THE RISE OF THE MEANIE!

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In this week’s newsletter I focus on the videos I recorded with new guest Burning Bright from the Badlands Media team, Canadian Jim Torma aka Shimjelly, as well as regular guest: Retired USAF General Blaine Holt who doubled up with Steven Kuhn.

I will also give a brief mention of an interview I gave on the Ordinary American channel.

Trump's FAKE War Just TRAPPED The Globalists

with Burning Bright from Badlands Media
https://youtu.be/co5iYS3weiU

Burning Bright (BB) is one of the team members at Badlandsmedia.com. A former fiction writer, he has turned his narrative skills to analyse geo-politics by examining the stories that we are told about these events, and how are perception of geo-politics is shaped by these stories. I found my conversation with him thoughtful and provocative, not least when he started by asserting that the US/Iran war is “fake and gay”. Since we are entirely separated from events on the ground, every story needs to be regarded as a narrative deployment, in which case it would be useful for us to ask what it is that we are being asked to believe. This goes some way to explaining the start difference in how the war is reported by the Iranians and their supporters versus the US and its supporters. This makes it challenging to work out what exactly is happening.

This challenge is compounded by what BB refers to as Trump’s deliberate discombobulation.

“If I am to take everything that Donald Trump says in real time, literally...that is a dangerous place to be”.

Trump has stated that he used a discombobulator in Venezuela and Iran. These and his other statements, such as threatening to bomb Oman, and the way that statements such as these are reported in the mainstream media, serve to confuse and confound further. BB points out that it’s important that we pay close attention to the source of any news, and the agenda and bias of that source. BB notes that almost none of the tragedy storylines emanate from US military reports, the White House or Trump; they come from parties arrayed against him. Those arrayed against him are those that Trump is running a global distentanglement operation against. Of course they are going to misrepresent and distort Trump’s actions.

BB expands on sovereign disentanglement in his analysis of how it played out in Venezuela in January 2026 here: https://burningbright.substack.com/p/sovereign-disentanglement.

In the video, we go on to discuss the fake regime change in Venezuela when Maduro was replaced by Rodriguez. We also discuss the role of the UK and Nato and how they have stood on the sidelines of this American Middle East misadventure, as well as how the stop-start nature of this conflict was portrayed as Trump’s poor leadership and lack of credibility by the MSM. This portrayal misses the argument that with each pause, Trump was giving the Iranians an opportunity to negotiate peace, as well as allowing the US to gather intelligence on who the Iranians were getting support from outside Iran.

It was great talking to BB. We are already in discussion about him returning to the channel.

BB’s links:
https://x.com/reBurningBright
https://burningbright.substack.com

The City of London Is Sacrificing Canada To Stop Trump

with Jim Torma aka Shimjelly
https://youtu.be/CPFtBmQ3JXY

Shimjelly lives off grid in Eastern Canada. He is a writer and a commentator on Canadian politics, and a regular guest on my channel.

As the war between Trump and the globalists continues, the globalists, aka the City of London and its proxies, become ever more desperate to derail Trump before he destroys them. Although the SAVE Act has not been passed, Trump has had some successes in cleaning up the electoral process. He has removed Maduro and replaced him with an ally. Ending the Yen carry trade is costing the ECB and the BOE dearly. The US is working with Latin American nations including Mexico and Colombia to end the drugs trade, as well as cutting off the money that flowed through the shadow banking system to the City of London’s proxies. Now, with the Iranian regime on the ropes, and new alliances being created in the Middle East that cut out the City of London, the globalists have turned to their puppet Carney to instigate a trade war between the US and Canada.

Shimjelly goes into detail spouting fact after fact on how Canada, and the Canadian people in particular, will be the losers in this trade war. He asserts that the tariff war has been manufactured to create midterm problems for the United States, to keep NATO and the backing of Ukraine intact, and to splinter the United States on multiple fronts. Although many Americans support the Ukraine war, there are those who understand that it as a giant money laundering scheme, one that Prime Minister Carney profits from.

Tragically, as Shimjelly points out, there is no viable opposition party in Canada, with Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre supporting Carney’s policies. He also explains how a secret agreement signed by former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, embedded China into Canada and gave Chinese companies preferential treatment over Canadian ones. China now owns and operates several oil and LNG projects in Canada, either directly or through proxies.

Carney is setting up the DSRB, the Defence Security Resilience Bank, which should be operational by the end of the year. Its purpose is to funnel donor money into drones and armaments, to keep the Ukraine/Russia war going. It will also allow the grift to continue as politicians, lobbyists, and other involved parties extract funds for their own personal use.

Shimjelly and I agreed that ultimately the purpose of the Ukraine Russia war was to provide cover for the EU and the UK to default on their debts as they have so far failed to draw the United States into the war so that the EU and UK can steal Russia’s immense resources.

Shimjelly and I discuss how the Canadian people will suffer due to this trade war, a trade war that Canada cannot win, the high rate of unemployment, the corruption of the electoral system, and much more.

Shimjelly’s links
https://x.com/shimjelly
https://tormatime.substack.com

Germany Just Turned On The EU - And Nobody Can Stop It

with Steven Kuhn and Blaine Holt
https://youtu.be/ZJ5gZ854rn4

The fate of the EU is largely tied to the fate of Germany, since Germany is the most powerful economic and political member of the EU, so an anti-EU turn there has ramifications across the union. After Germany comes France, in terms of power and influence. The guests were Steven Kuhn and Ret’d General Blaine Holt. Both France and Germany are witnessing the unstoppable rise of anti-EU insurgent populist parties that are shaking up the established order.

In Germany, the AfD continues to gain in popularity across all demographics. It’s polling higher than the CDU, CSU and SPD, who between them have ruled Germany since the end of the Second World War. The AfD has a distinctly populist, sovereigntist stance. It argues for the deportation of migrants, an end to Germany’s support for Ukraine, and Germany to leave the EU. The established parties’ response to this is to find ways to ban AfD from participating in the forthcoming state elections.

Blaine asserted that a success for the AfD in Germany would galvanise populist movements in France, Belgium and Spain, and further accelerate the inevitable collapse of the EU.

As well as discussing CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s visit to Moscow, Lavrov’s meeting with the Vatican’s Foreign Minister, and the state of Russia’s economy, Blaine, Steven and I had a lot of fun together. This included Blaine inviting viewers to declare that I am a “meanie”. To date, there are 53 comments stating that I am a meanie. All 53 have fallen for Blaine’s psyop, when the truth is that it is Blaine that is the real meanie.

Steven’s links
https://x.com/JoinTAB_USA
https://www.jointab.us

Blaine’s links
https://x.com/the_irascible
https://www.dangerousintellectuals.com

The City of London Sucks

with Rich from Rich Does Politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RTxxBzJ6ZE

I appeared on the Ordinary American’s channel as a guest and gave what I thought was a fairly comprehensive primer on how the British Empire evolved out of the City of London and still rules much of the world through its proxies such as the UN, EU, MI6, WEF, WHO, IMF, Federal Reserve, WTO, BIS and similar agencies.

This video is highly recommended for anyone who is willing to learn about how the City of London operates and why commentators like myself and many others believe that Trump is waging a war against the City of London and its proxies.

Paul, the Ordinary American’s links:
https://YouTube.com/@OrdinaryAmerican-y6q
https://x.com/TheOrdAmerican

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All the best Rich
Monday 31st August 2026

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