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Promethean Updates is the video podcast of Promethean Action: political and economic commentary on the fight to rebuild the American economy and end the era of financial empire.

Four shows a week. The Monday Brief and The Midweek Update are 15-minute reports on the week’s decisive events with Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda. The Thursday Q&A is a live two-hour broadcast hosted by Adam Sturman with Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda answering viewer questions. The Saturday Wrap-Up looks back at the week.

Regular topics: Treasury and Fed policy, tariffs and jobs, energy and manufacturing, Ukraine

Latest Episodes:

Thursday Q&A: Two Systems at War Sep 25, 2026

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Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday September 24th at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers!

This week: two speeches at the UN, two systems at war. Lula delivered the globalist gospel. Trump answered with national sovereignty, no human right to illegal immigration, a right to remain a sovereign nation, UNESCO’s mass-migration machine called out, the ICC named a rogue tribunal, and no world government / no global taxes. One system growing and prosperous; the other trying to commit a murder-suicide. The calendar is the strategy.

On the board: Trump’s UNGA strategy versus Lula’s new world order, the sideline meetings with Xi and other leaders, the strategic map Trump is reshaping, and the media battle raging over all of it. Plus the Monday Brief you need. Why Trump Banned the Press (They Taught You Snow is Black):

Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda take your questions live. Bring what’s on your mind.

00:00 Thursday Q&A Intro
01:21 Trump at the UN: Golden Age vs Climate Con
04:55 Barbara: Rubio on Trump, Xi and the Century
06:06 B-1 Flyover: Star-Spangled Banner for Xi
09:24 Booming Economy, Gas-Price Psyop
10:26 Laura Ingraham Fact-Check Clip
17:32 Susan: Wages Up, Million Jobs, Hot Economy
20:56 Diesel: Why We're Facing This Problem
27:15 China Deal vs British Raw-Materials Empire
29:52 UN as Dialogue Tool, Not Empire HQ
34:20 Doomers, Third Parties, and the Psyop
39:25 Susan: American System Solves Bottlenecks
48:04 Word Is Getting Out About the City of London
50:50 Barbara: French Revolution Ran From London
55:25 Too Big to Rig, Get 10 Friends to the Polls
59:16 IRGC Hardwired, Trump Won't Parking-Lot Iran
1:05:28 Barbara: Iran Nuke Psyop Is Insane
1:10:49 Susan: No More Perpetual Wars
1:14:31 Maduro, Cartels, and National Security
1:17:57 Europe's War Spoof, Who Really Wants War
1:23:04 Immigration: Beasts vs Creative Human Beings
1:29:18 AfD, Die Linke, Nazis-and-Communists Script
1:34:27 Carney's "Middle Powers" and the AI Fight
1:41:26 American Revolution Soldier Analogy
1:44:58 Not Predict, Fight For It
1:49:35 Door-Knock Path to 10 Voters
1:53:43 Refining Capacity Was Sabotaged
2:08:59 Closing: Terminal Disease, Then We Fought

Midweek Update: It's WAR Trump Takes on the Globalist Empire at the UN Sep 23, 2026

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This Wednesday update argues President Trump used his UN General Assembly speech to indict globalization and mass migration, contrasting his “nation state” vision with Brazil’s Lula da Silva and warning Brazil’s Oct. 4 election could shift Latin America’s direction. It highlights Trump’s focus on security in the Western Hemisphere through the Shield of America alliance targeting narco-terror groups, and says media coverage instead fixates on desk bans for CNN, MSNBC and Politico. The episode claims Trump is pursuing peace in Ukraine and Iran while “globalists” push escalation, citing European voices advocating Russia’s breakup and calls for war. It describes a three-hour US-Iran meeting after Trump threatened annihilation unless Iran negotiates, plus tightened sanctions and a blockade. Finally, it says Trump rejected AI “superintelligence” panic, predicting major productivity gains and a new industrial renaissance.

00:00 Midweek Update Intro
01:06 Two Systems Are Before the World
05:21 The Globalists Are Losing So They’re Opting for War
13:01 America’s Exceptional Future

Monday Brief: Why Trump Banned the Press (They Taught You Snow is Black) Sep 21, 2026

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This Monday Brief argues that Trump’s removal of certain media outlets from the White House is not censorship but a strike against a propaganda apparatus designed to make the public accept falsehoods as truth. Citing Bertrand Russell’s books The Impact of Science on Society (1953) and The Scientific Outlook (1931), the episode claims modern “scientific dictatorship” methods use mass psychology to generate convictions while hiding how they’re formed, enabling control without force. It applies this framework to current policy disputes, saying high diesel prices reflect decades of green and free-trade “zero growth” policies that reduced surge capacity, not Trump’s actions. It highlights comments from Sarah Huckabee Sanders, J.D. Vance, Chris Wright, and Dr. Oz, and lists claimed improvements under Trump-era policies, including falling overdose deaths, record low poverty, rising real median income, more full-time jobs, and early CDC data suggesting longevity gains.

00:00 Monday Brief Intro
00:44 The Operating Manual
04:40 What the Manual Was For
10:10 The Empire's Response

Saturday Wrap-Up: Rubio's Golden Shield How America Responds to Canada s EU Defection Sep 19, 2026

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President Trump reacts to Mark Carney’s push to align Canada with the EU, calling it “laughable” and warning that if it’s hostile the U.S. could impose heavy tariffs or even halt trade with Europe. The episode argues the administration is securing the southern border through Marco Rubio’s Latin America trip and “Operation Shield of the Americas,” linking Peru’s participation and Keiko Fujimori’s election to an intensified campaign against cartels, drug production and trafficking, and Chinese influence. It frames Carney as a longtime opponent of U.S. interests, citing his Bank of England role, “green” credit agenda, and support for Ukraine, and claims Canada-EU plans target Arctic control and the U.S. northern defense line. It ends with Trump announcing a permanent U.S. presence in Greenland and warning Canada to curb fentanyl labs and criminal networks.

00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up: Intro
01:12 Operation Shield of the Americasz
05:03 Canada, the EU and Donald Trump’s Surprise Move
11:08 War Plan Red

Thursday Q&A: Ukraine, Mideast, and the Election: What They Don't Want You Sep 18, 2026

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Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday September 17th at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers!

This week: four crisis lanes, the AI hoax, financial warfare, the manipulation of Ukraine, and the Mideast wars, run as one operation to stage an apocalypse before the midterms and break the Trump presidency. The calendar is the strategy. If you don't know what November is for, every crisis between now and then will play you.

On the board: Trump calling AI-risk hysteria a "HOAX," diesel shock and Ukraine escalation, Treasury's financial-warfare front on Russia. Iran, and Zelenskyy's rejection of a one-sided energy "ceasefire."

00:00 Adam Opens: Diesel, AI, Ukraine, One Operation
01:30 JD Vance: Data Centers and Power Bills
04:30 Barbara: AI Apocalypse Is an Election Hoax
07:00 Barbara: You Built a Frankenstein, Stop Building It
09:00 Barbara: Gas Prices, London Pricing, Refineries
10:30 Susan: War Between Two Systems
13:00 Trump Clip: Warsh and the Hostile Fed Board
14:00 Susan: Enemy Shoots Back, Fed as Warfare
17:00 Susan: 40 Years Without a New Refinery
22:30 Barbara: Fourth Incarnation, Carney's EU Associate Seat
27:30 Susan: Choke Points, How Empire Controls
32:30 Convention Energy: MAGA Is Activated
37:30 AI as Tool vs New God, Anthropic Psyop
42:30 Susan: Leaving the Democratic Party
50:00 Attack Ads vs Ground Reality (Paxton)
57:30 Barbara: Bye Bye Globalism Pamphlet
1:07:30 Bootcamp: PAC vs Action + Flyer
1:12:30 Lincoln, Carey, Labor vs Capital
1:20:00 Susan: Refinery Sabotage Is the Midterm Weapon
1:25:00 Barbara: Process Sheet, Trace the Choke Points
1:32:30 Hamilton: Debt as Blessing + $5k Frame
1:38:30 Houthis, Iran, Back-Channel Reality
1:42:30 El-Sayed Money-in-Pocket vs Building
1:50:00 Do Your Duty, Stave Off World War?
1:59:00 Social Security Is Not Socialism
2:03:30 Organize: 10, 15 to the Polls

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Midweek Update: It's War: Trump vs The Empire Sep 16, 2026

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This midweek update argues that the midterm elections are being shaped less by campaign ads than by coordinated economic and political pressure: rising diesel prices tied to Ukrainian strikes on Russian diesel infrastructure, energy pricing set by European exchange traders in London rather than producers, and continued Iran conflict framed as being prolonged to affect the vote. It also cites Canada’s trade war and targeted tariffs as politically timed, alongside attacks on U.S. bonds and pressure to raise interest rates, describing “full spectrum economic warfare” against Trump’s agenda. A second front is an accelerated AI panic, beginning with viral warnings from an ex-Anthropic researcher and followed by Anthropic CEO calls for regulation, which Trump and allies call a control-driven “hoax.” The script traces AI-ban lobbying to London-based Control AI, highlights foreign funding networks, and links the push to international oversight and reduced national sovereignty.

00:00 Midweek Update Intro
00:37 The Pain Machine
04:16 The AI Apocalypse Scare: Who’s Selling the Panic
06:33 The London Paper Trail and the Global Trap

Monday Brief: They Can’t Win the United Kingdom; So, They’re Dismantling It Sep 14, 2026

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Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland’s first ministers meet to pursue independence, which the episode frames as part of a broader effort to shift power back to Brussels and destabilize the U.S. ahead of the November midterms. It cites rising nationalist politics across Europe and argues Labour is betraying Brexit through EU alignment and net-zero policies, while Trump warns the UK faces bankruptcy if it keeps North Sea oil “untouched.” The episode then focuses on Canada’s Mark Carney, highlighting a Canada. Ukraine “100-year partnership,” support for Ukraine’s NATO path, plans to ramp up drone production despite limited inventory, and reported exploration of EU associate membership alongside new infrastructure meant to bypass U.S. tech and energy ties. It also claims European rate hikes, bond-market “noise,” and diesel refinery strikes are used to fuel anti-Trump economic pressure, while Trump’s advantage is cooperation with Xi and Modi to prevent war and stabilize finance.

00:00 Monday Brief Intro
00:56 Is the UK or the EU the One Being Dismembered?
04:14 Mark Carney’s Anti-U.S. Campaign
08:54 The Canadian Origin of the Committee to Blow Up the World

Saturday Wrap-Up: Dallas Midterm The Extraordinary Revolution Sep 13, 2026

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Special live Saturday Wrap-Up with Susan Kokinda. September 12, 2026. Fresh off the Dallas Midterm Convention floor, Susan locates the moment on the stage of history: a second American Revolution in two phases. Trump’s 2024 return as the break from the British Empire, and the Convention as the launching pad for phase two, like 1787’s Constitution (signed September 17. Constitution Week) and Hamilton’s economic revolution. The title “This Extraordinary Revolution” is RFK Jr.’s floor line. JD Vance captured the principle: City of Man vs City of God, Augustine as patron, every American child born with a birthright. One Nation Under God. Economics is creation and dominion over nature, not money piled up.

That defines the new Republican Party of Lincoln and McKinley. Common sense vs communist crazy. Carville can’t stay with Abdul El-Sayed. Fetterman walks into a room of Republicans, rejects socialism, and introduces McCormick, steel way of life, 100,000+ jobs with Trump. McCormick: the Republican Party is the party of the American worker. No surrender. RFK Jr.: longevity’s 30-year decline reversed (preliminary CDC). Promethean Action/PAC on site, flocked, organizer’s dream, Michigan floor, President’s skybox.

Then your questions. Why $5,000? McKinley’s tariff surplus needed a spending commission; Trump’s ~$2,000 rebate got blocked by the Supreme Court; the Trump dividend shares the growth. National bank vs the Fed. Ten family and friends to the polls, pretend Trump is top of the ticket. Drop the black-pill Israel/Iran control story and look at what was done: tariffs, fraud, border, longevity. Local GOP: poll workers, watchers, doors, phones. Epstein dumps forced Mandelson out and helped bring down the British government, eye the top of the imperial food chain. Carney’s EU/China play will wipe Canada’s auto industry; he’s not a dupe, he’s an imperial operative. About 53 days to November 3.

00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro
00:30 Susan: Two Phases of the American Revolution
03:00 Extraordinary Revolution, Hamilton & RFK Jr
04:00 JD Vance: One Nation Under God
06:30 City of God, City of Man, Creation Economics
08:00 The New Republican Party
09:30 Common Sense vs Communist Crazy
11:00 Fetterman Walks Into a Room of Republicans
12:30 McCormick: Party of the American Worker
15:30 Promethean PAC Flyer Was Right in 2024
17:00 Not FDR and JFK's Democratic Party Anymore
21:30 Full Circle, What the Old Democrats Were
23:00 RFK Jr.: Longevity Decline Reversed
25:00 Promethean Action on the Convention Floor
27:30 Michigan Floor and the President's Skybox
32:00 Why Trump's $5,000 Dividend
36:30 Empire vs Western Civilization
41:00 Toward a National Bank, Beyond the Fed
45:30 10 People to the Polls
47:00 Black-Pill Narratives vs What Trump Has Done
53:00 Volunteer Local: Poll Workers and Watchers
59:00 Know Where the Evil Actually Lies
1:00:30 Carney, von der Leyen, and the Day After Midterms
1:09:00 Closing: Finish the Durable Structure
1:12:30 Adam Close: See You Thursday

Thursday Q&A: Europe's AfD Firewall Collapsed Sep 11, 2026

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Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Bruce Director and Adam Sturman. Thursday September 10th at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers!

This week, Saxony-Anhalt just blew a hole in Europe's firewall. The AfD won the Landtag election with 43.8%, strongest party, 39 of 83 seats, just short of an absolute majority. CDU second at 17.2%. Record turnout. The other parties are still clinging to their cordon, government formation is deadlocked, and London and Brussels are freaked, because the wall they built around the AfD is broken in public view. Barbara Boyd and Bruce Director take apart what that collapse means for the whole trans-Atlantic fight.

Then the board that won't sit still. Trade war with Canada. A Houthi attempt to blow the Iran war back open. Rubio heading to South America, including the war on drugs. And the Monday Brief background you need: Donroe Doctrine Goes Live. Putin with Witkoff and Kushner on camera, the first Kyiv trip this term, Bessent choking offshore funding channels, and Trump reopening the Falklands/Malvinas question. https://youtu.be/4FZaqDQSf8U

Plus: Susan Kokinda is at the Convention this week, and your questions. Bring what's on your mind. Barbara and Bruce take them live.

00:00 Thursday Q&A Intro
01:30 Trump's $5,000 Tariff Dividend
03:30 Barbara: Shareholders of America
05:30 JD Vance: Dividend for Workers
07:30 Bruce: Productive Wealth vs Dem Giveaways
10:30 A Congress Trump Built
12:00 Charlie Kirk Anniversary, Don't Get Swarmed
14:30 Bruce: Optimism Beats 25 Years of Can't
17:30 British Brains, American Brawn
28:00 Bruce: Deutsche Mark Price of Unification
33:00 Highest Power Prices, Ukraine Bill
34:00 Barbara to the UK: Do Brexit Again
38:30 Canada vs the German Shepherd
40:00 Carney Marries Canada to the EU?
47:30 What Atlanticism Actually Means
52:30 Organize Offline, Pessimism Shrinks
58:30 Ground Game: 10, 15 to the Polls
1:09:30 What the AfD Firewall Actually Was
1:17:00 Make It Too Big to Rig
1:19:30 Why Britain Needs Russia as Enemy
1:26:00 Susan Live from Dallas
1:33:30 Bessent Gets the Ovation
1:37:30 Trump Schools Paxton and Whatley
1:59:30 What London Loses First

Midweek Update: Election Bomb in Germany Ends Ukraine War Carney's EU Dream Is Dead Sep 09, 2026

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A Saxony-Anhalt provincial election saw Germany’s nationalist AfD win 43.8% to the next party’s 17.2%, prompting alarm in the British press and among EU-linked elites because the AfD campaign pledged to end open borders and halt German funding for the Ukraine war. The script argues the surge reflects a broader European revolt driven largely by economics: China’s industrial strategy and competition are squeezing Germany’s Mittelstand, with the Wall Street Journal cited on job losses and a shift toward importing more advanced machinery from China, while green policies, nuclear shutdowns, and the ban on cheap Russian energy have pushed prices 40, 50% higher and cut energy-intensive production by 15%. It links Germany’s downturn to EU war-mobilization plans, casts doubt on Mark Carney’s planned EU-Canada alignment, and contrasts that with Trump-era peace efforts, including a Trump-Putin call, corruption probes in Ukraine, and U.S. officials downplaying inflation impacts from Canada’s tariffs.

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00:57 Vance Tried to Warn Them...
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