The Gathering Storm: Snatch-and-Grab Regime Change is the New New Normal

by | Jan 11, 2026 | Newsletter | 17 comments

Well, that didn’t take long. No sooner had the metaphorical ink dried on my New World Next Year prediction that 2026 would be the “Year of the Storm” than the storm in fact began.

Specifically, it began in the form of a spectacular overnight raid on January 2, 2026, that resulted in the successful abduction of former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

And now, all hell’s broken loose.

But don’t take it from me. Take it from German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (better known to non-Germans as “who the hell is that guy?”). Remarking on the spectacular events of the past week, he has opined that Trump and the US are now destroying the very post-WWII world order that the US helped create.

Hmm. If I didn’t know better, I’d say a New World Order is in the offing. Now who could have possibly predicted that?

So, what the hell does all this really mean? Good question. Let’s answer it, shall we?

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17 Comments

    • In 1968, having made a bee-line to Haight-Asbury, ground zero of the culture shift, I immediately learned that the whole thing was more of a dystopia than a Nirvana paradise. Something was REALLY off, compared to the story we were fed. But I didn’t have the gravitas and the experience to act on my misgivings until the imminent birth of our first child in ’74. I wanted so badly to believe in the romanticizing and mystification of the drug culture. (I did completely avoid being taken in by the political left that was trying to take over then). On the University campuses, this destructive paradigm was mostly pushed by fellow students, though the indirect direction of Government and Media became apparent, especially in hindsight.
      The prevailing sentiment was that drug use would not only straighten out all of your anxieties and misconceptions about life, but make you a superior and more spiritual being. The idea of ‘take a pill for every ill’ still bedevils our society.
      All this too say, our current situation of moral decline and scams is directly traceable to that first great ‘youth revolution’ in my own life, without need for scholarly study. It has been going on for many decades and has strong deep roots. Of course you can choose any starting point to make an analysis, but the mid 60’s is a perfect, viable starting point for many essays.

  1. It’s all about Epstein and his friends; government closure for 43(?) days, sabre rattling and small wars, stirring up civil unrest in the US.
    ‘Dr g explains’ found anther working camera in the facility where Epstein vanished. The MSM doesn’t seem interested.

    • Is it about the end of Empire? In the US/ ‘west’ ? Absolutely.
      But, bigger than that it is about the end of the Monotheistic Model.

      • Do you consider Islam to be monotheistic? Judaism?
        Do you think that Islam will succumb to the New World Order Religion?

    • BTW The whole Da Jooz story is very lame. Although Israel’s paranoid and militant state is definitely not guilt-free, they did not pull off 9/11 and OKC bombings and Mideast wars by themselves. Ditto Chemtrails and Global Woiming (sic). The perps are a tangle of powers. In fact, the insane neocon parts of the US are more dominant and pivotal in many cases. Beware the comfort given by shorthand solutions and cults.

      • Put water in it. You come across as a bit mad.
        Obviously, Islam is the deformed runt of the Judaeo-
        Christian model.

        • I was specifically trying to understand what you meant by writing “it is about the end of the Monotheistic Model”.

          Your haughty comment about how Islam is the deformed runt of the Judaeo-Christian model does not address the question that I posed. BTW that runt is now clearly huge. Also the ‘Judaeo-Christian’ model is obviously a copy of even older Mid-Eastern religions, if we are to believe ‘the research.’ But again, that seems irrelevant to what I asked.
          Obviously, I am crazy to waste time posting on the internet, but I don’t think that is what you meant. Did you mean that I am mad for not believing exactly what you do? Did you mean that I should grovel to all who are angry? Should I question myself, when I ruffle some feathers? To the last one, I would say yes, I must question myself repeatedly. However, Insults and defensive projections don’t sway me.

          • Didn’t mention ‘Da Jooz’ .
            Likewise 911, OKC, Chemtrails and global woiming(sic).
            To keep it simple, archaeological evidence (such as that from Elephantine Island) shows no mention of words such as Moses, Noah, Abraham etc before c.200 BCE.
            Western monotheism is a fraud.

  2. “We’re going to be using oil, and we’re going to be taking oil,” he says of this latest regime change operation, vowing to run Venezuela as long as it takes in order to “rebuild it in a very profitable way” for American oil companies.

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    Huh. How heart-warming (Drump’s word choices). But, what does it (he) mean?

    Let’s parse:

    “We’re going to be using oil, and we’re going to be taking oil … .”

    Is it presumptious to understand the phrase “using oil” to mean that the ‘green new deal’ is DOA? That we can fuggetabawwt the dangers, the waste, the affordability /pricetags, the idiocy, etc. of electric vehicles?

    Trump&Cump says he /they are going to, “[R]ebuild it in a very profitable way… .”

    Well, the only translation I come up with is that U.S. gas /fuel prices are going to skyrocket.

    Gotsta save the petro-dollar, ya know … by any and all means, including killing Venezuelans and U.S. citizenry gouging.

    • KLolli~~~

      Presumptuous, not at all . The only thing missing is the applause and laugh track overdub to guide your sub-conscious
      mind . The staccato rhythm, cadence, timing and voids lead to what you presume it leads to. Primarily to do nothing, take no action, chill. Give it a day or two to sink in, then move on in the opposite direction of what otherwise would be a normal response; to burn it down. But alas…
      You picked up on the jest of what is being occulted but how it’s being said is the pile driving of the subconscious. Someone’s gonna pay and it’s a shame most can’t hear him telling us that it’s us . “The art of listening” Poppy Crum..

  3. For some time I was thinking (wishful) that Russia wasn’t going for digital ID, digital money and all the other global agenda goals, as you mentioned more than once. They will also go along in the main agenda regarding the new world order like the rest of the world. Right now it looks like we’re witnessing the grab, theft, or exchange of all the available world assets (land & resources) before the new world order arises out off the chaos. 🤞

    • I did a word search of the word climate in your assertion of ‘climate change’.
      – only your posts came up. Put some water in it.

  4. Does anyone else feel like the world (or matrix, or whatever the hell ‘this’ is) has been moved to another place or timeline or whatever? I remember an old Twilight Zone episode (“People Are Alike All Over) where a man who lands on Mars gets a harsh reality… “Martians recreate his Earth home in immaculate detail. As he revels in the hospitality, a massive curtain pulls back to reveal that the flawless replica is actually a zoo enclosure, displaying Conrad as a captive “Earth creature.”

    Anyways, to me, the moon doesn’t look like it did when I was a kid. The stars and sun seem more like LED lights than space bodies. Everything good seems to have been inverted into hellish situations. People all seem like distant strangers, even people I was once close with (like pod people or NPCs). Trust is nil.

    All this warmongering is just part of that dystopian landscape. I posit that in 2012 there WAS a shift. I was hoping it would be into a bright-shiny-new love-based realm; but instead it turned into the opposite. I’d love to believe that we can create any reality we want by just believing, but my experience does not mirror that idea. Just saying…

  5. While You Watched Venezuela, Trump Quietly Put Canada On Notice
    Promethean Updates
    While mainstream media and independent journalists alike focus on regime change in Venezuela, this video reveals Donald Trump’s covert battle against the British Empire’s financial backbone. Susan Kokinda from Promethean Action breaks down how Trump’s actions extend beyond traditional geopolitics, targeting the nexus of narcotics trafficking, terrorism, and offshore banking systems. Discover the deeper implications of this fight, the role of Canada, and why even the British intelligence and John Bolton see this as a significant shift.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ7UrtDjNao&list=PLRQ5OGvf-BUF8_GQpDBLm4ATLq67U0pcD&index=17&t=727s

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