Cold Open And Mission Statement

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We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order. Good evening, folks. You're listening to the hour of the time. I'm William Cooper.

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The chair is against the wall. John has a long mustache. John has a long mustache.

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Let's tell the clock Americans another day closer to victory. And for all of you out there on one of behind the lines, this is your song. Veteran of three Foreign Wars, entrepreneur, and warrior poet. Tony Audurn takes on the issues facing our country, civilization, and planet. This is the Araburn radio transmission.

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For there were no other world to conquer. And I think that's probably how uh APAC feels about the American political landscape. What left of our territory is yet to be conquered by uh foreign interests, ladies and gentlemen. And you know what's so great about uh this particular series of events is that it's so enlightening. And I no longer feel, well, I mean, I'll always be a bit of a rogue. Um maybe I don't quite fit in this timeline. Um, but I do feel uh that the issues that I've had and what I've been trying to bring attention to for years and being in the wilderness, I'm it's it's my time. I'm finally the timeline has finally caught up with me, and it's horrifying, isn't it? It's absolutely, it's absolutely terrifying, ladies and gentlemen. And uh, it's okay, I'm built for it. And uh we'll we'll dig into some of that today. It's the Arterburn Radio Transmission. I am your host, Tony Arterburn. I'm broadcasting from deep within the heart of Texas. It's the official broadcast of the apocalypse. It's the 21st of May 2026. I'm joined by my co-pilot and co-host, Beans the Brave. She's gonna keep us safe from woodland creatures, bad vibes, and intruders uh here at the shop. And um, we're gonna dig into a little parapolitical and uh some precious metal stuff, a little bit, just the economics of it. I had um I had some stories that I wanted to talk about, but I've decided to turn it into a paratrouter. I just got through texting Mr. Anderson and I said, hey, there's so much going on with the uh the data that's coming out, and and a lot of um unverified things, some verified, some unverified. I need more time because uh this is not a clickbait show. I like to have some, I like to be able to verify something before I say it. Um, which, you know, it's cost me a bit of listeners because I'm I'm more conservative that way, but I can sleep at night. We're gonna talk about some of the weaponization of um tick-borne illnesses. I think there's something there that is uh massively criminal, evil. Um I think that's going on uh right in front of our eyes, and some people can see it, some people can't. Uh, but we're gonna dig into that, and there's a long, decades-long history of that, as uh a lot of you already know. Um, but there's more that's come out, and I want to verify it before I say it on air. So we're gonna do a paratrooter myself and uh Mr. Anderson and his brain. Uh but yeah, let's uh we're gonna dig into an article uh headlines on Drudge.

Massey Loss And Incumbent Machine

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Uh and I pulled this article up, but just before we get into it, I want to talk a little bit about uh about Massey. Uh this is the as the MAGA turns. Uh Tucker says Trump has diminished American power in unimaginable ways. And I have that article, and I definitely want to talk about that. I um I love seeing you know the realignment of things because for a long time it's it's in alternative media will especially, you know, everybody's a shill. And oh, it's all controlled opposition. Oh, there is controlled opposition, and there is limited hangouts, and they're all that that does exist. And sometimes it's just people actually believe stuff that's stupid. Um, you know, it's a mixed bag. And having been in some of the mechanisms of it, just like I've been inside the mechanisms of politics, just a little bit, just enough to get inoculated uh for I from idealism. Like, you know, they say you shouldn't meet your heroes. Um, but I've actually met some of my heroes, and and uh I'm not disappointed from it. You know, I worked with him. Uh I got I get to talk to David Knight every week. Uh he's one of my heroes and uh has been for many years. And what a, I mean, there's no broadcaster like him. I'll say that to his face. Uh I I love the man. And uh I was thinking of the Thomas Massey defeat, and um it's not not necessarily a moral or mortal blow. It's a moral blow, uh, not a mortal blow to the liberty movement. I actually think it enhances uh the liberty movement and and uh it exposes a lot of the deep state ties to our political system and outside influence. And I would just try to explain to the audience how difficult it is to unseat a sitting popular congressman and like Thomas Massey is. There's a reason we have a 96% incumbency rate, okay? Uh we have a higher return election rate than the Soviet Politburo did at the height of the height of communism in in Russia, okay? We we tend to re-elect the same people over and over again. It's almost impossible to unseat them unless you have a plan. And one of those plans is to use, I don't, you know, I don't necessarily think that uh there's election fraud here. It's possible. I mean, with electronic voting machines, and don Donald Jeffrey's done great work on this with his uh in his book Hidden History about vote scam, and you should definitely look into that. Um, but I think this was probably more legit than anything else. And people, I talked about this on America Unplugged. I'm like, don't underestimate the gullibility of the Republican primary voter. You just have no idea. I do. I've seen it. And you're talking about a congressional district that has 800,000 people, so roughly 50,000 people vote in a Republican primary. So if you just have enough money and you can send these people, which is you know, there's a certain demographic and they are aging, but you send them enough mailers and they feel like they're part of the process, and you just get them to just switch up a little bit, you can do that. And uh I saw it happen in real time. I mean, in the it was funny, Math Massey's was the fourth is the fourth congressional district, and uh that's what the district I ran in in Texas was the fourth congressional Texas district, which was uh very historic district. I'm in it right now, as a matter of fact. I'm in Denison, Texas, which is still part of the fourth congressional district. And uh this was Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House, this Democrat district. You know, even the the congressman that I uh was very good friends with. Matter of fact, I have his picture uh behind me. I on I'm reframing of he and I and and uh Houston, my son, uh, when we went to visit him many times, and I got to be really close uh with Ralph Hall, but he was a Democrat and turned Republican. But you know, the guy was um kind of larger than life, really. I mean, he had uh uh you know friendships with uh Buzz Aldrin and Muhammad Ali, and uh, you know, he liked to brag that he put uh Ronald Reagan on hold because he did. He just wanted to see if he could put a president on hold. It's he was uh such an interesting man and last World War II veteran. And I didn't think that he was running again. So I I decided to to run early, and I had a lot of things. I really I was a true believer. He told me, he told me uh he felt sorry for me in some ways because I was such an ideologue, you know. I really did believe the things that I was running on. It wasn't just about winning office, and uh, you know, I loved question time and why he sent me out once once there was a runoff, uh, he chose me to be his surrogate. So he'd send me out to speak on his behalf. And uh so that's where I cut my teeth going out in uh these you know small towns in East Texas, and uh the opponent, they just again the uh this was part of a larger plan, it looks like to me at this point, where you had um John Radcliffe, who was not from Texas, and uh he's now director uh of the CIA. So that was a stepping stone office for him. And you didn't know his name until he became uh director of national intelligence under the first Trump administration. And there's a reason you don't know his name, he didn't do anything in Congress. Um, you would have known my name, right? Kind of like you know Thomas Massey's name, he's not your congressman. It's funny, I don't know my congressman. They're they waste all of these seats. These seats are wasted. Think about it. If you're in a district where you can almost never be unseated, unless there's outside influence, like John Radcliffe had the uh John Ashcroft law firm, which you know, John Ashcroft helped write the Patriot Act and all of that stuff. So there was massive amounts of money. They just they saw Ralph teetering, and plus Ralph had voted against the National Defense Authorization Act, which most people don't know that. He'd voted against NAFTA and other things, he'd voted against the Trans-Pacific Partnership, he'd voted against um CAFTA and other a bunch of free trade stuff. So, you know, he was populist and he was skeptical of uh the military industrial complex and their surveillance state. I had personal conversations with him on it. He was um he thought that that was a that was a real problem area, and uh he voted against it, didn't didn't vote lockstep with the Republicans. So they chose that office for um for John Ratcliffe. And just like they did it for this uh this trained uh seal, and I mean like a circus seal, uh like David Knight said for the guy that replaced Massey. Um but I don't think, folks, for a minute, this is how the rigged the system is. Um I I think the the vote's probably real. Uh I think that people will can get animated, especially, you know, political people, if you've ever been around them, like the true blue, like it just doesn't really matter. They just like to take orders, they like to make things happen. It's about, you know, you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours, kind of thing. And I never did get along. I'm more of a I'm more like guerrilla warfare, you know. I I want to win, but at what cost? I mean, sometimes winning isn't winning. You know, even if you win, what does that look like if you have to sell out your soul or your values? Or there's a great story about Lyndon Johnson in the 48 campaign in Texas, and you know, he he left his congressional seat and he's uh running against uh Koch Stevens, which is a very popular, really good man in Texas, had been former governor. And Lyndon Johnson gets uh some donations to read an ad that's anti-union. And he's like, Well, I can't really do that. You know, I'm I'm I'm a Democrat and uh I'm for unions, and this is a very right-wing group that gets them to read this ad. And then he says, Well, if I lose this election, then I can't help any. He justifies it in his head. It's like, well, they won't even remember who I am if I don't read the ad. So he goes and reads the ad, reads it with gusto, and he really believes it when he's reading it that he's anti-union, because if he doesn't win, then he can't be anything. So you those small compromises, you start adding those up. Political people are like that. And Thomas Massey's not like that. And you know, but Ron Paul's not like that. Ralph Hall wasn't like that. There are people that get into politics that don't have that political DNA. Uh, but it's I think for our benefit to see how all of this works. This really came to pass, and you get to see in real time that the primary system and the certain mindset of the primary voter is not where you're gonna find your uh you're not gonna you're not gonna find your champion through that system. It's not gonna happen. It has to happen a different way. And this is good. I think it's back to the drawing board. Um time to reflect on how much leverage uh a foreign power like APAC uh Israel has on our politics, how that's served us. I mean, especially in places where we should be leading the charge all over the country in places that are, you know, for lack of a better term, and I hate this, but you know, the the red places, they did that on that's a psyop, by the way, um to red versus blue, making the conservatives red is was a psyop. Okay. I mean, Republicans were always blue, that's the color of the Union. They did that on purpose, about I think around the year 2000 or so, and became really apparent that the modern left is uh, you know, uh Marxian, uh revolutionary type, cultural Marxists, and they so they they reversed it, so you wouldn't think of you know the uh Democrats as red. And uh so we have this areas that are red right now, uh for lack of a better term, and they're just inert. Think about that. Think about the I mean the and that's the the majority, but they're fracturing all of it. So if you look at the if you reverse engineer where we are, and I go back to like 2016, I was thinking about this today, like I all the stuff that I wrote about, and and you know, when I supported Trump and I wrote articles and I did that, and and even when I ran for office the the cycle before that, I really believed. I mean, it these principles are still very true, like you know, peace, commerce, honest friendship, uh be having you know sound money, uh not having a an empire, having a republic, you know, bringing the troops home, having a border, not a new world order. Like these are really simple things, like stuff that you can put on three by five cards, and that's all you really need to know. It's like, well, we're a nation of uh of laws, and uh we're not an empire, and uh we you know we have uh tradition, uh hearth and home, history and heroes, we have all that we bring this back to the American characters, which is what I cared about. Like, let's have the best ideas, let's have a free market. This was what was important to me because I believe that this the United States of America is a very special place, and that the American people, not their government, uh, have a destiny. Now, I think that's being thwarted right now, and you can clearly see like this there's never been a more uh and I using this reference, it's funny I have movie references right in the middle of doing a show, but I think of the movie 13 Days, uh, you know, about the Cuban Missile Crisis and the one of the in the board meeting they're having, you know, about in the crisis room, you know, in the in the commit in the uh White House, and this guy says, you know, sometimes it's so clear, and you thank God for it, you know, so it's such a clear choice that you got to make. And we're it the powers that be and the cycle of history that we're in, it is very apparent. Like, there's no more nuance. It's it's really black and white. It's like, okay, if you believe in liberty and you want to find out who's on the Epstein list, and uh you want to bring, you know, you don't want war everywhere all the time, you know, um, you know, some sexual fetish that Lindsey Graham has about just bombing the hell out of brown people all the time. If you don't want that, if you're not, if your soul's not tied to Epstein Island or something, you know, um, then you're clearly on one side. And the other side is I'll do whatever I have to do to keep the power structure going. And that's really the there's that's the two distinctions. There's really not much room in the middle. So you either are or you aren't. Let your yes be your yes and your no be your no. I mean, it's really that clear. And that's where we are. It aren't you thankful for that? You don't even have to, you don't even have to guess anymore. So basically, at this point, if you're getting endorsed and you're getting all the favorability and you're being thrust into Washington, DC, at this point, uh, you're already suspect. So, you know, maybe a whole other system. I think we gotta go back to the drawing board about how we approach any of this stuff. And believe, believe me, ideas. You know, it's fun, like Victor Hugo said, that one thing more powerful than all the armies on the earth is an idea whose time has come. There's a change in consciousness going on around the world, especially about the ruling class. They're being exposed like never before. It is a really interesting time to be alive, ladies and gentlemen. And let's let's talk about some of that um exposure. Let me put this

Tucker Turns On Trump And War

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up on the screen. This is uh off mediaite. It's Tucker Carlson. I found this to be helpful. Tucker Carlson says Trump has diminished American power in unimaginable ways. Tucker Carlson torched President Donald Trump on Wednesday, stating that not only has Trump not made the country great again, but he has diminished American power. The ex-Trump ally has been increasingly critical of the president, but his most recent remarks are one of the most striking condemnations of what Carlson sees as something as a betrayal by the president. Well, that's exactly what it is. It is a massive betrayal. I mean, a multi-generational, perhaps the great betrayal. Pat Buchanan wrote a book called The Great Betrayal about um free trade and what it did to the United States. And uh that's nothing compared to what's going on right now. On Wednesday's edition of the Tucker Carlson Show, the former Fox News host wondered if Trump is a one-man sleeper cell for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with whom the president launched the Iran war in February. Carlson has been among the most harsh critics of the conflict, which he unsuccessfully lobbied Trump against. You know, it's funny, I just uh just remembering this, uh reading this article, he did. He lobbied against, and of course, Charlie Kirk, you know, on the first go-round, um probably to his detriment, was very vocal against the uh the 12-day war. But can you imagine, like intellectually, and I'm just remove all ideology, but can you imagine not listening to Tucker but listening to Ted Cruz? Isn't that weird? I mean, if if you have a love for words and you know ideas and having them explained and structure and everything like wouldn't you listen to Tucker over Ted? I mean, hands down. Like even if you're a even if you had cognitive decline, you could still go, oh, you know, well, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe cognitive decline you start maybe that's why Ted Ted Cruz gets elected. Um let's see. Uh the war prompted Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz, which has sent oil and gas prices skyrocketing. Oh, it's this another thing. I just mentioned this to David Knight, and I've said this a couple of times, but I literally uh in in like the late 90s. Would talk to my dad about what would happen if if we hit Iran. Like we'd have like this is like before 9-11. And we would talk about this. And the the first thing that would always come up is like, well, they're going to close the straight of whore moves. I mean, this is just like conversations that we would have organically in the 90s. And so you know everybody knows they're going to close the straight of whore moves, which is again, it's kind of like the dog that didn't bark. You go look at any of this stuff, folks. If you want to reverse engineer a manufactured energy crisis, this is kind of how you do it. So you can you can add in like the war profiteering or the greater Israel project or whatever. But beneath that, I think that the reason there's not more pushback is because you know you are stimulating the lizard folk over in Davos. I mean, they are they are loving this time, you know. Hey, you're gonna own nothing and be we're gonna price you out of everything and you'll be happy. Like you're gonna manufacture an energy crisis. This is how you get there. There's probably no better way to do it, honestly. I mean, that's this is and it's the cover of the well, it's the Iranians that did it. No, no, you did it. You know, it's it's really insane. That they, oh, I did well, can you believe they they there's an issue with oil floating through flowing through the Strait of Hormuz? No, people have known that for decades. Carlson pointed to remarks Trump made on Tuesday where the president said, I'm at 99% approval rating in Israel. Well, why don't you go there and live? Uh, I could run for prime minister. That would be great. Go there and uh please take the helm. So maybe after I do this, I'll go to Israel and run for prime minister. I had a poll this morning at 99%, so that's good. And an indignant Carlson responded, the president of the United States, bragging about his popularity in a foreign country, I'm 99% in Israel, unmentioned the fact that he's 35% in the United States. 35% support from Americans, the people he pledged to represent, to fight for, whose side he promised to take in every conflict, foreign and domestic, and yet there he is, bragging about how popular he is in a foreign country, the same country that got us into the war, that is, to some extent, causing his unpopularity in the country. Speaking of cold-hearted globalist betrayals, yes, it is a betrayal of the highest order. You're seeing it in real time, and I wish it would have come sooner to be so apparent. I have understood this to be true for a long time, and it has cost me a lot of money. Fortune. But you realize, like, the just giving analysis, this isn't even about me being uh on anybody's side. Just giving analysis has cost me tens of thousands of listeners, maybe hundreds of thousands. Anyway, they gave me, you know, when I was able to host on InfoWars, you should have seen the comments in my final broadcast. It was Friday the 13th of 2020, it was just after the election. I had Donald Jeffries on, I had a constitutional scholar on. I mean, I did my homework. And as a matter of fact, one of these days I'll post on my Instagram my favorite pictures I've never published, but I went in at like 5 a.m. It was just me and the security guard, and somehow I knew it was going to be my last day there. Uh and I always worked for free. I paid my own way. I just enjoyed the platform. I appreciated it, and I got to fill in for David. But I have this great picture of everything, all the lights off, you know, and on the studio is blank and the clock's still up, you know, it's like 6 a.m. or whatever. But I'd gotten there really early to print off stories. But I knew there was gonna be, and and this is just something I thought of the other day. But you the the flack that I got, just for having analysis, you know, it's funny, the audience is finally catching people are catching up, and I understand the want to believe and to have hope and all the rest of that stuff. It can get a little frustrating, start talking to get into the QAnon stuff, and then he's still playing, you know, uh five million degree chess or whatever the hell is uh people people's colonized mind come up with. But I think this is all good. Okay, this is all good. That's happening it's it's unfortunate it took this long, and it's unfortunate we're gonna have to go through whatever all the stuff we're gonna have to go through. Um, but there's some idolatry here. We got into some idolatry. It's kind of like on a long enough timeline, Christianity will change in the United States of America. And the idolatry that a lot of these big megachurches have, with either prosperity gospel or um Israel, um, will be a thing of the past. It'll be looked on, it'll be looked back on as a as a real problem. It'll it'll be like the difference will be between like the Protestants versus the Catholics. That's how the that's the schism that will be between the future of Christianity and what is now. Like you have the both the prosperity gospel and the end-of-the-world industrial complex people, um, you know, the left behind types, uh, all this stuff will come out. You know, eventually it'll just be common knowledge that all that stuff, like the Schofield Bible, was the manufacturer thing to create uh support for political Zionism. And the same thing with the concept of the rapture will be, you know, John Darby, 19th century, Luciferian. Like this is all the influence of that. It's QAnon for the 19th century, folks. I mean, it's it's that will be. I'm just giving you my analysis on what the future will be, but back to the point. That audience couldn't stand the fact that I was just giving my analysis. I can't repeat some of the comments. I had good comments too, but it made me laugh. You know, it still does. I laughed it off, but I remember I went and uh had dinner with Mr. Anderson and we went over the comments, and he just howled like this was uh you know six years ago. Uh let's see. Um you could say that Trump is searching for affirmation where he can. Unpopular at home, he retreats into the fantasy of his popularity in another country. Well, yes, true. But it's not a one-time exhibition of this. The president has spent the last year looking outward toward the approval of other nations. The president has spent the last year fighting for people who are not his voters, in many cases, not even American, and allowing his own country to languish. Yeah, that's kind of the tell, isn't it, folks? I mean, at the end of the day, if you need confirmation that our ruling class is not looking out for us, that they do not support us, that they you understand that any of us, like we could form, like just pick random people in the chat, or just go in the phone book and pick 10 random people that are cognitively okay, you know, not in a middle instant. We could turn the entire economy around. We could create a board of ideas, and if we had the ability to run the levers of power and put some things in place, mainly by leaving things alone and mainly by giving the markets some certainty. You know, some incentive, incentive and certainty. They go a long way. And uh, you know, peace, commerce, and honest friendship, Thomas Jefferson, you know, that guy was on to something. You know, John Quincy Adams, America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. You know, there's some wisdom in that. Yeah, these guys had a lot more wisdom than Lindsey Graham. Or Donald Trump. Or, you know, it it whatever's happening in Washington is the antithesis of anything that would need to happen in order to run a safe, healthy country. The country we deserve, the country that's paid for in blood, packed full of uh soldiers and sailors and marines and airmen and veteran cemeteries across the country who believed when they were fighting and dying in previous wars and conflicts that may have been constitutional, may not have been, but they believed that they were fighting for a free country. That was the whole point. Like the whole point of America is freedom and the ability to grow as an individual, the ability to have a family, the ability to have peace, you know, all the all the stuff that they say that we're supposed to stand for. And then we get to this point in history, and all bets are off. But personally, I think the tide, all this is turning. And especially when you have people like Tucker who I mean, Tucker has his own faults and stuff. This isn't about me um, you know, fawning over Tucker. This is about this is a major platform, folks. And you you you want to know where it's headed. It's not if you if you're looking at uh power is where power goes, to quote Lyndon Johnson, he was right about that. And look where the energy's going. Uh this is the energy, folks. This is where the energy's going. Uh the last year has not made America great again. The last year has diminished American power at a rate some of us thought was unimaginable. We couldn't have foreseen less than a year and a half ago the damage that this administration, led by that president, for whom we campaign and liked personally, could do to this country. Well, it's heartbreaking. And um, you know, even me, I just thought, well, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe the uh maybe there will be, you know, some sort of second act here that will be and I have I I've laid out that possibility. I was open to it. I I was like Donald Jeffreys, you know, there's I'm a Trump agnostic for the most part. And the second go around, it's not my I'm not into politics anymore. Not the way that these politics are set up. But it is an absolute disaster. And um almost no other explanation than it's on purpose. Like this is a uh creative destruction or control demolition of some kind. It really is um something to watch, isn't it, folks?

Paying A Price For Honest Analysis

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All right, I'm gonna go to the chat here for a second, then we're gonna get into the rest of the show. I'll cover a little bit of economics, and uh there's an article up you want to get into some trends, we can talk about uh something on uh antiwar.com. I want you to always try to show trends, folks. As a matter of fact, you know, it's funny, I talked about uh, and it's going around the stuff on the uh weaponized uh ticks. I did that a year ago. If you recall, um, and I've done it a couple of different times. We're definitely gonna do a deep dive on it myself and Mr. Anderson. All right. Let's go to the YouTube chat. Uh Bronck Stomper111 says afternoon, all good to see you, Bronck Stomper. And then N MQH uh M, that's a good one. I uh uh what I want to know is how 35% can still support the trader. Uh yeah, that's a great question. You know, I think the I think it was Harry Truman had an approval rating at the end of his presidency because of the Korean War uh of about 35%. And then uh George W. Bush had uh similar numbers at the uh and maybe not towards the end of his presidency. Well, yeah, I mean, because he had the uh he had the the Iraq war was still going on, and then he had the uh the economy that was was garbage. All right, not much going on over there in the uh no voter ID and then I'm Marty is in the chat over on on Rumble. Good to see all of you folks. Thanks for thanks for being here. It says YouTube game game uh Nick. Okay, thanks, Nick. YouTube gave me the handle. Well, it's cool. Yeah, it's uh I just I was trying to see if I was missing something on the meaning, you know. I my mind will always try to find a pattern there, Nick. It's the way I am. All right, uh, let's uh let's jump around

Reading Headlines For Trend Signals

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a little bit. I just I want to read some headlines. We don't have to do the full article, but this is something just to watch, you can kind of know where we're going. It's all about trends, folks. I mean, what's the point of listening to the show if you don't get a little uh glean a little bit into what's next and get some analysis on what's happening now? Uh this is an important article. Won't read the whole thing, but um something to look at.

Walmart Warning And Inflation Pressure

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Zero hedge. Walmart tumbles on disappointing guidance, warns low-income consumers are drowning, high fuel costs will hit profit. So again, Walmart, who you know, the big retailers, uh, in the last quarter, the world's largest retailers said comparable sales in U.S. stores rose 4.1%, excluding fuel in the latest quarter, slightly better than the 4.0% Wall Street analysts were expecting. That was good news. The bad news is that this was the slowest growth in comparable store sales since 2024. Walmart also forecast adjusted profit for the second quarter that missed analyst expectations. That together with several warnings of the state of low-income consumer and that prices will rise unless input costs dropped, slammed shares. So the this is the canary in the coal mine. Okay, and you have several things going on at once. Uh I talked about this with David Knight this morning. When you have these high energy prices, right, there is uh it will create inflation, by the way, because you know, prices rise, so there's inflation, and uh even with the the money the money supply remaining static. So the Federal Reserve is not of one mind. You know, they have all these different boards of governors. Some people want to cut rates because you have an economic slowdown. The other people are looking to say, well, they've got inflation and the dollar's being destroyed, the, you know, the purchasing power of the dollar. So you've got all these factors hitting. And just like David Knight and I discussed today, the hardest hit are going to be people on fixed income. You know, you you're fixing, you know, we have an idea because of normalcy bias. We think of the dollar as a fixed unit of value, and it is not. You know, a fixed unit of value is something like gold for the most part, you know, or silver for the most part. Um, these are fixed units of value. Uh, the dollar is a very fluctuating system and it's trending downward, right? You can have the language like the dollar gets stronger and all the rest of that. Well, maybe temporarily, but the trend is downward and it will continue downward uh in perpetuity because it's not backed by anything. You don't have to get into that to really truly understand that these stories about that are like the the sign, the warning signs on the road, this is one of them. You know, where the Walmart is screaming out, hey, there's an issue with lower income people. They don't because of the price of energy, it's just hitting everything, and it's wiping out you know, uh an entire section of the economy. These are the people that get hit first and hardest from all this, and it's just beginning. Yeah, I want to there's a last little bit of this article, let's see. I can go back to translation if it weren't for upper income consumers who are forced to trade down to discounters such as Walmart, earnings would have been a disaster. Think about that. The high income consumer is spending with confidence in many categories, whereas the low-income consumer, we can tell, is more budget conscious, trying to navigate certain financial distress. Well, what this is saying is also higher income people are going to Walmart. It's not this is that's not just a one-sided thing, folks. So something to watch that's a another uh indicator of you know, we're we haven't even begin to see the effects of the closure of the Strait of Hormous, folks. Like the even though oil is some flowing through, now it you you're talking about a supply shock that has hit India, right? Um uh in India's uh you know there's a lot going on with the precious metals there, and they're you know, they are putting tariffs on the income importation of metals. There's they they're backed up for weeks on um delivery, um, you know, because of customs and other things. Like folks, the the world is resetting its monetary system like one chunk at a time, and it a lot of this stuff, and the especially the um the energy crisis is accelerating all of that, you know, the supply chain, uh energy itself, and the increase in prices, a lot of stuff is going to start accelerating. It's like dumping gasoline on it on this fire. All right, speaking of that, this is another uh I think it's a related story in some ways, because most of what you know our economy is based off is just garbage, right? You know, a lot of the things uh this isn't your your grandfather's stock market, you know. This isn't uh Benjamin Graham, you know, and uh what what how Warren Buffett learned you know to invest and you know about profits and earnings. A lot of these companies are two and three and four hundred times earnings and stuff like that doesn't even make any sense. Um, you know, then there's this the stocks and especially tech and um and we know now because uh of great journalism and and there's companies that create medical products that you know um if you recall uh during the great uh scandemic, uh we had uh companies that never produced anything until they got that one contract, then they started producing stuff, and all of a sudden their earnings are up, but they always said they were going to, right? They based off nothing. Let's put this up on the screen.

Silver Gold And De-Dollarization Map

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Uh so this could be a fallout. I just picked this out. This is on KitCo. So something to think about, you know, uh as you're as you're navigating the apocalypse. Uh KitCo.com, silver's great rotation, uh tech sell-off to fuel rush into precious metals, says uh Jen Bodden. Silver prices remain stuck in a frustrating consolidation pattern below $80 an ounce. However, the precious metal could be poised to benefit from a broad rotation out of an overvalued technology stocks and into hard assets as mounting geopolitical and economic risk fuel inflation and undermine confidence in traditional financial markets, according to a fund manager. Well, it's interesting. I was just talking about this. And you know, if you look across the board here, if you look at um especially tech stocks, I mean tech does a lot of tech does drive the price of silver because silver is used in so much tech, you know, and and uh solar and AI and and you know, all of that stuff. And of course the military industrial complex that uses a ton of silver. There's 500 ounces of silver in each tomahawk missile, you know, for just uh just for a metrics. That's a monster box in each uh tomahawk. But it it is used for that, but it's also it's industrial metal, but it's also monetary metal. And so uh and it's been Undervalued for so long. And if you look at all of the like the global economy, if you look at every how everything's functioning right now, how everything's valued, and you take the lack of trust, which you know, the 1971 decision for us to get off the gold standard, August 1971, it set us on a and it set us up as an experiment monetarily. It became a free-floating fiat currency backed by nothing. And that's an experiment in and of itself. It's just Keynesianism on steroids, and uh they pushed that and they pushed it to the limit. So the experiment is based off trust, though. So we broke that agreement. Even you know, that was called Breton Woods II. We broke that agreement because we started to uh not only, you know, uh weaponize the dollar, right? But we used it uh and it again, the the debt of the U.S. in 1979 was around 1 trillion or a little less than 1 trillion. We add that to the balance uh every 90 days now. So it took us 200 plus years uh to go a trillion, and now that we do it uh every 90 days or so, and probably accelerating beyond that metric at this point. So all of that was built on trust, and we've violated that trust, and that's why the biggest story of our time is not being talked about, and that's the de-dollarization. And that's why the stuff that I pay attention to is the infrastructure that's being set up right now is to uh make physical gold and silver, and mostly gold at this point, but that's why I brought this article up, because silver is is going to play a role as well, monetarily. But these storage facilities and things that they're building all over the world, especially in places like uh Hong Kong, which I thought the Hong Kong one was a big tell. I mean, they have the Shanghai Gold Exchange folks, but this is something this isn't even about investments, what I'm talking about. I'm talking about like this is a change in the monetary system and the way business is done and what it receives investment will change. And that's because um this current reality is based off a lot of it's based off fiction. It's based off hundreds of times earnings, things that aren't real, it's based off debt. Again, these aren't your grandfather's stock market companies. This isn't about, you know, actually making something. They just it's a lot of speculation, it's gambling. And, you know, uh, if you've got an ounce of silver in your hand, uh that that pretty much takes away all counterparty risk. And yeah, the price can be manipulated, but not real physical silver as much. Okay, same thing with gold. It's it's physical, counterparty risk averse. And I think that will be at least for the foreseeable future, until you know another system merges. Uh, trust will push people into that physical. Uh I'm gonna read just a little bit more of this. I've been trained for years to hunt for black swans and analyze what the bulls have overlooked, she said. It's a fool's errand to call the top of the market, but I believe we are almost there. The average investor, to the average investor, this looks like a breakout. To me, it looks like the final gasp of a market built on very shaky pillars. Baden said the one biggest drives for precious metals is the ongoing strength and energy prices tied to the conflict with Iran and the disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz. Although rising inflation fears have weighed on gold and silver in the near term, she said investors should focus on the broader backdrop of economic uncertainty and tightening supply conditions. Well, this is something I've been saying. And I think that the underlying condition here is a lot of the funds, in my opinion, and I I'll never forget being in Nashville in July of 2024 at the Bitcoin conference and looking up and seeing the board uh the presentation that Michael Saylor put up. And it had these big blocks, you know, of sovereign wealth funds, and you're talking about like the $500 trillion or $600 trillion global economy or whatever the hell, right? Made up. But it's just putting the numbers on the board. So currency, sovereign wealth funds, real estate, all this stuff, these giant blocks, and this is like the the presentation board. So up here in the very tiny corner was gold, silver, and bitcoin. And the rest of it was these giant blocks. And I go, is that right? Yeah, because the market cap for you know, at the time, um, and I, you know, the market cap for uh uh silver, it would it was eclipsed by Bitcoin for a little while. And uh, you know, it's like 1.7 trillion or something, and I think that's what Bitcoin is now. But gold was like 16 trillion, now it's like 20 plus, or maybe it's more. I haven't checked it in a while. But the the point is you're talking about tiny amounts versus hundreds of trillions based off what you know, there's 52 times more currency on Earth today than there was in 1980. Is there more value on Earth? You know, and so if you think about all the all the fake, everything that's been produced based off nothing, it has to go somewhere. So going back, and I've had this thought it's funny, I was my my son Houston is here, he's running the shop and I could see him out front, and he was born here, and I remember the day he was born, and uh I I'd been up for a day, and I went and got me a uh a cheeseburger. I went and drove, drove out and got me something to eat. I remember though I was going through the drive-thru, and I remember the book I was listening to, and this was 21 years ago, uh, and I was listening to a book on uh silver and the old economy, and uh that's what I called it at the time. I was like, that's the I go, that's gonna be the future. That's funny. I was thinking that stuff at um at 25. I was thinking, like, there's there's a lot of this just built off nothing. And you can't really articulate it the way I can now. Um, but I think that's this is an astute article, something to think about. Bob M9509 afternoon, Mr. Artemar Burner. Good good to see you, Bob. Thanks for being here, my friend. All right, uh, we got uh about eight minutes left. Let's see what else we can cover today. Uh okay. Uh tough, tough call, isn't it? You got eight minutes. Um, I I saw this was uh let's just put this up on the screen. I'll try to take you through. I'm working on some ideas for the show. And I've been going back. I've been so busy though, and haven't been able to implement them. I think you'll like them. We've got some cool stuff. It's you know, headlines and hidden history. That's a lot of fun, isn't it? We always dig into some real history here. Hopefully, you leave the show and you learn something. All right, this is uh natural news. The IEA chief warns that global oil reserves down to just weeks of supply as the Hormuz crisis deepens. Yeah, who'd have thought? The head of the International Energy Agency, the IEA, warned that commercial oil inventories have only a few weeks of supply left. Even though countries have released 164 million barrels from emergency reserves, those reserves are limited and not endless. The shortage is being driven by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. The narrow 21-mile waterway, which normally carries 20% of the world's oil, has been effectively closed since late February. Its shutdown has sent crude prices skyrocketing towards $130 a barrel and caused chaos in global energy markets with no sign of a crisis ending soon. Although the U.S. is less dependent on Middle Eastern oil, global markets are interconnected. Higher oil prices will directly raise gasoline prices, acting like a tax on every household. The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve is also finite. A tough choice between depleting it or further letting prices spiral. Well, you know, uh not really much news for you guys here, but I mean there the alarm bells are going off. And it's interesting if you look at the headline of Drudge uh in it juxtaposed here. Let's pull up Drudge right now. And this this will make you think um, you know, how much of this is manufactured? This will make you think here. Let's look at Drudge. Uh yeah, the supreme leader uh of Iran, uranium stays in Iran, rapidly rebuilding military, permanent toll in Hermoose question mark, oil spikes, her threats on infrastructure. Yeah, the they're not winding the war down, folks. Interestingly enough. Not winding it down, and uh and I hope they do. I I you know I hope this is something I I'm not wrong about, but doesn't this seem very much like a pageant to you or some sort of uh some sort of work, to quote my friend Billy Ray Valentine. Isn't this like a work? Seems like a work to me. So those are the two headlines uh going on at the same time. Uh if the crisis doesn't stop, then we got a real, we know we got a real problem, and it's already causing a problem, and you know, it's not quite hit us yet. You've seen the lightning, folks, but you haven't felt the thunder. And again, uh, you know, whatever the pricing is of the market, it hasn't even begun, you know. Like I was thinking, this is what I was thinking. I was having coffee with beans this morning. We were driving into the shop, and I just I started to think about the dollar. We denominate everything in dollars, right? And uh we think of the dollar as a fixed asset. It's not. It's not a fixed asset. It never has been. I mean, well, not in our lifetime, my my lifetime anyway, hasn't been a fixed asset. It is a fluctuating, free-floating, non-fixed asset. It can be technically an asset because it's a currency, but it's not money. And we're only beginning to see the uh the revolution of sorts of uh the monetary system and what it's going to do to pricing and our idea of what money is. And this is where it begins. Uh at least in this uh in 2026, we it started off with a bang. Always always happens that way, doesn't it, folks? All right. Uh let me see. Last article of the day. This is something a little bit of trend. Let me pull this up. Here we

Oil Shortage Claims And Hormuz Fallout

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go. Antiwar.com. Trump administration indicts Cuba's former president, setting up pretext for war. This is by Dave DeCamp. Uh Dave used to be over on RT until um until until they did we just got rid of RT, which is bizarre. Um a great little channel. I used to use RT all the time. Uh maybe I should bring. I think I still can't think they have an American office anymore at all. The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday unsealed an indictment for 94-year-old Raul Castro, Cuba's former president and brother of longtime leader Fidel Castro, a move clearly aimed at uh providing a pretext for the U.S. to attack the island nation. The indictment is related to a 1996 shootdown of two planes belonging to the brothers uh to the rescue uh Cuban exile group formed in the U.S., an incident that occurred when Castro served as Cuba's defense minister. Uh, the uh BTTR was founded by uh Jose Basuta, who had previously been trained by the CIA and admitted to taking part in the 1962 operation, also known as the Bay of Pigs, that involved him firing a 20-millimeter cannon on a Cuban hotel. In the lead up to the shootdown, which killed four Cuban Americans, Clinton administration officials expressed concern that there would be an indictment if the BTTR continued flights uh that intruded into Cuba's airspace, which were happening frequently. Okay. Well, uh, we're definitely going back. We've got a time machine. We're going back to 1996, and we're using that. Uh, they dug something up for a pretext. And um if you want to know, again, this this incident follows the same playbook that the U.S. pursued in the attack on Venezuela to abduct Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, and it comes as the U.S. is enforcing a ramped up oil embargo on Cuba that has increased military surveillance near the country. President Trump has openly threatened war against the country, saying he may have the honor of taking Cuba. Well, we won't take it like uh Teddy Roosevelt did during the Spanish-American War. He didn't say charge, he said follow me, and he went up Kettle Hill or San Juan Hill. And uh that was a different time. Uh and of course, we, you know, eventually released it back. It was a pretty um tough place to hold. You know, we had uh that Fort Leonard Wood was named after Leonard Wood was the wasn't the governor of Cuba for a long time, um, for many years. He's president, uh he was friends with President uh Teddy Roosevelt. So, you know, we have a history of doing that. Um, but uh that's it looks like a pretext for war. What that's for is it you know, further consolidation of the hemispheric operations, something with the United States. But we're on a war footing, folks. Like this is the season for it. And so force turning, there's uh moving parts that are involved here. I mean, Venezuela is certainly for the energy. Uh I talked about that in relations to the Wolfowitz memorandum. So there's all sorts of uh things in play here. So stay frosty, stay alert. This is not uh we're not in the era of peace. We um just like the voters of 1916 and 1940, uh, we wanted a president to keep us out of war. They're getting us in one. So uh buckle up is all I can tell you. It's gonna get um it's gonna get weird, it looks like. And uh, you know, these are always good things. The little intel, open source intel, good to know as you uh look uh towards the year, the rest of your year. But you guys uh take care of each other again. Wolfpack.gold. If you want to get uh precious metals subscriptions, uh if you need us to handle your IRA or rolling over your 401k, get it out of paper, put it into actual precious metals, wolfpack.gold or wisewolf.gold, either one of those websites uh will work, tony.gold or artiburn.gold. I have all these websites. Uh be sure and subscribe to the newsletter. And uh anything you guys need, uh any questions on the show, questions from me, comments, send them through uh Tony.gold. Okay. Uh I will address this next week. I had an email from a listener, and I almost forgot. I'm glad I remember this. Uh asked me about Oswald Spengler. And I

Cuba Indictment And Pretext Politics

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have something I want to read the listener next show. I promise I will. I was gonna do it this week. Uh they'd asked me about Oswald Spengler and uh the decline of the West, and of course I know that. But uh I have a I have a quote from a book, not the decline of the West, but something that Oswald Spengler wrote, and you've probably never heard it, and I want to read it next week on the show, so stay tuned for that. So, you guys, uh, thanks for everything. Uh, take care of each other. End of transmission.