John traces how Cold War anti-communist rhetoric, National Prayer Breakfast networks, and revivalist leadership intersected in ways that shaped Branhamism and later charismatic movements. He examines claims about William Branham, the Fellowship Foundation, Demos Shakarian, and the broader political-religious climate that framed the struggle against communism as a battle for the human mind.
The discussion also explores how apocalyptic preaching, psychological warfare language, and anti-atheist fear messaging may have helped create fertile ground for manipulation inside revival culture. Along the way, John connects those themes to later New Apostolic Reformation ideas, showing how political influence and spiritual authority could merge into a powerful system of control.
Introduction
Branham, Blomberg, And Global Revival Networks
Declassified History, Chile, And Colonia Dignidad
Nixon, Shakarian, And The National Prayer Breakfast
A Trump-branded crypto venture has quietly wandered into the blast radius of one of the ugliest scam-and-trafficking stories on the planet, and now the paper trail is catching up. What the new Guardian Australia and OCCRP investigation reveals, in simple terms, is that people tied to the US president’s family chose to do business with a murky partner whose Timor-Leste showcase project had already drifted into the orbit of an alleged human‑trafficking and cyberfraud empire.
The most damning part of the Guardian Australia and OCCRP investigation is not the photo from Singapore, but what followed that meeting: after Donald Trump Jr. and Zach Witkoff were photographed with Jacky Sui, a central figure in the opaque AB ecosystem, World Liberty Financial moved into a formal commercial relationship with AB and later announced the deployment of its USD1 stablecoin across AB’s trading, lending, liquidity, and wallet infrastructure.
World Liberty Financial (WLFI) is a decentralized finance protocol created by the company of the same name. Founded in 2024 by Zachary Folkman, Chase Herro, Alex Witkoff, Zach Witkoff, and members of the Trump family, it represents a business initiative of the Trump family.
That was not a casual brush with bad company. It was a politically connected crypto venture extending market credibility to a murky network whose flagship project in Timor-Leste had already involved figures later sanctioned by the United States over alleged ties to Prince Group, the Cambodia-based conglomerate that the U.S. Justice Department says functioned as a transnational criminal enterprise built on forced labor, industrial-scale crypto fraud, money laundering, bribery, and violence.
World Liberty cannot be written off here as an innocent bystander caught in a messy corner of the crypto world. Zach Witkoff has been identified as a co-founder and CEO of World Liberty Financial, while his father, Steve Witkoff, serves as President Trump’s special envoy, making this not just another speculative crypto partnership but a business relationship embedded in a family orbit of extraordinary political power. When that kind of venture chooses to do business with an opaque network, the issue is no longer optics alone. It becomes a question of what political access is worth, who benefits from it, and how far the Trump-Witkoff nexus is willing to go in commercializing that proximity. (more...)
U.S. President Donald Trump is on the verge of destroying his relationship with Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni, who merely expressed disagreement at Trump’s repeated attacks on Pope Leo XIV. “I find President Trump’s words toward the Holy Father unacceptable,” Meloni said on April 14. She had been one of Trump’s closest allies in Europe, and was the only European head of government to attend Trump’s 2025 inauguration.
Trump said the next day that he was “shocked” by Meloni’s rebuke: “Do Italians like the fact that your prime minister isn’t giving us any help to get oil? Do people like her? I can’t imagine. I’m shocked by her. I thought she was brave, but I was wrong,” he said. “She is the one who is unacceptable,” he went on, “Because she doesn’t care if Iran has a nuclear weapon and would blow up Italy in two minutes if she had the chance.”
When asked if the U.S. still has the same relationship with Italy during an interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on April 15, Trump replied: “No. She’s been negative. Anybody that turned us down for helping with this Iran situation, we do not have the same relationship.”
Later on April 15, in remarks to reporters, Meloni reiterated her opinion, saying that Trump’s comments were “unacceptable.” “I expressed my solidarity with Pope Leo. I will tell you more: I would not feel comfortable in a society where religious leaders do as they are told by politicians, not in this part of the world, so I disagreed and said so.” (more...)
The testy confrontation by the White House over Pope Leo XIV’s stating the obvious about unjustified war on Iran has apparently branched out into outright nastiness.
Last night, Pope Leo’s brother John Prevost was forced to evacuate his Illinois home south of Chicago due to a bomb threat. The New Lenox (Illinois) Police Department issued a statement confirming the bomb threat. They carried out an extensive search and determined the threat had been made without a bomb actually having been placed. They allowed people in the neighborhood to return to their homes and stated: “The incident remains under investigation as authorities work to determine the origin of the report. Making false reports of this nature is a serious offense and may result in criminal charges.”
Also on April 15, as reported by the Miami Herald, the Trump administration ended the funding for a Catholic Church-based charity that shelters immigrant children. The Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami said the White House had pulled a longstanding $11 million contract from the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) for a program that provides specialized services for unaccompanied and undocumented minors who have been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Miami’s Archbishop Thomas Wensky told the Herald: “The U.S. government has abruptly decided to end more than 60 years of relationship … and [the services] will be forced to shut down within three months…. [The] services for unaccompanied minors have been recognized for their excellence and have served as a model for other agencies throughout the country. Our track record in serving this vulnerable population is unmatched.”
Washington’s Health and Human Services Department spokeswoman Emily Hilliard attributed the closing to downsizing, saying that the average daily population of unaccompanied migrant children was down to 1,900, so ORR’s previous services are being cut back. (more...)
A hacking group announces breaking into the Israeli regime's "Holocaust museum," gleaning personal data of all visitors, including undercover agents belonging to the regime's Mossad spy agency.
In a statement on Tuesday, Handala, a pro-resistance hacktivist group, said it now possessed personal data of all visitors, financial donors, covert delegations, and even Mossad agents, who had visited the facility using false identities.
It identified the target as the "Yad Vashem Museum" in the holy occupied city of al-Quds, which Tel Aviv calls the largest "Holocaust memorial institution" in the occupied territories.
The operation, the group said, once again challenged the regime’s fragile cybersecurity.
The group has a proven track record of targeting high-level Israeli figures, exposing their secrets and contributing to the psychological and information warfare against the regime.
Most recently, the group announced on April 9 that it had successfully breached the personal phone of Herzi Halevi, former chief of staff of the Israeli army, extracting thousands of confidential images, videos, documents, and files. (more...)
In 2025, Andrew Lownie and Shauna Kay recorded a series of weekly podcasts to discuss his most recent bestseller: "Entitled, The Rise and Fall of The House of York".
Andrew Lownie is a renowned biographer and historian who conducted a forensic study of the life and controversies of Prince Andrew, Duke of York. Exploring Royal Family scandals, Epstein connections, the Virginia Giuffre lawsuit, the infamous Newsnight interview & the subsequent fallout, and the Pizza Express alibi!
In 2024, we also collaborated on several interviews to uncover insights from Lownie’s bestselling book, Traitor King, The Mountbattens, and his biography on Guy Burgess, Stalin's Englishman.
This podcast is perfect for fans of British Royal history, Windsor scandals, celebrity biographies, and true crime royal exposés!
Max Blumenthal discusses why the consensus over the US-Israel partnership is unravelling as the intrusive influence of Israel is widely seen to undermine US interests. The disastrous Iran War has intensified the MAGA Civil War.
