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Banquet of Consequences

September 10, 2026

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Money & Markets

Banquet of Consequences

John Titus and Catherine Austin Fitts frame the episode around a “banquet of consequences,” arguing that multi-decade policy choices and long-term planning by financial and political elites are now impacting war, markets, and daily life. They criticize JD Vance and President Trump’s shifting rhetoric on Iran, discuss oil above $100 and low market volatility, and warn that stock gains and rising 401(k) millionaires mask insecure retirements and concentration risk tied to an AI-driven data center boom that is eclipsing manufacturing. They cover Trump pressuring the Fed on rates and trade, a proposed Union Pacific–Norfolk Southern merger and automation, foreign central banks moving gold, Leon Black resisting an Epstein subpoena, Germany’s AfD surge, Pompeo’s comments on Gaza, Ukraine corruption, and concerns about AI reliability, pesticides, record digitization, and resilience, ending with Solari items on 9/11 weapons, Boeing, AI disclosure, and the CLEAR Act.


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45 Comments

  1. Does the US have a strategy with its Iran war? A question difficult to answer. Ryan Perkins came up with what he calls the Petro-Yuan hypothesis. Very summerized, trying to push the average Chinese back into poverty thru triggering an industrial resession in China by taking out medium and small range manufacturing.

    By hook or crook “you will be happy and own nothing”, the song of the western bully class! Extra bonus, lots of dead in the unfolding of this strategy together with extraction of wealth.

    Anyhow, interesting interview and hypothesis.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx5Dfo6za_A

        1. You are ahead of me. I am trying to guess how much electricity is being piped up from the underground bases and what they are using to make it.

          1. Electricity is like Credit despite the disparity in appearance. And money has to flow in parallel with the circuitry. Apart from some random banditry, anything above, for example, 100Kw has to be carefully managed, and especially when faults occur.
            Also, underground, what about the waste heat? How efficient is the conversion to electricity if the process uses steam in some form?

  2. If this is covid 2.0… it shows what a failure covid 1.0 was… trying to take over in front of everyone…

    There back to being sneaky about it…

    You may say their smart Catherine… their hubris and arrogance makes them some of the dumbest people on the planet… the absolute dumbest humanity has to offer…

    Wisdom does count (in the long term)

    Their just waking the smart people up that following them is suicide

    May they have the same success with 2.0 they had with 1.0… god bless them to try.

    A circular lesson in stupidity (where they are their own worst enemies)… but whatever.

    Evil gets what evil creates… it’s not that complicated…

    1. Jeremy:

      If you are referring to the Zionist group, I agree. If you are referring to the people from the central banks and intelligence agencies at the very top who I dealt with long ago, they were smart. They had their hubris in check. That is where my training came from. They managed evil. Most were not evil. Bush was the crossover – he channeled the evil in.

    2. Which is why I harp and harp on… build…

      Visualize, pray, meditate, self hypnotize…use your god given creative ability… (it’s free) you can use it all day (everyday)

      Something in the bible about building on sand, psychopaths build on sand… their arrogance allows for that…

      What is built in alignment with light… endures for a very, very long time (solid foundations)

      There is nothing they can do about you building…

      =) j

      1. The smart person understands you can interact with the “divine” “the one” the quantum unified field”

        Whatever you call it… the stupid understand you use 100 plus year old out dated physical control mechanisms

        The planet is out growing all that… hence their panic…

        Interact with the field. It loves you… you are made of it. It is you.

        It listens to what you want… (mystery school shit) be free and create

        =) j

        1. I love your brand of input into these conversations, Jeremy. To me, the simple truth is that there are no political solutions to what Humanity is facing since it is essentially a spiritual problem.

  3. My dad worked on the railroad for 50 years as a conductor for CSX Transportation. Being a railroad worker is a way of life, an identity, much more so than many other careers. So I don’t think this railroad merger will go through without a fight.

    Further, railroad unions are no joke. 20 years ago, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers merged with the teamsters. Neither of those organizations would hesitate to stand up for their members, no matter what it costs and how ugly it gets.

    1. Really appreciate the insight. I agree – it is an indentity. When Burlington Northern designated Memphis for reinvestment after Buffet bought it, I had a young cousin go to work for them. I was shocked at the pay and benefits for someone just coming out of school They were making a major investment in him.

  4. Regarding the AI models escaping, I’m aligned with John on this. We conveniently hear about these events, which boosts interest that firm’s AI model and stokes the stock price – all the motive they’d need to permit this to occur. I suspect this is likely the case.

    If the escapes are truly unintentional, some mix of incompetence and hubris is preventing them from engineering completely air-gapped environments to contain these AI models. Typical air gapping involves totally segregated networks, including separate circuits and firewalls, but given the risk, they should be building isolated, internal grids with Faraday cages to properly contain the beasts. I expect any serious military/state-level projects are using such methods.

    If one of these models were to evolve beyond an LLM and become a genuine AI – which I don’t believe has happened – we’d likely not know about it for some time, and certainly not learn of it in a press release.

    If a genuine AI escaped onto the WWW, Pandora’s Box would open, and I can only imagine the consequences.

  5. “LBMA considers that the appearance of Bars is important, firstly because of the technical reasons described below and secondly because the maintenance of high standards of surface finish indicates a good level of quality control in general. A poor Bar appearance might, on the other hand, suggest that standards of refining or assaying are less than desired. [snip]

    “Fineness: the minimum acceptable fineness is 995.0 parts per thousand fine gold.”

    https://www.lbma.org.uk/publications/good-delivery-rules/technical-specifications

    Gold bars made from melted gold coins are not 99.5% pure. Gold that pure is too soft for circulation coins. Pre-1933 Gold Eagles are typically composed of 90% gold and 10% copper, making them more durable for circulation purposes.

  6. I know you guys are talking about long term planning. The gold in New York may be about pulling out of NYC in general. They’re moving the market to Texas, I assume due to the independent electric grid and it would also put them geographically closer to the center of N and S America. They have a mayor in NYC pushing to trash it. I bet the central bank hub will move out of NYC eventually and be centered in Texas. I don’t know the bank cities by heart but I bet NYC is part of the issue. Not just all the verification that Catherine was talking about. Just my own guess.

    1. Good point. They are moving the markets to Texas. However, they are trashing Texas to – the digital gold systems augur poorly for the Texas Gold Depository.

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