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All right, folks, it's the official broadcast of the apocalypse. I am your host, Tony Arthur. Just going over my notes and um looking back over the past uh few weeks and everything that's happened. You know, that's a quote by uh Vladimir Lenin about there's uh decades where nothing happens, and then there's weeks where decades happen. And we're certainly smack dab in the middle of that, ladies and gents, you know, and even building the show anymore. Um, this used to be a completely different type of environment. There was a lot of um there was a lot of forward looking and analysis on what the financial system could do or will do, and now it's doing that. So this is probably, you know, it the show has gotten a bit lopsided, folks, and I don't mean to do that, but uh the parapolitics, precious metals aspect of the transmission leans a lot into the analysis on the monetary system, just because I believe that is the most important story of our time. But I was watching the movie 13 Days uh recently, and um it got me to thinking about, and if you guys have ever watched the documentary The Fog of War, and that's where they just uh it was I think 2002 or so, they just put a camera in a room and asked Robert McNamara, who was Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and then Johnson and presided over much of the failure of the Vietnam War. And of course, he was very much present during the Cuban Missile Crisis. And they asked him a lot of questions that he'd reflected on for many years, and he attributed it to what they the phenomenon called uh the fog of war. It's a very insightful documentary. I highly recommend it if you're interested in that bit of history of that timeline. And I feel like we're on that now. I try as I wake up and I look at the market analysis and the geopolitical macro aspect of everything. I pray, I meditate on not being too pulled into the fog of war. I I think I've skipped over a lot of the um the noise. I think that the social deconstruction that's going on right now, I think that the, which is basically a a top-down push right now to divide us, is a bit of a sideshow. There's not much you can do about it. You can observe it, you can uh understand its place or its role, but I'm not gonna take part in that. I looked at the headlines of Drudge, much of it is still they the false dichotomy of the left-right paradigm is alive and well. And I think you have to, at a certain point, step back from that and start looking at the macro. Um, the macro is really what's important because those are the big stories that are going on. As a matter of fact, today we'll cover there's a push right now for the the flip side of this fourth turning where you get you get uh trade wars, currency wars, and then you get actual wars. And the actual wars we've talked about for many years. I mean, ever since I think the the watershed moment uh in the past four or five years was the invasion of uh Ukraine by Russia, and um not so much the foreign policy consequences of it, but the the fallout from our sanctions that we placed on Russia and the bounce back that the ruble had and the loss of dollar usage around the world. Um, I think I talked about this on the last show, but it is breathtaking to watch, folks. We're we're living inside real monetary history, the likes of which the world has never seen before. It's very hard to even compare it historically. If you go back to 1945, the US dollar was used in 90% of the world's financial transactions post-World War II. That continued all the way to 2001 when the dollar was used in 75% of the world's financial transactions. Even in 2022, right before we placed the sanctions on Russia, yeah, it had been 21 years or so uh since you know the opening of the century. Uh, but we are still at 56% of usage. We're at 40% now, folks. That happened in four years. We're 40%. We dropped 16 percentage points or so, and for the first time, central banks hold more gold than they do U.S. treasuries. These are events that are happening so fast and so rapidly that it is hard to uh even know where you actually are. I try to take a step back and cover the big picture. So let's do that together today. I'm gonna wade into a little bit of the uh the push for war. And I guess you guys can probably always um attribute a certain faction of those uh that are interested in Middle Eastern wars. I'm sure we can uh trace trace everything back in our uh Middle Eastern-centric foreign policy to a certain lobby and to a certain mindset. Uh, but Iran's certainly on the table. We'll talk about that. And I think one of the reasons why is because they're not a nuclear power. And you know, you you've guessed it. We fight our wars through proxies, at least um, at least we have since the advent of nuclear weapons and nuclear proliferation. So we'll get into a little bit of that today. And then um for the parapolitical, I have some questions on the space program. And uh, I've always been a bit of a oh, I I will be an agnostic at some level because I do understand how uh psychological operations work. I do get the weird, you know, we haven't talked much about some of the strange, uh esoteric, unexplained. I haven't done enough paratroothers. You guys know how my mind works, but it works off of data and it doesn't work off clickbait or things that are half truths. I don't do well with that, and I don't make up whole cloth. Um I don't make up civilizations that never existed, and I don't do things like that for you to follow me, but we will dive into a little bit of um a story that was posted about new moon missions, and I want to get to that today just to get your take on it, because I have so many, I have so many questions about technology and the space program, and um, and uh you know, you should see some of the some of the back and forth in the simulations that I've run with AI on the probabilities of uh of faked lunar missions and things like that. It's really interesting. It's uh I think we're we're in the time before AI is completely censored or it turns on us like some sort of uh the the Skynet Twilight Zone consequences of using AI, but um we can still get some interesting simulations. Matter of fact, this morning I just had the idea because we're looking at these prices of metals, and they this is unprecedented. We were at um 4800 and some change last week on the spot price for gold, and we crossed into 5,500 and pulled back a little bit just in the last six days. And you might what's going on? You know, what is there a is there one event or is there something driving that? No, it's many things, it's under the surface, and it's been happening a long time. Same thing with silver. Uh, silver is blowing past uh all-time highs, and uh I want to get into a little bit of the causation of that today. Let's um let's go to some headlines real quick. I I saw this as a wrong kick. And again, I'm covering this because I believe this is the place to look for where the change is going. And I was running that simulation this morning, and I just had the thought to myself, uh what would the price of gold have to be if the central banks around the world, minus the United States, what would the price of gold have to be if they wanted to reprice their currencies in gold? And you'd be fascinated with the answer. It's um it's far north of where we are now, it's probably somewhere under$50,000 an ounce. But if you wanted to reprice your currencies in gold, first you have to raise the price. See, the game in the previous decades has been price suppression. And maybe it's price suppression plus accumulation. And I'm wondering, and this is just an open question, a lot of the a lot of the gold bugs and silver bugs uh are out there are great. I I watch a lot of the con the content, um, but they're not like yours truly, where I my my affinity for the conspiracy theory of history, based on research, my mind always goes to the the question of why and kubono who benefits. So if we're seeing the if the finger is taken off the scale or the thumb, whatever it's you, whatever digit you want to use, if you've taken the cheat code out of the system and now gold and silver are just left to run, that is an open question as to Kubono, who benefits, because I get texts all the time, and people are asking me, oh, um, I saw dealers or uh they have people lined up around the block. Are you doing the same thing at Wise Wolf that people are buying? I'm like, absolutely not. You know, where are you getting this? I'm in two different states. My phone rings constantly, but it's not from people trying to buy silver, it's people trying to sell what they have. And a lot of the dealers, uh, if you're paying attention to like some of the social media feeds, a lot of the dealers are shutting down. They're not buying anymore. You can buy from them, they'll buy gold and things like that because gold's a little bit faster to trade. Um, but a lot of the dealers aren't buying. We're still buying. It's gonna be touch and go. I'm gonna every day I'm gonna look at the analysis and see if we can still do it. Uh, but a lot of this is there's a lot of misinformation out there, too. And I want to dispel some of that. Let's let's go to this article on KitCo. I'm on my laptop today broadcasting from my um, regardless of what you think. I'm not at NORAD, although that would be kind of cool. Uh I'm broadcasting from my my loft in downtown Dennison, Texas. Had the David Knight show this morning, and I just decided to make some coffee and uh set up the set up the stream. We've been snowed in. As a matter of fact, I can't even open the back door. Uh still, it's still still frozen shut from Friday, Friday evening, I believe. And um, I've been walking mostly up to the to the old bank location to go to to open Weiswolf, but we haven't been officially open either today or first day back. So the roads have been pretty bad, and uh haven't gone almost anywhere. So let me uh put this up on the screen. We'll talk a little bit about this article and then dive into a little bit more of the big picture stuff on metals. This is Kitco news. Gold silver's record run signals a crisis of confidence in fiat currencies. Gold and silver prices remain firmly supported despite appearing overextended at record highs as continuing weakness in the U.S. dollar reinforces a broader shift in investors' sentiment towards hard assets. It's funny, I I forgot I I had some of these quotes. I need to start making this stuff into shirts. As a matter of fact, if if you want to volunteer and help me with some some graphic design or just remind me to do it, you can message me. Go to Tony.gold or whatever website, just send me a message. I'd I'd love your help if you want to help put some stuff together because I need to do some shirts. But I I came up with uh I just reverse the John Maynard Keynes quote about gold, and I said, fiat currencies are a barbarous relic. I just thought that would be it, just turned everything on its head. You know, that's an old quote from John Maynard Keynes about uh gold is a barbarous relic. Uh no, it's really not. As a matter of fact, that's quoted in an article I want to get to after this one. I just want to cover some of the bullet points here. Uh, the the gold standard and sound money are really the bedrock of uh civilization. If you want to have a decent civilization, you have to abandon sound money in order to do horrible evil things. It's not like it's perfect, but uh, I think history will show when you have a stable economy and you have some certainty and people can save and get ahead, and there's upward mobility because of the uh soundness or the structure of the money, then you have a lot better society than you do if all bets are off and you're robbing people of their energy in some Luciferian uh ritual with the printing press. Since both medals have benefited significantly from the greenback's decline, with analysts increasingly questioning the long-term role of the US dollar as the world's primary reserve currency. Silver has surged past$110 an ounce, while gold is trading around$5,300 an ounce as markets continue to absorb heightened geopolitical uncertainty and economic volatility stemming from President Donald Trump's policy agenda. By the way, what is that? I'm asking for a friend. Maybe, maybe you I'll pass it on to David Knight if we can find out what is that policy. Uh Julia Candeschacco, CEO of Mind Money, said that while gold may be vulnerable to a short-term pullback, the broader trend remains firmly intact. We see an acceleration of de-dollarization, steady demand from developing countries, and continued global monetary issuance. Plus, there remains the issue of U.S. debt debt sustainability and growing geopolitical tensions, such as new tariffs on and the purchase of Greenland, add to the pressure uh on the Fed's independence, and we have support for interest in gold as a safe haven asset. Analysts also note that gold and silver continue to benefit from a renewed wave of sell America. This is the sell America sentiment that first emerged in April of 2025 when Trump implemented aggressive global tariffs aimed at reducing the U.S. trade deficit. Well, you know, the future is never how you imagined it. You know, it's funny because uh I I I started getting interested in this concept of economic nationalism as I you know, this is the weird part of my brain. I I always look in as a contrarian because the system doesn't work. I mean, I I saw that the system didn't work in the 90s when I was a kid, and I saw that you know I I would follow things just instinctively, the the debt clock or you know, the wages of Americans. And you could just generally feel at the end of the 20th century, going into the 21st century, that something was terribly wrong. Like it didn't seem like the same country, it seemed like a grotesque, bloated version like of itself, like a funhouse mirror. And I started to notice that, like, you know, there used to be this pride in American made and all that. So that I drifted into understanding and learning about economic nationalism, and some of that stuff is fascinating. Um, because you get to see how actual economies are built, not theory, you know, not like these Austrian, not well, the Austrian economists are correct, actually, not like these Keynesian economic economists where you oh, you just always have a stimulus, it's free trade everywhere, survival of the fittest, and all this. That doesn't really work. And history doesn't show that it works. Actually, it punishes nations for abandoning their protectionism. Um, if you look at our country, we even the fledgling weak, you know, starting out United States of America, the second act out of Congress was the Tariff Act. And uh, you know, Alexander Hamilton, he'd read Adam Smith, he read The Wealth of Nations, he understood the concept of the free market and the hidden hand and all that, and he still used the implementation of tariffs to not only fund the government because we didn't have an income tax, that would have been unthought of at the beginning of the country. That had that take that that took uh psychological warfare, that took spiritual warfare, all the it took skullduggery, it took Machiavellian manipulation to get us an income tax, by the way. It wasn't part of our American system. But we had it, that was the the basis and the starting of the country, and 75% of all the Income that the government uh brought in was from tariffs. So you had to pay a tax to get into the country uh to sell your whatever, your products, especially manufacturing. And I read all about that. And uh, it's our role and the world as the manufacturing marvel of mankind, the arsenal of democracy, all that stuff came from economic nationalism. Then we abandoned that. And so you fast forward the tape to now, and we're using the tariffs as uh we've weaponized the dollar by other means. This isn't strategy, this isn't rebuilding manufacturing, this is some sort of chaos for the sake of chaos, in my opinion, because I don't pretend to know what we're actually doing, and so, yes, uh, a lot of the price of metals is baked into or correlated to the uncertainty. We started off 2025 with a black swan event, and I remember going on the David Knight show, and we had just talked about this because um gold and silver were being sold off at the end of 2024. And I thought, this is probably not the best idea because I could see it happening across the board, just the red. And um, as soon as that kicked in, where people didn't understand or weren't certain because markets love certainty, you saw the explosion of the gold and silver price, and we're still feeling that it was about the threat of the tariffs. When viewed with the broader context of the global financial system, it becomes clear that gold is rising not merely due to market anxiety, but also because confidence in the global monetary fiscal order is shifting toward more cautious stance. This does not appear to be short-lived shock, but rather a process of repositioning gold's role within the system. Again, this is coming from this article about the price of gold and silver is the loss of confidence in fiat. The dollar's weakness has been pronounced. In 2025, the U.S. dollar index posted one of its poorer performances in more than 50 years, falling roughly from 9.4% from a December 2024 close near a hundred point 108.5 to around 98.3 by year in. That downward momentum is carried into the new year with the dollar down nearly 2% in January. Well, don't forget, too, the dollar's lost uh 50%, 60% of its purchasing power against gold in the last 12 months. And I actually may be wrong on that. It actually may be higher at this point. We were talking about$4,000 gold when that was coming out. These are unprecedented moves, folks. And I don't think you can put the genie back in the bottle. It's not like it's not like we have uh a bubble here. I don't think this is a bubble because the a bubble also requires the public to participate. And I can tell you what the public's doing right now. They're selling off stuff that they bought a long time ago, and those supply lines are channeling up the system, going through the basic checkpoints to institutions. That's where the gold and silver is going. Yeah, some people, and if you're a Wolfpack member and you've been dollar cost averaging with me, I would highly recommend, not for my own benefit, but for you to continue to do that. We don't know. I don't give price predictions. And there may be some profit taking and some pullback, but if you dollar cost average and you buy just a little bit, it adds up over time. And uh, you know, a lot of the stuff that we're doing now, I'm able to I'm gonna give people some of the best deals they've ever gotten in relation to to spot. Very important. Do you understand? Like premiums are going to be higher than they've ever been because of the per the percentage of the premium based on price. And there's gonna there's going to be shortages in some areas. It's it's gonna be a real mixed bag until some of this cools off. Matter of fact, um I've been working on trying to buy sterling again. It's uh I may have found a contact where I can do it, but uh it's harder and harder to find places to liquidate, and that's because everything is absolutely backed up. All right, let me see. I want to see how many articles I can actually do in the show today. I don't want to get stuck too much on COVID. I may have to just uh I may have to go to the chat and um you guys have no idea. A lot of times when I start the stream out, I realize I I have a limited time and there'll be like five different tabs that I didn't get to. I always overestimate um how many articles I can actually do because I'll get I'll do like I do now. I'll get talking about all kinds of different subjects. All right. Um well we're streaming live. If you uh want to see the video version of this program, uh go to uh at Tony Arterburn on YouTube or at Tony Arterburn over on X. We stream over there and the America Unplugged channel on Rumble. And if you've got any questions you want to throw at me, um put them in the chat, folks. I don't mind uh going over them when I can. I see uh over on Rumble, we got Dustin Helm. It says, Howdy, Tony, I need to make it up to the shop. Silver will probably be at$200 by the time this ice thaw's out. I know. Uh I've been watching record highs, um, knowing that I was closed, and some of that's a blessing because I just almost have nowhere to move it to. Let's see. Um Karen Carpenter in the chat. Good to see you, too. Karen Carpenter says, we always over-prepare for our show, too. Yeah, well, I'm this kindred spirits there, Karen. I always over-prepare. I have plenty, plenty of articles, but not enough time. And I really, I really do not want to cover precious metals so much on the transmission because we have other things to talk about, but it is the biggest story. So uh, and understanding how we got here, I think is a a big part of it. You know, I talked last week and I've been really thinking about this. I started rereading some of my older books that um got me started in this uh this genre, you know, because I had uh I'd read you know hundreds of volumes of of history and biography when I was in the military, and uh I've always been interested in the big ideas, geopolitics, foreign policy, um stuff like that, you know, things that were things were on that on the macro level, but insights into history, and I always felt that something was terribly wrong with uh the court historians, the uh mainstream narrative, it always seemed to leave something out. And there was a few different books that just put things in place for me. I understood to understand history so much better, and it made total sense. Like once, because you got to understand they weren't they weren't popular opinions, but Pat Buchanan, uh his 2002 book, uh The Death of the West, I thought was um really eye-opening and blow your hair back. I mean, there's there's stats, there's facts and figures you get to understand about civilization as opposed to politics and ideology, and you know, these uh tradition and and and um you know the the root of uh what makes a civilization as opposed to like whatever the whatever they try to throw on it that's not real. So that was a book that changed my life. And um Hidden History, Donald Jeffries is another one of those books. Uh uh None Dare Call It Conspiracy by Gary Allen, or you get to learn, like, oh my goodness, like it's not what you know, I was raised during the height of the Cold War, too. And it's like, oh, so they funded both sides, and you get to see, you know, basically it's a banker's construct of reality. Um, going back to you know, the biblical notion of the root of all evil is the love and lust for power and money and things like that. So you get to understand there's a lot of manipulation that goes on behind our reality. So those are those are some of the books, and I was uh going over a great book that actually I'm just getting off on books today, but uh this is another great book, is Shadows of the Deep State by Arthur Thompson, and it's put out by the John Burch Society. This has a lot of great history in it. And um, I started just refreshing my mind on that because I've been so stuck on the I mean, we're stuck on the monetary system. I I'm not even doing it to plug myself or do anything for Wisewolf. This is literally, this is the biggest stories of our time. But you have to understand those things are still going on. Do you think like, I mean, the the goal to hollow out the United States of America, and if you look at it backwards, like if you go, if you look at the past, you can see the plan being implemented. I mean, first, you America had such a strong sense of itself in the 19th and early 20th century. And the article I'm not going to be able to get to, that's up on Lou Rockwell because it's too long, it talked about this. And basically, we had these sound systems in place where I'm talking about real things, like the Constitution had been codified, and and we'd fought a civil war over it, and you can have opinions on you know the federal government and the um the overreach of the Lincoln administration, all that stuff. But I'm saying at that point, the end of the 19th century, there was no social security number. You were just here on the earth, and then there, you know, slavery had been abolished, and yes, there was class distinction and all that, and you had the robber barons and everything else, but you were basically free. It's I probably one of the only periods in the history of the earth, besides the Pax Romana with Caesar Augustus. It's probably one of the only and that that doesn't even really compare to how it would have been for somebody, you know, born in 1879, say, right? You got to see this little portion of time where there was freedom. And uh, to the best of man's ability, that was probably the most shining example. There was no income tax, there's no social security number, there wasn't any of this stuff. You know, there wasn't this over-regulation of things. And uh it wasn't until we got the Federal Reserve, which is this is the origin story of the evil, right? You get that was their their keystone, right? Their missing piece. What they needed for their for the plan was the the central bank of the U.S. And they had to get it through manipulation. And they finally got it. And what's the first thing they do? They do World War I. And that was the article. Uh, we had to in Europe had to abandon the gold standard to fight these wars. These are bankers' wars. They don't do it on sound money, they don't invest on principle. You had to hijack the money supplies. This is World War I was built on that. The Great Depression is because of the money supply, World War II. You know, there's an extension of World War I. So it's like this is what you know, Pat Buchanan called the Great Civil War of the West. We had this uh Cold War that was uh a construct in in so many ways because you had the the financiers who had made the Soviet Union, had you know, like the Rockefellers and Ross Childs, and they had uh private runways in the Soviet Union. They would fund factories that would create weapons that would funnel down and be sent to places like Vietnam to kill our troops, all while profiting off of it. I mean, it's and you can read that in things like none dare call it conspiracy. This is a book written in the early 1970s, but those truths are still real, and I think we lose sight of that because the the op has been so strong for the left-right pair. I'm not even interested anymore. Just so we're clear. I used to cover a lot of this, but I I you know I might be covering Ilhan Armor's story about her getting sprayed with vinegar. Now it's fake, you know. I might be covering that today if I was interested. I'm truly not. And uh have to watch another. You know, it's funny, they drop these videos. If you'll notice the tempo, it's very important that you do. If you notice the PSYOP, they'll give you just this certain angle, right? Just a certain interaction. Want to see if you can get if you can have a reaction to what happened. Like, say it's a shooting, right? Or Minnesota, like that's their favorite thing. Minnesota's their favorite now. So they would they'll give you just the right angle, just the right information just to get you to have an opinion. And the people really want to extract that from you. What's your opinion? What's your opinion? I'm very careful not to do that. You know, if I have if you give me enough information, I can give you an analysis of what I think might happen, but I also say I don't have enough information, and then they drop more, and then you get to see who hangs on long enough, like it'll be another video angle, another drop. Do you still believe this? And they do this over and over. I don't know. It doesn't seem logical to me, it doesn't seem natural to me or organic that there's multiple, and we never get videos of the things that we actually want. It's like, hey, where's the video of the Pentagon on 9-11? You know, where's the where's the video of the October 2017 Steven Paddock shooting in Las Vegas? Where's all that video? You know, I never get never get to see the most heavily surveyed city in the world. We never get to see any of that real stuff leading up to that anomaly that nobody talks about anymore. It's the it's just only the most deadly shooting, a mass shooting in American history. Okay, but we don't get to talk about that anymore because uh there was probably something inconvenient about it, right? Or something you were supposed to believe, take that with you and be traumatized and move forward. But there's something wrong with all of this. So I'm not covering a lot of it. I'm just covering what I can truly report on, which is uh the de-dollarization phenomenon, the loss of the monetary system that we grew up in, and the replacing of it with the question mark. All right. Let me see. Uh I'm gonna go to the next set of articles and see if we got enough time. Yes, we do. Um I wanna I want to emphasize something too. It's very important. You know, I was talking to a customer, and we were talking about some of my broadcasting career, and it could have gone so many different ways. Um I made some choices early on that I was just gonna be as authentic as I believe to be, that I what I believed in would be the only thing I talked about. And that has cost me um over the years, but I also have um the authenticity, right? I also have the credibility of doing that. And you have to you have to wonder. I know it sounds pessimistic, but I truly don't feel like I exude pessimism, um, not in the sense of a black pill or something like that. It's very important that I don't do that because I I will talk about these kind of stories and you know, hope for the best. I don't think that uh I don't think anything is inevitable per se. You know, the the Franklin quote about death and taxes, perhaps. Um but I want to talk about something that's very real, and there's a threat of it's real, and I I think that has been, even though we've had um a lot of uh false starts and pullbacks, thank God. But we you know the threat of war is always on my mind because it's such a useless evil thing. And it's the favorite of the elites. Um they get people one of the most, I think the sickest things that I've seen in a long time is you get a supposedly you get a Christian civilization to cheer on uh the uh you know the violence imposed uh on people they don't know. And if you ever seen that movie was it called The Box? This came out in the mid-2000s or late, maybe like 2009, 2010. And it's a it's an old Twilight Zone um setup where people are approached by this strange figure, this man, and he says, I've got this this button inside the box, and uh, if you press it, um you'll get a million dollars, but somebody you don't know will die. People press the butt. I just I can't, you know, but this was the movie, you know, it's based on an old Twilight Zone that was written in the 80s. So people press the button, and I think you have to have a certain mindset because of the anonymity of war. It's very sanitized here. We get to see it on CNN, you know. Um, it doesn't, you know, there's no draft, so your sons and daughters don't typically have to go, I mean, unless you have a military family. And um, and then there's the false uh machismo and um you know, the the the old quote that uh patriotism is the last refuge for a scoundrel. Well, that people show up in these things, you know, there's a lot of flag waving and chest thumping, and you can abandon reason in that. So it's um if you're anti-war like me, which I'm not a pacifist, by the way, in no in no shape or form, um, but I am anti-war because most of it is an absolute waste of time and strategic. Um, it it's it's anti-strategy, it weakens you. Let's let's go into this article real quick. Make sure I'm got this pulled up. This is natural news. Conservative commentators goad Trump into bombing Iran. This is by Raymond Tomey. Of course, it's funny. I already know how the article is going to start out. Influential conservative figures like Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro are aggressively advocating for U.S. military strikes against Iran, including assassinating Ayatollah Khomeini and bombing civilian infrastructure, falsely claiming Iran is an imminent nuclear threat, despite intelligence contradicting this. A US Iran war could destabilize the Middle East, provoke Russian involvement, and lead to prolonged conflict mirroring past disastrous regime change. Barriers in Iraq and Libya. Iran's missile capabilities and proxy networks ensured devastating asymmetric retaliation. Levin and Shapiro framed Iran's government as irredeemable, citing its crackdown on protesters as justification for U.S. intervention while ignoring the humanitarian and legal consequences of targeting civilian sites that could constitute war crimes. While Trump has deployed military assets and demanded, quote, decisive options, his reluctance for prolonged war clashes for neoconservative pressure. Well, we'll see. His decision could determine whether the U.S. stumbles into another endless conflict or avoids global destabilization. Well, this reminds me of where we were six years ago, folks. Six years ago. It was a Monday. We had just assassinated the Iranian general Salomani. They called in a strike, uh, hit him with a drone. Uh, there was pandemonium, it seems, and we had hashtag World War III. There was all sorts of things going on. But just under the surface, just under the surface was something else. And that was the war of all the governments in the world against their own people. That was COVID-1984. That was what was on the horizon. That was the Johns Hopkins simulation spars, everything that they had, event 201. My gosh, we should. If you live through this, I remember covering these stories and I had stacks and stacks. I've forgotten I've forgotten how much we covered in that era. I mean, there was so much coming out. Remember the map, the Microsoft World patent. By the way, you can look this up. And I remember I was one of the first people to cover it. Microsoft has a patent called 060606, and it is a biometric integrated cryptocurrency system fused with the human body to reward you in cryptocurrency or whatever, whatever, whatever currency credits, uh, for a quote, approved behavior. That's a real thing. So that really happened, but the the catalyst for it was the opening of the what I call the great reset decade. And it's funny because I somehow knew that when I did that broadcast, I I remember the the historical weight of it and what I was talking about. And it seemed like we were being drugged into another unconstitutional, uh, satanic, unlawful, unnecessary war in the Middle East, which I first of all, can I say on record, I despise anyone who supports this shit. And I'm sorry for using that word across WWCR and my show, but I really have such disdain. I have such, and it's not, it's outside of my character. Like I would rather, I would rather sit down and break bread with people who threw grenades in my direction or tried to kill me because I wasn't supposed to be there anyway. Like I would rather sit down and just have a nice meal with people that were literally trying to murder me than I would any of the people that support any of this stuff, because they're far more evil. Like, not even recognizable in the gap between an insurgent who would chop your head off and someone who dreams up these scenarios where we're going to go to war for reasons. See, you and I know the reason, but they sell this to people who don't know the reasons. And it's a lie. It's like the whole thing in Venezuela with um it's the drug movements. We haven't heard much about that lately, have we? I mean, I could call this stuff from a mile away. But this is um this is the scary part, right? And so much of now the tide has turned in a great, and I'm thankful for this. The tide has turned in many ways, where it's harder and harder to sell people on this, and there's not just this lockstep giant mass of millions and millions of people like it used to be, but it's still a big chunk, and that's why this stuff is dangerous. Let's go back to the article. I'm gonna escalation risks weakening America's financially and strategically, aligning with a broader depopulation and control agendas. That's exactly right. History warns against reckless interventions, yet the same voices pushing for war now were silent during past quagmires. The world watches as Trump faces a pivotal choice with generational consequences. Yeah, I remember I used to follow Mark Levin on this station that no longer exists called Freedom 1160 in San Antonio. And some of his listeners would stay on and listen to me for a while. Um, but I would confuse people because this is, I mean, if you want to animate, it's like catnip for boomers. But if you uh not all boomers, obviously, I'm kidding. But if you want to hear some of the um calls on the Levin show circa 2019, they were really excited about war with Iran. Something about that animates the hell out of people. Fox News host Mark Levin demanded on the uh January 25th episode of his program, Life, Liberty, and Levin, that Iran's regime be wiped off the map immediately, warning that failure to act could lead to a future nuclear attack on America. Have you ever really thought about or broke that down? Has that ever happened? So, you know, Pakistan has the bomb. Why don't they become a suicide nation? You know, uh this this idea that if if Iran or any country obtains the bomb, they'll suddenly just use it and just like a suicide bomber would blow themselves up. Do you realize how silly that is? And it it's it's not only doesn't have any historical context, it makes no sense. I mean, think about think about this too, for all you if there's anybody left on the audience who even remotely buys into this garbage. Um Iran could do that now without nukes, like it could, it could sacrifice itself and do a serious amount of damage. It could use conventional weapons and even non-conventional stuff, it could um go to war with Israel, it could do a sneak attack, it could, it could suicide itself. Why doesn't it do it now? Why does it have to have some new technology? Or that's not a new technology, it's 80 plus years old. But let's say they they got uh now they're gonna do it. Just I don't buy any of this crap, and neither should you. This is about Zionism, this is about an ideology of fear, this is about and deep, deep rooted in this. And I believe that Levin and I believe that the people that Shapiro, if you really dig down deep enough, what you'll find is they have a they have a connection, not only of ardent Zionism, and by the way, you're welcome to believe that, right? Doesn't just believe in it, you know, and own it. Just really own it. You believe that's the most important thing animating anything on the earth is the existence of this nation and its ability to do what it wants. I don't believe that. You know, that's not what I believe, but believe it if you want. But there's this intersection that they have, and that's where you get all the these uh even George W. Bush had had his fill, he called them the bomber boys, you know. This is where you get you while you had that at one time you had the crowd hammers, and he's passed, but you have uh Bill Kristol, and then you look at his father, which was Irving Kristol, and he was the godfather of what they call neoconservatism. Okay, so this is where they hijacked the conservative movement and turned it into a revolutionary ideology. To them, it's not that um they don't see their mission as to say uh spread the gospel of Christ or to um be the best version to themselves to promote uh the goodness of God Almighty. They believe in man's supremacy, of a perpetual revolution forever for the sake of it. And it just changes form. So you got to remember, Leon Trotsky is the is the basis, the virulent Marxist, you know, partner of uh Lenin, and then again adversary of Stalin. He was eventually uh murdered in Mexico uh with an ice pick because of Stalin's uh minions who'd spread out over the world. Because Trotsky had a different idea of the Soviet revolution than Stalin. Stalin was a cold-calculated uh bureaucrat, almost the definition of the banality of evil, where Trotsky was really animated. He believed, as a revolutionary believes, in the perpetual revolution for the revolution's sake. So he was a true believer, and it was about it was about blood, it was about conquest, it was about resetting the old order. And he got a lot of followers in the U.S. Um, John Dewey was one of them. You know, the John Dewey was the father of um the modern library system. Remember the Dewey Decimal system? That's John Dewey, it's a philosopher. There's some so-called smart people um were backing Trotsky. Irving Kristol was one of them. So you gotta look at the root of this, is rooted in Luciferian satanic Marxism. Okay. So if your local church, especially the evangelicals who are just like idol worshiping this modern nation state and sending our best and bravest off into no-win meat grinder wars, you realize you're doing this in a satanic ritual, right? I just wanted just want to let you know. Uh so this is what's on the table, folks. You've got a another push, and especially with Iran with in the throes that it's in right now, in which who knows how much involvement we have in that. I'm sure we have our hand in it. But it has, it is no business of ours. It's no quarrel of ours. Makes no sense at all. I mean, oil prices are up right now. Remember how oil prices dropped when we kidnapped Maduro and reversed, reversed iced him back to the Arab to the United States. Uh oil prices dropped. All this is subjective, right? Market forces move uh based off of perceived things. So we're covering this today. I think this is a huge threat. Um, and you know, I may not live to see the architects of this ideology, which has failed, by the way. It's a god that failed. If you're into modern conservatism, you failed. You failed. It it is not you're not redeemable at this point. Uh, it is already, you've already met and been weighed in the balance and found wanting. So it's it's a failed ideology, but it still hangs on because who are the donors? Who are the power structure behind any of this stuff? And it really makes me sick because we're gonna have to endure some of this. And your humble host um will probably lose even more followers. It's gonna get there, will be they'll use something, right? It's it's the same thing that's happening domestically, it's gonna happen internationally, and just why you got to keep your head. And I mean keep it on a swivel. Stay frosty. There's too many psyops going on at once, folks. All right. Um, last article, just just so you know where I hope I left it um without any doubt, where I stand on any new uh Middle Eastern wars. Uh, I've always wondered, you know, like you know, instinctually, before I even got into, and we're talking like maybe almost 20 years ago, I would I I would make references to these people, and I say, Well, you know, they get together, their eyes wide shut parties, and they just decide to send uh troops off to die for their own amusement. Yes. And I just thought that that was, and I'd make people laugh, or at least they would get uncomfortable and laugh around me because and I called it, you know, it's because that's there's something about um the people that push us into war. There's something something off about them spiritually. They have another agenda for sure. All right, let's uh let's jump into the last article of the day. I don't have enough time to cover this. Was actually on Zero Hedge. Let's talk about it just for a minute, and uh, I'll leave you with this. It's funny. I kind of uh this in the same vein of uh the X-files, like I want to believe. I want to believe. Uh this was uh put out on Zero Hedge, but it was uh via the uh Epic Times uh authored by TJ Muscaro. Okay. Uh NASA is set to launch its first manned moon rocket in 50 years, and this is what you need to know. For the first time in more than 50 years, NASA has mounted a rocket on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in preparation for a manned flight around the moon. The super heavy lift rocket is called the Space Launch System, okay, fueled by more than 700,000 gallons of liquid oxygen and hydrogen, and two solid rocket boosters reminiscent of the space shuttle era. The orange and white behemoth could, as soon as February 6th, carry the Artemis II crew, these are NASA, NASA astronauts, uh Reed Wiseman, Victor Glubber, Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen on their 10-day voyage around the moon and farther from Earth than any astronauts have gone before. Hundreds of men and women who had a hand in assembling the rocket braved the winter cold on January 17 to watch the ship roll out of the vehicle assembly building and move to the launch complex. The Artemis II crew mission leaders and NASA administrator administrator Jared Isaacman were also on hand to commemorate the milestone. Artemis II is the second mission of NASA's Artemis campaign, named after the Greek goddess of the moon and Apollo's twin sister. The program, its purpose is not only to return man missions to the moon, but also to establish a sustainable permanent human presence on the lunar surface before 2030. Well, I don't have time to get into everything, but I just this is a headline. You know, since I've been a kid, we've talked about like going back to the moon. And uh every administration that I remember the Bush administration was running on going to Mars, going back to the moon, a base on the moon. Remember when Newt Gingrich was running for president? It's like we should have a base on the moon. And I remember this was about 08. No, it's yeah, it was the uh 2012 timeline. This was um they were that was being discussed right before I ran for office. And I I started to calculate how many years it had been, and why it made no sense. Like we hadn't been back, we didn't establish anything there. Why wouldn't we? It's literally the highest point on the battlefield. And now you have um, I know that we have had supposedly you have uh you know foreign governments, you had the uh the Chinese, I believe uh India and so on has had uh brovers and things there, but this is 2026, and there's something inherently wrong with our timeline. And um I've discussed some of this on Paratroother. I need to get Mr. Anderson back on. I spent time with you know some Apollo astronauts, and I mean afternoons with them, and actually flown with uh one of them. Uh I thought Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, was an absolute gentleman, and uh enjoyed talking with him back in 2014. Uh my friend Congressman Ralph Hall, who was on the uh Space and Science Committee in Congress. So it was interesting. Uh, but everything that I know now, I'm just color me skeptical on anything that we're doing. But uh, just like Mulder, uh, I I want to believe. All right. Uh folks, appreciate you being here as always. I'm uh working on some new uh projects and content. So please go subscribe to Paratrouther, anywhere podcasts are found. That's the main feed for Artiburn radio transmission, anywhere podcasts are found. And give us a review, it helps the algorithm. They buried me deep there. I think I'm I'm no no longer relevant uh in the search engines. Um, Tony.gold is my website or artiburn.gold, they both go there. You can subscribe to what will soon be the newsletter as soon as I have 10 minutes um to get anything done. Um, so subscribe to that. 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