The Arterburn Radio Transmission Podcast
The Arterburn Radio Transmission is a blend of cutting edge commentary, fused with guests who are the newsmakers and trailblazers of our time. Your host Tony Arterburn is a former Army paratrooper, entrepreneur, and historian. Tony brings his unique perspective to the issues facing our country, civilization, and planet.
The Arterburn Radio Transmission Podcast
#482 Defining Moments & the Dawn of Financial Shifts
Why do some moments define our lives, while others fade away? Join us for an unforgettable episode of the Arterburn Radio Transmission as we explore profound reflections on life, trauma, and resilience. We begin with an evocative reading from Lord Macaulay's "Lays of Ancient Rome," recalling Winston Churchill's powerful recitation of the poem during a cognitive test. This sets the stage for a heartfelt exploration of the impact of 9-11, including personal stories of visiting Ground Zero and participating in the Free World Summit. Discover how the events of that day inspired a journey through military service, powerlifting competitions, and deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, offering profound lessons in endurance and growth.
Ever wondered about the grim realities of survival in extreme situations? This episode dives deep into historical and modern scenarios of wild-crafted meat and even cannibalism, from the harrowing tale of the Donner Party to the desperate measures taken during the Syrian civil war. We then turn our attention to the contentious topic of U.S. immigration policy, dissecting the failures and theatrical actions that have led to a divided society. Our critical analysis points fingers at both political parties and their inability to secure American borders, while also exploring the manipulation of public sentiment through actions like busing immigrants to affluent areas.
As we shift gears, we examine the seismic changes happening in the global financial landscape. From Turkey's potential move to join BRICS to the ongoing de-dollarization efforts by countries like India and Saudi Arabia, we discuss the implications of a potential global financial reset. We also delve into the reading habits of Americans and the significance of daily reading routines, emphasizing the timeless relevance of well-researched history. Finally, we draw attention to the gold market, with predictions of it reaching $2,700 by 2025, and the broader implications for the economy. Don't miss this thought-provoking episode that promises to leave you with new insights and perspectives.
Thank you so. So, then out spake brave Horatius, the captain of the gate To every man upon this earth. Death cometh sooner or later, and how can a man die better than facing fearful odds for the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his gods?
Speaker 2:Lord McAvoy, you are listening to the Arterburn Radio Transmission, so Nothing like starting the show off a little Lord Macaulay, lord Macaulay's Rome. Supposedly when Winston Churchill was hospitalized when he was in his 80s, I think he had a stroke they asked him if he could recall some short-term memory or give a cognitive test, and he recited Lord Macaulay's Rome. Welcome to the Arterburn Radio Transmission. I am your host, tony Arterburn, broadcasting as always in defiance of globalist goblins, the neocons and New World Order. It is the 12th of September 2024. I'm joined in studio with Beans the Brave. She's keeping me safe from bad vibes intruders, me safe from bad vibes intruders. I will say I told her about what was happening with the migrants in Ohio and she doesn't seem fazed by that at all. I just reassured her. I said anybody eats you, I will eat them. So it's mutually assured instruction. We'll just go, we'll just put that out into the universe. I don't think anything's going to happen to Beans the Brave, but it is the 12th of September, ladies and gents, and I'm always reminded, no matter what. This time of year.
Speaker 2:The 11th comes and goes in New York City, and the night before the anniversary, 9-11, I was walking in Ground Zero with Charlie Robinson, who is the host of Macroaggressions, wrote. The Octopus of Global Control, billy Ray says. Billy Ray Valentine says he's the hardest working man in alternative media, absolutely true. And then I was there with Billy Ray Valentine himself. Then we went down to ground zero at night and that was an experience for me. I really took a lot out of that visit. And, of course, I spoke the next day at the Free World Summit that we had and it was really about, you know, things that have happened post 9-11 world really digging into the research, things that have happened post 9-11 world, really digging into the research. And I was so proud to be a part of that panel. I followed Wayne McCroy as if you ever heard Wayne McCroy and break down all the symbology and the things that really go on behind the scenes that make our reality what it is. You know, again, we live in an existence that is far more mysterious and complicated than most of us would like to admit. I don't have a problem with it, but most of us, I think people get on a certain operating system and they don't feel comfortable with the amount of unknown. And I just again following that panel and so every year you know, following 9-11, I always have a couple of days where I'll just reflect on how strange life has been for me. I mean, just, you know I was part of the first army company on the ground in Kandahar, afghanistan, following 9-11. It really set the tone for my life.
Speaker 2:It's funny, there was this bifurcation point and if you know me, you know what was going on in my life. First of all, on 9-11, I was representing the United States in Sofia, bulgaria, at the World Powerlifting Championships. I was a paratrooper, I was a military policeman out of Fort Bragg and of course it's not even called Fort Bragg anymore, but I was at Fort Bragg, home of the special operations and the airborne, and I was 21 years old, the colonel that I had because I'd volunteered for my first tour. When we got back he said I found out, you set world records and Arterburn, we just you know we're happy to let you go lift. So go win, go represent the unit. And I did and I worked my way up and I won nationals.
Speaker 2:So I got on the US team and so my life prior to that was I wanted to get into the Olympics. They were really, really pushing the Olympics was supposed to take on powerlifting and never actually ended up doing it, but that was a big push back then. The IPF, the International Powerlifting Federation, and so many other organizations were pushing for that. So, like, my mindset was was powerlifting and I was going to go back to Rockwall, texas. I got in orders to be a corporal recruiter, which is only like 10 of those in the whole army I mean. So I was well-liked by people like Lieutenant Colonel David Bradley and they were helping me out, helping out a young man.
Speaker 2:So I had a totally different life. That was planned and instead I got, you know, I was the tip of the spear in uh, what would become known as the global war on uh terror and uh, ladies and gents, I learned a lot. That was my education. And, of course, following a back-to-back, uh, following uh, afghanistan, I got to do the tail end of the invasion of Iraq and was stationed there, on the Tigris River, in the city of Mosul, which is on the stand on the ruins of the ancient city of Nineveh, and I think I read like 200 books when I was talked about this many times in my shows. But that was my education, that was my university.
Speaker 2:You know the term alma mater means nourishing mother of studies, and so mine's a unique blend of bullets, books, blood. You know this is deep thought and I wouldn't dare say at all that it was easy, uh, but that's the trajectory of my life and that defined. You know, I wouldn't be talking to you today if there's no 9-11. Uh, it shaped my world. It shaped where the experience that I was gonna know and you are your experiences, you're the, you're the hands you shake, you're the books you read, you're the experiences again, the trials and tribulations, what makes a man or makes a person right? It makes the challenges you have either break or you grow.
Speaker 2:A sign hanging up in the wrestling room next to the gym when I trained in high school, when I was training for the state championship and I was very much focused. It's funny If anybody there's people that listen to the show that knew me then, but very few, not the same Tony at all, a very intense young man. Of course he's still there, but I've got him under wraps. Very intense young man. Of course he's still there, but, uh, I've got him under wraps. Very intense young man. But there was a sign hanging up in the wrestling room and it said adversity causes some men to break and others to break records. So you get that pressure applied to you and that was my pressure, um, and I definitely once I crossed a certain threshold, you know, and I read deeply and I thought and I internalized what was happening.
Speaker 2:I wanted to express that and it. There were starts and stops, but that's what this show is. I mean, this is why it's art. It's an art, not a science. It's an expression. It's ART. It's the Art of Burn Radio Transmission. It's an expression of the things you know.
Speaker 2:I think history lives in me. I gravitate towards books, I gravitate towards ideas and I don't shy away from them. And of course, it's not always what you think, it's not always profitable, and that sucks, because the entrepreneur part of me wants to leverage everything and make a profit. But sometimes the truth isn't profitable, sometimes deep analysis makes you very lonely. And I look at the headlines here folks, we got out of this debate. What the hell was that? I mean, take the partisanship out, take all your expectations out, take everything out, step back objectively, look at it. Cold logic. That is stupid. That's all this is. I mean we're just running like again, the world is completely changing around us, because I'm following actual news. I'm following what's happening with the big geopolitical shakeups. What's happening in foreign policy, what's happening in currency, what's happening in commodities, what's happening in markets. That's what shapes the future.
Speaker 2:Politics is bread and circus. You know, von Clausewitz says that war is an extension of politics by other means. Wrong, it's reverse. Now, politics is an extension of war by other means, politics is an extension of war by other means. It's inverted. So this is all tribalism stuff that we're throwing out and it's dumbed down and we all get caught up in it.
Speaker 2:I mean there's funny stuff that happens. I didn't say it wasn't funny. I mean you talk about the. They're eating the pets. You know, and so many people have taken they took me, they ran with it, they got memes already and reels and everything's going on. They're eating the pets, they're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs. I've got an article up on Natural News. I won't read the whole thing, but it's pretty funny. I mean, in that line of logic it's pretty funny. So again, there is that happening. But we're in 9-12, right, so it's always the day after, and I don't remember last year when I did my show, but it was pretty close to when we're going to be speaking in New York.
Speaker 2:And again, there's so much to unpack with 9-11 and the world that it made. And you know, you look at the United States and it's kind of like the movie the Matrix, when the AI tells him to look out the window and he's looking at 1999, and he says this is the peak of your civilization and you don't even know what year it's supposed to be like in the movie. I don't remember, it's some way off centuries in. But they peg that timeline and, of course, neo's passport. Mr Anderson, neo's passport expires on September 11th 2001 in the movie.
Speaker 2:So there's weird stuff in our realities and I try not to go down too many rabbit holes. We only have so much time. I want to do some articles, but maybe you know, again I need to do some paratruthers on deep dives, on 9-11, but I'm always in this weird mind frame for a couple of days in that. Just think I do a lot of retrospection, introspection. I reverse the timeline, see, you know there was so many things, these crucial points in my life that happened at that juncture and again you're talking to a different man.
Speaker 2:I don't even think I would sound like this Isn't that interesting? You know, you're forged by that. I mean too much and you die right. It's like Nietzsche said what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, but sometimes it just kills you. So it's not always a victory, and sometimes you have these imprints of the soul where you've seen things that you can't unsee. It's like the magic trick was revealed and you're left with the method right. You're left with that and not so much the magic. All right, we're going to jump into some stories and I'll start with the natural news story. Okay, again, I try not to jump on these bandwagons, but there's a point made in this article that I think is apropos to what we're facing here on the horizon economically. So let me pull this article up. This is natural news. Again.
Speaker 2:Haitian migrants demonstrate remarkable food survival skills. Americans take note they're demonstrating some survival skills. You may be interested in what they're doing. Whatever you think about Springfield and the Haitian migrant invasion, one thing is crystal clear when the famine hits hard, the Haitians know where to find food. Average Americans who are living on processed junk food from the grocery store will largely be clueless and will starve. The coming engineered food collapse and financial collapse will indeed see migrants slash invaders, demonstrating a much higher survival rate than typical Americans, as they truly possess more street survival skills.
Speaker 2:Eating geese caught in the city park is known as wild crafted meat. If things get extreme enough, you will see widespread cannibalism in America. Well, you would, wouldn't you mean? If you really really drill down in a lot of the post-apocalyptic writers, you know, like, there's that novel, the road. I mean again, if you really get logical about it, like, where does this go? You're talking about massive population with a food supply that is cut off in some kind of cataclysm or a collapse of society. You would absolutely see that and it seems harsh, you know, like, because we haven't really had to ever face something like that. But that happened with the Donner party, you know, in the 19th century out West. You know they had that movie alive about the. Were they a Venezuelan soccer team? I forget, they were in the Andes, anyway, but they had the same experience. You know that's something that a lot of us could ever see ourselves doing. But again, this is something to take note. This is actually happening and again happens all over the world.
Speaker 2:People eat the animals. I remember covering a story during the height of the Syrian civil war which we were gleefully taking part in with the Obama administration and a lot of people like Lindsey Graham, were calling for us to get into that war. We need to send hundreds of thousands of troops or they're going to kill us all. I remember him just so infuriated that was when my show was on 570 KLIF in Dallas and I remember just being infuriated hearing this kind of stuff and I go literally, they're eating the animals from the zoo. Literally, they're eating the animals from the zoo. Some of the quote-unquote insurgents this was like ISIS and people that we were funding yes, ladies and gentlemen, we were funding. They were eating all the zoo animals. They ate the lions. Yeah, this is eating geese, and of course, that's wild-crafted, crafted meat. And, yes, people will begin eating people, it says, although it's extremely toxic. Well, there you go, folks. They're demonstrating remarkable food survival skills.
Speaker 2:And this is, you know, we're not getting to the root of the problem. The problem is is that we don't have rule of law in this country and that, by design, you have to understand. It's not incompetence that we have a collapsed border, it's not that they can't figure out how to have a bipartisan legislative love fest and hug each other and, you know, reach across the aisle. And reach across the aisle. No, it's because there's a coordinated, systematic plan to break America's borders, to destroy from within with a, a cloward and piven strategy, and it serves so many purposes. I mean, first of all, you can appeal those that would have the power or the political clout to stop it, or neutralized by the Chamber of Commerce, and that would be your so-called right wing, because they say well, it's free market, you know we're getting all these, these factories, and you know these housewives, and you know, all across the United States and these affluent neighborhoods need their illegal alien maids, and then that kind of all works out. You know we've got labors down, profits are up in the short term, that's true, and that's what you get that kind of wink and a nod. Well, you get the Republicans.
Speaker 2:They'll raise money and they've been raising money on it since I was a kid. I mean, I grew up in Texas. It used to be a Democrat state. We had Ann Richards and you know, but it was Democrat in a different kind of way. It's like the old blue dog Lyndon Johnson, a Democrat kind of a conservative Democrat, dixiecrat, whatever you want to call it. That changed in the early 90s and then, of course, you had George W Bush, but they've been running on.
Speaker 2:We're going to secure that border. We're going to secure that border, we're going to have a secure border. I mean, it's the grift that keeps on giving. They have raised countless millions, maybe billions of dollars over my lifetime and not done a damn thing, nothing. And then you have, like you know, you have somebody like Greg Abbott, who's governor of Texas, and he says, well, we'll just, we'll show, you know, washington will show the elite, we'll just bust the illegal immigrants to Martha's Vineyard.
Speaker 2:Well, that's a that's real good political theater, greg, but that's not the answer. Right, and you've? You have abandoned your duty to protect the people of Texas. You've abandoned your sacred oath. Are you just going to continue to comply with whatever the federal government's doing? You have again a solemn responsibility to stand up and do something, and you don't. And the people of Texas elect you to do that. I mean, if you took a poll, I mean the people that vote that way, they want something done. The people that vote that way, they want something done, but it just never gets done. And that's because there's incentives to keep it from being done until it's too late. Right, they're going to continue to do not only population replacement, but they're going to overwhelm the system and a lot of this too.
Speaker 2:It gets us to hate each other, right. We start looking at the other. It's like it's their fault. Why is it any of the migrants' fault that they're here? It's not their fault, I mean. They chose to come here, right?
Speaker 2:But let me tell you something In the military, if somebody comes and takes something out of your footlocker, they steal the contents of whatever's in your footlocker. If you left that footlocker unlocked, then you and the thief get punished Maybe everybody, depending on the mood of your drill sergeant. Do you understand the logic in that? And now we have people just leave the footlocker unlocked on purpose, and then we're going to blame the people that come and take the contents out. Well, maybe some of the blame, but those people aren't. They were told to come here. They're being incentivized, they're being funded. These NGOs.
Speaker 2:I promise you, if you actually went after those who fund, coordinate, send debit cards, leaflets, propaganda, all of the stuff, all of the infrastructure needed to get those people here, if you actually went after those entities, if you went after those people, a lot of this stuff would dry up. You don't even need a wall. What you have to have is you have to have the will to have the rule of law prevail. If you take the troops out of South Korea and put them in South Texas and tell them look, we're going to have a, that's where you really ought to have a DMZ. You know, you used to have it on the 38th parallel between North Korea and South Korea. You know this demarcation.
Speaker 2:But what we need is something around the southern border with the same thing, except it should be humanitarian, like a Marshall Plan, because a lot of the stuff that's happening in South America we went in through years of intervention and coup d'etats and economic warfare and other things and collapsed some of these societies on behalf of multinational corporations and interests. Did you know that? You know you read Smedley Butler War is a Racket from the 1930s. He's like, hey, I didn't, I never served. He was the most highly decorated Marine Corps general of all time, at least at the time, as a hero. But he wrote a book called War is a Racket and one of the things he talked about he's like you know, I never fought for democracy, I fought on behalf of the United Fruit Company and that's the cold, hard reality of it.
Speaker 2:So there's a lot of blame to go around. What you need is you need some real. You need people that actually lead, not people that bus migrants up to Martha's Vineyard, which is absolutely disgusting and cowardice, and I can't stand it. Every time I see somebody laughing about it. I don't think it's funny. I think there's people that are legitimately refugees politically, that need help, and I think we're the kind of country that should do it, and we're also the country that told all those people in Afghanistan that we would stand by them when we left them to the Taliban. And that's what my war was about. Right, we're going to take the Taliban out and then, 20 years later, we put the Taliban back in. Isn't that interesting? It's kind of like World War II. You know the good war 50 million dead, the world turned upside down, atomic weapons, europe in ashes. What did we go to war for? Oh right, poland. And then we give Poland to Stalin. See, a lot of this stuff.
Speaker 2:If you got to step back and you got to start running it through, you know some lot, some aristotelian logic. You got to start running it through, uh, step by step, like is this worth, it? Is this real? Does this matter? When you do, when you look at the world. That way, it starts to become a lot different, because we're all look, we're supposed to get caught. I mean, the headline of drudge right now is, I don't know like what does this mean? It's maga vixen's battle. This is the headline of drudge. Literally, we're living in the eye of the apocalypse and the great reset and the new world order and uh, that's the headline of drudge. It has, uh, marjorie taylor green and laura loomer and they're battling off something right and I'm supposed to click on that. I don't care, it does not matter, truly, does not? You have to dig deep into here to find anything of substance, anything of substance.
Speaker 2:And this is one of the most viewed news aggregators in the world, and we're about halfway through the show. I'm going to go to the Rockfin chat really quick. I want to remind people, too, that you can follow the live video stream over on rumble as well, on the america unplugged channel. That's where we go live and, of course, uh, rockfin, rockfincom on the american america unplugged channel. I do a show over there every saturday with uh, billy ray, valentine of the infinite fringe podcast and the legendary Don Jeffries. I see Jason Barker in the chat. Yeah, jason, appreciate you pushing this out on Free World as well. We need to talk about Free World. I got some ideas on that.
Speaker 2:That is Melissa reading the poem. That was a great day. I had Melissa come in and I said, would you read Lord McAulay's poem? We went into the studios at KLUP early in the morning a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, and I, I over. I put the show over that, the reading over the Megadeth conquer or die. I see Greg Talon in the chat.
Speaker 2:Rhonda Tate Good to see you, rhonda Little. John Gardner Goldsmith, great guard. I need to get over on your show, guard. We got much to discuss. My friend, please remind me, because I literally I was just talking about 9-11. I mean I remember what I was like a year ago. I'm in New York City with Billy Ray Valentine, with Charlie Robinson, with Wayne McCroy and others, with Don Jeffries, and I remember what I ordered for lunch. I remember what the bill was. I mean it was like it just happened, but that was a year ago and that's something is up on time.
Speaker 2:Uh, amanda king says, caught this live on rumble by chance and came to rockfin to once again beg for more paratroopers. Thank you, amanda. I promise mr anderson and myself. I have two paratroopers in the hopper. The next one we're going to do and it'll be one like you've never heard we're going to do one on Watergate and Nixon. That's not like what you hear, like mainstream, and I'm somewhat of a I wouldn't say an expert, that's probably not. I'm a connoisseur of that timeline and because I've seen the movie Nixon by Oliver Stone more times than Oliver Stone I think I have, I would go head to head and see. I think I've seen it more than the director has, but I know a great deal about that timeline. All right, good to see all of you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, lots of comments, lots going on over on the on the Rockfin chat. I'm doing my best every week to make sure that we're here at 11 am central time. Last week I was in Florida at a conference. It's just hard to get the show done from the road but I need some better equipment. But I don't think I'll be on the road on a Thursday anytime soon. So please get here to spend a little time with me. All right, let's jump around a bit.
Speaker 2:Lots going on in the financial sector. Again, you know so much of what drives our reality is the undercurrents, are the financial world folks, and that's just the way it's always been. That's the way it will always be. So if you want to get like, if you want to prognosticate, if you want to do your best to look into the future, you start seeing what's happening here, like the rumblings in the commodity sector, and you know what's driving this.
Speaker 2:I was talking to David Knight this morning and you know Turkey is who's part of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that should be, should have been defunct, you know, at the end of the Cold War somehow still going and has turned into this war-seeking machine. Turkey is looking to join BRICS, which would be a major move. So Brazil, russia, india, china, south Africa, saudi Arabia could be Turkey. Turkey's got a lot of gold. You just see the world resetting right now From're, you know, from 1944 at Bretton Woods, which was the beginning of the so-called liberal New World Order. And that's what a lot of these globalistsborder payment systems between China and Russia accelerating Again. India is doing direct deals. They're going bypassing the dollar system. Saudi Arabia is abandoning the petrodollar.
Speaker 2:These are not headlines on financial networks. You have to hear them and hear it. Places like this. I don't know why. Well, other than the fact that they really don't want you to know this stuff because you'd make different decisions. I think you know there's the part of the magic trick and part of that. The grift is to keep you in the casino. Have you ever seen the movie Casino that the guy starts winning, you know, and they go out and sabotage the plane. Tell him well, you can't do that, stay one more night, just keep them playing. Sabotage the plane. Tell them well, you can't do that, stay one more night, just keep them playing. If you think that you know, if you think tomorrow will be just like today, then you plan accordingly. But what if I told you it's not going to be? What if I told you that the next five years will be? There'll be more change in the next five years than the last 50? Would that give you some pause? Because I promise you it will be. There'll be more by the end. They're accelerating this decade.
Speaker 2:If you remember because I've been on the air before the decade opened up, but especially I was the first show that was on InfoWars of the new decade on a weekday was me. I filled in for David Knight. I was the opening show for InfoWars in this decade. And you go back and that was the opening of January 2020, when Trump had ordered the assassination of the Iranian General Soleimani and a lot. You know the hashtag was World War III and all this other stuff. Well, I had an inkling. There was something not really related to that that was going on and you could go back and listen to my broadcast at the last part of 2019, I just said there's something here. There's like you had the mass exodus of CEOs. There was trillions being created to prop up these liquidity markets called the repos that were the overnight exchanges, and I said there's something happening. I mean like the entire GDP of nations would get put into in one day. I was like there's something happening. So when I did that broadcast, I'll never forget it because I said this is the opening of the Great Reset. It's starting with a bang. This is the decade, like they've got a time frame and they tell you you know, the World Economic Forum's got 2030, and then the UN's got Agenda 2030. Forum's got 2030. And then the UN's got Agenda 2030. And that's part of the milestone in the Agenda 21, which is not the year 2021. That's the agenda for the 21st century and that came out in 1992 out of Rio de Janeiro. They've set markers and timelines and right now the world is being remade.
Speaker 2:Of course we're distracted because we have normalcy bias, so we're all just stuck into this political thing and some of the politics matter. I mean, I'm not again. I try to remove my own biases and everything. There are some advantages one way or the other. Almost no advantages to a Kamala win other than the fact that I think the grassroots would be so much more. I like it when the grassroots is angry. I like it when the Republican Party starts going oh, we're really sorry for being such cowards. We just want more of your money. Can you go away? I like it when there's agitation, but that's about the only advantage you get, the.
Speaker 2:I love how she wants to give a tax credit for $25,000 so you can buy a house. Can you imagine the look on the face of the person who gets the house? Gets the credit, moves in the housing market, does a little bit better because we've printed the dollar into absolute oblivion and somebody says oh well, you know. Hey, here's your new property evaluation. It went up $100,000 in value, so you owe a $25,000 income tax for that. Here's your unrealized gains and here's your free copy of the Communist Manifesto Hail Satan. That's what that would look like. I don't think we'll make it that far.
Speaker 2:As far as like getting any legislation passed I like gridlock, by the way. I love gridlock. Anybody else like gridlock, love gridlock. I like it when nobody can get anything done. That's my favorite, because what you've done is absolutely catastrophic.
Speaker 2:You took this beautiful experiment where, at the end of the 19th century, you could wake up in America with no social security number, there's no income tax, you could just go start a business anywhere. You could just go start a ranch, you could start anything, you could do anything. It was unlimited. And they said you know, you know what America really needs In about 1913, you know what America really needs, you know.
Speaker 2:First of all, it's really sad that we can't we, the banksters, we can't influence your senatorial elections. We really need to get in there, and your legislators are so complicated we got to go to each single one and lobby them. It'd just be easier if we could just go to you, the people, and give you a candidate, fund that candidate. And then we have the bankers, have direct election of senators of the 17th Amendment. That would be so much better, because those founding fathers with their checks and balances and their affinity for the rule of law and the republic and Lex Rex. We don't want any of that. What we want is mob rule directed by us. And then also, while we're at it, can we give you the income tax? We would really love that, because we need you as a debt slave, to pay the interest on the money that we're going to create out of thin air. We're definitely going to need that. So here's your 16th Amendment, which flies in the face of everything that the country was founded on. Oh, and we exempted ourselves, but somehow we're going to have this whole group of people in the United States that exists that consider themselves resistance revolutionaries, that will say that they need to tax us, but we'll never be taxed and it'll only tax and break the middle class, serving our ends. That way, we'll be two classes of people, the haves and the have-nots, and we'll love that because we're the new landed gentry. So let's see what else we can do. Oh, we'll give you the Federal Reserve because, part of our belief system, we created this I'm talking about the elites through this shadowy group called the League of Just Men. We funded this. Well, this kind of crazed, sociopathic, narcissistic writer and so-called economist named Karl Marx. So we funded him and he created a manifesto for us and I'm talking about the world's richest right. That's their stuff. They funded it. Fifth plank of the Communist Manifesto is a central bank. So they got that.
Speaker 2:1913 is a great year. It's a great year if you're a lizard right. Too much history? Is that too much history? Did I? Did I just digress? Did I go into like a pocket of history or something that's? I find out myself doing that because of these headlines, and they're just ridiculous. Here's a fun one. Okay, we'll get off politics, get off history. I'll, I'll pull. I'll pull away from taking you down the New World Order rabbit hole for five minutes.
Speaker 2:Let's talk about books. Let me pull this up on the screen. Can you guys believe this headline? This is zero hedge.
Speaker 2:46% of Americans didn't read a book in 2023. Well, it shows. Of Americans didn't read a book in 2023. Well, it shows. September 6th was National Read-A-Book Day in the United States, but as a statistic and a flag details below, the promotion appears not to be working, as nearly half of US adults said they had not read a book in 2023,. According to a YouGov survey, 46% of Americans didn't read a book no books 46%. One to five books 26%. Six to 10 books 10%. 11 to 20 books 8%. 20 or more 11%. Well, that's something you know. That's a correlation, and I get so busy, especially when you're busy and you do podcasts and you're talking a lot and I read a lot of articles so, like your time reading and intaking information may not come from books, but a book is something a little different, and so what I try to do is, every morning, I read.
Speaker 2:I have a set list of stuff that I read and it only takes about 20 minutes, I mean. But you can do that. But you think you know two pages of the Bible. I read two pages of the Bible. I read two pages of something you know inspirational and or like dives into the subconscious, or Joseph Murphy, who was great and he wrote the Power of Subconscious Mind, and I'll read a couple of pages of Robert Greene, and then I'm setting up a new thing where I'm reading like Will will durant, or a history of the monetary system or something, just always in my wheelhouse, always reading.
Speaker 2:I don't read a lot of fiction, I mean almost none. Uh, I've never. I've always been a biography, history narrative, something real. Now there's great value in literature. But if you'll just think about that, if you just read two pages a day, you could knock out what? At least two or three books a year Easy. It's just a little compounding If you look at a book like oh, that's a lot to take in, but I'd have to run the math on that. But you could at least do four, five, six books easy. Of the 1,500 polled adults, 46% said they had not listened to or read a book in the past year, while 27% said they had read between one and five books and 9% said they had read six to ten. I bet you, as you take and again, depending on the type of books, but leaders are, are readers right? So you go up the chain if you can.
Speaker 2:Still your mind, especially in this time frame and I'm working more I've been buying like I get the physical copy and I get the kindle copies, like to take the kindle with me, especially when I travel, and all my and look, I'm not delusional I know that they can erase books. As a matter of fact, the first book that was ever deleted off of the Kindle download was 1984. So the irony of that. I'm not delusional. I do know that at any time I could be censored there or whatever, but right now I'm pretty much accessible to pretty much anything, right? So I use the Kindle, but I like to get the actual, real copy and hold it in your hands.
Speaker 2:I just bought this book on war and gold and it just intrigued me. It's going through the and it's it's magnificent. I don't. I think it was written like in 2014, but it's really detailing right now, the, the history of the, the new world, you know, like, over the past 500 years. And uh, the conquistador pizarro, when he goes into, uh, conquered the inca and peru and they, like they, it's so improbable that he would have ever been able to do that. I mean just so like. I mean the odds were just not even close and he ended up. You know, he told the Inca, though he said something really interesting to them. He said that he told us that the Lincoln, the Incan leader, was Alahuapa, and he told him. He said my men are sick, they have a sickness of the heart and they need your gold. They have a sickness of the heart and they need your gold. That stuck with me, and he said that the gold was the sweat of the sun. So that's Al Wapa, the leader of the Inca. It's a brutal story, by the way, but that's what I'm working on.
Speaker 2:11% of Americans are particularly voracious readers, having read 20 or more books in that time frame. Mystery and crime stories, as well as history books, were the most read genres in 2023, with 37% and 36% respectively. Poetry was the least read genre. Oh the poor poets. Least read genre. Oh the the poor poets.
Speaker 2:You know I love poet, I love a good poetry. You know I'll memorize a good poem. I I love poetry. But let's, let's all be honest, you know, I mean, there's a reason. Poetry is written. The poets the lonely author. It's a, it's a lonely vocation. You know, victors usually don't write the poetry, although George S Patton did. He was a victor and a poet at the same time. So props to General Patton A slightly higher share of men read poetry 9% than women 6% and the genre was more popular among younger age groups. Oh, that's because you stopped the 18 to 29 year olds stop reading poetry when they get older. Isn't that funny? So that's kind of a wake up call. So that's kind of a wake-up call. Well, in this time.
Speaker 2:I find it would be a good idea and I'm doing this right now just going back through the timeline, reading good, solid, well-researched history, and you can go back. I mean, the farther you go back you've got to remember, like Edward Gibbon, who wrote the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Do you know when that was published? I didn't know this when I was a kid and I was on. This is in Iraq. They have the satellite and you can get five minutes of Internet time. So I go in there and I got five minutes to log in and it's on the satellite link and I'm like, okay, go to Amazon and I'm going to order some books, because that's what I do, you know, I'm just that's my hobby, it's what I want, to my escape. There's no television, there's no, nothing there. They didn't have any of that kind of stuff then.
Speaker 2:And I ordered Edward Gibbons' Decline to Follow the Roman Empire, the first three sets, the first three volumes. And it arrives and I pull it out of the den. I'm like this is so cool. And I'm reading the inscription and I'm like, oh, in the front page, I'm like this was published in 1776? Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 2:He was a member of Parliament, british Parliament, and he supported the war on the colonists. It wasn't lost on him of how empires come apart. I don't know why that escaped him, but he was a proponent of continued war on the colonists, which is a really big blow to Great Britain's standing. And of course they tried to get it all back through the secret societies, which is open question. Did they With the Cecil Rhodes and the Roundtable? And you know that eventually became things like the Council on Foreign Relations that are intertwined with the British and the city of London. And we could go on for days. Maybe they never really lost the colony, right, maybe they continued it by other means.
Speaker 2:But yeah, 1776 was the year that the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire came out, and it's written a lot differently, but there's so much rich history in that yeah, there's again, you can. There's enough great history and biographies to last you five lifetimes out there. You don't even need to find any new books and you can learn a lot just studying the past. The further you look in the past, the further you see in the future we have. I think there's some wisdom in that. All right, let's see what else we got. I was looking.
Speaker 2:You know we're talking today with David Knight on the price of gold and something odd is going on. I'm sure you're noticing it too. You see these, these prices, and I'll give spot prices here in a second but the trend, the de-dollarization trend, is continuing. It's accelerating. You have I read today that Russia is it's up 601 percent of gold purchase 601 percent on their purchases of gold in the last month. And you know, you look at the price and you look at.
Speaker 2:You know Jerome Powell talking about lowering interest rates by 25 basis points. That will create a liquidity spread in the market. The market's already anticipating it like a drug addict. You know that's anticipating the next fix. I mean, they're just like when is it and what are you going to do? You know I need a hit of that really bad. They're definitely anticipating that. But that should everything that they've done with raising interest rates at the fastest rate in history, everything they've said. You know we've licked inflation, we're going to. You know we're going to turn that back. They haven't.
Speaker 2:And I have evidence. Uh, the evidence is right here. Uh, the price of gold is two thousand five hundred and forty eight dollars for a troy ounce. Uh, it's not breaking its all-time high quite yet, but it's close again. Silver is at twenty29.74. So 29.74 Luciferian Bankster notes make one troy ounce of silver. It takes 87 ounces, or right at 87, 87 ounces of silver to make one ounce of gold.
Speaker 2:Ladies and gents, wrong with that? If you go and read history, there's something terribly wrong with that, by the way, and I'll leave you with this. This is where my mind's always going. But they had the chart of the gold GDP share of GDP. In market cap it is 16 trillion. Silver is 1.4. So basically, you know, almost at like the 15 to 16 to 1. And that's the way it was always been. Even the market cap truly finds it, but the actual price models don't, and that's the tell right. All throughout history what we've seen is that silver is about 10 to 20 to 1. 87 to 1? Come on, that's just nuts.
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Speaker 2:I didn't get to this article, but this was Money Metals and Mike Meharry, ing Bank. The gold rally is just getting started and they're calling for $2,700 gold in 2025. This is, again, money muddles, but we're just in this era where there's a again. They tell you so, pay attention. They tell you there's a great reset. Pay attention, right. They tell you that there's going to be a new economic world order. Pay attention, right. This is something that is happening. It's happening slowly, on some fronts faster than others. It's definitely not part of the political or popular narrative lexicon.
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