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
#517 Golden Rules: How China's Playing While the West Sleeps
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Introduction and Opening Reflections
Speaker 1We 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 . 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 . So we are transmitting worldwide .
Speaker 2We are transmitting worldwide live from the green room in sunny California , along with my co-pilot and co-host , beans the Brave . I am your host , as always , tony Arterburn , broadcasting in defiance of globalist goblins , the neocons and the new world order . I'm using some new equipment today and I'm on the road , so I'm hoping that if you're in the chat , just let me know that the audio is coming through . Okay , we're going to jump into some stories today .
Speaker 2I was on the plane yesterday coming out from Dallas to Los Angeles , coming out from Dallas to Los Angeles , and I've made myself get into paperbacks and actual books again . I love books and I carry my Kindle with me and I've become so reliant on it and I had the opportunity to dive back into an old Jim Mars book . It's called Rule by Secrecy and it's about secret societies , about groups like the Trilateral Commission , the Council on Foreign Relations , the Illuminati , other things , the secret societies and secret orders of things . And I was sitting on the plane and I didn't use the Wi-Fi . A lot of times I'll use the Wi-Fi and check my messages and stuff , but I didn't this time . I just took the opportunity not to be bothered and one of the beans is over here in the chair next to me she's digging , she's making herself a little nest , but I found myself enjoying the fact that I wasn't being bothered and that I wasn't hooked up to any electronics and I was just taking in , soaking in the work of Jim Mars , and I'd forgotten just how well researched , how balanced , and , again , the depth of knowledge that we just so lack today . And and being in an alternative media , being in the realm of the conspiracy theory , of history , and all the things that I proudly do , we are just , we are inundated with stupid I'm sorry it is . It's so much clickbait , so much misinformation , and there's like five different stories today about the fallout of the assassination , the murder of Charlie Kirk and how it's affecting our paradigm and our reality and how we view the world , and I think that's really important . But at the same time , I think it highlights and I was texting with Melissa earlier I think it highlights just how strange , how dumbed down things have gotten , because in the wake of that , I thought there was some really good research done and then also just massive amounts of clickbait , massive amounts of nonsense , of BS , just to what , to get ahead of the pack , so to speak , to stand out , to get more views , to get more downloads or whatever it is , and I find that to be we're . So we made such a departure from where we were with people like Jim Mars , who died in 2017 .
Speaker 2And just sitting there reading , I read the first two chapters of Rule by Secrecy and just in those two chapters alone , like the dense amount of history and we forget because we're on this crazy timeline where we're just bombarded with stuff . Every week is a new cycle of a new thing , but we forget there's a whole past . There's a continuity of events and cause and effect that roll back and create our current reality . So I think it's important that we talk a little bit about that in the coming weeks . I want to focus more on real history , hidden history , what I can prove , or at least the best evidence of things .
Speaker 2I've listened to several podcasts in the past few days where I just go what are you even talking about ? I don't understand it . There's a big need for the monetization of information , especially when it comes to alternative media and things like that . I think , really , this is beyond that . It's probably more in the realm of something epical happened . Something terrible has been injected into our discourse and into our reality and they cover it up by just throwing everything at it . It's something David Knight said a long time ago . And you know , you take the truth and the truth is a loaf of bread and you give it to somebody , but you throw a roach in there and say , hey , you know , enjoy your loaf of bread . Well , that roach ruins everything . And say , hey , enjoy your loaf of bread . Well , that roach ruins everything . And I think that the proverbial roach is out there writ large in the headlines . Ladies and gents , I'm going to check the comments . Make sure that I'm coming in loud and clear . Yeah , I just . Oh , sounding good . That's good . Thanks , guard . Guard says I'm sounding good . I just wanted to make sure because on my headset I normally can't hear myself , but I'm on this portable roadcaster mic today . Well , again , it is the 25th of September 2025 .
Speaker 2Let's jump into what I think is important today , and a lot of that . You know I was on the David Knight show this morning . I think you know we forget , with all of the , the events happening , everything unfolding . It's kind of a . There's a lot of distractions . You have different , different things calling your name . You want to look at that , look at this , and I try to stay as focused as I can on the geopolitical issues , the big macro picture and , folks , I'm telling you I've never seen anything like this . We're , we're , we are living through history . You're watching the control , demolition of the current monetary order , which is no small feat . I mentioned that on the show with David today .
Speaker 2We're going to talk a little bit about gold and silver and Bitcoin today , but something about the market conditions pushing the prices of these commodities , I think says everything about where we're headed and I want you to pay attention to this because I know the average person is hurting right now . There's an article up I'm going to read from
Gold's Historic Rise and Market Signals
Speaker 2Zero Hedge , from the Michael Snyder Economic Collapse blog , about what people are really putting emphasis on and importance to right now , and it's their pocketbook and their inability to get ahead . But there's something to right now and it's their pocketbook and their inability to get ahead . But there's something happening right now and I think that the major financial networks are not going to talk about this because it really upsets the paradigm and what they want to sell you , which is , you know , happy days are here again and all is well , and then just put your head down and follow the advice of the oligarchs and everything's going to be OK . I found this article highly interesting .
Speaker 2This is Kitco and again we're going to get into this and a little bit of Caitlin Johnston's take on something interesting in the wake . Also one of the things that really did happen in the wake of the charlie kirk assassination . Uh , that , I think , is a one of those signposts I always talk about like it was a the twilight zone . I always stuck with me rod sterling . It was just signposts up ahead . It's the twilight zone . It's a marker of time here . Let me put this up on the screen . This is Kitco . All right , one second . Always good to be my own producer . Yeah , this is Kitco .
Speaker 2Gold's gains are historic and unnerving and represent a deliberate recalibration of the global order . This is SPI's Stephen Einz . Gold price gains are great for precious metal investors , but the yellow metal surge towards $4,000 per ounce also reveals a degree of economic and geopolitical anxiety not seen since the late 1970s , according to Stephen Ein's managing partner at SPI Asset Management . He says , quote gold isn't just climbing , it's blazing a trail that feels both historic and unnerving . Prices surge another 1% on Tuesday , pulling the $4,000 per ounce marker into clearer view and extending a run that now sees the metal up 45% this year . Yeah , the metal's up 45% this year . It's also the dollar's down 40% against gold in one year alone . So the purchasing price of the dollar has eroded 40% against gold , ladies and gentlemen , in the last year , but everything's okay . You should definitely go and get some FANG stocks In doing so .
Speaker 2Gold has extended past its inflation-adjusted peak from 1980 , scaling above every keen psychological resistance and pressing higher into uncharted territory . Keen psychological resistance and pressing higher into uncharted territory . Eames said the yellow metal's momentum isn't just about inflation . If it were , the bond market would be sounding alarms with spiking long-dated yields and a steepening curve , he said . Instead , gold's rise is feeding on a cocktail for far stronger central bank accumulation , on a cocktail for far stronger central bank accumulation , capital flight from fiat currencies and geopolitical hedging .
Speaker 2That reeks of systemic mistrust . Well , that really sums it up . Just a paragraph of you know everybody , why is gold up ? Where's it going ? Well , it's a cocktail central bank accumulation , capital flight from fiat currencies and geopolitical hedging , and I love that . I used that word a couple of weeks ago .
Speaker 2It reeks Reeks of systemic mistrust . And what is everything ? Built on the markets love certainty , but what they love more than anything , folks , what markets really love . If you want to have a thriving , healthy economy , trust . That's why you have the breakdown of order so easily in a third world country or a banana republic . It's so easy to lose everything overnight because of the lack of trust . Nobody knows who to trust . That's really the basis of civilization and Western civilization , especially as property rights , trust and the ability to rely on something that is done today will be like that tomorrow . It's not since the chaos of 1979 , when investors gave up hope of taming inflation and gold more than doubled in a single year , have we seen such a ferocious and sustained change . But this isn't just an inflation panic . Unlike 2011's rally fueled by quantitative easing and fear of money printing , this move feels more calculated , more anchored in sovereign choices rather than retail frenzy .
Speaker 2This is exactly what I've been saying since 2022 and I think we're still dealing with the fallout of that and I'm going to talk a little bit about . There's an article on antiwarcom I want to talk about regarding the Russia-Ukraine the never-ending war . It's like the never-ending story . I'm going to get into that . Something happened in 2022 with the invasion of Ukraine by Russia , and that is the massive increase in de-dollarization . And when that happened , folks , there's another metric that kicked off , and I've watched this really closely At the time , jerome Powell , the head of the Federal Reserve . They were raising interest rates starting in the end of 2021 , I believe , and he raised interest rates faster than any other Fed chair in history , trying to curtail the massive amount of unprecedented trillions upon trillions that were dumped into the market from the great scandemic and I remember watching this and they would raise interest rates and then gold would go up , and that's never happened before , to my knowledge .
Speaker 2If you're a gold bug like me and you study history on the monetary system , normally when there is a move and that's why he mentions 1979 , this is the head of the Federal Reserve in 1979 was Paul Volcker they raised interest rates to the teens . Gold was $35 an ounce in 1971 . It was $800 an ounce at the end of 1979 . The reason being is because we had runaway inflation and so they raised interest rates to the teens . That helped at least at that time . Of course , you're dealing with a much smaller crisis because of the debt of the US was only about a trillion dollars at the time , not $37 trillion , with , you know , unfunded liabilities in the quadrillions or whatever it is . But you have . You had that pullback in gold and silver in 1979 , but the opposite happened , and I I'm not alone in noticing that . So this started to have this departure , where gold no longer acted like it used to . And , um , now we're starting to see this kick in with silver as well , which I want to talk about . To see this kick in with silver as well , which I want to talk about .
Speaker 2Ayn said central banks themselves are driving today's gold press rally . Countries are deliberately diversifying away from the dollar , not out of mania , but from cold strategic calculus . Beijing's decision to open Shanghai as an alternative vault for official reserves is more symbolic than structural , yet it broadcasts a loud truth Any adjustment to the architecture of the global financial systems carries with it an implicit bid for gold . That's another thing . Okay , these little subtle headlines like Russia making silver a strategic reserve asset . About a year or so ago , I thought this is major news . Last week we talked about Hong Kong being made a trading hub and a storage facility for physical gold up to 2,000 tons by the airport .
Speaker 2All this is under the periphery of China , and if you look at the way that wealth moves throughout history . It's again . It's the golden rule he who has the gold makes the rule . China knows this . They're running the simulations . You look at the West I mean Canada has no gold reserves . Something's inherently wrong with the Western fiat system reserves . Something's inherently wrong with the Western fiat system and it has a weakness , obviously . And then China's playing to that , trying to reset how business is done around the world , and especially in commodities pricing . That is no small thing and I think this is one of those markers that makes it's the gradually , then suddenly , part . So something to pay attention to .
Speaker 2And while skeptics
Systemic Mistrust in the Financial System
Speaker 2point to the ongoing strength of US equity markets and doubt gold's ability to outpace the tech giants , einz believes the hidden scaffolding of both rallies shows that it can . Us shares are flying not purely on fundamentals but on the steady drip of monetary debasement , he wrote . Last week's Fed cut was hardly a surprise , but the chair's insistence that there is no risk-free way forward underscores the fragility of the backdrop . Even as Powell tries to resist political pressure for more aggressive easing , investors sense that money supply is expanding again and fiat credibility is fraying at the edges . Well , that's just it , isn't it ? You have a fiat system around the world that is dying . I mean , this is an alarmist rhetoric , folks .
Speaker 2You know me , I'm not trying to just throw something out there for effect . If I was going to do that , I'd done you know three podcasts by now of how interdimensional vampires killed Charlie Kirk or something Like . If I wanted to be that off the charts weird I would be . You know , and I definitely have a lot more listeners , but I'm looking at this and telling you that this kind of even when you're looking at the headlines that the system itself is crumbling , when you're talking about monetary issues , and that feeds into everything else , which begs a question that we'll get to a little bit later . It's like how do you stopgap that If you're in charge of the hegemonic , dominant dollar system ? How do you stopgap , at least temporarily , a flight away from the dollar ? As Gerald Salente says , when all else fails , they take you to war . That's why it isn't just about traders chasing momentum . It's about central banks , sovereign wealth funds and long horizon investors quietly shifting their compass towards hard collateral . The hardest money wins , folks . Gold always wins .
Speaker 2Hard money always wins in the end Whatever's the hardest money and you can window dress and do a lot of other things and definitely can get , at least seemingly , very wealthy on paper doing a lot of other things , and God bless you if you can't . But the historical shift that we're in right now , this needs to be paid attention to . If 1979 was a firestorm of fear and 2011 was a retail panic wrapped in QE doubt , then 2025 is shaping up to be a deliberate recalibration of the global order . The lesson from history is the same Ignore gold's message at your peril , yeah , at your peril . Everything that is changing right now , I think , is the culmination , it's the quickening , if you will , of everything that has gone on Since 1971 . I can't emphasize this enough . It's the quickening , if you will , of everything that has gone on since 1971 . I can't emphasize this enough . We're talking about , you know , parapolitics , precious metals . These things flow together If you go back to the 1970s , which are a good indicator of what happens when you , you know , depart from a metallic system and go to a fiat system . Like I said earlier , gold was close to $800 an ounce at the end of 1979 , but you got to adjust that for inflation folks , okay , so you have inflation and loss of purchasing power inside of that . So we crossed that metric just about , I think , three weeks ago , where that adjusted for inflation amount . So the 879 into 7980 , adjusted for inflation , was about 3600 or so at the price of gold . So we crossed that Rubicon . So gold really is in terms of dollars and in terms of value based on the monetary system , is at its all-time high . Silver , however , is nowhere near that and from my own business and what I'm seeing right now , just a little bit of Intel and I think other dealers are seeing this and we're buying a massive amounts of silver Silver's coming in .
Speaker 2I did two hours at my shop in Denison , texas , yesterday just working the counter , five transactions . So there was five transactions . Of the five transactions , five of them were silver buying . So just 20 rounds here , a 10-ounce bar , a kilo bar , whatever it is , I'm buying it . People are just selling that silver . There were no buyers for silver , but the price continues to go up and the reason it does is because institutions are buying .
Speaker 2I even said on the David Knight show today I'm I'm hesitant to even sell my silver now when I get it in because I think , okay , if I can start , if I could just hold on to this , I mean , and I can't really afford to do it all the time . As a dealer you have to move . It's about speed and getting it out the door and pricing that in for your margins so you can make payroll . But I think , gosh , if I could just keep it , if I could just hold on to it . I do that a lot with the silver dollars . I may stop selling the sterling silver that I buy . I may just leave that alone . I may just set it aside and put it on the balance sheet Like your forks and your spoons and knives and other stuff . I may just start putting that aside . I don't know strategically if I can , but it definitely would make a lot of sense .
Speaker 2All right , well , thanks for everybody joining today . I really appreciate it . We're doing this show live from on the road . I don't like to miss my shows if at all possible , and luckily I've got a great setup here . I'll be . I've got some meetings and a podcast out here in California , so I'll enjoy a little bit of sunshine and I'm so glad Beans could go .
Speaker 2A little side note Yesterday Beans was informed by American Airlines that she's going to lose her service dog status . I have to fill out more paperwork . They kind of hit me up at the last minute and I thought well , she's with me , I'm flying with her and hopefully I don't want to put her in a crate , I'm not going to do that , she goes with and I'm not going to do that to her . So I have to figure something else out , maybe a different airline . Melissa asked a Mohawk Wild Woman says where are you , Tony ? Where are you ? I'm in California . You know that I'm in Cali . We've got a meeting with some podcasters too this week . Maybe somebody you know . I'm going to definitely meet with Sam Tripoli out here too , just checking . Oh , that's really nice . Harp says ain't no sunshine when you're not on . I appreciate that .
Speaker 2Kenny F Empowers Hi , tony and Beans the Brave . Good to see y'all . Always good to see Guard too . I try to put as many stories as I can here on art , so I definitely . I'll check the comments and then we'll we're going to keep on . I'll check the comments and then we'll we're going to keep on . Melissa wants to know where . You know where I'm recording from . I'm in the green room . All right , let's go to . Let's go to the rumble chat too . Yeah , if you want to catch this program . If you're listening to us on WWCR or finding us on podcasts , you can always check out the program on the America Unplugged channel over on .
Speaker 2Rumble and at Tony Arterburn on my ex and for right now . If you really want to try , you can do YouTube . I don't know how long it'll last . Birdhouse Blues , the mahogany man really nice studio . It's not mine , but I have the privilege of of using the studio , so , all right , let's keep . Let's keep it going . All right , all right , let's keep , let's keep it going .
Speaker 2Um , yeah , I was looking at the twitter account or x account of gold telegraph and first thing on there uh , just scrolling down was that the bloomberg had done a story on the shanghai gold exchange connected to hong kong . I go , exactly that's what I've been talking about . So at least somebody else is seeing the same thing . I am Okay , let's jump around here a bit . I saw this over on lewrockwellcom and we can at least have a conversation on . Let me put this up on the screen , let's see . We can at least have a conversation on how strange this is In many ways . This is , I think , good for the discourse and at least get some conversations going . I like when we have some .
Speaker 2What does Thomas Jefferson say about revolutions are like a storm in the atmosphere . Well , I think a lot of political revolutions can be a good thing , and revolutions of thought can be even better . You should always question narratives . You should always question yourself why do I believe this ? It's like I believe because I've read so much Pat Buchanan . And I believe because I read so much Pat Buchanan and because I saw the evidence in front of me as a young man that free trade policies were awful . I thought there has to be a better way . And then I found Pat Buchanan's work and I subscribed to the I think economic nationalism , like he did .
Speaker 2Well , now that I'm in a small business , I'm 45 . I've seen a lot of things happen in my lifetime and I see what's happening now and I wonder if I'm right . I wonder maybe it doesn't work . Maybe you can't have a responsible government that actually uses strategic tariffs and other things to protect the American worker ? Maybe you can't , maybe we're too far , maybe the only thing to do is just to have that Darwinism , and I don't like that , because I love the American people and I still believe that free trade agreements are the Trojan horse for global government and I I think that it , uh , is a siphoning of wealth . I believe all of that , um , but in a classical sense . Perhaps I'm wrong and I I don't mind questioning my own beliefs there , especially in the wake of , you know us using tariffs is another way to weaponize the dollar , and especially when you know , I guess modern politicians don't believe in math . I don't know what to say about that . I mean , that's what I wondered why Are you in on this , that you don't want some sort of economic nationalism where we protect our workers and use tariffs to fund the government ? Like you don't like mathematics , or you like the mathematics the way they are , and that was always what I came back to . All right , this is .
Speaker 2Caitlin Johnston wrote an article that Lou Rockwell republished and interesting headline . Netanyahu keeps making statements saying Israel didn't kill Charlie Kirk . By the way , I've noticed this . One of the weirdest things happening right now is how Israel's prime minister keeps going out of his way to make public statements saying that Israel was definitely not behind the assassination of Charlie Kirk . In a
Silver Market Dynamics and Dealer Insights
Speaker 2two-minute video uploaded onto his Twitter account on Wednesday , netanyahu complained that somebody quote has fabricated a monstrous big lie that Israel had something to do with Charlie Kirk's horrific murder , saying the allegation is insane , it is false , it is outrageous and that Charlie loved Israel . A few days earlier , netanyahu had appeared on the highly sympathetic Newsmax to spend another couple of minutes ranting about how insane , stupid and ridiculous it is to claim that Israel was behind Kirk's death , saying he can't believe that people are saying that Well , I mean okay .
Speaker 2Well , there's a lot of . If you're plugged in to beyond surface level , if you're not being fed the news like that's why it's a news feed , ladies and gentlemen You're being fed the news like you're like a trough . If you're not doing that , and maybe you question things and look around for a little while , or you realize that the dancing Israelis that were arrested on 9-11-2001 were detained in federal prison by authorities for 70 days and then released because they had ties to Mossad and then went on Israeli television and said that they were there to quote , document the event and things like that . I to further its cause or its narrative or whatever , and I think these are open questions . But it's interesting that he would go . You know , it's kind of like Shakespeare Methinks thou dost protest too much . I don't know what . I've never seen them act that way . This is what Caitlyn Johnston says . This is like repeatedly going out in public to yell . I did not have a sex dream about my cousin , so that nobody thinks you had a sex dream about your cousin . People are going to walk away with a strong impression , and you probably did .
Speaker 2At this time I have no position on the emerging theories that Israel was involved in the assassination . But , damn dude , really not quelling the suspicion there . That's what I thought and again , I don't think there's enough good evidence . It's kind of like , uh and I'm not making that allegation , by the way um , I just don't know . I think whatever happened to charlie kirk on september 10th um was not whatever the official narrative is . I mean , seriously , folks read the transcript of the supposed shooter , the Tyler guy . Read that with his furry partner or whatever it was . That's AI-generated . So I don't the the symbology to the Mouser and I just I have so many questions like this doesn't make any sense . So official narrative is kind of like Vegas or Steven Paddock into a three-letter agency or whatever , like you're never really going to know . And then you have so much disinformation , which I think is a good conversation to have , because I love alternative media . But , mike , we have just descended into this cacophony of weapons-grade degeneration of thought and it's almost like there's several things going out just making it poisoning the well of any good research because it becomes so outlandish and so over the top . Israel's foreign ministry is claiming that Gaza flotilla bringing aid to starving civilians is actually Haman . That's right , and this is the so-called flotilla to Gaza is openly backed by jihadist Hamas . Yeah , this is another part of the flip and script of the narrative .
Speaker 2Trump has announced plans to designate Antifa as a terrorist organization , which liberals have hastened to point out as a legal absurdity , since Antifa is not an actual entity in any meaningful way . Well , I think , in this line of logic too and all the fall— , this is where we have to step back and get really sober and look at this . Like everything that happens post-September 10th and the designation of terrorist organizations and the cracking down or the saying that you know if you criticize , you know if you , if you criticize the legacy of Charlie , I can get fired in less than two sentences was like contradicting herself . Saying we're going to back employers who fire people and we're also going to black back in the employees who were fired for supporting Charlie . So if you're against Charlie and you get fired , you say something heinous , which , by the way , is heinous in and of itself .
Speaker 2But I believe in free speech and , you know . Sometimes it's good to know who people are . That's like what I heard somebody say one time about burning the American flag Like we'll get a flag amendment . It's like that's not a good idea . I'd kind of like to know who wants to burn the flag . I'm the same way . I'd like to know you should have the absolute right to burn it and you should also be seen as the person who burns the flag , if that makes any sense .
Speaker 2But I thought that there's a lot of danger in the fallout of this and so much of it tracks back to again . I think it's a healthy conversation to have . What was Charlie thinking ? Who was pressuring him ? I think we know who . You know what . Who was pressuring him ? I think we know who . But he definitely crossed some lines , just bringing up , you know , the genocide in Gaza and what's happening to the Palestinian people and the heavy handedness of it all and the influence that that foreign government has on the United States of America , which I'm not a fan of . I'm not a fan of any foreign government having control over the destiny and foreign policy of the country that I love , land that I love and country that I swore an oath to protect and defend against all enemies , foreign and domestic .
Speaker 2And she goes on to say since I began criticizing the Trump administration's aggressive assaults on free speech in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing , I've had American rightists falling all over themselves in my social media notifications trying to justify government censorship . Yeah , they really do . Isn't that sad to watch ? You know , because I'm of the right , I consider myself , you know I'm . I'm from a way way back . You know I'm a paleo conservative John Birch Society member . You know I'm a paleo conservative John Birch Society member , still am , proudly I love .
Speaker 2I consider myself a devotee of Gary Allen , who wrote None Dare Call a Conspiracy , and his take was that you know , on the on the spectrum of left and right , you know in the traditional sense they . You know what they want to teach you in government schools is that you know , to the left is communism and then to the right is nazism . So , like you know , the further right you go , you're nazi . For the left you go , you're a , a communist . And um , gary allen said no , actually , the further right you go is no government and the further everything is on the left is totalitarian , because that's social control , that's central planning , that's karl marx , no matter how you slice it . You have national socialism , you have international socialism , it doesn't matter . It's still on the left , so you go to the right .
Speaker 2So I consider myself as I even I get older . That's why I mentioned things like free trade , and I'm willing , and I still have what Aristotle , you know , said that the mark of an intelligent mind was the ability to entertain two ideas at once without accepting either . You can entertain the ideas , so I'm of the old right
Caitlin Johnston on Political Tensions
Speaker 2and they definitely are falling all over themselves to push for censorship . I think it's the whole point . Yesterday I had multiple Trump supporters try to tell me that it should be illegal to lie and that anyone who tells lies should be stopped from lying by the government . One of them told me he's an anarchist . You can't make this stuff up . I think this is where we are , and I think this is where we are in this timeline , up and down , left and right doesn't matter . It's crazy . People have lost their equilibrium . I think that's kind of the point and that's probably indicative of something like a fourth turning .
Speaker 2You know , the last fourth turning we had was culminated in the end of World War II in 1945 , and institutions were destroyed . Europe was in ashes . Japan had had two atomic weapons dropped on it . The United States held about more than 50% of the world's wealth and it was 5% of the world's population . So new institutions rose out of that . You had Bretton Woods , the IMF , the World Bank , and again the National Security State was born in 1947 , the CIA , the NSA , the Air Force , all the things that were born out of the 1947 wake of , and , of course , the Russians and Soviets getting the bomb . And then you had the document NSC , national Security Council , document 68 , which ratified all of that . But those institutions are waning and coming to an end . So in the I I think , death throes of a lot of perceived institutions , um , people are just uh , losing it , for lack of a better term , like it's uh , being off balance , off kilter . It's why it's so important to ground yourself and uh , in eternal truths , um , especially in the times in which we live . So interesting , interesting questions raised by Caitlin Johnston .
Speaker 2All right , I'm going to take this off the screen , and then I've got one more article I want to get into before we close out . This was up on antiwarcom , let's see . Billy Ray Valentine of the Infinite Fringe podcast says Before we close out , this was up on antiwarcom . I see Billy's in this . Billy Ray Valentine of the Infinite Fringe podcast says yo , I'm looking back through the comments . I'm trying to do better getting into the comments because I will get going on articles and then look up and realize I just didn't get to everything .
Speaker 2Yeah , moak Wild Woman says why did they take down the crime scene ? Only the FBI . I know Same thing . It's the same thing with Vegas . Kenny F Empower says I asked my magic eight ball . It says all signs point to Israel . Yeah Well , I mean , what's the positive of all this ?
Speaker 2By the way , if you and it's one of the reasons like uh , I wanted to go back to source material , that's why I started buying . Like I'm just going to from my library , I'm buying all the old , anything in copy that I can get of Jim Mars . I reordered some James Perloff books , don Jeffries , that made broadcasts like mine possible , where I can mix a little bit of political headlines and mainstream narrative with parapolitics or the conspiracy theory of history and a little bit of all finance and all history . It's good and I stand on the shoulders of those guys . Or David Knight , you know the .
Speaker 2I get the privilege of talking to him every Thursday and you know I've watched him for years and I , you know , I get to talk to him , the people that paved the way , and we need to have a little bit of something to ground ourselves on . That could be you know your faith or your you know your . Every day I read two pages of the Bible . It doesn't make me a pastor or anything , I'm just saying I do that , staying , staying rooted in in Western civilization , my faith and spirituality and other things I read .
Speaker 2Joseph Murphy , I think , is another important um person in my life to um remind me that the reality that is out there is created by us , the words we use , what we pay attention to , the . You know , even quantum physics says that , like what you observe , like the observer , in so many ways creates the observed , like we make this reality . I think a lot of the reality we have now is a manifestation of some real . You know some things that have happened that have been traumatic , like 9-11 or whatever you want to , the Charlie Kirk shooting . Somebody's ringing me but I'm not sure how to answer it . You guys might have to put up with it . All right , let's jump into the last article of the day . This is antiwarcom , antiwarcom and I think you know , as I'm picking out articles for you guys , these are I only pick out the most important things that I can find and stuff that would define the week or define the headlines , because we have an hour and this is something to watch . This is antiwarcom .
Speaker 2Just hot off the press Report , trump was made aware of Ukrainian counteroffensive plan that requires US intelligence support . According to the Wall Street Journal , the president learned of the plan before he said Ukraine can retake all the territory Russia has captured . This is by Dave DeCamp , by the way . President Trump was made aware of a planned Ukrainian counteroffensive that requires US intelligence support before he posted a long statement on True Social , where he insisted that Ukraine could retake all of the territory Russia had captured since 2022 . And it may even go further , the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday . Us officials told the journal that the president made the post after spending time with his special envoy to Ukraine , keith Kellogg , and Mike Waltz , his former national security advisor , who now serves as the US ambassador to the UN .
Speaker 2Kellogg recently said the US could kick Russia's ass and insisted Ukraine could win the war despite continued gains in eastern Ukraine . It's a clear advantage with manpower and industrial capacity . Um , this is the dumbest , most arrogant , hubristic , brain dead , weapons grade retarded thing I've heard um in my almost all of my broadcasting years . This has this has to take the cake . Kellogg , keith Kellogg . I think there's more intellectual substance in a bowl of Kellogg's than this guy Can kick Russia's ass . Really , of course this is . This is peak , whatever . Whatever this is , we're hitting the peak of it . I think , um prelude to , to idiocracy .
Speaker 2Um , I can't tell you , folks , do you realize that , like in past times , this is serious time ? I said on the David Knight show today that I believe we're in the most dangerous part of geopolitical threats that we have been in since 1962 , since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 13 days , and you didn't have that kind of rhetoric coming out of Washington . You had JFK and you had high rhetoric . You had thought , and that's why we didn't die in a nuclear exchange , you know , that's why we weren't inc in a nuclear exchange , you know . So I weren't incinerated by thermonuclear war is because you had a , a , a man like JFK , who understood that . You know a lot of the outcroppings and what happens , you know , in the culmination of war is , uh , is arrogance and it's misguided and it always ends in ruin . Wow , I read this earlier today and I'm just rereading it . Boy , that really sticks with me . That is some dangerous , dangerous language . Ladies and gents . Heath Kellogg , keith Kellogg has never seen someone die in front of him . He's never seen a crying child standing in the rubble of something that's on fire . He's never seen a mother ripping out her own hair because her kids were lit up at a checkpoint . He's never smelled dead bodies . Um , he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about . And that's like a lot of this these type of people that get to where they are , um , and maybe they never learned , cause they just , uh , use your children and your family members as cannon fodder , um , because they're expendable , because you're not part of their cocktail parties and you didn't go to their schools . And apparently this guy is super smart because he uses that kind of rhetoric .
Speaker 2Us officials said that Trump issued that statement in part to pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin to make a deal . Since there has been little progress since last month's Alaska summit , can I ask you know , can we just be honest with each other , what is the deal that needs to be made ? Here's a , here's a thought Stop , that would be good . The territories that voted themselves , because they're primarily Russian speaking , you could allow , because we worship democracy as a god , don't we ? Isn't that our god ? That we worship God , that
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Speaker 2we worship ? Don't we do that ? Aren't we supposed to bow down and worship at its feet ? They voted Let them have it .
Speaker 2It's one of the things that they tried to figure out like self-determination at the end of World War I , and they're like , oh , you could . Just , you know , that's when they made big Poland and they're like just carving stuff up on a map because the they trick the Germans into the armistice . And then they stuck the knife in and you had this scene this really happened , by the way where you had Woodrow Wilson , who didn't come over to the Treaty of Versailles conference with the Secretary of State and diplomats . He came over with Colonel Mandel House , who wasn't a colonel , who was his handler for the banking establishment . That's who he brought . And they had these big maps laid out on the floor and Wilson was just carving up areas like we could put this here and these people could go here , like ignoring history and tradition and language and culture and race and everything else .
Speaker 2And somebody pointed out I said , well , that's not logical , sir , and he says I don't give a damn about logic . So that's your first PhD . President . Ladies and gentlemen , that's what this reminds me of , and we worship democracy as a God . I thought that's what we did . We go around the world blowing people up and we send our sons and daughters to die for it . Right ? I thought that's what it was all about . That's interesting .
Speaker 2So the fact that Ukraine quote the fact that Ukraine is being encouraged in every way to continue hostilities and the idea that Ukraine can win something back in our view was a mistake , said the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov . The situation on the front line speaks for itself . Yeah , again , I'm not defending Russia , but there's a reason why wars start , and you could probably disagree with me . I mean , if Russia wanted to , it could do a lot more damage . It used to own Ukraine . That's part of it . I mean , technically , that's what it means is borderland , that's what Ukraine , the word Ukraine , means , and it's hard to get off in this territory without looking like you're defending Russia . But at the same time , I mean , there's been provocation after provocation of escalation after escalation , and we lied at the end of the Cold War and the Secretary of State , james Baker , promised Gorbachev verbally that we would not expand NATO . No-transcript , and that is that if they were stupid , then every once in a while they'd err in our favor , but they never do .
Speaker 2Talking about the ruling elite , peskov also said that it was clear Trump's comments that Russia was a quote paper tiger was influenced by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky yeah , why would you listen to anything the t-shirt man says ? And that Russia would make its position known to the US foreign minister . You know , I voted for peace and all I got was this lousy Armageddon . I pulled this up earlier too , before we close out . Here's some food for thought . Civilian casualties this up earlier too , before we close out . Here's some uh , here's some food for thought . Civilian casualties . As of 31 august 2025 , the un's office of high commissioner for human rights has recorded 14 116 civilian deaths and 36 481 injured in ukraine since february of 2022 . And that's high . But here's some other stats . Center for Strategic and International Studies estimates 250,000 Russian soldiers killed , with over 950,000 total casualties .
Speaker 2This is a real war , folks , and you have to wonder why is it being waged ? Who's doing what now ? What was the our bio labs on this borders ? Is that a provocation ? What about using Ukraine as some sort of international money laundering filter ? You know , operation it's the breadbasket of europe . You know , if the chinese were running operations and putting bio labs just off of uh , our border in mexico , off , you know , maybe , uh in laredo , or on the other side of el paso at fort bliss , you think that we'd have a problem with that ? Um , the casualties of the russo-ukrainian war uh track russian losses by name have documented 130,150 russian soldiers contractors killed with a notation 77,403 Ukrainian fighters killed and 77,842 missing as of 9 September 25 . Yeah , I'm reading different studies . I pulled up about five different studies . It's a massive bloodletting , but let's just continue it , by all means . You know it's disgusting .
Speaker 2Zelensky addressed the General Assembly on Wednesday and made an appeal for countries to provide him with more weapons to fuel the conflict . If a nation wants peace , it still has to work on weapons . It's sick , but that's the reality . Not international law , not cooperation . Weapons decide who survives , he said . Well , that's not true . What's the latest from Switzerland ? That's not true . What matters is diplomacy . What matters is and sometimes you have to fight strategic alliances strength , but provocation is never a good tool . In 1979 , on my birthday , the mighty Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and they looked to be unstoppable . As I mentioned earlier , the 79 , the United States was in a period of what was called malaise that's what Jimmy Carter called it . To cloud over the United States , it looked like the mighty Russian empire was unstoppable . We did nothing except boycott the Olympic Games . But by the end of the next decade , the Soviet Union disintegrated into 16 pieces On Christmas , by the way , almost 11 years to the day .
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