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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

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Monday Brief: Donroe Doctrine Goes Live Sep 07, 2026

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The Kremlin released rare footage of a high-level meeting between Vladimir Putin and Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, followed by their first trip to Kyiv this term and a comparatively restrained response from Volodymyr Zelenskyy, signaling revived U.S. diplomacy on Ukraine. The script argues Putin views the American team as a more trusted broker than European leaders and notes a recent sequence of engagements, including CIA Director Ratcliffe’s public Moscow visit and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s G20 outreach to Russia’s finance minister. With Kirill Dmitriev present, Moscow described detailed discussions of major U.S.-Russia economic projects, alongside claims that Bessent is choking off offshore and banking channels funding Ukraine via Europe, the UK, and Canada. It then pivots to Argentina’s renewed Malvinas/Falklands push as Trump publicly and reportedly reconsiders automatic U.S. support for British sovereignty, recalling internal U.S. divisions during the 1982 war.

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00:00 Monday Brief Intro
00:49 The Re-Engagement is Real
04:35 The Weapon – Why Talks Are Back
07:22 The Falklands and the Monroe Doctrine’s Real Target

Saturday Wrap-Up: Bessent vs Wall Street Sep 05, 2026

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A blockbuster U.S. jobs report showing 162,000 jobs created is contrasted with Canada’s 40,000 job loss under Mark Carney, as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells Steve Bannon that Wall Street and major outlets like the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal stoke economic panic and spread “fake news,” citing a misframed story about Norway’s sovereign wealth fund shifting from Treasuries into higher-yield Fannie and Freddie securities. The episode frames today’s challenge as a “Red Queen economy,” arguing America must grow productivity fast enough to outrun debt, China’s advances, and infrastructure and skills obsolescence, while blaming Biden-era inflation and spending. It spotlights Trump administration workforce initiatives, including expanded training and Pell Grant use and the new Foundry School, an advanced manufacturing program with a Stanford curriculum and international PAX Silica partners. Finally, it covers Trump executive orders aiding ranchers’ beef processing and DOJ antitrust scrutiny of major meatpackers and retailers.

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00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro
00:30 The Red Queen Economy
06:00 Creating the Workers for the New Economy
09:24 Taking on the Meat Packing Cartel

Thursday Q&A: Bessent Strangles Iran, London’s Offshore Just Got Hit Sep 03, 2026

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Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday September 3rd at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers!

This week, CENTCOM began striking IRGC targets inside Iran at noon Eastern Tuesday, after attempted attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and on American service members. First exchange of fire in over a month, then this new wave. And Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just went with it: Operation Economic Outcast, the first direct hit on British offshore. London's Estanica Trading Ltd, designated as owner of the Gambia-flagged tanker TELA, alleged Iranian crude. French and Swiss firms named too. Barbara Boyd takes apart the two fronts, kinetic on the IRGC, financial on the City's oil machinery.

Then Susan Kokinda on the fight at home. The administration is pivoting hard to economic messaging: beef, prescriptions, energy, jobs. Dallas Midterm is coming fast, if you're going, we want to hear from you. JD Vance took on the progressive rage machine in Michigan. Trump met U.S. refiners on expanding capacity now.

Plus: G20 Asheville, Bessent's growth agenda versus Europe looting "lazy money", and your questions. Bring what's on your mind. Barbara and Susan take them live.

Midweek Update: Bessent: “Cut the snake’s head off”. But Who is the Real Target? Sep 02, 2026

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Susan Kokinda analyzes Scott Bessent’s remarks to Larry Kudlow about tracking IRGC assets, focusing on offshore hubs like the British Virgin Islands and the broader British-linked financial architecture behind shell companies, alongside Treasury’s campaign warning 60 entities to clean up, with Hong Kong a major target. She argues this financial offensive is part of a strategic realignment away from imperial “choke points,” echoed by Doug Burgum’s call to shift global energy focus toward the Western Hemisphere. In the Middle East, she highlights lifted U.S. sanctions on Syria, the formation of the Mecca Joint Defense Alliance (Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan), and Trump’s “Board of Peace,” under which Hamas has agreed to disarm. She also covers G20 tensions over inviting Russia’s finance minister, Bessent’s meeting with him, and Bessent’s claim of shared U.S.-China goals on Iran.

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00:00 The Midweek Update Intro

01:40 Whose Islands? The Money Machine

04:53 Who’s on the outside in the Mideast

10:24 The G20 and Who’s Back In

Monday Brief: While America Builds, Europe Schemes To Rob Its Citizens Sep 02, 2026

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In this Monday brief, Barbara Boyd previews the G20 meeting in Asheville, framing it as a clash between an agenda centered on physical economic growth—advanced by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent—and what she calls the G20/EU’s long-running Malthusian, “green” framework that followed the 2008 financial collapse, bank bailouts, and a shift toward climate policies. The episode contrasts Trump-era priorities—domestic manufacturing, supply-chain self-sufficiency, critical minerals, energy expansion, workforce upskilling, and new nuclear plans for shipping outlined by Energy Secretary Chris Wright—with European leaders’ efforts to build a “middle powers” bloc and “redirect” citizens’ savings into EU-directed investment. Boyd argues EU priorities include Ukraine war funding, the green transition, and open borders/free trade, and says the outcome of this fight will shape the future ahead of the midterms.

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00:00 The Monday Brief intro

01:34 The Past G20 Horror Shows

05:31 The Builders: America's Self-Sufficiency Push

10:32 The Bankers: Europe's Plan to Loot Its Own Citizens

Midweek Update: Bessent: “cut the Snake's Head Off" Sep 02, 2026

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00:00 Midweek Update Intro
01:40 Whose Islands? The Money Machine
04:53 Who’s on the outside in the Mideast
10:24 The G20 and Who’s Back In

Monday Brief: While America Builds, Europe Schemes To Rob Its Citizens Aug 31, 2026

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In this Wednesday update, Barbara Boyd previews the G20 meeting in Asheville, framing it as a clash between an agenda centered on physical economic growth, advanced by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and what she calls the G20/EU’s long-running Malthusian, “green” framework that followed the 2008 financial collapse, bank bailouts, and a shift toward climate policies. The episode contrasts Trump-era priorities, domestic manufacturing, supply-chain self-sufficiency, critical minerals, energy expansion, workforce upskilling, and new nuclear plans for shipping outlined by Energy Secretary Chris Wright, with European leaders’ efforts to build a “middle powers” bloc and “redirect” citizens’ savings into EU-directed investment. Boyd argues EU priorities include Ukraine war funding, the green transition, and open borders/free trade, and says the outcome of this fight will shape the future ahead of the midterms.

00:00 Monday Brief Intro
01:34 The Past G20 Horror Shows
05:31 The Builders: America's Self-Sufficiency Push
10:32 The Bankers: Europe's Plan to Loot Its Own Citizens

Saturday Wrap-Up: Dark Age to Golden Age Aug 29, 2026

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Susan Kokinda frames a “larger war” behind a headline-filled week, focusing on three events: new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s Jackson Hole speech, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s “Operation Economic Outcast,” and President Trump’s Johnson Space Center remarks. She argues Warsh blamed 65 months of elevated inflation on the Fed and signaled an end to “forward guidance,” which she says benefits financial “high flyers” while harming Americans without financial assets. She highlights Bessent’s warning that immediately sanctioning Iran-linked money laundering could “blow up the global financial system,” portraying that system as dependent on illicit flows and oil control, and notes Treasury targets include entities in Hong Kong. She also cites Trump’s announcement of a major Venezuela oil deal and his directive creating a United States Space Academy, presented as rejecting a “Dark Age” of limits to growth and advancing exploration and freedom.

00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro
02:10 The Crystal Ball Shatters
05:45 Bessent Reveals Dirty Secrets
09:55 The Dark Age Ends in Houston

Thursday Q&A: London's War on Trump: Carney Fears the Moscow Pivot Aug 27, 2026

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Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday August 27th at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers!

This week, CIA Director John Ratcliffe landed in Moscow on an unannounced C-17, and London's war on Trump just ran into a problem it can't spin. Mark Carney blew up the trade talks Friday night and called it a war. Same system. Same week. Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda take apart why Carney is terrified of the Moscow pivot: a U.S. Russia channel that cuts the plan to keep the war going.

Then, President Trump named the weapon at home. Monday on Truth Social he called the flood of fake polls "Demoralization Operations", designed to keep Republicans from voting. If the empire needs you home in November, the polls are the weapon. Susan connects it to the midterm map, ten weeks out.

And Carney's walkout isn't about tariffs. Canada cannot win a trade war with the country that takes 72% of its goods exports. Assange said the rupture was for the U.S. midterms. Susan showed the strike force: a Democratic operative running "United States Stakeholder Strategy," Freeland's donut strategy, Joly touring "mostly Democrats." That's Operation Economic Outcast, and it's aimed at you.

Plus: Jackson Hole this week, Xi on the September calendar, Abdul El-Sayed on Jesse Watters, and your questions. Bring what's on your mind. Barbara and Susan take them live.

00:00 Thursday Q&A Intro
01:47 Barbara’s Open: The Beast Is Cornered
04:32 Bloomberg Wants a Reset
05:56 Susan: The Midterms Are Economic War
08:26 Bessent: Don’t Blow Up the System
11:19 Joly Is Targeting States
12:39 The Bulk-Power Emergency
15:42 Freeland, Midnight, and the System
27:47 Stay Frosty
31:22 Bessent Is Attacking the British Flag
48:07 Midterm Bootcamp, Monday Nights
1:03:34 The C-17 and the SCIF
1:07:37 A World of Sovereign Nations
1:12:13 The Financial War Ends in London
1:17:17 Carney, the Polls, the Ballots
1:24:46 Delay, Delay, Delay
1:26:01 Dallas Midterm Convention
1:30:25 New Jersey and the Precincts
1:35:35 The Real Revolution
1:47:46 Beef, Beck, and the Cartels
1:55:56 Grow Out of the Debt
2:02:38 Closing: Conduct Yourselves Accordingly

Midweek Update: They Will Blow Up the World to Save Their System Aug 26, 2026

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Barbara Boyd argues that the most dangerous escalation is the proxy war with Russia, highlighting Russia’s warning that direct British involvement in strikes on Russian territory could make Britain a combatant. She says the UK has long driven the Ukraine conflict and that Trump has sought peace while Britain and Europe resist, relying on war production amid failing economies. The episode focuses on Canada’s Mark Carney as a key spokesman for a permanent-warfare economic strategy, detailing his global financial roles and Canada’s creation of a Defense Security and Resilience Bank to fund defense mobilization without citizen involvement. Boyd also describes Carney’s actions against the U.S., including trade disputes, deeper EU alignment, and Arctic defense plans. She claims a coordinated “chaos” and “psychological warfare” campaign targets U.S. voters ahead of the midterms.

00:00 Midweek Update Intro
01:42 Russia Declares Britain an Enemy Combatant
05:17 The Enemy on Our Northern Border
08:12 Mark Carney and the Loonie Democrats

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