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#538 We Are Being Pushed Toward A Forever War
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Co-Hosts Step In For Tony
SPEAKER_03Hey folks, welcome back to the Art of Burner Radio Transmission, the official broadcast of the apocalypse, and we are almost there. Your ride is almost to a complete stop. Anyway, Tony is not here today. I had on good word that he spotted Sasquatch down in the foothills of Missouri, and he went out there with Beans the Brave, uh, tracking them down to prove or disprove whether Bigfoot's real. Uh awesome stuff. Can't wait to get a report on that. But anyway, I'm I'm gonna be standing in today. Um, myself and my co-host here. Uh, I'm Jason Barker from Knights of the Storm, and my partner in crime here is Ashley Think Change Repeat. What's going on, Ashley?
SPEAKER_00Hey there, Jason. How are you today? It's good to be here filling in for Tony.
SPEAKER_03Right on. Well, I guess we'll just dive right into it. You had some news. Uh, you go ahead and go first with what you got. I know you want to talk about some Iran stuff, and I think everything right now, almost everything we're seeing, is it has an effect on it. Uh, the Iran situation. So, uh, what do you got for us today?
Iran As A Frozen Conflict
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so I have been uh, which I know a lot of people in this space do follow the work that Judge Napolitano has been doing, and he has several different guests that are coming at this situation from many different angles, providing their analysis for us. And while I question some of the things that they don't discuss as far as how does this factor in, and maybe because it's speculation for them, maybe that's why they don't address it. But that how does the Iran conflict that we're experiencing right now factor into some of the other globalist agendas that we have been hearing about from, for example, the World Economic Forum and some of the other think tanks of that ilk. But I do find it to be a good resource to give us uh some good perspective on the things that are happening there. So I have been trying to pay attention to what is going on, but what I really wanted to talk about is first of all, I will say that Judge Napolitano just had Aaron Mate from the gray zone on just about an hour ago. And one of the things that Aaron referred to this as is a frozen conflict. And I think that we all agree that it appears that we are at an impasse. So we have the United States proactively, or as you know, as Ron Paul would say, acting in a war of aggression, bombing Iran, and then stating that we were doing so in order to prevent them from having a nuclear weapon, even though they had been in talks and Iran had agreed to not having a nuclear weapon. And then they wanted regime change. Okay. So then they took out the uh the the supreme leader and the supreme leader's son then took over. And then we've gotten so much mixed messaging in between then. So I think it's very confusing to actually know to actually know what is going on there. Um, but so that's what I wanted to get into is that where we currently stand is a frozen conflict because we know that they have control of the Strait of Hormuz and that this is causing problems for the supply chain all over the entire world. Of course, we also had fallout from bombing of oil fields and natural gas uh fields as well. So now we, as we know, we've talked about this that we have a um a fertilizer crisis, we have other factors that are compounding those problems here in the States. So there's a lot going on with that. The
Cuba Oil Blockade And Blackouts
SPEAKER_00other things that I wanted to tie into this, Jason, is that we have a um a blockade happening in Cuba right now. That's not being talked about very much. So I wanted to give a little bit of please do.
SPEAKER_03I I was unaware of that. Uh I mean, not very aware of it. So if you have information on that, I I've just I've been busy, haven't been able to dig into all that's going on.
SPEAKER_00Well, yeah, it's it's really too much to try to keep track of. So Cuba's experience, and this is from an online search. This is not my words, I'm just reading this to you. Cuba is experiencing a severe humanitarian and energy crisis in current well, right now in 2026, triggered by U.S. oil blockade under President Donald Trump's maximum pressure campaign aimed at achieving regime change. The blockade formalized by Executive Order 14380 on January 29th, 2026, has restricted oil shipments from Venezuela and pressured other countries like Mexico to halt fuel exports to Cuba, leading to crippling shortages. Blackouts and infrastructure collapse have become widespread on March 16, 2026. Excuse me, Cuba's national power grid collapsed entirely and repeated failures since, or with repeated failures since then. Hospitals, schools, and businesses have been forced to close while water systems, transportation, and food production have been severely disrupted. Fire at the Nico Lopez refinery in Havana on February 14th further worsened the energy emergency. So uh there's a lot in that brief statement. One thing that I would want to point to is there was a fire at a refinery. So we have very interestingly had several refineries worldwide recently that have had fires or some other causes to shut down.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, Texas uh recently had one, and I want to mention something. Um, you know, the the rolling blackouts and whatnot in Cuba. I've heard about that. Um, like I said, I haven't dug too too deep into the source cause of it, and it looks like it's an energy blockade, basically. And um that, you know, a lot of people wouldn't mind that, they wouldn't care because they think that Cuba is somehow our enemy. Um, you know, going back to the Cuban Missile Crisis when they they brought missiles over, and then we had that that whole thing, which I don't know, I don't know how that's any different than us throwing missiles up on the border of the same people that just want to do the same as a mutually assured uh destruction type tactic. Um, but uh this this energy game that we're playing, it's gonna hurt us in a a lot of ways that people don't understand um on the long term, but it's initially hurting, yes, it's hurting Cuba, but it's also hurting our allies. And I actually have an article here from the BBC, they're talking about their oil prices. Um, we're hurting our allies, right? We're hurting our allies big time. And uh it just says, I'll just give you the headline. It says oil prices hits highest since 2022 after report uh Trump to be briefed on new Iran options, and it goes on and on, and it's basically talking about getting around $200 a barrel oil. It's a 120 went up to 126 a barrel, which was a 7% increase, and it dropped back down. But I mean, just like the stock market, it's gonna go up and down based off of the rhetoric that comes on. So I I do want people to understand, you know, as you're talking about Cuba, these same struggles from this uh war of aggression that we we've uh we've done, we've initiated, uh, is gonna affect everybody. It's gonna be a global problem. It actually already is a global problem, but the secondary and tertiary effects are gonna be food, packaging, um, shipping, uh, transportation, uh, supply chains, all that stuff is gonna be affected.
SPEAKER_00Yes, definitely. I mean, and the the thing is that where we're looking at so many interconnecting issues that are related in some way. So these chain links connecting what we see transpiring currently. And I think it's very difficult for a couple of reasons to really know what's going on, but of course to predict the full ramifications of what we have going on or of what we're seeing happen. And I agree with you that there's a lot of people who may be lukewarm or even anti-Cuba. And a lot of that rhetoric does go back to uh the Bay of Pigs, and it also goes back to the domino theory. This is why the United States ended, this was the official reason for the United States entering the the war in Vietnam was because of pre prevention of the domino effect of communism. So there's always been that association, and of course, the Castro family has maintained a power hold all the way up until current times. There is that, but it's really just like what we talk about in the United States. It is the and and all over the world, it's the regular people that suffer. It is not the, you know, the politically powerful or the very wealthy that are actually suffering the consequences of this. So that was one thing that I wanted to put on our little cork board for today is that we have issues happening in Cuba and it's very quiet. It's been drowned out by the conflict in Iran, what's happening in the Middle East, and then of course, it's been drowned out by the most recent events this weekend, which we're gonna get into somewhat as well, um, at the um the press corps event with President Trump. So people are not focusing on that. The other area of focus that is that I see or that that is not being focused on is what's happening in Lebanon.
Lebanon Bombing And Ceasefire Doubts
SPEAKER_00So on my show a couple of weeks ago, I had my friend Rawad, who is from Lebanon, come in and talk about what it was like to grow up there, what it was like dealing with this divided Muslim and Christian come country, and that they actually had, you know, a pretty good relationship there. But there was the Hezbollah element and there was always the Israel element. So he had stated that they actually thought that Hezbollah was the greater threat at that time. But now what we see happening is back in 2019, we saw a huge explosion in Beirut. And I don't know that that was ever actually explained what happened, but it was certainly could have potentially been a terrorist event. Although I do not know that it was ever identified as that. Then we have seen in the last many years, before any official conflict was ever declared, that Israel was bombing Lebanon. And I suppose that the reason is in the name of fighting Hezbollah, which they have classified or designated as a terrorist organization. And then the bombing has continued. Obviously, we had the introduction of the Iran conflict with the United States and Israel, and then we had the peace agreement. Then basically two hours later or the next day, we saw and we got reports that Israel was once again resuming bombing in Lebanon. So what we're seeing is bombing in Beirut and bombing in the southern part of Lebanon, which is the direct northern neighbor to Israel. So the entire area of southern Lebanon has really been on, you know, uh in the hot seat as far as their relationship with Israel goes. And we have gotten many reports of these are not military targets. We've seen cafes being bombed, we've seen journalists being killed, we have seen civilians being bombed, homes, infrastructure. So that is another thing that is not really being talked about. And it is an important piece to the conflict that you the United States has with Iran because Iran once that was part of their initial peace agreement in these last couple of weeks, was that Lebanon was going to be that they would stop bombing Lebanon. And of course, that didn't happen. So that led to conflict, it led to conflicting information from the administration, from JD Vance. Oh, that was an AI translation, that was, you know, all kinds of things that really don't add up in such a high-stakes situation that this would just be some sort of miscommunication. But that was the rhetoric that we got. So add that to our bulletin board for what we want to talk about today.
SPEAKER_03I mean, that seems to be a repetitive uh pattern. Um is a ceasefire or you know, uh these things where we're okay, let's just pause for a moment, and then Israel will bomb somebody or do something that causes us to break then break our agreement to ceasefire. Uh I've seen this happen how many times in this Iran conflict, you know. Um, it's happened over and over again. So I don't know at what point do we just say, look, we're gonna, you know, I don't care what you you deal with those people, we're gonna deal with you ourselves. Because this is now not an Israel-Iran problem, this is an Iran world problem that we have caused the world to suffer with this. And uh, and then you talked about you know frozen wars. That's
War Economy And Petrodollar Fears
SPEAKER_03what that's what Afghanistan was for 20 years. And I think that that is actually by design, when your economy is hurting, uh, when all else fails, you you go to war because there's a lot of money to be made in war. Um, people are employed to build munitions, uh, you know, uh jeeps, not jeeps, uh, Humvees to build jets, to load ammo, to build missiles, stuff like that. So it's an economic boost uh to have war, but the long-term uh pain is is actually hard. It's gonna be real hard on us because uh, and we maybe we'll talk about the food situation um here later, but you know, for the short term, the short term, you're gonna see some cash flow, you're gonna see some markets go up. You could we've already seen that people have placed some amazingly lucky bets with in the billions, uh 15-20 minutes before Trump makes an announcement of what he's gonna do next. And then it's spike, you know, the rise and fall of the market, depending on what market you're in, you can make a lot of money in like 20 minutes, a lot of money. And um, and and then you got to understand that money comes from somebody, right? So it comes from the rest of the market, which is you and me, in our from our 401ks and our you know, IRAs and stuff like that, or mutual funds. That that money doesn't come from nothing. That money comes from somebody else, it's a wealth transfer. That's what I see war as. It's it's an economy booster. Uh, get some fake numbers, say you're doing good. And I really think we're doing it because our dollar is about to crash and they have to keep it afloat. I'll go back to the same thing I said from the initial when we were bombing these boats coming out of Venezuela. I said this is about the oil, which is ultimately about the petrodollar, because we are no longer in agreement with Saudi Arabia to deal in dollars, and people are starting to deal outside of those dollars. What that does is that's going to crash our dollar hardcore. So we have to number one enforce that. And number two, let's get a lot of cash flow thrown around to make you know the stock market look good. I mean, there's no reason the stock market should be doing well at all right now. It shouldn't be doing well at all. Um, I don't know. What's your thoughts on that?
SPEAKER_00So I I want to say that this is a piece that I was not that, you know, not that familiar with, and I don't really feel that I am uh educated enough to necessarily speak on that. However, what I will say is that um, and we do have some of our friends in the chat over on Rumble, and Do Not Obey had actually told me about Richard Medhurst, who was doing geopolitical analysis of what we see right now, and I was not familiar with Richard Medhurst's work. He's actually going to be on Judge Napolitano a little bit later today. And uh, but I I looked into what he was talking about, and he was essentially he was saying something that I had not heard this per perspective before, that the United States is setting the stage for he's referring to the United States as pirates and that they're setting the stage to force China's hand to actually get resources from the United States. And so I thought that that was a really interesting perspective. And also seeing what Richard Medhurst was saying is that, and just a disclaimer, I was told uh by John Brisson, and I have not verified this myself, but that he, Medhurst, is sort of in this pro-bricks camp. So I don't want to say that I'm presenting this without unintentional bias. Like there's all kinds of bias in in what we're hearing and seeing, but I just thought it was an interesting discussion. And that makes me wonder or feel pretty comfortable that there's so much that I don't know or understand about all the moves that we're seeing right now. Originally, I felt pretty sure that this was the financial reset. This was, you know, the great reset, net zero energy. And I'm not saying that it is not, but I just think that there are more factors going on that uh that I don't understand. And I'm trying to understand. I'm trying to study this stuff every day and get a little bit better and more educated on it. But I just wanted to throw that out there. So I do think that that is a something that is adding a level of complexity to the situation that we're seeing, and it is so all woven together. You know, we have the just the military-industrial complex that is involved in what we're doing all over the world. And then this is affecting our supply lines, it is affecting products based on petroleum, uh, product availability, all of these things. So it's a really complicated situation. And a lot of this stuff I personally feel like I'm we're just gonna have to wait until we have the benefit of hindsight to truly understand what has happened.
SPEAKER_03Oh, 100%. And and Kenny Effen Powers, I love that name. Uh, he's over on YouTube. Um, what's going on, Kenny? He had mentioned the AI bubble. And
AI Bubble Meets Energy Reality
SPEAKER_03so I would like to point three things out. Number one, we had the medical industrial complex bubble. Uh, it's still trying to go, but during the whole COVID-1984 um scandemic, they they made billions and billions of dollars that was it basically came from our pockets, from the taxpayer pockets, right? And that was a global industry because we don't have industry here anymore. Let's face it, folks. We don't have industry. Industry, the the industry we do have relies in a global supply chain. You know, I have a craftsman mower. Craftsmen used to pride themselves in being made in America. Now the sticker on there says uh assemble in America with globally sourced parts. That that's their claim to fame, right? Uh, so um the you know, we had we had the so again the medical industrial complex that that was how they infused a bunch of money into the economy um and uh and got things looking good on paper or whatever. And now we're going to war because you know people are starting to be hesitant on the medical side. So let's go to war. And then the AI bubble. I think that is really why they're trying to push the AI so hard. And I have a map here I could put on screen later to show uh it's one I use all the time. I I always bring it back up because it updates, but um, the crazy amount of money being thrown and uh regulations that are being overlooked that apply to farmers. But not to these, you know, these folks and stuff, uh, the resources it takes. The problem is, it doesn't make sense with this whole um you know energy fight that we're having because it actually hurts all of those industries, right? It hurts the medical because the medical is all petroleum-based pharmaceuticals now. It's gonna hurt the energy that we have here, even though they say we're energy independent. Well, not really. We're mostly energy independent, but um the power requirements for these data centers are gonna require us to get more offshore energy. It's gonna require uh, you know, wind and solar are not gonna cover it. It's not. And we've talked about this how they're planning on doing um, you know, uh was deep fission, the company that does nuclear reactors a mile underground. Well, what's the long-term effect of that? You're putting it underground, you're gonna irradiate because they don't have to do the expensive shielding, right? So they're just gonna put it down on the ground. We can't see it, not a problem until your water's coming out the tap green, maybe glowing. I don't know. Um, but yeah, every industry that they can imagine, uh especially you know, the AI, they're talking about making chips here. There was some Chips Act, I think that Biden did, you know, if if we can't get offshore chips because the energy cost makes it we're gonna build them here, but still there's another energy requirement. So I don't understand what we're doing with choking the world of energy when everything else that they've done to try to prop up our economy and make it look good requires that energy. It just blows my mind, Ashley. It blows my mind.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's I mean, we it's a weird time. I don't know. That's that's one of the definitive statements that I can say. And uh Levi narrow way narrowgates that AI is being pushed with data centers, or they're being pushed to establish regionally the scanning of all communications to eliminate human redundancy and fast track spotting those who do not accept the narrative. And I think that that is a very fair assessment. So we in the midst of all the other moving parts that we are seeing, that there is also, and I know we're aware of it here, but there's a lot of other things happening in the background in order to increase this digital surveillance state, for exactly like what Levi was saying for those who do not comply. So um, but I I I have a couple other things that I wanted to kind of thread in here, Jason, and then get your perspective. So the other the other thing that I wanted to talk about is so not only do we have what is happening in Cuba and Lebanon that we're not hearing about, we there's a a couple of things that I wanted to point out. So
Fifth Gen Warfare And Tension Strategy
SPEAKER_00this past weekend, uh John Brisson was talking about fifth generation warfare. And I'm sure that everybody is familiar with that, but I just want to do a brief overview that the official Wikipedia definition is that it is warfare that's conducted primarily through non-kinetic military actions such as social engineering, misinformation, cyber attacks, along with emerging technologies such as AI and fully autonomous systems. Fifth generation warfare has been described by Daniel Abbott as a war of information and perception. There is no widely agreed upon definition of fifth gen warfare, and it's been rejected by some scholars. But um I think that this is what he described the situation that we find ourselves in. I don't think we're gonna have a lot of disagreement that there's a lot of dis and misinformation out there that is being used to manipulate people, their behavior, uh contribute to division, things like that. And then the other thing that I wanted to bring up is a strategy of tension. So a strategy of tension is a political policy where violent struggle is encouraged rather than suppressed. The purpose is to create a general feeling of insecurity in the population and make people seek security in a strong government. So I feel like this is something that I think about almost every single day, that this is what we're experiencing. Because I don't think that you could talk to anybody on the entire political spectrum, wherever they fall, that probably doesn't feel somewhat insecure in the current environment in which we find ourselves in.
SPEAKER_03Don't you find it odd though, that this comes on the heels of the lockdowns where people were isolated? I think that was a key part in making people feel insecure, uh, disconnected from people. And uh, you know, when you feel isolated, you feel like you're the only one that thinks the way you think. Then you want to go along with the crowd, but they narrate what the crowd thinks, you know, they they tell you what the consensus is, and then you have to go along with it to be part of society. And I have some stuff on that um with the AI and the fifth generation warfare and all that stuff. Um, in order for AI to be of any function, it has to be fed, it has to be fed information. And um, and maybe we'll get to it today, but there's ways that they're gonna slowly, like a planned obsolescence, to get rid of legacy things where we would interact or drive our car anonymously, maybe go without a cell phone, you don't need a cell phone on you, so you can't be tracked. Uh they're slowly getting rid of that option because they need that digitization of our lives to be able to control us. And and I have I'm on if we get to talking about the um the correspondence dinner or whatever, the the assassination attempt. There's some things I picked up. I talked to Gard the other day about it on uh Liberty Conspiracy. Um some things I picked up very, very subtly dropped by Fox. Uh, you know, when one of these events happen, I'll turn on the major um the major players, CNN Fox, to see what what they're reporting on it because I want to see where they're gonna use it. And uh I already see them using it to tighten down to make us get into this digitization of our everyday lives because that's what AI needs to be able to control us. So um anyway, I just want to throw that in there.
SPEAKER_00Well, I definitely think that this was an element of lockdowns was that we did see people become more digitally involved. You know, people had more time at home, they had more time to be online, they were pushed to work online through Zoom and things like that in order to continue work from home or whatever. Now, I believe that part of that was in order to study the behavior of people. This was sort of a new thing, in a way, to have people that were locked down in this way and this for this reason in this digital age. So I believe that a lot of data was gathered on human behavior and based on where you're at and things like that. But this was certainly an opportunity for people to become more divided over whatever their particular ideology was, and then algorithmic manipulation was a factor as well. Now, so I I just wanted to, the reason that I even brought up fifth gen warfare and a strategy of tension was because I want to talk about some of the narratives that we have seen in regards to this particular conflict. So, again, not only do we have the things that we're not being told told about that are not being talked about, but we have a lot of different bits and pieces of information that we've been hearing that is really difficult for us to confirm and for us to know what is actually going on. And that I believe contributes to the strategy of tension. I do believe that a lot of people feel very uneasy. So we have been told that we have a ceasefire, but then we are getting these messages like, and this is where I bring in the mad king archetype. We have the no kings protest, and then we have Donald Trump behaving like a dictator, like a mad king, and then he is putting out truths on his truth social account saying that he is going to wipe an entire civilization off the map. That is completely insane. That is mad king vibes. So we have that happening, right?
Troop Food Reports And Mixed Messaging
SPEAKER_00Then we had the narrative originally that we wanted to stop their nuclear program. Then we got the message that their nuclear program was destroyed. Then we bombed them out of nowhere, and then now it was in order to prevent their nuclear program again. Then we had the regime change narrative in woven throughout that. In the midst of that, we had these insane tweets by Trump. We had ceasefire this with the Strait of Horror moves that, all the drama that's going on there. Then we have um the narrative that American military bases have been destroyed in the Middle East. Now, I I think it would be difficult for me to actually confirm that, maybe unless I knew someone who was actually working or was stationed at one of these bases. And Jason, whenever I wrap up here, maybe you can speak to that. But that has been one of the things that we've heard is that the American military bases are destroyed. Um then we heard about the USS Gerald Ford that crew members were deliberately sabotaging, clogging toilets, starting laundry room fires, and preventing essentially their deployment to that region or to be prepared for that region because they didn't believe in the war. Then we have heard that this is the financial reset, this is the great reset. Uh, we are hearing rhetoric that this was a folly by idiots. We're hearing that this was done for Israel, that America is just the puppet of Israel, and Benjamin Netanyahu, and Miriam Adelson and the like. We've heard that we're almost out of munitions, that we're beginning to run low on the weaponry and uh military supplies that we would need to even continue in a war. We have been told that soldiers uh have been getting served garbage food. And Jason, I have uh I want to share my screen here.
SPEAKER_03If you don't pull it up as soon as there we go.
SPEAKER_00Okay, perfect. So I have my screen pulled up. So this is a tweet from April 24th, very recent from RT on X. And it says US soldiers fed goo-like food aboard USS Abraham Lincoln amid Iran war. So you can see this appears to be very meager. There isn't, um, I don't know if I can click on this and make it bigger. There we go, a little bit bigger there. But it looks like just a hamburger patty and rice, very kind of meager portions, especially if you're somebody who is in you know, fighting shape, you would need more calories than this. So it's not just from RT, though. So this story was also talked about by USA Today.
SPEAKER_03And then the other thing that real quick, that's just just one thing I want to mention is um every time I've been deployed, they usually really, really treat the soldiers well as well as they can for morale. And one of the things is food. I actually got almost overweight, like military for my height, you know, height weight stuff, that you have to stay within a certain parameters, otherwise, you gotta go get taped and all that stuff to make sure you're meeting the. I don't know if you all hear. I apologize. My grandson he busted in here. I'm I'm doing double duty today. I'm babysitting while my wife's at an appointment. And um the neighbor fire up the lawnmower, and he this is the only window he can see the neighbor's yard. So um anyway, uh, but no, one of the things they do is they they feed you well um on deployments. Now, if you're a one of those those fobs that are kind of outlying, you know, I apologize. I know you guys don't always eat the best, but for the most part, especially on these large um on these large boats and stuff, they're almost like a floating city. Uh, I if they're eating that poor, I don't know what the problem is. Are they just out of money? Are they out of, or is it a supply chain issue where they can't get it there? And I've often wondered as well, I know this isn't really a problem with like um these carriers that are nuclear powered or the submarines that that are nuclear powered, but these boats that run on fuels, how are we getting them refueled? Are they gonna get stranded out there? Um, what happens if they gotta hightail it out and they just don't have the fuel? So these are questions I'm having. And looking at the food right there you showed tells me that they're probably not getting the resupply that they need because we went in, we are stretched too thin. We are stretched way too thin. We're messing with with Venezuela, now we're talking about Cuba. What are we gonna do? Put boats in the in the Gulf of America, right? Uh, what are we gonna do? And and then we got the Ukraine thing still going on. And back to what you're talking about about we don't really know what's going on, only what we're told, what the media feeds us, kind of like with with COVID 1984. We only knew what the media feeds us, but we at least had numbers back then that we could check from like the CDC to verify that their narrative was BS. Uh, but but we really don't have a way to do that when it comes to foreign war, unless you can afford to go over there and look at it yourself. But we saw with uh with uh Ukraine, they were showing footage from across the globe saying this happened yesterday, but it's like a 10-year-old something that happens elsewhere. Uh, people started catching that. Um, and then you know, with the reverse image lookup and stuff like that, and they started flipping the video, flipping the images so to try to trick that. So there's obviously some deception going on since even Ukraine. Um, and that's not that long ago, where they they want to build a narrative. So you're right, Ashley. How do we know what's going on? You have to look at these little things, like you know, how are they eating? How are they uh what's their manpower look like? What is the fuel situation? I mean, the things to really indicate that um it's not what they tell us it is. We're not winning, right? We're not winning big bigly. So sorry to go off on that tangent there, Ash.
SPEAKER_00No, that's okay. And the other thing is that you're getting in this current time, some of this information is coming from sources that are, I don't want to even say alt media, but are this different places. So we do we're getting some information from Judge Napolitano and his military and conflict geopolitical analyst. Some of this, like what I brought up from uh as far as the food goes, that was from RT, but also USA Today. So, what I wanted to uh follow that up with is that the Pentagon's response, and this is a tweet that was also posted on RT, is said that sailors aboard aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln serve meals to crew members. A typical aircraft carrier strike group serves around 4,000 eggs daily. Three aircraft carrier strike groups are currently operating in the Middle East. Combined the sailors and Marines from these units consume 12,000 eggs a day. Okay, so that doesn't actually address our concern. So then what I want to go to is just what is a quick search online say on the Brave browser about what we see that is happening? So it said that US military personnel aboard warships, such as the USS Tripoli and the USS Abraham Lincoln, have reportedly been served minimal poor quality meals during deployment in the Middle East amid the current Iran conflict, with images showing trays containing only shredded meat and a tortilla or a dried meat patty alongside an unidentifiable gray slab of processed meat. Family members and service members have raised alarms about the dwindling food supplies, lack of fresh provisions, and restricted access to care packages due to suspended postal deliveries, leading to concerns over morale and nutrition. Pentagon and Navy officials deny food shortages, stating that all ships have sufficient supplies and that meals remain fully portioned and nutritionally balanced. However, multiple reports from service members describe rationing, stretched portions, declining morale, with some alleging that leadership remains unaware due to separate higher quality dining options. Photos and accounts shared online with the media outlets like USA Today have sparked public and political concern through the Department of, or excuse me, though the Department of Defense maintains troop welfare is a top priority. So again, I just the reason that I'm bringing this up is not in order to say what is happening or not, but to say I don't know what is happening. And why are we getting so many mixed messages? But then I tie it back to strategy of tension and the fifth generation of warfare. So and I'm almost done here, but I just wanted to wrap up with that. That we have all that conflicting information, then one last bullet point on the on them not getting their care packages. Okay. So this is again just a couple of things.
SPEAKER_03I'm gonna personally tell you that's that's absolutely huge. Um, I have a relative that used to send about six or seven boxes that had snacks and little stuffed animals and stuff like that, and and cards from kids in her class. Uh she's a teacher, and um, and I would distribute those throughout the unit, and that made so much of a difference for morale. If you're not getting those packages, um, I mean, that little package, you don't know how much it means.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And, you know, even people that are living in good and comfortable situations love getting a little care package. So never mind being away from your family and your home and and having something extra for morale. So it's good that you are are bringing up the importance from the perspective of a deployed soldier. And this is this basic search that I did about well, why, what's going on with the care package situation? So it just says, yes, access to care packages for U.S. military personnel has been significantly restricted, partially for those deployed in the Middle East due to the ongoing conflict with Iran. The U.S. Postal Service suspended mail delivery to 27 military zip codes in the region as of April 2026. Indefinite suspensions. The Army cites airspace closures and logistical impacts from the conflict as the cause with no immediate end date in sight. Package status: mail already in transit is being held at secure facilities rather than returned to senders, but new packages cannot be processed for these areas. General restrictions. Beyond suspension, the Department of War does not operate a program for the general public to send care packages or whatever. Impact. Families report that service members aboard ships like the USS Tripoli and the USS Abraham Lincoln are experiencing food shortages, making the inability to send supplemental care package uh packages a critical concern. So, all of this, I think these the things that I have wanted to kind of bring up and weave together are important in and of themselves, but also in the context of what is actually going on and why is it so difficult for us to get that information. Now, I believe the reports from the troops and their families and the pictures that we're seeing online, but then that makes me wonder why. You know, what's going on here? And I know that if there truly was some sort of food crisis, that they would not, you know, openly admit that to us or very likely wouldn't do that. But I um it just leaves me with this sense, again, of what I've been talking about of unease and not really knowing what's going on.
Logistics Strain And Rising Fuel Costs
SPEAKER_03Well, I I agree um that I would believe what we're seeing from the troops themselves. And remember, we talked about this a few weeks ago when this stuff first kicked off. I said this is gonna be a logistical nightmare, and that's what they're talking about is the the logistics, the closed airspace, closed water spaces. How do you get the logistics to this? We went all in and sent a whole bunch of troops over there, and we don't have a way to sustain them, and that's a huge thing. I mean, a good portion of the military is sustainment, it is logistics. Uh, more than more than warfighters is, you know, um, you you have your your combat soldier, you you know, your uh maybe your Navy vessel or whatever that does the work that occupies the ground, that shoots the missiles, shoots the guns, but they have to have bullets, they have to have fuel, they have to have food. Uh, those people that are cooking for them have to also eat, they have to have a place to sleep, they have to have, you know, the logistics side of it, and I I was not a logistics person, but on one of my deployments, I worked with the logistics unit. So I got to see the ugly side of that. And it is a lot of work that goes behind every soldier that's out there with their boots on the ground. A whole lot of other soldiers support them. A lot of people don't know that. And I remember saying when we kicked this off, I said, We're not ready to do this. We are going to have a logistical nightmare. And I think we're finally seeing the fruits of that now. Um, and I'm glad you brought that up because I hadn't really been looking into it, but I knew that it was a concern of mine, and this just indicates. It just indicates to me that the winning side of it, we're winning, we're winning, we're winning, is a complete lie. We're not winning, we're at a standstill. How is this going to be a 20-year war like Afghanistan to make a bunch of people money and a bunch of people suffer? A bunch of other people suffer, right? So you get the them and the and the us. So anyway.
SPEAKER_00Well, and this is, you know, if this does continue, so currently, in the description that Aaron was Aaron Mate was using on uh Judge Napolitano's show is the frozen conflict, but meaning that it is not necessarily this active conflict, but I do think that we are running the risk of the forever war. And not only is it the causing the potential for Americans to suffer, Americans are already suffering. We know that we uh have been dealing with a lot of inflation over the last many years since the pandemic. And then recently people's gas has gone up to incredible amounts. You know, our friend Doc Rock was talking about the gas prices in Canada, which is basically they do liters there, but $8 a gallon. And then I have a friend over in California who is saying the same thing. And um, Eric uh that was on Guard Show last night was talking about how much diesel is. I forget the number that he said, but it's incredibly um expensive now. So Americans are suffering in that way, but not only that, this is worldwide consequences for supply chain and energy. So, and I do think that we are running the risk of this forever conflict, at least based on the information we're getting now, which is that Iran wants concessions, Trump wants concessions, Iran's not gonna be budging, they're not budging on the Strait of Hormuz, and that Trump is not willing to admit failure or defeat in any capacity of this disaster. So I that leaves us at a standstill, at an impasse currently.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, well, the the long-term effects are is definitely we're gonna feel it here, everywhere. The world's gonna feel it because of the fertilizer. And I'll I will mention this um it's not just the fertilizer, it's the food in general. And uh I posted a uh I reposted um a documentary. If you go to the Nights of the Storm over on Rumble and look at our reposts, uh, I would suggest everybody watch that because you're gonna understand how we have put I love you too, Bubby. Uh but anyway, um how we've basically put all of our eggs in one basket and it talks about the food. Um it talks about how we got to where we are today with Monsanto uh seeds and uh the Roundup and all this other stuff. And basically, we cannot farm anymore without fertilizers and stuff that depends on that petroleum product that they pull out of the ground. We can't. We just can't grow food like that anymore because the land has been poisoned. So, what can we do about this? Well, if you have your own little plot of land and you haven't poisoned it with a bunch of Roundup, maybe consider uh planting a garden, get some heirloom seeds, uh, something that you're not going to be violating uh some kind of a patent because they they've shut down a lot of farmers who the the Monsanto stuff just kind of blew onto their land and all of a sudden they're shut down, they're sued because they're illegally um growing their their product. Uh anyway, um, yeah, go watch that. It's you'll understand if you watch that, and and I know it has to do with food, it doesn't have to do with war, but you're gonna see how fragile we've made ourselves become dependent on not just for gasoline or diesel, but all the other products that come from energy that comes from that region. Um, it'll blow your mind if you think of if you look at it through that lens. So yeah.
SPEAKER_00So that is my, you know, I think we have a lot of food for thought, a lot of things for hopefully people to look at and see what they think about what the situation that they're seeing transpire and where we're headed from here. And perhaps sometimes maybe it helps to name if you subscribe to to my theory, which is that this is the strategy of tension. Sometimes it helps to recognize that this is what we're experiencing and perhaps intentional or not intentional, but it it adds to a feeling of potential unease. And sometimes recognizing that can help us feel a little bit better and um, you know, refocus on what we can actually affect in in our life. So that's all I have as far as what I brought today. I just wanted to to weave these little threads together about what we're currently seeing.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I I like how you you said that how you know how can we affect change? And you you like to say that the grass grows where you water it. So um I think that we can't be too alarmist. Um, we do have to inform people of what's going on and kind of look forward um into the you know pattern recognition and things like that to see where we're going. So we can water the grass where it needs to be watered, but don't forget to water the grass, right? And um anyway, I'll get into mine. We might run a little bit long. Um, I know we cut off uh at the one-hour mark for uh worldwide Christian radio. So WWCR, thanks for tuning in. If you tune in, if we cut off, I'm sorry, but we're gonna get to the rest of my stuff here as quickly as possible and wrap it up.
Assassination Attempt And Function Stacking
SPEAKER_03So I want to talk about this um assassination attempt. Um, not going to get into whether it was staged. Some people say it's staged, some people say it was a lack of security, but then security did their job well, and I mean all kinds of stuff. What I was more curious about is how is this going to be used? And going back to the AI, right? The AI needs us to have a digital ID. They need to know where we're traveling if we're not carrying a cell phone with us. So they basically want to force you to have some kind of a device, a cell phone, or something in the future is my um my prediction, I guess. So let's review what happened. The guy checks into the hotel uh a couple days ahead of the time, right? Um they get ready, the president's there, the vice president, everybody's there in one room, all the press people are there, and he just runs right past with some weapons and a shootout. I don't know how they didn't shoot the guy. I mean, did he get shot? Uh I know there were shots fired, but he didn't look like he was shot when they, you know, the pictures.
SPEAKER_00No, no. My understanding, again, this is only what I think, and I haven't dug too deeply into this issue, but was that there was an exchange of fire maybe from some of the Secret Service members, but actually that this guy, I don't know that he actually hit anybody or anything like that.
SPEAKER_03Uh, there was one guard that was hit, uh, and it was a vest that stopped. I think the guy was using buckshot in his pump action shotgun. And I want to talk about the weapons as well. Uh, so what I did when I heard about this, it was the next morning. I flipped on Fox. I said, I want to see what Fox is saying about this because that's going to indicate to me how they're going to use it, right? So the first thing I noticed, let me go ahead and pull up my I got a list here. Um uh the first thing, of course, everyone's talking about is this is a good opportunity to justify the ballroom that Trump is building, the bunker, the big, beautiful bunker ballroom, right? The all the bees are there. So anyway, um, and and we saw this come out because now I believe it's Lindsey Graham is pushing for it was supposed to be privately funded, which you know that those people the funding are gonna get something on the back end, right? Uh, but now I believe it was Lindsey Graham is pushing for taxpayer dollars of 350 or 375 million or something like that, be dumped into this thing, uh, which was against what you know against what they initially said, which was it was gonna be privately funded, and you know, and uh Trump says, Oh, I won't even use it for but for a few months, and then it'll be something left on for other presidents. Oh, that sounds really noble, right? Well, now because of this, uh, we might be looking at foot in the bill for this thing. It's so it's a justification, if you will. Everybody knows that they're gonna use this to justify that, but there's some other subtle things I picked up from Fox. One of them is they had wondered how this guy could have gotten these weapons there. Well, first off, he checked into the hotel a few days earlier. That's not a big deal, but they said, well, he traveled by train, uh, and and it makes you wonder if we have proper security. Well, you know what? There's nothing illegal about checking a gun into a train and traveling, but they're pushing for TSA now. And I did look it up and I'll I'll pull it up real quick. Uh, if I can find it. Um, I had it here somewhere. Here we go. I'll I'll put this on screen. Uh so I looked up TSA's uh one of their uh pages, and uh right here, one of their scopes includes commercial and general aviation, mass transit system, freight and passenger rail, highways, pipelines, and maritime. So I I what I'm foreseeing them use this for is to say we need to now have a TSA style checkpoint at the bus station, at the rail station. Um, and then what's what's gonna happen? And I brought this up on guard show, what's gonna happen whenever somebody says, you know what, I'm just gonna take my guns and use an Uber, a self-driving Uber or something. Um, or you know, what is it, Waymo or whatever it's called. And I mean, what are they gonna do at that point? Well, now you got to scan something, or you know, there's gonna be cameras in there. This is what I'm seeing use it for as far as for the tyranny aspect. The other thing I picked up on is they were complaining about, well, all you do is show a paper ticket. Uh, and they had mentioned on Fox, they said, Well, shouldn't they go to something like a QR code on your phone? So, do you see how they're slowly pushing? We need a solution for this, we need a solution for this. You're gonna have to have a phone, you have to have a QR code. Maybe I have to have a QR code on my phone to get a Waymo, and I have to be scanned somehow, or someone has to verify I'm not carrying a weapon because I might go do something like this. I'm I'm guilty until proven innocent of a crime that I haven't committed yet. That's where we're kind of slowly approaching to, and I'm trying to be quick on this to get you and to get your thoughts before we get out. Um, and the other thing, gun control. So I've actually pulled this up. I'm gonna read it off if I can find it. I I literally had like a hundred tabs for for this. I knew we wouldn't need it actually. But uh, so I looked into the recent uh to the three attempts on Donald Trump, right? Uh, because they've always gone after assault weapons, assault weapons, assault weapons, right? Semi-automatic, fully semi-automatic banana clip pistols. I don't know. You make up a word, right? Um, so here we go. The first attempt in Butler, the guy used a DPMS. I actually have a DPMS lower on my area 15. Um, so you're talking an AR-15. So again, they've they've demonized that. Um, the attempt on the golf course, the guy was found with uh uh an SKS semi-automatic rifle. Um, it's similar, often misidentified as an AK-47. So there's your there's our enemy's assault weapon, if you will, right? And I probably neither one of these were fully auto, they were a civilian model. But and I brought this up as well, uh, with another shooting. So then uh let's see this one here. So they've covered the two assault weapons, the two variants, if you will, the two main types of assault weapons. So the one in uh at the correspondence dinner, and I called I didn't know for sure, but I found out it was a pump action shotgun, and then a 38-caliber semi-auto handgun. So, and he had a couple knives. So now we've included this shotgun. And I remember with the Charlie Kirk assassination, I had brought this up with guard as well. I said it had to be a bolt action rifle. Do you see what they're doing here? Whether or not the events actually happened, whether they were staged, whether they were false flags, or that they did happen, what we're being reported on is they're slowly including every type of weapon into this stack of weapons that need to be gotten rid of. That's what I'm seeing happen. You know, I don't know what your thoughts are on that, but uh I brought this up after the Charlie Kirk shooting because I told guard there's no way, there's no way that that rifle was used. Uh, I break down a lot of reasons. I show stuff, there's no way he was not shot with that rifle. Um, the guy didn't even take it up on the roof and bring it back down. I'm telling you right now, from the footage, I can tell you. Uh, but anyway, I just I just feel like that um they're they're trying to lump every category of weapon into a dangerous thing so that they can later push gun control. So that's the the fourth thing or third thing or whatever I uh that I think they're gonna pull out of this event. So what are your thoughts? I know that was a lot.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I mean, I I definitely think that whenever we have something, some major event that comes across our radar like this, that we should go into um to use a term that Monica Perez uses, which is what to watch out for. And even though we, you know, we don't have definitive confirmation about what is transpiring from this, what this will be used for, I think that these are the highlights of what we can expect generally. And, you know, even though we don't, again, we do not have confirmation that this is the that that they are in fact manufacturing consent or that they are weaving a tail, I think that these are things that are appropriate for us to watch out for to see how these types of event events could potentially be used for that in order to bring in new laws. You're right, you brought up the ballroom. I thought it was very odd that we saw a lot of the MAGA influencers were also posting about the ballroom immediately after it was really strange. And I know like part of the story is just that they want more money for that, that they originally it was going to be from donations, private donors, and now they want public funds in order to do that. But I have wondered if that's the only part of the narrative. I'm not sure. Um, I'm not saying I fully understand what exactly is happening there or why all these MAGA influencers are posting in lockstep about this is why we need a ballroom. Um, but I I found that to be an interesting kind of thing. And then as you had said, you're talking more of the specifics about the weapon and the guy and uh that allegedly did this, but I would say just overall, once again, we have another story that is presented to us as one way, and then as soon as you start trying to pick apart the story and ask questions, you have so many things that don't make sense. They are not adding up. And I think that um, you know, if you are whether this was a manufactured event or not, this is something that they can make hay out of and use it for many, many reasons. And you said like demonizing certain types of weapons, the continued demonization of our Second Amendment could definitely be part of that.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, the security state, um, you know, the digital, knowing who you are digitally and being tracked, uh, the weapons it you you like to say it a lot, Ashley. I love your term that's function stacking. Uh, they also say never let a good crisis go to waste. And uh whether it be a false flag or a real event, they're gonna find a way to spin it. And that's why I turn the news on to see what they're reporting, because um, like you said, Monica says, you know, looking out uh to what to look for. That's exactly what I do. And then you dig into it a little bit and and uh you start to see see patterns. But I'm gonna get us out of here. We are um at the 12, unless you have something else you want to um cover.
SPEAKER_00Nope, I think that covers uh you know pretty much where I'm coming from today as a uh confused American, wondering what's really going on.
SPEAKER_03Well,
Shout-Outs, Plugs, And Sign-Off
SPEAKER_03let me let me do some shout-outs here, real quick. We got harps uh from down from down under. Uh he says no one should own a gun. Uh he's being facetious, of course. We got don't obey what's going on. Hemp car. Uh, this is over in the in the rumble chat, by the way. Uh narrowway, narrow gate, that's Levi. He sends me a lot of good stuff. Uh, I wanted to cover something today, but we're just gonna run out of time. So maybe I'll save it for Saturday. I'm Marty's in the house. Hey, I'm Marty. Thank you for supporting um David Knight as much as you do. Uh, I know how much you support him, and I appreciate that. Uh, who else did we have? We had you were in there, I was in there. I know I'm missing somebody, Ashley. Help me out.
SPEAKER_00We had Do Not Obey, Hemp Car, Harps, Levi. We had LT Oracle of Truth, I'm Marty.
SPEAKER_03That's why I'm missing Cuda Bing.
SPEAKER_00Couta Bing. And then we had some folks on YouTube as well.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, we had Tom Cooper. Um, he does Saturday Night Anarchy and Mob Rules. That's a Saturday show and a Sunday show. Um, Angel Blue 9224, what's going on? Um, let me scroll up here.
SPEAKER_00We also had What Word Spell on Rumble, and then we had Kenny Powers and Billy Ray Valentine, Bronx Stomper in Tony's chat.
SPEAKER_03Yep, and Kenny Eff and Powers. That's the second best name on the internet. Ronnie Omless gets number one. Um, but anyway, Bronx, yeah, I see Bronx Stomper in there. So, anyway, let me uh plug us out so we can get out of here. My as you can see, my grandson has totally distracted me. He wants to go outside. Uh, neighbors mowing the grass. So we're gonna accommodate that. So, yeah, uh, go check out Tony's um Tony's wisewolf.gold. Um you can see uh gold right now is at 46.22. Uh silver's at 73.25, and Bitcoin at 76,300 and something change. Um, people say it's going down, but if you look at it a year ago, it has gone up. It's going to go up and down. But it's I predicted that it would silver would stay around the mid-70s after it jumped up to like $115. Uh, me and Tiger, Angry Tiger were talking, and he said it's going to go back down. I said, Yeah, but I think it's going to stay around the mid-70s, and it pretty much has hovered just a little below the mid-70s recently. But if you bought in and you know, four or five years ago, you're sitting pretty right now. Um, oh, Nana's back. Okay, go to the front front door. Anyway, uh, yeah, so really quick, I'm going to block myself out real quick. I want you to plug yourself. I have to go unlock the front door for my wife.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so Jason is uh while he's stepping away. I will just go ahead and say that I have my show, which is Think Change Repeat, and it is streaming on the Knights platform over on Rumble. I also have my own Rumble and YouTube channel. I have been going live on Thursday evening, and I am going live again today at 8:30 p.m. Eastern. I got some feedback of somebody saying, Why are you on while guards on? So I'm trying a little bit later. We'll see how it goes. And tonight my guest will be my friend Rachel of the Radical Truth Podcast. So we are doing that, and Jason is pulling up the um my channel so far. And I want to thank Jason for his support. And of course, all my other uh friends and people who have helped me with that particular project. And you can also find me over on think underscore change underscore two on X. And you could email me think change repeat at Gmail. And I just had Hempcar say that he had reached out to me. I did not get that, it went to spam. So if you send something to me and I don't respond, let me know that could have happened. But um, other than that, I want to say thanks to Tony for the opportunity to be on the show today.
SPEAKER_03Right on. Uh, and I apologize for the distraction here. I'm like I said, I'm doing double duty. Uh, but yeah, and JJ likes to be on screen. So there you go. He got his moment 15 minutes of fame. But um, anyway, I guess we'll get us out of here. Uh, y'all have a great time, uh, great rest of your day. We'll see you tonight, Ashley, on your show. And I will be relaying it over on uh Nights of the Storm as well. So, but I'd prefer you go to Ashley's channel and subscribe there. And uh again, America Unplugged on Saturday. Uh make sure you're there. If you're not, you're missing out on one of the best shows on the internet. And until next time, end of transmission.