Newsletter: Monday 26 October 2026
Hi everyone,
Once again, I pick out 3 videos that stood out for me. The first is a conversation with EM Burlingame who shares his take on the various spy agencies that run our world and what differentiates them. The second gives an overview of Data Republican’s Democracy Files which allege that the Democrats are planning to stage a colour revolution in the US should the mid-terms not go their way. The 3rd video is a fascinating conversation with Ghost as he details how Israel is involved in the theft of the resources in Eastern Congo (the DRC).
I don’t go through each of these videos in depth. Instead, I focus on a particular aspect that I find fascinating, with the intention to entice you to watch the video, if you haven’t already.
Last week, I predicted that my subscribers would probably reach 100k before this newsletter was out. Almost but not quite. At time of writing I have 98,800 subscribers. Thank you, whether or not you have subscribed. I am truly grateful and appreciative of the regard that you give me, and in particular my wonderful guests. May you continue to find it worth your while to watch my videos, to comment and like when you do, and to subscribe when you do. Thank you.
I am grateful to David Morgan for guesting on my channel, and for having me on his channel where I give an overview of the history of the City of London and how it has come to dominate world affairs.
You can see this here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWT0qOUQAFg&t=2s
The day of the Rich Does Live event on 7th November draws nearer and nearer. It takes place 4 days after the mid-terms on a day when there will be much mayhem and mischief. I can’t wait to hear what the speakers’ take will be on the mid-terms. Each of them will be giving a short presentation, and then we will have a 3 hour + panel where we will take questions from the attendees as well as those watching the livestream.
Blaine has posted a delightful short trailer on the event which is here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLaYPfotMqY
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Advance notice: there will be no newsletter following the week of the Rich Does Live event.
EM Burlingame - MI6 Is London’s Chaos Machine, Not A Spy Agency
with EM Burlingame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV3iy_8EISU
A conversation with EM is always educational and illuminating. We covered an issue that gets very little attention yet shapes our lives in ways that are unseen and largely unknown.
Brig. Gen. (Retd) Blaine Holt,
EM Burlingame,
Steven E Kuhn,
Mark Attwood,
Alex Krainer
with a special guest appearance:
Tom Luongo
Make sure you get your livestream and recording here:
Livestream / Video RecordingReal serial killers are not in prison, according to EM. They are in intelligence, law enforcement, government and nonprofits, where they can kill with immunity.
EM and I had a conversation about the intelligence services: which ones were good and the particular niches they occupied. EM started by telling me that the CIA and Russia’s FSB are the best at intelligence. But the most powerful agencies of all are MI6 and the French because both were imperial powers with networks going back centuries, with assets in almost every country; their main focus is on creating chaos.
EM explained that real spy work is not like the Bond movies. It is boring. Data collection, relationship management, building networks. The spy as James Bond is an expensive, rare asset. It’s far too risky to use a valuable asset like that, and to risk losing him/her and it’s far too controversial if exposed. What the intelligence agencies do instead is contract out killings to former military elite who then pass it down their own networks, sometimes two layers deep, to some patsy at the end of the line. This structure gives the spy agency plausible deniability.
EM gave an example of boring, tedious, detailed yet effective spy work. In the 1980s the Russians went through the trash produced by the American Embassy in Moscow. They went through paper records and forms that had been thrown away with the rest of the detritus that an embassy produces. They found payslips that showed how much particular staff were being paid. They then cross-referenced what the payslips said with the publicly available information on embassy salary scales. Some of the payslips showed embassy staff were being paid much more than their role merited, almost as if they were CIA agents who were working undercover in the embassy. The Russians expelled these overpaid diplomats and business people, thus setting American spying back by about a decade.
Not all spy work is always this boring and tedious, EM pointed out. There are targets that are assassinated, but these assassinations are rarely about the person killed since those people are easily replaced. It’s far more effective to use these killings to sow division and distrust. For example, killing someone in another country’s elite and making it look like it was a hit job from another faction within that elite. This creates fissures so that the group members are wary of each other and they spend their energy watching one another instead of looking out for outside threats.
EM said that Israel’s Mossad and Pakistan’s ISI are used when an operation is meant to be traceable to an intelligence agency, and that both ultimately work for the CIA and MI6. RAW, the Indian intelligence agency is strongest in business intelligence, because Indians were sent around the former empire to work as managers. Russia’s FSB is the best at intelligence gathering because it has had to be in order to prevail against the provocations of the West, first as the Soviet Union and now as Russia.
Spy agencies work closely with criminal networks because these networks are themselves heavy intelligence collection points, since organised crime and drug trafficking go back to ancient Greece and Rome. The CIA’s involvement in drug trafficking continues a pattern developed by the British and Dutch East India Companies. The intelligence agencies are also involved in human trafficking which is almost as profitable as the drugs trade. Both these activities allow for off-book revenue generation which can then be used for off-book activities, thus escaping administrative oversight and accountability.
The solution to all this nefarious activity, according to EM, is for the old aristocratic families to rebuild trust among themselves through genuine intelligence sharing, so they can see who was really behind what. The diplomats and politicians won’t do it as they are short-term operators. Whether or not the intelligence agencies would ever allow their power to be diminished in this or any other way is another matter entirely.
EM Burlingame’s links
https://www.forgeaccelerator.club/
https://x.com/EMBurlingame
Obama’s Coup Is BLOWING UP In His Face: London’s Money Ran Out First.
with Steven Kuhn and Paul, The Ordinary American
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHqOmsfXfA4
You may have heard of the Democracy Files. Released by Data Republican (https://x.com/DataRepublican), they purport to provide evidence of a plot to stage a colour revolution in the United States. This is what Steven, Paul and I discussed in this video.
Two polling firms were recently exposed for posting fake polls. They published numbers showing that the Democrats and the DSA were ahead in the midterms. Steven said that these firms have since admitted they weren’t real polling companies, but by that time, their polling results had already been picked up by the New York Times and the New York Post. The idea behind this is that if everyone believes the Democrats are going to win and then they lose, they can claim that Trump rigged the elections. This is when the riots will start, forcing Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act. A group of governors have already agreed to step in with a plan to take over Washington, assisted by unnamed foreign powers.
Paul referred to this as “Obama coup part two”; the first coup started in December 2016 in an Oval Office meeting, which gave rise to Russiagate. Paul pointed out that if the corruption worked and Trump lost, his voters would accept it because the polls had said he would lose. If the corruption failed and Trump won, the Democrats had already been told it was rigged, and they would take to the streets, and thus the colour revolution would start.
Is such a colour revolution possible in the US or has Data Republican’s release exposed and nullified the conspirators and their conspiracy? Either way, it’s going to be very bumpy on Tuesday 3rd November.
Paul, the Ordinary American’s links:
https://YouTube.com/@OrdinaryAmerican-y6q
https://x.com/TheOrdAmerican
Steven’s links
https://www.youtube.com/@StevenEugeneKuhn
https://x.com/JoinTAB_USA
https://www.jointab.us
Israel’s Diamond Cartel Thought Trump Was BLUFFING... He WASN’T
with Ghost (Badlands Media)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oz4LCRZWIo
This video with Ghost followed on from the previous one that we did on Trump’s relationship with Netanyahu. It is not as simple and clear-cut as the MSM and many independent pundits would have us believe. There are many instances where Trump is actively working against Netanyahu and the forces of Zionism.
One of these forces is Dan Gertler, grandson of the man behind the Israel Diamond Exchange. His family had spent decades in the diamond and mining trade across Africa. Through the 2000s, Gertler built a close relationship with Joseph Kabila, then president of the DRC. Ghost describes Gertler’s rise in the DRC: he built a relationship with Joseph Kabila, paid him money, and received mineral rights through the state mining company, Gecamines. Ghost said that the Panama Papers pointed to about $360 million Gertler had paid in bribes. Ghost said that Gertler, as a pro-Zionist billionaire, has passed on funds to other Zionist billionaires that are in Israel. He is an associate of Netanyahu and appears to be close to Yossi Cohen. Who is Yossi Cohen?
In 2019, Cohen, then head of Mossad and widely seen as Netanyahu’s political heir, turned up in Kinshasa, the capital of the DRC. Not once, but three times, and not the way a senior intelligence chief normally travels. Whether or not Cohen was visiting the DRC on holiday or on a work trip, protocol required him to inform the DRC authorities beforehand. This Cohen did not do. He just appeared. Three times.
The same day Cohen made his second visit, a plane carrying the president’s entourage crashed after taking off from Goma, the airport Cohen had flown into. Ghost was careful to present this as a striking coincidence, not proof of anything, but nevertheless, suspicious.
In the preceding year, Kabila had lost the 2018 election, and Félix Tshisekedi became president. The third time Cohen appeared, DRC officials met his plane on the tarmac and banned him from the DRC for life. Ghost said that Tshisekedi’s aides feared Cohen was helping Kabila plan a coup.
Tshisekedi had a good relationship with Trump. Trump had previously frozen Gertler’s assets under Executive Order 13818 on 20 December 2017. Ron Dermer, then Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, reportedly lobbied the Trump administration to lift Gertler’s sanctions in January 2021. Janet Yellen’s Treasury reimposed them two months later.
Ghost then painted a picture of how various agencies are working to keep the North-East resource-rich area of the DRC in perpetual conflict, making it difficult for the government to maintain control and use the estimated 24 trillion dollars of resources for its people. Instead, as in many other parts of the world, CIA/MI6/Mossad cut-outs operate to perpetuate large-scale theft to enrich the bankster elite that were spawned out of the City of London.
Ghost tells the story so well that once again, I let our conversation run for an hour and a half, once again.
I have recorded a series of videos with Ghost on the role of Saudi Arabia and MBS. These 3 videos have not been published yet. They will be posted on my sister channel: youtube.com/@richdoesmore in due course.
Ghost’s Links
https://x.com/GhostofBPH
https://badlands.substack.com
https://www.youtube.com/@badlandsmedia
