Executive Summary
This week my good friend Tom Luongo joined me to answer the question so many of you keep asking: are we winning yet? The answer is that we are watching a controlled demolition — not of America, but of the supranational architecture that has run the world for at least a century. Tom and I laid out the receipts side by side, and once you see them together you cannot unsee them.
Tulsi Gabbard moved to declassify everything on the Ukraine biolabs the establishment swore did not exist. Rand Paul traced the CIA, Fauci, and COVID all the way back to 2003. The COMEX announced 24/7 trading for gold and oil futures — a structural change that quietly breaks one of the oldest market-rigging schemes on Earth. We connected the intelligence war, the financial war, and the energy war, because they are not three stories. They are one. The same managerial class that captured our agencies with the 1947 National Security Act is the one that rigged the gold and oil markets, starved Europe of oil to bring it to heel, and turned the color revolution playbook against We the People.
We also talked about why the old spooks are suddenly showing their faces — the "Steady State," the 51-letter crowd — and why that is a sign of desperation, not strength. And Tom kept us grounded in the most important truth of all: change is a process, three yards and a cloud of dust, not a light switch. Scroll to the bottom for Key Takeaways.
1947 and the Architecture of Capture
To understand today, you have to go back to 1947 — the year Harry Truman signed the National Security Act and created the CIA. Truman reportedly said on his deathbed that had he known what the agency would become, how sinister, he never would have signed it. Eisenhower warned us in his farewell. JFK warned us — and paid for it.
Tom put it bluntly. From the moment the Dulles brothers took over the State Department and the CIA in 1953, those institutions stopped working for the American people. They worked for the international banking cartel and the multinational corporations tied to it. The same crowd, a generation later, ran Brennan's CIA in Saudi Arabia — where, as Tom noted, the visas for the 9/11 hijackers were issued.
This is the architecture I traced in Infiltration Instead of Invasion. The modern world was not built through invasion. It was built through infiltration — institution by institution, during the decade that followed the war.
The COMEX Bombshell — Breaking the Gold and Oil Suppression Scheme
Here is the revelation that made Tom rewrite half his monthly newsletter: the COMEX is moving to 24/7 trading for gold and oil futures. To most people that is a yawn. To anyone who has watched these markets for twenty-five years, it is an earthquake.
For decades there has been a daily "slam" — every time London opens, every time the New York access markets close — when gold and oil get pushed around in the thin overnight hours. Tom gave the receipt: during the 2002–2011 gold bull market, gold rose 700% — but if you bought the New York open and sold the New York close every day, you lost 70% of your money. The retail player was being stopped out while the markets were closed.
Twenty-four-hour trading on the most liquid, physically-settled commodities in the world ends one whole layer of that manipulation and lets price discovery happen. And notice — they did it only for gold and oil. Why? Because all pricing of all assets is downstream of those two. The currency and bond markets move beneath them. Take back control of gold and oil, and the entire managed system starts to shake.
The Energy War and the Apache False Flag
Then there is the oil itself. Straits closed. London starved of money. Europe starved of oil. China coming to the table. And — as it broke just hours before we recorded — seven million barrels a day moving through Omani waters in the Strait of Hormuz with the AIS transponders turned off, plus millions more offloaded daily in the Gulf of America.
The Apache helicopter story? Tom reads it as a deliberate maneuver — a dud fired so the crew could bail, a headline to pump the oil market for a few hours, before the physical traders pushed crude back down below ninety dollars a barrel. He called it the Gulf of Tonkin turned on its head: a false flag used not to launch an endless war, but to corner the IRGC and force a settlement.
The tell is simple — if a real missile had hit that Apache, there would be two dead men. There were none. We should always notice who lives and who dies. Helicopter "accidents," as Tom dryly noted, have been how these people get rid of targets for years.
The Color Revolution, Turned on Us
Why are the old operatives suddenly out in the open — the 400-strong "Steady State," the same signatories behind the 51-intelligence-agents letter that was a conspiracy to defraud the people before an election? Because they are losing. Tom said it plainly: when the military goes up against the spooks, and the military is behind the sitting government, the spooks lose every time.
So they are desperate. They are running the color revolution playbook against America itself — paying influencers, staging protests, even preparing what we both expect could be a George Floyd 2.0. Once you can see their code and how they operate, you can call it for what it is, make the memes, and refuse to be a consumer of their chaos.
Why We Have Every Reason for Hope
A declining power is a dangerous power — and a defeated one. Light is being shined on the clandestine operations. The supranational architecture is on its last leg. But we are not even at halftime. The most empowering thing Tom said all hour was to be encouraged when you see them stop sharing intelligence with the UK, then France, one front at a time, strategically, to right the ship.
The temptation is always the light switch — turn it all off today. But move too fast and you hand them a narrative to turn the people against you. This is order of operations. Twenty fronts at once. Three yards and a cloud of dust. We the People are the answer, and the work in front of us is to stay vigilant, stay grounded, and trust the process.
Key Takeaways
- Tulsi Gabbard moved to declassify everything on the Ukraine biolabs the establishment denied existed; Rand Paul tied CIA/Fauci/COVID back to 2003.
- COMEX going 24/7 for gold and oil ends a decades-old suppression scheme — buying the NY open and selling the close lost 70% during a bull market that rose 700%.
- They opened 24/7 trading only for gold and oil because all asset pricing is downstream of those two commodities.
- The Apache "attack" reads as a Gulf-of-Tonkin-style false flag — an oil-price pump with zero casualties, used to corner the IRGC.
- Seven million barrels a day moved through the Strait of Hormuz with AIS transponders off while Europe was starved of oil.
- Truman regretted signing the 1947 act that created the CIA; the agencies have served the international banking cartel since the Dulles brothers took over in 1953.
- The "Steady State" and 51-letter crowd are surfacing because they are losing — when the military backs the sitting government, the spooks lose.
- Change is a process — three yards and a cloud of dust on twenty fronts — not a light switch.
Frequently Asked Questions
So are we actually winning?
We are winning the way Bill Parcells won games — you don't know until the fourth quarter, and we haven't hit halftime. The supranational architecture is on its last leg, but a declining power is still dangerous. Stay positive and stay vigilant.
Why does the COMEX going 24/7 matter if I don't trade gold?
Because all pricing is downstream of gold and oil. When those markets are rigged in the thin overnight hours, it distorts the currency you hold and the bonds that fund your government. Breaking that scheme breaks a tool used against all of us.
If the CIA admits to organizing rallies on US soil, why has no one been charged?
That is the question to keep asking. The same operatives behind the 51-letter and the "Steady State" have never protected democracy — they have protected the international banking architecture. Accountability is coming one declassification at a time, but only if We the People keep the light on.
Why does Tom keep saying change is a process?
Because the temptation is to demand a light switch and turn it all off today. Move too fast and you hand them a narrative to turn people against you. Dismantling something that has run the world for a century takes order of operations — twenty fronts at once.
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