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#508 The Dog That Didn't Bark: Markets React to World War III Preview
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Speaker 1:I was on the David Knight Show talking with Travis Knight today and he asked a couple of great questions and it got me thinking because I noticed something he must have noticed it too. We'll talk a little bit about that today which is the markets. What happened to the markets during your preview, your free sample of World War III, and things seem to have calmed down a bit, but that can be deceiving folks. If you know anything about history, if you know anything about geopolitics, if you know anything about the conspiracy theory of history, then you're never, ever satisfied with whatever these kind of outcomes are. You're always asking more questions and questions. As we have found out, ladies and gentlemen, questions are the answer. The more questions, the better. You're always asking more questions and questions, as we have found out, ladies and gentlemen, questions are the answer. The more questions, the better. You've got to question everything, and that's the times in which we live. So, yeah, there's nothing to report, other than there's nothing to report, right, this is something I read yesterday about the Hegelian dialectic, and I've been talking about that for years, but I thought I'd retouch on that because we're getting, I think, primed for something much bigger. This is my gut level. Something's not right. There's a disturbance in the force, there's a glitch in the matrix, and that's what we're watching. And the matrix and that's what we're watching. And if you go back and people throw that term around in my line of work and alternative media about the Hegelian dialectic but it comes from Frederick.
Speaker 1:Hegel was a 19th century philosopher. He believed in many different philosophical mashups with history and how it worked. He influenced people like Karl Marx and it's like the flow of history would be that there's an idea which is thesis and that out of that would be presented the antithesis so antithesis, you have thesis, antithesis and that they would collide and produce synthesis. And that's the dialectic, like the both sides bringing their best argument for their view of the future. And something interesting I believe happened in the 19th century where this was discovered as a phenomenon, kind of like the cyclical view of history. This was discovered as a phenomenon that actually does work. I mean it's like if you want to get to Y, like if A divided by B equals C, then you want to get to this one last portion, if you want to get to the end result, if you want this one thing, and you have to blend these two things together. Well, you have to begin with the end in mind, and I think that's what we saw during the 20th century. So this has actually worked for some of the planners. I believe that's why you had people fund Karl Marx and that's why the world's richest people funded communism, because it was such an outlier. It was such an antithesis to free market capitalism and the gold standard and everything that the 19th century produced.
Speaker 1:But what happened in the 19th century was interesting to watch. You had the rise of the Populist Party at the end of the 1800s in America and all over the world. There was a political backlash from the top down, like the. They called them robber barons and you know, jack London, who was an author, wrote the Call of the Wild. This was back in the—people don't write as much as they should about this time in American history but there was such a disparity between workers and the oligarchs who ran everything that I think they created this antithesis, this boogeyman. They created something so that they could use it as a controlled opposition and that would eventually bleed together. So you have, you know, capitalism versus communism, but not really, and you have, like the american imperialism versus the soviet imperialism and you blend that together and you get what we have today, which is a a race for centralized control of everything and Bill Cooper called it a one world totalitarian socialist government.
Speaker 1:So I see that today, in this foreign policy that we have, it's like this massive, you know, juxtaposition between two points and then nothing happens really of substance and nothing happened yet. By the way, you can't count out anything at this point. It's. This is a things are. They may seem quiet, but I'm sure they seem quiet and, like I told Travis Knight this morning, they may have seemed quiet in the summer of 1914 as well.
Speaker 1:If you know anything about World War I and how that kicked off and a lot of it was just a domino effect of treaties and things that were set into motion from things. Even the Kaiser, you know, in World War I he was trying to bring his troops back and he couldn't stop it, like once it had just started going. He couldn't stop it, like once it had just started going, he couldn't stop it. And some of these things war especially, it has an energy all of its own. It's an organic phenomenon in many ways. So you have to watch that. But I think we're being primed for something. Look out for that If you want to plan out, because we're midway through the Agenda 2030 decade.
Speaker 1:I knew this when I hosted the first broadcast on InfoWars of the new decade of 2020, because David Knight asked me to host it was last minute. I went in and it was just after Trump had assassinated the General Soleimani, and I remember like the gravity of the situation. This was the Iranian general. The hashtag was World War III, but it was only about 30 days later, 45 days later, that we were primed, getting ready for a lockdown with an executive order, and so it was world war three, just a different kind of war, and that was, I think, a kickoff to this decade.
Speaker 1:Ladies and gents, this is agenda 21, agenda 2030, the great reset, and I've always thought that just deep in my bones. Like this, it's a hurry up offense to get as much done in this decade as you can. So we're halfway through and there's these milestones. They set goals. They want, if you look at the agenda 2030, the sustainable living. They want to create the 15 minute cities and all of this stuff. Trump calls them freedom cities, but they want to create this control grid, not only with the currency, but the way you live. And all this they use it under the guise of sustainability and the ultimate, I think, director of any of these projects that these controllers have.
Speaker 1:If you go back to prior to World War I, the Carnegie Foundation, they were looking at how do we implement these socialist policies? Because the wealthiest people in the world generally will fund some kind of socialism. It's kind of a head fake because they get to control it. That's why the rich always fund communism and it blows people's minds that they don't really understand that. I was never taught that as a kid. You have to go find that out for yourself. But the Carnegie Foundation and you can go look this up they were working hard on trying to. How do we get all these societal, you know, these progressive ideas? How do we get them implemented? This was like one of the original think tanks, and so, to a person, the panel realized that the best and fastest way for them to achieve their goals for top-down change would be a war, and so that's the first question that they answered, and then the second was how do we get into one? So that's, that's where you know. That's where I start looking. Is it because all of it's so much of a script. How do we get into one? And you can certainly see that now.
Speaker 1:All right, folks, we're going to jump into some headlines. I definitely want to cover some precious metals headlines there's. My friend Junkyard sent me a link of what's going on in Texas. We'll cover that. There's a little bit. I want to read about silver, just kind of putting what the what fiat has done, the erosion of the purchasing power of the dollar. As a matter of fact, one of the headlines on Drudge today is like no love for the dollar, the dollar is losing. D-dollarization is just happening, folks. So, whether this, you know, what's going on with Iran and what's going on with Israel? What's going on with Russia or China, whatever it does, these are all things that are important to some degree, but the major theme is the macro.
Speaker 1:Now I want to talk to you about there's an article up on ZeroHeads just showing you because we get lost in that what's happened to the purchasing power of the dollar. This is natural news. Let me bring this article up. I want to do this and then I've got just a recap of what happened. In the last week. My friend Donald Jeffries wrote a great article up on lewrockwellcom and that'll take me a minute or two to go through, but I definitely want to do that with you and we have some sponsorship news. I want to get to and your comments. I I want to get to and your comments Definitely want to get to your comments. I'll be watching for that over on YouTube and X. All right, let me put this up on the screen. Go, yeah, this is natural news.
Speaker 1:A Texas gold revolution is underway. But the conversion of gold into digital currency just hand control over to the state? Well, this is the question I asked a couple of years ago. Let me see my mouse over here. Thank you, governor.
Speaker 1:Greg abbott's signing of house bill 1056 makes it a historic shift in monetary policy, positioning texas as the first state to create a functional electronic payment system backed by gold and silver. Proponents hail it as a bold step towards financial sovereignty, freeing Texans from both the Federal Reserve's inflationary fiat system. But underneath the triumphant rhetoric lies a critical question Is this true monetary freedom or a clever Trojan horse that ultimately surrenders private gold reserves to state control? The bill's passage comes as Texas aggressively positions itself as a future economic powerhouse, investing heavily in AI, robotics and space exploration while leveraging its vast natural resources. But with the great power comes great scrutiny and skepticism. While the state frames HB 1056 as a victory for constitutional money, it may be the first step towards centralized control over citizens' precious metals, converting hard assets into digital credits under government side.
Speaker 1:This is, I think, very much a good question to ask, because I asked this. You know, with the and we'll get into a little bit of this what this means with Texas having and this isn't the same thing as what they proposed with a gold-backed Texas-based digital currency. It's not exactly the same thing, but we'll get into that. Texas becomes the first state to implement a practical gold-backed payment system allowing citizens to spend precious metals via debit cards and mobile apps. The Texas bullion depository, already holding $400 million in metals, will serve as the backbone of this system. Already holding $400 million in metals, will serve as the backbone of this system, raising concerns about state custody of private assets. Well, it's a good concern. Supporters claim it's a biblical and constitutional return to sound money, while banking interests warn of consumer risk and systemic disruption. Implementation will be phased with full functionality by 2027, unless competing bills SB665 and 1049.
Speaker 1:Alter the landscape. The move aligns with Texas' broader push for economic independence, fueling speculation about eventual secession. Texas broader push for economic independence fueling speculation about eventual secession. Well, I would like, I'd love that conversation, but I don't know that that's a true political reality. It'd have to love that conversation. We can start there, but I think where our politics has a long way to go, as we've seen the interview with Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson, we're not dealing with mental giants, the gold standard rebooted, or a digital trap.
Speaker 1:At first glance it seems revolutionary. Texans can now deposit gold or silver into a state-run depository and access its value electronically, bypassing the need to sell metals for depreciating dollars. How am I supposed to buy groceries with a gold bar, asked Rep Mark D'Orazio, san Antonio, the bill's architect. His solution convert bullion into spendable digital currency, backed one for one ounce by physical metals, he says. But here's the catch the state holds the gold. Citizens trade direct ownership for digital claims. As system critics compare to central bank digital currencies, cbdcs where governments, not individuals, control the underlying assets. While a plan appears to restore sound money and allow individuals to tap into their stores of wealth, the plan really represents another form of state-managed money. Really represents another form of state-managed money. Once metals enter the depository, reclaiming them in physical form could become bureaucratically difficult if you've ever dealt with anything with the state. Yes, historically, gold's value lies in its independence from government manipulation. The Federal Reserve can't print it, inflation can't erode it, but if Texans surrender their bullion to a state-run digital system, they exchange that autonomy for convenience, a trade-off that could leave them vulnerable for future political and policy shifts.
Speaker 1:Well, it's an interesting question and I applaud. I think we had Kevin Freeman on. He wrote Pirate Money on my Wise Wolf podcast and the Wise Wolf Golden Crypto Show and I put it up on Paratrooper as well. Mr Anderson helped me with that interview and he's a proponent of this. But I started asking questions, especially when you're handing your hard assets over to a state-run anything company, especially if you've got the ability to hold it yourself and you've got a good like, you've got a wise wolf, like you've got somebody to deal with and those off ramps, those on ramps, those off ramps to get in and out of a fiat currency through precious metals. If you've got that and you can keep it, you're limiting counterparty risk, folks when you do that.
Speaker 1:The banking industry fiercely opposed HB 1056, fearing disruption to the fractional reserve system that profits from fiat currency. The Independent Bankers Association of Texas called the bill potentially harmful, though it softened its stance after amendments. Meanwhile, conservative groups like the Texas Public Policy Foundation championed it as a visionary check on federal overreach. D'orazio framed the bill in spiritual terms, citing Genesis 2, gold was God's chosen medium of commerce. Yet biblical commerce never involved handing gold to a state depository for digital credits.
Speaker 1:These are good questions. That's the same thing, you know. Okay, would I do it? No same thing, you know. Okay, would I do it? No, but I'm also a gold and silver precious metals dealer. I live and breathe it. I don't just don't see the need for that. I wouldn't do. I wouldn't hold, you know, a certain amount over there either.
Speaker 1:Texas's move didn't happen in a vacuum, with states like Utah and Arkansas already recognizing gold as legal tender. Texas has gone further by building infrastructure, a step that dovetails with its broader independence ambitions. The Texas bullion depository, opened in 2018, was initially billed as a way to repatriate state gold from New York and London. Now it's morphing into a monetary hub for citizens to turn their in their precious metal resources. For secession advocates, this is critical. A future Republic of Texas would need its own currency, but not really critical. A future Republic of Texas would need its own currency, but not really. Do you know the first Texas currency the Republic of Texas set up after 1836, sam Houston would sign the notes individually, like the notes from the, the bank of texas, from the treasury, and he used to authenticate it.
Speaker 1:He used his cufflinks and he had these, uh, cufflinks made after his first pistol duel. And, uh, he had a duel where he's I mean it's, you could just die, I that was back then. There was honor was questioned and then you just pistols. At dawn and there was a. He had a vision in the morning because he felt like he was going to be okay Cause he heard a rooster crow and a dog bark and it was like a barking dog and a rooster and he would roll that thoselinks over on the paper.
Speaker 1:This is a little different Freedom or facade. I'm glad that they're asking the questions and not just hopping on the bandwagon. I think that you start involving the state in housing your bullion. No matter how good the technology is, I just like private, I like decentralized. Hb 1056 has done undeniably groundbreaking, offering Texas a hedge against inflation and federal monetary abuse. But the fine print matters. Converting physical gold into state-managed digital currency may serve and solve short-term usability issues while creating long-term dependency. True monetary freedom requires direct ownership and spendability, not a system where the state acts as a middleman. In the end, is this plan to slowly confiscate gold and other precious metals, centralizing control? The answer will not just shape Texas' economy but the very definition of financial liberty. Well, that's a good question and there's so much happening. Look, you just mentioned in the article you had Utah and Arkansas and Tennessee's building still working on the infrastructure for their own depository and other things making gold and silver legal tender. This is a good thing.
Speaker 1:And the debate about who holds it. I think that's always critical, because people ask me about the gold standard itself and why you know if I support that and I just say we already have one. We don't need the currency to be, we already have a gold standard. It's the gold standard, it's gold. It's the price it's set. It's a worldwide recognized standard. I don't care where you are, if you're in Boston or Bangladesh or Beaumont, texas, it's the same. That's spot price.
Speaker 1:All right, let's go to the. I want to recognize the chat. I always forget that. It's good to see you guys. I see Karen Carpenter over in the YouTube chat Good to see you. And then let's see, we've got a former Star Trek writing fellow. It's over on YouTube. It's good to see you. Good to see you. Guard on YouTube, it's good to see you. Good to see you. Guard. Harp says nope, give me gold, silver or give me death. Yeah, something like that. Yeah, I've still got my YouTube channel for now. That's good, isn't it? And then over on Rumble, let me pull this up real quick. Let's see Twisted Communicate. Does this Texas Gold digital affect Wise Wolf as a business at all? I don't know. I don't know. I would assume so on some level. But we're lean and mean. We'll roll with it.
Speaker 1:Karen Carpenter asks Tony, what is your take on the selling of public lands that have been proposed several times in various ways of late? Well, I think you have to be careful. The government holds massive swaths, especially out West, that had a lot to do with Teddy Roosevelt, and as long as it's not going to some supranational or international body, like it's some straw buyer for the UN that wants to rewild everything, no-transcript, pay all the taxes. If this is going to be, uh, you're going to be billed for by the government of spain. Karen carver says boston, bangladesh or beaumont sounds like a country song.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I got that from well, not those exact things, but all the Bs. I got that from Christopher Hitchens I forget what. I think he used Belgrade and a few others. It was all the Bs. Bahrain, I think. Let's see thing, let's see. Now I'll have to look into whether or not that affects me as a business and I think you know there's all the sorts of changes that will affect Wise Wolf as a business. But as long as we're serving the public, my mission has always been my mission statement still remains, which is to help as many people as I can get in and out of the fiat currency system most efficiently at the best possible price, and that's one of the reasons why we added the Bitcoin side of Wise Wolf, which I think is important, because it's another avenue.
Speaker 1:That's another thing that's happening in this space. We basically have the intersection of history. Folks is this collision? As I mentioned today on the David Knight show. There's a tweet up on Gold Telegraph and he I think he nailed it. There's the historical collision between infinite and finite and it's happening right now like this. It's going to create a new world and new pricing structure for everything.
Speaker 1:Because you have, that's what all the governments of the world do. They get into a problem. They own the printing press and they just hit, you know, a money printer, go burr, and it just spits out new currency units which devalues them because they are backed by nothing. And then you know, you wonder why the prices of things change. Speaking of which, let me cover this article. And then it's never enough time. By the way, on the show, I love the hour show. Somebody mentioned earlier that I wasn't over on WWCR. I'm going to find out why that. Uh, we're supposed to be live over there. I'll have to find out what's going on wwcr. I'm supposed to be all right. Um, let's jump into this piece. I just explanation. Just always keep your mind sharp on what money is.
Speaker 1:This is Zero Hedge and an article out of the Mises Institute. Douglas French says silver price shows what government has done to our money. You hear about gas prices every day. He says the president brags that the price per gallon has dropped to $1.99 in some places. He says after paying over $4 here in Las Vegas, I wonder where he is talking about. He ran on bringing down prices at the pump, saying drill, baby drill, constantly at his rallies, but in real terms gas prices have gone down.
Speaker 1:A line from the Wall Street Journal piece illustrates the point. Silver and this is something that we need to continue to watch because I think this is the revaluation of commodities Silver's rally has made it worth the effort to sift through coin jars looking for old dimes, quarters and half dollars. The melt value, the melt value of a 25 cent coin minted before 1965 that's a quarter when they were made of silver is more than six6.50. That's the melt value, folks. That's not even any intrinsic value or face for premium. He says I'm old enough to remember 25-cent gas and someone pumped the gas for you and checked your oil and the pressure in your tires. During lunch with an old friend he told me his kids don't know what cash is, let alone pre-1965 quarters.
Speaker 1:No wonder monetary matters don't really matter to Americans, especially young folk. No one seems concerned about the constant devaluation of the dollar. High prices they blame on whoever's president or corporate greed. The idea that the problem is the constant creation of more money escapes them, my God. And isn't that so true? It's no more.
Speaker 1:You would look no further than something like the socialists being nominated in New York. I mean they want to do a state run grocery stores, state run this or that state run everything. Right, because the state does a great job. I mean, have you seen like when people would come to this country from places like the Soviet Union? And you had that famous debate? I need to get a picture. That's one of the great iconic pictures that Nixon planned that when he put his finger right in Khrushchev's chest at the kitchen debate. That's so genius. You know, like just had to get a just nice tap there. But that was such a such an iconic moment.
Speaker 1:But they would like just marvel at the amount of choices that we had and what was on the shelf and what was brought to market. And they would stand in line for hours to get their allocated bread and things. But you think that, well, we've got to have. You know it's the market that's doing that. What did we do immediately after going off the gold standard? Well, we did price control. Can't raise the prices. We'll do price control. Executive by fiat, executive order. We do price control. It doesn't work.
Speaker 1:As Ludwig von Mises wrote, what people today call inflation is not inflation, ie the increase in the quantity of money and money substitutes, but the general rise in commodity prices and wage rates, which is the inevitable consequence of inflation. The semantic innovation is by no means harmless. Yeah, it's like you get this debate we have to raise the minimum wage. We've got to take it. It's got to be $15. It's got to be $20. It used to be the debate. We're going to have $5, or we're going to have one at all. But you're constantly going to have to move that bar because your purchasing power diminishes. And, by the way, what this article is showing is something I've said for a long time Not only do you, can you not get the same, you know. Say you're making minimum wage today or whatever, you're making $20 an hour and trying to eat by. Well, in 1960s, if you got paid, you know $1.50 and you just had silver quarters. As we've seen in this article, that's like making $30 an hour or more In purchasing power. That's what happens when you've got the manipulation of currency. When you've got the manipulation of currency.
Speaker 1:The Wall Street Journal reports of people selling silver and some that are buying. Daniel Hertzer, who owns businesses that buy and sell estate jewelry in White Plains, new York, said his phone's ringing frequently with customers eager to sell jewelry and flatware that they inherited or no longer need. They'd rather turn it into cash, he said Cash, that's value will disintegrate. Well, I'm in both sides of that business. I mean, if you know anything about me, I buy and sell. I'm happy to serve the public that way. We give you the highest possible prices for things that you sell to me and then you know I'll turn right back around and sell those metals to someone else and I have that need. You know I have to sometimes sell products. You know I have to sell things to raise capital. I'm in that same boat with you. As a matter of fact, I was just looking for I need to bring this on air sometime.
Speaker 1:We found this 1920s era trophy that somebody sold me. It's complete, solid sterling and it's so weird what's written on it. My son found that out. I need to polish it. I need like a real live YouTube thing or something and polish it up. It's worth restoring, but it's worth like eight hundred dollars or actually more. Now it's probably worth way over a thousand, uh, because of the increase in the price of precious metals.
Speaker 1:So silver is doing that thing. Where it's, it's revaluating and I think, uh, even showing some of its true monetary strength. And gasoline, it actually has gone down if you measure it against what silver would have bought right Early 1960s, and that's because we were on the petrodollar for so long. There's been an increase in the output and macro. If you looked at what happened over the weekend, even with the Iranians saying they were going to close the Strait of Hormuz and everything crude went down. Crude oil went down. By the way, almost nothing happened in the markets over the weekend, which is it's fascinating. It's a dog that didn't bark. I often wonder. And it's fascinating, it's a dog that didn't bark. I often wonder. Because you have to.
Speaker 1:This is a show on just not just finances parapolitics as well. Parapolitics is something I don't. It's where discernment goes to die, individuality, clear thought, goes to die. 2019, at the end of 2019, you had the largest exodus of CEOs in history. Just like inexplicably, by the way, this mass exodus of CEOs from multinational corporations started pulling those golden parachutes in the last quarter of 2019. I thought, well, this is really weird. So I started thinking something is up and, of course, 2020 was around. That's what it was. I mean, there's a lot of times maybe they don't get this, they don't get read in completely, but there's you have to understand folks the ties between Intelligence, espionage, intelligence and multinational corporations like big, like the banking combines that exist, the consortiums, these flow together. There's linkage between the two, so always be aware of that. So the market's not moving. I thought that was perhaps a tell. All right.
Speaker 1:Well, I want to get to where I cover everything today. Let's see, I don't know if we can do Don's article as well. There's one other story. Before we get to that, just a little bit more news. And then I want to go over Don's article because Melissa brought something to my attention and I want to bring it to yours for the same reason. Don't really know what it means, but I think it tells a story, it tells something. Perhaps it'll sit with you in a way. I'm ruminating over it. This is an interesting piece. I had to do a couple of different searches to look, but this is up for Gizmodo and it's just a little headline and perhaps you wouldn't think anything of it, but there's something interesting in it and it's Silicon Valley.
Speaker 1:Executives join the Army as officers, but they don't have to attend boot camps. The tech industry is fully on board, but the rank and file won't have to do time as grunts. The US military recently announced that four executives from some of the top tech companies in Silicon Valley have joined the Army Reserve as direct commissioned officers. This move is a part of a push to speed up the adoption of technology in the military, but, as the news outlet Task and Purpose points out, it's pretty unusual. Yeah, it's pretty unusual, as in never.
Speaker 1:The army said that in a press release that four executives are uh shimon sakhar and of at palantir, andrew bosworth, cto at meta, kevin wheel, chief product officer at open ai, and bob mcgrew, an advising advisor in thinking machines lab and former chief research officer for OpenAI. The four men are being commissioned at the high rank of lieutenant colonel, which I believe is a. Is that an O5? I worked for a lieutenant colonel and it took him. He was in for first he was enlisted for six years and then he went to OCS Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning and then it took him his entire career to reach that rank. The men will get to skip the usual process of taking a direct commission course at Fort Benning, georgia, and they won't need to complete the Army fitness test.
Speaker 1:The Army didn't respond to questions emailed Tuesday but said in a statement published on the website their swearing-in is just the start of a bigger mission to inspire more tech pros to serve without leaving their careers. Yeah, there's, and of course, gives you kind of a history of Silicon Valley with with its ties to Washington going back to the Reagan administration and it's ties to Washington going back to the Reagan administration. Yeah, this is interesting and it has to do with the, I think, ties to Palantir and this technocratic influence in the Trump administration that we've seen, but also very, very odd. This is Bosworth and his buddies can be a bit more open about their goals now that Trumpism has been more normalized in the president's second term. But they also run the risk of hitching their wagons and the reputation of the companies they represent to a president who's famous for acting recklessly. After all, this is the guy who, just a couple of days ago, told Tehran, a city of 10 million people, to evacuate and is heavily suggesting he's going to get the US into a war with Iran. That's how the article ends.
Speaker 1:But this is an unprecedented move. Why not just bring somebody in as a consultant? I think there's an underlying issue here. So just a little something to watch. It's an isolated incident incident, but just imagine how you would feel if you worked your whole life to get to a level where you just somebody walks in. Now you have that same kind of commissioning thing for doctors and legal and JAG and stuff like that. But they all have to go through. They all still have to do the proper channels. This is just handed down. The proper channels this is just handed down. There must be a reason that they have to be a commissioned officer of some kind. Something is underlying that. Just something to think about.
Speaker 1:Sometimes my job is just to bring things to you that you might find interesting and let you decide for yourself what is news about that. All right, let's jump into this article. This is a good way to end this piece by my friend, don Jeffries. He has so many good points and I didn't even get to where I was plugging. Today I'm doing this. I cover way too many articles on the show, but we pushed a lot into the hour. Oh, don, don always does a magnificent job of summing things up in his way through the lens of hidden history Again. Lewrockwellcom, first world bombs from third world Trumpenstein.
Speaker 1:I was on RB Hamm's Beyond the Pale podcast recently when I said that it looked like Donald Trump was giving us another of his ingenious head fakes and was pulling back from Iran. Like Donald Trump was giving us another of his ingenious head fakes and was pulling back from Iran. Literally at that moment, arby put the breaking news up on the screen. It brought back memories of Syria when Israel ordered Trump to attack them. That's why I don't make predictions there. I was left looking like Nellie Connolly after she told JFK well, mr President, you can't say Dallas doesn't love you seconds before shots were fired by someone other than Lee Harvey Oswald. I don't know if this means we will become truly involved, but I hope Trump will replay his actions on Syria when it was one and one done thing. Well, one and done two times. That's the thing about Trumpenstein he plays the part of an effective bully, but when Israel talks he listens.
Speaker 1:Supposedly, the bombs eviscerated four well-known nuclear sites in Iran. Expect that many of us, including our own intelligence agencies just a few months ago, don't believe there are any nuclear sites in iran. For all we know, our big, beautiful bombs killed a bunch of civilians. It's not like we haven't slaughtered civilians countless times, dating back to 1846 in the mexican-american war, he says. As marjorie taylor green pointed out, no one voted for Trump so that he could attack Iran. No MAGA voter wanted to make Iran obsolete. Tulsi Gabbard embarrassed herself by backtracking earlier at her earlier accurate comments on Iran's nuclear capability. Maybe RFK Jr can give her Rabbi Shmuley's phone number. Maybe RFK Jr can give her Rabbi Shmuley's phone number. We knew Trump would do better and do whatever Israel said. The guy that streets named after him there. But at the heart of MAGA is an America first philosophy no more senseless wars, as Trump has called them. Becoming entangled in Iran or anywhere else completely discredits the blustery leader of that movement. Trump is in his fifth year as president. Where's the infrastructure upgrade and what is Doge auditing now? When will Kash Patel make his first arrest? Caroline Leavitt is lovely and Pam Bondi looks great for her age. That may be enough for Trump and Stein, but not for his voters.
Speaker 1:Well, I suppose we have to show off all that artillery. Sometimes, when you have a trillion dollar defense budget, people expect you to drop a few bombs here and there. Collateral damage, lots of collateral damage, is baked into the equation. We've mastered the art of destroy and rebuild during World War II, the good war that so many Americans wax nostalgic about. That's what they're anxious for. World War III Look how cool the last war was. Maybe that will cause an uptick in the marriage rates. Soft soy boys marrying their tough tattooed gender fluids right before they get shipped off to battle. Bruce Springsteen seems really sold on the deep state now, so maybe he can play the part of Glenn Miller and write the soundtrack for the new world conflict. Lots of elderly rock stars would soon sign on as well.
Speaker 1:Our view of patriotism was born with the first two world wars. Uncle Sam says loose lips, sink ships oh, he's so right about that. Sink ships oh he's so right about that. I think really too, that people are just desensitized so much we don't have the same views that we did. Previous generations were very skeptical of war and getting into them. And then people vote by the way. I mean we voted to stay out of these things, but it just happens anyway. World War II was the last war that was declared by Congress. They haven't followed their constitutional obligations since, despite all the nonstop, forever interventions and occupations in far-flung, much smaller lands.
Speaker 1:Jeanette Rankin was the only member of Congress to vote against declaring war against Japan. She had to have a police escort out of the Capitol for her own protection. He spells it. Americans don't take kindly to those who don't vote for war. Rankin was a real lefty, an early feminist, but they stopped inviting her to all the best cocktail parties after she held fast to her principles. You have to love a woman who said you can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. It's a stupid way of resolving things and we wonder why they picketed harry truman instead of jeanette to be our on our counterfeit fiat currency they hit. Oh sorry, it was harriet tubman. Sorry, I thought they said harry truman. That is true. Yeah, it's another side story. I want to talk to Don about Jeanette Rankin. I'm pretty sure she voted. She was a Montana congresswoman.
Speaker 1:I read in the biography of Sam Rayburn, because it's been like 23 years ago, that she also voted against World War I. I need to look that up and talk to Don about it. Jeanette is more forgotten now than the great anti-war activist General Smedley Butler. So what lifelong journalist for the state Tom Brokaw called the Greatest Generation did their thing. He talks about the atrocities of troops in the Pacific in World War II and other things. And if you want to really dig into some of that, he's got a great breakdown of that in Hidden History and in the second follow-up. Uh, crimes and cover-ups. Now, yeah, this is where I was looking at the.
Speaker 1:There was operation key hall, overseen by the ally commander dwight d eisenhower. Lots of innocent germans died, but ike had to start his political career somehow. You can can read more about what a keyhole is. They tie you to the ship and then drag you behind it and you float in and out underneath the ship just barely having enough oxygen. They would do that to those certain unfortunates. He says we've done a lot ever since.
Speaker 1:In all those undeclared wars we fought for absolutely no logical reason. Of course it's a national security thing you wouldn't understand. So, to be fair, bombing Iran for no reason is not any more ridiculous than fighting contained wars in Korea and Vietnam with demarcation zones and no goals of strategy. The right used to call them no-win wars. With the first Gulf War we established a continuing presence in the Middle East. Sure burying, surrendering soldiers alive by plowing them over in their trenches seems harsh. But war is hell, as the satanic would-be serial killer William T Sherman once said if we have to bury you alive to make you stop hating our freedom, we'll do it. And then, of course, there were the ugly videos from the then Bradley Manning, published by WikiLeaks, bombing civilians for sport, playing soccer with decapitated heads.
Speaker 1:Support the troops, says Don. Iran represents no less a threat to us than Iraq or Afghanistan did, or Syria or poor Yemen. An entire wedding party in Yemen was murdered during the administration of the beloved Barack Obama. Wedding party in Yemen was murdered during the administration of the beloved Barack Obama. That probably sealed the Nobel Peace Prize for him. Assassinating American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki with a drone strike and then following up that with the drone killing of his 16-year-old son was just icing on the cake. So if our troops do become involved and start shoving things up the rear ends of male Iranian prisoners, as they did so prolifically during our struggles with Iraq, it's keeping with our military strategy.
Speaker 1:You know what you love about Don. He truly is like one of the with a conscience, those writers that stays consistent on this stuff. I have to try and find humor in this. How can I write seriously about the situation? Iran hasn't invaded anyone in 300 years, or maybe it's 3,000. At any rate, it's been a very long time.
Speaker 1:They don't represent the slightest threat to the United States. If those quote-unquote sleeper cells really existed, they would have taken down our laughably outdated power grids. After some 1.5 million Iraqis, including an estimated 565,000 children, died as a result of our embargo, you'd think that any self-respecting terrorist would be compelled to act in such a case, but not a single suicide bomber has done anything in order to seek vengeance. America has shown that it can fight any tiny country in the Middle East to a stalemate. Well, except for Israel. That's who we're fighting for, after all, and when we back a country by proxy like Ukraine, we'll work on their infrastructure for them and help secure their border. We just won't upgrade our own infrastructure or secure our own southern border. So here we are with a world-class military industrial complex, lots of shiny planes, tanks and bombs, but we meet every definition of a third world country here at home.
Speaker 1:Infrastructure neglected for more than 60 years. Check Massive and widening disparity of wealth. Check Homeless people camped out in tents and defecating in the streets. Check Massive corruption at all levels, from school boards to federal representatives. Check Untrustworthy electoral process. Check State-controlled mass media. Check Public officials never held accountable for their actions. Check Fraud and money laundering revealed but ignored. Check Fractional reserve banking system that creates money out of thin air and charges imaginary interest on it. Check Court historians who lie about our history. Check, oh, just like the soviet union, that's funny public education system that has produced untold numbers of illiterates. Check, well, I thought I find that to be be at least a snapshot of the events post-Saturday.
Speaker 1:And again, you can find Don's work at donaldjeffriesmedia. He's also on a show that we do together called America Unplugged, and you can find that on this channel, on the America Unplugged channel over on Rumble Every Saturday 12 Eastern at noon. And then Don has I Protest on Fridays. I'll be helping him tomorrow, all right? Well, we got through that week, folks, and we'll see what lies ahead. I'll be here next week, we'll be live. We'll try to break down the headlines and decode the dystopia together.
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