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The Midweek Update - THEY LIED ABOUT IT ALL: Bessent's Yen Moves Just Proved Them All Wrong - August 5, 2026
0:00Last Sunday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
0:02destroyed CNN's Dana Bash on live TV.
0:07Here it is.
0:08>> Let me ask you something. Do you see
0:10your job
0:11as ending vaccine hesitancy, or do you
0:14see your job as telling the truth to the
0:16American people?
0:17>> I see my job as telling the truth, and
0:19the truth is that there is is study
0:23after study after study. It's one of the
0:24most studied things out there in
0:26science, and it is
0:29>> You repeat things like a parrot.
0:31>> So, you don't
0:32>> I've actually read the science. Let's
0:33you and I
0:34come back here and debate this.
0:36>> So, you I don't I'm not debating this
0:37with you.
0:38>> Of course you won't.
0:39>> No, because I'm not debating it.
0:40>> how to do is repeat things that people
0:43told you and say trust the experts.
0:45That's what you did during COVID.
0:47Now we know that Anthony Fauci, who was
0:49the expert, was lying about everything.
0:53>> But it's a much bigger issue than the
0:54COVID lies. The entire chattering class,
0:58including your social media doom
1:00scrollers, are lying about everything
1:03the president is doing. For starters,
1:06rebuilding the US economy required both
1:09the war in the Middle East and Scott
1:11Bessent's current intervention for Japan
1:14over the weekend. The media is just too
1:17stupid to tell you why. I'm Baba Boyed,
1:19and I've studied the modern British
1:21financial empire ever since it forced
1:23Richard Nixon to destroy the Bretton
1:26Woods system in 1971.
1:28Today we're going to cover what the war
1:31with Iran is about. Then we'll show how
1:34Scott Bessent's weekend Japan
1:36intervention is part of the very same
1:38project. Finally, we'll talk about why
1:41they're both necessary for the new Trump
1:43economy, which is not socialist or
1:46communist, but it's also not the kind of
1:49capitalism we've all experienced in our
1:51lifetimes. Now, the current Middle East
The War in the Middle East Hits the City of London Hardest
1:54war isn't a war of choice, as Tucker
1:57Carlson and the stupid Democrats
1:59endlessly proclaim. Trump knew from his
2:02first term that America isn't some
2:05self-contained island free to make our
2:08own isolated choices at this point in
2:10time.
2:11Critical finance, credit, materials, and
2:15productive capacity are owned, sit in
2:17foreign hands and foreign lands,
2:20particularly the offshore financial
2:22network of the city of London. Here's
2:24part of the history.
2:26In 1973,
2:27responding to that year's oil shock,
2:30Nelson Rockefeller convened a commission
2:33of our elites and experts called the
2:36Commission on Critical Choices. He
2:38feared like OPEC, underdeveloped nations
2:41would cartelize or nationalize the
2:44critical minerals and energy resources
2:47necessary for our advanced economy.
2:50Rockefeller's answer echoed that of
2:52Thomas Malthus. Population and economic
2:56growth must be strictly controlled,
2:59reduced to zero if possible.
3:02The main tool chosen for this was mass
3:04indoctrination and the new religion
3:08of environmentalism. They also built a
3:10new financial system at the same time
3:12centered in Wall Street and the city of
3:14London where oil and gas commodity
3:17speculation replaced gold and physical
3:21production in pricing the dollar. Under
3:24Joe Biden, this environmentalist
3:26religion was so advanced that we banned
3:29oil and gas production.
3:31And discussions were underway to hand
3:34our economic sovereignty totally to a
3:36global consortium of central banks
3:39centered in Marconi's Bank of England.
3:42Under Biden, the climate apocalypse hoax
3:44was used to justify funneling all the
3:47financial credit in the entire world
3:50into green energy and nothing else.
3:53These myths drove inflation and piled
3:56more debt onto the national balance
3:59sheet.
3:59That's the economy Donald Trump
4:01inherited.
4:03He probably began rebuilding an economy
4:05centered on physical production,
4:07manufacturing, and new industry. But he
4:10couldn't finish without regaining
4:12sovereignty over credit and finance.
4:15That means overthrowing the old system
4:17and replacing it. Now, the obvious weak
4:20point in the old system is the money
4:23flows from Middle East oil production.
4:26Just look at how closing the Strait of
4:28Hormuz upended entire parts of the world
4:31economy. The City of London itself
4:34depends on Gulf investment for survival.
4:37That's why London, through its colony
4:39Oman, has been pressing a plan for
4:41voluntary tolls in the strait.
4:44Complicating the issue and prolonging
4:46the war. But overall, because of the
4:49war's dynamics and the president's order
4:51of peace for the Middle East, the
4:53region's nations are making massive
4:55investments now in the United States.
4:58They are abandoning the old globalist
5:00oil and terror regime sponsored by the
5:02City of London. President Trump wants
5:05the region to deliberate its own fate
5:07through the Abraham Accords, peace
5:09through economic development, not
5:12permanent religious wars. Iran and its
5:15terrorist proxies stand in the way of
5:17that.
5:18And under Trump's order of peace, the
5:20region's nations get a vote on any US
5:23military action.
5:25Otherwise, we create dependencies, mass
5:28migration, and we're stuck there.
5:30We want a permanent peace so we can
5:32leave militarily. But we also aim to
5:35become a significant trading and
5:37development partner in a new Middle East
5:39composed of sovereign nations, not
5:42terrorist gangs.
5:44That's why the Trump administration is
5:45talking about selling nuclear reactors
5:48now to the Saudis. None of this is what
5:50you'll hear from Dana Bash, Tucker
5:52Carlson, or Lumer, or the neocons
5:55saying, "Bomb them into oblivion." You
5:58can get more of the real story by
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Stabilizing Japan Also Screws the City of London
6:04Now, stabilizing Japan also screws the
6:06city of London. Over the weekend, Scott
6:09Bessent intervened to buttress Japan's
6:11currency, the yen.
6:13Our friend Tom Luongo imagined this
6:15exchange between Trump and Bessent about
6:17the move. Scott, you're the money guy.
6:20You got anything on Europe? They've been
6:22screwing us for years. Bessent,
6:24"Actually, yes, sir. Japan, they've been
6:27Europe's pawn for decades, manipulating
6:30the yen to rig dollar rates in their
6:31favor. Support them out of their debt
6:34trap and we both win." Trump, "Can you
6:37make that happen?"
6:38Bessent, "Yes, I'm the guy who helped
6:41destroy the UK and gift-wrapped them for
6:43the EU. I'm just running the other trade
6:46now for Japan."
6:48Trump, "That's why I hired that guy."
6:50Tom's closing line back to the UK is on
6:54purpose. In 1992, Scott Bessent, then
6:57working for George Soros, used his
6:59knowledge of the speculative post-1971
7:02economy to collapse the British pound
7:05and force British entry into the EU.
7:08Now, he's doing the reverse with the
7:10yen. The carry trade is a debt bomb at
7:13the center of global finance, a choke
7:16point as volatile and dangerous as the
7:18IOGC and the Strait of Hormuz. To
7:21stabilize it this time, Bessent sold
7:24euros, not dollars.
7:27That landed a big blow on the currency
7:29of America's biggest real enemies, the
7:32UK and the EU. The carry trade is a
7:35textbook product of the speculative
7:37economy that rose after 1971.
7:41After Japan's crash in the 1990s, Japan
7:44held rates near zero and global
7:47speculators borrowed yen for almost
7:49nothing. They used that to invest in US
7:52stocks and bonds, which paid something,
7:55and they pocketed the spread. But that
7:57only works when the yen stays weak.
8:00Raise rates and everyone who borrowed
8:03rushes to buy yen back, crashing markets
8:06fast. That's exactly what happened in
8:08August of 2024, when this same unwind
8:12wiped billions off global markets in
8:14days.
8:16So, Japan, a major partner in Trump's
8:19new economy, is stuck. Keep rates low
8:22and the yen keeps collapsing, hurting
8:24ordinary Japanese through inflation.
8:27Raise rates and risk a global fire sale
8:30that hits us, too, since much of that
8:33borrowed money sits in US Treasury
8:35bonds. Rather than wait for that
8:38breakdown, which would come, Bessen got
8:40ahead of it, using this intervention
8:43alongside squeezing Iran's regime out of
8:46the financial system to reset the rules
8:49of the monetary system before someone
8:52else does it under crisis conditions for
8:54the worse.
8:55Canadian strategist James Thorne says
8:58Scott Bessen is setting up a new Bretton
9:01Woods, the kind of stable, long-term,
9:04low-interest monetary system real
9:07economic development requires. I think
9:10he's right. Now, about the economy.
The Key Ingredients for America’s Economic Revolution
9:13President Ronald Reagan's pursuit of a
9:16defense against nuclear war using
9:18advanced physical principles like lasers
9:22collapsed the Soviet economy.
9:25Why?
9:26Under communism, the backward Soviet
9:28labor force was incapable of rapidly
9:31producing the technology at scale, even
9:34if Soviet science invented it. Their new
9:37defense mobilization after Reagan
9:40announced the SDI, killed their economy.
9:43Post-war American capitalism, which
9:45outsourced our productive economy and
9:48shattered years of technological
9:50experience in our labor force, set the
9:53United States up for the same type of
9:55collapse.
9:57That is before Donald Trump. The rapid
10:00absorption and reproduction of new
10:02scientific discoveries and frontier
10:04technologies is the hallmark of the
10:06unique American system of political
10:08economy of Hamilton, Lincoln, and
10:11McKinley, and now Trump. Two things are
10:14required. One is ready access to
10:17long-term, low-interest capital
10:19investment. As important, you need
10:21scientific revolutionaries and a
10:24technologically trained and prosperous
10:27labor force. Breaking the hold of
10:29globalist finance on our economy and
10:32reshoring our industry creates the first
10:34condition. The Trump administration is
10:37now addressing the second. On July 21st,
10:40the Trump administration issued the
10:42program Science, A New Golden Age. In
10:45part four, the president's science
10:47advisor, Michael Kratsios, calls for a
10:49crash drive to upskill the labor force
10:52for our future. Here's what it says.
10:55First, stop separating the classroom
10:59from the shop floor. The plan forces
11:01colleges to build hands-on training and
11:04real work experience directly into STEM
11:07degrees. So, a welding certification or
11:10a lab apprenticeship counts just as much
11:13as a lecture course. Second, you don't
11:17need a PhD to matter in American
11:19science.
11:20The policy creates national fellowships
11:23to put machinists and technicians
11:25shoulder to shoulder with PhD
11:27researchers with credentials that travel
11:30with you, no matter where you work.
11:33Third, apprenticeships get a science and
11:35tech upgrade. Old-style apprenticeships
11:38expand into cutting-edge fields. Funding
11:42follows results instead of just
11:44enrollment. And community colleges
11:46become the regional engines of technical
11:49talent. Fourth, innovation requires
11:52neighbors. You don't get technological
11:55breakthroughs from research labs and
11:57factories sitting hundreds of miles
11:59apart. You get them when scientists and
12:01builders are working down the street
12:03from each other. So, the plan pushes for
12:06dense local clusters where both live
12:09side by side. Now, Abraham Lincoln's
12:12economist, Henry Carey, said that the
12:15American system of political economy,
12:17which Trump is using, represents a
12:19commonality of interest between capital
12:22and labor. That's because both capital
12:25and labor under that system recognize
12:28that the human mind
12:30is the source of all economic progress.
12:33And there are no limits to the growth it
12:36can invent and perfect. Both communism
12:39and the type of capitalism we touched
12:41since 1971 reject that principle.
12:45Under free trade capitalism, the cost of
12:47labor is something to be driven down to
12:49the lowest cost possible.
12:52That's why our production was
12:53outsourced.
12:55The media independents won't tell you
12:57this. They're either ignorant or corrupt
12:59and wedded to the old system.
13:02At Promethean Action, on the other hand,
13:04we recognize what Trump is doing, and
13:07we're dedicated to getting out very,
13:09very widely by any means possible.
13:12That means we need to grow.
13:14And we need you to help us to do that.
13:17Please contribute as much as you can.
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