U.S. Military Invade Venezuela, Capture and Extradite President Nicolas Maduro – 11:00am Press Conference Expected


Posted originally on CTH on January 3, 2026 | Sundance | 

As video of U.S. military operations inside Venezuela began to surface on social media, President Donald Trump has announced that overnight the U.S. military carried out a “large scale strike” against Venezuela and captured President Nicolas Maduro.

[Via Truth Social]

Glenn And Jenny Story On Why We Can’t Let Islam Get A Foothold in Texas Like It Already Has A Foothold In NYC With Mamdani


Posted originally on Rumble on Bannon War Room on: January 2, 2026

MIKE DAVIS: Jack Smith’s Testimony Proves That Joe Biden And Merrick Garland Picked The Right Prosecutor To Try To Take Out President Trump. This Guy Is A Rabid Left-Wing Ideologue; His Legal Career Should Have Been Long Finished


Posted originally on Rumble on Bannon War Room on: January 2, 2026

TODD WOOD: The Youth In Iran Have Nothing To Lose; That’s Why They’re Demonstrating In The Streets At The Risk Of Death


Posted originally on Rumble on Bannon War Room on: January 2, 2026

BANNON: The Mullahs Don’t Know How To Run The Iranian Economy. If We Just Leave Them To Their Own Devices, Their Economy Will Crash And The Persian People Will Overthrow The Government Themselves


Posted originally on Rumble on Bannon War Room on: January 2, 2026

Hollywood in 2026?


Posted originally on Jan 3, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |  

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Those who attended the 2025 World Economic Conference know that I have agreed to participate in a Hollywood film on my life. Everything is still in the works. I will provide more information once it becomes available, but I expect big news in the year ahead. Fortune and fame have never allured me or enticed me. I am driven by a passion for knowledge and a quest to share that knowledge with the public in hopes of inspiring a better way to run nation-states. They attempted to silence me I believe at the instructions of the bankers and the Neocons through death and imprisonment but I survived.

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I believe that my oponents have been those who think that they can control the world and reject the idea of cycles because that threatens their power. They want their endless wars and others want to manipulate the markets refusing to understand how market even trade. When they lose money, as they always do, the go to government to be bailed out. They have continually blamed me for their failures insisting I have too much influence rather than admit that their manipulations never succeed. Prime Minister Thatcher instinctively understood cycles. We had conversations about the ultimate demise of the Euro and how a centralized government will always become authoritarian for they confuse the fact of who is really the sovereign – the people or their thirst for power.

I doubt that in my lifetime I will see the fruit of my efforts. That typically comes only after someone has been beamed up. China understands cycles. They are part of their religion. They are strategic and patient and think in terms of generational cycles whereas in the West we expect instantaneous results. To me, it is like the Biblical story of Joseph and the Pharaoh who he warns there will be 7 years of plenty and 7 years of drought. If we understand the cycles, we cannot change them, but prepare and live with them instead of people like Bill Gates who thinks shooting particles into the atmosphere to prevent Global Warming is a good idea never considering the devastation when a volcano erupts and we would all then surely freeze to death.

Connecting the Dots to see the Whole

The Chinese believe in constant change, but with things always moving back to some prior state. This was the understanding of the ancients both in Greece and in Rome. The Dark Age lost that knowledge and even assumed the world was flat. Everything in connected and they saw the wide range of events connecting the dots searching for relationships between things. It is simply impossible to comprehend the world without considering all the fields of science to grasp that understanding of the whole. Because of the Dark Age, we lost all knowledge. It was not until Fibonacci that he resurrected mathematics. In the West, we still live in a simpler version of the world where we focus on a single issue like Global Warming and fail to look at how climate change led to the great migrations for thousands of years. Attila the Hun invaded Europe only because of a major Asin drought. Julius Caesar was actually  asked for help from the some Gauls which were being pushed out by other Gaulic tribes. We arrogantly think we live in a world that is deterministic and we can control it because we think we even know all the rules. Cycle is the study of interconnecting the dots of everything around us so we can at last see the whole.

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“The Forecaster” was blocked in the USA, Switzerland, and the UK to some extent. It was a clever trick when the distributor bought the rights for a country that then refused to show the film. The three places where this took place are strangely where the banks dominate. The bankers and government really hated this film. The producer, Marcus Vetter, even had his studio broken into. Marcus’ cameras were stolen and they searched his hard drives for the footage. Fortunately, he had backup elsewhere. Every dirty trick in the book has been played. In the film, one government employee came forward named Oliver Brown. He states in the movie that the FBI showed up at his home two days before the film crew flew in from Germany. The FBI tried to intimidate him into not appearing in the movie. It has been a difficult task to share my story.

I have also agreed to do an in-depth interview for a sequel documentary on the market manipulations, as press coverage on the matter to the general public is increasing. Even the success of the movie “The Big Short” has helped to raise awareness. Generally, the producers feel my experience in trading mixed with my legal education puts me in a very unique position to explain reality in detail using common sense. Being in the eye of the storm of, perhaps, the greatest attempt to manipulate markets in history, gave me a front-row seat.

Documentary films are respected far more outside the USA, which is why I think doing a major Hollywood production will get the message out that we are screwed. You cannot fix something unless you understand it is broken. So we have to explain the solution to the general public in order for political change to move in the right direction. Otherwise, we are heading into fewer and fewer rights and the rise of authoritarian governments globally. Hopefully, the more we keep pushing this issue, the more we stand a chance of mitigating how hard we fall.

Cup of Destiny

I have more money than I can spend. I do not seek like others to bribe people to do as I desire or to force my understanding upon others no less the world. I was handed this cup of destiny but was given the strength to also endure its travails. This has been my destiny. I never sought this role, but everything I have been through, I also cannot ignore that it must have been for a purpose. I am working diligently to put this all down in the book on the business cycle. This is what I hope to leave behind and for others to improve on in the future.

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Gold vs Fiat


Posted originally on Jan 2, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |  

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QUESTION: Some claim that gold and silver are skyrocketing in terms of fiat currency prices because of the realization that fiat currencies are failing – mainly due to high inflation and unpayable national, corporate and personal debt. All fiat currencies eventually fail. Only precious metals have retained, on average, a consistent purchasing power over the past 6000 years because time and energy cannot be printed out of thin air like fiat currency. I think Zero Hedge refuses to post your comments any more because they are always anti-fiat. I see your point that the metals are no more a store of value than anything else since they too fluctuate. Is fiat currencies not the issue as all the hype claims?

Jeff

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ANSWER: I find that these people who purport that all the evil comes fiat currency as if we returned to gold as money would solve all the problems. They REFUSE to look at history. They seem to think that the debt crisis today is purely because of fiat currencies. For that to be true, then there should be no sovereign defaults previously. That is just not the case. The metals have been rising because of the threat of war and that introduces the risk of what currency survives. Gold decline for 19 years between 1980 and 1999 with the debts rising and the fiat currencies. So that claim does not stand the test of history.

Spain became the richest nation in Europe thanks to wanderings of Columbus. Nonetheless, the amazing Decline and Fall of Spain is perhaps the greatest lesson if someone wishes to write “How NOT to Manage Government For Dummies.” The Spanish became both the richest nation yet the greatest debtor, not that dissimilar from the United States and succeeded in ending up as the poorest and this was all BEFORE fiat currencies or more correctly – paper currencies.

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However, Spain became a serial defaulter beginning in 1557 followed by 1570, 1575, 1596, 1607, and 1647 ending in a 3rd world status without hyperinflation. This was when gold and silver were money well before paper currency. So, obviously fiat had nothing to do with that. Their economic model was one of conquest and plunder, rather than developing domestic industry and a viable economy. The lesson to be learned from Spain is precisely what Adam Smith wrote in his 1776 Wealth of Nations:

“Like an improvident spendthrift, whose pressing occasions will not allow him to wait for the regular payment of his revenue, the state is in the constant practice of borrowing of its own factors and agents, and of paying interest for the use of its own money.”

Look, the problem is NOT what is money, the problem is government and the quest to always spend more than they have. This is true long before paper money appeared in the West during the lat 17th century.

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I understand that there are those who hate my guts because they want to BELIEVE that gold is the only money and that ending central banks and paper money will some how create Utopia. That would only lead to a Dark Age. Money is merely the medium of change. That is all. It began as barter, I will give you a chicken for those vegetables. The real importance of metal becoming the medium of change was that it suddenly allowed for the accumulation of wealth. You could not store barley, or cattle and chickens or potatoes indefinitely.

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The first metal to be used as a medium of exchange was SILVER not gold. Even the Bible has passages about weighing the silver for a transaction. Metal enabled capitalism for suddenly one could accumulate wealth. Once that took place, then excess money enabled investment. Then markets developed. Here is a Babylonian tablet recording a futures contract.

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It does not matter what the medium of exchange might be. It is always on the opposite side of assets. This has been the true for 6,000 years. So your statement that gold has been money for 6,000 years is incorrect. Gold only emerged in coinage during the 7th century BC. Silver predated gold by at least 1,000 years and bronze before that.

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The problem is by no means fiat currency. That is like blaming the gun for killing someone rather than the person pulling the trigger. Gold and silver hold a unique position in the monetary history. They are the same commodity everywhere. Even crude oil has different grades. Gold is the same ine China and India and it is in New York or London. It has been a movable asset unlike real estate. The risk gold and silver now face is capital controls to shut down the flight of capital. This is why platinum is starting to rise against gold for at least platinum has never been the subject of capital restrictions.

Blaming Fiat

Stop blaming fiat and assuming gold will solve everything when the problem is those in power!

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FBI Intercepts Lone Wolf ISIS Attack in Mint Hill, North Carolina


Posted originally on CTH on January 2, 2026 | Sundance 

Earlier today the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina held a press conference to announce the interception of an ISIS inspired terrorist attack in Mint Hill, North Carolina that was planned to be carried out on New Year’s Eve.  Video and Press Release below:

PRESS RELEASE – CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A Mint Hill man that allegedly planned to use knives and hammers to execute a deadly New Year’s Eve attack at a grocery store and a fast food restaurant in support of the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) has been arrested and charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, announced Russ Ferguson, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. The criminal complaint was filed on December 31, 2025, and was unsealed today after Christian Sturdivant, 18, appeared in federal court in Charlotte.

James C. Barnacle, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of the FBI, joins U.S. Attorney Ferguson in making the announcement.

“This successful collaboration between federal and local law enforcement saved American lives from a horrific terrorist attack on New Year’s Eve,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “The Department of Justice remains vigilant in our pursuit of evil ISIS sympathizers — anyone plotting to commit such depraved attacks will face the full force of the law.”

“The accused allegedly wanted to be a soldier for ISIS and made plans to commit a violent attack on New Year’s Eve in support of that terrorist group, but the FBI and our partners put a stop to that,” said FBI Director Kash Patel. “It is essential to work closely with our law enforcement partners and to quickly share information about potential threats, as demonstrated in this case. The message from the FBI is clear—anyone who supports ISIS or other terrorist groups cannot hide and will be held accountable in our justice system.”

[…] According to allegations in the arrest affidavit, on December 18, 2025, the FBI in Charlotte received information that an individual later identified as Sturdivant was making multiple social media posts in support of ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization. In early December 2025, Sturdivant posted an image depicting two miniature figurines of Jesus with the on-screen text that read, “May Allah curse the cross worshipers.” The post is allegedly consistent with ISIS’s rhetoric calling for the extermination of all non-believers, including Christians, Jews, and Muslims who do not agree with ISIS’s extreme ideology.

The criminal complaint alleges that on or about December 12, 2025, Sturdivant began communicating with an online covert employee, or “OC,” whom Sturdivant thought was an ISIS member. Sturdivant told the OC, “I will do jihad soon,” and proclaimed he was “a soldier of the state,” meaning ISIS. On December 14, 2025, Sturdivant allegedly sent an online message to the OC with an image of two hammers and a knife. This is significant because an article in the 2016 issue of ISIS’s propaganda magazine promoted the use of knives to conduct terror attacks in western countries. The same article inspired actual attacks in other countries. Later, Sturdivant told the OC that he planned to attack a specific grocery store in North Carolina. Sturdivant also told the OC about his plans to purchase a firearm to use along with the knives during the attack, according to the arrest affidavit. (read more)

Good Grief – Israeli billionaire Shlomo Kramer Wants End to First Amendment and Anonymous Internet Users


Posted originally on CTH on January 2, 2026 | Sundance

At first, I thought this video had to be a spoof because the promoted viewpoint is, well, bizarre for a westerner to say out loud.  Then I realized this guy isn’t joking – he’s deadly serious.

Billionaire Shlomo Kramer says, “I know it’s difficult to hear, but it’s time to limit the First Amendment in order to protect it.” When asked what that means, Kramer responds, “I mean that we need to control the platforms, all the social platforms. We need to stack rank the authenticity of every person that expresses themselves online and take control of what they are saying based on that ranking.”

When asked by who? “The government should do that, yes.” WATCH:

This is absurd totalitarian thinking.

Every month it becomes more challenging to push back against these insufferable control agents both inside and outside government.  What Shlomo Kramer is advocating for is digital fascism, where private industry collaborates with government to control the flow of information and speech on the internet.

Get stuffed Mr. Kramer!

NewsNation Reporter Finds “Assisted Living” Facility Funded by Millions Is Just a Single-Family Home — Owner Indicted in Feeding Our Future Still Raking in $49M from Minnesota


Published originally on Rumble By The Gateway Pundit on January, 1, 2026