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
#511 Decentralization vs The Great Reset & Que the Foreign Hobgoblins
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. 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.
Speaker 1:this is your song. 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.
Speaker 2:Finally, I was curious how that was going to go. I'm broadcasting from the road, literally on a road microphone, my first time using this setup and it actually worked. So I wasn't going to be arrogant and say I've got new stuff and it's going to work, because the last few times we've gone live there's been something. So it's okay. We had a positive attitude. We're traveling Beans and I are in sunny California. We did the tinfoil hat podcast yesterday, had such an amazing time with Sam Tripoli and Johnny Woodard and XG, fun, fun conversation. I don't know when the episode's coming out, but I imagine in the next few days or so. Always good to see those guys. Anyway, I've got some stories for you today.
Speaker 2:I looked at the Drudge Report. I pulled that up and all I could think was it's something that Sam and I talked about yesterday. It's humbling to be in this business where you're trying to give analysis without being biased and truly giving your best opinion, seeing what's next. The point is, you listen to me because you want to find out what's actually going on. What do I think? Track record of being somewhat right in right, it's somewhat right. Or, like my dad said um, how's, how's it feel? Um, how's it feel to lose all that money being a contrarian. It's basically what he asked me last week. He said you're such a contrarian son, you just you, um, you know you miss out on on a lot of the popular movements and stuff. And that's true. And to the best of my ability, I go into my subconscious, I try to remove anything that would be preconceived notions and just try to lay out what's happening. And I tell you what I didn't see any of this coming.
Speaker 2:We've looked at the headlines of Drudge. That happened swiftly, didn't it? And what's funny is the things that I've mentioned before Happened swiftly, didn't it? And what's funny is the things that I've mentioned before, like the Steve Bannon-Epstein interview. I saw that that was like two years ago that I knew about it and I kept going hey, does anybody else realize that Steve Bannon did a sit-down interview with Jeffrey Epstein, like in 2019 or 2018? And I said does anybody realize that? And it just went away.
Speaker 2:And now it's the front page of Drudge, and so this is how stuff like this works. I mean, you can be like, I'll catalog it, put in the back of my mind, and now we've seen this complete pole reversal of where you know it was you. We look at MAGA, you look at these movements, where we're going to put you know, we're going to get the Democrats on the run. They're all on Epstein Island, they're all on the Lolita Express and we're going to expose all these people. And now it's the, that's the Republicans versus the Democrats, and now the whole thing is a poll reversal where the Democrats are subpoenaing the Clintons. That's the world in which we live, in folks.
Speaker 2:And so I pulled up an article. I thought see, this is where my mind goes. I want to see who else thinks like me. So I went to LewRockwellcom. There's an article up there I definitely want to read, because it talks about, like, what do do now? If you're the, if you're at the top of the political hierarchy, you know what usually happens next when you have something like this going on, which is this, by the way. It's catastrophic. So it's just not mince words.
Speaker 2:It reminds me of a scene in my favorite movie I talked about this yesterday on tinfoil hat, at least my favorite movie which is Oliver Stone's Nixon, and there's this great scene where Bob Haldeman, played by James Woods and Bob Haldeman was Nixon's right-hand man, is go-to guy, and this is the 1960 campaign. It's the first time that like debates are televised and that's when you see like Kennedy's looking rested and Nixon's tired, cause he's been out campaigning hard and all this stuff and they, they have this exchange where Nixon's part of the security cabinet, he knows what they're trying to do to Castro and Kennedy calls him out on it and he knows that Nixon can't really respond because if he does, it violates national security. And he knows that Nixon can't really respond because if he does, it violates national security. Had he responded toughly about taking out Castro, he would have won, most likely because it made him look kind of soft. And as soon as he didn't respond that way, bob Haldeman looked at everybody else and goes it's over, more coffee. Like he just knew that the whole thing was over. He just wanted more coffee. So that's kind of how I feel More coffee. All that's kind of how I feel More coffee.
Speaker 2:All right, we're going to jump into some. I want to get into some economics. There's an article up on Activist Post I want to talk about because I've been I'm just going to try to put as much into this episode as possible. I've been researching in using AI and you know I'm not the first to jump on technology. I'm certainly not the last, but there's a lot of biases and things that people talk about AI and what's going on with AI, what's it going to replace? And it's, you know, a doomsday, everything. That's at least what we've been primed for, like my whole life since I was a kid. You know it's basically John Connor warning us, John Connor warning us not to make friends with the AI from Terminator and it's the Matrix and it's everything else At least that's what we're primed for, which is weird because it manifested itself anyway.
Speaker 2:But I've been experimenting with AI a bit, asking it questions and looking at deep dives on the financial part of things and where we go with stable coins, where we go with Bitcoin, where we go with gold, and I've got, I've had some interesting interactions. I like it so far. I like the, the, the intricacy of it, and I got an article I want to talk about because apparently it's making people dumber and it's so funny. It's like why. That's an open question of why that is, especially given the amazing things that it can do. But I guess the same thing with the Internet. People are dumber, it's idiocracy and it really is confounding, isn't it, that we have all this information, we have all this technology, we have all this other stuff and people are getting dumber. But I definitely want to jump into that and I'll go to the chat as well and I'll make sure I'm on my laptop. Today, beans is producing, so I'll definitely get to that.
Speaker 2:All right, let's jump into our first article of the day. This is something I want to get into. Let's get into the economics of things first. I saw this was up by Michael Schneider and I know anybody out there. Right now, it is getting weird. The economy is getting weird. The energy out there is weird. Just dealing with other people right now Does anybody else have the same thing? Just dealing with other people is bizarre. There's, there's an energy out there that definitely is different.
Speaker 2:I want to put this up on the screen though. This. This is a great article. Just breaking this. Michael Snyder does this with the Economic Collapse blog the Economic Collapse blog and I want to put this up because it really does do a decent synopsis on the facts.
Speaker 2:This is 10 economic facts that nobody can deny. If you ask a thousand different Americans about the state of the US economy, you will get a thousand different opinions. What is the truth. I love that. That's such a great question. That's what Pontius Pilate asked you know before he turned Jesus over to the mob. What is truth? In this article, I'm going to share information with you that is indisputable. I like to examine things from an analytical point of view, and so I always want to know what the cold hard numbers are telling me. And the cold hard numbers are telling me. This is very troubling. It says there are 10 economic facts. No one can deny Number one the conference board's index of leading economic indicators fell more than expected last month and during the entire first half of 2025, it declined at an even faster rate than it did during the second half of 2024.
Speaker 2:The Conference Board Leading Economic Index, lei, for the US declined by 0.3% in June 2025 to 98.8% after no change in May. After no change in May, revised upward 0.1% originally reported. As a result, the LEI fell by 2.8% over the first half of 2025, a substantially faster rate of decline than the 1.3% contraction over the second half of 2024. The US LEI fell further in June, said Justyna Zabinska-Lemonica, senior manager of business cycle indicators, for the second month in a row.
Speaker 2:The stock price rally was the main support of the LEI, but this was not enough to offset the still very low consumer expectations. Weak new orders in manufacturing and a third consecutive month of rising initial claims for unemployment insurance. Number two we just learned the sales of previously owned homes have fallen to their lowest level in nine months. Sales of previously owned homes in the United States hit their lowest rate in nine months, according to industry data released Wednesday. As home prices and mortgage rates weighed on the market, existing home sales dropped 2.7% last month to a seasonally adjusted rate of 3.9 million, said the National Association of Realtors. I mean, that's the core of our economy, is what's built on.
Speaker 2:is is not necessarily homes, but it's the prices those prices of homes built in and the lending that goes around. Sorry, guys, we're getting a phone call here in the office Number three. It is being reported that millions of Americans are that are on existing health insurance plans will hit double-digit rate hikes next year. There's nothing I can do about the phone, guys. Consumers who buy health insurance through affordable care at Marketplace will likely face double-digit rate hikes next year. Insurers plan on medium price increases of 15% for 2026 plans. That's crazy too, because I've got Blue Cross for my company and I get automatic drafts on this thing and every month I look at it. It's like it just keeps increasing and this is like catastrophic coverage for, you know, family and core employees and I mean I could rent a new space, I could have another Weiswolf for what I'm paying for that and again, this is just catastrophic coverage, like just making sure bare minimums in case something bad happens. It's not even like the gold plan or whatever you want to call it. It's a good plan, but it is extremely expensive. Many working-age consumers who get their health insurance through the workplace won't be spared either. Benefits consultant Mercer said more than half of big employers expect to shift a larger share of insurance costs to employees and their family next year by raising deductible co-pays and out-of-pocket requirements. And that's just all. Part of inflation too.
Speaker 2:The cost of everything goes up. The price of beef in the United States has risen 9% since January. This is number four. First it was eggs, eggs, now it's beef. The last time americans likely noticed, uh, spiking prices at the grocery store was when eggs reached record highs. Since then, egg prices have fallen. After the deadly avian flu outbreak was contained in, producers built back supply manufacturer thing now. Now beef prices are hitting record highs almost 9% since January, according to the Department of Agriculture and retailing around $9.26 a pound. June's Consumer Price Index showed steak and ground beef prices are up 12.4% and 10.3% respectively over the last year. Well, transportation costs, feed costs and again just the loss of purchasing power in the dollar. And you're not making more. You're on a treadmill because wages don't match inflation. That's the hidden tax and everything costs more.
Speaker 2:Number five more Americans than ever are using buy now, pay later loans to pay for groceries, and we've covered this here on the show. 25% of buy now, pay later users say they've used the loans to buy groceries. That's up from 14% just a year ago, and rising prices at the supermarket. One third of Gen Z buy now, pay later users say they've done so, making it the fourth most common buy now, pay later purchase of the age group no-transcript. Number six the official rate of inflation just increased at the fastest pace that we have seen in five months. Consumer prices in June posted the biggest increase since the beginning of the year and likely to keep the Federal Reserve from cutting interest rates later this month. But there are only scattered signs of tariff-related inflation. The consumer price index rose 0.3% last month. The consumer price index rose 0.3% last month, the government said Tuesday, and it matched Wall Street's forecast. It was the biggest rise since January.
Speaker 2:Well, again the issue with the rates, and that's another thing that I talked about today with Travis Knight over on the David Knight Show. That's the fight that we're having. The reason that Trump is angry with Jerome Powell or is dissatisfied, or says that he's screwing it up big screw ups, you know all this stuff is because Powell won't lower rates, and to lower rates is to increase the money supply. It is to have all these massive holders of US debt. I mean, when you raise interest rates, folks, what they do is that it freezes a lot of the money supply. These big holders of US debt and treasuries will put it off long-term to get a 4% or 5% return on that. So they'll just freeze that currency. When rates are low there's no incentive to hold it. It will be put back into the system, which creates inflation and, of course, the loss of purchasing power because the dollars are more ubiquitous.
Speaker 2:Number seven a recent survey found that 23% of Americans have decided to delay retirement.
Speaker 2:This figures up.
Speaker 2:Well, ben Shapiro will be happy he shouldn't.
Speaker 2:He should just say well, you can't retire in 75.
Speaker 2:Older Americans are kicking the can down the road on retirement over concerns about the economy and their own financial readiness to step back from work.
Speaker 2:That's according to a new survey from F&G Annuities and Life, which polled 2,000 US adults over 50 years old. The life insurance and annuities company found that 23% of those polled have already decided to delay their retirement as they grapple with the question about their financial readiness. This is all part of the departure that this country made in 1971, folks, you have to work harder and harder at finding investment vehicles, places to park your cash, and when you have housing bubbles, when you have a declining real estate market or you have a declining stock market, you go into a free fall territory where you're not keeping up with inflation, and that's why in the 1970s we went off the gold standard. But in the mid-1970s you see the birth of things like the 401k and the outside of just being what your ancestors would have done, which is buy a home, put some savings away, do things and then you can plan on that you can't do that when you have nothing back in your currency.
Speaker 2:Number eight according to another recent survey, nearly 70% of Americans are feeling anxiety and depression because of the state of their finances. Nearly 7 in 10, 69% say financial uncertainty has led to them feelings of anxiety and depression. According to a recent survey from Northwest Mutual, an 8 percentage point increase from 2023. And, by the way, 2023 wasn't great. Percentage point increase from 2023. And, by the way, 2023 wasn't great. Now we forget what happened to us in 2020, 2021. Because of the rapidity, the acceleration of the news cycle and the stream of history that we're on, we forget. But there was massive blows to the supply chain, to the currency, the stability, the job market, everything that was taken away from the lockdowns and the non-essentials that were in those businesses, those hundreds of thousands of businesses that were put out of business from those lockdowns. Number nine the percentage of US populations dealing with food insecurity has almost doubled over the past four years. In May, 15.6% of adults were food insecure almost double the rate in 2021. Yes, how's that supply line destruction paying off? And again, it's a double rate since 2021. Yeah, I remember distinctly, too, the Biden administration coming out and saying see, we've got all these job openings. There's millions of jobs that the Biden administration had created and if you looked at the metrics, it was because they were forcing and bullying corporations to lay people off who wouldn't get an injection openings. It's the same thing with the supply lines and, of course, people going to bed hungry. A lot of that. They say trickle-down economics. Well, that's exactly what I have. It trickles down and it's a trickle-down depression as well. Number 10, freight-related companies all over the country are conducting mass layoffs. Another wave of closures and layoffs has hit workers and companies tied to commercial transportation, manufacturing, lumber production, distribution and logistics across the US. Over the past several weeks, there are 4,137 jobs and cuts announced, according to media reports and worker adjustment at retraining notification. This is the place that monitors the layoffs. So this would not be happening if the US economy was in good shape. When the economy is strong, lots of stuff is being shipped all over the place. Sadly, a lot more layoffs are on the horizon.
Speaker 2:In addition to facing another major economic downturn, we have also entered the AI revolution. According to Robert Kiyosaki, ai is going to cause massive unemployment. Rich Dad, poor Dad. Author Robert Kiyosaki has a sobering take on one of today's hottest trends, and that's artificial intelligence. We're going to be talking about that here in a minute too. Biggest change in modern history, he declared on X on July 1st. Ai will cause many smart students to lose their jobs. Ai will cause massive unemployment. Many still have student loan debt. Kiyosaki isn't alone in sounding the alarm. Dario Ade, ceo of Anthropic, the AI company behind the large language model, claude, recently warned that AI would wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and push the unemployment rate to as high as 20%. Thanks to AI and other technological advancements, our society is now in a period of exponential transformation.
Speaker 2:Many would argue that many of the changes that we're witnessing are not for the better. It's going to be very challenging to make good decisions in this environment because many of the old rules no longer apply. Well, that's exactly the old rules. You play by the old rules. They're changing the rules right in the middle of the games, with what I talked about yesterday on tinfoil hats, where I ended the interview. Yesterday on tinfoil hats, where I ended the interview.
Speaker 2:So very important to understand the stream of history in which we are in If you use the same models, if you look at the past, at least the last 70 years. If you look at that since this is the last you know since the last end of the fourth turning, going in from 1944, 1945, if you look at that and you try to base the future off that, you will fail because those models no longer work. Those who can adapt and look at this, I think, with some cold hard logic, you'll actually see that there's more opportunity than downside. If you look at it through that lens, this is going to take some retooling and some new understandings of how things work. By the way, I'm not immune to any of this. I get up every day and I try to understand exactly the bedrock of reality, aside from biases and my own wants or how I want to see things. The monetary system, the economic system, is being reset. That's why they call it a great reset.
Speaker 2:This is part of the push for, and this is the friction between history and what the elites actually want. And I say the elites, you can call them the lizard people or the globalist goblins, whatever you want to call them. Okay, this is the people that would like to have top-down, centralized control over everything. They want a certain outcome and they want centralization History. On the other hand, the good news for all of us history is decentralizing. On the other hand, the good news for all of us, history is decentralizing. It's fragmenting. That goes across cultural lines. It's been doing this for a while now, for centuries actually, since the Protestant Reformation, you know, decentralizing the church. The same thing with the American Revolution decentralizing away from the British Empire and imperialism in general. And you know, the sun never set on the British Empire. The Industrial Revolution and the technological revolutions have decentralized it. But the goal of the parasitic ruling class, if you look at the New World Order, you understand the Rockefeller-Rothschild model, the trilateral commission model, is centralization. So they're fighting against the stream of history that actually is decentralizing.
Speaker 2:Technologies like Bitcoin you can argue with me that it's a NSA plant or is created by intelligence, and maybe it was. If it was created to to get people to accept a CBDC, then it's a failure. So, but those things in theory. You know, satoshi's white paper was about decentralization. It's about giving you the opportunity to bank on yourself to have your own bit of wealth. You can do the same thing with physical gold and silver too. You don't even need a government for money. You don't need a gold and silver or money. You don't need that. Decentralization is a mindset too, and if you look at the ethno-nationalism plays a big role in all of this too. If you look at the ethno-nationalism, it plays a big role in all of this too. Go to the culture model, ladies and gents, and you'll see the Hong Kongers and the Catalonians in Spain. It's happening all over the world. The Scottish History is trending decentralized and the ruling class. That's the friction. That's what you're seeing. I think that's a good term for it.
Speaker 2:All right, I'll take a look at the chat. Harps says good day, it's good to see you. Harps says good day, it's good to see you, harps. On the chat, harps says first Ozzy, now Hulk Hogan is gone. Is that true? Hulk Hogan passed away. I'll have to look that up. Are we seeing that? Let's see if we can get that in real time. Is that accurate? I haven't seen that. You have to send me a link if that's the case. Yeah, hulk Hogan dead at 71. Wow, that's unexpected. That was pretty swift. Sad, a sad day. He was a what an icon.
Speaker 2:I'm going to get over to the chat over on Rumble as well. Thanks everybody for being here. It's great to know I got my support group when I'm on the road and we are broadcasting live over worldwide Christian radio as well Shortwave going around the planet. Appreciate all you guys. Nights of the storm, do I get free lollipops in the new Wise Wolf? Drive through, you do, and you get dog treats and I think we'll have to do something about pup cups and other things. Maybe we can sell some coffee out of there as well. It's good to see everybody over in the chat.
Speaker 2:Karen Carpenter says I detest AI. It will also destroy the land, air and water. Data centers are death to a local area. So many people sick near data centers already. Well, that's another weird aspect of all this and I asked yesterday when I was on the tinfoil hat podcast did they roll this out way early, as I may have had ai for a long time, and was this rolled out early just to disrupt some kind of timeline, because it seemed like we had nothing, nothing.
Speaker 2:And then just there's this model of AI that's now ubiquitous and everything and getting smarter and smarter. The argument used to hear the argument would be against Bitcoin because they said look, it takes so much power and they shut up about that as soon as BlackRock launched the Bitcoin ETF, they shut up about the Bitcoin and how much power it drained, or whatever it does drain. I mean it creates new opportunities for people to use power like they they have. They've opened up old hydroelectric dams and other things. I mean El Salvador is using a, a volcano and all I mean it's crazy stuff and geothermic things, and. But they shut up about Bitcoin and I think in large part because if you, if you keep focusing on that, then you'll see how much energy and Karen's right how much energy AI is drawing out.
Speaker 2:Let's see, I see birdhouse blues, birdhouse blues, always making some great uh pics of me and beans.
Speaker 2:Uh, it says, feel the art or burn, appreciate that on birdhouse blues. Okay, I'm going to uh continue down our list of articles. The studio setup well, I'm at a very good friend's house out in california. The studio setup Well, I'm at a very good friend's house out in California. This is the green room and it's a great setup. I just kind of turned some things around. I got just my camera on my laptop and I got a little Rode microphone, so hopefully everything is five by five and we can complete this transmission.
Speaker 2:Let's jump into this article on AI while we're on the subject. And I still want to get to this last article that's up on Lou Rockwell, but I may not have time. And if we don't have time for that, then we'll jump over into some financial stuff. All right, put this up real quick. Yeah, karen will like this. This is over on Activist Post. My friend, charlie Robinson, runs this website. If you can go to Activist Post, sign up for the newsletter. Charlie is a magnificent human being, hard-working guy, loves the truth, and great podcaster, great broadcaster. So go and check out Activist Post. Great broadcasters, so go and check out activist posts. And this is from it's a reprint from Bruce Amberson Real Clear Wire.
Speaker 2:Artificial intelligence breeds mindless inhumanity. I began studying AI in the mid-1980s. Usually for computer scientists of that era, my interest was entirely in information, not in machines. I became obsessed with understanding what it meant to live during the transition from the late industrial age to the early information age. What I learned is that computers fundamentally alter the economics of information. We now have inexpensive access to more information and higher quality information than ever before. In theory, that should help our individuals reach better decisions, organizations devise improved strategies and governments craft superior policies. But that's just a theory, does it? The answer is sometimes. Unfortunately, the sometimes not part of the equation is now poised to unleash devastating consequences. Consider the altered economics of information. Scarcity creates value. That's been true in all times, in all cultures and for all resources. If there's not enough of a resource to meet demand, it increases value. If demand is met and a surplus remains, value plummets.
Speaker 2:Historically, information was scarce. Spies, lawyers, doctors, priests, scientists, scholars, accountants, teachers and others spent years acquiring knowledge, then commanded a premium for their services. Today, information is overabundant. No one need know anything because the trusty phone that never leave our sides can answer any question that might come our way. Why waste your time learning, studying or internalizing information when you can just look it up on demand, or internalizing information when you can just look it up on demand? Having spent the last couple of years working in higher education reform and in conversations with college students, I've come to appreciate the power and the danger of this question. Today's students have weaker general backgrounds than we've seen for many generations, because when information ceased being scarce, it lost all value.
Speaker 2:You know it's funny. I stop right here because I was. I remember thinking. I remember the moment that I I knew I wanted to have be a different kind of thinker, and it was. I walked out of a movie theater in 1997.
Speaker 2:I'd watched the Edge with Anthony Hopkins, alec Baldwin, the Anthony Hopkins character in that he plays a billionaire. His name is Charles, he just knows things. The whole point of the movie is he's got in. The whole point of the movie is this he's going to and he's stranded in the wilderness. He has to use his own wits and other things that he draws on his own knowledge to try to survive this encounter, and they're being stalked by a bear. That's very metaphorical too. It it's philosophical written by David Mamet, and I remember walking out of that theater and thinking I want to be like that, I want to be able to have not just the guy who can look anything up, but the real wealth is somebody who, if you're constantly learning and you're constantly improving, then you can create a different kind of reality, not just for yourself but for everybody, for those around you, for everything, because you have a.
Speaker 2:Especially when you're younger, you have this massive capacity for learning. It's just really hard to do and my time in the military, being forced to be without a lot of the technology that you get away from, like cause books. You know you have to kind of break in your the way your mind works in order to take on a, a large book or read a series of books, especially if it's history or philosophy or anything like that. You have to break your mind into it Like you'd break in a boot and then eventually you become. You have all these frames of reference and your language changes and the way that you see things change. But I remember that moment and these younger people aren't going to have that and not really it's going to take. I mean, there'll be a superpower for somebody. If they do, the new superpower will be paying attention, taking time to study yourself, and I'm going to talk about that, too, in this article, because I'm having a different experience with AI. Maybe it's just me.
Speaker 2:It's important to recall how recently this phenomenon began. In 2011, an estimated one-third of Americans and one-quarter of American teenagers had smartphones. From there, adoption among the young grew faster than among the general population. Current estimates are that 90% of Americans and over 95% of teenagers teenagers have smartphone access. Even rules limiting classroom use cannot overcome the cultural shift. Few of today's college students or recent grads have ever operated without the ability to scout ahead or query a device for information on a on as needed basis. There's thus no reason for them to ever develop the discipline or the practices that form the basis for learning.
Speaker 2:The deeper problem, however, is that whilst instant lookup may work well for facts, it's deadly for comprehension and worse for moral thinking. Oh, that's so true. A quick lookup can list every battle of World War II, along with casualty statistics and outcome. It cannot reveal the strategic or ethical deliberations driving the belligerents as they entered the battle, nor can explain why Churchill fought for the side of the good while Hitler fought for the side of the evil a question that most of our most popular interviewers and podcasts have recently brought to prominence. Still less than three years old, are rushing to fill the gap. They already offer explanations and projections and, at times, include the motives underlying given decisions. They are beginning to push into moral judgments.
Speaker 2:Of course, like all search and pattern matching tools, these systems can only extrapolate from what they find. They thus tend to magnify whatever is popular. They're also prey for some of the most basic cognitive biases. They tend to overweigh the recent, the easily available, the widely repeated and anything that confirms preconceived models. That's like groupthink, it's like hive mind. It's accepted in the hive mind. So we're still AI still has this model right now, where it is pulling from all the resources, but it hasn't quite yet made that leap to where it's making the decisions for you, and I think that's the issue.
Speaker 2:People. It to me it's like why are? Why would libraries be dangerous? Why you know more information making people dumber? Um, it'd be worth less. That's an interesting argument and it certainly happened. If you go out into the average and just start talking to people, it is a noticeable difference. I go to the airport. It's a noticeable difference than 20 or 30 years ago, and I remember, you know, having the type of conversations that you would have with someone, and you can find some great ones, you can find some good conversations, but there is something about the ability not to think. That's what Henry Ford said. You know, thinking was the hardest job of all. That's why so few people do it.
Speaker 2:So the recent reports of Grok, regurgitating crude anti-Semitic stereotypes and slogans, illustrate the technological half of the problem. The shocking wave of terror-supporting actions wracking college campuses and drawing recent grads into many of our cities illustrate the human half. The abundance of information has destroyed its value, because information, facts and data are the building blocks upon which all understanding must rest. We're raised a generation incapable of deep understanding, because complex moral judgments build upon comprehension. Young Americans are also short on basic morality. We are rapidly entering a world in which widespread access to voluminous information is producing worse, not better, decisions and actions. At all levels, we have outsourced knowledge, comprehension and judgment to sterile devices easily biased to magnify popular opinion. We have bred a generation of exquisitely credentialed, deeply immoral anti-intellectuals on the brink of entering leadership. Wow, that's a damning synopsis, but unfortunately true. And that's another thing.
Speaker 2:You look back in history and that's another thing is the, you know. You look back in history and one thing that always stands out to me if you look at the, the intellectual capacity of of the leaders, say, prior, you know, to war war one, these were brilliant people and they allowed that to happen. Now you say allow that. You know what was planned. These are bankers wars, and they fund both sides. Matter of fact, I brought up yesterday on tinfoil hat, I'm like just for the record, you know, anytime I get a chance to tell people that you know, in world war one, the head of the United States central bank, the federal reserve, was, was Paul Warburg, and in, uh, germany, our mortal enemy, the head of the central bank, the Federal Reserve, was Paul Warburg, and in Germany, our mortal enemy, the head of the central bank was Max Warburg. They were brothers, supposedly mortal enemies, with the same family funding both sides.
Speaker 2:When the ubiquity of instant lookup evolves beyond basic facts into moral judgments, banal slogans and mindless cruelty will come to rule our lives. Is there any way out of this morass, perhaps the only one that ancients discovered back, when information, understanding and morality all retained immense value Faith. He says faith in a higher power, because the path we're on, we've set on is our own heading into some very dark places. Well, he's right about that, and so I think that you've actually heard a term. I remember I brought it up when I was running for Congress. I had my opening speech.
Speaker 2:One of the terms that I used was central banking of the Federal Reserve, mass immigration, wars, for democracies were gods that failed. And you know we've put so much emphasis on you know what the future would look like and technology and all the rest. But it's not a god and it will never, it could never, actually supplant that. And in the technological mind and you see a lot of mind you see a lot of people, you see a lot of the folks out there, like the tech guy Brian Johnson, who's using the ambrosia technique where he's getting the blood from his son and he's going to try to live forever. These technocrats want to link up to some hive mind, uplink consciousness and live forever and all that stuff. Come on, you know it's and I think it's a focus on the material. Or you get Yoval Harari of the World Economic Forum that says that man is a hackable animal. These are tools and, like I said, I've been using AI to converse with on matters of the global economy, finance, gold, silver, the history of things, and it's a huge resource. There's no reason why it would make me dumber Now if I have it run my business and I have it show up for me and I have it somehow run my show or do something where I'm not thinking, because right now I have this is unscripted. I'm just, I got an article, I'm talking to you, I'm live, I'm talking to thousands of people around the world. This is great, it's a great privilege. If I don't show up sharp, if I go dull, then what's the point of listening to me? Am I? I go, I and I was presuppose that the world economy is about 500 trillion in assets. And it came back and it said yes, you're correct, it's about 500 trillion. It started to show me the metrics and this is what you know. This is how much is in real estate, this is how much is in bonds, this is how much is in currency, and then it would give me the. Do you want me to want to see a model of how that looks? And do you want to see graphs? And do you want? Yes, right, and I want to see more of that. And then I go. So presuppose that you have a $500 trillion economy and 20 trillion of that is in gold. Does that make sense? Does it make sense that you have 500 trillion and then the money that's been money since the beginning of the dawn of time is only worth 20 trillion at current rates and that the future money, or the future digitized money, is 1.8 trillion in a $500 trillion setting. Does that compute? And it started telling me no. It started coming back and telling me why that actually these things will increase.
Speaker 2:It's things I've been saying. It's reinforcing, but it's showing me graphs. So I'm just having these conversations with it and I think it's interesting. Or you can ask it about a business model. It'll tell you why. I ask it about emailing, just email marketing.
Speaker 2:This has been a conversation. Do you think this is too much? Do you think this is about the right and it would send me back stuff and we go back and forth on it. So, yeah, that's. You're supposed to use it like you'd use a library. You're supposed to go look and learn more.
Speaker 2:But these people again, this is what the author was saying on this piece on over on activist post was that people are getting dumber and they're phoning it in. I saw a meme the other day that said you need to take care of your health because somewhere out there that your future doctor is using chat BGPT to pass medical school. Well, that's probably true. Nothing replaces imagination, I think, and I need to do this. I'm going to try to do this today. Nation Like the, I think and I need to do this, I'm gonna try to do this today was just sit for 30 minutes with a legal pad. It was Earl Nightingale. My grandfather turned me on to Earl Nightingale.
Speaker 2:You can go back and listen. He's had some timeless stuff. He was a Marine in world war two and had iconic voice and one of the things he said is every day, if you could just sit with a legal pattern and without anything else not a phone, not the magazine, not in a magazine I'm dating myself. It's like, well, who has a magazine anymore? But not anything like, not a newspaper, not anything open and you just go and sit for 30 minutes in the quiet and ideas that come.
Speaker 2:You know and Brian Tracy talks about this too it's a superpower that you will have. You can go back and use the technology. I don't have a problem with technology, but I think it's like a weapon, you know. It's like anything else that can like electricity, you know, and somebody asked Thomas Edison. A lady asked him what electricity was and he said electricity is, madam, use it, it just is. So it's up to us really at some level Ironically, it's the theme from really at some level.
Speaker 2:Um, ironically, it's the theme from terminators. There is no fate, but what we make, all right. Uh, where do you guys want to go from here? We got a little about 10 minutes left in the transmission and, uh, I see Twisted is in the chat. Good to see you guys.
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Speaker 2:Let's see. All right, let's jump around here. I had two or three articles I still wanted to get to. It's going to be tough. All right, we'll see if we can do this one. You guys have to bear with me. I had to close it out a little bit earlier, but I want to put this one on because it's kind of a what next? And if I forget to plug, remember, wolfpackgoal got some great deals going on over there. You talk about de-dollarization and everything that's happening in the world, folks, time purchases for any of the packages, and then we, we accept Bitcoin at no fees, no friction. I saw that term. That's something I've even just gone back and forth with AI. It's like no, no friction between the the purchase, so no fees. This is a Lou Rockwell is how we're going to close out.
Speaker 2:Jacob G Hornberger, the Future of Freedom Foundation, says Get ready for a big foreign crisis, with President Trump's MAGA supporters in full rebellion over his refusal to release all the records relating to the Jeffrey Epstein pedophilia investigation. Get ready for a big crisis in foreign affairs designed to distract attention from the Epstein scandal. It certainly wouldn't be the first time a ruler engaged in such a strategy. In fact, it's a time-honored way to get people to set aside their rebellion and instead rally around the flag. What did Samuel Johnson say? That patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel, he says.
Speaker 2:Consider the immortal words of James Madison, the father of the Constitution. The means of defense against foreign danger have always been the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans, it was the standing maxim to excite a war whenever a revolt was apprehended. Madison was saying that in the old Roman Empire, the populace would periodically go into rebellion mode, rebelling against things like exorbitant taxation or monetary debasement at the hands of their rulers. Whenever that would happen, the emperor would simply instigate a war against some scary foreign enemy, which would stir up both fear and patriotism within the populace. People would forget the rebellion order to keep safe from the new official enemy with which they were now at war.
Speaker 2:Recall that at the end of the Cold War, most Americans were calling for a peace dividend. Most Americans were calling for a peace dividend. What they meant was that they were protesting the enormously high amount of money that was still being spent on the national security establishment. They were demanding a peace dividend that would entail a massive reduction in national security state spending, which would have meant an equally massive reduction in taxes. But notice what happened. As soon as the 9-11 attacks took place, most everyone put their peace dividend demands aside and, amidst a climate of fear and patriotism, called on the federal government to do whatever was necessary to keep them safe. The demands for a peace dividend disappeared permanently. The national security establishment has been flooded with taxpayer largesse ever since.
Speaker 2:Let's not forget about what brought about the 9-11 attacks. No, it wasn't hatred for America's freedom and values, as US officials maintain. It was instead what Madison said. Faced with demands for a peace dividend, us officials had gone into the Middle East on a spree of death, destruction and humiliation, which ultimately generated so much anger and hatred that it produced retaliation in the form of the 9-11 attacks.
Speaker 2:What might US officials do this time to distract people away from Jeffrey Epstein? The Ukraine-Russia war provides an excellent opportunity to do that. All that needs to be done is furnish Ukraine with long-range missiles that are used to attack Moscow, st Petersburg or other big Russian cities big Russian cities. In that case, russia will be tempted to strike at NATO countries that are providing such missiles and obviously using Ukraine as a proxy to destroy Russia. What better way to create a division away or diversion away from Jeffrey Epstein than producing a prospect of an all-out nuclear war between the United States and Russia? It says of course there's also China between the United States and Russia. It says of course there's also China, especially given the mindset of hatred for China has been inculcated in the American people in the recent past. Ginning up a crisis with nuclear-armed China, say over Taiwan, would be another excellent way to cause people to stop thinking about Epstein.
Speaker 2:There is also, of course, nuclear-armed North Korea. As we learned in the first Trump administration, it's fairly easy to stir up a crisis with that communist regime, even if North Korea might not be able to strike the US with its nuclear missiles, it can certainly strike South Korea and Japan. Would that prospect be enough to get people's minds off? Jeffrey Epstein? I think so. Needless to say, iran is always available whenever a scary official enemy and a big foreign policy crisis is needed, all that needs to be done is to proclaim that Iran is still producing nuclear weapons and plans to use them against Israel and the United States. Voila, a big, scary official enemy. Big enough in foreign crises. That would easily cause all those MAGA people to forget Jeffrey Epstein. One thing is certain Given the fact that Epstein obviously had very wealthy and very powerful clients that Epstein obviously had very wealthy and very powerful clients and, more important, given the very likelihood that Epstein had connections to either Israeli or US intelligence, or both, there is no reasonable possibility that Trump is going to order the release of all federal investigative files in the Epstein case. Will his MAGA supporters simply accept the inevitable and give up? If they don't, then everyone should prepare himself for the prospect of a big foreign crisis in the near future.
Speaker 2:I'm glad we got through that whole thing. I read that this morning and I thought what a way to. It's the Socratic method. Ladies and gents, just asking questions. Is that enough to get you to forget about Jeffrey Epstein, as Trump says, the man who never dies? He keeps coming back and all this stuff recycles. There's a. It's a Russian doll. It has to be Russian. I don't know why it's a Russian doll of a psyop within a psyop within a psyop. Something deeply with this thing is interesting to watch. But again, wolfpackgold, if you can go stack there, we've got some great deals on 90% silver Constitutional Wolf those $250 a month and I'll send that direct to your door. I think we do free shipping on Constitutional Wolf. We definitely got some great deals on American Eagles too right now. So Wolfpackgold, wise Wolf, gold and Silver. Last week I just try to make sure I do this every week too.
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