations during elections, finding that they were constitutionally permitted to support or oppose candidates, as long as they did not contribute to their campaigns or parties directly. As a result, the section of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act that banned independent expenditures by corporations and unions was unconstitutional. It appeared that the majority used a heightened standard of review, similar to strict scrutiny. Kennedy noted that the government does not have the authority to level the playing field among speakers such that each speaker has equal access to the public. He used a vision of the First Amendment as protecting the marketplace of ideas from intrusion by the legislature, even if that intrusion was based on concerns of fairness. He was not persuaded that corporations would corrupt the marketplace of ideas by flooding it with speech that they supported because of their funding advantages. Kennedy felt that corruption was limited to quid pro quo exchanges and that all citizens should be able to make their own judgments on whether certain information is valuable, without having some information removed from the marketplace of ideas in advance. However, the majority held that provisions of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act that required disclosure of who funded the speech were valid here, although they might not be valid in all instances.
A PAC is an entity formed by individuals, organizations, corporations, or unions to raise funds to help influence elections.They impact elections because they can donate to candidates and campaigns (within defined limits) and conduct independent expenditures (without limits) to help support the election or defeat of candidates.
PACs endorse and financially support specific candidates and causes. Individuals and corporations donate to the PAC, then the committee donates the pooled funds to political campaigns or uses them to create political ads, perform field work, or do other election-related activities.
PACs can also conduct independent expenditures (sometimes called IEs). The FEC defines an independent expenditure as“an expenditure for a communication, such as an advertisement through a website, digital device, application, advertising platform, newspaper, TV or direct mail” that expressly advocates for the election or defeat of a candidate and “is not made in consultation or cooperation with, or at the request or suggestion of” a candidate, their authorized agents, or a political party or its agents…
The purpose of PAC fundraising must be to impact elections. PACs raise funds to influence elections in a few ways. They can do so by:
Donating directly to political campaigns for any local, state, or federal office (*traditional PACs only, Super PACs cannot)
Paying for political advertisements on TV, social media, or other communication channels (*as long as these advertisements are not made in cooperation with the candidate or at their request — check with your relevant election authority to ensure compliance with relevant laws)
Financing get out the vote (GOTV) initiatives to help turn out voters for important candidates or causes
Essentially, PACs raise funds to attain more political power and use it to influence elections in ways that align with the group’s ideals and goals.
Super PACs are a relatively new type of committee that arose following the July 2010 federal court decision in a case known as SpeechNow.org v. Federal Election Commission.
Technically known as independent expenditure-only committees, super PACs may raise unlimited sums of money from corporations, unions, associations and individuals, then spend unlimited sums to overtly advocate for or against political candidates. Unlike traditional PACs, super PACs are prohibited from donating money directly to political candidates, and their spending must not be coordinated with that of the candidates they benefit. Super PACs are required to report their donors to the Federal Election Commission on a monthly or semiannual basis — the super PAC’s choice — in off-years, and monthly in the year of an election.
As of March 19, 2025, 2,502 groups organized as super PACs have reported total receipts of $5,096,825,517 and total independent expenditures of $2,688,997,939 in the 2023-2024 cycle...
On March 26, 2010, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals held that the provisions of the Federal Election Campaign Act that limit the contributions that individuals may make to SpeechNow.org, and the contributions that SpeechNow.org may accept from them, violate the First Amendment. Background
SpeechNow is a nonprofit, unincorporated association organized as a section 527 entity under the Internal Revenue Code. The organization was formed by individuals who seek to pool their resources to make independent expenditures expressly advocating the election or defeat of federal candidates. SpeechNow plans to accept contributions only from individuals, not corporations or other sources prohibited under the Act. The individual plaintiffs wish to contribute to SpeechNow, both in federally permissible amounts and in amounts exceeding the federal limits… The plaintiffs contend that the Act unconstitutionally restricts their association guaranteed under the First Amendment. By requiring registration as a political committee and limiting the monetary amount that an individual may contribute to a political committee, SpeechNow and the other plaintiffs assert that the Act unconstitutionally restricts the individuals’ freedom of speech by limiting the amount that an individual can contribute to SpeechNow and thus the amount the organization may spend. SpeechNow also argues that the reporting required of political committees is unconstitutionally burdensome.
The plaintiffs asked the court to find the contribution limits, reporting requirements and political committee registration requirements unconstitutional as applied to their proposed activities. The plaintiffs also requested that the court preliminarily and permanently enjoin the FEC from enforcing these provisions against SpeechNow and the individual plaintiffs….
Super PACs (independent expenditure only political committees) and Hybrid PACs (political committees with non-contribution accounts)
Super PACs (independent expenditure only political committees) are committees that may receive unlimited contributions from individuals, corporations, labor unions and other PACs for the purpose of financing independent expenditures and other independent political activity.
Hybrid PACs (political committees with non-contribution accounts) solicit and accept unlimited contributions from individuals, corporations, labor organizations and other political committees to a segregated bank account for the purpose of financing independent expenditures, other ads that refer to a federal candidate, and generic voter drives in federal elections, while maintaining a separate bank account, subject to all the statutory amount limitations and source prohibitions, that is permitted to make contributions to federal candidates…
So the result of all these different moves is that a transnational corporation (or union) can now contribute unlimited funds to influence US elections as long as they have an ‘office or affiliate’ in the USA and thus claim to not be a ‘foreign entity.’ And even with all this maneuvering POTUS Trump STILL WON!
So the cabal had to escalate to a Color Revolution.
I was going to write about NGOs, but the info in Monday’s comments changed my mind. Given the situation I will write about NGOs next week instead. I was going to add them but it doubled the length of the article.
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It’s quite literally a color revolution. The democracy playbook people like Norm Eisen or Gene Sharp don’t like breaking it out into explicit stages because it implies that color revolutions aren’t organic. So I had to assemble it from scratch using their own writings. Here are the steps, and they’re trying to do Step 6:
patfrederick then brought this:
A few other GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term.
Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
“This entire White House team has treated ALL members like garbage. ALL. And Mike Johnson… https://t.co/QH2Ewwx5qv
Do not forget that The CIA orchestrated the US wars against regimes (called communist) that resisted the Oligarchs rape of their natural resources and enslavement of their people.
I wrote that thinking ofGuatemala’s overthrow by the CIA at the request of United Fruit and IranContra. Also based on the information from Colonel Towner.
Stalin denial is as bad a look at Holocaust denial. Maybe worse!
Not saying these oligarchs are good guys. But the Castro regime – way worse, IMO.
Street scene, Havana. Arien Chang Castán
Actually I have not thought much about Cuba except for the Cuban mathematician I worked with, Baby Castro installed in British controlled Canada, and the CIA proposed False Flag using Cubans that probably got JFK killed.
One question is: Were the Brits involved with installing Castro?
Let’s start with the origin of communism.
I will go with Promethean Action’s take. You can trace it back to the British Empire/globalist cartel.
…Richard Poe, among other researchers, identifies the hand behind these actions as the British, courtesy of MI6 and
GCHQ, who have all the skills. The British oligarchy, the City of London, in bed with their secret services, have been, he believes, for two centuries and counting seeding revolution and chaos in every country, in order to maintain their dominance of the financial markets. The British,
he says, created the Muslim Brotherhood and the jihadi movement in order to profit off war and oil in the Mideast. All that money western nations send to the ME is harvested by the globalist gang. The Ukraine war, too, is yet another attempt of the British to destroy Russia, something they have been doing for centuries, and of course and always to loot America’s public funds. Little wonder “the Anglo-Saxon” is the term used to delineate evil in Russia. Yes, of course elements of the Jewish community are all in, and of course it is coordinated across all intelligence agencies most importantly, the CIA. But the British invented it. They are the GOAT….
The Untold Story of Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, MI6, and the Russian Revolution
Greedy for power and Persian oil fields, King George V of England (right) plotted the overthrow of his cousin Tsar Nicholas II (left).
SUMMARY: Was the Bolshevik Revolution fake? Was Lenin’s 1917 coup little more than a “color revolution,” a staged event, orchestrated by foreign intelligence services? Strong evidence suggests that it was. In the 1920s, prominent Russian exiles accused Great Britain of plotting the Tsar’s downfall. George Buchanan, British ambassador to Russia from 1910 to 1918, devoted 16 pages of his 1923 memoir to denying this charge. But the charge was true. The British secret services had destabilized Russia, just as they had previously destabilized France in 1789. They had infiltrated and weaponized the Bolsheviks, just as they had previously weaponized the Jacobin movement against Louis XVI. While the Tsar was technically Britain’s ally in World War I, British elites feared that a victorious Russia would threaten Britain’s global dominance. Bolshevism provided the solution, demolishing the Tsar’s once-mighty empire, and plunging Russia into chaos and civil war. — RICHARD POE
“THIS MOVEMENT among the Jews is not new,” wrote Winston Churchill. “From the days of … Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky… this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation… has been steadily growing.”1
Churchill was talking about communism.
It was February 8, 1920. As Churchill wrote, all eyes were on Russia, where Bolsheviks and anti-Bolsheviks— “Reds” and “Whites”—were battling for control of the country.
Before it was over, some 10 million people would die in the Russian Civil War, mostly civilians, and mostly from disease, famine, and mass atrocities on both sides. From this slaughter, the world’s first communist state would emerge.2
Churchill blamed it all on a “worldwide conspiracy” of Jews.
In a full-page article in London’s Illustrated Sunday Herald, Churchill wrote: “There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews. … [T]he majority of the leading figures are Jews. Moreover, the principal inspiration and driving power comes from the Jewish leaders. … Litvinoff… Trotsky… Zinoviev… Radek—all Jews.”
Churchill declared that the subversive role of “Jewish revolutionaries… in proportion to their number in the population” was “astonishing,” not only in Russia, but throughout Europe…
From Winston Churchill to the Rolling Stones, Cuba has hosted its fair share of famous Britons over the years. But the first official royal visit by the Prince of Wales and his wife the Duchess of Cornwall in 2019 heralds an important shift in Her Majesty’s Government’s longstanding policy towards the island.
Until recently, little had changed since 1898, when the US intervened to end Spanish colonial rule in Cuba and Britain largely surrendered to growing US dominance in the Caribbean sphere. But Britain’s soft power play today indicates an alignment with Barack Obama’s 2014 diplomatic re-engagement with the island, rather than Donald Trump’s rolling back of this initiative. Obama judged the 54-year-long US trade blockade a failure, and ordered the unfreezing of Cold War-era policy….
With other Western countries exploiting economic openings in Cuba – and Britain keen to compete with them more openly – does only Trump’s administration stand in the way?…
An analysis of Cuba’s history from a British diplomatic perspective during the period of US political and economic domination, from 1898 to 1964. It investigates how Britain attempted to protect its trade and other interests in the island, whilst always sensitive to the reactions of its most important ally, the United States.
Sir Winston Churchill visita Cuba en Febrero de 1946. Invitado por el Presidente de la República Ramón Grau San Martín y su Primer Ministro Carlos Prío Socarrás.
One question. Cuba is a small (42,800 sq mi, about the size of VA) supposedly impoverished island. WHERE ARE ALL THE FUNDS TO OVER THROW GOVERNMENTS COMING FROM??
… At the Cuban Revolution of 1953–1959, during the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, Cuba was on a growth trajectory within Latin America….
Support from Venezuela
Venezuela is the largest trading partner to Cuba and is widely considered to be systemically important to the Cuban economy.[112][113] Since the 1990s, the two nations have shared a close relationship and have maintained strong economic collaboration.[114][115] Initial trading was centered on exchanging Venezuelan oil for visiting Cuban doctors in a form of medical diplomacy.[116][117] Venezuelan investors are the only foreign investor allowed to hold 100% ownership in businesses, with all other foreign investors requiring joint investment with Cuba. According to Carmelo Mesa-Lago, a Cuban-born U.S. economist, in nominal terms, the Venezuelan subsidy is higher than the subsidy which the Soviet Union gave to Cuba.[113] In 2012, Venezuela accounted for 20.8% of Cuba’s GDP, while Cuba only accounted for roughly 4% of Venezuela’s.[118] The Venezuelan economy has been in complete collapse since 2010, hampering its ability to support Cuba.[119][120]
Support from the Soviet Union, Russia and China are also detailed. Cuba is the dark blue line.
In 1954, Operation PBSuccess dismantled Guatemala’s newfound democracy — so that an American fruit company could continue to profit off the old government’s corruption.
Throughout the early 20th century, an American multinational corporation called the United Fruit Company — now known as Chiquita Brands International — controlled vast swaths of Guatemalan land and production. Aided by a corrupt autocracy, it received little pushback over decades of economic exploitation.
But in the 1940s, a democratic revolution and calls for justice threatened to undermine United Fruit’s position. So the company leveraged its powerful connections inside the White House — painting the new Guatemalan government as a dangerous Communist administration in the process…
John Foster Dulles and Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1955.
United Fruit couldn’t sit by and wait. It needed the support of the American government to stop Arbenz.
This was the 1950s — the early years of the Cold War — and so United Fruit began a strategy that framed Guatemala as a Communist foe in the U.S. press.
Their mission was helped by the company’s connections. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was a former lawyer for United Fruit. His brother Allen Dulles, the director of the CIA, was formerly on United Fruit’s Board of Directors. And the company’s PR Executive, Ed Whitman, was married to President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s personal secretary, Ann Whitman.
United Fruit didn’t need to push hard. Eisenhower was eager to show the world his anti-Communist credentials. Under Eisenhower’s orders, the CIA began crafting Operation PBSuccess in August 1953…
To achieve this goal, the CIA recruited a disgruntled ex-Arbenz military officer named Carlos Castillo Armas. Armas rallied anti-government sentiment and pieced together an army of a few hundred men, supplied and supported with U.S. equipment and intelligence under Operation PBSuccess.
On June 18, 1954, Armas and his men attacked with the help of logistical support from the U.S. The CIA began by launching a propaganda campaign, warning the Guatemalan public and Arbenz that a major invasion was underway, setting up a clandestine radio station that jammed Guatemalan signals and flooded the airwaves with greatly exaggerated messages.
…The CIA’s psychological warfare succeeded. Panic overtook the capital and Arbenz’s supporters began losing faith. And when he attempted to raise his own militia, only a few hundred civilians showed up.
On June 27, 1954, just nine days later, Arbenz resigned. He sought asylum at the Mexican embassy and later fled the country….
Nixon and the People’s Republic of China: CIA’s Support of the Historic 1972 Presidential Trip
This collection marks the 50th anniversary of President Richard M. Nixon’s February 1972 trip to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) – a landmark event that preceded the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. This small collection, consisting of three city guides, an atlas, and four leadership profiles, is a subset of the materials CIA produced for President Nixon and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger in preparation for the seven-day visit...
NEW YORK HER TR U-Nu Approved For Release 2003/ 4 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000100130016-0 JUL 3, 1964 By Barnard L.. Collier
Latin American Correspondent WASHINGTON.
Premier Fidel Castro’s sister, Juana, who defected to Mexico on June 20, had been in contact with Central In-telligence Agency operatives for nearly four year*, the Herald Tribune learned yesterday.
And , Premier Castro’s brother, Raul, his trusted No. 2 man as War Minister in the Communist regime, protected Juana from the bearded dictator’s wrath [for . all that tie and then.] paved the way for her flight to Mexico City while Premier Castro , was ~ away from Havana.
In Havana on Wednesday, night Premier Castro told newsmen that Juana’s deection was indeed. ‘a blow. “This incident to me personally is very bitter and profoundly painful. But I understand this is the price of being a revolutionary.”
Highly ‘placed intelligence sources here yesterday confirmed that she had been instrumental in spiriting at least 200 Cubans out…
The full page word jumble is way too hard to make into an intelligent transcript, however you are welcome to try. (Is this mess of the CIA files purposeful? Inquiring minds would like to know.)
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IMPORTANT!
Compare what is said in this documentary (8 minutes) to what is happening today in the USA.
How Eddie Bernays, the United Fruit Company, and the CIA overthrew the Guatemalan Government
Excerpt from Adam Curtis’ BBC documentary, “Century of Self,” detailing Eddie Bernays’ influence in helping United Fruit and the CIA overthrow the democratically elected leader of Guatemala.
IMPORTANT EXCERPTS FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
… influence of the Freud family in America was about to grow even more politicians were about to turn to Anna Freud cousin Edward Bernays for help in a time of crisis he was going to manipulate the inner feelings and fears of the masses to help America’s politicians fight the Cold War….
…at this point Edward Bernays was living in New York in the 1920s he had invented the profession of public relations and was now one of the most powerful PR men in America he worked for most of the major corporations and advised politicians including President Eisenhower like his uncle Sigmund Bernays was convinced that human beings were driven by irrational forces the only way to deal with the public was to connect with their unconscious desires and affairs Bernays argued that instead of trying to reduce people’s fear of communism one should actually encourage and manipulate the fear but in such a way as it became a weapon in the Cold War rational argument was fruitless what my father understood about groups is that they are manipulandum arable and that that you can tap into their deepest desires or their deepest fears and use up to your own purposes I don’t think you felt that all those public’s out there had reliable judgment that they very easily might vote for the wrong man or want the wrong thing so that they had to be guided from above one of the bonuses main clients was the giant United Fruit Company they owned vast banana plantations in Guatemala in Central America…
…taking United Fruit again as a commercial client out of the picture and making it look like a question of American democracy American values being threatened in reality árbenz was a Democratic Socialist with no links to Moscow but Bernays set out to turn him into a communist threat to America..
…with the United Fruit Company the CIA trained and armed rebel army and found a new leader for the country called Colonel Armas the CIA agent in charge was Howard hunt later one of the Watergate burglars what we wanted to do was have a terror campaign to terrify our beds particularly terrify his troops …just rendered everybody paralyzed as planes flown by CIA pilots dropped bombs on Guatemala City Edward Bernays carried on his propaganda campaign in the American press he was preparing the American population to see this as the liberation of Guatemala by freedom fighters for democracy
He totally understood that the coup would happen when the public and the press, when conditions in the public & in the press allowed for [it] to happen And he created those conditions He was totally savvy in terms of just what he was helping create there, in terms of this overthrow but ultimately he was reshaping reality reshaping public opinion in a way that’s undemocratic and manipulative. On June 27th 1954 Colonel Arbenz fled the country and Armas arrived as the new leader within months Vice President Nixon visited Guatemala in an event staged by United fruits PR department it was shown piles of Marxist literature that had been found it was said in the presidential palace.… [FBI photos of classified docs at Mar-a-logo anyone? – GC]
Now compare that to what Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda from Promethean Action is telling us. H/T scott467(@scott467)
British Empire’s Psy-War Against MAGA: How They’re Trying to Stop Trump’s Peace
“In this episode, Barbara Boyd discusses President Trump’s peace plan for the Russia-Ukraine war and its monumental implications. The proposed plan may lead to the end of the British Financial Empire and spark a new human Renaissance.
Trump’s realist approach centers on acknowledging ground realities and working toward Ukrainian sovereignty and rebuilding. The script also highlights Trump’s criticism of the Washington status quo and the psychological warfare against MAGA supporters. Vice President Vance’s insights on MAGA’s challenges and the economic strategies are also examined. Boyd delves into the economic and geopolitical ramifications of the peace plan, including infrastructural projects like the Bering Strait Tunnel and the potential collapse of NATO. ”
Tucker and MTG have fallen into a British imperial trap—the same one used for centuries to pit patriots against their own interests. Trump’s foreign policy IS his domestic policy. You can’t rebuild America while the Empire controls global trade.
The Monday Brief – British Intelligence Lures the Young to Kill Trump’s Revolution – November 17, 2025
As Trump’s economic policies finally deliver real gains to working Americans, British intelligence has launched a new operation—targeting Gen Z and MAGA’s youth wing. We expose the regime change playbook aimed at splintering the movement that shocked the establishment in 2024.
Finally we have yesterday’s longer video which I wished had continued much longer than it did.