It's gangster nation as we threaten seizures of countries like Greenland, Columbia, Cuba, and so on...as we dictate with whom other countries are allowed to trade or associate...as we threaten the conquest of Iran...as we steal tankers in international waters...and sanction and tariff much of the world. Not to mention the gangsterism here at home, using ICE to kill or imprison anyone that doesn't submit, and targeting anyone who speaks out for Palestine. These are dark times at the end of empire. We're watching the collapse of dollar dominance, and the slow, slow, then sudden crash of our economy. We have a $7 trillion interest payment due just before midterms, and no one wants to buy US bonds. Folks, this country is going down the tubes, and quite frankly, given our behavior, it is for the best. However, to paraphrase Larry Wilkerson, "a dying elephant can do a good deal of damage thrashing around in death pangs".

I think "the Don" is merely a puppet who enjoys bullying, and is a master of reality TV. It is my opinion, the CIA/FBI/NSA have long been the real government in the shadows funding itself with arms trade, drug pushing, human trafficking, blackmail, and more. The organization is literally outside the law. It is a gangster organization and as a result we are a gangster nation.

What law, I ask. Is there any? We no longer adhere to the constitution, nor the international order we created when we drafted the UN Charter. They no longer apply if the law impedes our gangster goals.

The CIA, FBI, and NSA haven't been investigated since the Church and Pike committees in the 70's. They revealed cointelpro:

One significant revelation was the FBI’s Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO), which involved the surveillance, infiltration, and disruption of political groups, including civil rights organizations and anti-war movements. The FBI employed tactics designed to create internal conflict within these groups, frequently violating First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly.

and more...

The Committee also detailed Operation HTLINGUAL, an extensive CIA and FBI mail opening operation that ran from the 1950s to 1973. This program involved the interception, opening, and photographing of over 215,000 pieces of mail, primarily correspondence between the United States and the Soviet Union. The committee also exposed Project MKULTRA, a mind-control research program involving the surreptitious administration of drugs, such as LSD, to unknowing U.S. citizens for human experimentation.

and more...

The most sensational finding involved the CIA’s participation in assassination plots targeting foreign leaders, including Cuba’s Fidel Castro and the Congo’s Patrice Lumumba. The report concluded that these actions served as a major impetus for the subsequent, concrete prohibition on political assassinations by U.S. intelligence agencies.

The Pike committee had a different approach...

The House investigation focused less on the illegalities of the past and more on the intelligence community’s operational effectiveness and budget oversight. The Pike Committee’s findings highlighted significant intelligence failures where the agencies possessed information but failed to synthesize or communicate it effectively to policymakers. The committee found that the intelligence community often failed to predict or inform the executive branch about significant global events.
The investigation also scrutinized the intelligence budget, finding evidence of waste and a general lack of financial accountability, as the budget was largely hidden from Congressional view. The committee concluded that existing oversight mechanisms were inadequate to monitor the vast expenditures and activities of the intelligence agencies.

It was about this time we learned of Operation Mockingbird.

I agree with Tulsi, Operation Mockingbird is alive and well, and explains why the American people are so misinformed. In fact I bet cointelpro is on going as well. The fact is these three letter agencies have not been investigated for over 50 years.

We know they are active in stirring up conflicts and chaos around the world. Trump came right out and told us the CIA was in Venezuela working to take out Maduro. Brian Berletic has a recent video with sources:
US Media Admits CIA Attacking Russia During "Peace" Talks (36 min)
While the United States government poses as “pursuing peace” with Russia regarding the ongoing war in Ukraine, it is now admitted that the US is overseeing a “supercharged” campaign targeting “Russian oil facilities and tankers” aimed at crippling Russia’s economy and its fighting capacity.
US intelligence helps Ukraine target Russian energy infrastructure, FT reports
...and it isn't just the CIA, et al but also the stink tanks like Rand...

The purpose of the project was to examine a range of possible means to extend Russia. By this, we mean nonviolent measures that could stress Russia’s military or economy or the regime’s political standing at home and abroad. The steps we posit would not have either defense or deterrence as their prime purpose, although they might contribute to both. Rather, these steps are conceived of as measures that would lead Russia to compete in domains or regions where the United States has a competitive advantage, causing Russia to overextend itself militarily or economically or causing the regime to lose domestic and/or international prestige and influence. This report deliberately covers a wide range of military, economic, and political policy options.

These projects are long term. TPTB have been after Ukraine since the end of WWII. The plan to end the Chavismo movement in Venezuela started with the beginning of the movement. And Cuba's been in our sight since it's revolution decades ago.

I'm adding this clip which makes today's point and which I meant to include:
Pepe Escobar: Trump, Greenland, NATO Collapse & Global Power Shock

(23 min) The first half they discuss our mafia behavior over Grennland, and then Pepe asks Nima to describe his current experience in Iran. Both parts are insightful.

If you missed Jeff's discussion of US regime change last week it is worth watching. This week with the Judge he also recounts the US Modus Operandi.

(22 min) Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : Trump's Illegal and Reckless Invasion

Here one more with Jeff and the Duran. Another excellent discussion.

(51 min) Europe-Russia, two-century failure w/ Jeffrey Sachs
He discusses the loss of law and the origins of Russia hate.

Doug Macgregor discusses our idiotic march to war.

(25 min) COL. Douglas Macgregor: Trump Is Sleepwalking Into Another War

Max Blumenthal: Venezuela - Deal-Making, Plunder & the Rule of Law

(44 min) Max Blumenthal discusses the US attack on Venezuela and the subsequent deal-making, plunder and abandonment of the rule of law.
This recent article in the Grayzone gives an example of CIA dirty tactics.
Spook Story: Ex-US amb. to Venezuela monetizes coup-plotting alongside former CIA officials

While he pushes a US war on Venezuela in the media, Story is also monetizing his coup-plotting experience by soliciting clients for a series of consulting firms, where he works alongside top former CIA officials who orchestrated destabilization operations inside Venezuela.

One more article from Max...
Behind the DOJ’s politicized indictment of Maduro: a CIA-created ‘network’ and coerced star witness

The US Department of Justice indictment of Venezuela’s kidnapped leader, Nicolas Maduro, is a political rant that relies heavily on coerced testimony from an unreliable witness. Despite DOJ edits, it could expose more Americans to the CIA’s own history of drug trafficking.

Their fingerprint are all over most of our illegal activities.

This week the oil execs were cool to the idea of oil production by their companies in Venezuela.
Exxon says Venezuela is "Un-Investible." Here's Why (25 min, but 10 min will give you the big idea...investment vs return))
US oil executives trooped to the White House Friday for a meeting with President Donald Trump and key cabinet members. Trump wants the company to rebuild Venezuela's shattered oil industry. The CEOs were not enthusiastic. Energy economist Ed Hirs explains why.

Hey don't worry, we're restrained by Trumps morality...

President Trump said his “own morality” guides his decisions on foreign intervention in an interview published Thursday, following weeks of scrutiny for U.S. strikes overseas.
“Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me,” Trump told the The New York Times on Wednesday night when asked if there were any limits on his international power.
“I don’t need international law,” he said. “I’m not looking to hurt people.”
His remarks follow U.S. attacks on groups in Venezuela, Yemen, Syria, Somalia, Nigeria, Iraq and Iran over the course of the first year of his second term.

Boy that provides some comfort doesn't it? We are a lawless rogue nation, and the rest of the world sees it.

As to Ukraine...
Larry Johnson: End of Negotiations & Launch of Oreshnik

(51 min) Larry Johnson is a former intelligence analyst at the CIA who also worked at the US State Department's Office of Counterterrorism. Johnson discusses provocations, end of negotiations and launch of the Oreshnik.
Russia Goes Oreshnik Again
I don’t know if this is Russia’s promised retaliation for the failed 91-drone attack on December 28, 2025, but the Oreshnik was unleashed for the first time since its debut in 2024, and with devastating effect. Preliminary reports state that the Oreshnik hit the Bilche-Volitsko-Uhersky underground gas storage facility, which has a storage capacity of 17.05 billion cubic meters, which is more than 50% of the total capacity of all storage facilities in Ukraine.">I don’t know if this is Russia’s promised retaliation for the failed 91-drone attack on December 28, 2025, but the Oreshnik was unleashed for the first time since its debut in 2024, and with devastating effect. Preliminary reports state that the Oreshnik hit the Bilche-Volitsko-Uhersky underground gas storage facility, which has a storage capacity of 17.05 billion cubic meters, which is more than 50% of the total capacity of all storage facilities in Ukraine.
I think the EU also had a good bit of gas in this facility.

Our actions abroad tend to come back home. Federal troops on the streets and no holds barred.

(21 min) Aaron Maté : When Law Dies, Freedom Follows - MURDER in Minneapolis

MTG resigns and recounts her last day...

(13 min) My Last Day in Congress - Here's What Really Happened to MAGA

Despite our troubles at home, there's other global strategies at work...
Eric Li: “The West Has No Idea What’s Coming…”
(This presentation by Li has been removed from YouTube. I saw it earlier this week)
This is a summary...(9 min)
China’s rise in the global economic order is often discussed in terms of statistics and superlatives—but in this wide-ranging and provocative lecture, the speaker lays bare the ideological rift at the heart of globalization’s contradictions. While both China and the United States reaped immense wealth during the globalization boom, only one country saw that wealth uplift its broader population. China, the speaker argues, grew its GDP nearly tenfold and raised median income eightfold, all while rejecting liberal democracy and market capitalism. Meanwhile, the U.S. economy also expanded significantly, but its median incomes stagnated or declined. Where did the gains go? According to this perspective, they were captured by capital, not labor—fueling widespread disillusionment from Paris to the American heartland.
This video explores China’s alternative model: a state-driven system where political authority remains firmly above capital, in stark contrast to Western capitalist democracies. The speaker contends that China’s success stems not from conforming to the global liberal order but from rejecting it, offering a model of “globalization without globalism”—one that prizes national sovereignty, cultural integrity, and infrastructure-led development. From the Belt and Road Initiative to anti-corruption campaigns and poverty alleviation, the talk outlines how China has navigated crises that were expected to derail it and is now transitioning toward higher-value industries amid structural challenges. Meanwhile, Western nations—faced with internal discontent and elite backlash—appear to be dismantling the very global institutions they once championed.

In his speech he argues in the west, capital returns go to those holding capital, whereas in China capital returns are used to improve the life of Chinese citizens. This is a result of long term central planning which the west doesn't address.

I did find a presentation by him on Rumble.
Eric Li : "This Mistake Will DESTROY America For Decades... "

Eric Li : "This Mistake Will DESTROY America For Decades... " (15 min)
Why the obsession with elections? Election has not served America well for a long, long time.
The USA as a Western colonial imperialist government can never change its colonial behaviour. All they know is always lecture other country but can never practice themselves. Hypocrite and double standards.

Jiang Xueqin: Predictions for 2026 - Empire, Rivalry & Collapse

(60 min) Prof. Xueqin Jiang argues that both historical patterns and game theory can be used to accurately predict future events. Prof. Jiang outlines his predictions for 2026: Great power rivalry, economic competition and collapse, civil war etc. Prof. Jiang is the host of the popular educational channel Predictive History

Let's begin the wrap with a laugh... Alex Clown World of the Year Awards.

(44 min)

Well there's too much going on in the world to cover in one edition of the WW. We didn't touch on the on going Gaza genocide nor the upcoming strike on Iran. The theme of CIA crime I only slightly scratched the surface. It is my hypothesis that in the same way that the elite created the Fed to enrich the banksters (excellent documentary at the link), they also created the CIA to be their undercover Mafia. Remember the elite approaching Smedley Butler to coup FDR? It is my belief these same elite made sure to get rid of Henry A Wallace as FDR's VP and install a pliable Harry Truman in order to both drop the Bomb (which was not necessary) AND to create the CIA...both of which he did. Truman later expressed his regret at creating the CIA. The next President Eisenhower warned us, and JFK threatened to bust the CIA into a thousand pieces. We all know the result of that threat (combined with his desire to require Israel to register as a foreign agency). So my tenet is that we have a shadow government answering to no one...a rogue force dragging the US into an abyss from which we may not emerge.

I want to post one more message so as not to end on such a sour note. The 2025 report from White Oak Pastures...

(4 min) We have so much to be grateful for: the livestock that feeds us, the land that feeds them, and the community to keeps it going. Thank YOU for allowing us to continue this work.
Happy New Year from our farm to your family!

Have a good Sunday. Any and all comments and topics are welcome.