Digital Currency and the End of Freedom
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Guests: Richard M. Langworth, Catherine Austin Fitts, & Tori Hope Petersen
Host Scot Bertram plays a previous interview with the late Richard Langworth, writer, historian, and senior fellow at the Hillsdale Churchill Project, about common misconceptions and myths about Winston Churchill. Catherine Austin Fitts, president of Solari, Inc., warns of the potential consequences of efforts by central banks to impose the use of digital currencies. And Tori Hope Petersen, author, speaker, and Hillsdale graduate, talks about the process of recovering from past traumas and her new book Breaking the Patterns That Break You: Healing from the Pain of Your Past and Finding Real Hope That Lasts.
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| 0:00.0 | From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country. |
| 0:25.4 | We are now talking about an integration of digital technology throughout the economy, that when you combine it with a digital ID system and an all digital monetary system, bam, it all locks together to create |
| 0:40.8 | what I call a digital concentration camp. This is your host Scott Bertram. That was Catherine |
| 0:46.0 | Austin Fitz of Solari Inc. She'll join us later on in today's program to talk about the danger |
| 0:51.3 | of central bank digital currencies. First, we begin the program by |
| 0:56.0 | honoring the life of Richard Langworth. Richard Langworth was senior fellow at the Hillsdale |
| 1:01.5 | College Churchill Project. He passed away February 20th at the age of 83. Prior to his work on the |
| 1:08.4 | Churchill Project, he organized the International Churchill Society at its journal, Finest Hour, serving as editor, president, and Sherman of the Board of Trustees. |
| 1:17.7 | He wrote or edited 10 books on Churchill and was appointed a commander of the most excellent order of the British Empire by her majesty the queen. |
| 1:26.3 | Richard Langworth was a prior guest here on the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour. |
| 1:30.2 | We listened back to that conversation now on Churchill Myths. |
| 1:35.0 | And we're joined now by Richard Langworth, writer and historian, also senior fellow at Hillsdale |
| 1:39.7 | College with the Churchill Project here at Hillsdale. |
| 1:43.0 | Richard, thank you so much for joining us. |
| 1:44.8 | Thank you, Scott. |
| 1:45.7 | We want to get to some Churchill myths, which you have done such a wonderful job over the years, debunking. |
| 1:53.2 | And for many of our listeners, it might be the first time they've heard them. |
| 1:55.4 | So we'll give some basic information. |
| 1:57.5 | Before we do that, though, I wanted to give you the opportunity to talk a bit about how you became a Churchill expert, how you became interested in his life and in this |
| 2:07.9 | research. Well, it began with my watching his funeral on television in 1965 and developed from |
| 2:16.2 | there. I edited the Churchill magazine for 34 years, and in the process met a lot of people and read |
| 2:24.0 | a lot of books. |
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