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The second edition of “The Plot to Seize Russia – The Untold History” is now available for purchase in paperback and hardcover on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. The ebook will be available shortly.

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“Take care of Russia,” Boris Yeltsin said as he departed his presidency in August 1999. These words were directed at current Russian president, Vladimir Putin. Yeltsin specifically picked Putin as his predecessor to prevent the takeover of Russia.

So, who was Yeltsin warning against? Newly declassified documents from the Clinton Administration prove that there was a plot to rig the Russian election of 2000. These never-before-seen documents confirm numerous attempts to implement pro-Western policies using the Russian oligarchy headed by Boris Berezovsky.

On the other side were the communists who desired a return to the glory days of the Soviet Union. As one of the largest international hedge fund managers, author Martin Armstrong found himself in the middle of perhaps the greatest espionage, or attempt at a regime change for Russia, in modern history.

The Plot to Seize Russia pulls back the curtain to expose the most extraordinary attempt to seize power in modern history, but with the pen rather than armies. These declassified documents reveal a plot that has altered our thinking about the relations between the United States and Russia. The thirst for power comes seething through every line of these papers that alter our perception of reality, change the course of history, and now threaten us with World War III.

Unemployment in the UK has risen to 5.2%, marking the highest level in nearly five years. This is a cyclical development that reflects a broader decline in economic confidence across Europe and the United Kingdom, which has been building beneath the surface for several quarters.

Governments will inevitably attempt to frame rising unemployment as temporary, yet labor markets are lagging indicators. Employers do not reduce hiring first; they slow investment, cut expansion plans, and only then begin to adjust employment. By the time unemployment begins to rise, the economic cycle has already turned at the margin. This is precisely the sequence we have seen historically during periods of stagnation driven by policy uncertainty and rising cost structures.

The UK economy is particularly vulnerable because it is heavily dependent on services rather than industrial production. When a service-driven economy begins to show labor weakness, it signals that consumer demand, business margins, and forward expectations are all deteriorating simultaneously. This is not the type of labor softening that accompanies a healthy expansion. It is the type that emerges when businesses face higher regulatory burdens, wage pressures, taxation concerns, and an uncertain policy outlook.

From the standpoint of the Economic Confidence Model, labor markets respond after capital flows and investment begin to shift. First, capital hesitates. Second, investment weakens. Third, employment softens. The UK data suggests that the labor market is now catching up to the broader slowdown that has already been visible in investment and business activity.

As unemployment rises, governments typically increase intervention, subsidies, and regulation in an attempt to “protect jobs.” Historically, this approach often backfires because it raises the cost of hiring and further discourages private-sector expansion.

The key point is that unemployment is not merely a domestic statistic. It is tied directly to global competitiveness and capital flows. When regions face higher operational costs, regulatory uncertainty, and declining economic confidence, capital reallocates elsewhere. Employment inevitably follows that shift.

What you are looking at with Canada completing the roughly $9.4 billion Darlington nuclear refurbishment early and under budget is something that completely contradicts the prevailing political narrative about energy policy in the West. The final 878-MW unit is now preparing to return to commercial operation, marking the end of a decade-long rebuild of the four-reactor complex, finished four months ahead of schedule and about $110 million under budget.

A massive nuclear infrastructure project in a Western country was delivered ahead of schedule and under budget. That alone tells you this was treated as a strategic national priority rather than a political talking point.

The refurbishment extends the plant’s operational life by decades and secures over 3,500 megawatts of reliable baseload electricity into at least the mid-2050s. This is the key difference between energy policy driven by engineering reality versus ideological policy driven by climate politics and bureaucratic regulation. Nuclear provides stability. Wind and solar provide volatility unless backed by baseload power.

From a cyclical perspective, this fits directly into what I have written in my reports on energy, sovereign debt, and industrial competitiveness. Nations that secure long-term, reliable energy sources maintain industrial strength. Nations that deliberately dismantle baseload energy in favor of politically fashionable policies inevitably face rising costs, deindustrialization, and declining confidence.

Canada’s approach here is pragmatic. The project began back in 2016 as a long-term refurbishment of all four CANDU reactors, replacing major components and effectively giving the facility another generation of operational life. This is not simply maintenance — it is strategic infrastructure renewal.

Compare this to Europe. The EU has been shutting nuclear plants, imposing Net Zero mandates, and then wondering why industrial production is collapsing and energy costs remain structurally elevated. Energy policy is not separate from economic performance. It is the foundation of it. Germany is the perfect case study of how abandoning nuclear in favor of ideology undermines industrial competitiveness.

What is even more significant is the timing. This project comes as global electricity demand is rising due to electrification, AI infrastructure, and reindustrialization trends. Governments are beginning to realize that intermittent energy cannot sustain modern economies or military readiness. Baseload power is not optional in a geopolitical cycle turning toward fragmentation and potential conflict.

The fact that this refurbishment is being called one of the world’s largest nuclear life-extension projects also signals something deeper: nuclear is returning as a strategic asset. Historically, during periods of geopolitical tension and rising sovereign risk, governments shift toward energy security. That is exactly what the model has been projecting into this 2026–2032 window of rising volatility.

According to the February 2026 Euro indicators data, euro area GDP expanded by just 0.3% in the fourth quarter, matching the previous quarter and underscoring a persistent low-growth environment across the bloc.

Year-over-year growth is hovering around roughly 1.3%, which is hardly a recovery when you consider the massive fiscal expansion, energy disruptions, and regulatory overreach imposed across the EU in recent years. This is exactly the type of sluggish cyclical performance that aligns with a declining confidence model in government policy rather than a normal business cycle expansion.

At the same time, inflation has fallen to 1.7% in January 2026, down from 2.0% in December, with energy prices still contracting and services remaining the primary source of price pressure. On the surface, bureaucrats in Brussels and the ECB will celebrate this as a victory over inflation. But this is where mainstream economics consistently gets it wrong. Disinflation alongside stagnant growth is not true strength.

Services inflation remains elevated while energy prices are negative year-over-year. That reflects structural distortions created by EU energy policy, sanctions, and the forced transition toward Net Zero, which I have repeatedly warned would crush industrial competitiveness across Germany, France, and the broader eurozone. You cannot deindustrialize an economy and then pretend weak inflation is a sign of stability.

Growth is being driven disproportionately by a handful of economies, such as Spain, while core economies like Germany and France remain structurally weak and politically unstable. A monetary union with a one-size-fits-all policy always produces divergence. Strong regions survive; weaker ones stagnate under a centralized monetary policy they cannot control.

From a capital flow perspective, this data reinforces the broader trend we are tracking into the 2026 ECM window. Capital chases stability. When growth is stuck at 0.3% quarterly and inflation is falling below target, global capital begins to question long-term stability. That is precisely how slow capital flight begins.

The ECB is now trapped. With inflation falling below target and growth barely positive, they cannot justify aggressive tightening, yet easing risks further currency instability and capital outflows. This is the classic sovereign debt-cycle dilemma I outlined in Manipulating the World Economy. Central banks do not control the economy; rather, they react to it, and usually too late.

What we are witnessing is not a recovery. The ECM has long projected rising volatility into 2026, and Europe’s data is lining up perfectly with that model.

QUESTION #1: I wrote an article entitled Trump’s Man in Germany; Thou Shalt Not Covet Another Man’ Wealth…..yet  and in this article I mentioned you and posted the documentary done on the injustice in your imprisonment.  Tonight I have reviewed all the court documents I could find on your case and it is quite apparent to me that there is a huge discrepancy between what the prosecutors accused you of and what the CFTC alleges happened through Republic Bank Trading Operation.  You were basically accused of conspiracy yet I cannot find any information that would conclude you did any of the trading on your clients account.

Phil

QUESTION #2: Anna Paulina Luna represents you. Why has she not demanded that the House Judiciary Committee investigate your case when she went to bat for the rapper?

PY

ANSWER: I was NOT managing money for the Japanese. I was buying their portfolios of distressed Japanese stocks and issuing up to a 10-year note to repay at their original cost, covering their losses. The portfolios were down on average 40% in yen. Under Japanese law, you did not have to report investments mark-to-market. You reported a loss only when taken. The Japanese MOF (Ministry of Finance) approved a bailout. They had to review and approve each and every portfolio that I bought. You cannot issue a note in yen without government approval. Each account in the United States was in my name – not a client.

I bought the portfolios with a NOTE in yen that can ONLY be issued with government permission. I would then sell the portfolio, taking the loss for the client, so they did not have to report such devastation. I then converted the cash to dollars and invested in Fannie Maes becoming perhaps the largest invester earning 8% annually, which doubles your money with interest in less than 10 years. The computer also showed the yes would crash so I could revover losses with interest and currency. I was making money of the currency and the interest. Even Republic’s audit showed I was very conservative – opposite of the allegations. The futures were hedging yen at times.

Mark Pittman of Bloomberg News had just written an article on what we were doing in Japan, bailing out companies by buying their portfolios at cost, just a couple of months before. To cover up what the government did, Bloomberg removed Mark from covering my case, deleted all the evidence of what we were really doing, violating, I believe, my civil rights in conspiracy with the government, just as techs did with COVID. Bloomberg would NEVER report the truth. They supported the government in every possible way. I saw how corrupt Bloomberg News really was. This is a letter from Mark Pittman’s wife. Bloomberg even threatened her for using Mark’s stationery to let me know he had died. We use to publish daily reports on Bloomberg. They erase all our previous reports on Blomberg.

My Japanese clients believed that the Japanese government conspired with the US government to shut down our forecasting because we had “too much influence” since in March that year I had forecast that the LDP would lose the election in Japan for the first time since WWII and that forecast was correct. My clients did not believe the Financial Supervisory Administration could make a decimal error turning $1 billion into $10 billion when they audit all financial companies in Japan. That was a lot of money back then since Republic National Bank was bought by HSBC for $10 billion.

In the 1996 New York Magazine ran the story Republic National Bank and Edmund Safra funneling money into Russia entitled the Money Plane. Here is the Congressional Record concerning the issue. Money Plane Congressional Record, Volume 142 Issue 19 (Tuesday, February 13, 1996)

Hermitage Capital Management was a partnership between Edmund Safra and Bill Browder who previously was the right-hand man of Robert Maxwell, the father of Ghislaine Maxwell who was linked to Epstein. Robert Maxwell was part of the club and was linked to Mossad of Israel. They supported the coup to overthrow Gorbachev and was cutting a deal that all Jews in Russia coup then flee to Israel. The coup failed and Yeltsin came to power. Maxwell lost about £200 million on one of the failed market manipulations and he was going to have to testify, which would have exposed the CLUB so he conveniently fell off his yacht and drowned. Bill Browder then went into partnership with Safra still focused on Russia.

Safra was linked with Boris Abramovich Berezovsky and allegedly Vladimir Aleksandrovich Gusinsky, the media tycoon. As the plot was laid out by Russian sources, Yeltsin was convinced to take $7 billion from the IMF funds to refurbish the Kremlin – a staggering amount of money. The funds were wired to a largely unknown company in Switzerland. The wire was steered through Bank of New York and as soon as it was made, Safra had his bank run to the Feds and report that Bank of New York had just conducted a money laundering event. The Feds ran in wide-eyed and of course announced their action to the world before thoroughly investigating the allegations of Safra. I had a personal meeting with Dov Schlien president of Republic National Bank in March 1999 where he asked me to invest $10 billion offering a letter of credit guarantee. I sent an email to Tokyo explaining the offer to our office there with my recommendation to reject it.

It was at this time that THE CONSPIRATORS threatened Yeltsin with exposure of his theft of $7 billion on the world stage. The demand was to appoint Berezovsky as the new President of Russia and for Yeltsin to step down and not run in 2000. Yeltsin, realizing he was set up, turned to Putin who nobody had heard of. As the story goes, Putin promised to take care of everything if Yeltsin appointed him instead, Yeltsin resigned on December 31, 1999, after Safra was killed on December 3rd in Monaco. The Presidential elections were held in Russia on the 26th of March 2000 formally electing Putin.

Berezovsky and Gusinsky fled Russia with their assets confiscated with the former gaining political asylum in Britain and the latter taking off to Israel. I even had a meeting with the Assistant US Attorney in NY in April 2000 about this mess because they ran into huge problems with the whole Bank of New York alleged $7 billion Money Laundering. They could not get any cooperation from the Russian government.

It was Edmond Safra’s Republic National Bank then ran to the US Government in August 1999 and informed them that the Bank of New York had just wired $7 billion to Switzerland in a money laundering scam. The US authorities ran in immediately. The wire was sent to Mabetex, which was the Swiss based company ran by Kosovo/Swiss entrepreneur Behgjet Pacolli who claimed to have the contract to refurbish the Kremlin. He became President of Kosovo in 2011. The Bank of New York broker Lucy Edwards pleaded guilty but did no jail time because she “cooperated” with the government. At her sentencing, the Judge simply asked who was the $7 billion money laundering for? She replied it was a “ransom” for a Russian businessman. The Judge did not bother to even ask any names. The classic cover-up as if anyone would ever pay $7 billion ransom.

Giving the bank the benefit of the doubt, after asking me to invest $10 billion to take over Russia funding Hermitage Capital Management, and I rejected, warning them Russia would collapse, all I can assume is that, receiving this letter, they perhaps judged me by themselves and presumed I took the $10 billion and put it elsewhere. They stole the $1 billion that was there, ran to the government, and said they had no idea where the money was. That would be true concerning the $10 billion. The Federal Reserve went back and asked for clarification because that would be like $100 billion today. Only then did the Japanese FSA, 13 days later, send a correction letter reducing it to $1 billion as if this was an honest decimal error. The bank could not then say sorry, return the $1 billion, and tell the government they had no money whatsoever.

I met with the Receiver, Alan Cohen, and told him the bank stole the money. He said, “We believe the bank.” It is impossible to get $1 billion out of a bank and then say nobody knows where it went. That can only be done by wire. My lawyer, who they removed, Richard Altman, said “You should have run to London.” They would have had to put on a real case to get you back. The accounts were at Republic NY Securities in Philadelphia – NOT New York at Republic Bank. When my case was brought in NYC, my lawyer said of shit. NY practices law differently from any other court in the USA. Boy, did I discover how corrupt they really are.

The government looked at these transactions in dollars and constructively ignored the fact that they were yen transactions. They say the note had a 4% interest rates and looking at it in dollars, they then assumed I paid them 20% instead of 4% and concluded I was OVER PAYING my clients to get more money. They called it a Ponzi scheme, without understanding anything about cross-currency transactions.

When the bank pleaded guilty, suddenly, the government prosecutor Richard D. Owens told a separate court that the transactions were in yen. Yet in my case, he was using dollars. Normally, a receiver gathers the assets to repay the victims. In my case, I had a $400 million profit because the dollar rose and the yen fell from 120 to 68 yen to the dollar. They went to my clients asking them to sign a complaint against me looking that I paid them less dollars than I received. My clients were befuddled and said they were fine since the transactions were in yen, and I had redeemed $2 billion at that point. They then actually told the court I manipulated the Japanese yen to make them “THINK” they made money, since nobody would sign a complaint.

My lawyer pointed out that there were no complaints from any client, only allegations from the bank that stole the money. There was no crime whatsoever on my part. Just these idiots failing to understand the FOREX markets. It was that claim that I manipulated the yen to make my clients think they made money that even opened the eyes of Gretchen Morgenson at the NY Times. She said not even the central banks can do that. These people were prosecutors who did not understand foreign exchange at all.

Death in Monaco _ Vanity Fair 2000

Edmund Safra was killed, I believe buy the CIA, in Monaco. I also knew Dominick Dunne who investigated Safra. He told me that there were bullets found in his body and was being covered up. He also told me he was at a restaurant in Paris and someone walked up and threatened him to be careful what he writes about. They plant to be the head of Russia was Boris Berezovsky, who they claimed committed suicide, but his body guard said he was killed by MI6. Everyone involved was killed, except Bill Browder.

On April 27th, 2000, these government attorneys then realized everything was a lie. I had invoked a speedy trial, trying to get to a jury, and they were not about to let that happen. The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution explicitly guarantees the right to a public trial. They illegally closed the court, altered the transcripts to hide that fact, and threw out the press. The Associated Press was thrown out and reported the illegal “closed hearing,” where they then threw out all my lawyers. They added “some wondering if he can get a fair trial.” This is the Associated Press questioning if an American can get a fair trial in the United States!

When Richard Altman said he would defend me for free, Judge Owen then turned to the government and asked if they were investigating him as part of my conspiracy. They said, of course, lying to the court again. They he could not represent me if he were a co-defendant. No charges were ever filed against Richard.

I had later met a VP of one of the major newspapers in NYC, not Bloomberg, and he told me that when the judge illegally closed the court, threw the Associated Press out, and altered the transcript to hide that fact, they knew I was innocent. And we have the audacity to criticize China or Russia on human rights when they do whatever they want to hide what they have done. Worse yet, not a single member of Congress will dare to ask for an investigation, fearing they will then target them.

They first tried to create a contempt claiming I went to the office, got past their guards, stole all the evidence that proved me guilty, their guards chased me through the parking lot, I assume carrying unknow number of boxes, and I got away. My lawyer, Richard Altman, was a personal friend. He called me and asked if I was crazy, and told me the allegations, and we have a contempt hearing tomorrow. I told him I was in NYC and to call the security company because I would have had to swipe an access card twice to get in. They told him nobody went into that office.

I believe the government was illegally tapping my lawyer’s phone when we went to court, as the Judge is entering the room, the government jumps up and claims there was a mistake. The dribble went on and on, and finally claimed that someone moved boxes from one room to another, but nothing was stolen. Judge Owen then says they dropped the charges, and I was “in good shape.” But when I got the transcript, the 20-minute dribble and outrageous explanation that guards chased me through parking lots was all removed.

When I asked what happened to the transcript, I was told that in NYC, the Judge can alter the court records. If I did that, it would be 5 years in prison.

Transcript after transcript was being altered. Being pro se, I did not have to comply with the same rules as a lawyer. I filed a motion to recuse Judge Richard Owen. When I went to court that day, hundreds of people came. I asked what was going on. The lawyers said it’s you. I asked me? They said, “You cannot accuse a federal judge of committing a felony.” I replied, you all say they do that. He then said, “Yes, but you cannot accuse the judge.” Judge Owen understood I knew what I was doing. A lawyer has to provide a list of witnesses you will call, and the judge has to approve them BEFORE they testify. As pro se, I did not have to comply with these rules. He saw hundreds of people there and had no idea I was going to start calling witnesses.

Judge Owen got scared. He said he altered the transcripts, but he did not recall altering anything material. He refused to recuse himself. I appealed, and of course, the court of appeals claimed they never got it, and I was out of time to appeal. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals acknowledged that judges were altering transcripts. They claimed they lacked the power to tell judges to obey the law. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals refused to ever review anything. The outright violation of law and international human rights meant nothing to any court.

I did an interview with the Japanese Press and asked them to report that the bank stole the money and that they had been coming to New York to file a lawsuit against the bank, or they would never see a dime. They did as I directed. I then met with the lead counsel representing the Japanese, and he said I am terribly sorry for what they are doing to you. You are “collateral damage.” I said, yes, I know. We agree to help each other since we were on the same side.

The government then escorted HSBC into the criminal court to put a Gag Order on me to prevent me from helping my client against the bank. The law demands you MUST help the victims recover their losses. Nothing matters in New York City. It is a vile, corrupt legal system that should be razed to the ground and start over. Since it is a statutory court and ONLY the Supreme Court is constitutionally established, Congress can order the closure and begin anew. But nobody has the guts to reform and make sure citizens actually have constitutional rights.

The prosecutors lied to the courts and me. They seized my company, and I argued that under the Civil Asset Forfeiture Statute, the companies were entitled to a lawyer. Judge Owen denied that motion and said there was NO Civil Asset Forfeiture, and the government remained silent, for they were using a third court to which I was never served to seize all assets, claiming it was a fraud when it was not. Ethically, they should have informed the court that there was a third court and did not deny the companies any lawyers. If they told the truth, the receivership keeping me in contempt was illegal since the SEC could not seize the assets with a receiver that was PREVIOUSLY seized by the DOJ.

I only found out about that after the bank pleaded guilty, since the receiver handed my notes to the bank to redeem, as the Bank then pocketed the $400 million profit I had, and I have suspected everyone got a piece of the action. The bank redeemed the notes at $606 million, keeping my profit of $400 million. The receiver handed them my notes, and the deal was that they had to make all my clients whole. They did, and kept my $400 million profit.

Since all my clients were repaid, legally, I should have been released. The receiver then stood up and claimed that there was another fraud, but there were no charges. So the judge kept me in prison for another 5 years with absolutely no charge of anything. New York became no different than a banana republic.

They then wanted to fire all my employees, 240 in total, and stop all the forecasting, I believe, at the request of the Banks and hedge funds who lost billions on Russia. Even Soros and Bessent lost $2 billion on Russia. Bessent then left Soros.

A client offered to rent the company to keep the forecasting going. They refused and demanded that I turn over the source code to Socrates. With the receiver Alan Cohen being hired by Goldman Sachs directly to their board after getting all the recorded tapes from transactions that would have exposed the bankers inviting me to join in manipulations, I was not about to handover the source code. It would die with me.

I objected to turning over all the tapes, but the judge pretended they might lead to assets they knew the bank stole. Amazingly, the receive Alan Cohen then magickly becomes a board member of Goldman Sachs but continued as the receiver no runn8ing my company from the boardroom of Goldman Sachs.

They protect the banks in NYC, which is why no bankers are ever personally charged for anything, no matter how they blow up the economy routinely. When I asked a lawyer why no bankers are charged, he said: “You don’t shit where you eat!” 

Since the tapes were EXCULPATORY, I was supposed to get copies. When I asked for them, the SEC then claimed that all the evidence in my case was destroyed in the World Trade Center attack. Even the court-appointed lawyer said they have to drop the case now since they claim the files are all gone. Naturally, they never follow the law.

I made a motion before Judge McKenna to compel the government to explain what I was even being charged with. He ordered the government to respond. They went to Chief Judge Michael Bernard Mukasey, and he took my case away from Judge McKenna and sent it to Judge John F. Keenan, who immediately overruled Judge McKenna and said that the motion is denied. He denied all discovery requests and made it clear this was a kangaroo court. The docket sheet was sealed so I cannot even see how they moved my case. Under Due Process, I should have the right to be heard. That was never even an option.

I was told to plead guilty to a conspiracy and face 5 years, or they would imprison me for 120 years. The deal was that I was to be given a Form B pleading, where you get credit for time served. They made it sound like once I pleaded, I would get to go home with the credit for the 7 years of contempt toward the 5-year sentence. Judge Kenan was ruthless. At the start of the hearing, he changed the terms and claimed he did not have the authority to give credit under a Form B pleading, where you get credit for time served. “Form B” is informal shorthand for a specific motion under a section of the U.S. Code (like 18 U.S.C. § 3585(b), which concerns credit for prior custody).

The government wrote the script, and I was not allowed to speak in my own words. The judge’s ultimate role is to determine, based on this entire conversation, that your plea meets the strict legal standards of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11. While the judge will ask you many questions, there is a critical moment where you must speak directly. This is your opportunity to explain to the court why you are guilty. The judge is not just a passive participant; they are the gatekeeper responsible for ensuring your plea is valid. If the judge is not satisfied with any part of the process, they can reject the plea.

Then Judge Kennan went out of his way to accuse me of stealing the idea of Pi for my model from a movie that did not even come out until 1998. They do not even give a shit and expect the press to write whatever they say because they hold the scepter of power. They were claiming notes I sold from 1989 were based on a model I took from a movie 10 years in the future.

I had no restitution since my clients were made whole by the Bank after stealing my $400 million profit in those notes.

The CFTC wanted $30 million in an account to take as a fine. But then the Supreme Court ruled that if you were denied the use of your funds to hire a lawyer of choice, the conviction is AUTOMATICALLY overruled. Because of the Supreme Court ruling in United States v. Gonzalez-Lopez, 548 U.S. 140 (2006), holding that a trial court’s erroneous deprivation of a criminal defendant’s choice of counsel entitles him to reversal of his conviction. There was $30 million in an account that the CFTC wanted as a fine until the Supreme Court ruled that the denial of the use of funds for counsel of choice is an automatic reversal of all proceedings. T, now they freaked out. The client had already been paid. To this day, I believe they just stole the money and have never provided any accounting.

This is a letter from the court-appointed forensic accountant. The Receiver Alan Cohen, Tancred Schiavoni, SEC, and CFTC, withheld exculpatory evidence and refused to ever provide anything to the court-appointed accountant. On the limited review he was able to do on the documents that had been submitted to the court, he concluded I was the victim of the Bank. The number of error trades stuffed into my accounts, I assumed they were parking their bad trades using my money. But after another journalist asked if they were laundering money through my accounts, “as they were doing in Madoff,” made me realize these were not errors. If the error trade was put back to the same account, then it would be an error, but if it went to a different account, then it was money laundering.

I assumed that they were trying to fund their takeover of Russia, still using my accounts, calling them errors. One prosecutor, Brian Coad, clearly wanted to go after the bank. I believe he saw what was going on. In the Court of Appeals, he told my lawyer Thomas Sjoblom directly, “We know he did not steal any money.” Richard D. Owens, the head prosecutor, I believe, removed him from my case because he disagreed.

In prison, the man in charge of the law library was Oliver Brown. At first, we butted heads and said all you rich guys are the same in here. Only after the 18 month civil contempt sentence was up, they spoke to the US Attorney, not the Receiver, SEC, or CFTC, who were just the front for the contempt. It was the prosecutor who was using three courts against each other. Oliver Brown came to me after the 18 months were up, and I should have been released. They conceded I was probably innocent and that they were just trying to break me.

I sued the SEC, assuming they barred me from the industry. They told the court I was NOT barred and I could apply any time I wanted. The District Court ignored all the pleadings, including an affidavit from Oliver Brown stating they were just trying to break me. The court ignored all the evidence and said I was not barred, so the case was dismissed.

But there are TWO IMPORTANT pieces here. (1) Oliver Brown stated that the civil contempt was really being directed by the DOJ and not the parallel civil court. (2) They had to be illegally tapping my lawyer’s phone. Marcus Vetter, who was filming the movie for Oliver Brown, then the DOJ showed up at his door to intimidate him the day before, not to be in the movie. How did they know when the filming would take place?

They went as far as to kill this movie to covertly break into Marcus’s studio in Germany and steal the footage. Marcus has a backup, so the movie appeared. His deal with Netflix was suddenly cancelled, no doubt after they got a phone call.

The film was shown in Europe and even in Canada as well as Asia. It was banned in the United States. So much for FREE SPEECH or anything whatsoever that is supposed to make the United States different from other nations. It’s all propaganda. This is the country they ask people to defend with their lives in battle. It is all to ensure that the US government always wins.

To make this even more bizar, during the 2007-2009 Crash & Great Recession, Congressman Walter Jones who was on the House Financial Services Committee, came to me for help since I was always on the opposite side of the table from the NY boys. Here I am helping during the Great Recession against the bankers and some directs the prison to cut off my communications and throw me in the hole. This letter was sent to the Warden. The head of the secret police who what the police in prisons, comes to take me out of the hole and is kissing my ass. By the time he takes me back to the camp, I meet with the Counselor and he says “You have a lot of juice!” When I asked why was going on, he said there was a Congressional investigation as to who and why the put me in the hole to cut off all communications. Everyone was throwing the Warden under the bus.

Any lawyer who looks at this shakes their head. You just can’t make up this stuff, and this is just the tip of the iceberg. The CFTC took all the lawyers away, then moved for default judgement claiming I failed to respond. I stood up and cited the Supreme Court that a corporation cannot be represented pro se (by the individual). When I said your former law clerk, Alan Cohen, is the receiver, and they should have answered. He refused to ever defend the companies. Judge Owen was so pissed off, he called me a legal terrorist for it was probably the first time in his career that he ever had to deny a government motion.

They tried to kill me, but after being in a coma for 3 days, to their dismay, I survived.

Anna Paulina Luna

I have been asked by many why Luna hasn’t done something to correct this government outrage. While I know that she does know what they did to me, I believe it is the staff who are never really loyal to the person they serve. They are typically intermediated by outside sources and make sure any suggestion never actually reaches the congressman in question.  That issue with Tory Lanez was Hollywood whereas I am in a different league.

I believe NOBODY will dare have this case reviewed because it was all about the regime change in Russia and the US interference in their 2000 election that resulted in blackmailing Yeltsin, who then turned to Putin. After all, Yeltsin had the US Neocons on one side and the Russian Neocons making an impeachment motion, trying to take Russia back to the USSR. Putin was neither an oligarch nor a communist. This is why the American Neocons hate him personally so much, because he even seized all the assets of Hermitage Capital Management, the company they wanted me to put in $10 billion.

The accountant for Hermatage Capital Management, which Putin seized that was operating the whole Russian scheme, was most likely killed to prevent him from telling the truth what was going on. It was John McCain who sponsored the Magnitsky Act. There was the controversy with Trump Jr. in the Trump Tower Meeting where some Russians were trying to tell him the truth about the Magnitsky Act. One of the lawyers who was on my case participated in that meeting. My case is so intertwined with national security I am lucky to still be alive.

It was John McCain who personally handed the fake Russian dossier on Trump paid for by Hillary to James B. Comey. It just so happened that James Comey was the lead prosecutor on my case and had to have approved of what they were doing. I believe that Comey was part of the deal for when he questioned Hillary the in the FBI, he took no notes. That does not happen. I believe that Hillary blamed Putin for interfering in the 2016 election assuming it was pay back for the 2000 attempt to impose regime change in Russia. She created the whole RussiaGate story. That was all proven to be a fraud upon the country by the Special Prosecutor that never existed and the Democrats were fined for the fake dossier. The Hill wrote that the people involved behind RussiaGate should be prosecuted. Nobody ever was. Welcome to the real America where Justice is reall spelled – “Just Us.”

I believe they have intimidated everyone to cover up what they have done. I laid out a lot more in the Plot to Seize Russia.

Iran’s digital surveillance machine is close to completion, as reported by Wired. Governments don’t build surveillance systems because there is an actual need to watch 75 million citizens. They build them because power always seeks leverage over society. It is not unique to Iran. This is the inevitable endpoint of every state that believes it can manage dissent, control information, and pre-empt opposition with technology rather than address the real causes of social unrest.

The regime has massacred over 40,000 civilians over the past several weeks. That is a staggering number of deaths—more than all casualties in the Russia-Ukraine war or Palestine-Israel conflict—but we are talking about a government slaughtering civilians here. The regime plans spy on all citizens in real-time to prevent another uprising.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps owns or is a partial owner of all telecom systems in the country. Removing internet access was one of the first measures the regime took when protests emerged. Wired describes an integrated, constantly expanding digital control grid. That is the same model now being tried in Beijing, discussed in Brussels, and quietly adopted everywhere that elites feel threatened by inconvenient political movements or crisis-driven instability. In Iran’s case, the “Digital Nation Plan” consolidates messaging, biometric tracking, traffic monitoring, and app control into a unified architecture that can identify, categorize, and punish behavior.

“CCTV networks, facial-recognition systems, applications designed to capture or log private user messages, and systems assessing citizens’ lifestyle patterns and behavioral profiles collectively provide the Islamic Republic’s security agencies with the means for broad and precise monitoring of the population,” an analyst from Holistic Resilience said.

They call it “public health surveillance,” “national security monitoring,” “AI content moderation,” or “electoral integrity protection.” The goal? Centralize data, index citizens, and give the state the power to monitor and respond to “undesirable” behavior. We now see the West implementing measures under the guise of securing children from online dangers, but that is simply an acceptable excuse to monitor online activity.

If you give governments the ability to monitor every click, every message, every search and every comment, why would they not use it? Remember the pandemic years, when millions accepted unprecedented surveillance in the name of public health? Mobile phone tracking, vaccine passport apps, location monitoring, QR codes were all justified by crisis hysteria. That crisis has passed, but the infrastructure remains. The same phenomenon happened after 9/11 and the ushering in of the Patriot Act that paved the wave for intensified surveillance.

The pursuit of surveillance power is not confined to authoritarian regimes. Every government wants access to data that allows it to predict and control outcomes. In Europe, regulators demand “safe platforms” and compel private companies to report “harmful” speech. In the United States, law enforcement agencies tap into data streams for predictive policing. In Asia, social credit systems tie digital behavior to real-world penalties. If it can be measured, it can be regulated; if it can be regulated, it can be controlled.

Once you accept that governments will always seek the maximum possible control over citizens’ lives, the real question becomes not whether this power will be used, but how it will be used, who will decide the norms, and what safeguards (if any) exist. Governments know with certainty that they can monitor the masses through their digital footprints and have begun to chip away at our privacy, integrating the state with our main medium for communication. Digital IDs, wallet, CBDC–all of the plans in place will embolden the state with total power over our lives.

South Korea’s National Intelligence Service has reported that Kim Ju-ae, the daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, is now in the “successor nomination stage,” a phrase indicating not just symbolic visibility but active internal positioning as the next leader. This marks the clearest signal yet that Pyongyang is preparing for a fourth-generation transfer of power within the Kim dynasty.

Kim Ju-ae first appeared in state media in November 2022, accompanying her father at a missile test, and over the subsequent three years, she has been featured at military parades, significant weapons unveilings, and national ceremonies. The world did not know that the dictator had a daughter until his close friend, American basketball star Dennis Rodman, leaked the information to reporters. Seoul believes Ju-ae will be treated as the de facto second-highest figure in official protocol. There is no official record of her age, but based on the information from Rodham, she is believed to be in her teens.

North Korea has survived isolation, economic contraction, sanctions that exceed anything applied to the Soviet bloc during the Cold War, and ongoing famine. The notion that North Korea will “collapse” because a teenager is at the helm is not a reality. The Kim Dynasty is seen as immortal, and the people have an unwavering, albeit forced, loyalty to the family. The people will accept her as their leader, but the true question is whether there will be a “North Korea” to rule over. The answer largely depends on China.

North Korea’s existence is heavily dependent on Beijing’s strategic tolerance. China acts in its own national interest and will not sacrifice stability lightly. If China weakens internally during the coming sovereign debt cycle or shifts policy direction post-2030, North Korea’s long-term structure could change. Socrates shows heightened geopolitical volatility around the Korean Peninsula into 2026–2028, with another major structural inflection point into 2032. That does not imply disappearance, but it is not out of the question.

A court in Russia’s Arctic Murmansk region has fined a pensioner 30,000 rubles (€325) for “discrediting” the army by liking videos on YouTube. ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/c6qPg9vj9o

— Novaya Gazeta Europe (@novayagazeta_en) February 9, 2026

A Russian court fined a 72-year-old pensioner for the act of “liking” two YouTube videos. The court found the man guilty of discrediting the Russian government and supporting content produced by a Ukrainian propagandist. In the modern age, social media usage can lead to criminal charges.

In this latest case, the court imposed a 30,000-ruble fine (€325) simply because the pensioner pressed a button under content deemed by authorities to be produced by so-called “foreign agents” and critical of official narratives.

This development is not a stand-alone incident. For years, Russian authorities have tightened their grip on online spaces, blocking independent news, throttling platforms, and criminalizing not only the publication of dissenting views but even the private consumption of information viewed as dangerous by the state. The regulatory and legislative infrastructure now enables courts to treat simple digital engagement as a punishable act, and to assign criminality to what in any open society would be protected speech. Russia’s internet environment has been described as among the most controlled in the world, with agencies developing “sovereign internet” plans and deploying powerful content-control systems that monitor, filter, and remove material at the state’s discretion.

Hence, we are witnessing governments attempt to repeal VPN access. Websites are demanding user ID for access. Anonymity on the internet does not bode well for government surveillance and control. The West wanted to believe that this blatant control could only be carried out by the likes of Russia or China.

Every click, every search, and every like can be tracked, judged, and punished. A society that fines a pensioner for a digital gesture is essentially saying that the state owns not just territory and resources but thought itself. Opinions can now be weaponized. Most importantly, the internet was once a free medium of communication exchange, but now, it has become a tool for censorship and control.

The Dutch House of Representatives on last week voted to pass the Actual Return in Box 3 Act (Wet werkelijk rendement box 3), a reform that will tax residents at a flat rate of 36% on the actual returns they earn from savings and investments, but not only to income that has actually been received, but also to the annual increase in value of assets like stocks, bonds, and cryptocurrencies, even when those assets have not been sold. This will be effective January 1, 2028.

The bill replaces a system that taxed investment income based on assumed returns, a framework the Dutch Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional in a series of decisions beginning in December 2021.

Under the new regime, this illustrates the crisis facing Europe not only that they need money, but that such a drastic disparity between the EU states promotes migration within the EU if not the flight from the EU. With taxation like this, aside from war, this will transform the Sell America Trade to Migrate to America Trade.

So a wave of inflation comes and your house has risen in value, they will have some independent appraiser determined the value of your house and you will have to pay 36% in cash on that increased value. How do you pay such a tax if you do not have the cash? You will then be compelled to sell your house to pay the tax?

And you wonder why the Computer is forecasting the end of Republics by 2032? They pass more and more socialist policies to bribe people to vote for them always targeting those who actually produce like the Democrats vowing to stop Voter ID so illegal aliens can vote for them when you cannot get on a plane or drive a car without ID, but you can vote for a Democrat no matter where you are from. What’s next? They send absentee ballots to the Dutch Parliament asking for help?