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A dramatically detailed account was given by the great storyteller Livy. Over three hundred years later. We may not really know what happened. This is about let me see if my mic's still picking up. Sorry about that, folks. I was uh I was wanting to uh tell a little bit of a story, and my book skipped around. Let's see. This is a story about the sacking of Rome in 387 BC, and it has a lot to do with our modern times. And uh there's a phrase that I wanted to communicate to all of you that I think will as far as akin to weighed in the balance and found wanting. I always uh found that to be uh apropos to the leaders in history who don't really understand history, but this is about the synomes, the an army that occupied Rome, the first real conquering of Rome in 387 BC, says having occupied the city, the leader of the Sonomes, Brynus, demanded a gold ransom weighing 1,000 pounds, that according to Livy was more than what was held in the temples, and the senators had to call in the city's matrons to surrender their jewelry. As the payment was measured out, Brinnus became irritated and weighed down the scales with his sword, declaiming woe to the vanquished. The woe he imposed was not physical suffering, the destruction of buildings or enslavement, nor was it an impoverishment. It was the surrender of the entire store of a useless substance that embodied transcendental value. The foundation that physically connected social order with the gods had been stripped away. The echo of Brynus's humiliating boast, ve victus, which is woe to the vanquished, would resound through Roman consciousness. They considered abandoning their city but decided to rebuild it, but with added paranoia. This is the Arterburn Radio Transmission. It is December 4th, 2025. I'm broadcasting live from downtown Denison, Texas, along with my co-pilot and co-host Beans the Brave. It's been a year to the day that I went on to Tenfoil Hat in Hollywood. And that was the day that Bitcoin broke 100,000. We were just off the heels of a second Trump victory, a second term. Crypto was uh flying high. Gold and silver were being sold off. They were in the red, they were falling from where they were in October of that year, and it looked like we were in for some sort of economic boon, and everything happy days were here again. The markets were soaring. Fast forward a year later, and the dollar has lost 88% of its purchasing power against silver. Gold, uh, almost this is the same boat. Uh, the dollar's lost over 50% of its purchasing power against gold. Bitcoin slipped back under 100,000, and we continue to go a trillion dollars into debt every 90 days, and the rate is accelerating. So a lot of the predictions and things that were sentiment a year ago didn't hold up. That's what reminded me. I was reading last night, I was doing my my daily study and trying to unplug from the headlines, and I came across that story about the Romans about woe to the vanquished, and uh, of course, the conqueror tipped the the scales with his sword because he there wasn't enough gold to pay him, and he was tired of waiting for it, so he tipped it himself. I think that um that is a snapshot of human history uh about uh who controls the gold, the golden rule, he who has the gold makes the rules, and we're starting to see an accounting, and this is a big picture idea that I want to go over, but I I just got done talking to the great David Knight, who was on the David Knight show, which I do a lot of uh I try to do every Thursday, and we've missed a couple of Thursdays, and of course, with the uh Thanksgiving holiday. But I was talking to him about that, and I think the black swan event, if you will, of the threat, or at least the insinuation that we were going to uh put tariffs on gold and silver back at the beginning of the year set off a cascading series, a domino effect of repricing. And that's commodities at uh really across the board, but in the monetary metals especially, and we're gonna talk a little bit about that today because you see the prices that silver jumped almost ten dollars an ounce in the past 10 days, and it's back down to around$57 an ounce, but getting close to and may have in some futures markets broke$60 an ounce, and that happened uh just over the holiday weekend. So a lot of stuff happening there, and it's about the outflows, it's about the uncertainty and the repricing of everything across the board. Central banks uh have bought 53 tons of gold in October. Uh, it's another uh record for the books in this last uh couple of months as we wind out 2025. Um, and physical demand continues to grow with institutions. And I I found this article, and we're gonna cover a lot, as much as I can cover today. I want to talk about the uh there's a a new recruitment video out for PsyOps uh out of Fort Bragg, and I thought that was uh an interesting topic to cover because all of this is all of this really the headlines, the news, and I was talking to Melissa yesterday about the the headlines and all the uh news aggregation on Drudge, and it's like you're living inside of a real dystopia. Like it's it's not even um you know, used to I'd cover the news and almost like a um in a real interest, you know, in a in a way that I was interested in. And now I'm just thinking, what what is it that they want me to think? Because I'm not gleaning any information from this, it's really uh an upside down, and trying to keep your mind straight is harder than ever. And don't forget, you go back to the Biden administration, and they had the executive branch had to put out a memo asking all other parts of the executive branch to to report back on what PSYOPs they were running because no one could tell what was a PSYOP and what wasn't. And I think that's pretty much all of us now, ladies and gentlemen, is living living in uh in this in this dystopic uh landscape of not knowing what is up or down. I'll try to make sense of it for you. You won't find any of that uh here on this program. It's just uh the uh you might find the chaos of my brain, uh, but you're never gonna find a psyop. I'm I won't be party to that. All right. Let's uh let's see if I can put this up on. I'm on my laptop today. I'm broadcasting from my loft in downtown Denison, Texas. Uh I it's a funny story. I had I had a new studio set up, everything was looking good down at the the bank, and uh my black cat pumpkin. Uh she was on my desk uh a couple of days ago, and my son's German shepherd Beth came in, wanted to uh say hi to the cat, and the cat knocked over my microphone and broke the mic stand for my roadcaster. So I'm broadcasting from my um my travel setup, which is I think sufficient. Sometimes I can't like when we came into the show, I couldn't quite hear myself. So I was wondering if we got any audio feed. And oh well, not everything's a perfect uh cold opening, but uh maybe next week I'll get it right. All right, let's put this up on the screen. This was an interesting article, uh, in the same line of you know, what's going on with the price of silver, which is fascinating to me. And it's it's not coming in the form of which I thought it was going to appear uh over the years as I've done my study and analysis. It's almost backwards, and I'll get into that. This is KitCo. Physical is king. India's silver demand collides with 25 years supply gap. And this is um again over on Kitco, Kitco News, silver's record-breaking run is being driven less by hedge funds and more by a wave of physical demand that mining industry cannot meet. A longtime U.S. silver mining executive said in an interview with Kitco News. Quote, the physical market is driving the financial market in a way that hasn't been done in my career, said Phil Baker, describing what he heard at the London Bullion Market Exchange Association recently. He says, It was interesting. I was at the LBMA annual meeting, and the the quote of the meeting was, Physical is king. We're in a different place than we were in the last 20 years, he said. Baker, the former chief executive Helka Mining and now advisor in the sector, said the stress he observed among bullion professionals was unlike anything he'd seen before. I was really struck at the LBMA at the stress that was felt by the market participants with silver, and it was stress that I had not seen before. It's really clear to me that these guys are not going to allow their inventory levels to fall to the same levels they were before. He says the driver is India. And and I said this on the David Knight show today. India has always been a culture that buys physical gold. This is something they do for generational wealth, pass things on, gifts. I buy a lot of uh gold jewelry from Indian families and when they need to raise some fiat currency. But I was reminding David that the uh root uh word of for rupee, the Indian currency is rupiah, which is silver. So for me, the thing that really drives silver is what's happening in India, he said. That is the driver, the literal driver. He noted that India, now the world's fifth largest economy, has seen silver imports soar. In October, India imported around 60 million ounces of silver compared with about 15 million ounces of silver the year earlier. Despite the fact that silver is an all-time high in rupee terms, the demand has been, as described at the Perth mint, insatiable. Why is this important? This is something that I've talked about for a long time. This is 45 years in the making, ladies and gentlemen. The papering over of silver, and when you have trust, when you have markets love certainty, when you have a a monicum of trust, when you have um the idea that you could place a trade, that you can hold something through a counterparty with this uh counterparty risk, and that everything will be fine, and you could expect delivery if need be, but if not, you will play the market. Those days are coming to an end, and that had a lot to do with the opening event of 2025 with the tariffs, the threat of the tariffs or the unknown of the tariffs. A lot of the silver was moved out of vaults all over the world, repurposed, put into uh the contracts were called, uh, some of them were liquidated, and we found ourselves in a supply deficit. And it's been in a supply deficit for many years, as you know, they mentioned they've imported 60 million ounces. Well, the supply deficit around the world was over 200 million ounces for the last few years. So that means they had to take from the above-ground supply, and that set fine for a little while. They were able to paper over it. Now all bets are off, and this is only the beginning. I need to stress this to you. I do not believe we're at the top of some silver market. I think that there is we're this is price discovery, not only for gold, but for silver. And silver is again 88% gain over the dollar in the last 12 months is unprecedented for what's happening right now in the metals markets, and places like India certainly are driving it. Baker said the destination of the flow metal out of London has been unmistakable. If you look at where the silver went from London, it went to Mumbai. In some cases, he added, the physical scramble was so intense that silver was moved by air from Asia. To be clear, the silver can come from anywhere. And in fact, to resolve things, you saw more silver come out of China. It will move anywhere, he said. But the fact that it was moving by plane was really shocking. It shows you the amount of stress that they were under. And this happened in a series of events with Russia making silver a strategic reserve asset, uh, China uh hoarding silver, same for this its weapons technology, it's solar, anything that has to do with the technological revolution, even AI, all hoarding physical silver. Don't forget that the military-industrial complex, uh, the fuel of that is is physical silver bullion. There's 500 ounces of silver. There's a monster box of silver in each tomahawk missile. And you don't get that silver back after you blow it up. CME delivery notices for December showed about eight eight thousand eight hundred contracts, roughly 44 million ounces standing for delivery with a growing share to commercial users. Baker said his message to those users for the past 18 months has been blunt. Don't be short silver, he said. They're finally putting the silver in place so that they're not short. Industrial demand has already reshaped the market. Out of a billion ounces of demand for silver, 55% or so is for industrial, he said, citing uses from photoanalytics to electronics. They're going to try thrifting, but they can't thrift fast enough. And so the only alternative they have is to be long silver. This is exactly where so many of the smart people that I've interviewed over the years have been on silver. The the uh Peter Kraut, the uh great silver bull, you know, his book, and I've interviewed him. This is uh a long time in the making. It had to first expose the weakness in what is held in the paper markets, and then when you couple that with the loss of trust, the decline in trust across the board, not only with trade, but just trust in the institutions by themselves, then you find where we are today. And I don't believe that we are in some sort of bull market. This is not investment advice. This is literally, I think this is more, this is more of a philosophical uh line of logic that I'm on right now. It's not it's not about being at the top of the market or where investments are or anything else. I think that the culling of physical silver, and especially out of the hands of the West. If you look at like my business, I have two different shops in two different states, right? I have Missouri, I have Texas, we have our uh our toll-free numbers, you can deal with me from all over the country. People are selling silver left and right. And I'm this is my a full-time job now for me, just keeping up with uh covering the invoices. And I will say that the buyers, uh, aside from those that are with me in Wolfpack for our uh monthly membership that are dollar cost averaging, aside from that, the purchases have gone way down, the selling continues to go way up, but that silver, and again, the price and the demand continues to go up, which means that it's flowing outwards. And it's going to places like India, but it's going to institutions, folks. I can't stress this enough. This is happening with gold, silver, and Bitcoin. It's taking it out of the hands of uh the lower economic strata, the mid economic strata. Upper economic strata before you get to the super elite and multinational banking consortiums and conglomerates. And that is being repurposed and sent out. So this didn't come in the form when I originally started looking down the road and trying to predict what would happen. I knew that we would have a squeeze, but I thought that it would first come from individuals. And I was mistaken. It came from institutions first. I thought that they would lag behind the individuals. So we're not even at the point where people in this country start to go, hey, wait a minute. I need some physical silver. Those those orders have not been placed yet. And I think we will see that, but not right now. And it's going to be a lot of selling for a time. And it can the prices and scarcity will continue to rise, and the price will, I believe, continue to rise. And there will may be some sell-offs, but over a long enough period of time, we're going to see some really dramatic moves in silver. This is um fascinating to watch. A five-year deficit and a long wait for mine supply. And this is something I've been talking about too. There haven't been because of silver being suppressed for so long, there wasn't a lot of uh capital investment into mining silver alone. A lot of the silver that you see hitting the markets comes from gold mining, copper mining, nickel mining. And it's uh it's something that they just ancillary. You have it outside of what is already your main goal, which is these other metals. And so the deficits continue to accrue. This deficit year should be 100 to 200 million ounces, and that's on top of deficits that have exceeded that for the last four years. Independent data suggests a similar pattern. The world silver survey shows that global silver market running consecutive deficits in recent years as demand has outpaced mine production and recycling. Baker said the constraint is not ore in the ground, but time and permitting. Yeah, that's how long it takes to go and create a new silver mine, all of the constraints and the permitting and everything else, the logistics around that to even pull it out of the ground. So we're way, well, I mean, we're years out from satiating the current demand, which I think is only getting started. He believes the industry is already past peak silver. Peak silver was 2016 at 900 million ounces, he said, adding that we're going to always be below this 900 million ounce of silver from the mines, at least for the next decade. At the same time, the biggest operations are not big enough to close the gap. Last year, the top five silver mines globally produced between 41 million and 17 million ounces each, leaving even the fifth largest mine at only about 2% of world output. Well, I think so we're finally in the cycle of history that I've been talking about for many years, even going back to when when if you've been following the show for the you know the last 500 episodes, uh back when silver was$15 an ounce, and I was saying, hey, there's a supply deficit, and uh the dollar is losing purchasing power. Yeah, it just sounded like you know, this is just noise in the background because you had the paper markets. And I go back to uh February of 2021, and they had this big push by the Wall Street Bets people that were saying, you know, buy physical silver. The people went out and bought physical silver, they cleaned out most of the shops, and the next day the price of silver went down because the powers that be at the time uh sold off 1.5 times the annual supply in one day in paper. So they were able to do that as late as 2021, but you have to remember what happened in 2022, this global shift, Russia invades Ukraine, the United States puts even more stringent uh uh uh the um uh tariffs and uh um all of the uh penalties against Russia and uh all of the rest of that and the sanctions that placed uh the ruble in free fall for about 90 days. And then the uh finance minister for Russia came out and said that uh dollars are candy wrappers, we're not gonna use those anymore. They started doing direct deals with Russia or with uh with China, with India, uh trading gold bullion for oil and all the rest. The ruble bounced back, and the dollar started to de-dollarize all around the world. It went from 53% of global usage to around 43%. I don't know where it is now, but it dropped uh almost 10% in global usage. And uh you look at the metrics like the Euro uh once being the second held most reserve asset for central banks being supplanted by gold. This isn't these things flow together. This is in conjunction with that. And so silver getting put on the the books by Russia as a strategic reserve asset. All that is putting pressure on the price right now of metals, and of course, you add in the uncertainty. This is interesting times, ladies and gentlemen. So last uh 2021 was the last time I think they could paper over any of that. All right. I do want to I do want to go to the comments too. We're over on YouTube. Oh, Kenny F and Powers. It's good to see you guys. I see. Is Billy in the chat? We have BRV in the chat. I I always like seeing the YouTube chat. I can't believe we still have a YouTube channel right now. So yeah, go and go and subscribe to uh to at Tony Arterburn. Uh Harp says good day, Tony, and all the fiat dollar is dead and hail silver. Yeah, Kenny F and Powers says, uh, hey Tony, and being the brave. Imagine how I won't use the word, but how crappy things are going to be when gold breaks 5k and silver is at 100. Yeah, this doesn't uh the the price reflection in metals right now uh isn't exactly uh a uh sign of confidence or health in the economy, uh, but it is a revaluation. Yeah, I think that that's uh that's right. It's it's Billy in the chat. Guerrilla Underground 1984. Yeah, it's good to see you, Billy. All right, if you guys got any questions or anything you want to uh send my way, I need to check the rumble chat as well. Let's see. Uh okay, Brandon Bennett in the chat and uh Steve's. I hope I'm saying that right. And of course, uh harp's always on the rumble chat, too. This is I agree that the price discovery. I wish I knew about metals when I graduated from high school in 1981. I didn't, and family and friends didn't. Well, you're not taught this in school, so don't beat yourself up. This is uh it's a subculture that's taking uh I think a lot of the historical happenings, and uh it just happens to flow into uh the wheelhouse of somebody like me now. Yeah, as silver prices rise, are you thinking of changing the$35 and$50 price structure? Well, that oh, you're talking about Wolfpack. That's a great question. Well, not not right now, because we can still get um we can still get fractional silver, we can still get gold backs. As a matter of fact, I was having that conversation with uh Yeka yesterday about uh what we're putting in the cubs at 35, what we were putting in the lone wolves. And we used to be able to put an ounce of silver in the lone wolves, and uh now I can't anymore. And uh we're we're at half ounces, and that may change, uh, but still dollar cost averaging. We're not gonna change the price of the 35 or 50. You're just gonna get different items. And uh if I can, if I can even do it anymore, I'll try to put silver dollars in the loan wheels, but I don't think uh I don't know that I can. I'd have to be able to buy a lot of them in bulk uh for under melt and uh it to make it work even with the shipping. So it's uh it's a lot to juggle right now. A lot of my brain power has just been tied up in how to move product, which uh is a full-time job. All right. Uh let's see, let's jump around a little bit. I had a couple of different articles pulled up. Uh see what I had on Zero Hedge. Yeah, this was an interesting. This is I we're gonna stay a little bit in medals uh for the time being, and then I want to move to the parapolitical. We'll talk a little bit about this uh new video that's out for the psychological operations. I thought that was that was something interesting to watch. And I I didn't even I maybe a little bit of anti-war headlines uh with this debacle and everything that's going on around uh surrounding the uh boat strikes and Venezuela and everything else, which has the potential to turn into something uh I I I think uh scandalous, if you will. Um something maybe even uh akin uh to what was happening with uh Ollie North uh in the Reagan era with around Contra. All right, let's uh let's put this up on the screen. One second. Always fun, always fun being on my laptop. So you can thank Pumpkin uh for for that. We have we're on laptop because of pumpkin, but I won't give her up. I I love my black cat. All right, let's uh this is interesting. It's something I was talking with David Knight about today when it comes to Bitcoin, and this is uh Zero Hedge. Why Tether is buying more gold than many central banks and what it signals? And this is from Cointelegraph. Tether purchased 26 tons of gold in Q3 of 2025, a larger quarterly acquisition than any reporting central bank. Its total holdings reached 116 tons, placing it among the world's top 30 gold holders. Stablecoin issuers, sovereign wealth funds, corporations, and tech firms are increasingly active in gold markets. This trend makes a structural shift in global demand once dominated by central banks. Now, what have I talked about for a long time? And that is the state the stable coin system is the new fusion of the CBDC system, and that's how if you go back and you look at how the United States quietly let the petrol dollar die. So we went off the gold standard in 71. Henry Kissinger, Nixon, and the like uh decided that they needed to have some sort of stabilizing effect for the dollar. So by 1974, we had a deal with the Saudis and OPEC to denominate all oil purchases, all petroleum purchases in dollars. And that's what backed the dollar. Um, really, I mean, other than being the world's reserve currency, it was that denominated uh usage in dollars for petro that stabilized the dollar after that free fall, the Nixon shock of 71. And we had that up until quietly in 2024, around June, that agreement lapsed. And there wasn't a summit, and there wasn't a meeting, and there wasn't any strategy. They just literally let the petrol dollar lapse. And I remember talking about this, wondering, what is the play here? Well, the play, it appears, is the dollar, like I've always said, the dollar's not going to zero, the dollar's going to digital. And this is where you get into the um legitimizing of stable coins, and this is a way for them to not only repurpose the dollar for global off-ramps, but to restructure it. Um, restructure it, revalue it, and the stablecoin issuers, like it says in this article, are buying up assets. Central banks added 220 tons of gold in Q3 2025, up 28% from Q2. Countries such as Kazakhstan, Brazil, Turkey, and Guatemala made notable additions despite record prices. While central banks buy gold for national monetary policy, Tether's purchases come from profits and support diversification, resilience, and collateralization for USDT. The global financial system is witnessing a period when non-state entities are competing with central banks to buy gold reserves. Tether, the issuer of Tether USDT, the largest stable coin in the world, is now one of the largest buyers of gold. In a single quarter, the company purchased more gold than most central banks did in the same period. During the third quarter of 2025, Tether added 26 metric tons of gold to its holdings, according to analysis at Jeffries. This made Tether the single largest gold buyer that quarter, larger than the combined purchases of all reporting central banks. By the end of September 2025, Tether's total gold reported holdings stood at about 116 tons. It ranked alongside countries of the IMF official gold reserves lists. This would place Tether among the top 30 holders. Well, this is only just the beginning, folks. And don't think that it's just gold alone. They are stabilizing through the digital system. There's going to be look, you have the old system, which is the Federal Reserve, the uh dollar-denominated system, the world reserve currency as the dollar. You have the cash system. Remember, we just got rid of the penny. That's only the beginning. The digitized system is the bones of that are being put into place. This is uh this is a historic move, what you're watching. It's the privatization, a public-private partnership of currency itself. Also, as I mentioned on the David Knight show, in conjunction with this, folks, is the play with stable coins and Bitcoin. And a lot, I think Bitcoin right now, as I mentioned earlier, a year ago today, it right before I went on tinfoil hat and announced that we would take Bitcoin at no fee. So for purchases, uh, Bitcoin hit 100,000. And that was historic. I didn't think that a year from uh that day that I would be talking about uh Bitcoin hitting 127,000 in October and then down to 83 or whatever it went to, and now it's about 91. Uh, I think that there's something here alongside this story about Tether purchasing gold looking a lot like a central bank itself. If you look at the big players and what's going on with Bitcoin, remember Bitcoin is a store of value and uh finite, digitized, could be even considered digital gold, if you will. It's a store of value, not necessarily a currency. So when you take that into consideration, all these uh stable coins growing stronger and stronger, they need off-ramps because they are stable. A lot of need off-ramps into stores of value. I think not only the gold holdings will go up, but the large players are continuing to accumulate bitcoin. It's really the same story universally across the board, folks. If you look at what's happening with gold and silver, and I'm watching this at just at a micro level, I know the macro, but if you're looking at the micro level, just a small uh regional operation of precious metals, like I have, the metals are flowing out of the hands of people, and they're flowing to institutions. Same thing with Bitcoin. We're watching uh this is a monetary revolution. You're witnessing it in real time. It's an interesting, interesting time to be alive, folks. It's like uh David Knight always tells me it's the Chinese curse. May you live in interesting times. We're certainly watching that. All right, uh, let's see. I I had uh see if I can cover I have so many articles I want to get to. I'm like wondering if I'm gonna get to it with time. All right, let's do um a little bit of uh geopolitics. I pulled this up. I want to talk a little bit about what's going on uh with Venezuela just for a little bit of the parapolitical, and then we'll we'll end the uh show with the PSYOP article. Put this on the screen. This is antiwar.com. Senators reintroduced a bill to block Trump from launching war with Venezuela. A bipartisan war powers resolution to block Trump from attacking Venezuela was also introduced in the House. This is from Dave de Camp. A bipartisan group of senators has reintroduced a war powers resolution aimed at blocking President Trump from launching a war with Venezuela without congressional authorization. The bill was introduced by Senators Tim Kane, Rand Paul, and Adam Schiff. Also sponsored the previous resolution, and this time they were joined by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. According to a press release from Kane's office, the new war powers resolution is privileged and may be called upon a vote on the Senate floor within 10 days. First bill failed last month in a vote of 49 to 51, with just two Republicans, Paul and Lisa Murkowski, supporting it. Kane has said he expects the legislation to receive more support now that the U.S. has deployed more military assets near Venezuela. And due to the controversy of the September 2nd bombing of an alleged drug boat off the coast of Venezuela that involved a second strike to kill survivors. We should not be risking the lives of our nation's service members to engage in military action within Venezuela without a robust debate in Congress. This is why the framers gave the power to declare war to Congress, not the president. Well, you know, thanks, uh Senator Kane. But I'll take what I can get if we're actually going to bring up who declares war and what the framers intended, and uh the despite the fact that we renamed the Defense Department back to the war department, I guess, which is fine if you actually want to call it what it is. Um, but if you look at this strike in Venezuela, and then you actually just pull back a little farther to a 10,000-foot view, and then you gotta ask, well, what is this even about anyway, other than if you look at uh strategic planning, as I've mentioned with the Wolfowitz memorandum of 1992, in the periphery of that was hemispheric uh energy domination. And uh Venezuela has the, I believe, if my research is correct, uh the largest uh known deposits of petroleum on the planet, uh, outside of I think uh global output from the Middle East is about 24 percent. So it's a major uh holder of energy, a reserve of energy in our hemisphere. And Venezuela's long since been on the chopping block for intelligence and overthrow, and you had uh Juan Guaido and all that stuff that happened over the past uh uh five years. But now we're talking about kinetic war, folks. Uh Senator Randpaul said that the American people do not want to be dragged into endless wars with Venezuela without public debate or vote. We ought to defend what the Constitution demands, deliberation before war. Well, he's right about that. And then again, what what are we deliberating? Can anybody really tell me? Um I uh we really need Smetley Butler uh right now to explain all of this. You know, he's like I didn't go uh to to fight to bring you know democracy to South America. I I went on behalf of the United Fruit Company. That's what uh the the most highly decorated Marine Corps general in history said who wrote war as a racket. So really nothing new under the sun here, folks, but you know, this is it's interesting that we are gonna bring up that we need to do to debate war. And then again, what is the debate about? A war powers resolution to block an attack on Venezuela has also been introduced in the House uh by Rep Jim McGovern, a Democrat, Joaquin Castro, and Rep Thomas Massey in Kentucky co-sponsoring the bill. The Constitution does not permit the executive branch to unilaterally commit an act of war against a sovereign nation that hasn't attacked the United States, Massey said in a statement. Congress has the sole power to declare war against Venezuela. Congress must decide such matters according to our constitution. Well, he's 100% right. I'm not sure any of this will make a difference. I think the headlines of the boat strike and going back to eliminate the survivors, uh, I think this is going to be a bigger story, especially with um, and it may not be tomorrow, but you look at 2026, you look at the uh health of the economy. You know, it's always the the economy stupid, you know, they go back to 1992. Um, but the economy, I think, will have a major effect on on the midterms. The midterms will again, I think a lot of this will be brought back up. Um, we might just see that for the last two years or so of this administration. What went on in the last 12 months will probably be dragged out, dissected. Uh, there will be lots of investigations, and this will uh not end well. So just something to think about on the parapolitical front. We definitely are in a kinetic war all over the globe. It doesn't look like any previous wars, and uh so much of that, as we'll get to here in a second, is about the psychological warfare, the mind war that's going on around the world, and not just from again, not it's not even just from our our own uh defense establishment. This is everywhere. So you you are smack dab in the middle of the great reset of a massive psychological operation and have been for uh many years. The fact that we're all holding up as well as we're doing um that's pretty remarkable. Uh, you throw AI into that, and you got yourself a real dystopic uh reality to live in, folks. All right. Yeah, I won't be able to cover every single article, so let's go to let's go to natural news. And as I know Billy's listening, Billy Ray Valentine, and uh he will be proud to say we were one of the first people to talk about the ghost in the machine uh video. I hosted the David Night show. I had to maybe I replay that sometime. Uh Billy and I talked about the release of the 2022 video of the ghost in the machine, um, with the PsyOps department out of Fort Bragg, and they're back at it again. They've got a a new recruitment video. I'll see if I can play the video, but I want to pull up the article. I had to go to a different link to to actually get the article up. Alright, let me put this up on. Yeah, it's interesting whenever you're doing a show like this and you try to find the actual article that they had, you know, to that they're referencing, and then you just search and search, and it's harder and harder to find. U.S. Army Secreted Psychological Warfare Unit released cryptic recruiting video. We are everywhere. The fourth psychological operations group, Airborne, released a cryptic meme laden video filled with subliminal messaging, World War II propaganda references, and eerie visuals departing from traditional patriotic military ads. The video emphasizes words are weapons and showcases Psyop's role in influencing perceptions, manipulating emotions, and shaping behavior through propaganda, deception, and viral messaging, targeting both enemies and domestic audiences. The video includes Easter eggs like the World War II Ghost Army insignia, Pepe the Frog, and rapid flashing phrases appealing to conspiracy-minded audiences and leveraging internet culture for viral engagement. The Army seeks cerebral and analytical recruits skilled in research, psychology, and multimedia deception, training forty-one weeks of intensive instruction and cultural dynamics, propaganda, and psychological manipulation. Unlike traditional PSYOP targeting foreign adversaries, this video appears tailored for American audiences, signaling an escalation in domestic information warfare amid rising distrust in institutions and mainstream narratives. The tagline, we are everywhere, reinforces the message that psychological operations are already active within society. Well, I was at Fort Bragg for many years, and uh I remember I was I went to Reno in 2001, right after 9-11, uh, to compete. Right before I went to Afghanistan, I competed in the um world uh deadlift and bench press championships. And I was I was 21. I was flying back and I sat next to the on the plane. I sat next to the former uh head of psychological operations at Fort Bragg. It was a two-star general, major general. Had an interesting, he gave me his coin. We had an interesting conversation, but yeah, I'm I'm very familiar with uh with this group. I think I've done some uh the special warfare unit out there at uh Fort Bragg. I did some some jumps with them when I was uh a military policeman. I tried to get my jumps in over with Swick, the because they always had the better planes. Or they could they could jump a Blackhawk or a Casa, and I wouldn't have to do a C-130. So I always enjoyed that. Unlike traditional military recruitment ads, filled with explosions, patriotic music, and heroic imagery, this video leans into psychological intrigue. It opens with a burning 1980s CRT television flickering to life with a ghostly 1930s cartoon, followed by scenes of soldiers blending into crowds, leaflets raining from the sky, and distorted radio broadcast. Quote, there is another force applied in combat that we generally don't think of as a weapon of war, a gravely voice narrates. That weapon is words. Words are weapons. This is psychological warfare. The video concludes with a pulsing QR code linking the Army's Psyop recruitment page and the ominous tagline join PSYOP. Viewers quickly dissected the video uncovering Easter eggs that nod to conspiracy theories, historical deception tactics, and internet memes. Among the most notable, a brief flash of World War II Ghost Army insignia, a unit that used inflatable tanks and sound effects to deceive Nazi forces. Pepe the Frog in a Clown suit, a symbol uh controversially adopted by fringe online movements. The phrase, anything we touch is a weapon, appears and vanishes in milliseconds. Social media reactions range from fascination to unease. Watch it over and over again. Great little nuggets of information for us, commented Nidia Law on Facebook. A lot of crumb drops in this one, wrote the Jason on Instagram. Yeah, it is interesting, folks. We we're no longer in the you know, the remember the recruitment video that uh there's this great movie, Generation Kill, and it's one of the best, I think one of the most accurate, you know, modern uh global war on terror movies that I've ever seen. And it's a series that was out on HBO. And the joke and the the uh some of the scenes, these were you know, this was a real account of Marines. I say, what what you know what commercial got you? And it was the you know, the Marine that was has that slays the dragon that has the the sword, you know, and that was uh you know, we used to have be all you can be. You remember that in the 1980s? You had so many great recruitment ads, and then I think in the early 2000s they really started to slip and did the the army of one and all that stuff. It wasn't as um powerful as some of the the stuff from the the 80s and 90s were peak patriotic uh warrior-based recruiting. And uh this again it it it goes over the boundaries of we have enemies and we're protecting the the so-called um, which I hate that term, homeland. Uh, but that's what they're they're saying. Like this is for everything, and the wink and the nod to internet culture, and this has become more and more apparent, and something that we cover on America Unplugged and things I've talked with uh extensively with Billy Ray Valentine the co-opting of and the capturing of internet culture by the powers that be is so staggering and so apparent now. I mean, can you see it? Can you see like every bit of alternative media for the most part has been captured by intelligence, by psychological warfare units, and not just uh domestically, but this is around the world. So finding the truth is my my friend uh Robert Gore, you said the uh he's got a great website called Straight Line Logic. I need to get him back on the show, but I read one of his articles uh back in 2019, it always stuck with me. Uh, he wrote it for Lou Rockwell, and it was um it was saying that the holy grail for the establishment is to make the truth irrelevant. Now, that's not really possible in the long term, but to scatter uh and to fractionalize so many of us who are trying to get a good bead, especially in the the realm of if you are if you are awake, you realize that none of this is organic, but where does it all stem from? What are you actually watching? How many psyops are running in the background, like like your phone, you know, like with all the apps that are running? So we have our headlines, we have our perceived reality, and then you have all these other things that are running at the same time, and it could come on purpose from influencers, or it could come uh unwittingly from people, it could come from all those things. So, this is one of those I think pivotal moments where if you're plugged in, then more than ever you have to think for yourself. And it's not about what I think, it's uh not about what other commentators think, it's about really thinking for yourself, which is um uh the what Henry Ford said uh thinking is the hardest job of all. That's why so few people do it. So uh that's my message for today, this this December 4th, 2025, uh, as we uh try to make sense of this week here on the Arterburn Radio Transmission. I so appreciate uh each and every one of you being here. I will plug a little bit. Uh I don't know how many more shows I'll do before the end of the year. Um, but I in 2026 we're gonna have a really heavy schedule. 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