(Stillness in the Storm Editor) Benjamin Fulford is the former Toyko 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.
The following is only half of the full report, in honor of Ben’s wishes. The remaining portion will be updated to this article on early Thursday morning, along with being posted as an independent article.
by Benjamin Fulford, April 7th, 2025
The aftermath
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No, Trump is not a clone or avatar.
Fulford is claiming Trump is an avatar or clone. I don’t think this is true. This is one of the many claims Fulford makes without any supporting evidence. Trump’s facial geometry and mannerisms suggest he hasn’t been replaced he has just gotten older. Similarly, Elon Musk is not an avatar. Videos edited to look like skin is pulled in strange ways are making the rounds to suggest or support the claim that some world figures are body doubles or masked. While there is a case to be made for the fact body doubles have been used most of these videos are not credible in my view. Additionally, there are AI videos making the rounds as well, one of which is of Ursula von der Leyen. Practice wise discernment, be vigilant.
Fulford’s Report:
US President Donald Trump pulled off another 911-type surprise by imposing massive tariffs on most US trading partners. The reason it is a 911-type event is because both the tariffs and 911 were reactions to Chinese demands that the US return gold they borrowed or else face bankruptcy. It turns out Trump’s handler in this case is Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. You can see him behind Trump in this photo.
Back on September 11, 2001, Lutnick just happened not to show up for work when most of the employees of his company Cantor Fitzgerald were killed. Cantor Fitzgerald is one of the few financial institutions allowed to get money directly from the Federal Reserve Board’s magical money fountain. On September 12, 2001, the government was supposed to give back Chinese royal gold lent to the Federal Reserve Board in 1938. Instead, the US government staged 911 and sent what was left of the Chinese gold to the Nazis in Paraguay. The US then invaded Iraq to steal oil to pay off the Chinese and avoid a default.
This time, Trump is hoping to use tariffs to get money to pay the Chinese and end the chronic trade deficit that makes the US financially dependent on China. Some sort of attempt to deal with the deficit is long overdue but, the tariff approach is way too little and way too late. Basic math shows it will fail.
The United States has run a trade deficit with the rest of the world for 49 years or since 1976. As a result they have accumulated $37 trillion of debt. The Trump administration expects the tariffs will bring in $600 billion a year meaning it would take 61 years to pay off all the debt with this tariff income. Furthermore, this will not help with the $250 trillion in unfunded US liabilities.
The Trump regime has also said tariffs will make income tax unnecessary. As a result, many Americans have decided to stop paying income taxes, meaning $500 billion less is expected when taxes come due on April 15th, wiping out most tariff gains.
We understand Trump wants to use the tariffs to rebuild US manufacturing capacity. However, as Peter Schiff points out:
If the U.S. is going to start building factories and developing the necessary infrastructure and supply chains, what are we going to stop doing to pay for it? One thing is shopping. Americans are going to have to sharply reduce spending and increase savings.
But this means a severe recession with exploding budget deficits as spending rises and tax revenue plunges. Tariffs won’t help much as if consumers buy less, imports fall sharply, undercutting tax revenue. That means deficits will crowd out all the savings necessary to finance the re-industrialization of America.
Also, as foreign investors will no longer be recycling their large trade surpluses into our treasury market, who will buy the $26 trillion in existing Treasuries that will mature over the next four years? If Americans have to buy all that debt, where will the money come from to build factories?
The only way to enable the necessary capital investment will be for the government to slash spending during the recession, including on entitlements and defense, and likely default on the national debt. https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/04/05/why-trumps-plan-cant-work/#more-364291
The tariffs will deprive the average US household of about $7300 of purchasing power per year.
https://tass.com/world/1938529
The head of MI6 says “Mr. Trump is causing economic chaos across the world at the moment and destabilizing the lay of the land. He needs to be contained firmly as do his handlers…All this chaos is purely a diversionary tactic to delay the inevitable.”
There is an easier answer Mr. Trump. There is a generous offer of virtually unlimited funding from the Dragon family sitting on his desk. The Dragon family controls most of the real money in the world because the Chinese have had huge trade surpluses (the mirror of US deficits) for decades. Also, while Americans consume 68% of their incomes and save only 4% the Chinese consume 39% and save 40%. The Chinese have used their savings to create more than twice the manufacturing capacity of the US. They have also done many clever things like using drones and robots to turn deserts green.
Also, only 14.8% of China’s total exports went to the United States in 2023 so the tariffs will not do too much damage to their economy.
However, the Chinese admit they have run into a brick wall and have more savings than they can profitably invest. Economic troubles may be one reason why 176,000 Chinese fled the country as political refugees in 2024; the greatest number since 1951, according to the UN.
This all means the Chinese would like nothing more than to spend their savings on things like building giant factories and bullet train networks in the US. Many of them would also like to live in the US.
The Chinese government officially responded to Trump’s tariffs with this statement:
“Pressuring and threatening is not the correct way to engage with China. China-US economic and trade relations should be based on mutual benefit and win-win cooperation…[these] are the aspirations of all people, while economic coercion that pits nations against each other is bound to backfire.”
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202504/1331500.shtml
The Chinese ended their statement by saying “The world needs justice, not hegemony!”
Fear of justice and a wish to retain hegemony is maybe why Trump has refused to acknowledge the offer of unlimited funding.
However, justice is coming. Last week we heard independently from US space force, MI6 and Russian FSB sources that the Trump government would not survive beyond 2025.
These photographs explain part of the reason why they say this now:
We have been repeatedly asked by agency types not to publish these photos. As the head of MI6 comments “This is serious stuff. The compromise control of the US President will go down like a lead balloon, we countered the DVD election fraud which installed his second term and now we find out he should have been dropped and someone else put in.”
Here is what a Mossad agent who until recently was a fervent Trump supporter sent us:
Who remembers when Trump’s mom said this?
“Yes, he’s an idiot with zero common sense, and no social skills, but he IS my son. I just hope he never gets into politics. He’d be a disaster.’ Mary Anne Trump.
He added this comment:
Should we believe Trump?? HELL NO, he’s obviously either drugged or a Zionist-controlled double. He was too smart before to suddenly become this ill-advised. And Netanyahu is meeting him on Monday Again. Hey Mr. President, why not focus entirely on problems at home, rather than serving Israel by blowing up countries that make no difference to us anyway?
The US Space Forces sources insist the Trump who went to Epstein Island is a fake and that there is a real white hat Trump at the Cheyenne Mt. space base. We certainly want to believe this. However, as things stand, the Epstein files have not been released and we are seeing a Trump seemingly in power encouraging mass murder in Gaza and threatening war against Iran. We will talk about that further below.
First, though something much more urgent has been taking place behind the scenes. The Russian FSB sent thoroughly documented proof to the Five Eyes intelligence network that the Pentagon built an extensive network of bio-warfare laboratories in Ukraine and tried to murder a large percentage of the world’s population with bioweapons.
“The details on the Pentagon activity is deeply dangerous and could provoke war,” MI6 warns.
The Russians also sent detailed evidence about the systematic kidnapping and murder of children by the Ukrainian authorities.
https://rg.ru/2023/07/05/chernye-dushi-belyh-angelov.html
https://news.by/news/obshchestvo/za_chto_arestovali_polskuyu_pravozashchitnitsu_ioannu_pakhvitsevich
https://zvezdaweekly.ru/news/20226161419-OWG69.html
Here is some of what the FSB sent to five eyes:
Deputy Chair of the State Duma Committee on Family Protection, Fatherhood, Motherhood and Childhood Elena Vtorigina (United Russia faction) reported that so-called white angels are operating on the Ukrainian side, roaming like grey wolves in the frontline zone and taking children away from their parents, threatening them with physical violence.
The parliamentary commission spent a year collecting data from all possible sources, carefully checking the information received and ultimately presented an impressive base of evidence of the guilt of Ukrainian militants, Since 2022, the Kyiv regime has forcibly removed about 65 thousand children from the territory of Donbas and Novorossiya.
“We don’t know where the children are being taken, according to many publications, they are being harvested for organs, and sexual violence is being committed against these children. This is a tragedy for each family and for the country. Only by destroying the Nazis and defeating the Kyiv regime can we solve this problem and protect our children,” the deputy noted.
Ukraine is number one in black transplantology. The Ukrainian Parliament purposefully created conditions for the flourishing of black transplantology in Ukraine. 2021 – they allowed the removal of organs without the consent of the donor and his relatives, to perform such operations in private clinics with foreign participation, then simplified the process of obtaining licenses for them. In 2022, transplant operations were exempted from VAT.
There were laboratories, these were national battalions, and they were engaged in it, and accordingly received a percentage of the transaction. They killed children, put the organs in containers, and then sold the containers. The containers were exported under the grain export code. We liquidated 8 laboratories, there were corpses there, and there were children. Dissected… The children were cut up. And we have already dealt with this and recorded it. Germany was one of the benefactors of the containers for transportation, there were a lot of US clinics there.
The Kyiv regime has created an entire kidnapping industry. Children are sold on the darknet or on the Ukrainian-Polish border. The country’s Cabinet of Ministers created the conditions for kidnapping by issuing a decree on the forced evacuation of children.
Under the auspices of the Ukrainian police, there are special kidnapping squads — “White Angel” and “Phoenix” — that take children even against the will of their parents. The Elena Zelenskaya Foundation, which is registered in the United States, and the “Save Ukraine” Foundation are involved in this scheme, and logistics are provided by Western PMCs.
This is important: Ukrainian “grain deal” might be a similar code to “pizza”
Here is a link to a detailed article about kidnappings.
https://rg.ru/2023/07/05/chernye-dushi-belyh-angelov.html
The Russian FSB sources say a peace agreement in Ukraine is not possible now because the Trump administration is unwilling to charge Zelensky and his government with war crimes.
Remember, over 500,000 kids also vanished in North America and only low-level operatives have been brought to justice.
In an attempt to assuage popular opinion, European authorities shut down one of the largest online child abuse networks in the world last month in an operation that is set to be the catalyst for the potential arrests of over 1 million pedophiles worldwide. Europol officials confirmed that Operation Stream was successfully able to the take child pornography platform Kidflix offline, which has thus far led to the arrest of 79 suspects involved in the distribution of child sex abuse material.
Since its creation in 2021, the website operating out of Germany enabled pedophiles across the globe to not only stream, share, and download child pornography but to profit from its distribution by enabling payments made via on-site tokens purchased with cryptocurrency. 1.8 million users worldwide visited the site over the course of Operation Stream between April 2022 and March 2025, foreshadowing many more arrests to follow.
In addition to the 79 suspects arrested to date, law enforcement agencies have identified another 1,393 as they broaden the scope of their investigations.
The comments below this article show what the public thinks about this stunt:
“79 whole mother fuxkers, huh? We got that many in Congress…ten times that working in Hollywood.”
“[They] could shut all of this down in a heartbeat if they wanted to, but they never do. Does anyone want to guess why? Because nobody ever arrests themselves.”
“Minnows are caught, but the whales escape the net…celebrities, nobility, billionaires, royals, police, migrants, MPs and judges excepted.”
We know who is at the top of this Satanic pyramid. In the link below Baron and Baroness de Rothschild publicly proclaim their wish to kill 94% of humanity in their 2020 invitation to the Illuminati ball by saying:
“Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.”
https://www.theilluminatiball.com/commandments.html
The Baron de Rothschild appears in public as Brigitte Macron. Here you can see him with and without his wig.
Now a new scandal is rocking Emmanuel Macron. Activist Reolf Fleming, in an interview, revealed that his cousin Dmitry, who died of AIDS, had a relationship with Macron in 2018 during a visit to Saint-Martin.
French intelligence sources say Macron died of AIDS and a body double is now playing his role. They add Macron had an incestuous homosexual relationship with his Uncle Jean Michel de Rothschild aka Brigitte Macron.
Here are some creepy photos from their party “Illuminati ball.”
This is apparently one of the dishes served there.
Payback for all of this is coming at them like a freight train:
Idaho is preparing to carry out executions of pedophiles by firing squad after Governor Brad Little signed a new law allowing courts to impose the death penalty on those convicted of lewd conduct with children under the age of 12.
https://www.deseret.com/the-west/2025/04/02/idaho-expands-death-penalty-to-pedophile-firing-squad/
British Labour MP Dan Norris was arrested on rape and child sex offenses.
Previously a teacher and child protection officer, Norris had also opposed probes into Pakistani rape gangs.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czx48gq0y77o
“One by one they are exposed and arrested,” a Pentagon source comments saying “PM Keir Starmer’s time is running out.”
Starmer, by the way, is scheduled to make an address later today declaring that the era of globalization is over.
Something is definitely happening:
“International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has been convicted over her role in a controversial €400m (£355m) payment to a businessman.”
Since she is now head of the European Central Bank, this is clearly a power grab for the EU money printing machine.
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Late 2024 SITS Statement about Fulford Reports
These reports are shared as a service for the thousands of people that 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 sometime, 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 whomever 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.
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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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Benjamin Fulford Updates from the previous week:
Benjamin Fulford — March 17th, 2025: Asians expect total US collapse by summer
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