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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.

COMMENT: Marty, I find it curious that platforms like ___ ____ do not interview you when you are the guy with the biggest client base, the most experience, the guy governments have to talk to, and the guy they make movies about. When I asked my brother, who works on Wall Street in NYC, he said you were a whistleblower outing Soros, Buffett, and Goldman Sachs, among others, so they used the government to shut you up. The media’s avoidance is proof of a controlled narrative and that “they”take their orders just as they did with COVID. The video you put on about how they do the same thing in the pharmaceutical industry doesn’t want you to hear, is absolutely chilling. So it is not just mainstream media, it is a lot of these channels that are obviously doing the same thing in finance as they did in COVID. If they do not interview you, there is something wrong.

STW

REPLY: I met a former senior guy at the NY Daily News or NY Post. I do not recall which. He told me how it works. The government calls you and says they have a favor. Kill some story or spin it a certain way. If you do not, they come after you personally with tax audits you name it. That is how they control the media. They control YouTube, Facebook, and Wikipedia. Schools will not allow students to use Wikipedia as a source because it is not reliable and amounts to government controlled propaganda. I an others can provide the evidence that I was a whistleblower but it means nothing. Mainstream media will NEVER tell the truth. This is the world of FAKE NEWS that we live in. They, and some podcast platforms, are there to support the government narrative no matter how absurd it may be. We say that with COVID.

Michael Hastings, an American investigative journalist and contributing editor to Rolling Stone magazine. In early 2013, Hastings was actively working on a story about the National Security Agency (NSA) and was in contact with Edward Snowden’s legal team and associates. He exchanged emails with Snowden’s lawyer, Ben Wizner of the ACLU, about making contact with Snowden shortly after Snowden’s identity was revealed in June 2013. In the early morning hours of June 18, 2013, Hastings died in a single-car crash in Los Angeles. His Mercedes-Benz C250 Coupe ran head-on into a palm tree at high speed, erupted in flames, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. The 2010-2013 Mercedes-Benz C250 is potentially vulnerable to remote hacking, He was 33 years old.

The crash was highly unusual. Witnesses reported the car was traveling at an extremely high speed. Just hours before the crash, Hastings had emailed colleagues saying he was working on a big story and needed to “go off the radar” for a bit. This sequence of events, combined with his sensitive national security work, fueled widespread speculation that they hacked his car and he was dead. Of course, the official investigation by the LAPD insisted that there was no evidence of foul play. The cause was listed as an accident. If the car was hacked and driven into a tree and burst into flames, they would never have been able to find if the car was being remotely controlled.

The government intimidated all the platforms and mainstream media employing that intimidation tactic in COVID and they use it all the time in any high-profile case to hide the truth. That senior editor from the NY paper told me when the judge threw the Associated Press out on April 27th, 2000 and took all my lawyers away, he said they knew I was innocent. The Sixth Amendment guarantees you a “public trial.” They threw the press out and illegally closed the court. The journalist from AP walked right up to the bench and said we are the AP, you cannot throw us out. Judge Owen ordered the marshall to escort her out. I appealed to the Second Circuit. They refused to ever rule against the judge.

Even the allegation they made against me was just an absurdity. A bank cannot say that $1 billion was missing and the bank had no idea where it was, was laughable. You cannot get $1 billion out of a bank without  a wire in which case you know where it went. The court appointed forensic accountant informed the court that I was the victim of the bank. The court looked the other way. They were protecting the bank and I would suspect many were paid off with the $400 million that stole from my firm aside from the restitution to all my clients.

I was interviewed by a journalist who was on to how the gane in ru=igged in NYC and asked me if the bank was illegally trading in my accounts “as they did in Madoff?” I said I could not verify that because i did not see where they backed out trades they said were errors. In Madoff’s case, there too the banks claimed to have had no knowledge. That was a lie for you have KNOWN YOUR CLIENT rules and Republic checked every single account we had. There is no way the banks were in the dark about Bernie Madoff (1938–2021). In an interview before he died, they saked him if the banks knew. He said of course. Not only are they TOO BIG TO FAIL, they are TOO BIG TO CRIMINALLY CHARGE!

I did an interview with the Japanese press and and told them to tell my clients to come to NYC and sue the bank our they would never see a dime. They did, and that is the only way the bank was forced to plead guilty and return the money they stole from my clients. The judges and prosecutors could NOT be that stupid. They were trying to aid the bank in stealing $1 billion from my clients because they lost $1 billion on Russia. hen I asked a NY lawyer why no banker is ever criminally charges, he responded: “You don’t shit where you eat.”

Even after the bank returned all the money to my clients, they then kept me in civil contempt where you are NOT entitled to a trial by jury – only in criminal contempt. I was never charged, they admitted that there was “no description of criminal activity” yet they kept me in prison with nothing – just to cover their ass. When I finally got to the Supreme Court and they ordered them to explain what was going on, only then was I released.

I had NO RESTITUTION because the bank stole the money. They write the script I was to read where I was not allowed to speak in my own words. Like any hostage held by a terrorist, you are handed a script that you are to read to pretend this is all legal.

They could not have me commit perjury since they wrote it. They had me say I failed to tell my clients that “these accounts would be separate and segregated from Republic’s own accounts and would not be available to Republic for its own benefit.”  The accounts were supposed to be segregated. The bank took the money anyhow – not me or for my benefit.

The evidence is as plain as day. When I was in prison during the 2007-2009 Crash, they three me in the hole to cut off my communication with Congress who still came to me because I have the experience and know the market manipulations and who is behind what. They resulted in the House Financial Services Committee sending a letter asking what was going on. Everybody was throwing the warden under the bus. The rumor was she got one of those phone calls to cut off my communications.

I am sure some of these podcasts and mainstream media are intimidated not to put me on. That certainly calls into question their integrity and what they report. We know that mainstream media keeps preaching the interest rate myths. You do have to be careful. That’s why I refuse to sell even advertising. There should not be an conflict of interest. They do not like Socrates because it writes over 1,000 reports daily and it does not use their stupid myths.

European leaders were forced back down on stealing the Russian assets, and have agreed to keep Ukraine funded for two years with a loan of 90 billion euros, or about $105 billion. There is growing discontent within the EU, for a few countries I speak to are starting to realize that the EU is leading Europe to its utter destruction. NATO is pushing the EU into war. They are occupied by NEOCONS, including Americans who are using Europe to try to wage war, since they failed to defeat Trump.

Any peace deal with Russia means the death of NATO. Their entire existence depends on the old theory that Russia is communist and seeks the conquest of Europe. Those days are gone. They died in 1989. NATO should have been shut down then, when the WARSAW Pact collapsed. They pushed eastward and consumed the very Warsaw Pact country. That is not enough for these NEOCONS. They are intent upon WWIII and are relentless.

They own the press. Every article begins with Putin losing, implying that we can take Russia with one hand tied behind their back. Russia has NO interest in occupying Europe. They have nothing of value. Trump is after Venezuela because it has the largest oil reserves in the world. Trump is not interested in invading Mexico or Guatemala. Any student of military history knows well that what is waged for profit. It is the EU that salivates over the conquest of Russia for its $75 trillion in natural resources. They actually are talking behind the cameras about how they will rise again to rule the world.

Stealing the Russian assets violates every principle of international law. NO country should have any assets parked in EUROPE – Period!. The EU will NOT survive! There are already discussions about jettisoning troubled countries like Italy, and the EU will be regrouped among only the northern member states. This is a failed system. The idea of a trade union quickly gained power, and the idea that they could dictate to every member, overruling their culture and imposing their dictatorial views, which were always extremely left-wing.

That ambitious frozen-asset plan was killed at the 11th hour as European heads of state and government met in Brussels. There is a rift unfolding in the EU and this division risks pushing the EU ever closer to collapse because Brussels has lost its mind. They are desperate for money and that is what this war with Russia is all about. The NEOCONS control all of the press. Every article always claims Russia invaded Ukraine and has lost when Putin never intended to conquer all of Ukraine in the first place. The European press does NOT even try to report the news. It is always one-sided and the enemy is always anyone who is anti-war.

One must question how much in kick-backs are these EU leaders getting from Ukraine. It is no secret that billions are missing. Ukraine hosts one of the most corrupt governments in the world. The West and NATO have provided Ukraine with billions in funding but have been unable to track where the money is spent. They do not investigate where the money is spent because they also lack ethics and are only concerned that the war wages on. It comes as no surprise that Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has uncovered a major arms corruption scheme. Zelensky publicly admitted that half of all the money sent to Ukraine is unaccounted for. Yet not one EU leader even wants an investigation? WHY? Are they grabbing what they can before the EU collapses?

Ursula still refuses to release emails with Pfizer over what appears to be serious corruption. Ursula and Bourla’s exchanges could be vital to break the COVID scam wide open. Bourla is on tape – saying in the spring 2021 that the Europeans would need more shots and seasonal shots enriching Pfizer beyond belief. Ursula will not come clean on that and on top of this, her leadership regarding Russia and war is the total destruction of Europe and nobody will do a damn thing about her.

Now the EU is sanctioning attacking private oil tankers under the theory that they can crash the Russian economy. This is WWIII and this is what the US did to Japan that caused Pearl Harbor. The QENDIL tanker, flying the flag of Oman and allegedly part of Russia’s shadow fleet, was deliberately attacked by Ukrainian drones in the neutral waters of the Mediterranean Sea, thousands of kilometres from Ukraine. The tanker was empty of oil to avoid angering its ‘partners’ with a spill. It has been alleged that the UK provided the targeting info. The strike reportedly occurred about 140 miles southwest of Crete.

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— ?triANGLE INVESTOR (@capnek123) December 15, 2025

The corruption in the Pharmaceutical Industry is no different from the Financial Industry. They pay big finds giving regulators gold stars for racking in the money, but nobody goes to jail – that is not profitable because they can’t get billions in fines from individuals. Until people who deliberately make decisions that destroy industries or kill people from drugs they know do not work, the question will remain – can we trust the regulators to actually protect society?

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Government spending per person in the United States has soared nearly 10,000 percent over the last century, as reported by the Federalist. The number is staggering, but the true question isn’t how much has been spent but what was bought and why the US government needs to spend at such a level.

Woodrow Wilson secured his second term in 1916 with the slogan: “He Kept Us Out of War.” America entered World War I give months later. I have repeatedly warned that nothing is more inflationary than war. Woodrow’s Administration multiplied spending to fund the Great War and the pattern continued. The national debt rose by over 700% under Wilson from $2.9 billion to $23.97 billion. Now, the national debt rises by $70,000 per second.

A century ago, federal functions were minimal. There was no widespread welfare state, no Medicare/Medicaid, no Social Security, no massive national defense commitments, no Federal Reserve-backed interventions, and a much smaller economy. It is unfair to compare 1916 to today, even when adjusted for inflation, due to the rising population, technology, and role of government.

The end of World War II marked the dawn of the welfare state. Roosevelt’s New Deal offered endless promises and programs to help the public. This was the beginning of a new wave of public confidence—America secured global victory after World War II and became the financial capital of the world. The tab on those programs was allowed to accumulate for years, a century perhaps, but that bill is coming due soon.

Once a spending program is in place, it will remain in place. Taxes are never revised downward. Defense and retiree benefits are obligations that must be repaid. As we saw with the recent government shutdown, a staggering 40% of Americans rely on some form of government aid and are unable to provide for themselves.

Government spending has exploded in recent years. President Barack Obama spent $700 billion under TARP and later signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to the tune of $800 billion. Spending spiked during the pandemic. Over $800 billion was allotted to the Paycheck Protection Program, and an additional $800 billion was provided in Economic Impact Payments. A total of $670 billion was spend on unemployment due to lockdowns. States and local governments were provided $634 billion in pandemic aid. Then there was the stimulus package under Donald Trump that dolled out $835 billion.

No president spent as much as Joe Biden. The Inflation Reduction Act was the most expensive federal package in American history that surpassed $1 trillion. Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen came out and admitted the truth – the act’s entire premise is to push the climate change agenda forward. “The Inflation Reduction Act is, at its core, about turning the climate crisis into an economic opportunity,” Yellen admitted. The US saw inflation levels surpass 9%, and the final bill will be distributed to generations of Americans.

The US spent $7.035 trillion in FY2025, according to the Congressional Budget Office, which amounts to $20,474.19 per citizen. The recent government shutdown was the result of the Democrats insisting on raising federal spending as if it were possible to spend in perpetuity without repayment. The phenomenon is not isolated to the US as global debt reached 326% of GDP in January 2025. Failed policies and government spending have resulted in the current sovereign debt crisis. Governments have been borrowing since World War II with absolutely no intention of paying anything off. This is now all coming to a head, which is why we see governments becoming increasingly authoritarian, raising taxes, creating wars, and considering capital controls. A cycle in motion cannot be halted or altered. The bill is due, and the world must readjust to a new norm. We will see the massive changes on a global scale and into 2032 when the sovereign debt crisis implodes.

Fraudsters found every angle to syphon money away from taxpayers under Tim Walz’s failed leadership. Education Secretary Linda McMahon is now urging Walz to resign after it emerged that criminals in Minnesota stole over $12 million from the US Department of Education.

“At the beginning of this year, the U.S. Department of Education became aware that fraudulent college applicants, especially concentrated in Minnesota, were gaming the federal postsecondary education system to collect money that was intended for young Americans to help them afford college,” wrote McMahon.

These bad actors used the same ploy to extort money through programs intended to feed poor children and filed applications on behalf of “ghost students” who never existed. These individuals did not need to verify their ID. Some applicants did not even live in the United States if they existed at all. There were 1,834 approved “ghost students” in Minnesota who received a total of $12.5 million in grants and loans.

A teacher at Century College in Minnesota revealed that 15% of his students were “basically an organized crime ring.” Minnesota State College Southeast experienced a spike in new applicants driven by 84 ghost students, who were primarily Somalian. Some of these students enroll in online courses and attend class for the 10 required days to receive financial aid.

“They collected checks from the federal government, shared a small portion of the money with the college, and pocketed the rest — without attending the college at all,” said McMahon. “Our new fraud prevention system has now blocked more than $1 billion in attempted financial aid theft by fraudsters, including coordinated international fraud rings and AI bots pretending to be students.”

Somalian crime organizations have found methods to steal from taxpayers through programs for education, food stamps, COVID, small businesses, childhood disability assistance, and elderly care. The welfare state has become their personal piggy bank. What has Walz done to curtail crime? Absolutely nothing. Over $1 billion has gone missing under Walz, which is far too high to be considered a mere oversight.

Walz plans to seek a third term in 2026, as Minnesota has no term limits for governors. He says that he will take accountability but has not taken any steps to curtail fraud. He refuses to accept that these crime rings are connected to Somalian crime organizations. Walz has every intention of expanding the unregulated welfare state and will not hesitate to raise taxes on the very people these programs are designed to assist.

Rep. Ilhan Omar did, in fact, marry her brother. This is not a rumor but a documented fact.

Ahmed Nur Said Elmi came to the US from London in 2002. He was living as an openly gay man and his Islamic family did not support his lifestyle. A journalist at Free Beacon ran Ilhan Omar’s name through the Minnesota Official Marriage System and found two marriage certificates. One was to her public husband, Ahmed Aden, who later changed his name to Ahmed Hirsi. They applied for a marriage license in 2002, but never legalized the marriage. There is a second certificate dated 2009 for Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. Despite being a devout Muslim, her marriage certificate was signed by Christian pastor Wilecia Harris.

Omar’s campaign and lawyers insist she is married to Ahmed Ade,n but there is no official court documentation to show that the couple ever wed. They say that he is the biological father of her three children. However, voter registration records do show Hirsi and Omar living at the same address. Omar and Hirsi filed joint tax returns in 2014 and 2015 despite not being legally married. The paperwork shows that, under US law, her legal husband is Ahmed Nur Said Elmi—her biological brother.

“Like a lot of families, she and Hirsi, the father of their three children, have had ups and downs, have weathered some storms, but what matters is that they came out of it together,” [campaign spokesman Ben] Goldfarb said. He declined to offer more details.

Omar’s campaign has deemed any questioning [Donald] Trump-style misogyny, racism, anti-immigration rhetoric and Islamophobic division.”

Omar first came to the US in 1995 under hazy circumstances. Historian Dominic Green closely reviewed her story and memoir to learn more. Green concluded:

“The persistent and credibly sourced claim that Omar committed immigration and education fraud with one Ahmed Said Elmi who, it is also claimed, may be her brother, is simply ignored. She doesn’t even name Elmi, and calls the man that she was married to for [eight] years someone ‘whom I spent little time with that I wouldn’t even make him a footnote in my story if it weren’t for the fact that this event turned into the main headline later on’. In fact, address records show that Omar was living with her first husband (‘Islamically married’) while still married to her second (civil marriage). In 2017, when she filed for divorce from her second husband, she claimed under penalty of perjury not to have been in contact with her first husband since 2011. Dozens of now-deleted social-media posts, photos and a 2016 interview suggest that she may have lied.”

The Minnesota House of Representatives’ own website paints a murky story dated October 7, 2019: “On Friday, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar filed for divorce from her husband, Ahmed Hirsi. In 2017, Rep. Omar filed for divorce from her first husband, Ahmed Elmi. In 2018, Rep. Omar legally married Ahmed Hirsi. Now in 2019, Rep. Omar is filing for divorce from Mr. Hirsi.  Representative Steve Drazkowski reacted to the most recent news, saying, “This is the most recent development in an attempt by Rep. Omar to subvert the truth regarding her multiple violations of the law which include perjury and tax fraud.”” Then there are claims that Rep. Omar paid her boyfriend Tim Mynett $250,000 from her public campaign account.

Omar once admitted marriage to Elmi but said he was not her brother. She refuses to provide any documentation to prove otherwise. She claims that she cannot produce a birth certificate for herself or Elmi due to the civil war in Somalia. Elmi was granted citizenship through his marriage to Omar—that much is clear. Her own immigration story may be ingenuine, but the fraud is rampant.

The chronology of all this, briefly, follows:

• 1982 — Born in Somalia;
• 1991 — Went to refugee camp in Kenya;
• 1995 — Came to United States as a refugee, becoming a citizen at some later point;
• 2002 — Took out a marriage license to marry Ahmed Hirsi (AKA Ahmed Aden), but did not marry him except in a Muslim ceremony; they had two kids;
• 2008 — Parted from Hirsi; a Muslim divorce, not recorded, took place;
• 2009 — Married Ahmed Elmi; a marriage certificate exists;
• 2011 — Parted from Elmi, with a Muslim divorce;
• 2012 — Reunited with Hirsi and had a third child;
• 2017 — Formally divorced Elmi (after being elected to the legislature);
• 2018 — Married (re-married?) Hirsi and was nominated for Congress.

Omar may not have been intimate with her brother but she did marry him to bypass US immigration laws. This is illegal and grounds for revocation of naturalization. Marriage fraud is a federal crime under (8 U.S.C. § 1325(c)) and punishable by five year in prison and/or a $250,000 fine. Omar repeatedly flaunts her allegiance to Somalia, states openly that she represents the interests of a foreign nation, and has manipulated US law to her benefit. She does not represent US interests and has violated US law on numerous accounts. So yes—Omar did technically marry her brother.