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Barbara Boyd opens with Sunday's first round in Brazil, where Flávio Bolsonaro took 47.03% to President Lula da Silva's 45.16%, a result London's Guardian called a shock, ahead of the October 25 runoff. She traces the battle for Brazil: Jair Bolsonaro's narrow defeat in 2022, the January 8, 2023 riots in Brasília, his 2025 conviction in a case overseen by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, Secretary of State Marco Rubio's response, and the Bolsonaro family's gains in Sunday's vote, set against the nationalist wins across Latin America that she ties to the administration's revival of the Monroe Doctrine and the shutdown of USAID. She also looks at China's place as Brazil's biggest customer and at who owns Petrobras. The episode then turns to Sparrows Point in Baltimore County, Maryland, once the world's largest steel mill, where President Trump launched Anduril's $3.7 billion Arsenal-2 shipyard on Tuesday, building components for the Navy's Virginia-class submarines with 3,100 permanent jobs. It closes with Mike Benz, speaking with Benny Johnson, on why financier cartels profit when the state runs the economy, from Big Pharma to climate finance, and Chamath Palihapitiya on why Barack Obama is pushing Democrats toward government regulation of AI.

00:00 Midweek Update Intro
01:55 The Epic Battle for Brazil
06:39 Sparrows Point Lives Again
10:12 Why Would Capitalists Support Socialism and Communism?

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Photos
- Lula and Fidel Castro, Havana, 1980: Delfim Martins/Agência F4, via Wikimedia Commons (commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lula_e_Fidel_Castro_em_Havana,_Cuba,_em_1980.jpg)
- Jair Bolsonaro, 2020, and Michelle Bolsonaro, 2019: U.S. Embassy Brasília, public domain (flickr.com/photos/embaixadaeua-brasil)
- Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump, 2019: Getty Images, via BBC News
- National Congress, January 8, 2023: security camera, CPMI 8 de Janeiro final report (Senado Federal), public domain
- Alexandre de Moraes, Viviane Barci de Moraes and Lula, January 1, 2023: Ricardo Stuckert/PR, CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), flickr.com/photos/palaciodoplanalto/52621635701, cropped
- Carlos Bolsonaro, 2022: Alan Santos/PR, CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), flickr.com/photos/palaciodoplanalto/51884655852, cropped
- Jair Renan Bolsonaro, 2021: TOGURO (youtube.com/watch?v=vHdmseDnrEU), CC BY 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), cropped
- Liberty ship launch, Kaiser Shipyards: Louis Lee, National Park Service, public domain
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- President Trump at Sparrows Point, October 6, 2026: The White House, public domain
- Mike Benz on The Benny Show, October 5, 2026 (x.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/2107198915506499684)
- Chamath Palihapitiya on the All-In Podcast, September 26, 2026 (youtube.com/watch?v=cvP_1jmnkmM)
- Stock footage: Storyblocks
Articles and posts quoted: The Guardian (October 5, 2026); BBC News (March 20, 2019); Reuters (August 8, 2021); WYPR (October 6, 2026); BuildSubmarines.com (December 6, 2024; photo: Elonte Davis); on X: @SecRubio, @TheLastRefuge2, @PalmerLuckey, @anduriltech, @MikeBenzCyber
Maps and data: Natural Earth (public domain); election results from AS/COA, Axios, AP, NPR, MercoPress, Michigan Public and Brazil's TSE; exports from Comex Stat (MDIC); Petrobras fact sheet (December 2025) and notice of May 21, 2026 (via CNN Brasil)

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Susan Kokinda opens with the 26-page open letter Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps addressed to the American people weeks before the midterms, which the State Department dismissed as desperate and the Daily Wire read as a call to vote Democrat. She argues the letter tells a bigger story than anyone is reporting: it names the CIA, Israel and the military-industrial complex, but never once the British. After President Trump’s “easy way or the hard way” remark on Iran, and his statement at the U.N. that the election won’t influence his Iran policy, the episode revisits the 1953 overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh, whom the letter calls an “Americanophile,” after he nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, today’s BP, and cites National Security Archive documents showing the British Foreign Office approached the Truman administration in late 1952 to propose a coup. It then turns to a Foreign Affairs newsletter citing the 1956 Suez crisis as a parallel to the war with Iran, President Eisenhower’s refusal to back Britain and France at Suez, and Gamal Abdel Nasser’s 1955 Foreign Affairs article on how the British ran Egypt. It closes with Richard Haass on Morning Joe, the morning after Trump’s U.N. speech, calling it “the end of 80 years of American foreign policy,” Chatham House director Bronwen Maddox on Europe having to defend itself against the U.S., and Mark Carney telling the New York Times he spent the past year preparing for the “extreme tail risk” of U.S. military action against Canada.

00:00 Monday Brief Intro
01:15 The Easy Way or the Hard Way
05:52 Suez and Hormuz
09:00 Serious, Serious Stuff

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Barbara Boyd opens with diesel: as Ukraine’s strikes on Russian refineries tighten the world’s supply, President Trump threatened to halt U.S. diesel exports unless Europe released its emergency stocks, and the G7 agreed to release 100 million barrels. She presents it as the opening move of a 35-day economic offensive running into the midterms. The week of action includes Trump’s visit to the Peterbilt truck plant in Denton, Texas, where employee Sarah Renshaw credited tariffs for 1,000 new jobs; his Oklahoma rally; a White House luncheon with tech leaders on superintelligence; what the White House calls the largest steel plant ever built in the United States, coming to Iowa; Vice President Vance at the groundbreaking of Saronic’s Port Alpha shipyard in Brownsville, Texas; and South Korea’s plans for an Alaska LNG pipeline, a 6-gigawatt power plant in Texas and eight nuclear reactors. On affordability, the episode walks through price increases under Biden (energy up 33% from January 2021 to January 2025), Vice President Vance on the inflation crisis he says the administration inherited, refining capacity, housing regulation and immigration, Secretary Kennedy at the MAHA Summit on AI giving every patient a better-informed second opinion, and the White House fraud task force’s crackdown on Obamacare enrollments. It closes with Michael Shellenberger’s account of the student riots in France, French intelligence tying the movement to Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s France Unbowed (LFI), and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on a new golden age of space exploration.

00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro
02:04 The Offensive Begins
06:29 The Touchstones of Affordability
11:49 The French Riots

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Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday October 2nd at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers!

This week: the physical economy build-out is the midterm fight. Iowa’s planned $15B Mesabi Metallics mega mill, mine to mill, Minnesota ore to Lee County steel, and the rest of the economic revolution they don’t want you to see. Then Barbara’s lane: physical build-out versus “gas my ass”, productive identity versus the service-economy jobs talk. Less than five weeks to November 3.

On the board: Iowa steel verified (largest-in-U.S. / mega class, not world #1), EXIM-backed Minnesota iron ore, WH manufacturing/steel stats, and what a productive American identity actually means before the midterms.

Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda take your questions live. Bring what’s on your mind.

00:00 Thursday Q&A Intro
00:46 White House App + Iowa Steel Overnight
01:40 Super Intelligence Reframe
05:44 Barbara: Bigger Than the Industrial Revolution
07:21 1971 Break and the Physical Economy
11:00 Susan: City of London, and Unexpected Optimism on Fox
12:16 Brian Kilmeade Clip: Stop Whining About Gas
13:24 Not a Midterm Plan, an American Plan
17:56 Tariff Investments Day After Day
21:19 Susan: Bessent, Democrats Bet Against America
24:54 Productive Spirit Unleashed, Globalist Desperation
29:44 Mamdani Housing vs Trump Build-Out
32:58 Carney Turns Canada Into a Resource Colony
36:00 Kitchen-Table Pain Is Real, Still a Distraction
40:13 Midterm Bootcamp and the Long Game
41:37 98% Refining Capacity, Newsom Still Shutting Plants
46:21 How Tough Are We as Americans?
49:57 Brett: Short-Term Pain for a Real Rebuild
53:16 Barbara: Get Jacked, Don't Get Defensive on Diesel
54:56 Moon-Landing Denial = Manufactured Pessimism
56:46 American System Erased From Schools
1:01:33 Tools Not Clickbait, Real Revolution Pamphlet
1:05:59 Catching Cheaters, Too Big to Rig
1:10:23 Bessent Hires: Judy Shelton and the Money Fight
1:15:08 Can We Build New Refineries?
1:18:08 Trump Meets Refiners, Decades of Sabotage
1:24:08 Bootcamp Recruits New Political Leadership
1:29:07 British Empire vs American System History
1:34:53 What If London Falls, China and Russia
1:41:44 Steel Mill Hiring Boom vs Gas Yammering
1:44:57 Look Around You, Everything Needs Steel
1:54:05 The Lie About Hamilton
2:02:36 Closing: 10 to the Polls, Make Thousands Optimistic

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This midweek update contrasts two investment stories. On Monday, President Trump announced a $15 billion Mesabi Metallics steel mill in Iowa, supplied by the first new iron ore mine in the United States in 50 years, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Export-Import Bank Chairman John Jovanovic and Mesabi Metallics’ Rewant Ruia laid out how tariffs, government credit and a complete American supply chain made it possible: a crash course in the American System of economics. Two weeks earlier, Mark Carney’s Canada Investment Summit claimed nearly $500 billion in new investment, but the first thing on the block was long-term concessions on Canada’s four largest airports, and of its 167 projects, 63 are mining and metals while only 8 are non-military domestic manufacturing, as Stelco announces up to 500 job cuts in Hamilton. The episode then turns to Canada’s MAID program, with 16,499 assisted deaths in 2024, and to Sir Julian Huxley, UNESCO’s first director-general, who wrote in 1946 that “much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable.” It closes with the official U.S. poverty rate falling to 10.2%, record-low child and Hispanic poverty, and a new optimism about America’s future.

00:00 Midweek Update Intro
01:14 Mined, Melted and Poured in America
05:28 Carney’s Summit Sells the Airports
08:47 The Body Count

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Barbara Boyd opens with Barack Obama saying he sometimes fantasized about putting women in charge of every government, and a 1998 photo of Barack and Michelle Obama listening to Edward Said in Chicago, then takes a teaser tour of her new pamphlet on British-backed “color revolutions.” The episode argues that Said’s intellectual heroes, Antonio Gramsci, Georg Lukács and the Frankfurt School, shaped today’s Democratic Socialists of America, and that their real target is the American System of Hamilton, Clay, Lincoln and McKinley, which Trump invoked in Louisville in 2017. It traces the pattern back through the French Revolution, which it presents as orchestrated by Lord Shelburne, Jeremy Bentham and Jacques Necker, through Lord Palmerston’s use of Giuseppe Mazzini and Karl Marx, and the 1917 Russian Revolution. It closes with the Congress for Cultural Freedom, Daniel Bell’s post-industrial society, Herbert Marcuse and the “long march through the institutions,” arguing that winning the culture war means understanding the American culture under attack.

00:00 Monday Brief Intro
02:34 Donald Trump’s Real Alleged Sin
06:38 How the British Empire Uses Communism and Socialism
11:00 History Repeats Itself

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This episode argues that media outrage over a White House “autopen” joke and criticism of Trump’s summit with Xi Jinping obscures a deeper shift: Trump is dismantling a 50-year geopolitical framework associated with Henry Kissinger. It contrasts Chatham House’s “China Rising, America in Decline?” panel and its Thucydides Trap framing, linked to Graham Allison, with Xi’s evolution from posing the trap as an open question to asserting it “can be overcome” after Trump’s UN speech and claimed actions in Iran, Venezuela, the Shield of America, and the Greenland Treaty, alongside a push for reindustrialization. The script also highlights a UN Board of Peace session on Gaza focused on reconstruction led by Gazans and a new security structure involving Muslim-country troops, presenting it as ending “outside forces” control. It notes Rubio’s permanent dual role as Secretary of State and National Security Advisor and frames his stance as reversing Kissinger’s legacy.

00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro
01:03 China: Xi Rejects the Trap
05:54 The Middle East Pillar, Busting the Imperial Plan
09:58 Rubio Undoes the Architect

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Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday September 24th at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers!

This week: two speeches at the UN, two systems at war. Lula delivered the globalist gospel. Trump answered with national sovereignty, no human right to illegal immigration, a right to remain a sovereign nation, UNESCO’s mass-migration machine called out, the ICC named a rogue tribunal, and no world government / no global taxes. One system growing and prosperous; the other trying to commit a murder-suicide. The calendar is the strategy.

On the board: Trump’s UNGA strategy versus Lula’s new world order, the sideline meetings with Xi and other leaders, the strategic map Trump is reshaping, and the media battle raging over all of it. Plus the Monday Brief you need. Why Trump Banned the Press (They Taught You Snow is Black):

Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda take your questions live. Bring what’s on your mind.

00:00 Thursday Q&A Intro
01:21 Trump at the UN: Golden Age vs Climate Con
04:55 Barbara: Rubio on Trump, Xi and the Century
06:06 B-1 Flyover: Star-Spangled Banner for Xi
09:24 Booming Economy, Gas-Price Psyop
10:26 Laura Ingraham Fact-Check Clip
17:32 Susan: Wages Up, Million Jobs, Hot Economy
20:56 Diesel: Why We're Facing This Problem
27:15 China Deal vs British Raw-Materials Empire
29:52 UN as Dialogue Tool, Not Empire HQ
34:20 Doomers, Third Parties, and the Psyop
39:25 Susan: American System Solves Bottlenecks
48:04 Word Is Getting Out About the City of London
50:50 Barbara: French Revolution Ran From London
55:25 Too Big to Rig, Get 10 Friends to the Polls
59:16 IRGC Hardwired, Trump Won't Parking-Lot Iran
1:05:28 Barbara: Iran Nuke Psyop Is Insane
1:10:49 Susan: No More Perpetual Wars
1:14:31 Maduro, Cartels, and National Security
1:17:57 Europe's War Spoof, Who Really Wants War
1:23:04 Immigration: Beasts vs Creative Human Beings
1:29:18 AfD, Die Linke, Nazis-and-Communists Script
1:34:27 Carney's "Middle Powers" and the AI Fight
1:41:26 American Revolution Soldier Analogy
1:44:58 Not Predict, Fight For It
1:49:35 Door-Knock Path to 10 Voters
1:53:43 Refining Capacity Was Sabotaged
2:08:59 Closing: Terminal Disease, Then We Fought

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This Wednesday update argues President Trump used his UN General Assembly speech to indict globalization and mass migration, contrasting his “nation state” vision with Brazil’s Lula da Silva and warning Brazil’s Oct. 4 election could shift Latin America’s direction. It highlights Trump’s focus on security in the Western Hemisphere through the Shield of America alliance targeting narco-terror groups, and says media coverage instead fixates on desk bans for CNN, MSNBC and Politico. The episode claims Trump is pursuing peace in Ukraine and Iran while “globalists” push escalation, citing European voices advocating Russia’s breakup and calls for war. It describes a three-hour US-Iran meeting after Trump threatened annihilation unless Iran negotiates, plus tightened sanctions and a blockade. Finally, it says Trump rejected AI “superintelligence” panic, predicting major productivity gains and a new industrial renaissance.

00:00 Midweek Update Intro
01:06 Two Systems Are Before the World
05:21 The Globalists Are Losing So They’re Opting for War
13:01 America’s Exceptional Future

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This Monday Brief argues that Trump’s removal of certain media outlets from the White House is not censorship but a strike against a propaganda apparatus designed to make the public accept falsehoods as truth. Citing Bertrand Russell’s books The Impact of Science on Society (1953) and The Scientific Outlook (1931), the episode claims modern “scientific dictatorship” methods use mass psychology to generate convictions while hiding how they’re formed, enabling control without force. It applies this framework to current policy disputes, saying high diesel prices reflect decades of green and free-trade “zero growth” policies that reduced surge capacity, not Trump’s actions. It highlights comments from Sarah Huckabee Sanders, J.D. Vance, Chris Wright, and Dr. Oz, and lists claimed improvements under Trump-era policies, including falling overdose deaths, record low poverty, rising real median income, more full-time jobs, and early CDC data suggesting longevity gains.

00:00 Monday Brief Intro
00:44 The Operating Manual
04:40 What the Manual Was For
10:10 The Empire's Response

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