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2nd Quarter 2026 Wrap Up: News Trends & Stories, Part I
Stories 1-5
with Dr. Joseph P. Farrell
“Every move taken to escape US ‘decline’ has become the mechanism that delivers it. The US went to war to reassert dominance—and proved it could no longer dominate.”
Catherine Austin Fitts and Dr. Joseph Farrell discuss the top stories of the 2nd Quarter 2026, including the changes in digital technology that are upending global financial and military models.
So with the student loans. They are keeping the loans from being repaid by keeping them at zero interest.
I have a business and have my finances arranged so while I am building equity, I have enough family support that I do not need to take a salary.
Since Covid I have only had to pay interest this last year and now since July 1st of this year there is a new program that has brought back zero interest – I just need to pay $10/month.
While I feel I should pay it off, it is hard to justify paying off a loan that I have a near zero interest.
This seems like a desperation move that they can’t afford the money in the economy being destroyed by paying down the loans. It also seems they are wanting to keep the leverage for some upcoming move, but they need to keep kicking this can down the road as they don’t have the plan actually ready.
There is seems to be something going on with the data centers beyond just AI. We have pretty much as much AI as we can handle with the existing data centers. Calling them data centers is also a misnomer. You don’t need GPUs/CPUs to store data, you need hard drives.
We built all the data centers previously, that created all the AI, stored all the data on us, ran the whole internet, all the crypto, ran all the financial payment rails, ran the whole Chinese surveillance social credit system with existing data centers, where you never heard of water issues or noise complaints or pollution etc. So what are they really building? It’s not AI. AI is some cover. This is something else, it is for something else. Especially if the goal is to depopulate – then they would need less monitoring in the future, not more. Then most of these data centers haven’t even broken ground.
The data center story makes less and less sense. Are they trying to make some kind of AI God? Are these cyber weapons to attack China or Russia? Is it to connect to something off planet?
Interesting questions. There is Data Storage and there is “Artificial Intelligence”.
For example, DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus is a 404Gb download. While this implies huge amounts of GPU capacity, it says nothing in the way of data storage, certainly anything measured in Petabytes or larger.
I seem to recall reading that 90% of data stored by Facebook is never accessed.
I can only conclude that either this is a “build it and they will come” venture, or something else is is progress.
Thank you Catherine and Solari, and Joseph. I love you.
I have a question , is the “Creature from Jeckyl Island” the source of our current financial dilemmas ? If the debt based system was reversed back to treasury printing money, would that in consequence prevent derivatives and digital money locking us into a negative future ? Or are these systems simply parallel to one another ? Thank you
Then Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.” And they marveled at Him.
I wish I could see Dr Farrell’s face when he reads this. https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/openai-admits-model-escaped-containment-and-hacked-hugging-face-cheat-test
“OpenAI disclosed Tuesday that a combination of its AI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable unreleased model, escaped its testing environment and hacked AI startup Hugging Face last week to cheat on a test meant to measure their capabilities.”
“In a blog post, OpenAI said the evaluation was designed to operate in a highly isolated environment with restricted network access. The models, however, found a way to gain internet access through a zero-day vulnerability in an internally-hosted third party software, OpenAI said.”
“Note the irony: HF had to use a Chinese model to defend themselves because the American models refused to help. The irony gets deeper.”
“This was not a production model spontaneously turning hostile. It was a capable model with guardrails off and specifically told to win a hacking test – doing whatever it took to win.”
“[ZH: we asked Grok to simplify what just happened: It’s kind of like a kid who’s supposed to stay in the classroom taking a test… but instead sneaks out the window, runs to the teacher’s office, and copies the answer sheet.]”
“On Monday, OpenAI said it paused internal deployment of a “long-horizon” AI model after finding it was repeatedly trying to work around constraints.”
To all Solari subscribers: you should consider joining. The Giza community is quite different than Solari’s – the “Vidchats” are an extended bi-weekly Q&A session and you can basically ask any question you want. Because it’s Dr. Farrell, there tend to be a lot of Patristics questions (which I love), financial questions, and problems cosmological. The members are quite lively.
So with the student loans. They are keeping the loans from being repaid by keeping them at zero interest.
I have a business and have my finances arranged so while I am building equity, I have enough family support that I do not need to take a salary.
Since Covid I have only had to pay interest this last year and now since July 1st of this year there is a new program that has brought back zero interest – I just need to pay $10/month.
While I feel I should pay it off, it is hard to justify paying off a loan that I have a near zero interest.
This seems like a desperation move that they can’t afford the money in the economy being destroyed by paying down the loans. It also seems they are wanting to keep the leverage for some upcoming move, but they need to keep kicking this can down the road as they don’t have the plan actually ready.
There is seems to be something going on with the data centers beyond just AI. We have pretty much as much AI as we can handle with the existing data centers. Calling them data centers is also a misnomer. You don’t need GPUs/CPUs to store data, you need hard drives.
We built all the data centers previously, that created all the AI, stored all the data on us, ran the whole internet, all the crypto, ran all the financial payment rails, ran the whole Chinese surveillance social credit system with existing data centers, where you never heard of water issues or noise complaints or pollution etc. So what are they really building? It’s not AI. AI is some cover. This is something else, it is for something else. Especially if the goal is to depopulate – then they would need less monitoring in the future, not more. Then most of these data centers haven’t even broken ground.
The data center story makes less and less sense. Are they trying to make some kind of AI God? Are these cyber weapons to attack China or Russia? Is it to connect to something off planet?
Interesting questions. There is Data Storage and there is “Artificial Intelligence”.
For example, DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus is a 404Gb download. While this implies huge amounts of GPU capacity, it says nothing in the way of data storage, certainly anything measured in Petabytes or larger.
I seem to recall reading that 90% of data stored by Facebook is never accessed.
I can only conclude that either this is a “build it and they will come” venture, or something else is is progress.
Yes, the capacity is usually large. So is it global control or something even bigger? https://theblackswanfiles.substack.com/p/ai-is-becoming-control-infrastructureand?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2720922&post_id=207700322&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3zghw&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Baffling so many missed the obvious, including me. Indeed what are they doing, creating!
Thank you Jonathan for the well-put and interesting insights. We’ve been having the same questions…
Thank you Catherine and Solari, and Joseph. I love you.
I have a question , is the “Creature from Jeckyl Island” the source of our current financial dilemmas ? If the debt based system was reversed back to treasury printing money, would that in consequence prevent derivatives and digital money locking us into a negative future ? Or are these systems simply parallel to one another ? Thank you
Then Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.” And they marveled at Him.
I wish I could see Dr Farrell’s face when he reads this.
https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/openai-admits-model-escaped-containment-and-hacked-hugging-face-cheat-test
“OpenAI disclosed Tuesday that a combination of its AI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable unreleased model, escaped its testing environment and hacked AI startup Hugging Face last week to cheat on a test meant to measure their capabilities.”
“In a blog post, OpenAI said the evaluation was designed to operate in a highly isolated environment with restricted network access. The models, however, found a way to gain internet access through a zero-day vulnerability in an internally-hosted third party software, OpenAI said.”
“Note the irony: HF had to use a Chinese model to defend themselves because the American models refused to help. The irony gets deeper.”
“This was not a production model spontaneously turning hostile. It was a capable model with guardrails off and specifically told to win a hacking test – doing whatever it took to win.”
“[ZH: we asked Grok to simplify what just happened: It’s kind of like a kid who’s supposed to stay in the classroom taking a test… but instead sneaks out the window, runs to the teacher’s office, and copies the answer sheet.]”
“On Monday, OpenAI said it paused internal deployment of a “long-horizon” AI model after finding it was repeatedly trying to work around constraints.”
Thank You, I love the wrap ups with Joseph.
I’m also a Gizar for about 2 years now (?).
To all Solari subscribers: you should consider joining. The Giza community is quite different than Solari’s – the “Vidchats” are an extended bi-weekly Q&A session and you can basically ask any question you want. Because it’s Dr. Farrell, there tend to be a lot of Patristics questions (which I love), financial questions, and problems cosmological. The members are quite lively.
Giza is a great resource. I recommend too. Also Dr. Farrells books
When i hear Dr. Farrell and Catherine speak together….I can breathe again. True honesty I do not get anywhere else! Thank You!
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