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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.
Book description:
“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.
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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:
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.
US/AMERICAS:
DJIA advanced by 65.88 points (0.14%) to 47,951.85
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Canada Market Closings:
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Brazil Market Closing:
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It has come to our attention that “The Armstrong Economic Code” and “The World According to Martin Armstrong: Conversations with the Master Forecaster,” written by Kerry Lutz, have sold out on Amazon. These books are still available at Barnes & Noble. Our team is not handling inventory or delivery of these products and Amazon is working on restocking the books ASAP but the demand has been more than their fulfillment centers can handle.
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Copper prices are near record highs with spot prices above $11,000 per ton. Grid expansion projects and data centers are copper-intensive, The supply chain in constrained and investors are anticipating future US tariffs reaching 25%. The press is claiming that these projects are the reason for the recent surge in copper hoarding, but the true driver is fear.
Commodities do not move simply because of “supply and demand” in the textbook sense. They move because of capital flows and confidence. Copper has always been called “Dr. Copper” because it supposedly has a PhD in economics. People believe the metal has an ability to predict overall global economic health, especially in terms of manufacturing. The old wives tale states that rising copper prices indicate economic recovery and growth since one would assume manufacturing is increasing.
When people begin hoarding raw materials, it means they no longer trust supply chains, governments, or currencies. This is exactly what happened in the 1970s. Inflation was not caused by “greed” or corporations. Rather, it was caused by government deficits, war spending, and the collapse of confidence in public institutions. The same forces are now aligning again.
Once politicians declare something “critical,” it ceases to be a free market. Governments are now talking openly about stockpiling copper for green energy, military use, and infrastructure. That alone guarantees shortages, because bureaucrats always buy at the worst possible time and hoard at the peak. Trade wars, sanctions, and geopolitical uncertainty force companies to hold excess inventory to hedge against supply chain constraints.
From the standpoint of the Economic Confidence Model, this fits precisely with the transition from private confidence to public distrust. Capital always moves to where it feels safest. When confidence in government collapses, money does not stay in bonds or paper promises. It moves into real assets, whether that is gold, land, energy, or copper sitting in a warehouse.
October retail sales were flat following a downwardly revised 0.1% rise in September, missing expectations yet again. This is precisely the type of number that gets spun as “resilient” or “temporary softness,” depending on the political agenda. But when you actually break the data apart, the internal contradictions tell us far more than the headline figure ever could.
Consumer spending feeds into GDP, and retail sales excluding food, autos, and gas surged by 0.8%. That is a strong rebound from September’s decline and above expectations. Consumers are spending albeit defensively.
Auto sales dropped sharply, down 1.6%, which should surprise no one. Auto affordability has collapsed under the weight of high interest rates, extended loan terms, and mounting delinquencies. People stop buying big-ticket items that require financing when confidence wanes and inflation persists.
Food services declined, consistent with job losses in the hospitality sector. Building materials and garden equipment also declined as house-related spending cools. Furniture, sporting goods, nonstore retailers, clothing, electronics, and general merchandise rose but we are in the midst of the Q4 holiday shopping rush.
We are transitioning from an inflationary shock phase into a confidence erosion phase. Spending does not collapse all at once. Rather, spending fragments as consumers become more selective. Smaller discretionary spending on items like merchandise seems more manageable than larger purchases that require financing. Policymakers will insist everything is fine because GDP has not collapsed, but we are witnessing a clear loss of momentum.
As we move toward 2026, the models continue to point toward rising volatility, weaker capital formation, and a growing divergence between what governments say and how people actually behave. Retail sales are telling a story of adaptation before contraction.
Mamdani: "Free buses means that less bus drivers will get assauIted so the buses will become safer" pic.twitter.com/SilMHJZUAx
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 17, 2025
The above is a video representing the mind on socialism. “Free buses means that less drivers will get assaulted so the buses will become safer,” the newly elected New York City mayor concluded.
This is the same logic that believes defunding the police will equate to fewer arrests. It’s the same logic San Francisco used when telling citizens to leave their car doors unlocked to prevent thieves from smashing their windows. Toronto police suggested that citizens leave their car doors open to prevent home invasions. Socialists reframe crime as social injustice that couldbe eliminated through economic equality.
Inequality and capitalism are responsible for the crime rather than the criminal himself.
During the French Revolution of 1789 involved releasing prisoners in an event known as the Storming of the Bastille. Lenin famously emptied the prisons during the 1917 Russian Revolution. Destabilizing society gives the government a reason to expand. The criminal becomes the victim and crime explodes because there are no repercussions. Those who produce are punished through taxation as they believe YOUR wealth must be redistributed.
Economic injustice victims are needed for the Cloward-Piven strategy— overburden the bureaucracy to break the system, create controlled chaos, usurp power as civil unrest peaks, and offer government aid as the only solution.
“Once eligibility for basic food and rent grants is established, the drain on local resources persists indefinitely.” Cloward and Piven wanted to overburden the welfare system at the state level to eliminate state rights. Therefore, under this theory, government is encouraged to market a crisis, antagonize the people, and offer a solution. The only solution being to replace capitalism with socialism or communism by which the people would be entirely dependent on government. You will own nothing and be happy.
People who ask me if I would ever run for politics or accept a position the answer is ABSOLUTELY no way because if it was me testifying before Marilyn Strickland (born 1962) a Representative from Washington State, I would have made her day. She is so unqualified to hold any office it is why we are in such a crisis. She is the first member of the United States Congress of both Korean and African-American heritage, and the first African-American member elected from Washington. That was the cheering point – it was all about ethnic background and race – not qualification?
Ukraine is the motherland of ethnic cleansing. They were killing Polish, Jews, and Russians. Hitler promised them a country, which they NEVER had, so they became Nazis and and began killing anyone who was not of Ukrainian blood. The CIA protected the Ukrainian Nazis because they also hatred Russia. So it did not matter how many Jews they killed. That was sanctioned as long as they were also killing Russians. NOT a single Ukrainian was ever put on trial like the Germans for their war crimes.
As soon as there was the 2014 Revolution which we instigated with John McCain there at Maidan advocating the overthrow of the government against international law with Victoria Nuland handing out sandwiches to the revolutionaries, and then handpicked the interim government which then they instructed to attack the Russians in the Donbas. That was NOT an elected government. This was a NEOCON installed government intended to start this war with Russia.
Strickland is ignorant of the facts as she wants total war with Russia pushed out of Ukraine and the Russians Russian people of the Donbas should then be subject to Kiev’s ethnic cleansing which started this mess. She is not interested in the fact and clearly is supporting the Ukrainian Nazis at this point.
Many Ukrainians are still Neo-Nazis and hate Russians. They still march with images of the ethnic cleanser Bandara who had Polish, Russians, and Jewish pregnant women cut open, removed their babies, and sewn in live cats. This has all been documented.
Bandara who started the ethnic cleansing in Ukraine is still a national hero. His picture was all over Maidan. This is why I do not want to EVER have any such position in government because I would not be so kind. I would have tore Strickland apart on national TV and set the record straight and ask her so you support the same agenda as Adolf Hitler and the CIA to just kill Russians? So you agree with your Republican Adversary Lindsey Graham this is the best money we ever spent to kill the Russian people? What if you said that about Blacks, Muslims, Jews, or Christians?
Her statement that Russia will then attack a NATO nation is absurd. That is a Neocon propaganda. Russia went into the Donbas to protect Russians – not to conquer Ukraine. If you do not understand your enemy, you will lose in this war. Her stupidity is brining us closer to World War III with every stupid word.
