2025 Annual Wrap Up: News Trends & Stories, Part I with Dr. Joseph P. Farrell

Claire V.
January 13, 2026

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with Dr. Joseph P. Farrell

“This is a period governed by the laws of physics and the hostile policies of rival nations. Central banks operate on the assumption that liquidity cures scarcity.… In late 2025, a fire at the Novelis aluminum plant paralyzed the North American automotive supply chain. The heat from that blaze melted the production schedules of Ford and Stellantis. It erased billions in revenue. No amount of Federal Reserve liquidity could restore it.”

~ Craig Tindale, The Hard Bifurcation: The Convergence of Financial Liquidity and Physical Insolvency
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  1. Catherine and Joseph, this is a superlative presentation. I was engrossed from the beginning, but Toby Rogers stopped me in my tracks. I watched an interview you did with him a couple years ago, and it made an impact, but since I don’t really think about autism, I guess I filed it away. I was at a watch party today for the Supreme Court arguments in Little v. Hecox. We listened in horror as what are supposed to be America’s finest legal minds could not answer the question, “What is a woman?” Justice Alito finally admitted the Court does not have a definition. What does this have to do with biological colonialism? Everything. The trans issue has almost nothing to do with male fetishists running around in bad wigs and falsies, or Munchausen Mommies preying on their kids, and everything to do with Big Pharma making money off of mutilating and sterilizing vulnerable people. (With the incidental effect of lowering the future population by ending “transkids” genetic lines.) The trans issue is a big reason for Trump’s 2024 victory, and for all of his failures, he’s done a very good job of protecting children from the depredations of the $3.7 trillion trans industry. I’d like to suggest that you interview Jennifer Bilek, who’s probably the most important researcher on the trans industry. She’s been following the money since 2013, and it’s shocking where that trail leads. I think your subscribers would really profit from a talk between the two of you. Thanks to you and Joseph for this terrific presentation, even the parts I disagree with.

    1. To me it seems the Transgender hoax is attempting to pave the way for the Transhuman agenda. If you can get some of the people (all of the time) to believe Men can have babies & nurse them, then it’s a small step to convince folks to exchange all “Mankind” for the new techno-hybrid.

      1. Cloning and incubator babies too. They want us to believe that the energy field and soul are irrelevant.

        1. Another reason for using transgender or various kind of leaders

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_king

          In Gesta Danorum, book 7, Saxo Grammaticus tells of a Gunnar, “the bravest of the Swedes” who invaded Norway and relished killing rather than pillaging. In order to humiliate the Norwegians after his victory against their aged king Ragnald, he appointed a dog as their ruler. He then appointed governors to take care of affairs of state in the name of the dog, and several ranks of nobles to watch over it. He also commanded that if anyone failed to show the dog respect, he was to be mutilated.

          1. Seems to me also the “installation” of various Trans leaders hiding in plain sight is to sow cognitive dissonance deep & wide, and do it covertly. In other words, if, in fact, B macron is a biological male, then the essential nature/divine intelligence of each Human Being knows this whether consciously or not. However, since nobody (except ‘crazy Candace’), has called this out, folks are forced to live with this massive dissonance suppressed, and it adds-up with everything else “they” are doing to kill/maim/numb, and people start to mentally/emotionally implode. Also, it’s fun for them to play “dress up” & “fake-out” @ scale, I think.

    2. We have been hoping to do a special trans presentation since mid 2024. I was holding off on inviting Jennifer until that was published. If it does not get done, you are right, need to interview Jennifer.

  2. To despair is a sin, remember. I’ve said it before all this bad stuff has such a Tower of Babel feel to it. Too much has to go right by all the bad people who screw each other over almost quicker than they do us!!!

    For me, I’m here learning to divest from the malignant and investing in the real and good.

    St Filippo Neri has a famous quote.
    spernere mundum
    spernere nullum
    spernere se ipsum
    spernere se sperni!!!!

    Despise the World (Spernere mundum): This means to have “contempt” for worldly ambitions and the vanity of earthly success.

    Despise No One (Spernere nullum): Despite rejecting worldly values, we must never reject or hold contempt for other people, seeing the image of God in everyone.

    Despise Oneself (Spernere se ipsum): This refers to self-distrust and the mortification of one’s own ego.

    Despise Being Despised (Spernere se sperni): It means to despise the sadness or anger that often comes when others mock or look down on us. By “despising being despised,” refuse to let the external rob us of our internal joy.

    Now apply that framework to what we are learning here!
    Pax Vobiscum for Anno Domini MMXXVI!!!!

    Thanks Catherine and Dr J!!!

  3. I love Joseph’s rare and gifted insight, but it is very distracting when he talks over the videos as they are playing. Toward the end of the report, as you are both discussing the silver market, Catherine mentions the BIS Basel III reforms. I had recently stumbled upon a great video discussing this, and am quite surprised that this extremely important development escaped being more fully discussed in the lead-up to its implementation, either in a report or as a story in Money and Markets. This is the kind of intel that would be greatly helpful to subscribers, and as a precious metals investor, I would have liked to have seen it covered earlier than in an end-of-year report.

  4. Excellent as usual. Catherine, the amount of addiction going on is absurd, particularly among the younger generation. I can’t tell you how many of my friends (I’m 38) are addicted to adderall. I know a 15 year old boy who has been taking adderall everyday for over 5 years. He cannot think straight if he doesn’t take it. Almost every contractor, plumber, etc. that comes to my house smells like marijuana and they all have marijuana licenses. There’s one local tree trimming company (a very dangerous job) whose trucks always have a marijuana smoke wafting from the windows as it drives by. Just think of the liability not to mention the lack of productivity. So many families have someone who is addicted to alcohol or other drugs. I’ve never seen anything like it. Addiction not only impacts the addicted but their families as well. I know one family who has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on rehab for their son. I have a sister in-law who has been struggling addiction for years and has been in and out of jail…the stress it has put on her family has been tremendous and it eats away at their time and productivity. I think addiction is one of the largest problems our society faces. It makes me think of how the British conquered China with opium. It’s an old playbook. Wonder if there anyway to change this. Keep up the good work!

    1. As a small business owner of a service business for the last 32 years- substance abuse has always been a problem in hiring employees. We have seen the effects to lives firsthand. In the early 2000’s it was mainly heroin and alcohol combined. Now with the super addictive drugs out there- it is even more frightening.
      The people who do the physical work are being poisoned. One major problem with physical work is physical pain and injuries. So difficult to overcome. Some cannot and some are “self medicating” both emotional and physical pain. Please pray for the people who “get the job done” and help us all in our daily lives. Thank you Catherine and Dr. Ferrell for bringing this up in NT&S.

    2. Addiction seems to be everywhere—alcohol, nicotine, drugs, sugar, shopping, social media, even dopamine itself. This raises a question: how free are we really? If so many behaviors are driven by compulsive reward-seeking, are addictions keeping us in a lower, more reactive state of mind?
      Modern society appears to encourage this. Entire industries profit from capturing attention and creating dependence, making addiction not just a personal issue but a cultural one. Whether intentional or not, the result is the same: constant stimulation, reduced agency, and less space for reflection.
      Maybe freedom begins with awareness—recognizing what we’re being pulled toward, and choosing, when we can, not to be ruled by it. Like they did with the vaccines, they are promoting a billion dollar campaign to keep people addicted to everything… we have to raise our consciousness and be free

      1. I’ve been contemplating this addiction phenomenon, particularly among young males. Interesting how some of the top addictions include: “X-Box”, “X-Rated”, and now the platform, “X”…..hmmm….trying to X them out, eh? Then, any $ they do earn, they trade-in for, “crypt”-o = death of money = own nothing. Hidden in plain sight, of course.

      2. Yes. Control and freedom happen on person at a time. Each person is targeted, trying to find one or more addictions which can be used to control, extract, sterilize, and render powerless. Get one or more addictions going, then much easier to build control files. Once you can see the obstacle course it is easier to navigate it. The great poisoning makes it much harder to see it and successfully navigate it. This is why Gen Z looking at screens for the equivalent of 106 days a year is a death sentence.

    3. The crisis is Spiritual. Young folks do not have any real path to Divinity. This “God sized hole” is being filled with all you mentioned and more. We need real spirituality in Churches. I have been sampling what’s on offer from several denominations, and I won’t pussyfoot: they are spiritually bankrupt. All theater/pageantry- zero substance. I have just written a course called Beginner Meditation for Christians (because, “Be still and know”) and I have been quietly trying to shop it around in this super rural TN area. Not much interest so far, but will keep turtling.

  5. In Paulina Zelitsky’s two volume memoir The Sea Is Only Knee Deep, she details a military presence and buildup in Cuba beginning just a few years after the Bay of Pigs. Sub bases, air force base in SanAntonio Cuba, Soldiers the works.

    With all the Missie Crisis hysteria, I would expect a Russian military buildup in Cuba to be front page news.

    Has anyone see this detailed or mentioned anywhere before? I have never seen any such news mentioned anywhere. Endless bad news on Russia Russia Russia since I was a kid. Never anything like detailed in Paulina’s memoirs has ever been covered in any news I experienced. It was not until John McAfee visited a few years before he disappeared. Posting pictures of Russian Missile Cruisers in Cuba and asking a simple question: what are these doing here?

    This military buildup was taking place just a couple years after the Bay of Pigs and during the same period Autec was being construct not hundreds of miles away.

    Thoughts?

    Reference: Learned of Paulina from the work of Dark Journalist. It was also Dark who shared in one of his broadcast, the McAfee twitter post.

  6. Hello Catherine and Dr. Farrell,
    Are you familiar with the work of Mae Brussell? Although dead for decades her research is still available on the internet. Listening to the short conversation regarding going analog I copied a couple of sentences from her website, the first two sentences provides some background on who she was for those not familiar with her work. The third and last sentence references her tenacity to communicate with her subscribers when she was pushed into the corner.

    “Complacent Beverly Hills housewife Mae Brussell had quite an awakening in 1963 when President Kennedy was assassinated, and again when she read and cross-indexed the massive 26-volume Warren Commission Hearings. She saw that the international terrorist network that had made up the Axis powers during World War Two had gone underground and continued their world-wide fascist campaign, overthrowing one country after another. ”

    “Sometimes Mae resorted to recording her shows at home on her small cassette tape recorder and privately mailed out copies to her subscribers.”

    Marianne

    1. Mae’s father was Rabbi Edgar Magnin, heir to I. Magnin Department Store and was called the Rabbi to the Stars because of his close connections to Hollywood film industry. Often saw him at Hillside Country Club sitting with many famous celebrities.
      His daughter, Mae, grew up in a household where political figures and famous celebrities would often be dinner guests.
      During the late 70’s she would fly down from her home in the Bay area to visit her friend, Henry Miller, who was in failing health.
      Besides having an interest in the JFK event she also had an interest in the early deaths of musicians.
      Yes, she was a great researcher and did it before the internet. She sorta reminds me of Whitney Webb

    2. Yes. Outstanding researcher and outstanding research. Thanks for reminding us. Great stuff.

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