>>22769749

>>22768639

BF Report: The financial system is headed for catastrophic collapse

It is a system that is heading straight into a collapse. The current Western political class is unable to deal with the situation. The trigger will be the collapse of Ukraine. As Timofey Bordachev, Programme Director of the Russia’s Valdai Club explains:

In a collective, the individual mind becomes subservient to the collective interest and loses the ability to act independently. This dynamic is now evident in EU policymaking. The bloc has effectively abandoned its instinct for self-preservation. Ukraine is proof that even large states can adopt self-destructive foreign policies. This poses dangers not just for Europe but for the wider world.

https://www.rt.com/news/613949-eus-leadership-is-now-global-threat/

What we are witnessing in the West is a group of leaders who have been blackmailed, bribed and brainwashed all their lives into believing in a certain paradigm. Now, as reality destroys their paradigm, they are in a state of denial. They cannot veer from a script dating back centuries that calls for Russia to be destroyed followed by China.

Nothing illustrates this more than government leaders in Canada, France and Poland basically calling for the use of nuclear weapons against the US and Russia.

This is a sign of desperation because the fact is, as we shall see below, Western Europe has been defeated and its’ current political and financial system cannot survive.

Furthermore, the situation in the US is almost as bad as the government clutches at straws in an attempt to avoid bankruptcy. This is seen in patently false numbers being bandied about such as “give us back the $350 billion we gave you by handing over $500 billion worth of rare earth metals in Ukraine.” Fact check, the US gave Ukraine less than a third of that amount and the only rare earths in Ukraine are about $20 billion worth of lithium that is in Russian hands.

Talk about switching to cryptocurrency is also nonsense because it is not real, it is just numbers on computers controlled by the alphabet agencies.

Unfortunately, it looks like the whole system will have to collapse before it is possible to start rebuilding.

“We must, not in several years, but in the weeks to come, find a way to move from our current social model to another, more modern and freer one, without harming the most deprived. It is unlikely that our current political class is capable of this,” is how French journalist Thierry Meyssan summarizes the situation we are now facing.

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>>22770031

2/12

Elon Musk describes the situation as follows: “We’re reprogramming the matrix. Success was never one of the possible outcomes — If you’re in the matrix, success was never possible. The only way to achieve success is to reprogram the matrix such that success is one of the possible outcomes. That’s what we’re doing. We may or may not succeed.”

Musk may be saying we can’t escape the Matrix because, like the launch of SpaceX’s seventh Starship test flight, the eighth attempt also ended in the craft’s disintegration. About eight minutes after it launched from Brownsville, Texas, several engines appeared to fail, and the 400-foot-tall rocket was last seen spinning before communication was lost.

What Musk calls the “matrix” is reality, as opposed to the fake financial reality (including a fake space program) the West has been living in for about 50 years.

Musk is also concerned he may be assassinated in DC for exposing too many details about the corruption he is dealing with.

The corruption he is talking about is a system that creates money out of nothing and then launders it through the stock market. This can be seen in the illustration below showing US stocks account for 50% of world market capitalization even though the US accounts for about 15.5% of the global economy in PPP terms.

In other words, US stock prices should be worth only a quarter of what they now are if they are to be in line with reality.

Musk, the “world’s richest man” is a beneficiary of this system but is also aware he is living on borrowed time. Tesla sales plunged by 76.3%, 65.5% and 49.16% in Germany, Australia and China in February so, valuing this company more than all the other car companies in the world combined is becoming an obvious lie.

https://www.carscoops.com/2025/03/tesla-sales-falling-off-a-cliff-globally-including-germany-australia-and-china/

This plunge in sales could be part of a KM attack on Musk. An investigation has found 5 ActBlue-funded groups responsible for Tesla “protests”: Troublemakers, Disruption Project, Rise & Resist, Indivisible Project and Democratic Socialists of America. ActBlue funders include George Soros, Reid Hoffman, Herbert Sandler, Patricia Bauman, and Leah Hunt-Hendrix. ActBlue is currently under investigation for allowing foreign and illegal donations in criminal violation of campaign finance regulations. This week, 7 ActBlue senior officials resigned, including the associate general counsel.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1898369343399899218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1898369343399899218%7Ctwgr%5E927f470f9fe624aac8621dfcf437960fed050bba%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2025%2F03%2Felon-musk-reveals-big-name-democratic-donors-funding%2F

>>22770036

3/12

Paid protests aside, the reality is that in terms of physical trade, that is real things like cars and commodities being put on ships, data from the World Trade Organization shows the value of Chinese manufacturing exports hit $1.81 trillion in 2023, up 30 times on 2002, while America’s global trade deficit was over $1.2 trillion.

https://www.newsweek.com/us-warned-caribbean-becoming-chinese-lake-2041296

This imbalance has been going on for decades. It means the US has been getting high on stock market fentanyl while China has been taking over the real-world economy.

This also means it is time to talk to China. China has been patiently waiting for Trump to start negotiating.

However, their patience is running out: “If war is what the US wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we’re ready to fight till the end,” China’s embassy said on X, reposting a line from a government statement on Tuesday.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gmd3g2nzqo

Japanese military intelligence sources say China is preparing a nasty surprise that will involve cutting all the underwater cables linking Taiwan to the rest of the world and then starting a naval blockade of the island. At the same time, they have infiltrated about 800,000 armed men into Japan and have systematically identified US and Japanese military targets that need to be taken out in order for China to take over Japan.

A Chinese hardliner also once bragged to me they could take over India in a matter of months.

In a sign a clash with China is coming, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey secured a historic $24 billion judgment against the Chinese Communist Party for unleashing the COVID-19 pandemic — six times more than the previous largest judgment in Missouri history.

A court has ruled in favor of Missouri issuing a historic $24 billion judgment against the Chinese Communist Party in a COVID-related lawsuit allowing Missouri to move forward with seizing China’s U.S.-held assets including farmland and other properties to collect the judgment.

https://ago.mo.gov/attorney-general-andrew-bailey-secures-historic-24-billion-judgment-against-china-for-unleashing-the-covid-19-pandemic/

>>22770038

4/12

Also, at a G7 foreign minister’s meeting in Canada this week the US is going to insist on tougher wording against China and at the same time soften anti-Russian rhetoric in the communique.

https://tass.com/world/1924489

Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News that President Donald Trump and his administration aim to break Russia away from China in the same way that former President Richard Nixon broke China away from the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Rubio stated that the US-China relationship will define this century, and therefore it would be better for both Russians and Americans if the Russians were not completely dependent on China as a “junior partner”.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/25/exclusive-rubio-details-trump-offense-china-belt-road-initiative/

However, the West will be in no shape to deal with China as long as it is stuck in a civil war pitting Trump and Russia against most other Western governments.

The main bone of contention is Ukraine. US President Donald Trump has suspended military aid to Ukraine and used his powers as part of the “Five Eyes” alliance of the US, Britain, Australia, Canada and New Zealand to suspend intelligence to Kyiv.

This is making the other members of the Five Eyes spy alliance – Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand; as well as Israel and Saudi Arabia wary of sharing information with the US.

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b1d8oswj1l

Now the US has begun evacuating high-ranking officials, “including generals and ministers” from the Ukrainian border area.

https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/03/09/1126587.html

This move prompted Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk to say Poland will try to gain access to nuclear and other non-conventional weapons, under a French nuclear umbrella initiative.

https://tass.com/world/1924171

The EU fascists are also trying to ban patriot Călin Georgescu from becoming president of Romania because they still think it is going to be a base for attacking Russia. “Europe is now a dictatorship,” comments Georgescu. Not for long though.

>>22770041

5/12

The European Union officially hit the panic button with Ursula von der Leyen calling for a $840 billion military rearmament plan. In the video below you can listen to the delusional witch von der Leyen say:

“We will drive ‘ReArm Europe’ plan forward with full force.” She says pumping cash into rearming Europe will also prop up EU’s economies.

As the analyst linked below says: “This is a suicide pact, designed to plunge the continent into an irreversible economic and geopolitical crisis. NATO is disintegrating, Washington is pulling the plug, and Russia is watching the whole thing unfold, knowing it has already won the war for dominance”.

https://gazetteller.com/nato-is-dead-trump-walks-away-europe-scrambles-840-billion-debt-disaster-will-collapse-the-eu-and-force-surrender-to-russia/

Trump for his part is reportedly planning to withdraw 35,000 troops for Germany and deploy them in Hungary. This move comes as Hungary’s leader Viktor Orban says globalists seek to destabilize Serbia, Slovakia, and Hungary after “losing Washington to the patriots.”

This is setting the stage for a combined Eastern European, Russian and US military removal of the governments of Germany and France.

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/03/08/744107/Trump-contemplates-withdrawing-troops-from-Germany

“We have an ocean between us, they’re in much greater danger, if you call it danger…You know the thing with Europe that bothers me? They’ve given more money to Russia from buying their oil than they’ve put into Ukraine.”

The reality is EU governments will be removed long before they get any chance to rearm. With the US cutting off military support to Ukraine in an abrupt pivot towards Russia, many European governments are feeling buyer’s remorse for decades of US arms purchases that have left them dependent on Washington for the continued functioning of their weaponry.

https://archive.is/GCWGk#selection-2435.54-2435.155

The fact is the US maintains secret so-called “kill switches” that would immobilize most EU aircraft and weapons systems.

This means these bare-breasted extremist women screaming “Heil Donald Trump, heil Vladimir Putin, heil Elon Musk…” while doing Nazi salutes in Paris are about the only troops the EU can deploy.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/titty-tantrum-topless-women-shriek-heil-donald-trump-heil-vladimir-putin-heil-elon-musk

>>22770042

6/12

In a sign of just how brainwashed these people are here you can watch MSNBC say “Ukrainians are more American than we are’” Huh?

Where does MSNBC go from here?

It has become much clearer these past few months just how far NATO has shifted away from US interests. Even though the United States funds a whopping 70 percent of NATO’s cost, our own NATO “allies” are working against the United States as President Trump attempts to pull us back from the brink of war with Russia.

President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk made quite a stir with just two words posted on his social media platform, X. Responding to a post that said, “It’s time to leave NATO and the UN,” Musk replied, “I agree.”

It is also clear that Ukraine’s dictator Vladimir Zelensky is about to be removed. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says it clearly “Zelensky is not even a person.”  He knows Zelensky is an avatar. 

As French journalist Thierry Meyssan points out “Unelected, Volodymyr Zelensky (his mandate expired eight months ago), sits there, but has no say in the matter. All decisions are made under the authority of the former head of the foreign secret service (SZRU), Oleksandr Lytvynenko.

This Council, which has banned all opposition political parties, burned three million books and banned the majority Orthodox Church in the country, is the stronghold of the “integral nationalists”, that is to say the disciples of Dmytro Dontsov and his future man, Stepan Bandera, the collaborators of the Nazis. By bombing the main pumping station of the pipeline in Russia, he knew what he was doing: he was attacking US interests in Russia.

“Think about it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelensky, convinced the United States of America to spend $350 billion to enter a war that could not be won, that should never have started, that he will never be able to solve without the United States and “TRUMP”. The United States spent $200 billion more than Europe, Europe’s money is guaranteed, while the United States will receive nothing in return.

https://www.voltairenet.org/article221863.html

To replace this government Trump allies held talks about holding new elections with Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, and senior members of the party of Petro Poroshenko, Zelenskyy’s immediate predecessor as president.

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-allies-secret-talks-volodymyr-zelenskyy-opposition-ukraine-elections-yulia-tymoshenko-petro-poroshenko/

>>22770045

>>22770045

7/12

The other Khazarian Mafia government that is collapsing is the regime in Israel. Israel has vanished from the US news recently because the situation there is terminal, according to Pentagon sources. Turkish, MI6 and CIA sources all say Israel is now begging Russia to save them from Turkey and Egypt. That is why Benyamin Satanyahu sent his military secretary, R. Gofman, to Moscow. “Tel Aviv wants Moscow to maintain its military presence in Syria.”

https://www.yenisafak.com/en/columns/yahya-bostan/netanyahu-is-afraid-of-turkiye-3699182

This comes as the Syrian state news agency SANA reported on Sunday “A horrific massacre was carried out by remnants of the fallen regime against the police and security forces in the city of Qardaha.”

This prompted a Syrian counter-attack and in reaction, MI6 sent the following request to Russia: “We respectfully seek your consideration of a temporary humanitarian arrangement, under which the United Kingdom, alongside other willing nations, may be granted the limited use of Russian military and logistical facilities in Syria for emergency humanitarian and peacekeeping efforts.” What this means is Israel wants to evacuate its proxies from Syria and needs Russian help.

Also, in a sign it has lost its war of extermination in Gaza, The Arab League adopted a $53 billion project to rebuild Gaza. Nearly half of Gaza’s residents are expected to be transferred to seven security zones while construction begins.

https://www.voltairenet.org/article221893.html

There has also been regime change in Canada. Ex-Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor and king of the globalists, Mark Carney, won the race to become Canada’s next prime minister, replacing globalist Justin Trudeau. Here you can watch his victory comments.

Carney was the “carbon causes global warming” guy because that is what his boss Queen Elizabeth wanted. Before her death, the Queen changed her mind about carbon and reached an agreement with the Asians to concentrate on increasing the amount and variety of life, including human life. So, hopefully, he will support the future planning agency. We have reached out to him and will let you know if we hear back.

Also, like it or not, Carney will have to negotiate some sort of North American union with Donald Trump. As Trump says: “You erase that artificially drawn line & take a look at what that looks like. Wouldn’t that be something?”

>>22770053

8/12

Of course, it is the US that is bankrupt, not Canada so, this should be a Canadian-led merger and acquisition.

In the latest sign the US is in deep financial trouble, Trump signed an executive order Thursday establishing a “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve,” forcefully endorsing a currency once shunned as a tool for money launderers.

https://insiderpaper.com/trump-signs-executive-order-establishing-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-statement/

https://news.bitcoin.com/white-house-america-will-be-the-bitcoin-superpower-of-the-world/

Catherine Austin Fitts says:

We are watching…a campaign to persuade the federal and state governments to begin significant Bitcoin (BTC) buying programs using taxpayers’ money and funds borrowed with ever-expanding debt. This will solve a major problem faced by the Bitcoin billionaires—how to liquify their holdings in a market that is not sufficiently broad and deep to allow them an exit during a major pump…now that the debt growth model is over, and there is more paper than there are real assets, the rush for land and real assets is on. Think of this as a swap. If you are the Bitcoin billionaires and Mr. Global, you want to get retail to buy your digital creations so that you can shift to owning and controlling the real assets. Your problem, however, is that retail will not buy in sufficient quantity—so, you simply mandate retail buys by using the government to do it. It is important to connect the dots with the federal government’s efforts to survey all land and mineral resources and the growing discussion of how to take advantage of “$500 trillion of land and minerals owned by the U.S. government.”

https://home.solari.com/plunder-capitalism-is-the-bitcoin-strategic-reserve-trial-balloon-the-next-step-in-the-great-american-land-grab/

In other words, the Trump people are trying to use crypto backed by US physical resources as a way to avoid bankruptcy.

In another disturbing development, it turns out Wall Street billionaire Larry Fink convinced Trump to hand over the Panama Canal to BlackRock. His pitch: Fink’s investment company, BlackRock Inc., was interested in buying the ports on either side of the waterway, shifting them into American hands, according to people familiar with the discussion. And with that, there would be no need to have the US take the century-old canal by force

In a filing, CK Hutchison Holding said Tuesday that it would sell all shares in Hutchison Port Holdings and in Hutchison Port Group Holdings to the consortium in a deal valued at nearly $23 billion, including $5 billion in debt.

The deal will give the BlackRock consortium control over 43 ports in 23 countries, including the ports of Balboa and Cristobal, located at either end of the Panama Canal. Other ports are in Mexico, the Netherlands, Egypt, Australia, Pakistan and elsewhere

>>22770055

9/12

That’s not all, the Trump administration on Tuesday identified 443 federal properties that will possibly be put up for sale, including the headquarters of the FBI and Labor and Justice departments, as the president continues to downsize the federal government. 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-admin-seeks-to-put-443-federal-properties-including-fbi-and-doj-headquarters-up-for-sale/ar-AA1Ag1W2?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Our US Space Force sources say it would be BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street buying the assets. So it looks like BlackRock etc, are making a move to buy up the bankrupt US Corporation’s assets. If you ask me, it would be better to let Canada do the US cleanup.

No matter what though, as Rep Thomas Massie says “Americans would be better off if the Federal Reserve did not exist. The Fed devalues our currency by monetizing the debt, causing inflation.” pic.twitter.com/0U2NkbBZsX

https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1897400794946920547

Bankruptcy of the Fed is definitely needed to clean up the mess there. The Biden presidency might have been the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the American people. A shocking investigation by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project has revealed that virtually every document bearing Joe Biden’s signature during his presidency was signed by an autopen — except for one.

What makes this revelation particularly damning is that the only document confirmed to have Biden’s actual signature was his letter announcing his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race. Let that sink in for a moment.

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/03/06/bombshell-discovery-could-make-all-of-bidens-presidential-actions-null-and-void-n4937648

In an example of how corrupt that regime was, an EPA slush fund handled by John Podesta Rockefeller gave billions to charities founded only months earlier.

The Biden administration has directed at least $20 billion to new environmental groups. A significant portion went to the Climate United Fund, which received nearly $7 billion despite being incorporated only five months prior. While it aims to deliver benefits like cleaner air and energy security, no public accounting exists for its spending plans.

https://nypost.com/2025/03/05/business/john-podesta-375m-epa-slush-fund-gave-billions-to-newly-formed-charities/https://www.disclose.tv/id/tte5unca87/

>>22770057

10/12

This sort of thing was widespread. Senator John Kennedy went to Social Security to fix the problem of Social Security checks being sent to dead people and being cashed, he was told it was ILLEGAL to share the information with the Treasury who could fix it.

In another example of hopeless corruption, the TSA has more people doing “full-time union work” vs. performing actual screening functions at 86% of US airports. Put another way, 374 out of 432 federalized airports have fewer than 200 TSA Officers to perform screening functions, while the rest are paid by the government but work “full-time on union matters” and do not retain certification to perform screening.

What’s more, DHS cited a recent TSA employee survey which found that over 60% of “poor performers” are allowed to stay employed and “not surprisingly, continue to not perform.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dhs-ends-tsa-collective-bargaining-after-bombshell-finding-more-full-time-union-workers

In yet another sign of how degenerate the US government has become, it turns out USAID and other Deep State agents like the Rockefeller Foundation were funding the LGBTQ arm of India’s Congress party.

Mist LGBTQ is among the three LGBTQ organizations in India to be funded by USAID. The other two groups are The Queer Muslim Project and the Nazariya QFRG.

Notably, India’s first transgender clinic, Mitr Clinic in Hyderabad, shut down last week due to the freeze in funding from USAID on March 7.

https://www.opindia.com/2025/03/professional-congress-leader-run-queer-group-mist-lgbtq-was-getting-funds-from-usaid/

This video from Paris Fashion Week illustrates the degenerate state of the current Western regimes. Would you call this fashion?

>>22770060

11/12

It is also clear the current Western regimes are hopelessly linked to Zionism which is basically the KM plan to enslave humanity.

Have you noticed we still haven’t seen the Epstein files or the JFK assassination files released?

Now, AG Pam Bondi says “ISRAELI national security” information will be redacted from Epstein’s files.

“Why do the Epstein files need to be redacted for Israeli national security? Oops, I forgot the Zionists controlled Epstein. Wouldn’t want any embarrassing names released,” comments a Mossad source.

Here’s the actual record of Kash Patel & Pam Bondi since taking office:

Arrests: 0

Investigations: 0

Strongly-worded Letters to Each Other: 2

Fox News Appearances: 8

https://www.winterwatch.net/2025/03/pam-bondi-says-israeli-national-security-information-will-be-redacted-from-epstein-files/

Now guess what happened: Massive brush fires broke out in Long Island, New York near where US Attorney General Pam Bondi said the FBI was withholding documents on convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/long-island-brush-fires-spark-bizarre-epstein-theory-isnt-this-near-where-pam-bondi-said-101741499046624.html

Elon Musk confirms Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, and Reid Hoffman as Epstein Clients: “Epstein clients, who are obviously extremely powerful politically and very wealthy… Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, and Reid Hoffman, and some others too.”

Elon Musk says what must be considered is that Pam Bondi and Kash Patel have been made captain of ships with a hostile crew.

Very Understandable and we must exercise patience.

Look carefully at the video. This is a rubber-masked Elon Musk. You can see the stretching and indentations in the cheek area. 

So, it looks like all we are going to get is satire but True videos like the ones below:

>>22770064

12/12

Maybe we will have better luck with Robert F Kennedy Jr in his battle against big pharma and big food:

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will meet with senior leaders of the processed foods industrial complex to discuss potential topics ranging from banning seed oils and certain food additives to nutrition labels as the “Make America Healthy Again“ revolution begins.

March 7 – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-cdc-plans-study-into-vaccines-autism-sources-say-2025-03-07/

He says “When my uncle was president, only 3% of America was obese. Today, it’s over 70%. Epidemics are not caused by genes. Genes may provide the vulnerability, but you need an environmental toxin. Something is poisoning the American people.”

https://x.com/NJBeisner/status/1884813717424189777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1884813717424189777%7Ctwgr%5E9da4465ca7c61f93b06c4f8088c56ff72b6af1a0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Frfk-jr-meet-leaders-processed-foods-industrial-complex

RFK Jr. also brushed off an attempt by vaccine promoters to use old photographs to pretend there was a measles outbreak in Texas.

In another indication big Pharma is in trouble, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) admits Covid mRNA “booster” shots triggered a major surge in deaths among people who received the “vaccines.”

https://slaynews.com/news/canada-admits-covid-boosters-triggered-major-death-surge/

The fact the government admits to mass murder by vaccine means war crimes tribunals are now certain to follow.

The military will need to back this up to the hilt. If you were curious why Russian general Igor Kirillov was just assassinated, watch this video.

In August 2023, Kirillov outlined how the US and Big Pharma “rule the world” by “manufacturing biological crises”.

He also discussed how all of this evidence has been submitted to the UN many times, and gets vetoed every time by the US, because the US cannot refute the documentation.

This is the reason they killed him. He was trying to expose the biggest crime in human history.

https://worldreportstoday.com/they-couldnt-silence-him-so-they-killed-him-igor-kirillovs-covid-19-bombshell/

In conclusion, we all need to fight now to make sure humanity is finally freed from the rule of Satanic gangsters. Everyone must do their part.

Source: benjaminfulford.net

read full report FREE (no paywall) here…

https://prepareforchange.net/2025/03/13/benjamin-fulford-report-the-financial-system-is-headed-for-catastrophic-collapse-march-10-2025/

>>22770067

Benjamin Fulford Full Report Update March 14, 2025 - Benjamin Fulford Q&A Video

https://rumble.com/v6qngmm-benjamin-fulford-full-report-update-march-14-2025-benjamin-fulford-q-and-a-.html