Discover the unshakable pillars of freedom that define the American spirit and how the shifting sands of global politics challenge these foundations. As your host Tony Arterburn, a warrior philosopher with firsthand experience on foreign battlegrounds, I take you on an enlightening journey through the transformative world of conservative thought, military might, and the often perplexing theater of politics. With the sharp-witted Beans the Brave by my side, we dissect my invigorating conversation with David Knight, revealing the pressing need for honest discourse in an age of distraction and political persecution.
The landscape of conservatism is evolving, and with it, the debate over our nation's role on the global stage intensifies. We peel back the layers of foreign policy, questioning the wisdom behind our alliance strategies and the economic currents that flow from our military aid. From the Middle East to the Far East, I analyze the economic tremors caused by outsourced manufacturing and the potential flashpoints that could send shockwaves through commodity markets and industries worldwide. This episode challenges you to consider the true cost of interventionism and the search for economic harmony in an era of uncertainty.
As we traverse through these complexities, we don't shy away from the consequences of global leadership—or the lack thereof—on the economy and society at large. I probe the eerie silence of our current leaders amid escalating geopolitical tensions, offering precious metals as a potential lifeline in the storm. With a candid look at the flawed two-party system and the toll of economic policies, this episode navigates the high seas of international finance, questioning the Federal Reserve's strategies and highlighting the unexpected turn of Zimbabwe towards a gold-backed currency. Tune in for a compelling narrative that doesn't just scratch the surface but seeks the profound truths beneath.
Discover the unshakable pillars of freedom that define the American spirit and how the shifting sands of global politics challenge these foundations. As your host Tony Arterburn, a warrior philosopher with firsthand experience on foreign battlegrounds, I take you on an enlightening journey through the transformative world of conservative thought, military might, and the often perplexing theater of politics. With the sharp-witted Beans the Brave by my side, we dissect my invigorating conversation with David Knight, revealing the pressing need for honest discourse in an age of distraction and political persecution.
The landscape of conservatism is evolving, and with it, the debate over our nation's role on the global stage intensifies. We peel back the layers of foreign policy, questioning the wisdom behind our alliance strategies and the economic currents that flow from our military aid. From the Middle East to the Far East, I analyze the economic tremors caused by outsourced manufacturing and the potential flashpoints that could send shockwaves through commodity markets and industries worldwide. This episode challenges you to consider the true cost of interventionism and the search for economic harmony in an era of uncertainty.
As we traverse through these complexities, we don't shy away from the consequences of global leadership—or the lack thereof—on the economy and society at large. I probe the eerie silence of our current leaders amid escalating geopolitical tensions, offering precious metals as a potential lifeline in the storm. With a candid look at the flawed two-party system and the toll of economic policies, this episode navigates the high seas of international finance, questioning the Federal Reserve's strategies and highlighting the unexpected turn of Zimbabwe towards a gold-backed currency. Tune in for a compelling narrative that doesn't just scratch the surface but seeks the profound truths beneath.
I'm veteran of three foreign wars, entrepreneur and warrior, poet, tony Arterburn, takes on the issues facing our country, civilization and planet. This is the Arbor Radio Transmission. Do you understand what I'm talking about? What is our common bond? Truly, freedom. Freedom. Without freedom, you can't be a Christian, no matter what denomination you belong to. You can't be a Buddhist, you can't own a donut shop, you can't drive from here to Oregon, you can't be an American, because that's what it's all about, and that's the only thing that it's all about. Nothing else, nothing else.
Speaker 2:It's about freedom, parapolitics and precious metals. This is the official broadcast Of the Apocalypse. Ladies and gentlemen, it's the Hard to Burn radio transmission Broadcasting in defiance of globalist goblins, the neocons, the new world order, the build back better, biden BLs above Baphomet, bilderberg, bohemian Grove, bankster Bunch. I'm in studio with Beans the Brave, who I had a caller into the shop last week asked uh, now is is beans the brave, is that? Is that your dog? Right? Yeah, that's my. That's my 12 and a half pound. Well, sometimes, sometimes a little over, but we won't mention that. That's my Chihuahua mix. My best friend, spiritual guru, head of security and part-time producer Depends on if she wants to nap or not during the show, but we appreciate her being here. It's the 18th of April 2024.
Speaker 2:I just got done with the great David Knight on his program. I go on there every Thursday at 930 am, central Time and it's always a fun conversation. It's so fun. If you watch me on, david, if you ever wonder do we plan that or do we just? That's just us going, that's just a conversation. I usually show up like a minute before and say I read a couple, this is an article I saw. And he'll say I saw this too, and then we'll just do the show and it makes you a better broadcaster. You get somebody that's so skilled like that with David Knight, just an intellect like that. It makes you a better broadcaster. So I'm always, now that I'm doing the show on Thursdays, I'm ready to go Like I could just, I can just do this. I'm already warmed up, I'm. This is easy compared to a 30 minutes with with Mr Knight. So I'll be sure and check those out and I'm going to add that to the podcast feed as well.
Speaker 2:Well, where do we start? Where do you, where do you guys want to start off? Should I talk? Do we going to talk about the election? Do you want to talk about politics? I don't. I'm just done with this. This whole thing is so ridiculous. We're not bringing up the issues. Obviously, we've got this sideshow reality TV garbage going on. I'm just done with it.
Speaker 2:It's sickening that we've fallen this far in this country to have, you know, one sides persecuting the nominee of a major party, which you always knew is going to be the Republicans that had. If there was any party that was going to get persecuted and held down and has no way of fighting the establishment, it's going to be the Republican party or the Republican nominee, because it's the most, it's the party most tied, at least right now, to what you would consider the people, the people that you know, work and keep the lights on and pay the taxes and you know, and again, there's some great, there's some good Democrat people out there, but that's. That's a demographic shift that happened a long time ago. It's one of the reasons why Joe Biden you see people giving me these clips like you see Joe Biden in 2007,. He was talking about a secure border.
Speaker 2:Well, of course he was. He was placating to people that are no longer alive. That's what they did. They don't believe in anything. The same reason Barack Obama said that marriage was between a man and a woman. He was placating to those older blue dog Democrats, the Reagan Democrats from years and bygone era people that thought that FDR was a hero. Those people are gone. They're mostly gone, unfortunately, some of the best Americans. They were just placating to them. They didn't believe any of those things. They don't believe in anything. They're nihilist. Well, they're luciferian nihilist. They believe in something. They believe in the in. Uh, not necessarily a higher power, but you understand what I'm getting at. They serve a different master. I think it's pretty apparent what you think. So yeah, those people were placating. There's no politics anymore.
Speaker 2:So the they persecute the guy at the headlines on drudge and and Trump's going through all these trials and everything else and again I my eyes glaze over. You know, you know, we, we went through this and and we had the, the. The vote for the secure border was 2016. And I didn't get a secure border, I got a new world order. So why am I doing this again? I mean, we're going to. I don't know. I'm just pretty sick of it. You can turn me off if you want, but if Trump's reelected, does President Fauci automatically get inaugurated or do I have to wait? Do we do this again, or is he playing 4D chess? I have people send me stuff all the time. They're like, oh well, the Patriots in control. Really, can we stop doing that? It is absolutely nauseating. Please don't do that. Please don't fall for that.
Speaker 2:I think the key is local, it's your family, it's closer to the earth and brace for impact, because this country goes into a trillion dollars in debt every 90 days. Folks, a trillion dollars in debt every 90 days. It took us from 1776 to 1980 or so, to go a trillion dollars in debt. We do it every 90 days and, speaker Johnson, don't you love it? At the end of the road, you get, uh, you get this, um, ned Flanders kind of guy. Why, why do we always produce these people in this country?
Speaker 2:This is Mike Johnson, the speaker of the house. He's a wartime speaker. Did you know that? Well, pray, tell Mike. What war is it? What war did you vote on? What declaration of war was voted on and approved by the people? You're a wartime speaker of what? The war against us? The war against the people of the United States? Well, I agree with that. There's a war on free speech. There's a war on personal sovereignty. There's a war on free markets. There's a war on sanity. There's a war on the rule of law. So, yeah, mike, I guess you are. I guess you're a wartime speaker. Let's put this article up. Let's talk a little bit about war, the dogs of war. This is antiwarcom.
Speaker 2:Speaker Johnson unveils $95 billion foreign military aid bills. The legislation includes $61 billion for Ukraineraine, 26 billion to support israel and 8 billion for taiwan and other spending in the region. Well, those of you have paid attention to my show, it's a little different. I know people are going to turn it off because I'm not doing the uh mind control talking points to set up artificial teams to make it easy for you. But this bill makes no sense.
Speaker 2:And again, wartime. What are you talking about? What does Ukraine have to do with the United States Constitution? What does Ukraine have to do with my security? Well, it has a lot to do, because we parked a lot of bioweapons and laundered money and you know Burisma and we had to pay off all these political families and you know, from the Romneys to the Pelosi's, you know the Bidens. They always get to get their take out of Ukraine. It's a big kitty, right, it's a big money laundering kitty. Plus, you get to bolster the military industrial complex. You get to agitate foreign powers like Russia with it.
Speaker 2:So yeah, ukraine, I guess does involve us, but for all the wrong reasons. It has nothing to do with to make us safer or to secure this country. It has everything to do with to bring us into a or to secure this country. It has everything to do with to bring us into a wider war. So of course, we're going to fund it. We're going to continue to fund the t-shirt man a wonderful democracy, by the way having all the opposition leaders jailed. On wednesday, house speaker mike johnson unveiled three foreign military aid bills for ukraine, israel and Taiwan. It's $95 billion A bill that was passed by the Senate. Although Israel will get a boost in military aid, some of the economic aid for Ukraine is in the form of repayable loans. Good luck on getting that back. However, reports say Kiev is not actually expected to pay it back. Of course it's funny.
Speaker 2:After World War I, woodrow Wilson, the banker's president, put in there by JP Morgan. That was a very sophisticated election 1912, to get Woodrow Wilson, this so-called intellectual, the only PhD president, we put him in, we had to run Teddy Roosevelt as a third party in the Bull Moose to siphon off votes from Taft so they could install Wilson. He was the perfect, he was the banker's president and they finally got him in. He got a second term. He ran on. What did he run on, folks? 1916, woodrow Wilson he ran on. He kept us out of war. And what's the first thing he does when he gets a second term?
Speaker 2:He plunges the United States into World War I. One of the reasons is because he had a handler. That handler was a man named Colonel Mandel House. He was not a colonel, but he lived in the White House. They called him Colonel House, but he was not a colonel. He worked for the bankers and he was to monitor Woodrow Wilson.
Speaker 2:And what Woodrow Wilson did is he helped the United States create loans and the conditions for loans for the allies so-called in World War I. By the way, the head of the central bank in Germany was Max Warburg and the head of the central bank in the United States was Paul Warburg. They, they were brothers and of course we went to war and it was a banker's war and there was a lot of money borrowed. Uh. So, by the time, uh, cal Coolidge they called him silent cow in the 1920s, when he was uh. Uh, he actually took over because Warren Harding died in office and a silent Cal Coolidge became president and he wanted the money back. And he said well, they hired the money, didn't they? He actually wanted the loans repaid, which is, everyone was aghast. Like you, don't we loan the money? We don't expect it back? Of course we do. That's what you're supposed to do. But that's not. Again, all of it's a ruse to siphon off money from you, to take it away from you, the producers, these government leeches, and they put it into wars. And this is all part of the power structure. Folks, this is money laundering 101, the creation of money to fund things that do not make you safer, do not have anything to do with national security. Nothing to do, nothing to do with the United States Constitution, except the erosion of it Absolutely sickening.
Speaker 2:The Israel bill totals $26 billion, the majority of which will go to supporting the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza and replenishing air defenses following Iran's reprisal attack. It includes $9 billion in humanitarian aid, which Democrats said was necessary for them to support Johnson's effort. Can I ask a question here? Israel and related companies own about 75% of the NAS nasdaq. Why are we giving them money? Does anybody really know they have 300 nuclear weapons, a first-rate economy, a first-rate air force that they never almost ever have to, except when they're attacking things like going into Syria or destroying Iraq, having a nuclear energy facility that was called Osiris I think it was in 1982. The Israelis just went and just bombed it.
Speaker 2:I know that we're supposed to see. Everything's an inversion. You say Iran. Can anybody name a country that Iran has invaded? No, but see what you're, what you're doing right now too.
Speaker 2:If you're listening to this, you've never heard me. You're going to say why is he defending Iran? I'm not. I don't A pox on both their houses. I don't care about any of this stuff. I want out of the Middle East. I want that forsaken. I want out of all that stuff.
Speaker 2:I'm an american. I live in the united states of america. I fought for this country. Nobody asked me how I feel about paraguay. I always get this like well, you know, what do you think about it? Are you going to support israel? Nobody asked me if I support panama. It's like what do you? What's the latest on argentina's foreign policy? Where do you? Where do you stand on Venezuela, tony? Nobody ever asked me that. It's always this thing right. We have to be centered. This is a neocon. This is what this is. This is a neocon distraction.
Speaker 2:This is the seven countries in five years that Wesley Clark was talking about when he came back and went through the Pentagon after 9-11. They were going to hit seven countries in five years. What did that have to do? Not only one with 9-11, but what did that have to do with the United States' security? Look at where we are now. We've just wasted the boondoggles, the grift, the theft, the criminality of the trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars that we spent on what in the Middle East? I was part of that, by the way. Did it make you safer? No, it completely bankrupted the nation. It rotated our military into oblivion.
Speaker 2:I thought there was going to be see Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney and Bill Kristol and Max Boot, which all these radio hosts on conservative talk, conservative talk. Why is conservative talk devolved into? If we're not bombing somebody, we're not great. And it always has to do with bombing somebody in the Middle East. Has anybody ever noticed that? Have you ever traced back the roots on that and just kind of seen where that comes from? It's to keep you distracted, but they put us in a position. We're going to democratize mankind, remember, we're going to get the evildoers. We're going to democratize the Middle East and they're going to greet us as liberators. Is that, what? Is that how you, I wonder? Was I greeted as the liberator? Uh, I wish I had the jeopardy music. I should have the jeopardy music Some here on my board. I just was. Well, what was shot at? What was? What was IEDs liberators? Huh Well, that's how they think. That's the Trotskyite Gosh.
Speaker 2:I'm going to do a whole paratrooper on the origins of the conservative movement in the United States and how it was hijacked. It's a complete inversion of what it actually is supposed to be. I heard a radio host a popular one once say that George Washington was wrong with his farewell address about staying out of foreign entanglement and not having these alliances that would drag us into war. They used to read the farewell address in Congress up until the 1930s, and there was a popular host I him say it that george washington was wrong because we have to intervene, because that's where this, the so-called conservative movement, went. Well, that's. I think that's pretty telling. That's why that's how you end up where you go a trillion dollars in debt every 90 days and we took our eye off the ball. We didn't fight the culture war, we didn't rebuild the republic after the fall of the Soviet Union, we went on the Crusades, and I think this is what you're paying for.
Speaker 2:But $26 billion to Israel for what? And again, why is this our concern? I'm asking the tough questions because you're supposed to be on a side here, you're supposed to be rah-rah, especially if you want a lot of viewers. You want a lot of clicks. And, of course, over $8 billion will go towards spending in the Asia-Pacific to prepare for a future war with China, including a few billion in military aid for Taiwan. Us has consistently sold weapons to Taiwan since severing relations with Taipei in 1979. You read that. Let's read that again. Let's highlight it. I talked about this last week. Over $8 billion will go towards spending in the Asia-Pacific to prepare for a future war with Taipei in 1979, but began providing unprecedented military aid last year, a move that significantly raised tensions with China.
Speaker 2:For those of you who missed the history lesson, we literally put in writing with Zygmunt Brzezinski on January 1st 1979, that we had officially recognized a one china policy. Richard nixon and henry kissinger did it verbally with mao in 1972. Taiwan used to be known as formosa. That's where chiang hai-shek fled in 1949 when the rockefellers and the rothschilds set up the communist revolution in china. So the nationalist leader chiang Kai-shek fled to Formosa, which is Taiwan, and all through the Cold War, Taiwan was a Cold War ally. Then we flipped the script and we opened China in what was called triangular diplomacy. It was an idea from Richard Nixon, carried out by Henry Kissinger, to put a wedge between the Soviet Union and red China. It worked, but Taiwan was the bargaining chip.
Speaker 2:So let me ask you a question, ladies and gentlemen. Uh, if you don't think that there's some seriousness in the war clouds that are being built up by our military industrial complex and our ruling class, because they backed themselves into a corner? See, it was all well and good that all these same minds is all well and good that we sold our manufacturing out. We sold out the American worker. I talked about that today on David Knight show.
Speaker 2:Uh, december 11th 2001, 90 days after nine 11, george W Bush gives China most favored trading status. Uh, opens them up to the WTO. Right after that, we lose 55,000 factories and one in three manufacturing jobs. We gave it to China. The Clintons gave missile technology to China. We would give missile technology to the Israelis. The Israelis would sell it to China. Everybody's been selling stuff to China. Everybody's been giving things to China. We gave away everything to China. Gave it away. They didn't have things to China. We gave away everything to China. Gave it away. They didn't have to steal it. We gave it away. Our leaders gave it away. We gave away the industrial base, the manufacturing marvel of mankind.
Speaker 2:This was the great betrayal of the American people by the political class, and now they want to reverse it by going to war with China Over what? Something that we already seeded? We broke relations with Taiwan in 1979, folks, and now we're giving them an unprecedented amount of money. Why is that? It's a good question. These are war clouds and these war pigs are going to. These psychopathic are going to drag us in. Of course you know, and they've picked, like this hodges, it's a, like a goldilocks. This is world war three stuff. You have this, the and I said this months and months ago after October 7th. This has nothing to do with Gaza. This has nothing to do with Hamas. This is language between nation states setting the stage. They're going to drag us in one way or another. If we can't get lobbied into it, we're going to get drug into it One way, or the kicking and screaming it appears into some middle Eastern cataclysm.
Speaker 2:For what? I'm going to read a article here at the end of the show from Michael Snyder about the price of gasoline. You want to know where the price of. Everyone wants to know what the price of commodities and gold. Forget about that, folks, cause we're we're going into some weird times with energy.
Speaker 2:You don't think that the oil companies are licking their chops right now. I tell you who's really licking their chops right now? Credit card companies. Oh, they're loving it. They're about to make a windfall, unprecedented windfall, a transfer of wealth never seen before at the pump. You guys don't know about that. We'll talk a little bit about that, but but this is what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2:We get stuck on World War III and foreign policy, but they're really doing it. They're really setting the told a lot of things and it's going to be mind control. It's going to get you to flip a script and you're with so-and-so. I'm going to put a flag on my Facebook profile or whatever. You know you're going to take a side, but I promise you it's all for nothing and it's all terrible. Like what does our?
Speaker 2:Again, I asked the questions about Ukraine. I asked the questions about Ukraine. I asked the questions about Israel. I asked the questions about Taiwan. What does that have to do with us? The answer is nothing, nothing. We don't even secure our border here.
Speaker 2:I know I'm supposed to go to the polls again in 24 and vote for that secure border. I already did that. I already did that in 2016. Anybody with guts would have secured it. I said what I said. I'm not a 4D Chesser, white Hats, patriots in Control person who has lost my grip on reality. I can read and I can remember things and we didn't get that. So I'm not going back to the polls in 24 and you can't make me. I'm not going. I think I'll take beans for a walk or something, unless there's somebody cool like a sheriff to vote for or something. I'm done with that and this is why the country's in such bad shape. We just keep tossing the thing back and forth between Tweedledee and Tweedledummer.
Speaker 2:All right, let's jump into some more headlines. You know what I'll do. I'm going to go to the Rockfin chat and we'll come back, and I'm debating on doing another foreign policy article. Maybe we'll do the stuff at the pump, maybe we'll do that. And then there's something else on AI. I have there's one from Jim Rickards and I wanted to go. Maybe I'll do that on a separate show because I've just ranted for the. I didn't expect to do that, I just ranted for a little bit. We'll definitely get into some some commodity prices too.
Speaker 2:Let's go to the rockfin chat. By the way, we're streaming live on freeworldfm. Please go check out free world. It's a lifeboat for free speech, uh, and we've got so many great hosts over there. We're building it. Go check us out. I want to say hi to everybody. On 9, 30 am the answer san antonio, uh, my, my home station, who still carries me at you know, I, I definitely believe that I have the most unique view of any host over there. You got to get some variety, don't be mad at me, uh, see, uh, jason barker's over in the rockfin chat, by the way, rockfin r-o-k-f-i-n dot com on the america unplugged channel and chris is in the chat. Gardener, goldsmith, the great guard, goldsmith, my good friends, always supportive, it's good to see all of you. Thanks for, yeah, dystopian, distant.
Speaker 2:No one ever mentions Operation Ajax and what resulted from the backlash. I will mention Operation Ajax, that's Mosaddegh, early 1950s, the overthrow of the leader of Iran. We installed the Shah. You know something interesting about that. I don't know, they're not related, but the Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal, before he was, before he quote fell out of a window at Bethesda Naval Hospital.
Speaker 2:He was the first Secretary of Defense, I believe too, and he had a problem with our foreign policy, with, uh, our aid to Israel and other things. He thought that would be a really bad idea. He thought that, uh, that it would open up and drive a wedge between Iran and the West and you got to understand where this country was post-World War II. But James Forrestal, uh, was reading the actual classic, the Greek classic, ajax, when he was pushed or whatever fell. I mean, you do the math, james Forrestal was killed, folks, and I don't know if you can go back and look through history and see what happened for yourself, but in my opinion there was something he knew, something, right, that's james forestall, and that that was the book that he was reading was ajax.
Speaker 2:You, you only hear that here on the art of burn radio transmission, just a little thing. That my mind. I just stuff, that's the little tidbits that I pick up and then like, when somebody brings that up, I talk about it later. But good job, job, thanks for bringing Mosadek up, because that's called blowback, but we always do, we always intervene somewhere and then like why do they hate us? You know, but again, has nothing to do with actual American security.
Speaker 2:All right, let's check out this article from Michael Schneider. Let me shut down this other screen. This is on lewrockwellcom. This is why the price of gasoline could soon double. Michael Schneider, the Economic Collapse blog, says Can you imagine paying $7 for a gallon of gasoline? Well, I guess in California you already do.
Speaker 2:It could soon happen, because it appears that Israel is about to strike Iran and that is likely to cause events in the Middle East to spiral completely out of control. Right now, approximately one-fifth of all oil used in the world goes through the Strait of Hormuz. An apocalyptic war in the region could potentially close the Strait of Hormuz until the conflict is resolved one way or the other. In addition, oil infrastructure could be destroyed in Iran and other nations in the Middle East as the fighting rages, and that could substantially reduce global oil production for an extended period of time. Our way of life depends on cheap oil, and so if a major regional war in the Middle East causes the price of oil to go skyrocketing, that is going to deeply affect us all. Well, he's so right. Because we're not paying attention to that, folks?
Speaker 2:The Biden administration dumped millions of barrels of oil into the ecosystem, into the economic system, to temporarily lower the price in the second year of Biden's presidency. The strategic petroleum reserve. Well, the price is up, and so they're not buying anymore to replenish their own stock, because when they buy it's going to raise the price, because demand goes up, and I see this only getting worse because, again, the economy is going to suffer. But there's going to be a few that make a windfall. By the way, countries like Iran and the petroleum-rich nations are going to do very well, even if some of their stuff the price of oil goes up, then they do well, so you're not hurting your enemies that way either.
Speaker 2:On Monday, the average price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States was just $3.63. Even though the average price of a gallon of gasoline has risen more than $0.20 in a month, I would still consider that to be a very low level, especially compared to what is eventually coming. It's up $0.04 from a week earlier. One expert that was interviewed by MarketWatch watches, warning that the average price of gasoline in the us could hit five dollars and forty cents this summer. This, uh, this expert estimated that a spike in oil prices pushing us gasoline to five dollars and forty cents a gallon would make a recession later in 2024 a genuine possibility. Oh, you think so. I think it's been estimated.
Speaker 2:I heard this a long time ago, going into um the fall of 08, and I remember this because I was 28 years old, I was running a high volume convenience store gasoline I mean it had everything. It was part of my family's uh holdings and I was running it as a part owner and we were doing about 250,000 gallons a month in gasoline. And you just start watching those credit card fees keep going up, keep going up, keep going up, and then you realize then you hit $3, and then $4 a gallon and all of a sudden there's this crescendo where it just kind of starts to taper off, and that's when people are unable to do anything anymore. Right, so the wheels and all the mechanisms of a consumer economy and the money velocity starts to die Again. If you have economic problems accompanied with a war, it's going to cause both inflationary issues and deflationary issues at the same time.
Speaker 2:That same expert also warned that the price of oil reaches $125 a barrel. It could push the US economy into a recession. Well, yeah, crude prices are our chief concern, but we are a long way from $125 a barrel, a level of West Texas intermediate oil that would almost certainly cause a recession if sustained. Gasoline prices are the transmission mechanism between Mideast conflict and the US economy. When pump prices increase quickly, consumers must cut back on other spending. That's exactly right. Personally, I think such a projection is wildly optimistic. If Israel and Iran start lobbing thousands of missiles at one another, we could easily see the price of oil surpass 150 a barrel and it is likely that the average price of gasoline in the U? S would shoot past $7 a gallon. And if nuclear weapons are used in the middle East, there is no telling what might happen. Well, that's the dream. That's the dream of the.
Speaker 2:The neocons are licking their chops. They're ready for this. They're ready for this. They're ready for the apocalyptic showdown. That's what they want. That's what they've been pushing. Every so-called conservative think tank, you know, right down to almost every conservative radio host pushing this, even subconsciously. Maybe they don't even know that they're doing it. They're pushing it Right now.
Speaker 2:The financial markets are waiting to see if Israel chooses to retaliate. If the Israelis strike Iran and oil infrastructure is targeted, that will definitely send oil prices up. If Israel does retaliate and it becomes a full-fledged conflict, that's a different story. And maybe Iran's platforms, refineries, are taking out or taken out, and that would send prices up. This is from the analyst and Michael Snyder says.
Speaker 2:I think that is what is going to happen at this moment. It is being reported that Israel is preparing to retaliate. When that occurs, the price of oil will go nuts and people all over the US will blame Israel for the high price of gasoline. No, not really. They'll blame Iran, and I think that's the whole point. Right, because we have a. Iran is connected to Russia, right? Iran is three times the size of Iraq. Iran is oil rich.
Speaker 2:You only have to look at the plan that they've had, the plan that was hatched by the Bush administration, which is really the neocons after, after and before 9-11, but especially after the seven countries in five years. You got to go. Look at what Wesley Clark said that they were planning on September 12, 2001. They're not done here yet and I think they're throwing Hail Marys. It's like the dollar is losing purchasing power at a rapid rate probably not expected. You have the emergence of the BRICS nations.
Speaker 2:Folks, gerald Cilente is right when all else fails, they take you to war. Do you guys see this? Where are the adults? I keep asking this. They used to have off-ramps for this kind of stuff and there used to be summits Hell, we even had. We used to have gosh, we this kind of stuff. And there used to be like summits hell, we even had, we used to have gosh.
Speaker 2:We have the worst like entrepreneurs and see, oh, I don't even call them entrepreneurs, whatever these figureheads or silicon valley, uh, degenerates and weirdos that we have, that aren't even. They're not. They're not the, the entrepreneurs of old like henry ford. Henry ford, like in the in world war one or leading up to that, he tried to send out an envoy. He chartered a ship and tried to get people of different backgrounds and with influence to go and try to create an environment for peace. No one does that. That was a private citizen who just happened to be an industrialist. We don't have any of those. There's no off ramps anymore. They don't have an off ramp for peace in ukraine. We just have crazy like peak fluoride people screaming to you know, uh, how gonna, we're gonna raise a rainbow flag in moscow tomorrow. You know, that's they. They don't care what happens with nuclear war, it doesn't matter. We just we got to get there. They took the, the vaccine chip out and put the war chip in in the back of their npc head and they're ready for a total annihilation, that war is sewn up for them. So we're not even talking about peace there. We're not talking about peace here. Nobody's meeting for there's no summits.
Speaker 2:Where in the hell is the united nations? I thought that, you know. I thought they were about peace. I'm doing this tongue in cheek, folks.
Speaker 2:The United Nations building was built on a Rockefeller piece of property. You know what the United Nations building used to be? It was a slaughterhouse. So it's kind of apropos, it's not. It's not it's. It was a slaughterhouse. That was the original location of the united nations building. Where is that? Where is that entity right now? No one that was. That was what was sold to us after world war ii.
Speaker 2:We had to give up sovereignty. We had to join this supranational body. We had to be part of the United Nations to end all wars. Isn't that why? Wait? Wait a minute. We did this before. This was League of Nations with Woodrow Wilson. I thought it was the war to end all wars.
Speaker 2:I guess the point I'm trying to make is, if you're really paying attention and you know anything about history, it's really weird that no one wants peace, no one Anywhere. Weird huh Kind of. In that season. Yeah, iran has steeply raised oil exports, the main source of its revenue, during the Biden administration, after they were severely reduced to do measures taken by the Trump administration. The White House has argued it isn't encouraging Iran to raise exports and is enforcing sanctions. Lower Iranian exports would lead to a further rise in oil prices and the cost in gasoline in the US, which would be a politically sensitive issue. Instead of using their oil money to fund terror organizations, the Iranians could have lived in luxury, but, to be honest, iran could have been one of the most prosperous countries in the entire planet, but instead they have foolishly chosen a much different path.
Speaker 2:Well, can I be on nobody's side here and having my whole life just having to constantly concentrate on where 26 of the world's oil output comes from, can we just move away from that? Can we just maybe we do our own domestic drilling? We look for other ways? It's only 20, it's 24. It's 24 of the world's output total in the region. I looked that up when I was 20 because I was like does all the oil come out? Does it look like majority? It's not the majority, it's 24%. But it takes 90% of our foreign policy focus to put on the Jeopardy music again. Why is that, tony? Why are we constantly focused there? It's kind of weird. Huh, you do the math. Yep, one-fifth of all the oil used goes through the Strait of Hormuz. I remember my dad talking to me about this in late 90s. This exact scenario, by the way, like everything that's happening right now, like this exact scenario. One-fifth of all the world goes through the Strait of Oil, goes through the Strait of Hormones.
Speaker 2:We are in uncharted territory, says the author, michael Schneider, and we could soon see a level of panic in the financial marketplace that we haven't seen in a very long time. Meanwhile, economic conditions in the US just continue to deteriorate. Earlier today, I was saddened to learn that even Tesla has decided to use mass layoffs 10% of its global workforce is going to be laid off. Things are definitely not good now, but they will get a whole lot worse if a major regional war goes interrupts in the middle east. It takes energy to make products, transport products and sell products. The price of oil has an enormous impact on literally every sector of our entire economy. If an apocalyptic war in the middle east were to cause the price of oil to double, it would send us into a horrific economic tailspin. So let's hope for the best, but let's prepare for the worst.
Speaker 2:Well, I like again. I don't like doing doom and gloom. I just look around and I go is anybody paying attention to this? They literally have no. There's no prospects for peace and nobody's calling for that. There's no summits. Where are the summits? Where are the leaders in this world?
Speaker 2:When you go back to the 1980s, you had Pope John Paul II, you had Margaret Thatcher, you had Ronald Reagan, I mean okay, and even we were lucky because they had Mikhail Gorbachev. That was head of what Reagan called one time the evil empire, the Soviet Union, and that was the big power stuff. Basically, nothing happened on the planet unless those four people said so. Now you there. You had the premier in china at the time, but they weren't anything like they are that we. They were fledgling power. They had new china, had nuclear weapons in 1964 because of their direct ties to the soviet union, but they really weren't an economic. We had to build them up first and that was post-Cold War, after Tiananmen Square. That's when we really started to open up our markets for China, but nothing really happened unless, again, reagan, pope John Paul II, thatcher and gorbachev allowed it. Not, really we have.
Speaker 2:We're in a free fall now. There's nobody in charge. Just, I mean, I guess you could say the leaders now the world are. I mean, putin has some degree of leadership somewhere. Xi Jinping, right? Is it the people you want in charge? There's always a vacuum. And as our country has gotten more corrupt and, of course, as we have the duopoly of the two-party system and the stranglehold on our politics, we don't fight back. We have in the United States, and especially in, like Texas, we have the Republican party and unfortunately they neutralize all of your outrage and turn it into nothing, and that's been going on for so many years. Now it's starting to really show. So these are open questions.
Speaker 2:Folks Watch out at the pump. Strange times, I could definitely buy that and then it won't matter. Like you know, it's not just. There's a human cost to rising prices. I think it was the movie the Big Short, you know, and I think it was Brad Pitt's character, and he stops them from celebrating that they're right about this collapse. I forget the scene, but he was like people die. This is going to cause death in this country People on fixed income, people that have to choose between meals and medicine, and the central bank, the federal reserve, just prints money into oblivion and devalues the currency. And people on fixed income? Those are the first people to be hit by economic uncertainties, inflation, shortages, rising prices. That's not just, it's going to hurt, it kills. So why don't we have anybody calling for peace? Well, you're not going to get Speaker Johnson. He says he's a wartime speaker. That's funny.
Speaker 2:You're my age, mike. Why didn't you go fight in any of the wars that you supported, boy? There's so many chicken hawks with that same mentality. I see you guys from a thousand miles away. They're all over our politics, they're all over the radio, they're all in TV. They're my age. You love war so much. Why didn't you fight in them? How do you live with yours? How can you square that? How can you like war? But you didn't go? He live with you. How do you? How do you? How can you square that? How can you like war but you didn't go? But he's a but, he's a good church-going man.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh, all right, one last time. It's been a different kind of show. Uh, let's cover a little bit of uh headlines. Oh, I talked about on on david knight's show today, the, uh, the bank of zimbabwe. Now, if you know anything about fiat currency and how it's been a laughing stock zimbabwe got into such trouble over I think it was in the 90s and so on. They they had a trillion dollar note, they had a trillion Zimbabwe currency units and that was like the laughingstock. It was always you're going Zimbabwe. Well, zimbabwe learned from that and they recreated a new currency. They have a gold-backed currency now and they have said implicitly that we will not create more currency units than is backed by our reserves of gold. That's Zimbabwe. If only the US would learn. And I said this too on David Knight Show.
Speaker 2:And these are some key things to take away from the economic news from today. The Federal Reserve the people that make the money, the people that literally make the money had a balance sheet loss of $948 billion last year. They have a net operating loss on the books of $948 billion. Now, how do you make the money, the books of 948 billion? Now, how do, if you make the money? I know I'm asking is my question too simple? Or do I have to have all these complicated theorems and algorithms and I have to run it through three different think tanks to get the answer? Do I have to run it through that machine, the Whopper on war games from with Matthew Broderick. Do we have to run it through Joshua's the machine to get to this? To like, what is it? How do you, how do you lose $948 billion on your balance sheet when, literally, you create the money? That's pretty bad. That's like having casinos that go bankrupt. How do you do that? How do you? How do you bankrupt a casino? The house wins. I mean, what did you do?
Speaker 2:These are all show for a pair of politics and precious metals, but a silver lining. If you will, let's put this on the screen. I am. If you're looking for, searching for value, you want to see something cool. This isn't something that isn't, uh, talked about a lot. This is on kitco. So, while we're talking about high gas prices and talking about economic uncertainty I get all that and it is a strange time but there are also little stories like this where peak your interest like okay, well, if you, what do I need to be setting aside? Well, here's something to look at Kitco silver to see.
Speaker 2:Second highest deficit in 20 years. A record industrial demand rises 9% in 2024, says the Silver Institute's World Silver Survey, world Silver Survey. So what this means, folks, that the amount of silver that is above ground and I'm scrolling through the article now Metal Focus has noted that the industrial demand continues to dominate the silver market and is expected to hit another record high this year, rising 9%, and again this is raising the deficit to over 200 million ounces. That means that they have to go into what's already above ground and in the supply, reaching in there to make all the industrial uses, jewelry being one of them, but industrial, like solar, like batteries, right, and of course you know there's 40 pounds of silver in a Tomahawk missile You're going to talk about defense related. This is going to be. I think this is where there's going to be a tipping point, where the exchanges and the monetary holdings of physical silver will start to show that what we've long suspected is a lot of these paper markets don't have it, they can't really move it. Physical silver will not be delivered on demand because it can't be, and then this whole thing gets reset. So I think silver is cheap right now, not investment advice, it just is. I don't have to tell you investment advice, you can just go look at the price charts. But it's supposed to be again estimated for this year it's up 9%. Last year was 184 million ounces. That was a deficit in 2023. So we're definitely in uncharted territory when it comes to the actual supply above ground. The gold and silver ratio is messed up.
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