Opening Signals And The Clattering Train

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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. It's 12 o'clock, Americans. Another day closer to victory. And for all of you out there on one of behind the lines, this is your song.

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Veteran of three Foreign Wars. Entrepreneur and Warrior Poet. Tony Aarburn takes on the issues facing our country, civilization, and planet. This is the Rburn radio transmission.

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Who is in charge of the clattering train? The axles creak and the couplings strain. The pace is hot and the points are near. Sleep is dead in the driver's ear. And the signals flash through the night in vain. For death is in charge of the clattering train. We have to have the ritual too. We have to have a little bit of coffee before I start the transmission. It is the Arterburn Radio Transmission. It is the 18th of June 2026. I'm joined in studio by Beans the Brave, just off camera, my co-pilot, co-host, going to keep us safe from bad vibes. Woodland creatures, intruders, anything at the shop. I've also got Pumpkin the Cat. I know Houston's German Shepherd Beth is here. We've got a full house here in Texas. So I feel like we've got uh the team is assembled to create a decent broadcast, a little bit of uh headlines, hidden history, parapolitics, precious metals, official broadcast of the apocalypse. I have interesting taglines. I need to get some shirts made. I'm working on it. Don't say you said that last year. I don't want to hear. And by the way, I did remember uh we're gonna, I think somewhere around mid-part of the transmission today, I'm gonna read that uh excerpt from Oswald Spangler. It's gonna happen. I have it on my phone. I will not forget uh one of our uh listeners has written me and and uh joked about it even last week. I I keep teasing cliffhanger every week. I won't tell him what Oswald Spangler quote I want to go over, but we're gonna talk a little bit about that. And Western man and Western civilization. Maybe we maybe it's a jumping off point for me today to get into some deeper stuff. We're flooded with ridiculous headlines right now. I thought about the clattering train poem that was Winston Churchill's favorite poem as a as a little boy. And, you know, lots you can say about Winston Churchill. He was interesting. He's he was a warmonger. He's half American. You know, his mother was Jenny Jerome, wasn't fully English, his dad thought he was an idiot, but he actually was uh an evil genius in a lot of ways. He loved, he had an affinity and a craving for war. He called it delicious. Like I think he actually had like a palate for war. But I brought that quote up or the poem because it reminded me of the, I was reading the headlines on the war, and we're gonna get into a little bit of the foreign policy or the stoppage or the memorandum of understanding, you know, and I was thinking about the Metallica song about um about the soothing light at the end of your tunnel. It's just a freight train coming your way, you know, and uh, and that's I think we'll maybe touch on that a little bit of the Oswald Spengler stuff, but you know, I'm of I'm of two different minds a lot of the time.

Seductive Pessimism And Mass Psychosis

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To me, pessimism about the outcome of human endeavors is so is so seductive to me. Uh I find that pessimism in general is a lot more hefty as far as intellectual attractiveness. It doesn't mean it's always right, but you know, if you look at like the to be a contrarian uh to the markets, I think it's very important these days because I think you know there is a mass psychosis going on. Not that humanity's always uh been clear-headed. Obviously, the masses do a lot of crazy things a lot of times, and you know, you can be delusional in a collective, a conscious kind of way, but it's more pronounced than ever. I mean, a lot of things just don't add up. I talked about last week. I mean, we saw at almost the exact same time you saw this massive sell-off in gold and silver, and there's just, you know, it's a sea of red. And why was that? Well, we had data that came out that said inflation was worse than they thought. And which doesn't make any sense. Like, why would you have sell-offs in gold? Well, it's because the Fed may raise rates or it may keep rates the same, and it may not lower rates, and you know, which again is gonna cause inflation. But the the Fed may get stronger, you know, and central banks may have stronger economic policy to tighten their money supply. But it's all fake anyway, right? So you have this mass delusion kind of built into things. And we're gonna talk about, and I hope that I'm wrong on a lot of this stuff with the foreign policy outcome, but America's just been exposed as a paper tiger uh in a lot of ways. Not that we haven't before, but this is the credibility, the vacuum of that, like the catastrophic loss of credibility is staggering. And uh, even with you know, you add up like foreign policy blunders like the the exit of Afghanistan, which you know could be a setup for another war, or uh the disastrous uh rise of ISIS in Iraq, you know, uh after the waning of U.S. occupation. And you know, you look at the the fact that we were engaging uh Russian troops and Syrian troops to shield Al-Qaeda and Syria. Like the foreign policy blunders continue to add up. Uh, but this is this is one for the books, folks. I mean, and we've brought the world literally to the brink of economic collapse. I mean, because of the we drained almost entirely the American strategic oil reserve so we could keep gas prices low while we're you know playing this, you know, this this out this experiment on behalf of Israel in in the Middle East with Iran. There's a lot yet to happen on that front. I hope that it starts to smooth out because the world doesn't need a worldwide depression. The world doesn't need, and it was totally unnecessary that we had to have this in the first place. So there's a lot of mass delusion out there. So my pessimism comes from well, let's what I that's a Claire Booth loose quote, by the way. That's uh what's the difference between a pessimist and an optimist? Is the pessimist has better information. But it is seductive to me, but it's interesting in my personal life. Like I always think we can fix that. You know, uh, I can build that. Uh it will be okay. You know, like so I have of two minds, but on the other side, when I'm like betting against things, or I look at the outcome, I'm like, that won't work out. That's that's a bad decision. History doesn't bode well for that. Do you even like do you do you even have a library card, bro? Like, did you figure that out that didn't work before? There's really not much new under the sun, maybe AI, maybe some of those things, but probably not. I bet we've created it before, right? Some other timeline, some other cyclical thing, we've probably already done it. So it probably is nothing new. So, you know, those who continue to repeat history, and that's the one thing that we learn from history, folks, is that we do not learn from history. That's the one thing we learn, is we don't learn. And so we watch this all unfolding here uh with this piece deal or memorandum of understanding. And uh, I want to get into that. That's the first article that we'll get into. And then I've got something on gold, and I don't want to stick on that too much because people think that I'm doing an infomercial. I mean, obviously, why would I do a gold infomercial with parapolitics wrapped around it and things that's going to offend every politico in the world? Like, why why would I do that? Why, why would I create a show that is a niche deal? Like it's just for thinking people. If you don't mind my opinions, I don't mind yours. Uh that's not a that's not a moneymaker. That that's not I can't like take this and put a you know a franchise stamp on it and sell merch for it. Okay, like maybe, maybe I can sell you like three shirts a year or something. Like it's not it's not a marketable thing. This is a hodgepodge uh stream of consciousness, chaos from my brain, and you guys are my support group, so you're welcome. All right, let's uh

Where To Find The Livestream

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let's jump right in. This is natural news. And by the way, if you're in the chat today, YouTube or rumble, and I had a a lady email into the podcast um and ask where it could be found, and you can always find like that when the video is up, so like this live streaming, at Tony Arterburn on YouTube, at Tony Arterburn on X, and the Rumble channel is America Unplugged. So go to the America Unplugged channel. So if you're in any of those channels and you put a pot a uh comment up, I'm I'll happily get to it today. Just if you don't, if you know, if I miss it, cycle it back again. If you have a question or you want to have me answer something or want me to join the conversation on something, do that. I I can be interactive, I promise. All right, let's um put this first article up of the day.

The $300 Billion Iran Memorandum

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So that put this up. Here is I didn't think I'd see this two weeks ago. It's the actual headline that I've that I find this is the times in which we live. It's part of living in the dystopia or the idiocracy. But let's just let's just break this down for a minute. The um the $300 billion mirage, how the US Iran deal is destined to fail because Israel won't stop the bloodshed in Lebanon. But I think the debt of the US when we defeated the Empire of the Sun and dropped two nuclear weapons on Japan, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and you know, Europe in ashes, 50 million dead, literally upended and turned the world upside down. Uh I think the debt of the US was less than 300 billion. Like the debt, the the collective debt of everything that the US had. So that's how you know the departure from reality and sanity that is fiat currency, like the does the the system itself, the fruit of that poisonous tree, is just lunacy, right? These numbers are you can't really, they're so ridiculous. So, like this deal that we've cooked up that we didn't even have to do. We already had, and by the way, the Iranians were at the table when the Israelis were so uh chomping at the bit and bloodthirsty, trying to decapitate leaders and the neocon people, which they're just as delusional. They're on some sort of spectrum, too. It's probably a satanic spectrum. They're on something, right? They think that uh democracy is a god to be worshipped, and that the people are of Iran, you know, we're just always gonna overthrow the mullahs and we're all gonna have this democracy explosion and blah, blah, blah. Same thing they said in Iraq, you know, that you're gonna be greeted, greeted as liberators. Well, I was greeted as an occupier and they shot at me and they threw grenades at me. So, no, I didn't, it they didn't welcome me with garland wreaths placing it on me and showing, you know, making statues of George W. Bush, right? But that's the beginning of the article. 300 billion. The Mirage. Again, natural news. I want to see who this is from. That's Lance D. Johnson always has a good article. U.S. President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, and Iran's parliamentary speaker Mohammed Bagir Ghalif have virtually signed a 14-point memorandum of understanding to end the U.S. naval blockade of the strait, Iranian ports, and the broader Gulf region, according to U.S. sources. The interim peace deal, set for formal signing in Geneva on Friday, promises a 60-day ceasefire extension and the start of nuclear negotiations. But beneath the surface of this diplomatic breakthrough lies a web of unanswered questions. What exactly did Iran promise in exchange for unfreezing access to a potential $300 billion reconstruction fund? And can a nation that Western intelligence agencies have long accused of pursuing nuclear weapons be trusted to honor a piece of paper? The answer is no, because Iran demands Israel stop the bloodshed in Lebanon and Israel won't listen. The U.S. Iran deal buyout is destined to fail. Well, that's true, and it's destined to fail for the exact point he just lays out that Israel doesn't want peace. And if you listen to some of the rhetoric coming out of there, and I mentioned this uh yesterday on Gard Goldsmith's show, uh the great Gard Goldsmith, uh Liberty Conspiracy, go check him out. I mentioned that, and you know, great nations don't talk like that. Like the prime ministers and even in wartime, like like total destruction and you know, wiping people out and get, you know, chomping at the bit, ready for a fight. And I compared that to 1963, John F. Kennedy, and you know, the height of American power. Like the height of American power where the people still had a say in government was 1963. And that's why the deep state murdered John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22nd, 1963. And he'd given uh one of the key indicators that he was not of their uh lizard race, he was not part of the solace automatons for Satan, was that he uh was for peace. He talked about it at the American University speech in in uh June of 1963. It's very beautiful. Nobody talks that way, unless you're running the most powerful nation on earth, all right? If you're a powerful nation, if you're true, like if you're coherent in your lineage and your exercise of power, and not that America's perfect, but that was the height and the apex of American power. And we had a president who talked about peace. He wasn't threatening to blow up everyone, and that's not how great nations stop. I mean, even Trump, what, two or three weeks ago with Oman wanted to get involved with running the tolls in the Strait of Hormuz with Iran, and he said, we'll just blow them up. We'll just blow like just off the cuff, you know, we'll just blow them up. Okay, so again, that's on the empire on its way out, or that's a dangerous nation. And Israel certainly has shown that it's not responsible. It it doesn't conduct itself as a great nation. It conducts itself as a bully, and it conducts itself as unstable and apocalyptic. It wants to get its way. I mean, it's not about Iran having a nuclear weapon. If you believe that you're the you're the targeted demographic that these faux conservatives, fox, faux, fake, right, these commentators, they target you. If you can't tell who the sucker in the room is, it's you. You're the sucker. You bought all the mer bought all the merch and you know you go to Sherry's Berry's or whatever. I not that Sherry's Berry's is bad. I'm just I'm making fun of Ben Shapiro. But you go there and you buy all the things and you put your promo code in, Mark, for Mike and the Van. Right? And you contribute to this, and meanwhile, like your entire identity is hijacked because you didn't just you decided not to read and think for yourself. You listened to your pastor and you didn't think for yourself. You didn't open up the books for yourself, you didn't think a second time or run some logic here. And now here we are. In the uh aftermath of what is happening with our foreign policy, Trump and Iran's uh Galibaf have agreed to a 14-point interim deal, kind of like uh Wilson's 14 points and reopening the Strait of Hormuz and beginning nuclear talks. VP Vance suggested Iran could access 300 billion Gulf funded reconstruction fund if it complies. Again, 300 billion dollars. Israel remains opposed with Netanyahu saying he and Trump do not always see eye to eye. Huh. Is that well, you gave him the golden pager? You could just page him, like you did, you know, all of those uh operatives that you targeted in uh Lebanon and elsewhere. Commercial oil inventories are already low, below the uh uh early 2022 mark, signaling a tightening market. Analysts warn that even the straight reopening physical energy markets could take months to normalize. Well, that's the thing, right? We haven't really seen the damage that's been done. I mean, you the market it itself, the hit the invisible hand, the Adam Smith, you know, construct of how markets work is so manipulated and has been so abused. It's amazing to me anything really works anymore. You when you create like socialist capitalism, like when crony capitalism, when you create that, you kind of just get socialism, right? At the end of the day, which is what the super uber wealthy love. Not your average wealthy person, the average wealthy person likes capitalism and got them where they are, but the the super uber generational wealth people, you know, the one that looks that looks like Prince Philip or Lord Rothschild, you know, like a Mr. Burns type. And they just hate people in the way that, you know, they just they end up just wanting to be vampiric, kind of like Prince Charles. The whole bloodline, you know, he he went over to Romania where, you know, because his family's literally in the line of of Vlad the Impaler and Dracula. He like goes to Romania and it's like, you should visit Romania, it's in my blood. And every time I see that guy, every time I see Prince Charles, I think of uh the Count from Sesame Street. Isn't that funny? That's what my brain associates because he did that commercial. All right. This uh contradiction between the administration's messaging and the reality of the deal raises serious concerns. The fund, as described by Vance, could be a massive financial injection into an Iranian economy that has been crippled by sanctions, a move that critics argue could free up resources for Tehran's nuclear ambitions. Trump insists the deal is about preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, but the timing is suspicious. Commercial inventories are already 7 million barrels below the 2022 through declining a though declining through a weekly rate of 11 million barrels, according to Barclays. Well, I just want to touch on that again because I, you know, was getting on that line of logic, but this isn't about Iran's nuclear weapons, okay?

Greater Israel And The Real Motive

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Sorry, folks. It's not about Iran's nuclear weapons. This is about the Greater Israel project. This is about Israel being able to dominate its neighbors and do as it sees fit um in perpetuity. Okay. The the nuclear weapon um is an issue, but that's not the only issue. It's about regime change. It's about effectively doing what they want, right? Can they get away? Are they the hegemonic dominant power in the region? No rivals. Kind of like what we set up in 1992 with the Wolfowitz memorandum with Paul Wolfowitz, like there will be no rivals. No rivals, no regional rivals shall allowed uh be allowed to exist. And everything's on the line for that. And then you have to look at the apocalyptic view because these people are nuts. You know, behind the veneer, I mean, drill down, get to find out what people really believe, you know. And then the average, you know, churchgoer that's evangelical doesn't really get that. I mean, you can hear it in some of their rhetoric. I I got back from when I was just 20 some odd years ago. I get back from Iraq, and I would hear people that like from the like local church, they'd be like, ah, you know, you just got a nuke them all. And like the people led Bible studies and stuff. And I'm like, you want to like create genocide like in the Middle East and kill women and children? And for what? You know, it's just everybody but Israel, you know, like that's a real that's a strain. You're you know, got a what would Jesus do uh bracelet talking about genocide? Yeah, it just doesn't go well together, but you got to understand, like that is um people that don't know what love is, or people that I mean, even Hitler loved his dog, you know. I mean, I think these people are even beyond that. Like with people that love these kind of wars, um there's no soul there. Like their ambition is to create war. So the third temple, apocalypse, bring in the Antichrist, you know, uh that way Mashiach will come or whatever, like both sides, whether you're Christian or you're just Zionist or any of those things, like the apocalyptic view is absolutely psychotic. Like you can be God. That's what they're saying. Like, we are God, we usher in, we create the timeline, not God Almighty, right? So there's an arrogance there that can only be evil, you know. Like, I I don't think like if you were studying the life of Jesus, wouldn't you just try to create a peaceful environment, like protect your family and like you know, have a something, like have a legacy, do something, create random acts of kindness or you know, create uh some sort of compounding effect of goodness? Like where's where is genocide on this? Where's wiping out people? Where's the where's the logic in that? You know, and that's we're not there yet in this country. Uh those are those are serious questions, and then people really get mad at you for asking those. With the U.S. strategic petroleum reserve release structured as loans rather than supply additions, the Trump administration's energy policies have left the country vulnerable. Now Trump appears to be negotiating from a position of weakness, offering financial lifelines to a regime that has repeatedly violated international agreements. Well, so have we. Um and, you know, you you don't have to be a defender of Iran to think how just dumb this is. By the way, um, we certainly didn't need to expose ourselves to this sort of defeat because it unless you're willing to go all the way. And let's be honest, folks. I mean, if the United States wanted to take that, if they wanted a full invasion of Iran, and you you could do it, um, you could make it happen, it'd be bloody, and it'd be terrible. And there would be all sorts of like uh unknown variables pop up. That's the way war is. It has an organic phenomenon, so much like a life of its own. So you would have unintended consequences, it would be a catastrophic, but the U.S. could do it, and we could pull out some of those uh skunk work, Lockheed Martin, you know, toys and Aurora projects and whatever, and laser beams and stuff like that. Like we could we could pull it off. Um we've seen that we can do that. But then it's like, how do you keep it long-term? You know, you could do it. Uh, but why? And again, like what was the point of it? Um, but to not, unless you're gonna go all the way, and I'm I mean, you'd have to use some serious hardware. Serious hardware. They've got stockpiles of stuff. And we gave them a bunch of missiles, you know, in the 80s. But people, you know, I know that this needs to be whitewashed if you're on one side or the other, but you know, we had a Ron-Contra. We uh, you know, gave sold missiles to the Iranians and funneled the money to the Contras in Nicaragua. Like that's something that we've done. You know, we had uh backroom deals with them supposedly during the October surprise with George H.W. Bush taking uh Blackbird over, according to John Lear, to meet with the Iranians, hold those hostages just a little while longer during the 80 election so Ronald Reagan could become president. But we, you know, we intervened, we overthrew Mozadek and Operation Ajax in 1953. I mean, I know I'm quoting stuff that um I'm not supposed to. This is supposed to be like one thing or the other, right? You're supposed to be on Team MAGA. You know, you gotta you can't think for yourself. That's a crime. Then who's gonna buy the merch? But that's the point, right? Is this it's a lot of new. You either go all in or you're out, you know, or you know, you can have the better deal, which was probably what we'll never know. And I remember this right on the edge of going to war and starting this off. We had breakthrough deals in Paris, I believe it was in Paris, that we were with the negotiation team. Like Iran didn't want to do this. We knew that they knew they were gonna get hit hard. They knew that they were gonna have, you know. It's funny, Grant talked about that. Ulysses S. Grant talked about, you know, in the Civil War, and he he'd been a captain in the uh a lieutenant and then a captain in the in the army before he went back in. He'd been in the Mexican-American War, but when the Civil War kicked off and Grant got a uniform on, they made him a lieutenant colonel. He'd been out selling firewood. Like he was so broke. I've been to Galena, Illinois, and seen, you know, where they built a house for him eventually. Probably, aside from Harry Truman, one of the most unlikely people to ever be president, but Grant was like, you know, for years in the wilderness, just had nothing. Got a lieutenant colonel's uniform, charges over a hill, doesn't he scared to death, and then the guy that he's supposed to fight on the Confederate side it also ran. Like he ran away. And then he realized I'm just afraid of him as he is of me. Like nobody wants this, like regular people. And there's psychopaths in every government, you know, the sociopaths that get higher and higher up the chain. But collectively, people don't want war, you know. Um, and they're just afraid of you as you are. I mean, just on a general basis, like countries don't. So they were wanting

Hormuz Leverage And Energy Fragility

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to avoid it. And I think once they got in it and realized, hey, we got the whole world hostage here. And this Strait of Hormoose thing, which I've mentioned several times, you know, that I mean, and my dad can verify. We got, let me see, let's see if Tony Sr.'s texted in yet. Uh, if you want to, dad, you can text into the the got your own text line for Tony Sr., but he he'll often correct me. But I remember talking to him in the 1990s about what would happen if you hit Iran. And we and this is something I learned from my dad in the 90s that the Strait of Hormuz would be closed. I mean, this is the simulation was already built into everything. It's so ridiculous that we just now found that out. I knew that. So they figured out all we have to do is just outlast this thing, and they did. And that's ace, you know, the asymmetrical nonlinear warfare. Like you can just not play by the rules, you know, escalation and it's you know, uh receive and respond. Receive and respond, and then outlast. Especially with an energy crisis built into it. Some it's so stupid it's on purpose, folks. Which is the only explanation, really. But we'll continue. Let's let's suspend disbelief and talk about this as if it's an actual policy. Now let's talk about Israel's rejection of it. And it says the article says the most dangerous wild card.

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Put that up there. Hold on.

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Where is the full screen? Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has staked his political future on his relationship with Trump, but that relationship is now a liability. The U.S. Iran deal leaves the Islamic Republic intact, an unpalatable prospect for Israel's Israelis across the political spectrum. Netanyahu, facing an election this fall, must contend with an agreement that effectively legitimizes Iran's regional influence. These are twilight zone consequences. Like literally, like Rod Serling could have wrote this. Israeli officials have already declared that Trump's agreement does not bind us. And troops will remain in southern Lebanon, despite Iran's foreign minister Abbas Arachi demanding a full Israeli withdrawal as part of the deal. The situation is dangerously volatile. Iran has linked the deal's survival to Israeli compliance, while Israel has made it clear it will pursue its own security interests. Got it. Cataclysm, you know, got to wipe off Amalek and, you know. If Netanyahu feels concerned politically, a preemptive strike against Iran's deep underground nuclear facilities could trigger the exact scenario the deal is supposed to prevent. Iran has store batteries on the islands of Hormuz and Abu Massa, missile launchers in Bandir Abbas and Jask, and the capability to block the strait within hours. The Houtis have already demonstrated in the Red Sea how easily a determined adversary can disrupt global shipping with relatively primitive weapons. That is that part of asymmetrical warfare, realizing the fragility of supply lines and how the West, especially with the modern economies and the welfare state, like the reliance of people and the reliance of everything, like the symbiotic reliance of everything on the lifeblood of the economy, which is energy and fiat currency and debt and all of that, right? The markets themselves, like how fragile they are. You have a complete collapse of civilization, and Iran knows that. They're holding those cards. I mean, it doesn't have to be good, but we had a deal with them under Obama. And by the way, again, and just because Iran gets the bomb, does that mean they turn into a suicide nation? Like the nation collectively puts on a nuclear warhead and runs into Tel Aviv with it? Are you serious? They could do that now. Like what is it that we're actually trying to prevent? We're trying to prevent any regional power from rivaling Israel. That's it. Is that worth American blood and treasure? Is that worth putting the world on the brink of an economic collapse? Is that worth any of that? Just like so Israel doesn't have to contend with a power they might have to negotiate with and just not murder scientists and political leaders and interfere. And, you know, does that something that's worth the world?

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No.

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Right? No, never. And they'll frame it in a different way, you know, because we've been talking about uh Iran having a bomb. Uh it was imminent, I think, in 1992, uh, from Netanyahu. And probably before that, that it was imminent. But that's the real reason. Just call it what it is. Like you want, you don't want a regional power to rival you. Okay. And we have to we have to take the whole world and we have to put it in this, you know, uh chaotic tailspin economically as to go through an existential crisis, because you don't want a regional power to rival, you might have to actually negotiate with or have diplomacy with, because diplomacy, it's beneath you. Why, you don't have to commit diplomacy. I mean, if Iraq wants to create a nuclear facility because it's an oil power and a rival, you know, in in 1983, well, you just hit its, you take a F-16 American-bought aircraft and you fly over and you hit OsIRIC. Just unilaterally, just take out Iraq's nuclear facilities, you know. But why do why don't people like you?

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They don't teach that in school.

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Or the um USS Liberty. We could get into USS Liberty. I forgot to mention that. We should do a whole paratroother on. That's a sad but very true piece of American history. Let's see. Yeah. Israel has declared it does not bind us. If Netanyahu feels concerned politically, a preemptive strike against Iran's deep underground nuclear facilities could trigger the exact scenario the deal is supposed to prevent. That's more in the line of what's actually going to happen, folks. So let's watch, let's wait, let's see. Uh stay frosty, folks. This is uh strange times, and we're about to see I think a lot of other like another series of shoes are gonna drop here.

Narrative Control And The Massey Fight

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And the American public uh lot a lot has been exposed. You know, when you spend, I think, low-end uh mid-30 millions um to stop one congressman, like the record amount, Thomas Massey. You just gotta get rid of him because he votes along the lines of the Constitution. I mean, people take notice. I bet you that's only I bet you that's only half. The rest of it was run through super PACs or just done under the table or just the media organizations that are there on the ground to control narratives, like there's an operation, just get rid of Massey. And it's not that they even have to cheat necessarily, they just have to get have to activate stupid voters. And um primary voters do that. They vote that way, and that's what happened, which is even scarier. Uh, but that is a high watermark. And as I've said that, I think, like if I was Thomas Massey, I'd be smiling too. People are like, why is he why is he smiling? Like, you're a martyr now. Like, I would take that loss. Who wants to go back to Washington? Like, I've been there. Like, I'm gonna live there, like all that grift, all that fakeness, like it'd be like living inside of a a car dealership, you know? It's like Ashler Shaper, BMW. Where's where's Kenny F and Powers in here? It's Ashley Shaper BMW as a zip code. Okay. Everybody know they watch watch the show East Bound and Down and and uh Will Farrell's character of Ashler, Ashler Shaper BMW. That's um that's Washington. You just feel like you need to be de loused. Like every like you should have like um and you have a drive-through exorcism that you can get done, you know. And uh you constantly have to be shielding yourself, like burning incense and saging and like putting salt around the door, like you just have to and praying, like you'd be. I just wouldn't want that evil on me, Ricky Bobby. All right. Let's go to the comments really quick. I want to check in with everybody, and then uh I've got a two more articles. I think we can get to it. Um, that's what happens, folks. I get sometimes streaming consciousness if we go too much deep into the foreign. You know how I'll rant on foreign policy. Let's see.

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All right, where am I here?

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Uh I will Kenny F. And powers is in the chat, so I'm glad he is. He knows who he knows who Ashley Shaver, BMW is. I see uh Ron DeTay in the chat. Um Americo74. A lot of these are just, I know that are your assigned names for uh YouTube. Uh see, Steve's is uh is that Steve? Hey Tony, good to see you. I'm making sure I'm trying to make sure there's no questions in here for me. Uh okay.

unknown 40:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 40:02

All right. Let me go to no questions, I see. Yeah, what's the one of the people said uh told people decades ago that the global supply chains were extremely fragile and ultimately unsustainable. Yes, they are unsustainable. Unfortunately, that's not how this was supposed to go. I'm looking over on the Rumble chat. I I'm not neglecting you guys this way. I see Harps is he was there. Harps was there uh way early, like before I even went live. So thanks for being in the Rumble chat. America Unplug channel over on Rumble, folks.

SPEAKER_03 40:43

Let's see.

SPEAKER_00 40:46

Let's see, Tubuku says uh I know that's good. That's a full metal jacket reference. I I think I may know too many movie references. You know, that's how veterans usually communicate, is in movie references. I don't know if you knew that. Like I could probably I could probably communicate with the outside world so long as you speak combat vet. If I was ever cap or behind enemy lines, look for me to do movie quotes. Um let's see, the mental gymnastics of MAGA is astounding. Like George Carlin said, think of an average American and you say to yourself, damn, that guy's dumb. Now think half of Americans are dumber than him. Oh, that's true. Uh Harp says, that's because I dig you, Tony. Oh, I love that. Yeah, that's that remind that reminds me of that uh that book The Stand by Stephen King, which is I listened to that during um COVID-1984. And I I loved the movie when I was a kid. It had Gary Sinise in it, and they had like the the song that was the art, like one of the art, the artist who was a singer, I forget his name. Um, but he was that can you dig your man? So dig you. Dig you right back, harps. Good man. I think my dad texted me here. Let's see if he makes sure I don't miss uh yeah, my dad says, uh, Tony Sr. says, a new treaty of Versailles. Israel will never keep this deal, and neither will Iran. Um well, I mean, Iran uh they're in the catbird seat, for lack of a better term. I mean, literally, we exposed and flipped it and showed them what their power actually is. You know, this is we violated all of Sun Tzu's maxims, and there's no wisdom in that. All right. The greatest uh victory of all, according to Sun Tzu, was was not to fight. It was to to win in the temples, to win in the hearts and minds of people before the war is ever fought. All right, let's shop around here a little bit. Um I've got about 18 minutes left on the transmission. I'm not gonna be able to do the the two articles that I want. So uh let's just converse a little bit. I've uh this is so going off of what I talked to Dave and Knight about this morning, let me X out of this, put this up on the screen.

Gold Flows Shift Toward Asia

SPEAKER_00 43:25

A little bit of the um market analysis, uh monetary system, you know, parapolitics, precious metals sort of uh transmission. This there's something interesting going on. Especially in the wake of like the you can see the s the exit that uh like major central banks are taking institutions. And the the energy and the like the psychology Of humanity in general, like that the perception of reality changes based off evidence and based off, you know, there's a new day, the sun comes up, there's new realities, and things start to unfold. And so um this was just a a little snapshot of what's happening with with gold. And the reason I find it important is because American power is in direct proportion, like the American empire runs off fiat currency. Like, you know, the extension of the American hegemon is fiat currency. It's it's the lifeblood of it, right? It's his mother's milk. Uh zero hedge. Gold investors in the West should watch what's happening in Asia. Authored by Simon White over at Bloomberg as a strategist of this gold and demand for gold in Asia remains high, even as investors in the U.S. and Europe remain skeptical. Gold is trying to find a base above 4,000. The price bounced hard off the threshold last week as news of an Iran peace deal permeated. But outflows into the largest gold ETFs, the majority domicile in the U.S., continue to pick up. Well, he's what he's talking about. Outflows of the exchange traded funds, such as GLD, are up. People are, you know, there's outflows of gold flowing out. And a lot of this is a misunderstanding of what happened post February 28th. You know, we had gold and futures up to $5,600 an ounce at one time in this year, right? And then leading up to the war, and after the war, it bounced like it was $5,300, $5,400, something like that. And then fell. There was a lot of liquidity put into the market. A lot of the large holders of gold sold off. But as I've mentioned, if you actually look at the numbers, even while that was going on, there's this massive sell-off. The the big players, the central banks, accumulated like a net 17 tons. So even with the sell-off like Turkey, Russia sold off a bunch, there was sell-offs across the board. But the net buying was like 17 tons. So like added over. Always net buying. That's there is no net selling here of central banks. And what's so interesting here is that the outflows in the West are have been rising, like the outflows in the ETFs, the central banks are up. So like people like small institutions and people misread what's happening. But if you look to Asia, that is uh the opposite. It's like there their people are seeing something completely different. This is in contrast, uh contrast with the Bitcoin ETF outflows, right? Same thing. The outflows in the they've started to ease a bit with Bitcoin, and there's some stuff going on with BlackRock and Larry Fink. And I think, you know, with with iBit being the most successful ETF from uh from BlackRock, they have a lot at stake there. So there's been some rhetoric and some things floated, and Larry Fink's been doing that for a while now, going to Davos and saying Bitcoin's going to 700,000 and all that. Uh that's probably not correlated, but it says Hong Kong and India are currently importing more gold from Switzerland, the world's largest exporter, than any other country. This matches up with uh what we are seeing in global ETFs. While ETFs based in the U.S. are losing gold, as per the opening chart, and in Europe they are holding roughly steady. In Asia, they continue to rise fast and show little signs of pulling back. Asian gold ETFs are smaller than Western ETFs, but it is likely only the tip of the iceberg that the true appetite in Asia for gold as exports from Switzerland also make it clear. That's the appetite, folks. And what have I been telling you? Like one of the major things to look for in this on this timeline, like the the construction, the building, the infrastructure of the dollar losing uh uh hegemonic dominance as the world's reserve currency, the infrastructure that's being built is gold, folks. Let me put this back on the screen myself back on the screen. The infrastructure is for physical gold, and all these Western countries don't quite see that yet. Central banks do, like the large players, but the people aren't even involved. It's funny, I was running some simulations and trying to get some percentages on some some of the gold that's being bought and where the flows are headed. And it's something I was doing for research this morning before I went on with David Knight. And then I realized something. I had not factored in the public. I talked about this with David. A lot of other parts of the world, whether it's India, it's China, it's Hong Kong, um, you know, parts of Asia, like they are buying. And they people understand like physical metals, you know, they don't trust the currencies. Africa is the same way, especially after you know, countries like Zimbabwe with the trillion dollar notes and all that. It's physical. In the West, we have we haven't factored in people. I mean, I'm kind of in a bubble, right? Like I'm in a precious metals dealer, I deal with people all day. People are in and out of gold and silver or they're buying Bitcoin or whatever. And I've got physical shops, and I'm watching my son right now. I'm watching him conduct a transaction, he's buying some stuff, right? But you actually think about the numbers, it's a small, small, small percentage of the population that's even involved in that. The average person doesn't see that. So the the real demand isn't really reflected in the market. I mean, the average person, like you may have a 401k and that gets invested for you, you have an IRA or whatever, you know, through your work, and that company puts it in, you know, this top seven stocks in the SP 500 when you don't really worry about precious metals or the monetary system or debasement of fiat currency. You don't think about that, not yet. It's like the mathematics is it's not even there yet. Like we're we're only at the beginning of the great reevaluation, the revaluation of all commodities against currencies. And I find like these articles are key indicators that something is up. You know, like you look at where the where's the gold headed? Where are they buying it from? Uh, what hands is it floating into? And it's going into uh the hands of the people a lot, but it's also central banks and other players. And then the West sits kind of like on the sideline, you know, while this new infrastructure is being built. Um so I'm forward-looking. I think this is a trend to pay attention to. I'll continue to bring it up, bring it to uh to the forefront of you know, top of mind to let you digest. And now uh without further ado, let's talk about some uh some beautiful pessimism before I'll close out the show. I promised you I would. Uh and it is delivered, so let me pull this

Spengler On Decline And Honor

SPEAKER_00 52:00

up on my phone. I think my dad had texting me some more stuff. I'll see if I can get to you, Dad. Let me pull up some stuff from Oswald Spangler really quick.

unknown 52:11

All right.

SPEAKER_00 52:12

For those of you who aren't familiar, Oswald Spangler was a a German historian of the highest order uh during the early 20th century. And he uh influenced a lot of people, uh especially very hefty intellectual people. Uh someone like I love, like Pat Buchanan. And uh Buchanan eventually wrote uh The Death of the West as one of my books that changed my life. And Spengler had wrote Decline of the West, I mean, back in the early part of the 20th century. And uh it was uh definitely a a an influence, you know, on that line of thinking. If you read The Death of the West, which I highly recommend, uh it's referenced, you know, Oswald Spengler. I think they open up the book quoting it. Um but I wanted to read there's a a book uh outside of the the the decline of the West by Oswald Spengler, but this is one of my favorite lines. Let me see. Uh I want to make sure that I'm reading it off my phone. Okay. Faced with go back, the history of this technology, and this is called man and technics, is fast approaching, it's inevitable. It will be eaten up from within. He's talking about society as a whole, like all great forms of any culture, when and in what fashion we know not. Faced with this destiny, there is only one worldview that is worthy of us, the aforementioned one of Achilles. Better a short life full of deeds and glory than a long, empty one. The danger is so great for every individual, every class, every people that is pathetic to delude oneself. Time cannot be stopped. There is absolutely no way back, no wise renunciation to be made. Only dreamers believe in ways out. Optimism is cowardice. We are born in this time and we must bravely follow the path of the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the last position without hope, without rescue, to hold on like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in the front door of Pompeii, who died because they forgot to relieve him when Vesuvius erupted. That is greatness, that is to have race. This honorable end is the one thing that cannot be taken from man. I like the uh image of standing for your values and culture, your tradition, your history, and your heroes, like the Roman soldier at Pompeii who no one relieved, and you just die in place. That that, I mean, if it speaks to because I think a lot of us are in that mindset where we love our culture, we love our heroes, hearth and home. Like we'd fight and die for this. And um, you know, it does like home itself, although it's been bastardized by phrases like homeland and other things, but I mean where we're from, you know, the roots. Like I'm here in North Texas, and my family goes back generations, generations before the Civil War on both sides, you know, and the culture here. Like this is my home. You fight for it, you die for it, you live here, you know, and it doesn't mean you have to grow up in the same town, but that creates a certain, especially about tradition and culture, like something that is ingrained in us, and we're taught to lose it or to hate the past or not understand it. And that's part of the war on your mind. But I feel like a lot of us are there, right? We're living in this new reality that's so much of it's manufactured and it's a war on our soul, and it's a war on our mind, it's get us to to get off, you know, off center, like to constantly keep you off center is like the way that the way that the headlines work or the economic news or whatever. Like we're living in in chaos. And it's more important than ever to keep that center, to keep that compass. And so to me, when I look at the headlines, and I could put it against you know, some of the beautiful pessimism that I've come to, it's big, I guess it's the word is seductive. You know, you read the I read the Death of the West at 24, and I just never looked at things the same. And it kind of a gateway opened things up, and like that's what I've been thinking. Like it's stuff that I'd wanted to intellectualize or I'd wanted to talk about for a long time. Um, but I, you know, nobody talked like that. You know, I I didn't understand about population numbers, I didn't understand about birth rates, I didn't understand about cultural Marxism, I didn't understand what that was or the acid of modernity. You know, I just you know heard surface level level cookie cutter garbage from your average commentator or supposed thought leader, and then those people get exposed as hollow over time. Like they're like this is the culmin, like where we're living right now is with the in the end, like the cycle of all this. Like it's the culmination of the end of a lot of bad ideas. You know, and just like I mentioned today on the David Knight Show, there was uh an emergency issue of the National Review magazine. I remember this in 2016. It had 22 commentators and writers who were vehemently opposed to Trump. Like never Trumpers got to get him out. All 22 of those people are 100% behind Trump now. Right? They opposed him because he was talking about ending wars or bringing troops home or having a border, and you know, the trade deals were bad or whatever. That's why they opposed him. And they support him because he doesn't do those things. Now all of them are there, all 22. And it's funny how that it's the biggest drift ever. So, you know, pardon me if sometimes I look at all this and the uh the pessimists in me, and it's overall arching. I think if you go back and listen to the show, you'll realize I on a micro level, uh, I'm not a pessimist. I mean, I I believe that you are what you think about. And uh miracles are possible. You can always turn things around. I'm talking about in the bigger picture, the collective, and especially the griffs and what people buy and what they believe. So it's it's okay to be a pessimist and be that Roman soldier. And uh don't abandon your posts, no matter what happens. It's okay. It's God's world anyway, right?

Final Compass And Ways To Support

SPEAKER_00 59:33

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