Day 1 of Trump's Presidency... and all the days that follow

[BMJ]

Dark Age to Golden Age: Trump’s Team Disarms the Lords of Money

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=76lHm4Zo1GE

Promethean Updates
August 30, 2026

Summary:
00:00 The Saturday Wrap-Up - Dark Age to Golden Age: Trump’s Team Disarms the Lords of Money - August 29, 2026
02:10 The Crystal Ball Shatters
05:45 Bessent Reveals Dirty Secrets
09:55 The Dark Age Ends in Houston

Susan Kokinda frames a “larger war” behind a headline-filled week, focusing on three events: new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s Jackson Hole speech, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s “Operation Economic Outcast,” and President Trump’s Johnson Space Center remarks.

She argues Warsh blamed 65 months of elevated inflation on the Fed and signaled an end to “forward guidance,” which she says benefits financial “high flyers” while harming Americans without financial assets.

She highlights Bessent’s warning that immediately sanctioning Iran-linked money laundering could “blow up the global financial system,” portraying that system as dependent on illicit flows and oil control, and notes Treasury targets include entities in Hong Kong.

She also cites Trump’s announcement of a major Venezuela oil deal and his directive creating a United States Space Academy, presented as rejecting a “Dark Age” of limits to growth and advancing exploration and freedom.

[Rizotto]

Not sure where to place this short video, but since Trump is clamping down on criticism of Israel, perhaps this thread is a good spot for it.

It's about some Israelis in New York City posing as Palestinians trying to incite violence against a Jewish booth. When someone identified them as IDF soldiers, they were caught afterward changing their clothes.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=24YkyoqMUc0

[BMJ]

SOROS’s EMPIRE Faces Its FINAL BLOW!!!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6CAOOqjE-cE

Turley Clips
August 30, 2026
The IRS's actions stem from an executive order signed by President Trump in 2025, targeting nonprofits with substantial illegal purposes. This initiative aims to dismantle organizations that masquerade as philanthropic while allegedly engaging in radical activities, highlighting a systematic effort to undermine the nonprofit-industrial complex that has supported the political left for decades.

Scott Bessent, quote " (0:00 minutes) At Trump's direction. Treasury is expanding its efforts to identify organizations that abuse charitable and nonprofit structures as vehicles for illicit finance.

We are examining where tax exempt status has been exploited, where charitable entities have become financial conduits for foreign influence activity, and how those entrusted with stewardship of these organizations have instead enabled violence.

Where the evidence leads, we will not hesitate to follow. And of course, we will hold these organizations, officers, directors accountable. And just as financial institution must know their clients, they must know their grantees. That work is well underway. "

[Rizotto]

Doug Ford, Premier of the province of Ontario, said he received numerous calls from USA governors who said they'll always call it "Lake Ontario". As will the rest of the world.

(I just checked google maps for Lake Ontario area. Google still names it "Lake Ontario". Same for the Gulf of Mexico, however google added "(Gulf of America)", yes, in brackets, below the Gulf of Mexico label. Let's hope that this will pacify the toddler in charge.)

Canada-U.S. tensions rise after Premier Ford unveils new Lake Ontario sign

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2y1twllR5gw

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The latest internet meme:
'Trump started a trade war with Canada to distract the world from the fact that he lost the Iran war, which he started to distract us from the Epstein files.'

[BMJ]

Posted by BMJ (here)
SOROS’s EMPIRE Faces Its FINAL BLOW!!!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6CAOOqjE-cE

Turley Clips
August 30, 2026
The IRS's actions stem from an executive order signed by President Trump in 2025, targeting nonprofits with substantial illegal purposes. This initiative aims to dismantle organizations that masquerade as philanthropic while allegedly engaging in radical activities, highlighting a systematic effort to undermine the nonprofit-industrial complex that has supported the political left for decades.

Scott Bessent, quote " (0:00 minutes) At Trump's direction. Treasury is expanding its efforts to identify organizations that abuse charitable and nonprofit structures as vehicles for illicit finance.

We are examining where tax exempt status has been exploited, where charitable entities have become financial conduits for foreign influence activity, and how those entrusted with stewardship of these organizations have instead enabled violence.

Where the evidence leads, we will not hesitate to follow. And of course, we will hold these organizations, officers, directors accountable. And just as financial institution must know their clients, they must know their grantees. That work is well underway. "

Trump Declares War on the Foundations Cartel: Bessent's Plan to End the Dark Money Empire

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dq8vNyOH53c

Promethean Overviews
August 31, 2026

In this overview, Mike examines Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s effort to follow the money behind tax-exempt organizations, political campaigns, extremist activity, and what he describes as the financial architecture of the deep state.

From Arabella Advisors and the Sixteen Thirty Fund to the Tides Foundation, Open Society Foundations, CAIR, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, Mike explains how donations can move through interconnected charities and political organizations without revealing the original donors. These networks, he argues, allow billionaire-backed operations to influence elections, protests, political movements, and American culture while retaining their tax-exempt status.

Mike then examines the Trump administration’s response, including Treasury’s Form 990 Transparency Initiative, investigations into nonprofit financial networks, and efforts to hold tax-exempt organizations accountable for where their money goes. He also considers how Bessent’s campaign against Iran’s financial infrastructure offers a model for dismantling domestic networks accused of financing political violence.

But this system did not begin with a recent election. Mike traces its legal foundation to 1913, when the Rockefeller Foundation received a permanent charter and the Revenue Act created broad tax exemptions for charitable, religious, scientific, and educational organizations.

From the creation of the Federal Reserve and the financial boom of the 1920s to Congressman Wright Patman’s investigation of hundreds of foundations in the 1960s, Mike examines how tax-exempt institutions accumulated enormous financial, corporate, media, and political power while remaining largely insulated from public accountability.

At its core, this is a fight between two opposing systems: a sovereign nation built around citizens made in the image of God and a globalized order governed by permanent, anonymous legal entities. Mike argues that dismantling the foundations cartel is essential to restoring the American republic and placing human creativity, national development, and the individual soul above the perpetuation of financial institutions.


Chapters
00:00 Bessent Targets the Dark Money Machine
01:50 Political Terrorism and Nonprofit Funding
02:35 Inside the Arabella Dark Money Network
04:30 Treasury Begins to Act
05:38 Trump’s Presidential Memorandum
06:12 Operation Economic Outcast
07:28 The Foundation System Created in 1913
09:23 How the Foundation Racket Works
10:12 Wright Patman’s Warning
11:53 The Nonprofit Industrial Complex
12:29 How Foundations Move Political Money
13:24 How Dark Money Flipped Colorado
14:10 The Globalist Foundation System
15:19 Citizens vs. Anonymous Entities
16:35 The Creative Soul of Man

[Rizotto]

"What happens when the enemy is in your own government..."

REVOLT: US Troop REBELLION Over Iran War DEEPENS

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3Ki9n5flsyk

[Rizotto]

Anybody here wonders why mainstream media doesn't report on the utter failure of Trump's "Board of Peace"? This 'board' has become a cover for the continued Israeli hi-tech massacres of Palestinians. Why? They need to stay quiet about the bigger scheme they're trying to put in place. Here's a brilliant interview about that broader perspective.
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Simon Dixon’s recent interview for The Enlightenment Podcast, hosted by Shamim Sarif and Hanan Kattan, author of Palestine Revealed. Some of the key points:

• “the world is ruled not by a single country, but by a systemic web of incentives controlled by three interlocking complexes—the Financial Industrial Complex (FIC), Military Industrial Complex (MIC), and Technical Industrial Complex (TIC)—which privatise profits and socialise losses, turning war, debt, and inflation into a massive wealth transfer mechanism.”
  
• “Palestine as a Tech Laboratory: My analysis of how military and surveillance technologies are beta-tested under occupation before allegedly being imported to the West to build a global control grid.”
  
• “The Multipolar Shift: Why I believe the Western empire is in an asset-stripping phase, and how the rising power of China and Gulf sovereign wealth funds will reshape the global order and the eventual rebuild of Palestine.”
  
• “A Strategy for Resistance: Why I believe voting won't save us, and why our real power lies in "choking the system" through how we spend, save, and invest, alongside digital resistance using decentralized tech, Bitcoin, and open-source AI.”

Genocide-as-a-Service (GAAS): The Business Model Nobody Wants To Talk About

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gSfxOgwiUFw

[Rizotto]

https://www.rt.com/news/644843-us-ai...-larak-island/

Oil prices rise after US and Iran exchange strikes (VIDEOS)
Tehran fired a volley of missiles at American military installations in Jordan after an USA attack on Larak Island

August 30, 2026
Excerpt:
"Following the strikes, oil prices went up in early trading in Asia, with West Texas Intermediate futures growing by 2.47% to $85.46 per barrel and Brent futures climbing by 2.71% to $90.49 per barrel."

[Rizotto]

Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene - August 31, 2026:

"Everyone hates data centers and Americans are packing out city halls and county commissioners meetings trying to stop data centers from being built.
They consume the land and steal the water and creates noise pollution that drives people and animals insane, while creating very few permanent jobs past the construction phase.
If Trump wants data centers build them on all his golf courses and country clubs and right in the backyard at Maralago!!
Good luck winning the midterms now that MAGA means mass data centers, flock cameras and the surveillance state, protecting the Epstein class, and the never ending Iran War!!"

https://x.com/FmrRepMTG/status/2094516530255949954

[rgray222]

Trump scores a massive win and removes many of the Chinese and Russian tentacles from one of the world's largest oil supplies. According to a Reuters report published on August 31, 2026, the U.S.-backed oil firm North American Blue Energy Partners (NABEP) will take over 17 Venezuelan petroleum projects previously controlled by five Chinese companies and one Russian firm. This takeover is part of a sweeping oil production agreement announced by President Donald Trump, which shifts control of assets representing roughly one-fifth of Venezuela’s proven oil reserves to U.S. interests. Key details of the deal include:

US firm to take over some Venezuela oilfields previously run by Chinese, Russian firms, officials say



WASHINGTON, Aug 31 (Reuters) - U.S. oil company North American Blue Energy Partners will take over some oilfields previously controlled by several Chinese companies ​and a Russian firm, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Monday.
The takeover will be part of a sweeping oil production agreement that President ‌Donald Trump announced with Venezuela, they said.

The projects were among 14 contracts newly granted to U.S.-backed North American Blue Energy Partners, according to the officials. NABEP was previously owned by U.S. oil tycoon Harry Sargeant and is now controlled by Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Betancourt.

"Venezuela is blessed with an abundance of natural resources, hardworking people and untapped potential,” Betancourt said in a statement, confirming the deal. “This ​transaction will unleash that potential to the great benefit of both Venezuelans and Americans."

NABEP said it will have operating control of the business and the ​U.S. government will have holding rights to a 35% stake in the company, alongside "preferential access" to 20% of the company’s production ⁠at cost.
The White House said NABEP has also granted the U.S. Department of State the right of first refusal to purchase the remaining 80% of its production.

Last ​week, Trump announced that the U.S. had secured access to some 64 billion barrels of Venezuela's proven oil reserves through a partnership with private business.

The arrangement gives U.S. companies a ​foothold in some of Venezuela's strategically important oil assets while displacing Chinese and Russian interests that have long played a major role in the country's energy sector. It also gives Washington a direct role in determining who produces and sells Venezuela's oil, as the Trump administration seeks to reshape the country's oil industry and bring its vast reserves closer to U.S. economic and geopolitical ​interests.

The U.S. will also have veto power over NABEP's board and directors and has stipulated that a majority of the board must be American citizens, the White House ​added.

NABEP is expected to control a total of 17 projects in Venezuela that it plans to develop and ultimately use to supply oil to the U.S. Fourteen of those projects will ‌be newly ⁠granted by the Venezuelan government, the officials said.

Five of the 14 fields have been operated by Chinese companies under a model promoted by then-President Nicolas Maduro, while one was previously operated by a Russian company, the officials said.

Two of the projects have been operated by China Concord Resources, which was sanctioned by the U.S. in 2019 for Iran-related activity. Another project was operated by Sinopec and another by China National Petroleum Corp, the officials said.

Full Story: https://www.reuters.com/business/ene...ls-2026-08-31/

[Rizotto]

Apparently the first USA shipment of Venezuelan oil went to Israeli refinery... Who's controlling who?
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Professor Jeffrey Sachs reacting to Israeli Ben Gvir's concentration camp for Palestinians video:
"That's the genocide that you congressman or you senator with your AIPAC money have been supporting, and that you are complicit in."

The Dangerous Reality of U.S.-Israel Relations

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZPATXjfdp6c

[Rizotto]

"EXTREMELY WORRISOME": Trita Parsi On The Secret Nuclear Conversations In D.C.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2MtF7ctI54g

"PERMANENT WAR HAS BEGUN" — Trita Parsi On Trump’s New Iran Plan

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RmsZzTXD_qA

[BMJ]

While America Builds, Europe Schemes To Rob Its Citizens

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=p64n42Q8ZY0

Promethean Updates
September 1, 2026

Summary:
00:00 The Monday Brief - While America Builds, Europe Schemes To Rob Its Citizens - August 31, 2026
01:34 The Past G20 Horror Shows
05:31 The Builders: America's Self-Sufficiency Push
10:32 The Bankers: Europe's Plan to Loot Its Own Citizens

In this Wednesday update, Barbara Boyd previews the G20 meeting in Asheville, framing it as a clash between an agenda centered on physical economic growth—advanced by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent—and what she calls the G20/EU’s long-running Malthusian, “green” framework that followed the 2008 financial collapse, bank bailouts, and a shift toward climate policies.

The episode contrasts Trump-era priorities—domestic manufacturing, supply-chain self-sufficiency, critical minerals, energy expansion, workforce upskilling, and new nuclear plans for shipping outlined by Energy Secretary Chris Wright—with European leaders’ efforts to build a “middle powers” bloc and “redirect” citizens’ savings into EU-directed investment.

Boyd argues EU priorities include Ukraine war funding, the green transition, and open borders/free trade, and says the outcome of this fight will shape the future ahead of the midterms.



Glenn Beck, quote " (7:06 minutes) Let me tell you what's happening. the new world order that was promised by Bush one and Bush 2, you know, the globalist new world order. Looks like we don't want it.

And uh the reason why we don't want it is because we're seeing that America (including every other western nation) has to go down the crapper if globalism is to work. And every president that we have had in recent memory has been working towards that and simply managing our decline.

Trump is the first guy to come in and go, "We're not going to do that. We're not going to do that. We're going to have a new golden era. We're going to have a great age for America into the 21st century.

And so, he's not just reshaping America. He is reshaping the world (Look toward Venezuela, from extreme poverty and heading to economic wealth).

And I know this to be true because I have had conversations with several prime ministers in the last four months, private conversations, and all of them have said, "I know exactly what he's doing, and I know where the power is going." "

[Rizotto]

USA restarting attacks on Iran in recent days is driving the oil price steeply up, now at $90 a barrel. Not only that, but USA's attacks seem to be deliberately targeting civilians in Iran. Personally I wonder if the Trump regime is trying to provoke the Iranians into major retaliations, which Trump will use as pretext to use nuclear weapons on Iran.
There's been some indications from Pete Hegseth that he's very much into fighting for the "end times" (meaning, it will be the end for you and me, but old Pete will most likely be comfortably ensconced in his luxury bunker.)

In the video below, Chris Martenson questions why nuclear weapons were even mentioned at all by Trump recently. Chris also discusses the bond market, and the need to be prepared.
Slouching Towards Bedlam

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3CgFNrP126s

[BMJ]

THIS Is What You Need To Understand About What Trump Just Did

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YajAebWotTg

Glenn Beck
September 2, 2026
Donald Trump and Glenn Beck spoke forty-five minutes before the start of the radio show. (Enjoy)

[Rizotto]

"Fmr CIA analyst Larry Johnson and Col Lawrence Wilkerson discuss the mass casualty event rocking Trump and the Pentagon as Iran retaliates hard against US bases following a horrific war crime on a wedding party in Southern Iran. A deployment of US Marine Corps just took heavy casualties and we break down exactly how devastating it all is in this must watch show."

Iran RAZES US Marine Barracks! Trump's FATAL Mistake | Larry Johnson & Col. Lawrence Wilkerson

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZH6UultO38A

[Rizotto]

USA getting oil from its latest colony, i.e. Venezuela, will take years before it's usable.

Is the 'Biggest Oil Deal in History' a Scam?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9pojT1Svzj4

[rgray222]

The "Trump effect" is evident when comparing Calvin Klein advertising campaigns from 2023 to those of 2026. Regardless of your personal opinions about Donald Trump, his influence has been significant. He has restored common sense and changed many of the corrupt and morally bankrupt attitudes of the Biden administration. When morality and normalcy are disregarded by one political party and consistently supported by mainstream media, behaviors that are abnormal or bizarre can begin to seem normal.

The Calvin Klein ad campaign was not an effort to challenge traditional morals and norms; it was targeted at the values of society in an effort to damage the underpinnings of the Western world. Love Trump or hate him, he is changing things faster than most people realize.

[onawah]

I think Trump recently gave the very toxic pesticide/insecticide industry a huge boost. That was definitely not a change for the better. His current restrictions on Big Pharma are not nearly enough. Still lots better than what Kamala would have done, no doubt, but how much power does a POTUS really have anymore?

Posted by rgray222 (here)
Love Trump or hate him, he is changing things faster than most people realize.

[AuCo]

Posted by Rizotto (here)
USA restarting attacks on Iran in recent days is driving the oil price steeply up, now at $90 a barrel. Not only that, but USA's attacks seem to be deliberately targeting civilians in Iran. Personally I wonder if the Trump regime is trying to provoke the Iranians into major retaliations, which Trump will use as pretext to use nuclear weapons on Iran.
There's been some indications from Pete Hegseth that he's very much into fighting for the "end times" (meaning, it will be the end for you and me, but old Pete will most likely be comfortably ensconced in his luxury bunker.)

In the video below, Chris Martenson questions why nuclear weapons were even mentioned at all by Trump recently. Chris also discusses the bond market, and the need to be prepared.
Slouching Towards Bedlam

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3CgFNrP126s

One would rarely get the right answer if emotion is injected into the question. Instead of asking why would someone do something stupid like that, I would simply ask why🙂