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President Trump announced a three-day pause on planned 50% tariffs against Canada, citing a pending deal and suggesting Keystone XL could be revived. Susan Kokinda argues the dispute is larger than USMCA negotiations, portraying Canada as an “outlaw” that enables transshipment “smuggling,” fails to enforce forced-labor bans, and facilitates “snow-washing” through weak corporate transparency and money laundering documented in British Columbia’s Cullen Commission. She contrasts U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s pro-development case for oil and gas as civilizational progress with Canadian Minister Mélanie Joly’s Chatham House speech promoting “geo-industrialization” and a Mark Carney-aligned “middle powers” strategy against U.S. and China “hegemons.” Kokinda highlights a House of Commons petition led by Green Party leader Elizabeth May to declare U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra persona non grata, and notes Joly’s outreach to U.S. lawmakers and cities during the trade fight.

00:00 Midweek Update Intro
01:40 The Outlaw Ledger
05:11 Two Cabinet Officers, Two Systems
09:16 The Petition and the Outpost

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Barbara Boyd argues the BBC/New York Times story about US sailors jumping off the USS Lincoln in the Persian Gulf is a psychological warfare operation aimed at undermining Donald Trump and will backfire by attacking Americans’ belief in troop resilience. Citing comments from Afghanistan veteran Joey Jones and Navy Secretary Hung Cao, she criticizes media and Democrats for portraying service members as victims and notes Iran’s exploitation of the narrative. Boyd frames the Iran conflict as focused on keeping oil and gas prices stable and preventing an Iranian nuclear weapon, while contending Iran has long used threats to the Strait of Hormuz to inflate an “oil and gas premium” tied to the petrodollar system and London finance. She links modern propaganda to Bertrand Russell, the Tavistock Institute, RAND “swarming,” and NATO cognitive warfare, and calls for countering the “color revolution” apparatus ahead of the midterms.

00:00 Monday Brief Intro
02:23 This War is about Breaking the Globalist Hold on our Economy
06:08 The Tavistock Institute and Today’s Trump Derangement
12:00 Why the USS Lincoln Story Blows Back on Them

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. is escalating economic isolation measures against Iran and forecasts the Strait of Hormuz will become “irrelevant” within two years, while Energy Secretary Chris Wright argues shipping continues under escorts and rerouting, citing 8, 9 million barrels/day still moving through the strait plus 6 million diverted via expanding pipelines. The episode frames this as part of a broader strategy since March 2025 targeting Iran’s financial networks while expanding alternative energy supplies, including increased U.S. production, changes in Venezuela, UAE production outside old OPEC quotas, and Iraq pipeline deals to bypass Hormuz, alongside a nuclear power “renaissance.” It highlights remarks at Chatham House by Lebanese adviser Jean Aziz blaming Henry Kissinger’s 1976 actions for decades of conflict and IRGC entanglement, and Qatar’s Majed Al-Ansari describing a regional Gaza “20-point plan” leading to a Washington-based Board of Peace meeting on Feb. 19, 2026.

00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro
01:53 The Chokepoint Being Superseded, Not Broken
06:02 The Indictment Nobody Was Supposed to Hear
08:44 The Replacement

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Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday August 13th at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers!

This week, Susan Kokinda reports from the ground in Michigan, where a political revolution is underway. Last week it was the primary results; this week it's what the results have set in motion: the organizing, the realignment, and the fight for the state the empire's media can't narrate away. What it looks like when the flyover states stop taking orders.

Then, Tuesday's returns from Wisconsin and Minnesota. Trump-backed Tom Tiffany takes the Wisconsin governor's nomination decisively, while Minnesota's Democrats lurch further left, dumping a sitting congresswoman for a progressive who campaigned against immigration enforcement. Mike Lindell falls short, Klobuchar steps down-ballot, and the pattern sharpens: Trump's coalition is building while the Democrat Party is captured by its radicals. Barbara and Susan lay out what it means for the midterm map, eleven weeks out.

And Iran boils, the blockade, the back channels, the leadership crisis in Tehran. It's a fast-moving story, so wherever it stands Thursday morning, the hosts will sort the signal from the noise, live.

Plus: your questions. Bring what's on your mind. Barbara and Susan take them live.

00:00 Thursday Q&A Intro
00:55 Barbara's Open: "There's Been a Major Arrest"
07:50 Susan: Detroit's Verdict
13:20 The Mary Waters Clip
19:10 Trump's Oklahoma Tell
22:55 Drew: "Is This Connected to the LaRouche Movement?"
31:25 Musa: Perot, Buchanan, Nader, Why Trump?
36:20 Daniel: Bohemian Grove
39:00 Bob & Eddie: Can Democrats Stop a Socialist Capture?
50:35 Dora: Working Families Party & SEIU
1:00:45 Ted's Big Question: Organic or Orchestrated?
1:10:20 Barbara: Tucker, MTG, Massie, Not Organic
1:16:25 Craig: A New McCarthy Hearing?
1:20:00 Mercenary: When History Feels Like a Lie
1:31:55 The White House App
1:33:35 Gregory: "How Can We Still Trust the President?"
1:47:00 Winkie: Susan's Journey, RFK to Trump
1:54:05 Mrs. Res: Wisconsin's Polls and "Woke Two"
1:58:40 KP Powell: Patrick Byrne
2:00:20 Josh: Turkey and the Realignment
2:02:00 Closing: The Aspen Interns in Chat

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Barbara Boyd argues that British intelligence and allied Democrats are stoking U.S. religious conflict around Gaza, Iran, and Islam to target Donald Trump and the midterms, citing media narratives, claims about Israel’s influence, and a Texas proposal to ban hijabs and halal food. She links New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, and Barack Obama to a London. Soros. Obama network, highlighting their biographies, Rhodes/Columbia and NYPIRG connections, and Democratic Socialists’ attempts to delete or soften past “woke” positions tied to 2020 unrest. Boyd claims Britain has long used the Muslim Brotherhood and engineered Middle East sectarianism since Sykes-Picot, and similarly “invented” communism as a tool against industrial rivals. She says Trump is countering this with limited Iran action, economic pressure, Gulf “Board of Peace” efforts, and a renewed focus on rebuilding a productive, nuclear-powered economy.

00:00 Midweek Update Intro
01:22 The London Lineage of Mamdani, Abdul El-Sayed and Barack Hussein Obama
08:20 The “London, Soros, Obama” Apparatus Targets Trump
12:16 What President Trump Is Doing to Confront This

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Susan Kokinda critiques Michigan Democratic Senate primary winner Abdul El-Sayed, arguing that while he calls Trump a symptom and “the system” the disease, El-Sayed actually protects the same oligarchic system he denounces. From reporting outside a Michigan polling place, she recounts El-Sayed’s slogans (“Money out of politics, money in your pocket, Medicare for all”) and contrasts them with Republican claims that the “Big Beautiful Bill” and pro-industry policies put money in workers’ pockets through tax relief and jobs. She traces middle-class decline in Detroit to the end of Bretton Woods and NAFTA, cites Scott Bessent’s “compensate the loser” strategy, and argues oligarchy is unelected policy control. She disputes El-Sayed’s AIPAC framing by citing larger funding streams from foundations and NGOs, then ties El-Sayed’s Rhodes Scholar background to Cecil Rhodes, framing the conflict as “Rhodes versus Lincoln” and promoting Promethean Action.

00:00 Monday Brief Intro
01:45 Money In Your Pocket
06:04 The Enemy's Real Strategy
08:39 The "Money Out of Politics" Fraud, And What That Money Bought

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This episode argues that Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan Democratic primary win, driven by young voters, reflects anger from college graduates burdened by debt and lacking useful credentials, a trend Vice President JD Vance links to decades of bipartisan “globalist capitalism” that outsourced industry and weakened the middle class. Barbara Boyd contrasts British imperial economics and Marx’s attacks on Henry Carey’s “Harmony of Interest” with President Trump’s American System approach, spotlighting domestic industrial growth, mining deals, and Jacob DeWitte’s rapid Texas nuclear reactor build enabled by deregulation. The program then claims today’s DSA insurgency is fueled by foreign-linked money, citing AppLovin-connected donors backing Zohran Mamdani and El-Sayed via super PACs, alleged China- and Shanghai-based funding networks, Middle East advocacy funding, and ties to Muslim Brotherhood organizations, and urges support for Promethean Action ahead of the midterms.

00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro
01:56 Communists and Globalists Hate Both the Working and Middle Classes
06:43 They Don't Just Hate God, They Hate Unique Individuals
11:25 It Isn't Student or Even New York, Michigan, or American Money

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Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday August 6th at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers!

This week, the pundits see chaos, but the war in the Middle East was part of the plan all along. Tehran's fighters aren't getting paid, Hamas agreed to disarm, and the decisive weapon wasn't a bomb, it was the U.S. Treasury. Barbara Boyd connects the fronts: the financial war that broke Iran's proxy networks runs through the empire's own offshore machine, and dismantling it is step one of rebuilding America. Now Bessent is moving further. Japan, the bond markets, and the unwinding of the old financial system toward a New Bretton Woods.

Then, the blueprint goes public. The White House just released the Kratsios report, "Science: A New Golden Age", the first top-to-bottom overhaul of American science in more than 80 years, commissioned by President Trump. Barbara goes in-depth: the productive powers of labor, the Genesis Mission, and the deliberate callback to FDR and the science drive that won World War II. This is the American System revival, in writing.

And Susan Kokinda breaks down Michigan's primary results, especially the Democrat side, where the party's media wing stands ready to anoint a "new Obama." What the results actually mean for the midterm map, three months out.

Plus: Zelensky fires his ambassador to Washington, and your questions. Bring what's on your mind. Barbara and Susan take them live.

00:00 Thursday Q&A Intro
03:18 Barbara: What This Was Actually For
07:31 The JD Vance Clip: "Downwardly Mobile"
09:10 Michigan's Verdict Wasn't a Muslim Takeover
15:36 Outside the Polls in a Blue-Collar District
23:57 Report From the Unity Luncheon
26:58 Why Not Arm the Kurds and Finish the IRGC?
31:35 Susan: A Crafted Virus
34:08 Are They Building a Panopticon?
39:08 The Vance, Bishop Barron Clip
45:12 Nouns vs. Verbs, and the Two Images of Man
51:54 Is the US Government a "Corporation" Under Common Law?
56:27 Talking Points and the Accountability Itch
1:04:25 A King With No Clothes
1:12:12 Susan's Timeline: He Doesn't Shoot From the Hip
1:16:51 The Yen Carry Trade, Explained
1:24:57 The Derivatives Bubble Sitting on the Real Economy
1:29:28 Dearborn, Sharia, and Assimilation
1:35:39 The Thirty Years' War Playbook
1:41:28 Cuba, Karen Bass, and the DSA's Real Parents
1:47:50 Even Allen Dulles Said Castro Wasn't a Communist
1:55:43 Why Is Tony Blair on the Board of Peace?
1:58:22 Can You Pardon Premeditated Murder?
2:00:32 Closing: The Day Before the Revolution

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Barbara Boyd argues the media misrepresents both vaccine debates and President Trump’s actions, then links the Middle East war and Scott Bessent’s weekend intervention to support Japan’s yen as parts of a broader effort to break the post-1971 global financial order centered on Wall Street and the City of London. She traces the shift after Bretton Woods, Rockefeller-era environmentalism, commodity speculation, and Biden-era “green” credit policies, saying Trump is rebuilding a production-based economy that requires regaining sovereignty over finance. Boyd says Gulf oil money flows and the Strait of Hormuz are a key weak point, and frames the Abraham Accords as “peace through development,” with Iran and proxies as obstacles. She claims Bessent’s move hit the UK/EU via euro sales, aims to defuse the yen carry trade risk, and helps set up a “New Bretton Woods.” She also highlights Trump’s July 21 “Science, a New Golden Age” workforce upskilling agenda.

00:00 Midweek Update Intro
01:53 The War in the Middle East Hits the City of London Hardest
06:04 Stabilizing Japan Also Screws the City of London
09:13 The Key Ingredients for America’s Economic Revolution

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Donald Trump is not a conventional President and if you pay close attention to him, you will discover the pathway to a very unconventional result on Nov 3.

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00:00 Monday Brief Intro
00:34 Midterms Conventional Wisdom
02:46 McKinley Tariffs Revival
05:24 Manufacturing Investment Surge
08:38 Credit and Industrial Finance
11:58 Skilled Trades Build Freedom
13:04 Productive Powers of Labor
17:15 FDR Realignment Midterm Play
20:13 Wrap Up and Call to Action
21:47 Q&A Flyers and PAC Pitch
25:10 Data Centers Narrative
28:57 Economy Is Trash Question
31:59 Nixon and Party Realignment
34:57 Hegemony and Sovereign Nations
37:23 Senators Recess Appointments
39:39 Jobs Timeline Factory Tracker
43:41 Russia History and Values
45:44 Closing Focus and Signoff

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