BURLINGAME BENDS MY BRAIN. AGAIN.

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In this week’s newsletter, I focus on the video I recorded with new guest Pastor Adam Fannin, Jon Herold’s sober analysis of the midterms, and finally EM Burlingame’s take on the erosion of the Old World’s naval powers.

The Supreme Court Just Proved They’re Owned By London

with Jon Herold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d6RiR-9JlU

Jon Herold, from the Badlands Media team, returned to give his take on the Supreme Court ruling regarding the executive order that President Trump signed in March 2026. In the order, Trump had directed the United States Postal Service (USPS) to ensure that mail-in ballots were only delivered to bona fide American citizens. This would have brought integrity to the mail-in ballots and would likely have made it much harder for mail-in ballot rigging to take place in the midterms on 3 November 2026.

As soon as Trump had made the executive order, a federal court had put a stay on that order. This issue was eventually considered by the Supreme Court, which ruled that the stay on the order must stay in place on the grounds that there was no longer enough time left for the states and the USPS to put measures in place to ensure that mail-in ballots were only sent to American citizens. Seven Supreme Court justices voted in favour of the stay. Only Justices Alito and Thomas dissented. They asserted that the delay was due to the Court’s own doing. This ruling now means that it will be possible for there to be cheating using mail-in ballots in the midterms.

Jon said that various Democratic-linked NGOs had filed suits that were taken up by sympathetic judges. This tactic to delay and obstruct is being used by the Democrats to outlive Trump, in the hope that, come the 2028 election, the Democratic candidate will win.

Jon disagreed with me that the Democrats could not cheat in the midterms as they had in 2020, when the election was stolen under a Democrat DOJ during lockdown. In 2024 they couldn’t cheat enough. Now the DOJ has its eyes open and the Democrats have no money, I asserted.

Jon pointed out that it was not possible to outvote an algorithm, and there is no ceiling on the number of fake ballots. He thought that they had let Trump win in 2024 because stealing it that year would have exposed their system of fraud. This system is the single most valuable thing the Democrats own.

Jon also corrected a misconception that I hear constantly. Executive Order 13848 does not protect elections and does not let Trump suspend anything. All it does is force the intelligence community to produce an assessment and then produce a report after every election. Jon’s argument is that Trump wrote the order to get them on record and to capture them weaponising intelligence against him, just as Obama had done in December 2016 to launch the Russia hoax.

Jon offered, as a solution, a devolution sandwich: Trump works top-down, and the citizenry works from the bottom up, and we all meet in the middle.

Jon did not offer any hopium, just a cold analysis of the Republican Party’s prospects in the midterms.

Jon’s links
https://x.com/patel_patriot
https://badlandsmedia.tv
https://devolution.us

A Pastor Just EXPOSED London’s Influence On The Bible

with Pastor Adam Fannin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0oMCVXmWr4

Pastor Adam Fannin is a Baptist minister and the founder and pastor of Law of Liberty Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida. I was connected to him via Kerry Hopkins, who came on my channel a few weeks back.

We talked about how the City of London had given rise to Christian Zionism by fostering and promoting the Scofield Reference Bible. Adam told me that C. I. Scofield didn’t rewrite any of the passages of the King James Bible; what he did was far more insidious. He added notes that guided people on how they should read and understand the text of the Bible. Scofield took his doctrine from John Nelson Darby, whose ideas arrived in America in the 1830s. Darby supplied a religious ideology, born of his own experience as a member of the Plymouth Brethren, that the British Foreign Office and imperial networks used to promote Christian Zionism as a tool for controlling the Middle East by provoking religious conflict among the Abrahamic traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Adam said that Scofield was far from a devout Christian himself. He described Scofield as a charlatan with a history of fraud and abuse. There is evidence to suggest that Darby was a British intelligence asset, and it was City of London money that paid to distribute the Scofield Bible across the United States. The City of London fostered and promoted the Muslim Brotherhood and Wahhabism, and the extreme expressions of Islam that grew out of them, such as ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and the Taliban. The City of London also fostered Zionism and drew straight lines across the Levant that divided tribes and communities, thus ensuring that the children of Abraham would fight each other and making it easier for the British to steal the resources of the Middle East.

Adam pointed out that two doctrines came out of the work of Darby and Scofield that are not in the King James Bible. One is that true believers will vanish before anything bad happens. This is the Rapture that Christian Zionists speak of. Adam pointed out that the word “rapture” doesn’t appear in Scripture at all, only in Scofield’s notes. The second doctrine is the notion that Israel is separate from the Church and that the Jews are God’s exclusive people, which produces the bizarre spectacle of Christians declaring themselves second-class citizens and funding wars on behalf of people they have decided God prefers.

Adam was also critical of the Roman Catholic Church, but not Catholics. The institution and the people are not the same thing, he said.

We both agreed that evil forces are at play and are out to destroy our lives by having us fight each other, when what we need to do is build bridges and unite against the globalists.

Pastor Adam’s Links
https://youtube.com/@LawofLiberty
https://lawoflibertybaptist.com

Trump is sinking the navy on purpose, and London is the target

with EM Burlingame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEjdcqLhKIE

I love my conversations with EM Burlingame. I find them provocative, philosophical and profound. The man is a deep thinker, a great writer, and usually provides a perspective that opens up new pathways for making sense of what is going on in the world.

EM pointed out how for the last four centuries the world has been organised around sea power. Portugal and Spain started it in the 1500s, then the Dutch, the French and then later the English. Goods were moved by sea, with the sea lanes patrolled by navies and the entire banking and financial system being built up around that arrangement. Insurance, bills of lading, factoring, credit, etc. – it all developed out of Venice, and was designed to serve maritime trade, with the result that the port cities became the seats of power.

EM looked at Britain’s contract with Qatar to buy LNG. He went through the complexity of what on the surface appears to be a fairly simple transaction. Who finances the ships, he asked? Who insures the hulls? Who insures the cargo before it leaves port? Who collects the flagging fees, the port fees? Who bankrolls the port itself, its cranes, its security? Who processes payroll for the workers, and who takes a cut when they wire money home? What services, products and businesses are in the supply chain for the supplier, the transporter and the receiving port?

I worked on the Ras Laffan gas refinery in Qatar when it was being built. There were eighty to a hundred thousand construction workers from India, Nepal, Egypt, the Philippines and the Middle East. There were a thousand cranes on site. It was a mini-city in the desert; an incredibly complex project with millions of financial transactions every day between the construction workers, their families back home, and the intermediaries who moved the money and took a cut as they did so.

EM referred to this system that evolved out of the movement of water as hydraulic despotism, starting with controlling river flows and charging everyone downstream. This expanded to controlling the movement of goods over the oceans by controlling the chokepoints.

EM asserted that sea power is finished, partly due to hypersonic missiles that have invalidated the effectiveness of navies. An aircraft carrier group costs tens of billions of dollars to build and billions a year to run. Hypersonic missiles that cost a few million dollars each travel too fast for air defences to stop and can easily put paid to aircraft carriers. There is no technological answer to this yet. Lasers and directed energy weapons can’t stop them and do nothing against them; therefore every seaport and chokepoint is vulnerable.

Modern warfare is shifting power back to the land, disabling the financial architecture that was built as an overlay to the naval trade routes that dominated for hundreds of years. The world is being broken into fragments, into regional spheres that will sustain themselves, primarily over land, but also via regional sea routes. America is retreating to its own hemisphere. It doesn’t need the old world to survive.

Who are the biggest losers of the dismantling of sea power? The old imperial powers of Europe and Britain.

Mind-bending conversation. Well worth your time.

EM Burlingame’s Links
https://x.com/EMBurlingame
https://www.emburlingame.com
https://youtube.com/@EMBurlingame

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All the best,
Rich
Monday 21st September 2026

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