The Arterburn Radio Transmission Podcast
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#496 Power Shifts: From Middle East Conflicts to Economic Revolutions
We have before us the opportunity to forge, for ourselves and for future generations, a new world order. Good evening, folks. You're listening to the Hour of the Time. I'm William Cooper. The chair is against the wall. The chair is against the wall. John has a long mustache. John has a long mustache. It's 12 o'clock, americans, another day closer to victory. And for all of you out there on or behind the lines, this is your song. I'm Weber Bye Wade, veteran of three foreign wars, entrepreneur and warrior. Poet Tony Arterburn takes on the issues facing our country, civilization and planet. This is the Arterburn Radio Transmission. Welcome to tomorrow. Ladies and gentlemen, it's the 23rd of January 2025.
Speaker 1:I feel like I'm trying to consume the news through a fire hose. It used to be, you know, when I started in radio, it was one, two, three things a week tops, and now it's just overload. I looked across the board and I just kind of selected four or five things we could talk about. We have lots to get to. It's funny. I heard Michael Savage say one time whenever a host tells you they have lots to get to, they have nothing to get to. But I actually do. I don't know if I can cover all the articles that I have up today, but we will certainly try. I'm in studio with Beans the Brave. She's here to make sure that we have protection from bad vibes, intruders, woodland creatures, anything that would disrupt the transmission. Glad to have her here. Much, much to discuss.
Speaker 1:I was on the David Knight show this morning and we were talking about leading up to the inauguration the second inauguration of Donald Trump. He launched a meme coin and I think it has like a 30 some odd billion dollar market cap. So, out of the blue, there's a meme coin and I'm going to be talking about that throughout the year, trying to distinguish the difference between the actual crypto space, which is decentralized, tokenized money right or should be, and a way for you to be outside the system, and then something that's just clown world, which is these meme coins that are ubiquitous, they're everywhere, they're pump and dump. If you don't get in in the right time, you get left holding the bag. We sell these celebrity coins and things. I'm in the crypto space. I love it.
Speaker 1:I love Bitcoin. I think it's an innovation that helps humanity. I think that the vision of whoever or whatever Satoshi Nakamoto was is good for the world, because it's the antithesis, at least in theory and on paper. What Bitcoin is? The antithesis, the nemesis, if you will, of fiat currency and central banking, which is truly satanic and evil. It robs people of their work, it robs people of their creativity, it enriches the very few, it fuels the military industrial complex all the stuff that you hear me talking about.
Speaker 1:There wouldn't be a deep state if you didn't have fake money, a lot like it is now. You can't lose trillions of dollars like having Donald Rumsfeld coming out on 9-10 of 2001 and couldn't account for $2.3 trillion. You don't have that. So Bitcoin offers some alternative, at least in the digital age, along with gold and other things that are money in and of themselves.
Speaker 1:But I'm very concerned with these meme coins. I'm going to continue to talk about that. I know it's not a popular thing. I don't invest in them. I don't traffic in them. I definitely wouldn't be a proponent of any meme coin, even though it can make you filthy rich, which you know it's funny. There's just a lot more important things than being rich. Okay, it doesn't't if you make a certain amount of money. I'm just wondering what is you going to get? A nicer meal, you get a nicer flight, what is what? Is it that you need that? You need to sell your soul for a meme coin. So I'm not a fan of any of this stuff.
Speaker 1:It doesn't serve a function. So whenever you're looking at a cryptocurrency, are you wondering about that? Does it serve a function? So whenever you're looking at a cryptocurrency or you're wondering about that, does it serve a function? Well, some people could say XRP serves a function, right, or because it integrates with cross-border payment systems between banks, or that Ethereum serves as a function because of contracts and things. Well, there's arguments for that. Or smart contracts, whatever you want to call those things. There's arguments for that. Or smart contract, whatever you want to call those things. There's arguments for that. But I'm just being the harbinger of being the ghost of Christmas future If you look at some of these meme coins. That's to me, that's the kiss of death.
Speaker 1:When you're talking about innovation, new spaces remember the dotcom bubble, folks OK, now this is parapolitics and precious metals. So we go into a little bit of that, right, we go into some of the wealth and warfare. I'll be talking a little bit about foreign policy today. Lots changed since the uh, since monday. Oh gosh, um, lots of executive orders flying around, some good things, the J6 prisoners were released. Wow, that took forever, didn't it? What an awful, just blemish a scar on the face of America that we did that. You know, we turned petty misdemeanors into treason and sedition and whatever the you know attempts to overthrow the government. They called it General Milley, who's supposedly a tactician of the highest order on warfare and you know, four-star general and head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that J6, we almost lost our Constitution because people were in a building.
Speaker 1:I find that to just be well tragically stupid, and if he meant that even worse. I don't think he did. I think it was a way to get people to accept a judgment of the gravity of the situation, which it was not, because I've always said well, if that's the case, if you can take over a country by occupying buildings, why didn't we just occupy the buildings in Iraq and say, hooray, we won. Because there's no power in a building, it's simply a space. In order to control something, you have to control the military, the codes and the finance, and so on and so forth. So just a black eye across the board and that's being reversed, which is good, and Ross Ulbrich of the Silk Road website and Bitcoin Pioneer also released. So that's good.
Speaker 1:These are some good things, and we've got troops going down to the border, which is not enough I called on when I ran for office. I said we should have an immediate withdrawal of the troops in South Korea as a Cold War relic, and other places around the world and put them in South Texas. And it needs to be humanitarian, but there needs to be rule of law and needs to be like a demilitarized zone in some, in some capacity, like a Marshall Plan, where people that are legitimate seeking political refuge in this country, political asylum, can be hurt. This is one thing I don't understand about government in Texas. I mean, if you're the governor of Texas, why aren't you at the border? I mean that is the existential threat of the entire state. That is again the elephant in the room. Nothing else matters if you lose control of that because you don't have the control and flow of a lawful entry into the space in which you're supposedly controlled. I never understood that, but he made it into a joke. You know, greg Abbott busts people to wherever or Martha's Vineyard, or, you know, puts them into sanctuary cities in the or Martha's Vineyard. Or, you know, puts them into sanctuary cities in the United States. Well, we live here, this is our country. I find that to be I know it did well in the polls because you have to think a little bit further, you know, than just oh, that sounds funny that you gave them to the people that they say they want sanctuary cities. So I'm looking at the border and thinking well, we have to have troops there, and that's a good thing, don't necessarily need a wall, but we need continuity, we need a little bit of rule of law, we need the ability to keep dangerous people out. That's the whole point of having a border. If you don't have a border, you're not really a country at all. Well, the first order of business.
Speaker 1:I wanted to get to an article that's up on lewrockwellcom. It came out yesterday and, as I was looking through articles, seeing what I was going to talk about today, but it's by Michael Snyder of the Economic Collapse blog and he writes about five historic emergencies that Trump will be confronted with immediately when he returns to the White House. And of course, this is from the 21st, but it holds true three days later. Right? Number one he has a major war. He says Iran has gotten extremely close to being able to build nuclear weapons, and once they're able to do that, it's inevitable that Iranians will distribute such weapons to Hezbollah and other terrorist proxies. Joe Biden had been considering a preemptive strike on Iran's nuclear program, but he ultimately decided not to pull the trigger. Now it's Donald Trump's turn.
Speaker 1:According to the Wall Street Journal, a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities has been under serious review. Well, with this I disagree with Michael Snyder. I don't think that they automatically will turn over nuclear weapons to Hezbollah and other terrorist proxies. I think that is a little bridge too far. I don't think that's an automatic. That's more like a suicide pact. And I don't think that Iran is a suicide nation. I don't think they're an entire country that's wrapped up in a suicide vest. And that's not what I read from history. Because you can't other than the Iran-Iraq war. Can you name the countries that Iran has invaded? No, you can't. I mean they fight a proxy war against the House of Saud in Yemen, but that's interesting because the Saudis and the Iranians were doing joint military exercises. So I agree that he's got a major war on the horizon, but this is something that's of our own making. As a matter of fact, I covered today on David Knight's show, something that wasn't covered in the mainstream media. But Iran and Russia just signed an agreement, an economic pact that is very historic agreement. An economic pact that is very historic. And it's based off commodities and it's based off payment systems to be outside of the purview of Western financial oversight. This is where we're headed. It's part of the de-dollarization phenomenon that's going on worldwide.
Speaker 1:The military strike option against nuclear facilities is now under more serious review by some members of his transition team who are weighing the fall of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. We forget about that quickly. You know, you realize that the US and Israel, along with their al-Qaeda allies, overthrew the government of Syria, overthrew the government of Syria and that just kind of just went away. You don't think that this has something to do with a softening up? Of course, you know being a Shia stronghold in Syria and of course that has ties to Iran. These things flow together and it's interesting. These things flow together and it's interesting I thought about that over the last couple of weeks that that story just disappeared. But literally we've been working on that.
Speaker 1:You know Western intelligence, you know, along with the Israelis, have been working to destabilize the Assad regime for quite some time they used that's where ISIS comes from, that's where Al-Qaeda again just means the database. These are proxies used on behalf of those governments to carry out regime change. That's why, when these things were floating around on these podcasts and people were saying there's a thousand, you know, there's intelligence agents are saying, well, uh, there's a thousand al-qaeda here, I'm like, yeah, well, you would know, you literally make them. And uh, you know, alex jones used to call, call it al-ciada for a reason. Yeah, I'm not buying the new narrative and I do think, and I like michael snyder, but this is way too far. I mean, what, what, what points to you automatically seeing the government of iran which, by the way, the bomb?
Speaker 1:This is old technology. I mean, I'm sorry to tell you, but nuclear proliferation. You stop that with agreements and economic outreach and you have to be a leader like JFK. It's one of the reasons that the deep state murdered him in broad daylight is because he was for peace. He didn't want nuclear proliferation. One of the countries that he didn't want to expand into a nuclear program was Israel, and he told him that and it made him really mad. He made all these people mad, very angry. But this is an old technology, folks.
Speaker 1:This was from the the end of the last fourth turning. Every 80 to 100 years you have a. You know, there's four turnings in a cycle for human history. This is the cyclical theory of history. Strauss and Howe wrote the book, the fourth turning in the mid-90s, but every 80 to 100 years. And so that's why you have the American Revolution, and 80 some odd years later you have the Civil War in America, and 80 some odd years later you have the Great Depression and World War II, and then at the end of this is the next fourth turning. That's why everything's so strange, because institutions are thrown on the ash heap, things are redone. There's a massive upheaval, if you will, but the end of the last fourth turning culminated in the birth of the atomic age. It was 1945.
Speaker 1:It's an old technology, of course, if you are determined. India possesses nuclear weapons, pakistan possesses nuclear weapons, so they will obtain them if they already haven't. North Korea has nuclear weapons. These are old technologies and to say that just because they obtain them, I disagree with that. That just because they obtained them, they'll automatically, I disagree with that. If it wanted to blow itself up, that's a good way to get it done. I don't think they'll need an excuse. I think they'll get hit anyway. I think that's what this is all about.
Speaker 1:You keep watching and we'll talk about Ukraine. You keep watching Ukraine, we'll talk about ukraine. You keep watching ukraine and you look at that. But the real energy is going to be over here on iran, like it or not. Number two says michael snyder is a new pandemic. Says if you thought the last one is bad, wait till you see what's coming next. Well, that's funny. That's because what Bill Gates said he said something along those lines. Well, wait till you see what. The next one, and he gets the smile.
Speaker 1:According to NBC News, the Biden administration and Trump's team have been working together to formulate a response to the escalating bird flu outbreak spreading in the United States. Amid an escalating bird flu outbreak spreading in the United States. Amid an escalating bird flu outbreak spreading in the United States, federal health officials have begun to brief members of the incoming Trump administration about how they've responded to crises so far. Well, it's never the thing. It's how you respond, just like COVID-1984, it was the response. It was the Rockefeller lockstep worldwide war against the people by their own governments, putting us on lockdown and you'll never be able to convince me, because I was looking at the actual numbers.
Speaker 1:If you go back to the end of 2020, I was on InfoWars I read an article by Bill Sardi. He was a researcher of, I believe, the highest intellect, one of the smartest guys I've ever heard. He's now since passed away, but he wrote an article that I thought he said it was submitted without comment was the title of the article, and it was the total deaths of people in the US. And guess what, in 2019, in 2020, they were basically on par, adjusted for age and so on and so forth, about the same. So you know this whole thing that the world is on fire and you know it's the worst. It's, it's the black death divided by Ebola times, aids or whatever. No, but you know what happened the next year. That's when you really start to see a problem and guess what was introduced. See, that's when. That's when you get the CEO of One America, the life insurance company, going gosh. We had a 200-year event. We got people from 18 to 64, and they're dying suddenly why, we don't know, maybe it's COVID. You have to think a little bit.
Speaker 1:Apparently, part of that response is $590 million in additional funding to push Moderna's messenger RNA-based pandemic flu vaccine towards approval. Oh well, there you go. The federal government has committed an additional $590 million to push Moderna's messenger RNA-based pandemic flu vaccine. Well, there you go. And, by the way, I mean we have to be serious. I mean, if you don't know by now, like the Moderna has, like that's DARPA written all over it, and then they had, if you recall, they had a breakthrough and then they had, if you recall, they had a breakthrough. They were the first. They've been pushing that, and mode RNA is what it means. Mode mRNA is what that means, moderna. So they were pushing through DARPA and never actually made an actual vaccine until the President Fauci era.
Speaker 1:Number three economic trouble. Inflation is starting to really accelerate once again, and this is particularly true for food prices. He says this there isn't one factor. Bird flu is killing chickens, cutting egg supplies and sending wholesale prices to a record. Extreme heat and dry weather in the world's coffee grown in regions have sent the cost of bruise surging. Chocolate and cereal makers have raised prices of their products too, but we never quite recovered from the lockdowns or the disruption to the supply chain either. He says no president can magically zap the bird flu out of existence or cause it to rain in areas where it isn't raining. The truth is that there is no easy solution on the horizon, and prices on some key staples, such as eggs, are expected to go much higher. Well, prices will go higher. The dollar is weaker, that's a given. You can destabilize a supply chain pretty easy by shutting it down, and that's what we did four years ago or so, but we will see. Number four a historic natural disaster is now being projected, that the fires in Los Angeles will be the costliest natural disaster in US history by a wide margin. Unfortunately, this is a crisis that is far from over, because extremely high winds are expected to return to Southern California this week.
Speaker 1:Yes, there's always that, though, and we always have. Back in the mid-1800s, I was thinking that everybody thinks that the time they live in, just because it's the human nature, you know, you're alive, you're here, it's a very special time and a lot, of, a lot of the times. You're right. Um king solomon said there's nothing new under the sun, but you know, sometimes there is sometimes it's a a variation. History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes. There was times that you know, and there was earthquakes in the mid-19th century united states. One time it was so severe that the uh mississippi river ran backwards. These are things that really happened. You imagine if that happened today it would be? You know, they've always had volcanic eruptions. During the American Revolution it was a mini ice age. A lot of crops were lost in Europe and others because it was so cold and that had to do with, I believe, his volcanic activity and dimming the sun. They didn't have the chemtrails and stuff, and then Bill Gates' balloons, whatever he wanted to do.
Speaker 1:Number five is a government at war with itself. Trump says he wants to drain the swamp and make major changes to how the federal government operates, and Michael Snyder says that's great. Unfortunately, about half of the people that run our federal agencies intend on resisting him. Well, you don't say. That's what they did last time. And of course, we'll see about the new hires. Eighty-nine percent of Republican federal employees said they would either somewhat support or strongly support the administration, while 73 percent of Democrat bureaucrats surveyed they would either somewhat resist or strongly resist. Well, that's about right. Our federal government is literally going to be at war with itself. Government is literally going to be at war with itself. He says. The good news is, 2025 will certainly not be boring. Yeah, may you live in interesting times. That's the old Chinese curse.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right off the bat, though I mean something I spoke with David Knight about today you got to take a sober look at the metrics the metrics on where we are as a country in debt, where we are geopolitically. Just take a sober look. You're going to take your partisan hat off, take your team hat off and look at it. And I was talking to David and I said do you realize and we forget this because we're in the cycle but if you look back and you look at the numbers, the debt of the US, that's something to watch very closely. You know again, when I was born, it was a trillion dollars. By the time I reached 20 years old, it was $5 trillion. So you know five times by the time I was 30 years old, it was $10 trillion, and when I was 38 or so, it was $20 trillion. You see where this is going. And now I'm 45 and it's 36 trillion, and we go a trillion dollars in debt every 90 days and the rate is accelerating.
Speaker 1:Now what that means is just like I told David this morning you look at the central banks. There was 60 different central banks that all cut rates at the last quarter of 2024. What that spells is that the only way out for these governments and the central banks because they've built everything on fake is they have to cut rates to expand the money supply. When you do that, your currency loses purchasing power because it becomes more ubiquitous in the system. That's what inflation is. Inflate means to increase. Inflate the money supply. We're going to have to do that, except on a much grander scale. So, when you see the writing on the wall, to me is the debt's not going to decrease, it's going to increase and spending is going to decrease. It's going to increase and spending is going to increase.
Speaker 1:A lot of these things, like I just there was an article up on the wall street journal vivek ramaswamy has left doge and this is the supposed to be like the newest, coolest thing. We're going to have doge. We're going to cut spending. We're going to cut regulations. The biotech company founder departs Doge after his initial goal of trimming regulations was overtaken by Musk's priority of cutting spending. So already you know a defunct thing. That's what it looks like to me, so it's not really about cutting anything at this point, uh, and we'll see. You know these are good ideas and we got to have something outside of the box. But that the government spending the the course is not going to correct itself. You have to go to a completely different reality in order to have the political will to do that. It's not going to happen overnight. So the spending will increase, the money supply will increase and therefore, ergo, you lose purchasing power in the dollar. Trump even likes a weaker dollar. He said that. But there's other things on the horizon you need to watch and we're going to get into that. A lot of it's the some of the economic fallout.
Speaker 1:Let's go to uh first. I'm going to check the chat really quick. I haven't. I don't do that enough, like people always ask me. Did you see the comment? No, I'm sorry, there's a harps over on uh rumble good to see you harps. And then we've got on rockfin. Got a pretty good amount of chat over on rockfin. It's good to see everybody. Ronda tate, uh.
Speaker 1:Ghost bow says you need to market uh a beans meme coin, maybe. So Maybe I do need to market a beans meme coin. The problem is I wouldn't be able to live with myself because there's no inherent real value to the meme coin. It would just be a thing. What does it do? You could say that about Bitcoin, but it's a decentralized network propped up by infrastructure all over the world that is promoting energy. It's finite. It can't be controlled. I mean, there's all sorts of arguments you can make for Bitcoin that you can't make for a meme coin. Dustin Helm says howdy Tony, and Mark Young Hi Tony. Good to see you guys, good to see everybody. I appreciate you being here.
Speaker 1:All right, let's uh, let's jump into some more articles. This was, uh, on my kind of a, a segue, and I want to talk a little bit of foreign policy too before I get out of here, but this is just a segue into something on Bitcoin. This was up on Natural News. Bitcoin goes global nations eye. Strategic reserves as Trump pushes crypto revolution. The 2025 world economic forum in davos has become the epicenter of a global financial revolution, with finance ministers seriously considering bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset.
Speaker 1:The trump administration's support of bitcoin, including the proposal of a us strategic bitcoin reserve, has significantly influenced this, moving from skepticism to advocacy. Yeah, you folks, if you haven't been in this space, like I mean, if you don't realize how huge this is and what a turn this is. It almost is such a turn that it makes me. It gives me a lot of pause, like I'm certainly like listening to Jamie Demon. You know Jamie Diamond of JPMorgan Chase. He's all for the tariffs now and we'll get. We'll talk about that. That's crazy. You realize what a shift that is. That is absolute insanity on this timeline. That means there's something else going on.
Speaker 1:The us and switzerland's moves have sparked a global trend, with countries like germany, hong kong, russia, brazil and poland exploring bitcoin as a strategic asset driven by the fear of missing out asset driven by the fear of missing out. Bitcoin's adoption represents a broader cultural and geopolitical shift, symbolizing financial independence and challenging traditional systems, particularly for authoritarian regimes. The push for Bitcoin reserves could trigger a global crypto arms race, with nations competing to secure a strategic advantage, highlighting the increasing influence of cryptocurrencies in the global economic order. Well, this last point this is the most precarious, Because, while I agree with the term game theory with Bitcoin maximalists, with the term game theory with Bitcoin maximalists, and there's a reason why Larry Fink of BlackRock is calling and saying there's going to be $700,000 Bitcoin that means that Bitcoin is eclipsing the market cap of gold, and Larry Fink's not a fan. So if you look at this, soberly, take out your biases.
Speaker 1:There's something strange going on and it could be good, because if you have an old system, bitcoin shows up on the scene in 2009 or so, but if you have an old system that is based off debt and right now the world is bankrupt on paper, if you look at the amount of debt worldwide versus the amount of so-called assets, I mean that is based off debt and right now the world is bankrupt on paper. If you look at the amount of debt worldwide versus the amount of so-called assets, I mean a lot of those assets aren't assets. You're talking about a $400 trillion worldwide. Whatever that is, however you want to label that, gold only has a $16.7 trillion market cap and silver is 1.4. Bitcoin is about 1.5 or whatever. It is now 1.6. I don't know, but it's somewhere in that realm. I think it's just a little over silver. There's something to this. Where the governments be able to put that on their balance sheet, they could reset their currencies, but Bitcoin doesn't offer them the ability to extract unlimited resources from whatever they're doing, so it's almost like they want to ride the crash down.
Speaker 1:I'm skeptical of all of this stuff, but there's possible silver linings, if you will. There's possible positive outcomes from all of it. Just be aware. There's possible positive outcomes from all of it. Just be aware. In a stunning turn of events, the 2025 world economic forum in davo, switzerland, has become the epicenter of a global financial revolution. Finance ministers from around the world are now seriously considering the adoption of bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset, a move once dismissed as a fringe idea.
Speaker 1:You know, I just have to say, in the time that I've been in public life and done, I started out with all fringe ideas and now they're pretty much everywhere. Like it's not even like I told you at the beginning of the show, I said welcome to tomorrow. I took that from. That was my old opening line to when I restarted my radio show. This is the when I did this Arterburn radio transmission because I was so outside of the box and I said this is going to be, we're in the tomorrow land. And I said this is going to be, we're in the tomorrow land. You know that started to depart known, uh, acceptable narratives, that comforting thing. You know you have to step outside of it because you're no longer in it. If the longer you stay, the worse off you'll be, because you're playing and you're operating off of uh fallacies and I wanted to do something different with my show, so I'd talk about future events like I'd be talking about the Great Reset in the last quarter of 2019. And it was just this. Not many of us back then. I talked about the Federal Reserve creating $6 trillion out of thin air to prop up the repo markets. There was a lot of things. I was talking about. The largest exodus of CEOs in history. I noticed things going into 2020. This is the great reset decade, folks, and it was a fringe idea. It was a fringe idea.
Speaker 1:Coinbase ceo brian armstrong, a key figure in the crypto industry, revealed the growing momentum during a panel discussion at davos. The energy was palpable through the room. Armstrong be it certainly is a new age. The question is and the danger here is that will it be co-opted? Will there be a hijacking further of this revolution?
Speaker 1:This is a, I believe, a spiritual revolution, because at the heart of fiat currency is pure evil. It's about control, decentralization and human innovation doing what God wants you to do. You're created in the image of God. You're supposed to be a creator. That's what God does. He makes things, creates things, life right. The opposite of that is stifling human innovation, controlling people non-organically, like a totalitarian socialist state. Right, that's anti-god. That's why the first thing to do when you have a communist revolution is they ban religion. They ban, uh, they take god out of it. The state is god.
Speaker 1:Reminds me of that joke that ronald reagan told about the the commissar showing up to the potato farm. And uh, commissar, is inspecting the potato farmer and says you know, I want to see how, how the crops is. Oh, great, commissar, we've done fantastic. And just keeps asking him you know, have you met the protocols? Have you? Have you exceeded expectations for the state? Yes. And finally he says can you give me a number like what, how much, how many potatoes, what are you going to yield this year? And he says well, if we could stack the potatoes as high as we could, the crop would reach heaven, it would reach God. And the commissar says this is the Soviet Union. There is no God. And he said that's great, because there's no potatoes either. It's all living in illusion.
Speaker 1:The Trump administration's embrace of Bitcoin as a strategic asset has sent shockwaves through the global financial system. Once a skeptic, trump has become a vocal advocate for Bitcoin, proposing the creation of a US strategic Bitcoin reserve, an SBR, to hedge against inflation and a weakening dollar. This bold initiative has sparked intense debate in Congress, with supporters like Senator Cynthia Loomis arguing that Bitcoin's finite supply makes it an ideal addition to national reserves. Switzerland is also looking into a strategic Bitcoin reserve. As one country adopts Bitcoin this is the game theory others are feeling the pressure to follow suit. The fear of missing out is not just a phenomenon for retail investors. It's now a powerful force among governments. Countries that fail to act risk being sidelined in a rapid, rapidly transforming global financial system. Germany, hong kong r, russia, brazil and Poland are among the nations exploring Bitcoin as a strategic asset.
Speaker 1:This is what I've been saying, and I think that the problems that Bitcoin solves, along with and, by the way, along with and, by the way, there's an interesting asterisk to put on this, because, if you see, these governments might even start to advocate that you have some, or that people get into the market. They in and of themselves, it's an endorsement of Bitcoin. The issue I have with all of it and this is why I do what I do is you don't hear them say that about gold. They buy it in massive quantities. The central bank Not us, not the US and not Canada, but other countries that want to get away from the dollar. They buy it in record space. Well, the open question is why don't they advocate people owning gold? They certainly look like they're advocating a Bitcoin race.
Speaker 1:It may be one of many things, but I do know that in a global economy where I said earlier, if you're bankrupt on paper and there has to be and they've run the simulations, that's why they call it a great reset, and this is where my wheelhouse this is what I think about they know that they have to get out of the system that they built, have to get out of the system that they built. They want to leave, I think, the average person holding the bag and they'll blame it on outside forces or boogeymen or speculators, like Nixon did in 71, that the speculators were screwing with our gold reserves or making a run on the dollar. So it's unpegged closing the gold window. That was just a way to get us from having to stop converting dollars into gold, because we didn't have it, because we'd inflated the money supply so badly during the Cold War, vietnam, the space race and other things. We didn't have it. Other countries called our bluff. We took the silver out of our coinage starting in 65. That's called debasement. So watch this really closely.
Speaker 1:The world is witnessing a fundamental shift in the global economic order. The rise of cryptocurrencies, coupled with the growing influence of emerging economies like the BRICS nations, is challenging the dominance of the US dollar and reshaping the geopolitical landscape. Trump's proposal for a Bitcoin reserve could trigger a global crypto arms race, with nations rushing to bolster their reserves and secure a strategic advantage for governments hesitating to embrace Bitcoin. The message is clear Adapt or risk being left behind in a world where Bitcoin sets the rules. Well, interesting piece Again. That was by Will Ohtahi over on Natural News. Make sure I gave attribution. That's where we are, folks. Um, in this decade you will see a supplanting, a total supplanting of the financial system that you grew up with, and it's not because I wish it, it's because it's accelerated. It's there like right now.
Speaker 1:Gold already is the world's reserve currency. That's what nations are using. That's what they're basing their futures off of. It's not dollars, it used to be dollars and it has to do with money velocity and the currencies that are held by central banks. In 2021, the Bank of International Settlements made gold a tier one asset from a tier three asset, and tier one is currency. So after that, gold supplanted the euro. That was used to be number two. To be like gold, it'd be like the dollar, the euro, the yen. So when they made gold a tier one asset instead of a tier three asset, it bumped up to number two. So it's right behind the dollar in reserve assets held. And the reason that the they still hold the dollar is not for stability. It's because a lot of things are denominated in dollars. That's the petrodollar folks. But we didn't renew that agreement.
Speaker 1:So when you're talking about like tariffs and other things that really aren't for what, I like tariffs because it's supposed to be economic nationalism, like bringing jobs back. You're supposed to have a. It's a strategic advantage for you to protect industries is why they call it protectionism. I like that in theory, and the reason I like that is because Karl Marx loved free trade. He told you why he wanted it Because it hastened the revolution. The more that you have free trade, the lower the wages go, the more that the proletariat would join the revolution. He even said tariffs were conservative and that free trade hastens the revolution. That's why I said that's Karl Marx, because he believed in the revolution.
Speaker 1:It was basically to get people assigned to the state instead of making a living wage, because in a living wage country you can support a family. That's western civilization, that's the nuclear family, that's values and you don't worship the state. But in a communist utopia, the state is god, so you have to kill it with creative destruction. That's why I've always been against things that sometimes I mean, even as a free market guy. I like free markets and I like, don't like, regulations. Uh, because I think ingenuity and the human spirit builds things. That's what I talked about earlier. That's why we're created in the image of god.
Speaker 1:However, when I see jamie demon start saying that tariffs work uh, let's see if we can pull this article up yeah, this gives me pause, and it's not just because I'm a contrarian folks. I have an issue with this. Like, what is he even saying? Because this is foreboding. You're not supposed to advocate this. He says get over it.
Speaker 1:Diamond backs Trump tariffs as good for national security. Jamie Diamond of JPMorgan Chase in Davos yesterday stated that US tariffs are an economic tool or an economic weapon, and I would put it in perspective if it's a little inflationary, but it's good for national security, so be it. I mean, get over it. Our grand macro strategy report on economic statecraft, published after President Trump won re-election, stressed that political realists, not economic idealists, tariffs are always about national security, raising national savings and key related investments and foreign policy goals, and both Trump's and US history said we would be seeing a lot more of them. As Bloomberg puts it, the current state of play is that Trump could potentially introduce sweeping changes to US and global trade policy, giving him a quote loaded weapon of tariffs for national security goals and new capital investments in the US or foreign policy goals.
Speaker 1:Indeed, following the threat of a 1 February imposition of 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada and an additional 10% on China, all for national security reasons, president Trump has stated, if Russian President Putin doesn't accept a peace deal to end the Ukraine war, the US will impose tough sanctions, taxes and tariffs on Russia's energy sector, which, by implication, might even extend to those buying from Russia or working within it. Well, this is a lot different than what I was talking about. This is not economic nationalism. This is weaponization of the dollar by other means. Doesn't mean that it can't work. The issue that you take away from this, though, is this is not what economic nationalism is based on Peace, commerce and honest friendship. You know, thomas Jefferson, those things were, you know, in Washington's farewell address that we used to read in Congress up until the 1930s no entangling alliances. Yes.
Speaker 1:As the Economic Statecraft Report also stressed, in realpolitik, politic, things aren't static. If President Trump escalates to economic warfare to force President Putin to end physical warfare, russia and China if it's third party neutral trading nights, also detailed in the report and are penalized, can respond with their own economic state craft or two other two legs of grand strategy alongside of it, political and military state craft to up the ante, that's, as the Financial Times says, china is shipping sodium pertrot to Iran to fuel ballistic missiles, which we'll see some in the US go ballistic, and a report claims two undersea cables connecting Taiwan to its outlying island of Matsu were mysteriously cut yesterday. Lots of language going on here, folks. Bloomberg reports that, one by one, world leaders in Davos fall in line with Trump. I think I can think of a few who don't want to Right. This is President Zelensky says. Even if Ukraine peace deal is signed, it would require 200,000 US troops in the country to prove sustainable. This is all on the heels of Trump's inauguration and being in Davos. Well, and I want to cut to that too there's a lot to pay attention to like this we're. I can't even believe this. They're working.
Speaker 1:The era of tariffs. I remember this is not that long ago. I was looked at as just like some kind of strange mutant talking about economic nationalism. This is a lot different. It's part of our history to have tariffs, but this is something completely. This is a departure, and we are in the. There's a lot of things going on. Things going. I read something earlier that even the Gulf of America is starting to show up in official documents. A lot of things happening very quickly. There's decades where nothing happens and weeks where decades happen, to quote Vladimir Lenin. Well, here's another Vladimir, and let's talk about this. Let me stop the screen. Put this up as we end with antiwarcom.
Speaker 1:Zelensky says US troops must be deployed to Ukraine for a peace deal. So the t-shirt man is giving us some a breakdown and, what's funny, that's the same number of troops that lindsey graham wanted to go to syria. The unfortunate thing about me remembering so much is that I do remember this, like it just sticks in my mind lindsey graham calling for 200 000 us troops, 200,000 US troops, to be in Ukraine or to be in Syria. And then I'm you know this whole this overlaps into this new memory that I'm creating. This fold in my mind where Zelensky, the t-shirt man he said he wants US troops must be included in a Western peacekeeping force that he wants deployed to Ukraine as part of a potential peace deal with Russia.
Speaker 1:Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, switzerland, zelensky called for 200,000 European troops to be sent to Ukraine to uphold a peace deal, an idea that's a non-starter for talks with Moscow. That's a non-starter for talks with Moscow. We need contingents with a very strong number of soldiers. Zelensky said Well, this is the whole point. Okay, we just forget about this because people don't know history, especially the commentators and the people that read teleprompters. They don't really understand that the reason that we have this war in the first place is because we expanded NATO. Understand the North American. North Atlantic excuse me, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Nato was a an alliance to carry out George Kennan's long telegram idea that was fused with the Truman Doctrine about, idea that was fused with the Truman Doctrine about communist containment. It was about the alliance in Europe and it was on the heels of the Marshall Plan.
Speaker 1:I know I just said a bunch of things that the news outlets don't understand what I said, but this is where, zelensky, the whole point of why you have the war in the first place is because you had NATO expansion and you had those in Ukraine, and others in the United States in the neocon faction were calling for Ukraine to be added to NATO, which means that if you know the way that NATO works is any NATO country that's attacked is supposed to be by treaty. All other NATO countries that are in it would respond to that attack and come to their aid. That's why it'd be like China setting up another Warsaw Pact and then including Mexico. So if we have any kind of border dispute with Mexico and we have any sort of trade, that we're automatically dealing with China. That's the whole point. So for him to bring this up this is very Think of how many people died because of this arrogant evil man.
Speaker 1:And it's just like Sun Tzu said an evil man will stand on the ashes of his country, will reign over it, reign over the ashes. We, we need contingents with a very strong number of soldiers. Zielinski said from all the europeans, 200 000. It's a minimum, otherwise it's nothing. Well, he's you. He said us troops need to be involved involved or the Europeans wouldn't want to be involved. Well, the United States always would carry that burden.
Speaker 1:Well, again, this is a dead end. It's going to have to be solved a different way. One of the ways would be for Zelensky not to be involved at all. That would be a good start. Somebody who hasn't won I mean, how could you not want a peace deal? Do something. You're not going to win that war and if you have some semblance of strategically winning it, it's going to mean you're. And this is what his one of his advisors that was interviewed back in 2018, 2019 says we're going to get into NATO, but there's going to be a major war and a big portion of the country will be lost, but at the end, we'll be in NATO.
Speaker 1:You've got to understand how these people think. Folks, it's not about the good of the people and it's certainly not patriotism. This is corruption of the highest level. It is absolutely criminal and sick, and that's what I see every time I see something like this, I mean just calling for that means we have a demilitarized zone forever, instead of something that would actually solve the problem.
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Speaker 1:All right, let's take a look at gold prices. At gold prices Right now, gold at 2,758 Luciferian Bankster notes per troy ounce, 2,758 Federal Reserve notes, fiat currency notes per troy ounce. It's within striking distance of another all-time high. I think that's only just the beginning, folks. We've got a lot to watch on the metals markets. Right now, silver at $30.50 an ounce. Pay attention to that. I think those numbers will start adjusting soon. Again, non-investment advice. I just think the gold-silver ratio will start to become historically more in line where it's been in previous centuries, decades, not where we are now. That's a number that I think is artificial, based on supply.
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