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Three Ring Circuit Breaker

June 18, 2026

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Three Ring Circuit Breaker

John Titus and Catherine Austin Fitts argue the Iran conflict can be “lost” on three circuit breakers—military, energy, or financial—and contend the U.S. effectively lost due to inflation, energy constraints, and financial pressure rather than battlefield outcomes. They discuss an unreleased U.S.–Iran memorandum of understanding that reportedly requires halting Israel’s bombing of Lebanon, reopening the Strait of Hormuz, ending blockades, and major money flows to Iran, alongside unfreezing funds. They cite precision Iranian strikes on U.S. Gulf bases and expensive air-defense systems, and report the UAE paid Iran billions to stop attacks, raising questions about U.S. basing. They connect war-driven energy shortages to dangerously low commercial oil stocks at Cushing, rising producer prices, and looming rate pressures, then pivot to domestic control-grid issues including internet censorship bills, AI/crypto lobbying, data-center impacts, and stablecoin rulemaking.

00:00 Welcome and Setup
00:36 Three Circuit Breakers
01:22 Who Lost and Why
02:55 Congress and Central Banks
03:58 Cabinet Competence Critique
05:50 US Iran Memorandum
09:40 Deal Terms Breakdown
12:15 Lead Up and Trump Claims
17:22 Iran Precision Strikes
20:40 UAE Pays to Exit
24:21 Gulf Finance and Security
28:06 Dubai Financial Hub
32:49 US Energy Achilles Heel
38:26 Rates Inflation Fallout
40:50 Control Grid and AI
43:35 Deeper Model Failure
45:04 US Brand Rejection
46:25 Inflation Shock Headlines
47:57 Shrinkflation and Quality Drop
48:27 Dynamic Pricing and Shadow Work
54:50 Iran War Defeat Questions
57:16 B-52 Crash and Media Shift
59:44 Internet Censorship Push
01:05:08 China Auto Export Surge
01:11:50 Biometric Banking Weirdness
01:13:31 SpaceX IPO Index Game
01:17:33 Israeli Election Meddling
01:19:24 Ukraine Biolabs Confirmed
01:22:59 Biowarfare and Silk Road
01:23:57 Tulsi Gabbard Motives
01:25:29 Wyoming Data Center Boom
01:29:11 Crypto Mine Water Secrecy
01:34:54 Data Centers Tax Breaks
01:36:55 Tech Lobbying Influence
01:38:39 Pushback Albania and Ukraine
01:42:06 Markets and Control Grid
01:44:34 Turtling for Cash Update
01:47:13 Programmable Money Guardrails
01:50:43 Grand Tour and Organizing
01:55:53 Defeating the Nothing
01:58:48 Wrap Up and July Plans


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56 Comments

  1. Data centers bigger than Manhattan? Sounds more like military barracks, training and deployment facilities and all connected to an underground infrastructure. They will also process some data.

  2. Great Information about data centers and just in time before we have public comment in our county. I plan to share the experiences that you report on for Cheyenne, Corpus Cristi, non-transparency (lies) to gullible public officials, and more. Thank you!!!

  3. I think Gabbard releasing the bio lab information has to do with the dying support for the Republican and Democrat political parties. The powers that be must understand there’s an organic coalition growing of people who have left both parties and they need to hijack the movement. I think they are setting up Gabbard to be a leader in the new movement. While I’m happy she released the truth, doing it when she did set her up as a hero while there were no consequences for the perpetrators. Fauci already has a presidential pardon, right? Gabbard is getting out of the administration because if they plan on championing her as a leader of a new movement, she must distance herself from Trump.

    What still shocks me is the lack of response from the American people. In the past year, we’ve learned through “official” channels that a satanic pedophile class controls much of our government, that our government has been creating bioweapons and using them…where is the anger from the general American public? I hear no mention of these topics in my community of retirees, let alone any anger or disgust. They all cowered at home during covid, didn’t see their grandchildren for years, missed weddings, birthdays, funerals, etc. all because of a “pandemic” that our own government created and likely released. Think of all of that trauma and it’s like it doesn’t matter or nobody cares. The mind control is real. As long as their stock portfolios and real estate values remain high, I guess they don’t care. I’ve never seen anything like it.

    1. If you break it down, it is complex. You have a portion that is deeply driven by the neurowarfare. You have a portion that are just trying to stay above water between financial challenges and time inflation, including from the great poisoning. The great poisoning is a major factor, because many people report SSRIs and other addictions reduce sensitivity to these issues. You have another portion that are making lots of money from stocks and real estate and just enjoy that and do not want to pop the bubble they are enjoying. Some see it clearly, but assume there is nothing they can do, so they pretend not to care or simply tread water until they can figure out what to do that is positive. Many see it as very dangerous to do something – they feel the covert operations but do not know how to navigate them. That is why it is so important to sequence actions in a manner that increase personal energy and success in the short run. We are being drained, and we need to steadily reverse that drain. That is what the Coming Clean process is all about.

    2. I just got to the segment about not worrying about the trance people. You’re right. Thank you!

  4. Dear Catherine and John,

    About the question how to shutdown “The Control Grid”
    Lets approached “The Control Grid” theory as a serious exercise in understanding the direction in which modern society may be evolving.

    Not because we already possess all the answers, but because some developments have become too significant to ignore.

    Around us, we can observe an increasing integration of technological systems, financial systems, governance structures, artificial intelligence, surveillance capabilities, information networks, and increasingly, the mechanisms through which human perception itself is shaped.

    Whether these developments emerge through deliberate design, economic incentives, institutional momentum, or some combination of all three remains open to investigation.

    The purpose of this exercise is therefore not to prove a theory, but to explore whether patterns become visible when these developments are viewed together rather than in isolation.

    Viewed through this lens, the Control Grid can be understood as a collection of interconnected systems that gather information, process it, generate predictions, and increasingly shape the environments within which human decisions are made.

    It is not a single institution, organization, technology, or command center. Rather, it emerges through the interaction of multiple layers that have developed over decades and continue to become more deeply integrated.

    At its foundation lies the physical infrastructure layer: data centers, fiber-optic networks, satellites, mobile communication systems, electrical grids, and cloud infrastructures upon which modern society increasingly depends. Without this foundation, the digital world simply could not exist.

    Built upon this foundation is the sensor layer, where information is continuously collected through cameras, smartphones, GPS systems, payment transactions, smart meters, internet traffic, social media activity, license plate recognition systems, and biometric technologies. These systems generate the raw material that fuels the rest of the grid: data.

    The identity layer connects this data to individuals through passports, identity cards, tax numbers, bank accounts, digital identities, and biometric identifiers. Once information becomes linked to a person, prediction and classification become significantly more powerful.

    The financial layer organizes economic activity through banks, payment networks, credit systems, tax structures, stock exchanges, and central banks. From a power perspective, this is one of the most influential layers because nearly every aspect of economic life ultimately passes through it.

    The information layer shapes perception itself. Through news media, social media platforms, search engines, recommendation systems, and advertising networks, information is not merely distributed. It is selected, prioritized, amplified, filtered, and framed.

    Increasingly, what people encounter is not reality itself, but reality as filtered through technological and institutional systems.

    From this perspective, one could ask whether we are witnessing the emergence of something unprecedented in human history: a globally interconnected environment capable of continuously influencing attention, perception, emotion, belief, and behavior.

    In earlier times, hypnosis required proximity, repetition, authority, and suggestion.

    Today, suggestion is delivered through screens, algorithms, notifications, media narratives, educational systems, advertising networks, and increasingly through artificial intelligence itself. This constitutes a form of global hypnosis.The possibility that large populations are being continuously conditioned at scales never before possible deserves serious examination.

    Above this sits the analysis and artificial intelligence layer. Here data is transformed into prediction through machine learning, risk assessment models, behavioral analysis, pattern recognition, and increasingly sophisticated forms of artificial intelligence. It is perhaps no coincidence that this layer has attracted unprecedented levels of investment in recent years, as prediction increasingly translates into economic, political, military, and strategic advantage.

    The governance layer consists of governments, courts, regulatory agencies, international institutions, and policymakers. Decisions made within these structures increasingly depend upon information generated by the layers beneath them.

    The cultural layer is often overlooked despite its enormous importance. Education, science, entertainment, language, and social norms all contribute to shaping what people perceive as reasonable, normal, or unquestionable. Thinkers such as Michel Foucault argued that power operates not only through institutions and laws, but also through the gradual normalization of particular ways of thinking.

    For me, however, the most important layer is the ninth layer: consciousness itself.

    This layer concerns how human beings create meaning, interpret information, form assumptions, construct beliefs, develop awareness, and ultimately understand reality.

    It is here that I believe meaningful change must begin.

    Many discussions about freedom, democracy, technology, and power focus almost exclusively on external systems. Yet if we fail to understand how our own perception operates, how our assumptions are formed, and how our information preferences shape our understanding of reality, then every discussion about control remains incomplete.

    A person who understands the mechanisms through which information becomes belief is considerably less vulnerable to manipulation, regardless of whether that influence originates from governments, corporations, media institutions, algorithms, or ideological movements.

    This raises a fundamental question: where does meaningful change actually begin?
    With understanding ourselves?

    The more I observe contemporary society, the more I see a world being placed upon increasingly sophisticated rails. Communication infrastructures transmit invisible signals around the globe. Algorithms shape attention. Systems predict movement, consumption, preferences, behavior, and risk. Administrative structures become increasingly complex while technological systems become increasingly capable of managing uncertainty.

    Viewed individually, many of these developments appear rational. Viewed collectively, however, they begin to resemble something else: a vast and increasingly sophisticated effort to reduce uncertainty itself. Is this one of the deepest drivers behind the expansion of the Control Grid?

    Human beings struggle with uncertainty. Institutions struggle with it even more. Technology now offers unprecedented tools for prediction, optimization, monitoring, and risk management.

    Yet an important question remains largely unasked: What happens when the desire to eliminate uncertainty becomes greater than the willingness to understand life itself?
    Life is not a machine. Biological systems do not function like spreadsheets. Consciousness does not unfold according to software logic. Human beings are not merely collections of measurable variables.Yet many of our systems increasingly behave as though they are. The danger is not technology itself. The danger lies in an incomplete understanding of what a human being actually is.

    Human beings are more than consumers, more than economic units, more than behavioral profiles, more than datasets, and more than digital identities. Any system that forgets this may achieve remarkable levels of efficiency while simultaneously losing sight of the very thing it claims to serve.

    The greatest weakness of any control system may ultimately be the limitations of its own worldview.The concerns surrounding the Control Grid extend far beyond surveillance, data collection, technological governance, or financial control. They also touch upon the physical, mental, social, and biological condition of human beings themselves.

    A population that is healthy, resilient, independent, critically minded, and deeply connected to family, community, nature, and its own capacity for reflection is fundamentally different from a population that is chronically stressed, distracted, dependent, socially fragmented, fearful, or disconnected from direct experience.

    The rise of chronic illness, increasing levels of stress and anxiety, declining attention spans, environmental degradation, social atomization, dependence upon digital systems, and the growing replacement of direct human experience by mediated experience all deserve careful examination within this broader context.

    At a certain point, the distinction between deliberate intent and systemic outcome becomes less important than the observable consequences themselves.What cannot easily be dismissed, however, is that the condition of human beings and the concentration of systemic power appear increasingly intertwined.

    A healthy, conscious, self-directed population is inherently more difficult to predict, influence, and manage than one burdened by chronic stress, dependency, distraction, declining health, or social fragmentation.

    If this observation contains even a measure of truth, then the future of freedom may depend not only on political reform or technological decentralization, but also on the restoration of human health, biological resilience, meaningful relationships, independent thought, and a deeper understanding of consciousness itself.

    This leads to another question, perhaps a more uncomfortable question.

    If the Control Grid contains problematic tendencies, can it truly be transformed into something healthier, or are some of its underlying assumptions themselves the source of the problem?

    Much of the discussion surrounding technological systems focuses on reform, regulation, decentralization, or better governance. Yet history suggests that not every system can simply be redirected once it reaches a certain level of complexity and integration.

    Some infrastructures outlive the intentions of their creators. Some systems continue to shape society long after the circumstances that gave rise to them have disappeared.

    This raises a difficult possibility. Because certain elements of the Control Grid are not merely tools, but architectures that gradually encourage specific forms of power, dependency, predictability, and control regardless of who operates them. If so, then it is no longer how to improve the system. But whether parts of that system should continue to exist at all.

    Like Pandora’s Box, certain technologies and infrastructures, once created, cannot easily be returned to their original state.

    If current trends continue, it becomes increasingly urgent that people begin to speak openly, about the accelerating obsession with prediction, management, surveillance, and increasingly militarized forms of control.

    The cultural and consciousness layers remain decisive.

    Many traditions throughout history have suggested that human existence cannot be reduced entirely to material success, economic power, political influence, or technological achievement.

    Whether expressed through concepts such as conscience, responsibility, moral consequence, spiritual development, karma, or the continuation of life beyond physical existence, these traditions point toward a common question: What are the consequences of our actions beyond immediate gain?

    History repeatedly demonstrates that civilizations can become extraordinarily powerful while simultaneously losing contact with wisdom. The uncomfortable possibility before us is that we may be witnessing such a process in real time.

    An infrastructure is being built that increasingly reaches into human consciousness, autonomy, health, information processing, culture, and even biological development, while fewer and fewer people seem willing to ask the most important question of all:

    Is this truly the direction in which we wish to evolve?

    Perhaps the Control Grid fails. Isn’t it more important whether humanity fully understands the consequences of what is being built? Because this system is built upon an incomplete understanding of what a human being is therefor only it will produce an incomplete future. And they are not willing to see that.

    And our future will not be decided by how much more power they can accumulate, but by whether enough people still possess the wisdom, humility, and courage to take responsibility — to enlarge their own consciousness, better foresee consequences, and use technology and an AI in service of truly human life instead of letting themselves be reduced by it.

  5. I still have no proof, but I really don’t ‘believe’ what I read or watch going on in the straight. So a lot of what was said here is based on information that is reaching us, but to me it is tongue in cheek…. is this really what is going on, or is it just a huge shell game?
    I know… I sound nuts.

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