2nd Quarter 2026 Wrap Up: News Trends & Stories, Part II with Dr. Joseph P. Farrell
Catherine Austin Fitts and Dr. Joseph Farrell continue to discuss the top stories of the 2nd Quarter 2026, along with Unanswered Questions and Inspiration.

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Catherine Austin Fitts and Dr. Joseph Farrell continue to discuss the top stories of the 2nd Quarter 2026, along with Unanswered Questions and Inspiration.
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.
A central question is whether legislative guardrails should depend on assumptions about intent. Even if programmable money is developed with beneficial goals, should reasonable safeguards be established before it becomes part of our financial infrastructure? What protections would be prudent regardless of whether the ultimate outcome is positive or negative?
What does “building the culture” mean in practice? Dr. Joseph P. Farrell and Elze van Hamelen focus on what can be learned from Poland’s development (while a satellite state of the Soviet Union) of a successful, nonviolent resistance movement that built on Poland’s rich cultural and historical traditions.
Ricardo interviews returning guest Nathan Siles about the biophysics of sleep and why modern indoor, artificial environments have disrupted it, increasing risks like cardiovascular disease, cancer, and neurodegeneration when sleep is too short or too long.
The first three episodes of John Titus’s War for Bankocracy series, which examines the hidden power of central banks, aired in February and March 2025. While patiently awaiting the next installment, we chose the three initial episodes—titled “Warning Shot,” “A Government unto Itself,” and “The Lie of Fed Independence”—as our Documentary of the Year for our 2024 Annual Wrap Up on Protecting Your Assets.
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Carlos Alegría and Ed Dowd of Phinance Technologies highlight many invaluable data-driven insights on the inflation we are currently experiencing.
As we navigate the acceleration in technological innovation, data scientist and software developer Travis Oliphant is someone who can help us understand and manage the growing presence of AI in our lives.
Efforts are underway to compromise the governance of 401(k)s in a manner that could lead to inappropriate access by alternative investments, including crypto, private equity, and hedge funds. Tiffany Cianci and Catherine discuss what is happening and consider some of the other meltdowns in our financial regulation and standards.
Returning guest Keidi Obi Awadu discusses food as medicine and also looks at how game theory can help us understand current events.
Susan Luschas returns with an update on her latest cash-related efforts in South Dakota. At a time when Mr. Global is trying to build a freedom-throttling “three-lock” transaction system that allows surveillance and interference by outside parties, she shows that transacting with physical cash is not only a powerful and satisfying form of pushback, but one that is fun!
Elze van Hamelen’s new blockbuster report, Mr. Global in Your Street: Local Politics and Money Are the Last Line of Defense, will help you recognize how UN-inspired policies are playing out in your locality and to provide you with a practical and strategic manual for pushback.
Dr. Jon Padfield offers a wealth of intelligence on how you can protect your privacy in the face of ever-encroaching technology.
Fourth-generation cattle farmer Will Harris tells the story of White Oak Pastures, a highly successful, vertically integrated regenerative farm that produces and sells meat direct to consumers and through retail stores around the country.
If technocracy is the operating system, the dialectical engine is what keeps the participants too busy fighting each other to look at the architecture. Courtenay Turner refuses to stay inside the daily dialectic, instead tracking the institutions, founders, methodologies, and funding lineages that explain how we arrived where we are.
New mothers are propagandized before they ever become pregnant. In Jessica Bell’s view, the antidote is not to do battle with the old system but to patiently construct a new one—guided by mentors and peers who have already walked the path.
Alastair Crooke’s perceptive Middle East and global geopolitical analysis diverges sharply from the boilerplate Anglo-American policy consensus. The word Crooke chooses to describe the road ahead is “catharsis.” His insights inspire our pathway forward.
“A Legislator’s Guide to Programmable Money, Part Three” serves as a follow-up to the in-depth discussion of programmable money in the February and March briefings.
Living plasma reminds us of something that ancient civilizations always maintained: that the charge of true power resides in the stars.
The 1st Quarter Equity Overview looks at what has happened so far this year in the global markets and reviews variables with the potential to affect the markets in the coming months.
Craig Tindale understands how central banking policies have hollowed out Western economies and how decades of outsourcing limit our ability to preserve and rebuild our industrial base, defend ourselves, and thrive as a civilization.
In Part II of News Trends & Stories for the 1st Quarter 2026 Wrap Up, we discuss Story #7 as well as Unanswered Questions and Inspiration.
With many fast-moving developments currently rocking the world, both domestically and in the Middle East, News Trends & Stories, Part I offers an opportunity to refine your map of current events.
“A Legislator’s Guide to Programmable Money, Part Two” took place on March 26, 2026, and served as a follow-up to the in-depth discussion of the Solari model legislation, The Consumer Payment Rights and Transparency Act.
Recent events in Washington, on Wall Street, and in Iran raise many questions—about energy prices, supply chains, and unipolar bullying, among other things—but they also highlight central bankers’ accelerating efforts to build an airtight financial control system. Gold remains an important part of the story.
Catherine Austin Fitts returns to the Tucker Carlson Show for a deep dive into the digital control grid — from programmable money and stablecoins to the black budget, FASB 56, and the Epstein network. A powerful conversation that ends with faith, culture, and what each of us can build.
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The weaponization of immigration, deportation, and mass migration is not new—but the escalating push for plunder, aided by high-tech surveillance tools, is helping it reach a fever pitch.
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This week, Mark Goodwin returns with the third episode of his four-part Digital Money, Digital Control series of solo video presentations. Mark is the author of The Bitcoin-Dollar: An Economic Monomyth and a regular contributor to Unlimited Hangout.
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