(Stillness in the Storm Editor) Benjamin Fulford is the former Tokyo Bureau Chief of Forbes Magazine, who claims to have insider connections. He issues weekly reports that Stillness in the Storm has been reposting for years. See the section below his newsletter for our commentary on his reports.
by Benjamin Fulford, January 5th, 2026
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Fulford’s Report:
Maduro kidnapping is a weapon of mass distraction
First of all, we would like to congratulate the US special forces on a brilliant operation carried out in Venezuela with no casualties. By breaking into a heavily guarded compound and grabbing their target, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, they have once again proven they are the best of the best. Unfortunately, however, they are lions being led by deranged and stupid Zionist rats. While kidnapping Maduro seems like a brilliant move, geopolitically, it accomplishes nothing because it will get the US no closer to getting any Venezuelan oil.
What the special forces need to do now, if they want to be the good guys, is to go after real-life James Bond villains. They can start with mass murderer Benyamin Netanyahu, who is hiding at a Chabad death cult facility in Florida. Another prime target is war criminal Jean Michel de Rothschild, who is cross-dressing as Brigitte Macron. Here are a few more mass murderers they can grab in order to liberate humanity: Pfizer’s Albert Bourla, Microsoft’s Bill Gates, BlackRock’s Larry Fink, and EU boss Ursula von der Leyen. Get them, and the whole world will recognize you for the good guy heroes you are meant to be.
Of course, there is also the possibility that we are all just watching a movie. As this photo shows, Maduro appears to have completely changed his wardrobe four times in the first 17 hours after being captured. This is the sort of mistake an AI makes when generating images. If the whole thing is fake, then congratulations to Mossad and the P2 freemasons for creating a wonderful weapon of mass distraction. The entire English language news and social media attention span has been grabbed by this show. This has distracted attention from truly historical news events that are unfolding in real time.
First of all, let us explain why grabbing Maduro accomplishes nothing. All it has done is anger the Venezuelans and unify them against Yankee imperialists. The US will not get its hands on Venezuelan oil with this stunt. Without that oil, the US is about to run out of fuel, as we will discuss below.
The fake short and fat “US President Donald Trump,” and his P2 freemason and Chabad handlers are now doubling down and preparing to attack Cuba, Colombia, Iran, and who knows where else. They will fail miserably.
Meanwhile, as the English blogosphere is distracted by their antics, an almost complete control grid of censorship is covering up a Russian ultimatum to NATO, telling them to withdraw to the Elbe, which runs near Berlin, according to Polish intelligence and Russian FSB sources. Russia is also demanding that NATO be disbanded or, at the very least, return to its pre-1997 borders. Russia has a million-man army assembled near the European borders and can march right to the English Channel within weeks, according to multiple military experts.
The Russians are also demanding war crimes tribunals for the mass murder of Ukrainian and Russian civilians, for the spreading of bio-weapons, and for the mass torture and murder of children.
The Russian may also move into Switzerland, where the head of the snake is located. For example, did you know the Swiss-based Red Cross was owned by the Rothschilds? Did you know the Red Cross is a child trafficking, organ trafficking, adrenochrome, and money laundering operation?
Russia has other good reasons to declare war. Since the fake Trump took over in June, the US and NATO have been systematically trying to destroy Russian oil facilities.
As a final straw, the recent drone attack in Russia reported in the Western press as an attack on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s home was actually an attack on a Russian facility designed for command and control of the Russian armed forces in the event of a nuclear war. So, in terms of significance, it’s as if someone attacked Air Force One, the US presidential plane. It’s a special facility, a whole city with open-air and underground structures and all kinds of communication hubs.
So, this was a declaration of war against Russia. The Russians have apparently accepted.
This is why so-called US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is telling US citizens to “IMMEDIATELY leave Russia” in a top-level 4 warning.
This Russian ultimatum is not even the biggest news event being hidden by the Khazarian Mafia’s propaganda machine. According to members of the Rothschild family and Asian secret societies, the Bank for International Settlements, or BIS, the central bank of central banks, is bankrupt. What has happened is that major Western Banks sold huge amounts of gold and silver, which they did not have, in order to suppress the price of precious metals. The problem is that countries and companies that bought gold and silver futures on Western exchanges are demanding physical delivery. The 43-day shutdown of the US government late last year took place because the West did not have physical gold or silver to pay its debts to the rest of the world. The KM was able to buy time until the end of January by laundering cartel drug money in exchange for silver.
However, on January 1st, China, which refines about 70% of the world’s silver, put severe restrictions on its export. This explains the stunning price jump chart below. In decades of financial reporting, I have never seen anything like this.
The KM banks for years have sold paper silver and paper gold to suppress the price of precious metals.
In the case of gold, Fort Knox is empty, and so are the Swiss vaults. The gold has run out. However, what people need to understand is that most of the world’s gold is not recognized by the Western financial system as money because it does not have their stamp on it. Jewelry stores can launder Asian gold by selling it as jewelry. Here in Japan, I noticed the major jewelry chains are rationing sales of gold jewelry. It seems they are preventing the KM from buying mass amounts of their jewelry, melting it, turning it into ingots, and putting their stamp on it. This means they cannot use their paper money to get enough gold to pay off their debts to the Asians. The price of gold is now shooting up because the owners of the BIS are trying to lure enough people to sell off their jewelry and personal gold hoards so they can get gold to pay the Asians. It is not working.
However, the real story is silver. This is because while gold is mainly used for investment or jewelry, silver is essential for a variety of industries.
Key industrial uses include:
- Solar panels: Each unit requires approximately 20 grams of silver for its conductive efficiency.
- Electric vehicles (EVs): Each car uses up to 2 ounces of silver in sensors, wiring, and power modules.
- Electronics and semiconductors: Silver’s unparalleled conductivity makes it indispensable.
- Medical applications: Its antimicrobial properties are critical for instruments and coatings.
As the article linked above explains, for years, the demand for physical silver has exceeded supply. Now, silver stocks are running out, and recycling is not keeping up with demand. There is 356 times more paper silver than there is physical silver to back it up. Now the owners of this paper silver are demanding physical delivery, and that is simply not possible. This is what is bankrupting the BIS.
The big banks, COMEX, and the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) have run out of physical silver. This means they will all default. Unlike the case with gold, this default will shut down major industries.
The problem goes beyond silver as well.
Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis uploaded a video about a secret meeting at the BIS headquarters of about 30 central bankers. He says they are preparing for a systems failure while desperately trying to delay it. He warns they are planning bank holidays, asset confiscation, and other controls while realizing all they can do is buy time for a terminally ill system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVZ9gJbYQPI&t=455s
US Treasuries are being dumped by most countries now. Even Canada is refusing to support the US Corporation. As this chart shows, the FRB is now in crisis mode and is cooking the books by issuing debt and then creating money to buy it. This cannot last much longer because inflation, including asset inflation, means the money is detaching from reality.
Speaking about detaching from reality, the “richest man in the world,” Elon Musk’s Tesla delivered 1.64 million vehicles in 2025, down 9% from 2024 and marking the second consecutive annual decline in deliveries. Despite this, shares are down only about 10% from recent highs. Tesla was supposed to be worth more than all the other car companies in the world combined because it was supposed to grow exponentially. It is shrinking. What this means is that pumping money into the economy via the stock market is running out of steam.
By contrast, data from China’s General Administration of Customs reveal exports of electric vehicles soared 87 percent in November. Exports to the UK soared 113 percent last month.
The US is also running out of oil. The city of Cushing in Oklahoma is the central hub within the United States and worldwide oil industry. It connects major pipelines within America and is the location where the oil futures contracts end up being delivered.
Now the country’s flagship storage hub in Cushing, Oklahoma, is running out of oil, data from the government’s energy statistics arm showed on Wednesday.
Stocks of oil at Cushing fell by 2.5 million barrels last week to about 20 million barrels, the lowest since Oct 2014, data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration showed. The fall was also the largest since August 2013.
Tank storage of below 20 million barrels, or between 10% and 20% of Cushing’s about 98 million barrels of capacity, is considered close to operational lows, according to traders.
Below those levels, the oil is difficult to remove.
To summarize, the US is about to run out of oil, and industry is going to grind to a halt.
The fake Trump and his administration are delusional if they think they will be able to save themselves by stealing Venezuela’s oil. The Venezuelan military high command issued a statement saying:
“We recognize Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez as the interim president of Venezuela, in light of the absence of President Nicolás Maduro, who is currently being held in the United States.”
It announced the activation of “Full Operational Readiness” across the entire national territory. This measure seeks to integrate the elements of National Power to, according to the text, “confront imperial aggression” and form “a single combat bloc” to ensure independence and sovereignty.
Military experts like Colonel Douglas MacGregor point out that the US simply does not have the military capability to take over Venezuela.
Also, contrary to KM propaganda, the Venezuelan people are united behind their regime.
The videos below show mass demonstrations there against the fake Trump, shouting things like “Gringos never.”
Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Spain, China, Russia, and most of the world support Venezuela; they reject outside control of Venezuela.
Renowned German economist and former WEF “Global Leader” -turned whistleblower Richard Werner says the US attack was designed to challenge the “accelerating global de-dollarization led by Russia, China, Iran and BRICS,” the operation “signals desperation, potentially hastening the petrodollar’s decline as the Global South resents US reliance on military force to maintain currency hegemony.”
Also, most people know exactly who was behind the attack on their president. Acting President Delcy Rodríguez says, “The attack on Venezuela has an undoubtedly Zionist character.”
Even paid KM shills are accidentally blurting out the truth. “The implications here are really great for Israel… Venezuelan people,” former four-star US Army General and ex-Vice Chief of Staff Jack Keane said while discussing Venezuela on Fox News.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro goes further, saying, “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein’s list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil.”
President Trump says the Colombian president should “watch his ass.” Given what has been going on in Epstein Island, he should probably take that warning literally.
On that front, the so-called US government says it is hiring 400 lawyers to go through 5.2 million Epstein documents.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/doj-seeks-enlist-400-attorneys-review-5m-pages/story?id=128809409
In other words, they are trying to buy time. Why not just release the videos of Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and other top politicians torturing and murdering children? I have personally seen and shared these videos, although they have now been deleted from the internet.
Of course, the KM are freaking out as their Venezuela gambit blows up and are doubling down.
The fake Trump is now saying “something’s going to have to be done with Mexico”, adding that “the cartels are running Mexico.”
Zionist whore Lindsey Graham says Cuban and Colombian “drug caliphates” are next. Another Zionist shill, Nicholas Fuentes, says, “We will kill all of you and take your oil.”
Meanwhile, war criminal Benyamin Netanyahu, speaking at a Chabad synagogue of Satan in Miami, says, “We will destroy you.”
Also, Venezuela’s former Chief of National Intelligence, Hugo Carvajal, officially released the name of every U.S. Senator who is on the Venezuela list of politicians who have been receiving millions of dollars in kickbacks from the Maduro regime and Venezuelan drug trafficking organizations.
Of course, it is much shorter than the list of politicians who received BILLIONS of dollars in bribes from Israel and Zionist fanatics.
These fanatics are also going to try to attack Iran again. The night stalkers from the Maduro raid are now being moved towards Iran.
The speculation is that they are going to try to seize Ayatollah Khameini. This is part of an attempt to stave off Western bankruptcy by stealing Persian gold. Just like Venezuela, they may get Khameini, but they will not get the gold. In other words, it will fail.
The Km is also doubling down inside the US.
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“Trump” just said he is removing the National Guard from Chicago, LA, and Portland, but says “we will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form”.
This comes after the Supreme Court ruling in Trump Admin v. Chicago, where they ruled that Trump was not allowed to send National Guard troops to Chicago to defend federal buildings, but Kavanaugh outlined in his opinion that Trump would be allowed to send active-duty US military into Chicago via the Insurrection Act. It looks like we are one step closer to Trump invoking the Insurrection Act.
There is also a desperate attempt to completely censor the internet. Satanyahu in the video below says the KM must “talk to Musk on our most important battlefield: social media.”
They are also still trying to push their planned Muslim vs Christian gambit. Israel Diaspora Minister goes after “Hamas sympathizer” New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani. He claims the NYC mayor made it clear his “top priority” is to harm Jews. “When Islamists gain power, Jews are the first target and never last.”
The problem is the whole world knows Mamdani himself is Jewish and will no longer be manipulated by the fakery of this sort. As a Jew, I find this sort of behavior insulting and harmful to Jews. The KM also needs to stop slandering Islam with the fake “Islamic terrorists.”
The other news not being covered up by the Western media and social media is the ongoing collapse of the EU amid the biggest corruption scandal in its history.
So far, the following top EU officials have been arrested or are under police investigation for corruption:
Didier Reynders – former EU Commissioner for Justice
Eva Kaili – former Vice-President of the European Parliament
Frans Timmermans – former EU Commissioner,
Former Commissioner, Virginijus Sinkevičius.
Federica Mogherini – former EU foreign policy chief and deputy head of the European Commission
High-ranking European Commission official Stefano Sannino,
The current head of diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, was, until recently, the Prime Minister of Estonia. And finally, the patron saint of all EU scandals and the biggest pest of the EU – Ursula von der Leyen. The European Public Prosecutor’s Office’s investigation into the massive irregularities in vaccine purchases from Pfizer is still ongoing.
Archbishop Carlo Vigano is officially calling for the arrest of von der Leyen and her genocidal colleagues.
Governments in the UK, France, and Germany are all about to collapse.
In the UK, British intelligence says blackmailed pedophile Crime Minister Keir Starmer “is being managed out.” He has been caught red-handed importing criminals in the UK on behalf of the EU. Also, police in the UK have been using video surveillance and face identification technology to arrest people for things they post on social media, among other crimes.
https://wolnemedia.net/wielka-brytania-pod-nadzorem/
In Germany, AfD leader Alice Weidel revealed three letters in a press conference that were written by Chancellor Friedrich Merz. The first instructs the bureaucracy to hide economic data. The second was instructions to hide statistics on crimes committed by foreigners. The third shows him asking for bribes from an energy company in exchange for policy changes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzLRcczabbQ
Merz has to hide economic data because the year 2025 was disastrous for the German economy. Around 24,000 companies filed for insolvency—a record figure. Loan defaults in the past year are estimated at around €57 billion. In the previous year, losses from corporate insolvencies had accumulated to around €59 billion. The ripple effects of a roughly 20% drop in industrial production reach far into other sectors. Supplier companies as well as industry-related services are increasingly under pressure—and are collapsing in many areas.
This means the banking sector in Germany is insolvent.
In France, revolutionaries have taken over the streets. In this video, French patriots send a powerful message to the EU: “Down with the EU, down with the corrupt, war-mongering elites, it’s over – this is the year we break free from your chains!”
Farmers, meanwhile, are burying entire government districts in manure.
In Italy, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is demanding the return of Italian gold (long gone, of course). She has also rejected the European Migration Pact, declaring it an insult to Italian democracy.
In Switzerland, meanwhile, around 40 revelers were killed and another 100 injured, most of them seriously, after an explosion ripped through a packed bar in a Swiss Alps resort town during a New Year’s celebration.
The deadly blaze erupted around 1:30 a.m. at the Le Constellation bar in the ritzy ski resort town of Crans-Montana in the Valais Canton.
US military intelligence says the fire “was engineered to look like an accident… they laced the club with pyro foam and gave kids booze and sparklers while pulling security.”
They accomplished 3 goals:
1. New Year’s sacrifice. Burt is offering to Moloch.
2. The child of a high-ranking member of the Global Elite was “accidentally” killed in the blaze. This is seen as a warning shot for someone who was getting out of line.
3. To pass age verification laws for internet ID.
In reaction to this ongoing collapse of Western civilization, the P3 Freemasons have called for an emergency meeting. Representatives from China, the US, Israel, the P3 Freemasons, and the White Dragon Society are preparing for a new Bretton Woods conference.
At the conference, the WDS will call for a one-off cancellation of all debt, public and private. It is also calling for a return of the property stolen from them via privately owned central bank monetary fraud. The dollar has lost 97% of its value since the KM took control of the US monetary system away from the people. That means 97% of the wealth held by oligarchs or the 0.01% of the population will have to be returned. This should give everyone the equivalent of owning their own home and having adequate savings.
In addition to this, the WDS is proposing replacing the current Babylonian debt slavery system with money backed by real-world assets as opposed to money being created out of nothing. It also proposes setting up a future planning agency working to create the future people want. This will replace the current system where people are herded through fear via atrocities like 911 or the public murder of leaders like John F Kennedy, who actually tried to work for the people. We will keep readers posted.
Finally, this week, I would like to end with some positive news. Violetta and her father had been skiing in Sochi when a snow avalanche caught up with them. The dad managed to get out by himself. The girl was found ALIVE some 15 minutes later with the help of other skiers. You watch this in the video below:
Late 2024 SITS Statement about Fulford Reports
“Fake Trump unlikely to last past summer as gnostic illuminati turn on him” – Benjamin Fulford
These reports are shared as a service for the thousands of people who come to read them. However, I can’t in good conscience not say what I think about them, and I haven’t talked about why I do that in an update for some time, so here it is.
Julian and I began posting Fulford years ago as one of many sources to consider. As always, just because we post information doesn’t mean we believe it’s true. For years, I posted new sources that I knew were distorted but were nonetheless valuable to be informed about. As ever, disinformation is key information to a well-trained mind.
Julian passed in 2015, and the site changed direction in 2021 when all our income sources were canceled as part of the censorship campaign that took out many content creators. When that happened, I had to make a decision: should I let the site go offline because we can’t pay server costs or do I post Fulford and allow the site to live on, albeit on life support? I decided to do the latter.
It is my opinion that Fulford’s reports have fallen in quality and that while he enjoys celebrity, his efforts aren’t helping to make people more discerning or empower them to be a positive influence in the world. Does that mean his work is useless, worthy of contempt, or that he’s a negative actor? I’m not saying that. I believe that excellence is a ladder, and there are many rungs on that ladder for whoever is ready, wherever they are, to begin their ascent. No doubt Fulford has his own colorful opinions of me and SITS, which he has the right to have, and I honor that.
Anyone who’s spent time on social media, especially Telegram, can see the legions of bots and other attention-grabbing schemes that cause distractions, disillusionment, and otherwise hamper what I believe to be more productive expenditures of time within the awakening community.
Despite this, and within the spirit of the mission of SITS, I will continue to post his reports until I change my stance. In full disclosure, you know now the reason I do this and the thoughts I have about his reports and their quality and effect.
As ever, you are encouraged to read his material and think what you like. And if you have any opinions for me you’re welcome to share them with me in the comments.
Stillness General Comment on Fulford Reports
I decided to add this general comment to all Fulford reports since I frequently receive the same questions about them.
Commentary:
In response to many questions and comments I receive from people wondering why I share these reports, I offer the following.
Speaking as someone who has been following Fulford’s reports since 2011, reading them should probably be done with a large grain of salt. That is to say, he seems to share information directly from alleged sources within the Pentagon, CIA, White Dragon Society, and so on. Often the data presented is contradictory on the surface.
The predictions and statements Fulford makes sometimes are highly accurate, whereas, in other instances, they are completely unfounded. Instead of looking to Fulford as one who is “tapped into” some greater truth, it would probably be more productive to consider his data as one possible perspective on what is happening on Earth at this time.
This of course extends to all sources of information. Fulford, like all of us, is only human and can make mistakes. But that doesn’t detract from the work he has done to spread awareness and move things forward to a brighter future for humanity.
Discernment is the process of understanding what something is, which in Fulford’s case, means entertaining his reports without believing them blindly, and then doing the follow-up research/fact-checking to determine what actually happened. In this way, it is a real-time discernment exercise.
The fact that so many people continue to read his reports despite their sensational and wildly inaccurate nature at times—while also being accurate and poignant—means the people he receives information from are probably using him as a mouthpiece to speak to you—the reader who is on their awakening path. As such, blind belief or callous rejection are not our allies but critical thinking and open-mindedness are.
As I have said before, if he is serving as a mouthpiece for various groups working to change the status quo or agents within the Cabal, we can decipher the data as if it is a form of awakening propaganda—information that certain players want to expose the masses to. What effect this has on your personal process is largely up to you. But I would suggest taking an active role in discernment and not falling into the trap of total acceptance or rejection.
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